And the employer benefits from the taxes paid in TN so this can guy can function in his job, maybe they should contribute to TN.
Fair is Fair...no matter complicated it gets.....
I deal with this at work, but luckily from (not to) one of the states without an income tax. Pretty straight forward then to take out the home states taxes. Now sales tax between with 1 high tax state, 1 low tax state, and 1 no tax state really taxes the computer system tho:(
I can't get past the image of clippy popping up to sell me a widget cause i typed widget in a speadsheet;)
Not entirely bad idea, access to word at home could be handy at times... just not enough to justify buying it myself. I am betting that a subscription based one will be a rip-off tho.
"And you would be far too trusting of our government since from TFA:"
AND SO WOULD YOU!
If you had made it to the 2ND page of TFA:
The department rejected calls to encrypt, or scramble, the data on the passport. Instead, the transmission stream when the data is passing from the passport to the reader will be encrypted.
Maybe Wiccas don't like that song for some reason.... Maybe we shouldn't celebrate death?!? Tho some do.
If we edit out everything that might offend someone somewhere we will all be watching the same 1 allowed movie soon. This would cut down piracy tho if there is only 1 movie to download...a big plus for the industry i am sure.
Seems kinda weird to fracture our culture, such as it is, where diferent people saw diferent versions of same show.
hehe, wish i could make a political movie with a version for red states and a version for blue states and get rave reviews for both, then not mention that your relatives talking about it saw a diferent one than you did;)
If you want to change something, make a new version and label it as such and don't hide the original.
I guess the store owner is supposed to play every one to make sure they fit in with 'community standards' ?
I dont see any reason for another law that you can't even figure out, much less follow to make everyone happy.
I suppose a simple no "M-rated to minors" was too obvious and didn't employ enough of their lawyer buddies to merit a law...
Having stores and lawyers and game companies and individuals and xxx and yyy and zzz deciding the age and sueing each other til the end of time will be much better for the children. After all confusion makes you think, i think;)
If xbox ships with a plain DVD it won't play HD movies no matter who or what does anything with blu-ray, right?
Perhaps they should not have decided to not put the HD-DVD drive in the xbox. It would seem the first to get a bunch of drives out there is gonna have a good headstart. Making it an extra cost option sometime in the future would seem to be the opposite choice.
Right now we have DVD. Everyone seems to be making a fortune off them. CD pretty much the same thing.
How about high quality music disks? No makes much of anything cause noone knows which one to use. No profits and little consumer choice of titles.
So who is getting paid big bucks to decide they should follow the high-quality music formula?
Too bad there is noone to invent a green laser DVD or something and put them both out of their misery!
"What is a publisher to do when it finds out that it can't get students to buy e-textbooks when they expire after a mere four months? By changing one line of code, those four months can be expanded to a full year."
I gave up on article after that point. That is as likely as me flying to the moon next year. I see em realizing they won't make their quarterly profit projections and 'accidently' or otherwise reducing your paid useage period. You probably agreed to such changes when you loaded it(you paid for 1 month the rest are free and subject to change kinda deal...) and said 'agree'
Good point, thats gotta have a nice obscene profit margin alright.
I'm sure only a fraction of windows packages are sold at that pricing. I know it was cheaper to buy new boxes with Office installed than to upgrade what we had to run the new version. $$ was about the same actually, but 0 labor vs installing 10 copies plus adding memory was an easy choice for a lazy tech;)
Besides, now i get several almost free 1Ghz boxes to play with, i'll learn linux yet:) hmm, I suppose i should thank MS for giving me the chance with their OEM pricing to learn linux....
Depends on the state to some extent. I have seen ads in WA where the retailer says they will pay your tax, kinda like a 8+% discount. If you're in ID however they cannot do that promotion.
And use tax is the sales tax you didnt pay when you bought it but should have. Yes all that stuff you bought online you are supposed to pay tax on if they didnt collect tax, never heard of exemption diferent than for sales tax. Also never heard of it actually enforced against individuals and only against companies if they are auditing sales tax anyways. You have to pay sales/use tax on everything but no one enforces it. Currently most online sellers assume you will pay the use tax because it is too hard for them to calculate and submit.
