Actually prices from amazon in Europe follow the convention where they are shown inclusive of any VAT (unlike the US where prices are exclusive and sales tax is added afterwards). For goods VAT is charged at the rate for the country of destination. For eCommerce the wrinkle is that they are charged at the rate for the country of supply (i.e. where the supplier is based)... for most companies they choose Luxembourg as the VAT rate is lower than elsewhere... this changes next year as it will be VAT for the country of destination, and so Luxembourg is about to take a 1 billion EUR hit and is having a slight panic over the revenue loss and is having to tighten its belt (which is unusual and causing all sorts of issues, and somebody is probably kicking themselves over only taking 1% instead of more).
So the VAT does go to the country of destination... except for eCommerce (county of supply, changing to country of supply next year).
I got my mom a iMac... installed Office for Mac on it... and the support calls from her dropped to almost zero... the only problem now is that she'll somehow screw up Safari and the toolbar needs to be reset every now and then. Given her past history of screwing up a Windows machine within a year of getting it, and having 'friends' who 'help' install software that she 'needs' on it, moving to OS X was a big win, despite the initial ' this is so new' pushback that occurred for about two weeks.
And somebody mod parent up... that is actually a quote from the Malcolm Tucker character... as played by Peter Capaldi... and in that role he's infamous for his swearing. Viewers of a gentle-persuasion should not watch it.
Its not that difficult to find him... for starters he's on Wikipedia. Why don't you go lookup "The Thick of It" too, as he played Malcolm Tucker, a most memorable character.
That's all very well and good, but do you think the average web surfer even knows what you're talking about? Any solution needs to be baked into the bog-standard browsers instead of asking users to do VM magic.
Nah, its more to do with fact that broadcasters (and advertisers, etc.) fail to realize that people in one country might actually like to watch TV from another country.
So, nobody with the right controls in a country would like to allow people (consumers) watch how cheap things are in another place.
I'd posit that in 99.999% of the time, unless a consumer is living within 60 minutes of another country where stuff is cheaper, they won't bother crossing the border.
In theory yes... you need to be in the footprint of the satellite, and some of the operators have deliberately adjusted their footprint so it doesn't fall too heavily outside the country their targeting... so, great if you live close by, and if not, you might be lucky if you have a huge dish and a decent LNB.
Wrong. There is an option. BBC iPlayer Global (http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/outside_the_uk/iplayer_outsideuk_app) app for iOS is available for those outside the UK. Sure, the choice of programming is not as extensive, but its cheap(ish) and at the moment there is a summer offer so a one year sub costs EUR 49. Personally speaking I'd wish more broadcasters would open up... just because I don't live in your country I would actually like to watch your programming, and, heck, I'd even pay for it (if it wasn't too extortionate).
That 100 million is connections per month... not users. Plus, don't forget that Minitel was heavily used by the French as it was in a lot of homes and readily available. And from a technical viewpoint it was quite sophisticated for its time.
If you can't handle hearing the cold, hard truth then you are in the wrong line of business. Period.
Whilst that may be true, I've found these days people are so wrapped in cotton wool, that when you tell them the truth (your idea sucks, you screwed up, etc), they just can't accept being told it...
Not so much the road being designed for those speeds, but more the car being designed, and more importantly the driver being able to cope. Then again, I'm in Europe and am always amazed how Americans get freaked out when we drive at normal speeds on the motorway which to them are "super fast".
Yes, I have. Whilst it's nice, it can't import some Visio files with 100% accuracy... and as I'm throwing these files around with clients they need to be 100% accurate.
I've been on XP as Windows Vista or 7 didnt offer any compelling reason to upgrade... And I only use windows to run Visio, otherwise the other 95% of my OS time is spent in OS X.
No it's about employing hard-core environmental fascists who push their cause down your throat... even if the course you are doing has little to do with environment.
