I looked at the article and failed to comprehend it. Meanwhile, I've been self-employed for almost 8 years, doing hardware and software architecture, development, and support. I use TurboTax and am the manager of an LLC.
I can't afford to home-school or that would be the obvious solution.
Support a candidate who will work to abolish the personal income tax. That's why homeschooling isn't possible for most families. You're paying for big government at your child's detriment.
When Netflix announced the change, I moved to Redbox. It's only a little less convenient, but there are three kiosks within walking distance and several more on the way to and from work.
If you use Netflix for renting new releases, this is a fine comparison, but many people use Netflix for their broader library. Just this weekend, we tried to watch the recent Harry Potter film (from Netflix) and found that we needed to understand the previous one, so we looked on the Redbox site and it wasn't available at the half-dozen Redboxen in our area. Netflix had it, but we wound up streaming it from Amazon ($) for convenience (the Redboxen are $3 in gasoline away - USPS covers that cost for us with Netflix).
And forget about getting a classic movie education from Redbox.
I already had Amazon Prime, which has a high degree of overlap with Netflix for streaming content.
Prime free videos has some things Netflix doesn't have (which I enjoy), but in total they can't even have 5% of the content Netflix does. I can't see how that can be considered a 'high degree' of overlap. If you meant including the pay-to-stream library, sure, they have more streaming than Netflix, but if cost doesn't matter then it's not a fair comparison for most people.
Why do you think they owe it to you to be helpful?
They don't owe it to him, they owe it to their employer, because that's their job. Being helpful sells things, which is why their employer has them employed in the first place.
Watch out, your ignorance is showing. In most jurisdictions, once the sale is complete, it's your property, not theirs. They have a chance to try to stop shoplifting up until it's your property, and they can use security tags if they want, but they cannot search your private property just because you're on their land.
I thought the same thing, who is RMS to speak of freedom? Unlike the GPL, Apple stuff isn't viral.
RMS's stuff isn't viral unless you want to use his stuff for no monetary cost. Stallman uses copyright (which protects one man's ideas at the expense of everybody else's property rights) to build free communities. He sacrifices the individual's rights for the rights of a collective. I don't really agree with his implicit use of force to better software (he's buying into the copyright argument), but since nobody is compelled to used GPL'ed software, I'm not going to get too upset about it either. I do wish GPL had a fixed time limit on its copyright - author's life plus 70 years is just as bad in software as it is for Mickey Mouse.
Apple doesn't give the individual or community any rights (for its closed software, thank you for CUPS, et. al), it mostly files lawsuits about it.
I suspect it's run by the shipping interests who are eager to use the Northwest Passage to get goods from Europe to China. Or perhaps a money laundering operation using Amazon somehow. What else makes any sense?
Project folders are superior, especially as time passes one can't remember proper keyword to bring up all relevant emails.
Yeah, the study isn't studying your use case. Here's one of mine - I have a folder called 'Expenses'.
When I get an e-mail receipt or invoice, it goes into the Expenses folder. When it's time for accounting, I go to that folder, step down the list, and put the data into the accounting system. Mind-numbingly boring but effective (hey, where are my microformats?). If I had to search for each of these, it'd take forever - many of them are one-off expenses.
I use the Nostalgy extension for Thunderbird, so filing the message takes three keystrokes ('S' 'e' 'enter') and perhaps 3 seconds (IMAP). Nostalgy saves me enough time on a regular basis that I donate to the project whenever it comes to mind.
There's no sales tax here in NH, nor in a few other States. Amazon is trying to disadvantage all Internet businesses in these States? I doubt the Tennessee Governor's report is entirely accurate.
My guess? They will say that the source will be "coming soon" for the next few years, until they release Panda Bear Turd or whatever the next OS will be called, never release the source, but people will forget or make excuses for Google as they have regarding their closed source Android 3 implementation.
And if they do release the source, it'll just be because they were almost caught being evil and will need to work harder at it next time?
My experience may be a bit US-centric, but here we already have anti-competitiveness laws that prevent a business from hurting competition using a monopoly. Unfortunately, we also grant monopolies that prevent competing ISP's, but more laws don't seem to be required. We had one ISP try to block VoIP about 5 years ago and our FCC smacked them down promptly with threats of such litigation.
But the problem remains, if you replace your cable TV with Netflix, the ISP makes the same monthly fee as if you don't. Clearly their costs increase, but their prices are fixed, so they have incentive to stop the behavior. That it cuts into their Cable TV business also provides them with unethical incentive to interfere, but they're put into a position where they can't be called to task for only an ethical lapse - they have real cost concerns too. I'm not insensitive to the problem - I was complaining about it almost 5 years ago, but since then I've learned to bait, not hunt.