As to the article...i see nothing about actually simplifying anything only a program to calculate and no info on that. Is it Free? How would it tie to my system?
I have one of the very few systems that will calculate sales tax correctly for 2 states. Anymore than that probably does take a dedicated sales tax program.
One item. It's taxable in WA at one rate if shipped from warehouse A, another rate if from warehouse B if sold for pets but not taxable for use on humans or in either case if shipped to an address on a reservation. It would be taxable in ID for either plus an additional.5% tax if going to a particular county...blah blah blah etc. If you ship into WA and want/need to charge the tax there are HUNDREDS of different tax rates and codes to put on form!! Now extrapolate that out to 50 states and thousands of items and your brain would explode:(
If my kids string two cans together do they have to provide a third for any FBI agents nearby?
Perhaps i should get an extra baby monitor for the FBI office, he seems to be sending me coded messages:)
If they really need a tap can't they just break in and put a bug in the handset or something? It wouldn't seem to matter what protocol it uses then. Don't they have like a 99+% chance of approval for a warrent if they ask? Of course i guess it would be much easier to have someone else do the legwork and listen to the tape at their convenience.
Why would the REALLY bad guys care if their comm program is approved? Make this a capital offense maybe so they would rather be busted for bombmaking?
If the parents are not as computer literate how on earth are they gonna know what to do with a list of 'suspicious' files?
The program doesn't seem to care if they are bought tracks, ripped from your CDs, or even part of another program. That is left upto the parents in your case. You gonna let one of them decide what files to delete as a test?
From the responses here and elsewhere, it simply lists all media after deleting P2P apps.
I always figured since they could make objects out of thin air, they could just make floor 'tiles' that slid. They could slide all the way around the room like a hamster wheel effect.
Looks like we will need a hamster wheel til we get the solid object holograms working;)
I always wondered as the holodeck would seem to need more energy and cpu umph than the entire ship. Would we dedicate all that to mostly entertainment?/e counts the transistors in his video card vs the CPU and compares the price tags.
" After reading through the article, I didn't find much in the way of information."
That would be because there was no info in the article whatsoever. The link to the inquirer article below links to the NYT that says it MIGHT be related to office.
Between 3 articles we have: Someone thought something MS sells should not be bundled somehow. May be a current item or a planned item and it may or may not involve office noone is saying.
That should be more than enough to comment on, right?
All that said, always wondered why i had to buy an email program to go with Word. And why is Office Basic only OEM as far as i can see? Are Word or Excel available alone anymore or are they somehow 'inseperable' now?
This is what Google will show people. They will not let you infringe the copyright perhaps.
but
Hasn't Google already copied the entire thing for their own use? They are not a library, they will not loan me the book, they are a corp.
How is that ok, but i can't copy it for my use. I want to have a copy handy in case a friend asks a question, i could look up the answer and only provide them that snippet so they don't have to get the whole book. Honest i won't read it all (unless thats what it takes to find the snippet i need...)
I do agree there should be a digital library of everything, but without a specific mandate from congress or something to allow it i don't see how it passes muster. Greater good? Will there be no ads on sites related to this function?
Since they specifically mentioned digital cameras, what about non-digital cameras?
While not as easy to hide as some new cameras, a old 35mm isn't impossible to hide either. Don't ask, i just know;) My old 35mm don't seem to have anymore lens coating than a pair of glasses. The new digital is quite shiny alright. Time to go back to the old spy cams from the back of Boy's Life:)
Ouch, it's gonna be expensive to sneak in that instamatic instead...cheap 126 film is now gonna be a buck a shot! Ahh, a 110 camera is still doable tho and many of those are palmable.
hehe, i wonder what it would think of this silver can of root beer?
