To be fair, I often wondered at the difference. A levy is more-or-less of form of taxation... so it's more a specific type of tax: Levy (Dict) Levy (thesaurus)
Most dictionaries seem to agree that a levy is actual the imposition of a tax (imposing a tax, as opposed to the tax itself). That being said, as a noun it is more-or-less a synonymn to a tax
Yeah, you keep singing, and don't forgot to pay your tax on every CD-R or MP3 storage device that you buy... nevermind that that probably far exceeds losses by piracy
I seem to remember that mp3.com and some other sites used flash "floating" ads that worked just this way. They would pop up in the window, or fly across, or whatever. Some of them were actually kinda neat - until about the 50th time you saw the same one.
I'm fairly sure that hotmail does. Add a message for users signing up from hotmail "please add the following address (list@myblog.com or whatever) to your address book to avoid having our messages being blocked by your SPAM filter."
How about if the employee mistypes a URL or clicks a bad link ending in goat.cx (please don't go there) - is the employer liable because they didn't block that site. How about any other site
How about if it's a ground-level building with windows, and there's a flasher across the street... is the company liable for not shading the windows?
Now, if an employee had a known porn-spam problem, reported he/she was offended by it, and no steps were taken, that's a maybe. But even then the stuff is hard to cut off without sometimes impacting legitimate traffic.
Holding the employers liable for somebody else's misconduct is not very reasonable.
The deaf horndog will still need to pay for that service... being traced back to either his phone for billing or likely a credit card - no anonymity.
The whistle-blower can still pass along juicy tidbits.... just have identification required for those making monentary transaction (again, CC = no anonymity).
Hmmm, well first of all, if scammers are using Visas (stolen or not) to make purchases, then the assumption of anonymity of legit callers doing the same is a bit low.
That is to say, if somebody calls to use the TTY service without using a Visa, whatever, anonymous. If somebody calls to make a Visa purchase... his/her ID is tied to the credit card.
So the solution would really be to do some of the following:
a) Assign special ID's/passwords for those legit callers using the system, but have them required only for monentary transactions (again, in which case the Credit Card is an identifier anyhow).
b) As per with many online stores: only ship to the billing address(es) listed with the CC company.
I never noticed an accompanying SRC folder or disk on the XP CD. Have the source "open" to software means open to everyone... or at least all customers.
Well, all of my more recent Nvidia cards support TV out, and I believe many of the ATI's do as well.
With my 27" RCA... S-Video is beautiful for watching DVDs, web-browsing isn't bad. I think that this particular TV must support non-standard resolutions a little better though, or my video card is doing a better job than the last... at 800x600 or 1024x768 text still looks pretty good, the cursor is visible, and only things like small terminal fonts really give me problems (+1 fontsize on browser makes browsing decent).
I've created a CD which will give you all the above in one disk. Automatic installations. Just create a linux/swap partition, and it will install to the largest available 'nix partition, also adding any windows partitions to the lilo.conf
ALSA Sound support is ready (though you must edit/etc/modules with whatever soundcard module you have)
X GUI starts in SVGA mode (best to xf86config and choose your GUI)
USB mouse support through/dev/input/mice
I'm considering putting it up online, but at about 620MB for the ISO I'd need some decent hosting space for that. So far we're using it at work to convert windows desktops to dual-boot... it's XP themes so the windows lusers can figure it out rather easily.
It's also configured to build the base menu structure when a user logs in... and idesk will mount a CD+browse with endeavour on doubleclick, or unmount+eject on a right-click.
After dealing with funky windows issues that occur after software upgrades or funky DLL's - I finally got smart.
Since my PC is a dual-boot (windows/linux), I wiped out the XP partition, reinstalled from scratch and put all my base programs on, plus patches,drivers:
GAIM
Winamp
Putty
EMule
Firebird/Thunderbird
Filezilla
WinSCP3
Openoffice
CDex
VirtuaDub
Audacity
Hardware-related (SBLive EAX panel, etc)
PowerDVD
Nero
Those last few came with hardware or at a cost...
Now... one of these days I may have to do it all over again. Rather than dealing with that, I booted into 'nix, revved up partimage and built an image of the drive in 500MB chunks. They're small enough to fit on a DVD - and I keep another DVD-RW with software updates for stuff like GAIM and others.
Should XP ever go down in flames, I can leave partimage doing a restore, come back, and I'm fresh to go.
The glass *was* full... I drink from it until it's halfway down: half empty
The glass *was* empty... I fill it until it is halfway up: half full
Think of it this way... if you are *filling* the glass and you make it halfway, you have half-filled the glass so it is half-full. If you are *emptying* the glass and you get halfway through, you are half-empty.
Half-full or half-empty is not dependant on the individual, but on what transition the level of fluid in the glass is taking.
I've had computers with 9x reboot for varieties of reasons... but generally they were hardware/power related. With XP, the general user doesn't know if something crashed to reboot his machine, or if there is a hardware issue such as his power bar, PSU, or something similar getting overloaded.
