[*hoping I can stop laughing long enough to psot this*]
Got to love slashdot moderation. [*giggle*]
Post modded "troll" by moderator who doesn't understand analogies, didn't RTFA, and didn't look at the legion of contents expalaining things. Price: -1.
Similarly ignorant response follows.
Followup explaining what responder would have understood had he RTFA or the other reponses moderated insightful. Price: +1.
That the ignorant response which totally misunderstood the issue is moderated informative: Priceless.
. . . comes in the domestic/import columns for CAFE regulations (fuel economy).
My '89 Crown Victoria managed to get itself classified as an import, though it was made in Detroit & Canada. As the domestic Fords were nipping at the mpg ceiling, with tons of room in the import column, it was too tempting for them to pass up.
"Imports" were cars with some minimum percentage (30% ?) of foreign content. The CV was close enough that it didn't take much more than a different brand of windshield wipers to get it there . . .
Apple screwed several manufacturers with their clone program. They allowed companies to clone the machines, and Apple sold them the OS. When Apple realized that the clone makers were making more powerful, more upgradable, and cheaper computers then any of the Macintoshes, they stopped allowing MacOS to be installed on the clones.... Who knows the real reason Apple stopped the clone market.
The minor problem is that that just isn't true, though it is indeed the common folklore. It can file away with stealing the Lisa interface from PARC.
Apple had a range of products, from the low to the high. THe high end had fatter margins, and is what paid for most of the R&D.
The clone makers used apple designed motherboards (though I believe there was a single exception).
The problem wasn't that the cloners were making faster machines than apple, but that they were paying a royalty based on the low end machines and undercutting Apple on the high end.
Apple *did not* cancel the clone market. It demanded higher royalties for faster machines. The clone makers all refused, each and every one of them.
It's really kind of hard to fault Apple for expecting the other machiens to share the costs of R&D . . . as it was, the relationship had become entirely one-sided (all costs & risk to apple, most profits to the cloners).
But anyway, the short version is that Apple *did* allow cloning to continue, but none of the cloners wanted to pay their share of what it cost apple to make it possible.
It was already around, really. There weren't many cards for it, and I don't think that any of them ever worked on Mac, but it was a pre-existing technology nonetheless.
Of all the alternative sources that are likely to come up, I don't expect to find ethanol on the list anythime soon.
It makes no sense: it takes too much energy to make it, and it really only exists so that ADM can collect subsidies on it.
While the 10% ethanol blend no longer damages most new vehicles, it also has the problem of having only 2/3 the energy content by volume. I stumbled across this myself when I noticed that I consistently got about 1mpg less on a long drive when I stopped at the cheaper gas station (suckered in by the higher octane rating). Turns out that it was 10% ethanol, while the others weren't--which means that it only had 97% of the energy content of regular, and thus the 1mpg hit at about 30mpg.
The sheer amount of farmland needed to produce any signifiant quantity is another issue . ..
people are bothering to block the google and other text ads.
My problem has never been with the advertising itself, but the way those damned flashing ones are distracting and otherwise annoying. OK, and far enough back, I saw relatively up-to-date machiens brought to their knees attempting to render all the flashing, but that's been a while.
I'm pretty sure that I've never blocked an ad just for existing. But blink at me . ..
Now if you could just get goodle to provide adsense that didn't require it . ..
dochawk.org (at least the main pages) complies with strict 4.01--right until I let google's ads back on. Then the validators go just plain nuts, and javascript rears its ugly head.
Have you noticed that OPEC *actively* tries to push prices back down to their target range?
NOthing altruistic there; it's just that if the price stays high, research on alternative fuels and conservation gets more attarctive.
ANd then there's the Disney channel. It doesn't have commercials. It's a 24 hour informercial for the Disney empire, interrupted occasionally by programming . ..
There is *NO SUCH THING* as a "dell fanboy", for the very simple reason that noone actually *likes* dells.
Dell is like walmart. You hate the place, but keep going back due to the lower price.
Of course, when you compare a similarly decked out system, they aren't really cheaper than macs--especially once you factor in the longer service life of a mac.
hawk, typing away on one of the university dells he hates
Taxing by zip code isnt' feasible and never will be. There will have to be a different solution.
Golly gee, I had throught that I wrote something about that. By Gum, I did!
A starting point for such a plan should be a *requirement* that the jurisdictions provide a single rate per zip code.
