It's not a problem with their software. Congress passed a law that nobody, save Nostradamus, could have prepared for that fucked with DST. This isn't a "fix" for a problem that they created. It's a "fix" for a problem that Congress created. People upset should contact their Congresspeople as to why we're still dealing with this ridiculously archaic DST system that was designed for an agrarian society, which the US has stopped being a long time ago.
Well, I've never seen a 1040, but you're right... maintenance and that sort of stuff is expensable. Bad example on my part.
In my case, I own a rapidly growing retail business, so every time I need to buy more (new) inventory that isn't a replacement for stuff already sold, that's not deducted from taxable earnings. A business can show $100K profit, but if you spend $80K for additional (new) inventory, you're still taxed at the $100K level.
Join the Libertarian Party. That's the basic premise of the party, and since they're (a distant) #3 in terms of power, you can do much more good by joining them than "joining" some random blog that nobody has ever heard of.
Yeah... my accountant switched my single member LLC to an S Corp in September of 2006, and she was vague, but she did say it would save on "self-employment" taxes. Like you, I don't understand all of the ins and outs of it (which is why I pay her), but she said it would help *some*. Well, taxes are due in less than 2 weeks, so I guess I'll have my answer very shortly.
The government never has taxed net-worth and never will, they tax income. That means that the business man who busts his ass to create 20 jobs and earn a million bucks will get his balls ripped off while the person sitting on a 10 billion dollar stockpile of cash will never notice at all no matter how high the tax rate is.
I'm getting my balls ripped off. Why? I started my small company on a shoestring 5 years ago, and have invested every cent that I don't spend on food and a rat-hole apartment back in my business (created 10 full time jobs with health insurance in the meantime). I still get taxed on all of that re-investment. What does that mean? It means that literally I pay out more in "income" taxes than I actually take home and spend (I pay about 4 times more in taxes than I actually pay myself). I (and people like me) get raped for re-investing in our businesses.
Before I ran into this problem, I always wondered why some small businesses (and large) simply don't re-invest back in the businesses. You know the kind of place... if it's retail, then they don't even change the lightbulbs, or re-paint the building... ever. Now I understand why. If you're gonna get taxed anyway, it makes more sense from a comfort standpoint to spend the profits on a stupid HDTV than it does on lightbulbs for the business.
Failure doesn't get fixed because making a drive more reliable means it costs more. If it costs more, it's not going to get purchased.
I couldn't disagree more. I know that I would pay more for even somewhat more reliable drives. The problem is that I can't find any sold that guarantee any kind of reliability other than the rock-bottom standard one year.
Damn, Ballmer and Jobs have got *nothing* on Ellison when it comes to sheer brutality. He's cutting out SAP's legs from under them by buying up and shutting down (or converting or Oracle optimized... same thing) the main tools that are used for getting into the real data analysis. That would be like if Apple bought Crystal Reports. Ouch.
It's interesting that the arena that these guys play in is so small, yet worth so much money.
Huh? Of course it'll be widespread. It works fine. It's got all of the features of XP, and then some. MS is gonna stop selling XP eventually. What else are people going to use OSX? Linux? Turn off Aero, and it looks and acts like Windows XP 95% of the time. It's run every Windows XP app that I've tried to use on it. It's really not a big deal from a user point of view.
What I was saying is that people who want to write products that work with microsoft products cant do so as well as microsoft can therefore they can't make a profit
Um, no. Nobody is forced to use any Microsoft product. Buy it or not buy it. Hell, you don't even have to use a computer, if you so choose. Nobody will show up at your house with a gun in their hand forcing you to use their products. You are FREE to use or not use as you choose. A government entity, though, CAN show up to your front door with guns and force you do do whatever they'd like.
Microsoft's monopoly has nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with tyranny.
You've got it backwards. A government forcing a private entity to do business in a certain way is tyranny. A company producing a product that you don't like is free enterprise.
Jobs said it would get rid of DRM in a heartbeat on all media on the iTunes Music Store. I believe that to be true.
Why on earth would you believe that? Jobs is full of shit, but his followers (read: consumers) still believe anything he says. He could say the world is flat, and Mac users would nod in agreement. Look, if Jobs really doesn't like DRM, he could simply stop selling it, and the record companies, at this point, would have no choice but do change things, because iTunes is (apparently) very popular. Jobs is selling DRM because there's money in it for him to do so, plain and simple.
something Microsoft is terrible at: making products consumers want to use
So, has Microsoft become the world's largest and most successful software company by making products that consumers don't want to use? I'm confused by how something like this is possible.
Swap with people you KNOW. If you are doing it online do it in closed groups with crypto and in cells to minimize the damage from infiltration.
