Yes but does Javascript provide access to hardware (camera, microphone) and sockets? Flash does. The sockets in particular (and the new 3d features just added) should make it considerably better for games.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not flash evangelist. I'm just wondering whether to invest my time in Actionscript or Javascript. One can now develop mobile apps with MXML and Actionscript or one can develop them using Javascript and various new (i.e., experimental) frameworks.
I do find it odd that everyone is trying to kill both Flash/Actionscript and also Javascript. Client-side scripting languages provide tremendous advantages over plain old HTML.
I could be totally deluded here, but I'm not sure that giant retailers like Walmart or Best Buy are strictly necessary. I buy all of my computer goods, televisions, and electronics from Newegg -- and they collect sales tax. Amazon is in fact knuckling under -- at least to an extent -- in this case. Personally, I'd much prefer the brick-and-mortar business in my neighborhood to be small, community-friendly businesses and not some monstrous corporation that knocks down all the good architecture (or forest land) only to build a giant parking lot surrounding an ugly warehouse wherein people get paid subsistence wages.
I think there are economies to be offered by mail order retail. You can store the goods cheaply in some godforsaken ugly warehouse in some godforsaken ugly place much more cheaply than you can in some suburb or urban area. Also, people who buy widgets and people who sell widgets are not necessarily beholden to their local circumstances.
Mod parent up. Enough of the bullshit byzantine tax code. It's merely a huge, expensive, ineffective exercise in obfuscation. As an engineer, I find it appalling.
25-30% sales tax would most certainly blow, but would in fact result in taxes being collected from non-citizens (i.e., illegal immigrants) as well which would be awful nice. Given the large number of illegal immigrants in california, reliance on the sales tax is actually a pretty good strategy.
Once again, it's a "physical presence" that is at issue here. Burger King has thousands of stores (actual real estate) and therefore a physical presence in every state. Furthermore, I believe these businesses are a franchise -- meaning the actual proprietor is typically a local business.
And just because a company sells goods in a state it does not legally require them to collect any sales taxes for that state. Perhaps you should read the article?
No it's YOU that have no clue. The requirement to collect state sales tax is contingent upon a "physical presence" in that state. If I order goods in California from some Mom & Pop shop in Maine, they are not required to collect any California sales tax whatsoever and yet they are in fact selling something to me in California. At issue (if you actually read the article) is the fact that California asserts that Amazon has a substantial physical presence in California and Amazon denies it, calling these de facto physical presences "affiliates".
Mod parent up. Cali has all kinds of problems, but Texas is hardly a success story. Enjoy those wildfires, TX. Make sure all those Baptists down there know that God is punishing them for giving us yet another idiot presidential candidate.
Given the prevalance of hybrid and electric propulsion technologies these days, I would imagine that Electrical Engineering would be very helpful. Comp Sci. would be helpful for understanding how the microprocessors work in terms of software, but EE would help you understand the flow of current in these new electrical propulsion systems that you mentioned.
Rats. I was planning to make a huge purchase of textiles and smuggled afghan opium from PakistanMallOnline.com with my credit card. Now, since it won't be encrypted, I cannot. Guess I'll have to buy from IndiaMallOnline instead.
Mod parent up. Fuck that girl. She screwed up a) for buying a $60 laptop, b) for not wiping the laptop clean before using it, c) for putting nude pics on said unwiped laptop, and d) for suing someone over this whole thing which is only going to make more people interested in the pics.
Thanks! I just deleted it. One can always add exceptions for specific sites if I need to. Personally, I think they should be removed entirely from the CA bundle. Trusted CAs need to be held to a very high standard IMHO.
I think more specifically, you can understand the outcomes if someone spoon feeds it to you bit by bit and answers your questions. If you want to "understand general relativity" the math is mandatory in my opinion.
Madness indeed. I got quite deep into physics and calculus at university and hit a brick wall with multivariable calculus. I believe that you'll need the multivariable calculus skills in order to get any reasonable grip on general relativity. You'll also need a strong physics background: force, mass, acceleration, rotary motion, etc. Having read Einstein's book on special relativity, I'd definitely say start there. It's pretty clear and amazingly intuitive. The Feynman lectures on physics are probably the best physics textbook ever. I wonder too if you might find a class on it online -- maybe Harvard or MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-962-general-relativity-spring-2006/
It's a lot easier to put giant IP blocks on your ban list for countries like China, Cyprus, and any country at all in Africa. Of course I realize that's fairly racist and geo-centric, but the "policing" alternative just isn't feasible because it's a slippery process which would require enormous volumes of man power. There needs to be an automated mechanism. I was thinking that gmail/hotmail/yahoo/whoever could auto-append a "flag this as spam" link to all emails which users could click. This would allow email providers to know exactly which user sent it and which message it was and dramatically streamline the process or complaint rather than forcing someone to parse email headers and sort it all out. Additionally it would offer very structured data for spam complaints that would facilitate algorithmic analysis to determine whether a ban (or just throttling) might mitigate and/or outright solve the problem.
