Or do you prefer the current system, where instead of paying a little extra in your insurance bill to assist in getting all of "those" folks pre-treatment, or preventative care and counseling, instead you pay a huge amount in property taxes each year to treat them as emergencies in your local county hospital? You DO realize that you pay for it either way, right?
Agreed, except that the property tax will not be lowered if we don't need the money to pay for emergency room visits. The money will just be repurposed by the local government. I would like to repurpose it to paying off debt and saving for future expenses for my household. Selfish, I know.
You used "werden," which is counter to what the article says. You should have said "Morgen schreibe ich noch einen." Now you are talking about tomorrow using the present tense, which, the author claims, will lead you to act as though the future is now (or something).
Finally, all the greatest hits from They Might Be Giants, Brave Combo, Julieta Venegas, Myron Floren, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Frankie Yankovic, and more could be playable by the millions of geek youth clamoring for them!
I always got the feeling my doctor was just googling my symptoms to come up with a diagnosis. Now I guess they won't be hiding it. I just hope that it doesn't make any silly mistakes like prescribing hysterectomies for men.
Correction.. this is a subsidy for all consumers all over the world. What do you think will happen when the US/Amazon comes to an agreement. How long do you think it will be before Canada requires it (which already imposes a flat tax on media because it COULD be used in a nefarious means), or Great Britain, or Japan, or any other location that wants its slice of the pie. Its a slippery slope that ultimately just means internet commerce will die.
I just assumed that other countries already required Amazon to collect taxes on purchases (VAT anyone?). I would be very happy to find out that this is not the case. In either case, your argument is valid, though. Higher costs for US operations will be spread across all the business units and the price of everything will go up to compensate.
How about an internet surtax of, say, 5% on top of any state tax? Or a flat internet tax of 15%?
It's past time that internet businesses need government handouts to survive, especially Amazon. And we who are watching teachers, nurses, fire and police - or other vital local services - being laid off or threatening to stop pensions because tax revenues are falling are demanding that businesses who don't need subsidies not get subsidies.
You do realize that Amazon wouldn't be paying sales tax, right? Amazon's customers would be the ones paying the tax. This would just require Amazon to collect the sales tax, which would effectively increase the price of every one of its products and increase overhead to stay on top of sales tax laws in all 50 states. Requiring Amazon to collect state sales tax would make shopping online more expensive for everyone involved.
This isn't a subsidy for Amazon, it's a subsidy for consumers all over the US.
This is a good story, but the story isn't that they were definitely hacked. It's entirely possible that the anomalous data transfers they mentioned were caused by internal testing and not properly documented, based on the limited information we have available.
Consolidated password management works, as long as YOU maintain 100% control. Use Truecrypt locally for securing your password file. Sync the encrypted file to the cloud of you want an "online" backup.
LastPass is basically the exact same thing. It's encrypted locally and sent to them AFTER encryption. They don't store the plaintext passwords. The danger is the same either way if a user doesn't use a strong enough password.
Science only allows you to test your assumptions. If you get multiple results that match your hypothesis, then you have a decent theory. Unfortunately for you, you can't scientifically prove that something doesn't exist, but you could show that your hypothesis, that conditions inside the so-called haunted location match the conditions of similar locations that are not presumed to be haunted. That kind of evidence isn't flashy or interesting. It's like saying water is wet and some other people saying that some water is not wet. All you can do is show that the water is wet everywhere. Since the haunted claims don't make sense, there's not a lot of interesting science to be done.
I want the Etherpad developers to go back to that project again. It was better than Wave because it was much simpler and did just what I wanted. The only think I felt it was missing was spellcheck.
There is a strong divide between (very generally) Western and Asian cultures. In the West we tend to believe that talent and ability is innate, and that your success in life will be down to the use of your gifts. Contrarily, Asian cultures believe that success is directly proportional to the effort the person puts into it. The psychological evidence is they are essentially correct.
When you would use this is in the flight booking stage. For example, your itinerary involves connecting flights. You don't to be stuck with hours to kill in the airport between flights, but you also don't want to miss the connection.
If the schedule says I'll have 30 minutes between flights, what are the odds I miss my connection?
So this is basically made for contestants on The Amazing Race.
It won't solve all of your problems, but drafting a service catalog can help set expectations. If you have a list that everyone agrees to with a list of services that you in IT provide along with service level agreements (for example: a new software install will be complete within 48 hours of request, a new VM will be provisioned within 8 hours of request, a request for a new toner cartridge will be fulfilled within 1 hour, etc.) then people will have a better idea of what to expect. This requires manager approval and agreement of the customers, though.
Post examples of your work that show off your expertise. If it's interesting then people will link to it and you will gain credibility in your industry.
Looking at the front cover picture, I would have been extremely surprised if it wasn't completely useless.
What's next, "Ashton Kutcher ROCKS THE COBOL"?
The Head First series is actually excellent. The concept is good and I've used other Head First books and learned a lot with them. It isn't the Head First part that is bad, it is the code.
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Or do you prefer the current system, where instead of paying a little extra in your insurance bill to assist in getting all of "those" folks pre-treatment, or preventative care and counseling, instead you pay a huge amount in property taxes each year to treat them as emergencies in your local county hospital? You DO realize that you pay for it either way, right?
Agreed, except that the property tax will not be lowered if we don't need the money to pay for emergency room visits. The money will just be repurposed by the local government. I would like to repurpose it to paying off debt and saving for future expenses for my household. Selfish, I know.
Computers were safer and more fun...
