A point being left out that is extremely important and illustrates why the low level people didn't get rich during the dotcom boom. When your company IPOs even if you have vested shares that you have purchased you aren't allowed to sell them for 6 months after the IPO. So your shares which are $144 on the opening day blitz may only be worth a few dollars more than your execution price by the time your sell dates come around. Now at 3k shares that you purchased for $1 a piece that are now only worth 3 bucks you aren't really making that much after taxes.
This can get sticky because you are still liable for the tax on the new value versus your execution price. This leads to what is called the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax) which is actually somewhat complex, especially if you have never done anything but basic forms before. AMT fucked over a lot of people in California because they ended up owing more in taxes than they ever made (or could have made thanks to the crash) on stock they executed from companies that crashed. An example (let's hope I am remembering this right) is you execute 5k shares when they are worth 10 bucks at your offering price of 50 cents. You the lil peon in the company are now liable for the difference of $9.50 on each share REGARDLESS of what you sell them for when calculating AMT. In this case thats over 47k... even if you only can sell them for a $1 at some later date. Fortunately triggering AMT is actually pretty hard to do in normal situations unlike the dotcom heyday when people were given relatively huge amounts of company stock.
Wow. I was just thinking to myself, "You know what, Mike? We need MORE LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS!"
I know most sports stars refer to themselves in the third person, but you actually think to yourself in the third person? Do you also answer your own rhetorical questions?
(the article being about san diego led me to assume you meant california).
I live in Alabama. The last presidential election my state went Democrat was for Carter. To make my vote 'matter', i vote libertarian or green, to try to aid them in getting their 5%.
Re: "choice". it's like they're giving us the "choice" between eating red colored crap or blue colored crap. Some choice.
A non db fs simply uses something like a FAT or table as a pointer to the location of data. A db fs allows much more control as you can access the data in blocks based on any attribute from a reference drawn from any number of indexes. In most cases they are essentially the same, but with a db you have indexes that you can act on more easily, for changes, finds, anything you can do with an index in a real db. In the future a db fs will allow extensive use of metadata that doesn't litter itself around as normal hidden files or directories.
Here's some info on the NTFS concept:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ntfs/concepts/ di rectory.html
You really need to try a recent version of windows. My mom (who never even owned a computer before '02) decided to and installed XP home over her installation of WinME without a bit of help from me.
Like it or not unless something goes wrong windows does a good job of shielding its users from technical jargon.
Compaq created the hard drive based mp3 player and licensed the technology to Handango. You could buy a HD based player well over a year before Creative launched their product.
Think about it. Three years ago anti-mac was just as in vogue in the geek community as being anti-microsoft. Quite a shift in a mindshare Apple has been able to pull off.
This is totally wrong on so many levels that I don't even know where to begin. All the plastic covers under the hood can be released with either a dime or a flat head screw driver; They are simple pop screws. Even more troubling is your contention that removing a protective cover to jump a car would void the warranty, where did that come from? What part of your brain made that up?
BTW *all* regular maintenance is included with newer audis for the length of the warranty, when a car comes out it is easy to turn off the info notices.
I'm sorry the mechanic there was unskilled and you and your friend are morons, hopefully life isn't too hard for you.
There are maintenance numbers for LN 1 and LN 2 which are preset for required maintenance intervals but with a VAG ($99) you can reset those if you do the work yourself.
While I don't discount the numerous advancements and network builds out the former baby bells have done they seem to be forgetting they wouldn't even exist as separate entities if we (through government subsidizing) hadn't built out their networks in the first place.
Someone in the FCC needs to sit down and figure out just how much we doled out to each company for their buildouts and then either offer the company ways to pay us back or force them to offer discounts to other people who wish to use their network until the discounted amount matches what we gave them (adjusted for inflation of course).
... understand that Korea is a very different culture when it comes to cell phones and things like SMS than the USA. SMS usage is waaaaaaaay more common with everyone and people use SMS more frequently as it is much cheaper than actually talking on the phone.
My girlfriend who is Korean can friggen enter SMS messages by using the keypad faster than I can write them with a stylus on my p800; it is both awesome and scary at the same time.
However my point is that as a company you have to pay attention to more and more rules. If you don't then you end up in a situation like the present one Microsoft finds themselves in.
