Actually in this instance, that's not how the business transaction works. That $1.50 you pay for the paper version barely pays for distribution. Newspapers get their profit from advertising.
The main problem is that internet advertising sucks. The profit is from click-thrus, not page views, but no one clicks, your eyes basically ignore the ads and you move on to the actual text. Even without an ad-blocker people know to skip the top of the page to avoid banners and stay away from the margins.
That's because they are flashy and filled with crap. They contain nothing useful for the reader. Newspaper ads are different, they have more connection to you and even contain useful information. That 1/2 page ad for a local car dealer gives you a general idea of local car prices, same for the real estate ads. The supermarket ad tells you what's on sale this week and gives you coupons. Even ads for local businesses that you will never use promote name recognition and form a sort of local directory in your head keeping you current on your community. The ads in newspapers are relevant to you, they actually form a part of the content of a newspaper.
Internet ads have never done that. Google tried with adsense, but it never really works unless you're a lonely man with a small penis and erectile disfunction.
* I think Cook County may be the only county in the country that is legally permitted to levy its own sales tax, but I'm not sure.
I'm not sure about others, but in NY we have taxes at the state, county and city level.
This seems like a case of the states trying to make a grab for more money without upping their own taxes.
Catalogs have never had to pay out of state sales tax unless the company owned land in the state they were shipping to, like a warehouse, store or distribution center.
NY has been pushing this idea for a while now. Most people don't realize that NYS now demands sales tax on any item purchased out of state for use or consumption within NYS. They passed the law a couple years ago without much fanfare and buried it in a small easily overlooked section of the NYS tax return.
I imagine it's just lurking there until they find an easy way to track incoming parcels from amazon and QVC.
So if you walk over the border to Pennsylvania, buy a candybar and don't eat it till you return home to NYS, you're supposed note that purchase on your tax return and pay the applicable sales tax on April 15th.
nope, the procedure I described works on my 8GB iPod Touch running 1.1.4 on windows Xp SP2 with the newest iTunes installed. From a bit of googling, this is the way it's worked on every iPod and how it should work on yours.
It sounds like this may be an issue with either her iTunes install or something wrong the iPod itself. Have you tried reinstalling iTunes or tested the iPod on another computer? If that doesn't work, take it to an Apple store set it on the counter and don't stop complaining till they show you it working, because anything else is some kind of defect.
You should probably be mad at her for wasting $100 then because itunes will let you play songs from a connected ipod even if they aren't in the itunes library. I just double checked by installing itunes on my XP box, it's never had itunes on it and there are no songs in the library, plugged in the ipod, waited a minute for itunes to come up then clicked on Music in the sidebar underneath the ipod icon. All the songs on the ipod play fine through the computers speakers, you can even plug headphones into the ipod and listen to a different song than it's sending to the computer.
Was she clicking on the music icon under library? because obviously they're not in the library they're on the ipod. I'm not sure why you, your wife or your "Apple buddy" couldn't get this simple, obvious thing to work for her.
Piss and moan all you want about not being able to copy them off the ipod, that's entirely true and annoying, but figuring out that you have to double click on a song under the ipod and not in the library really doesn't take geek smarts.
And just so we can keep track of the fan scores, I own 1 iPod, 1 ancient g4 emac, 1 amd xp/linux box and 1 dell vostro core 2 duo running xp, so could someone explain to me whether i'm palestinian or israeli?
Exactly! After watching the hidden fortress I had to go back and re-watch the original trilogy to make sure i wasn't mis-remembering it, because those movies have only the smallest similarities in their basic plots. And frankly, mentioning Lucas and Akira Kurosawa in the same breath makes me want to wash my mouth out. I think all those references to Kurosawa and Joseph Campbell were marketing bullshit brought in after the fact to make Lucas seem like a "great auteur" who was creating myths for a new generation.
That's my vote for when the movies jumped the shark, the moment Lucas stopped talking about them as updated versions of 1940s serials and started to claim that he had always meant them to represent "The Heros Journey". FFS, the heros journey itself is such a generalized concept that it applies to most of the stories ever written.
