If the mouse is going to do everything why not put a little display screen on it too. That way you can eliminate useless desktop clutter like monitors, keyboards and speakers.
I also got the impression that the review was just a might too admiring of Adams work. The Guide books are not written in stone and handed down from above, they are the final incarnation of radio and TV stories with the same title and they have the widest circulation. They are not definitive.
It's a MOVIE!!! It's not going to be the same. Whenever I see a movie of a book I try to judge it as though I had not read the book. The trailer had a sense of humor and it sure was pretty.
The sales tax is based on you being in the state at the time of purchase. If you pay sales tax on an item while on vacation the sales tax has been paid and your state has no say in the matter (thus the ability to bring up to $50 worth of cigarettes into MI as stated in the article.)
Shipping a product to an out of state customer exempts the seller from their obligation to collect sales tax. (When I file sales taxes for my business I get to keep a tiny percentage to make up for my collecting it for the state.) The sales tax is actually a tax on the buyer so once the business ships out of state it is off the hook for that transaction. I think that covers both of your questions.
The MI cigarette tax is not a sales tax it is a cigarette tax. So it applies to anyone bringing cigarettes into the state.
IANAL, this is based my understanding of the KY sales tax form I fillout annually.
I agree. If I want the HP support page and it comes up in the ads I'll click there. Hell, it doesn't cost me anything and it means the internet will be there when I log on tomorrow.
Palm may not be the leader but I still need a seperate phone and PDA. I work in a noisy industrial environment and I like being able to press my phone to the side of my head and hear it through my ear plugs while I thumb through my palm for the calendar or client info.
I was going to make a similiar point about the involvement of the user.
My son has been using computers for ten years yet has no idea how to troubleshoot the slightest problem or how to design an efficient search. Kids learn to click on pretty pictures and cut and paste their home work together. The computer enables a sort of mental laziness.
One can use a computer for hours a day and not learn anything about computers or the subjects one is supposedly working on.
The reason multiple computers is a correlated to poor performance may be that it is an indication of unsupervised computer use. If there is only one computer it is probably in a public room not a bedroom.
Another thought, the internet encourages academic sloppiness. My son did a paper on Curt Cobain and when I reviewed it the writing style was all wrong (it was boring.) So I checked his history to see his sources and I found three sites with an identical biography. None of these site gave a citation for the bio and my son had just cut it up for his paper. I sat his butt back down at the computer and emailed the URL's to his teacher.
In Summary: GUI's make you lazy. Supervise the kids and use citations!!!
I have an old Pentium, 155Mhz, no cd, I am running MuLinux and I can write and play games. It includes instructions for SLIP to a Windows box and read only NTFS compatability.
I am totally Linux clueless so I have not connected it to anything yet, I was gonna try after I finished wasting time here.
They are not headphones, but little speakers mounted in front of the ear. They flip up so you can talk to people and use the phone and stuff. That's very cool. The flip up lenses are a nice touch too.
Oakley has never had any problem selling well designed and insanely overpriced glasses and I doubt that they will have any problem selling well designed and overpriced music player hybrids.
Actual record of my twelve year old at a tapas place
"Can I have some of your fried chicken?" "That's good. Gimme some more." "Can I have another piece, please?" "This looks like some kind of alien octopus?" "THIS IS CALAMARI!"
The look on his face as he slowly realized he'd eaten squid all on his own. That's priceless.
I went to a PDA because my paper organizer was never where I needed it. The PDA goes in my pocket. I use the PIM functions and a basic inventory data base in the shop.
I'm not running any CNC machines with it,I get it out when I want to see what to do next or while I am on the phone with a client. I am trying to keep my basic info available whether I am at home, shop, or at a client's house.
I can't justify a laptop as a daytimer replacement.
PDAs are not solely the domain of computer geeks, there are tons of people in industry and construction who would like to be able to carry information around the plant or into the field.
I am a blacksmith, my shop has a dirt floor and almost everything I do there produces dirt of one kind or another, much of it airborne. I carry my Palm in a zipped leather case in a buttoned pocket and I still worry about stray iron filings frying my equipment. I also worry about finding my measurements when I have cutting oil on my fingers.
Why would I want a seperate HANDset, I'd have the PDA in one hand and the phone part in the other, that's no improvement (I hate to think what I'd have to use for a stylus)
One of those clip on HEADsets would be handy, especially if some one could invent a non-tangling cord.
I work in a noisy environment and have to hold the phone to my ear while I scribble stuff in my PDA.
Sundials actually do their jobs very well. Sun and planetary time vary by season but the sundial will always show noon when the sun is at its apex.
If it is provided with the formula of time the viewer can adjust the reading to stay within minutes of clock time (Sundials can be built to compensate for the seasonal variations, but it's a pain.) If there is an anallema it can also show the day of the year.
Sundials can give a better illustration of the planet and the solar system than anything you can wear on your wrist.
