The only advantage a base-10 system has over hexadecimal is that most people have 10_(10) fingers so they know how to count to 10_(10). If they were smart, they'd know how to count to 0x3FF (1023_(10)).
If they can recognize three different finger positions, they could got 10 59048. If they can manage 4, then 1048575, etc.
Of course I still have to take my shoes off to count more than 10 items, so I'm not in that camp.
but when designing subwoofer boxes, it is recommended to use particle boardmaybe if you are selling them at flea markets. MDF is much better to build boxes with.
Wikipedia says MDF is the same construction as particle board, but denser. I say MDF is just a specific density of particle board. But yes, I do use the Medium Density when I build subwoofer boxes.
Acoustically, a consistent density would tend toward one resonance frequency (and it's harmonics), whereas an inconsistent density could have many resonance frequencies and their harmonics, which would probably be less pleasing to the air. I know it wouldn't work well for a violin, but when designing subwoofer boxes, it is recommended to use particle board for reasons of both structural rigidity and almost complete lack of resonance frequency.
I once went to Blockbuster to see what I needed to do to rent a movie and was handed this form that looked like a loan application.
Hollywood Video is even worse. I went to Hollywood video when Blockbuster didn't have the movie I wanted, and they wanted an automobile registration!
Thankfully now we have Redbox. Just don't pick up movies at McDonalds.
If you don't think text messages are worth 15 or 20 cents each, then don't use them. (Yes, you can get your cell carrier to disable texting to your phone, you just have to yell at them for a while until they give you to a supervisor who can actually do it.)
What if I think that text messages have different values? To me, no text message is worth 15 cents, but one from my friends or relatives may be of slight positive value (perhaps a few hundredths of a cent, might as well make it free). While ones from spammers have a high negative value to me. They should have an interface that shows the incoming messages, and then I can decide whether it is one I want, which I should get for free, or if it is one that I would be willing to read if the spammer pays me $10.
Another option is to sign up for one of the zillions of plans that offer unlimited texting.
that's not any better. It costs something like $15/month. For me that is an infinite amount of money per text message I send or approximately $7.50 per message I receive.
And yes, I still reserve the right to complain that the two unsolicited SMSs I receive a month cost me $0.15 each.
You seem to be claiming that if you give everyone a wide berth, you could close your eyes for 10 full seconds at highway speeds without danger. Stupid.
Without danger to others, yes. Without danger to themselves, no. I don't care what people do to themselves as long as they don't hurt other people.
A voice call distracts you for a few seconds, tops- with speeddial, voice dialing, and other options, it takes little to no time.
See, I wouldn't have any problem with texting while driving if people would maintain proper distance. Let's say a text message takes 10 seconds to enter (conservative I know), then you need to have your normal 2 seconds plus the additional 10 seconds of space between you and the next driver. At highway speeds, that's about 1500 feet.
Let's not forget about separation from people in the lanes next to you either. You should be sure there is no one at all in any of the other lanes within 1500 feet of you or on the shoulder, coming the other way or driving along the access road in case you really lose it bad when you lose control of the vehicle.
If you can maintain those distances reliably while texting, then text away. At least I know you won't kill anybody ELSE that way.
Why not simply have a law where you must drive with "due care and attention".
People are not clever enough to work out on their own what new technologies are incompatible with driving. You either have to make a law or put forth a lot of money on "awareness" campaigns. Laws are cheaper.
What's so "fun" about text messages?
I agree. I just don't have time for text messages. It can take an hour of back and forth to have a two minute conversation. I can barely put up with IM, but it is required in our office so that people can interrupt your train of thought if you accidentally get on a productive streak.
I have no "text plan" on my phone, so incoming texts that I didn't ask to receive cost me 15 cents. Outgoing don't cost me anything because I don't do them. I don't have time. Life is too short for text messaging. Call up, get your conversation done and move on.
Maybe it's just nostalgia for the days when all we had was the telegraph.
Sure people are dumb. But how can anyone be so mind-boggling stupid that they would think that texting while driving is a good idea? I mean, why not just go to the next step and drive blindfolded? There shouldn't even need to be a law because no one should be dumb enough to do this. But I guess I have too much faith in humanity.
