The idea is that small businesses sign up with a service provider, and send them one check for all state taxes plus an XML file of the transactions. Big businesses will probably run their own software. Expect to see this as a standard component of most shopping cart programs.
It's ridiculous and burdensome to create a system that requires yet another 3rd party private processing center to perform a common transaction. Visa and Mastercard or Paypal are entrenched on the financial side and costs merchants ~3% or so off their bottom line, but can be bypassed by using Money Orders or personal checks. Adding another 3% or so across the board to pay a new tax processing center is not a negligible cost.
Fortunately I live in a state without sales taxes, so as long as they don't propose charging me to fund the coffers of another state it doesn't really affect me.
In the US there is no advantage in opting for an unsubsidized phone. The monthly cost is the same if the phone is subsidized or unsubsidized. I keep my phones for a very long time and T-Mobile has just become the only major carrier that competes for my use model.
There is nothing wrong with Office 2003. It's a utility. There are few features in the newer versions that make doing your job faster, more accurate, or cheaper.
The definition of 'militia' includes pretty much everyone, especially definitions #2, #3 and #4. Changing or limiting the definition of the word may be a clever way to limit the scope of the 2nd Amendment, although I'd have to call shenanigans.
1. a body of citizens enrolled for military service, and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies. 2. a body of citizen soldiers as distinguished from professional soldiers. 3. all able-bodied males considered by law eligible for military service. 4. a body of citizens organized in a paramilitary group and typically regarding themselves as defenders of individual rights against the presumed interference of the federal government.
Why is it that the reason for the post office woes is attributed solely on reductions of first-class mail? While this is true, the post office had no debt as late as 2005. It had a surplus. It would be solvent today if Congress didn't step in.
Congress saw a great way to collect (ie steal) money from the post office and did so. They imposed a requirement on the USPS to pay ~$55 billion dollars per year into an account that can't be touched until Congress lets them. It is conveniently invested in Treasuries.
Why and when do you have to dry fire to clean? Why does the gun have to be assembled to do that? If not why are you not depressing the catch with another tool?
The Ruger Mark III requires a magazine inserted and the trigger to be pulled to disassemble the pistol as per their published instructions.
"Insert the empty magazine into the magazine well until it "clicks" and is fully in place. Disengage the internal lock, if necessary. (See p. 13.) Place the safety in the "off" (F) position. Point the pistol in a safe direction and pull the trigger to be sure the hammer has fallen. The hammer must be uncocked before the pistol can be disassembled. Remove the empty magazine."
Make it annoying to carry (it already pretty much is) and law abiding citizens will just not do it.
"Annoying"? Owning and carrying a gun is a lot less "annoying" than driving a car or buying an iPhone or getting your insurance company to pay for minor surgery.
Anybody who whines about filling out a form and paying a $10 fee to own a gun does not have sufficient equanimity to carry a deadly weapon, IMO. Fuck them.
Having lived in MA for several years, I have to disagree with your perspective on "annoying." Technically it costs $100 per 4 years to OWN any firearm after following the legal hoops and paperwork. Realistically, it's up to each local police chief to grant the permit. Several around the Boston area are on the record they will NOT grant any permits to anyone. There is no appeals process. If you live in one of those areas sorry, because you can't just "fill out a form and pay $10." On the plus side, if you are allowed to own a firearm you can also carry it concealed. It's the same permit.
I don't believe I've ever been in a car with the so-called "standard" ultrasonic parking sensors. I have been in a car with a backup camera and I was somewhat scared when the owner *only* used the camera to back up.
Why not simply mandate minimum rear visibility standards? Style has shrunk rear and side windows in many new cars. Sit in a car from the 90's or earlier and there is a huge improvement in rear visibility.
However I disagree with the conclusion that the patch should therefore be merged into the kernel. First, instead of pasting some lines to bashrc and running some commands, the user now has to recompile to kernel to benefit from the change. That's a lot less user friendly. Secondly, if one really wants to push user friendliness, one should convince distributions to update their init scripts to run those cgroup commands automatically.
How will it be more rapidly deployed by waiting for a distribution to make the change (or not)?
Since all software users use go through distros anyway it should be the distros' job to ensure user friendliness.
What if the distro doesn't bother with changing their init scripts? How does it make sense to put default process scheduling into their hands? I'll do you one better. Users->Distros->Kernel
And no, we're not on the verge of serious exploration of the solar system. It still costs too much. We may send more unmanned probes out, but I'll be we're not sending humans anywhere until we get something a little more sophisticated than rockets.
We won't get anything more sophisticated than rockets without a long-term research entity like NASA + a purpose - such as a space station. Corporations can't substitute for #1. Unmanned probes can't substitute for #2.
you don't need "entire new technology" for LEO, MEO, GEO, get to the moon or mars. If it was needed, nobody would have done these things.
