You are the one who brought up the bogus bus example, so don't blame me that it's weak as wet toilet paper.
And if you believe that ANY of your messages are private, you're incredibly naive.
The masses will always choose convenience over security. But if you're that paranoid about your text messages being public because you're not using keyboard input, maybe you shouldn't be leaving an electronic trail in the first place?
Again, have you ever tried to type on a moving bus? Also, most of your messages don't need to be private - "okay, I'll pick up milk on the way home", "I'm going to be 10 minutes late", and the classic "Dear John" text message - "You suck. You can't even change the roll of toilet paper. We're done."
Voice recognition and dictation has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years. Maybe you should get a modern smartphone and see just how easy it is to text w/o using a keyboard nowadays, instead of talking out of you ass. (Hey, you're the one who started with the personal insults, writing "I can only assume you've never had an average job...") You are demonstrating the "failure of imagination" that too many people with a narrow world view have. While I spent LOTS of time writing code for a living, I realize that's an "edge case" - keyboards will be gone from most offices in the next 20 years, same as desktops and mice will be. In those scenarios, even a laptop is clunky and chunky.
Won't even be needed during lectures in the colleges and universities. Just let your phone make a transcript of what's being said, and if there's something interesting on the white/black board, take a picture. Or make a video.
"a bespoke interface" == no such animal. Interfaces are not customized to the individual user. All the programs on all those office computers are using the same interface for the same version of the program.
I was using voice control back in Windows 3.1, and it's really improved since, so there's no need for mouse and keyboard, or even a screen, for many jobs (think screen readers for the visually handicapped).
Combine a touch screen with voice commands and voice dictation, and kiss the keyboard bye-bye for the average job.
There is no reason the software needs to wait to get context. It can auto-correct based on the next few words when it realizes you meant "Hear" and not "Here." It's not like it's already printed and immutable.
Italics and bold should only be added if and when necessary - and they're certainly not necessary in text messages or business letters, and not in a first draft of, say, a manuscript. Content over presentation.
Or, if you want to do it inline, just have a few on-screen "keys" to toggle bold, italics, caps lock, quotes and other punctuation.
Most people don't work with computers with keyboards (think point-of-sale touchscreens, etc), and when they're playing games they're using controllers. So what's more natural for them than to just say your message and hit send?
Just as the old-fashioned 'automobile' was never truly 'auto-mobile,' but relied, not only on human drivers, but an entire concrete infrastructure built into cities and smeared across the countryside
The original "horseless carriages" started out by following the paths their horse-drawn peers used. No special infrastructure just for them.
Keyboards are becoming obsolete. You can text without one on a smartphone. About the only people who will use them in 20 years will be coders, because of the different conventions for #defines, variables, etc.
Remember Mr. Scott trying to use a computer by talking to it, and then picking up the mouse and speaking into it?
Don't worry, with a 6 ft sea level rise expected within 50-75 years much of Miami and the coastal cities in Florida will be inundated, so this problem will largely take care of itself. The irony is that all those mansions in Palm Beach will be among the first to go.
How much do you want to bet that those mansions get relocated to higher ground at public expense because the owners have $$$? It will be a bail-out to keep them from having to bail out their mansions 24/7.
Is there anyone here who has never changed someone else's wallpaper at work? There are pictures out there that are a lot grosser than 2 guys kissing or the goat guy.
1) I've already posted the links elsewhere for New York (which you conveniently forgot about???), Ohio, and Michigan.
2) Your math (and "logic") still sucks - it's a "what if" scenario. Try to stick to the real world.
Also - this other ridiculous claim of yours - "Your locality has no jurisdiction over a company existing outside that locality and, therefore, no right or reason to collect taxes from them; " fails in the real world. Ever bring back goods through customs? Pass over your exemptions, you pay, even though the items were purchased in an area that has no jurisdiction over you. And you can pay your tax, and get a refund from the area that taxed you (for example, you buy something in Canada and pay Canadian taxes on it, then pay taxes again at the US. Mail your receipts and proof of tax to the provincial tax authority and they will refund the tax paid)
The US also claims world-wide tax jurisdiction over Americans who haven't lived in the US for years. Now they're enforcing it by requiring banks in other countries to hand over financial information on customers who are US citizens.