What exact part of the Georgia legal code says s/he has to pay tax? I assume you are a lawyer admitted to the GA state bar, of course.
You don't have to be a lawyer to understand the Georgia state tax code regarding Use Tax. And if s/he is exempt due to buying for resale or being a non-profit, then I am sure that Microcenter would happily not charge sales tax once they had copies of his/her official documents.
You make the attempt to evade taxes sound like a bad thing.
Most companies are doing it, either through complicated accounting / legal tricks like Amazon or by off shoring their corporate headquarters.
If capitalism says that it's okay for a company then why they heck isn't it okay for an INDIVIDUAL?
You are missing the difference between avoiding taxes and evading taxes. Avoiding taxes consists of taking advantage of rules in the tax code which are put there on purpose. For example, buying a house instead of renting is avoiding taxes, and is perfectly legal. Evading taxes, on the other hand is when you should be paying taxes, but are not. An example of this is the Use tax, which most people don't pay, even though they are supposed to according to Tax Code. Evading taxes, in the above example of housing would be like if you rented a house, but tried to claim your rent as a deduction.
Businesses take advantage of many parts of tax code to avoid taxes, which is fine. And yes, sometimes they do things to evade taxes that they should legally be paying. But businesses on the whole, are as a necessity more on the up-and-up than individuals.
Buy from Microcenter.com and if they have a store in your state, they will charge you sales tax and shipping - even though there warehouse that they ship from is in Ohio, they charged my GA sales tax.
Why are you upset about that? If they hadn't charged you sales tax, then you would have been required to file use tax, which would have cost you the same amount and taken you a few extra minutes, whereas Microcenter saved you all the effort.
Let me guess, you don't file use tax and so you will single out and punish companies who don't aid you in your attempt to evade taxes.
How shocking! People who went out of their way to install a non-default browser also tend to upgrade said browser? While people who accept the default browser that came with their system tend to not upgrade their browser? Completely amazing. Or not.
The irony of course is that if they actually get jobs in the sector, this will be how they actually work anyway.
This is not how they will work. This is how their would-be boss will work. Their would-be boss will farm the work out to India and they themselves will be without a job.
It would be awesome if the industry worked the way the summary states. That is, that I, as a programmer could take a portion of my salary and pay some Indians to do my job while I sit at home and drink Margaritas, but management is clever enough to see this happening and determines that they can just pay the Indians directly and not employ you at all, and then THEY can sit at home and drink margaritas while you mow their lawn.
Most courts would hold that an e-mail is not an official communication. I can not inform my tenants via e-mail that they are being evicted. I can not create a binding sale contract via e-mail. etc. etc. Sure , most of our interoffice communication is via e-mail, and we choose to uphold it as legitimate within our work environments, but the law still sees e-mail as unofficial.
Also, did someone admit that they received this e-mail but did not open it? I don't read that in the article. For all we know, the e-mail was never received, or is sitting in some spam folder because somewhere in the e-mail it said that the environment is f*cked.
Of course, we here on/. are willing to overlook the fact that e-mail is not a means of official communication and is also not a 100% reliable means of communication in order to bash Bush.
If I don't open my bills do they still exist?
Not only that, but if you don't receive them, or if they don't even send them, you are still responsible for paying them. This is not the same as not opening an e-mail.
...out of that $9 for 9 tacos it probably costs them about $2 bucks worth of material and $1 for the labor and $2 for the shipping so they make a healthy $4 profit.
A typical fast food restaurant is not a huge money maker, typically under 10% overall. Breaking it down by food item is misleading because in the whole picture you have overhead costs that you can't accurately determine how to allocate into different menu item costs.
It seems to me that the U.S. government is already set up in something of an open source arrangement. Certainly it is not as open as wikipedia, there are checks and balances, thankfully, lest Joe Bumpkin decide that he need to write a law to let him have sex with his sheep. Of course, as you go higher up, the laws get harder for an individual to influence, but you would be amazed at how much influence you can have locally if you decide to get involved in the government instead of just muttering about those fools in city hall. I guarantee that most any city has vacancies on any number of committees, and they are not very choosy when it comes to volunteers. Everybody likes to talk about the government as "them", but "them" is just "us" that decided to get involved. Look at the candidates for president: Obama and McCain are not from some socially elite family. They are just people who rose through the ranks. So was Hillary. Yes, Bush had connections, but looking at history, less than 1/4 of our presidents were from nationally known families.
