You can get that sort of service already from small private airfields. The problem is it is a lot more expensive than flying in a 777 because the pilot's wages are divided between fewer passengers.
Is it a decline? If you look at the English Chaucer wrote, or Shakespeare wrote a bit later, neither are what is considered correct English now. Does that mean that English standards are declining, or just changing? If you look at the English in Beowulf, not the cluster, the book it was named after, I can't understand a word of it. That's how much things have changed since those days.
That's because you were taught English by an English teacher, and the English people were taught English by their parents and other random people they happened to meet.
My phone comes courtesy of the other Steve in Redmond.
If he can manage to deliver a handheld device with a virus-free experience and the freedom to program it as I like, then surely anyone can.
As for command lines, the choice isn't between c:>_ and no command line at all. It is perfectly possible to have it hidden in a second level menu for those who want it.
In Britain, ebooks tend to be expensive relative to paper books because paper books have 0% VAT (sales tax), and ebooks have 17.5% VAT, or 15% if they are delivered from Luxembourg, which they quite often are. Is it a similar situation where you are?
In some of the accountancy newsgroups I frequent, we sometimes get merchants wondering why so many people abandon their purchases when they put 3D Secure on their websites. Anecdotally it seems that about 2/3 of customers will abandon their transaction if they hit the verified by visa page. I certainly do, because it asks me to enter password details into a site called "securesite.co.uk", owned by some very small company called Redstation Limited I've never heard of.
The selling point for Digital TV, at least in the UK was lots of extra channels.
People get the idea that if you switch to Freeview, you get 45 Channels on your TV rather than the 5 you have at the moment, so they do it.
I can't see what the selling point for the average non-slashdotter is at the moment. Their internet works fine at the moment, so they won't see any need to change it.
Maybe, but it is a difficult sell to customers. They will want to know what ipv6 enables them to do that they can't do at the moment. Being able to visit ipv6.google.com and do exactly the same things that they can do on www.google.com at the moment, and being able to see a dancing turtle at www.kame.net isn't really going to seal the deal.
You can watch youtube because there is an app for it. You can watch iPlayer and TVCatchup (from a UK IP address) because they provide h.264 as an alternative to flash video. Otherwise, you probably can't watch it.
You would need an accountant for each country. As an accountant myself, it is hard enough to keep on top of the requirements for one country (UK in my case), never mind all the others.
I have some very limited experience of dealing with tax issues in Florida. Not only are the rules for calculating tax different there, but the rules for calculating how much taxable income you earned is different.
Most of the spam is sent through botnets. Who is going to end up paying this email levy? Mind you it might encourage them to clean up their machines, but more likely just mean some sensationalist articles in the Daily Wail and judges refusing to enforce payment.
People have been talking about micropayments for at least 10 years now. The problem isn't a technical one, see paypal.com for an example of how it is done. The problem is that as soon as people are asked for payment details, even for a very small amount that they wouldn't notice, they stop to think about whether or not they really need it, and generally decide they don't.
The problem is it takes a bit of effort to spend money. If you make it less of an effort, people don't like it because it makes them feel less in control.
If there is downtime on your main mailserver, or the telephone line connecting it to the outside world, you need a secondary server to pick up mail until it comes back online again.
In the EU, spamming is only illegal if it is to "personal subscribers" where you have had no prior business relationship. Viagra spam is illegal because of the content of the email, not the way it is sent.
Personal subscribers means non-corporate subscribers. You can spam companies with impunity. Depending on partnership law in the juristiction in question, you can spam some of them with impunity. For example, in Scotland, partnerships are corporate bodies, but in England they are not, so you can spam email boxes owned by Scottish partnerships but not ones owned by English partnerships. Sole trader business are "personal subscribers" in most juristictions so it is illegal to spam them.
It is illegal to advertise prescription drugs by any means in the EU, including by email, even if the recipient has consented to it.
I often don't click through to the articles. The reason is because I can see from the summaries that there is nothing there I want to read. I use Google News to search for articles about a particular topic, and often there aren't any relevant recent articles about that topic.
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They claim to be an electronic money issuer, so they don't have to pay VAT on service charges, and don't have to comply with banking regulations.
You can get that sort of service already from small private airfields. The problem is it is a lot more expensive than flying in a 777 because the pilot's wages are divided between fewer passengers.
They are probably looking for the likes of Book Antiqua. That comes with MS Office, but not Internet Explorer or MSTTCoreFonts.
