Make it very clear -- that Toys B Us only has to pay for the overhead of accounting for the tax. The customer pays the tax quite directly. Even the overhead is paid for by the customers indirectly but it is vanishingly small. In fact a little creative accounting can make a "pretty penny" in accumulating rounding on taxes.
Indeed, feeding them bogus information is the only discouragement we can do short of not using their resources. I am all in favor of this whenever possible. The expenditure of this type of questionable effort is champoined by Golgafrichams who would otherwise have to get real jobs. While I am certainly aware that demographics can be a powerful tool, more often the use is of very questionable value.
Living a bachelor who went to the grocery store at most once a month, every six months I traded customer loyalty discount cards with a friend who has a family of three ravenous boys. Let the marketing weenies figure that one out.
I found it interesting that Sun charged me sales tax of 4.9% (Kansas?) for the bandwidth to download the recently mentioned OS release. In Kansas, services (and a few other exceptions) are not taxed. In this case, there is no physical product. I pay tax on the broadband connection here. What I bought was bandwidth there, wherever their servers were located. Although I used a credit card with a Kansas address and therefore listed that as my address, I could have physically been anywhere, even outside the US.
Also, this was true the last time I checked, in my previous city, cable internet came with a "franchise fee" - a tax to fund the government oversight of the service. The cable company charged sales tax on that.
This is a great pint. The fact that this is not done just shows the moral bankrupcy of the argument advanced by the recording industry. I would be in favor of any sort of copyright reform that forced the copyright holder to maintain the availibility of a mass marketed work with some cap on cost increase. Don't have it available = copyright sacraficed.
PS: Reading down the column, I previously saw that you said you have 75 year old fridge. Are you serious? Have you calculated your energy consumption? Unless you live in a utility provided apartment you might be better off with a new unit. In '93, I could have bought a particular close out fridge at a $200 US discount. It was the previous years model. The next year's model was so much better I could get the exact unit I wanted and the pay back was about 3.5 years. Remember, if you have an air conditioning season, you get to pay to pump out the energy the fridge consumes.
I enjoyed Titanic for the spectacle that it was. I appreciated the craft and scoope of mounting such an effort. For me, the story of individual characters and the actors were secondary.
My penence was that damned song being foisted upon us all for months. Mea Culpa.
If you are unfamiliar with the story of the Gimli Glider and it rather urgenty, unannounced re-use of an airfield see here. Additionally the phrase "Gimli Glider" is sufficiently unique for googling purposes.
See, planes can share a strip with autosports......
did ne1 else understand the second... paragraph...?
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I know that.
Because you knew, first you asked for explanation? Or, more probable, you asked for explanation and then just claimed you knew. Perhaps you should instead thank whoever clarified my obscure joke, funny or not. Someone did take the time to answer your specific query.
That it was journalistic fluff was my fear. Worse still is that it may have seed in what the media was fed.
Still I would welcome a real explanation illustrating how it might apply but I can't see it. It is difficult to say that a more accurate clock wouldn't help but I would give a lot of credence to someone in the field who said that they saw no connection either. Do you work in any area of research genetic biology?
I do not hold and have never held/. up to the same journalistic standards as other media for hopefully obvious reasons.
I do not work in this area but do maintain a passing acquaintance with some relatively layperson media coverage. I believe you are correct in stating the cesium definition of a second. AFAIK it has not been superceded. However stability between multiple clock sources is fairly easily detected (although I will grant you 9+ gigahertz is fairly fast).
Given a collection of clocks, whose average is being taken, one could compute an error from that average for any individual. Further any single other clock could be compared to that average and seen to have a better, or worse, stability when compared to an individual of the collection. The new clock type would not have to be based on the canonical mechanism used in the definition of a second. If the new clock turned out to be more stable and the technology was sufficiently accessible, the definition might be updated. The definition of a second is only a convention anyway.
I tend to agree with you. This discussion of plurals, while perhaps eventually arriving at the correct conclusion, was petty -- the original jest is clear.
As to how the first 'virii' post that you replied to got moderated to +3 informative, I think you might want to look at your reason modifiers in you slashdot profile -- or register so that you have a set. I perfer my information unclouded. I saw this comment as 50% modded overrated and 50% informative for a neutral score.
Still I am beginning to see a weakness in anonymous moderation, even with subsequent meta-moderation.
Every 100 million years or so a second gets loose out of the clock and raises all sorts of havok. Using less accurate clocks allows this to happen with corespondingly greater frequency. What's worse only part of the loose second needs to be consumed at a single locale in order to cause a single problem. The other day one hit here and my boot sector got over-written. That really hurt. I can only wonder what other damage it caused elsewhere -- I only burned up a millisecond.
Surely more accurate clocks will make the world a more functional place. I am trying do devise a program that will work with the network time protocol so that I and my equipment can leap over any more of these headed our way. I always wondered why the NIST was talking about leap seconds. Yes I know that it will just hit someone else but I feel that I have stopped my share of bullets. If the NIST clocks are leaping seconds, don't blame me for doing the same.
(Congrats on being the first to spot it. My more serious question is after your post. I totally read past the typo until re-reading to see if anyone else had raised my issue.)
First, I did RTFA. Second, I should say that I admire such work on time precision and think it should be supported.
