>>If you want to be the "winning part", then make sure that you get lots of media attention and a massive following (protest lists, anybody?). That puts lots of stress on the decision makers (police/court/companies/whatever), and if nothing else, they will probably give you some money for goodwill.--
They might lock you up. People in jail don't vote.
I think there ought to be a DO call list instead of a DO NOT call list. Once some get's their hands on that do not call list then they will be getting calls from Umbagolia where the laws don't apply.
Damn right! Sometimes the sysadmin might be scapegoated by that very same CEO. "I lost my files so it's the sysadmin's fault." Justice seems to be easier to get if you can pay$ for it.
I wonder if my original 1979 version of Atari's Star Raiders for the Atari 400/800 is worth something. The game play is still good to this day. Only 8K of code too.
What about a magnatron from a microwave oven? Someone ought to mod up the person that said they could still get you with a speedometer. VASCAR too. Maybe speeding tickets is why DOD wants to limit it. The police as well as the military are under the executive branch of government aren't they? I'm sure the military has phased array radar that is more difficult to jam than police radar. Someone please chime in with the proper term here? I've got a good case of CRS now.
I personally would rather get raises than bonuses. I got $1000 mid year. Last year I $1500 at Christmas plus two weeks pay, plus $500 cash in $100 bills, a turkey, and a 15 years of service jacket. That's makes it a make or break day for me. We've done well this year but we could still get shafted becuase everyone else in our industry has done poorly. So I don't whining is sorry in all case when that kind of money is envolved in one day. It makes you nervous.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I liked the Final Frontier better than the first one. It had a good story with bad acting, but isn't that what makes Star Trek, Star Trek?
Not to be a troll but my dad used to repair tv's back in the day. Of course now the Quasar brand is owned by the Japanese today and the picture is much better.
>>But on the other hand, the Worlds best speakers, coupled with ordinary, low end consumer level CD player and amp from Target, is going to sound MUCH MUCH better and probably not be noticed as "worse" than the "best system" by one of these "audiophile" morons in the HiFi magazines.
Right on target. Anyone know of some good speakers that are cheap? I don't. There is the weakest link.
There is a lot of talk about Made In China being cheap. Yes, it is, but their quality has improved dramaticly. I would would rather have a no holds barred APEX DVD/MP3 player that a locked up Sony system. My hearing and vision must not be that good because I can't tell the difference. I can't even tell the difference in the plastic gears that both have.
>>I collect 1950s TV sets. Funny thing about them: steel or copper chassis, and 1/2 watt resistors everywhere, even where I calculate 1/8 watt loads. Capacitors were even more fragile then than they are now, so 450V-rated capacitors being used to filter 170V rectified AC line were commonplace. Stuff was built to last. Interestingly, only one of my antique sets came to me frankly broken; the rest needed adjustments or replacements of old (not failed) components. (I don't think I'll count 50 years of ingress of ambient humidity into a paper capacitor as a design flaw.)
What about the tubes? You can roast marshmellows on them. The chassis being built out of steel didn't make them last longer. I would take todays solid state TV's over anything built back then. They just don't tolerate lightning like the older models. 25" Color TV in 1972 was about $750. A 27" color TV of 2002 is $239 on sale at Wally World with a 3 year guarantee (Sanyo) I think.
--Frequency Response: digital music *must* filter out everything above half its sample rate (plus or minus a few hertz for data). Conventional CD's filter out everything above 22kHz. some people can hear a 25kHz pitch, some cannot. but nearly everyone can hear the interaction of 24 and 25, which can manifest itself within their hearing range. recording techniques improve this situation, and higher sampling rates are coming, but this is still a fundamental limit. --
BS!
What is at 24 to 25kHz that would be important? I've never seen a LP that has the dynamic range of a CD but I don't have a $1000 turntable either. I just don't think your hearing is that good. Prove me wrong. Point out a study or something that says that is important.
The biggest thing you get with vinyl is cracks and pops and rumble unless you hang your turntable from the ceiling or mount it to granite. I think the DJaying is why vinyl is comming back.
Use old turntable. Press stop. Leave needle on vinyl. Take pencil with eraser end down on the label. Turn backwards. Been there, done that, it works. There is some interesting backwards stuff on some Jimi Hendrix records.
--When we've got a machine that passes all of the existing tests, someone'll ask "but why doesn't it cry during 'Sleepless in Seattle'?" or "why doesn't it hate Jar Jar?" or "does it get easily embarassed?"--
That is where everyone is getting screwed up. Artificial intelligence is not what we need to duplicate that. Artificialial stupidity is what we need to make a computer pass the Turing test.
