While one may complain that the profits from from a small number of areas, the fact remains that MSFT simply shits out money from those two product lines, and is likely to do so for the foreseeable future. MSFT's financial metrics, see this indicate that they are firing on all cyclinders as a money making machine.
Please elucidate your theory as to how this evidence suggests the existance of a creator. I hope it's something more than, "I don't understand how the world got here, so God must have done it. "
Or, as you imply here, that religious people are happy to be "ignorant."
Without meaning to be abusive or disrespectful, I will gently suggest that the core tenet of atheism is that it is impossible to be religious if you are a critical thinker. So, while belief in God may not prevent critical thinking, it IS evidence that there is one area of your life where you are actively NOT critically thinking.
The evidence is that religious people are in indeed happy to be ignorant/deluded.
I know, my world view versus yours and all that. But that is what the dynamic is.
If the IRS finds an error in your favor, they will correct your return and issue you a refund. This is true in audit situations as well as in the simple processing of your return.
To the main point, I have used turbo tax for close to 20 years, and can't imagine why someone wouldn't want to use a cheap and usable application like this. You have to be really cheap to not spring for the 34 dollars that you can get Turbo Tax for at Costco.
Ticket prices are the same because the studios mandate the minimum price for ticket prices. The standard agreement between the theatres and the studios specifies what percentage of the gate receipts the studio gets (can be as high as 90% of the ticket price) and that the theatre will charge a certain minimum price. There are exceptions to this, but that is a default situation. Ticket prices therefore don't float in response to market demand because the enitity charging the prices, the theatre, is contracted to keep them fixed above a certain minimum.
Theatres would give movie tickets away in some circumstances if they could, in order to get you to come in and buy the concessions, which is where they make the bulk of their money. Studios counteract this behavior by mandating the high prices in the film rental contracts.
I know this because I used to support a software system that managed theatre accounting for a chain of movie theatres.
If there were enough of a market, the bare machines would be available. The fact that they aren't strongly suggests that there isn't much of a market for bare metal machines.
Absolutely none of that explains why they can't refund you the cost of the license if you wipe the drive.
Duh, it's because it's a pain in the ass and only about 17 people in the whole freaking country would want to do so and get the refund. PC manufacturers have no obligation to set up a special process to attend to the desires of the vanishingly small % of the population that wants a bare metal PC. For the segment that actually has a significant number of users that want bare metal machines, the server market, there are plenty of machines available. See my favorite white box provider, here for an example.
It's not free for a company to process refunds. Companies have clearly decided there is no money in offering bare metal machines. The segment of the market that actually cares about not paying the windows tax is small enough that it can be ignored. If it wasn't, you'd be able to buy bare metal machines, because someone would think they can make money doing so.
Sorry, but it's just a reality that there aren't that many people who care about this issue.
About 51%? (I'm not a statistician). You have one boy, so the odds are whatever the odds are for a random child being a boy, which is slightly greater than 50%. Do I get the prize?
He shrugged and said, without any sense of irony whatsoever, "I don't really know how to handle exceptions. I find it easier to just write code without any bugs in it."
Exceptions != bugs, as anyone who has programmed to a database connection would know. Not saying your friend isn't much better than I am, but there are a lot of areas where exceptions are part of the normal dialog between program units.
I know several people at Google, many at Microsoft, and many in other companies. The guys at Google are generally pretty good, but no better than MSFT or Amazon, both of whom value degrees much less than Google does.
IANAL, but I suspect that it is in fact a contract. It may be a bad contract, and somewhat unenforcable, but if it wasn't a reasonable valid contract people would be suing the shit out of MSFT for every BSOD and error that was encountered in windows and Office. There aren't a bajillion lawsuits out there, so I suspect this means that the EULA is sufficiently a contract to protect MSFT in the majority of cases.
This is a really bad idea. Browsers shouldn't be able to elevate privileges. That's a key mechanism in preventing content from being able to hijack the system. The LAST thing I want in a browser is for it to operate as admin/root.
It seems that your beef should be with Verizon, not microsoft. MSFT just cut a deal. It's verizon that treated their customer like shit in your situation.
