This isn't really an "internet tax", but a restatement of existing law. Some (most?) states have a use-tax that you are expected to pay when purchasing out-of-state. If you're in the USA, review your state IRS forms and you will likely see a line where this goes.
It has been up to the purchaser to maintain records for these purchases, but apparently people have not been entirely honest with their buying on-line.
If we'd done what we were already required to, we wouldn't be getting a "new" law because we thought the old one didn't apply.
To say the current economy is the way it is because the industry is no longer desperate is to ignore the larger picture. The current unemployment situation is not being caused by companies trimming their people; it is being caused by companies imploding.
Homeland Security is just a natural outgrowth of the way the US has become. It started with a government attempting to eliminate every threat, and a people that encourage the government to do just that.
Privacy, that eliminate accountability.
Laws that take away the right to protect oneself and one's family.
Airbags that kill kids and small adults.
Homeland Security
Homeland Security is just the latest realization, and not all that much of a surprise.
Actually, IE supports "shift-click" that opens a new window immediately, and alt-tab to move to between windows. A bit different than tabs, but Google works fine this way.
Of course, IE supports the Google tool bar and there you simply click "next result":-)
Welcome to the buyers market. More people than there are jobs means that companies can and will use whatever means possible to cull through the reams of resumes received.
I know that here (NC, USA) there are an average of 100-200 resumes received for each position posted.
Why assume that they require everyone to be the same? They might need to fill a niche, and realize they need someone creative to complement the mix
that currently exists...
Tests aren't always binary, and there may be more of a "both/and" mentality.
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As in "slash-dotted", right? Perhaps someone
missed the mark when not making Slashdot a trademark. Such a shame. Now anyone can say their site was slashdotted because everyone googled for the same thing.
This isn't really new information - there have been studies that show bugs cluster, as well as the intuition most programmers have that "this part is really bad"
If you look at a CVS repository and identify those files that have high revision numbers, there's a good chance they are full of errors and need to be rewritten.
One visualization is to color code according to it's age - old code blue, and new code red - then look at the results. You will often see that the red code clusters, and there are huge regions of blue that have been stable for years.
You will also see relatively small clusters of differening shades of red, as people need to keep banging on the same problematic code.
Slashdot Mirror
From the study it appears that keyboarding does not correlate with CTS; however, mousing has some correlation.
Learn those keyboard shortcuts (CTL-ALT-DEL)!
This isn't really an "internet tax", but a restatement of existing law. Some (most?) states have a use-tax that you are expected to pay when purchasing out-of-state. If you're in the USA, review your state IRS forms and you will likely see a line where this goes.
It has been up to the purchaser to maintain records for these purchases, but apparently people have not been entirely honest with their buying on-line.
If we'd done what we were already required to, we wouldn't be getting a "new" law because we thought the old one didn't apply.
To say the current economy is the way it is because the industry is no longer desperate is to ignore the larger picture. The current unemployment situation is not being caused by companies trimming their people; it is being caused by companies imploding.
Privacy, that eliminate accountability.
Laws that take away the right to protect oneself and one's family.
Airbags that kill kids and small adults.
Homeland Security
Homeland Security is just the latest realization, and not all that much of a surprise.
We do that now. We create life, then decide that it doesn't deserve to live and kill it.
We call it abortion-on-demand.
Why worry about the hypothetical artificial life when we have demonstrated clearly that we don't seem to care about real life.
No, wait. Larry Niven already wrote that book. Rats.
Actually, IE supports "shift-click" that opens a new window immediately, and alt-tab to move to between windows. A bit different than tabs, but Google works fine this way. Of course, IE supports the Google tool bar and there you simply click "next result" :-)
Welcome to the buyers market. More people than there are jobs means that companies can and will use whatever means possible to cull through the reams of resumes received. I know that here (NC, USA) there are an average of 100-200 resumes received for each position posted.
Why assume that they require everyone to be the same? They might need to fill a niche, and realize they need someone creative to complement the mix that currently exists... Tests aren't always binary, and there may be more of a "both/and" mentality.
So, how about we just store all the grain in LA?
As in "slash-dotted", right? Perhaps someone missed the mark when not making Slashdot a trademark. Such a shame. Now anyone can say their site was slashdotted because everyone googled for the same thing.
...
Oh, wait. That was /. Never mind.
If you look at a CVS repository and identify those files that have high revision numbers, there's a good chance they are full of errors and need to be rewritten.
One visualization is to color code according to it's age - old code blue, and new code red - then look at the results. You will often see that the red code clusters, and there are huge regions of blue that have been stable for years. You will also see relatively small clusters of differening shades of red, as people need to keep banging on the same problematic code.
Not so, oh fellow programmer. A post-increment expression is equivalent to the original, but the lvalue is changed beyond recognition.
Link to the The Economist article: http://ron.unique.cc/economist/economist2.htm.
... can you hear me now? good!
... can you hear me now? ... uh... hello?
Uh oh.
I think "spoiler" here refers to telling us something that's in the book but not in the movie? For example, ... well, never mind.
Open Source is no different than MS here. Would we react differently if GNU, SourceForge, et al, were named as well?