You want backwards compatibility down the line? Vista 32bit still support windows 3.1 applications. What is that, almost twenty years old?
Yep. Tell that to the VB 6 applications we have to support. Supporting old software on an MS platform is a MAJOR pain in the arse.
I assume it's a pain in the arse because you have to write in VB6. However, would you mind supporting my Mac OS 7 apps? Thanks!
And keep in mind that you have a legal relationship with Microsoft too. If you spend $1.00, you have a claim, whatever it may be. Microsoft can't do illegal things with your property.
hat is just the weirdest argument I've ever read.
His point, which is correct, is that Microsoft has a business model based around supporting you. They sell you things. They must then deliver. Google offers an API for as long as it is profitable for them to do so. This is the evidence you were looking for.
Between Microsoft and Google, who do you trust for backwards compatibility in a year or two?
Microsoft. It took me 4 hours to port our software to Vista, and that mostly had to do with a (nonMS) driver and a (MS) dll issue. The trick to MS backwards compatibility is to not use the undocumented shit. SimCity broke when they went to 95 (they actually installed a patch in the OS for it for compatibility reasons), because of undocumented "features". Case in point, the permissions that they set up in XP were ignored by most developers because everyone ran in Admin mode. Then, they get to Vista, and "Accept or Deny" became famous overnight. Our installer, and our software, followed the annoying rules in XP on the offchance that someone was running as a regular user. Hence, when we ported over to Vista, the only time users had to verify the softwares intention was when installing the first time/patches. And that's a good time to pop that box up.
You are standing in IronForge, facing East. A chasm runs East and West to the North of you and a path runs to the South and East. Also here: John lvl 12 Cleric John1 lvl 13 Cleric FarmerJohn00 lvl 70 Farmer FarmerJohn01 lvl 70 Farmer FarmerJohn02 lvl 70 Farmer FarmerJohn03 lvl 70 Farmer FarmerJohn04 lvl 70 Farmer FarmerJohn05 lvl 70 Farmer FarmerJohn06 lvl 70 Farmer FarmerJohn07 lvl 70 Farmer FarmerJohn08 lvl 70 Farmer FarmerJohn09 lvl 70 Farmer FarmerJohn10 lvl 70 Farmer FarmerJohn11 lvl 70 Farmer Press any key to continute...
but how is it when things are bought and sold by an individual it is [sometimes] taxable - for instance, a car or a house, but in other instances it is not - like buying a guitar from someone.
I'm currently selling a lot of my musical equipment. Should I have a LOT more than what I have, at what point is it considered income?
It's always considered income. However, it's usually not worth the government's time to discover if you sold a guitar, prove it, and come at you for $5 or whatever you own (don't know how much a guitar costs). So, by "at what point" you are asking the wrong question. The more you sell, the more likely you will get caught (esp. if you do it in a way that a third-party tracks the transactions), and that the government will care. Although, there is also the point ($10,000 in the US), where bank deposits get reported to the IRS (it should also be noted that repeatedly depositing $9,999.99, not only will flag some heuristic that you are attempting to circumvent the $10,000 limit, which is an additional crime beyond tax evasion if you are doing it to evade taxes.) So that may be the point you were asking about.
Because the govenrment tracks homes and automobiles ownership already, and because the numbers are usually large enough to justify it, they come at you for these transactions.
I mean, I bought it with my income, paid tax on it at that point, and then I go to sell it later.
The only income is the difference in price (as adjusted by any deductions for deprication you took.) You saved the recipt, right?
If I go to Texas (I live in Oklahoma) and buy something, I'm expected to pay the tax on it. At the same point, if I buy it online, and have it shipped from Texas, I don't.
If you buy it in Texas, it falls into Texas juristiction and Texas can charge you sales tax. If you are in Oklahoma and buy it online in Texas, than neither Texas or Oklahoma has juristiction, because the federal government takes over interstate relationships. There is no federal sales tax. If there was, you would probably have to pay it.
IANAL, but I do some accounting related-work. Therefore, some of my answers may be tweaked for business and not personal taxes.
I don't understand your objection. There are different taxes because there are different activities, and the government attempts to collect the money it needs while simultanously rewarding some behavior and fitting within various people's sense of right and wrong. To explain each tax...
Income Tax: Absent a progressive income tax, it would be impossible to finance the government, period. A flat tax rate would have to starve poor people to fund the government (flat tax proponents claim they can save enough money by cutting waste that this is not the case. However, why wait to cut the waste, cut it first, then we can talk.)
Sales Tax: Besides being gathered by more local authorities, and sold as a way to tax out-of-area people, the sales tax encourages saving. However, a sales tax cannot be progressive, so a balance must be struck between sales and income tax. Evidence that sales taxes are designed to encourage saving and otherwise influence buying patterens is in the different rates for different types of goods.
