One huge factor in that price is that Europe averages 70 people per km2; the US averages 31. So just to have the necessary coverage area is going to cost double. Then consider that our government doesn't force operators to cooperate and you get propreitary ineffeciency (aka "Competitive Advantage" in biz speak).
Planning genocide, well that's a touchy area. You are right that nobody is getting hurt... yet.
Lying is a form of speach. You want both Free Speach and to regulate Lying; you contradict yourself.
If you have to qualify what your saying with "really" you either don't mean it, or you realize there's something inherently wrong with what you're saying.
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You've got some tech savy users there. Mine all use the "download site". They download files from it and download files to the site.
Perhaps developments like this were the reason the Star Wars Program was miniaturized. Protecting us from "mosquitos" sure sounds like a good cover story.
Yes, but if you accept the consideration (gold coins in this case) as being worth more than face value, and in lieu of more paper money, then you are being paid the instrinsic value of the consideration and can not report the face value as your compensation.
A better example would be if someone paid you in horses. If you recieved 100 horses for working at your job your W2 does not state 100 Horses, it would state the approximate value of the horses.
The problem here is that people are under the perception that it somehow matters that the gold coins came from the US Mint. The IRC does not make a distinction; it only cares about value.
They don't have to accept gold and silver. That part of the Constitution you refer to is Article I, Section 10 and says that States can't make anything currency except gold and silver (all other money is reserved to the Federal Government, hence the Federal Mints); nothing about what the government has to accept.
What you're thinking of is that the dollar bill used to be backed by gold. Other nations could at any time they wanted trade money for gold (and vice versa) with the US government. The Smithsonian Agreement ended that however. The US Government no longer trades money for anything other than more money.
What this guy did was try to pay his employees one amount and report a different amount. For example, he bought gold coins that had a face value of $100 for $500. He then gave the coins to an employee for a week's pay. His expense for that employee was $500; but he reported on the employee's W2 that the employee was paid $100. That's illegal. -- He argued that the face value of the payment method is all that matters. IRS operates on a Cash basis, what he paid for the employee is what he should report (employment taxes aside). This still leaves some room for a discrepancy based on the value of gold when he purchased it to when the employees were paid, any gain would have to be reported on the employee's tax return however.
This comment is a personal opinion, it does not constitute legal or tax advice.
I've run similar test. Between two comcast-connected home servers (on different connections) and between those servers and a T1 (non-Comcast) connected server. Same results.
I've got a consumer account and run a similar setup. My IP has changed 3 times in 7 years. Having to deal with the change once every few years isn't much for the cost savings; especially when it's just my domain.
I didn't say there was "no local support". I know of two local places that support a variety of linux configuration. I also know if two dozen local places that fiercely compete with each other for MS AD business. Just because you can get it doesn't mean that it makes business sense to do so.
You can configure a Samba server against LDAP and have everything authenticate agaist that. Your biggest pitfall is going to be finding support for the configuration. You have to consider "what if the IT Admin get's hit by a bus, who's going to support this configuration". With Active Directory you can flip open a phonebook and find a dozen local places that will support it; that's not the case with the Samba/LDAP configuration.
Put me down for that too. I would pay $25/mo+ for 720p/h264/AC3/MKV on a server that can push at least 2Mbps. No commercials or advertising of any kind (most I'll just AdBlock anyway).
I know this is modded Funny, but it's pretty close to the mark. What you put in the book is information. This is the information age, where people expect it to be free. It's not going to be easy to get around that. As the parent poster suggested, non-information tasks still garner good pay. Lectures and teaching tours are usually a good avenue. But what you're really in search of is someone to pay for organizing the information, and your best target there is going to be a school or other educational institution in need of good information organization (ie a book).
Obviously you're not the gaming fan you thought you were. The GPH has been around for quite a few years now, and have made several successful gaming systems. Just because they're not extremely popular like Gameboy or PSP does not make them unsuccessful.
Well is is a bit more complicated than that. Even without contraceptives effectiveness is much less than 100%. So it's hard to say exactly how many times the condom failed on account of a fail condom does not automatically equal a pregnancy. Plus add in user error and several other minor factors and the true rate might be very different.
Also, for anyone who thinks that the rate of 0.02% is found by dividing 2% by 100, it's actually 1-((1-2%)^-(1/100)) =.0202% rounded off. But these are just ficticious numbers since we don't know how many times a year the poeple did it in the study providing the "2%" number.
Part of the problem is also establishing what counts? I personally have 4 "Desktops" around the house with a Unix-like OS. Do those all count toward the total? Or should they count for two since only two people use them? And what about the boxes I have that I no longer use? Most of them are also non-Windows PCs.
I can see where 1% of users might be Linux, and a much higher number (though 10% seems darn high) of boxes are Linux.
Apple knows how they intend to use the chip, but that is not the same as knowing how the chip gets it done. Participating by writing various specifications and testing is a very long way from designing logic circuity.
