Everyone always says "I got sniped by 5 cents" but the truth is, you probably got outbid by $5 or $10 or $20, or maybe $100. Because of proxy bidding, no one but the winner will ever know what amount that she or he bid.
in the business world, sales != profit. this is expecially true in the cutthroat ecommerce industry.
That's fair, and I realize that, but still, anyone doing $5M+ in out of state business alone, is likely running a large enough organization to handle the extra paperwork.
Here's my bias: I run a small (just barely $1M in sales) electronics shop, specializing in high end video gear. As a small shop I deliver a 1-on-1 experience to local customers, which is how I survive. I am getting KILLED by out of state dealers with a 6.5% advantage over me (I'm in MN). Often, on a $4000 camcorder, I'm only earning 3 or 4% to start with, so it's impossible for me to match out of state prices. All I'm looking for is a level field.
As a small business owner that primarily sells via ecommerce, I am shuddering at the prospect of having to deal with government sales tax forms and coupon books for 30 or more states.
TFA says:
The legislation would apply only to businesses with more than $5 million in "gross remote taxable sales" each year.
I say, if your small business has more than $5 million in "gross remote taxable sales" each year, I think you can handle a little paperwork. Unless you're too busy rolling around in your piles of money.
You know, the movie came out on DVD today, and yet my local second run theater (the Riverview in Minneapolis) seems to keep running Serenity every Friday night at 11. A month ago, it was "one time only". Then it was "encore screening by popular demand". Then they stopped explaining why, and just kept scheduling it, even after the DVD was released. Seems like a good sign to me. I'm thinking I'll go again this Friday.
Back in my day, we had vt100 and 9600 baud, and we ran long serial cables or keyboard extension cables if you needed to be able to compute while wandering around your dorm room or a lab.
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'Space 1999'
When the moon gets pulled out of orbit in 1999, astronauts on Moon Base Alpha are pulled into space with it. Led by the valiant Commander Walter Koenig (played by Martin Landau)....
Just because Jobs did something in his past doesn't mean that is a good path to follow.
Right about the time he was dropping out of Reed, Steve also believed that his fruit-only diet meant he didn't need to bathe. I'd go to see him speak at a commencement where he told the graduates to stop bathing.
Its like Jobs saying, "OK, Gates... lets fight in your ring."
I think it's more like Jobs saying "The G5 is the best, fastest, most amazing thing ever. Intel is the stupidest thing ever. The x86 architecture is the stupidest thing ever....until I say it isn't...wait for it...now!"
Oh-- and let's not forget how you restart a PC (not that you have to do it much)! Click "start." Select "shut down." Now select "restart." Yeah, I would have found that.
Yep. As if "throw the cdrom icon away to eject it" is so much more intuitive.
> About time? Seriously its pretty cool, except that canon cameras take compact.
Check out the Elph SD300. SD card memory (no bent pin issues like the CF socket), and a nice big 2" screen.
Caché smaché. You think the ipod is looks cool because you've seen it so many times. You think the ipod's interface is great because you've been told that it's great over and over again.
The ipod certainly has it's strengths, I've owned one for about 6 months now, and it's handy, but there are things that could have been done better. The biggest gripe I have, why did Apple build a device that's meant to hand held, out of such slippery surfaces? A rubberized surface would be much better for...oh, wait, I forgot, form before function.
I don't think Apple has the infallible design sense that they've been getting credit for. They do some nice stuff, but please quit telling me that the imac ipod iwhatever is the best thing that will ever be designed.
(because my honeywell round thermostat has the best user interface of all)
Savage-Rabbit, from reading your post, I see that the macintosh is the best. computer. ever. Have you informed the other 98% of the personal computer market about this "OS X"? Because those people still using inferior non-mac computers (I can only surmise that no one has explained the mac's superiority to them).
You Apple guys, always paying an extra $1000. The post asked how you could compare a $1500 Apple laptop to a similarly priced Windows laptop. Not $2600.
Parent claims: "Apple created a very good operating system, which would actually probably be more to the liking of the average PC user - who just checks their email and surfs the web." The way I read the review, one of his major compaints is how _poorly_ the Mac web browsers ran. That what bugged me when I tried out the Mac. Slow rendering, painful scrolling, whether you used IE, Safari or Firefox. I believe that a $3000 computer should be able to scroll text.
> Real has always treated the Mac has second class.
Hmmm...unless I'm wrong about Apple's market share these days...you guys should consider yourselves lucky to be coming in second.
Custom screens. Multiple programs running on virtual screens in various resolutions, with *instant* switching. No re-draw, as they were all always being drawn.