Property Tax: Since property is finite, and there are various philisophical and religious objections to permentently owning land, this is the government's way of returning land to the public domain, at least metaphysically. In theory, this could be predicted in advance, and the entire sum charged once, but that would benefit no one, especially since so many numbers are subject to change (value, the projected time value of money, etc)
Estate Tax: Rich dead people seem like the ideal people to tax. But beyond that, it's the transfer of wealth that is being taxed, not that person. That is, taxes only must be paid by Person A on what they get from Person B's Estate. Seems fair.
Capital Gains Tax: If you sell something for more than you bought it for, you pay a tax on the difference. It seems quite unfair (to me) that this is taxed at a lower rate than income. However, the law seeks to heuristically decide if you invested for long-term goals or as a daytrader by how long you held the asset, and charges you different rates based on this.
Dude, you're thinking patent infringement.. completely different set of laws.
Patent infringment also has two different levels of infringment. But so do copyrights. Copyright and patent laws tend to have quite a few similiarities. The (3x?) may have been based on patent and not copyright law.
IANAL, but the way I understand it, lost revenue is often difficult to prove. In cases where it can be established that the offending party knew that it was violating copyright and willfully did so anyway, however, the court can require payment of statutory damages (which can be much higher than any revenue the plaintiff might have actually lost). The only glitch here is that I was under the impression that you needed to have registered your work with the Copyright Office in advance in order to claim statutory damages.
You're right about the main thrust, however two details. First, there are statutory damages for both knowing and unknowing infringment. However the knowing infringment damages are much (3x?) higher. These high statutory damages are the reason that the RIAA lawsuits have such teeth. Second, the requirement to register your work was removed almost thirty years ago. Registering is an easy way to have the governemnt verify when you claimed ownership however, and thus can be worth it.
everytime I mentioned the memory issue I was always told it was a plugin...
I got told the same thing. "But I didn't install any extensions," I said. Well, it must be my system. "But FireFox was the first program I installed on a new machine," I said. At that point I found out I was a liar.
"There is an increasing concern that in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims," Dr. Ioannidis said. "A new claim about a research finding is more likely to be false than true."
TFA
Since the criterion is that the claim is published, someone had to find the study new and interesting. Most new ideas are going to be wrong, especially true the more significant it is. After all, how many crackpot theories were postulated between Newtonian and Relativistic physics? On the other hand, most things easily verifiable, etc, are too obvious to me considered new and interesting. Note, while I find this interesting, I did not come up with this idea. Some economists published a similar study over a year ago postulating this as a reason. Of course, it's probably wrong.
Why would it not be running? "System resources" was the answer.
I don't understand this. The artists I work with are using XP on 2 year old machines and leave Photoshop running all the time (as well as Max, proprietary 3D tools, and Firefox). It just fracking works. So, why shouldn't it be running all the time? Idiots. But those aren't unique to PC users. I can make excellent cases against any OS if you allow me to selectively choose a non-random subsample. But further, I will add that while everyone who asked you about load time must be a PC user (just as any Mac artists asking about load time would have to ask a PC user), how do you know the color correction/airbrushers were Mac people?
Also, A quick google shows that Roald Amundsen sailed it in 1905? Or am I misunderstanding the story?
You are misunderstanding, TFA you linked to said he spent two winters with dogsleds traversing the NW passage. Kinda the opposite meaning of what you implied. Or as you said, "...by making clearly untrue statements, fuel is given to those that are skeptical."
Those nukes by treaty and national directives aren't supposed to fly anywhere unless there is direct national authority. Meaning President, Vice President,joint chiefs etc.
I've been wondering this ever since the line about "plans to invade Iran are already on the Vice-President's desk" was published about a year ago. When did the Vice-President enter the chain-of-command?
2. Readings are Not Averaged Correctly: When the software takes a series of readings, it first averages the first two readings. Then, it averages the third reading with the average just computed. Then the fourth reading is averaged with the new average, and so on. There is no comment or note detailing a reason for this calculation, which would cause the first reading to have more weight than successive readings. Nonetheless, the comments say that the values should be averaged, and they are not.
The first point seemed unreasonable, as temporary code will always make it in, and such. But my main problem is with the second point (after which I stopped reading). The first reading has the least weight, and each subsequent value has more weight than previous readings. The inability to get such a simple detail correct casts a huge pale over their entire analysis.
"Copyright(C)2007 by... All Rights Reserved" is just an indication to other people out there that you know you have those rights, and are implying you will exercise them. It doesn't changeyour legal rights in the slightest. Just like (where I live at least), a "Home Invaders will be shot" sign is not a prerequite for shooting a home invader, just a warning so you are less likely to have to.
I thought that the names of historical figures (Galactic Overload Xenu), were not copyrightable. Or are you implying you want the Scientologists to beat you down?