Designers of public spaces and artwork are frequently under multiple and conflicting influences. There is the designer's desire to do personally meaningful work, the perceptions of the general public (which are not necessarily the same as their needs,) the funder's desires and basic fuctionality. None of these are necessarily in agreement.
A lean mean functional design may be perceived as ugly and result in nasty letters to the editor no matter how well it works. A design full of local historical references may have no meaning to the public while meeting the funder's goals. A formal English garden may please the public, but it's boring and after the newness wears of we'll find that there's nowhere for the kids to play.
Last but not least, if we designer's are not pushing the envelope how will we ever get to make any thing new. How will we know if we belong in your elite 10% if we don't try?
From the NYT "Working as two teams, the teenagers play a virtual game of capture the flag, trying to crack the other team's network and do damage while defending their own. An honor code keeps them from creating mischief outside their labs."
If you screw around outside on your own time you might not get to play with your friends. This is the only threat that gets my 14 year old son moving.
The guy teaching the course has a computer security company of his own so I bet he is a great role model for future "white hats."
Has any one actually heard of Al Jazeera complaining of conspiracy?
The original poster mentioned rumors among muslim friends, presumably regular Al Jazeera readers sho were unprepared to have the rest of the world turned on to their news source.
I, by chance, did a search for Al Jazeera last night and I found their site and a bunch of news stories about the controversial photos.
It is probably safe to assume that they got a huge amount of exposure last night. Their link was probably in everyone of those articles and everyone probably wanted a look.
Conspiracies are like UFO's and ESP, there is always a more believable explanation.
When I checked the story out all of the links worked. I got the book at amazon, the author's name took me to Google, the AFDB is the african development bank and MindGaurd is a german metal band.
Where's the story?
Clearly They are altering the content of the internet to prevent my learning about Them.
Slashdot Mirror
If you weren't aware of the many types of screwheads then you have not been reading /. with sufficient skepticism.
If the mouse is going to do everything why not put a little display screen on it too. That way you can eliminate useless desktop clutter like monitors, keyboards and speakers.
Thank you for posting an articulate statement of deadly force philosophy.
The tough guy attitude adopted by previous posters is a greater threat to the second amendment than hippy peaceniks like me.
Even though the whole story was in the capsule you still clicked on the link.
Who's the pathetic one here?
I also got the impression that the review was just a might too admiring of Adams work. The Guide books are not written in stone and handed down from above, they are the final incarnation of radio and TV stories with the same title and they have the widest circulation. They are not definitive.
It's a MOVIE!!! It's not going to be the same. Whenever I see a movie of a book I try to judge it as though I had not read the book. The trailer had a sense of humor and it sure was pretty.
The sales tax is based on you being in the state at the time of purchase. If you pay sales tax on an item while on vacation the sales tax has been paid and your state has no say in the matter (thus the ability to bring up to $50 worth of cigarettes into MI as stated in the article.)
Shipping a product to an out of state customer exempts the seller from their obligation to collect sales tax. (When I file sales taxes for my business I get to keep a tiny percentage to make up for my collecting it for the state.) The sales tax is actually a tax on the buyer so once the business ships out of state it is off the hook for that transaction. I think that covers both of your questions.
The MI cigarette tax is not a sales tax it is a cigarette tax. So it applies to anyone bringing cigarettes into the state.
IANAL, this is based my understanding of the KY sales tax form I fillout annually.
This article just pointed out how I reassembled a curbside computer incorrectly. Now I have a firewall.
Thanks!
I agree. If I want the HP support page and it comes up in the ads I'll click there. Hell, it doesn't cost me anything and it means the internet will be there when I log on tomorrow.
Palm may not be the leader but I still need a seperate phone and PDA. I work in a noisy industrial environment and I like being able to press my phone to the side of my head and hear it through my ear plugs while I thumb through my palm for the calendar or client info.
I don't want an integrated smart phone!
(I do but I couldn't use it.)
I was going to make a similiar point about the involvement of the user.
My son has been using computers for ten years yet has no idea how to troubleshoot the slightest problem or how to design an efficient search. Kids learn to click on pretty pictures and cut and paste their home work together. The computer enables a sort of mental laziness.
One can use a computer for hours a day and not learn anything about computers or the subjects one is supposedly working on.
The reason multiple computers is a correlated to poor performance may be that it is an indication of unsupervised computer use. If there is only one computer it is probably in a public room not a bedroom.
Another thought, the internet encourages academic sloppiness. My son did a paper on Curt Cobain and when I reviewed it the writing style was all wrong (it was boring.) So I checked his history to see his sources and I found three sites with an identical biography. None of these site gave a citation for the bio and my son had just cut it up for his paper. I sat his butt back down at the computer and emailed the URL's to his teacher.
In Summary: GUI's make you lazy. Supervise the kids and use citations!!!
The victim of plagarism is probably a Best Buy press release.
They want to ba plagiarized for their stockholder's benefit.