If only you could. Many years ago I was sys admin for a small company... first thing I did was chuck out all their old hardware, give the staff new machines, install a server for file sharing... and lock it down... the old machines were full of viruses and the owner got sick of the mess... after I did all this work, within a day one machine was down... over night rebuild to fix it, and the next day it was down again.. the problem: just one user who insisted that she must install some apps from the internet to do her job (which seemed to be surfing the internet all day to plan her forthcoming wedding!). Solution: I locked the machines down so hard and logged all activity to see what was going on. Troublesome user then tried to break into the sever to disable the locks... silly woman didn't realize all this was logged. As the owner wouldn't do anything about this, I soon parted company.
Yeah, users, especially those with a little knowledge, they're the worst.
MIT get a donation of non-voting shares and they can live off dividends (if there are any). They are not allowed to sell them. They don't get control of BOSE, they don't get any say in how its run.
You can backtrack through the original submission, etc., and eventually get to it at: http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/29/technology/bose_mit_donation/index.htm?eref=mrss_igoogle_business
Interestingly enough, BOSE is a private company, and he's donated an undisclosed number of non-voting stock. MIT will essentially have no running of BOSE and benefit from dividends, when and if BOSE do them.
Having written my own HTTP and FTP servers, if you need several million lines of code, you are doing something seriously wrong. A few thousand lines (in C) is all you really need (plus linking to openssl to provide the ssl/tls goodness)... and of the two, HTTP was slightly more code as a pile of defensive filtering was added to block out the common attack vectors (its amazing how long some worms keep going!)
Shows how much thinking "out of the box" goes on in top engineering circles today...
Why are you surprised? NASA spent millions to develop a pen that could write in space... the Russians used a pencil. Sometimes people look for a really complicated solution instead of going for something cheap and cheerful that gets-the-job-done.
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Actually prices from amazon in Europe follow the convention where they are shown inclusive of any VAT (unlike the US where prices are exclusive and sales tax is added afterwards). For goods VAT is charged at the rate for the country of destination. For eCommerce the wrinkle is that they are charged at the rate for the country of supply (i.e. where the supplier is based)... for most companies they choose Luxembourg as the VAT rate is lower than elsewhere... this changes next year as it will be VAT for the country of destination, and so Luxembourg is about to take a 1 billion EUR hit and is having a slight panic over the revenue loss and is having to tighten its belt (which is unusual and causing all sorts of issues, and somebody is probably kicking themselves over only taking 1% instead of more). So the VAT does go to the country of destination... except for eCommerce (county of supply, changing to country of supply next year).
The UK may be geographically on the European continent, but politically and mentally is in its own space.
I got my mom a iMac... installed Office for Mac on it... and the support calls from her dropped to almost zero... the only problem now is that she'll somehow screw up Safari and the toolbar needs to be reset every now and then. Given her past history of screwing up a Windows machine within a year of getting it, and having 'friends' who 'help' install software that she 'needs' on it, moving to OS X was a big win, despite the initial ' this is so new' pushback that occurred for about two weeks.
And somebody mod parent up... that is actually a quote from the Malcolm Tucker character... as played by Peter Capaldi... and in that role he's infamous for his swearing. Viewers of a gentle-persuasion should not watch it.
Indeed. Whenever I watch The Thick of It, Tucker's character always has me in stitches when he goes off on a sweary rant.
I can't find a mug shot or his rap sheet...
Its not that difficult to find him... for starters he's on Wikipedia. Why don't you go lookup "The Thick of It" too, as he played Malcolm Tucker, a most memorable character.
That's all very well and good, but do you think the average web surfer even knows what you're talking about? Any solution needs to be baked into the bog-standard browsers instead of asking users to do VM magic.
So, nobody with the right controls in a country would like to allow people (consumers) watch how cheap things are in another place.
I'd posit that in 99.999% of the time, unless a consumer is living within 60 minutes of another country where stuff is cheaper, they won't bother crossing the border.