While one legal ruling in one country may hold absolutely no weight in another, any company that assumes it won't entice other countries to look for similar laws is not only doing themselves a disservice but acting out of arrogance. While the rules ARE different from country to country, as a global organization, you have to be aware of all of them and make sure your corporation is covering all of its bases in each distinct zone but at the same time balance this against sets of created expectations.
Assuming one can just have very specific terms and rules for one country is dangerous... for example if in Croatia Microsoft relaxes desktop icon restriction and certain license requirements to fit in with local law, how do they then deny the same changes and benefits to Serbia?
One of the benefits of the new trend towards global companies is that the set of rules one must play by becomes more and more restricted as you enter into new markets.
... would a comment based in such ignorance get modded up. You do realize that different CPUs need differing amounts of cache to achieve the same net effect, right?
About a year ago those who defended Bluetooth here on slashdot were quickly taken to task. I know this because I often found myself having to respond to many stupid comments and was amazed at the clueless negative moderations that spoke well of bluetooth. In the not so distant past anytime anyone on slashdot brought up Bluetooth someone (okay many) would instantly call it dumb and say WiFi was the answer.
The moderations today show a complete reversal. Interesting how the groupthink here DOES evolve to a more sensible position, even if it takes a while.
ESR is the Bill Gates of the open source movement.
Oh, Bill's lustful desire was money, more money than he could ever do anything with. ESR on the other hand, under the guise of doing things for a movement, lusts for popularity and acclaim. He is a talented program no doubt but he has the internal rewards system of a 12 year old boy.
Please note how everything ESR works on or pontificates about is sure to have his STAMP all over it, contrast that with the way Linus works, or Hubbard, or the thousands of people who contribute to open source who don't do it for glory.
Your above statements only hold true if you assume Pixar can't create any other market-winning content. Obviously they believe they can and to their credit, Nemo, etc... were very successful market creations, much more so than anything Disney has created in a while.
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A point being left out that is extremely important and illustrates why the low level people didn't get rich during the dotcom boom. When your company IPOs even if you have vested shares that you have purchased you aren't allowed to sell them for 6 months after the IPO. So your shares which are $144 on the opening day blitz may only be worth a few dollars more than your execution price by the time your sell dates come around. Now at 3k shares that you purchased for $1 a piece that are now only worth 3 bucks you aren't really making that much after taxes.
This can get sticky because you are still liable for the tax on the new value versus your execution price. This leads to what is called the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax) which is actually somewhat complex, especially if you have never done anything but basic forms before. AMT fucked over a lot of people in California because they ended up owing more in taxes than they ever made (or could have made thanks to the crash) on stock they executed from companies that crashed. An example (let's hope I am remembering this right) is you execute 5k shares when they are worth 10 bucks at your offering price of 50 cents. You the lil peon in the company are now liable for the difference of $9.50 on each share REGARDLESS of what you sell them for when calculating AMT. In this case thats over 47k... even if you only can sell them for a $1 at some later date. Fortunately triggering AMT is actually pretty hard to do in normal situations unlike the dotcom heyday when people were given relatively huge amounts of company stock.
Wow. I was just thinking to myself, "You know what, Mike? We need MORE LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS!"
I know most sports stars refer to themselves in the third person, but you actually think to yourself in the third person? Do you also answer your own rhetorical questions?
(the article being about san diego led me to assume you meant california).
I live in Alabama. The last presidential election my state went Democrat was for Carter. To make my vote 'matter', i vote libertarian or green, to try to aid them in getting their 5%.
Re: "choice". it's like they're giving us the "choice" between eating red colored crap or blue colored crap. Some choice.
A non db fs simply uses something like a FAT or table as a pointer to the location of data. A db fs allows much more control as you can access the data in blocks based on any attribute from a reference drawn from any number of indexes. In most cases they are essentially the same, but with a db you have indexes that you can act on more easily, for changes, finds, anything you can do with an index in a real db. In the future a db fs will allow extensive use of metadata that doesn't litter itself around as normal hidden files or directories.
/ di rectory.html
Here's some info on the NTFS concept:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ntfs/concepts
NTFS is essentially a database filesystem. Lacking many of the features they promised? Yes, but database fs none the less.
You really need to try a recent version of windows. My mom (who never even owned a computer before '02) decided to and installed XP home over her installation of WinME without a bit of help from me.
Like it or not unless something goes wrong windows does a good job of shielding its users from technical jargon.
And have you ever heard of those two small vendors before?
Look at that, they are listed right there with huge megacorps. Sounds like it is working pretty damn well to me.
This is it?
