Apple has corporate headquarters in Cupertino, CA, but its cash management division operates from a shell company in Nevada, which has no corporate taxes, to avoid California's 8.84% corporate tax rate. Never mind that Apple also collects $400M in R&D tax credits from California.
But there's no way I'd let them in my doors either.
Pray that you never get a federal job. OPM conducted my background investigation for a security clearance. My two-hour routine interview turned into a four-hour nitpicking interview. Being single and staying in the same studio apartment for nearly ten years was considered odd. Working a weekday job and a weekend job for a year, and having multiple overlapping contract jobs for several years, was odder. Not being able to remember every detail of every job I had to take since the Great Recession was oddest. When asked if you're going to commit terrorist acts against the U.S.A., always tell the truth.
Unless you work in a hospital and equipped with a Vocera Badge. Anyone can ask for the position of a user and the device will tell them where in the building. If you told your supervisor you were walking over to user's station, and the communicator said you were in the lunch room, you got busted.
I went through this at one company where software was installed to allow the managers to monitor the Windows desktop of any employee. My manager came running over to remind me that I shouldn't be looking at Amazon on company's time. And then he saw that I had a breakfast burrito from the roach coach in my hand, which meant I was on my break and could damn well look at Amazon. I told him to bugger off.
This was easily defeated because the company next door had an opened wireless access point. We just browsed the Internet on our PDA's (this was ten years ago). Needless to say, with management like this, the company went bankrupt.
You can deliver more wireless bandwidth to users. Are you willing to pay big bucks to upgrade the backend equipment (i.e., routers and switches) for more bandwidth?
Why compare Sega to Atari? Atari itself doesnt exist, its just a name, its been bought and resold, reused by new companies so many times. No serious original Atari IP remains.
The original Atari disappeared in the 1980's.
French-based Infogrames bought Hasbro Interactive that owned the Atari IP and renamed itself Atari in the 2000's. I worked at the "new" Atari for six years, splitting my time between being a tester and a lead tester. They tried to "converge" with licensed Hollywood properties (i.e., "Enter The Matrix"), gone broke during the dot com bust, and sold all the studios that they paid two to four times what they were really worth. Today they are recycling games from the old Atari IP as mobile games.
Global warming will make this problem more obvious, especially as cliff-side houses fall into the ocean and whole towns disappear from the flood plains as sea level rises.
Build on a flood plain, make millions of dollars today, and let the tax payers pick up the bill after a catastrophic 100-year flood years later. Rinse, rebuild and repeat.
Is the problem that we don't have the submersible technology, or robotic technology to do the finishing work, or is there something else I'm missing?
Some drunk driving a motorboat with the anchor dragging above the ocean floor will latch on to above ocean floor tunnel, causing a massive leak and/or damaging the boat. This is why it's better to build the tunnel in bedrock.
My 2006 Black MacBook ran for eight years until the CPU fan gave out. I didn't bother to get it repaired at the Apple Store. Although Snow Leopard OS X ran perfectly fan, updates to existing software no longer supported the 32-bit CPU. Better to save up for new hardware to run the latest and greatest.
We need someone who has five years of experience in a new technology that came out six months ago. We can only pay in milk and cookies. Please send ASAP!
Automation will kill 99% of all jobs in the near future while in the present outsourcing and "efficiency directives" are destroying any hope you will ever have to make a living.
I've been hearing that for decades as a construction worker, warehouse worker, spaghetti cook, virtual world tester, video game tester, help desk/desktop support technician, data center technician, PC refresh technician, and, currently, security remediation technician. None of my jobs were ever replaced by automation.
Why not? Building out a data center is mostly unboxing equipment, following diagrams, placing equipment into the racks, screwing everything down, running cables and port mapping.
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Apple has corporate headquarters in Cupertino, CA, but its cash management division operates from a shell company in Nevada, which has no corporate taxes, to avoid California's 8.84% corporate tax rate. Never mind that Apple also collects $400M in R&D tax credits from California.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-dodges-billions-in-taxes-2012-4
But there's no way I'd let them in my doors either.
