But a 'business' goes out and buys one, pays a tax, but does not pay tax on the legal additional use of the software. I read this as a way of taxing the now untaxed extra licenses, not necessarily 'custom' software.
Interesting. So a business might be better off running applications on a single server with thin-clients, rather than buying software and running it on PC's.
It will be interesting to see how this would affect the ownership costs between PC and server based applications.
This will be one for the accountants to think about.
1. Initiate sales tax on custom software: The governor estimates a business tax increase of $64 million by eliminating the distinction between canned software sold at retail (subject to sales tax), custom software (subject to service occupation tax on the value of tangible personal property transferred with the software) and software licensed or leased by the developer (currently not taxed). The Governor's proposal would either repeal the Department of Revenue regulation that distinguishes between a sale and a license of software or create an entirely new tax on revenues from software licensing.
If I were a company director, the first reaction would be to see if open source software exists to do the same job, and if it were cheaper to hire/contract to write inhouse software. Looks like this would hurt contractors/small companies than anything else.
Because NovaLogic have a patent on voxel technology as used by Comanche Maximum Overkill and Armored Fist. Patent no. 5,550,959
Since the 3D graphics pipeline is essentially in the public domain, it's much cheaper to hire an engineer to design a 3D polygon engine that to license the voxel engine.
I'm sure this system will work with glass eyeballs. But to change identity, you could always just swap eyeballs. And perhaps you could also use contact lenses with fake irises.
Don't forget Orac from Blakes Seven, who on occasions was able to shrink himself to matchbox size, and be able to interface with every other computer in the universe.
Maybe you could have an optical implant like Geordie in ST:TNG . If the ships's computer can tell where everyone is located, and his eye-visor can provide additional information beyond normal human vision, it wouldn't be too difficult to have the name, rank and status of all people within visual range visible. Maybe as semi-transparent text above or slowly rotating around that person.
I'll trade the ability to painlessly buy a keyboard for your rail system, for one.
Standing in the platform when trains were running late due to speed restrictions being caused by reduced inspections to boost shareholder profit - been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
Travelling in the sulphurous smelling overcrowded carriages of the London underground during rush-hour on the hottest day of Summer (40C) - been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
It amazes me how the South-East economy manages to keep growing despite this transportation problem.
The EU is becoming more and more unified every year, and the economy of Europe is quickly becoming simmilar to the economy of the US, where you can compare a European country to a US state.
But just try ordering component parts (English keyboard - $25) for computers from one country (England) to have them delivered to another country (Brittany, North West of France), and see what reply you get. Even though the distance is less than 200 miles, and the transaction could be done just as quickly, by driving across on the ferry and making the purchase in person without question:
"Sir, we cannot take your order. You are trying to export to a foreign country with a foreign credit card".
Make sure you get a phone that has a cover for the keys...
While an image of the inside lining of a pocket may be original, having a dedicated pocket-cam isn't my idea of value for money. Although at least I know where I left my keys...
64-bit floating point texture filtering and blending and support for the D3D vertex and pixel shader 3.0 standard,
That's 64-bits for a four element vector (RGBA) or (XYZW), which is thus 16-bits per float. This is referred to as the 'half' floating point data type, as opposed to 'float' or 'double'. This is compatible with Renderman.
I wonder if it's deliberate, to sell the "pro" cards they use for the rendering farms
No, it's just the way that the OpenGL and DirectX API's evolved. There never was any need in the past to have a substantial data feedback. The only need back then was to read pixelmaps and selection tags for determining when an object had been picked.
In the early days of 3D accelerator cards, CPU clock speeds were increasing at such a rate, that a last seasons card was referred to as a "graphics deaccelerator", with S3 probably being the most quoted.
According to a quick translation of the website, he could face up to five years imprisonment. But it looks like he write anti-virus software first.
