“The Commission’s investigation concluded that Ireland granted illegal tax benefits to Apple, which enabled it to pay substantially less tax than other businesses over many years. In fact, this selective treatment allowed Apple to pay an effective corporate tax rate of 1% on its European profits in 2003 down to 0.005% in 2014.” Chris Maunder wrote: 8 years later... Yup - politics - only apparently the US government is, by comparison, quite on top of things! Ravings en masse^ "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Yeah, I don't get the need for live tiles on my desktop computer. To me the live behavior is actually a minus, it's just distracting from being productive. Seems like MS is thinking I want to be bombarded with as many impulses from the internet per second as possible to keep me fully informed. It's totally contra productive. I removed all tiles, and now there's a shortcut to cmd.exe and the calculator, so I guess I'm using it as a shortcut panel, kinda like the desktop. Wout

I hope you intend to run Windows 10[^] on that Skylake CPU.

Give it time; he's probably in bed now. Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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SoMad wrote: Yes, Multiple Sclerosis is a terrible disease. Hopefully they will find a cure someday. :^)   Soren Madsen LOL!!! you've got wicked sense of humour....

The jist is his links to that Spanish Doctor who was recently in court and his cycle of injury/ returns stronger/injury/returns stronger. Didn't fully understand it but when players are injured they are allowed an injection of oxygenised blood cells, it appears nadal is abusing this by faking injuries. Also he regularly misses drugs tests , apparently you don't get in trouble until you miss three in a row. So he misses two in a row and then takes the third. It's a very interesting read, with links to support, shame about the formatting, as you point out.

H&M is very nice. I used it a few companies ago and was quite impressed with it. Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

I agree. The "everyone must have degrees" mania is totally insane. Kevin

Nice, dude is talented :thumbsup:

wout de zeeuw wrote: I hope you kick the other grunter's cheating ass! Looks like it's gonna be a tight match. She seems to be stumbling at the moment. Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

But I have to say I am still amazed how easily Fed steals away crucial points. Wout

They are, and most of my browsing history on this machine is for work: checking out our bingo site. Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^] -Or- A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

Agreed, but then we could add a long list of industries that do it. Airlines come to mind :). But, you have a GREAT idea about replacing the screen. Assuming the mechanical aspect is a match, it should work. Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

I already have a Synology DS212+ NAS with two WD enterprise server disks (raid) in them, these 2 other disks will be for offsite backup and I'll switch them once in a while. From the reviews on Amazon the problems I saw mostly either the disk itself failing, or a flimsy connection breaking from the PCB or pins breaking from the connection. Also power fed from the usb port seemed to be a source of reliability issues (in the consumer 2.5 inch portable world). But I didn't see mentions failure of the sata to usb electronics so far, but perhaps most Amazon reviewers aren't knowledgable enough to diagnose such a problem. Wout

A few days ago Pete had posted something about the CP team working very very hard. Based on that I had anticipated a change, however, not such a big one. :) WP7.5 Apps - XKCD | Calvin | SMBC | Sound Meter | Speed Dial

As one Andy stepped out, another one stepped in. Congratulations to all Andy (Murray) fans out there. Windows Phone Apps - XKCD | Calvin | SMBC | Dilbert | Speed Dial

Yeah, but even though they keep trying hundreds of times they keep missing the target. ;P Wout

It comes to something when a file-management system needs third parties to write back-up programs for it. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!