Are people really so stupid that they don't know the left-mouse-button-copies / middle-mouse-button-pastes routine? How much more unified do they want? Why can't Microsoft get with the standard...
The "y" is important. Maybe he does have a huge ego, but being a revolutionary means being only a part of a revolution (in this context), not necessarily the cause or leader of it. And I think it's safe to say that he's at least some part of the current revolution (as long as we're willing to call it such).
He might just be an egotist, but we'll need to look a bit farther than the title of his book to prove it.
I'm gonna keep this in mind next time somebody tries to tell me X11 is too bloated. Hehe. I wish I could display Palm apps on my laptop's display so easily...
I've been using this CVS book for a reference/tutorial. I find it's a good mix of both, and has gotten me to the point where I don't need to look at it much anymore.
Even with the "consent of the congress", the funds generated would still go straight to the US treasury. That much appears to be absolute, and would need to be altered for any cross-state tax to work.
Just to answer the responses that different rules apply whether exporting or importing goods from other states. Just look at Section 10.
No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's
inspection laws: and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the United States; and
all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.
So if a state wants to tax another state's imports and actually receive the proceeds (rather than it being funneled into the treasury), an amendment will still be required. Whether this is desirable or not is another argument. But as it stands, any true "internet tax" over cross-state goods doesn't appear to be lawful.
I wish they had only said as much in the article, however. As it stands, it looks like they're talking about enforcing inter-state taxation, and that gets confusing.
"No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be
absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on
Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the
Revision and Controul of the Congress."
So whether importing or exporting from other states, it looks like they'll need an amendment passed in order to get any cross-state taxation revenue into the states themselves (rather than the treasury).
But any state
still has the rights to tax purchaces, property, or use within it's bounds
Naturally. For example, if I'm in the same state as foo.com, and I buy stuff from foo.com, I expect to pay that state's sales taxes (a lot of sites do this already). But if I'm in a different state as foo.com, I'm fairly certain that constitutional clause prevents my state from charging tax on stuff bought from foo.com.
In that case, calling it an "internet tax" seems inaccurate. It's more like a simple enforcement of existing taxation laws.
Section 9, clause 5 of the US constitution: "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State."
So, unless the internet tax is going to be a federal tax, the states cannot collect money from stuff imported from other states without amending the constitution. At least, that's how it appears to me.
Of course Quake 3 authenticates your unique key and nobody's bitching about that (much)...
The key difference is that a pure multiplayer game (like Quake3 or Phantasy Star Online) will always have the network connection active and so the validation is no big deal. (As long as you don't want to go online, one can pirate Q3A all day long) But if Sony actually thinks people will go online solely to validate a purely offline game, they're in for a rude shock.
I thought Sony was finished with botching up the PS2, but they've proven me wrong yet again.
I don't think they are eliminating the closed captioning (which probably isn't legal anyway), but are using space that closed captioning doesn't use (presumably it is unneeded, for whatever reason) for additional HDTV signal.
My consistently-held assertion is that the UNIX environment provides me with the applications I need, and the Windows environment does not. I have even mentioned, by name, the applications I hold to be most interesting for my use. In return, I am given a list of completely different applications that I do not find useful as some sort of indication of the superiority of Windows for my particular needs.
And then, at some point, I "lost", which apparently translates to: "I feel my argument is superior to yours and my software is superior to yours so stop arguing about it and let me live in peaceful bliss". And, if one had only said so originally, I would be happy to oblige.
The notion that "UNIX has no software", put forth (apparently) in joke fashion is what started this thread in the first place. My experience is the opposite, and I have yet to be convinced otherwise - at least for my needs. If you feel Windows has all the software for your needs and UNIX does not, kindly say so - but don't assume that holds for everybody.
And no, none of this is serious enough to have "winners" or "losers" declared. It's all just discussion, opinion and a pile of bits that all involved will soon forget. None of it is worth getting worked-up over whatsoever.
Just fucking admit you've lost this round... otherwise you look like a sore loser...
Ahh, we're "winning" and "losing" now? Now that's funny if you actually think the posts of a bunch of anonymous people on some half-assed website are actually significant enough to be "won" or "lost". Or that they even have "rounds", for that matter.
The notion that someone actually takes anything on this particular half-assed website seriously or personally amuses me to no end...
Just about anything is preferable to Office. The proprietary file formats might be bearable, if only it didn't force me into the page layout business, gobble up valuable data or mangle the page layouts across printers, platforms and versions. Pure suck.
