I've been thinking about one of these, but am a little worried that I'll end up getting shot or something when I piss off some idiot with a gun in the glovebox.
And the backslash key has the "won" symbol on it. It's a pet peeve of mine, because the Korean version of Windows also replaces backslash with won in the character set, so your paths look like:
CWWindowsWProgam FilesWetc
But if you were to install the English version of Windows, it should act the same as the backslash key.
I agree. Actually, this sounds like exactly the kind of application that a big 'mainframe' would excel at - thousands of transactions per second as baggage is tracked by sensors along the way.
I'm not sure why the idea of a mainframe is 'cold-war-esque', since they are still at the centre of much of what we do today.
Slashdot has never jumped the shark. Considering how long it's been around, and how popular it has become, it's shockingly similar to how it started. There has always been questionable editors, (anyone remember Katz?) and plenty of unfunny trolls. All-in-all, it's pretty much the same as it has always been.
At first I thought this guy was crazy, considering the administrative nightmare of determining which products should be taxed. But then I realized something - this tax would make those who are most interested in space the primary source of space development funding.
This is a fundamental basic of economics: You always face trade-offs, in this case equity and efficiency.
Another economics basic: taxes reduce total surplus in a market. The money raised by the government with this tax would be less than the money lost by buyers and sellers as a result of the tax. This is called "deadweight loss", and it would be enormous if you tried to introduce a 1% tax on such a huge market.
You've also got to consider who pays the tax. Whether it's the buyer or seller who actually pays the government, the burden of the tax falls on one or the other depending on the elasticity of the market. I'd wager that the sellers would mostly foot the bill, and I don't see the fairness in that.
Of course, that's all theoretical; however, something tells me that an economist (I'm not one) wouldn't like this idea.
I think its pretty common for retailers in the US to ship to Canada
No kidding.
won't a tariff like this simply hurt the Canadian retailers that will need to mark-up their prices compared to American retailers
It's a levy, not a tariff. Big difference.
So you think "American" retailers operating in Canada are immune to Canadian laws? If that's the case, then as a Canadian I should set up shop selling heroin and cocane in the US since your laws obviously won't apply to me.
I can't imagine that Apple will change the price on the iPod simply because its being shipped to Canada
WOW. Am I alone here in thinking this is a fantastic idea?
This is the kind of thing that I LOVE to see. It's things like that which made cool operating systems (like NeXTSTEP) what they were. If the word "innovate" wasn't so tarnished, I'd use it.
I think Eazel could actually bring Linux to the desktop. We (Linux guys) have been talking about it for a long time, but I think Eazel might actually pull it off.
8. Idiot Workers --> Have you heard of the recent CSIS problems? [CSIS = NSA]. A BRIEFCASE of confidental docuemnts was stolen from a car of a agent while he was at a ball game.
Actually, she (I think it was a she) left the briefcase in her car when she went to a hockey game. I remember because it sounded like a good story to tell Americans.:)
I don't mean to undermine Amiga, it was a cool platform, but BeOS has the features you mentioned.
Yes, it has a "datatype" sort of feature. I think it was R3.2 that had no way of saving graphics in any format other than tiff out of the box. But a quick download later all of the programs could save/load whatever format you like (provided the plugin was available). It works exactly as it did on Amiga.
BeOS also supports different resolutions and colour depths on different virtual desktops. It also comes with command line tool to manipulate the desktops. For instance, on startup I used to have my box switch to another desktop, start my web server / RC5DES, and then switch back to the first screen.
I hope Amiga comes out with something cool, but BeOS seems to me the logical path for Amiga users if nothing appears. At least I think BeOS is exactly what AOS would be now if Commodore hadn't gone under.
Slashdot Mirror
Here you go:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/car/afe6/
I've been thinking about one of these, but am a little worried that I'll end up getting shot or something when I piss off some idiot with a gun in the glovebox.
Yes, and how many different colours can you represent with 4 bits?
Hey, everybody knows that it's not even really that hot below Iceland; a man could descend right down to the center of the earth!
And the backslash key has the "won" symbol on it. It's a pet peeve of mine, because the Korean version of Windows also replaces backslash with won in the character set, so your paths look like:
CWWindowsWProgam FilesWetc
But if you were to install the English version of Windows, it should act the same as the backslash key.
