I love the fact that we seem to have gone back to the old Wyse terminals secretaries used to be given back in the 1980s..
Given the price a new Mac mini at $599 is a bargain...
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Oh HMRC are very clear in who should pay the bill when it goes wrong.
I've called HMRC's IR35 helpline as the "feepayer" to ask that exact question and the answer was pass the bill to the worker.
Now that's utterly wrong but it's going to require a court case or 5 to get a proper answer.
Nope the use of limited companies has nothing to do with HMRC - It goes back to the 1977 Agencies Act that banned agencies from employing workers on a self-employed basis.
Very quickly afterwards limited companies started to be used to provide the 3rd party required between the agency and the worker
Equally that’s slightly wrong.
An SDS determination can be changed from outside to inside but that can only occur prior to the end client making the first payment.
How do I know the exact rules, because I triple checked with HMRC until they actually documented the above.
The old course was an easy pass for students as it was mainly coursework.
The new one has some coursework but the vast majority of it is an exam at the end.
And for those who took it in the early years - a lot of students where were expected to do well did badly because of the exams.
Hence schools now steer students in a different direction.
I can answer that to.
Dataflex is an empty Power Apps database with a limited security model and support Power Automate and Virtual Agents - the data is only visible within Teams.,
Dataflex pro is Power Apps as it already exists (so it includes the CDS data tables, plugins, a security model....)..
Having spoken to the product team Dataflex is free for Teams users which requires a basic (Base) Office 365 or Microsoft 365 license.
Dataflex Pro will require a Power Apps license as it an be accessed outside MS Teams.
And I'm not blaming the register for the poor reporting it take 39 minutes with the Power Apps product team to get this information out of them.
Suggests..... That was just careful phrasing.
I think just about the only bank I would trust nowadays is HSBC.... I've heard enough scare stories about the others that I wouldn't go there. That is not to say HSBC are any better it may be that they are competent or it could be that they don't employ people who frequent the same network of contacts I have...
I remember the BBC Model b being popular in schools but I don't think the Archimedes (which the ARM Chip was designed for) was ever that popular.
It was the lack of popularity of the Archimedes as IBM PCs took off that meant ARM become its own company and Acorn is no more.....
Personally I saw the iPad mini this afternoon and bought the last one in that apple store. At half the weight of the iPad there will be an awful lot of people who will see one, pick it up and instantly buy one as I did to replace the new iPad I have been using.
Heck you can even type on it reasonably well as this post shows (somewhat badly).
I'm not sure about your conclusion. If you want a proper full HD screen Apple simply don't offer that option on the 15" model and its the one thing that has always held me back from buying a mac.
It will be interesting to see what the cost of the 15" macbook pro with the 2.7ghz processor is when its released later this month. Its going to a lot nearer £2,000 compared to the £1229 Dell wants for the same specification machine.
All the offers still seems over expensive compared to buying the ipad outright and then buying a monthly sim only deal.
I'm glad I picked up the last ipad 1 32gb at three last week. £129 upfront + £20 a month for 24 months so a total of £609 all in.
Granted its last years technology but it does exactly what I want, doesn't force a camera on me which could be awkward at some clients and saves me £270 over the cost of the new one.
Charles Stross wrote a serious of Blog entries last year ( http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/common-misconceptions-about-pu.html ) that explain how the industry works and the cost of ink and paper is not a significant factor in the price of a book.
The pricing of a book is the same as any other item with a limited shelf life (expensive to begin with, getting cheaper of time). The only thing unique about the book industry is that the format changes as the book gets cheaper.
You forget all the win a house lotteries of the past few years. They all got large amounts of publicity, are totally against the spirit of the law let alone the law itself and yet non were prosecuted.
This just seems a article written for public relations. Not that I mind that but I better starting point would be the law is a mess because you can't do .... while everyone knows people do.
If the best people can come up with is to complain about grammar its no wonder crap laws like this are appearing. If people are concerned about a little piece of incorrect grammar on a website comment they really should find something better to do with their time.
To answer the only point worth replying to on here, it is in recruitment where issues will occur. If we are already employing someone you ask for the case to be examined (by the local authority, the police or a.n.other) and based on the outcome decide (in reality get told by local government personnel) what to do. You have a paper trail you can follow and someone else to blame or offload your guilt on.
Recruitment of new staff is a different matter. Here you don't have the paper trail but a piece of paper containing rumours, previously investigate and dismissed allegations, innuendo and possible even comments generated from people who dislike you for minor irrelevent reasons. Then based on this waste of paper, fear and gut instinct we need to decide whether to employ that person.
As a school Governor this is going to make recruitment entertaining to say the least.
If we receive soft information and ignore it we will be (rightly?) attacked for employing someone unsuitable if something eventually occurred.
If we receive soft information and using it decide not to employ the most suitably qualified person we can be sued under various discrimination acts. Worse, because the information is confidential we don't yet know whether we could use the soft information in court to justify our decision and it will only be when someone takes this to the House of Lords in x years time that we will know definitely.
So we are damned if we do and damned if we don't. Possibly appearance in the Sun or immediate legal case with expensive costs. Not a decision many Governors or headteachers will wish to take.