Not in the US. I'm not sure how that is handled in other countries though. I know a lot of international students in the US voluntarily surrender their passport to the dean's office, which will hold them in a secure place, since students tend to lose important documents like that easily. I've taken more than a few couch surfers out drinking only to realize their government issued ID is in Lousiana, California, or D.C. due to this.
It's really hard to argue with someone who has 20,000 acres of land, 12,000 head of cattle, a 3,000 sq ft house, a Cadillac and a brand new 4 door Ford pickup, a million bucks in the bank and absolutely no debt, and who the city/county owes countless favors.
I think the main problem is getting right of way through the hundreds (thousands) of ranches between the turbines and the backbone transmission lines. If there's one thing Texas ranchers don't like, it's being told what they can and can't do with THEIR land, especially if it's been in the family for 2-3 generations. It's hard to argue with ranchers since they provide most of the funding for the community/city council etc.
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That's the best GUI what are you talking about. I downgraded to 0.8.6 because the 0.9.x interface is terrible and looks like they hired the GUI developer of Mosaic from 1993 to design the current VLC GUI. As far as I know there's no skin that restores the functionality of the 0.8.6 GUI without recompiling from source (if that's even possible anymore).
I would easily pay $60-70 for some sort of sequel to FF6 (US 3 for SNES). In that 16 bit style. I've played most of the translated 16 bit RPGs and there's a certain charm there, the sweet spot for RPGs that really made the SNES the console to beat. I bought/played FF3 (Jap3) for the DS but there's a certian appeal for that legend of zelda a link to the past style overhead view and blocky graphics:) In other news, upon further googling, it looks like they're releasing another DS FF RPG. I really wish they'd allow an option to use D-pad only for movement, using styli to control movement/menu just seems counter intuitive to an RPG.
The only DRM for dosbox games over steam is the encryption used to send your CC# to Valve. You can take your/dosboxgame directory and play it in linux under dosbox there and it works just fine. Also all of Valve's games work just fine in offline mode. (i.e. Valve auth servers destroyed in a nuclear attack or---heaven forbid the internet goes down for a day). Steam has gone down repeatedly recently with all their steamcloud updates (particularly during major TF2 updates) and nobody notices that steam's not working until they stop getting random unlocks for an hour or two.
So yes, Virginia, you can backup your precious $2.99 dosbox steam-bought games.
I looked at Bugatti's website, what other cars do they make (presently) besides the Veyron? I think they make a centenial version (a blue Veyron) but that's it.
It's a lopsided equation where the design cost is very high and the production number is very low. If you take them exactly at their word then yes they will never, ever make money on it. I highly doubt that the statement of "every Veyron is sold at a loss" comes with zero marketing spin. My point being that most of the built in cost of the car is the R&D. If you plan to sell 50 of them (@ $2 mil each) and it cost 200 million to design then yes it's being sold at a loss. You don't even make back what you spent on R&D, let along parts and labor. If you sell 100 at the same price you're selling them at cost - minus materials and labor. If materials and labor are anywhere near 3/4 million then somewhere around the 150 vehicle mark is the break even point. In reality I would wager they probably are losing no more than 40-60K per car, or VW would have canned the project long ago. 30-40K per car is an easy write-off for productive R&D that can be applied to the various brands VW owns (VW, Porsche, etc)
They're sold at a loss for the first 100 or so. Once you hit the 200 million mark you've pretty much recouped your loss from R&D + actual manufacture. I'm sure if they sell 150 of them in the vechicle's lifespan they'll have easily made a 100 million dollar profit. The trick though, is to actually SELL 150 of them at the asking price. If asking price is 2.1 million, they'd probably sell one to you (cash in advance of course) for 1.6 - 1.7 million. My guess anyways.
comparable to measuring from Earth the heat produced by a rabbit sitting on the Moon
Is anyone else dissapointed we don't already have this capability? I can stream Top Gear in HD from youtube in faster than real time but we lag this far behind in (optical? thermal?) imaging? I know the atmosphere creates a lot of optical distortion... but really? Not even a rabbit (which have unusually high body temps if I recall correctly)?
Oh, my kingdom for even a 10fps e-ink display (with, I guess, an indiglo backlight of some sort for pitch-black situations) on a laptop. 15" e-ink laptop? Yes, please. Actually that tech would wonderfully compliment a netbook or something like an ancient Psion 5 or something inbetween, coming full circle on the PDA front. I wouldn't mind an e-ink 22" LCD for work. Oh yes, that would do wonderfully.