Did anyone read this before posting it? the figure of 600,000 was pulled out sof someones butt. I have never seen more than 25,000 people on SL. It's certainly not the largest denial of service in the game, in fact script attacks like this happen almost weekly in SL and always involve cutting off new log ins. I've never heard them use the term martial law and the supposedly new term grey goo has been used for months and months in realtion to these self replicating object attacks. The in-game scripting makes this sort of attack childs play. This attack is barely news even within SL. Even a cursory glance at the page linked will tell you all of this, but apparently not even the posters read their own links now. I think I'll start submitting random weather reports to slashdot, I'm sure some of them will slip through slashdots crack staff and be posted.
on a related note, why can't we moderate stories as "-1 posted by an idiot"?
"Speed. Quite simply, a monolithic kernel like the one used in Linux or most of the other Open Source Unix clones is inherently two to three times faster for integer calculations than the Mach microkernel"
Quite simply, Cringley is a tool, who doesn't know the difference between integer calculations and Interprocess Communications. After reading that how can anyone believe the rest of the article?
I don't doubt that he has sources inside Apple who've tried to describe things that Apple are working on for Leopard, but I think that his comprehension of the technology is so low that he can't understand them.
To him it's all just magical. Apple has stolen away some of the oompa-loompas that live inside of Windows and make Office run, covered them with chocolate and sprinkled them over OSX to make a miracle or two.
ummm, no. The crew compartment can not be separated from the rest of the shuttle for re-entry. It does have a heavy bulk head and door between it and the payload section, which is why they can open the big doors to space without letting all the air out, but structurally the shuttle is one big piece. The crew compartment did survive the challenger explosion, but it wouldn't have mattered what altitude it was at when it happened because there are no big parachutes attached like the soyuz capsules have.
As i recall, after the challenger accident nasa explained that escape mechanisms had been rejected for the shuttle program because of the complexity/cost.
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OK, I'm not supposed to talk about this, but I have two friends who work for the illuminati and all the new mind control chips are going to be based on the CELL. Unfortunately they couldn't give me to many details because of the NDAs that their reptilian overlords made them sign. Anyone wanna bet me?
seriously slashdot needs a "-1 talking out your ass rating"
Full disassembly instructions are included in the mac mini manual, including what tools are needed to open it. They recommend either purchasing a thin putty knife or buying one from apple (part number 922-6749). The manual states that opening your mac mini won't void the warranty as long as you don't break anything.
Yes, but do a google search for 'olympic rings nazi' and you'll find a different story. The nazis only popularized the rings, but they did invent the torch relay.
OK, this is wildly off-topic, but in the first image from the posted link, doesn't the woman on the left look amazingly like Michael Jackson in his arrest photo? I just think that her facial expression is hilarious, what has she been up to with young boys?
Sorry, I now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
According to M.A.D.D. 42,196 people died in car accidents in the year 2001. Have we instituted more realistic driving tests, installed governors to limit cars to 55 mph, raised safety standards, forced people to retake their drivers test when they renew their license? Nope.
After 9/11 they put soldiers with unloaded guns in the airports, a move that would not have prevented the hijacking, but how long did it take the senate to make airlines to install reinforced locking cockpit doors?
9/11 was a horrific and the people who perpetrated it should have been brought to justice, but destroying our liberties with idiotic laws does nothing to protect us.
If you want to feel safer, don't trust in the government, buy a bigger car.
come on, go out and see a movie once in a while. He's talking about Frodo, duh. Everybody knows that The Lord of the Rings is nothing but pro-linux propaganda.
If I send unsolicited porn through the USPS I can be arrested, why is email any different? You don't hear to many people screaming that not allowing porno junk mail is a violation of freedom of speech.
The government contended that IBM planned to and did eliminate emerging competition that threatened the erosion of IBM's monopoly power by devising and executing business strategies which were not illegal, but which did not provide users with a better price, a better product or better service. Specifically, it was alleged that IBM had hindered the development of service and peripherals competitors by maintaining a single price policy for its machines, software and support services (bundling); it had granted discounts for universities and other educational institutions and by so doing influenced those places to select IBM computers; and that IBM had introduced underpriced models knowing that they could not be produced on time and did this to prevent the placement of competitors' machines. For example, IBM had prematurely announced new systems such as System/360 claiming that it was a superior product and that its introduction was imminent when in fact, it was several years from completion.
It sounds very similar to the DOJ case against Microsoft.
Exactly! I've been running jaguar on my beige G3 266 for months now, and it may not be super speedy, but it is very usable.
