You make an interesting point, for states with no sales tax. I happen to live in a state with a sales tax, and happen to like the no-sales-tax idea. It's terrible for business, though, physical presences that sell for 6% more (yeah it's not exactly 6%) than online.
Use tax requires buyers to be honest, and they aren't The other option is to provide all purchases to the relevant authority of the shipping address, and all those without a found authority to the state so they can find the proper taxing authority.
For an audit, you'd have to provide to the state a listing of what was purchased. I'm not entirely comfortable with the state knowing what books I read, or items I purchase. I can't pay cash online making a purchase of questionable (but legitimate) legalitym so that leaves us with... anonymous internet purchases exactly how?
So we're back to, the state should enforce this. So the state passes a law saying any purchases where the billing address is in the state must be reported to the state revenue department. Not good either way.
I installed Nt 4 on a 75 mHz desktop, thinking I might go MSCE or something. If something was reading the hard disk, I could watch every control get painted. Erase, draw the outline, put the letters on, do a checkbox. Start task manager to see what is taking up the CPU, 20 minutes for that to load. Then I see CPU usage is only about 50%. Why? Windows 98 on the same machine did not have the same problem, so it wasn't the hardware.
I wish I knew. I get the same thing on Vista with a dual-core 2.5 gHz processor. Outlook refuses to show me meeting info. It's not responding, then slowly responding, then paints the reminder window. Can't see the dial-in number, waiting for it to paint. Get 3 instant messages - are you joining? Yeah, paste me the number and i'll be right there.
PC backup, antivirus, update scans, hard drive maintenance - any prolonged disk activity brings the computer to a halt. It's not just me - yesterday we had a chief architect say "Id bring that up but my backup just started" and everyone said "oh, yeah we know."
Simple version: my notebook is slower than my previous XP one, and I just tolerate it until we get the OK to move to Windows 7, and hope it's slightly faster because the processor is faster. It won't be, because it will have a 4 million GB drive at 5400 RPM.
With Windows NT, storage has always been the bottleneck. At least until you throw enough memory at it that it can hold all your apps plus an ample disk cache. Backup, antivirus, etc. tasks use a lot of non-cached data, and there goes your advantage.
You forget, the same religion becomes Christianity if you focus on Jesus, Islam if you focus on Mohammed, Judaism if you're still waiting for your prophet. Satanism if you believe the exact same thing but think of Lucifer as your prophet.
So yeah, you can be a satanist if you are not a Christian, same as you can be Jewish but not Muslim. Not arguing with the rest.
Also, having to maintain two houses is living outside your means. Congress members usually have to maintain their home in-state, and also find a place to live inside DC when Congress is in session.
Considering he was already making $150k before being elected, the bump to 175 isn't a whole lot. He's spending more than he needs to, certainly, with a 5-acre house and another vacation home.
Here's the take-away. He probably is struggling, but he also represents the typical American more than any other Congressman out there right now. Spending what he can afford in terms of monthly payments on debt, not paying cash. Adding a place to crash in D.C. probably made this an overall pay cut form him.
the single biggest thing people forget is that Senators and Representatives have to live in a very expensive city. $174k in Washington, with a family house and a D.C. pad is not a pile of money, although it is generous. I'd rather be generous than risk that every single one of them immediately turn to bribes to get by.
A lot of that power may be because about:blank is stored as a resource in ieframe.dll (depending on your version).
Rendering a white screen involves opening a file, reading a resource, and using a template/parser engine to render it. Other browsers just set a rectangle and draw on it, maybe loading some resources directly from their executable image which is probably already in memory since it's right next to the navigation buttons and menus.
Solving the motion problem does not make the symptoms go away.
3D like Shrek, and lots of Avatar, do not try to make you think you're moving. While it does happen, the motion issue is only a minor part of the 3D problem. In fact, if you watch 2D films in Imax, they limit the amount of first-person flight segments precisely to prevent this sort of thing, which obviously means it's not a 3D-only effect.
3D combined with motion-enabled seating can give a very realistic feel, which I experienced at the Back to the Future movie/ride a decade ago a theme park.
Crap reporting, I say. Someone who didn't understand what they were being told wrote an article.
The problem with your question is you have to identify specific things to cut. Solution, cut everything by 10%. There are mandatory spending bits we can't cut, so cut everything else.
