You know, you did the right thing. And just in case you're joking, I forwarded his info to about 50 people and told everyone to give him a call and tell him his info got posted to slashdot, so if people call him or contact him all of a sudden, that's why.
Why 50 people? Come on man, you know how lazy Slashdotters are. I'll be lucky if 2 people call him.
Who's the idiot here? Texas and Oklahoma have about the same sales tax. In Dallas it's 8.25 percent, in Oklahoma it varies by city, as high as 8.8 percent in Elk City and as low as 7.25 percent in The Village (small upper class suburb in north OKC). To add insult to injury, Oklahomans have to force others to pay sales tax, even when shipping to people out of state. Also if you make any money on any holding on Oklahoma, when your money leaves the state it's taxed as state income. It's an archaic, backwards system designed to keep people broke. Seems to be working pretty well.
My advice to you: move if you can. A few states do NOT have state income tax anymore. I said earlier that most don't but actually only a handful don't. Check out this list at http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/ind_inc.html
Reading your post made me think. Although we may have national minimum wage, the percentage of folks working for minimum wage varies greatly from state to state. Also employment rules are different in each state (look at Virginia for a sad example). Since there's a national minimum wage, Wal Mart doesn't get to exploit people any further than it already does. Setup a distribution center in the poorest part of Kentucky or wherever, charge a crap wage, and people will flock. If national minimum wage wasn't in effect, do you think any large company would feel compelled to pay people the same? Doubtful.
Thank god that most states now have no state tax. Some of the worst states like Oklahoma still live off the fat of their constituents, but Texas does not. Oklahoma is thankfully in the minority when it comes to state income tax. You can live better in Texas with an Oklahoma wage than you can with that same money in OK.
I do agree with your point about the federal government being too automatic now, but it's your fellow voter's fault. Voter apathy has led this government to where it now stands, and voter apathy will continue to let the fatcats in Washington do whatever they want. There's no accountability because nobody really cares. Plus you have media spin that makes issues magically disappear when a crisis erupts. Ultimately, we'll be worse than some Third World countries, corruption-wise.
I'll leave you with something I told my wife sometime. She's from Thailand and asked a very succinct question one day. "Why isn't the government here corrupt (compared to Thailand)?" My answer? "It is, it's just better at keeping it quiet."
Who you calling racist? If anything, people on Slashdot tend to be nationalist (i.e. my country rules and here's why). It's not much different than racism at it's core, fueled by ignorance. Once you learn more about country X (in this case India), you'll see that you're not that different. Then again, India has 25% poverty and a magic factory for churning out real doctors, computer scientists, and Dell call center people. I don't know how they balance the two but it sounds like a fascinating place.
I'd like to be the guy that has that job. All you do is get fed a list of URL's every day, ban them, and do it all again tomorrow. Not too far removed from Homer Simpson's button-mashing job at the nuclear power plant.
At the same time it's fairly impossible. Last time I checked 56k connections weren't stable enough to stay connected for a full 30 days. Also consider the stability of the OS using said connection.
I was just thinking about the average girlfriendless geek. Who would they buy clothes for? Not their best friends, only their mom or dad, but most likely momma.
That's actually a cool idea. Have a memory stick with your wife/mom/girlfriend/so's 3d scan on it (along with other goodies like favorite colors, past purchases that may coordinate), pop it in the kiosk, and voila, the size that should fit in a color she should like. I can see this being a good deal for everyone. The store tracks your purchases and is able to market what you like...you get something that fits and matches..you don't look like a dolt for forgetting your woman doesn't wear a 36 double d bra.
Bah, sales people have been doing this for hundreds of years. Their job (just like the computer's job) is getting you to by something. The salesperson may *tell* you it'd look great wrapped around your spare tire, but a computer can *show* you. Not sure how this will do with women, they tend to be less visually oriented than men. I imagine they'd want the computer to talk to them and let them touch fabrics also. Christopher Lowell would be the perfect voiceover for something like this.
"oooh that really looks ssssuper on you! Are you going out tonight? Well you should because this would make you look fierssssse!"
If you were a Muslim woman, I could code this for you in about 10 minutes. Any other religion may take some time.
All you'd have to do is scan the face of a woman from the eyebrows to the chin and stick it on a model covered head to toe. Before any of you start screaming about religious tolerance, recall the swimsuits of the 1920's and 1930's in America. About the same.
