well, they can't very well. That is why the other states want an easier way. Currently to do the US there would be thousands* of tax codes and rates:(
*thousands assumed but there are around 250 for Washington:(
Washington is even better, they do it the same way except there is NO personal income tax thus no form, thus probably less than the 00.0001% someone else made up;) I don't even know how to pay it if i wanted to, i am sure people are just racing to look up how to pay taxes that noone ever double-checks or even asks for......
Sales taxes are a horrible mess:/ I finally got our computer to do sales taxes for 2 states at once, quite nasty as we are medical supplies with 2 locations in WA (diferent tax rate depending on warehouse it comes from!)Some stuff is taxable in 1 state but not the other AND vice-versa. Some is taxable to a vet but not a doctor. No tax to medicare or ID state, but DO tax WA state medicaid. The computer system actually lets me do more than Y/N for taxable to handle the maybe and sometimes, but the logistics and planning are a pain to figure to set up:)
hehe, despite the guy below you had it right in my case;)
I have a couple clans i race against tho i havent joined any, more like the offical sparring partner:) Yes the (slight) familiarity that gives is nice itself. Even better was my buddy over at my place helping me whoop their ass:)
But i still like to play online without em tho. I pretty much play online only after learning most games.
So, umm, yes to everyone's point......
Gotta add that online play is almost a handicap if it is implemented bad enough. I played a couple games that would have been awesome online if it hadn't been soo annoying to use(online with a worthless chat mode comes to mind 1st, tough to make those friendly connections when the game does it's best make it hard to chat)as it is noone uses it and the whole mode is a waste of code.
So should deaf people be fined on sight if they attempt to cross a street?
Is eating too distracting? Talking with the person next to you? You certainly should be paying as much attn to them as you would to background music from an ipod, so no talking obviously. How about if my hat/earmuffs are too heavy and muffle the sound, maybe i should be fined for that too. What if your kid is sceaming his head off while crossing the street, he is preventing others from hearing and is a distraction, sounds like a fine to me.
There would seem to be LOTS of ways they could grab some money from pedestrians. You really want the local cop deciding which he wants to fine you for today?
The whole thing is dumb. Unless they are planinng on outlawing deaf people from being in public. How many of those hit were deaf? Shouldn't there be a bunch? Hell they should all be run over by now it's so dangerous. No? Maybe they looked first.
What about things like the stove and refrig lights?
Or the half of my fixtures where they don't fit?
How about the small bulb in my desklamp?
They don't say what they banning that i could see. Not to mention i generally don't like the color of most of em and i want a break from pure fluorecent lights after work:(
I am all for CA pushing the enviromental envelope but keep it real folks or no one will follow;)
Replaced a MB on my homebuilt with the closest match available and had to call em to explain but no real problems with my XP OEM.
What exactly did MS say?
If the board is so much, would another board and another OEM XP be cheaper. Not that i believe it is needed. Replacing it with the nearest match available really should be enough.
I posted about the speed of my vintage minicomputer. I have platters that i can see the g-forces trying to pull the alloy platter apart. The magnetic section is darker at the outside. It did pull even more than these little ones and it ran for 15 years. However it used a platter for tracking that would have migrated as fast as the data tracks so maybe it compensated for it. Adding a NEW removable platter may prove unstable now, if there were such a thing;)
Who would produce something on this new disc that early adopters could not use? Wouldn't it be incompetent of a producer to use one disc that alienates half your customers when the simple choice of putting it on 2 discs would be useable by all?
If people can't get up and change the disc after like 10 hours of video....
Maybe a nice big epreen battle so they can woo the people for a backup drive, but i dont think i want to trust my data to em anyway. Even if it makes to recordable media i bet the lifespan sucks. This could only get worse the more layers they try. Sounds like using a 3-hour cassette tape to store important info (hint: don't...even if you find one of those horrid creatures)
Starforce infested and sucky sucky controls. No steering wheel recognition for race games, no joystick for joystick operated games, etc. Annoying interface and bloated install. Very cheesy port of a port, some shareware ripoffs are better done. Maybe #1 was ok, but #2 sucked and #3 was worse.
At least these guys can't possibly do any worse with the d/l games.