I'm starting to think that MS is paying trolls to sit around and barrage posts about OS X with replies complaining about the speed.
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Actually in this instance, that's not how the business transaction works. That $1.50 you pay for the paper version barely pays for distribution. Newspapers get their profit from advertising. The main problem is that internet advertising sucks. The profit is from click-thrus, not page views, but no one clicks, your eyes basically ignore the ads and you move on to the actual text. Even without an ad-blocker people know to skip the top of the page to avoid banners and stay away from the margins. That's because they are flashy and filled with crap. They contain nothing useful for the reader. Newspaper ads are different, they have more connection to you and even contain useful information. That 1/2 page ad for a local car dealer gives you a general idea of local car prices, same for the real estate ads. The supermarket ad tells you what's on sale this week and gives you coupons. Even ads for local businesses that you will never use promote name recognition and form a sort of local directory in your head keeping you current on your community. The ads in newspapers are relevant to you, they actually form a part of the content of a newspaper. Internet ads have never done that. Google tried with adsense, but it never really works unless you're a lonely man with a small penis and erectile disfunction.
Strange I don't remember this many complaints when browsers started including pop up blockers.
* I think Cook County may be the only county in the country that is legally permitted to levy its own sales tax, but I'm not sure.
I'm not sure about others, but in NY we have taxes at the state, county and city level.
This seems like a case of the states trying to make a grab for more money without upping their own taxes.
Catalogs have never had to pay out of state sales tax unless the company owned land in the state they were shipping to, like a warehouse, store or distribution center.
NY has been pushing this idea for a while now. Most people don't realize that NYS now demands sales tax on any item purchased out of state for use or consumption within NYS. They passed the law a couple years ago without much fanfare and buried it in a small easily overlooked section of the NYS tax return. I imagine it's just lurking there until they find an easy way to track incoming parcels from amazon and QVC.
So if you walk over the border to Pennsylvania, buy a candybar and don't eat it till you return home to NYS, you're supposed note that purchase on your tax return and pay the applicable sales tax on April 15th.
nope, the procedure I described works on my 8GB iPod Touch running 1.1.4 on windows Xp SP2 with the newest iTunes installed. From a bit of googling, this is the way it's worked on every iPod and how it should work on yours.
It sounds like this may be an issue with either her iTunes install or something wrong the iPod itself. Have you tried reinstalling iTunes or tested the iPod on another computer? If that doesn't work, take it to an Apple store set it on the counter and don't stop complaining till they show you it working, because anything else is some kind of defect.
You should probably be mad at her for wasting $100 then because itunes will let you play songs from a connected ipod even if they aren't in the itunes library. I just double checked by installing itunes on my XP box, it's never had itunes on it and there are no songs in the library, plugged in the ipod, waited a minute for itunes to come up then clicked on Music in the sidebar underneath the ipod icon. All the songs on the ipod play fine through the computers speakers, you can even plug headphones into the ipod and listen to a different song than it's sending to the computer.
Was she clicking on the music icon under library? because obviously they're not in the library they're on the ipod. I'm not sure why you, your wife or your "Apple buddy" couldn't get this simple, obvious thing to work for her.
Piss and moan all you want about not being able to copy them off the ipod, that's entirely true and annoying, but figuring out that you have to double click on a song under the ipod and not in the library really doesn't take geek smarts.
And just so we can keep track of the fan scores, I own 1 iPod, 1 ancient g4 emac, 1 amd xp/linux box and 1 dell vostro core 2 duo running xp, so could someone explain to me whether i'm palestinian or israeli?
Exactly! After watching the hidden fortress I had to go back and re-watch the original trilogy to make sure i wasn't mis-remembering it, because those movies have only the smallest similarities in their basic plots. And frankly, mentioning Lucas and Akira Kurosawa in the same breath makes me want to wash my mouth out. I think all those references to Kurosawa and Joseph Campbell were marketing bullshit brought in after the fact to make Lucas seem like a "great auteur" who was creating myths for a new generation.
That's my vote for when the movies jumped the shark, the moment Lucas stopped talking about them as updated versions of 1940s serials and started to claim that he had always meant them to represent "The Heros Journey". FFS, the heros journey itself is such a generalized concept that it applies to most of the stories ever written.
on a related note, why can't we moderate stories as "-1 posted by an idiot"?
