They designed the Firefox and Thunderbird logos? They're terrible. They look good when they're a couple of inches across in Photoshop or whatever but they sure don't look good on a toolbar. The IE "e", AIM's walking man, Word's "W" and Yahoo Messenger's open-mouthed smiley all look better and are more distinctive.
Wow! I've been a Comcast subscriber for years and I never bought a pay-per-view movie. I had always assumed PPV movies would be in the original format. Thanks for the tip. Now I know I'll never buy a Comcast PPV movie.
I have a number of Web-based email accounts like a lot of Slashdotters do. Hotmail is the only one however, that trashed years of my accumulated email just because I failed to log in for more than 30 days.
That's exactly the kind of thing I should have expected from a company run by a vindictive, immature OCD case who's a high-functioning autistic.
The guy who submitted the article is evidently from Australia. There's an American regionalism that might also be used in Australia: Adding a possessive to a company name. I once read that people who work for and around one of the Boeing plants in Washington state have a habit of calling it "Boeing's".
It's sort of like the way "I'm going to Jack's house." is shortened to "I'm going to Jack's."
The guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper sued Detroit. The case took more than a decade. When he finally won it didn't mean the end of intermittent windshield wipers. It meant the guy got tens of millions of dollars in back royalties.
It's highly unlikely that NTP wants to shut down RIM. There will almost certainly be a licensing deal.
A) The headline is terrible. "No Office For Linux, MS Patents Rejected" is a mutant headline about two different stories.
B) Despite the use of "relatedly" the two storie are not related in the sense that is commonly used in news items. Yes, both stories concern both Microsoft and Linux but there is no relation between Microsoft losing its patent fight and and its decision not to port Office to Linux.
If this is so it was clearly malfeasance on the part of COTA. I've been making my living as a writer for more than 20 years, both freelance and on staff at magazines and other corporations. COTA could have avoided the problem if, in its contract with the mapping company, it explicity declared that the map was a "work for hire".
Do you think ad agencies own the mottoes and ad copy they create for their clients? "Melts in your mouth. Not in your hand" is owned by M&M Mars, not whatever agency thought it up. They same goes for jingles, white papers, brochure copy, maps and so on.
Idiots working for the government. Who da thunk it?
That's exactly what Florida called theirs. As if a car from another state has a greater impact than a car first registered in state. I'd be surprised if California is still getting away with it.
I don't buy from NewEgg anymore because they have a warehouse (a nexus) in NJ so they have to charge me sales tax. When I worked in Philly I avoided it by having stuff to shipped to my office. Now I live AND work in NJ.
That should be INTERstate tariffs, not INTRAstate.
In the 90s Florida levied a bigger registration fee for cars that had been previously registered in other states (screw the newbies). This went on for a few years while the inevitable lawsuit made its way up the chain. It was so obviously unconstitutional that the Florida Supreme Court struck it down.
Then there was a long and torturous path to get your refund from the scammers.
If they do insist on charging sales tax for online sales, then it definitely should be based on where the SELLER is, not the BUYER.
Why is this a better deal?
Because then states would, in effect, be competing for the business location of e-tailers and warehousing companies. Suddenly, Delaware and New Hampshire start to look a lot better as places to base your company in, even though they're far from centrally located.
Basing the tax on the seller's location would have a moderating effect on politicians' ever-increasing lust to collect more and more taxes.
The article says "states and local governments will lose $18 billion in online sales tax in 2005".
They're not losing that money. It's staying in the pockets of their citizens for them to spend or save as they see fit. All that's happening is that the money is not being filtered through the sticky fingers of the politicians on its path to supposedly benefit those citizens.
But of course here on planet Earth documents almost never consist of ASCII text that you can format later on if you want to. Ninety per cent of the time formatting isn't a mere option you can add later. It conveys a lot of the message.
Can anybody tell me why they're not going to put a human crew in this thing until 2020? Almost half a century after the first manned flights it's going to take 15 years to develop this thing?
Or is there something else going on here I didn't spot?
These Sun jerkoffs have been whistling past the graveyard for years. If they're so smart why is their stock selling for about what it sold for in 1998? Scott the Pig-Faced Boy & Co. have been snidely saying that everyone else is wrong and they're right for so long it's ridiculous.
