"simply look the damned tax up on a sheet of paper?"
See, now, it's way more complicated than that. Here in Florida, for example, each COUNTY has it's own rate. And we have to charge according to where the BUYER is because that's where they take ownership of the product. And it changes every year. And IIRC, some of the tax is capped to a limit. You really do need a slew of people to deal with the complexity. If they really want to collect taxes like this, what's needed is a single rate for mail order/Internet purchases to make it all palatable.
The clouds are caused by water condensing on space dust which has suddenly increased because it's the harbinger of the huge mountain of an asteroid that's aimed at us.
Send royalties to... oh, right. I'll never get to spend it, even if I saw any.
As a degreed engineer with 30 years of work in computer hardware and software, I firmly believe there will be no such thing as a "Software Engineer" until such engineer has a "PE" after his/her name. That's "Professional Engineer" (wiki it); a responsible party who can be put in jail if the software kills someone. There's nothing like the threat of punishment to put rigor in your processes.
By coincidence, a friend's Vista computer stopped booting after a series of power blackouts. Recovery disk didn't work. It was the straw that broke the Vista's camel's back. I suggested Linux, not expecting to be taken up on it. She said bring it on. I burned the latest version of Knoppix and Ubuntu and brought them to her. As it turned out, I didn't get a chance to explain what the point was of those two disks and she ended up taking them home and using them absolutely cold. Incredibly, between her and her son, also not a power user, they ended up installing and using Ubuntu. She got on FaceBook last night declaring she will never go back to Vista. She "shouted" it because her caps lock was stuck "on". As I posted a lengthy description of how to troubleshoot it, she fixed it herself. She says she really likes it, but she leaves open the possibility of going back to Windows 7.
Incidentally, I use Gentoo, so I have little idea what she went through in the install. My impression is that Ubuntu Linux is ready for the Desktop.
But TFA only says "a set of key technical protocols known as Web services".
*What* web services?! FTP? Bittorrent?
What're the patent numbers?
There's no meat here!
Oh, but wait... this is/.
Unless we know what patents changed hands, there's not much to see here. And, why would the new owner be any worse than the old to the future of the Internet?
Another slant on the spoiler angle
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Whenever I hear that nonsense about "a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush", I always tell the speaker that another way to frame the issue is that, if the Dems want to win an election, they had better start looking a lot more different from the Reps.
I was working in a Gov office in DC in 1974 and IIRC, the special characters were available by stopping typing with an IBM golfball typewriter, changing the ball to a special ball, typing the special characters, switching back to the regular ball and continuing.
Translucency is an important factor in an area near and dear to me: air traffic control. Most existing solutions in use are deeply mired in non-standard proprietaritude.
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"simply look the damned tax up on a sheet of paper?"
See, now, it's way more complicated than that. Here in Florida, for example, each COUNTY has it's own rate. And we have to charge according to where the BUYER is because that's where they take ownership of the product. And it changes every year. And IIRC, some of the tax is capped to a limit. You really do need a slew of people to deal with the complexity. If they really want to collect taxes like this, what's needed is a single rate for mail order/Internet purchases to make it all palatable.
"How would you like us to shave a dollar off your monthly cable bill?"
The clouds are caused by water condensing on space dust which has suddenly increased because it's the harbinger of the huge mountain of an asteroid that's aimed at us. Send royalties to... oh, right. I'll never get to spend it, even if I saw any.
As a degreed engineer with 30 years of work in computer hardware and software, I firmly believe there will be no such thing as a "Software Engineer" until such engineer has a "PE" after his/her name. That's "Professional Engineer" (wiki it); a responsible party who can be put in jail if the software kills someone. There's nothing like the threat of punishment to put rigor in your processes.
By coincidence, a friend's Vista computer stopped booting after a series of power blackouts. Recovery disk didn't work. It was the straw that broke the Vista's camel's back. I suggested Linux, not expecting to be taken up on it. She said bring it on. I burned the latest version of Knoppix and Ubuntu and brought them to her. As it turned out, I didn't get a chance to explain what the point was of those two disks and she ended up taking them home and using them absolutely cold. Incredibly, between her and her son, also not a power user, they ended up installing and using Ubuntu. She got on FaceBook last night declaring she will never go back to Vista. She "shouted" it because her caps lock was stuck "on". As I posted a lengthy description of how to troubleshoot it, she fixed it herself. She says she really likes it, but she leaves open the possibility of going back to Windows 7. Incidentally, I use Gentoo, so I have little idea what she went through in the install. My impression is that Ubuntu Linux is ready for the Desktop.
Tru-Value states there has been a run on pitchforks.
...CANREG, the Canadian domain registry, is the only organization that I can prove sold or somehow leaked my email address to spammers.
How about "Consider Open Source!"
... that will just set the price of an election!
You know, like nuclear power will be so cheap we won't have to meter it.
I got this pop-up:
Installed: Firefox, Upgrade Required - MSIE Netscape
Ri-i-ight!
As in adapting to our frequencies?
But TFA only says "a set of key technical protocols known as Web services". *What* web services?! FTP? Bittorrent? What're the patent numbers? There's no meat here! Oh, but wait... this is /.
Unless we know what patents changed hands, there's not much to see here. And, why would the new owner be any worse than the old to the future of the Internet?
*Somebody* needs a battery up side of the head!
"There have been a lot of hidden bugs in Bugzilla related to searching, bugs that even members of the Security group can't access."
That can't be good. What's the timetable for security to see these changes? I'm not going beyond 1.0PR until they do.
"Is this what it will take...?"
:-o
Is that a challenge?
Any takers?
Whenever I hear that nonsense about "a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush", I always tell the speaker that another way to frame the issue is that, if the Dems want to win an election, they had better start looking a lot more different from the Reps.
I was working in a Gov office in DC in 1974 and IIRC, the special characters were available by stopping typing with an IBM golfball typewriter, changing the ball to a special ball, typing the special characters, switching back to the regular ball and continuing.
That's all.
Translucency is an important factor in an area near and dear to me: air traffic control. Most existing solutions in use are deeply mired in non-standard proprietaritude.
"Mini nuclear reactor could power apartment blocks"
Wow! Imagine the condo fees!
"Not being able to find server documentation is one thing; not being able to find, say, Planck's Constant [wikipedia.org] is quite another."
The first one being important to me.
That's it????
man sudo >/dev/uspto