I agree. Actually, this sounds like exactly the kind of application that a big 'mainframe' would excel at - thousands of transactions per second as baggage is tracked by sensors along the way.
I'm not sure why the idea of a mainframe is 'cold-war-esque', since they are still at the centre of much of what we do today.
You don't need bear traps, just rat poison.
Slashdot has never jumped the shark. Considering how long it's been around, and how popular it has become, it's shockingly similar to how it started. There has always been questionable editors, (anyone remember Katz?) and plenty of unfunny trolls. All-in-all, it's pretty much the same as it has always been.
Looks like the server is (predictably) slashdotted. Here's the torrent link:
Wallace And Gromit - The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit - Trailer 1 (WMV)
Huh?
I assumed that your were linking to Silmido, not Oldboy. Silmido is a movie about sending death-row inmates in to kill Kim Il Sung.
This looks like it could have come from the talented, professional Canadian movie producers!
This is a fundamental basic of economics: You always face trade-offs, in this case equity and efficiency.
Another economics basic: taxes reduce total surplus in a market. The money raised by the government with this tax would be less than the money lost by buyers and sellers as a result of the tax. This is called "deadweight loss", and it would be enormous if you tried to introduce a 1% tax on such a huge market.
You've also got to consider who pays the tax. Whether it's the buyer or seller who actually pays the government, the burden of the tax falls on one or the other depending on the elasticity of the market. I'd wager that the sellers would mostly foot the bill, and I don't see the fairness in that.
Of course, that's all theoretical; however, something tells me that an economist (I'm not one) wouldn't like this idea.
No kidding.
won't a tariff like this simply hurt the Canadian retailers that will need to mark-up their prices compared to American retailers
It's a levy, not a tariff. Big difference.
So you think "American" retailers operating in Canada are immune to Canadian laws? If that's the case, then as a Canadian I should set up shop selling heroin and cocane in the US since your laws obviously won't apply to me.
I can't imagine that Apple will change the price on the iPod simply because its being shipped to Canada
Then you need to take an economics course.
am I totally off base?
Yes.
The tax was previously 5.2, but as of Jan 1, 2001 it's 21.
WOW. Am I alone here in thinking this is a fantastic idea?
This is the kind of thing that I LOVE to see. It's things like that which made cool operating systems (like NeXTSTEP) what they were. If the word "innovate" wasn't so tarnished, I'd use it.
I think Eazel could actually bring Linux to the desktop. We (Linux guys) have been talking about it for a long time, but I think Eazel might actually pull it off.
Good job, guys.
I thought it was a pretty good port. If you don't like IE, then you're obviously not going to like the port.
I find it faster than Netscape on Solaris, and it crashes less (eg almost never). It also has a more polished feel than Netscape.
Also, Loki has Eric's Solitaire, which is the best solitaire game out there.
Microsoft has already developed Internet Explorer for Solaris and HP. (And it's not that bad of a port, too)
http://www.apple.com/powermaccube/
They didn't fill the entire atmosphere in Total Recall, they had an indoor colony.
:)
Remeber the mutants? They were the ones who were exposed to the Martian athmosphere.
I guess that makes your post "PLAGIARISM".
He doesn't. That's a fake!
Actually, she (I think it was a she) left the briefcase in her car when she went to a hockey game. I remember because it sounded like a good story to tell Americans. :)
I don't mean to undermine Amiga, it was a cool platform, but BeOS has the features you mentioned.
Yes, it has a "datatype" sort of feature. I think it was R3.2 that had no way of saving graphics in any format other than tiff out of the box. But a quick download later all of the programs could save/load whatever format you like (provided the plugin was available). It works exactly as it did on Amiga.
BeOS also supports different resolutions and colour depths on different virtual desktops. It also comes with command line tool to manipulate the desktops. For instance, on startup I used to have my box switch to another desktop, start my web server / RC5DES, and then switch back to the first screen.
I hope Amiga comes out with something cool, but BeOS seems to me the logical path for Amiga users if nothing appears. At least I think BeOS is exactly what AOS would be now if Commodore hadn't gone under.
You can find it here.
I've found that it works nicely with Linux. Just uncompress the archive to /beos, dd the floppy, and reboot.
The ACLU sued a school for suspending a student when he posted criticism of teachers on his web site.
Does anyone know how this turned out?