EULA's also don't mean crap. It depends on the court, etc. You can still take somebody to court even if you are under EULA, the same way that if you break your leg at the skihill due to bare patches you can sue, and win (most skihills make you sign a waiver which basically says they are not at fault for any injury).
Now, it may be that software isn't as well understood by most people for the purpose of suing, but nowadays where many many people have to deal with spam or popups I think that the concept of insidious spyware/malware is becoming much more well-known... enough that one of those companies could probably be nailed to the wall by an intelligent judge/jury (many of which probably deal with the same crap).
Yes, but if you were one of the people who bought the PS1, then when the PS2 came out and started eating up the gamespace you would need to upgrade.
Also, if you look at the visual difference between a PS2 and a PS1... noticably better.
Newer video cards are about the same for me, depending. Many of the new FPS games are beautiful to play, with tree and scenery looking very realistic.
Personally, as both a gamer and somebody who appreciates the increasing visual depth of games/entertainment, I look forward to new games pushing the edges of what the current technology can do.
Remember, older and mid-level for PC's is a fast sliding slope, worse even than cars, etc.
Your "mid-level" PC is actually defined by the high-range... it's safer to say "average PC" as many people are behind the "mid-level" as far as the capabilities of the tech itself.
Ah yes, some of the earlier Ahhhhnold movies were definately low on dialog. I believe that some of the Jackie Chan movies also didn't have much dialog in them either though, and turned out OK.
And of course at one time, movies had no sound at all, so much more focus was given to visual cues and body gestures.
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To be fair, I often wondered at the difference. A levy is more-or-less of form of taxation... so it's more a specific type of tax:
Levy (Dict)
Levy (thesaurus)
Levy
Most dictionaries seem to agree that a levy is actual the imposition of a tax (imposing a tax, as opposed to the tax itself). That being said, as a noun it is more-or-less a synonymn to a tax
What RIAA settlement? I don't pirate music, I just buy CD's. I don't have a choice as far as paying the tax goes.
Yeah, you keep singing, and don't forgot to pay your tax on every CD-R or MP3 storage device that you buy... nevermind that that probably far exceeds losses by piracy
TOo many RIAA articles to fish it out, but there was a posting about them accidentally sueing a grandmother... who had a mac (no kazaa)
I seem to remember that mp3.com and some other sites used flash "floating" ads that worked just this way. They would pop up in the window, or fly across, or whatever. Some of them were actually kinda neat - until about the 50th time you saw the same one.
I'm fairly sure that hotmail does. Add a message for users signing up from hotmail "please add the following address (list@myblog.com or whatever) to your address book to avoid having our messages being blocked by your SPAM filter."
Actually, I thought that was the topic of the article when I read the headline. Really, they should have said "Speaker drivers"
That with the compatability libraries and hooks in this-app-and-that... it would likely die because it wouldn't be GPL friendly.
Because as an employer you aren't bringing porno into work. Would you be held liable is some dumphuck taped porn flyers onto the building entrance?
How about if the employee mistypes a URL or clicks a bad link ending in goat.cx (please don't go there) - is the employer liable because they didn't block that site. How about any other site
How about if it's a ground-level building with windows, and there's a flasher across the street... is the company liable for not shading the windows?
Now, if an employee had a known porn-spam problem, reported he/she was offended by it, and no steps were taken, that's a maybe. But even then the stuff is hard to cut off without sometimes impacting legitimate traffic.
Holding the employers liable for somebody else's misconduct is not very reasonable.
While some episodes had nice special effects, many were just based on a really good plot with some decent action.
Some of the best Sci-fi shorts ever - in my opinion - but without un-needed fluff.
The deaf horndog will still need to pay for that service... being traced back to either his phone for billing or likely a credit card - no anonymity.
The whistle-blower can still pass along juicy tidbits.... just have identification required for those making monentary transaction (again, CC = no anonymity).
Hmmm, well first of all, if scammers are using Visas (stolen or not) to make purchases, then the assumption of anonymity of legit callers doing the same is a bit low.
That is to say, if somebody calls to use the TTY service without using a Visa, whatever, anonymous. If somebody calls to make a Visa purchase... his/her ID is tied to the credit card.
So the solution would really be to do some of the following:
a) Assign special ID's/passwords for those legit callers using the system, but have them required only for monentary transactions (again, in which case the Credit Card is an identifier anyhow).
b) As per with many online stores: only ship to the billing address(es) listed with the CC company.
I never noticed an accompanying SRC folder or disk on the XP CD. Have the source "open" to software means open to everyone... or at least all customers.
Well, all of my more recent Nvidia cards support TV out, and I believe many of the ATI's do as well.
With my 27" RCA... S-Video is beautiful for watching DVDs, web-browsing isn't bad. I think that this particular TV must support non-standard resolutions a little better though, or my video card is doing a better job than the last... at 800x600 or 1024x768 text still looks pretty good, the cursor is visible, and only things like small terminal fonts really give me problems (+1 fontsize on browser makes browsing decent).
