Posts by Alex Rose

"Sadly, some people in Apple seem to be desperate to keep the cult thing going"

I suspect they think it adds a few points to the stock price and they are probably correct.

Re: Interesting, but....

@Joe Gurman

The test is to try to work out which network is better. To do that you absolutely want to stick to one type of phone, as if you used a different type of phone for each network then you aren't comparing apples with apples.

You know you're on the forums of an IT website, right?

(Yes. Yes I do have that sort of setup. "Why?" I hear you ask - because as an IT professional it's really easy to set up, I also do it for my close family.)

But does it work?

Can you enlighten me as to whether the system is robust or not?

I'll take "hard but reliable" over "easy but flaky" any day of the week!

Re: why is this necessary?

"building large structures in space are so common now that they no longer make the news"

Name 3 large structures built in space.

(Note that I'm not disagreeing with you about the good sense in adopting that approach - I just don't know that we've done it that much.)

"Good heavens! No. You don't even need schemes with other colluding companies"

You're absolutely correct, I omitted the step of going from gross profit to net profit. However the basic details are correct, to transfer the profit to a lower tax regime you artificially inflate the price of the widget sold by your company in the low tax area to your company in the higher tax area thus dropping GP in the high tax area and transferring the profit from the high tax area to the low tax area.

As I mentioned in my original post you can then do all sorts of other stuff to your GP figure to transfer more profit out to the lower tax area such as paying the company in the lower tax area a licensing fee for use of the brand, money for marketing material etc. But you do definitely need a colluding company, just altering the profit you declare isn't what these companies want to do, they want to actively transfer that profit to a lower tax area - essentially you want as many costs of sale as possible paid to the colluding company, just paying it to random sundry companies inflates their profits and does nothing for yours.

Re: Excellent points

"Use drug money to buy property and see what happens when the feds knock on your door."

That's not PROPERTY laundering, that's MONEY laundering.

Re: Great achievement

An incision is likely to have been made in the scalp at the back of the head; the scalp (including hair of course) will then have been rolled forward exposing the skull. After the operation roll back and stitch up. Hey presto!

Now if someone can explain to me why there were rows of holes in the implant...

For the reasons given to everyone else who has not bothered to read the answers given to this question raised by people who haven't bothered to read the answers previously given.

Clear enough?

Re: BMW and Mercedes

It probably mostly boils down to the ACs last sentence "It really depends on the product does it not?"

It does all depend on the product, or rather the product type.

The market for cars is going to behave differently to that for phones, or that for baked beans, or the one for geostationary satellite launch services. So looking at the car market and trying to say that because it behaves in manner "x" then the market for phones is not going to behave in manner "y" is a bit of a long shot.

@Lusty

I think the coat icon denotes that vagabondo's post is a little tongue-in-cheek. Especially as MS are likely to be providing tools to go VMware to Hyper-V rather than the other way round.

Re: LCCs don't do DR

"The cattle in economy are basically just loss-leaders."

Anyone with even an ounce of common sense can see right through this statement. If they were making a loss on everyone flying in coach then they would keep the coach section empty and only fly with the first class and business class customers - hence making more profit. Maybe you should think about what "loss-leader" means?

What I've actually heard from industry insiders is that first and business "pay for the flight" which again is patent bullshit - any seat which makes a profit contributes towards "paying for the flight" and if a seat doesn't make a profit they won't bother selling it.

Note - profit is all the money earned by the seat minus all costs attributed to the seat. There are still costs attributed to the seat even if it's empty. So essentially if a person pays more money than it costs to process them through the flight and than it costs in fuel to support their weight during the flight then there is an actual net contribution to the flight.

Re: Commercial Software Vendor hates FOSS!

I'm slightly disappointed in myself that I forgot to include fandroid :)

Re: Peak Register

"Apple introduced the tablet form factor that is cannibalising the PC market."

If you mean that Apple introduced the particular version of a tablet computer that finally made the form factor useful and popular then I don't think anybody can disagree with you. However it is very unclear whether or not you are claiming that Apple introduced the tablet form factor period (i.e. that they invented it) - which if you are I'd have to disagree.

I'm curious as to which meaning you intended?

Re: Typical waste of money @Alex Rose

@BristolBachelor

I have to agree with you, why the hell the signs onto the M25 don't always just include "Clockwise" or "Anti-Clockwise" I'll never understand, all this North, South, East, West rubbish for a road that's a f*cking circle is retarded.

Re: Can I just say

All I did was say to my wife, "That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!".

Re: Huh?

I can only assume that you're making a poor attempt at trolling. I get valuable industry experience every day at work but I still expect to be paid. Or are you telling us that you're going to hand back your salary to your employer because I'm sure you get industry experience from work as well?

Numpty.

Re: Insider trading

"So it would only be insider trading if he HAD bought shares in the company he was sent to destroy"

It would only be insider trading if he'd made trades (buy or sell) in either company's (MS or Nokia) shares based on his insider (not available in the public domain) knowledge.