Steam games can be played in offline mode, unless there have been some recent exceptions. All the valve games I played last year at quakecon were in offline mode and I had no issues playing on "offline" servers.
Are they at least going to release a battle.net server clone source/ dedicated servers for private hosting? Similar to how Valve has a source dedicated server they release for all their major games? A lot of large LAN events only allow limited net access, if any.
For the record I think this is really,really dumb idea.
Well if that's all fuel taxes cost, just tack it on as a flat tax rate item (aka road use fee) to the final bill of sale and get rid of fuel taxes completely. Probably adjust it for 150,000 miles for american vehicles and 200,000 for imported vehicles. Let states and the feds divvy up the flat rate however they see fit.
Ag exemption. In many states ag(ricultural) exemption vehicles have their own plates, are exempted from, or deeply discounted licensing/registration fees among other things. This is just another bullet point in their list of exemptions. For the 0.01% that aren't ag exempted I'm sure a) can file for an exemption b) write it off on your income tax or c) suck it up
Bingo. 2GB in my gaming machine. Turned off that dinosaur "virtual memory" and I still have yet to bounce against the 2GB limit. 2.4 ghz core 2 duo just screams on XP.the only way I would upgrade is if I started doing photoshop/maya full time as a job.
If only it were as simple as "throw *insert buzz word of the month* at it! that'll fix it!" as if it were fucking business duct tape. It's not that simple, and other responses have spelt it out better than I can. We're a small business (as are most businesses!) and we'd have to hire a third accountant (aka the "muscle") to handle all that bullshit. Salary + benefits + misc crap = a lot of added expense for a small to medium business which could be going towards a) my bonus b) my raise c) fixing the shitty copy machine or at the very least d) upgrading out internet so we can watch youtube on friday afternoons.
My experience with making changes in accounting software is that it tends to break other things, that don't come up until bills are due or the end of the quarter. Quash those bugs, wait till the end of the fiscal year, find THOSE bugs, rinse, repeat. Heaven help you if you had any other custom work done in other accounting modules that year! Also: as an out of state business I don't care what your tax rates are per zip code - south dakota is so low on the radar that for a lot of companies its just cheaper to overpay the sales tax than figure it out. If a real state like California Texas or New York did something like that, there'd be hell to pay. Anyways my point is that accounting software in many cases is speghetti code from decades of incremental updates. Simply "writing a patch and applying it" simply doesn't work with a lot of larger, customized accounting software. Its hard to outsource programming for programs like SBT accounting and other bedrock apps most people use but loathe to work on.
The State of South Dakota charges a different rate per city. PER CITY. Each city's rate ranges from 2-6% if I recall correctly. Also some states (NJ, Indiana in 2007) change their rate on occasion. And then dealing with non-profit (non-taxable) institutions? That means waiting for an official tax exemption certificate, of which every state has different rules. Schools and Non Profits buy a lot of junk. A Lot. You have no idea how much man power it takes to explain why, to Betty at Podunk Baptist Church, Rural, IL - she needs to find, fill out and fax/mail a tax exemption certificate before you can process her order. And then deal with her angry pastor three months later when their order never arrives because she didn't/forgot to/sent the wrong form. This is a huge, huge bitch to deal with for companies beyond Amazon.
This is difficult, because an internet retailer is a lot like a catalog retailer, who might have 80% of their business out of state and isn't set up to take 50 states' differing tax rates and does not have the accounting muscle to pay 50 different state taxes each quarter. I think that's the main problem. And then you have the issue of ship to in one state (NC for example) and bill to (non-taxable like Oregon) etc etc. It creates a lot of headaches. Catalogs typically only pay/charge sales taxes for the state their accounting division is in. Multiply this by millions and millions of customers and you can see why Amazon would oppose this merely on the accounting issue. Most accounting software simply isn't set up for taxation in all 50 states, especially automatically.
Welcome to, uh, 2006? I can't remember when I got my 5(.0)g iPod but it's been a pretty common feature for quite some time now. Maybe even 2005 it's hard to remember back that far.
