Sales taxes are collected monthly, at least in my state. Registering to collect taxes for every state can be done by registering for an online sales license in whatever state you're in. If a state wants sales taxes collected by online retailers, they need to register with an online sales tax registry, and any problems need to be worked out by the states, not the businesses. Online retailer software in use now calculates everything during checkout, and easily integrates into financial software where everything is registered into the proper account. Hell, pretty much everything is done electronically for an online store, including paying sales taxes. It's easier to run an online shop than a brick and mortar shop these days.
Really? In todays computerized society, it would be easy for the states to keep a database of local sales taxes for the online retailers to access during checkout.
All states Departments of Finance already keep track of it all, it would be nothing to databaseize it and extend it to online retailers.
There is the question of international businesses though. Are they subject to local sales taxes now as well? How about, as someone else mentioned, local taxes for the state the retailer is physically located/incorporated in? What about local taxes for states the business has a presence in? Where will it end?
No, sales tax for online purchases is a bad idea all around. It may not be as complicated to implement as people think, but is way to easy to extend it out to cover too many localiities.
I really have no problem with paying sales tax on online purchases - IF they only tax what I can purchase locally. I don't pay local sales taxes when I physically go out of state/county/city (although I do pay their local sales taxes, but that is not the point of this conversation) to make a purchase, so why should I have to pay them on something I am forced to go online to get?
I think it would be a bit clunky to use a VM just to expand your app choices. Now if they could do a mobile WINE type doodad, THAT would be something I could go for app choice expansion.
The VM is a good idea to keep the work and personal environments separate, but so would a duel boot type situation. That's what people (should) do with their laptops to separate their work from personal environments.
Several times he asked the same damn question and still didn't understand that the small sample was an actual unit.
I couldn't watch the full video because of his idiotic questions It's obvious he's not a technically minded individual, and seemed to have a hard time grasping how eink technology works.
is not that much different from powering on an XBox or Playstation. When I play a game, I'm not also surfing the web or doing word processing, I'm concentrating on killing zombies. If I had an XBox or Playstation, I'd be sitting in front of my TV not my computer, so I'd be in the same boat as when I boot into Windows to play games.
Sure, it'd be nice to have Deus Ex on Linux, but you know what? My game console runs Windows 7, and I have no problem with that.
There was no reason, other than to try to deceive, to change the aspect ratio of the pictures. They deliberately tried to make them look more similar than they actually are. This case should have been thrown out, and Apple brought up on charges for tampering with evidence.
... Natural selection doesn't mean what nature does in absence of humanity, it means those that survive to reproduce get their genes passed along. It's a long term statistical process, that doesn't care what the pressures or responses are, only that you survive long enough to reproduce and keep your kids alive.
I believe natural selection speaks for itself. If it's not natural, it's artificial. Whether or not man evolved with bigger brains, able to understand science and create things is irrelevant. Our medications and vaccines are not natural in the sense that they developed naturally on their own and were then consumed by man to prolong his life or survive if he would of otherwise not have. They are artificial creations, created by us, and therefore not part of "natural selection". Natural selection most defiantly means what nature does on her own. If someone has a gene or trait that would not allow that individual to survive without man made medication, then that trait would've been weeded out long ago naturally. The continuation of that trait is artificial, and will terminate without the continued "selection" allowed by the medication.
As soon as man stopped foraging for his own food and started planting and raising it, he took himself (and those plants and animals) out of the process of natural selection and began the era of artificial selection.
I most defiantly have a clue what I'm talking about. Apple modified evidence. The article says "the aspect ration has not been measurably altered", but then shows an image with a measurable difference. It doesn't matter if it was 6% or.006%, the evidence was altered, and it's not the first time in this case. Pleas show me where I appear to follow the "/. iHate" crowd. Go through my past posts and show me where I show a bias against Apple. My opinions on this wold be the same whether or not this were Apple. Falsifying and/or modifying evidence, no matter how minor it appears, is illegal and should be immediate grounds for dismissal.