IE 5.5
Windows IE is continuing its long tradition of sucking. So does Mozilla, Netscape and so forth, and a useful web browser remains an unattainable dream. Perhaps, "IE 5.5 sucks not as much" is the best one can say for it.
Photoshop
Which sucks compared to its Mac equivilent. No real win there, either.
Windows Media Player
Anything without the "content control" shit should be preferable. It's very flashy, and flashy still sucks.
Diablo 2
And another game - not even a great one for that matter. I give "nethack" the nod for more staying power.
And none of those five are anything I really want to use anyway. So, I'm still waiting for apps, and still using an OS that has them, unlike Windows.
I may be insane, but that's beside the point. I'm still waiting for a Windows app that doesn't suck compared to its UNIX equivilent. IceWM vs. "the 'Windows' window manager" - IceWM. zsh vs. MS-DOS shell - zsh. LaTeX, GNUMACS, CVS and Python are all running natively on UNIX, and that seems like the best place to run them rather than some half-hearted Windows port. Windows still doesn't let me run individual apps on remote desktops (ala X11) near as I can tell. Oh, and the Windows command line continues to suck, making it hard to use by forcing me into the time-consuming point-and-click process. Ick.
So, again, I'm still waiting for some worthwhile apps on Windows that aren't half-hearted UNIX ports with less functionality.
Maybe it'll get some, but I'm not too hopeful.
LINE looks to be a huge help in this regard.
That was a joke? I'm still waiting for a worthwhile Windows app to justify its use, but haven't come up with any. "The Sims" is really the only thing I can think of, and that's only a single game.
Meanwhile, Linux is easier to use, easier to maintain, has better apps (for my use, anyway), better supported and costs a helluva lot less.
I've run xmms+ogg under RedHat 6.2 and RedHat 7.0 with no problems whatsoever - even over lots and lots of oggs. Maybe the problem is I can't find a source for xmms-vorbis and it's linked against a lot of libraries. A recompile of either xmms or the ogg plugin might help considerably.
A keyboard is supurb for typing in text, but has a tough time adapting to general purpose gaming use; I can play Quake3 and "the Sims" fine on a keyboard, but I wouldn't want one for Crazy Taxi or Soul Calibur.
Of course a general-purpose PC can be a fine gaming platform, but I find the specialized consoles often just as enjoyable and with less hassle. But I'll grant you there is a difference in the gaming styles between the two, and that accounts for why people with certain tastes prefer one sort over the other.
...the right tool for the right job. My Linux box is for work with the occasional xmame session on the side. But when I want to enjoy a bit more in the way of gaming, I fire up the old Dreamcast and indulge. Consoles are cheaper than good 3D accelerator cards, trivial to set up and require no real maintanence (okay, those last two are a lot like Linux too, but you get the idea).
I wouldn't edit text with the Gimp, and I don't use a machine whose primary imput devices are mice and keyboards as my main gaming platform. Again, it's all about the right tool for the right job...
...that the RIAA and MPAA spend millions on making/recording/promoting music and movies, and then spend millions more to prevent people from listening/watching them.
Perhaps corperate paranoia will climax with the production of a $1 billion film that they decide not to release at all for fear that someone might actually *watch* it. Oh the horrors!
Since it started as "the Landlord's Game" to show the evils of capitalism (before being copied by Charles Darrow and turned into Monopoly), one has to expect it lacks quite a bit in realism.
Whether or not adding realism will actually make it more fun is debatable. The only way to answer that one is to try it out.
How could you forget xmame? That's 2000+ classic (and some not-so-classic) arcade games right there suitable for all manner of UNIX-like boxes. What better way to kill time than a game of arcade-perfect Mr. Do!
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Are people really so stupid that they don't know the left-mouse-button-copies / middle-mouse-button-pastes routine? How much more unified do they want? Why can't Microsoft get with the standard...
He might just be an egotist, but we'll need to look a bit farther than the title of his book to prove it.
I'm gonna keep this in mind next time somebody tries to tell me X11 is too bloated. Hehe. I wish I could display Palm apps on my laptop's display so easily...
I've been using this CVS book for a reference/tutorial. I find it's a good mix of both, and has gotten me to the point where I don't need to look at it much anymore.
Even with the "consent of the congress", the funds generated would still go straight to the US treasury. That much appears to be absolute, and would need to be altered for any cross-state tax to work.
So if a state wants to tax another state's imports and actually receive the proceeds (rather than it being funneled into the treasury), an amendment will still be required. Whether this is desirable or not is another argument. But as it stands, any true "internet tax" over cross-state goods doesn't appear to be lawful.
