Well, I switched to baby bell DSL recently because I moved and I could (finally). The side benefit was that it's actually cheaper than the second dial up line and all the extra taxes and fees. Things may always change but right now, my DSL/ISP cost is about $10 a month less than I was paying for dialup and I no longer cringe at multi-megabyte downloads. I'm doing my little part to support the growth.
Actually, she is a reporter, a paid professional. She was on company business and likely using company equipment at company expense. Barring some special provisions in her agreement, this is most likely a "work for hire" and, in a most technical sense, she did not have the right to send it to her personal mailing list at all. She was paid to gather the information for her employeer and is now making a fuss to try and distract attention from her own illegal behavior. Plenty of you programmes should be familiar with that concept.
I think it's been mentioned already but existing LEDs are not a very good way to get white light. I haven't seen a LED flashlight yet that can hold a candle to my Craftsman 18 volt rechargable incadesent. Most auto interior lights are a compromise. They exist mainly to help people get in and out of the car when it's dark. My Suburban has a bunch of lights all over the interior and includes a couple that can be aimed for reading. There fine for a map but I wouldn't want to tackle Gone With The Wind. Right now, LEDs are not the magic solution to everything.
Gee, my '92 Cadillac has a full digital dash, not a gage or needle to be seen. For the longest time, I thought digital was useless in a car. Then I got one and have become convinced that it's just fine. There is a huge amount of resistance from the more mature drivers to any change in the norm and that's why you haven't seen a huge influx. Like a lot of others, I thought it took more time and effort to read a number than notice the position of a needle but experience has convinced me otherwise. After a little reflection, it occurs to me that reading a conventional gage, we actually have to visually process a complex image but the number is sent pretty directly on to the brain for action. Another nice function is being able to read all the computer codes and values right from the dash - no blinking lights or special equipment required. Just push a couple of buttons and read the data right off the display. If Cadillac could do it over 10 years ago, it's clearly demand and not technology that is the controlling factor.
No problems with the update either time I had to do it I tried to install 2 HP printers on the same machine and they totalled the Windows install so I got to do TaxCut twice. After 5 years of TurboTax, the new program seems a little strange but it does work and did grab all the data from last year's Turbotax. Oh, yeah, my track 0 isn't corrupted either.
Yep. No sweat on the download the first time I installed it or the second time I installed it after an HP driver crunch (you'd think you should be able to run 2 HP printers, right?) totaled the Windows install and I had to reload from a tape that didn't have TaxCut yet. I'm used to Turbotax after 5 years so it seems like TaxCut is a little strange but it does the job O K and did suck all the data from last year's Turbotax in without a hitch. Works fine and doesn't invade my machine's inner workings.
My kid had something like that happen in grade school. He was tall, clumsy, and smart. One day, in about 4th grade, a kid deliberately tripped him on the playground and he lost it. Grabbed the kid around the neck with one arm and smacked him in the face about three times with the other one. The lesbian principal had an absolute fit about the violence and we went round a few times about her inability to administer the school policy about the abuse Josh was taking (and had reported). The whole incident did serve to solve most of his social problems for the next couple of years.
And six years from now, when you are audited for some obscure reason, you are going to the web to document what happened in your return? Intuit can go broke and I still have the programs and data that went into my last 5 years of returns. I may be a little anal but I keep 3 separate backups of my accounting data and 2 of my tax data.Obviously, since they have screwed things up now, there are no longer my software provider.
I was a whole lot luckier. I was a day away from buying my 5th consecutive yearly version of Turbotax when I saw an earlier article on/. I now own TaxCut and will likely never buy another Intuit product in my life. Untrustworthy tax software. That's about like hiring Arthur Anderson to do your taxes. Things are fine now but you will pay the price later.
Our equipment is far better than average, around $10,000+ per scanner. Triple lasers, fixed location, tight specs - we are not talking a hand held cheapy here or even supermarket scanner quality. For us, a no-read means the piece has to be recycled through half of the building, a slow and costly option. Our building scans about 1/2 million items a day. We have hieght sensors that measure the height of the box (acually width and lenght also) and pass information to the scanner to focus moving lenses into 1 of 3 zones from flat on the belt to 18" high. One of the demonstrations is to read a code on a label attached to a frisbee thrown down the line. This is still a far cry from reading a moving tire at speed.
I don't know if they reallly do anything with it other than put it in a file anyway. I'm sure they didn't do much with the old ink ones. Back many years ago, when I was a lot more rebellious and anti-establishment, I carried 2 colorado licenses in different names and addresses but the same print. Nobody ever camer after me.
So you use $5.00 worth of RAM to make your box a lot faster every time you open your browser. As much as we bemoan program bloat, that's the way it is today. My Windows box has 640 meg and uses up 61% by the time it finishes startup. I agree that 400 meg for the O S and background jobs is rediculous but I'm enough of a realist to know I'm not likely to change the trend anytime soon so the first bucks I spent were for enough RAM to give everything room to run. Memory is the cheapest performance upgrade you can do.