But then again, this system could also be abused.
I think what the author of the article intended was not necessarily to improve spam control but actually to being law enforcement into the issue. Unfortunately, the article is rather poorly written and seems vague and diffused. I tend to concur that more legal punishment should be involved in the realm of scams and spamming.
Yes yes my bad on the whole dragon-is-a-capsule thing. In my mind I was thinking of the heavier falcons versus the initial one.
If I had a point it was that there are numerous components developed and an accurate comparison of cost is going to be difficult. There's the dragon and 3 variants of the falcon (1, 9, heavy) as I understand it, all of which have development costs.
Don't get me wrong, I am psyched about SpaceX and do expect private companies to do it more cheaply
OK yes you have a tangible example of gov't subsidizing telecoms. There's also the Universal Service Fee, although I don't remember where that money actually goes. But what about my point about long distance costs? You'll need to refute that in order to argue that telecom privatization hasn't worked. When you say privatization doesn't work, by implication you are arguing that our phone service would be better and/or cheaper if AT&T still had a monopoly on communications services, which is patently ridiculous.
Triple A offering car registrations, although more expensive, is in *fact* an example of privatization. It's a private company offering services that were once the domain of a government (i.e, public) entity. That it costs more is moot. It works. My car registration was renewed by a private entity.
And your DMV in Chicago may in fact "cost a little more". We'd have quite a chore ferreting out what portion of your taxes go to fund your efficient DMV. I've also dealt with the DMV in Massachusetts and Arkansas and it sucks in both those places too.
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mod parent up. If all these cavemen want to go back to the days before reliable client-side scripting, let them all adopt IE 6!
Yes but does Javascript provide access to hardware (camera, microphone) and sockets? Flash does. The sockets in particular (and the new 3d features just added) should make it considerably better for games.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not flash evangelist. I'm just wondering whether to invest my time in Actionscript or Javascript. One can now develop mobile apps with MXML and Actionscript or one can develop them using Javascript and various new (i.e., experimental) frameworks.
I do find it odd that everyone is trying to kill both Flash/Actionscript and also Javascript. Client-side scripting languages provide tremendous advantages over plain old HTML.
I could be totally deluded here, but I'm not sure that giant retailers like Walmart or Best Buy are strictly necessary. I buy all of my computer goods, televisions, and electronics from Newegg -- and they collect sales tax. Amazon is in fact knuckling under -- at least to an extent -- in this case. Personally, I'd much prefer the brick-and-mortar business in my neighborhood to be small, community-friendly businesses and not some monstrous corporation that knocks down all the good architecture (or forest land) only to build a giant parking lot surrounding an ugly warehouse wherein people get paid subsistence wages.
I think there are economies to be offered by mail order retail. You can store the goods cheaply in some godforsaken ugly warehouse in some godforsaken ugly place much more cheaply than you can in some suburb or urban area. Also, people who buy widgets and people who sell widgets are not necessarily beholden to their local circumstances.
I think the problem is that in many cases they don't ever spend the money. Trickle-down economics is a myth. Check out the results starting with Reaganomics:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html?ref=sunday
Mod parent up. Enough of the bullshit byzantine tax code. It's merely a huge, expensive, ineffective exercise in obfuscation. As an engineer, I find it appalling.
25-30% sales tax would most certainly blow, but would in fact result in taxes being collected from non-citizens (i.e., illegal immigrants) as well which would be awful nice. Given the large number of illegal immigrants in california, reliance on the sales tax is actually a pretty good strategy.
Mod parent up. Too many morons didn't RTFA.
Once again, it's a "physical presence" that is at issue here. Burger King has thousands of stores (actual real estate) and therefore a physical presence in every state. Furthermore, I believe these businesses are a franchise -- meaning the actual proprietor is typically a local business.
And just because a company sells goods in a state it does not legally require them to collect any sales taxes for that state. Perhaps you should read the article?
No it's YOU that have no clue. The requirement to collect state sales tax is contingent upon a "physical presence" in that state. If I order goods in California from some Mom & Pop shop in Maine, they are not required to collect any California sales tax whatsoever and yet they are in fact selling something to me in California. At issue (if you actually read the article) is the fact that California asserts that Amazon has a substantial physical presence in California and Amazon denies it, calling these de facto physical presences "affiliates".
