Nationwide, they even prohibited state sales tax from being collected on purchases over the internet.
No they didn't. They prevented states from imposing blanket access taxes on internet service. There are still moves afoot to create a simplified framework for the collection of sales taxes for inter-state purchases, regardless of how the purchase originated. The reason this isn't done at the moment is that it's too awkward to collect, not that it's illegal.
Just filter out anything not from a known source be it your personal or business address book.
That's it. Anyone else goes to Junk and that is checked every couple of days in a dedicated time slot. Nothing gets missed. And time isn't a factor because when was the last time you received some kind of deadline item from someone you didn't know?
It's not that simple. I have several outside interests (free software and sports involvement among others) that generate a fair number of unsolicited personal emails. Granted, the urgency of the requests is generally low, but it is way too easy to miss worthwhile email when reviewing lists of blocked messages. In the last few months, my spam load has increased to over 11Mb a week. The summary of subject lines and senders I get each week is now several hundred Kbytes.
I prefer to try to filter spam from non-spam, so I can be far more cursory in my look at the summary for false positives. The false positive rate has been so low for a while that I sometimes don't even check the summary. Overall, I think my time is better spent killing the few bits of spam that get through and throwing out a few pearls, rather than trolling through piles of garbage to find a larger number of worthwhile messages.
Talking on finding something; hopefully it could be used for a transmitter/receiver in my keychain, my PDA, my wallet, and my phone handset that I can use to triangulate their position when I want to find the darn things! Then I wouldn't spend so much time running around looking for them when I want to go out.
Seems like a couple of folk missed my point. Yes, local government is responsive to local needs. However, the original comment about Orkney and Fresia was in response to a rhetorical question asking what country does anything for the good of humanity.
Much as they might like to be, the Orkney Islands are not a country.
And no simulator gives you the feeling of 4g's first time you pull a loop, the disorientation of your first few spin entries, the weirdness of turning in inverted flight, or how cool it is to fly a seaplane 6 inches off the deck for a while.
I'll add my vote: get away from your computers, and learn to fly a real plane!
Flight simulators are most useful for instrument training and revising emergency drills, not primary training, IMHO.
Interesting...I have some MRI films here in my office showing a metal screw and staple in my knee. The films were taken to examine a re-injury of an ACL reconstruction (which fortunately turned out not to be another tear). I can't find the original surgical report, but I was under the impression that they were made of surgical steel. They didn't rip out when the second MRI was taken.
NeWS was the betamax of window systems; technologically very neat and superior to X in many ways, but killed by poor marketing (and also a flaky PostScript interpreter from Sun). I seem to remember that the GoodNeWS toolkit was written by one Arthur van Hoff, who later turned up as one of the designers of Java...
I doubt there is any direct link. The ML developers in Harlequin were based in the UK, and as far as I know, none of them took jobs with Microsoft when that part of the company was disbanded. The story of Harlequin's ML and Dylan efforts is a long and sorry tale of leading to a missed window of opportunity.
I too, smell a Microsoft rat in this one. It is so similar to Microsoft other vague FUD campaigns of recent years, that it would not in the least surprise me to hear about it. If it ever turns out that MS is funding and aiding this, the fallout would be bigger than the MS antitrust case, as IBM can and does have the financial and legal resources to sue MS for illegal attempts to damage IBM's business, and IBM doesn't come cheap.
If I had any points at the moment, this would be getting modded "troll". Not everything that goes wrong is Microsoft's fault. I personally don't like most of their products or tactics, but won't blame all of the stupidity in the world on them. Learn to appreciate and criticise on merits, not biases.
You'll be glad you did when the stock market tanks again:-) (I'm glad I didn't get round to investing anything during the late 1990s.)
I'd actually recommend reading Burton Malkiel's "A Random Walk down Wall Street" for a good overview of how people try to pick investments, and why they don't always make a good job of it.