Run a cutting edge distro of Linux and do a blind apt-get upgrade or similar every 28 days and they're about the same.
Hey, now leave Arch Linux out of this!
Where was the show Food Fight created? Not the United States? "My stomach is a black hole!"
You used "werden," which is counter to what the article says. You should have said "Morgen schreibe ich noch einen." Now you are talking about tomorrow using the present tense, which, the author claims, will lead you to act as though the future is now (or something).
Finally, all the greatest hits from They Might Be Giants, Brave Combo, Julieta Venegas, Myron Floren, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Frankie Yankovic, and more could be playable by the millions of geek youth clamoring for them!
I think I can safely say that there is a large demand for a TMBG edition of Rock Band. Is there anything preventing this from happening?
Much to my dismay, there are no accordions available that work with Rock Band.
It's pronounced "Cool Whip."
This is the end of an era. I can only hope that his health is not too bad, but I have my concerns.
I always got the feeling my doctor was just googling my symptoms to come up with a diagnosis. Now I guess they won't be hiding it. I just hope that it doesn't make any silly mistakes like prescribing hysterectomies for men.
Just because the protocol is reverse engineered doesn't make it open. I would rather see an open standard become supported or used by Skype/Microsoft.
Correction.. this is a subsidy for all consumers all over the world. What do you think will happen when the US/Amazon comes to an agreement. How long do you think it will be before Canada requires it (which already imposes a flat tax on media because it COULD be used in a nefarious means), or Great Britain, or Japan, or any other location that wants its slice of the pie. Its a slippery slope that ultimately just means internet commerce will die.
I just assumed that other countries already required Amazon to collect taxes on purchases (VAT anyone?). I would be very happy to find out that this is not the case. In either case, your argument is valid, though. Higher costs for US operations will be spread across all the business units and the price of everything will go up to compensate.
How about an internet surtax of, say, 5% on top of any state tax? Or a flat internet tax of 15%? It's past time that internet businesses need government handouts to survive, especially Amazon. And we who are watching teachers, nurses, fire and police - or other vital local services - being laid off or threatening to stop pensions because tax revenues are falling are demanding that businesses who don't need subsidies not get subsidies.
You do realize that Amazon wouldn't be paying sales tax, right? Amazon's customers would be the ones paying the tax. This would just require Amazon to collect the sales tax, which would effectively increase the price of every one of its products and increase overhead to stay on top of sales tax laws in all 50 states. Requiring Amazon to collect state sales tax would make shopping online more expensive for everyone involved.
This isn't a subsidy for Amazon, it's a subsidy for consumers all over the US.
LastPass Pasword Service may have been Hacked.
This is a good story, but the story isn't that they were definitely hacked. It's entirely possible that the anomalous data transfers they mentioned were caused by internal testing and not properly documented, based on the limited information we have available.
Here is a transcript wherein Steve Gibson talks at length about why LastPass is secure.
Consolidated password management works, as long as YOU maintain 100% control. Use Truecrypt locally for securing your password file. Sync the encrypted file to the cloud of you want an "online" backup.
LastPass is basically the exact same thing. It's encrypted locally and sent to them AFTER encryption. They don't store the plaintext passwords. The danger is the same either way if a user doesn't use a strong enough password.
English audio for those who don't like reading subtitles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1evfTk58o
I don't know. Why don't we just devise an experiment to prove that Polywater doesn't exist.
Science only allows you to test your assumptions. If you get multiple results that match your hypothesis, then you have a decent theory. Unfortunately for you, you can't scientifically prove that something doesn't exist, but you could show that your hypothesis, that conditions inside the so-called haunted location match the conditions of similar locations that are not presumed to be haunted. That kind of evidence isn't flashy or interesting. It's like saying water is wet and some other people saying that some water is not wet. All you can do is show that the water is wet everywhere. Since the haunted claims don't make sense, there's not a lot of interesting science to be done.
I want the Etherpad developers to go back to that project again. It was better than Wave because it was much simpler and did just what I wanted. The only think I felt it was missing was spellcheck.
There is a strong divide between (very generally) Western and Asian cultures. In the West we tend to believe that talent and ability is innate, and that your success in life will be down to the use of your gifts. Contrarily, Asian cultures believe that success is directly proportional to the effort the person puts into it. The psychological evidence is they are essentially correct.
This idea is the same one behind the book NurtureShock. Watch how the parents from Hong Kong talk to their children versus the way American parents talk to theirs when it comes to ability and performance.
When you would use this is in the flight booking stage. For example, your itinerary involves connecting flights. You don't to be stuck with hours to kill in the airport between flights, but you also don't want to miss the connection.
If the schedule says I'll have 30 minutes between flights, what are the odds I miss my connection?
So this is basically made for contestants on The Amazing Race.
Yeah. Stop being hypocrisy.
It won't solve all of your problems, but drafting a service catalog can help set expectations. If you have a list that everyone agrees to with a list of services that you in IT provide along with service level agreements (for example: a new software install will be complete within 48 hours of request, a new VM will be provisioned within 8 hours of request, a request for a new toner cartridge will be fulfilled within 1 hour, etc.) then people will have a better idea of what to expect. This requires manager approval and agreement of the customers, though.
Post examples of your work that show off your expertise. If it's interesting then people will link to it and you will gain credibility in your industry.
Looking at the front cover picture, I would have been extremely surprised if it wasn't completely useless.
What's next, "Ashton Kutcher ROCKS THE COBOL"?
The Head First series is actually excellent. The concept is good and I've used other Head First books and learned a lot with them. It isn't the Head First part that is bad, it is the code.