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A far more serious problem is the degradation of the English language. Many college graduates can barely write. This is particularly true in the engineering disciplines. These people understand the need for redundancy in data processing and storage but don't understand its vital role in natural language.
Anyone who believes that knowing "its" from "it's" is not important or that spelling and grammar are not important because "people can still understand" poor writing don't understand that proper spelling and grammar are an important part of natural language. The reason "people will understand" is that other signals in writing can usually take up the slack of conveying meaning.
English is about 40 per cent redundant. That means a message can get screwed up pretty badly and still be understandable. But when we stop using seemingly unimportant cues like proper spelling and grammar we lose (not loose!!!) some of the information integrity "insurance" they provide. Every lapse we come to accept weakens the ability of our language to communicate clearly and unambiguously.
I recently read a poem that illustrates my point rather poignantly. I wish I had written it.
Windows is shutting down, and grammar are On their last leg. So what am we to do? A letter of complaint go just so far, Proving the only one in step are you.
Better, perhaps, to simply let it goes. A sentence have to be screwed pretty bad Before they gets to where you doesnt knows The meaning what it must of meant to had.
The meteor have hit. Extinction spread, But evolution do not stop for that. A mutant languages rise from the dead And all them rules is suddenly old hat.
Too bad for we, us what has had so long The best seat from the only game in town. But there it am, and whom can say its wrong? Those are the break. Windows is shutting down.
Goowy mail is pretty good. You don't have to beg for an invitation, it offers both a really cool Flash version and a stripped down version for low bandwidth connections (You select which one you want at log on). It doesn't have ads (yet) and it even has news and games if you care to click on their icons. It's a credible effort.
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They designed the Firefox and Thunderbird logos? They're terrible. They look good when they're a couple of inches across in Photoshop or whatever but they sure don't look good on a toolbar. The IE "e", AIM's walking man, Word's "W" and Yahoo Messenger's open-mouthed smiley all look better and are more distinctive.
Wow! I've been a Comcast subscriber for years and I never bought a pay-per-view movie. I had always assumed PPV movies would be in the original format. Thanks for the tip. Now I know I'll never buy a Comcast PPV movie.
I have a number of Web-based email accounts like a lot of Slashdotters do. Hotmail is the only one however, that trashed years of my accumulated email just because I failed to log in for more than 30 days.
That's exactly the kind of thing I should have expected from a company run by a vindictive, immature OCD case who's a high-functioning autistic.
The guy who submitted the article is evidently from Australia. There's an American regionalism that might also be used in Australia: Adding a possessive to a company name. I once read that people who work for and around one of the Boeing plants in Washington state have a habit of calling it "Boeing's".
It's sort of like the way "I'm going to Jack's house." is shortened to "I'm going to Jack's."
The guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper sued Detroit. The case took more than a decade. When he finally won it didn't mean the end of intermittent windshield wipers. It meant the guy got tens of millions of dollars in back royalties.
It's highly unlikely that NTP wants to shut down RIM. There will almost certainly be a licensing deal.
Royalties.
A) The headline is terrible. "No Office For Linux, MS Patents Rejected" is a mutant headline about two different stories.
B) Despite the use of "relatedly" the two storie are not related in the sense that is commonly used in news items. Yes, both stories concern both Microsoft and Linux but there is no relation between Microsoft losing its patent fight and and its decision not to port Office to Linux.
Hey that's a great ide... Oh wait. If your laptop is lost or stolen or you drop it and break your hard drive, you're screwed.
You'd just be trading a single problem (the host goes out of business without warning) for a whole bunch of other problems (see above).
When X drive went out of business I lost some stuff. But it was my fault. They had given me ample warning.
If this is so it was clearly malfeasance on the part of COTA. I've been making my living as a writer for more than 20 years, both freelance and on staff at magazines and other corporations. COTA could have avoided the problem if, in its contract with the mapping company, it explicity declared that the map was a "work for hire".
Do you think ad agencies own the mottoes and ad copy they create for their clients? "Melts in your mouth. Not in your hand" is owned by M&M Mars, not whatever agency thought it up. They same goes for jingles, white papers, brochure copy, maps and so on.
Idiots working for the government. Who da thunk it?
That's exactly what Florida called theirs. As if a car from another state has a greater impact than a car first registered in state. I'd be surprised if California is still getting away with it.