Make everyone be more efficient with their money, and don't spend it like it's endless. Yes, cut education, and make schools be more efficient. Yes cut defense, especially.
Cutting a specific program means you're going to lose jobs. Making programs be more efficient means you might lost a few jobs here and there, but you're less likely to have a mass impact on employment numbers.
NASA? Yes, I'd cut the $1.4 million/day spent on Constellation. And every government agency has similar excess it can trim, if only people are made to look at their budgets. Cutting Constellation means loss of jobs? Not necessarily, NASA is already putting as much of that towards developments that qualify as Constellation yet support other projects as it can. So it's already nearly dead.
Think of every agency going trough its books and identifying money it can live without, and there's piles of cost savings right there. The 'spend it or lose it' culture has to go, replaced with 'return it and we'll trust you to return more next year.'
Sober enough to drive does not mean sober enough to pass a breathalyzer test.
Further blah about reaction time being decreased with only a little alcohol. But that doesn't take into account a person's tolerance, where their reaction time is probably not affected depending on their history of alcohol use.
Conclusion. Most people who use an app like this are probably sober enough to drive so that reaction time is not a problem (unless someone slams into you, where you don't have much say) and want to avoid police hassle.
Or just want to avoid the police, which is a very valid reason. Still don't see a problem.
hasn't entered into the public awareness simply because of the tyranny known as copyright.
Copyright has long since expired on many editions of the scores, there are piles of PDF scans available. No one apparently has taken the time to enter it into a computer readable format, mainly becuase it's huge.
And free recordings are hard to come by, because the people who can play it already have contracts so they can't release a free version.
So to correct your statement, no one with the skills needed has taken the time to make a free version. Copyright has nearly nothing to do with it.
What if 'we' defines a different set of people each time? What if 'we' represents a smaller number of people each time?
I think you're taking specific points and assuming they represent everyone's opinion here, when in reality this site, and every other gathering of more than one person, is made up of individuals. ESPECIALLY a site with lots of readers.
According to what I've read, this was the work of just a few months ago. This does not seem to be the "large back" leak mentioned a while back. That was largely seen as the reason for the domain buying.
So I would reserve judgement at this point. It's unlikely that they would start this practice a few months ago, and simultaneously protect themselves against repercussions of what they are doing. Well, actually that would make sense if a large bank leak had not already been announced.
When you click from google and scripts are disabled, just scroll down and see all the answers. Greasemonkey could hide the junk at the top, probably, just i just hit 'END' key and read up. Problem solved.
Why can't they just generate a bill or refund based on the numbers they have and then let us file an appeal if we disagree? After all, if THEY disagree after we file, it's a whole lot more hell and a lot more waste of government resources as well.
Most people will not correct it in the government's favor because if the gov knew about the extra income or lack of deductions or whatever, they would have sent it that way.
By preparing it, they say "This is what we know about you." Instead, they say "Guess what we know and what we don't." The threat of hell keeps a lot of people honest.
Maybe instinctively was a better choice, but then there's this:
The infant shapes the caregiversâ(TM) behavior, the better to learn.
Really, researcher, the infant is in charge of the situation?
I have the same problem with saying that guinea worm shapes sufferer's behavior. It might be convenient to get the host into the water, but this is more an evolutionary jackpot than any sort of control. It burns, people jump in the water, that works out for the parasite.
Humans tend to mimic other peoples' speech and body language. Mirroring, that's all this is, and it turns out to be beneficial for the infant according to this guy. Simple and obvious explanation. Humans mirror infants, just as they do adults, newsflash at 11.
Has there ever been a scientific study on the effectiveness of wind or solar power in reducing carbon emissions once all factors are considered (production, maintenance, lifetime energy output)?
Is carbon emission reduction the only aim of renewable energy? Or can it also aim to get away from reliance on oil? Foreign or not, it takes a lot of work to build a well, and I'd say the oil rigs and derricks and transportation infrastructure would contribute to the carbon footprint of the oil industry, once all factors are considered.
As you say, the truth is a mix of both, but that doesn't mean both sides are always dishonest. Oil men are typically Republican, so it makes sense to get away from oil and rob the party of its influentiual members and contributors. But it can be good for the environment at the same time.
The entire purpose of getting IP addresses is to establish that many people from California downloaded information. Why is this important? Because Sony wants to sue in California, instead of where GeoHot lives. That's the purpose of this exercise, determining where the case is filed.
