Why? Until the average man on the street is able to use his iPhone 3G on another network, give me one reason it ISN'T a valid real world comparison. You're not going to be using your iPhone on T-mobile's network, you'll be using it on O2. End experience and perception. "Oh, it's not my iPhone, it's the network!"? Seems reasonable to me.
universal health care and how they are all VERY OLD ideas that have been tried and failed every time
You might want to tell that to EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE "FIRST WORLD". They generally seem to think their health care systems are running fine. "OHNOES! The Gub'mint will tell me what the doctor will and won't fix!". Are you high? It is utter insanity that in this country, it often will be an accountant or similar that will tell you what your doctor is or isn't allowed to fix and I have never met any one who could explain how that was "better". Don't give me "but you can change and choose, free market". Haha. Really? Two and a half words for you: "Pre-existing condition".
My background? I was born in the UK under the NHS. I spent most of my life in Australia using Medicare. Now I work in the US for a company that writes the software for the health insurance industry to determine what treatments you and can't receive. I know which system I detest.
{{cite}}. Do you have any, I mean even a single citation that comes close to claiming the iPhone has the most application sales currently? Cause, I really rather doubt it.
I do like the Magsafe connector all things considered - there have been a couple of times when my (non Apple) laptop has nearly gone off a table or edge of a desk due to someone (usually me) tripping over the power cord.
He didn't even count the magsafe connection for the power adaptor, so my count would put it at 14.
Huh, what? Absolutely he did:
"I continue to like the MacBook's undersized AC adapter, wrappable cord, and MagSafe connector. ADVANTAGE: BOTH MACBOOKS"
And yet with the application of a couple of upgrades, CPU, etc, the Dell can even out those "advantages" and still be competitive by virtue of that nearly $500 buffer.
Neither was I... The author gave the MB "advantage" in 13 categories, the Dell in 9, and parity in 6. The Dell was also "almost $500 cheaper" than the MB. Categories that the MB had "advantage" in that could be affected by upgrades within that range: CPU, Battery, Bundled Media Software, and that's on the purely objective things, rather than some categories that are entirely subjective, like "aesthetics", where he gives the MB the point but "wouldn't be surprised if you actually preferred another", or the "intuitive trackpad" of the Mac. Then there's some strange ones, where he gives the Mac the advantage for DisplayPort, despite needing an extra $30 or $100 investment to use. Really still trying to process how the output of that all was to say that the Mac isn't a little overpriced.
Why wouldn't they? The nearest flight is from Auckland, some five hours away. Unless you're there for business, how many people take a 10 hour round trip flight (plus a minimum of another 8 hours in the airport) for a day trip to Australia? Let alone from Asia, or beyond.
If you're there for business, carry a business card or two, an email about your meeting with a client, or whatever.
Being pissed off about TSA goons is one thing, but getting annoyed at Customs for taking an interest in you for an "international day trip" (except in Europe, etc) is reaching a bit.
Absolutely. In fact, the first person we talked to there (and we demanded to see someone more senior) had no idea what (I can't recall the specific name) the standard form for tracking interest paid on a student loan was when we gave it to her, and then when we discussed the concept of not using the standard deduction and instead itemizing, she said she'd never had to do that before...
Yeah, it's not so much making a loss... it's losses as a percentage or ratio of revenues. If you show nearly zero revenue every year, but lose money, that screams "TAX AVOIDANCE!".
To do so, the 501(c)3 has to accept the assignation explicitly, and it has to be of value to that organization. You can't say "Oh, btw, the Humane Society has copyright over this IM application I wrote, which I determine is worth $25,000". To be of value it has to be something the 501(c)3 uses internally, is able to realize the fair market value from, or use for promotion of the 501(c)3s stated charter.
Agreed. He seems to be relying on "non profit organization", which has zero relevance to the IRS for volunteer activities. My credit union is a non profit, doesn't mean I can help them out for free and claim a tax write off. "Non profit educational organization" (the IRS lists as examples, museums, schools, colleges, daycare centers where there are accredited teachers), and 501(c)3 charities. I'm really doubting that his LUG is a 501(c)3. I also ran into the same double-dipping issue when claiming write offs on my home for personal use, and for the fact that I have a fulltime job working from a dedicated office space in my home. No can do.
While we're on the subject, don't bother with H&R Block, etc, etc. We did, because of stuff I mentioned in a sister post, of home office use for a fulltime position, substantial volunteer work, leased car and sales tax, a student and credits, credits for running my own business.