Remember: The application is key. We had a big snow storm in Denver last night. For several hours in the 21st century, candles were the technology of choice for lighting applications.
A.C. forgot to mention that,in Colorado, it is just a change in technology, not policy. I've had a Colorado license for over 35 years. The first time ever I got one I had to have my fingerprint taken - the old fashoned way with nasty black ink on paper. The current process is a little faster and a whole lot cleaner but the information they gather hasn't really changed.
I guess it really boils down to how you define better (thank you, Bill Clinton). Beta had much better quality, VHS had better length. As usual, the public went for quick and dirty
As someone who works with equipment to scan barcodes on moving parcels, I can say "it ain't quite that simple". We have control over the speed, the ambient lighting, and the approximate location when reading. Our customers have financial incentives to provide legible barcodes and we still have a percentage of failed reads. Our scanners have, at best, about a six inch depth of field and sensors have to determine the size of the box to focus them. In theory, you could read barcoded tires across 3 lanes of traffic at 60 mph (assuming the tire didn't happen to be dirty or muddy) but, in reality, the technology is not yet here or just around the corner.
And, of course, you can cheaply mass produce policemen and place them around the country by the thousands or millions just to monitor cars. Yea, right. When people have to do the work, fishing expeditions get really expensive. When you can have a computer sift through gigabytes, it's cheap and fast providing all kinds of opportunities for abuse.
O. K., I drive a 3/4 ton Suburban with a 7.4 l. V-8, just about as big as you can get. And I drive it a lot. Why? Because of insurance. With insurance set up the way it is, I have to buy a policy for each vehicle I own and want to drive. This provides a huge financial disincentive to having several purpose-built vehicles. If I could easily insure ME, not the vehicle, I would have several different vehicles. I would keep the Suburban for towing (I recently moved a several ton front loader from Iowa to Denver, nothing smaller would do that.), I would have a small, fuel efficent car for commuting in nice weather, an AWD sedan for winter commutes, and, likely, a pickup for all that miscellaneous that pickups do so well. They would all be older models and the whole batch would cost a lot less than a new Escalade. I can't afford that senario because of the ongoing monthly insurance costs so I drive one vehicle that is capable of meeting all my needs. I pay a little more in gas but it's a lot cheaper than the insurance payments on a handful of units. If I could just tell the insurance people I've got 3 drivers in my family instead of 2 cars, a truck, an SUV, an antique, a boat, and a motorcycle, life would be a lot simpler and cheaper for me. Right now, I need to deal with 3 insurance companies just to cover all the toys. But if it was just me covered, the exposure on the 'burb is pretty low sitting in the parking lot at the lake when I'm out on the boat and the exposure on the boat is paractically nil when it's in my back yard. As it is, I have to pay for separate, full-time coverage for both. I am willing to pay for 3 drivers = max 3 vehicles in use at a time but I can't afford to pay for several sitting quitely at home causing almost no risk.
IIRC, KOA doesn't jack up their signal at night, they are 50,000 watts all the time. Signal propigation changes a lot for AM between day and night. KOA is local to me so I get it all the time, sometimes in things like electric tooth brushes. They are, I believe, one of a small number of "clear channel" (no, not the company)stations. They are the only one allowed to use that specific frequency anywhere in the country. Most of them have the 3 letter call signs indicating they have been around forever. Way back when, I used to listed to KOB (Albuquerque) in Denver at night. I was told these were set up to be able to blanket the whole country with radio, whether or not there were any nearby local stations.
And it's been going on for a long time. I worked with a guy that was a Control Data service engineer way back when. If you wanted more memory in your mainframe, you paid CDC a bunch of money and this guy went out and cut the necessary jumpers because they shipped every box fully populated but jumpered down to what the customer paid for. I wonder if he made anything on the side selling "discounted" memory.
How about 'likely to change it to something the monitor can't handle'. Our network configuration allows ONLY people with admin rights to change most settings to prevent those kind of screwups. You'd be amazed at how many people try to add a laser printer with a dot-matrix driver.
120 volts and a few amps. Oh, boy! That's scary. How about megawatt kilovolt hydroelectric generators? If its not done right, you'll have problems but if you can't do it right, never, ever, pick up a screwdriver.
I've used Turbotax for the last several years and it has slowly become a usable program. My first 1099 showed up a few days ago and I was thinking about getting the new version some time this week. Since it had worked well in the past, I wasn't even going to do any research. This article showed up just in time. Intuit has cut its own throat as far as I'm concerned. No Turbotax for me and no more Intuit programs, period! They obviously can no longer be trusted.