Some people will say, "but they advertise to me a 10Mbps connection so I'm going to use it," ignoring the realities of internet connections being oversold as the reason they can get a 10Mbps connection out in suburbia for $45/mo. Yeah, we can all max them out, but if we do we have to expect prices to rise. Things like YouTube's 'preferred' colos are a step in the right direction (in theory, they don't seem to work well) to reduce peering costs but something like Skype will always be a many-to-many problem by its nature. We want ISP's to want to pass Skype. The most effective way to get somebody to behave is to incentivize them. Rewards and positive reinforcement work better than threat and negative reinforcement, that's just human nature.
If the ISP's had any upside to increasing traffic they'd behave more like they wanted to see increased traffic.
Oh, and then there's the RMS type who will say it's "better because freedom has value" or something to that effect. Doesn't help you when you're actually trying to tune an application for performance.
Yeah, it only gets you the very operating system you're trying to tun your application on.
Net Neutrality. This after a mobile carrier announced that they were going to block VoIP and WhatsApp because these eat too much into their traditional revenue model. It's a valid argument, but it would have been only a matter of time before such restrictions would have been placed on fixed networks as well
Net-neutrality is a symptom of a broken market, one caused by flat-rate billing. I look forward to the day when the prevailing model isn't "here's a gigantic Internet connection but we don't want you to use it." The fixed-rate billing model encourages low utilization of the Internet.
All these services would still be cheaper than their old-fashioned analogues with variable rate billing, but ISP's would be in a race to lay huge pipes everywhere and provide great transit. Mandate the per-bit cost until the monopoly grants are eliminated.
without doing the hard work of battling for the budget needed to hire and train really smart, perceptive people for sensitive posts like TSA agents at airports
There's not enough money in the world to accomplish this. As the jobs are currently defined, anybody who takes the job would immediately be unable to be described with those terms (or they'd lose their job for not doing it and thus be unable to be described as being in that job).
Unfortunately, I do not know how to solve this problem, just that it is real.
The moderation system needs an overhaul to fix this problem.
Today, you'll get 15 points to use over the next several days. So, you'll use them as you read normally. Most people go for the newer stuff, so the moderation pattern follows.
To fix your problem, Slashcode would need to award targeted moderation points to people reading the articles after the magic window. They might only be valid for that one article, for instance.
The moderation system was a great idea when it was introduced, but here were are, what 12 years later, and improvements have never been made based on learned experience. I'm hopeful the new blood is going to help, and so far that seems like the direction it's going.
You didn't have to call it that way. Here was my version, I think with a bit more compassion:
Bill McGonigle says: January 18, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Steve Jobs is gone for good.
Based on previous mis-representations, itâ(TM)s clear that Apple canâ(TM)t be trusted to be straight with Jobsâ(TM) story. Do they risk a shareholder suit this way? Sure, but the damages are going to be lower than announcing, âoeSteve Jobs has resigned as CEO.â Instead, theyâ(TM)ll show four strong quarters under Cook before having to come clean. This is the strongest argument for Cook as CEO â" switching horses is going to kill shareholder value.
Based on his previous medical history and the timing relative to the Verizon iPhone deal, heâ(TM)s done. Heâ(TM)s succeeded in integrating easy-to-use computers into daily life, with the user as the penultimate beneficiary. I suspect weâ(TM)ll see the real fruits of this with the Verizon LTE iPhone (i.e. data-only, portable plans).
Mission accomplished. Now heâ(TM)ll spend his remaining time with those he loves, and where he wants to be. He deserves it. Namaste, Jobs. Reply
I admit, I thought he'd last a quarter longer. But, neither then or now was/is the time for vitriol. I'll save the Jobs-had-Michael-Jackson-killed stuff for later.;)
Modern non-African humans are up to 4% Neanderthal (by DNA). So, that would be five generations in breeding terms (1/32nd). That used to be the threshold for being sold as a slave in Louisiana (1/32nd black).
I would hope we would not treat them any different than an Amazon tribe.
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I looked at the article and failed to comprehend it. Meanwhile, I've been self-employed for almost 8 years, doing hardware and software architecture, development, and support. I use TurboTax and am the manager of an LLC.
You can't ask permission to achieve greatness.
And this problem is compounded by costs. $90 PHY's, $50 cables.
I suspect I'll be buying Thunderbolt gear when both repeating PHY's and optical cables are under $10.