I wish they had only said as much in the article, however. As it stands, it looks like they're talking about enforcing inter-state taxation, and that gets confusing.
So whether importing or exporting from other states, it looks like they'll need an amendment passed in order to get any cross-state taxation revenue into the states themselves (rather than the treasury).
Naturally. For example, if I'm in the same state as foo.com, and I buy stuff from foo.com, I expect to pay that state's sales taxes (a lot of sites do this already). But if I'm in a different state as foo.com, I'm fairly certain that constitutional clause prevents my state from charging tax on stuff bought from foo.com.
In that case, calling it an "internet tax" seems inaccurate. It's more like a simple enforcement of existing taxation laws.
So, unless the internet tax is going to be a federal tax, the states cannot collect money from stuff imported from other states without amending the constitution. At least, that's how it appears to me.
The key difference is that a pure multiplayer game (like Quake3 or Phantasy Star Online) will always have the network connection active and so the validation is no big deal. (As long as you don't want to go online, one can pirate Q3A all day long) But if Sony actually thinks people will go online solely to validate a purely offline game, they're in for a rude shock.
I thought Sony was finished with botching up the PS2, but they've proven me wrong yet again.
At least that's the impression I get.
And then, at some point, I "lost", which apparently translates to: "I feel my argument is superior to yours and my software is superior to yours so stop arguing about it and let me live in peaceful bliss". And, if one had only said so originally, I would be happy to oblige.
The notion that "UNIX has no software", put forth (apparently) in joke fashion is what started this thread in the first place. My experience is the opposite, and I have yet to be convinced otherwise - at least for my needs. If you feel Windows has all the software for your needs and UNIX does not, kindly say so - but don't assume that holds for everybody.
And no, none of this is serious enough to have "winners" or "losers" declared. It's all just discussion, opinion and a pile of bits that all involved will soon forget. None of it is worth getting worked-up over whatsoever.
Ahh, we're "winning" and "losing" now? Now that's funny if you actually think the posts of a bunch of anonymous people on some half-assed website are actually significant enough to be "won" or "lost". Or that they even have "rounds", for that matter.
The notion that someone actually takes anything on this particular half-assed website seriously or personally amuses me to no end...
Just about anything is preferable to Office. The proprietary file formats might be bearable, if only it didn't force me into the page layout business, gobble up valuable data or mangle the page layouts across printers, platforms and versions. Pure suck.
Windows IE is continuing its long tradition of sucking. So does Mozilla, Netscape and so forth, and a useful web browser remains an unattainable dream. Perhaps, "IE 5.5 sucks not as much" is the best one can say for it.
Which sucks compared to its Mac equivilent. No real win there, either.
Anything without the "content control" shit should be preferable. It's very flashy, and flashy still sucks.
And another game - not even a great one for that matter. I give "nethack" the nod for more staying power.
And none of those five are anything I really want to use anyway. So, I'm still waiting for apps, and still using an OS that has them, unlike Windows.
So, again, I'm still waiting for some worthwhile apps on Windows that aren't half-hearted UNIX ports with less functionality. Maybe it'll get some, but I'm not too hopeful. LINE looks to be a huge help in this regard.
Meanwhile, Linux is easier to use, easier to maintain, has better apps (for my use, anyway), better supported and costs a helluva lot less.
I've run xmms+ogg under RedHat 6.2 and RedHat 7.0 with no problems whatsoever - even over lots and lots of oggs. Maybe the problem is I can't find a source for xmms-vorbis and it's linked against a lot of libraries. A recompile of either xmms or the ogg plugin might help considerably.
Of course a general-purpose PC can be a fine gaming platform, but I find the specialized consoles often just as enjoyable and with less hassle. But I'll grant you there is a difference in the gaming styles between the two, and that accounts for why people with certain tastes prefer one sort over the other.
I wouldn't edit text with the Gimp, and I don't use a machine whose primary imput devices are mice and keyboards as my main gaming platform. Again, it's all about the right tool for the right job...
That means they'll have 100 in the initial shipment, but promise to have lots more Real Soon.
"This gambler has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
Perhaps corperate paranoia will climax with the production of a $1 billion film that they decide not to release at all for fear that someone might actually *watch* it. Oh the horrors!
Whether or not adding realism will actually make it more fun is debatable. The only way to answer that one is to try it out.
How could you forget xmame? That's 2000+ classic (and some not-so-classic) arcade games right there suitable for all manner of UNIX-like boxes. What better way to kill time than a game of arcade-perfect Mr. Do!