You're wrong. New York, Ohio, and Michigan all require the collection of the sales tax by the vendor even when the vendor doesn't have a presence within their borders.
And your "math" is stupid. You pay income taxes in the state you earned the income or resided. Not in states you never worked or resided in.
Most mom-and-pop internet shops have a very small range of customers, because there are so many of them in each country. Most people figure "why order from another country and have the hassle of currency exchanges, customs, and shipping delays when you can get it for the same price locally?"
But of course if they want to extend their market to the world, then they have to act accordingly, including all the permits, etc., same as a brick and mortar store. The internet "tax-free ride" is coming to an end.
Awesome, now implement rules for all of them. Plus Canada. And Mexico. Don't forget the other several hundred countries with sales tax, and all of the districts therein.
All that info is on the web. It's also available by asking for it directly from the proper entity in each district. Or just have the customer self-declare the tax rate, and forward his declaration to the appropriate tax authority. If he's falsely under-declared, big fine, same as when brick-and-mortar stores take cash to help their customers avoid paying sales tax.
we carried an egg around, which is surprisingly effective in my opinion
... or, if you were smart, you just hard-boiled it the first chance you got. Thats way, even if the shell cracked, you didn't end up with a gooey mess to tattle-tale on you. You also told others to micro-wave theirs if they were in a hurry, both for the lulz and to thin out the herd (but mostly for the lulz).
Or possibly because we think that knowing about stuff in general is part of being a well-rounded citizen.
Looking at the obesity epidemic, we already have too many "well-rounded citizens." If this trend continues, those who aren't obese will soon be seen as a "rounding error."
Anyone who can't write their own single and double-linked lists, queues, stacks, etc. isn't really worth having around as a programmer. These are really basic skills. The minute they can't find something that's pre-made, they're hosed.
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You are the one who brought up the bogus bus example, so don't blame me that it's weak as wet toilet paper.
And if you believe that ANY of your messages are private, you're incredibly naive.
The masses will always choose convenience over security. But if you're that paranoid about your text messages being public because you're not using keyboard input, maybe you shouldn't be leaving an electronic trail in the first place?
We're part of "5 Eyes". Just like we participated in Echelon.
Value to who? If you're doing work while not getting paid for it, better to just take a nap, read a book, watch a movie, surf slashdot ...
Again, have you ever tried to type on a moving bus? Also, most of your messages don't need to be private - "okay, I'll pick up milk on the way home", "I'm going to be 10 minutes late", and the classic "Dear John" text message - "You suck. You can't even change the roll of toilet paper. We're done."
Voice recognition and dictation has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years. Maybe you should get a modern smartphone and see just how easy it is to text w/o using a keyboard nowadays, instead of talking out of you ass. (Hey, you're the one who started with the personal insults, writing "I can only assume you've never had an average job...") You are demonstrating the "failure of imagination" that too many people with a narrow world view have. While I spent LOTS of time writing code for a living, I realize that's an "edge case" - keyboards will be gone from most offices in the next 20 years, same as desktops and mice will be. In those scenarios, even a laptop is clunky and chunky.
Won't even be needed during lectures in the colleges and universities. Just let your phone make a transcript of what's being said, and if there's something interesting on the white/black board, take a picture. Or make a video.
"a bespoke interface" == no such animal. Interfaces are not customized to the individual user. All the programs on all those office computers are using the same interface for the same version of the program.
I was using voice control back in Windows 3.1, and it's really improved since, so there's no need for mouse and keyboard, or even a screen, for many jobs (think screen readers for the visually handicapped).
Combine a touch screen with voice commands and voice dictation, and kiss the keyboard bye-bye for the average job.
Imagine the fun of trying to send a text via speech recognition on the bus while even just one person sitting near you is doing the same.
Ever try to type on a bus? Even with a laptop it's pretty much impossible. Better to spend your time reading, catching a nap, or whatever.
There is no reason the software needs to wait to get context. It can auto-correct based on the next few words when it realizes you meant "Hear" and not "Here." It's not like it's already printed and immutable.
Italics and bold should only be added if and when necessary - and they're certainly not necessary in text messages or business letters, and not in a first draft of, say, a manuscript. Content over presentation.
Or, if you want to do it inline, just have a few on-screen "keys" to toggle bold, italics, caps lock, quotes and other punctuation.
