What I don't understand is why they are trying to charge taxes in the purchaser's state and not in the seller's state? If I drive to another state and buy something at a gas station, they don't check my license and compute my state sales tax?
Wouldn't it be a lot simpler if we just paid the tax that is in effect where the seller is?
I'm sure I am oversimplifying this.... but please point out my obvious mistake.
I hooked up a collection of hip hop CDs to the program to try to figure out what the heck they are trying to say and left it running overnight.
I came back in the morning to find my computer with gold chains hanging off the cd drive, the case cover slipped down so I could see the edge of the hard drive and when it booted it called me "beyatch".
One of the justifications that software companies like Microsoft uses for the original cost of the software is that they have to charge that much to compensate for software piracy.
If they now actively check for pirated copies and can catch X% of them, will they lower the cost of new software Y% since they are now theoretically reducing their losses, which was justification of the cost to begin with?
Maybe if a new copy of Windows XP Pro didn't cost $140 there would not be as many pirated copies?
Why is it that we see the death star well on its way to being built and yet it seems to take approximately 18 more years before it becomes operational? and once destroyed, the empire builds another one to be destroyed in episode 6 in the space of a few years?
Why did it take that long for the first one or why did it take so little time for the second one?
... if maybe these statistics are not what we really should be looking at.
Most of what I learned in college I taught myself. Sure the classes had some interesting stuff to learn but what was there that we can't learn on our own from books? College (at least for me) was more a method to prove how well you can learn (earned degrees) and provide a rich environment to concentrate on a subject (friends, fellow students, reason to sit around and BS about some program or another).
There is no use for programming by itself. Never was. No use for computers by themselves. No use for networks by themselves. All of these are just tools to get some "real" task accomplished whether it is balancing a checkbook, video-conferencing remote surgeons to diagnose a problem, change traffic lights or introduce the world to the newest singing sensation. With the advance of tools to get all of this done and the advances of technology ergonomics, computer science as a whole is getting easier and easier to do. Some hardcore stuff will always be a fairly exclusive area of computer science but lets face it... most people getting those degrees are not going to be doing firmware design, compiler work or anything that complex.
With the tools becoming easier, wouldn't it be prudent to get a degree in the field you are writing code for instead? Is it easier for a person with aptitude for programming to write accounting software with an accounting degree or a computer science degree?
The real question should concentrate more on how many women there are entering the IT industry, not how many are in degree programs.
Step 1) Give the phone to your freaky, paranoid, paramilitary and big brother suspicious neighbor.
Step 2) Get some lawn chairs and a cooler.
Step 3) Watch the prize delivery crew show up unannounced.
Step 4) Get interviewed on the 10:00 news.
I don't see how the geometry gets rendered has anything to do with this discussion of a potential file format. Representing the geometry is complex but possible. Only a few major methods in pure numerical format. They would need to package up the different objects/environment with some form of "universal" representation of shader information and texture maps.
Once in a renderer, the loaded file could look vastly different but I don't think that was the real point of this article.... rather just getting the geometry in, is.
I would love to see a universal format that is "open". Right now various packages/users have fudged together imports from other packages (some of which are much more widely used that others... like 3DS). Having the major package agree on a universal format for transfer that supports the best in each so that you get the best transfer possible would be great and long, long overdue.
Have a deadline project due and a complex model you have to import in, imports while losing all face information... or wacky plane orientation... or..... any number of other problems, is very frustrating.
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What I don't understand is why they are trying to charge taxes in the purchaser's state and not in the seller's state? If I drive to another state and buy something at a gas station, they don't check my license and compute my state sales tax?
Wouldn't it be a lot simpler if we just paid the tax that is in effect where the seller is?
I'm sure I am oversimplifying this.... but please point out my obvious mistake.
I hooked up a collection of hip hop CDs to the program to try to figure out what the heck they are trying to say and left it running overnight. I came back in the morning to find my computer with gold chains hanging off the cd drive, the case cover slipped down so I could see the edge of the hard drive and when it booted it called me "beyatch".
If they now actively check for pirated copies and can catch X% of them, will they lower the cost of new software Y% since they are now theoretically reducing their losses, which was justification of the cost to begin with?
Maybe if a new copy of Windows XP Pro didn't cost $140 there would not be as many pirated copies?
Things that make you go... hrmmmmm.....
How will we know whose computer we are accessing if they don't have it labeled anymore?
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Why is it that we see the death star well on its way to being built and yet it seems to take approximately 18 more years before it becomes operational? and once destroyed, the empire builds another one to be destroyed in episode 6 in the space of a few years? Why did it take that long for the first one or why did it take so little time for the second one?
... if maybe these statistics are not what we really should be looking at. Most of what I learned in college I taught myself. Sure the classes had some interesting stuff to learn but what was there that we can't learn on our own from books? College (at least for me) was more a method to prove how well you can learn (earned degrees) and provide a rich environment to concentrate on a subject (friends, fellow students, reason to sit around and BS about some program or another). There is no use for programming by itself. Never was. No use for computers by themselves. No use for networks by themselves. All of these are just tools to get some "real" task accomplished whether it is balancing a checkbook, video-conferencing remote surgeons to diagnose a problem, change traffic lights or introduce the world to the newest singing sensation. With the advance of tools to get all of this done and the advances of technology ergonomics, computer science as a whole is getting easier and easier to do. Some hardcore stuff will always be a fairly exclusive area of computer science but lets face it... most people getting those degrees are not going to be doing firmware design, compiler work or anything that complex. With the tools becoming easier, wouldn't it be prudent to get a degree in the field you are writing code for instead? Is it easier for a person with aptitude for programming to write accounting software with an accounting degree or a computer science degree? The real question should concentrate more on how many women there are entering the IT industry, not how many are in degree programs.
Step 1) Give the phone to your freaky, paranoid, paramilitary and big brother suspicious neighbor. Step 2) Get some lawn chairs and a cooler. Step 3) Watch the prize delivery crew show up unannounced. Step 4) Get interviewed on the 10:00 news.
I don't see how the geometry gets rendered has anything to do with this discussion of a potential file format. Representing the geometry is complex but possible. Only a few major methods in pure numerical format. They would need to package up the different objects/environment with some form of "universal" representation of shader information and texture maps. Once in a renderer, the loaded file could look vastly different but I don't think that was the real point of this article.... rather just getting the geometry in, is. I would love to see a universal format that is "open". Right now various packages/users have fudged together imports from other packages (some of which are much more widely used that others... like 3DS). Having the major package agree on a universal format for transfer that supports the best in each so that you get the best transfer possible would be great and long, long overdue. Have a deadline project due and a complex model you have to import in, imports while losing all face information... or wacky plane orientation... or ..... any number of other problems, is very frustrating.