At a time when low end drives got their warranties changed to 1 year, the 5 year warranty was the deciding factor when I got my latest hard drive.
It's not so much that I care that I can get it replaced if it fails in 4 1/2 years, 'cause a new drive wouldn't be that much, it's more that they trust their drives to last that long and thus I'm more comfortable trusting my data to their drives. (I do backups of important stuff every once in a while, but not *that* often, puls I'm always worried I'll forget something because I don't do anything near a full backup. I just go through folders I think have important stuff.)
the people who are living below the average income level of a nation, which hence means that fully half of EVERY nation lives in "relative poverty"
Actually I'm going to strengthen your point and say that well over half live in poverty, assuming they are using the mean, since there will be people like Bill Gates who will pull the average income way up.
even the poorest of the poor in America live rather well, what with air conditioning and TVs around for comfort and entertainment.
You think the poorest of the poor have AC and TVs? I'm sitting here with a broadbard internet connection from my house a couple miles from where I'm going to college in a place where AC would be very nice during a month or so in summer, and we don't have AC. You think the people living in the slums even in Miami have AC?
So let me get this straight -- we can't rely on the free market, and yet, child poverty dropped in the U.S. in the 1990s when we relied on the free market to provide better employment and higher wages to people?
Did the free market eliminate poverty? (Of any type.) No? Try again.
Of course the economic boom helped, but we still need to do more. Especially because the market has now put a lot more families back into poverty.
And to tie back into your question about "Reaganomics", which jelly-bean-loving President was it who initiated the economic reforms in the U.S. which set the stage for that economic boom which decreased the child poverty level noted in the article you pointed out?...and also helped set the stage for the ensuing collapse. Decreased regulation leads to bigger swings which means bigger highs but lower lows.
But I do agree that Unicef's relative poverty thing is crap.
Thunderbird replaces Outlook Express; Thunderbird doesn't even come close to replacing Outlook proper if you use anything other than its POP/IMAP mail features.
Actually, provided that there isn't too much other "bad stuff", you can say "fuck" and get a PG-13 rating, provided that it is only used once and in a non-sexual manner.
And actually, even that isn't a hard and fast rule, as it can be overturned. For instance, IIRC both Gattaca and Quiz Show had "fuck" used twice. (There are probably other examples.) Even Spaceballs, which is PG, had "fuck" in it. (Pre-PG-13 era though.)
There are only a couple explicit rules for movie ratings, and these are they:
-Any recreational drug use (I assume besides cigs and alcohol) moves you to PG-13 -Any use of the word "fuck" moves you to PG-13 -And additional use of the word "fuck", or if the first use is in a sexual manner, moves you to R
But these can be overturned even if there is enough redeeming quailities.
In the end, I do not believe that it's realistic for there to be a good quality open source tax program. The big problem is that a huge amount of the work that goes into something like TurboTax is done by professional tax accountants and attorneys. This is not the sort of thing that could be rolled together by a small independent effort.
I agree, and would like to add that the fact that there are changes to the tax code made every year means that there would have to be a revision of the software provided every year on those grounds alone, on a pretty strict deadline.
Maybe the IRS could sponsor something like this, but realistically it's far more efficient for them to let TurboTax be the de facto standard
You probable have seen or will see the comments further down the page, but the IRS won't compete with the private industry's tax software.
A collection of irrelevant and questionable software?
Let's see, there are 11 projects found. Let's go through them:
Open Tax Solver: "Tax preparation software for use in the US, Canada, and UK". Okay, this looks like it might be promsing. But the fact that they are trying to do more than one country in the same product makes me question it a bit at least. And I'm not sure if using beta tax software is the best idea.
Canadian Payroll: "Calculates Canadian payroll taxes". Completely useless for (most) individuals, unless Canada's payroll taxes work differently than the US and the employees have to calculate it.
Payroll Perl Modules: "A Perl API for calculating payroll taxes". See above; not what is needed.
gTaxEstimator: "Tax preparation software". Okay, holds some promise, but do you really want to use a program called gTaxEstimator for something you can be sent to prison for if you screw up too badly?
reTax: Not what is needed; it calculates sales tax.
PHP Mortgage Calculator: Not what is needed
See-Commerce: Not even close to what is needed
MX Cart: Even further away from what is needed
Vista Nova osCommerce: Not what is needed
UCan: "Performs conversions of interest to travelers between the US and Canada." Not even close to what is needed.
PTax98: Oh, good, a program that will help you with 1998 taxes.
