In my mother's 5 person physician office, 0.05% unscheduled downtime means they lose over $10,000/yr due to your Windows machine. Six sigma isn't a myth, and it isn't regulated to large business.
Sever downtime is extraordinarily expensive. Either get a QOS gaurentee from your vendor, or go with the proven solution.
in this area isSilent PC Review. For silent computing, take a look at their recommended page.
Probably the best PSU for your use is a Seasonic S12-330W. About $50, and coupled with a Antec 3000B or similar less than $80. If you want more powerful, I'd look at the Antec P150 with included NeoPower 430.
before spouting off against the various congressmen for not knowing the constitution, learn it yourself.
Article I, Section 8. The Congress shall have power...To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Congress may make a mess of things, but they have always had the defined power to pass laws dealing with patents, tradmarks, and copyrights.
Dividends and stock buybacks MUST come from after tax profit. So in the above case, the maximum divident would be $650 or $580.03 depending on the example. The company can chose not to distribute the entire amount of profit (for a variety of legitimate reasons), in which case it is added to retained earnings. It would not be subject to additional income taxation on that amount on a corporate level (assuming it sits in a bank earning no interest).
Does a company pay tax on money they distribute to shareholders? I know if they give every employee a nice bonus they don't wind up paying a corporate income tax on that. Do they pay a corporate income tax on money earmarked for dividends?
A corporation pays tax on income. So if they have $1,000 in income, then that is taxed. Payroll/bonuses are a little different. If I pay you $100, then I will often (not always) owe the government $7.65 PLUS whatever I with-hold from your paycheck for the purpose of social security matching. So to flesh out the above, $1000-100-7.65 = 892.35. If the corporation has a 35% income tax rate, they will owe 892.35 X.35 = 312.33 in income tax, leaving an after tax profit of $580.03
Conversely, if they don't give you the $100 christmas bonus, then they will owe income taxes of $350, for a net after tax income of $650. This means paying you a $100 bonus, only cost them $69.97 in after tax profit.
Dividends and stock buybacks MUST come from after tax profit. So in the above case, the maximum divident would be $350 or $312.33 depending on the example. The company can chose not to distribute the entire amount of profit (for a variety of legitimate reasons), in which case it is added to retained earnings. It would not be subject to additional income taxation on that amount on a corporate level (assuming it sits in a bank earning no interest).
The classic double taxation comes as follows... Taking the above profit of $650, when it is distributed to an individual they also must pay taxes on that amount -- approximately the same 35%. This means that their actual in the bank amount would be $422.50 (assuming the $650 example above).
The reason this comes up in small business, is that if I'm a partnership or sole proprietor, I am only taxed once at the personal level. All profits are passed down (as well as expenses) to my personal tax form on Schedule C. So a part time consultant would have an after tax income of $650, but Accenture would have an after tax income of $422.50.
Under certain conditions, a special case of corporation called a Subchapter-S Corp, is not subjected to that "double taxation" mentioned above. This is restricted to closley held corporations (less than 100 shareholders I think), and has other restrictions.
This can get more complex, and one otherthing to keep in mind (espcially for small businesses), is that profit and cash don't line up. For instance, if I spend $2000 for a computer, I'm not allowed to expense it in the year it is purchased -- but it must be written off over 5 years. The same idea exists with invoices. If I issue an invoice for $5,000 on December 20, but am not paid, I will still owe taxes on that amount.
The EFF had a lawsuit against sony outstanding regarding this technology (they sued for BOTH this and the XMP technology).
This was part of Sony's attempt to mitagate damages from the lawsuit. Lawyers who care about their clients will often try to settle as much as possible rather than dragging it out for 10 years -- where no one is helped.
Almost, but not quite...
Companies pay taxes (at least in the US) on net income, not revenue. So extending your example of a 50% tax rate and $20 net income...
50% of $20 = $10 available to shareholders and $10 in taxes. If the company then distributes that $10 to the shareholders (sends them a check) the shareholder's have to pay taxes on the money recieved on their personal income taxes.
Ok, now assume they have a recall that costs them $5. So its $20 - $5 writeoff = $15. $15 x 50% = 7.50 in taxes, and 7.50 to distribute.
