Both! Intellectual property is valued exactly like physical property: the price the market is willing to pay for it.
No; not on your books. On your balance sheet, it's worth what you paid for it less ammortization, not what the market value is. When you report your assets, you report it at book value, not market value. That is per GAAP.
A transfer to a subsidiary is deemed a disposition. Normally this disposition would be valued at what a company paid for it, but because it's a disposition to a subsidiary, they have to prove the market value instead of simply being able to demonstrate it.
If I knew someone that had X million of VC money, I would start my own electronics company that integrated this crap and made it work right so that the average joe can just buy it and enjoy the content.
Like a... Home theatre in a box? Already been done I'm afraid. Brilliant idea IMO, although I'm a bit pissed my home theatre kit doesn't have optical inputs. Can't get the full 5.1 effect from satellite without them.
Go back to grade school. You're trying to say, "Who would have thought."
Oh look the grammar Nazi strikes. Give it a rest. Did you not understand what the GP wrote, or are you just being a cheeky, smug asshole with nothing insightful to say?
I always understood a contract to have: 1) An offer 2) An acceptance 3) Consideration 4) Capacity to contract 5) Legality
Where are these elements in an email footer? Perhaps there's an offer, however there is no chance to decline acceptance. The consideration cannot be the email because it's one-sided. You aren't purchasing the email.
Capacity is moot for this, and the legality is also moot.
Just to point out that Return to Castle Wolfenstein was released a long time after the original Wolfenstein 3d, and gamers still remembered the original that started it all...
Plenty of people remember Duke Nukem 3d... Few remember the side scrolling Duke Nukem. That was way more fun...
I envision a game where you can do whatever you want. I mean anything. Kill a cop. Its possible. Rape and/or kill a hooker. Its possible. Steal a car. Its possible. Run people over in your stolen car. Its possible. Shoot people, beat them up, Its possible.
Never played postal 2 I take it??? It's pretty close to your vision... The best part was when you could shove your shotgun up the ass and of a kitty cat and shoot people through the cat. Friggin' hilarious..
If the USA doesn't repay its debts to China, then that's China's problem.
It isn't as though NOBODY will lend to the US at that point - money to be made is money to be made.
Problem is the risk just went up if the US defaulted. Sure, the US will still be able to borrow, but their cost of borrowing will be higher.
Look at GMAC - GM's financing arm. Will you lend them your money at 4.5%? Hell no, but at 8%, you're probably thinking about it (especially if they sell of GMAC).
Same holds true for the US. Today they can borrow at 4.5%. The market will not be so generous if they default on their bonds.
If a country were to stop paying their debts, they would find themselves unable to borrow because of a loss of credibility.
Would you borrow from a nation that isn't repaying their debts?
Look, you're willing to accept money in lieu of your services because it has a fiat value. You can exchange that currency for goods or services in trade. That currency is only valuable because it is universally accepted. Ask someone who survived ww2 in Germany about currency confidence.
Similarly with government bonds you purchase them on the promise your money will be returned, and while they have your money you earn interest. You are more than happy to buy tresury notes in the US because you know you'll get your money back. If there was ever any doubt, you'd be less inclined to give up your money in exchange for this interest bearing bond.
Certainly you cannot foreclose, but the market in general can.
That certainly sounds like people should be opposed to this "law".
Thing is, some Microsoft processes do some stuff in the background without your knowlege, some of which provides a valuable service to end users.
It would be kinda crappy for the state to write a law that can be used against legitimate uses like Automatic updates, which I'm certain is what Microsoft is implying.
Of course when data is normalized poorly sometimes you end up with impossible joins, only solved by unions.
A specific case comes to mind. A guy I worked with wanted to design a billing system. He had six tables represnting detail lines on the invoce. Each table had identical fields except for a few items. The data should not have been normalized because a report on invoicing would have required a six table union. Unacceptable IMO.
I'm a big fan of c. As a reporting and data analyst, I see the same crap all the time.
People design systems for what they want to put into it, without consider what they want to get back out of it. That usually results in crappy query performance and all that crap because of undue care. When designing a system, engineers need to be aware of : 1) What do we want to store and how do we want to store it, 2) how do we want to put it in there, 3) What do we want to get back out of it.
