It's a pervasiveness issue, exactly the same reason no one cares people illegally copy casette tapes, but a lot of peope care that people illegally copy CDs. There's a LOT more of it going on, so a LOT more tax money is in issue.
But remember, them not taxing mail orders doesn't mean they didn't have every legal reason not to, just that they didn't, it was a gift ( according to sales tax law) not a right.
Same thing applies here. While no one may like it, being taxed on online purchases is no different to the consumer once the issues of where the money go are sorted out.
They aren't alone, I think a LOT of states do it, but there's 0 enforcement. Just like the MA optional higher tax rate, who's seriously going to volunteer to give more money to their state gov?
I dunno about your YES, I'd be interested in knowing who is getting hit by these things, are they people that would ever install a 3rd party random update on their computer, or even know that they needed one? I've never been hit by a virus or anything else malicious in my 8 years using a computer and 4 years running windows on a couple systems, I however keep updated and run a firewall as well virus protector; my mom on the other hand would have never done this, I had to reload win XP for my aunt cause she installed some adware that was uninstallable, neither of them would have ever thought to go look for a fix, let alone know where to look.
Yea, I really wonder how they're going to pull off the Venom backstory, what with the hugeness and divergence of the Secret Wars series. I guess they could do a LotR like mini story at the beginning, zooming over all the details and just giving the quick background with lots of effects.
By the way, you can use Tivo without the guide. It just becomes an expensive digital VCR. But a Tivo without a subscription is still far more useful than a cable modem without a subscription.
Actually you can't with a Series 2 tivo, it won't let you past the setup unless you connect up to the tivo service.
Though in my current tivo setup, it did let me do the initial setup without a subscription but then it kept telling me to subscribe. The manual also states it won't work without a subscription.
Personally, if I have to load MS products to view, read, hear, or use something, then I will never view, read, hear, or use that data... period!
So you choose your information based on the format not the content. interesting, do you also only watch one News station?
If DVD John can crack it, then it wasn't secure in the first place.
So just because one guy in the entire world of 7 Billion could crack it makes it insecure? I'm pretty sure it will provide the service MS wanted it too despite this release.
I thought MS designed all the capabilities and released the 'specs' but Apple beat them to the implementation. There was the big burnMS ad compain last summer when Tiger came out. Just because Apple implemented it first doesn't mean MS copied them.
Anyone have some better evidence on the chronology of this?
Bar codes supply other niceties, like when shelves get stocked a little off from the labels on the shelf, or when something gets put back by a consumer, or very similar items are right next to each other. With all of these you can match the bar code up with the code on the label. Hopefully they'll keep something similar around if not used for determining the actual prices.
There's a system in some areas where you home school 3 days a week and they go to school the other two, or maybe it's 2/3 I forget. Seems like a good compromise.
2 years is a bit long for me too keep a CC statement, let alone remember which CC I was using. Though the other replier makes a good point about being able to order one.
You need to show proof of purchase for some of these, like the 3rd gen battery replacement option. I replaced my ipod battery myself about 1.5 years after buying my ipod. chances of still having proof of purchase? 5%:/
There's a difference though, those are sites you visit frequently. What about sites you don't visit frequently? THose are the ones that are going to be hard googling for as you may not remember enoughy specific keywords to google for it. For instance. I like this site of laid back little games called Orisinal.com, but I go there maybe every couple months. It has an odd name and not a distinct subject matter, not something easily refindable through google.
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Now, I go to my favourite web search engine, enter a couple of appropriate search terms and voila, there's my page!
You have a better memory than I my friend. Many times I only barely remember something I want to find again. Maybe I remember it was humourous, or maybe I remember it was an online game with pigs in it. Unless it's popular I doubt 'pig game' is gonna get me far. So bookmarks aren't so useless to those of us who don't keep everything in RAM.
Bookmarks, and a good hierarchy, also leverage the Associative aspect of our minds. Skim through your high level bookmark folders and you'll probably find what you were thinking of pretty quick. Additionally it reminds you of things you may have bookmarked yet forgotten.
For me it's the opposite, I do java developement in linux at work and prefer to use windows at home. I tried linux at home and I just didnt' like what it had to offer, and the fact that it tried to eat windows;)
Can anyone comment on the size of the index's with GDS2? On my 40GB laptop with GDS1 the index's took up 1GB of space, which was not apparant till I dug through my Application Data or Local Data or whatever folder that stuff goes in.
I quickly deleted GDS after that, the disk space was worth more to me.
Well the ease I was discussing was between GUIs and cml. Not OS Foo that is GUI driven and OS Bar that is cml driven.
A particular GUI may be harder to use than a particular cml.
Is windows harder to admin servers than Unix? perhaps. does it have to be? no. It's just how 'they' are.
