In my home town we used to have a cop that was tasked with walking up and down the business district checking that the doors were all locked up (we all called him the "Door Shaker"). This seems similar to that.
My wife needed CSS 2.1 support for pagination of printed web pages. Opera is the only browser (at least on OS X) that supports the pagination features of CSS 2.1.
The Chronicle of Higher Ed reported on that the reported prank didn't go so well. Seems that the Harvard students moved around from their assigned seating and the cards didn't produce anything readable.
I'll second this. I've worked in several different industries, and I doubt that *most* software is just a reimplementation.
I wrote a geographical revenue analysis program for a big three long distance carrier that took data from a mainframe and mapped it on a desktop.
At another place we collected documents on tobacco litigants. We wrote an app that managed the investigation including document sources, cases, and scanned images.
To say that most internal apps are just reimplementations of what other companies have is to admit that you haven't worked very many places, IMO.
That's exactly what the small cities and towns in my state are saying. The legistlation was pushed by the large cities' representatives and by large businesses.
For a small business, it is nearly impossible to comply (which is why enforcement has been suspended).
For instance, I live outside the city limits, but have the same zip code as everyone inside the city. So my sales tax would be less than what my cousin (for instance) would have to pay. But how would the local Mom and Pop store know that? Zip codes won't work of course, and there is no mechanism currently in existance that would.
If you pick it up, you pay the sales tax at the store.
The principle is that when you take possesion of it I think. So if you take it from the store, you pay local sales tax for the store's location. If they deliver it, you pay for your location.
Several states have formed a consortium to simplify sales tax collection. The scheme they have come up with is "destination based" sales tax.
The idea is that if you buy something in one location to be delivered to your home, the seller would have to collect sales tax for your location.
For my state, Kansas, it would work like this - I buy a chair in Wichita to be delivered to my house (3 counties away). The furniture store would have to collect my county's sales tax, not the Wichita tax.
It's a controversial setup, with many problems that don't have solutions yet, but it is probably the direction that sales tax collection is going.
The article linked to is from 2002 and is about giving the GRE on paper in China and India. Sort of misleading in the summary. The GRE in the US is and will be given via computers.
Actually, space is already militarized. It's just not *weaponized*, which is a quite different thing.
Militarization in it's most basic form just means using for military purposes, like intel satellites. Almost from the get-go, space has been militarized in this manner. In fact, one reason that we were slow in launching a satellite is to let the Soviets establish the practise of satellite overflights of other countries.
Weaponization means positioning weapons in space - something that is not forbidden either so long as the weapons are not WMD. That means anti-sat weapons could be deployed, as well as space based missiles targeting ground positions. Just no WMD. In fact, the Soviets had positioned proto-type weapons in space long ago - actually painting a shuttle with a laser at one point.
This is a great question. Special needs/special education is a growing issue in schools all over the US. In fact, there is a fairly severe shortage of special ed teachers nationwide.
The problem with No Child Left Behind is that it requires 100% mastery by 2014. It is obvious to anyone in the field that special needs children will never be able to meet the same mastery standards as non-LD kids.
I worked on electronic courtroom stuff at least 7 years ago in Kansas City. The company I worked for, RSI, installed one of the first e-courtrooms in the country.
That courtroom was hard wired for stuff, but now there is a portable unit that RSI makes that is called Atticus. I was in on the design of Atticus, which was a pretty cool project.
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The Soviets launched reactors more than once (not sure on the exact figure). The Cosmos 954 accident in Canada, IIRC, involved a reactor.
Slashgeo (a site for us geospatial types) reported this in May. You can see it here.
I can receive .zip files in my gmail account. In fact, I just tried it to make sure. Not sure why you can't.
In my home town we used to have a cop that was tasked with walking up and down the business district checking that the doors were all locked up (we all called him the "Door Shaker"). This seems similar to that.
Bah, I predicted that years ago.
I've used my iBook at Flying Js all over the midwest. Safari worked fine to log on. Is he sure about needing IE to log on?
My wife needed CSS 2.1 support for pagination of printed web pages. Opera is the only browser (at least on OS X) that supports the pagination features of CSS 2.1.
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I agree, seems like a TEMPEST in a teapot to me.
All US states are (IIRC) required to have balanced budgets.
Good lord, is he still around? He's the reason I stopped reading sci.math
They have, IIRC, the largest collection of soviet space hardware outside Russia.
The Chronicle of Higher Ed reported on that the reported prank didn't go so well. Seems that the Harvard students moved around from their assigned seating and the cards didn't produce anything readable.
I'll second this. I've worked in several different industries, and I doubt that *most* software is just a reimplementation.
I wrote a geographical revenue analysis program for a big three long distance carrier that took data from a mainframe and mapped it on a desktop.
At another place we collected documents on tobacco litigants. We wrote an app that managed the investigation including document sources, cases, and scanned images.
To say that most internal apps are just reimplementations of what other companies have is to admit that you haven't worked very many places, IMO.
For a small business, it is nearly impossible to comply (which is why enforcement has been suspended).
For instance, I live outside the city limits, but have the same zip code as everyone inside the city. So my sales tax would be less than what my cousin (for instance) would have to pay. But how would the local Mom and Pop store know that? Zip codes won't work of course, and there is no mechanism currently in existance that would.
The principle is that when you take possesion of it I think. So if you take it from the store, you pay local sales tax for the store's location. If they deliver it, you pay for your location.
The idea is that if you buy something in one location to be delivered to your home, the seller would have to collect sales tax for your location.
For my state, Kansas, it would work like this - I buy a chair in Wichita to be delivered to my house (3 counties away). The furniture store would have to collect my county's sales tax, not the Wichita tax.
It's a controversial setup, with many problems that don't have solutions yet, but it is probably the direction that sales tax collection is going.
The article linked to is from 2002 and is about giving the GRE on paper in China and India. Sort of misleading in the summary. The GRE in the US is and will be given via computers.
Every programmer should have this book in their reference library.
I got mine in '84, and even though I didn't work in Fortran or PL/I I still found it incredibly useful.
Actually, space is already militarized. It's just not *weaponized*, which is a quite different thing.
Militarization in it's most basic form just means using for military purposes, like intel satellites. Almost from the get-go, space has been militarized in this manner. In fact, one reason that we were slow in launching a satellite is to let the Soviets establish the practise of satellite overflights of other countries.
Weaponization means positioning weapons in space - something that is not forbidden either so long as the weapons are not WMD. That means anti-sat weapons could be deployed, as well as space based missiles targeting ground positions. Just no WMD. In fact, the Soviets had positioned proto-type weapons in space long ago - actually painting a shuttle with a laser at one point.
I think you mean Global Warming. Without the Greenhouse Effect, Earth would be a big frozen ice-ball.
This is a great question. Special needs/special education is a growing issue in schools all over the US. In fact, there is a fairly severe shortage of special ed teachers nationwide.
The problem with No Child Left Behind is that it requires 100% mastery by 2014. It is obvious to anyone in the field that special needs children will never be able to meet the same mastery standards as non-LD kids.
That courtroom was hard wired for stuff, but now there is a portable unit that RSI makes that is called Atticus. I was in on the design of Atticus, which was a pretty cool project.
Tubes rock dude!
I think you mean "At Will". Right to work means that in most cases they can't terminate you without cause.