That last sentence, although shows I didn't RTFA, or other/. post, in no way invalidates the rest of the post. If the EU has anything comparable to dismissal with prejudice, they should do so. It doesn't matter if it's not a key piece of evidence, what matters that it IS EVIDENCE. Apparently, this is not the first time this has happed in this case. All evidence presented by Apple is now suspect (and should have been on the first occurrence of this crap) and the case should be dismissed.
No, no matter what country this occurred in, Apple should be held accountable both with hefty fines for the company and jail time for the submitter of this evidence.
This case should be dismissed with prejudice. Apple is fabricating and/or tampering with evidence in order to get a judgment in their favor, how can any of their evidence be trusted now? Not only should the case be dismissed, but Apple should be forced to pay for Samsungs legal fees and time as well a the court costs, and if there's any precedence, they should have to pay a hefty fine. And by hefty, I'm talking in the millions of dollars. Something that will hurt. If any of this evidence was produced by someone who was under oath, they should be up on charges, and not just Contempt of Court. There is absolutely no excuse that would justify something like this.
Of course, this is America. Nothing, other than the evidence maybe being thrown out. Hell no. Nothing will happen to the Cooperate Overlords.
Actually, you are wrong. The definition of port does not mean female fitting, it's an interface. There are numerous ports with male fittings on the computer side where you plug a female connector into it. The old serial port found an all PCs up until a few years ago comes to mind right off the top of my head.
This argument really needs to go away. For several years now, I've had no problem with my laptops. I install Linux (usually Kubuntu, but Mandrake, Suse and Debian as well) and the wireless (usually broadcom) asks me for my password and connects right up to my network. It's been about 4 or 5 years since I've had to use a wired connection to get WiFi working. It's been well over a decade since I've had any problems with my desktop connecting as well. Wired connections are totally automatic and don't ask you a thing - they're just connected. It does it so much better than Windows, even to this day, can.
Stop using old outdated excuses on why not to use Linux and give it a try. If you don't like it, discover new reasons to bash it.
I would dearly love to not buy food in my local Walmart. Unfortunately, my only other choices are a Brookshires and a Save-U-More. Neither of which has the produce selection of Walmart. Both have better meat selections, and I get most of my meat from either of them. Brookshires has just about everything else I need, so I get it there. Walmart has the produce selection, and it's fresher then Brookshires, so I get my produce at Walmart. Save-U-More? Well, they're within walking distance, so I get my milk and occasionally some meat and other groceries there - whatever I need between my biweekly trip to Brookshires and/or Walmart.
TLDR: Nope, sorry, Walmart has long ago driven the other stores in this small (~12,000 person) town away. I'm not driving 35 miles to not shop in Walmart.
... so it would cost me $60 an hour to make a "backup" copy (and it would cost me precious free time right now).
Depending on how I make the backup (dd via terminal if I want the whole thing, or Handbrake GUI if I want only the movie/main content), it takes me no more than 10 seconds to make a backup. If you can't figure out how to do anything other than sit here in front of the computer doing nothing else the whole time it's copying/ripping, then you are in no way worth $60/hr.
Thing is, it's a lot -cheaper- to own a computer than to rent one, especially since there's a huge surplus of second-hand computers.
If you cannot afford even that, you're better off doing without a computer at all until you've saved up enough. (save the money you'd otherwise pay to rent a computer!)
Give me a break. People who have no money have no idea how to handle money. They live paycheck to paycheck, spending every penny they have whether they need what they're buying or not. The rent-to-own centers pray on the uneducated/poor with the promise of being able to "purchase" shinny new things with bad or no credit. Hell, recent commercials even highlight the fact you can "stop paying at any time without damaging your credit rating."
These places are just as bad as the "check cashing" centers.
Agreed, Netflix should make a stink. They're in a prime position to educate their user base and use their clout to help the distributors see the light. We want what we want, and we want it now. If they refuse to provide, we will go elsewhere. If that elsewhere is a private torrent tracker, well tough tits MGM, you just lost a rental.
