one correction to what I just wrote above: Steve Ballmer paid 50% *more*, not less, for Nokia (about 3 billion dollars total) than he did for the LA Clippers basketball team (2 billion).
OK, buying the Clippers was his personal transaction using his own money, and the other was a Microsoft transaction under his authority, having ruined the Nokia Mobile Devices unit in the first place, but let's not try to split any of Ballmer's hair over that detail.
Notice the numbers in TFA are following the Nokia and Skype purchases from several years ago. Skype cost Microsoft about 8 or 9 billion. Nokia cost Microsoft about 3 billion dollars (50% less than Ballmer paid for the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, and using his own money).
In other words, The U.S. based Microsoft Corporation (HQ'd in Reno, NV to avoid paying taxes to Washington State) bought those non-US companies with off-shored income having paid very little tax to anyone, for anything. You and I can't buy companies so easily, but Microsoft can, and did.
Google paid 1.5 billion dollars for prime London real estate to build their office there, with the same type of Non-US, double-Dutch sandwich money. This is the way the game is played. And these large companies seriously lobby the US congress for a special tax repatriation holiday, as a way to negotiate a lower rate, if they are to chose to pay US taxes.
At least when Facebook paid 16 billion dollars for WhatsApp, they didn't use non-taxable offshore money, because they bought a US company.
Obviously a dual-SIM phone can alleviate this problem, as can a modern phone with multiple SIP accounts configured, assuming then you have a good data plan, or can live happily as a simple hotspot-whore, (and most people could!).
To cite a reference, these Nokia phones have SIP support within the OS, so battery life is excellent, compared to having to run an App just for SIP accounts, (like SIPdroid).
The Nokia N9 and N900 phones also have SIP support within the OS and battery life is very good. Hmmm, I never bothered to look, but what about Jolla's Sailfish? For that matter, does anyone else know of another low-energy SIP stack in-use? I don't think iOS offers it, but I've been wrong before.
As to how to get your company telephone line (DID) in a workable state so you can access it via SIP, well, you're on your own slashdotters. (Hint: lowest common denominator is something like an OBi110 PSTN FXO adapter). In fact an OBi110 and a Raspberry Pi runny asterisk/FreePBX can forward incoming calls from a DID to any pre-configured (mobile) phone number.
That's a simple solution. At which point separate telephone bills become trivial and automatic.
Should Not Feed Trolls(!), but yet again I can not help myself. What about former playmate, former co-anchor Jenny McCarthy, last seen on the (Oprah Winfrey replacement) daytime television show primarily aimed towards women called The View? Considering her anti-vaccination rhetoric, she was lucky to even be given her prominent seat at the table to begin with. Yet there she was, (until she wasn't).
How do the Recruiters/Agents submit their chosen candidate applications to HR? What value are Agents adding in the process to earn on average 1/3 of the fees paid by the client, for the contracted I.T. worker? Isn't it perhaps worth the effort to avoid recruiters at all costs and try to reach HR directly, using their broken application form process no matter how bad it is, because that directly broken process is preferable to involving Recruiters?
p.s. Aren't the bulk of jobs advertised on Dice from these Agents/Recruiters, in which case has Dice ruined itself chasing the low-hanging fruit?
How many of those former Nokia employees that have just lost their job, (mostly in Finland, yes, but still!), could have contributed towards improving the Surface line, or the Windows tablet agenda in-general? Where's the synergy, Microsoft?
I'm reminded of one encrypted E-mail provider in this regard. They did nothing wrong, but were given the choice between having people face jail time or hand over data... I still use them...
For a moment there, I thought you were talking about , Lavabit. (That citation is from Google's cache, of their website, that explains why they chose to go under)
Did you not understand the part about the plebs taking responsibility, or not, for their own keys (private and public), in the post that you replied to? The plebs can barely understand how to manage their own passwords, let alone the legal ramifications of what it means to be a Safe Harbor.
Then you won't be saving time, or money, commuting between MIT and Harvard by using your own private car. My point had to do with the proximity of the two universities and what realistic, low cost, and frequent transportation options between classes exist, relative to the text of the article; and I provided citations for others.
While students at MIT and Harvard do cross-register, the logistics of travel from one campus to another limit the extent to which this is practical. Online makes it possible for students to take classes from across universities more conveniently.”
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Or it didn't happen.
Except the GP's argument does indeed apply to the Adobe Cloud, today.
one correction to what I just wrote above: Steve Ballmer paid 50% *more*, not less, for Nokia (about 3 billion dollars total) than he did for the LA Clippers basketball team (2 billion).
OK, buying the Clippers was his personal transaction using his own money, and the other was a Microsoft transaction under his authority, having ruined the Nokia Mobile Devices unit in the first place, but let's not try to split any of Ballmer's hair over that detail.