Imagine two scenarios. You are told to lock down two server networks. One is windows one is unix. You got to the windows machine, see an icon on the desktop or in the start menu called 'Manage My Network' and click it to run the app. You look around and see something called 'lock down the network' maybe even in red font. you click it, network locked down.
You go to the Unix machine find a prompt and think 'uhhh' you types 'man -k network' get about 80 entries and start sifting through them... you get the idea.
Now rehash, this time the network app doesn't have a big Lock the network button and you just kinda give up.
GUI's lock you into what the gui developer gives you access too and into the 'control paths' they decide are best. While a well designed GUI could give you easily discoverable ( hci buzzword) and usable ( just click a button) access it also potentially prevents you from doing a number of other things the software is capable of but the interface is not.
With cml, you more or less have acess to every combination, but finding the right one for your regular tasks is not obvious or easily discoverable.
That's all I'm saying:)
I'll amend this with the fact that I'm an OS whore, I use them all for various different things.
Unix is user friendly. It's just very picky about who it calls a friend.
From an HCI standpoint which is the only scientific view that exists for such things, you have just made my point. Amazon isn't usable because it's built on X, Y or Z, it's usable because someone sat down and though about the interface and how a user goes about deciding on what they want to buy and then actually buying it, and then did a user study and retuned the interface based on that. It's called User Centered Design, not OS centered or anything else.
From wikipedia: The chief difference from other interface design philosophies is that user-centered design tries to bend and structure the functioning of a user interface around how people can, want or need to work, rather than the opposite way around.
An interface should be designed independant of the actual underlying processor/operating systems implementation.
After all, it is based on Unix, which was designed for ease of use
Exactly which Unix are you using there?
Unix is the antithesis of Usable. Just because something is capable of doing a LOT for you ( read has lots of features and abilities), doesn't mean it's Usable/easy to use. This is the big difference between Command Line Interfaces and Gui ones.
A cml may have lots of features but they can be difficult to use and if undocumented inmpossible to use. A Gui, usually, makes doing a specific action easy, but makes it hard to provide a lot of features.
This is a crappy case study amounting to little more information than "Company A uses Linux well for what they do." If this is a real case study it should go into details not just "hey it works."
If this is supposedly marketing then show me a case study for a company using X and I can find one for a company using it's competition Y.
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It's a pervasiveness issue, exactly the same reason no one cares people illegally copy casette tapes, but a lot of peope care that people illegally copy CDs. There's a LOT more of it going on, so a LOT more tax money is in issue.
But remember, them not taxing mail orders doesn't mean they didn't have every legal reason not to, just that they didn't, it was a gift ( according to sales tax law) not a right.
Same thing applies here. While no one may like it, being taxed on online purchases is no different to the consumer once the issues of where the money go are sorted out.
They aren't alone, I think a LOT of states do it, but there's 0 enforcement. Just like the MA optional higher tax rate, who's seriously going to volunteer to give more money to their state gov?
I dunno about your YES, I'd be interested in knowing who is getting hit by these things, are they people that would ever install a 3rd party random update on their computer, or even know that they needed one? I've never been hit by a virus or anything else malicious in my 8 years using a computer and 4 years running windows on a couple systems, I however keep updated and run a firewall as well virus protector; my mom on the other hand would have never done this, I had to reload win XP for my aunt cause she installed some adware that was uninstallable, neither of them would have ever thought to go look for a fix, let alone know where to look.
Meteor lands from space with odd black stuff on it....
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Yea, I really wonder how they're going to pull off the Venom backstory, what with the hugeness and divergence of the Secret Wars series. I guess they could do a LotR like mini story at the beginning, zooming over all the details and just giving the quick background with lots of effects.
Watch the end of "Catch Me if You Can!" again. It's based on a true story.
By the way, you can use Tivo without the guide. It just becomes an expensive digital VCR. But a Tivo without a subscription is still far more useful than a cable modem without a subscription.
Actually you can't with a Series 2 tivo, it won't let you past the setup unless you connect up to the tivo service.
Though in my current tivo setup, it did let me do the initial setup without a subscription but then it kept telling me to subscribe. The manual also states it won't work without a subscription.
Personally, if I have to load MS products to view, read, hear, or use something, then I will never view, read, hear, or use that data... period!
So you choose your information based on the format not the content. interesting, do you also only watch one News station?
If DVD John can crack it, then it wasn't secure in the first place.
So just because one guy in the entire world of 7 Billion could crack it makes it insecure? I'm pretty sure it will provide the service MS wanted it too despite this release.
Eh, just get the federal Governmnet to pay for it like the Big Dig
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?
I thought MS designed all the capabilities and released the 'specs' but Apple beat them to the implementation. There was the big burnMS ad compain last summer when Tiger came out. Just because Apple implemented it first doesn't mean MS copied them.
Anyone have some better evidence on the chronology of this?
