It is physically impossible to have a screen large enough to be able to see more than tiny messages on a unit that is small enough to hold up to your ear like a phone.
The cell phones that are really selling hot these days are the ones that are smaller and lighter, not the ones with the biggest screen.
So change the model. Instead think of a tablet PC size device linked with a bluetooth connection to your cell phone. Now you have a screen of a really usable size and an interface to it better than a joybutton that you could use to really create and work with messages and web pages with far more efficiency that any tiny cell screen. Now imagine that the internet connection could be outside the voice band so you could talk on your cell phone while taking or looking at your notes or checking references online. Now you have something that is really usefull and powerfull enough (and customizable enough to use any darn brower or even OS that you wished).
If you play EQ and use a hack like ShowEQ and they find out about it. Guess what? You're banned. No refund, banned. Even though it is a service that you paid for and you are just running programs on your own computer, all the other things you are griping out.
So come on folks, get off of MS for once EVERY online game service has this provision. You play the game on the service fairly or you are banned, end of story.
Pointing out the existence of the bug is a service. Giving how-to lessons about using it to wreck havoc is irresponsible. Maybe you may call it journalism, but it is irresponsible journalism. The public's need to be alerted about auto theft was in no way enhanced by actually showing how to defeat the devices. Similarly the public's need to know about caring about security holes in software is in no way enhanced by showing them how to exploit the holes maliciously.
I must admit that the 'news' factor of what is nothing more than a marketing tour (honest, how many of those are going on at any given day?) is very questionable, even for somebody who cares about Red Hat.
The editorial bias here goes from being obvious to absurd when nothing but a bit of marketing fluff gets described as 'legendary'.
No, radio stations DO pay royalties for the music they play on the air. They can negotiate for reduced rates, as can the webcasters under this legislation.
So the extremely large margins on the cokes are funding losses on other areas and financing their monopolistic forays against independent burger stands! The Evil! The Evil!
I think that what it boiled down to was to have voice chat or not. There was no way they could have fit both voice chat between all the players and sufficient bandwidth for the games that they wanted to do.
Broadband already costs roughly the same as having a second phone line in your house, which most heavy internet users do anyway. So the problem is not so much cost as availability. If this pushes the availabiltiy of broadband to the places that do not have it yet then I am 100 percent for it.
The real question is who is funding the lawsuit? Doyle is acting like he is some sort of aggrieved party, but face it, the existence of plug-ins was hardly a feature that Microsoft stole from a product that he was selling or stole from a company that that had a license from him.
Where the heck was him and his 'They're stealing my invention' song and dance when all those other browser makers were doing the exact same thing?
Frankly patents should have the same sort of provisions that trademarks do about having to be enforced consistently to be valid.
This creates a situation where if you do not have a lot of money you can violate any patent you wish.
MySQL is probably more comparable to MS Access than to something like Oracle or SQL Server. There is no way a CTO would downgrade a working application from Oracle or SQL Server to mySQL.
Use it for lighter noncritical work? Quite possibly.
Transactions, stored procedures, and triggers are not just 'bells and whistles' to large database applications. They are core features. You can't easily port from a system that has them to one that does not.
It's hard to be really creative when you are hoping for first post. I thought about saying 'imagine a beowulf cluster of these' but it just didn't seem to fit.
Well, because I was looking for something that was, for lack of a better term, less arbitrary.
Sure Linus does not dictate what each distro has to include, but he is a very influential force, and his statement is pretty much an endorsement of petty personal favoritism.
I am not in the operating system business. I write applications. I would just as soon NOT have to worry about whether a particular user has a particular patch in 'his personal tree' or not. That is just additional support headaches from my standpoint.
Maybe it is just me, but this gives me no warm and fuzzies at all...
Review process? I don't need no steenking review process. I just take the stuff I like from the people that I like. Make me like you!
You don't like my patches? Make your own patches! Then we can have flame wars about whose patches is better than whose and why it is your fault that something don't run because you haven't got the right set of patches!
Yes if you are talking about software (although there are exceptions such as autodesk)
But it is a whole different matter if you are talking hardware.
Logitech has not been stomped because Microsoft started making mice and keyboards. Because Compaq's PDAs require Windows CE does not mean that Compaq will become history even if MS did come out with their own PDA.
The problem is that tablet PCs in various configurations have been on drawing boards for years. What they have been lacking is a good enough reason for them to exist. In other words do they replace the need for one of the several gizmos that a worker carries or do they provide enough extra benefit to justify carrying one more gizmo. That was, for example, why I gave up carrying my PDA around. It did not have anything that I did not already get from my laptop and cell phone yet could not really replace either.
So Adobe controls a specification, has huge market share, uses it to charge a premium for their Acrobat Authoring Tools and it is good?
Acrobat is, at least was at the start, just an encapsulation of Postscript.
If Microsoft's specification for XDocs is open, freely available, based on XML, easily implemented, and has a better structured design then all for it. If Adobe then has to reduce the price of Acrobat Authoring tools or make authoring tools that can support multiple formats I certainly won't be crying about it.