Jurisdictions not working this out for themselves, including figuring out among themselves how to split the revenue, just plain don't get taxes collected for them in this manner.
There isn't going to be a system in which merchants have an appreciable amount of work per transaction. Anything beyond looking up zipcode (possibly even the nine digit version) in a table and sending a single periodic check to one entity with an electronic table listing the zones and amounts collected just isn't going to happen. Even if Congress were to pass anything more burdensome, I don't see the courts tolerating it under the older decision.
It's entirely possible that not every entity will get their full tax rates. But they'll get a lot more than they're getting now.
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you get legal advice from slashdot, logoff and run to your nearest mental health facility.
The Supreme Court also effectively punted the matter to Congress, which has never chosen to implement an interstate plan.
A starting point for such a plan should be a *requirement* that the jurisdictions provide a single rate per zip code.
Given that some states do not tax certain items (food, clothes) to avoid the regressive nature of the sales tax, it might make sense to have a couple of (maybe even a few) federally defined exemption categories which a state may either use to entirely exempt tax, or not. If anything within that category would be exempt within the state, the entire category would be exempt for interstate shipments.
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>Go IsNot patent, go!
:)
And for once, Yoda-talk on slashdot topical be . . .
hawk
Got to love slashdot moderation. [*giggle*]
Post modded "troll" by moderator who doesn't understand analogies, didn't RTFA, and didn't look at the legion of contents expalaining things. Price: -1.
Similarly ignorant response follows.
Followup explaining what responder would have understood had he RTFA or the other reponses moderated insightful. Price: +1.
That the ignorant response which totally misunderstood the issue is moderated informative: Priceless.
hawk
Which brings up, of course, nethack--the only computer game that actually *matters*.
.
I'd guess that you would want one of the graphical interfaces, but even the text version should be doable with just a little bit of help.
A text-based game with over twenty years of development behind it . .
hawk
> ....if you car detected something trivial like a non OEM starter and refused to crank
."
.
You need to preceed that with "If the federal government required all combinations of starters and engines to be approved before sale, and . .
In spite of the slashdot-grade bad description, this isn't about all peripherals . .
hawk
Yeah, more of those sneaky fools with regulated products.
:)
Do you know that I can't just stick a datsun air conditioner in my ford van? Or a bmw engine?
And if I somehow manage to do it, they claim that it voids my warranty?
hawk
. . . comes in the domestic/import columns for CAFE regulations (fuel economy).
My '89 Crown Victoria managed to get itself classified as an import, though it was made in Detroit & Canada. As the domestic Fords were nipping at the mpg ceiling, with tons of room in the import column, it was too tempting for them to pass up.
"Imports" were cars with some minimum percentage (30% ?) of foreign content. The CV was close enough that it didn't take much more than a different brand of windshield wipers to get it there . . .
Apple screwed several manufacturers with their clone program. They allowed companies to clone the machines, and Apple sold them the OS. When Apple realized that the clone makers were making more powerful, more upgradable, and cheaper computers then any of the Macintoshes, they stopped allowing MacOS to be installed on the clones. ...
Who knows the real reason Apple stopped the clone market.
The minor problem is that that just isn't true, though it is indeed the common folklore. It can file away with stealing the Lisa interface from PARC.
Apple had a range of products, from the low to the high. THe high end had fatter margins, and is what paid for most of the R&D.
The clone makers used apple designed motherboards (though I believe there was a single exception).
The problem wasn't that the cloners were making faster machines than apple, but that they were paying a royalty based on the low end machines and undercutting Apple on the high end.
Apple *did not* cancel the clone market. It demanded higher royalties for faster machines. The clone makers all refused, each and every one of them.
It's really kind of hard to fault Apple for expecting the other machiens to share the costs of R&D . . . as it was, the relationship had become entirely one-sided (all costs & risk to apple, most profits to the cloners).
But anyway, the short version is that Apple *did* allow cloning to continue, but none of the cloners wanted to pay their share of what it cost apple to make it possible.
hawk
It was already around, really. There weren't many cards for it, and I don't think that any of them ever worked on Mac, but it was a pre-existing technology nonetheless.
Of all the alternative sources that are likely to come up, I don't expect to find ethanol on the list anythime soon.
.
It makes no sense: it takes too much energy to make it, and it really only exists so that ADM can collect subsidies on it.
