Who is more innovative Thomas Edison or Bill Gates?
Answers: Edison. He invented over 1,000 things.
Bill Gates just created a monopoly, but MS products are quite lame.
For those who don't seem to know history very much, Edison took advantage of a lot of other inventors, such as Tesla, and was a ruthless promoter. In fact, if he existed in our times, he would be considered more evil than Bill Gates.
Did you know he electrocuted animals for show?
Bill Gates revolutionized the PC industry. He didn't invent the computer, but neither did Edison invent the light bulb.
From the history ,real or distorted, the inventions of Thomas Edison and his laboratories, helped initiate the age of electricity and its applications to the community and the household. His inventions were partly responsible for entertainment, electrical application, the victrola and the record for the victrola. Gates' contribution was the popularization of the personal computer and especially the operating system, Windows.
Steve Jobs, GUI, and Xerox: why be the latter so apparently pointless?
I read in David Kaplan's book, The Silicon Boys, that Steve Jobs get the idea for GUI contained by a visit to Xerox.I saw this movie, Pirates of Silicon Valley
you can see the movie here:
http://video.G00GLE.com/videoplay?docid=...
Apparently, Xerox's R&D come up with GUI and the mouse, but the corporate mugwumps at the time ridiculed and dumped on it, and afterwards Steve Jobs went in--sort of approaching a pirate, before the helpless, muttering, womanly, Xerox R&D team leader--and stole it for Lisa and the MacIntosh.
I'd appreciate the enlightenment.
Thanx.
Answers: I don't close to when you say "stole" the GUI. I read:
iCon
Steve Jobs
The greatest second feat in the history of business
Apple give 100,000 shares to Xerox and Xerox invested 1 milion $ in Apple and have let Steve Jobs and his squad in Xerox PARC. This is where on earth he took his idea of GUI. But he saled it and i'm sure Xerox wouldn't enjoy saled it.
M.Mac
Apple Rocks!!
An academic who call himself Robert X Cringely wrote a book called 'Accidental Empires' which be transformed into a documentary called 'Triumph of the Nerds'. The premise is that a group of immature 'nerds' or geeks (Jobs, Gates, et al) saw the potential of computers when others didn't. It's funny and tongue in cheek but beside a brilliantly informed background - that Jobs be a marketing genius and Gates a hi-tech genius and that the junior and middle and senior manager at Xerox and IBM, etc., didn't stand a chance. At what become Apple, Steve Wozniak ("Woz") was a arithmetic prodigy and his friend Steve Jobs was a sagacious, a man who literally saw the future within front of his eyes when Xerox demo'd their GUI & mouse for him. Anyway, I bought the book and the film from dull Amazon-type sources and would recommend the purchase.
Corporate import tax: when does it transpire?
Is it the gross that is tax;or is it taxed after the accounts payable, team, and salaries for the manager, officers, and B.O.D;
or after the creditors are remunerated;
or the bondholders;
or the preferred shareholders get their dividends;
or if adjectives shareholders get their dividends?
What if after adjectives of this, the net income of a corporation that grossed +$1 billion is nought, or even below zero?
What if, instead, the lattice profit of this +$1billion grossing corporation was 90%.
Thanks folks.
Answers: It is pre-tax income (after most of what you listed) i.e. taxed. Common dividends are not deduct in arriving at taxable income for the corporation.
The gross is irrelevant. If the web is zero, next the corp. pays zero. If it's denial, then the corp. can carryover that loss into a adjectives year (or carry it spinal column up to 3 years).
If the corp. made $900MM, then it would hold a tax bill of +/- 40%, or $360MM - though that depends on the industry, where on earth they are doing business, etc.