Oh, but we do need "entire new technology" for these in terms of human passengers. The summary says that the purpose of the trip is to discuss human spaceflight, and it seems only prudent to discuss alternates to Russia.
We might be able to handle close-in stuff with Russian partners and existing cargo rockets (separate launches because nothing exists that can transport both passengers and heavy cargo). However getting to, landing on, and leaving the moon or mars isn't plug-and-play. The Apollo program can't be duplicated because the schematics and records are lost. In addition, the safety paranoia wouldn't allow an equivalent program today.
With the way things are going I don't see anyone matching the capability of the shuttle for decades, much less sending people to the moon or mars.
Absolutely DPI is declining. Go into any major retailer and the standard laptop res is 1440x900, regardless of screen size. 14", 15", 16" are all the same resolution. For the 15" as an example, this resolution is ~12k PPI^2. My 6 year old dell has a resolution of 1680x1050, which is ~17k PPI^2. Try finding any 14-15" laptop screen other than 1440x900 without going to the expensive business models.
Not even constant monitoring is a sure thing. How many people are killed or commit suicide (regardless of the numerous other, more horrific acts) in prison; arguably the most secure location on the planet.
The problem is: there is no sure thing, just a compromise between one and the other.
I am a test engineer (ie electrical/computer engineer with an emphasis in development for test and QA, not the guy who runs equipment) and I write a lot of software. I'm going to answer the question of how to create stable software rather than the mindset that all software needs to be unit or regression tested. This definitely serves an important purpose in any complex system and can't be disregarded, but I see most implementations created to test conditions that will never fail. It's a matter of focusing your testing optimally.
Correctly implemented code is more a state of mind and what your focus is. I perpetually think of how code can fail and I am also a minimalist. This is an inherent conflict of interest, but it really makes my code stable and reusable by numerous other groups. I've been complimented that my product "just works."
Creating stable code is a matter of understanding your inputs and performing error and bounds checking as necessary, but not obsessively. The act of implementing test code often creates bugs when the goal is to reduce bugs. Correct error handling is another topic of consideration. Unit and regression testing is important when used in the right places.
I suppose what I'm getting at is the process of creating good code takes time, effort and skill. Developing testing criteria is similar. If you feel you are wasting your time doing code testing, you aren't focusing your efforts in the right place.
"We are one fire, or one flood, or one spilled Starbucks coffee away from some of those records being lost or spoiled"
Doesn't this apply to databases also?
Both paper and data needs proper backups. Perhaps in this case a copy machine and some interns would fit the realistic need vs an elaborate electronic system.
The actually experts aren't concerned about medicare and dont believe it will eat the federal budget. That's republican Neo Con propaganda. The same propaganda that said it would ahve devoured the budget 20 years ago. Every ten year, they say it will devour the budget in ten years.
The numbers actually come from the GAO (Government Accountability Office), which I wouldn't consider a republican propaganda machine. It's likely they are being conservative (ala similar calculations concerning Social Security), but that doesn't negate the fact that the costs of the medical industry are spiraling out of control.
After getting used to it, I really liked ClearCase. It's an incredibly powerful tool. Although I was always amazed how people tended to muck it up by doing things such as copying files and then re-adding them to source control in a different directory, thus causing evil-twins (two different objects with the same name can't be merged). One time someone was trying to rename a file, but it had an error causing both filenames to exist and to point to the same file object... That was fun to understand, but really easy to resolve by restoring a previous directory point.
Anyway, your use case of ClearCase sounds incorrect. It is true that if you are working in the same branch/stream as another developer, their checkins will instantly appear in your view, which could obviously break you. The proper use model is to create private branches for each developer. This allows you to control when you pick up others' changes as well as control when your code is "good enough" to be delivered to everyone.
CD's would be far superior to BluRay as they have nearly 30 years of maturity behind them, and are very ubiquitous. Their lifespan is well documented and the drives come in a wide variety of interfaces, in addition to being backwards compatible with all modern optical drives. Bluray is still too new and there is no guarantee it will achieve the same longevity. 20 years from now I'd put my money on finding a compatible CD drive.
Even more confidence comes with paper, photographs, film and knickknacks.
Seriously, 17 years isn't that long and I wouldn't worry about it.
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Truck drivers rarely buy new tires. They retread the old ones up to 10 times.
The idea is that small businesses sign up with a service provider, and send them one check for all state taxes plus an XML file of the transactions. Big businesses will probably run their own software. Expect to see this as a standard component of most shopping cart programs.