18-More year-old stood programming of the internet-worm Sasser
Hanover red castle (dpa) - a 18 year of old students out of lower Saxony brought the internet-worm raging worldwide Sasser in circulation. The young man out of the little village Waffensen in the circle red castle/Wümme in Bremen had stood the programming of the worm, said the speaker of the Landeskriminalamtes (LKA) lower Saxony, Detlef Ehrike, in Hanover on Saturday. On the day before officials had searches the parental home of the 18-year-old and evidence, under that a PC and an amount of CDS, certainly placed. After its interrogation, the occupation fold student came again on free foot.
Sasser had spread itself for the 30 April in rapid speed and infects worldwide million computer of private persons and business. It used a space in Microsoft it operating systems Windows Xp and 2000.
We determine because of computer-sabotage, said Ehrike. On that punishments would stand up to five years custody. In this dimension, let the investigative procedure in Germany be previously unique. The youth had stood, had written Sasser even and to have brought in circulation. The investigators found also the so named source code of the virus, the text written in a programming language of the program on the PC of the 18-year-old. After the present situation is to be reckoned with an accusation, said the leader of the district attorney's office Verden, Helmut Trentmann.
The decisive reference to the author of the worm had come of Microsoft. The firm would have type received on their part one, said speaker Sascha Hanke. A call reached us of persons, who purported to know the identity of the culprit, said he. The tipsters could reckon now with a reward. To the fight of viruses-attacks, Microsoft put on a 5-Millionen-Dollar program.
A real damage in the actual sense did not emerge to be sure. For example no files were destroyed, declared the speaker of the federal bureau to be security in the information technology (BSI), Michael Dickopf. After information of the LKA, about the US-airline Delta airline had to paint however previous weekend all flights. At the European commission, 1200 PC-systems fell out.
The occupation fold student indicated, he had written before Sasser also already Anti-viruses-programs. End the Anti-virus Netsky it had developed then Sasser. The accused said had underestimated, it the actual measurement the damage, said senior state prosecutor Trentmann. The youth designated itself as passionate hobby-programmer.
At the search for the Sasser-Schöpfer, also the US authorities security authorities were involved FBI and CIA. One had assumed the "Sasser" author not until the USA, later in Russia then, said BSI-speaker Dickopf.
The German authorities another second viruses programmer went at the weekend into the network: in Baden-Württemberg was arrested has a 21- more year-old, was programmed has that after characteristic statements together with other hackers in lower Saxony, Hamburg and Bavaria the Trojaner Agobot, renamed became that later in Phatbot. Presently there are however no criteria for a direct connection between the bathing-Württemberger and the Sasser-Programmierer, announced the district attorney's office Waldshut-Tiengen on Saturday.
Worldwide circulate according to the Karlsruhe viruses experts Christoph fisherman round 75 000 computer-viruses. Sasser an already well known technology had transferred differently and had exploited a well known weakness, said fisherman.
"... but if a Hafnium bomb could be built, it is thought that a golf ball sized chunk could produce the energy equivalent of 10 tons of conventional explosives."
Exploding trick golf balls - just in time for Christmas. Give your boss the blast of his life and get that promotion you've always wanted.
A lot of credit card occurs due to the intermediaries copying the details of your card (the magnetic stripe) while the card is out of your sight. Consider the times when you go to a restaurant, have a meal, ask for the bill, and choose to pay by credit card. The waiter then takes the card out of sight and then (hopefully) returns the card. Other scams simply involve a till operator "accidently" dropping your card on the floor, and then swiping the card through a reader.
What if you could just swipe the card against a portable pad, without it leaving your hand? Although, I'd prefer an optical communication system, rather than radio waves.
The Irish government know exactly what they are doing. In the last few years, they have had a major investment program in all forms of technological R&D. A while back they got reprimanded from the European for having low interest rates/high level of government debt in order to achieve this goal. Their attitude would seem now to be "So? What are you going to do about it?".