In theory yes... you need to be in the footprint of the satellite, and some of the operators have deliberately adjusted their footprint so it doesn't fall too heavily outside the country their targeting... so, great if you live close by, and if not, you might be lucky if you have a huge dish and a decent LNB.
It has nothing to do with being a UK citizen but with being UK resident.
Wrong. There is an option. BBC iPlayer Global (http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/outside_the_uk/iplayer_outsideuk_app) app for iOS is available for those outside the UK. Sure, the choice of programming is not as extensive, but its cheap(ish) and at the moment there is a summer offer so a one year sub costs EUR 49. Personally speaking I'd wish more broadcasters would open up... just because I don't live in your country I would actually like to watch your programming, and, heck, I'd even pay for it (if it wasn't too extortionate).
That 100 million is connections per month... not users. Plus, don't forget that Minitel was heavily used by the French as it was in a lot of homes and readily available. And from a technical viewpoint it was quite sophisticated for its time.
If you can't handle hearing the cold, hard truth then you are in the wrong line of business. Period.
Whilst that may be true, I've found these days people are so wrapped in cotton wool, that when you tell them the truth (your idea sucks, you screwed up, etc), they just can't accept being told it...
That's because the worst offenders are the uni IT people.
Because it is easy for VPN traffic to be blocked, especially as people tend to use this to get past content filters, etc.
Not so much the road being designed for those speeds, but more the car being designed, and more importantly the driver being able to cope. Then again, I'm in Europe and am always amazed how Americans get freaked out when we drive at normal speeds on the motorway which to them are "super fast".
Yes, I have. Whilst it's nice, it can't import some Visio files with 100% accuracy... and as I'm throwing these files around with clients they need to be 100% accurate.
I've been on XP as Windows Vista or 7 didnt offer any compelling reason to upgrade... And I only use windows to run Visio, otherwise the other 95% of my OS time is spent in OS X.
No it's about employing hard-core environmental fascists who push their cause down your throat... even if the course you are doing has little to do with environment.
If only you could. Many years ago I was sys admin for a small company... first thing I did was chuck out all their old hardware, give the staff new machines, install a server for file sharing... and lock it down... the old machines were full of viruses and the owner got sick of the mess... after I did all this work, within a day one machine was down... over night rebuild to fix it, and the next day it was down again.. the problem: just one user who insisted that she must install some apps from the internet to do her job (which seemed to be surfing the internet all day to plan her forthcoming wedding!). Solution: I locked the machines down so hard and logged all activity to see what was going on. Troublesome user then tried to break into the sever to disable the locks... silly woman didn't realize all this was logged. As the owner wouldn't do anything about this, I soon parted company. Yeah, users, especially those with a little knowledge, they're the worst.
You can lock OS X, but this works in conjunction with OS X Server as its more for corporate use
MIT get a donation of non-voting shares and they can live off dividends (if there are any). They are not allowed to sell them. They don't get control of BOSE, they don't get any say in how its run.
You can backtrack through the original submission, etc., and eventually get to it at: http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/29/technology/bose_mit_donation/index.htm?eref=mrss_igoogle_business Interestingly enough, BOSE is a private company, and he's donated an undisclosed number of non-voting stock. MIT will essentially have no running of BOSE and benefit from dividends, when and if BOSE do them.
Having written my own HTTP and FTP servers, if you need several million lines of code, you are doing something seriously wrong. A few thousand lines (in C) is all you really need (plus linking to openssl to provide the ssl/tls goodness)... and of the two, HTTP was slightly more code as a pile of defensive filtering was added to block out the common attack vectors (its amazing how long some worms keep going!)
Shows how much thinking "out of the box" goes on in top engineering circles today...
Why are you surprised? NASA spent millions to develop a pen that could write in space... the Russians used a pencil. Sometimes people look for a really complicated solution instead of going for something cheap and cheerful that gets-the-job-done.