Federal taxes are $0.184/gallon and state taxes average $0.1929/gallon.
In the United States. European governments typically tax petrol much more heavily.
Well, your federal income tax does appear on your (weekly, biweekly, monthly) pay stub.
So why can't an employee's interaction with the U.S. treasury's Internal Revenue Service end with the withholding from the paycheck? Why do people who earn money in the United States have to file a tax return?
It only regulates how much water per flush can be dispensed. The tank can be as big as you want.
The common designs for gravity-flush toilets empty the whole tank into the bowl. Given these designs, tank size completely determines the amount of water dispensed into the bowl.
In my state (NY) it is even illegal to sign items as, say, "$1.08 including tax."
Are candy vending machines and soda vending machines illegal to operate in the State of New York? I haven't seen one in Indiana or Ohio that takes the 1c coins that would be required to pay the tax on a round-number-of-cents price.
I was replying to the assertion (by CowboyNeal in the OP) that people would wish to maintain this once IPv6 becomes common. At that point, every home user should have hundreds of addresses available
What makes you think, even though IPv6 theoretically has 2^128 addresses available, that residential ISPs won't try to charge extra for more than a/128 (i.e. one address)? Greed is greed, even on IPv6. Sure, all the RFCs state is that ISPs should give customers a/64 or bigger, but where the ISP sees should in an RFC, the ISP thinks "opportunity to fleece its customers," especially if the ISP is a Fortune 500 corporation, as is the case for almost all cable ISPs.
I find nothing strange about an exhibition dedicated to "the cutting-edge technology used to bring the story to life." Wouldn't it be normal for a science and history museum to showcase a piece of technology that has significantly affected culture in the English speaking world?
Not enough movies with expensive CG are based on a true story to justify the obvious response.
If people could upgrade their video card (for example) by pulling a cartridge out of a slot and snapping in a new one, everyone wins!
I've suggested this before, and the replies have usually posed this question: How would a plastic shell dissipate the heat that modern 3D accelerators put out?
One major reason that many-to-one NAT is so common is that most single-family residential Internet access customers don't "have many addresses available."
Each and every firewall/nat box I have worked with supports reverse port mapping, DMZ, or uPnP.
This doesn't help when your ISP doesn't provide an affordable Internet access plan that forwards incoming connections to your network. Switching ISPs is not generally an affordable option either unless you're willing to take a 25-fold reduction in download throughput.
Writing drivers that will survive running malicious code takes time away from addressing other programming issues and the thing is that no one except for your compititor is writing that kind of code into their App.
What if somebody finds a way to break Windows through a video driver bug? What if somebody puts that exploit into the next Windows worm?
The more fundamental problem is that all any kind of test can ever measure is your ability to do well at that test.
And if that test measures a video card's ability to process OpenGL instructions without bringing down the computer, I'm all for it.
Probably because some of the apps I want use have problems with Cygwin. Have you got libsndfile to complete make check successfully with Cygwin? If so, the maintainer wants to hear about what you did.
Home to school to home was 400 miles (Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Terre Haute and back) while I was in college. Having a vehicle with a range of only 300 miles would have been sh*t for the parents who took me to school and back.
The difference is that "the middlemen/leeches/cartel operators that are the RIAA" provide access to major music publishers, who in turn provide access to musicologists, who are the only people qualified to testify in court that a song is in fact original and not accidentally plagiarized from some other popular song.
One click and you are dead, once your ISP TOSses you off for having violated the ban on servers in the AUP, which cannot be negotiated in the residential priced Internet access plans.
Ugly is relative. I bet C looks ugly to anybody who has learned a wordier language such as COBOL or Pascal.
Hard to pronounce? "KiB" is pronounced as "KAYZ", "MiB" as "MEHGZ", and "GiB" as "GIHGZ". Distinguish from "KB" as "KIHL-oh-byts", "MB" as "MEHG-uh-byts", etc.
Then why not make a "Fortran-like" code generator and a "C-like" code generator, run them both on a particular C function's parse tree (assuming the code is in C99 and uses __restrict properly), profile the crap out of the resulting code, and accept whatever's faster?
If you find an 80GB disk which is really 80GB, you will have to leave 7% unused, that is 5.5GB waste.
My hypothesis is that the "80 GB" (80*10^9 byte) drives are actually 80 GiB (80*2^30 bytes), but that the disk's formatting reserves 7 percent of the tracks for damaged sector remapping to increase yield and reliability.
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Federal taxes are $0.184/gallon and state taxes average $0.1929/gallon.
In the United States. European governments typically tax petrol much more heavily.
Well, your federal income tax does appear on your (weekly, biweekly, monthly) pay stub.
So why can't an employee's interaction with the U.S. treasury's Internal Revenue Service end with the withholding from the paycheck? Why do people who earn money in the United States have to file a tax return?
fundamentally, taxing food is just *wrong*
Without a tax on food, who pays to enforce food safety regulations?
It only regulates how much water per flush can be dispensed. The tank can be as big as you want.
The common designs for gravity-flush toilets empty the whole tank into the bowl. Given these designs, tank size completely determines the amount of water dispensed into the bowl.