Hehe, not really that funny. (ok, shouldn't start that with a hehe)
I just setup some new XP boxes at work, now i have by default 5 boxes trying to share music on the network. Windows never asked if i wanted to share anything. How is giving me a folder labeled 'My Music' and then trying to automaticaly and without asking share it with the world NOT aiding infringement. Windows never told me not to put my music in My Music!
This seems alot more evil than a program that i have to install and/or makes me go search for stuff to copy.
On the other hand, half the review sites they mentioned weren't any better. The dentist one especially, simply takes down any review that gets a complaint from the dr. This is a disinterested review site then?
Feel free to tell your friends about me, but only if its positive otherwise it'll cost ya.... Sure, that's called advertising, show me the money;)
"Unfortunately the electoral college, and the winner take all nature of Congressional races is enshrined in the Constitution so it is very hard to change."
Winner-take-all is determined by states isn't it? Aren't there a couple that still split them?
Of course, once set up that way good luck getting the party in power to agree to change it.....
During the days of the 386 i bought a pallet of used xt/286 equipment and built several working systems from parts. Virually nothing was even deleted. Systems , programs, data, you name it was still intact... including the copy of Michelangelo floating around in there !
Luckily Norton on my 386 found it while transfering data. Had to redo a couple days worth of setup on blank machines was all.
Please kill your viruses before selling and careful with your snooping;)
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And the employer benefits from the taxes paid in TN so this can guy can function in his job, maybe they should contribute to TN.
:(
Fair is Fair...no matter complicated it gets.....
I deal with this at work, but luckily from (not to) one of the states without an income tax. Pretty straight forward then to take out the home states taxes. Now sales tax between with 1 high tax state, 1 low tax state, and 1 no tax state really taxes the computer system tho
I can't get past the image of clippy popping up to sell me a widget cause i typed widget in a speadsheet ;)
... just not enough to justify buying it myself. I am betting that a subscription based one will be a rip-off tho.
Not entirely bad idea, access to word at home could be handy at times
"And you would be far too trusting of our government since from TFA:"
AND SO WOULD YOU!
If you had made it to the 2ND page of TFA:
The department rejected calls to encrypt, or scramble, the data on the passport. Instead, the transmission stream when the data is passing from the passport to the reader will be encrypted.
!!
No kidding
;)
How does one take a SONG out of a MUSICAL?
Maybe Wiccas don't like that song for some reason....
Maybe we shouldn't celebrate death?!? Tho some do.
If we edit out everything that might offend someone somewhere we will all be watching the same 1 allowed movie soon. This would cut down piracy tho if there is only 1 movie to download...a big plus for the industry i am sure.
Seems kinda weird to fracture our culture, such as it is, where diferent people saw diferent versions of same show.
hehe, wish i could make a political movie with a version for red states and a version for blue states and get rave reviews for both, then not mention that your relatives talking about it saw a diferent one than you did
If you want to change something, make a new version and label it as such and don't hide the original.
I guess the store owner is supposed to play every one to make sure they fit in with 'community standards' ?
;)
I dont see any reason for another law that you can't even figure out, much less follow to make everyone happy.
I suppose a simple no "M-rated to minors" was too obvious and didn't employ enough of their lawyer buddies to merit a law...
Having stores and lawyers and game companies and individuals and xxx and yyy and zzz deciding the age and sueing each other til the end of time will be much better for the children. After all confusion makes you think, i think
The one time i would actually like a spoiler.....
;)
Next research paper: Are people swimming in syrup more or less likely to lose their swimsuits ?
Ya all don't mind if i go to another site for volunteers i hope
If xbox ships with a plain DVD it won't play HD movies no matter who or what does anything with blu-ray, right?
Perhaps they should not have decided to not put the HD-DVD drive in the xbox. It would seem the first to get a bunch of drives out there is gonna have a good headstart. Making it an extra cost option sometime in the future would seem to be the opposite choice.
Right now we have DVD. Everyone seems to be making a fortune off them. CD pretty much the same thing.