It's ridiculous and burdensome to create a system that requires yet another 3rd party private processing center to perform a common transaction. Visa and Mastercard or Paypal are entrenched on the financial side and costs merchants ~3% or so off their bottom line, but can be bypassed by using Money Orders or personal checks. Adding another 3% or so across the board to pay a new tax processing center is not a negligible cost.
Fortunately I live in a state without sales taxes, so as long as they don't propose charging me to fund the coffers of another state it doesn't really affect me.
In the US there is no advantage in opting for an unsubsidized phone. The monthly cost is the same if the phone is subsidized or unsubsidized. I keep my phones for a very long time and T-Mobile has just become the only major carrier that competes for my use model.
There is nothing wrong with Office 2003. It's a utility. There are few features in the newer versions that make doing your job faster, more accurate, or cheaper.
The definition of 'militia' includes pretty much everyone, especially definitions #2, #3 and #4. Changing or limiting the definition of the word may be a clever way to limit the scope of the 2nd Amendment, although I'd have to call shenanigans.
1. a body of citizens enrolled for military service, and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies.
2. a body of citizen soldiers as distinguished from professional soldiers.
3. all able-bodied males considered by law eligible for military service.
4. a body of citizens organized in a paramilitary group and typically regarding themselves as defenders of individual rights against the presumed interference of the federal government.
Why is it that the reason for the post office woes is attributed solely on reductions of first-class mail? While this is true, the post office had no debt as late as 2005. It had a surplus. It would be solvent today if Congress didn't step in.
Congress saw a great way to collect (ie steal) money from the post office and did so. They imposed a requirement on the USPS to pay ~$55 billion dollars per year into an account that can't be touched until Congress lets them. It is conveniently invested in Treasuries.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-morris/usps-budget_b_1545430.html
Why and when do you have to dry fire to clean? Why does the gun have to be assembled to do that? If not why are you not depressing the catch with another tool?
The Ruger Mark III requires a magazine inserted and the trigger to be pulled to disassemble the pistol as per their published instructions.
"Insert the empty magazine into the magazine well until it "clicks" and is fully in place.
Disengage the internal lock, if necessary. (See p. 13.) Place the safety in the
"off" (F) position. Point the pistol in a safe direction and pull the trigger to
be sure the hammer has fallen. The hammer must be uncocked before the
pistol can be disassembled. Remove the empty magazine."
Page 22:
http://ruger.com/products/_manuals/markIII.pdf
"Annoying"? Owning and carrying a gun is a lot less "annoying" than driving a car or buying an iPhone or getting your insurance company to pay for minor surgery.
Anybody who whines about filling out a form and paying a $10 fee to own a gun does not have sufficient equanimity to carry a deadly weapon, IMO. Fuck them.
Having lived in MA for several years, I have to disagree with your perspective on "annoying." Technically it costs $100 per 4 years to OWN any firearm after following the legal hoops and paperwork. Realistically, it's up to each local police chief to grant the permit. Several around the Boston area are on the record they will NOT grant any permits to anyone. There is no appeals process. If you live in one of those areas sorry, because you can't just "fill out a form and pay $10." On the plus side, if you are allowed to own a firearm you can also carry it concealed. It's the same permit.
And we like our "no income tax" in Tennessee. Screw you, Oregon.
One way or the other you're going to pay the piper, and having one national standard will make things much easier for all concerned.
I like my "no sales tax" and "no income tax" in New Hampshire. Screw you, everyone else!
I don't believe I've ever been in a car with the so-called "standard" ultrasonic parking sensors. I have been in a car with a backup camera and I was somewhat scared when the owner *only* used the camera to back up.
Why not simply mandate minimum rear visibility standards? Style has shrunk rear and side windows in many new cars. Sit in a car from the 90's or earlier and there is a huge improvement in rear visibility.
However I disagree with the conclusion that the patch should therefore be merged into the kernel. First, instead of pasting some lines to bashrc and running some commands, the user now has to recompile to kernel to benefit from the change. That's a lot less user friendly. Secondly, if one really wants to push user friendliness, one should convince distributions to update their init scripts to run those cgroup commands automatically.
How will it be more rapidly deployed by waiting for a distribution to make the change (or not)?
Since all software users use go through distros anyway it should be the distros' job to ensure user friendliness.
What if the distro doesn't bother with changing their init scripts? How does it make sense to put default process scheduling into their hands? I'll do you one better. Users->Distros->Kernel
And no, we're not on the verge of serious exploration of the solar system. It still costs too much. We may send more unmanned probes out, but I'll be we're not sending humans anywhere until we get something a little more sophisticated than rockets.