That's probably 2015, unless Intel is really motivated.
I dunno the answer, but I sure could use it.
I can't afford to home-school or that would be the obvious solution.
Support a candidate who will work to abolish the personal income tax. That's why homeschooling isn't possible for most families. You're paying for big government at your child's detriment.
Leggo my plural.
Their DVD and Instant businesses conflict with each other
I disagree. I would have stayed with Qwikster and my streaming business would have been completely open for market options.
Since my queues are still integrated and I can move videos between DVD and streaming, I'll stay with Netflix streaming too.
When Netflix announced the change, I moved to Redbox. It's only a little less convenient, but there are three kiosks within walking distance and several more on the way to and from work.
If you use Netflix for renting new releases, this is a fine comparison, but many people use Netflix for their broader library. Just this weekend, we tried to watch the recent Harry Potter film (from Netflix) and found that we needed to understand the previous one, so we looked on the Redbox site and it wasn't available at the half-dozen Redboxen in our area. Netflix had it, but we wound up streaming it from Amazon ($) for convenience (the Redboxen are $3 in gasoline away - USPS covers that cost for us with Netflix).
And forget about getting a classic movie education from Redbox.
I already had Amazon Prime, which has a high degree of overlap with Netflix for streaming content.
Prime free videos has some things Netflix doesn't have (which I enjoy), but in total they can't even have 5% of the content Netflix does. I can't see how that can be considered a 'high degree' of overlap. If you meant including the pay-to-stream library, sure, they have more streaming than Netflix, but if cost doesn't matter then it's not a fair comparison for most people.
Why do you think they owe it to you to be helpful?
They don't owe it to him, they owe it to their employer, because that's their job. Being helpful sells things, which is why their employer has them employed in the first place.
Watch out, your ignorance is showing. In most jurisdictions, once the sale is complete, it's your property, not theirs. They have a chance to try to stop shoplifting up until it's your property, and they can use security tags if they want, but they cannot search your private property just because you're on their land.
So, yeah, it is a 'bill of rights' kind of thing.
I thought the same thing, who is RMS to speak of freedom? Unlike the GPL, Apple stuff isn't viral .
RMS's stuff isn't viral unless you want to use his stuff for no monetary cost. Stallman uses copyright (which protects one man's ideas at the expense of everybody else's property rights) to build free communities. He sacrifices the individual's rights for the rights of a collective. I don't really agree with his implicit use of force to better software (he's buying into the copyright argument), but since nobody is compelled to used GPL'ed software, I'm not going to get too upset about it either. I do wish GPL had a fixed time limit on its copyright - author's life plus 70 years is just as bad in software as it is for Mickey Mouse.
Apple doesn't give the individual or community any rights (for its closed software, thank you for CUPS, et. al), it mostly files lawsuits about it.
To me it seems fairly arbitrary and pointless.
I suspect it's run by the shipping interests who are eager to use the Northwest Passage to get goods from Europe to China. Or perhaps a money laundering operation using Amazon somehow. What else makes any sense?
Project folders are superior, especially as time passes one can't remember proper keyword to bring up all relevant emails.
Yeah, the study isn't studying your use case. Here's one of mine - I have a folder called 'Expenses'.
When I get an e-mail receipt or invoice, it goes into the Expenses folder. When it's time for accounting, I go to that folder, step down the list, and put the data into the accounting system. Mind-numbingly boring but effective (hey, where are my microformats?). If I had to search for each of these, it'd take forever - many of them are one-off expenses.
I use the Nostalgy extension for Thunderbird, so filing the message takes three keystrokes ('S' 'e' 'enter') and perhaps 3 seconds (IMAP). Nostalgy saves me enough time on a regular basis that I donate to the project whenever it comes to mind.
EVERY competitor has the same disadvantage
There's no sales tax here in NH, nor in a few other States. Amazon is trying to disadvantage all Internet businesses in these States? I doubt the Tennessee Governor's report is entirely accurate.
My guess? They will say that the source will be "coming soon" for the next few years, until they release Panda Bear Turd or whatever the next OS will be called, never release the source, but people will forget or make excuses for Google as they have regarding their closed source Android 3 implementation.
And if they do release the source, it'll just be because they were almost caught being evil and will need to work harder at it next time?
My experience may be a bit US-centric, but here we already have anti-competitiveness laws that prevent a business from hurting competition using a monopoly. Unfortunately, we also grant monopolies that prevent competing ISP's, but more laws don't seem to be required. We had one ISP try to block VoIP about 5 years ago and our FCC smacked them down promptly with threats of such litigation.