Cool! Makes sense to me. As far as the invoices, most people will go along if it works has company logo, etc. QuickBooks sells checks too. (very high)
Trying to go open source where possible. We just have the occasional application that will only run in Windows. I think we could switch to Open Office or Star Office and no one would know the difference. Switch the CAD and accounting software that everyone is used to would be the stumbling block.
>>Honestly, relying on a program like Quickbooks to write a half dozen checks a month, one W2 * a year* and keep a daily transaction ledger is just plain doofey.
Try half a dozen in a day, 3 or 4 companies. It's worth it. I agree that they are getting greedy with the the tax table updates. Yes, you probably can do it with a spreadsheet. Then you have to do your own debuging, train three people, and on and on. If there is an open source alternative that doesn't require hours of training and maintaining for the secretary, please someone let me know?
I would like to know?
If there is an add-in for open office that will do all of this, let me know?
>>I have looked at PeachTree, and it seems very usable. It's Tax Table like subscription is about the same as Intuits (around $150), but they do allow you to manually enter details if you need to.
OK.
I'm still lost in manually entering the Data. Wouldn't that cost me at least $150 to do that in house? Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems viable if only you don't have too many employees. If you are the only one maybe a spreadsheet would be better. I want the open source alternative?
>>What's more, commnand line spreadsheets are readily available ( Visicalc itself is now available for download) so even people, businesses or nonprofits with little or no capital can run a spreadsheet on free antique hardware that Quicken would choke on.
How do you get it to print checks? How do you get it to print 1099's and W2's, etc.??
Right. That is exactly how ALL accounting programs get you. QuickBooks is fairly cheap here, althouhg I've heard PeachTree is cheaper. If someboody makes a free one that will update you tax tables forever, please let me know?
Let's see:
QuickBook's Pro: write checks pay 35 employees varing rates 4 compaines cost 30min. and $200 + per year
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>>If you want to be the "winning part", then make sure that you get lots of media attention and a massive following (protest lists, anybody?). That puts lots of stress on the decision makers (police/court/companies/whatever), and if nothing else, they will probably give you some money for goodwill.--
They might lock you up. People in jail don't vote.
Although offtopic:
The second one was the best pure and simple. The first one was very slow paced to say the least.
What about DS9?
I think there ought to be a DO call list instead of a DO NOT call list. Once some get's their hands on that do not call list then they will be getting calls from Umbagolia where the laws don't apply.
I don't know wheter the story is true or not but Nintendo and Sony are in Japan not the US.
Damn right! Sometimes the sysadmin might be scapegoated by that very same CEO. "I lost my files so it's the sysadmin's fault." Justice seems to be easier to get if you can pay$ for it.
I wonder if my original 1979 version of Atari's Star Raiders for the Atari 400/800 is worth something. The game play is still good to this day. Only 8K of code too.
What about a magnatron from a microwave oven? Someone ought to mod up the person that said they could still get you with a speedometer. VASCAR too. Maybe speeding tickets is why DOD wants to limit it. The police as well as the military are under the executive branch of government aren't they? I'm sure the military has phased array radar that is more difficult to jam than police radar. Someone please chime in with the proper term here? I've got a good case of CRS now.
I personally would rather get raises than bonuses. I got $1000 mid year. Last year I $1500 at Christmas plus two weeks pay, plus $500 cash in $100 bills, a turkey, and a 15 years of service jacket. That's makes it a make or break day for me. We've done well this year but we could still get shafted becuase everyone else in our industry has done poorly. So I don't whining is sorry in all case when that kind of money is envolved in one day. It makes you nervous.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I liked the Final Frontier better than the first one. It had a good story with bad acting, but isn't that what makes Star Trek, Star Trek?
And the picture sux!
Not to be a troll but my dad used to repair tv's back in the day. Of course now the Quasar brand is owned by the Japanese today and the picture is much better.
>>But on the other hand, the Worlds best speakers, coupled with ordinary, low end consumer level CD player and amp from Target, is going to sound MUCH MUCH better and probably not be noticed as "worse" than the "best system" by one of these "audiophile" morons in the HiFi magazines.
Right on target. Anyone know of some good speakers that are cheap? I don't. There is the weakest link.
There is a lot of talk about Made In China being cheap. Yes, it is, but their quality has improved dramaticly. I would would rather have a no holds barred APEX DVD/MP3 player that a locked up Sony system. My hearing and vision must not be that good because I can't tell the difference. I can't even tell the difference in the plastic gears that both have.