That's not to say they can't do it, or wont be good at it. But your making a leap.
This isn't "new" technology. I have a book on wireless backhaul technology that's 6 years old and has information on 68GHz links gigabit links. At that time there was no commercial product available, but the information was included because they knew it would be coming. Proxim also makes a commercial setup currently (granted it's only 1.25 Gbps, but it's on the shelf right now, and has been for a while) product link.
These 30GHz+ links operate over a very short distance, less than 1 Km, and must have a clear line of sight (which is actual an area, see Fresnel Zones). As PP mentioned anything getting in the way will kill the signal; at higher frequencies/distances even rain or snow. As usual wiki has a good article on EHF.
Thank god someone mentioned that we already have Code Access and Revision Tracking protocols around. Pick one of them, any one, I wouldn't care if they chose CVS. Even CVS is better than what we have now!
ANI (Auto Number Ident) is the feature that translates to Caller ID. It's not the AIN (Advanced Intelligent Network) protocol that the CO equipment uses. You can't fake the endpoint number in AIN, there'd be no way for the SSP (something like a router) to get the return voice traffic back to the caller.
1. Knowing the number doesn't mean you know where the phone is. 2. Knowing the number doesn't mean you know who's phone it is. 3. We should invent some sort of public anonymous phone, we could have users of these public phones pay a small fee for their use. That way the user could remain anonymous, despite showing the calling number on caller ID. 4. If someone really want to do you bodily harm, why are you calling them directly in the first place? This is common sense, and/.ers should have called them on this one already.
A little info on the modern phone system. It's all digital these days, mostly a system called AIN, except for the little bit between your phone and the local CO. From there out the digital system keeps track of endpoints, comparable to an IP address. If you have a digital phone, like ISDN (ISDN-PRI phone lines are very common in businesses), the AIN endpoints are usually mapped to ISDN fields. Correctly programmed phone systems mask this information when the CID-Block Bit is set; but you can see the potential for abuse. This service just makes it easier, nothing that wasn't possible before.
My company will not tollerate unethical behavior and proactively prevents it. We don't just "not participate", I'd be instantly fired for something like this.
Does not participate != Will not tollerate. That's a big difference!
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One huge factor in that price is that Europe averages 70 people per km2; the US averages 31. So just to have the necessary coverage area is going to cost double. Then consider that our government doesn't force operators to cooperate and you get propreitary ineffeciency (aka "Competitive Advantage" in biz speak).
Planning genocide, well that's a touchy area. You are right that nobody is getting hurt... yet.
Lying is a form of speach. You want both Free Speach and to regulate Lying; you contradict yourself.
If you have to qualify what your saying with "really" you either don't mean it, or you realize there's something inherently wrong with what you're saying.
You've got some tech savy users there. Mine all use the "download site". They download files from it and download files to the site.
Perhaps developments like this were the reason the Star Wars Program was miniaturized. Protecting us from "mosquitos" sure sounds like a good cover story.
Yes, but if you accept the consideration (gold coins in this case) as being worth more than face value, and in lieu of more paper money, then you are being paid the instrinsic value of the consideration and can not report the face value as your compensation.
A better example would be if someone paid you in horses. If you recieved 100 horses for working at your job your W2 does not state 100 Horses, it would state the approximate value of the horses.
The problem here is that people are under the perception that it somehow matters that the gold coins came from the US Mint. The IRC does not make a distinction; it only cares about value.
They don't have to accept gold and silver. That part of the Constitution you refer to is Article I, Section 10 and says that States can't make anything currency except gold and silver (all other money is reserved to the Federal Government, hence the Federal Mints); nothing about what the government has to accept.
What you're thinking of is that the dollar bill used to be backed by gold. Other nations could at any time they wanted trade money for gold (and vice versa) with the US government. The Smithsonian Agreement ended that however. The US Government no longer trades money for anything other than more money.
What this guy did was try to pay his employees one amount and report a different amount. For example, he bought gold coins that had a face value of $100 for $500. He then gave the coins to an employee for a week's pay. His expense for that employee was $500; but he reported on the employee's W2 that the employee was paid $100. That's illegal. -- He argued that the face value of the payment method is all that matters. IRS operates on a Cash basis, what he paid for the employee is what he should report (employment taxes aside). This still leaves some room for a discrepancy based on the value of gold when he purchased it to when the employees were paid, any gain would have to be reported on the employee's tax return however.
This comment is a personal opinion, it does not constitute legal or tax advice.
I've run similar test. Between two comcast-connected home servers (on different connections) and between those servers and a T1 (non-Comcast) connected server. Same results.
I've got a consumer account and run a similar setup. My IP has changed 3 times in 7 years. Having to deal with the change once every few years isn't much for the cost savings; especially when it's just my domain.
I didn't say there was "no local support". I know of two local places that support a variety of linux configuration. I also know if two dozen local places that fiercely compete with each other for MS AD business. Just because you can get it doesn't mean that it makes business sense to do so.
