When censoring, it's traditional to remove a vowel instead of a consonant. To hypothesize, it seems likely that removing a vowel would generally inject more ambiguity to the resultant censored word than removing a consonant.
Empirically, try to vocalize "b*tch" vs. "bit*h"... the former seems to have many more possible values.
A more than 2% owner of a subchapter-S corporation can effectively deduct the entire amount of the premium. It was difficult to find clear direction about this, but it really boils down to just two IRS bulletins:
To summarize, we have the company pay the premiums directly and report the value in Boxes 1 & 14 of the W-2. It is therefore subject to withholding, but not FICA (Social Security & Medicare). We then individually recoup the withholding taxes via the applicable Self-employed health insurance deduction (which is "above the line").
Convoluted, yes, but it eliminates all taxes on our health insurance premiums.
Here is my interpretation: 6 total replicants. 4 replicants shown, 1 fried, and 1 "other". Deckard, was not "just" a replicant, he was the sixth replicant from the crew.
The theory is consistent and explains some otherwise non sequitirs in the DC. The line of reasoning is that Deckard was imprinted with memory engrams (like we saw in Rachel). It gives a reason for the unicorn scene and implication that he is known as a replicant to the department. More telling is how the four replicants react to seeing and interacting with Deckard.
Next time, watch the film while bearing in mind this postulate... the replicants are reacting to one of their comrades--who has no recollection of them--who is intent to kill them. The flickers of sadness in Batty's face, Batty's reluctance to kill Deckard, and visceral feeling of betrayal Batty communicates is almost tangible.
Anyway, it also explains how each of the four recognized Deckard on sight, even before he pulled his gun.
I realized it was a simplification when I posted; I also neglected to add protocol overhead and to substitute Shannon's theorem (since RF isn't really a noiseless channel in this case, now is it?)
Using the simplifications of Nyquist theorem and a binary symbol set was a reasonable approach to briefly explain the issue, especially since 802.11b uses a binary symbol set.
A connection is centered on a channel. If you remember your basic signals class, the bandwidth of the connection is dependent upon the width of the signal. Therefore, the actual bandwidth (in the RF sense) consumed by a connection is dependent upon the bandwidth (in the networking sense) of the link. Nyquist theorem means that an 11 Mbps link consumes a nominal 22 MHz (11 MHz on either side of the 'center' frequency, aka. 'channel')
Please. Even if you are "silenced" by your peers (and I don't agree that you were... I saw your post, didn't I?), its the peers here, not some sort of editor conspiracy.
Trust me, I have a persecution complex about many things... but suggesting that the slashdot moderation system is being run by a shadowy cabal bent on suppressing expression on a forum for a fringe, not politically important group stretches credulity and is likely just egotism on your part.
Perhaps you were modded down for the tone of your post. Considered that? Or does Occam's Razor tell you that the shadowy cabal was the most probable hypothesis?
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Anything remotely active (running, climbing, cycling) is not good with hard drive players.
This has been beaten to death in thousands of/. threads before. No one has ever heard of an iPod dying for this reason... it is just due to your general sense of unease about hard drives and head crashes. However, it doesnt happen with the iPod, and no, the iPod doesnt skip on active use either. Anyway, I digress...
I have no problem having Windows iTunes manage my 64 GB collection over the network. Of course, I have a dedicated Win 2k3 server and gigabit ethernet. Whatever. SMB on NT is great for filesystem access (fuck Apple's Rendezvous, it sucks... use SMB).
The only gripe I have with iTunes (and this holds for Winamp 5 as well) is that files without ID3 tags are "lost" in the library, as a rule. Dont know how that would be solved, though. For instance, my.aiff's and.wav's cannot be ID3 tagged.
Think it was only one who noticed it? Look, someone has to call you on it or the rest of us rage in silence. Heh, it would be funny sometime to have everyone who noticed an error in minutia to chime in. You may be surprised.
Of course, it is too late in this thread. Slashdot moves on if your post doesnt arrive within an hour of the article posting.
Approximately 2,000? Interesting. We could change everything to be based on this new metric! Avogadro's number now becomes 3.011*10^20 9-11s! Your salary, taxes, and insurance rates could be quoted in terms of units of 9-11s! Kick fucking ass!
BTW, dude: 20,000 deaths a year is only about 0.0067% of the population. You really need to understand that in a US population of ~150,000 9-11s, ten 9-11s deaths isn't that much.
Your heartwarming tale could be this summer's feel-good movie...IN HELL!
