This is just my rant, but I believe dividend income should be taxed higher than income that comes from wages and salaries (ie hard work). Lowering dividend taxes is just giving welfare to bottom feeders.
The derivatives pricing functions look *very* interesting to me...but when I click on a function's description link on the Gnumeric web site, I get a 404 error. They could save my company lots of money in licensing fees from an Excel-based option pricing model that we currently use.
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"In a similar vein...does ANYONE find that "context menu" key useful, the one to the right of the righthand windows key?"
The context menu button is, IMO, the best thing to happen to keyboards in a long while. For Christ's sake...it's effectively a "right click" mouse button! However, it's on your keyboard - so it's one less reason to take your hands off the keyboard. Brilliant!
"I have a hard time seeing why anyone would want something any bigger than the smallest possible option."
A salesman that travels would want something as small as possible. An operations guy that has to travel *only now and then* would prefer something bigger since they would likely be using their laptop in conference rooms for presentations and hotel rooms on the provided desk.
I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook while all my coworkers have Optiplex desktops. I use my laptop for home and work because I like being in control of my own system...so that's another reason I suppose.
This serves as restitution for bundling a broken version of Java whose purpose was to destroy the viability of Java. This was seen as illegal abuse of monopoly power.
They could have avoided this by:
1. Including Sun's Java from the get-go; or 2. Not including a broken Java with the OS.
I love my mini-itx server, but the built-in NIC just plain craps out on me when I'm uploading large quantities of MP3s to it via Samba. Anyone else running Clarkconnect (RH-based) see the same thing?
Presumably, internet accounts are maintained in the name(s) of the adults in the house. Thus, irregardless of who is swapping songs over the broadband connect, there will be lots of unsuspecting Moms & Dads getting hit with these lawsuits out of nowhere.
Are we about to see the first "reverse class-action" lawsuit, where all the *defendants* band together to protect themselves against 1 plaintant? I call dibs on the patent:)
I don't think there is any preference setting - you just go ahead and use it. Now I'm able to get into my company's intranet with mozilla. There's a couple display bugs on the intranet screen and I'm not sure if it's due to sloppy coding or something with Mozilla.
Agreed. When I need to check my confidential email, I fly from NJ to the hosting center in Texas where my domain is hosted. From there, I plug my laptop into the serial port on the server and run minicom to get in. You just can't be too careful nowadays!
"That screen is your contract not to pirate the movie or use it in non-personal ways...."
Uhm, no. It is not a contract - it's just the FBI warning. It's already illegal to distribute copies if you are not the copyright holder. Whether you sign or don't sign something is irrelevant.
If more people were aware of the conditions that pet store animals come from (ie puppy mills), then they would be turned off. Dateline NBC's story about mills turned me off of those types of pet stores for good.
I would be curious to hear about the hoops you must jump through to adopt a pet in your area. Around here (NJ), I've dealt with numerous groups in looking for dogs and cats over the years. In my experience as long as you're not a psycho and not perceived as a danger to the animals there shouldn't be a problem. The adoption papers contain common sense clauses about caring for the animal.
I can understand having a clause against declawing - it's basically removing one's fingertips. An occasional clipping will do or you can go to a groomer or vet. Spaying and neutering is the responsible thing to do. It's no more mutilation than a man getting a vasectomy or a woman getting her tubes tied.
The foster organizations in my area have it done when the animals reach the right age (about 6 months) and it's built into the adoption fee. If you're aware of organizations that are doing it at younger ages, then I'd begin wondering who are the vets that are doing it. Some pressure from animal rights groups may straighten that out.
That's fine...I think some pet dealers are the scum of the earth. Specifically, those that deal in cats and dogs. I find it rather disturbing that some pet shops treat cats and dogs as commodities and not living creatures when there are millions of homeless animals out there already in need of homes.
Anyway, haven't we been doing this for thousands of years already with selective breeding? To reflect on the fact that a toy poodle is descended from wild wolves blows my mind sometimes.
"Hell, chances are the license I had to agree to won't allow me to sell it."
There's one mistake you made. You assumed you acquired a license and not a physical good. There are legitimate software licenses involving B2B transactions and actual paper documents to sign. But you bought a physical good in a retail transaction.
It has been long established that you are free to resell the original copy that you purchased. Book publishers tried to prevent reselling over a century ago with so-called restrictions printed on inside covers, but SCOTUS disagreed.
Everything has an assumed copyright, but you can still use excerpts for discussions, educational purposes, journalistic purposes, etc. Just as long as you don't go copying something in its entirety for the sake of copying.
The irony is that in economy, the fabric seats help to absorb one's farts. In first class, where there tends to be leather seats; you have no such protection. I like to fly economy for that reason.
"Every night on several channels are "forensic" shows, that take a murder and break it down over the course of an hour."
My fiance has a Season Pass to every one of those shows on our TiVo. When I talk (out of my ass) about how I'd like to kill someone that angered me on a particular day, she offers to be my consultant for the job.
Netflix has a distribution center about 10 miles up the main road around here, so they at least provide local employment. Everything else is Hollywood Video, Blockbuster and one mom/pop store with high prices and a crappy selection of indie movies.
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This is just my rant, but I believe dividend income should be taxed higher than income that comes from wages and salaries (ie hard work). Lowering dividend taxes is just giving welfare to bottom feeders.
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The derivatives pricing functions look *very* interesting to me...but when I click on a function's description link on the Gnumeric web site, I get a 404 error. They could save my company lots of money in licensing fees from an Excel-based option pricing model that we currently use.