An asteroid-cam would be cool. If we could find an asteroid that's orbiting between the Earth and Sun on a medium period orbit (6 months/year), land a probe on it, and allow it to photograph the visual field while it journeys around the Sun. After it has completed the mission, it transmits/launches itself from the asteroid. We get to see if the Earth real does have a twin on the other side of the Sun:)
Those must be really good/stable drivers if they come out with new ones every month...
It may be more the case that the VLIW microcode used by the GPU is compiled directly from a high level language such as C. As technology progresses, they manually optimise any bottlenecks in the paths that developers are finding. At the same time they are also optimising their microcode compilers. Not forgetting adding new extensions.
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released a poll showing that the majority of Americans trust those machines.
Well of course, the poll was taken using electronic voting machines.
I've tried various virus/worm/adware programs and neither managed to remove these...
Nasty little critter wuamgrd.exe - hid itself up in \windows\system32 with System/Hidden/Read-only attributes. Fortunately, a quick 'attrib -h -s -r' removed its sticky coating, and a quick 'del' sent it into oblivion, and a regedit to make sure no remnants was in the registry. I'm not sure about point312.exe - it may be just a printer driver, but it's one listening port I'd prefer not to have.
Isn't it ironic that the purpose of the registry was to prevent malware from damaging the system configuration, and now it's the first place to check for such things.
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A google image search is much more informative.
But a 'business' goes out and buys one, pays a tax, but does not pay tax on the legal additional use of the software. I read this as a way of taxing the now untaxed extra licenses, not necessarily 'custom' software.
Interesting. So a business might be better off running applications on a single server with thin-clients, rather than buying software and running it on PC's.
It will be interesting to see how this would affect the ownership costs between PC and server based applications.
This will be one for the accountants to think about.
The relevant section reads:
1. Initiate sales tax on custom software: The governor estimates a business tax increase of $64 million by eliminating the distinction between canned software sold at retail (subject to sales tax), custom software (subject to service occupation tax on the value of tangible personal property transferred with the software) and software licensed or leased by the developer (currently not taxed). The Governor's proposal would either repeal the Department of Revenue regulation that distinguishes between a sale and a license of software or create an entirely new tax on revenues from software licensing.
If I were a company director, the first reaction would be to see if open source software exists to do the same job, and if it were cheaper to hire/contract to write inhouse software. Looks like this would hurt contractors/small companies than anything else.
an internet version of tiannamen square
I think it's called a slashdotting...
Because NovaLogic have a patent on voxel technology as used by Comanche Maximum Overkill and Armored Fist. Patent no. 5,550,959 Since the 3D graphics pipeline is essentially in the public domain, it's much cheaper to hire an engineer to design a 3D polygon engine that to license the voxel engine.
I'm sure this system will work with glass eyeballs. But to change identity, you could always just swap eyeballs. And perhaps you could also use contact lenses with fake irises.
Don't forget Orac from Blakes Seven, who on occasions was able to shrink himself to matchbox size, and be able to interface with every other computer in the universe.
Maybe you could have an optical implant like Geordie in ST:TNG . If the ships's computer can tell where everyone is located, and his eye-visor can provide additional information beyond normal human vision, it wouldn't be too difficult to have the name, rank and status of all people within visual range visible. Maybe as semi-transparent text above or slowly rotating around that person.
I'll trade the ability to painlessly buy a keyboard for your rail system, for one.
Standing in the platform when trains were running late due to speed restrictions being caused by reduced inspections to boost shareholder profit - been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
Travelling in the sulphurous smelling overcrowded carriages of the London underground during rush-hour on the hottest day of Summer (40C) - been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
It amazes me how the South-East economy manages to keep growing despite this transportation problem.
The EU is becoming more and more unified every year, and the economy of Europe is quickly becoming simmilar to the economy of the US, where you can compare a European country to a US state.