Notice the numbers in TFA are following the Nokia and Skype purchases from several years ago. Skype cost Microsoft about 8 or 9 billion. Nokia cost Microsoft about 3 billion dollars (50% less than Ballmer paid for the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, and using his own money).
In other words, The U.S. based Microsoft Corporation (HQ'd in Reno, NV to avoid paying taxes to Washington State) bought those non-US companies with off-shored income having paid very little tax to anyone, for anything. You and I can't buy companies so easily, but Microsoft can, and did.
Google paid 1.5 billion dollars for prime London real estate to build their office there, with the same type of Non-US, double-Dutch sandwich money. This is the way the game is played. And these large companies seriously lobby the US congress for a special tax repatriation holiday, as a way to negotiate a lower rate, if they are to chose to pay US taxes.
At least when Facebook paid 16 billion dollars for WhatsApp, they didn't use non-taxable offshore money, because they bought a US company.
Obviously a dual-SIM phone can alleviate this problem, as can a modern phone with multiple SIP accounts configured, assuming then you have a good data plan, or can live happily as a simple hotspot-whore, (and most people could!).
To cite a reference, these Nokia phones have SIP support within the OS, so battery life is excellent, compared to having to run an App just for SIP accounts, (like SIPdroid).
http://developer.nokia.com/com...
The Nokia N9 and N900 phones also have SIP support within the OS and battery life is very good. Hmmm, I never bothered to look, but what about Jolla's Sailfish? For that matter, does anyone else know of another low-energy SIP stack in-use? I don't think iOS offers it, but I've been wrong before.
As to how to get your company telephone line (DID) in a workable state so you can access it via SIP, well, you're on your own slashdotters. (Hint: lowest common denominator is something like an OBi110 PSTN FXO adapter). In fact an OBi110 and a Raspberry Pi runny asterisk/FreePBX can forward incoming calls from a DID to any pre-configured (mobile) phone number.
That's a simple solution. At which point separate telephone bills become trivial and automatic.
Another more recent example of airframe stress was Aloha Airlines flight 243; most, but not all people survived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You've confused your different Mars Rovers. Curiosity was launched from Earth on November 26, 2011.
The word you are looking for is ignorant I believe, and there's actually a cure for it.
Should Not Feed Trolls(!), but yet again I can not help myself. What about former playmate, former co-anchor Jenny McCarthy, last seen on the (Oprah Winfrey replacement) daytime television show primarily aimed towards women called The View? Considering her anti-vaccination rhetoric, she was lucky to even be given her prominent seat at the table to begin with. Yet there she was, (until she wasn't).
Not to mention OpenSwitch, which Cisco hasn't exactly embraced: http://arstechnica.com/informa... also: http://arstechnica.com/informa...
The NSA screwed over Cisco in a big way (and other American companies, of course): http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
This makes perfect sense, because Siri's reply (or best-score) would be calculated as based upon previously successful tasks of a similar nature.
Siri could have been more helpful, like suggesting, "I see you're in Florida..."
In an attempt to deliver per your specification, please check this out: http://schema.org/JobPosting
How do the Recruiters/Agents submit their chosen candidate applications to HR? What value are Agents adding in the process to earn on average 1/3 of the fees paid by the client, for the contracted I.T. worker? Isn't it perhaps worth the effort to avoid recruiters at all costs and try to reach HR directly, using their broken application form process no matter how bad it is, because that directly broken process is preferable to involving Recruiters?
p.s. Aren't the bulk of jobs advertised on Dice from these Agents/Recruiters, in which case has Dice ruined itself chasing the low-hanging fruit?
...for others to follow.
How many of those former Nokia employees that have just lost their job, (mostly in Finland, yes, but still!), could have contributed towards improving the Surface line, or the Windows tablet agenda in-general? Where's the synergy, Microsoft?
Cobol is nothing; have you heard the latest about FORTRAN and Big Data?
http://developers.slashdot.org...
Like this? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
For a moment there, I thought you were talking about , Lavabit. (That citation is from Google's cache, of their website, that explains why they chose to go under)
Did you not understand the part about the plebs taking responsibility, or not, for their own keys (private and public), in the post that you replied to? The plebs can barely understand how to manage their own passwords, let alone the legal ramifications of what it means to be a Safe Harbor.
...I should also add, watch Yahoo claim to be what Lavabit once was.
Bingo. You've just busted the cloud-marketing machine that is Yahoo!
Then you won't be saving time, or money, commuting between MIT and Harvard by using your own private car. My point had to do with the proximity of the two universities and what realistic, low cost, and frequent transportation options between classes exist, relative to the text of the article; and I provided citations for others.
Not to discredit, but to clarify TFA:
We're talking two subway stops. Or they can rent a bike, which are all over the place and very well maintained: http://www.thehubway.com/stati...
Sorry to reply to myself but I just got an idea. "That's the power of the cloud, where the lightening comes from, cubed!"