Amen. One reason Stutz may have given his non-answer, is that it avoids consideration of those areas where Linux unfortunately does not appear to provide applications. I would like to switch over to Linux from Windows, but will never be able to do so until there is a high quality speech recognition program that runs on Linux. Right now, NaturallySpeaking is not available for Linux, and the manufacturer has no plans to port it over.
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Runs on Windows and Linux.
Advanced Groups Search (http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl =en) appears to have date searches. Or was the previous date searching better?
Apparently, wearable PCs are proving to be a viable and lucrative technology for businesses like FedEx and major utility companies, but the US military loves them, too. For instance, Xybernaut, (NASDAQ:XYBR) will be on the receiving end of a long flow of Pentagon contracts in the coming years. I read in another article, that, by 2008, the Pentagon plans to outfit the entire military with wearable PCs. Combining GPS location of U.S. forces, with satellite imagery location of enemy forces, our soldiers may be able to get a complete view of the battlefield and their position within it, real-time. "G.I. Joe, you are here *".
You're joking, right? I hope you are. But if you aren't, then: If something catastrophic were to happen at my friend's house, then obviously I would still have all of my original data at home. Then I would leave a fresh backup at his new place, after helping him get settled in there.
Leaving a CD-R at a friend's house is free. Fireproof safes are not. In addition, what if the burglars were to find and steal that safe, hoping to be able to break it open at their leisure and get the valuables inside? Then you would be wishing you had a current backup off-site.
Don't forget to have one or more off-site backups (encrypted in case they are stolen). I keep one off-site backup (on CD-RW) in town, at a friend's place, and swap it for a fresh backup every time I visit him. (Be sure to offer to do the same for your friends.) An out-of-state backup gets refreshed every time I visit my folks.
It's peace of mind knowing that if, heavens forbid, anything catastrophic were to happen to your place of residence, or if burglars were to take your computers and disks/tapes, then you would at least not have completely lost all of your critical data.
I've got an MSI KT3 Ultra2 motherboard, and tested its onboard audio through Harmon/Kardon speakers (to see if I could use my Sound Blaster card in a second PC). The results were extremely disappointing, both in terms of the much lower quality of the music being played from MP3's and music CDs, as well as the poor performance of its microphone port when attempting to use a speech recognition system (NaturallySpeaking).
In fact, that's the primary reason why I invested in a quality Sound Blaster card many years ago, because the sound cards that I tested from various manufacturers had high-quality audio output, but quite lame microphone performance. I must have tested over five sound cards within a couple of months, and discovered that an astonishingly large portion didn't even have functioning microphone ports! I suspect that many PCs out there do not have working microphone ports -- but the PC owners will never discover that, because they don't have a need for using those ports, and will never try. Most people just use their sound cards for playing recorded music and game audio.
Another advantage of letterbox format, at least when watching foreign films, is that any subtitles can be presented in white text on the (lower) black background, which can greatly improve readability.
Businesses want a person that is not just writing software, but also thinking about how the software they write is going to change the business. They want people who understand the companies objectives, clients, and products and can then write software around it.
Unfortunately, there is a fine line between that and the unrealistic and increasingly popular expectation among managers that they can have their developers attend all the business meetings and keep up with all of the communications required to learn and maintain that business knowledge, and find the blocks of time needed to actually write the code. The typical end result is overworked and overscheduled programmers not finding time to produce the new software, much less maintain and enhance the legacy systems.
It's certainly not a partisan tactic, given that this example of statistical spinning has been going on for many administrations now. In addition, it's doubtful that any incumbent politicians will ever be anxious to slit their own political throats by demanding that the labor bureaucracies report the true number of unemployed Americans, and not just those receiving unemployment benefits (which is far easier for them to calculate).
Call the IRS help line... try calling and asking them for advice.
Legally they cannot give tax advice, and they will probably tell you that right away. They are only allowed to answer specific questions about the tax code. This is probably due to the fact that they did not create the (nonsensical) U.S. tax code. You can thank Congress for that.
To get an idea of the quality of those answers, ask the same question of several different IRS representatives (assuming you can get anyone on the phone) in separate calls, and you will probably get different answers. I've never received the same answer twice, and thus gave up trying to get help from them.
Also, if you earn less than $600 on a business for more than a couple of years, the IRS literally considers it a hobby, not a business.
It's not that simple (of course...). If you make a profit (not necessarily more than $600) in three out of five consecutive years, then the IRS presumes you have a profit motive, i.e., you are running a legitimate business, and not just trying to use your hobby expenses to reduce taxable income.
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Here's hoping they support Linux next.
How ironic -- as of this writing, the urltea service is down. Slashdotted?
Here is an article on "Bird Flu's Environmental Components", for those interested in the ecological side of it.
Yes and no.
Nope. E.g., "Double the police resources available for crime prevention without any additional government spending."
Amen. One reason Stutz may have given his non-answer, is that it avoids consideration of those areas where Linux unfortunately does not appear to provide applications. I would like to switch over to Linux from Windows, but will never be able to do so until there is a high quality speech recognition program that runs on Linux. Right now, NaturallySpeaking is not available for Linux, and the manufacturer has no plans to port it over.