I think the judge should have required a neutral third party to analyze the data, instead of trusting Sony, but otherwise this is legitimate.
How in the hell did you come up with that? I read the page you linked to, and what you said makes absolutely no sense. The page does not support your claim.
You take a picture from one angle, and at the same time from a different angle, true stereoscopic imaging. Project one angle with one polarization, the other with the other polarization, and you get a "true" 3-d image. It's not really true 3-D, but it's convincing enough, and far more than just biplanar images.
I think what you're talking about is when people take a 2D movie and try to make it into 3D. They generally do a terrible job, unless the original consisted of mostly animation. It's easier to lift the foreground, put the background behind it, and pretend it's 3D. The animation you can hopefully re-render stereoscopically.
The problem with Avatar was not being bi-planar, it was trying to merge animation with live action material. Somehow it just didn't work, although I enjoyed the animation-only scenes immensely.
Provide more sources that back up what you're saying, so we can read more about it, or get your eyes checked please?
Please, g*d, let it be so. McAfee is second only to Norton in the amount of effort required to remove it, and the resources it hogs. Please let this be something Intel did for the better ment of society, to rid it of one of the AV companies completely. May Norton be next, Allah be praised.
NoScript allows you to read experts exchange, last time i investigated it. If you click from google, the page has the content, and then hides it via script. NoScript turns off the hiding, so just scroll down and there it is. Sometimes going to the page directly gets you the content-free version no matter what. Put it in google and click from there, so you have a google referrer without going through much trouble.
I'd like to mod the experts exchange reply up beow, but I can't read it with javascript turned off. I have 15 mode points and can't use them due to slashdot's redesign. NoScript, it makes the world a better place except here.
You are ridiculous. You're implying that no one had ever gotten fed up by management and left their job to join, or run, a similar organization. "I worked at WikiLeaks" is no different from putting your current employer on your CV, except that most media outlets won't report on your CV. Point 4 is especially silly given your own point 6, and 5.
I see no validation of your opinions here, and you seem to be bending over backwards to make points. I'm not saying you're wrong because I don't know, but you actually managed to push me further away from your conclusion rather than convince me.
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You make an interesting point, for states with no sales tax. I happen to live in a state with a sales tax, and happen to like the no-sales-tax idea. It's terrible for business, though, physical presences that sell for 6% more (yeah it's not exactly 6%) than online.
Use tax requires buyers to be honest, and they aren't The other option is to provide all purchases to the relevant authority of the shipping address, and all those without a found authority to the state so they can find the proper taxing authority.
For an audit, you'd have to provide to the state a listing of what was purchased. I'm not entirely comfortable with the state knowing what books I read, or items I purchase. I can't pay cash online making a purchase of questionable (but legitimate) legalitym so that leaves us with... anonymous internet purchases exactly how?
So we're back to, the state should enforce this. So the state passes a law saying any purchases where the billing address is in the state must be reported to the state revenue department. Not good either way.
I installed Nt 4 on a 75 mHz desktop, thinking I might go MSCE or something. If something was reading the hard disk, I could watch every control get painted. Erase, draw the outline, put the letters on, do a checkbox. Start task manager to see what is taking up the CPU, 20 minutes for that to load. Then I see CPU usage is only about 50%. Why? Windows 98 on the same machine did not have the same problem, so it wasn't the hardware.
I wish I knew. I get the same thing on Vista with a dual-core 2.5 gHz processor. Outlook refuses to show me meeting info. It's not responding, then slowly responding, then paints the reminder window. Can't see the dial-in number, waiting for it to paint. Get 3 instant messages - are you joining? Yeah, paste me the number and i'll be right there.
PC backup, antivirus, update scans, hard drive maintenance - any prolonged disk activity brings the computer to a halt. It's not just me - yesterday we had a chief architect say "Id bring that up but my backup just started" and everyone said "oh, yeah we know."
Simple version: my notebook is slower than my previous XP one, and I just tolerate it until we get the OK to move to Windows 7, and hope it's slightly faster because the processor is faster. It won't be, because it will have a 4 million GB drive at 5400 RPM.
With Windows NT, storage has always been the bottleneck. At least until you throw enough memory at it that it can hold all your apps plus an ample disk cache. Backup, antivirus, etc. tasks use a lot of non-cached data, and there goes your advantage.