Some of it comes with the base debian install:
/etc/modules with whatever soundcard module you have)
/dev/input/mice
GCC,G++
<flamewar>vim/emacs</flamewar>
links-ssl/curl-ssl-wget
ssh
Perl
Then a whole lotta debs for Gnome/KDE...
Then the actual desktop GUI:
GDM
IceWM
Idesk
Endeavour 2
Then the base apps
Anjuta (C++ IDE)
Gedit Notepad
Mplayer + plugins
XMMS + plugins
ALSA framework
Frozen Bubble!
the GIMP
Open Office
Thunderbird+Firefox
GAIM
Gnome-meeting
And the latest 2.6.x kernel
I've created a CD which will give you all the above in one disk. Automatic installations. Just create a linux/swap partition, and it will install to the largest available 'nix partition, also adding any windows partitions to the lilo.conf
ALSA Sound support is ready (though you must edit
X GUI starts in SVGA mode (best to xf86config and choose your GUI)
USB mouse support through
I'm considering putting it up online, but at about 620MB for the ISO I'd need some decent hosting space for that. So far we're using it at work to convert windows desktops to dual-boot... it's XP themes so the windows lusers can figure it out rather easily.
It's also configured to build the base menu structure when a user logs in... and idesk will mount a CD+browse with endeavour on doubleclick, or unmount+eject on a right-click.
After dealing with funky windows issues that occur after software upgrades or funky DLL's - I finally got smart.
Since my PC is a dual-boot (windows/linux), I wiped out the XP partition, reinstalled from scratch and put all my base programs on, plus patches,drivers:
GAIM
Winamp
Putty
EMule
Firebird/Thunderbird
Filezilla
WinSCP3
Openoffice
CDex
VirtuaDub
Audacity
Hardware-related (SBLive EAX panel, etc)
PowerDVD
Nero
Those last few came with hardware or at a cost...
Now... one of these days I may have to do it all over again. Rather than dealing with that, I booted into 'nix, revved up partimage and built an image of the drive in 500MB chunks. They're small enough to fit on a DVD - and I keep another DVD-RW with software updates for stuff like GAIM and others.
Should XP ever go down in flames, I can leave partimage doing a restore, come back, and I'm fresh to go.
The glass *was* full... I drink from it until it's halfway down: half empty
The glass *was* empty... I fill it until it is halfway up: half full
Think of it this way... if you are *filling* the glass and you make it halfway, you have half-filled the glass so it is half-full. If you are *emptying* the glass and you get halfway through, you are half-empty.
Half-full or half-empty is not dependant on the individual, but on what transition the level of fluid in the glass is taking.
I've had computers with 9x reboot for varieties of reasons... but generally they were hardware/power related. With XP, the general user doesn't know if something crashed to reboot his machine, or if there is a hardware issue such as his power bar, PSU, or something similar getting overloaded.
he played the best damn drunkern dwarven cleric I have ever seen.
So what class and species of character did he play?
EULA's also don't mean crap. It depends on the court, etc. You can still take somebody to court even if you are under EULA, the same way that if you break your leg at the skihill due to bare patches you can sue, and win (most skihills make you sign a waiver which basically says they are not at fault for any injury).
Now, it may be that software isn't as well understood by most people for the purpose of suing, but nowadays where many many people have to deal with spam or popups I think that the concept of insidious spyware/malware is becoming much more well-known... enough that one of those companies could probably be nailed to the wall by an intelligent judge/jury (many of which probably deal with the same crap).
Yes, but if you were one of the people who bought the PS1, then when the PS2 came out and started eating up the gamespace you would need to upgrade.
Also, if you look at the visual difference between a PS2 and a PS1... noticably better.
Newer video cards are about the same for me, depending. Many of the new FPS games are beautiful to play, with tree and scenery looking very realistic.
Personally, as both a gamer and somebody who appreciates the increasing visual depth of games/entertainment, I look forward to new games pushing the edges of what the current technology can do.
Remember, older and mid-level for PC's is a fast sliding slope, worse even than cars, etc.
Your "mid-level" PC is actually defined by the high-range... it's safer to say "average PC" as many people are behind the "mid-level" as far as the capabilities of the tech itself.
That's because games are sorted by console, and then alphabetically, which - as faras finding the game you want - is a smart thing.
Sorting games by console/rating/letter might get a bit confusing, and stores wouldn't want games to be unsold because they couldn't be found.
What exactly is lightweight about Firefox? With the right plugins, it runs everything that me *brrr* IE used to, plus the popup-stopper, tabs, etc.
It doesn't have a built-in email client, but then that's what thunderbird or other apps or for.
Some people do have problems getting Java support going though, but I've had good success running sun's Java under firefox more recent.
Ah yes, some of the earlier Ahhhhnold movies were definately low on dialog. I believe that some of the Jackie Chan movies also didn't have much dialog in them either though, and turned out OK.
And of course at one time, movies had no sound at all, so much more focus was given to visual cues and body gestures.