You can configure a Samba server against LDAP and have everything authenticate agaist that. Your biggest pitfall is going to be finding support for the configuration. You have to consider "what if the IT Admin get's hit by a bus, who's going to support this configuration". With Active Directory you can flip open a phonebook and find a dozen local places that will support it; that's not the case with the Samba/LDAP configuration.
Put me down for that too. I would pay $25/mo+ for 720p/h264/AC3/MKV on a server that can push at least 2Mbps.
No commercials or advertising of any kind (most I'll just AdBlock anyway).
Um, I don't know about games, but "something like this" has been made:
... And failed miserably with good reason.
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I know this is modded Funny, but it's pretty close to the mark. What you put in the book is information. This is the information age, where people expect it to be free. It's not going to be easy to get around that. As the parent poster suggested, non-information tasks still garner good pay. Lectures and teaching tours are usually a good avenue. But what you're really in search of is someone to pay for organizing the information, and your best target there is going to be a school or other educational institution in need of good information organization (ie a book).
Obviously you're not the gaming fan you thought you were. The GPH has been around for quite a few years now, and have made several successful gaming systems. Just because they're not extremely popular like Gameboy or PSP does not make them unsuccessful.
Well is is a bit more complicated than that. Even without contraceptives effectiveness is much less than 100%. So it's hard to say exactly how many times the condom failed on account of a fail condom does not automatically equal a pregnancy. Plus add in user error and several other minor factors and the true rate might be very different.
Also, for anyone who thinks that the rate of 0.02% is found by dividing 2% by 100, it's actually 1-((1-2%)^-(1/100)) = .0202% rounded off. But these are just ficticious numbers since we don't know how many times a year the poeple did it in the study providing the "2%" number.
Part of the problem is also establishing what counts? I personally have 4 "Desktops" around the house with a Unix-like OS. Do those all count toward the total? Or should they count for two since only two people use them?
And what about the boxes I have that I no longer use? Most of them are also non-Windows PCs.
I can see where 1% of users might be Linux, and a much higher number (though 10% seems darn high) of boxes are Linux.
Apple knows how they intend to use the chip, but that is not the same as knowing how the chip gets it done. Participating by writing various specifications and testing is a very long way from designing logic circuity.
That's not to say they can't do it, or wont be good at it. But your making a leap.
They're funded by the Internet Innovation Alliance, who is funded by AT&T.
Or perhaps a Ternary Computer or a Quantum Computer. There's quite a few varities of digital computer, no harm in being specific.
Thank you! My first thought was "hardware that lasts 15 years is more than 3x more expensive than hardware that lasts 5 years.
This is a business decision, pay attention to the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).
This isn't "new" technology. I have a book on wireless backhaul technology that's 6 years old and has information on 68GHz links gigabit links. At that time there was no commercial product available, but the information was included because they knew it would be coming. Proxim also makes a commercial setup currently (granted it's only 1.25 Gbps, but it's on the shelf right now, and has been for a while) product link.
These 30GHz+ links operate over a very short distance, less than 1 Km, and must have a clear line of sight (which is actual an area, see Fresnel Zones). As PP mentioned anything getting in the way will kill the signal; at higher frequencies/distances even rain or snow. As usual wiki has a good article on EHF.
Thank god someone mentioned that we already have Code Access and Revision Tracking protocols around. Pick one of them, any one, I wouldn't care if they chose CVS. Even CVS is better than what we have now!
Here's a list, pick any Open Source one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revision_control_software
ANI (Auto Number Ident) is the feature that translates to Caller ID. It's not the AIN (Advanced Intelligent Network) protocol that the CO equipment uses. You can't fake the endpoint number in AIN, there'd be no way for the SSP (something like a router) to get the return voice traffic back to the caller.
1. Knowing the number doesn't mean you know where the phone is. /.ers should have called them on this one already.
2. Knowing the number doesn't mean you know who's phone it is.
3. We should invent some sort of public anonymous phone, we could have users of these public phones pay a small fee for their use. That way the user could remain anonymous, despite showing the calling number on caller ID.
4. If someone really want to do you bodily harm, why are you calling them directly in the first place? This is common sense, and
A little info on the modern phone system. It's all digital these days, mostly a system called AIN, except for the little bit between your phone and the local CO. From there out the digital system keeps track of endpoints, comparable to an IP address. If you have a digital phone, like ISDN (ISDN-PRI phone lines are very common in businesses), the AIN endpoints are usually mapped to ISDN fields. Correctly programmed phone systems mask this information when the CID-Block Bit is set; but you can see the potential for abuse. This service just makes it easier, nothing that wasn't possible before.
My company will not tollerate unethical behavior and proactively prevents it. We don't just "not participate", I'd be instantly fired for something like this.
Does not participate != Will not tollerate. That's a big difference!