They were generally useless. Utterly useless in fact. We went in and said... "We would like you to help us discuss our options for minimizing tax." They sat us down and filled out the form electronically, much as you would yourself, asking us only the questions on the form. "Have you got any other deductions?" "We don't know. That's why we're asking you, for suggestions on deductions." But no can do. One of their senior guys did help us a bit, but he confided that was out of their remit. Somewhat surprisingly, somewhat unsurprisingly, the whole shit on their ads of people trying to find deductions for you? Don't happen. They basically just work through a series of questions on a crappy application on their computer in front of you and the questions have very little latitude in trying to explore and "find deductions" anywhere that you, as a random person, don't already know you can claim.
Nice. Donating "property" to an organization that believes that there is no such thing as "intellectual property". Seems like a little hypocrisy, but maybe that's just me.
As someone who has a home business, who works from home for an employer fulltime, and who does probably 1000+ hours a year work for a 501(c)3, who had claims for use of a leased vehicle and travel time... it's typically quite difficult to get to a point where not taking the standard deduction becomes a money 'saver'. I covered all the same things the gggp mentioned, use of utilities, use of home space, etc... just couldn't do it, even with a right off on the sales tax of a new car.
Unless you are actually recognized as a contributor to any of those organizations, not so much. Merely licensing your code under the GPL, for example, does not mean that you contributed to the 501(c)3 charity The Free Software Foundation.
I'd actually think that claiming your LUG was an acceptable organization might be a bit of a challenge. "Non profit organization" is not the same as "organization qualified to receive charitable contributions / deductions". I think this guy is really stretching the limits of the letter of the law, maybe even more so.
Well, I'm not really digging it... "Targeted at Nokia N800/810 devices, with Windows Mobile a gleam in a developers eye, no plans to develop for Symbian, and iPhone not mentioned"... nice big market share there.
2. Missing full size DVI port, requiring a $100 adapter for my 30" cinema screen, or a $30 adapter for lower resolutions. Now that's just crazy, causing confusion among buyers as to which adpater to buy, and why the huge price difference!!! it's only a few extra wires in the $100 adapter. Really, really weird.
Weird? Not at all. They just know that having spent $1,800 on a display that is functionally inferior to a $1400 Dell 30" display (700:1 contrast versus 1000:1), they know they can easily gouge an extra $70 out of you for the "privilege" of using your overpriced display at its native resolution.
It's full duplex. You can send and recieve data at the same time. This is very good for disks.
What hard drives can read and write at the same time?
Don't mention "caching!". Hint, even with caching, there's a thing called NCQ. The Q should be a hint, Queuing. The latency in switching from read to write is the smallest of the issues. Seek time would seem to be much larger, and not solved by full duplex.
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Are there still states that allow you to drive without insurance? (As I doubt you have deposited a bond equal to minimum coverage...)
Why? Until the average man on the street is able to use his iPhone 3G on another network, give me one reason it ISN'T a valid real world comparison. You're not going to be using your iPhone on T-mobile's network, you'll be using it on O2. End experience and perception. "Oh, it's not my iPhone, it's the network!"? Seems reasonable to me.
You might want to tell that to EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE "FIRST WORLD". They generally seem to think their health care systems are running fine. "OHNOES! The Gub'mint will tell me what the doctor will and won't fix!". Are you high? It is utter insanity that in this country, it often will be an accountant or similar that will tell you what your doctor is or isn't allowed to fix and I have never met any one who could explain how that was "better". Don't give me "but you can change and choose, free market". Haha. Really? Two and a half words for you: "Pre-existing condition".
My background? I was born in the UK under the NHS. I spent most of my life in Australia using Medicare. Now I work in the US for a company that writes the software for the health insurance industry to determine what treatments you and can't receive. I know which system I detest.
"I don't like peoples playin' on ma phone!"
{{cite}}. Do you have any, I mean even a single citation that comes close to claiming the iPhone has the most application sales currently? Cause, I really rather doubt it.
Probably. Mark Shuttleworth made nearly $600mil prior to setting up Canonical. :)
And if it did, wouldn't you be better checking out the Air, anyway? That's my thoughts on that.
I do like the Magsafe connector all things considered - there have been a couple of times when my (non Apple) laptop has nearly gone off a table or edge of a desk due to someone (usually me) tripping over the power cord.
Huh, what? Absolutely he did:
"I continue to like the MacBook's undersized AC adapter, wrappable cord, and MagSafe connector. ADVANTAGE: BOTH MACBOOKS"
And yet with the application of a couple of upgrades, CPU, etc, the Dell can even out those "advantages" and still be competitive by virtue of that nearly $500 buffer.