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Available at http://www.jedit.org/.
...its lack of features (date searches)...
l =en) appears to have date searches. Or was the previous date searching better?
Advanced Groups Search (http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?h
Too bad he was a graphic artist and not a professional bounty hunter....
;)
Or a maniac with a sharp butcher's knife...
Apparently, wearable PCs are proving to be a viable and lucrative technology for businesses like FedEx and major utility companies, but the US military loves them, too. For instance, Xybernaut, (NASDAQ:XYBR) will be on the receiving end of a long flow of Pentagon contracts in the coming years. I read in another article, that, by 2008, the Pentagon plans to outfit the entire military with wearable PCs. Combining GPS location of U.S. forces, with satellite imagery location of enemy forces, our soldiers may be able to get a complete view of the battlefield and their position within it, real-time. "G.I. Joe, you are here *".
You're joking, right? I hope you are. But if you aren't, then: If something catastrophic were to happen at my friend's house, then obviously I would still have all of my original data at home. Then I would leave a fresh backup at his new place, after helping him get settled in there.
Leaving a CD-R at a friend's house is free. Fireproof safes are not. In addition, what if the burglars were to find and steal that safe, hoping to be able to break it open at their leisure and get the valuables inside? Then you would be wishing you had a current backup off-site.
Don't forget to have one or more off-site backups (encrypted in case they are stolen). I keep one off-site backup (on CD-RW) in town, at a friend's place, and swap it for a fresh backup every time I visit him. (Be sure to offer to do the same for your friends.) An out-of-state backup gets refreshed every time I visit my folks.
It's peace of mind knowing that if, heavens forbid, anything catastrophic were to happen to your place of residence, or if burglars were to take your computers and disks/tapes, then you would at least not have completely lost all of your critical data.
I've got an MSI KT3 Ultra2 motherboard, and tested its onboard audio through Harmon/Kardon speakers (to see if I could use my Sound Blaster card in a second PC). The results were extremely disappointing, both in terms of the much lower quality of the music being played from MP3's and music CDs, as well as the poor performance of its microphone port when attempting to use a speech recognition system (NaturallySpeaking).
In fact, that's the primary reason why I invested in a quality Sound Blaster card many years ago, because the sound cards that I tested from various manufacturers had high-quality audio output, but quite lame microphone performance. I must have tested over five sound cards within a couple of months, and discovered that an astonishingly large portion didn't even have functioning microphone ports! I suspect that many PCs out there do not have working microphone ports -- but the PC owners will never discover that, because they don't have a need for using those ports, and will never try. Most people just use their sound cards for playing recorded music and game audio.
Another advantage of letterbox format, at least when watching foreign films, is that any subtitles can be presented in white text on the (lower) black background, which can greatly improve readability.
Businesses want a person that is not just writing software, but also thinking about how the software they write is going to change the business. They want people who understand the companies objectives, clients, and products and can then write software around it.
Unfortunately, there is a fine line between that and the unrealistic and increasingly popular expectation among managers that they can have their developers attend all the business meetings and keep up with all of the communications required to learn and maintain that business knowledge, and find the blocks of time needed to actually write the code. The typical end result is overworked and overscheduled programmers not finding time to produce the new software, much less maintain and enhance the legacy systems.
"OpenOrifice".
...the world's largest porno mag...
...namely, the Department of Justice's full-color report on what Microsoft has been doing to the competition for years...
It's certainly not a partisan tactic, given that this example of statistical spinning has been going on for many administrations now. In addition, it's doubtful that any incumbent politicians will ever be anxious to slit their own political throats by demanding that the labor bureaucracies report the true number of unemployed Americans, and not just those receiving unemployment benefits (which is far easier for them to calculate).
...unemployement rate is artificially low because it doesn't include people who have stopped looking...
...nor those who exhausted their unemployement benefits (e.g., six months) and are still looking. We just fall off the government radar.
Need a job? Need sex? Hmm, perhaps combine the two... ;)
It's hard to believe since I just laid off our last two Win32 guys Friday.
Perhaps in the dot-com bust of 2011, your firm will lay off its last four Win64 guys.
Call the IRS help line... try calling and asking them for advice.
Legally they cannot give tax advice, and they will probably tell you that right away. They are only allowed to answer specific questions about the tax code. This is probably due to the fact that they did not create the (nonsensical) U.S. tax code. You can thank Congress for that.
To get an idea of the quality of those answers, ask the same question of several different IRS representatives (assuming you can get anyone on the phone) in separate calls, and you will probably get different answers. I've never received the same answer twice, and thus gave up trying to get help from them.
1040 XS
Also, if you earn less than $600 on a business for more than a couple of years, the IRS literally considers it a hobby, not a business.
It's not that simple (of course...). If you make a profit (not necessarily more than $600) in three out of five consecutive years, then the IRS presumes you have a profit motive, i.e., you are running a legitimate business, and not just trying to use your hobby expenses to reduce taxable income.
He may be using the corporate structure to help shield his personal assets from business liability.