Most people don't work with computers with keyboards (think point-of-sale touchscreens, etc), and when they're playing games they're using controllers. So what's more natural for them than to just say your message and hit send?
Do you really believe that bosses who won't let you telecommute will suddenly pay you for work done getting to and from work? How illogical
Fixed that or you.
Fixed that for you. 3rd time's a charm :-)
Just as the old-fashioned 'automobile' was never truly 'auto-mobile,' but relied, not only on human drivers, but an entire concrete infrastructure built into cities and smeared across the countryside
The original "horseless carriages" started out by following the paths their horse-drawn peers used. No special infrastructure just for them.
Keyboards are becoming obsolete. You can text without one on a smartphone. About the only people who will use them in 20 years will be coders, because of the different conventions for #defines, variables, etc.
Remember Mr. Scott trying to use a computer by talking to it, and then picking up the mouse and speaking into it?
Don't worry, with a 6 ft sea level rise expected within 50-75 years much of Miami and the coastal cities in Florida will be inundated, so this problem will largely take care of itself. The irony is that all those mansions in Palm Beach will be among the first to go.
How much do you want to bet that those mansions get relocated to higher ground at public expense because the owners have $$$? It will be a bail-out to keep them from having to bail out their mansions 24/7.
Is there anyone here who has never changed someone else's wallpaper at work? There are pictures out there that are a lot grosser than 2 guys kissing or the goat guy.
When did 'data driven' become a buzzword? And why is it a thing? Shouldn't every news article be data driven to some degree?
Bennett Hazelton articles are an obvious exception. Unfortunately.
1) I've already posted the links elsewhere for New York (which you conveniently forgot about???), Ohio, and Michigan.
2) Your math (and "logic") still sucks - it's a "what if" scenario. Try to stick to the real world.
Also - this other ridiculous claim of yours - "Your locality has no jurisdiction over a company existing outside that locality and, therefore, no right or reason to collect taxes from them; " fails in the real world. Ever bring back goods through customs? Pass over your exemptions, you pay, even though the items were purchased in an area that has no jurisdiction over you. And you can pay your tax, and get a refund from the area that taxed you (for example, you buy something in Canada and pay Canadian taxes on it, then pay taxes again at the US. Mail your receipts and proof of tax to the provincial tax authority and they will refund the tax paid)
The US also claims world-wide tax jurisdiction over Americans who haven't lived in the US for years. Now they're enforcing it by requiring banks in other countries to hand over financial information on customers who are US citizens.
Then maybe you should look harder. The US has tax treaties with plenty of countries.
How many times has this been asked (and answered) before? This is neither news, nor worthy of yet another round of beat-the-dead-horse.
And your "math" is stupid. You pay income taxes in the state you earned the income or resided. Not in states you never worked or resided in.
Most mom-and-pop internet shops have a very small range of customers, because there are so many of them in each country. Most people figure "why order from another country and have the hassle of currency exchanges, customs, and shipping delays when you can get it for the same price locally?"
But of course if they want to extend their market to the world, then they have to act accordingly, including all the permits, etc., same as a brick and mortar store. The internet "tax-free ride" is coming to an end.
Awesome, now implement rules for all of them. Plus Canada. And Mexico. Don't forget the other several hundred countries with sales tax, and all of the districts therein.
All that info is on the web. It's also available by asking for it directly from the proper entity in each district. Or just have the customer self-declare the tax rate, and forward his declaration to the appropriate tax authority. If he's falsely under-declared, big fine, same as when brick-and-mortar stores take cash to help their customers avoid paying sales tax.
we carried an egg around, which is surprisingly effective in my opinion
... or, if you were smart, you just hard-boiled it the first chance you got. Thats way, even if the shell cracked, you didn't end up with a gooey mess to tattle-tale on you. You also told others to micro-wave theirs if they were in a hurry, both for the lulz and to thin out the herd (but mostly for the lulz).
Or possibly because we think that knowing about stuff in general is part of being a well-rounded citizen.
Looking at the obesity epidemic, we already have too many "well-rounded citizens." If this trend continues, those who aren't obese will soon be seen as a "rounding error."
Anyone who can't write their own single and double-linked lists, queues, stacks, etc. isn't really worth having around as a programmer. These are really basic skills. The minute they can't find something that's pre-made, they're hosed.