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Well, I switched to baby bell DSL recently because I moved and I could (finally). The side benefit was that it's actually cheaper than the second dial up line and all the extra taxes and fees. Things may always change but right now, my DSL/ISP cost is about $10 a month less than I was paying for dialup and I no longer cringe at multi-megabyte downloads. I'm doing my little part to support the growth.
Actually, she is a reporter, a paid professional. She was on company business and likely using company equipment at company expense. Barring some special provisions in her agreement, this is most likely a "work for hire" and, in a most technical sense, she did not have the right to send it to her personal mailing list at all. She was paid to gather the information for her employeer and is now making a fuss to try and distract attention from her own illegal behavior. Plenty of you programmes should be familiar with that concept.
I think it's been mentioned already but existing LEDs are not a very good way to get white light. I haven't seen a LED flashlight yet that can hold a candle to my Craftsman 18 volt rechargable incadesent. Most auto interior lights are a compromise. They exist mainly to help people get in and out of the car when it's dark. My Suburban has a bunch of lights all over the interior and includes a couple that can be aimed for reading. There fine for a map but I wouldn't want to tackle
Gone With The Wind. Right now, LEDs are not the magic solution to everything.
Gee, my '92 Cadillac has a full digital dash, not a gage or needle to be seen. For the longest time, I thought digital was useless in a car. Then I got one and have become convinced that it's just fine. There is a huge amount of resistance from the more mature drivers to any change in the norm and that's why you haven't seen a huge influx. Like a lot of others, I thought it took more time and effort to read a number than notice the position of a needle but experience has convinced me otherwise. After a little reflection, it occurs to me that reading a conventional gage, we actually have to visually process a complex image but the number is sent pretty directly on to the brain for action. Another nice function is being able to read all the computer codes and values right from the dash - no blinking lights or special equipment required. Just push a couple of buttons and read the data right off the display. If Cadillac could do it over 10 years ago, it's clearly demand and not technology that is the controlling factor.
No problems with the update either time I had to do it I tried to install 2 HP printers on the same machine and they totalled the Windows install so I got to do TaxCut twice. After 5 years of TurboTax, the new program seems a little strange but it does work and did grab all the data from last year's Turbotax. Oh, yeah, my track 0 isn't corrupted either.
Yep. No sweat on the download the first time I installed it or the second time I installed it after an HP driver crunch (you'd think you should be able to run 2 HP printers, right?) totaled the Windows install and I had to reload from a tape that didn't have TaxCut yet. I'm used to Turbotax after 5 years so it seems like TaxCut is a little strange but it does the job O K and did suck all the data from last year's Turbotax in without a hitch.
Works fine and doesn't invade my machine's inner workings.
My kid had something like that happen in grade school. He was tall, clumsy, and smart. One day, in about 4th grade, a kid deliberately tripped him on the playground and he lost it. Grabbed the kid around the neck with one arm and smacked him in the face about three times with the other one. The lesbian principal had an absolute fit about the violence and we went round a few times about her inability to administer the school policy about the abuse Josh was taking (and had reported). The whole incident did serve to solve most of his social problems for the next couple of years.
And six years from now, when you are audited for some obscure reason, you are going to the web to document what happened in your return? Intuit can go broke and I still have the programs and data that went into my last 5 years of returns. I may be a little anal but I keep 3 separate backups of my accounting data and 2 of my tax data.Obviously, since they have screwed things up now, there are no longer my software provider.
I was a whole lot luckier. I was a day away from buying my 5th consecutive yearly version of Turbotax when I saw an earlier article on /.
I now own TaxCut and will likely never buy another Intuit product in my life. Untrustworthy tax software. That's about like hiring Arthur Anderson to do your taxes. Things are fine now but you will pay the price later.
Our equipment is far better than average, around $10,000+ per scanner. Triple lasers, fixed location, tight specs - we are not talking a hand held cheapy here or even supermarket scanner quality. For us, a no-read means the piece has to be recycled through half of the building, a slow and costly option. Our building scans about 1/2 million items a day. We have hieght sensors that measure the height of the box (acually width and lenght also) and pass information to the scanner to focus moving lenses into 1 of 3 zones from flat on the belt to 18" high. One of the demonstrations is to read a code on a label attached to a frisbee thrown down the line.
This is still a far cry from reading a moving tire at speed.
I don't know if they reallly do anything with it other than put it in a file anyway. I'm sure they didn't do much with the old ink ones. Back many years ago, when I was a lot more rebellious and anti-establishment, I carried 2 colorado licenses in different names and addresses but the same print. Nobody ever camer after me.
So you use $5.00 worth of RAM to make your box a lot faster every time you open your browser. As much as we bemoan program bloat, that's the way it is today. My Windows box has 640 meg and uses up 61% by the time it finishes startup. I agree that 400 meg for the O S and background jobs is rediculous but I'm enough of a realist to know I'm not likely to change the trend anytime soon so the first bucks I spent were for enough RAM to give everything room to run. Memory is the cheapest performance upgrade you can do.