Sorry, but I think this is a really pathetic comment, even if it was meant in fun. For once, someone who doesn't care more for his image over what he's doing makes the news, and you make criticise him for it. I don't care for all that Paul Allen does in Seattle (he didn't need public support for the Seahawk Stadium, he's rich enough to pay himself), but give him credit for being who he is, and not conforming to the shallow Hollywood/media image maker's idea of what a rich person should be like.
If there were fewer people around who cared about image and more that cared about substance, the USA would be a lot better off.
You're making a big mistake, in not factoring the consequence of the failure of the system into your calculation. Because the retinal scan is extremely hard to fake, the weight given to it as a form of identification will be consequently higher, and the consequences of identity theft will be higher.
So when that hacker does replace your scan in the database with someone else's, you will have an extremely hard time convincing anyone that you are who you say you are. The trouble that victims of identity theft have now will seem like a walk in the park.
I won't support any system that does not use multiple identifiers and distributed methods of verification of those identifiers (including distributing the verification geographically, politically and commercially).
Dream on. Knuth's concepts may have been fine, but his implementation through obscure macro languages and complex tool-chains was just not usable for everyday programming. Also, there is no evidence that these mechanism scale to large modular programs and systems (TeX and Metafont are monolithic). Integrating support for documentation and cross-referencing in the language is the only sane way to go on this (see Perl's POD, and Haskell for rudimentary examples), otherwise it won't be supported by all language tools.
I used to use a good old paper diary for everything. Eventually, I got a Handspring PDA (one of the first Visors--I still have it and still use it). The reason why I changed to a PDA is that I was scared of the consequences of losing my diary. The PDA is backed up. The data is sync'ed to my computer, which is then backed up to tape. It doesn't matter if I lose my PDA, I still have all my contacts and appointments. I deliberately use a PDA which uses AAA batteries, I can get these anywhere, and the PDA lasts for a month or more of normal use on one set of batteries (important when I'm off in the boonies). Add in the few extra programs I find useful (AstroInfo, TargetPlot, TideTool), and the fact that my paper diary wouldn't beep at me to remind me of appointments, and there is no comparison.
Who cares about the eyecandy, it's what it does that matters. Since I'll still be using a command line and Emacs whatever OS I'm using, screenshots don't tell me a thing about how usable or functional it is.
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8-bit (6502) based BBC Micro. It runs a keyboard and wavetable synthesiser I sometimes play with. The particular machine I have dates from about 1981.
No they didn't. They prevented states from imposing blanket access taxes on internet service. There are still moves afoot to create a simplified framework for the collection of sales taxes for inter-state purchases, regardless of how the purchase originated. The reason this isn't done at the moment is that it's too awkward to collect, not that it's illegal.
It's not that simple. I have several outside interests (free software and sports involvement among others) that generate a fair number of unsolicited personal emails. Granted, the urgency of the requests is generally low, but it is way too easy to miss worthwhile email when reviewing lists of blocked messages. In the last few months, my spam load has increased to over 11Mb a week. The summary of subject lines and senders I get each week is now several hundred Kbytes.
I prefer to try to filter spam from non-spam, so I can be far more cursory in my look at the summary for false positives. The false positive rate has been so low for a while that I sometimes don't even check the summary. Overall, I think my time is better spent killing the few bits of spam that get through and throwing out a few pearls, rather than trolling through piles of garbage to find a larger number of worthwhile messages.
Talking on finding something; hopefully it could be used for a transmitter/receiver in my keychain, my PDA, my wallet, and my phone handset that I can use to triangulate their position when I want to find the darn things! Then I wouldn't spend so much time running around looking for them when I want to go out.
Seems like a couple of folk missed my point. Yes, local government is responsive to local needs. However, the original comment about Orkney and Fresia was in response to a rhetorical question asking what country does anything for the good of humanity.
Much as they might like to be, the Orkney Islands are not a country.
You mean the Scottish and UK parliaments? No? Oh, you're talking about local government. That's a totally different matter.
And no simulator gives you the feeling of 4g's first time you pull a loop, the disorientation of your first few spin entries, the weirdness of turning in inverted flight, or how cool it is to fly a seaplane 6 inches off the deck for a while.
