Interestingly, I bought two Chromebooks at Amazon recently because the Chromebooks had tax on Amazon and then +shipping and the base price is exactly the same. It helped that I had a $20 card for BB I needed to offload anyway.
I like the Chromebook for its purpose. Which for me is to have a browser and SSH. If only had VNC also on the Samsung one, it would be complete.
Simple answer: The people who make the SD standard come up with a non-FAT filesystem for use on it. Devices can then implement either or both depending on their needs. Many devices will implement both and FAT will eventually go away. This would also allow some new things of which FAT is simply incapable. Why hasn't this been done already? I'm sure the FAT patent doesn't have much life left in it but neither does FAT.
If they were talking about eliminating the loops, that would be one thing. But they are basically wanting to keep the loops for those who obey the law (typically the more productive and people who you want immigrating) and short-circuit them for law breakers (people who are more likely to be a drain on the welfare state).
When I have a lot in my cart, I'll generally go to a human checker. The self-checkout really does work best as an express line.
However, best of all are the ones where you take a mobile scanner with you. Then there is no difference between the express and regular lines. You're just paying.
Meh, the tax rate here in TN is about 10%. There is no income tax. They tried to put on in and the people rejected it forcefully (rightfully in my eyes.). Each state should raise revenues as suit themselves best.
Just because it's inconvenient to collect a tax the proper way doesn't mean that constitutional protections should be ridden roughshod over to make things easy.
Maybe. But there's probably a few ways to do it, especially if multi-touch is interpreted by the OS. On a modern mouse, you'll typically have middle & right click and a scroll wheel to spare.
I haven't tried the hdmi-dvi thing so I'll take you word for it. But what-in-heck are you talking about with photo uploads? I post pictures to forums from my phone all the time.
Nonsense. I can buy a lot of stuff from China for cheaper than what the postage would cost here in the US. Much of it is an order-of-magnitude cheaper than the same thing from or brick-and-mortar store also.
It wasn't so much that the system was based on trust but that it was based on a constitutional separation of states powers. State A should not be able to tell a retailer in state B what to do.
The correct way to handle this would have been to have some kind of reciprocity agreement between states about collecting taxes. However, states with low sales taxes would not have agreed to this as it would no have been to their benefit. In other words, this is a bill to protect high-tax states. I.e. a stitch-up of consumers and retailers.
Amazon is gearing up do do same day shipping and it seems like half of the stuff I'd like to put hands and eyes on is locked up in that awful bubble packaging or something equally impenetrable.
Sometimes having immediate access and fondle-ability is nice but the kicker is that it is simply not worth the premium on balance.
Touch & hold becomes click & hold. Other than the multi-touch, things translate directly. All you need is the pointer. Android has been able to do this for as long as I have been using ir and the multi-touch has not been an issue because apps have had to be designed for non-multi-touch sensors in any case. There's not much preventing ipa/od from doing this if there was the will.
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Interestingly, I bought two Chromebooks at Amazon recently because the Chromebooks had tax on Amazon and then +shipping and the base price is exactly the same. It helped that I had a $20 card for BB I needed to offload anyway.
I like the Chromebook for its purpose. Which for me is to have a browser and SSH. If only had VNC also on the Samsung one, it would be complete.
Why do you need to go digital to detect a simple sinusoidal wave? And even if you do, FFTs are still overkill.
Simple answer: The people who make the SD standard come up with a non-FAT filesystem for use on it. Devices can then implement either or both depending on their needs. Many devices will implement both and FAT will eventually go away. This would also allow some new things of which FAT is simply incapable. Why hasn't this been done already? I'm sure the FAT patent doesn't have much life left in it but neither does FAT.
If they were talking about eliminating the loops, that would be one thing. But they are basically wanting to keep the loops for those who obey the law (typically the more productive and people who you want immigrating) and short-circuit them for law breakers (people who are more likely to be a drain on the welfare state).
No one is about to attack North Korea and everybody knows that.
Hand-made because they care about quality.
Maybe we'll actually start to see implementation the end-to-end encryption that should have been there on everything from the beginning*.
*Admittedly, it wasn't really practical in the beginning but those days are long past
When I have a lot in my cart, I'll generally go to a human checker. The self-checkout really does work best as an express line.
However, best of all are the ones where you take a mobile scanner with you. Then there is no difference between the express and regular lines. You're just paying.
I've never had a problem.
Meh, the tax rate here in TN is about 10%. There is no income tax. They tried to put on in and the people rejected it forcefully (rightfully in my eyes.). Each state should raise revenues as suit themselves best.
Just because it's inconvenient to collect a tax the proper way doesn't mean that constitutional protections should be ridden roughshod over to make things easy.
Maybe. But there's probably a few ways to do it, especially if multi-touch is interpreted by the OS. On a modern mouse, you'll typically have middle & right click and a scroll wheel to spare.
I haven't tried the hdmi-dvi thing so I'll take you word for it. But what-in-heck are you talking about with photo uploads? I post pictures to forums from my phone all the time.
Yeah, your bricks & mortar stores will have to special order some stuff too. So?
Nonsense. I can buy a lot of stuff from China for cheaper than what the postage would cost here in the US. Much of it is an order-of-magnitude cheaper than the same thing from or brick-and-mortar store also.
I was thinking the same thing. Way to cripple some of your most successful enterprises.
Oh, third party... Not so sure about that. I'm sure if that were a loophole, it would be closed up quickly.
It is. It's why Buy.com and Newegg started chargins sales tax in TN. Their main offices didn't change but they now drop-ship out of Memphis.
The hardware store on the main street here in Tennessee does not collect sales taxes for Kentucky (No matter how many Kentucky residents shop there).
It wasn't so much that the system was based on trust but that it was based on a constitutional separation of states powers. State A should not be able to tell a retailer in state B what to do.
The correct way to handle this would have been to have some kind of reciprocity agreement between states about collecting taxes. However, states with low sales taxes would not have agreed to this as it would no have been to their benefit. In other words, this is a bill to protect high-tax states. I.e. a stitch-up of consumers and retailers.
Our local one took it out a few years ago. And now they put it back in again, only bigger.
I suspect the biggest problem with self-checkout has been the shoddy product delivered by the vendors previously. I generally prefer it.
Amazon is gearing up do do same day shipping and it seems like half of the stuff I'd like to put hands and eyes on is locked up in that awful bubble packaging or something equally impenetrable.
Sometimes having immediate access and fondle-ability is nice but the kicker is that it is simply not worth the premium on balance.
Yeah, not the people who draft the corporate-welfare-laden bills, just the people who pass the things.
The Chinese will just sell their stuff direct from China and the US will see *no* tax revenues and job losses. Well done, politicians.
Physically different, electrically the same. You can buy a $1 adapter from ebay.
Touch & hold becomes click & hold. Other than the multi-touch, things translate directly. All you need is the pointer. Android has been able to do this for as long as I have been using ir and the multi-touch has not been an issue because apps have had to be designed for non-multi-touch sensors in any case. There's not much preventing ipa/od from doing this if there was the will.