Won't this break down if more than one investigator is running this attack on a network? What if several people try this trick against a group of servers? How would they know the time skew was due to THEIR query? What if this is the best trick ever so everyone trying to track down a computer uses it;)
Couldn't they detect whatever the popular trick is to increase temp and have the computer try and skew others on the network. I don't suppose you would want to do it randomly against your own network as it may slow everything down but it seems you certainly could.
Seems like a lot of variables in there along with the other ideas presented.
Sounds like a good theory that runs into real world speed bumps pretty quickly.
Having a flying car to get around traffic sounds great, until everyone else gets one too....
We have been in space their whole life and we have been doing the EXACT SAME THING in space their whole life. With no indication of doing anything more in fact until just recently when the moon and mars were mentioned again.
BORING
I can see why they would not be terribly excited about space exploration, they had nothing to be excited about:(
No idea on the power useage here, but the east side of OR or WA really can't be called mild. Still snow left on ground from last week:( Majority do live on the west side, but maybe we make up for the power use on the other side;) Or maybe Bill Gates is messing up our average;p
You are probably right, power under $.10 Kwh (.078 in Vancouver!) soo we don't pay as much as much attention to use as others.
Of course i am making up for several people on the other side with a vintage stereo sucking up 1000 watts or so plus my other toys;)
Just last night i was wondering just how DVD player can play games on my TV. (my neice got Deal or No Deal, not too bad) and googling got me nowhere. Wikipedia only had a list of companies doing it but no tech info. I might have to try again on some of these. I didn't know you could teach the DVD player some of those tricks. For example, after each round it shows the board and the amounts you picked fade out and it shows the previous amounts just like on the TV show. I wonder if anyone could point to how it does that.
Interesting tech... a helluva workout for your DVD player tho:O
So much info out there, but so hard to find sometimes:(
Last week i wanted to know when the Barbie collector tins i gave my mom were made. The chocolate expired in feb 98, they are christmas themed and 97 seemed too short on dating. None on Ebay and no answers i could find elsewhere.
Google really fails on some of these, mostly i got a million sites trying to sell me a new barbie doll:(
I would imagine that's why it took so long to overtake VCR. I suppose a few young couples or something may have gotten stand-alone DVD to finally push the DVD over the top.
When i got a DVD i got a combo too. I am planning on keeping both around but i imagine many got it just in case, since the diference if any is very small. Most units i see hooked up are dual units in fact.
Of course the question may have a lot too do with it. Having a VCR is diferent than using a VCR or buying tapes. How many people HAVE a cassette player VS how many people BUY cassettes?!? I have a minicomputer but i don't buy many 8" floppy disks;);)
Yup, lots of em, a particularly bad example being MFM hard drives, hehe. I think i paid more for a 10M drive than a 10G one:(
Don't even think about all the stores, they had 10M drives at like $50 and up, clear upto several hundred. I guess you only need one sucker but still...
I suppose ebay express is probably mentioned in a mail from ebay but i haven't heard of it either. I thought half.com was ebays regular type store, now there is another, plus a zillion ebay stores with only a buy-it-now price. That is starting to sound like a discount camera store with 12 names that you can't quite trust.
Maybe i am not into ebay enough to notice this express, but the $10,000 (ok, $5600 without the cars) i have spent there would seem to indicate otherwise to me;(
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"How can they enforce that? "
:(
:(
;) I don't even know how to pay it if i wanted to, i am sure people are just racing to look up how to pay taxes that noone ever double-checks or even asks for......
:)
well, they can't very well. That is why the other states want an easier way. Currently to do the US there would be thousands* of tax codes and rates
*thousands assumed but there are around 250 for Washington
Washington is even better, they do it the same way except there is NO personal income tax thus no form, thus probably less than the 00.0001% someone else made up
Sales taxes are a horrible mess:/
I finally got our computer to do sales taxes for 2 states at once, quite nasty as we are medical supplies with 2 locations in WA (diferent tax rate depending on warehouse it comes from!)Some stuff is taxable in 1 state but not the other AND vice-versa. Some is taxable to a vet but not a doctor. No tax to medicare or ID state, but DO tax WA state medicaid. The computer system actually lets me do more than Y/N for taxable to handle the maybe and sometimes, but the logistics and planning are a pain to figure to set up
hehe, despite the guy below you had it right in my case ;)
:) Yes the (slight) familiarity that gives is nice itself. Even better was my buddy over at my place helping me whoop their ass :)
I have a couple clans i race against tho i havent joined any, more like the offical sparring partner
But i still like to play online without em tho. I pretty much play online only after learning most games.