Unless part of the licensing deal is that Netflix cannot talk about the licensing deal and educate their user base. We all know mafia style tactics the *AA's use in court against their own customers, I can only imagine what they do behind closed doors to their licensees.
"You want to license our content? Well, before any negotiations begin, just sign this standard NDI here. Not to worry, it's just standard practice before we are allowed to start negotiating."
Why in the world is the The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency going after piracy websites, how in the world does something on the internet fall into their jurisdiction? I'd like to know in who's mind their job has anything to do with Piracy websites located outside the USA. Anyone?
Customs enforcement means goods import control. In their minds, they're responsible for controlling the importing of data.
Looking forward my expense forms have getting eaten by the cloud so I have to fill them in again.
Especially this early in the life cycle of this "cloud" crap. Any expectation of not loosing your data if you don't keep a backup yourself is entirely your own fault.
Besides, I though we left terminal computing (either smart or dumb) back in the '80's. Screw that crap, I'll keep my data and aps on my own computer, thank you.
I did not imply that in order to tinker with a system or to install the software that you want, you need more powerful CPUs, more memory, etc. I told the OC that in order to do what he wanted, he needed a more powerful system than a current generation iOS/Android tablet.
Look at the subject of this threat Dear Companies making tablets and then the OCs final paragraph:
Give me a tablet form factor with an SSD drive and Ubuntu on it. I can actually USE this to do my homework. No, a text app doesn't replace OpenOffice functionality. I want to be able to install my own stuff on it. I want to program on it. I want to ACTUALLY USE the tablet as my MAIN computer. Give me HDMI out and a real USB port... I'll plug in a seperate monitor, mouse, and keyboard when I need to do my homework. I just also want to read on the bus, or in the park, or check a map when I'm in a new place, which the tablet form factor is great for.
This thread was about tablets powerful enough to replace at least a midrange laptop and the OC is specifically asking for a tablet form factor with the processing power and storage of a laptop. I pointed him in that direction and along comes you talking about a dedicated NAS and hand held game system.
Sorry, neither of the products you mentioned fit in the conversation. The Netgear Stora is a NAS device - hell it doesn't even have video output, while the Pandora is a handhold game system on par with the Gameboy's and such. No way is that thing going to replace a tablet, much less a computer. With enough hacking, I'm sure you could put linux on a Gameboy DS, that doesn't mean you can use it in place of your laptop.
The OC was talking about the difficulty in changing the OS on the current line of tablets with the OS installed in firmware insted of rewritable storage (micro SD or an ssd drive) and the lack of storage (16 or 32 gig micro SD), and I was pointing him to the more powerful slates (or tablets, because yes, the terms have become interchangeable) like the HP Slate 500 or Acer Iconia Tab.
OK, I'll be generous and give you this link because it's interesting that they use the words "slate" and "tablet" almost interchangeably - which actually proves that you accept the limitations of your tablet device by virtue of having to invent some new category of device that isn't any different.
OK, you're going to have to explain your logic on this. What in that (poorly written and hard to understand) article proves anything? What category of device have I invented? The terms tablet and slate have been around since the beginning of the technology. Originally, tablets were convertible laptops (revolvable keyboard or a screen that spun around and folded back on top of the keyboard) and slates were less powerful devices and had no keyboard. Now, however, they are beginning to reverse, and tablets are now becoming the low powered dedicated devices and slates the "laptop replacing" power devices with a full blown OS.
What you want is a slate computer, not a tablet. Tablets are designed to be light weight devices for somewhat dedicated use (web surfing, email, books, video, etc..), and specialized software. You go throwing in a hard drive (even ssd) and a full blown OS, you're going to need more power (both processor and battery) for it to work.
Sounds like the way Congress and the House operate - no one pays any attention (their corporate handlers have already told them how to vote) and it takes an hour or so for them to waddle their ass over to their desk to press a 'yea' or 'nae' button.