I don't buy from NewEgg anymore because they have a warehouse (a nexus) in NJ so they have to charge me sales tax. When I worked in Philly I avoided it by having stuff to shipped to my office. Now I live AND work in NJ.
NewEgg -1 ZipZoomFly +1 New Jersey 0
That should be INTERstate tariffs, not INTRAstate.
In the 90s Florida levied a bigger registration fee for cars that had been previously registered in other states (screw the newbies). This went on for a few years while the inevitable lawsuit made its way up the chain. It was so obviously unconstitutional that the Florida Supreme Court struck it down.
Then there was a long and torturous path to get your refund from the scammers.
If they do insist on charging sales tax for online sales, then it definitely should be based on where the SELLER is, not the BUYER.
Why is this a better deal?
Because then states would, in effect, be competing for the business location of e-tailers and warehousing companies. Suddenly, Delaware and New Hampshire start to look a lot better as places to base your company in, even though they're far from centrally located.
Basing the tax on the seller's location would have a moderating effect on politicians' ever-increasing lust to collect more and more taxes.
The article says "states and local governments will lose $18 billion in online sales tax in 2005".
They're not losing that money. It's staying in the pockets of their citizens for them to spend or save as they see fit. All that's happening is that the money is not being filtered through the sticky fingers of the politicians on its path to supposedly benefit those citizens.
But of course here on planet Earth documents almost never consist of ASCII text that you can format later on if you want to. Ninety per cent of the time formatting isn't a mere option you can add later. It conveys a lot of the message.
Can anybody tell me why they're not going to put a human crew in this thing until 2020? Almost half a century after the first manned flights it's going to take 15 years to develop this thing?
Or is there something else going on here I didn't spot?
These Sun jerkoffs have been whistling past the graveyard for years. If they're so smart why is their stock selling for about what it sold for in 1998? Scott the Pig-Faced Boy & Co. have been snidely saying that everyone else is wrong and they're right for so long it's ridiculous.
A far more serious problem is the degradation of the English language. Many college graduates can barely write. This is particularly true in the engineering disciplines. These people understand the need for redundancy in data processing and storage but don't understand its vital role in natural language.
Anyone who believes that knowing "its" from "it's" is not important or that spelling and grammar are not important because "people can still understand" poor writing don't understand that proper spelling and grammar are an important part of natural language. The reason "people will understand" is that other signals in writing can usually take up the slack of conveying meaning.
English is about 40 per cent redundant. That means a message can get screwed up pretty badly and still be understandable. But when we stop using seemingly unimportant cues like proper spelling and grammar we lose (not loose!!!) some of the information integrity "insurance" they provide. Every lapse we come to accept weakens the ability of our language to communicate clearly and unambiguously.
I recently read a poem that illustrates my point rather poignantly. I wish I had written it.
Windows is shutting down, and grammar are On their last leg. So what am we to do?
A letter of complaint go just so far,
Proving the only one in step are you.
Better, perhaps, to simply let it goes.
A sentence have to be screwed pretty bad Before they gets to where you doesnt knows The meaning what it must of meant to had.
The meteor have hit. Extinction spread,
But evolution do not stop for that.
A mutant languages rise from the dead
And all them rules is suddenly old hat.
Too bad for we, us what has had so long
The best seat from the only game in town.
But there it am, and whom can say its wrong?
Those are the break. Windows is shutting down.
--The Guardian Review, 30 April 2005
Not a problem.
Yahoo thinks I'm a 72 year old grandmother from Kokomo, Indiana. If you don't mind all the Depends ads, that's the way to go man.
Goowy mail is pretty good. You don't have to beg for an invitation, it offers both a really cool Flash version and a stripped down version for low bandwidth connections (You select which one you want at log on). It doesn't have ads (yet) and it even has news and games if you care to click on their icons. It's a credible effort.
Apple usesr and Windows users couldn't even communicate at first.
The only thing "controversial" about the Sun ads the WSJ refused to run is that they're vulgar and juvenile.
The article says the undisclosed location VP Cheney goes to remains secret. Actually his cover was blown a couple years ago. It's Site R.
"Carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen are all scarce on the moon, but readily available on Mars."
But they're also plentiful on Earth. D'oh!
How can these people be serious?
"3) Does something redundant (just get Firefox if you want Firefox's features)"
The only problem is that some sites still require IE. Yeah, yeah, I know, we should just shun those sites, but sometimes that's not an option.