I can see where that would be useful, it just does not fit my personal browsing style and honestly the forced paradigm shift away from using the location bar where you reference URLs alphabetically to one where you search your history has been an unwelcome one for me at least. I have been trying to hit it with an open mind, as my love for the application is true, but I have to question the logic of making such a fundamental change non-toggleable. I personally would have preferred a more intelligent bookmarking system as I don't really need to see every redirect URL when I know exactly where I want to go.
It has also got me thinking that I am probably just a URL remembering dinosaur, and soon when the.product domains come online, no one will remember domain names anymore and we will have to search using history in such a manner.
In Colorado cities (if they choses to have a sales tax) can either have the State collect sales tax for them, or if they don't trust the state or think that they can collect tax more efficently they can collect it themselves. You can imagine the ensuing nightmare of figuring out who to pay what and when.
If you think you understand how taxes work, you aren't looking hard enough.
When something is purchased through amazon.com, usually the point of purchase is in Washington state (I therefore have almost always paid sales tax through Amazon). It shouldn't matter where the item is shipped from. A warehouse is not a retail location. They pay taxed for property, employment, ect. Why should they double dip for the sales tax?
Now this maybe changing on Monday with destination -based sales tax reform. I know that this is causing my company a lot of headaches because we are having to deal with municipalities in some states that are straight up ridiculous ( I am looking at you Colorado and Oklahoma).
The burden of paying a tax is always on the company. You could have a Tax in Tinyshittownville that you would never know about until you get a letter requesting back taxes. It is a freaking nightmare to manage. Municipalities can just keep piling things on.
True skeptics aren't taught, they are usually forged through their own mistakes and misjudgments. In education it would behoove us to encourage mistake making as a learning tool instead of the current academic paradigm of grades and rankings.
Of course I am a graduate of The Evergreen State College which has no grade system so apply salt liberally.
I think you are probably being a bit stuffy and old fashioned.
"For me, Gmail equals unprofessional. It equals Mom and Pop."
While I agree that it is not the best idea for a business's only web presence to be a Myspace or Facebook page, an appropriately named email address from a reputable free service is good enough for most standard brick and mortar businesses, especially one like gmail that allows you to use your own domain name.
"It means you can't even afford to run your own mail server or have someone do it for you."
If IT is not your business this doesn't matter. I almost never check that headers on messages I receive, do you? Who cares if someone else runs your email. In Dreamhost's case, they were already providing email, but both the webmail and the spam filtering were lacking, which are the two areas Gmail really shines.
"It means not knowing if the person I'm dealing with is really associated with the domain or the business in question."
You are either too paranoid, or not paranoid enough, I can't figure out which.
"It means that my communications are being scanned by a third party, and that I should self-censor accordingly."
Unless you use encryption, all of your emails are like unsealed postcards anyway and thus free to be read by anyone smart and willing enough to do so.
"It just doesn't reflect well on a person to use Gmail for business, in my opinion, and would make me seriously question the credibility of the business."
Again, you would likely never know they use it on the back end, and even if they are using the straight Gmail address, non-techie folks won't care. Heck, even many tech folks who understand that it's expensive to run a business will probably understand.
George Lucas has given up creativity in order to wring every possible cent out of his franchises. Star Wars had begun to take a beating due to poor product quality and overexposure so he is switching horses.
The new Indy flick will probably make a mega-shit-ton of money. I will probably watch it (on DVD), I am just hoping that if I tell myself it is going to suck, then when I see it I might be able to walk away from it and say "It was better than my expectations".
If you want to destroy the love that you have for something, monetize it.
I don't necessarily think it is a wise idea to tell everyone to follow their folly. I agree that it is important to derive some sense of meaning or accomplishment from what you do for a living, but telling people to do what they love is not always a reasonable answer. Some people love watching TV and going on vacation. While some people can make a living doing these things it takes a certain drive that most of us don't possess.
For right now, take care of your family. You can go crazy once the kid is through college. Unless you have a pretty sure fire plan for success and the drive to make it happen it really isn't worth disrupting your life over these feelings your are having.
If you are dealing in small numbers this is true, but there are millions (if not Billions) of computer users in the world. A fraction of a percent of that is still pretty close to a shit-ton.