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Sales taxes are collected monthly, at least in my state. Registering to collect taxes for every state can be done by registering for an online sales license in whatever state you're in. If a state wants sales taxes collected by online retailers, they need to register with an online sales tax registry, and any problems need to be worked out by the states, not the businesses. Online retailer software in use now calculates everything during checkout, and easily integrates into financial software where everything is registered into the proper account. Hell, pretty much everything is done electronically for an online store, including paying sales taxes. It's easier to run an online shop than a brick and mortar shop these days.
Really? In todays computerized society, it would be easy for the states to keep a database of local sales taxes for the online retailers to access during checkout.
All states Departments of Finance already keep track of it all, it would be nothing to databaseize it and extend it to online retailers.
There is the question of international businesses though. Are they subject to local sales taxes now as well? How about, as someone else mentioned, local taxes for the state the retailer is physically located/incorporated in? What about local taxes for states the business has a presence in? Where will it end?
No, sales tax for online purchases is a bad idea all around. It may not be as complicated to implement as people think, but is way to easy to extend it out to cover too many localiities.
I really have no problem with paying sales tax on online purchases - IF they only tax what I can purchase locally. I don't pay local sales taxes when I physically go out of state/county/city (although I do pay their local sales taxes, but that is not the point of this conversation) to make a purchase, so why should I have to pay them on something I am forced to go online to get?
I think it would be a bit clunky to use a VM just to expand your app choices. Now if they could do a mobile WINE type doodad, THAT would be something I could go for app choice expansion.
The VM is a good idea to keep the work and personal environments separate, but so would a duel boot type situation. That's what people (should) do with their laptops to separate their work from personal environments.
Several times he asked the same damn question and still didn't understand that the small sample was an actual unit.
I couldn't watch the full video because of his idiotic questions It's obvious he's not a technically minded individual, and seemed to have a hard time grasping how eink technology works.
is not that much different from powering on an XBox or Playstation. When I play a game, I'm not also surfing the web or doing word processing, I'm concentrating on killing zombies. If I had an XBox or Playstation, I'd be sitting in front of my TV not my computer, so I'd be in the same boat as when I boot into Windows to play games.
Sure, it'd be nice to have Deus Ex on Linux, but you know what? My game console runs Windows 7, and I have no problem with that.
There was no reason, other than to try to deceive, to change the aspect ratio of the pictures. They deliberately tried to make them look more similar than they actually are. This case should have been thrown out, and Apple brought up on charges for tampering with evidence.
Just like there are too many TV's in various sizes, huh? What a moron.
... Natural selection doesn't mean what nature does in absence of humanity, it means those that survive to reproduce get their genes passed along. It's a long term statistical process, that doesn't care what the pressures or responses are, only that you survive long enough to reproduce and keep your kids alive.
I believe natural selection speaks for itself. If it's not natural, it's artificial. Whether or not man evolved with bigger brains, able to understand science and create things is irrelevant. Our medications and vaccines are not natural in the sense that they developed naturally on their own and were then consumed by man to prolong his life or survive if he would of otherwise not have. They are artificial creations, created by us, and therefore not part of "natural selection". Natural selection most defiantly means what nature does on her own. If someone has a gene or trait that would not allow that individual to survive without man made medication, then that trait would've been weeded out long ago naturally. The continuation of that trait is artificial, and will terminate without the continued "selection" allowed by the medication.
As soon as man stopped foraging for his own food and started planting and raising it, he took himself (and those plants and animals) out of the process of natural selection and began the era of artificial selection.
I most defiantly have a clue what I'm talking about. Apple modified evidence. The article says "the aspect ration has not been measurably altered", but then shows an image with a measurable difference. It doesn't matter if it was 6% or .006%, the evidence was altered, and it's not the first time in this case. Pleas show me where I appear to follow the "/. iHate" crowd. Go through my past posts and show me where I show a bias against Apple. My opinions on this wold be the same whether or not this were Apple. Falsifying and/or modifying evidence, no matter how minor it appears, is illegal and should be immediate grounds for dismissal.