I don't understand version nazis. I feel comfortable with any version of Photoshop starting with 3.05. Unless there's some whizbang feature you can't live without in Photoshop CS you're just making excuses. PS6 predated CS by only one version so I doubt you're missing much or anything by downgrading.
As for Dreamweaver/Fireworks, I use them because again, I'm comfortable with them. It makes nice code if you follow it's procedures. I know it can get messy but fortunately for me, nothing I've done so far has required XHtml or anything else wacky.
I don't settle for promises. If you conduct yourself like a businessman, you won't get treated like this. They should say 'what are you hungry for tonight' if a meal is part of the deal. Like I was saying before, you have to be assertive. Make a deal BEFORE you do any work or give anything away.
Just remember when you were in the school cafeteria. Would you give away your prized turkey sandwich in exchange for a peanut butter and jelly at some nebulous date in the future? Hell no.
When enough people get to know you as the local computer guy, you'll get phone calls, visits, you name it. People will expect it to be free by default unless you set a price. Make it fair but worth your time.
Anyone on here bitching about 'feeling obligated' to provide 'free support', stop bitching. It's your own fault it's free. Charge a price. Believe it or not people are willing to pay their friends a reasonable fee, even if it's not cash. Tell them to rent a movie for you and bring it over, or bake a cake, or get a six pack of Guinness, whatever. I have a big box of Krispy Kreme sitting here from a friend of mine that needed spyware removed yesterday.
Once you get people trained to think that indeed, your time and expertise are worth something, you won't even have to make requests. People will open their wallets or bring you stuff automatically.
Don't let your passive-aggressive geek nature leave you with regrets or feeling used. Assert yourself.
Balderdash. If you want widespread adoption, you have to make it easy and somewhat attractive. Sure, the Debian textmode installer works fine, but the average guy probably won't be able to use it to replace windows.
I believe Spock said it best when he said "..the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few..". The Many need a graphical installer. The Many have VESA capable video cards. It's ass-backwards attitudes in the Debian community that are preventing it from being truly widespread.
Knoppix, Phlak and Morphix are all based on debian and have decent graphical installers. Even Libranet does Debian justice.
And which distro lets you play solitaire during your debian install? That one is cool also. Debian itself needs to get with the times and roll in a good looking/easy installer.
Knoppix is staying true to the spirit of Debian. Nothing has changed as they haven't had a new release since 11.xx.03. I guess kernel 2.6 is coming soon just like every other distro.
Not to mention the old Apple logo used to closely resemble the Gay Rainbow Flag.
I had one on an old piece of shit car I had years ago. My sister said 'you should take that sticker off, people will think you're gay'. She had a point, and didn't even know it was an Apple Computers sticker. Rather than remove the sticker I removed the car, it sucked anyway. The white apple is much more appropriate.:)
Photoshop runs perfectly under crossover office now, don't you read this site?;) There was a story on Crossover Office a few months ago, implementing good Photoshop support was considered a big deal.
Web design on macs is a personal thing with me. It's what I learned on, beta tested on, etc. Not like I can't be super leet like dudes who have coded with notepad on their pages, but I see no point in making things harder than they should be. I like the Dreamweaver/Fireworks combo myself.
I don't think I'd object to seeing naked chicks burnt into my toast but stealing my car would be a problem.
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"Introduce a desktop with a small learning curve designed for laymen and market it well, and then we can start blaming the monopoly, but not before."
This has been done. Whether or not it has been marketed effectively is debatable, but MacOSX is hard to beat. Easy to use, beautiful to look at and fast even on a G4.
I'm a diehard linux user, but when I saw my friend's OSX box in action, it actually made me jealous for a minute. If I ever go back to doing web design, it'll be on a Mac.
I'm pretty sure he bought service directly from Direcway. Here's the scoop on the upgrade for the unfortunate 4000 series users.
6000 series is $442 minus $100 for return of the 4000 hardware, minus $100 to renew the direcway subscription (!!), comes out to $242. That sucks for just getting a satellite router.
It was a joke grenade, took a few seconds to go off.
Anyway I thought you'd point out the obvious: the creatures that 'cry' which I mentioned are all sea creatures that use crying to evacuate excess salt from their bodies.
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You know, you did the right thing. And just in case you're joking, I forwarded his info to about 50 people and told everyone to give him a call and tell him his info got posted to slashdot, so if people call him or contact him all of a sudden, that's why.