The concept of a write-off is often misunderstood. One reason that its even such an issue is in the case of small to medium business. Remember that the corporate income is taxed, and then taxed again when distrubted to shareholders. A small business can buy a MSDN subscription for $2,000. This means that it will only clost the owner approximately $1,000 in take home pay. Its not that its free, but just that it costs less to the owner than if joe blow hobbiest had bought the same subsription.*
*Note, taxes are complex, this doesn't even attempt to explain the complexities -- including common workarounds.
Its my understanding that this flaw has nothing to do with Google Desktop per se -- but rather was just discovered on Google.
Although I'm glad they shut down the flaw where Google is concerned, it seems that it still exists for other programs -- since the security breach itself is not specific to Google.
I've used medical dictionaries in the past. Stedmens is probably the most well known -- and make their dictionaries available in digital form for import into Word, etc. They also have legal and some other terms.
http://www.stedmans.com/category.cfm/210
I absolutely agree.
Gmail has one feature that IMHO is killer -- its ability to create and store email "coversations". No more reading through old text unless I want to. No more wondering what the hell I wrote on the 3rd round reply.
I haven't found that feature in any other mail program (although I've seen some attempts at it, nothing is as good).
Also, the search functions in Gmail are much better than Outlook at least.
I was canceling my Bellsouth DSL in the next week or so due to other reasons. Any suggestions on how to do it in a manner that will get this idiots attention?
If the C++ memory management approach work, we wouldn't have spent the last two decades being terrified of buffer overruns.
Just like any complex problem, the more details a programmer has to track, the more likely an error will exist. Its the reason we adopted subroutines, modules, and eventually objects. Memory management is almost never core to a project -- and the best way to manage it can vary due to OS, CPU, or underlying language. Focus on the core competencies, and don't reinvent the wheel.
Its not sequels -- its bad sequels.
I don't remember Doom, Civ2 & Civ3 or the Might & Magic games having problems. Similarly, the Zelda series on Nintendo always did well.
But give us crap, and amazingly, we don't want to buy it. Many games recently have been heavy on graphics and crap on gameplay -- so great for an hour or two, but boring.
at least they were. I remember watching an interview of the MPAA president on MSNBC, where they were specifically asked about BitTorrent.
Unlike Grokster and some of the other P2P technologies, the MPAA was quite excited about BitTorrent and its potential use as a tool in the future. He mentioned that a lot of legitimate things are shared by BitTorrent, and it could present a distribution technology for the studio's in the future.
I'm not surprised by this partnership -- as MPAA gets the founder of the technology onboard, and gets a good platform to legitimize this.
Um yea, but the Texas AG doesn't just go after Sony/BMG...
They sued the corporate parents -- Sony USA and Bertselman(sp?) AG.
If nothing else, there will be a bigscreen for every Texan.
Both formats have DRM -- true.
But only one format has a company behind it with a recent history of installing backdoors to enforce and monitor DRM. They lied once, they wondered why anyone should care, they haven't yet apologized, and they want me to adopt their technology? I don't know about you, but I don't like opening massive holes in my servers.
Microsoft isn't exactly golden, but they haven't done anything recent to piss me off. Nor have they done something quite so atrocious -- what Sony has done to date with their Rootkit issues far outweighs (IMHO) anything Microsoft has done with their monopoly. One is criminal, the other civil.
is probably the way to go for this type of situation. It is *relatively* cheap (1-5k), and interfaces with all of the major accounting packages.
BTW... In most cases the accounting people don't interface with HR data. The might see agregate data -- but don't have access to individual employees, which is all in the HR Dept.
This type of project doesn't lend itself well to OS solutions since it requires constant updates due to changing legal and regulatory requirements. Contrary to what many here have said, an HRMS is not a matter of throwing a few lines of SQL together with a couple of forms. The legal ramifications alone can be significant. Things such as WARN, VET-100, federal contracting requirements, drug testing, worker's comp, and unemployment management is a little more complex than average -- multiply this by 53 US jurisdictions, plus city and county issues, plus international issues. Although not conceptually difficult to program(assuming you are familiar with the regs), it requries a lot of updates and HR professionals to be constantly reviewing the content.