We too are in software delivery, and while we have the same problem, it is common with every e-mail client that we have to deal with out there, not just outlook. Blame the jerks who turned the whole e-mail infrastructure paranoid with attachment viruses.
What we find particularly annoying in our work is not just the filters (since what we distribute does not have an extension that is filtered) but that the e-mail clients have decided to force all attachments saved to disk to have a random name and a fixed extension. Moreover each e-mail system has their own idea as to what those names should be so tech support becomes a real pain in the butt.
I agree, this is what we use too, except instead of the 3.5 inch drive enclosure we use the 2.5 inch laptop format drives. More expensive per mb but also lightter and smaller and less power drain so they can usually run right off the power in the usb plug. We use these for our rotating twice weekly offsite backup. Storix makes a nice line of these.
In my mind one of the best benefits is that the resultant backup is usable on virtually any machine and you no not have to worry that server growth is going to shove you into needing a whole different type of technology for your backup. By the time you need a larger backup drive it is very likely that the industry will be making one.
If they did combine an airless tunnel with maglev suspension/propulsion then in fact there would be nearly zero friction. But maintaining a vacumn across a tube covering many kilometers? The technical and safety challenges are astounding. They are better off just thinking of a way to produce unlimited energy cleanly rather than this impossible goal of huge vacumn filled tubes.
Moreover this is not like the pneumatic tubes you might have seen at various places that use differential air pressure to suck or push canisters along. Those are hardly high speed and hardly frictionless.
Honda has a hybrid concept car with a 300hp gas engine with a 100hp assist for a total of 400hp with extremely good mileage and emissions. Is 400hp not enough for you????
Internet sales are taxed in the same manner as telephone and mail-order sales.
The internet is merely continuing the tax benefits that have been enjoyed by telephone and mail-order sales for decades, and for the same reasons.
So your statement is bogus, and nobody is presuming that the internet should be taxed any different than interstate transactions of mail-order or telephone sales.
The real question is whether these interstate sales should be treated any different than intra-state sales, not whether the internet deserves any preference over those other forms of inter-state sales.
The tax RATE is only a tiny part of the problem. A sales tax reporting form is roughly as complicated as a form 1040A (I have filled out both).
Now imagine having to fill out about 50 of them, with entirely different formats, different rules, different reporting deadlines, PLUS all the various county and city forms.
Then imgagine that you had to get set up with all these various agencies just because you wanted to sell some stuff on ebay and you had to do it before making your first sale because you had no idea where your sale might be to.
That makes a pretty steep barrier to entry, does it not?
Would you rather have e-commerce where half the sites say 'sorry we aren't yet set up to sell to anyone in your state'
Sales tax is charged to and collected from the seller
The seller, if they wish, can (and often does) add the sales tax to their published prices and charge that to you.
However it is ultimately the seller, not the buyer, that has the legal obligation to pay the sales tax.
Note: This is at least the way the law is worded in California, and I am told that is also how it is worded elsewhere, but other states could be different
I am part of an organization that runs a swapmeet for a fundraiser (we don't sell there ourselves, just sell the spaces to the vendors).
We MUST check that EVERY vendor has a state reseller's number (fortunately that is free in CA) and every vendor supposedly has to report and pay sales tax on their sales (whether they do or not is their business).
The state does check us and if we are allowing vendors to sell there without resale permits then they would fine us $1000 per vendor per week.
Actually there is an exception in the CA sales tax law for limited face-to-face sales of used personal property but since we can't check on what everybody is selling we have to insist on a resale number from everybody.
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The cell phones that are really selling hot these days are the ones that are smaller and lighter, not the ones with the biggest screen.
So change the model. Instead think of a tablet PC size device linked with a bluetooth connection to your cell phone. Now you have a screen of a really usable size and an interface to it better than a joybutton that you could use to really create and work with messages and web pages with far more efficiency that any tiny cell screen. Now imagine that the internet connection could be outside the voice band so you could talk on your cell phone while taking or looking at your notes or checking references online. Now you have something that is really usefull and powerfull enough (and customizable enough to use any darn brower or even OS that you wished).
If you play EQ and use a hack like ShowEQ and they find out about it. Guess what? You're banned. No refund, banned. Even though it is a service that you paid for and you are just running programs on your own computer, all the other things you are griping out. So come on folks, get off of MS for once EVERY online game service has this provision. You play the game on the service fairly or you are banned, end of story.
Pointing out the existence of the bug is a service. Giving how-to lessons about using it to wreck havoc is irresponsible. Maybe you may call it journalism, but it is irresponsible journalism. The public's need to be alerted about auto theft was in no way enhanced by actually showing how to defeat the devices. Similarly the public's need to know about caring about security holes in software is in no way enhanced by showing them how to exploit the holes maliciously.
The editorial bias here goes from being obvious to absurd when nothing but a bit of marketing fluff gets described as 'legendary'.
No, radio stations DO pay royalties for the music they play on the air. They can negotiate for reduced rates, as can the webcasters under this legislation.
So the extremely large margins on the cokes are funding losses on other areas and financing their monopolistic forays against independent burger stands! The Evil! The Evil!
