That's the beauty of the sig....you fell into the trap. The correct word IS nimium but only someone who has spent too much time learning Latin would know that.
Isn't it funny that your computer contains a central processing unit and your body contains a brain and not within either is any appreciable sense of humor?
Actually, it's the unskilled "book smart" recent grads that make contractors look bad. They have very little skills involving how companies truly work as opposed to what they have recently learned in school. They are the main reason there is such a negative view of contractors.
We only hire contractors that have real world apllicable skills which typically means we hire someone well into their 20s or 30s.
Why are they worried? It's not like it's that difficult to move a teepee (tepee). As for terrorists...shouldn't they worry about cowboys and pilgrims with smallpox infested blankets instead?
I agree with the government about taxation on online sales, however, this is being approached the wrong way.
The taxes should be collected by the State that the business is located in. This has many benefits and realistically, it is how taxation is now. If I purchase something in Texas I don't pay taxes in Minnesota because I live there.
First, it eases the burden of an online retailer having to deal with multiple state registrations and making payments to multiple states.
Second, States would be more likely to welcome and even help the small businesses to their state purely for the added tax revenues.
Paying taxes to the state that the purchaser is from (unless it is their resident state) is not a sales tax but rather an import tax.
Of course, many States will use the approach that our half-assed Governor in Minnesota did with cigarettes. Rather than call it a "cigarette tax" he called it a "health impact fee". The only difference will be that every state will call this an "internet purchase because you are afraid to venture out of your house to shop fee"
If any senators or congressmen would like to see my proposal that I submitted to Governor Pawlenty in regard to taxing online purchases, please feel free to contact me. Try listening to the consumer and the small business owner before you make any decisions.
Who's the stronger player? Who has more users than IE?
IE is the strongest player. The only reason MS is collaborating is so they can steal the best features from FF and then RULE THE WORLD WITH AN ARTHRITIC IRON FIST!
"Virgin Galactic is the company leveraging Spaceship One which, as reported by Slashdot, claimed the Ansari X prize for commercial space flight."
Of course the story referenced by/. was actually reported by AP who took the story from a Reuters feed who took the story from any number of sources that had already reported this before.
Good job Adam...err.../.
Nothing like changing the facts. "As reported by Slashdot" makes it sound like/. has some crack reporters out on the scene. It should read "As picked up by/. from another source..."
Maybe I should have posted this higher on the tree but it seems pertinent here.
All I see is constant bickering about "the price of MS products" or other companies products people seem to like to use.
Having been on the development side of software and now the business end, I see there are a few points being overlooked here.
1) Piracy rarely takes away profit from the company. I don't have any hard figures in front of me but the last time we did a market study it was somewhere in the range of 28% of people that bought our software actually originally used it via a pirated copy. That means that over a quarter of the people that stole our software ended up buying it because they liked the way it worked. as for the rest of the people that stole our software - they wouldn't have bought it anyhow. We actually profit from piracy as opposed to losing money. We wouldn't have sold those copies in the first place.
2) A lot of people need to understand that there is a lot of cost involved in development of large software packages like Visual Studio. We have to license other tools that we use in our products (No, I didn't admit to working for MS - just making an example). That costs money to license those products. Then there is the Research side of software. We conduct market surveys. That costs time and money. Then there is development. That is the biggest factor outside of advertising (which is another big issue which needs it's own topic).
3) I see a lot of complaining about the price of Visual Studio in this thread. Visual Studio is expensive but it also is not intended for the Home User. It is intended for Development in an environment that is a bit larger than "Johnny Freeware Developer's" basement. And yet, there are home use versions for most software packages like VS
4) If you don't like the price, don't buy it. You really have no right to tell someone how much they may charge for their product. They own it. If you want to "teach them a lesson" just don't buy their product and they may end up pricing themselves out of the market.
5) Don't try to proclaim innocence by reasoning that you just "steal it to test it then go out and buy it". As our market studies have shown, only 28% of users do that. That means that 72% of you claiming to be "honest try and buy users" are both liars and thieves. Don't tell us how you "redeem yourself". Redemption is a personal issue.
Finally (that would be 6), I see a lot of claims that people will just use Open Source products in place of expensive commercial products. Lies. Most people will continue stealing it. Open Source is limited not by it's user base but rather, the number of people using it that will actually contribute worthwhile code to the project. Again, as with the pirates, the majority of people using open source are just using it because they don't want to pay for a product and the majority of those people aren't contributing, they are leeching. (Let's not get on me about this point - I know there are many great Open Source products and a lot of people that contribute to them. I am just pointing out that the majority of users have nothing to offer back to it)
My intention wasn't start a flamewar but I do see it coming.
The point of my original comment is that Wiki entries are "Open Source". I love open source but disseminating information based on rumor and opinion of the writer is not a good use of open source when the actual intent is to give information based on facts. This is much akin to the media world. Many news stories (much like many Wiki entries) are written by individuals that have already formed a bias about the topic and rather than just state the facts, they allow their personal opinions and feelings skew the entry and thus, skew the facts.