But just try ordering component parts (English keyboard - $25) for computers from one country (England) to have them delivered to another country (Brittany, North West of France), and see what reply you get. Even though the distance is less than 200 miles, and the transaction could be done just as quickly, by driving across on the ferry and making the purchase in person without question:
"Sir, we cannot take your order. You are trying to export to a foreign country with a foreign credit card".
"We don't accept foreign credit cards".
Make sure you get a phone that has a cover for the keys ...
While an image of the inside lining of a pocket may be original, having a dedicated pocket-cam isn't my idea of value for money. Although at least I know where I left my keys...
64-bit floating point texture filtering and blending and support for the D3D vertex and pixel shader 3.0 standard,
That's 64-bits for a four element vector (RGBA) or (XYZW), which is thus 16-bits per float. This is referred to as the 'half' floating point data type, as opposed to 'float' or 'double'. This is compatible with Renderman.
Maybe we'll have games that offer bonuses based on locations that you visit.
You could try adding .'s and using <tt>
.: 55 million transistors
486 . . . . . : 1.2 million transistors
Pentium . . . : 3 million transistors
Pentium Pro . : 5.5 million transistors
Pentium 2 . . : 7.5 million transistors
Nvidia TNT2 . : 9 million transistors
Alpha 21164 . : 9.3 million (1994)
Alpha 21264 . : 15.2 million (1998)
Geforce 256 . : 23 million transistors
Pentium 3 . . : 28 million transistors
Pentium 4 . . : 42 million transistors
P4 Northwood
GeForce 3 . . : 57 million transistors
GeForce 4 . . : 63 million transistors
Radeon 9700 . : 110 million transistors
GeForce FX. . : 125 million transistors
P4 Prescott . : 125 million transistors
Radeon X800 . : 160 million transistors
P4 EE . . . . : 178 million transistors
GeForce 6800. : 220 million transistors
I wonder if it's deliberate, to sell the "pro" cards they use for the rendering farms
No, it's just the way that the OpenGL and DirectX API's evolved. There never was any need in the past to have a substantial data feedback. The only need back then was to read pixelmaps and selection tags for determining when an object had been picked.
In the early days of 3D accelerator cards, CPU clock speeds were increasing at such a rate, that a last seasons card was referred to as a "graphics deaccelerator", with S3 probably being the most quoted.
I look forward to the time when we can wear augmented reality sunglasses and have a real-world "Gooey" system with virtual grafitti and noticeboards.
According to a quick translation of the website, he could face up to five years imprisonment. But it looks like he write anti-virus software first.
18-More year-old stood programming of the internet-worm Sasser
Hanover red castle (dpa) - a 18 year of old students out of lower Saxony brought the internet-worm raging worldwide Sasser in circulation. The young man out of the little village Waffensen in the circle red castle/Wümme in Bremen had stood the programming of the worm, said the speaker of the Landeskriminalamtes (LKA) lower Saxony, Detlef Ehrike, in Hanover on Saturday. On the day before officials had searches the parental home of the 18-year-old and evidence, under that a PC and an amount of CDS, certainly placed. After its interrogation, the occupation fold student came again on free foot.
Sasser had spread itself for the 30 April in rapid speed and infects worldwide million computer of private persons and business. It used a space in Microsoft it operating systems Windows Xp and 2000.
We determine because of computer-sabotage, said Ehrike. On that punishments would stand up to five years custody. In this dimension, let the investigative procedure in Germany be previously unique. The youth had stood, had written Sasser even and to have brought in circulation. The investigators found also the so named source code of the virus, the text written in a programming language of the program on the PC of the 18-year-old. After the present situation is to be reckoned with an accusation, said the leader of the district attorney's office Verden, Helmut Trentmann.
The decisive reference to the author of the worm had come of Microsoft. The firm would have type received on their part one, said speaker Sascha Hanke. A call reached us of persons, who purported to know the identity of the culprit, said he. The tipsters could reckon now with a reward. To the fight of viruses-attacks, Microsoft put on a 5-Millionen-Dollar program.