Again, ABRA at the 50 employee to 1000 employee is probably the best. After that you start getting into Peoplesoft and Oracle HR Solutions.
Note: I work for no-one in this industry currently.
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In my mother's 5 person physician office, 0.05% unscheduled downtime means they lose over $10,000/yr due to your Windows machine. Six sigma isn't a myth, and it isn't regulated to large business. Sever downtime is extraordinarily expensive. Either get a QOS gaurentee from your vendor, or go with the proven solution.
Probably the best PSU for your use is a Seasonic S12-330W. About $50, and coupled with a Antec 3000B or similar less than $80. If you want more powerful, I'd look at the Antec P150 with included NeoPower 430.
Congress may make a mess of things, but they have always had the defined power to pass laws dealing with patents, tradmarks, and copyrights.
Dividends and stock buybacks MUST come from after tax profit. So in the above case, the maximum divident would be $650 or $580.03 depending on the example. The company can chose not to distribute the entire amount of profit (for a variety of legitimate reasons), in which case it is added to retained earnings. It would not be subject to additional income taxation on that amount on a corporate level (assuming it sits in a bank earning no interest).
A corporation pays tax on income. So if they have $1,000 in income, then that is taxed. Payroll/bonuses are a little different. If I pay you $100, then I will often (not always) owe the government $7.65 PLUS whatever I with-hold from your paycheck for the purpose of social security matching. So to flesh out the above, $1000-100-7.65 = 892.35. If the corporation has a 35% income tax rate, they will owe 892.35 X .35 = 312.33 in income tax, leaving an after tax profit of $580.03
Conversely, if they don't give you the $100 christmas bonus, then they will owe income taxes of $350, for a net after tax income of $650. This means paying you a $100 bonus, only cost them $69.97 in after tax profit.
Dividends and stock buybacks MUST come from after tax profit. So in the above case, the maximum divident would be $350 or $312.33 depending on the example. The company can chose not to distribute the entire amount of profit (for a variety of legitimate reasons), in which case it is added to retained earnings. It would not be subject to additional income taxation on that amount on a corporate level (assuming it sits in a bank earning no interest).
The classic double taxation comes as follows... Taking the above profit of $650, when it is distributed to an individual they also must pay taxes on that amount -- approximately the same 35%. This means that their actual in the bank amount would be $422.50 (assuming the $650 example above).
The reason this comes up in small business, is that if I'm a partnership or sole proprietor, I am only taxed once at the personal level. All profits are passed down (as well as expenses) to my personal tax form on Schedule C. So a part time consultant would have an after tax income of $650, but Accenture would have an after tax income of $422.50.
Under certain conditions, a special case of corporation called a Subchapter-S Corp, is not subjected to that "double taxation" mentioned above. This is restricted to closley held corporations (less than 100 shareholders I think), and has other restrictions.
This can get more complex, and one otherthing to keep in mind (espcially for small businesses), is that profit and cash don't line up. For instance, if I spend $2000 for a computer, I'm not allowed to expense it in the year it is purchased -- but it must be written off over 5 years. The same idea exists with invoices. If I issue an invoice for $5,000 on December 20, but am not paid, I will still owe taxes on that amount.
The EFF had a lawsuit against sony outstanding regarding this technology (they sued for BOTH this and the XMP technology). This was part of Sony's attempt to mitagate damages from the lawsuit. Lawyers who care about their clients will often try to settle as much as possible rather than dragging it out for 10 years -- where no one is helped.
50% of $20 = $10 available to shareholders and $10 in taxes. If the company then distributes that $10 to the shareholders (sends them a check) the shareholder's have to pay taxes on the money recieved on their personal income taxes.
Ok, now assume they have a recall that costs them $5. So its $20 - $5 writeoff = $15. $15 x 50% = 7.50 in taxes, and 7.50 to distribute.
The concept of a write-off is often misunderstood. One reason that its even such an issue is in the case of small to medium business. Remember that the corporate income is taxed, and then taxed again when distrubted to shareholders. A small business can buy a MSDN subscription for $2,000. This means that it will only clost the owner approximately $1,000 in take home pay. Its not that its free, but just that it costs less to the owner than if joe blow hobbiest had bought the same subsription.*
*Note, taxes are complex, this doesn't even attempt to explain the complexities -- including common workarounds.