In my state (NY) it is even illegal to sign items as, say, "$1.08 including tax."
Are candy vending machines and soda vending machines illegal to operate in the State of New York? I haven't seen one in Indiana or Ohio that takes the 1c coins that would be required to pay the tax on a round-number-of-cents price.
"Dui" has too much of a connection with drunkenness.
Trademarks don't die.
I was replying to the assertion (by CowboyNeal in the OP) that people would wish to maintain this once IPv6 becomes common. At that point, every home user should have hundreds of addresses available
What makes you think, even though IPv6 theoretically has 2^128 addresses available, that residential ISPs won't try to charge extra for more than a /128 (i.e. one address)? Greed is greed, even on IPv6. Sure, all the RFCs state is that ISPs should give customers a /64 or bigger, but where the ISP sees should in an RFC, the ISP thinks "opportunity to fleece its customers," especially if the ISP is a Fortune 500 corporation, as is the case for almost all cable ISPs.
Foreign counterparts to U.S. Patent 4,558,302 are still in force for at least another nine months in Europe, Japan, Canada, and Australia.
I find nothing strange about an exhibition dedicated to "the cutting-edge technology used to bring the story to life." Wouldn't it be normal for a science and history museum to showcase a piece of technology that has significantly affected culture in the English speaking world?
Not enough movies with expensive CG are based on a true story to justify the obvious response.
ATA is not in the least bit based on ISA.
This document, describing the origin of ATA, seems to state otherwise.
It can live on ISA, PCI and other buses
And I'm guessing that though ATA can be bridged to PCI, PCI-Ex, NuBus, etc., the logic in that bridge probably looks a lot like an ISA bridge.
PCMCIA is based on ISA. ATA is also based on ISA, and CF is based on ATA.
If people could upgrade their video card (for example) by pulling a cartridge out of a slot and snapping in a new one, everyone wins!
I've suggested this before, and the replies have usually posed this question: How would a plastic shell dissipate the heat that modern 3D accelerators put out?
Poorly.
if you have many addresses available
One major reason that many-to-one NAT is so common is that most single-family residential Internet access customers don't "have many addresses available."
Each and every firewall/nat box I have worked with supports reverse port mapping, DMZ, or uPnP.
This doesn't help when your ISP doesn't provide an affordable Internet access plan that forwards incoming connections to your network. Switching ISPs is not generally an affordable option either unless you're willing to take a 25-fold reduction in download throughput.
Which movie companies are in favor of short copyrights?
Non-profit film restoration organizations. They often cannot license old, decaying films from MPAA member studios.
Writing drivers that will survive running malicious code takes time away from addressing other programming issues and the thing is that no one except for your compititor is writing that kind of code into their App.
What if somebody finds a way to break Windows through a video driver bug? What if somebody puts that exploit into the next Windows worm?
The more fundamental problem is that all any kind of test can ever measure is your ability to do well at that test.
And if that test measures a video card's ability to process OpenGL instructions without bringing down the computer, I'm all for it.
Probably because some of the apps I want use have problems with Cygwin. Have you got libsndfile to complete make check successfully with Cygwin? If so, the maintainer wants to hear about what you did.
the code will give the same result no matter what operating system it is running under.
Unless the code is being timed. A scientific program has little use if an inefficient scheduler and an antivirus program eat all the CPU cycles.
then how about benchmarking in Linux or FreeBSD. They both support Direct Rendering Manager
I thought Microsoft was using Linux's and FreeBSD's non-support of DRM as a selling point for Windows.
Oh, that DRM.
Home to school to home was 400 miles (Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Terre Haute and back) while I was in college. Having a vehicle with a range of only 300 miles would have been sh*t for the parents who took me to school and back.
The difference is that "the middlemen/leeches/cartel operators that are the RIAA" provide access to major music publishers, who in turn provide access to musicologists, who are the only people qualified to testify in court that a song is in fact original and not accidentally plagiarized from some other popular song.
One click and you are live.
One click and you are dead, once your ISP TOSses you off for having violated the ban on servers in the AUP, which cannot be negotiated in the residential priced Internet access plans.
Ugly is relative. I bet C looks ugly to anybody who has learned a wordier language such as COBOL or Pascal.
Hard to pronounce? "KiB" is pronounced as "KAYZ", "MiB" as "MEHGZ", and "GiB" as "GIHGZ". Distinguish from "KB" as "KIHL-oh-byts", "MB" as "MEHG-uh-byts", etc.
Then why not make a "Fortran-like" code generator and a "C-like" code generator, run them both on a particular C function's parse tree (assuming the code is in C99 and uses __restrict properly), profile the crap out of the resulting code, and accept whatever's faster?
If you find an 80GB disk which is really 80GB, you will have to leave 7% unused, that is 5.5GB waste.
My hypothesis is that the "80 GB" (80*10^9 byte) drives are actually 80 GiB (80*2^30 bytes), but that the disk's formatting reserves 7 percent of the tracks for damaged sector remapping to increase yield and reliability.