That's asking for a lot more technical/geek expertise than most people have. Most people that I know can figure out how to "get to" CNN, their Yahoo account, maybe myspace or some shit like that. There aren't too many people (percentage wide, of course) that know what in the hell IRC even is.
You're probably right, but it ain't gonna happen on a large scale in our lifetime.
I honestly see a lot of retail collapsing because the time is getting close that the manufacturers can sell products cheaper, and at a higher profit for themselves, directly or through direct-partners.
Eh, not all across the board. You still need retail if you're not selling a commodity product. A web site only goes so far. There are a LOT of products that still need a lot of support/customer service, etc. But if you are in retail, there needs to be a reason for people to come to you. If you're not offering any service beyond what people can get from a web site, there's no point.
To all Slashdotters who don't have enough business knowledge to allow them to successfully operate a lemonade stand.... What you're suggesting is equivalent to saying: Why can't I put my PS2 disks in a Linux box and they just work? Just re-program Linux and make it work. How hard is that?
In other words, ship with Ubuntu soon/now and just outsource the support to either the community or the paid pros?
What happens when a customer gets a "RTFM" from the "community"? Dell get a big black eye. What happens when the paid pros can't cut it? Again, Dell gets a big black eye. When you have a brand, you can't just farm it out it anybody.
It's a missed oportunity really, they could have supported ubuntu and pre-installed a nice glossed version with all the beryl trimmings and gdesklets turned on and guaranteed all the features and buttons on it will work.
Jeez, you're a simple one, aren't you? This kind of thing costs a LOT of money to professionally develop and do it right (Thousands of Linux developers haven't gotten this right in a decade, yet). They have to make a BUSINESS decision as to whether it's worth the money to do this.
That's the way they do business. They don't want to get into the bottom end, el-cheap-o market. Providing plain ol' hardware not only puts them in that market, but it also cuts out most of their profit incentive for doing it in the first place. Besides, people will HOWL when they get a Dell box with some kind of Linux on it, have problems, and Dell takes them to take a flying leap. That's like asking Toyota to sell you some tricked out car, and you're ok without a warranty. You can't run a company like that.
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If you could post info about a professional admin willing to do this to all of our computers for $400, I'd be very grateful.
It's not a problem with their software. Congress passed a law that nobody, save Nostradamus, could have prepared for that fucked with DST. This isn't a "fix" for a problem that they created. It's a "fix" for a problem that Congress created. People upset should contact their Congresspeople as to why we're still dealing with this ridiculously archaic DST system that was designed for an agrarian society, which the US has stopped being a long time ago.
The Libertarian Party has never advocated for privatization of police. Read the official platform here.
Well, I've never seen a 1040, but you're right... maintenance and that sort of stuff is expensable. Bad example on my part.
In my case, I own a rapidly growing retail business, so every time I need to buy more (new) inventory that isn't a replacement for stuff already sold, that's not deducted from taxable earnings. A business can show $100K profit, but if you spend $80K for additional (new) inventory, you're still taxed at the $100K level.
Join the Libertarian Party. That's the basic premise of the party, and since they're (a distant) #3 in terms of power, you can do much more good by joining them than "joining" some random blog that nobody has ever heard of.
Yeah... my accountant switched my single member LLC to an S Corp in September of 2006, and she was vague, but she did say it would save on "self-employment" taxes. Like you, I don't understand all of the ins and outs of it (which is why I pay her), but she said it would help *some*. Well, taxes are due in less than 2 weeks, so I guess I'll have my answer very shortly.
The government never has taxed net-worth and never will, they tax income. That means that the business man who busts his ass to create 20 jobs and earn a million bucks will get his balls ripped off while the person sitting on a 10 billion dollar stockpile of cash will never notice at all no matter how high the tax rate is.
I'm getting my balls ripped off. Why? I started my small company on a shoestring 5 years ago, and have invested every cent that I don't spend on food and a rat-hole apartment back in my business (created 10 full time jobs with health insurance in the meantime). I still get taxed on all of that re-investment. What does that mean? It means that literally I pay out more in "income" taxes than I actually take home and spend (I pay about 4 times more in taxes than I actually pay myself). I (and people like me) get raped for re-investing in our businesses.
Before I ran into this problem, I always wondered why some small businesses (and large) simply don't re-invest back in the businesses. You know the kind of place... if it's retail, then they don't even change the lightbulbs, or re-paint the building... ever. Now I understand why. If you're gonna get taxed anyway, it makes more sense from a comfort standpoint to spend the profits on a stupid HDTV than it does on lightbulbs for the business.
The current tax system is broken.
Failure doesn't get fixed because making a drive more reliable means it costs more. If it costs more, it's not going to get purchased.
