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But less than 4k in profit....wow those are some thin margins overall.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28Amazon+profit%2F+%28...

This would be a fun one to work through. If 100 hours of working out reduced your heart rate by 1bpm (I have no idea if this is true, just sounds plausible), but during workouts you increased your BPM by 20%, where is the equilibrium?

MSFT has stated multiple times that their goal is over the lifespan of the hardware to break even on it. (So 1mil units at -200 and 10mil units with at +20)

How this works with devices such as Kinect though I'm not sure. It's about attachment rates (extra controllers, batteries, etc.) on the hardware side

Then the software side has fairly obvious goals.

The guy was flashing his phone and ran into issues. Kinda cool to see it using that much of the Windows code base (kernel and bootmanager atleast)

More suprising to me is Canon @ #3 and MSFT @ #6. Is there really that much going on in the optics space right now?

And MSFT with 2600+ patents, I'd have to imagine a lot of it is software (with some hardware maybe around Kinect and out of MSR)

edit: quick link to source - http://ificlaims.com/index.php?page=misc_top_50_2012

Can you imagine the poor accountant who has to figure out the taxes?

I give you 50% of my company which only owns 50% of the parent? ;) (just incase it isn't obvious....i'm not actually planning on taking this up just joking around a little)

So I pitch the idea to the original offer (5037694) and get buy in. Then give you the 5k. I give you 50% of my 50% and I get 25% of the resulting company for acting as the idea broker. Hmmm ;)

(just attempting to 'hack' this trend)

I imagine these correspond to highways. I did a similar thing a while back with postal codes and their density. I don't know why I was so blown away, but I was. Take the West Coast for example: http://i.imgur.com/WBzWG.png

I'd second this. I've found that VM's (especially Windows) run even more reliably than what I had on EC2 (sometimes the machines just got soooo slow on EC2 for no apparent reason)

I've got several services (both consumer and commerical) running on Azure and right now I just see some issues with storage in the south. Web/Worker, VMs, Sql, etc. are running just fine it appears. Any pointers on where I should be looking for potential issues?

Suggested Title: Revenue alone won't get you VC

Even more so it's just electrons pulsing through copper or light through glass.

This is pretty cool. For some reason I want to click and drag/rotate the 3D model that is onscreen already.

I'd also love to see a picture of what the real thing looks like :)

edit: btw, the font rendering is a little odd on Chrome 23 with Win7 @ http://i.imgur.com/ZvTAs.png

MILLIONS (3+ in California alone [1]) of retail workers make nothing more than minimum wage (with hours cut strategically short by 1-2 of the company benefit plan requirements). Walk into any Gap, Walmart, Gamestop, mall, etc. and most of them _are not_ teenagers. If anything they're 1/5th college grads who just put 45k into the economy through 'education')

Sure the skillset might be considered less valuable, but is their actual life (and quality of it?).

[1] http://www.retailmeansjobs.com/data/CA/0 - even if the numbers are off by 300% it's still millions

So you guys handle all states and all localities (and the corresponding tax table updates, etc?)

For instance, I have an employee in Florida so I have a UCT-6 for SUI, and also a couple employees in PA (so local taxes galore)

How do you handle a state such as California where the employee has to OPT OUT of receiving a paper paystub?

Don't take this as me bashing what you guys are doing, I'm just genuinely interested as this is a little bit of a hobby of mine (payroll consulting)

EDIT: I just read that they only support California at the moment. Bummer.

I'm really curious how they're doing things such as unemployment insurance filing, local taxes, garnishments, etc.

This is a world that is RIPE for the taking if you can do it right, but for $154/month @ 99 employees, they should be aware they're going to blow 3 times that in support costs (for instance, how do integrate this into GL using Quickbooks? How can I set up my Vacation accrual rule for employees that isn't straight forward, etc.)

OneNote actually has a touch centric app in the Windows store @ http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/onenote/f022389f-...

An upside to giving demos is that if your viewer doesn't know you're a dev on the project (thinks you're just a business/sales person), they're a lot more honest with feedback. I've learned to never position myself as the guy who knows everything about the product...they're less afraid to 'hurt' my feelings.

Agreed (and as mentioned below), a bit of a rally the troops when it comes to re-selling partners and field sales.

So 2004...that experience was probably running a mix of Windows Server 2000/NT. OS's that would be teenagers/in college now. It really is a different world in the server OS space (especially in the enterprise datacenter space) now.

As a former 'softie, I view it as a 'rally the troops' tone. Us against them with an undcurrent of 'they're scared'.

Definitely a different tone than what MSFT normally has, but they're confident, and in a world of 7 figure license deals, it's motivation and tone setting for re-selling partners and field staff.

It is crummy that you can't read other peoples perf numbers, that being said, evaluation versions exist for a reason. No need to rely on other peoples generic benchmarks.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx

I've had some issues with it being a little slow to display..but usually no more than a few seconds. My bigger gripe with the store is that it shows N updates on the live tile but N-M (with M<N) actual updates available.

Otherwise, I've had zero problems with finding apps in the store...on the desktop and the Surface

anyone else able to get the seconds to work in the time picker? if not, why even show these?

I've used this, and oddly enough, I've seen issues that only happen in IE7 on XP...IE7 on Vista/7 worked just fine. YMMV.

I've spent some time at MSFT (including a transfer) and know a few recent hires across the lake and NONE of them (including myself) have had any of these sort of questions. A few data structures and algorithms type questions, but never the 'how many pennies fit in this room' type stuff that they're supposedly so famous for.

We have a high corporate tax rate if you have terrible accountants. Almost EVERYTHING you do as a business drops your effective tax rate.

Then there is the whole S corp, I'm going to tax 3million in revenue at the 80k rate thing.... it isn't nearly as bad as that top number - take a look at effective rates and it isn't nearly as high as one would think

we're launching a slightly more transactional (and document) driven version of this at http://www.trypaper.com. feel free to message me if you have interest or questions :)

just put out a couple of those changes :) thanks!