Seriously, the "slow and steady" and "good things will come to those who wait" outlook is naive at best and realistically, pseudo-masochistic. I used to have that outlook, and while I am highly-experienced in my field, I no longer have any illusions about the system working for the meek.
I am currently employed as a consultant (and I am planning to return to school for a PhD since I am a "bithead"), but I realize that corporations will dangle the carrot you described as long as you are willing to follow. Since corporations typically view loyalty as a one-way street, it is best to make yourself indispensible by whatever means available.
I suppose my point is that you should consider carefully your investment in training in the field. If you are planning to work up from the helldesk to a decent paying job, you should beware falling salaries leaving you in a "Red Queen" situation (running as fast as you can just to stay in the same place). Aggressively seek out real differentiation from your peers instead of specialization in a single field, and perhaps I will have a job for you in 5 years.
I read the MS technote; however, it is just. not. true.
Currently, I run WinXP w/ IE 6.0 on a box with a gig of RAM. I have 6 full (non-child/popup/etc) browser windows open and only 4 IEXPLORE processes. Irritating, because I do want each browser window to have its own process so that I can end-task one process without destroying more than one browser window.
Plus, if you have iexplore configured to open each browser window in its own process (Which you can also do with explorer windows)...
Example, please. I find no such option under Internet Explorer "Tools->Internet Options", whereas Windows Explorer places the attendant option under "Tools->Folder Options". Perhaps it is hidden elsewhere?
Also, am I the only XP SP1 user who has IE crap out once there are more than 28 IE browsers open? When this happens, menus, toolbars, and bookmarks disappear from new IE windows until an appropriate number of them are closed. Of course, I still have 200+ MB of physical RAM unused, so that shouldn't be the issue.
Well, as the point has been raised elsewhere on the thread, it isn't true pricefixing.
However, in answer to your specific question, it appeared that it is an express agreement, as my employer mentioned the C&D letters he was getting from Apple Legal over this (it's the MAP, not the selling price that matters).
He eventually decided that margins were thin enough that it was not worth playing around with "MAP != retail price"; so, everything was sold for MAP, just as Apple intended.
Look: I have worked for an Apple Authorized Service Center (also a Reseller). Apple HAS a minimum advertised price, and if you do not honor the MAP, you will have your Apple Authorized status terminated (thus killing your franchise). Apple is quite trigger-happy about terminating franchises.
Spend as much time as you want telling me how this cannot be the case, but my AAR was almost shut down for this very issue. It is probably a contractual condition of the franchise.
If a cooling system is provided with the retail processor, it should be adequate. If there is no cooling system provided with the product, and the specifications for the processor call for such, then that is also reasonable.
What is not reasonable (and defies all but highly cynical or paranoid explanation) is why an inadequate cooling system would be provided by the manufacturer when they (of all parties) should know the specifications of the product best.
To conclude, this was not supposed to be a dispute over the quality of OEM vs. aftermarket accessories. Rather, it was mulling the question of just why any manufacturer would choose to include substandard parts when they could reasonably choose to provide no solution at all (e.g. "batteries not included" as opposed to including batteries that corrode and leak 7% of the time, even when the device is used according to spec [random analogy, ymmv]).
Sony may make a loss having to sell their games a little below cost, but the people might decide it's worth spending the few dollars extra to get a proper version of the game.
In your scenario, if Sony takes a literal loss on each game sale would it not be in their best interests to let the pirates sell the illegitimate copies of the game? Think about it: sell a copy at -30 yuan a copy or let a pirate sell the game?
Finally, an economically beneficial application of piracy as a profit-saving device. Yes!
...but thank you for reinforcing the argument for licensed breeding.
I say, let the soccer moms legislate away societal rights to make the world "safe for kids"-- all I want in return is the elimination of the "right" to unrestricted breeding. It's quite reasonable, really: if society used discretion in the selection of the parent of the next generation, we would have more sanity.
Thanks. <sarcasm>Now, leave me to my privacy and guns.</sarcasm>
BTW, aren't those "services" little more than legalized "protection" fees? In these arrangments, whose responsibility is it to ensure that every copyright holder gets proportionally compensated?
If there is hand-waving done in the proportionality of compensation, then all that is acheived by using one of the services is protection from them suing you (without any true, legal use of the copyrighted material). Racketteering.
"...and you can outrun the vacuum effect of the updrafts pulling you into the fireball."
Firebombing should be an atrocity of war. The mentioned effect was by design. These targets were purely civilian. At least Hiroshima could be claimed (however weakly) as a strategic target of industrial value. Dresden was designed to kill civilians.