That last sentence, although shows I didn't RTFA, or other /. post, in no way invalidates the rest of the post. If the EU has anything comparable to dismissal with prejudice, they should do so. It doesn't matter if it's not a key piece of evidence, what matters that it IS EVIDENCE. Apparently, this is not the first time this has happed in this case. All evidence presented by Apple is now suspect (and should have been on the first occurrence of this crap) and the case should be dismissed.
No, no matter what country this occurred in, Apple should be held accountable both with hefty fines for the company and jail time for the submitter of this evidence.
This case should be dismissed with prejudice. Apple is fabricating and/or tampering with evidence in order to get a judgment in their favor, how can any of their evidence be trusted now? Not only should the case be dismissed, but Apple should be forced to pay for Samsungs legal fees and time as well a the court costs, and if there's any precedence, they should have to pay a hefty fine. And by hefty, I'm talking in the millions of dollars. Something that will hurt. If any of this evidence was produced by someone who was under oath, they should be up on charges, and not just Contempt of Court. There is absolutely no excuse that would justify something like this.
Of course, this is America. Nothing, other than the evidence maybe being thrown out. Hell no. Nothing will happen to the Cooperate Overlords.
Actually, you are wrong. The definition of port does not mean female fitting, it's an interface. There are numerous ports with male fittings on the computer side where you plug a female connector into it. The old serial port found an all PCs up until a few years ago comes to mind right off the top of my head.
This argument really needs to go away. For several years now, I've had no problem with my laptops. I install Linux (usually Kubuntu, but Mandrake, Suse and Debian as well) and the wireless (usually broadcom) asks me for my password and connects right up to my network. It's been about 4 or 5 years since I've had to use a wired connection to get WiFi working. It's been well over a decade since I've had any problems with my desktop connecting as well. Wired connections are totally automatic and don't ask you a thing - they're just connected. It does it so much better than Windows, even to this day, can.
Stop using old outdated excuses on why not to use Linux and give it a try. If you don't like it, discover new reasons to bash it.
I would dearly love to not buy food in my local Walmart. Unfortunately, my only other choices are a Brookshires and a Save-U-More. Neither of which has the produce selection of Walmart. Both have better meat selections, and I get most of my meat from either of them. Brookshires has just about everything else I need, so I get it there. Walmart has the produce selection, and it's fresher then Brookshires, so I get my produce at Walmart. Save-U-More? Well, they're within walking distance, so I get my milk and occasionally some meat and other groceries there - whatever I need between my biweekly trip to Brookshires and/or Walmart.
TLDR: Nope, sorry, Walmart has long ago driven the other stores in this small (~12,000 person) town away. I'm not driving 35 miles to not shop in Walmart.
... so it would cost me $60 an hour to make a "backup" copy (and it would cost me precious free time right now).
Depending on how I make the backup (dd via terminal if I want the whole thing, or Handbrake GUI if I want only the movie/main content), it takes me no more than 10 seconds to make a backup. If you can't figure out how to do anything other than sit here in front of the computer doing nothing else the whole time it's copying/ripping, then you are in no way worth $60/hr.
"...there's no way they could have blamed the real reason for the increase."
This is a fallacy. Of course they could have.
Unless they're covered by an NDA which is highly likely, given who they're dealing with.
Thing is, it's a lot -cheaper- to own a computer than to rent one, especially since there's a huge surplus of second-hand computers.
If you cannot afford even that, you're better off doing without a computer at all until you've saved up enough. (save the money you'd otherwise pay to rent a computer!)
Give me a break. People who have no money have no idea how to handle money. They live paycheck to paycheck, spending every penny they have whether they need what they're buying or not. The rent-to-own centers pray on the uneducated/poor with the promise of being able to "purchase" shinny new things with bad or no credit. Hell, recent commercials even highlight the fact you can "stop paying at any time without damaging your credit rating."
These places are just as bad as the "check cashing" centers.
Agreed, Netflix should make a stink. They're in a prime position to educate their user base and use their clout to help the distributors see the light. We want what we want, and we want it now. If they refuse to provide, we will go elsewhere. If that elsewhere is a private torrent tracker, well tough tits MGM, you just lost a rental.
