They set the post-tax amount without knowing the exact pre-tax amount, so whatever the pre-tax amount is they will just pay it. Even if tax rate varies person by person there will not be a huge difference.
I checked one of my offer letter (not from google) and the wording is like "an amount of $XXXXX grossed up for U.S taxes".
> Previously everything was handled through emails and windows network drive (and this from an org with tens of subsidiaries and presence on every inhabited continent).
Have you heard about SharePoint? One of the goals of SharePoint is to solve such kind of problems your org once had.
Yes I am using SharePoint at work and I am pretty happy with it. There might be some overhead for the IT dept but from the user's point of view I cannot see the problems it introduced.
Actually, now that you mention it, yes, SharePoint was one ingredient in the soup :) - I don't think SharePoint enabled collaboration was as friction free as through Google drive. Probably depends on the user and SharePoint version how well it works. But what I have observed - previously people would rather use the network drive or email docs than use sharepoint for distribution and now everyone just shares google docs links.
I would say "60up/20down unlimited" means your ISP guarantees this bandwidth as part of the contract, rather than upper bound the bandwidth by this number. In the off peak hours you may be allowed to download at a rate higher than this number, but even in the peak hours you should be able to fully utilize your guaranteed bandwidth.
Even a "guaranteed bandwidth" becomes impossible if you're transferring from a server that can't provide those speeds, or over some portion of the Internet that can't due to link congestion/etc., and your ISP can't do anything about that. In that sense, all bandwidths are "up to".
The significantly more expensive "business level" plans usually do have some sort of guarantee via SLA, but once again that only applies to the part of the network between you and the ISP.
I read that as if to mean that it would be possible for the ISP to set a limit, say a 10 GB monthly cap, and once a lower threshold (say 5 GB) is reached, decrease bandwidth as usage continues to climb. As usage grows and bandwidth decreases, you could eventually reach a point where it is so slow (say at 1,000 bits per second) that it becomes more or less unusable for the consumer and therefore unfeasible to realistically exceed the 10 GB limit.
Sort of like halving the distance between you and a destination repeatedly ultimately leads you to a position infinitesimally separated from your destination, but never past it.
What you described is exactly what WeChat is able to do and doing well. It has a half billion users (including every Chinese I know) yet comes with no social baggage. If you don't like the social features (called Moments) you can turn it off, or simply use WeChat as an IM and hardly notice the existence of all the other features (there are not many anyway)
So your enriched version of address book does exist, but only in China, and it is one of the few things I miss so much when living outside China.
Interesting. I've never even heard of it. Any perspective on why it hasn't caught on elsewhere? (besides just our not hearing of it?)
Though, I guess, as a tech person, I have the additional preference that whatever I use be fairly open (open-source somehow if possible) and not liable to doing things like selling user data or onboarding corporate partnerships in an attempt to monetize. Even though I know how silly it is to ask for an amazing product for free with no mechanism for generating revenue and a promise not to try to come up with one. Actually, I think I would pay for such a thing.
Actually, I know of Diaspora and Ello having tried this in some capacity, but neither caught on for various reasons.
Cmd only gives you bash style keybinding, the "bunch of cmd tools" you are referring to is from mysysgit.
Anyway, neither of cmd or mysysgit is coming from cmder, and ConEmu has already made it straightforward to use these "add-ins". For me cmder is just a set of configs wrapping around ConEmu.
I checked one of my offer letter (not from google) and the wording is like "an amount of $XXXXX grossed up for U.S taxes".