15! Wow, I've had two. And I'm not likely to have any more, unless my wife gets tired of me or dies before I do.
Which is not to say that I didn't get enough sex. I'm only 38, but it's got to be pushing 1,000 times by now. If I had my way, it'd be much higher than that. At my age, I still feel three times a week is appropriate, but my wife says she wishes we could do just once a month. Luckily, she is willing to compromise somewhere in the middle.
Hey, if she was willing to let me have a concubine, then I could probably let her do the once a month thing.
I am no expert on Hebrew, but my understanding is that anything that you put all of your attention toward is a "god". So, money, cars, women, men, music or whatever can be a god.
Americans really need to start using the metric system. Honestly, it really is worth the effort to switch.
Hey, you started the imperial system. Can you blame us that you can't stick with a standard?
And what's so flipping metric about Celcius? I don't see you talking about your centicelcius or your kilocelcius. We're not doing anything crazy like calling 12 degrees Fahrenheit a footdegree. You decided to scale your degree against the freezing point and boiling point of water at 1 atmosphere of pressure at sea level. We decided to base ours on the temperature of water and ammonium chloride in an ice bath and an average human body temperature. Who is to say which scale is better? Once you've picked one, go with it. Given that Fahrenheit was around 20 years prior to Celcius, I propose that we should have stuck with it. Neither of them is a round number at absolute zero, so they're both clearly wrong anyway.
It must be meant for very rough calibration, as 98.2 is the more accepted body temperature.
I always heard 98.6, but as we all know, it is probably slightly higher than that, as the thermometer is at room temperature and cools the interior of your mouth (if you're lucky) down slightly. Damn you Heisenberg!
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The only advantage a base-10 system has over hexadecimal is that most people have 10_(10) fingers so they know how to count to 10_(10). If they were smart, they'd know how to count to 0x3FF (1023_(10)).
If they can recognize three different finger positions, they could got 10 59048. If they can manage 4, then 1048575, etc.
Of course I still have to take my shoes off to count more than 10 items, so I'm not in that camp.
but when designing subwoofer boxes, it is recommended to use particle board maybe if you are selling them at flea markets. MDF is much better to build boxes with. Wikipedia says MDF is the same construction as particle board, but denser. I say MDF is just a specific density of particle board. But yes, I do use the Medium Density when I build subwoofer boxes.
Acoustically, a consistent density would tend toward one resonance frequency (and it's harmonics), whereas an inconsistent density could have many resonance frequencies and their harmonics, which would probably be less pleasing to the air. I know it wouldn't work well for a violin, but when designing subwoofer boxes, it is recommended to use particle board for reasons of both structural rigidity and almost complete lack of resonance frequency.
I once went to Blockbuster to see what I needed to do to rent a movie and was handed this form that looked like a loan application.
Hollywood Video is even worse. I went to Hollywood video when Blockbuster didn't have the movie I wanted, and they wanted an automobile registration!
Thankfully now we have Redbox. Just don't pick up movies at McDonalds.
If you don't think text messages are worth 15 or 20 cents each, then don't use them. (Yes, you can get your cell carrier to disable texting to your phone, you just have to yell at them for a while until they give you to a supervisor who can actually do it.)
What if I think that text messages have different values? To me, no text message is worth 15 cents, but one from my friends or relatives may be of slight positive value (perhaps a few hundredths of a cent, might as well make it free). While ones from spammers have a high negative value to me. They should have an interface that shows the incoming messages, and then I can decide whether it is one I want, which I should get for free, or if it is one that I would be willing to read if the spammer pays me $10.
Another option is to sign up for one of the zillions of plans that offer unlimited texting.
that's not any better. It costs something like $15/month. For me that is an infinite amount of money per text message I send or approximately $7.50 per message I receive.