Prove it. Yes, it's unlikely, but (at least in some countries) the burden of proof is on the accuser.
In a civil suit, the burden is merely a proponderence of the evidence. And I think I can (knowing nothing else), prove to a reasonable degree (beyond a mere proponderence), that a dumptruck of disassembly != source. The proof is three fold:
Source is going to be machine readable, as no company would print source then make someone type it in.
Source is going to have variable names, as I can call everyone whose worked on a significantly sized program to testify to.
Can we drop this nonsensical meme. All property rights are "government-granted monopolies". Do you mind if I use your car to go to the grocery store? Or, to use as analogous a real-world situation to that advocated by the destroy-all-IP crowd, what if I lived in your house while you were on vacation, as long as I don't use electricity/water or disturb your stuff (assume I use your internet/cable off a generator I run because that's not pay per use)? After all, it's not as though you are losing anything in that situation. Or is there a distinction between copying and me using your stuff when you're not around.
Or hell, the government-granted monopoly is all that keeps the random people from just taking your stuff. It's that whole "law and order" thing without which life is nasty, brutish and short.
Huh? Since when does this violate the ideals of capitalism?
Not the way capitalism really operates, the idealistic way American (and possibly other) children are tought to think capitalism operates in middle school.
The reason people get upset when they hear about promotional deals is not because it is unexpected, but because it violates the ideal of capitalism that the best ideas will rise to the top and result in the most efficent solutions. In truth, capitalism has a huge bias towards the ideas winning in the marketplace of those with assets to reinvest and use to promote their agenda. However, when it becomes overly blunt, people have a viseral reaction due to what they learned in 8th grade civics classes (in the US at least).
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I assume it's a pain in the arse because you have to write in VB6. However, would you mind supporting my Mac OS 7 apps? Thanks!
His point, which is correct, is that Microsoft has a business model based around supporting you. They sell you things. They must then deliver. Google offers an API for as long as it is profitable for them to do so. This is the evidence you were looking for.
Ah, bright college days. I remember proposing some very unpopular rules and seeing if I could vote it in at 1 beer, 1 vote.
Microsoft. It took me 4 hours to port our software to Vista, and that mostly had to do with a (nonMS) driver and a (MS) dll issue. The trick to MS backwards compatibility is to not use the undocumented shit. SimCity broke when they went to 95 (they actually installed a patch in the OS for it for compatibility reasons), because of undocumented "features". Case in point, the permissions that they set up in XP were ignored by most developers because everyone ran in Admin mode. Then, they get to Vista, and "Accept or Deny" became famous overnight. Our installer, and our software, followed the annoying rules in XP on the offchance that someone was running as a regular user. Hence, when we ported over to Vista, the only time users had to verify the softwares intention was when installing the first time/patches. And that's a good time to pop that box up.
Come on now, this is WoW! It should read:
You are standing in IronForge, facing East. A chasm runs East and West to the North of you and a path runs to the South and East.
Also here: John lvl 12 Cleric
John1 lvl 13 Cleric
FarmerJohn00 lvl 70 Farmer
FarmerJohn01 lvl 70 Farmer
FarmerJohn02 lvl 70 Farmer
FarmerJohn03 lvl 70 Farmer
FarmerJohn04 lvl 70 Farmer
FarmerJohn05 lvl 70 Farmer
FarmerJohn06 lvl 70 Farmer
FarmerJohn07 lvl 70 Farmer
FarmerJohn08 lvl 70 Farmer
FarmerJohn09 lvl 70 Farmer
FarmerJohn10 lvl 70 Farmer
FarmerJohn11 lvl 70 Farmer
Press any key to continute...
It's always considered income. However, it's usually not worth the government's time to discover if you sold a guitar, prove it, and come at you for $5 or whatever you own (don't know how much a guitar costs). So, by "at what point" you are asking the wrong question. The more you sell, the more likely you will get caught (esp. if you do it in a way that a third-party tracks the transactions), and that the government will care. Although, there is also the point ($10,000 in the US), where bank deposits get reported to the IRS (it should also be noted that repeatedly depositing $9,999.99, not only will flag some heuristic that you are attempting to circumvent the $10,000 limit, which is an additional crime beyond tax evasion if you are doing it to evade taxes.) So that may be the point you were asking about.
Because the govenrment tracks homes and automobiles ownership already, and because the numbers are usually large enough to justify it, they come at you for these transactions.
The only income is the difference in price (as adjusted by any deductions for deprication you took.) You saved the recipt, right?
If you buy it in Texas, it falls into Texas juristiction and Texas can charge you sales tax. If you are in Oklahoma and buy it online in Texas, than neither Texas or Oklahoma has juristiction, because the federal government takes over interstate relationships. There is no federal sales tax. If there was, you would probably have to pay it.
IANAL, but I do some accounting related-work. Therefore, some of my answers may be tweaked for business and not personal taxes.