Is it a decline? If you look at the English Chaucer wrote, or Shakespeare wrote a bit later, neither are what is considered correct English now. Does that mean that English standards are declining, or just changing? If you look at the English in Beowulf, not the cluster, the book it was named after, I can't understand a word of it. That's how much things have changed since those days.
That's because you were taught English by an English teacher, and the English people were taught English by their parents and other random people they happened to meet.
My phone comes courtesy of the other Steve in Redmond.
If he can manage to deliver a handheld device with a virus-free experience and the freedom to program it as I like, then surely anyone can.
As for command lines, the choice isn't between c:>_ and no command line at all. It is perfectly possible to have it hidden in a second level menu for those who want it.
I don't know if they try to get work or not, but judging by the governments' computer systems, they certainly don't succeed.
What's this wife thing you talk about? Remember, you are posting on Slashdot.
In Britain, ebooks tend to be expensive relative to paper books because paper books have 0% VAT (sales tax), and ebooks have 17.5% VAT, or 15% if they are delivered from Luxembourg, which they quite often are. Is it a similar situation where you are?
20 cm ~= 8 inches
€7000 = $9706.20 at current exchange rates. Call it $10,000 after adding obscure taxes an so on to the total.
I guess quoting the price in Euros makes it sound cheaper.
Tell them it is SW1A 2AA, and when they ask for the house number, tell them it is number 10.
In some of the accountancy newsgroups I frequent, we sometimes get merchants wondering why so many people abandon their purchases when they put 3D Secure on their websites. Anecdotally it seems that about 2/3 of customers will abandon their transaction if they hit the verified by visa page. I certainly do, because it asks me to enter password details into a site called "securesite.co.uk", owned by some very small company called Redstation Limited I've never heard of.
The selling point for Digital TV, at least in the UK was lots of extra channels.
People get the idea that if you switch to Freeview, you get 45 Channels on your TV rather than the 5 you have at the moment, so they do it.
I can't see what the selling point for the average non-slashdotter is at the moment. Their internet works fine at the moment, so they won't see any need to change it.
Maybe, but it is a difficult sell to customers. They will want to know what ipv6 enables them to do that they can't do at the moment. Being able to visit ipv6.google.com and do exactly the same things that they can do on www.google.com at the moment, and being able to see a dancing turtle at www.kame.net isn't really going to seal the deal.
You can watch youtube because there is an app for it. You can watch iPlayer and TVCatchup (from a UK IP address) because they provide h.264 as an alternative to flash video. Otherwise, you probably can't watch it.
You would need an accountant for each country. As an accountant myself, it is hard enough to keep on top of the requirements for one country (UK in my case), never mind all the others.
I have some very limited experience of dealing with tax issues in Florida. Not only are the rules for calculating tax different there, but the rules for calculating how much taxable income you earned is different.
That will just go in the Recycle Bin. The correct place to complain is here
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/content_mngt/howtorespond/
Most of the spam is sent through botnets. Who is going to end up paying this email levy? Mind you it might encourage them to clean up their machines, but more likely just mean some sensationalist articles in the Daily Wail and judges refusing to enforce payment.
If people have the option to send me an email for free, or to pay for sending me it, which one are they going to pick?
People have been talking about micropayments for at least 10 years now. The problem isn't a technical one, see paypal.com for an example of how it is done. The problem is that as soon as people are asked for payment details, even for a very small amount that they wouldn't notice, they stop to think about whether or not they really need it, and generally decide they don't.
The problem is it takes a bit of effort to spend money. If you make it less of an effort, people don't like it because it makes them feel less in control.
If there is downtime on your main mailserver, or the telephone line connecting it to the outside world, you need a secondary server to pick up mail until it comes back online again.
In the EU, spamming is only illegal if it is to "personal subscribers" where you have had no prior business relationship. Viagra spam is illegal because of the content of the email, not the way it is sent.
Personal subscribers means non-corporate subscribers. You can spam companies with impunity. Depending on partnership law in the juristiction in question, you can spam some of them with impunity. For example, in Scotland, partnerships are corporate bodies, but in England they are not, so you can spam email boxes owned by Scottish partnerships but not ones owned by English partnerships. Sole trader business are "personal subscribers" in most juristictions so it is illegal to spam them.
It is illegal to advertise prescription drugs by any means in the EU, including by email, even if the recipient has consented to it.
I've had "my daugter is getting a load of inappropriate adverts that she finds disturbing, how do I stop it" several times.
Compuserve v Cyber Promotions (Samford Wallace) says otherwise.
I often don't click through to the articles. The reason is because I can see from the summaries that there is nothing there I want to read. I use Google News to search for articles about a particular topic, and often there aren't any relevant recent articles about that topic.