8086 underpowered? Nah. Completely unsuited for a multitasking, multiuser OS? Yes. The 80286 (PC-AT) was a little better, but the problem it had was that it did not have memory protection or something that resembled a flat address space and memory was paged in 16KB increments, which made it a third class citizen in the Unix world. Porting software was rarely trivial (think re-writing data structures to deal with 16KB limits. That said, you could get a 16Mhz clone 286 to handle about eight terminals running WordPerfect and an accounting system. The problem with 286 Xenix was it was about the same cost as getting a 3B2 or other proper Unix machine once you added in all the hardware upgrades.
When the 386 showed up in 87 and 88, it really helped because you finally had a CPU built with the stuff a multitasking, multiuser OS needed... Porting software wasn't as difficult, and at the time SCO was doing a fantastic job with their product. Unfortunately at that time, Unix vendors (MS included) thought a single user license of Unix was worth $500 (except for Mark Williams, who had the Coherent Unix clone). It wasn't uncommon to hang 32 terminals on a 386.
I have a few friends who own print design agencies. Here's how they do it (I asked them last year when I was setting up project storage for my company):
- A few do the old-school library checkout system and get the drive from storage and use it with their desktop/laptop. Most often they use USB drives. - The more sophisticated ones have a multi drive ESATA box and request that a particular archive be put online. An admin gets the drive and mounts it as needed. Live projects are stored online. Backups are done to another hard drive. - The most sophisticated have a big old NAS or file server and just leave everything online, and back up to HD.
No, it doesn't. There are over 30,000 taxing authorities ranging from library districts to townships, to wastewater districts to cities to counties and states that can levy sales tax on residents. Knowing what to collect is the easy part. Writing 12,300 checks per year and mailing them at $.70 (check+postage) is cost stupid. Then there are private services that will collect and pay taxes, and charge their fees on top of the taxes.
Income tax is only progressive if you have a progressive schedule for it. Sales tax is not regressive, but it does appear to be so if you calculate it against income... which ignores the fact that sales tax can easily be avoided by buying used or not buying at all.
. Amazon did not hire an ad agency. It is customary for an ad agency to charge for the amount of exposure provided regardless of any sales actually generated.
This analogy fails. In the Scripto Case, the Wholesalers involved met with prospects, demonstrated products, wrote up sales and functioned as sales persons. In the case of Amazon, affiliates only advertise, and all sales are written by the buyer directly on Amazon's website.
It is not uncommon for ad agencies, and especially internet based ad agencies to accept performance based pay. Google CPA Cost Per Action. Even Google can be hired on this basis.
Sigh. The move California made was to redefine what it meant to be located in California so that anyone who used affiliate advertising agencies/people in California would be located there. An affiliate is not like a door-to-door sales person. An affiliate markets (advertises) Amazon's products online. People click on the affiliate's links (which have a tracking code) and buy products on Amazon.com's website. Amazon sends a check based on the sales generated from the affiliate's clickthrus. It is simply commission based advertising. Some affiliates are individuals, others are very large media companies.
This has nothing to do with Amazon paying tax. It has to do with Amazon being forced to act as an agent and collect sales tax on customers for a state they are *not* located in.
All tax is not bad, but a tax that can be used as a weapon by California against Rhode Island is not good for the United part of United States.
They changed the definition of having a location in California such that if you have a 1099 contractor doing advertising for you, you have a location in California, and therefore have to collect sales tax.
This is unconstitutional and irrational at the same time. If I hire an ad agency in your state, that does not mean I have moved there. It's no different than hiring an accountant, lawyer, or for that matter, a shipping company with a location in your state to define location (nexus). There's a reason why our constitution gives sole power to regulate and levy duties (tax) interstate commerce in a *uniform way*. This prohibition is to prevent trade wars between the states and to prevent large states from using taxation to force businesses to relocate there.
OK, so what about the poor, local businesses being put under by ______________.com?
Well, if you are a small local business, and sell mail order, you don't have to collect sales tax for shipments to anywhere other than your home state. That gives you an advantage in 49 states.
Inflation is generally caused by increasing the amount of currency in circulation, which lowers the value of the dollar. Even if you aren't impressed, the rest of society will and will raise prices on you, thereby forcing you to raise your selling prices as your costs go up.
The government can do this. It causes inflation. What they aren't telling you is that inflation is what is needed when the problem is that you national budget is being crushed by interest payments. The government gets out of debt, the bankers don't get to make much money for a few years, the grass gets a little greener, the sky a little bluer and there are faeries and ponies for everyone.
In most states, and in federal law, it's illegal to impede the travel of a congressman traveling on business. And that law applies to law enforcement officers.
I've exchanged letters with my Senator (Richard Lugar) about to the problem. He actually thinks that purchasing backscatter detectors is good public policy, and that people want to be "protected" by the TSA. Lugar is so out of touch that it's sad.
Sooner or later one of our Senators will figure out he can pick up 5-10% in the polls by being anti-old-ladys-being-groped-by-the-TSA. Scott Brown will never figure it out.
In a nation that allows private citizens to own firearms, I see no problem with this. It's not as if an assassin can't readily buy a new rifle pretty much anywhere in the US.
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8086 underpowered? Nah. Completely unsuited for a multitasking, multiuser OS? Yes. The 80286 (PC-AT) was a little better, but the problem it had was that it did not have memory protection or something that resembled a flat address space and memory was paged in 16KB increments, which made it a third class citizen in the Unix world. Porting software was rarely trivial (think re-writing data structures to deal with 16KB limits. That said, you could get a 16Mhz clone 286 to handle about eight terminals running WordPerfect and an accounting system. The problem with 286 Xenix was it was about the same cost as getting a 3B2 or other proper Unix machine once you added in all the hardware upgrades.