Many people in designing systems pass over 3.
I've seen it in my last job. I had no input in database design, and had to deal with insanly stupid queries resulting from thoughtless and careless design.
According to this, American Conservativism isn't clearly defined, although IMO part of conservatrivism is free, open market Laissez-Faire operations, of which protectioniam isn't a part of...
Nobody has any business buying more than one or two domain names anyway.
Dunno about that. With cyber squaters who capitalize on misspelled url's, it seems in a business's interest to try to grab every possible typo version of their business name too...
I'm amazed the article was posted with such a decidedly partisan jab. I don't see how the 'administration' has really affected technology available to the public or influenced domestic product availability.
Isn't the FCC demanding that VoIP have wiretapping capabilities? That's in direct relation to the Patriot Act that allows the FBI to do any wiretap they please without probably evidence.
an overbloated linux distro company buys an overbloated java application server. sounds logical, especially if redhat is going to get all the $$$ from the jboss support.
The commonly used in the enterprise Linux distro buys one of the most commonly used j2ee middleware products.
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Both! Intellectual property is valued exactly like physical property: the price the market is willing to pay for it.
No; not on your books. On your balance sheet, it's worth what you paid for it less ammortization, not what the market value is. When you report your assets, you report it at book value, not market value. That is per GAAP.
A transfer to a subsidiary is deemed a disposition. Normally this disposition would be valued at what a company paid for it, but because it's a disposition to a subsidiary, they have to prove the market value instead of simply being able to demonstrate it.
This will stay in tax court for years.
If I knew someone that had X million of VC money, I would start my own electronics company that integrated this crap and made it work right so that the average joe can just buy it and enjoy the content.
Like a... Home theatre in a box? Already been done I'm afraid. Brilliant idea IMO, although I'm a bit pissed my home theatre kit doesn't have optical inputs. Can't get the full 5.1 effect from satellite without them.
I did. I did when Novell made noises that they were going to stop supporting KDE on SuSE.
And yet YaST remains written in Qt... An annoying move on SuSE's part...
Go back to grade school. You're trying to say, "Who would have thought."
Oh look the grammar Nazi strikes. Give it a rest. Did you not understand what the GP wrote, or are you just being a cheeky, smug asshole with nothing insightful to say?
Hmmm... I would first try to restore the mbr using fdisk /mbr before reinstalling... I'm sure you tried that first though...
Actually Apple's started pissing me off with Quicktime. My last install of quicktime, I kinda ended up with iTunes installed as well.
Funny I don't recall asking for an iTunes download, yet they were kind enough to install it anyway.
If MS can detect that your Vista is pirated, why not just shut down the Vista altogether? Instead they're just turning off eye candy.
Because if you're running vista, you aren't running Linux.
If they closed the flood gates to piracy all together, people would be more willing to accept alternatives like Linux and OOo.
C-64? I was fiddling with MS-DOS 3.3 in those days... I figured C-64 was just a toy...
Ironically I had a CGA card in my 4.77Mhz XT, and all my friends made fun of me for playing Donkey Kong on an Amber two colour display.
I skipped the C-64 era all together.
The US inherited the British constitution.
Uhm, there is no written British Constitution.
I always understood a contract to have:
1) An offer
2) An acceptance
3) Consideration
4) Capacity to contract
5) Legality
Where are these elements in an email footer? Perhaps there's an offer, however there is no chance to decline acceptance. The consideration cannot be the email because it's one-sided. You aren't purchasing the email.
Capacity is moot for this, and the legality is also moot.
This will be over-turned.
The first dooms were great, but Doom3 was just not very fun.
Not a big fan of switching from flashlight to weapon and back again, over and over and over again???
=D
I agree - Doom 3 was a wonderful showcase for an amazing 3d engine, but the game itself was mediocre at best.
Unreal2 was also a showcase for their own engine, but it was one of the few fps games I enjoyed playing to the finish...
Just to point out that Return to Castle Wolfenstein was released a long time after the original Wolfenstein 3d, and gamers still remembered the original that started it all...
Plenty of people remember Duke Nukem 3d... Few remember the side scrolling Duke Nukem. That was way more fun...