Remember: The application is key. We had a big snow storm in Denver last night. For several hours in the 21st century, candles were the technology of choice for lighting applications.
A.C. forgot to mention that,in Colorado, it is just a change in technology, not policy. I've had a Colorado license for over 35 years. The first time ever I got one I had to have my fingerprint taken - the old fashoned way with nasty black ink on paper. The current process is a little faster and a whole lot cleaner but the information they gather hasn't really changed.
I guess it really boils down to how you define better (thank you, Bill Clinton). Beta had much better quality, VHS had better length. As usual, the public went for quick and dirty
As someone who works with equipment to scan barcodes on moving parcels, I can say "it ain't quite that simple". We have control over the speed, the ambient lighting, and the approximate location when reading. Our customers have financial incentives to provide legible barcodes and we still have a percentage of failed reads. Our scanners have, at best, about a six inch depth of field and sensors have to determine the size of the box to focus them. In theory, you could read barcoded tires across 3 lanes of traffic at 60 mph (assuming the tire didn't happen to be dirty or muddy) but, in reality, the technology is not yet here or just around the corner.
And, of course, you can cheaply mass produce policemen and place them around the country by the thousands or millions just to monitor cars. Yea, right. When people have to do the work, fishing expeditions get really expensive. When you can have a computer sift through gigabytes, it's cheap and fast providing all kinds of opportunities for abuse.
O. K., I drive a 3/4 ton Suburban with a 7.4 l. V-8, just about as big as you can get. And I drive it a lot. Why? Because of insurance. With insurance set up the way it is, I have to buy a policy for each vehicle I own and want to drive. This provides a huge financial disincentive to having several purpose-built vehicles. If I could easily insure ME, not the vehicle, I would have several different vehicles. I would keep the Suburban for towing (I recently moved a several ton front loader from Iowa to Denver, nothing smaller would do that.), I would have a small, fuel efficent car for commuting in nice weather, an AWD sedan for winter commutes, and, likely, a pickup for all that miscellaneous that pickups do so well. They would all be older models and the whole batch would cost a lot less than a new Escalade. I can't afford that senario because of the ongoing monthly insurance costs so I drive one vehicle that is capable of meeting all my needs. I pay a little more in gas but it's a lot cheaper than the insurance payments on a handful of units. If I could just tell the insurance people I've got 3 drivers in my family instead of 2 cars, a truck, an SUV, an antique, a boat, and a motorcycle, life would be a lot simpler and cheaper for me. Right now, I need to deal with 3 insurance companies just to cover all the toys. But if it was just me covered, the exposure on the 'burb is pretty low sitting in the parking lot at the lake when I'm out on the boat and the exposure on the boat is paractically nil when it's in my back yard. As it is, I have to pay for separate, full-time coverage for both. I am willing to pay for 3 drivers = max 3 vehicles in use at a time but I can't afford to pay for several sitting quitely at home causing almost no risk.
IIRC, KOA doesn't jack up their signal at night, they are 50,000 watts all the time. Signal propigation changes a lot for AM between day and night. KOA is local to me so I get it all the time, sometimes in things like electric tooth brushes. They are, I believe, one of a small number of "clear channel" (no, not the company)stations. They are the only one allowed to use that specific frequency anywhere in the country. Most of them have the 3 letter call signs indicating they have been around forever. Way back when, I used to listed to KOB (Albuquerque) in Denver at night. I was told these were set up to be able to blanket the whole country with radio, whether or not there were any nearby local stations.
And it's been going on for a long time. I worked with a guy that was a Control Data service engineer way back when. If you wanted more memory in your mainframe, you paid CDC a bunch of money and this guy went out and cut the necessary jumpers because they shipped every box fully populated but jumpered down to what the customer paid for. I wonder if he made anything on the side selling "discounted" memory.
How about 'likely to change it to something the monitor can't handle'. Our network configuration allows ONLY people with admin rights to change most settings to prevent those kind of screwups. You'd be amazed at how many people try to add a laser printer with a dot-matrix driver.
Hey! Guess what? It' supposed to make you laugh. I'm pleased you recognized it as funny.
120 volts and a few amps. Oh, boy! That's scary. How about megawatt kilovolt hydroelectric generators? If its not done right, you'll have problems but if you can't do it right, never, ever, pick up a screwdriver.
I've used Turbotax for the last several years and it has slowly become a usable program. My first 1099 showed up a few days ago and I was thinking about getting the new version some time this week. Since it had worked well in the past, I wasn't even going to do any research. This article showed up just in time. Intuit has cut its own throat as far as I'm concerned. No Turbotax for me and no more Intuit programs, period! They obviously can no longer be trusted.
Are these fans anything like axial ones?