And yes, I still reserve the right to complain that the two unsolicited SMSs I receive a month cost me $0.15 each.
You seem to be claiming that if you give everyone a wide berth, you could close your eyes for 10 full seconds at highway speeds without danger. Stupid.
Without danger to others, yes. Without danger to themselves, no. I don't care what people do to themselves as long as they don't hurt other people.
A voice call distracts you for a few seconds, tops- with speeddial, voice dialing, and other options, it takes little to no time.
See, I wouldn't have any problem with texting while driving if people would maintain proper distance. Let's say a text message takes 10 seconds to enter (conservative I know), then you need to have your normal 2 seconds plus the additional 10 seconds of space between you and the next driver. At highway speeds, that's about 1500 feet.
Let's not forget about separation from people in the lanes next to you either. You should be sure there is no one at all in any of the other lanes within 1500 feet of you or on the shoulder, coming the other way or driving along the access road in case you really lose it bad when you lose control of the vehicle.
If you can maintain those distances reliably while texting, then text away. At least I know you won't kill anybody ELSE that way.
Why not simply have a law where you must drive with "due care and attention".
People are not clever enough to work out on their own what new technologies are incompatible with driving. You either have to make a law or put forth a lot of money on "awareness" campaigns. Laws are cheaper.
What's so "fun" about text messages?
I agree. I just don't have time for text messages. It can take an hour of back and forth to have a two minute conversation. I can barely put up with IM, but it is required in our office so that people can interrupt your train of thought if you accidentally get on a productive streak.
I have no "text plan" on my phone, so incoming texts that I didn't ask to receive cost me 15 cents. Outgoing don't cost me anything because I don't do them. I don't have time. Life is too short for text messaging. Call up, get your conversation done and move on.
Maybe it's just nostalgia for the days when all we had was the telegraph.
Sure people are dumb. But how can anyone be so mind-boggling stupid that they would think that texting while driving is a good idea? I mean, why not just go to the next step and drive blindfolded? There shouldn't even need to be a law because no one should be dumb enough to do this. But I guess I have too much faith in humanity.
What exact part of the Georgia legal code says s/he has to pay tax? I assume you are a lawyer admitted to the GA state bar, of course.
You don't have to be a lawyer to understand the Georgia state tax code regarding Use Tax. And if s/he is exempt due to buying for resale or being a non-profit, then I am sure that Microcenter would happily not charge sales tax once they had copies of his/her official documents.
You make the attempt to evade taxes sound like a bad thing. Most companies are doing it, either through complicated accounting / legal tricks like Amazon or by off shoring their corporate headquarters. If capitalism says that it's okay for a company then why they heck isn't it okay for an INDIVIDUAL?
You are missing the difference between avoiding taxes and evading taxes. Avoiding taxes consists of taking advantage of rules in the tax code which are put there on purpose. For example, buying a house instead of renting is avoiding taxes, and is perfectly legal. Evading taxes, on the other hand is when you should be paying taxes, but are not. An example of this is the Use tax, which most people don't pay, even though they are supposed to according to Tax Code. Evading taxes, in the above example of housing would be like if you rented a house, but tried to claim your rent as a deduction.
Businesses take advantage of many parts of tax code to avoid taxes, which is fine. And yes, sometimes they do things to evade taxes that they should legally be paying. But businesses on the whole, are as a necessity more on the up-and-up than individuals.
I would think people on /. of all people would know that just because the majority believes or does something does not make it right.
Buy from Microcenter.com and if they have a store in your state, they will charge you sales tax and shipping - even though there warehouse that they ship from is in Ohio, they charged my GA sales tax.
Why are you upset about that? If they hadn't charged you sales tax, then you would have been required to file use tax, which would have cost you the same amount and taken you a few extra minutes, whereas Microcenter saved you all the effort.
Let me guess, you don't file use tax and so you will single out and punish companies who don't aid you in your attempt to evade taxes.
How shocking! People who went out of their way to install a non-default browser also tend to upgrade said browser? While people who accept the default browser that came with their system tend to not upgrade their browser? Completely amazing. Or not.