The reader is left, as I stated before, with a mishmash of fact and fiction.
Furthermore, if another user disagrees with a Wiki entry, they can pretty much just change it to reflect their views.
As for your comment that this works for the Internet as a whole, you are correct to a certain degree. However, the difference being, many people are misled in regard to Wiki, thinking it is based wholly on fact purely because of the name they use, specifically the "pedia" portion.
Of course, I have heard people say "I saw/read it on the Internet so it must be true".
How about using the MILLIONS of dollars that are made in NO every year during Mardi Gras?
I've seen many stories and heard many NO residents complain that everyone is ready to "come to New Orleans to party but they don't want to give us the funds we need to rebuild."
We've given you money. Millions every year when we come down to party. It's not our fault that your representatives have decided to squander that money due to their corruption. You voted for them. What with all my tax money that has gone to fund rebuilding down there and all the money I have spent over the last 8 years going to Mardi Gras I wonder how many of you are willing to foot the bill for my hotel stay or my food, drinks and transportation next time I come down there.
As for LA getting money for offshore mining, it's not the same as an interior state getting money for mining within it's borders. It's the Gulf. It's not part of LA.
In Minnesota, we pay taxes to our state and local government. If our representatives misuse these funds they are given the boot and go to prison or in Wellstone's case we just put him on a broken down plane and let gravity do the rest.
Slashdot Mirror
I can't wait until Microsoft launches the production version of Web '98. It's due late Summer of 2007.
Yeah, that's funny.
You should get out more if you find that "funny".
That's the beauty of the sig....you fell into the trap. The correct word IS nimium but only someone who has spent too much time learning Latin would know that.
People who make an irrelevant attempt to bash Microsoft because they think they will get a "Funny" mod on /. given a boot to the head....Priceless.
[Yes this is a joke, for those who don't get astronomy humour.]
And for those of you that do....may I recommend this
Wow...all those hyperlinks...I suspect someone has spent too much time masturbating to Michael Moore documentaries.
Isn't it funny that your computer contains a central processing unit and your body contains a brain and not within either is any appreciable sense of humor?
This is getting mighty close to my patented products...the Flash Cock Ring and the Flash Condom (Penetration Cam and other accessories available).
The problem with my Flash Condom is that a lot of people still haven't warmed up to the idea that you can reuse it.
Actually, I think the word is derived from Australia's favorite band's name, The Bangles, thus, TransferBangles.
Actually, it's the unskilled "book smart" recent grads that make contractors look bad. They have very little skills involving how companies truly work as opposed to what they have recently learned in school. They are the main reason there is such a negative view of contractors.
We only hire contractors that have real world apllicable skills which typically means we hire someone well into their 20s or 30s.
Why are they worried? It's not like it's that difficult to move a teepee (tepee). As for terrorists...shouldn't they worry about cowboys and pilgrims with smallpox infested blankets instead?
Oops...wrong Indians.
Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe!
"Jack Thompson to Take-Two: All your stocks are belong to us."
Paul Eibeler was quoted as saying "Someone set us up the dipshit attorney."
Dvorak is to the Internet what Lesko is to infomercials.
I agree with the government about taxation on online sales, however, this is being approached the wrong way.
The taxes should be collected by the State that the business is located in. This has many benefits and realistically, it is how taxation is now. If I purchase something in Texas I don't pay taxes in Minnesota because I live there.
First, it eases the burden of an online retailer having to deal with multiple state registrations and making payments to multiple states.
Second, States would be more likely to welcome and even help the small businesses to their state purely for the added tax revenues.
Paying taxes to the state that the purchaser is from (unless it is their resident state) is not a sales tax but rather an import tax.
Of course, many States will use the approach that our half-assed Governor in Minnesota did with cigarettes. Rather than call it a "cigarette tax" he called it a "health impact fee". The only difference will be that every state will call this an "internet purchase because you are afraid to venture out of your house to shop fee"
If any senators or congressmen would like to see my proposal that I submitted to Governor Pawlenty in regard to taxing online purchases, please feel free to contact me. Try listening to the consumer and the small business owner before you make any decisions.
Who's the stronger player? Who has more users than IE?
IE is the strongest player. The only reason MS is collaborating is so they can steal the best features from FF and then RULE THE WORLD WITH AN ARTHRITIC IRON FIST!
I have a goatee. I knew my parents were keeping a secret from me...
"Virgin Galactic is the company leveraging Spaceship One which, as reported by Slashdot, claimed the Ansari X prize for commercial space flight."
/. was actually reported by AP who took the story from a Reuters feed who took the story from any number of sources that had already reported this before.
/. has some crack reporters out on the scene. It should read "As picked up by /. from another source..."