You forget, the same religion becomes Christianity if you focus on Jesus, Islam if you focus on Mohammed, Judaism if you're still waiting for your prophet. Satanism if you believe the exact same thing but think of Lucifer as your prophet.
So yeah, you can be a satanist if you are not a Christian, same as you can be Jewish but not Muslim. Not arguing with the rest.
Also, having to maintain two houses is living outside your means. Congress members usually have to maintain their home in-state, and also find a place to live inside DC when Congress is in session.
Considering he was already making $150k before being elected, the bump to 175 isn't a whole lot. He's spending more than he needs to, certainly, with a 5-acre house and another vacation home.
Here's the take-away. He probably is struggling, but he also represents the typical American more than any other Congressman out there right now. Spending what he can afford in terms of monthly payments on debt, not paying cash. Adding a place to crash in D.C. probably made this an overall pay cut form him.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/so-how-rich-is-sean-duffy-not-very-for-a-congressman.php
the single biggest thing people forget is that Senators and Representatives have to live in a very expensive city. $174k in Washington, with a family house and a D.C. pad is not a pile of money, although it is generous. I'd rather be generous than risk that every single one of them immediately turn to bribes to get by.
A lot of that power may be because about:blank is stored as a resource in ieframe.dll (depending on your version).
Rendering a white screen involves opening a file, reading a resource, and using a template/parser engine to render it. Other browsers just set a rectangle and draw on it, maybe loading some resources directly from their executable image which is probably already in memory since it's right next to the navigation buttons and menus.
Solving the motion problem does not make the symptoms go away.
3D like Shrek, and lots of Avatar, do not try to make you think you're moving. While it does happen, the motion issue is only a minor part of the 3D problem. In fact, if you watch 2D films in Imax, they limit the amount of first-person flight segments precisely to prevent this sort of thing, which obviously means it's not a 3D-only effect.
3D combined with motion-enabled seating can give a very realistic feel, which I experienced at the Back to the Future movie/ride a decade ago a theme park.
Crap reporting, I say. Someone who didn't understand what they were being told wrote an article.
The problem with your question is you have to identify specific things to cut. Solution, cut everything by 10%. There are mandatory spending bits we can't cut, so cut everything else.
Make everyone be more efficient with their money, and don't spend it like it's endless. Yes, cut education, and make schools be more efficient. Yes cut defense, especially.
Cutting a specific program means you're going to lose jobs. Making programs be more efficient means you might lost a few jobs here and there, but you're less likely to have a mass impact on employment numbers.
NASA? Yes, I'd cut the $1.4 million/day spent on Constellation. And every government agency has similar excess it can trim, if only people are made to look at their budgets. Cutting Constellation means loss of jobs? Not necessarily, NASA is already putting as much of that towards developments that qualify as Constellation yet support other projects as it can. So it's already nearly dead.
Think of every agency going trough its books and identifying money it can live without, and there's piles of cost savings right there. The 'spend it or lose it' culture has to go, replaced with 'return it and we'll trust you to return more next year.'
Sober enough to drive does not mean sober enough to pass a breathalyzer test.
Further blah about reaction time being decreased with only a little alcohol. But that doesn't take into account a person's tolerance, where their reaction time is probably not affected depending on their history of alcohol use.
Conclusion. Most people who use an app like this are probably sober enough to drive so that reaction time is not a problem (unless someone slams into you, where you don't have much say) and want to avoid police hassle.
Or just want to avoid the police, which is a very valid reason. Still don't see a problem.
No worries, it's the air force. They will just set up a no fly zone around Sony, and the problem will solve itself.
I just don't let elrous0 use my tablet, problem solved.
Copyright has long since expired on many editions of the scores, there are piles of PDF scans available. No one apparently has taken the time to enter it into a computer readable format, mainly becuase it's huge.
And free recordings are hard to come by, because the people who can play it already have contracts so they can't release a free version.
So to correct your statement, no one with the skills needed has taken the time to make a free version. Copyright has nearly nothing to do with it.
What if 'we' defines a different set of people each time? What if 'we' represents a smaller number of people each time?
I think you're taking specific points and assuming they represent everyone's opinion here, when in reality this site, and every other gathering of more than one person, is made up of individuals. ESPECIALLY a site with lots of readers.