So, umm, yes to everyone's point......
Gotta add that online play is almost a handicap if it is implemented bad enough. I played a couple games that would have been awesome online if it hadn't been soo annoying to use(online with a worthless chat mode comes to mind 1st, tough to make those friendly connections when the game does it's best make it hard to chat)as it is noone uses it and the whole mode is a waste of code.
So should deaf people be fined on sight if they attempt to cross a street?
Is eating too distracting?
Talking with the person next to you? You certainly should be paying as much attn to them as you would to background music from an ipod, so no talking obviously.
How about if my hat/earmuffs are too heavy and muffle the sound, maybe i should be fined for that too.
What if your kid is sceaming his head off while crossing the street, he is preventing others from hearing and is a distraction, sounds like a fine to me.
There would seem to be LOTS of ways they could grab some money from pedestrians. You really want the local cop deciding which he wants to fine you for today?
The whole thing is dumb.
Unless they are planinng on outlawing deaf people from being in public. How many of those hit were deaf? Shouldn't there be a bunch? Hell they should all be run over by now it's so dangerous. No? Maybe they looked first.
Perhaps the users thought the controlled enviroment was, you know, controlled.
Assuming they didn't do this study in a cardboard shack with an abused laptop fished out of the garbage of course.
What about things like the stove and refrig lights?
:(
;)
Or the half of my fixtures where they don't fit?
How about the small bulb in my desklamp?
They don't say what they banning that i could see.
Not to mention i generally don't like the color of most of em and i want a break from pure fluorecent lights after work
I am all for CA pushing the enviromental envelope but keep it real folks or no one will follow
Same here.
Replaced a MB on my homebuilt with the closest match available and had to call em to explain but no real problems with my XP OEM.
What exactly did MS say?
If the board is so much, would another board and another OEM XP be cheaper. Not that i believe it is needed. Replacing it with the nearest match available really should be enough.
So he modeled it after Enterprise then?
I came up with 125-137 mph for my 14" Wang ;)
:O
I don't remember if it was 3000 or 3300 rpm and manual is at home.
Those made one helluva metal lathe if they crashed the heads tho
At least i wouldn't be scared to turn on this new little drive.....
hmm, good question.
;)
I posted about the speed of my vintage minicomputer. I have platters that i can see the g-forces trying to pull the alloy platter apart. The magnetic section is darker at the outside. It did pull even more than these little ones and it ran for 15 years. However it used a platter for tracking that would have migrated as fast as the data tracks so maybe it compensated for it. Adding a NEW removable platter may prove unstable now, if there were such a thing
Don't know how these little ones do tracking tho.
This is what i was trying to calculate myself.
Except this is not insane, it is actually slower than my vintage wang minicomputer with the 80MB drive that weighs more than me.
Best guess was 111 mph for this vs almost 125 mph for the Wang from 1980. (about 14" platter at 3000 rpm)
How about a new stealth fighter or tank platoon with all the depth of the originals? Just incredible what they got that old 286 to do :)
Exactly my thoughts
Who would produce something on this new disc that early adopters could not use? Wouldn't it be incompetent of a producer to use one disc that alienates half your customers when the simple choice of putting it on 2 discs would be useable by all?
If people can't get up and change the disc after like 10 hours of video....
Maybe a nice big epreen battle so they can woo the people for a backup drive, but i dont think i want to trust my data to em anyway. Even if it makes to recordable media i bet the lifespan sucks. This could only get worse the more layers they try. Sounds like using a 3-hour cassette tape to store important info (hint: don't...even if you find one of those horrid creatures)
One of the names suggested in one of the links was my fav:
:)
iYak
How many geeks will be printing out edible chess sets?
Even better you can add a new incentive for gameplay.
:O
The printer can print in chocolate....LOSER gets EATEN
Fair warning on midway collections....
:(
Skip the PC versions
Starforce infested and sucky sucky controls. No steering wheel recognition for race games, no joystick for joystick operated games, etc. Annoying interface and bloated install. Very cheesy port of a port, some shareware ripoffs are better done. Maybe #1 was ok, but #2 sucked and #3 was worse.
