Of course there's hardware. There's always hardware. Computer software runs on hardware. There isn't some magic Star Trek alien cloud of pure energy where it runs. It's chips and circuit boards.

Unless you are running applications directly on real actual hardware you have an OS. Just because you call the application isolation mechanism a "virtual machine running under a hypervisor" instead of a "program running under an operating system" doesn't mean they're fundamentally different things.

It's just a matter of semantics as to what you call it. Apparently the current fashion is to call a new OS a hypervisor instead of an OS. Probably because it's easier to sell people on a new hyervisor than it is to sell them on a new OS when we already have so many of those.

I'm with you except maybe pull ups. Depending on arm length and body type that can take a LOT of strength.

Hahah.

True though. My daughter's around 30 pounds and I have visible arm muscles now that I never had in my life.

"teenaged" was generous. He's a few months shy of 12. The talk was more about how

* I'm sorry that the filtering software apparently broke and let him see all that stuff, because he really isn't ready for it (and he isn't. He's very immature.)
* I can see everything he searches for and every web site he goes to.
* the general internet isn't a good source for actual information about sex and bodies and so forth.
* the filter WILL still let him do "safe" google image search, so he can probably still see scantily clad women and maybe the occasional body part that slips past, and I won't give him grief about those searches - in other words, go ahead and search for "hot ladies" but not "5th grade girls having lesbian sex" or "ladies shitting in the snow".
* anything he wants to know he can ask me and I won't mock him and I will come up with a good answer
* Don't do this sort of thing with his friends - he's a year behind in school, so he's older than his friends, so if they get caught he's going to get blamed.
* and finally, the mechanics of the sex act (at the "tab A fits into slot B" level) which he claimed was news to him, despite clearly having seen more pornography than I saw before I was about 25.

It was generally hideous for all involved, which may be sufficient to keep him out of it for a while.

1. Install logmein (logmein.com) - the free edition is just fine.
2. Make your mom a standard user. Non-administrator.
3. Create an "Admin" account. Do NOT tell her the password.

It's working so far for my mother-in-law. Her old computer was so badly infested that I just gave up and gave her one of my spares. (She had no reload media.)

Now, even with her teen grandson surfing porn (yes, I caught him at it, yes, we had a long talk about it but I doubt he's stopped) it seems to be clean.

She has Windows 7. Maybe it won't work as well with XP.

Just the only child still living here, not the only child. Big brother is over 21.

I have one child (almost 10 months old.)

When working from home, I work in the same general area of the house as where she and my wife are playing, watching TV, reading, and doing all that other stuff you do with a baby. I change most of her diapers while I'm there, and sometimes I take a meeting or do work with her sitting on my lap happily burbling away and grabbing at the keyboard.

And I'm still more productive than when stuck in my dismal, 1989 cubicle. (It really is that old; I found the manufacturer's sticker inside the cabinet.)

Some of it is workplace noise. Some of it is that I can wear t-shirt and jeans, or shorts if it's warm, and no socks or shoes. Some of it is that I'm just happier with my family than without them.

I'm trying to train my workplace that they don't need to see me more than once a week. I think I'm slowly getting there. My boss doesn't care so long as the work gets done, but higher up the food chain it gets stickier.

Your time is a cost in your business as well. It's usually paid for out of the business one way or another, whether by explicitly taking pay or by taking profits. It's just easier to talk about tangible stuff as expenses.

Wow. You are a total asshole.

If they can get enough money at the scrap yard for it to matter to their life, you are wasting their time by not taking the scrap yourself and giving them money.

Only the working poor would put up with this shit. Do you think poor people have nothing better to do with their time? With their gasoline than drive to the scrap yard?

Sell the scrap yourself and give them a raise. Maybe even pay them a living wage so they don't have to fuck around trying to make ends meet.

And I say again, ASSHOLE.

Production of Bitcoin should be taxable just like anything else that you make. If you have a business making clothes, your taxable income is the difference between what you sell the clothes for and your cost of making them. In the case of mining Bitcoin, your expenses are primarily computer equipment, electricity and physical space to contain the computer equipment.

Getting paid in Bitcoin is either the same as getting paid in a foreign currency or the same as barter - an exchange of value.

IRS has procedures for barter.

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employed/Bartering-Tax-Center

I see a lot of posts saying that "bitcoin transactions aren't taxed" and "no payroll taxes if you're paid in bitcoin."

Huh?

If I'm working in the US but my employer pays me in GBP, they should still be sending an appropriate amount for FICA, Medicare, and withholding to Washington, and I should be declaring the income on my 1040. A different currency doesn't make it tax free.

Does Bitcoin make it easier to evade taxes? Sure, maybe it does. Doesn't make it legal.

That's actually how most things work, you know. If you buy 400 of something all at once, it's cheaper than buying 200 now and 200 later.

But it's also almost always cheaper to buy 200 total than to buy 400 total no matter how you order them. Just like everyone else, the military needs to figure out what they need when they place the order and they need to get it right or expect additional costs.

The people who agree with your argument to not cut the F22 think they know better than the military how many F22's the military needs. Seems kind of arrogant to me.

I do that too. It really does make people uncomfortable.

There are actually a good number on Dell and Lenovo (didn't look at HP) that list Windows 7 as the installed OS. Even under Home for Dell. I only looked at Small Business on Lenovo's site.

If you ask me someone didn't try very hard.

The vendors don't care who buys from the Small Business section. They may assign you an account rep and mail you an invoice (both of which seem weird for a one-off purchase) but they'll happily sell you their stuff.

I've looked so far at dell.com and lenovo.com. Both have many laptops available for immediate purchase running Windows 7.

At Dell, under Small Business they start around $350. Under Home/Consumer they are a bit more expensive.

At Lenovo, ThinkPad E-Series under small business all seem to list Windows 7.

So basically the whole question is bogus and merely an excuse to start up another Windows 8 bash-fest.

Either that or Sagan's Pie thinks "everywhere" is logically equivalent to "Best Buy" and "Walmart".