We won't get anything more sophisticated than rockets without a long-term research entity like NASA + a purpose - such as a space station. Corporations can't substitute for #1. Unmanned probes can't substitute for #2.
you don't need "entire new technology" for LEO, MEO, GEO, get to the moon or mars. If it was needed, nobody would have done these things.
Oh, but we do need "entire new technology" for these in terms of human passengers. The summary says that the purpose of the trip is to discuss human spaceflight, and it seems only prudent to discuss alternates to Russia.
We might be able to handle close-in stuff with Russian partners and existing cargo rockets (separate launches because nothing exists that can transport both passengers and heavy cargo). However getting to, landing on, and leaving the moon or mars isn't plug-and-play. The Apollo program can't be duplicated because the schematics and records are lost. In addition, the safety paranoia wouldn't allow an equivalent program today.
With the way things are going I don't see anyone matching the capability of the shuttle for decades, much less sending people to the moon or mars.
Absolutely DPI is declining. Go into any major retailer and the standard laptop res is 1440x900, regardless of screen size. 14", 15", 16" are all the same resolution. For the 15" as an example, this resolution is ~12k PPI^2. My 6 year old dell has a resolution of 1680x1050, which is ~17k PPI^2. Try finding any 14-15" laptop screen other than 1440x900 without going to the expensive business models.
Obviously you aren't a fire breather.
Er, well maybe in a city, but what if there are no cabs in your area...
Not even constant monitoring is a sure thing. How many people are killed or commit suicide (regardless of the numerous other, more horrific acts) in prison; arguably the most secure location on the planet.
The problem is: there is no sure thing, just a compromise between one and the other.
More than likely it was someone being too risk-adverse, and being defended by someone else defining the risk as low.
Chalk this up to learning. I suggest always having someone else use your code before you call it done.
I am a test engineer (ie electrical/computer engineer with an emphasis in development for test and QA, not the guy who runs equipment) and I write a lot of software. I'm going to answer the question of how to create stable software rather than the mindset that all software needs to be unit or regression tested. This definitely serves an important purpose in any complex system and can't be disregarded, but I see most implementations created to test conditions that will never fail. It's a matter of focusing your testing optimally.
Correctly implemented code is more a state of mind and what your focus is. I perpetually think of how code can fail and I am also a minimalist. This is an inherent conflict of interest, but it really makes my code stable and reusable by numerous other groups. I've been complimented that my product "just works."
Creating stable code is a matter of understanding your inputs and performing error and bounds checking as necessary, but not obsessively. The act of implementing test code often creates bugs when the goal is to reduce bugs. Correct error handling is another topic of consideration. Unit and regression testing is important when used in the right places.
I suppose what I'm getting at is the process of creating good code takes time, effort and skill. Developing testing criteria is similar. If you feel you are wasting your time doing code testing, you aren't focusing your efforts in the right place.
"We are one fire, or one flood, or one spilled Starbucks coffee away from some of those records being lost or spoiled"
Doesn't this apply to databases also?
Both paper and data needs proper backups. Perhaps in this case a copy machine and some interns would fit the realistic need vs an elaborate electronic system.
The actually experts aren't concerned about medicare and dont believe it will eat the federal budget. That's republican Neo Con propaganda. The same propaganda that said it would ahve devoured the budget 20 years ago. Every ten year, they say it will devour the budget in ten years.
The numbers actually come from the GAO (Government Accountability Office), which I wouldn't consider a republican propaganda machine. It's likely they are being conservative (ala similar calculations concerning Social Security), but that doesn't negate the fact that the costs of the medical industry are spiraling out of control.
After getting used to it, I really liked ClearCase. It's an incredibly powerful tool. Although I was always amazed how people tended to muck it up by doing things such as copying files and then re-adding them to source control in a different directory, thus causing evil-twins (two different objects with the same name can't be merged). One time someone was trying to rename a file, but it had an error causing both filenames to exist and to point to the same file object... That was fun to understand, but really easy to resolve by restoring a previous directory point.
Anyway, your use case of ClearCase sounds incorrect. It is true that if you are working in the same branch/stream as another developer, their checkins will instantly appear in your view, which could obviously break you. The proper use model is to create private branches for each developer. This allows you to control when you pick up others' changes as well as control when your code is "good enough" to be delivered to everyone.
CD's would be far superior to BluRay as they have nearly 30 years of maturity behind them, and are very ubiquitous. Their lifespan is well documented and the drives come in a wide variety of interfaces, in addition to being backwards compatible with all modern optical drives. Bluray is still too new and there is no guarantee it will achieve the same longevity. 20 years from now I'd put my money on finding a compatible CD drive.
Even more confidence comes with paper, photographs, film and knickknacks.
Seriously, 17 years isn't that long and I wouldn't worry about it.