Unless part of the licensing deal is that Netflix cannot talk about the licensing deal and educate their user base. We all know mafia style tactics the *AA's use in court against their own customers, I can only imagine what they do behind closed doors to their licensees.
"You want to license our content? Well, before any negotiations begin, just sign this standard NDI here. Not to worry, it's just standard practice before we are allowed to start negotiating."
Why in the world is the The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency going after piracy websites, how in the world does something on the internet fall into their jurisdiction? I'd like to know in who's mind their job has anything to do with Piracy websites located outside the USA. Anyone?
Customs enforcement means goods import control. In their minds, they're responsible for controlling the importing of data.
Looking forward my expense forms have getting eaten by the cloud so I have to fill them in again.
Especially this early in the life cycle of this "cloud" crap. Any expectation of not loosing your data if you don't keep a backup yourself is entirely your own fault.
Besides, I though we left terminal computing (either smart or dumb) back in the '80's. Screw that crap, I'll keep my data and aps on my own computer, thank you.
I did not imply that in order to tinker with a system or to install the software that you want, you need more powerful CPUs, more memory, etc. I told the OC that in order to do what he wanted, he needed a more powerful system than a current generation iOS/Android tablet.
Look at the subject of this threat Dear Companies making tablets and then the OCs final paragraph:
Give me a tablet form factor with an SSD drive and Ubuntu on it. I can actually USE this to do my homework. No, a text app doesn't replace OpenOffice functionality. I want to be able to install my own stuff on it. I want to program on it. I want to ACTUALLY USE the tablet as my MAIN computer. Give me HDMI out and a real USB port... I'll plug in a seperate monitor, mouse, and keyboard when I need to do my homework. I just also want to read on the bus, or in the park, or check a map when I'm in a new place, which the tablet form factor is great for.
This thread was about tablets powerful enough to replace at least a midrange laptop and the OC is specifically asking for a tablet form factor with the processing power and storage of a laptop. I pointed him in that direction and along comes you talking about a dedicated NAS and hand held game system.
Sorry, neither of the products you mentioned fit in the conversation. The Netgear Stora is a NAS device - hell it doesn't even have video output, while the Pandora is a handhold game system on par with the Gameboy's and such. No way is that thing going to replace a tablet, much less a computer. With enough hacking, I'm sure you could put linux on a Gameboy DS, that doesn't mean you can use it in place of your laptop.
The OC was talking about the difficulty in changing the OS on the current line of tablets with the OS installed in firmware insted of rewritable storage (micro SD or an ssd drive) and the lack of storage (16 or 32 gig micro SD), and I was pointing him to the more powerful slates (or tablets, because yes, the terms have become interchangeable) like the HP Slate 500 or Acer Iconia Tab.
OK, I'll be generous and give you this link because it's interesting that they use the words "slate" and "tablet" almost interchangeably - which actually proves that you accept the limitations of your tablet device by virtue of having to invent some new category of device that isn't any different.
OK, you're going to have to explain your logic on this. What in that (poorly written and hard to understand) article proves anything? What category of device have I invented? The terms tablet and slate have been around since the beginning of the technology. Originally, tablets were convertible laptops (revolvable keyboard or a screen that spun around and folded back on top of the keyboard) and slates were less powerful devices and had no keyboard. Now, however, they are beginning to reverse, and tablets are now becoming the low powered dedicated devices and slates the "laptop replacing" power devices with a full blown OS.
What you want is a slate computer, not a tablet. Tablets are designed to be light weight devices for somewhat dedicated use (web surfing, email, books, video, etc..), and specialized software. You go throwing in a hard drive (even ssd) and a full blown OS, you're going to need more power (both processor and battery) for it to work.
Sounds like the way Congress and the House operate - no one pays any attention (their corporate handlers have already told them how to vote) and it takes an hour or so for them to waddle their ass over to their desk to press a 'yea' or 'nae' button.