How about high quality music disks? No makes much of anything cause noone knows which one to use. No profits and little consumer choice of titles.
So who is getting paid big bucks to decide they should follow the high-quality music formula?
Too bad there is noone to invent a green laser DVD or something and put them both out of their misery!
ROFL !
"What is a publisher to do when it finds out that it can't get students to buy e-textbooks when they expire after a mere four months? By changing one line of code, those four months can be expanded to a full year."
I gave up on article after that point. That is as likely as me flying to the moon next year. I see em realizing they won't make their quarterly profit projections and 'accidently' or otherwise reducing your paid useage period. You probably agreed to such changes when you loaded it(you paid for 1 month the rest are free and subject to change kinda deal...) and said 'agree'
Good point, thats gotta have a nice obscene profit margin alright.
;)
:) hmm, I suppose i should thank MS for giving me the chance with their OEM pricing to learn linux....
I'm sure only a fraction of windows packages are sold at that pricing. I know it was cheaper to buy new boxes with Office installed than to upgrade what we had to run the new version. $$ was about the same actually, but 0 labor vs installing 10 copies plus adding memory was an easy choice for a lazy tech
Besides, now i get several almost free 1Ghz boxes to play with, i'll learn linux yet
But it sounded so.... Microsoft :(
Oh well, it was good for a smile when i left work, stop at 7-11 and see a stack of old movies on DVD for $1 !
Except you have to buy their player to use it.
Any bets their player would only talk to an 'appropiately authorized' monitor?
Of course that means it may take months! for a crack....
It's not dvix because you have to buy a new player AND TV instead of a player and a phone line perhaps?
Loan em your DVD ...
:)
:(
:)
He came back for the rest of the series DVDs
1 more down only a few billion people left to convert
Oddly enough i don't remember how i heard of it but put it in my netflix que and bought it halfway thru
Depends on the state to some extent.
.5% tax if going to a particular county...blah blah blah etc. If you ship into WA and want/need to charge the tax there are HUNDREDS of different tax rates and codes to put on form!! Now extrapolate that out to 50 states and thousands of items and your brain would explode :(
I have seen ads in WA where the retailer says they will pay your tax, kinda like a 8+% discount. If you're in ID however they cannot do that promotion.
And use tax is the sales tax you didnt pay when you bought it but should have. Yes all that stuff you bought online you are supposed to pay tax on if they didnt collect tax, never heard of exemption diferent than for sales tax. Also never heard of it actually enforced against individuals and only against companies if they are auditing sales tax anyways. You have to pay sales/use tax on everything but no one enforces it. Currently most online sellers assume you will pay the use tax because it is too hard for them to calculate and submit.
As to the article...i see nothing about actually simplifying anything only a program to calculate and no info on that. Is it Free? How would it tie to my system?
I have one of the very few systems that will calculate sales tax correctly for 2 states. Anymore than that probably does take a dedicated sales tax program.
One item. It's taxable in WA at one rate if shipped from warehouse A, another rate if from warehouse B if sold for pets but not taxable for use on humans or in either case if shipped to an address on a reservation. It would be taxable in ID for either plus an additional
If my kids string two cans together do they have to provide a third for any FBI agents nearby?
:)
Perhaps i should get an extra baby monitor for the FBI office, he seems to be sending me coded messages
If they really need a tap can't they just break in and put a bug in the handset or something? It wouldn't seem to matter what protocol it uses then. Don't they have like a 99+% chance of approval for a warrent if they ask? Of course i guess it would be much easier to have someone else do the legwork and listen to the tape at their convenience.
Why would the REALLY bad guys care if their comm program is approved? Make this a capital offense maybe so they would rather be busted for bombmaking?
The boys in DC bored this week or what?
Can you say: Power Trip?
"unless we have a business relationship with those companies where the disclosure is appropriate."
IE. They got paid for it.
Oddly enough, i've been with Qwest forever and have only received a couple calls despite the fact that i have no additional services on my line.
If the parents are not as computer literate how on earth are they gonna know what to do with a list of 'suspicious' files?