I don't understand your objection. There are different taxes because there are different activities, and the government attempts to collect the money it needs while simultanously rewarding some behavior and fitting within various people's sense of right and wrong. To explain each tax...
Patent infringment also has two different levels of infringment. But so do copyrights. Copyright and patent laws tend to have quite a few similiarities. The (3x?) may have been based on patent and not copyright law.
but isn't a Billionaire in Britian someone with 1e12 (a million millions) pounds. That is, over 2 trillion US dollars?
You're right about the main thrust, however two details. First, there are statutory damages for both knowing and unknowing infringment. However the knowing infringment damages are much (3x?) higher. These high statutory damages are the reason that the RIAA lawsuits have such teeth. Second, the requirement to register your work was removed almost thirty years ago. Registering is an easy way to have the governemnt verify when you claimed ownership however, and thus can be worth it.
Oh, and IANAL either.
At least, I assume that he gets paid by Microsoft for making them look good on /.
I got told the same thing. "But I didn't install any extensions," I said. Well, it must be my system. "But FireFox was the first program I installed on a new machine," I said. At that point I found out I was a liar.
TFA
Since the criterion is that the claim is published, someone had to find the study new and interesting. Most new ideas are going to be wrong, especially true the more significant it is. After all, how many crackpot theories were postulated between Newtonian and Relativistic physics? On the other hand, most things easily verifiable, etc, are too obvious to me considered new and interesting. Note, while I find this interesting, I did not come up with this idea. Some economists published a similar study over a year ago postulating this as a reason. Of course, it's probably wrong.
I don't understand this. The artists I work with are using XP on 2 year old machines and leave Photoshop running all the time (as well as Max, proprietary 3D tools, and Firefox). It just fracking works. So, why shouldn't it be running all the time? Idiots. But those aren't unique to PC users. I can make excellent cases against any OS if you allow me to selectively choose a non-random subsample. But further, I will add that while everyone who asked you about load time must be a PC user (just as any Mac artists asking about load time would have to ask a PC user), how do you know the color correction/airbrushers were Mac people?
You are misunderstanding, TFA you linked to said he spent two winters with dogsleds traversing the NW passage. Kinda the opposite meaning of what you implied. Or as you said, "...by making clearly untrue statements, fuel is given to those that are skeptical."
IANAL, but I believe you can record andwatch it later, exactly once. Hence, timeshifting.
I've been wondering this ever since the line about "plans to invade Iran are already on the Vice-President's desk" was published about a year ago. When did the Vice-President enter the chain-of-command?
The first point seemed unreasonable, as temporary code will always make it in, and such. But my main problem is with the second point (after which I stopped reading). The first reading has the least weight, and each subsequent value has more weight than previous readings. The inability to get such a simple detail correct casts a huge pale over their entire analysis.
Apparently, if you burn the iso to a disc, and then follow these steps[.DOC warning], it works. I haven't verified this though.
They do when I'm build wrangler. But then again, I'm actively trying to get someone else to snag that hat off my head.
"Copyright(C)2007 by ... All Rights Reserved" is just an indication to other people out there that you know you have those rights, and are implying you will exercise them. It doesn't changeyour legal rights in the slightest. Just like (where I live at least), a "Home Invaders will be shot" sign is not a prerequite for shooting a home invader, just a warning so you are less likely to have to.
IANAL
I thought that the names of historical figures (Galactic Overload Xenu), were not copyrightable. Or are you implying you want the Scientologists to beat you down?
In a civil suit, the burden is merely a proponderence of the evidence. And I think I can (knowing nothing else), prove to a reasonable degree (beyond a mere proponderence), that a dumptruck of disassembly != source. The proof is three fold:
Can we drop this nonsensical meme. All property rights are "government-granted monopolies". Do you mind if I use your car to go to the grocery store? Or, to use as analogous a real-world situation to that advocated by the destroy-all-IP crowd, what if I lived in your house while you were on vacation, as long as I don't use electricity/water or disturb your stuff (assume I use your internet/cable off a generator I run because that's not pay per use)? After all, it's not as though you are losing anything in that situation. Or is there a distinction between copying and me using your stuff when you're not around.
Or hell, the government-granted monopoly is all that keeps the random people from just taking your stuff. It's that whole "law and order" thing without which life is nasty, brutish and short.
Not the way capitalism really operates, the idealistic way American (and possibly other) children are tought to think capitalism operates in middle school.
The reason people get upset when they hear about promotional deals is not because it is unexpected, but because it violates the ideal of capitalism that the best ideas will rise to the top and result in the most efficent solutions. In truth, capitalism has a huge bias towards the ideas winning in the marketplace of those with assets to reinvest and use to promote their agenda. However, when it becomes overly blunt, people have a viseral reaction due to what they learned in 8th grade civics classes (in the US at least).