I envision a game where you can do whatever you want. I mean anything. Kill a cop. Its possible. Rape and/or kill a hooker. Its possible. Steal a car. Its possible. Run people over in your stolen car. Its possible. Shoot people, beat them up, Its possible.
Never played postal 2 I take it??? It's pretty close to your vision... The best part was when you could shove your shotgun up the ass and of a kitty cat and shoot people through the cat. Friggin' hilarious..
If the USA doesn't repay its debts to China, then that's China's problem.
It isn't as though NOBODY will lend to the US at that point - money to be made is money to be made.
Problem is the risk just went up if the US defaulted. Sure, the US will still be able to borrow, but their cost of borrowing will be higher.
Look at GMAC - GM's financing arm. Will you lend them your money at 4.5%? Hell no, but at 8%, you're probably thinking about it (especially if they sell of GMAC).
Same holds true for the US. Today they can borrow at 4.5%. The market will not be so generous if they default on their bonds.
If a country were to stop paying their debts, they would find themselves unable to borrow because of a loss of credibility.
Would you borrow from a nation that isn't repaying their debts?
Look, you're willing to accept money in lieu of your services because it has a fiat value. You can exchange that currency for goods or services in trade. That currency is only valuable because it is universally accepted. Ask someone who survived ww2 in Germany about currency confidence.
Similarly with government bonds you purchase them on the promise your money will be returned, and while they have your money you earn interest. You are more than happy to buy tresury notes in the US because you know you'll get your money back. If there was ever any doubt, you'd be less inclined to give up your money in exchange for this interest bearing bond.
Certainly you cannot foreclose, but the market in general can.
That certainly sounds like people should be opposed to this "law".
Thing is, some Microsoft processes do some stuff in the background without your knowlege, some of which provides a valuable service to end users.
It would be kinda crappy for the state to write a law that can be used against legitimate uses like Automatic updates, which I'm certain is what Microsoft is implying.
Of course when data is normalized poorly sometimes you end up with impossible joins, only solved by unions.
A specific case comes to mind. A guy I worked with wanted to design a billing system. He had six tables represnting detail lines on the invoce. Each table had identical fields except for a few items. The data should not have been normalized because a report on invoicing would have required a six table union. Unacceptable IMO.
I'm a Canadian computer geek who wants American citizenship
You must have a fever or something... Wanting to move to a country like that.
Certainly devs earn more money in places like NYC, but they also pay obscene amounts of rent too. And due, the Vancouver tech market is booming.
I'm a big fan of c. As a reporting and data analyst, I see the same crap all the time.
People design systems for what they want to put into it, without consider what they want to get back out of it. That usually results in crappy query performance and all that crap because of undue care. When designing a system, engineers need to be aware of : 1) What do we want to store and how do we want to store it, 2) how do we want to put it in there, 3) What do we want to get back out of it.
Many people in designing systems pass over 3.
I've seen it in my last job. I had no input in database design, and had to deal with insanly stupid queries resulting from thoughtless and careless design.
According to this, American Conservativism isn't clearly defined, although IMO part of conservatrivism is free, open market Laissez-Faire operations, of which protectioniam isn't a part of...
Nobody has any business buying more than one or two domain names anyway.
Dunno about that. With cyber squaters who capitalize on misspelled url's, it seems in a business's interest to try to grab every possible typo version of their business name too...
I'm amazed the article was posted with such a decidedly partisan jab. I don't see how the 'administration' has really affected technology available to the public or influenced domestic product availability.
Isn't the FCC demanding that VoIP have wiretapping capabilities? That's in direct relation to the Patriot Act that allows the FBI to do any wiretap they please without probably evidence.
And yet that's where the majority of votes go - to the southern cross right wing freaks.
IMO it's your own fault for having a 55% turnout at the polls, and the President thus represents on 27.5% of the popular vote...
If 45% percent of your population is indifferent towards who is in charge, it's your own fault and you (as a country) deserve what you've got.
The only difference I see is the Dems support seperation of church and state; the Reps support the church values governing the US.
an overbloated linux distro company buys an overbloated java application server. sounds logical, especially if redhat is going to get all the $$$ from the jboss support.
The commonly used in the enterprise Linux distro buys one of the most commonly used j2ee middleware products.
All depends on your spin no?