At least these guys can't possibly do any worse with the d/l games.
What i haven't seen mentioned yet is:
;)
Won't this break down if more than one investigator is running this attack on a network? What if several people try this trick against a group of servers? How would they know the time skew was due to THEIR query? What if this is the best trick ever so everyone trying to track down a computer uses it
Couldn't they detect whatever the popular trick is to increase temp and have the computer try and skew others on the network. I don't suppose you would want to do it randomly against your own network as it may slow everything down but it seems you certainly could.
Seems like a lot of variables in there along with the other ideas presented.
Sounds like a good theory that runs into real world speed bumps pretty quickly.
Having a flying car to get around traffic sounds great, until everyone else gets one too....
I thought that huge pile of ash from Mt St Helens was a close substitute.
;)
:)
Aren't there still piles of it at the end of the ?Toutle? river. Used to be tons and tons of it stacked up by I-5. I'll bet the price is right too
Heck maybe it is worse than lunar dust and they can overbuild the vehicles a bit to get thru it
We have been in space their whole life and we have been doing the EXACT SAME THING in space their whole life. With no indication of doing anything more in fact until just recently when the moon and mars were mentioned again.
:(
BORING
I can see why they would not be terribly excited about space exploration, they had nothing to be excited about
No idea on the power useage here, but the east side of OR or WA really can't be called mild. Still snow left on ground from last week :( Majority do live on the west side, but maybe we make up for the power use on the other side ;) Or maybe Bill Gates is messing up our average ;p
;)
You are probably right, power under $.10 Kwh (.078 in Vancouver!) soo we don't pay as much as much attention to use as others.
Of course i am making up for several people on the other side with a vintage stereo sucking up 1000 watts or so plus my other toys
Just last night i was wondering just how DVD player can play games on my TV. (my neice got Deal or No Deal, not too bad) and googling got me nowhere. Wikipedia only had a list of companies doing it but no tech info. I might have to try again on some of these. I didn't know you could teach the DVD player some of those tricks. For example, after each round it shows the board and the amounts you picked fade out and it shows the previous amounts just like on the TV show. I wonder if anyone could point to how it does that.
:O
:(
:(
Interesting tech... a helluva workout for your DVD player tho
So much info out there, but so hard to find sometimes
Last week i wanted to know when the Barbie collector tins i gave my mom were made. The chocolate expired in feb 98, they are christmas themed and 97 seemed too short on dating. None on Ebay and no answers i could find elsewhere.
Google really fails on some of these, mostly i got a million sites trying to sell me a new barbie doll
I would imagine that's why it took so long to overtake VCR. I suppose a few young couples or something may have gotten stand-alone DVD to finally push the DVD over the top.
;) ;)
When i got a DVD i got a combo too. I am planning on keeping both around but i imagine many got it just in case, since the diference if any is very small. Most units i see hooked up are dual units in fact.
Of course the question may have a lot too do with it. Having a VCR is diferent than using a VCR or buying tapes. How many people HAVE a cassette player VS how many people BUY cassettes?!? I have a minicomputer but i don't buy many 8" floppy disks
"besides older EIDE hard drives"
:(
;(
Yup, lots of em, a particularly bad example being MFM hard drives, hehe. I think i paid more for a 10M drive than a 10G one
Don't even think about all the stores, they had 10M drives at like $50 and up, clear upto several hundred. I guess you only need one sucker but still...
I suppose ebay express is probably mentioned in a mail from ebay but i haven't heard of it either. I thought half.com was ebays regular type store, now there is another, plus a zillion ebay stores with only a buy-it-now price. That is starting to sound like a discount camera store with 12 names that you can't quite trust.
Maybe i am not into ebay enough to notice this express, but the $10,000 (ok, $5600 without the cars) i have spent there would seem to indicate otherwise to me
So we need to push game companies for more spectator modes in games....
;)
I was looking for a more compelling reason than: I like to watch sometimes
I hope none of those rich people are heavy drinkers.
:)
Having the bathroom to the left of the bedroom on mondays and on the right on thursdays could cause some accidents......
hehe, get up for a midnight snack and the kitchen is in the other direction as last night.
Hmm, i'll pass i like to have my rooms where i left em
Ok, since we solved the plumbing can you run my electrical for me now?