I have an old Pentium, 155Mhz, no cd, I am running MuLinux and I can write and play games. It includes instructions for SLIP to a Windows box and read only NTFS compatability.
I am totally Linux clueless so I have not connected it to anything yet, I was gonna try after I finished wasting time here.
RTFA
They are not headphones, but little speakers mounted in front of the ear. They flip up so you can talk to people and use the phone and stuff. That's very cool. The flip up lenses are a nice touch too.
Oakley has never had any problem selling well designed and insanely overpriced glasses and I doubt that they will have any problem selling well designed and overpriced music player hybrids.
I won't be getting any though.
Actual record of my twelve year old at a tapas place
"Can I have some of your fried chicken?"
"That's good. Gimme some more."
"Can I have another piece, please?"
"This looks like some kind of alien octopus?"
"THIS IS CALAMARI!"
The look on his face as he slowly realized he'd eaten squid all on his own. That's priceless.
Thanks for actually talking about TMBG!!! They rock as usual.
If I wanted to hear the usual music sucks so it should all be free rant I'd read SlashDot.
Oh, wait.
I went to a PDA because my paper organizer was never where I needed it. The PDA goes in my pocket. I use the PIM functions and a basic inventory data base in the shop.
I'm not running any CNC machines with it,I get it out when I want to see what to do next or while I am on the phone with a client. I am trying to keep my basic info available whether I am at home, shop, or at a client's house.
I can't justify a laptop as a daytimer replacement.
PDAs are not solely the domain of computer geeks, there are tons of people in industry and construction who would like to be able to carry information around the plant or into the field.
I am a blacksmith, my shop has a dirt floor and almost everything I do there produces dirt of one kind or another, much of it airborne. I carry my Palm in a zipped leather case in a buttoned pocket and I still worry about stray iron filings frying my equipment. I also worry about finding my measurements when I have cutting oil on my fingers.
I may be messy but I still need my data.
Why would I want a seperate HANDset, I'd have the PDA in one hand and the phone part in the other, that's no improvement (I hate to think what I'd have to use for a stylus)
One of those clip on HEADsets would be handy, especially if some one could invent a non-tangling cord.
I work in a noisy environment and have to hold the phone to my ear while I scribble stuff in my PDA.
Sundials are cool!!
Sundials actually do their jobs very well. Sun and planetary time vary by season but the sundial will always show noon when the sun is at its apex.
If it is provided with the formula of time the viewer can adjust the reading to stay within minutes of clock time (Sundials can be built to compensate for the seasonal variations, but it's a pain.) If there is an anallema it can also show the day of the year.
Sundials can give a better illustration of the planet and the solar system than anything you can wear on your wrist.
Plus the batteries never die.
I still have a bluish-blackish spot on my left side where a swinging door caused me to be impaled on my own pencil in second grade (1976 or 77.)
Great for picking up chicks!!
Designers of public spaces and artwork are frequently under multiple and conflicting influences. There is the designer's desire to do personally meaningful work, the perceptions of the general public (which are not necessarily the same as their needs,) the funder's desires and basic fuctionality. None of these are necessarily in agreement.
A lean mean functional design may be perceived as ugly and result in nasty letters to the editor no matter how well it works. A design full of local historical references may have no meaning to the public while meeting the funder's goals. A formal English garden may please the public, but it's boring and after the newness wears of we'll find that there's nowhere for the kids to play.
Last but not least, if we designer's are not pushing the envelope how will we ever get to make any thing new. How will we know if we belong in your elite 10% if we don't try?
From the NYT
"Working as two teams, the teenagers play a virtual game of capture the flag, trying to crack the other team's network and do damage while defending their own. An honor code keeps them from creating mischief outside their labs."
If you screw around outside on your own time you might not get to play with your friends. This is the only threat that gets my 14 year old son moving.
The guy teaching the course has a computer security company of his own so I bet he is a great role model for future "white hats."
Read the info and make useful comment.
Has any one actually heard of Al Jazeera complaining of conspiracy?
The original poster mentioned rumors among muslim friends, presumably regular Al Jazeera readers sho were unprepared to have the rest of the world turned on to their news source.
I, by chance, did a search for Al Jazeera last night and I found their site and a bunch of news stories about the controversial photos.
It is probably safe to assume that they got a huge amount of exposure last night. Their link was probably in everyone of those articles and everyone probably wanted a look.
Conspiracies are like UFO's and ESP, there is always a more believable explanation.
If I were motivated I would say something clever about your mispelling of scottish being crap or shooting itself in the foot or something funny.
If you feel that strongly SPELL IT RIGHT!!!
When I checked the story out all of the links worked. I got the book at amazon, the author's name took me to Google, the AFDB is the african development bank and MindGaurd is a german metal band.
Where's the story?
Clearly They are altering the content of the internet to prevent my learning about Them.
I'm going to the kitchen to make a hat now.