I'll add my vote: get away from your computers, and learn to fly a real plane!
Flight simulators are most useful for instrument training and revising emergency drills, not primary training, IMHO.
Having seen the quality of the acting, we always called it "Y". (Better pronounced than read.)
Interesting...I have some MRI films here in my office showing a metal screw and staple in my knee. The films were taken to examine a re-injury of an ACL reconstruction (which fortunately turned out not to be another tear). I can't find the original surgical report, but I was under the impression that they were made of surgical steel. They didn't rip out when the second MRI was taken.
NeWS was the betamax of window systems; technologically very neat and superior to X in many ways, but killed by poor marketing (and also a flaky PostScript interpreter from Sun). I seem to remember that the GoodNeWS toolkit was written by one Arthur van Hoff, who later turned up as one of the designers of Java...
As far as I remember, it was SML based.
I doubt there is any direct link. The ML developers in Harlequin were based in the UK, and as far as I know, none of them took jobs with Microsoft when that part of the company was disbanded. The story of Harlequin's ML and Dylan efforts is a long and sorry tale of leading to a missed window of opportunity.
If I had any points at the moment, this would be getting modded "troll". Not everything that goes wrong is Microsoft's fault. I personally don't like most of their products or tactics, but won't blame all of the stupidity in the world on them. Learn to appreciate and criticise on merits, not biases.
You'll be glad you did when the stock market tanks again :-) (I'm glad I didn't get round to investing anything during the late 1990s.)
I'd actually recommend reading Burton Malkiel's "A Random Walk down Wall Street" for a good overview of how people try to pick investments, and why they don't always make a good job of it.
Sorry, but I think this is a really pathetic comment, even if it was meant in fun. For once, someone who doesn't care more for his image over what he's doing makes the news, and you make criticise him for it. I don't care for all that Paul Allen does in Seattle (he didn't need public support for the Seahawk Stadium, he's rich enough to pay himself), but give him credit for being who he is, and not conforming to the shallow Hollywood/media image maker's idea of what a rich person should be like.
If there were fewer people around who cared about image and more that cared about substance, the USA would be a lot better off.
You're making a big mistake, in not factoring the consequence of the failure of the system into your calculation. Because the retinal scan is extremely hard to fake, the weight given to it as a form of identification will be consequently higher, and the consequences of identity theft will be higher.
So when that hacker does replace your scan in the database with someone else's, you will have an extremely hard time convincing anyone that you are who you say you are. The trouble that victims of identity theft have now will seem like a walk in the park.
I won't support any system that does not use multiple identifiers and distributed methods of verification of those identifiers (including distributing the verification geographically, politically and commercially).
Dream on. Knuth's concepts may have been fine, but his implementation through obscure macro languages and complex tool-chains was just not usable for everyday programming. Also, there is no evidence that these mechanism scale to large modular programs and systems (TeX and Metafont are monolithic). Integrating support for documentation and cross-referencing in the language is the only sane way to go on this (see Perl's POD, and Haskell for rudimentary examples), otherwise it won't be supported by all language tools.
I used to use a good old paper diary for everything. Eventually, I got a Handspring PDA (one of the first Visors--I still have it and still use it). The reason why I changed to a PDA is that I was scared of the consequences of losing my diary. The PDA is backed up. The data is sync'ed to my computer, which is then backed up to tape. It doesn't matter if I lose my PDA, I still have all my contacts and appointments. I deliberately use a PDA which uses AAA batteries, I can get these anywhere, and the PDA lasts for a month or more of normal use on one set of batteries (important when I'm off in the boonies). Add in the few extra programs I find useful (AstroInfo, TargetPlot, TideTool), and the fact that my paper diary wouldn't beep at me to remind me of appointments, and there is no comparison.
Who cares about the eyecandy, it's what it does that matters. Since I'll still be using a command line and Emacs whatever OS I'm using, screenshots don't tell me a thing about how usable or functional it is.