Re: A good thing in small doses,..
Um... ...third.
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Eh?
According to the description attached to table 3.11, it shows the cumulative gross income for various regions, and how that breaks down between different types of income. All income from employment (of any kind, regardless of "collar") is a single colour. So I don't see how you can make the claim you've made from that table.
Companies are generally better off being focussed on a core set of operations.
Diversification should be done by the shareholders, not the companies. That way, if you want to buy an electronics manufacturer, you might choose Sony, and if you want to invest in "Hollywood", you buy Sony Entertainment.
Right now, investors wanting the former are put off Sony because it also owns Sony Entertainment, and vice versa.
«"We believe that Google should not be held liable for terms that appear in Autocomplete as these are predicted by computer algorithms based on searches from previous users, not by Google itself," the company said.»
And the ruling isn't doing that; the algorithm can continue to do what it does. BUT if someone complains about a defamatory/libellous result from the algorithm, then Google must do something about, or they will become liable.
One glance at the thumbnails and you know it's the Spring/Summer edition (without looking at the cover pic).
[for the terminally slow, the presence of the gardening section at the beginning is the clue - it was always at the back (and much smaller) in the Autumn/Winter edition]
However, it's usually the employer that settles the bill by coming to a sensible arrangement with the tax man (it's impractical to expect 000s of employees to manage it at the $10 level; much easier to account for it at the $m/$b corporate level).
Here's how HMRC do it:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/payerti/exb/schemes/psa.htm
I'm not surprised Dell's PC numbers are down. When we came to quote a client for a few additional PCs in November, and asked Dell to give us prices for some SFF Optiplexes with identical spec to ones ordered a year earlier, they came back with prices that were higher than the original machines. And then by the time the client made up their mind about six weeks later (about something they'd said was "really urgent") and actually placed the order with us (sending a cheque through the post to cover the pro-forma we issued), Dell had withdrawn the specific models we wanted, so we asked them to come up with an equivalent, current, Optiplex and they came back with an even higher quote. In the end, they did match their own (by now almost) 2 month old quote, but they nearly lost the deal.
One of my clients is using BCM2010. They were asking about the new Office last week as I deployed a brand new Dell PC with W7 Pro and Office 2010 H&B for them. Now I know to tell them to steer clear of Office 2013 for now at least.
Interesting site. Getting to your hardware spec for their 14" Ultranote, the best I could do was £760 inclusive. Dropping the Windows OS looks to be the only way to get below £700 for that hardware (pretty close to your £680 then).
However, the resolution is just 1366x768, which IMHO, is pretty poor for a 14" screen (especially considering that Surface Pro will be 1920x1080 at 10.6" [near "retina" PPI]!). 1920x1080 would just about be acceptable at that size.