>>I collect 1950s TV sets. Funny thing about them: steel or copper chassis, and 1/2 watt resistors everywhere, even where I calculate 1/8 watt loads. Capacitors were even more fragile then than they are now, so 450V-rated capacitors being used to filter 170V rectified AC line were commonplace. Stuff was built to last. Interestingly, only one of my antique sets came to me frankly broken; the rest needed adjustments or replacements of old (not failed) components. (I don't think I'll count 50 years of ingress of ambient humidity into a paper capacitor as a design flaw.)
What about the tubes? You can roast marshmellows on them. The chassis being built out of steel didn't make them last longer. I would take todays solid state TV's over anything built back then. They just don't tolerate lightning like the older models. 25" Color TV in 1972 was about $750. A 27" color TV of 2002 is $239 on sale at Wally World with a 3 year guarantee (Sanyo) I think.
--Frequency Response: digital music *must* filter out everything above half its sample rate (plus or minus a few hertz for data). Conventional CD's filter out everything above 22kHz. some people can hear a 25kHz pitch, some cannot. but nearly everyone can hear the interaction of 24 and 25, which can manifest itself within their hearing range. recording techniques improve this situation, and higher sampling rates are coming, but this is still a fundamental limit. --
BS!
What is at 24 to 25kHz that would be important? I've never seen a LP that has the dynamic range of a CD but I don't have a $1000 turntable either. I just don't think your hearing is that good. Prove me wrong. Point out a study or something that says that is important.
The biggest thing you get with vinyl is cracks and pops and rumble unless you hang your turntable from the ceiling or mount it to granite. I think the DJaying is why vinyl is comming back.
Use old turntable. Press stop. Leave needle on vinyl. Take pencil with eraser end down on the label. Turn backwards. Been there, done that, it works. There is some interesting backwards stuff on some Jimi Hendrix records.
"Intel chief Andy Moore
Who is Andy Moore? I thought it was Andy Groove??
--When we've got a machine that passes all of the existing tests, someone'll ask "but why doesn't it cry during 'Sleepless in Seattle'?" or "why doesn't it hate Jar Jar?" or "does it get easily embarassed?"--
That is where everyone is getting screwed up. Artificial intelligence is not what we need to duplicate that. Artificialial stupidity is what we need to make a computer pass the Turing test.
Cool! Makes sense to me. As far as the invoices, most people will go along if it works has company logo, etc. QuickBooks sells checks too. (very high)
Trying to go open source where possible. We just have the occasional application that will only run in Windows. I think we could switch to Open Office or Star Office and no one would know the difference. Switch the CAD and accounting software that everyone is used to would be the stumbling block.
>>Honestly, relying on a program like Quickbooks to write a half dozen checks a month, one W2 * a year* and keep a daily transaction ledger is just plain doofey.
Try half a dozen in a day, 3 or 4 companies. It's worth it. I agree that they are getting greedy with the the tax table updates. Yes, you probably can do it with a spreadsheet. Then you have to do your own debuging, train three people, and on and on. If there is an open source alternative that doesn't require hours of training and maintaining for the secretary, please someone let me know?
I would like to know?
If there is an add-in for open office that will do all of this, let me know?
>>I have looked at PeachTree, and it seems very usable. It's Tax Table like subscription is about the same as Intuits (around $150), but they do allow you to manually enter details if you need to.
OK.
I'm still lost in manually entering the Data. Wouldn't that cost me at least $150 to do that in house? Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems viable if only you don't have too many employees. If you are the only one maybe a spreadsheet would be better. I want the open source alternative?
>>What's more, commnand line spreadsheets are readily available ( Visicalc itself is now available for download) so even people, businesses or nonprofits with little or no capital can run a spreadsheet on free antique hardware that Quicken would choke on.
How do you get it to print checks? How do you get it to print 1099's and W2's, etc.??
Right. That is exactly how ALL accounting programs get you. QuickBooks is fairly cheap here, althouhg I've heard PeachTree is cheaper. If someboody makes a free one that will update you tax tables forever, please let me know?
Let's see:
QuickBook's Pro:
write checks
pay 35 employees varing rates
4 compaines
cost 30min. and $200 + per year
By Hand:
cost 48hrs. and $0
Winner:
draw you own conclusion!
>>More often than not, people who piss people off with their ideas have bad ideas.
But, not always. Sometimes just a different idea pisses people off becuase it wasn't their idea.
>>RMS is intolerant of perspectives that differ from his own. That's what gets him bashed.
Maybe so, but at least he sticks to his beliefs. People that do that usually get bashed by someone.
Do you work for the CIA? Just asking?
Let's go back further. Where did matter and/or energy come from? Was it always there?
People who ask such questions will never be happy. It just doesn't MATTER.