According to what I've read, this was the work of just a few months ago. This does not seem to be the "large back" leak mentioned a while back. That was largely seen as the reason for the domain buying.
So I would reserve judgement at this point. It's unlikely that they would start this practice a few months ago, and simultaneously protect themselves against repercussions of what they are doing. Well, actually that would make sense if a large bank leak had not already been announced.
When you click from google and scripts are disabled, just scroll down and see all the answers. Greasemonkey could hide the junk at the top, probably, just i just hit 'END' key and read up. Problem solved.
Most people will not correct it in the government's favor because if the gov knew about the extra income or lack of deductions or whatever, they would have sent it that way.
By preparing it, they say "This is what we know about you." Instead, they say "Guess what we know and what we don't." The threat of hell keeps a lot of people honest.
Maybe instinctively was a better choice, but then there's this:
Really, researcher, the infant is in charge of the situation?
I have the same problem with saying that guinea worm shapes sufferer's behavior. It might be convenient to get the host into the water, but this is more an evolutionary jackpot than any sort of control. It burns, people jump in the water, that works out for the parasite.
Humans tend to mimic other peoples' speech and body language. Mirroring, that's all this is, and it turns out to be beneficial for the infant according to this guy. Simple and obvious explanation. Humans mirror infants, just as they do adults, newsflash at 11.
Is carbon emission reduction the only aim of renewable energy? Or can it also aim to get away from reliance on oil? Foreign or not, it takes a lot of work to build a well, and I'd say the oil rigs and derricks and transportation infrastructure would contribute to the carbon footprint of the oil industry, once all factors are considered.
As you say, the truth is a mix of both, but that doesn't mean both sides are always dishonest. Oil men are typically Republican, so it makes sense to get away from oil and rob the party of its influentiual members and contributors. But it can be good for the environment at the same time.
The entire purpose of getting IP addresses is to establish that many people from California downloaded information. Why is this important? Because Sony wants to sue in California, instead of where GeoHot lives. That's the purpose of this exercise, determining where the case is filed.
I think the judge should have required a neutral third party to analyze the data, instead of trusting Sony, but otherwise this is legitimate.
How in the hell did you come up with that? I read the page you linked to, and what you said makes absolutely no sense. The page does not support your claim.
You take a picture from one angle, and at the same time from a different angle, true stereoscopic imaging. Project one angle with one polarization, the other with the other polarization, and you get a "true" 3-d image. It's not really true 3-D, but it's convincing enough, and far more than just biplanar images.
I think what you're talking about is when people take a 2D movie and try to make it into 3D. They generally do a terrible job, unless the original consisted of mostly animation. It's easier to lift the foreground, put the background behind it, and pretend it's 3D. The animation you can hopefully re-render stereoscopically.
The problem with Avatar was not being bi-planar, it was trying to merge animation with live action material. Somehow it just didn't work, although I enjoyed the animation-only scenes immensely.
Provide more sources that back up what you're saying, so we can read more about it, or get your eyes checked please?
I downloaded enough stuff to put us over the top. Do I need to step it up?
Please, g*d, let it be so. McAfee is second only to Norton in the amount of effort required to remove it, and the resources it hogs. Please let this be something Intel did for the better ment of society, to rid it of one of the AV companies completely. May Norton be next, Allah be praised.
sorry, not fixed yet. go ahead an mod me off-topic people, I'm demonstrating things for geeknet. Love you too.
This is just a test, ignore. Thanks for fixing, geeknet!
NoScript allows you to read experts exchange, last time i investigated it. If you click from google, the page has the content, and then hides it via script. NoScript turns off the hiding, so just scroll down and there it is. Sometimes going to the page directly gets you the content-free version no matter what. Put it in google and click from there, so you have a google referrer without going through much trouble.
I'd like to mod the experts exchange reply up beow, but I can't read it with javascript turned off. I have 15 mode points and can't use them due to slashdot's redesign. NoScript, it makes the world a better place except here.
You are ridiculous. You're implying that no one had ever gotten fed up by management and left their job to join, or run, a similar organization. "I worked at WikiLeaks" is no different from putting your current employer on your CV, except that most media outlets won't report on your CV. Point 4 is especially silly given your own point 6, and 5.
I see no validation of your opinions here, and you seem to be bending over backwards to make points. I'm not saying you're wrong because I don't know, but you actually managed to push me further away from your conclusion rather than convince me.