So Apple still larger than Linux by an order of magnitude, but it seems that they are still losing the Microsoft by an order of magnitude.
The bottom line here is that not much seems to have changed, none of these people are starving, and this is a fluff piece preaching to the choir.
In the given example if I was in line at this Starbucks of the future and some trendy yob talking on a phone walks in the door gets his mocha and leaves while I am standing there waiting for someone to take my order I would probably fight off the urge to pop someone in the nose and just walk out the door to a smaller mom an pop type place where I can still get some personal service.
Bear in mind that I am techie and that is how I would react, imagine what your dad would do.
I can see this for ordering a pizza, but you know you can already do that with most of the major vendors. What exactly IS new about this?
And a relatively nice guy in general in my humble opinion.
I am not sure how many times he performed his "resume" (drinking a whole beer in 5 seconds) when he was up in Seattle, but it was a lot. I don't think he is huge into self preservation.
Where we have Click as a part of our Public utilities. They also provide internet through 3rd party isps, noticably missing is Comcast.
Odd though that the city spent the money on laying all that cable and Comcast is still allowed to play here, not that I can see how anyone with any sense would want to pay more to send that money out of the state.
Hopefully it's just overplayed paranoia on the part of the media.
So far the Vulcanologist at the University of Washington had said it's cool, and they know a bit more about that sort of thing than I do.
I didn't live here the first time it blew up. I had just turned 5 and living in Florida. All I remember about that time was that it was hot, and someone stole my bike.
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I can see where that would be useful, it just does not fit my personal browsing style and honestly the forced paradigm shift away from using the location bar where you reference URLs alphabetically to one where you search your history has been an unwelcome one for me at least. I have been trying to hit it with an open mind, as my love for the application is true, but I have to question the logic of making such a fundamental change non-toggleable. I personally would have preferred a more intelligent bookmarking system as I don't really need to see every redirect URL when I know exactly where I want to go.
It has also got me thinking that I am probably just a URL remembering dinosaur, and soon when the .product domains come online, no one will remember domain names anymore and we will have to search using history in such a manner.
I like to buy my music pre-burned.
Didn't like 300? HAHA FAG!
Please let the irony exist outside of my imagination.
Yeah, it's all pretty much crazy moon language to me.
"We've recreated the fufflernuggen hoppleheimer process in lab conditions. Isn't that exciting!"
Now I know how my friends and family feel when I start talking about Unix.
In Colorado cities (if they choses to have a sales tax) can either have the State collect sales tax for them, or if they don't trust the state or think that they can collect tax more efficently they can collect it themselves. You can imagine the ensuing nightmare of figuring out who to pay what and when.
If you think you understand how taxes work, you aren't looking hard enough.
When something is purchased through amazon.com, usually the point of purchase is in Washington state (I therefore have almost always paid sales tax through Amazon). It shouldn't matter where the item is shipped from. A warehouse is not a retail location. They pay taxed for property, employment, ect. Why should they double dip for the sales tax?
Now this maybe changing on Monday with destination -based sales tax reform. I know that this is causing my company a lot of headaches because we are having to deal with municipalities in some states that are straight up ridiculous ( I am looking at you Colorado and Oklahoma).
The burden of paying a tax is always on the company. You could have a Tax in Tinyshittownville that you would never know about until you get a letter requesting back taxes. It is a freaking nightmare to manage. Municipalities can just keep piling things on.
502: 192.168.0.101(you)
(Is "You Have No Permission to Speak" still a valid NNTP error message?)
When a company simply accepts what the sales drone says about a given product as a fact.
You can't teach it, but you can encourage it's evolution.
True skeptics aren't taught, they are usually forged through their own mistakes and misjudgments. In education it would behoove us to encourage mistake making as a learning tool instead of the current academic paradigm of grades and rankings.
Of course I am a graduate of The Evergreen State College which has no grade system so apply salt liberally.
Fine, I will have to go for Brainfuck then.
ABAX!
I think I will write something that will convert Lisp to Javascript.
ALAX!!!
I think you are probably being a bit stuffy and old fashioned.
"For me, Gmail equals unprofessional. It equals Mom and Pop."
