Maybe it's just a cunning ploy by state of Maryland to foster the growth of house painters and hair stylists by preserving a tax-free business environment for them...
It's not going to hit the development companies in Maryland so much as the customers for such services in that state. As part of a project I'm currently involved in, I have to monitor our application vendor's invoices to ensure that we're getting charged sales tax on custom development, no matter where it takes place, since we're the customer and our local tax rules apply (just as if you order something from another state, you're supposed to pay use tax if sales tax isn't charged). Thus if a company in Baltimore asks a company in California to do some custom work for them, then under this new ruling sales tax would be applied. If the customer was in California and the development company was in Maryland, California's sales tax rules would govern (and I have no idea what those are).
That's already in the works. They're also pursuing how to make better use of electronic media for instructional content, i.e. animations that show how a heart beats rather than a series of stills as normally seen in a textbook.
It's easy to talk about T-shirts & playing live shows - but the profit margin on shirts isn't that great (they're really supposed to be a promotional tool),
Huh? A $20-25 t-shirt costs maybe $5 to produce in bulk. Sounds like a healthy margin to me...
NASA proponents argue it makes more sense to give money to talented, productive people in exchange for scientific knowledge, than spend it on unproductive people in the form of straight welfare.
Yeah, I'm OK with that. Perish the thought that we actually reward those who contribute to society, since we already lavish multi-zillions on pop stars, athletes, and CEO's who get fired.
Well done - I was wondering if the "made in China" issue was traceable to the design of these products, which presumably was done by American companies. That's one of the inherent risks of outsourcing your manufacturing (domestically or internationally), making sure that quality standards are still met. At a previous job I encountered a similar incident with a Mexican manufacturing facility substituting the wrong material for a given product, when they ran out of the proper stuff, just in order to keep their production numbers up.
That's an outstanding idea, actually - a Slashdot retrospective in book form, featuring some of the bigger stories, memes, etc. could represent both a good business opportunity and avoid conflicting with the site's overall direction.
One issue I could see would be how they would include comments in such a book and not get into royalty issues, since, as they've always said, "Comments are owned by the Poster."
I remember making that Chicago-Ann Arbor drive one night in the dead of winter about 15 years ago, and the snow was coming down so hard you could only drive about 25-30 MPH and see about 30-40 feet ahead of you. Of course being a poor college student I didn't have the cash to get a room for the night, so I just pushed on. It was past midnight so there were few, if any, other cars on the road and the drive seemed like it was never going to end...
This doesn't have anything to do with the US trying to hold offshore gambling companies to the same high standards that US casinos obey. It's more about the current US government trying to ban internet gambling, period, an incredibly stupid move that shuts the US out of one of the more dynamic, growing industries worldwide. By engaging actively, the US could actually develop a decent export industry (attracting foreign gamblers to US online casinos) out of it and help with our overall balance of trade, but other issues have pushed those concerns aside.
Right off the bat, doesn't the OO spreadsheet have a record limitation that's only around 30K, rather than 62K for MS Office 2003, and practically limitless in Office XP? That's a deal-killer right there for many business analysts.
The other, more upscale angle, is that they need local US resources to work directly with clients to help develop specifications and drive the implementation of stuff developed offshore...
I would think one criterion would be subject matter, being personal or not. I write about hockey online, and would definitely call that a blog, not an online diary...
There's just no CG replacement for the human imagination.
A few minutes ago, my low-level @ just rounded a corner and say a host of red a's headed right for him. Backpedaling and missile weapons bought some time, but soon the biting started, the ! began exploding and the ?'s were burning, until the dreaded ASCII tombstone appeared. The horror... the horror...
Just because the lawyer representing Antigua has requested this method of penalizing the US for violating WTO rulings doesn't mean the WTO would actually allow it. I don't recall anything in that article that even hints at the WTO following that line of reasoning.
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Maybe it's just a cunning ploy by state of Maryland to foster the growth of house painters and hair stylists by preserving a tax-free business environment for them...
I'm afraid you're the one who has it backwards.
It's not going to hit the development companies in Maryland so much as the customers for such services in that state. As part of a project I'm currently involved in, I have to monitor our application vendor's invoices to ensure that we're getting charged sales tax on custom development, no matter where it takes place, since we're the customer and our local tax rules apply (just as if you order something from another state, you're supposed to pay use tax if sales tax isn't charged). Thus if a company in Baltimore asks a company in California to do some custom work for them, then under this new ruling sales tax would be applied. If the customer was in California and the development company was in Maryland, California's sales tax rules would govern (and I have no idea what those are).