As a whole, Postgres started as an open-source Oracle clone.
Not accurate, please see this, which notes that postgres is descended from Ingres, an early object/relational effort. It's not even close to an Oracle clone, which you will see if you bring up the command line client and try to display a table's structure.
Then, if somebody gets a job, decrease benefits by 1/4 to 1/5th the earnings.
One problem with your approach is that economically it doesn't work very well. If you decrease benefits by 1/5 of your earnings (just to pick a number), you are in effect taxing those earnings at 20%, which is far higher than the income tax rate paid by poverty level workers otherwise. It's the equivalent of taking the $8/hr job and turning it into a $6.50/hr job. It's not hard to see that this might disincent many people that would be eligible. Add to this the costs of transit, child care, and work clothes, and it's possible that working may be a zero gain for some of these people.
Unless Murdoch is going to have some very unique, in-depth content that you can't find anywhere else, I can't imagine anyone with half a brain would be willing to pay for it.
Murdoch -does- have unique content, that is uniquely appealing to people with half a brain. There are few other sources which give the relentless right wing spin on everything, and those who are inclined to view the world that way are attached to Fox News in a way that is different than how I and probably you consume news. CNN is not an alternative for some of these people. I wouldn't be surprised if this works for him.
This is Fox News we're talking about. It's consumers aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, and are fairly attached to their source of propaganda. This may actually be a brilliant move on Murdoch's part.
If the consumers of Fox media had to go to, say, the BBC, or the Washington Times, they might encounter information counter to their views. The resulting cognitive dissonance is painful, and might be sufficient to make them pay for the comfortable conservative pablum ranting of the Murdoch press.
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My Sony BlueRay updates itself fine over the internet, if you're looking for a replacement.
Mod parent up - this guy gets it.
While one may complain that the profits from from a small number of areas, the fact remains that MSFT simply shits out money from those two product lines, and is likely to do so for the foreseeable future. MSFT's financial metrics, see this indicate that they are firing on all cyclinders as a money making machine.
Way to mess a perfectly good diatribe with critical thinking and research. You must be new here. ;-)
Please elucidate your theory as to how this evidence suggests the existance of a creator. I hope it's something more than, "I don't understand how the world got here, so God must have done it. "
Or, as you imply here, that religious people are happy to be "ignorant."
Without meaning to be abusive or disrespectful, I will gently suggest that the core tenet of atheism is that it is impossible to be religious if you are a critical thinker. So, while belief in God may not prevent critical thinking, it IS evidence that there is one area of your life where you are actively NOT critically thinking.
The evidence is that religious people are in indeed happy to be ignorant/deluded.
I know, my world view versus yours and all that. But that is what the dynamic is.
Yeah, Dell has done pretty poorly.
They also pay a huge amount in the Business and Occupation tax, which every business pays in Washington.
If the IRS finds an error in your favor, they will correct your return and issue you a refund. This is true in audit situations as well as in the simple processing of your return.
To the main point, I have used turbo tax for close to 20 years, and can't imagine why someone wouldn't want to use a cheap and usable application like this. You have to be really cheap to not spring for the 34 dollars that you can get Turbo Tax for at Costco.
Somebody mod this guy way up.
Then why not just ask that directly?
One reason is that it's usually better to use an open ended question than a more directed question in interview situations.
Ticket prices are the same because the studios mandate the minimum price for ticket prices. The standard agreement between the theatres and the studios specifies what percentage of the gate receipts the studio gets (can be as high as 90% of the ticket price) and that the theatre will charge a certain minimum price. There are exceptions to this, but that is a default situation. Ticket prices therefore don't float in response to market demand because the enitity charging the prices, the theatre, is contracted to keep them fixed above a certain minimum.
Theatres would give movie tickets away in some circumstances if they could, in order to get you to come in and buy the concessions, which is where they make the bulk of their money. Studios counteract this behavior by mandating the high prices in the film rental contracts.
I know this because I used to support a software system that managed theatre accounting for a chain of movie theatres.