While the 10% ethanol blend no longer damages most new vehicles, it also has the problem of having only 2/3 the energy content by volume. I stumbled across this myself when I noticed that I consistently got about 1mpg less on a long drive when I stopped at the cheaper gas station (suckered in by the higher octane rating). Turns out that it was 10% ethanol, while the others weren't--which means that it only had 97% of the energy content of regular, and thus the 1mpg hit at about 30mpg.
The sheer amount of farmland needed to produce any signifiant quantity is another issue . .
hawk
of course. Any day now, it will break the story on how the 1980 election was stolen . . . :)
hawk
Kind of like the 99% of lawyers that give the rest of us a bad name :)
hawk
people are bothering to block the google and other text ads.
.
My problem has never been with the advertising itself, but the way those damned flashing ones are distracting and otherwise annoying. OK, and far enough back, I saw relatively up-to-date machiens brought to their knees attempting to render all the flashing, but that's been a while.
I'm pretty sure that I've never blocked an ad just for existing. But blink at me . .
hawk
Now if you could just get goodle to provide adsense that didn't require it . . .
dochawk.org (at least the main pages) complies with strict 4.01--right until I let google's ads back on. Then the validators go just plain nuts, and javascript rears its ugly head.
hawk
Have you noticed that OPEC *actively* tries to push prices back down to their target range?
.
NOthing altruistic there; it's just that if the price stays high, research on alternative fuels and conservation gets more attarctive.
ANd then there's the Disney channel. It doesn't have commercials. It's a 24 hour informercial for the Disney empire, interrupted occasionally by programming . .
hawk
It will cost you a few seconds of downtime, but rearranging the power cords may do it.
:)
1) Unplug upc from wall.
2) move pc plug to now vacant socket.
3) move upc plug to now vacant socket.
After a few hours, the noise should be noticabley lower.
hawk
OK, I've got it.
:)
You've identified your own problem.
There *should* be more noise from your fans. You've eliminated so much fan noise that your drives are dying.
hawk
Very slowly. Try withdrawal.
Read what you just said.
There is *NO SUCH THING* as a "dell fanboy", for the very simple reason that noone actually *likes* dells.
Dell is like walmart. You hate the place, but keep going back due to the lower price.
Of course, when you compare a similarly decked out system, they aren't really cheaper than macs--especially once you factor in the longer service life of a mac.
hawk, typing away on one of the university dells he hates
besides, doesn't that give you cold fusion? :)
hawk
Actually, corn-based ethanol is a scam to put subsideies in ADM's pockets.
To say that they *own* several midewstern Congressmen is an objective, testable, and true statement.
hawk
Probably about as much as the fungus drowing on the dark side of the house . . .
hawk
I'm sorry, but in the process of protecting Mickey Mouse, the Orwell family patent on that plan was expired. Err, doubleplusunextended.
:)
As such, it is valid in perpetuity.
Pay up.
hawk
So "Family Video" means that they have "how to get one" tapes? :)
hawk
And you forgot to due the currency conversion. That 300 is like 219 in American :)
hawk
Taxing by zip code isnt' feasible and never will be. There will have to be a different solution.
Golly gee, I had throught that I wrote something about that. By Gum, I did!
A starting point for such a plan should be a *requirement* that the jurisdictions provide a single rate per zip code.
Jurisdictions not working this out for themselves, including figuring out among themselves how to split the revenue, just plain don't get taxes collected for them in this manner.
There isn't going to be a system in which merchants have an appreciable amount of work per transaction. Anything beyond looking up zipcode (possibly even the nine digit version) in a table and sending a single periodic check to one entity with an electronic table listing the zones and amounts collected just isn't going to happen. Even if Congress were to pass anything more burdensome, I don't see the courts tolerating it under the older decision.
It's entirely possible that not every entity will get their full tax rates. But they'll get a lot more than they're getting now.
hawk
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you get legal advice from slashdot, logoff and run to your nearest mental health facility.
The Supreme Court also effectively punted the matter to Congress, which has never chosen to implement an interstate plan.
A starting point for such a plan should be a *requirement* that the jurisdictions provide a single rate per zip code.
Given that some states do not tax certain items (food, clothes) to avoid the regressive nature of the sales tax, it might make sense to have a couple of (maybe even a few) federally defined exemption categories which a state may either use to entirely exempt tax, or not. If anything within that category would be exempt within the state, the entire category would be exempt for interstate shipments.
hawk