Broadband already costs roughly the same as having a second phone line in your house, which most heavy internet users do anyway. So the problem is not so much cost as availability. If this pushes the availabiltiy of broadband to the places that do not have it yet then I am 100 percent for it.
Linux is a viable alternative to Windows.
Where the heck was him and his 'They're stealing my invention' song and dance when all those other browser makers were doing the exact same thing?
Frankly patents should have the same sort of provisions that trademarks do about having to be enforced consistently to be valid.
This creates a situation where if you do not have a lot of money you can violate any patent you wish.
Use it for lighter noncritical work? Quite possibly.
Transactions, stored procedures, and triggers are not just 'bells and whistles' to large database applications. They are core features. You can't easily port from a system that has them to one that does not.
It's hard to be really creative when you are hoping for first post. I thought about saying 'imagine a beowulf cluster of these' but it just didn't seem to fit.
As long as I don't have to start calling it GNU/MySQL I will be satisfied.
Well, because I was looking for something that was, for lack of a better term, less arbitrary.
Sure Linus does not dictate what each distro has to include, but he is a very influential force, and his statement is pretty much an endorsement of petty personal favoritism.
I am not in the operating system business. I write applications. I would just as soon NOT have to worry about whether a particular user has a particular patch in 'his personal tree' or not. That is just additional support headaches from my standpoint.
Review process? I don't need no steenking review process. I just take the stuff I like from the people that I like. Make me like you!
You don't like my patches? Make your own patches! Then we can have flame wars about whose patches is better than whose and why it is your fault that something don't run because you haven't got the right set of patches!
But it is a whole different matter if you are talking hardware.
Logitech has not been stomped because Microsoft started making mice and keyboards. Because Compaq's PDAs require Windows CE does not mean that Compaq will become history even if MS did come out with their own PDA.
The problem is that tablet PCs in various configurations have been on drawing boards for years. What they have been lacking is a good enough reason for them to exist. In other words do they replace the need for one of the several gizmos that a worker carries or do they provide enough extra benefit to justify carrying one more gizmo. That was, for example, why I gave up carrying my PDA around. It did not have anything that I did not already get from my laptop and cell phone yet could not really replace either.
Acrobat is, at least was at the start, just an encapsulation of Postscript.
If Microsoft's specification for XDocs is open, freely available, based on XML, easily implemented, and has a better structured design then all for it. If Adobe then has to reduce the price of Acrobat Authoring tools or make authoring tools that can support multiple formats I certainly won't be crying about it.
What we find particularly annoying in our work is not just the filters (since what we distribute does not have an extension that is filtered) but that the e-mail clients have decided to force all attachments saved to disk to have a random name and a fixed extension. Moreover each e-mail system has their own idea as to what those names should be so tech support becomes a real pain in the butt.
In my mind one of the best benefits is that the resultant backup is usable on virtually any machine and you no not have to worry that server growth is going to shove you into needing a whole different type of technology for your backup. By the time you need a larger backup drive it is very likely that the industry will be making one.
Moreover this is not like the pneumatic tubes you might have seen at various places that use differential air pressure to suck or push canisters along. Those are hardly high speed and hardly frictionless.
When americans complain that it can't be done some japanese company just goes ahead and does it. Is 400 horseposer, 42mpg and ULEV certification enough for you?
Honda has a hybrid concept car with a 300hp gas engine with a 100hp assist for a total of 400hp with extremely good mileage and emissions. Is 400hp not enough for you????
The internet is merely continuing the tax benefits that have been enjoyed by telephone and mail-order sales for decades, and for the same reasons.
So your statement is bogus, and nobody is presuming that the internet should be taxed any different than interstate transactions of mail-order or telephone sales.
The real question is whether these interstate sales should be treated any different than intra-state sales, not whether the internet deserves any preference over those other forms of inter-state sales.
Now imagine having to fill out about 50 of them, with entirely different formats, different rules, different reporting deadlines, PLUS all the various county and city forms.
Then imgagine that you had to get set up with all these various agencies just because you wanted to sell some stuff on ebay and you had to do it before making your first sale because you had no idea where your sale might be to.
That makes a pretty steep barrier to entry, does it not?
Would you rather have e-commerce where half the sites say 'sorry we aren't yet set up to sell to anyone in your state'
Sales tax is charged to and collected from the seller
The seller, if they wish, can (and often does) add the sales tax to their published prices and charge that to you.
However it is ultimately the seller, not the buyer, that has the legal obligation to pay the sales tax.
Note: This is at least the way the law is worded in California, and I am told that is also how it is worded elsewhere, but other states could be different
We MUST check that EVERY vendor has a state reseller's number (fortunately that is free in CA) and every vendor supposedly has to report and pay sales tax on their sales (whether they do or not is their business).
The state does check us and if we are allowing vendors to sell there without resale permits then they would fine us $1000 per vendor per week.
Actually there is an exception in the CA sales tax law for limited face-to-face sales of used personal property but since we can't check on what everybody is selling we have to insist on a resale number from everybody.