Weird, because it seemed like the guys at Macrosystem in Germany accomplished something similar to what Tim attempted. They picked up the rights to build a non-linear editing system around AmigaDOS, using their own mainboard (no AGA chips, though). It was eventually sold in the US as the Casablanca.Still is, although it no longer runs AmigaDOS or uses the topaz font.To be fair, I think this was post-C=-bankrupcy, so maybe Irv was out of the picture.
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Won't somebody, anybody, think of the robots?
Everyone always says "I got sniped by 5 cents" but the truth is, you probably got outbid by $5 or $10 or $20, or maybe $100. Because of proxy bidding, no one but the winner will ever know what amount that she or he bid.
If by "all day" you mean "for a few minutes during the woot-off" and by "29.99" you mean "more than $100" then you are correct.
That's fair, and I realize that, but still, anyone doing $5M+ in out of state business alone, is likely running a large enough organization to handle the extra paperwork.
Here's my bias: I run a small (just barely $1M in sales) electronics shop, specializing in high end video gear. As a small shop I deliver a 1-on-1 experience to local customers, which is how I survive. I am getting KILLED by out of state dealers with a 6.5% advantage over me (I'm in MN). Often, on a $4000 camcorder, I'm only earning 3 or 4% to start with, so it's impossible for me to match out of state prices. All I'm looking for is a level field.
But you aren't paying the taxes, the inhabitants of that state are. You are _collecting_ the taxes.
You know, the movie came out on DVD today, and yet my local second run theater (the Riverview in Minneapolis) seems to keep running Serenity every Friday night at 11. A month ago, it was "one time only". Then it was "encore screening by popular demand". Then they stopped explaining why, and just kept scheduling it, even after the DVD was released. Seems like a good sign to me. I'm thinking I'll go again this Friday.
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'Space 1999'
When the moon gets pulled out of orbit in 1999, astronauts on Moon Base Alpha are pulled into space with it. Led by the valiant Commander Walter Koenig (played by Martin Landau)....
But why would I want to eject my keyboard?
> About time? Seriously its pretty cool, except that canon cameras take compact.
Check out the Elph SD300. SD card memory (no bent pin issues like the CF socket), and a nice big 2" screen.
Caché smaché. You think the ipod is looks cool because you've seen it so many times. You think the ipod's interface is great because you've been told that it's great over and over again.
The ipod certainly has it's strengths, I've owned one for about 6 months now, and it's handy, but there are things that could have been done better. The biggest gripe I have, why did Apple build a device that's meant to hand held, out of such slippery surfaces? A rubberized surface would be much better for...oh, wait, I forgot, form before function.
I don't think Apple has the infallible design sense that they've been getting credit for. They do some nice stuff, but please quit telling me that the imac ipod iwhatever is the best thing that will ever be designed.
(because my honeywell round thermostat has the best user interface of all)
Savage-Rabbit, from reading your post, I see that the macintosh is the best. computer. ever. Have you informed the other 98% of the personal computer market about this "OS X"? Because those people still using inferior non-mac computers (I can only surmise that no one has explained the mac's superiority to them).
It looks like Canon may be picking up some of Intel's slack:o delDetailAct&fcategoryid=131&modelid=10678
http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/controller?act=M
You Apple guys, always paying an extra $1000. The post asked how you could compare a $1500 Apple laptop to a similarly priced Windows laptop. Not $2600.
Parent claims: "Apple created a very good operating system, which would actually probably be more to the liking of the average PC user - who just checks their email and surfs the web."
The way I read the review, one of his major compaints is how _poorly_ the Mac web browsers ran. That what bugged me when I tried out the Mac. Slow rendering, painful scrolling, whether you used IE, Safari or Firefox. I believe that a $3000 computer should be able to scroll text.
> Real has always treated the Mac has second class.
Hmmm...unless I'm wrong about Apple's market share these days...you guys should consider yourselves lucky to be coming in second.
As long as it can run the recently announced update of BLAZEMONGER, I'm in.
Custom screens. Multiple programs running on virtual screens in various resolutions, with *instant* switching. No re-draw, as they were all always being drawn.
Weird, because it seemed like the guys at Macrosystem in Germany accomplished something similar to what Tim attempted. They picked up the rights to build a non-linear editing system around AmigaDOS, using their own mainboard (no AGA chips, though). It was eventually sold in the US as the Casablanca.Still is, although it no longer runs AmigaDOS or uses the topaz font.To be fair, I think this was post-C=-bankrupcy, so maybe Irv was out of the picture.