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Not in the US. I'm not sure how that is handled in other countries though. I know a lot of international students in the US voluntarily surrender their passport to the dean's office, which will hold them in a secure place, since students tend to lose important documents like that easily. I've taken more than a few couch surfers out drinking only to realize their government issued ID is in Lousiana, California, or D.C. due to this.
It might mean better linux driver support for hardware beyond Nvidia and ATi. At least apple-level support (which isn't much, but it's something).
So comment those parts out and recompile. It's going to be open source you big baby.
It's really hard to argue with someone who has 20,000 acres of land, 12,000 head of cattle, a 3,000 sq ft house, a Cadillac and a brand new 4 door Ford pickup, a million bucks in the bank and absolutely no debt, and who the city/county owes countless favors.
I think the main problem is getting right of way through the hundreds (thousands) of ranches between the turbines and the backbone transmission lines. If there's one thing Texas ranchers don't like, it's being told what they can and can't do with THEIR land, especially if it's been in the family for 2-3 generations. It's hard to argue with ranchers since they provide most of the funding for the community/city council etc.
That's the best GUI what are you talking about. I downgraded to 0.8.6 because the 0.9.x interface is terrible and looks like they hired the GUI developer of Mosaic from 1993 to design the current VLC GUI. As far as I know there's no skin that restores the functionality of the 0.8.6 GUI without recompiling from source (if that's even possible anymore).
I would easily pay $60-70 for some sort of sequel to FF6 (US 3 for SNES). In that 16 bit style. I've played most of the translated 16 bit RPGs and there's a certain charm there, the sweet spot for RPGs that really made the SNES the console to beat. I bought/played FF3 (Jap3) for the DS but there's a certian appeal for that legend of zelda a link to the past style overhead view and blocky graphics :) In other news, upon further googling, it looks like they're releasing another DS FF RPG. I really wish they'd allow an option to use D-pad only for movement, using styli to control movement/menu just seems counter intuitive to an RPG.
The only DRM for dosbox games over steam is the encryption used to send your CC# to Valve. You can take your /dosboxgame directory and play it in linux under dosbox there and it works just fine. Also all of Valve's games work just fine in offline mode. (i.e. Valve auth servers destroyed in a nuclear attack or---heaven forbid the internet goes down for a day). Steam has gone down repeatedly recently with all their steamcloud updates (particularly during major TF2 updates) and nobody notices that steam's not working until they stop getting random unlocks for an hour or two.
So yes, Virginia, you can backup your precious $2.99 dosbox steam-bought games.
I looked at Bugatti's website, what other cars do they make (presently) besides the Veyron? I think they make a centenial version (a blue Veyron) but that's it.
It's a lopsided equation where the design cost is very high and the production number is very low. If you take them exactly at their word then yes they will never, ever make money on it. I highly doubt that the statement of "every Veyron is sold at a loss" comes with zero marketing spin. My point being that most of the built in cost of the car is the R&D. If you plan to sell 50 of them (@ $2 mil each) and it cost 200 million to design then yes it's being sold at a loss. You don't even make back what you spent on R&D, let along parts and labor. If you sell 100 at the same price you're selling them at cost - minus materials and labor. If materials and labor are anywhere near 3/4 million then somewhere around the 150 vehicle mark is the break even point. In reality I would wager they probably are losing no more than 40-60K per car, or VW would have canned the project long ago. 30-40K per car is an easy write-off for productive R&D that can be applied to the various brands VW owns (VW, Porsche, etc)
They're sold at a loss for the first 100 or so. Once you hit the 200 million mark you've pretty much recouped your loss from R&D + actual manufacture. I'm sure if they sell 150 of them in the vechicle's lifespan they'll have easily made a 100 million dollar profit. The trick though, is to actually SELL 150 of them at the asking price. If asking price is 2.1 million, they'd probably sell one to you (cash in advance of course) for 1.6 - 1.7 million. My guess anyways.
Is anyone else dissapointed we don't already have this capability? I can stream Top Gear in HD from youtube in faster than real time but we lag this far behind in (optical? thermal?) imaging? I know the atmosphere creates a lot of optical distortion... but really? Not even a rabbit (which have unusually high body temps if I recall correctly)?
Oh, my kingdom for even a 10fps e-ink display (with, I guess, an indiglo backlight of some sort for pitch-black situations) on a laptop. 15" e-ink laptop? Yes, please. Actually that tech would wonderfully compliment a netbook or something like an ancient Psion 5 or something inbetween, coming full circle on the PDA front. I wouldn't mind an e-ink 22" LCD for work. Oh yes, that would do wonderfully.