When the 386 showed up in 87 and 88, it really helped because you finally had a CPU built with the stuff a multitasking, multiuser OS needed... Porting software wasn't as difficult, and at the time SCO was doing a fantastic job with their product. Unfortunately at that time, Unix vendors (MS included) thought a single user license of Unix was worth $500 (except for Mark Williams, who had the Coherent Unix clone). It wasn't uncommon to hang 32 terminals on a 386.
I expect that you'll use your influence as a Gnome developer to get the problem resolved?
None of those rise to the level of suing the makers of Angry Birds. It's like suing Santa Claus or Ghandi...
I have a few friends who own print design agencies. Here's how they do it (I asked them last year when I was setting up project storage for my company):
- A few do the old-school library checkout system and get the drive from storage and use it with their desktop/laptop. Most often they use USB drives.
- The more sophisticated ones have a multi drive ESATA box and request that a particular archive be put online. An admin gets the drive and mounts it as needed. Live projects are stored online. Backups are done to another hard drive.
- The most sophisticated have a big old NAS or file server and just leave everything online, and back up to HD.
The second option is really the most popular.
I've never seen a single slash get more people angry than the one in GNU/Linux.
How do you have a tax vary by destination, yet meet the constitution's requirement that duties on interstate commerce be apportioned equally?
No, it doesn't. There are over 30,000 taxing authorities ranging from library districts to townships, to wastewater districts to cities to counties and states that can levy sales tax on residents. Knowing what to collect is the easy part. Writing 12,300 checks per year and mailing them at $.70 (check+postage) is cost stupid. Then there are private services that will collect and pay taxes, and charge their fees on top of the taxes.
States are afraid the feds will keep their money.
Income tax is only progressive if you have a progressive schedule for it. Sales tax is not regressive, but it does appear to be so if you calculate it against income... which ignores the fact that sales tax can easily be avoided by buying used or not buying at all.
. Amazon did not hire an ad agency. It is customary for an ad agency to charge for the amount of exposure provided regardless of any sales actually generated.
This analogy fails. In the Scripto Case, the Wholesalers involved met with prospects, demonstrated products, wrote up sales and functioned as sales persons. In the case of Amazon, affiliates only advertise, and all sales are written by the buyer directly on Amazon's website.
It is not uncommon for ad agencies, and especially internet based ad agencies to accept performance based pay. Google CPA Cost Per Action. Even Google can be hired on this basis.
Sigh. The move California made was to redefine what it meant to be located in California so that anyone who used affiliate advertising agencies/people in California would be located there. An affiliate is not like a door-to-door sales person. An affiliate markets (advertises) Amazon's products online. People click on the affiliate's links (which have a tracking code) and buy products on Amazon.com's website. Amazon sends a check based on the sales generated from the affiliate's clickthrus. It is simply commission based advertising. Some affiliates are individuals, others are very large media companies.
This has nothing to do with Amazon paying tax. It has to do with Amazon being forced to act as an agent and collect sales tax on customers for a state they are *not* located in.
All tax is not bad, but a tax that can be used as a weapon by California against Rhode Island is not good for the United part of United States.
Here's what California has done:
They changed the definition of having a location in California such that if you have a 1099 contractor doing advertising for you, you have a location in California, and therefore have to collect sales tax.
This is unconstitutional and irrational at the same time. If I hire an ad agency in your state, that does not mean I have moved there. It's no different than hiring an accountant, lawyer, or for that matter, a shipping company with a location in your state to define location (nexus). There's a reason why our constitution gives sole power to regulate and levy duties (tax) interstate commerce in a *uniform way*. This prohibition is to prevent trade wars between the states and to prevent large states from using taxation to force businesses to relocate there.
OK, so what about the poor, local businesses being put under by ______________.com?
Well, if you are a small local business, and sell mail order, you don't have to collect sales tax for shipments to anywhere other than your home state. That gives you an advantage in 49 states.
Google and Facebook is simply a real life example of the pot calling the kettle black.
I thought our passenger rail system was awful because of those airplane thingies that get you there in 1/20th the time.
If they had patents and had a prayer in court, they would disclose the violation. This feels like the SCO case all the way.
Inflation is generally caused by increasing the amount of currency in circulation, which lowers the value of the dollar. Even if you aren't impressed, the rest of society will and will raise prices on you, thereby forcing you to raise your selling prices as your costs go up.
The government can do this. It causes inflation. What they aren't telling you is that inflation is what is needed when the problem is that you national budget is being crushed by interest payments. The government gets out of debt, the bankers don't get to make much money for a few years, the grass gets a little greener, the sky a little bluer and there are faeries and ponies for everyone.
The banks and MSPs involved are not in the US, so it would be difficult to prosecute using US Law.
I did not mean to insult the NKVD by comparing it with the TSA. The NKVD was by comparison, professional.
In most states, and in federal law, it's illegal to impede the travel of a congressman traveling on business. And that law applies to law enforcement officers.
I've exchanged letters with my Senator (Richard Lugar) about to the problem. He actually thinks that purchasing backscatter detectors is good public policy, and that people want to be "protected" by the TSA. Lugar is so out of touch that it's sad.
Sooner or later one of our Senators will figure out he can pick up 5-10% in the polls by being anti-old-ladys-being-groped-by-the-TSA. Scott Brown will never figure it out.
In a nation that allows private citizens to own firearms, I see no problem with this. It's not as if an assassin can't readily buy a new rifle pretty much anywhere in the US.