Why 50 people? Come on man, you know how lazy Slashdotters are. I'll be lucky if 2 people call him.
Who's the idiot here? Texas and Oklahoma have about the same sales tax. In Dallas it's 8.25 percent, in Oklahoma it varies by city, as high as 8.8 percent in Elk City and as low as 7.25 percent in The Village (small upper class suburb in north OKC). To add insult to injury, Oklahomans have to force others to pay sales tax, even when shipping to people out of state. Also if you make any money on any holding on Oklahoma, when your money leaves the state it's taxed as state income. It's an archaic, backwards system designed to keep people broke. Seems to be working pretty well.
My advice to you: move if you can. A few states do NOT have state income tax anymore. I said earlier that most don't but actually only a handful don't. Check out this list at http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/ind_inc.html
Reading your post made me think. Although we may have national minimum wage, the percentage of folks working for minimum wage varies greatly from state to state. Also employment rules are different in each state (look at Virginia for a sad example). Since there's a national minimum wage, Wal Mart doesn't get to exploit people any further than it already does. Setup a distribution center in the poorest part of Kentucky or wherever, charge a crap wage, and people will flock. If national minimum wage wasn't in effect, do you think any large company would feel compelled to pay people the same? Doubtful.
Thank god that most states now have no state tax. Some of the worst states like Oklahoma still live off the fat of their constituents, but Texas does not. Oklahoma is thankfully in the minority when it comes to state income tax. You can live better in Texas with an Oklahoma wage than you can with that same money in OK.
I do agree with your point about the federal government being too automatic now, but it's your fellow voter's fault. Voter apathy has led this government to where it now stands, and voter apathy will continue to let the fatcats in Washington do whatever they want. There's no accountability because nobody really cares. Plus you have media spin that makes issues magically disappear when a crisis erupts. Ultimately, we'll be worse than some Third World countries, corruption-wise.
I'll leave you with something I told my wife sometime. She's from Thailand and asked a very succinct question one day. "Why isn't the government here corrupt (compared to Thailand)?" My answer? "It is, it's just better at keeping it quiet."
Oh good golly, trolled by a high user number.
Thank you, come again!
Who you calling racist? If anything, people on Slashdot tend to be nationalist (i.e. my country rules and here's why). It's not much different than racism at it's core, fueled by ignorance. Once you learn more about country X (in this case India), you'll see that you're not that different. Then again, India has 25% poverty and a magic factory for churning out real doctors, computer scientists, and Dell call center people. I don't know how they balance the two but it sounds like a fascinating place.
I.e. The Great Firewall of China.
I'd like to be the guy that has that job. All you do is get fed a list of URL's every day, ban them, and do it all again tomorrow. Not too far removed from Homer Simpson's button-mashing job at the nuclear power plant.
Well we all saw this one coming with all the delays on the Itanium.
At the same time it's fairly impossible. Last time I checked 56k connections weren't stable enough to stay connected for a full 30 days. Also consider the stability of the OS using said connection.
From the Forceware link you mentioned:
COMING SOON! The ForceWare Multimedia application will be available from NVIDIA in the near future. Keep checking this site for release information.
So basically it hasn't been released yet. Maybe asking for a linux port also isn't asking too much...yet.
I was just thinking about the average girlfriendless geek. Who would they buy clothes for? Not their best friends, only their mom or dad, but most likely momma.
That's actually a cool idea. Have a memory stick with your wife/mom/girlfriend/so's 3d scan on it (along with other goodies like favorite colors, past purchases that may coordinate), pop it in the kiosk, and voila, the size that should fit in a color she should like. I can see this being a good deal for everyone. The store tracks your purchases and is able to market what you like...you get something that fits and matches..you don't look like a dolt for forgetting your woman doesn't wear a 36 double d bra.
Bah, sales people have been doing this for hundreds of years. Their job (just like the computer's job) is getting you to by something. The salesperson may *tell* you it'd look great wrapped around your spare tire, but a computer can *show* you. Not sure how this will do with women, they tend to be less visually oriented than men. I imagine they'd want the computer to talk to them and let them touch fabrics also. Christopher Lowell would be the perfect voiceover for something like this.
"oooh that really looks ssssuper on you! Are you going out tonight? Well you should because this would make you look fierssssse!"
If you were a Muslim woman, I could code this for you in about 10 minutes. Any other religion may take some time.