Neither was I... The author gave the MB "advantage" in 13 categories, the Dell in 9, and parity in 6. The Dell was also "almost $500 cheaper" than the MB. Categories that the MB had "advantage" in that could be affected by upgrades within that range: CPU, Battery, Bundled Media Software, and that's on the purely objective things, rather than some categories that are entirely subjective, like "aesthetics", where he gives the MB the point but "wouldn't be surprised if you actually preferred another", or the "intuitive trackpad" of the Mac. Then there's some strange ones, where he gives the Mac the advantage for DisplayPort, despite needing an extra $30 or $100 investment to use. Really still trying to process how the output of that all was to say that the Mac isn't a little overpriced.
If you're there for business, carry a business card or two, an email about your meeting with a client, or whatever.
Being pissed off about TSA goons is one thing, but getting annoyed at Customs for taking an interest in you for an "international day trip" (except in Europe, etc) is reaching a bit.
The mind boggles.
Yeah, it's not so much making a loss... it's losses as a percentage or ratio of revenues. If you show nearly zero revenue every year, but lose money, that screams "TAX AVOIDANCE!".
To do so, the 501(c)3 has to accept the assignation explicitly, and it has to be of value to that organization. You can't say "Oh, btw, the Humane Society has copyright over this IM application I wrote, which I determine is worth $25,000". To be of value it has to be something the 501(c)3 uses internally, is able to realize the fair market value from, or use for promotion of the 501(c)3s stated charter.
Agreed. He seems to be relying on "non profit organization", which has zero relevance to the IRS for volunteer activities. My credit union is a non profit, doesn't mean I can help them out for free and claim a tax write off. "Non profit educational organization" (the IRS lists as examples, museums, schools, colleges, daycare centers where there are accredited teachers), and 501(c)3 charities. I'm really doubting that his LUG is a 501(c)3. I also ran into the same double-dipping issue when claiming write offs on my home for personal use, and for the fact that I have a fulltime job working from a dedicated office space in my home. No can do.
They were generally useless. Utterly useless in fact. We went in and said... "We would like you to help us discuss our options for minimizing tax." They sat us down and filled out the form electronically, much as you would yourself, asking us only the questions on the form. "Have you got any other deductions?" "We don't know. That's why we're asking you, for suggestions on deductions." But no can do. One of their senior guys did help us a bit, but he confided that was out of their remit. Somewhat surprisingly, somewhat unsurprisingly, the whole shit on their ads of people trying to find deductions for you? Don't happen. They basically just work through a series of questions on a crappy application on their computer in front of you and the questions have very little latitude in trying to explore and "find deductions" anywhere that you, as a random person, don't already know you can claim.
Nice. Donating "property" to an organization that believes that there is no such thing as "intellectual property". Seems like a little hypocrisy, but maybe that's just me.
As someone who has a home business, who works from home for an employer fulltime, and who does probably 1000+ hours a year work for a 501(c)3, who had claims for use of a leased vehicle and travel time... it's typically quite difficult to get to a point where not taking the standard deduction becomes a money 'saver'. I covered all the same things the gggp mentioned, use of utilities, use of home space, etc... just couldn't do it, even with a right off on the sales tax of a new car.
Unless you are actually recognized as a contributor to any of those organizations, not so much. Merely licensing your code under the GPL, for example, does not mean that you contributed to the 501(c)3 charity The Free Software Foundation.
I'd actually think that claiming your LUG was an acceptable organization might be a bit of a challenge. "Non profit organization" is not the same as "organization qualified to receive charitable contributions / deductions". I think this guy is really stretching the limits of the letter of the law, maybe even more so.
Just odd that the single biggest platform is the lowest priority on the dev list. N800/810 is "cooler", but hardly a notable marketshare.
Well, I'm not really digging it ... "Targeted at Nokia N800/810 devices, with Windows Mobile a gleam in a developers eye, no plans to develop for Symbian, and iPhone not mentioned" ... nice big market share there.
Weird? Not at all. They just know that having spent $1,800 on a display that is functionally inferior to a $1400 Dell 30" display (700:1 contrast versus 1000:1), they know they can easily gouge an extra $70 out of you for the "privilege" of using your overpriced display at its native resolution.
Huh, what? It was -Apple- that predicted that broadband would be the next thing?!? The RDF is strong in this one, I suspect.
What hard drives can read and write at the same time?
Don't mention "caching!". Hint, even with caching, there's a thing called NCQ. The Q should be a hint, Queuing. The latency in switching from read to write is the smallest of the issues. Seek time would seem to be much larger, and not solved by full duplex.