On South Park, it's known as the "Brown Note."
I see the benefits when I use spreadsheets. There are a number of right-click context menu functions that come in handy.
"In a similar vein...does ANYONE find that "context menu" key useful, the one to the right of the righthand windows key?"
The context menu button is, IMO, the best thing to happen to keyboards in a long while. For Christ's sake...it's effectively a "right click" mouse button! However, it's on your keyboard - so it's one less reason to take your hands off the keyboard. Brilliant!
"I have a hard time seeing why anyone would want something any bigger than the smallest possible option."
A salesman that travels would want something as small as possible. An operations guy that has to travel *only now and then* would prefer something bigger since they would likely be using their laptop in conference rooms for presentations and hotel rooms on the provided desk.
I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook while all my coworkers have Optiplex desktops. I use my laptop for home and work because I like being in control of my own system...so that's another reason I suppose.
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"The Boy Scouts and The Masters are private organizations, paid for by individuals, not the government, i.e. tax dollars. "
But I bet the Boy Scouts are organized as a not-for-profit organization and receive a number of tax deductions as a result of that status.
This serves as restitution for bundling a broken version of Java whose purpose was to destroy the viability of Java. This was seen as illegal abuse of monopoly power.
They could have avoided this by:
1. Including Sun's Java from the get-go; or
2. Not including a broken Java with the OS.
I love my mini-itx server, but the built-in NIC just plain craps out on me when I'm uploading large quantities of MP3s to it via Samba. Anyone else running Clarkconnect (RH-based) see the same thing?
My company has a long history (60+ years) of using odd words in our reports. I believe it rubbed off onto me that way.
Presumably, internet accounts are maintained in the name(s) of the adults in the house. Thus, irregardless of who is swapping songs over the broadband connect, there will be lots of unsuspecting Moms & Dads getting hit with these lawsuits out of nowhere.
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Are we about to see the first "reverse class-action" lawsuit, where all the *defendants* band together to protect themselves against 1 plaintant? I call dibs on the patent
I don't think there is any preference setting - you just go ahead and use it. Now I'm able to get into my company's intranet with mozilla. There's a couple display bugs on the intranet screen and I'm not sure if it's due to sloppy coding or something with Mozilla.
Agreed. When I need to check my confidential email, I fly from NJ to the hosting center in Texas where my domain is hosted. From there, I plug my laptop into the serial port on the server and run minicom to get in. You just can't be too careful nowadays!
"That screen is your contract not to pirate the movie or use it in non-personal ways...."
Uhm, no. It is not a contract - it's just the FBI warning. It's already illegal to distribute copies if you are not the copyright holder. Whether you sign or don't sign something is irrelevant.
If more people were aware of the conditions that pet store animals come from (ie puppy mills), then they would be turned off. Dateline NBC's story about mills turned me off of those types of pet stores for good.
I would be curious to hear about the hoops you must jump through to adopt a pet in your area. Around here (NJ), I've dealt with numerous groups in looking for dogs and cats over the years. In my experience as long as you're not a psycho and not perceived as a danger to the animals there shouldn't be a problem. The adoption papers contain common sense clauses about caring for the animal.
I can understand having a clause against declawing - it's basically removing one's fingertips. An occasional clipping will do or you can go to a groomer or vet. Spaying and neutering is the responsible thing to do. It's no more mutilation than a man getting a vasectomy or a woman getting her tubes tied.
The foster organizations in my area have it done when the animals reach the right age (about 6 months) and it's built into the adoption fee. If you're aware of organizations that are doing it at younger ages, then I'd begin wondering who are the vets that are doing it. Some pressure from animal rights groups may straighten that out.
That's fine...I think some pet dealers are the scum of the earth. Specifically, those that deal in cats and dogs. I find it rather disturbing that some pet shops treat cats and dogs as commodities and not living creatures when there are millions of homeless animals out there already in need of homes.
Anyway, haven't we been doing this for thousands of years already with selective breeding? To reflect on the fact that a toy poodle is descended from wild wolves blows my mind sometimes.
"Hell, chances are the license I had to agree to won't allow me to sell it."
There's one mistake you made. You assumed you acquired a license and not a physical good. There are legitimate software licenses involving B2B transactions and actual paper documents to sign. But you bought a physical good in a retail transaction.
It has been long established that you are free to resell the original copy that you purchased. Book publishers tried to prevent reselling over a century ago with so-called restrictions printed on inside covers, but SCOTUS disagreed.
Everything has an assumed copyright, but you can still use excerpts for discussions, educational purposes, journalistic purposes, etc. Just as long as you don't go copying something in its entirety for the sake of copying.
My glasses have little magnetic pads in the corners where my sunglasses attachment can mount. Does that count?
The irony is that in economy, the fabric seats help to absorb one's farts. In first class, where there tends to be leather seats; you have no such protection. I like to fly economy for that reason.
That won't work...the money trail and IP trail will lead to you conducting such an act of fraud.
"...an OS rampant with Rob Malda's homosexuality..."
Hmmm...and this was posted as an Anon Coward. Trying to tell us something Taco?
"Every night on several channels are "forensic" shows, that take a murder and break it down over the course of an hour."
My fiance has a Season Pass to every one of those shows on our TiVo. When I talk (out of my ass) about how I'd like to kill someone that angered me on a particular day, she offers to be my consultant for the job.
Netflix has a distribution center about 10 miles up the main road around here, so they at least provide local employment. Everything else is Hollywood Video, Blockbuster and one mom/pop store with high prices and a crappy selection of indie movies.