This is the most imaginative idea someone could come up with for an April fools joke?
You are kidding, right?
Compaq created the hard drive based mp3 player and licensed the technology to Handango. You could buy a HD based player well over a year before Creative launched their product.
... is that the Mac tagline is even there.
Think about it. Three years ago anti-mac was just as in vogue in the geek community as being anti-microsoft. Quite a shift in a mindshare Apple has been able to pull off.
How does the average consumer tell where a product is made when it is one made with intellectual capital?
Because greybeards never spend any money.
Big developers are leaving PC development for consoles and now you wonder why they won't release in-house ports to a subset of a dying market?
Get a console.
This is totally wrong on so many levels that I don't even know where to begin. All the plastic covers under the hood can be released with either a dime or a flat head screw driver; They are simple pop screws. Even more troubling is your contention that removing a protective cover to jump a car would void the warranty, where did that come from? What part of your brain made that up?
BTW *all* regular maintenance is included with newer audis for the length of the warranty, when a car comes out it is easy to turn off the info notices.
I'm sorry the mechanic there was unskilled and you and your friend are morons, hopefully life isn't too hard for you.
This simply isn't true.
There are maintenance numbers for LN 1 and LN 2 which are preset for required maintenance intervals but with a VAG ($99) you can reset those if you do the work yourself.
While I don't discount the numerous advancements and network builds out the former baby bells have done they seem to be forgetting they wouldn't even exist as separate entities if we (through government subsidizing) hadn't built out their networks in the first place.
Someone in the FCC needs to sit down and figure out just how much we doled out to each company for their buildouts and then either offer the company ways to pay us back or force them to offer discounts to other people who wish to use their network until the discounted amount matches what we gave them (adjusted for inflation of course).
... understand that Korea is a very different culture when it comes to cell phones and things like SMS than the USA. SMS usage is waaaaaaaay more common with everyone and people use SMS more frequently as it is much cheaper than actually talking on the phone.
My girlfriend who is Korean can friggen enter SMS messages by using the keypad faster than I can write them with a stylus on my p800; it is both awesome and scary at the same time.
While this is hokey couldn't a nuclear powered zepplin stay airborne for a long long time?
Of course every country in the world would go crazy if someone made such a thing... but would it work?
However my point is that as a company you have to pay attention to more and more rules. If you don't then you end up in a situation like the present one Microsoft finds themselves in.
While one legal ruling in one country may hold absolutely no weight in another, any company that assumes it won't entice other countries to look for similar laws is not only doing themselves a disservice but acting out of arrogance. While the rules ARE different from country to country, as a global organization, you have to be aware of all of them and make sure your corporation is covering all of its bases in each distinct zone but at the same time balance this against sets of created expectations.
Assuming one can just have very specific terms and rules for one country is dangerous... for example if in Croatia Microsoft relaxes desktop icon restriction and certain license requirements to fit in with local law, how do they then deny the same changes and benefits to Serbia?
playing by more than one set of rules!
As this action by Japan illustrates, apparently not. Microsoft just ran with their typical US arrogance and got caught breaking the rules.
One of the benefits of the new trend towards global companies is that the set of rules one must play by becomes more and more restricted as you enter into new markets.
... would a comment based in such ignorance get modded up. You do realize that different CPUs need differing amounts of cache to achieve the same net effect, right?
About a year ago those who defended Bluetooth here on slashdot were quickly taken to task. I know this because I often found myself having to respond to many stupid comments and was amazed at the clueless negative moderations that spoke well of bluetooth. In the not so distant past anytime anyone on slashdot brought up Bluetooth someone (okay many) would instantly call it dumb and say WiFi was the answer.
The moderations today show a complete reversal. Interesting how the groupthink here DOES evolve to a more sensible position, even if it takes a while.
ESR is the Bill Gates of the open source movement.
Oh, Bill's lustful desire was money, more money than he could ever do anything with. ESR on the other hand, under the guise of doing things for a movement, lusts for popularity and acclaim. He is a talented program no doubt but he has the internal rewards system of a 12 year old boy.
Please note how everything ESR works on or pontificates about is sure to have his STAMP all over it, contrast that with the way Linus works, or Hubbard, or the thousands of people who contribute to open source who don't do it for glory.
Your above statements only hold true if you assume Pixar can't create any other market-winning content. Obviously they believe they can and to their credit, Nemo, etc... were very successful market creations, much more so than anything Disney has created in a while.