While I agree that it is not the best idea for a business's only web presence to be a Myspace or Facebook page, an appropriately named email address from a reputable free service is good enough for most standard brick and mortar businesses, especially one like gmail that allows you to use your own domain name.
"It means you can't even afford to run your own mail server or have someone do it for you."
If IT is not your business this doesn't matter. I almost never check that headers on messages I receive, do you? Who cares if someone else runs your email. In Dreamhost's case, they were already providing email, but both the webmail and the spam filtering were lacking, which are the two areas Gmail really shines.
"It means not knowing if the person I'm dealing with is really associated with the domain or the business in question."
You are either too paranoid, or not paranoid enough, I can't figure out which.
"It means that my communications are being scanned by a third party, and that I should self-censor accordingly."
Unless you use encryption, all of your emails are like unsealed postcards anyway and thus free to be read by anyone smart and willing enough to do so.
"It just doesn't reflect well on a person to use Gmail for business, in my opinion, and would make me seriously question the credibility of the business."
Again, you would likely never know they use it on the back end, and even if they are using the straight Gmail address, non-techie folks won't care. Heck, even many tech folks who understand that it's expensive to run a business will probably understand.
I can't believe I am posting this, but...
In mother Russia, iPhone stand in line for you.
Okay, it's probably going to suck.
George Lucas has given up creativity in order to wring every possible cent out of his franchises. Star Wars had begun to take a beating due to poor product quality and overexposure so he is switching horses.
The new Indy flick will probably make a mega-shit-ton of money. I will probably watch it (on DVD), I am just hoping that if I tell myself it is going to suck, then when I see it I might be able to walk away from it and say "It was better than my expectations".
If you want to destroy the love that you have for something, monetize it.
I don't necessarily think it is a wise idea to tell everyone to follow their folly. I agree that it is important to derive some sense of meaning or accomplishment from what you do for a living, but telling people to do what they love is not always a reasonable answer. Some people love watching TV and going on vacation. While some people can make a living doing these things it takes a certain drive that most of us don't possess.
For right now, take care of your family. You can go crazy once the kid is through college. Unless you have a pretty sure fire plan for success and the drive to make it happen it really isn't worth disrupting your life over these feelings your are having.
So he's like -11?
Shit, he's gonna have to re-roll.
I hope his next DM is a kind one.
If you are dealing in small numbers this is true, but there are millions (if not Billions) of computer users in the world. A fraction of a percent of that is still pretty close to a shit-ton.
So Apple still larger than Linux by an order of magnitude, but it seems that they are still losing the Microsoft by an order of magnitude.
The bottom line here is that not much seems to have changed, none of these people are starving, and this is a fluff piece preaching to the choir.
Obviously, a man of taste and distinction.
My condolences.
In the given example if I was in line at this Starbucks of the future and some trendy yob talking on a phone walks in the door gets his mocha and leaves while I am standing there waiting for someone to take my order I would probably fight off the urge to pop someone in the nose and just walk out the door to a smaller mom an pop type place where I can still get some personal service.
Bear in mind that I am techie and that is how I would react, imagine what your dad would do.
I can see this for ordering a pizza, but you know you can already do that with most of the major vendors. What exactly IS new about this?
Truly he is a Buddhist in spirit.
And a relatively nice guy in general in my humble opinion.
I am not sure how many times he performed his "resume" (drinking a whole beer in 5 seconds) when he was up in Seattle, but it was a lot. I don't think he is huge into self preservation.
Where we have Click as a part of our Public utilities. They also provide internet through 3rd party isps, noticably missing is Comcast.
Odd though that the city spent the money on laying all that cable and Comcast is still allowed to play here, not that I can see how anyone with any sense would want to pay more to send that money out of the state.
Hopefully it's just overplayed paranoia on the part of the media.
So far the Vulcanologist at the University of Washington had said it's cool, and they know a bit more about that sort of thing than I do.
I didn't live here the first time it blew up. I had just turned 5 and living in Florida. All I remember about that time was that it was hot, and someone stole my bike.
I love Topic Drift, but I'm a Slashdot user.....
Even if I had one, I wouldn't get close enough to try.
I live in Tacoma and that still feels too close.