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Bar codes supply other niceties, like when shelves get stocked a little off from the labels on the shelf, or when something gets put back by a consumer, or very similar items are right next to each other. With all of these you can match the bar code up with the code on the label. Hopefully they'll keep something similar around if not used for determining the actual prices.
There's a system in some areas where you home school 3 days a week and they go to school the other two, or maybe it's 2/3 I forget. Seems like a good compromise.
2 years is a bit long for me too keep a CC statement, let alone remember which CC I was using. Though the other replier makes a good point about being able to order one.
You need to show proof of purchase for some of these, like the 3rd gen battery replacement option. I replaced my ipod battery myself about 1.5 years after buying my ipod. chances of still having proof of purchase? 5% :/
Whoah, that's kinda cool. THough I suck at it :)
There's a difference though, those are sites you visit frequently. What about sites you don't visit frequently? THose are the ones that are going to be hard googling for as you may not remember enoughy specific keywords to google for it. For instance. I like this site of laid back little games called Orisinal.com, but I go there maybe every couple months. It has an odd name and not a distinct subject matter, not something easily refindable through google.
Now, I go to my favourite web search engine, enter a couple of appropriate search terms and voila, there's my page!
You have a better memory than I my friend. Many times I only barely remember something I want to find again. Maybe I remember it was humourous, or maybe I remember it was an online game with pigs in it. Unless it's popular I doubt 'pig game' is gonna get me far. So bookmarks aren't so useless to those of us who don't keep everything in RAM.
Bookmarks, and a good hierarchy, also leverage the Associative aspect of our minds. Skim through your high level bookmark folders and you'll probably find what you were thinking of pretty quick. Additionally it reminds you of things you may have bookmarked yet forgotten.
Several years ago Clemson University turned one of the computer labs in it's library into a Cafe, and they still kept the books in the same building.
For me it's the opposite, I do java developement in linux at work and prefer to use windows at home. I tried linux at home and I just didnt' like what it had to offer, and the fact that it tried to eat windows ;)
Can anyone comment on the size of the index's with GDS2? On my 40GB laptop with GDS1 the index's took up 1GB of space, which was not apparant till I dug through my Application Data or Local Data or whatever folder that stuff goes in.
I quickly deleted GDS after that, the disk space was worth more to me.
Well the ease I was discussing was between GUIs and cml. Not OS Foo that is GUI driven and OS Bar that is cml driven.
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A particular GUI may be harder to use than a particular cml.
Is windows harder to admin servers than Unix? perhaps. does it have to be? no. It's just how 'they' are.
Imagine two scenarios. You are told to lock down two server networks. One is windows one is unix. You got to the windows machine, see an icon on the desktop or in the start menu called 'Manage My Network' and click it to run the app. You look around and see something called 'lock down the network' maybe even in red font. you click it, network locked down.
You go to the Unix machine find a prompt and think 'uhhh' you types 'man -k network' get about 80 entries and start sifting through them... you get the idea.
Now rehash, this time the network app doesn't have a big Lock the network button and you just kinda give up.
GUI's lock you into what the gui developer gives you access too and into the 'control paths' they decide are best. While a well designed GUI could give you easily discoverable ( hci buzzword) and usable ( just click a button) access it also potentially prevents you from doing a number of other things the software is capable of but the interface is not.
With cml, you more or less have acess to every combination, but finding the right one for your regular tasks is not obvious or easily discoverable.
That's all I'm saying
I'll amend this with the fact that I'm an OS whore, I use them all for various different things.
Unix is user friendly. It's just very picky about who it calls a friend.
From an HCI standpoint which is the only scientific view that exists for such things, you have just made my point. Amazon isn't usable because it's built on X, Y or Z, it's usable because someone sat down and though about the interface and how a user goes about deciding on what they want to buy and then actually buying it, and then did a user study and retuned the interface based on that. It's called User Centered Design, not OS centered or anything else.
From wikipedia:
The chief difference from other interface design philosophies is that user-centered design tries to bend and structure the functioning of a user interface around how people can, want or need to work, rather than the opposite way around.
An interface should be designed independant of the actual underlying processor/operating systems implementation.
After all, it is based on Unix, which was designed for ease of use
Exactly which Unix are you using there?
Unix is the antithesis of Usable. Just because something is capable of doing a LOT for you ( read has lots of features and abilities), doesn't mean it's Usable/easy to use. This is the big difference between Command Line Interfaces and Gui ones.
A cml may have lots of features but they can be difficult to use and if undocumented inmpossible to use. A Gui, usually, makes doing a specific action easy, but makes it hard to provide a lot of features.
This is a crappy case study amounting to little more information than "Company A uses Linux well for what they do." If this is a real case study it should go into details not just "hey it works."
If this is supposedly marketing then show me a case study for a company using X and I can find one for a company using it's competition Y.