Its my understanding that this flaw has nothing to do with Google Desktop per se -- but rather was just discovered on Google. Although I'm glad they shut down the flaw where Google is concerned, it seems that it still exists for other programs -- since the security breach itself is not specific to Google.
I've used medical dictionaries in the past. Stedmens is probably the most well known -- and make their dictionaries available in digital form for import into Word, etc. They also have legal and some other terms. http://www.stedmans.com/category.cfm/210
I absolutely agree. Gmail has one feature that IMHO is killer -- its ability to create and store email "coversations". No more reading through old text unless I want to. No more wondering what the hell I wrote on the 3rd round reply. I haven't found that feature in any other mail program (although I've seen some attempts at it, nothing is as good). Also, the search functions in Gmail are much better than Outlook at least.
I was canceling my Bellsouth DSL in the next week or so due to other reasons. Any suggestions on how to do it in a manner that will get this idiots attention?
If the C++ memory management approach work, we wouldn't have spent the last two decades being terrified of buffer overruns. Just like any complex problem, the more details a programmer has to track, the more likely an error will exist. Its the reason we adopted subroutines, modules, and eventually objects. Memory management is almost never core to a project -- and the best way to manage it can vary due to OS, CPU, or underlying language. Focus on the core competencies, and don't reinvent the wheel.
But give us crap, and amazingly, we don't want to buy it. Many games recently have been heavy on graphics and crap on gameplay -- so great for an hour or two, but boring.
For processor intensive searches, you have the option to throw hardware at the problem, moving up into RISC and mainframe platform's if needed.
at least they were. I remember watching an interview of the MPAA president on MSNBC, where they were specifically asked about BitTorrent. Unlike Grokster and some of the other P2P technologies, the MPAA was quite excited about BitTorrent and its potential use as a tool in the future. He mentioned that a lot of legitimate things are shared by BitTorrent, and it could present a distribution technology for the studio's in the future. I'm not surprised by this partnership -- as MPAA gets the founder of the technology onboard, and gets a good platform to legitimize this.
Um yea, but the Texas AG doesn't just go after Sony/BMG... They sued the corporate parents -- Sony USA and Bertselman(sp?) AG. If nothing else, there will be a bigscreen for every Texan.
Both formats have DRM -- true. But only one format has a company behind it with a recent history of installing backdoors to enforce and monitor DRM. They lied once, they wondered why anyone should care, they haven't yet apologized, and they want me to adopt their technology? I don't know about you, but I don't like opening massive holes in my servers. Microsoft isn't exactly golden, but they haven't done anything recent to piss me off. Nor have they done something quite so atrocious -- what Sony has done to date with their Rootkit issues far outweighs (IMHO) anything Microsoft has done with their monopoly. One is criminal, the other civil.
Yea, but if First4Internet goes bankrupt, they are off the hook, and Sony is stuck with it. Indemnification is only as good as the company behind it.
which is science. Blind postulates are not.
is probably the way to go for this type of situation. It is *relatively* cheap (1-5k), and interfaces with all of the major accounting packages. BTW... In most cases the accounting people don't interface with HR data. The might see agregate data -- but don't have access to individual employees, which is all in the HR Dept. This type of project doesn't lend itself well to OS solutions since it requires constant updates due to changing legal and regulatory requirements. Contrary to what many here have said, an HRMS is not a matter of throwing a few lines of SQL together with a couple of forms. The legal ramifications alone can be significant. Things such as WARN, VET-100, federal contracting requirements, drug testing, worker's comp, and unemployment management is a little more complex than average -- multiply this by 53 US jurisdictions, plus city and county issues, plus international issues. Although not conceptually difficult to program(assuming you are familiar with the regs), it requries a lot of updates and HR professionals to be constantly reviewing the content. Again, ABRA at the 50 employee to 1000 employee is probably the best. After that you start getting into Peoplesoft and Oracle HR Solutions. Note: I work for no-one in this industry currently.