A real damage in the actual sense did not emerge to be sure. For example no files were destroyed, declared the speaker of the federal bureau to be security in the information technology (BSI), Michael Dickopf. After information of the LKA, about the US-airline Delta airline had to paint however previous weekend all flights. At the European commission, 1200 PC-systems fell out.
The occupation fold student indicated, he had written before Sasser also already Anti-viruses-programs. End the Anti-virus Netsky it had developed then Sasser. The accused said had underestimated, it the actual measurement the damage, said senior state prosecutor Trentmann. The youth designated itself as passionate hobby-programmer.
At the search for the Sasser-Schöpfer, also the US authorities security authorities were involved FBI and CIA. One had assumed the "Sasser" author not until the USA, later in Russia then, said BSI-speaker Dickopf.
The German authorities another second viruses programmer went at the weekend into the network: in Baden-Württemberg was arrested has a 21- more year-old, was programmed has that after characteristic statements together with other hackers in lower Saxony, Hamburg and Bavaria the Trojaner Agobot, renamed became that later in Phatbot. Presently there are however no criteria for a direct connection between the bathing-Württemberger and the Sasser-Programmierer, announced the district attorney's office Waldshut-Tiengen on Saturday.
Worldwide circulate according to the Karlsruhe viruses experts Christoph fisherman round 75 000 computer-viruses. Sasser an already well known technology had transferred differently and had exploited a well known weakness, said fisherman.
"... but if a Hafnium bomb could be built, it is thought that a golf ball sized chunk could produce the energy equivalent of 10 tons of conventional explosives."
Exploding trick golf balls - just in time for Christmas. Give your boss the blast of his life and get that promotion you've always wanted.
A lot of credit card occurs due to the intermediaries copying the details of your card (the magnetic stripe) while the card is out of your sight. Consider the times when you go to a restaurant, have a meal, ask for the bill, and choose to pay by credit card. The waiter then takes the card out of sight and then (hopefully) returns the card. Other scams simply involve a till operator "accidently" dropping your card on the floor, and then swiping the card through a reader.
What if you could just swipe the card against a portable pad, without it leaving your hand? Although, I'd prefer an optical communication system, rather than radio waves.
The Irish government know exactly what they are doing. In the last few years, they have had a major investment program in all forms of technological R&D. A while back they got reprimanded from the European for having low interest rates/high level of government debt in order to achieve this goal. Their attitude would seem now to be "So? What are you going to do about it?".
An asteroid-cam would be cool. If we could find an asteroid that's orbiting between the Earth and Sun on a medium period orbit (6 months/year), land a probe on it, and allow it to photograph the visual field while it journeys around the Sun. After it has completed the mission, it transmits/launches itself from the asteroid. We get to see if the Earth real does have a twin on the other side of the Sun :)
Now releasing drivers monthly.
Those must be really good/stable drivers if they come out with new ones every month...
It may be more the case that the VLIW microcode used by the GPU is compiled directly from a high level language such as C. As technology progresses, they manually optimise any bottlenecks in the paths that developers are finding. At the same time they are also optimising their microcode compilers. Not forgetting adding new extensions.
released a poll showing that the majority of Americans trust those machines.
Well of course, the poll was taken using electronic voting machines.
I've tried various virus/worm/adware programs and neither managed to remove these...
Nasty little critter wuamgrd.exe - hid itself up in \windows\system32 with System/Hidden/Read-only attributes. Fortunately, a quick 'attrib -h -s -r' removed its sticky coating, and a quick 'del' sent it into oblivion, and a regedit to make sure no remnants was in the registry. I'm not sure about point312.exe - it may be just a printer driver, but it's one listening port I'd prefer not to have.
Isn't it ironic that the purpose of the registry was to prevent malware from damaging the system configuration, and now it's the first place to check for such things.