"Speed. Quite simply, a monolithic kernel like the one used in Linux or most of the other Open Source Unix clones is inherently two to three times faster for integer calculations than the Mach microkernel"
Quite simply, Cringley is a tool, who doesn't know the difference between integer calculations and Interprocess Communications. After reading that how can anyone believe the rest of the article?
I don't doubt that he has sources inside Apple who've tried to describe things that Apple are working on for Leopard, but I think that his comprehension of the technology is so low that he can't understand them.
To him it's all just magical. Apple has stolen away some of the oompa-loompas that live inside of Windows and make Office run, covered them with chocolate and sprinkled them over OSX to make a miracle or two.
ummm, no. The crew compartment can not be separated from the rest of the shuttle for re-entry. It does have a heavy bulk head and door between it and the payload section, which is why they can open the big doors to space without letting all the air out, but structurally the shuttle is one big piece. The crew compartment did survive the challenger explosion, but it wouldn't have mattered what altitude it was at when it happened because there are no big parachutes attached like the soyuz capsules have.
As i recall, after the challenger accident nasa explained that escape mechanisms had been rejected for the shuttle program because of the complexity/cost.
ummm, Dave Hyatt is a developer or Apple who works on Safari. btw. you should follow the link in your sig, it's kinda apropos.
fizzy lifting gas, yo.
OK, I'm not supposed to talk about this, but I have two friends who work for the illuminati and all the new mind control chips are going to be based on the CELL. Unfortunately they couldn't give me to many details because of the NDAs that their reptilian overlords made them sign. Anyone wanna bet me?
seriously slashdot needs a "-1 talking out your ass rating"
Full disassembly instructions are included in the mac mini manual, including what tools are needed to open it. They recommend either purchasing a thin putty knife or buying one from apple (part number 922-6749). The manual states that opening your mac mini won't void the warranty as long as you don't break anything.
Do you mean interesting as in That's mentioned in the first line of the article posted? and coincidental as in That's the whole reason for the article? Or do you mean that it's an interesting coincidence that you didn't read the article and you don't know what you're posting about?
Yes, but do a google search for 'olympic rings nazi' and you'll find a different story. The nazis only popularized the rings, but they did invent the torch relay.
OK, this is wildly off-topic, but in the first image from the posted link, doesn't the woman on the left look amazingly like Michael Jackson in his arrest photo? I just think that her facial expression is hilarious, what has she been up to with young boys? Sorry, I now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
According to M.A.D.D. 42,196 people died in car accidents in the year 2001. Have we instituted more realistic driving tests, installed governors to limit cars to 55 mph, raised safety standards, forced people to retake their drivers test when they renew their license? Nope.
After 9/11 they put soldiers with unloaded guns in the airports, a move that would not have prevented the hijacking, but how long did it take the senate to make airlines to install reinforced locking cockpit doors?
9/11 was a horrific and the people who perpetrated it should have been brought to justice, but destroying our liberties with idiotic laws does nothing to protect us.
If you want to feel safer, don't trust in the government, buy a bigger car.
come on, go out and see a movie once in a while. He's talking about Frodo, duh. Everybody knows that The Lord of the Rings is nothing but pro-linux propaganda.
If I send unsolicited porn through the USPS I can be arrested, why is email any different? You don't hear to many people screaming that not allowing porno junk mail is a violation of freedom of speech.
From the background notes:
- The government contended that IBM planned to and did eliminate emerging competition that threatened the erosion of IBM's monopoly power by devising and executing business strategies which were not illegal, but which did not provide users with a better price, a better product or better service. Specifically, it was alleged that IBM had hindered the development of service and peripherals competitors by maintaining a single price policy for its machines, software and support services (bundling); it had granted discounts for universities and other educational institutions and by so doing influenced those places to select IBM computers; and that IBM had introduced underpriced models knowing that they could not be produced on time and did this to prevent the placement of competitors' machines. For example, IBM had prematurely announced new systems such as System/360 claiming that it was a superior product and that its introduction was imminent when in fact, it was several years from completion.
It sounds very similar to the DOJ case against Microsoft.Exactly! I've been running jaguar on my beige G3 266 for months now, and it may not be super speedy, but it is very usable. I'm starting to think that MS is paying trolls to sit around and barrage posts about OS X with replies complaining about the speed.