Of course the story referenced by
Good job Adam...err.../.
Nothing like changing the facts. "As reported by Slashdot" makes it sound like
Back in the 80s there was this channel that played music videos 24/7. It didn't work. I wonder what ever happened to them?
Maybe I should have posted this higher on the tree but it seems pertinent here.
All I see is constant bickering about "the price of MS products" or other companies products people seem to like to use.
Having been on the development side of software and now the business end, I see there are a few points being overlooked here.
1) Piracy rarely takes away profit from the company. I don't have any hard figures in front of me but the last time we did a market study it was somewhere in the range of 28% of people that bought our software actually originally used it via a pirated copy. That means that over a quarter of the people that stole our software ended up buying it because they liked the way it worked. as for the rest of the people that stole our software - they wouldn't have bought it anyhow. We actually profit from piracy as opposed to losing money. We wouldn't have sold those copies in the first place.
2) A lot of people need to understand that there is a lot of cost involved in development of large software packages like Visual Studio. We have to license other tools that we use in our products (No, I didn't admit to working for MS - just making an example). That costs money to license those products. Then there is the Research side of software. We conduct market surveys. That costs time and money. Then there is development. That is the biggest factor outside of advertising (which is another big issue which needs it's own topic).
3) I see a lot of complaining about the price of Visual Studio in this thread. Visual Studio is expensive but it also is not intended for the Home User. It is intended for Development in an environment that is a bit larger than "Johnny Freeware Developer's" basement. And yet, there are home use versions for most software packages like VS
4) If you don't like the price, don't buy it. You really have no right to tell someone how much they may charge for their product. They own it. If you want to "teach them a lesson" just don't buy their product and they may end up pricing themselves out of the market.
5) Don't try to proclaim innocence by reasoning that you just "steal it to test it then go out and buy it". As our market studies have shown, only 28% of users do that. That means that 72% of you claiming to be "honest try and buy users" are both liars and thieves. Don't tell us how you "redeem yourself". Redemption is a personal issue.
Finally (that would be 6), I see a lot of claims that people will just use Open Source products in place of expensive commercial products. Lies. Most people will continue stealing it. Open Source is limited not by it's user base but rather, the number of people using it that will actually contribute worthwhile code to the project. Again, as with the pirates, the majority of people using open source are just using it because they don't want to pay for a product and the majority of those people aren't contributing, they are leeching. (Let's not get on me about this point - I know there are many great Open Source products and a lot of people that contribute to them. I am just pointing out that the majority of users have nothing to offer back to it)
My intention wasn't start a flamewar but I do see it coming.
Oh to be 15 again and embarking on the adventure of my first job when I thought I was being righteous as opposed to being a naive child.
There are plenty of other resources online that are free:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/
http://encarta.msn.com/
Those are just a few.
The point of my original comment is that Wiki entries are "Open Source". I love open source but disseminating information based on rumor and opinion of the writer is not a good use of open source when the actual intent is to give information based on facts. This is much akin to the media world. Many news stories (much like many Wiki entries) are written by individuals that have already formed a bias about the topic and rather than just state the facts, they allow their personal opinions and feelings skew the entry and thus, skew the facts.
The reader is left, as I stated before, with a mishmash of fact and fiction.
Furthermore, if another user disagrees with a Wiki entry, they can pretty much just change it to reflect their views.
As for your comment that this works for the Internet as a whole, you are correct to a certain degree. However, the difference being, many people are misled in regard to Wiki, thinking it is based wholly on fact purely because of the name they use, specifically the "pedia" portion.
Of course, I have heard people say "I saw/read it on the Internet so it must be true".
They just can't, Mmkayy?
Wikipedia is a great resource if you don't mind having your facts mixed with fiction (In which case you should just talk to a politician instead).
Wiki is fraught with personal opinion, general consensus and rumor-mill myth that Wiki nerds generally accept as fact.
These days the phrase "I saw it on TV..." has been replaced with "I read it on Wiki so it must be true."
How about using the MILLIONS of dollars that are made in NO every year during Mardi Gras?
I've seen many stories and heard many NO residents complain that everyone is ready to "come to New Orleans to party but they don't want to give us the funds we need to rebuild."
We've given you money. Millions every year when we come down to party. It's not our fault that your representatives have decided to squander that money due to their corruption. You voted for them. What with all my tax money that has gone to fund rebuilding down there and all the money I have spent over the last 8 years going to Mardi Gras I wonder how many of you are willing to foot the bill for my hotel stay or my food, drinks and transportation next time I come down there.
As for LA getting money for offshore mining, it's not the same as an interior state getting money for mining within it's borders. It's the Gulf. It's not part of LA.
In Minnesota, we pay taxes to our state and local government. If our representatives misuse these funds they are given the boot and go to prison or in Wellstone's case we just put him on a broken down plane and let gravity do the rest.