Steam games can be played in offline mode, unless there have been some recent exceptions. All the valve games I played last year at quakecon were in offline mode and I had no issues playing on "offline" servers.
Are they at least going to release a battle.net server clone source/ dedicated servers for private hosting? Similar to how Valve has a source dedicated server they release for all their major games? A lot of large LAN events only allow limited net access, if any.
For the record I think this is really,really dumb idea.
Well if that's all fuel taxes cost, just tack it on as a flat tax rate item (aka road use fee) to the final bill of sale and get rid of fuel taxes completely. Probably adjust it for 150,000 miles for american vehicles and 200,000 for imported vehicles. Let states and the feds divvy up the flat rate however they see fit.
Ag exemption. In many states ag(ricultural) exemption vehicles have their own plates, are exempted from, or deeply discounted licensing/registration fees among other things. This is just another bullet point in their list of exemptions. For the 0.01% that aren't ag exempted I'm sure a) can file for an exemption b) write it off on your income tax or c) suck it up
Bingo. 2GB in my gaming machine. Turned off that dinosaur "virtual memory" and I still have yet to bounce against the 2GB limit. 2.4 ghz core 2 duo just screams on XP.the only way I would upgrade is if I started doing photoshop/maya full time as a job.
If only it were as simple as "throw *insert buzz word of the month* at it! that'll fix it!" as if it were fucking business duct tape. It's not that simple, and other responses have spelt it out better than I can. We're a small business (as are most businesses!) and we'd have to hire a third accountant (aka the "muscle") to handle all that bullshit. Salary + benefits + misc crap = a lot of added expense for a small to medium business which could be going towards a) my bonus b) my raise c) fixing the shitty copy machine or at the very least d) upgrading out internet so we can watch youtube on friday afternoons.
My experience with making changes in accounting software is that it tends to break other things, that don't come up until bills are due or the end of the quarter. Quash those bugs, wait till the end of the fiscal year, find THOSE bugs, rinse, repeat. Heaven help you if you had any other custom work done in other accounting modules that year! Also: as an out of state business I don't care what your tax rates are per zip code - south dakota is so low on the radar that for a lot of companies its just cheaper to overpay the sales tax than figure it out. If a real state like California Texas or New York did something like that, there'd be hell to pay. Anyways my point is that accounting software in many cases is speghetti code from decades of incremental updates. Simply "writing a patch and applying it" simply doesn't work with a lot of larger, customized accounting software. Its hard to outsource programming for programs like SBT accounting and other bedrock apps most people use but loathe to work on.
The State of South Dakota charges a different rate per city. PER CITY. Each city's rate ranges from 2-6% if I recall correctly. Also some states (NJ, Indiana in 2007) change their rate on occasion. And then dealing with non-profit (non-taxable) institutions? That means waiting for an official tax exemption certificate, of which every state has different rules. Schools and Non Profits buy a lot of junk. A Lot. You have no idea how much man power it takes to explain why, to Betty at Podunk Baptist Church, Rural, IL - she needs to find, fill out and fax/mail a tax exemption certificate before you can process her order. And then deal with her angry pastor three months later when their order never arrives because she didn't/forgot to/sent the wrong form. This is a huge, huge bitch to deal with for companies beyond Amazon.
This is difficult, because an internet retailer is a lot like a catalog retailer, who might have 80% of their business out of state and isn't set up to take 50 states' differing tax rates and does not have the accounting muscle to pay 50 different state taxes each quarter. I think that's the main problem. And then you have the issue of ship to in one state (NC for example) and bill to (non-taxable like Oregon) etc etc. It creates a lot of headaches. Catalogs typically only pay/charge sales taxes for the state their accounting division is in. Multiply this by millions and millions of customers and you can see why Amazon would oppose this merely on the accounting issue. Most accounting software simply isn't set up for taxation in all 50 states, especially automatically.
Charred Chickens are Carbon neutral as long as you don't Feed them Fossil Fuels.
I finally broke down and bought one last month. Amazing little devices. Actually picked up a 5 pedal extension cable last week.
Welcome to, uh, 2006? I can't remember when I got my 5(.0)g iPod but it's been a pretty common feature for quite some time now. Maybe even 2005 it's hard to remember back that far.