Anyway, none of these programs at least advertise features that are even close to what a commercial tax program does. None even say that they can do electronic submission.
I'm not a doctor but won't these embryonic cells be rejected because they've got different DNA then the person being treated?
I'm not a bio person, but I'm pretty sure the DNA doesn't matter, it's just the external structures. (Uh, sort of like you can link different implementations of the same function with different signatures without changing anything if you want to think of it that way.)
Sort of like with blood donation, all that matters are the structures on the surface of the blood cells. If you put cells with type A structures in someone who doesn't have them normally, their body will reject it. Same with type B structures. So if you put O blood (neither A nor B structures) in someone it will never reject it (ignore Rh positiveness), and if a body expects both (type AB) then it won't reject anything.
I suppose it *could* work differently with stem cells, but all the other rejection issues I know of have to do with external structures.
I've often wondered how that works. You can't figure out what's wrong with something (and not just code too), you go over it a bajillion times with a fine toothed comb, and you finally call someone over to look. You say "tell me if I screw something up" and start to go through it, then get to a point where you start to say what you did, stop, and go "ah ha, that's what's wrong."
It doesn't work nearly as well if there's not an actual person there too.
Actually, as the other person replying has so eloquently made clear, my understanding was backwards. It's the period-goes-outside-the-quote-marks style that is preferred and the US (henceforth "stupid") style that is accepted.
Just because the US uses the stupid style doesn't mean that other countries do.
Sorry, I didn't mean crime as in the usual sense of something that is against the law, just something more along the lines of, say, definition 3 or 4 here as something that is just a wrong.
You know, I have mixed feelings about this. I think that it is good that they are being taught a lesson, but I think the punishment may be too severe to fit the crime here. Your analogy to the bank robbery is totally absurd, since you would be taking money from the bank, whereas here you're just seeing if you'll be admitted earlier. (It's like the argument that is used sometimes with respect to file sharing, except here Harvard isn't even losing potential revenue.)
Publishing their names and getting them banned from other colleges would definitely be over the line into pure vindictiveness though. Screwing someone significantly, possibly for life if they truely are compeletly blacklisted, for one very small mistake is ludicrous.
What if someone (overeager parents maybe) read your mail?
I know someone who this could very easily have happened to. Her mom reads her mail (including email) and carries out other stuff for her. I could easily see over-anxious mom checking the website to see if daughter got in. (And it's all with her complicance believe it or not... I don't understand it, but whatever.)
The entire point of looking it up on the interent is so that he wouldn't have to call ahead.
Exactly. Let's go back on topic. Suppose someone had called, and was told the same price that is on the website. Now what? Does that move them into the wrong? At what point does it become false advertising and become punishable?
Website advertisements are just as valid as any other type, and should be held to the same standards. Period.
If you want to change the default font for the entire document, you have to change it in the default style. It's the same in most other word processors.
1. Open Word (I'm using XP) 2. Make sure font is Times New Roman 3. Type a couple things 4. Change to Courier New 5. Type some more 6. Press right arrow 7. Type more 8. Note how you're still in Courier.
KILE looks really nice (and I'll be emerging it next time I boot to Gentoo), but it's really a completely different idea than LyX. The former is sort of an IDE for LaTeX, while the latter is closer to a word processor in that it tries to hide the LaTeX tags from you. So depends on what you want.
The C++ 'string' class is nothing more than a typedef for 'basic_string<char, char_traits<char>, allocator<char> >'. You can use 'basic_string<wchar_t, char_traits<wchar_t>, allocation<wchar_t> >' for a wide string.
Or, you can use the class 'wstring' that is declared as a typedef for EXACTLY THAT.
See the C++ standard, section 21.2, at least in the <a href="http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/c++std/cd2/li b-strings.html#lib.string.classes">working draft</a>. I don't have the final standard unfortunately.
They are only emulating the look of native widgets, like Qt does. See the new feature guide:
To enhance integration of OpenOffice.org with the underlying operating system, all user interface elements (such as buttons and scrollbars)
will have the same look as those used in most other 'native' applications for that platform. [My emphasis]
If you have any doubt, see this screenshot; that ain't aAAAAl menu.
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And which one do you get to customize to your heart's delight, and which one will give you a better system?
Just courious...
You'd still need the pump. Makes a very small amount of noise.
At a time when low end drives got their warranties changed to 1 year, the 5 year warranty was the deciding factor when I got my latest hard drive.