But the problem remains, if you replace your cable TV with Netflix, the ISP makes the same monthly fee as if you don't. Clearly their costs increase, but their prices are fixed, so they have incentive to stop the behavior. That it cuts into their Cable TV business also provides them with unethical incentive to interfere, but they're put into a position where they can't be called to task for only an ethical lapse - they have real cost concerns too. I'm not insensitive to the problem - I was complaining about it almost 5 years ago, but since then I've learned to bait, not hunt.
Some people will say, "but they advertise to me a 10Mbps connection so I'm going to use it," ignoring the realities of internet connections being oversold as the reason they can get a 10Mbps connection out in suburbia for $45/mo. Yeah, we can all max them out, but if we do we have to expect prices to rise. Things like YouTube's 'preferred' colos are a step in the right direction (in theory, they don't seem to work well) to reduce peering costs but something like Skype will always be a many-to-many problem by its nature. We want ISP's to want to pass Skype. The most effective way to get somebody to behave is to incentivize them. Rewards and positive reinforcement work better than threat and negative reinforcement, that's just human nature.
If the ISP's had any upside to increasing traffic they'd behave more like they wanted to see increased traffic.
there is no relevance in between flat rate billing and the problem you made out of your ass
Strong argument.
net neutrality is needed so that the isps will not be going deciding what their subscribers can see and what they can not.
So you're staying the market incentives aren't aligned for best-possible transit of Internet traffic then?
It's a shame we don't teach this subject in school anymore.
Oh, and then there's the RMS type who will say it's "better because freedom has value" or something to that effect. Doesn't help you when you're actually trying to tune an application for performance.
Yeah, it only gets you the very operating system you're trying to tun your application on.
if ZFS or DTrace were ever ported to Linux
This is done (largely). Sun was hired to do the block layer port. The POSIX implementation is independent.
Net Neutrality. This after a mobile carrier announced that they were going to block VoIP and WhatsApp because these eat too much into their traditional revenue model. It's a valid argument, but it would have been only a matter of time before such restrictions would have been placed on fixed networks as well
Net-neutrality is a symptom of a broken market, one caused by flat-rate billing. I look forward to the day when the prevailing model isn't "here's a gigantic Internet connection but we don't want you to use it." The fixed-rate billing model encourages low utilization of the Internet.
All these services would still be cheaper than their old-fashioned analogues with variable rate billing, but ISP's would be in a race to lay huge pipes everywhere and provide great transit. Mandate the per-bit cost until the monopoly grants are eliminated.
Incentives matter, news at 11.
This looks like the typical situation of company A trying to fuck over company B, just when company B is about to release a product.
It's possible but that they'd also just happen to be in this guy's neighborhood decreases the odds considerably that this is what's going on.
without doing the hard work of battling for the budget needed to hire and train really smart, perceptive people for sensitive posts like TSA agents at airports
There's not enough money in the world to accomplish this. As the jobs are currently defined, anybody who takes the job would immediately be unable to be described with those terms (or they'd lose their job for not doing it and thus be unable to be described as being in that job).
Unfortunately, I do not know how to solve this problem, just that it is real.
The moderation system needs an overhaul to fix this problem.
Today, you'll get 15 points to use over the next several days. So, you'll use them as you read normally. Most people go for the newer stuff, so the moderation pattern follows.
To fix your problem, Slashcode would need to award targeted moderation points to people reading the articles after the magic window. They might only be valid for that one article, for instance.
The moderation system was a great idea when it was introduced, but here were are, what 12 years later, and improvements have never been made based on learned experience. I'm hopeful the new blood is going to help, and so far that seems like the direction it's going.
What about modern African humans?
The negroid type seems to be all homo sapien. The Arab and Caucasian Africans have neanderthal DNA.
Neanderthal are a completely different species.
were.
You didn't have to call it that way. Here was my version, I think with a bit more compassion:
I admit, I thought he'd last a quarter longer. But, neither then or now was/is the time for vitriol. I'll save the Jobs-had-Michael-Jackson-killed stuff for later. ;)
Modern non-African humans are up to 4% Neanderthal (by DNA). So, that would be five generations in breeding terms (1/32nd). That used to be the threshold for being sold as a slave in Louisiana (1/32nd black).
I would hope we would not treat them any different than an Amazon tribe.
Unless you're a negroid African, you probably have neanderthal DNA in you (remember to tell the white supremacists they're all half-breeds).
And, what happens if Global Warming turns out to be good for the Yeti population?