If there were enough of a market, the bare machines would be available. The fact that they aren't strongly suggests that there isn't much of a market for bare metal machines.
Absolutely none of that explains why they can't refund you the cost of the license if you wipe the drive.
Duh, it's because it's a pain in the ass and only about 17 people in the whole freaking country would want to do so and get the refund. PC manufacturers have no obligation to set up a special process to attend to the desires of the vanishingly small % of the population that wants a bare metal PC. For the segment that actually has a significant number of users that want bare metal machines, the server market, there are plenty of machines available. See my favorite white box provider, here for an example.
It's not free for a company to process refunds. Companies have clearly decided there is no money in offering bare metal machines. The segment of the market that actually cares about not paying the windows tax is small enough that it can be ignored. If it wasn't, you'd be able to buy bare metal machines, because someone would think they can make money doing so.
Sorry, but it's just a reality that there aren't that many people who care about this issue.
About 51%? (I'm not a statistician). You have one boy, so the odds are whatever the odds are for a random child being a boy, which is slightly greater than 50%. Do I get the prize?
He shrugged and said, without any sense of irony whatsoever, "I don't really know how to handle exceptions. I find it easier to just write code without any bugs in it."
Exceptions != bugs, as anyone who has programmed to a database connection would know. Not saying your friend isn't much better than I am, but there are a lot of areas where exceptions are part of the normal dialog between program units.
I know several people at Google, many at Microsoft, and many in other companies. The guys at Google are generally pretty good, but no better than MSFT or Amazon, both of whom value degrees much less than Google does.
Oh, please, for the love of god, mod parent up!
A EULA is not a contract.
IANAL, but I suspect that it is in fact a contract. It may be a bad contract, and somewhat unenforcable, but if it wasn't a reasonable valid contract people would be suing the shit out of MSFT for every BSOD and error that was encountered in windows and Office. There aren't a bajillion lawsuits out there, so I suspect this means that the EULA is sufficiently a contract to protect MSFT in the majority of cases.
This is a really bad idea. Browsers shouldn't be able to elevate privileges. That's a key mechanism in preventing content from being able to hijack the system. The LAST thing I want in a browser is for it to operate as admin/root.
It seems that your beef should be with Verizon, not microsoft. MSFT just cut a deal. It's verizon that treated their customer like shit in your situation.
As a whole, Postgres started as an open-source Oracle clone.
Not accurate, please see this, which notes that postgres is descended from Ingres, an early object/relational effort. It's not even close to an Oracle clone, which you will see if you bring up the command line client and try to display a table's structure.
I tried to look up SOGo to figure out what the heck you were talking about, but google doesn't find it. Mind giving us a few more keywords?
Then, if somebody gets a job, decrease benefits by 1/4 to 1/5th the earnings.
One problem with your approach is that economically it doesn't work very well. If you decrease benefits by 1/5 of your earnings (just to pick a number), you are in effect taxing those earnings at 20%, which is far higher than the income tax rate paid by poverty level workers otherwise. It's the equivalent of taking the $8/hr job and turning it into a $6.50/hr job. It's not hard to see that this might disincent many people that would be eligible. Add to this the costs of transit, child care, and work clothes, and it's possible that working may be a zero gain for some of these people.
Unless Murdoch is going to have some very unique, in-depth content that you can't find anywhere else, I can't imagine anyone with half a brain would be willing to pay for it.
Murdoch -does- have unique content, that is uniquely appealing to people with half a brain. There are few other sources which give the relentless right wing spin on everything, and those who are inclined to view the world that way are attached to Fox News in a way that is different than how I and probably you consume news. CNN is not an alternative for some of these people. I wouldn't be surprised if this works for him.
This is Fox News we're talking about. It's consumers aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, and are fairly attached to their source of propaganda. This may actually be a brilliant move on Murdoch's part.
If the consumers of Fox media had to go to, say, the BBC, or the Washington Times, they might encounter information counter to their views. The resulting cognitive dissonance is painful, and might be sufficient to make them pay for the comfortable conservative pablum ranting of the Murdoch press.