All you'd have to do is scan the face of a woman from the eyebrows to the chin and stick it on a model covered head to toe. Before any of you start screaming about religious tolerance, recall the swimsuits of the 1920's and 1930's in America. About the same.
I don't understand version nazis. I feel comfortable with any version of Photoshop starting with 3.05. Unless there's some whizbang feature you can't live without in Photoshop CS you're just making excuses. PS6 predated CS by only one version so I doubt you're missing much or anything by downgrading.
As for Dreamweaver/Fireworks, I use them because again, I'm comfortable with them. It makes nice code if you follow it's procedures. I know it can get messy but fortunately for me, nothing I've done so far has required XHtml or anything else wacky.
I don't settle for promises. If you conduct yourself like a businessman, you won't get treated like this. They should say 'what are you hungry for tonight' if a meal is part of the deal. Like I was saying before, you have to be assertive. Make a deal BEFORE you do any work or give anything away.
Just remember when you were in the school cafeteria. Would you give away your prized turkey sandwich in exchange for a peanut butter and jelly at some nebulous date in the future? Hell no.
You're exactly right.
When enough people get to know you as the local computer guy, you'll get phone calls, visits, you name it. People will expect it to be free by default unless you set a price. Make it fair but worth your time.
Anyone on here bitching about 'feeling obligated' to provide 'free support', stop bitching. It's your own fault it's free. Charge a price. Believe it or not people are willing to pay their friends a reasonable fee, even if it's not cash. Tell them to rent a movie for you and bring it over, or bake a cake, or get a six pack of Guinness, whatever. I have a big box of Krispy Kreme sitting here from a friend of mine that needed spyware removed yesterday.
Once you get people trained to think that indeed, your time and expertise are worth something, you won't even have to make requests. People will open their wallets or bring you stuff automatically.
Don't let your passive-aggressive geek nature leave you with regrets or feeling used. Assert yourself.
Balderdash. If you want widespread adoption, you have to make it easy and somewhat attractive. Sure, the Debian textmode installer works fine, but the average guy probably won't be able to use it to replace windows.
I believe Spock said it best when he said "..the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few..". The Many need a graphical installer. The Many have VESA capable video cards. It's ass-backwards attitudes in the Debian community that are preventing it from being truly widespread.
Knoppix, Phlak and Morphix are all based on debian and have decent graphical installers. Even Libranet does Debian justice.
And which distro lets you play solitaire during your debian install? That one is cool also. Debian itself needs to get with the times and roll in a good looking/easy installer.
Knoppix is staying true to the spirit of Debian. Nothing has changed as they haven't had a new release since 11.xx.03. I guess kernel 2.6 is coming soon just like every other distro.
Not to mention the old Apple logo used to closely resemble the Gay Rainbow Flag.
:)
I had one on an old piece of shit car I had years ago. My sister said 'you should take that sticker off, people will think you're gay'. She had a point, and didn't even know it was an Apple Computers sticker. Rather than remove the sticker I removed the car, it sucked anyway. The white apple is much more appropriate.
Photoshop runs perfectly under crossover office now, don't you read this site? ;) There was a story on Crossover Office a few months ago, implementing good Photoshop support was considered a big deal.
Web design on macs is a personal thing with me. It's what I learned on, beta tested on, etc. Not like I can't be super leet like dudes who have coded with notepad on their pages, but I see no point in making things harder than they should be. I like the Dreamweaver/Fireworks combo myself.
I don't think I'd object to seeing naked chicks burnt into my toast but stealing my car would be a problem.
"Introduce a desktop with a small learning curve designed for laymen and market it well, and then we can start blaming the monopoly, but not before."
This has been done. Whether or not it has been marketed effectively is debatable, but MacOSX is hard to beat. Easy to use, beautiful to look at and fast even on a G4.
I'm a diehard linux user, but when I saw my friend's OSX box in action, it actually made me jealous for a minute. If I ever go back to doing web design, it'll be on a Mac.
I'm pretty sure he bought service directly from Direcway. Here's the scoop on the upgrade for the unfortunate 4000 series users.
6000 series is $442 minus $100 for return of the 4000 hardware, minus $100 to renew the direcway subscription (!!), comes out to $242. That sucks for just getting a satellite router.
It was a joke grenade, took a few seconds to go off.
Anyway I thought you'd point out the obvious: the creatures that 'cry' which I mentioned are all sea creatures that use crying to evacuate excess salt from their bodies.