It's not so much that I care that I can get it replaced if it fails in 4 1/2 years, 'cause a new drive wouldn't be that much, it's more that they trust their drives to last that long and thus I'm more comfortable trusting my data to their drives. (I do backups of important stuff every once in a while, but not *that* often, puls I'm always worried I'll forget something because I don't do anything near a full backup. I just go through folders I think have important stuff.)
Maybe this is a bit naive.
the people who are living below the average income level of a nation, which hence means that fully half of EVERY nation lives in "relative poverty"
...and also helped set the stage for the ensuing collapse. Decreased regulation leads to bigger swings which means bigger highs but lower lows.
Actually I'm going to strengthen your point and say that well over half live in poverty, assuming they are using the mean, since there will be people like Bill Gates who will pull the average income way up.
even the poorest of the poor in America live rather well, what with air conditioning and TVs around for comfort and entertainment.
You think the poorest of the poor have AC and TVs? I'm sitting here with a broadbard internet connection from my house a couple miles from where I'm going to college in a place where AC would be very nice during a month or so in summer, and we don't have AC. You think the people living in the slums even in Miami have AC?
So let me get this straight -- we can't rely on the free market, and yet, child poverty dropped in the U.S. in the 1990s when we relied on the free market to provide better employment and higher wages to people?
Did the free market eliminate poverty? (Of any type.) No? Try again.
Of course the economic boom helped, but we still need to do more. Especially because the market has now put a lot more families back into poverty.
And to tie back into your question about "Reaganomics", which jelly-bean-loving President was it who initiated the economic reforms in the U.S. which set the stage for that economic boom which decreased the child poverty level noted in the article you pointed out?
But I do agree that Unicef's relative poverty thing is crap.
Thunderbird replaces Outlook Express; Thunderbird doesn't even come close to replacing Outlook proper if you use anything other than its POP/IMAP mail features.
Until it gets all filled up and you have to aim for the little tiny area between the rightmost tab and the close tab button...
(Me, I have the Optimoz gestures plugin, so I just click and drag up)
Actually, provided that there isn't too much other "bad stuff", you can say "fuck" and get a PG-13 rating, provided that it is only used once and in a non-sexual manner.
And actually, even that isn't a hard and fast rule, as it can be overturned. For instance, IIRC both Gattaca and Quiz Show had "fuck" used twice. (There are probably other examples.) Even Spaceballs, which is PG, had "fuck" in it. (Pre-PG-13 era though.)
There are only a couple explicit rules for movie ratings, and these are they:
-Any recreational drug use (I assume besides cigs and alcohol) moves you to PG-13
-Any use of the word "fuck" moves you to PG-13
-And additional use of the word "fuck", or if the first use is in a sexual manner, moves you to R
But these can be overturned even if there is enough redeeming quailities.
Wait... how many of Google's employees are guys?
You sure we want to get to that stage?
In the end, I do not believe that it's realistic for there to be a good quality open source tax program. The big problem is that a huge amount of the work that goes into something like TurboTax is done by professional tax accountants and attorneys. This is not the sort of thing that could be rolled together by a small independent effort.
I agree, and would like to add that the fact that there are changes to the tax code made every year means that there would have to be a revision of the software provided every year on those grounds alone, on a pretty strict deadline.
Maybe the IRS could sponsor something like this, but realistically it's far more efficient for them to let TurboTax be the de facto standard
You probable have seen or will see the comments further down the page, but the IRS won't compete with the private industry's tax software.
A collection of irrelevant and questionable software?
Let's see, there are 11 projects found. Let's go through them:
Open Tax Solver: "Tax preparation software for use in the US, Canada, and UK". Okay, this looks like it might be promsing. But the fact that they are trying to do more than one country in the same product makes me question it a bit at least. And I'm not sure if using beta tax software is the best idea.
Canadian Payroll: "Calculates Canadian payroll taxes". Completely useless for (most) individuals, unless Canada's payroll taxes work differently than the US and the employees have to calculate it.
Payroll Perl Modules: "A Perl API for calculating payroll taxes". See above; not what is needed.
gTaxEstimator: "Tax preparation software". Okay, holds some promise, but do you really want to use a program called gTaxEstimator for something you can be sent to prison for if you screw up too badly?
reTax: Not what is needed; it calculates sales tax.
PHP Mortgage Calculator: Not what is needed
See-Commerce: Not even close to what is needed
MX Cart: Even further away from what is needed
Vista Nova osCommerce: Not what is needed
UCan: "Performs conversions of interest to travelers between the US and Canada." Not even close to what is needed.