That's already in the works. They're also pursuing how to make better use of electronic media for instructional content, i.e. animations that show how a heart beats rather than a series of stills as normally seen in a textbook.
It's easy to talk about T-shirts & playing live shows - but the profit margin on shirts isn't that great (they're really supposed to be a promotional tool),
Huh? A $20-25 t-shirt costs maybe $5 to produce in bulk. Sounds like a healthy margin to me...
Boo hoo.
NASA proponents argue it makes more sense to give money to talented, productive people in exchange for scientific knowledge, than spend it on unproductive people in the form of straight welfare.
Yeah, I'm OK with that. Perish the thought that we actually reward those who contribute to society, since we already lavish multi-zillions on pop stars, athletes, and CEO's who get fired.
Well done - I was wondering if the "made in China" issue was traceable to the design of these products, which presumably was done by American companies. That's one of the inherent risks of outsourcing your manufacturing (domestically or internationally), making sure that quality standards are still met. At a previous job I encountered a similar incident with a Mexican manufacturing facility substituting the wrong material for a given product, when they ran out of the proper stuff, just in order to keep their production numbers up.
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That's an outstanding idea, actually - a Slashdot retrospective in book form, featuring some of the bigger stories, memes, etc. could represent both a good business opportunity and avoid conflicting with the site's overall direction.
One issue I could see would be how they would include comments in such a book and not get into royalty issues, since, as they've always said, "Comments are owned by the Poster."
I remember making that Chicago-Ann Arbor drive one night in the dead of winter about 15 years ago, and the snow was coming down so hard you could only drive about 25-30 MPH and see about 30-40 feet ahead of you. Of course being a poor college student I didn't have the cash to get a room for the night, so I just pushed on. It was past midnight so there were few, if any, other cars on the road and the drive seemed like it was never going to end...
This doesn't have anything to do with the US trying to hold offshore gambling companies to the same high standards that US casinos obey. It's more about the current US government trying to ban internet gambling, period, an incredibly stupid move that shuts the US out of one of the more dynamic, growing industries worldwide. By engaging actively, the US could actually develop a decent export industry (attracting foreign gamblers to US online casinos) out of it and help with our overall balance of trade, but other issues have pushed those concerns aside.
Bah - I'm trademarking "Son of Web"...
is the penalty for being a college student doing dumb things summary execution?
For extreme cases of "dumb things" like this, the answer could very well be Yes.
I misspoke earlier, I meant Excel 2007, which is the current version. My apologies...
And from Excel 2007, it's 16,384 columns by 1,048,576 rows.
Excel 2007 supports 16,384 columns by 1,048,576 rows.
No, Excel in Office XP has (practically) no limit on rows. That's why I purchased it, I've got one spreadsheet with well over 200K rows.
You have to check that you're not running in Compatability Mode, which limits to 64K so prior versions of Excel can open the documents as well.
So is that the release that just became available today? That's still a ways behind Office XP.
It looks like the limit for Calc is indeed 32K, unless the documentation is obsolete.
I would have liked to use Calc for some of my blogwork (which entails spreadsheets of 70K+ records), but went with Office XP instead.
According to their online documentation, Calc has a limit of 32,000 rows per sheet. Is that out of date?
Right off the bat, doesn't the OO spreadsheet have a record limitation that's only around 30K, rather than 62K for MS Office 2003, and practically limitless in Office XP? That's a deal-killer right there for many business analysts.
A lot more people die from sky diving every year, and I think most of us accept that sky diving is not an epidemic social problem.
Hey, some people are addicted to computer games, some are addicted to gravity...
The other, more upscale angle, is that they need local US resources to work directly with clients to help develop specifications and drive the implementation of stuff developed offshore...
I would think one criterion would be subject matter, being personal or not. I write about hockey online, and would definitely call that a blog, not an online diary...
There's just no CG replacement for the human imagination.
A few minutes ago, my low-level @ just rounded a corner and say a host of red a's headed right for him. Backpedaling and missile weapons bought some time, but soon the biting started, the ! began exploding and the ?'s were burning, until the dreaded ASCII tombstone appeared. The horror... the horror...
Just because the lawyer representing Antigua has requested this method of penalizing the US for violating WTO rulings doesn't mean the WTO would actually allow it. I don't recall anything in that article that even hints at the WTO following that line of reasoning.