The irony of course is that if they actually get jobs in the sector, this will be how they actually work anyway.
This is not how they will work. This is how their would-be boss will work. Their would-be boss will farm the work out to India and they themselves will be without a job.
It would be awesome if the industry worked the way the summary states. That is, that I, as a programmer could take a portion of my salary and pay some Indians to do my job while I sit at home and drink Margaritas, but management is clever enough to see this happening and determines that they can just pay the Indians directly and not employ you at all, and then THEY can sit at home and drink margaritas while you mow their lawn.
Most courts would hold that an e-mail is not an official communication. I can not inform my tenants via e-mail that they are being evicted. I can not create a binding sale contract via e-mail. etc. etc. Sure , most of our interoffice communication is via e-mail, and we choose to uphold it as legitimate within our work environments, but the law still sees e-mail as unofficial. /. are willing to overlook the fact that e-mail is not a means of official communication and is also not a 100% reliable means of communication in order to bash Bush.
Also, did someone admit that they received this e-mail but did not open it? I don't read that in the article. For all we know, the e-mail was never received, or is sitting in some spam folder because somewhere in the e-mail it said that the environment is f*cked.
Of course, we here on
If I don't open my bills do they still exist?
Not only that, but if you don't receive them, or if they don't even send them, you are still responsible for paying them. This is not the same as not opening an e-mail.
...out of that $9 for 9 tacos it probably costs them about $2 bucks worth of material and $1 for the labor and $2 for the shipping so they make a healthy $4 profit.
A typical fast food restaurant is not a huge money maker, typically under 10% overall. Breaking it down by food item is misleading because in the whole picture you have overhead costs that you can't accurately determine how to allocate into different menu item costs.
It seems to me that the U.S. government is already set up in something of an open source arrangement. Certainly it is not as open as wikipedia, there are checks and balances, thankfully, lest Joe Bumpkin decide that he need to write a law to let him have sex with his sheep. Of course, as you go higher up, the laws get harder for an individual to influence, but you would be amazed at how much influence you can have locally if you decide to get involved in the government instead of just muttering about those fools in city hall. I guarantee that most any city has vacancies on any number of committees, and they are not very choosy when it comes to volunteers. Everybody likes to talk about the government as "them", but "them" is just "us" that decided to get involved. Look at the candidates for president: Obama and McCain are not from some socially elite family. They are just people who rose through the ranks. So was Hillary. Yes, Bush had connections, but looking at history, less than 1/4 of our presidents were from nationally known families.
15! Wow, I've had two. And I'm not likely to have any more, unless my wife gets tired of me or dies before I do.
Which is not to say that I didn't get enough sex. I'm only 38, but it's got to be pushing 1,000 times by now. If I had my way, it'd be much higher than that. At my age, I still feel three times a week is appropriate, but my wife says she wishes we could do just once a month. Luckily, she is willing to compromise somewhere in the middle.
Hey, if she was willing to let me have a concubine, then I could probably let her do the once a month thing.
I am no expert on Hebrew, but my understanding is that anything that you put all of your attention toward is a "god". So, money, cars, women, men, music or whatever can be a god.
Americans really need to start using the metric system. Honestly, it really is worth the effort to switch.
Hey, you started the imperial system. Can you blame us that you can't stick with a standard?
And what's so flipping metric about Celcius? I don't see you talking about your centicelcius or your kilocelcius. We're not doing anything crazy like calling 12 degrees Fahrenheit a footdegree. You decided to scale your degree against the freezing point and boiling point of water at 1 atmosphere of pressure at sea level. We decided to base ours on the temperature of water and ammonium chloride in an ice bath and an average human body temperature. Who is to say which scale is better? Once you've picked one, go with it. Given that Fahrenheit was around 20 years prior to Celcius, I propose that we should have stuck with it. Neither of them is a round number at absolute zero, so they're both clearly wrong anyway.
It must be meant for very rough calibration, as 98.2 is the more accepted body temperature.
I always heard 98.6, but as we all know, it is probably slightly higher than that, as the thermometer is at room temperature and cools the interior of your mouth (if you're lucky) down slightly. Damn you Heisenberg!