The program doesn't seem to care if they are bought tracks, ripped from your CDs, or even part of another program. That is left upto the parents in your case. You gonna let one of them decide what files to delete as a test?
From the responses here and elsewhere, it simply lists all media after deleting P2P apps.
I always figured since they could make objects out of thin air, they could just make floor 'tiles' that slid. They could slide all the way around the room like a hamster wheel effect.
;)
/e counts the transistors in his video card vs the CPU and compares the price tags.
;)
Looks like we will need a hamster wheel til we get the solid object holograms working
I always wondered as the holodeck would seem to need more energy and cpu umph than the entire ship. Would we dedicate all that to mostly entertainment?
nevermind that last question
" After reading through the article, I didn't find much in the way of information."
That would be because there was no info in the article whatsoever.
The link to the inquirer article below links to the NYT that says it MIGHT be related to office.
Between 3 articles we have:
Someone thought something MS sells should not be bundled somehow. May be a current item or a planned item and it may or may not involve office noone is saying.
That should be more than enough to comment on, right?
All that said, always wondered why i had to buy an email program to go with Word. And why is Office Basic only OEM as far as i can see? Are Word or Excel available alone anymore or are they somehow 'inseperable' now?
This is what Google will show people. They will not let you infringe the copyright perhaps.
but
Hasn't Google already copied the entire thing for their own use?
They are not a library, they will not loan me the book, they are a corp.
How is that ok, but i can't copy it for my use. I want to have a copy handy in case a friend asks a question, i could look up the answer and only provide them that snippet so they don't have to get the whole book. Honest i won't read it all (unless thats what it takes to find the snippet i need...)
I do agree there should be a digital library of everything, but without a specific mandate from congress or something to allow it i don't see how it passes muster.
Greater good? Will there be no ads on sites related to this function?
Since they specifically mentioned digital cameras, what about non-digital cameras?
;) My old 35mm don't seem to have anymore lens coating than a pair of glasses. The new digital is quite shiny alright. Time to go back to the old spy cams from the back of Boy's Life :)
While not as easy to hide as some new cameras, a old 35mm isn't impossible to hide either. Don't ask, i just know
Ouch, it's gonna be expensive to sneak in that instamatic instead...cheap 126 film is now gonna be a buck a shot! Ahh, a 110 camera is still doable tho and many of those are palmable.
hehe, i wonder what it would think of this silver can of root beer?
Hehe, not really that funny. (ok, shouldn't start that with a hehe)
I just setup some new XP boxes at work, now i have by default 5 boxes trying to share music on the network. Windows never asked if i wanted to share anything. How is giving me a folder labeled 'My Music' and then trying to automaticaly and without asking share it with the world NOT aiding infringement. Windows never told me not to put my music in My Music!
This seems alot more evil than a program that i have to install and/or makes me go search for stuff to copy.
On the other hand, half the review sites they mentioned weren't any better. The dentist one especially, simply takes down any review that gets a complaint from the dr. This is a disinterested review site then?
;)
Feel free to tell your friends about me, but only if its positive otherwise it'll cost ya.... Sure, that's called advertising, show me the money
"Unfortunately the electoral college, and the winner take all nature of Congressional races is enshrined in the Constitution so it is very hard to change."
Winner-take-all is determined by states isn't it?
Aren't there a couple that still split them?
Of course, once set up that way good luck getting the party in power to agree to change it.....
During the days of the 386 i bought a pallet of used xt/286 equipment and built several working systems from parts. Virually nothing was even deleted. Systems , programs, data, you name it was still intact... including the copy of Michelangelo floating around in there !
;)
Luckily Norton on my 386 found it while transfering data. Had to redo a couple days worth of setup on blank machines was all.
Please kill your viruses before selling and careful with your snooping
Hmm, good idea.
;)
Paint the bullseye, just make sure there is a safe spot behind it for the bullets to land
Hehe, it would be hard to shoot at it and NOT instinctively aim for the bullseye.