However I must say that I am puzzled how any new higher precision timing source will directly help biological research in the area of genes. I did follow the recent reports of a genetic timing mechanisms being discovered but how does adding another step of resolution to the best available time source have anything to do with this research? Likely this the new clock will be far removed from any lab doing work with the genetic material in many ways -- geographic, propagation and subject matter. The currently available clocks are certainly no slouches. Are they not sufficient for biological work? How is an improved one going to help?
In part, I ask about this particular point because, while somewhat weakly addressed in the article, it was repeated on/. I am seriously hoping a little light could be shed -- preferably based on knowledge not speculation.
I have a Linux server with some ISA slots. It is a dual Pentium 133 runing Redhat 8.0. I uses a MONO MONITOR CARD, 8-bit ISA bus and a monochrome monitor. For those that do not know what I am talking about, this video connection is a DB-9 not the VGA style HD-15. The card is implemented in relatively discrete logic and is a full length card (meaning it engages the support slots at the front of the case).
From my experience, RedHat has not spent too much effort on supporting this level of technology. Upgrading was a bitch, some things in the choices could not be seen.
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Make it very clear -- that Toys B Us only has to pay for the overhead of accounting for the tax. The customer pays the tax quite directly. Even the overhead is paid for by the customers indirectly but it is vanishingly small. In fact a little creative accounting can make a "pretty penny" in accumulating rounding on taxes.
Living a bachelor who went to the grocery store at most once a month, every six months I traded customer loyalty discount cards with a friend who has a family of three ravenous boys. Let the marketing weenies figure that one out.
Also, this was true the last time I checked, in my previous city, cable internet came with a "franchise fee" - a tax to fund the government oversight of the service. The cable company charged sales tax on that.
PS: Reading down the column, I previously saw that you said you have 75 year old fridge. Are you serious? Have you calculated your energy consumption? Unless you live in a utility provided apartment you might be better off with a new unit. In '93, I could have bought a particular close out fridge at a $200 US discount. It was the previous years model. The next year's model was so much better I could get the exact unit I wanted and the pay back was about 3.5 years. Remember, if you have an air conditioning season, you get to pay to pump out the energy the fridge consumes.
You have my vote for the most humorous big spew yet.
My penence was that damned song being foisted upon us all for months. Mea Culpa.
Ah but Jar Jar's repugnance must have been digitally enhanced. Look at the difference in public reception between these two.
Your post is a very funny way of bringing up this story.
The network cards may eventually let out a little smoke....Or perhaps they don't have lightning there.
Another poster beat me too it, see here. Mod points better spent modding him up as more people should see this great story.
Sorry, working too many things at once and my post of the same link went up well after yours. It is a great story.
See, planes can share a strip with autosports......
Dahan: Thank you for the link. I must say that I was unaware of the stalwart of our community. We should support him in his crusade.
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Because you knew, first you asked for explanation? Or, more probable, you asked for explanation and then just claimed you knew. Perhaps you should instead thank whoever clarified my obscure joke, funny or not. Someone did take the time to answer your specific query.
Still I would welcome a real explanation illustrating how it might apply but I can't see it. It is difficult to say that a more accurate clock wouldn't help but I would give a lot of credence to someone in the field who said that they saw no connection either. Do you work in any area of research genetic biology?
I do not hold and have never held /. up to the same journalistic standards as other media for hopefully obvious reasons.
Given a collection of clocks, whose average is being taken, one could compute an error from that average for any individual. Further any single other clock could be compared to that average and seen to have a better, or worse, stability when compared to an individual of the collection. The new clock type would not have to be based on the canonical mechanism used in the definition of a second. If the new clock turned out to be more stable and the technology was sufficiently accessible, the definition might be updated. The definition of a second is only a convention anyway.
But not to worry, I have a jigsaw and lathe. I will make it round in a few minutes.
As to how the first 'virii' post that you replied to got moderated to +3 informative, I think you might want to look at your reason modifiers in you slashdot profile -- or register so that you have a set. I perfer my information unclouded. I saw this comment as 50% modded overrated and 50% informative for a neutral score.
Still I am beginning to see a weakness in anonymous moderation, even with subsequent meta-moderation.
Surely more accurate clocks will make the world a more functional place. I am trying do devise a program that will work with the network time protocol so that I and my equipment can leap over any more of these headed our way. I always wondered why the NIST was talking about leap seconds. Yes I know that it will just hit someone else but I feel that I have stopped my share of bullets. If the NIST clocks are leaping seconds, don't blame me for doing the same.
(Congrats on being the first to spot it. My more serious question is after your post. I totally read past the typo until re-reading to see if anyone else had raised my issue.)
However I must say that I am puzzled how any new higher precision timing source will directly help biological research in the area of genes. I did follow the recent reports of a genetic timing mechanisms being discovered but how does adding another step of resolution to the best available time source have anything to do with this research? Likely this the new clock will be far removed from any lab doing work with the genetic material in many ways -- geographic, propagation and subject matter. The currently available clocks are certainly no slouches. Are they not sufficient for biological work? How is an improved one going to help?
In part, I ask about this particular point because, while somewhat weakly addressed in the article, it was repeated on /. I am seriously hoping a little light could be shed -- preferably based on knowledge not speculation.
Of course there was no killing in Ancient Egypt either.....
My name is androgenous. My wife refused to consider naming our daugther junior.
Boy that must be a nice rig. Your EISA is at least a 32 bit bus, I am on an 8 bit bus. But you know, it does what I need it to.
From my experience, RedHat has not spent too much effort on supporting this level of technology. Upgrading was a bitch, some things in the choices could not be seen.
Some people have no sense of humor.