Okay, I agree that privitized healthcare is superior in concept (HMOs suck), and I understand the private hospitals are ethically bound to offer some minimal care to the impoverished. However, my point remains: if each state has a choice about offering healthcare to the poor, serious problems would result.
For the sake of argument, let's say that only one state chooses to do so (not that it changes the argument, the picture is just clearer). The other states will not spend on healthcare assistance to the poor from their budget. This state does--in excess--since the poor move there for the government assistance.
See the suggested progression in the prior post. Not everyone is Horatio Alger, waiting to bootstrap themselves to some 19th century 'American Dream' of success.
"States can certainly do state-wide health care if they choose, but the nation should not." This would cause states that "choose" to offer comprehensive welfare to be disadvantaged. Do you really want interstate 'refugees'?
State offers welfare/healthcare to those in need (when others do not)
State attracts the impoverished (that do not contribute to the tax base)
State has much less available funding
State raises taxes
Tax-base contributors leave state for lower-taxed environments
Very Bad Things (State loses influence in congress, future growth is relegated to more wealthy states with lower taxes, etc)
This is much like an inverse of state-based gambling... those states that allow it (and profit greatly) seem to merely leech discretionary income from the economies of their neighbor states.
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When censoring, it's traditional to remove a vowel instead of a consonant. To hypothesize, it seems likely that removing a vowel would generally inject more ambiguity to the resultant censored word than removing a consonant. Empirically, try to vocalize "b*tch" vs. "bit*h"... the former seems to have many more possible values.
- IRS Announcement 92-16; I.R.B. 1992-5 (regarding premium deductibility--hard to find the exact text online, I have it as a PDF)
- IRS Notice 2005-8 (regarding HSA contributions)
To summarize, we have the company pay the premiums directly and report the value in Boxes 1 & 14 of the W-2. It is therefore subject to withholding, but not FICA (Social Security & Medicare). We then individually recoup the withholding taxes via the applicable Self-employed health insurance deduction (which is "above the line").Convoluted, yes, but it eliminates all taxes on our health insurance premiums.
Here is my interpretation: 6 total replicants. 4 replicants shown, 1 fried, and 1 "other". Deckard, was not "just" a replicant, he was the sixth replicant from the crew.
The theory is consistent and explains some otherwise non sequitirs in the DC. The line of reasoning is that Deckard was imprinted with memory engrams (like we saw in Rachel). It gives a reason for the unicorn scene and implication that he is known as a replicant to the department. More telling is how the four replicants react to seeing and interacting with Deckard.
Next time, watch the film while bearing in mind this postulate... the replicants are reacting to one of their comrades--who has no recollection of them--who is intent to kill them. The flickers of sadness in Batty's face, Batty's reluctance to kill Deckard, and visceral feeling of betrayal Batty communicates is almost tangible.
Anyway, it also explains how each of the four recognized Deckard on sight, even before he pulled his gun.
Using the simplifications of Nyquist theorem and a binary symbol set was a reasonable approach to briefly explain the issue, especially since 802.11b uses a binary symbol set.
You can read this for a little more info.
Trust me, I have a persecution complex about many things... but suggesting that the slashdot moderation system is being run by a shadowy cabal bent on suppressing expression on a forum for a fringe, not politically important group stretches credulity and is likely just egotism on your part.
Perhaps you were modded down for the tone of your post. Considered that? Or does Occam's Razor tell you that the shadowy cabal was the most probable hypothesis?
This has been beaten to death in thousands of /. threads before. No one has ever heard of an iPod dying for this reason... it is just due to your general sense of unease about hard drives and head crashes. However, it doesnt happen with the iPod, and no, the iPod doesnt skip on active use either. Anyway, I digress...
I have no problem having Windows iTunes manage my 64 GB collection over the network. Of course, I have a dedicated Win 2k3 server and gigabit ethernet. Whatever. SMB on NT is great for filesystem access (fuck Apple's Rendezvous, it sucks... use SMB).
The only gripe I have with iTunes (and this holds for Winamp 5 as well) is that files without ID3 tags are "lost" in the library, as a rule. Dont know how that would be solved, though. For instance, my .aiff's and .wav's cannot be ID3 tagged.
"Well, shit."
Of course, it is too late in this thread. Slashdot moves on if your post doesnt arrive within an hour of the article posting.
Approximately 2,000? Interesting. We could change everything to be based on this new metric! Avogadro's number now becomes 3.011*10^20 9-11s! Your salary, taxes, and insurance rates could be quoted in terms of units of 9-11s! Kick fucking ass!