Pray that you never get a federal job. OPM conducted my background investigation for a security clearance. My two-hour routine interview turned into a four-hour nitpicking interview. Being single and staying in the same studio apartment for nearly ten years was considered odd. Working a weekday job and a weekend job for a year, and having multiple overlapping contract jobs for several years, was odder. Not being able to remember every detail of every job I had to take since the Great Recession was oddest. When asked if you're going to commit terrorist acts against the U.S.A., always tell the truth.
Unless you work in a hospital and equipped with a Vocera Badge. Anyone can ask for the position of a user and the device will tell them where in the building. If you told your supervisor you were walking over to user's station, and the communicator said you were in the lunch room, you got busted.
I went through this at one company where software was installed to allow the managers to monitor the Windows desktop of any employee. My manager came running over to remind me that I shouldn't be looking at Amazon on company's time. And then he saw that I had a breakfast burrito from the roach coach in my hand, which meant I was on my break and could damn well look at Amazon. I told him to bugger off.
This was easily defeated because the company next door had an opened wireless access point. We just browsed the Internet on our PDA's (this was ten years ago). Needless to say, with management like this, the company went bankrupt.
You can deliver more wireless bandwidth to users. Are you willing to pay big bucks to upgrade the backend equipment (i.e., routers and switches) for more bandwidth?
*crickets*
Why compare Sega to Atari? Atari itself doesnt exist, its just a name, its been bought and resold, reused by new companies so many times. No serious original Atari IP remains.
The original Atari disappeared in the 1980's.
French-based Infogrames bought Hasbro Interactive that owned the Atari IP and renamed itself Atari in the 2000's. I worked at the "new" Atari for six years, splitting my time between being a tester and a lead tester. They tried to "converge" with licensed Hollywood properties (i.e., "Enter The Matrix"), gone broke during the dot com bust, and sold all the studios that they paid two to four times what they were really worth. Today they are recycling games from the old Atari IP as mobile games.
Meh...
Global warming will make this problem more obvious, especially as cliff-side houses fall into the ocean and whole towns disappear from the flood plains as sea level rises.
I made an observation. You're the one with control issues (i.e., running off at the keyboard).
Spreadsheet or cellphone?
Build on a flood plain, make millions of dollars today, and let the tax payers pick up the bill after a catastrophic 100-year flood years later. Rinse, rebuild and repeat.
They probably have gluten-free lunches there though.
FTFY
A brand new "SPARC Inside" sticker.
Is the problem that we don't have the submersible technology, or robotic technology to do the finishing work, or is there something else I'm missing?
Some drunk driving a motorboat with the anchor dragging above the ocean floor will latch on to above ocean floor tunnel, causing a massive leak and/or damaging the boat. This is why it's better to build the tunnel in bedrock.
My 2006 Black MacBook ran for eight years until the CPU fan gave out. I didn't bother to get it repaired at the Apple Store. Although Snow Leopard OS X ran perfectly fan, updates to existing software no longer supported the 32-bit CPU. Better to save up for new hardware to run the latest and greatest.
A Yellowstone supereruption would wipe out two-thirds of the northern hemisphere. If that have gone off, ashy rain would be the least of our problems.
I'm American. My French isn't that great. :P
I thought that was moonshine liberating me.
After a 30 year celebration on Endor to celebrate the end of the Empire, Han Solo got stuck with the beer bill for all those drunken Ewoks.
That's no moon. It's some kid's damn RC toy.
Dear Santa,
We need someone who has five years of experience in a new technology that came out six months ago. We can only pay in milk and cookies. Please send ASAP!
Love,
HR Dept.
Automation will kill 99% of all jobs in the near future while in the present outsourcing and "efficiency directives" are destroying any hope you will ever have to make a living.
I've been hearing that for decades as a construction worker, warehouse worker, spaghetti cook, virtual world tester, video game tester, help desk/desktop support technician, data center technician, PC refresh technician, and, currently, security remediation technician. None of my jobs were ever replaced by automation.
Does machine learning overcome the HR requirement to have five years of experience in a technology that just came out six months ago?
Taxes are at an 80 year low. No need to surrender the honey jar as well.
"Changes?! We don't need no stinkin' changes!"
Why not? Building out a data center is mostly unboxing equipment, following diagrams, placing equipment into the racks, screwing everything down, running cables and port mapping.