Mod parent up. Cali has all kinds of problems, but Texas is hardly a success story. Enjoy those wildfires, TX. Make sure all those Baptists down there know that God is punishing them for giving us yet another idiot presidential candidate.
Given the prevalance of hybrid and electric propulsion technologies these days, I would imagine that Electrical Engineering would be very helpful. Comp Sci. would be helpful for understanding how the microprocessors work in terms of software, but EE would help you understand the flow of current in these new electrical propulsion systems that you mentioned.
Darn it. Forgot about that. I supposed I'll have to rely on UzbekistanMallOnline.com then.
I'm picturing massive fires in landfills nationwide.
Rats. I was planning to make a huge purchase of textiles and smuggled afghan opium from PakistanMallOnline.com with my credit card. Now, since it won't be encrypted, I cannot. Guess I'll have to buy from IndiaMallOnline instead.
Mod parent up. Fuck that girl. She screwed up a) for buying a $60 laptop, b) for not wiping the laptop clean before using it, c) for putting nude pics on said unwiped laptop, and d) for suing someone over this whole thing which is only going to make more people interested in the pics.
Thanks! I just deleted it. One can always add exceptions for specific sites if I need to. Personally, I think they should be removed entirely from the CA bundle. Trusted CAs need to be held to a very high standard IMHO.
How does one remove that particular CA from one's CA bundle?
I think more specifically, you can understand the outcomes if someone spoon feeds it to you bit by bit and answers your questions. If you want to "understand general relativity" the math is mandatory in my opinion.
Madness indeed. I got quite deep into physics and calculus at university and hit a brick wall with multivariable calculus. I believe that you'll need the multivariable calculus skills in order to get any reasonable grip on general relativity. You'll also need a strong physics background: force, mass, acceleration, rotary motion, etc. Having read Einstein's book on special relativity, I'd definitely say start there. It's pretty clear and amazingly intuitive. The Feynman lectures on physics are probably the best physics textbook ever. I wonder too if you might find a class on it online -- maybe Harvard or MIT:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-962-general-relativity-spring-2006/
Man Crashes Car? That's no story. CAR CRASHES MAN!!! Now *that's* a story.
They don't know that old trick from liblawn
Lawn::GetOffLawn(kid);
Not a dumb question at all and yes I believe they do.
It's a lot easier to put giant IP blocks on your ban list for countries like China, Cyprus, and any country at all in Africa. Of course I realize that's fairly racist and geo-centric, but the "policing" alternative just isn't feasible because it's a slippery process which would require enormous volumes of man power. There needs to be an automated mechanism. I was thinking that gmail/hotmail/yahoo/whoever could auto-append a "flag this as spam" link to all emails which users could click. This would allow email providers to know exactly which user sent it and which message it was and dramatically streamline the process or complaint rather than forcing someone to parse email headers and sort it all out. Additionally it would offer very structured data for spam complaints that would facilitate algorithmic analysis to determine whether a ban (or just throttling) might mitigate and/or outright solve the problem.
But then again, this system could also be abused.
I think what the author of the article intended was not necessarily to improve spam control but actually to being law enforcement into the issue. Unfortunately, the article is rather poorly written and seems vague and diffused. I tend to concur that more legal punishment should be involved in the realm of scams and spamming.
Yes yes my bad on the whole dragon-is-a-capsule thing. In my mind I was thinking of the heavier falcons versus the initial one.
If I had a point it was that there are numerous components developed and an accurate comparison of cost is going to be difficult. There's the dragon and 3 variants of the falcon (1, 9, heavy) as I understand it, all of which have development costs.
Don't get me wrong, I am psyched about SpaceX and do expect private companies to do it more cheaply
OK yes you have a tangible example of gov't subsidizing telecoms. There's also the Universal Service Fee, although I don't remember where that money actually goes. But what about my point about long distance costs? You'll need to refute that in order to argue that telecom privatization hasn't worked. When you say privatization doesn't work, by implication you are arguing that our phone service would be better and/or cheaper if AT&T still had a monopoly on communications services, which is patently ridiculous.
Triple A offering car registrations, although more expensive, is in *fact* an example of privatization. It's a private company offering services that were once the domain of a government (i.e, public) entity. That it costs more is moot. It works. My car registration was renewed by a private entity.
And your DMV in Chicago may in fact "cost a little more". We'd have quite a chore ferreting out what portion of your taxes go to fund your efficient DMV. I've also dealt with the DMV in Massachusetts and Arkansas and it sucks in both those places too.