BTW, dude: 20,000 deaths a year is only about 0.0067% of the population. You really need to understand that in a US population of ~150,000 9-11s, ten 9-11s deaths isn't that much.
...but imagine what she could do in bed with that.
Seriously, the "slow and steady" and "good things will come to those who wait" outlook is naive at best and realistically, pseudo-masochistic. I used to have that outlook, and while I am highly-experienced in my field, I no longer have any illusions about the system working for the meek.
I am currently employed as a consultant (and I am planning to return to school for a PhD since I am a "bithead"), but I realize that corporations will dangle the carrot you described as long as you are willing to follow. Since corporations typically view loyalty as a one-way street, it is best to make yourself indispensible by whatever means available.
I suppose my point is that you should consider carefully your investment in training in the field. If you are planning to work up from the helldesk to a decent paying job, you should beware falling salaries leaving you in a "Red Queen" situation (running as fast as you can just to stay in the same place). Aggressively seek out real differentiation from your peers instead of specialization in a single field, and perhaps I will have a job for you in 5 years.
Good luck.
Currently, I run WinXP w/ IE 6.0 on a box with a gig of RAM. I have 6 full (non-child/popup/etc) browser windows open and only 4 IEXPLORE processes. Irritating, because I do want each browser window to have its own process so that I can end-task one process without destroying more than one browser window.
Example, please. I find no such option under Internet Explorer "Tools->Internet Options", whereas Windows Explorer places the attendant option under "Tools->Folder Options". Perhaps it is hidden elsewhere?
Also, am I the only XP SP1 user who has IE crap out once there are more than 28 IE browsers open? When this happens, menus, toolbars, and bookmarks disappear from new IE windows until an appropriate number of them are closed. Of course, I still have 200+ MB of physical RAM unused, so that shouldn't be the issue.
However, in answer to your specific question, it appeared that it is an express agreement, as my employer mentioned the C&D letters he was getting from Apple Legal over this (it's the MAP, not the selling price that matters).
He eventually decided that margins were thin enough that it was not worth playing around with "MAP != retail price"; so, everything was sold for MAP, just as Apple intended.
Spend as much time as you want telling me how this cannot be the case, but my AAR was almost shut down for this very issue. It is probably a contractual condition of the franchise.
If a cooling system is provided with the retail processor, it should be adequate. If there is no cooling system provided with the product, and the specifications for the processor call for such, then that is also reasonable.
What is not reasonable (and defies all but highly cynical or paranoid explanation) is why an inadequate cooling system would be provided by the manufacturer when they (of all parties) should know the specifications of the product best.
To conclude, this was not supposed to be a dispute over the quality of OEM vs. aftermarket accessories. Rather, it was mulling the question of just why any manufacturer would choose to include substandard parts when they could reasonably choose to provide no solution at all (e.g. "batteries not included" as opposed to including batteries that corrode and leak 7% of the time, even when the device is used according to spec [random analogy, ymmv]).
Finally, an economically beneficial application of piracy as a profit-saving device. Yes!
...but thank you for reinforcing the argument for licensed breeding.
I say, let the soccer moms legislate away societal rights to make the world "safe for kids"-- all I want in return is the elimination of the "right" to unrestricted breeding. It's quite reasonable, really: if society used discretion in the selection of the parent of the next generation, we would have more sanity.
Thanks. <sarcasm>Now, leave me to my privacy and guns.</sarcasm>
How often do your programs fuck up "arr[i]++;" ?
Seiko made the Seiko Thermic watch. Runs off inverse Peltier effect: heat differential->electricity.
If there is hand-waving done in the proportionality of compensation, then all that is acheived by using one of the services is protection from them suing you (without any true, legal use of the copyrighted material). Racketteering.
Firebombing should be an atrocity of war. The mentioned effect was by design. These targets were purely civilian. At least Hiroshima could be claimed (however weakly) as a strategic target of industrial value. Dresden was designed to kill civilians.
"It's like this, you communist!"
"No, it isn't, you fascist. It's like this!"
I have heard n analogies from each side, and everyone knows n^2 time is inefficient.
For the sake of argument, let's say that only one state chooses to do so (not that it changes the argument, the picture is just clearer). The other states will not spend on healthcare assistance to the poor from their budget. This state does--in excess--since the poor move there for the government assistance.
See the suggested progression in the prior post. Not everyone is Horatio Alger, waiting to bootstrap themselves to some 19th century 'American Dream' of success.
This is much like an inverse of state-based gambling... those states that allow it (and profit greatly) seem to merely leech discretionary income from the economies of their neighbor states.