I couldn't disagree more. I know that I would pay more for even somewhat more reliable drives. The problem is that I can't find any sold that guarantee any kind of reliability other than the rock-bottom standard one year.
Damn, Ballmer and Jobs have got *nothing* on Ellison when it comes to sheer brutality. He's cutting out SAP's legs from under them by buying up and shutting down (or converting or Oracle optimized... same thing) the main tools that are used for getting into the real data analysis. That would be like if Apple bought Crystal Reports. Ouch.
It's interesting that the arena that these guys play in is so small, yet worth so much money.
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What didn't work for you on Vista? I'm curious. I've tried games, and business apps, and everything I've tried has worked just fine.
Huh? Of course it'll be widespread. It works fine. It's got all of the features of XP, and then some. MS is gonna stop selling XP eventually. What else are people going to use OSX? Linux? Turn off Aero, and it looks and acts like Windows XP 95% of the time. It's run every Windows XP app that I've tried to use on it. It's really not a big deal from a user point of view.
What I was saying is that people who want to write products that work with microsoft products cant do so as well as microsoft can therefore they can't make a profit
So what?
Um, no. Nobody is forced to use any Microsoft product. Buy it or not buy it. Hell, you don't even have to use a computer, if you so choose. Nobody will show up at your house with a gun in their hand forcing you to use their products. You are FREE to use or not use as you choose. A government entity, though, CAN show up to your front door with guns and force you do do whatever they'd like.
Microsoft's monopoly has nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with tyranny.
You've got it backwards. A government forcing a private entity to do business in a certain way is tyranny. A company producing a product that you don't like is free enterprise.
Jobs said it would get rid of DRM in a heartbeat on all media on the iTunes Music Store. I believe that to be true.
Why on earth would you believe that? Jobs is full of shit, but his followers (read: consumers) still believe anything he says. He could say the world is flat, and Mac users would nod in agreement. Look, if Jobs really doesn't like DRM, he could simply stop selling it, and the record companies, at this point, would have no choice but do change things, because iTunes is (apparently) very popular. Jobs is selling DRM because there's money in it for him to do so, plain and simple.
something Microsoft is terrible at: making products consumers want to use
So, has Microsoft become the world's largest and most successful software company by making products that consumers don't want to use? I'm confused by how something like this is possible.
Swap with people you KNOW. If you are doing it online do it in closed groups with crypto and in cells to minimize the damage from infiltration.
That's asking for a lot more technical/geek expertise than most people have. Most people that I know can figure out how to "get to" CNN, their Yahoo account, maybe myspace or some shit like that. There aren't too many people (percentage wide, of course) that know what in the hell IRC even is.
You're probably right, but it ain't gonna happen on a large scale in our lifetime.
I honestly see a lot of retail collapsing because the time is getting close that the manufacturers can sell products cheaper, and at a higher profit for themselves, directly or through direct-partners.
Eh, not all across the board. You still need retail if you're not selling a commodity product. A web site only goes so far. There are a LOT of products that still need a lot of support/customer service, etc. But if you are in retail, there needs to be a reason for people to come to you. If you're not offering any service beyond what people can get from a web site, there's no point.
To all Slashdotters who don't have enough business knowledge to allow them to successfully operate a lemonade stand.... What you're suggesting is equivalent to saying: Why can't I put my PS2 disks in a Linux box and they just work? Just re-program Linux and make it work. How hard is that?
In other words, ship with Ubuntu soon/now and just outsource the support to either the community or the paid pros?
What happens when a customer gets a "RTFM" from the "community"? Dell get a big black eye. What happens when the paid pros can't cut it? Again, Dell gets a big black eye. When you have a brand, you can't just farm it out it anybody.
It's a missed oportunity really, they could have supported ubuntu and pre-installed a nice glossed version with all the beryl trimmings and gdesklets turned on and guaranteed all the features and buttons on it will work.
Jeez, you're a simple one, aren't you? This kind of thing costs a LOT of money to professionally develop and do it right (Thousands of Linux developers haven't gotten this right in a decade, yet). They have to make a BUSINESS decision as to whether it's worth the money to do this.
That's the way they do business. They don't want to get into the bottom end, el-cheap-o market. Providing plain ol' hardware not only puts them in that market, but it also cuts out most of their profit incentive for doing it in the first place. Besides, people will HOWL when they get a Dell box with some kind of Linux on it, have problems, and Dell takes them to take a flying leap. That's like asking Toyota to sell you some tricked out car, and you're ok without a warranty. You can't run a company like that.
And if your company was wise enough to not do the vendor lockin to microsoft (just because everybody else does)
Using one company's Os that works on any hardware is more "lock-in" than using a proprietary Os that works on proprietary software?
Even SCO doesn't lock you into proprietary hardware.