PTax98: Oh, good, a program that will help you with 1998 taxes.
Anyway, none of these programs at least advertise features that are even close to what a commercial tax program does. None even say that they can do electronic submission.
So I call that link a red herring.
I'm not a doctor but won't these embryonic cells be rejected because they've got different DNA then the person being treated?
I'm not a bio person, but I'm pretty sure the DNA doesn't matter, it's just the external structures. (Uh, sort of like you can link different implementations of the same function with different signatures without changing anything if you want to think of it that way.)
Sort of like with blood donation, all that matters are the structures on the surface of the blood cells. If you put cells with type A structures in someone who doesn't have them normally, their body will reject it. Same with type B structures. So if you put O blood (neither A nor B structures) in someone it will never reject it (ignore Rh positiveness), and if a body expects both (type AB) then it won't reject anything.
I suppose it *could* work differently with stem cells, but all the other rejection issues I know of have to do with external structures.
I've often wondered how that works. You can't figure out what's wrong with something (and not just code too), you go over it a bajillion times with a fine toothed comb, and you finally call someone over to look. You say "tell me if I screw something up" and start to go through it, then get to a point where you start to say what you did, stop, and go "ah ha, that's what's wrong."
It doesn't work nearly as well if there's not an actual person there too.
Actually, as the other person replying has so eloquently made clear, my understanding was backwards. It's the period-goes-outside-the-quote-marks style that is preferred and the US (henceforth "stupid") style that is accepted.
Just because the US uses the stupid style doesn't mean that other countries do.
Depends on your location. In some places overseas (from the US), punctuation such as "blah blah". is becoming accepted, if not preferred.
Sorry, I didn't mean crime as in the usual sense of something that is against the law, just something more along the lines of, say, definition 3 or 4 here as something that is just a wrong.
You know, I have mixed feelings about this. I think that it is good that they are being taught a lesson, but I think the punishment may be too severe to fit the crime here. Your analogy to the bank robbery is totally absurd, since you would be taking money from the bank, whereas here you're just seeing if you'll be admitted earlier. (It's like the argument that is used sometimes with respect to file sharing, except here Harvard isn't even losing potential revenue.)
Publishing their names and getting them banned from other colleges would definitely be over the line into pure vindictiveness though. Screwing someone significantly, possibly for life if they truely are compeletly blacklisted, for one very small mistake is ludicrous.
What if someone (overeager parents maybe) read your mail?
I know someone who this could very easily have happened to. Her mom reads her mail (including email) and carries out other stuff for her. I could easily see over-anxious mom checking the website to see if daughter got in. (And it's all with her complicance believe it or not... I don't understand it, but whatever.)
Hey, your parent didn't say what the indication was, only that it was an indication ;-)
The entire point of looking it up on the interent is so that he wouldn't have to call ahead.
Exactly. Let's go back on topic. Suppose someone had called, and was told the same price that is on the website. Now what? Does that move them into the wrong? At what point does it become false advertising and become punishable?
Website advertisements are just as valid as any other type, and should be held to the same standards. Period.
...and Apple's legal offense, don't forget that as well.
If you want to change the default font for the entire document, you have to change it in the default style. It's the same in most other word processors.
1. Open Word (I'm using XP)
2. Make sure font is Times New Roman
3. Type a couple things
4. Change to Courier New
5. Type some more
6. Press right arrow
7. Type more
8. Note how you're still in Courier.
KILE looks really nice (and I'll be emerging it next time I boot to Gentoo), but it's really a completely different idea than LyX. The former is sort of an IDE for LaTeX, while the latter is closer to a word processor in that it tries to hide the LaTeX tags from you. So depends on what you want.
...doesn't support either my KDE skin or the XP look (or at least I don't know how to make it do so)
Check out OO 2.0... it should fix that. It emulates the Windows look (reasonably well), and I think fits in with KDE themes.
<i>Bullshit</i>...
i b-strings.html#lib.string.classes">working draft</a>. I don't have the final standard unfortunately.
The C++ 'string' class is nothing more than a typedef for 'basic_string<char, char_traits<char>, allocator<char> >'. You can use 'basic_string<wchar_t, char_traits<wchar_t>, allocation<wchar_t> >' for a wide string.
Or, you can use the class 'wstring' that is declared as a typedef for EXACTLY THAT.
See the C++ standard, section 21.2, at least in the <a href="http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/c++std/cd2/l
If you have any doubt, see this screenshot; that ain't aAAAAl menu.