I don't see this doing anything but increasing prices. Ignoring that I'm already under a lower local sales tax, take that $9.99 item. Add your sales tax, you get $10.69. Retailers will round up to $10.99. Congratulations, you've just created a 10% sales tax.
The problem isn't that a series went on that long, it's that the story went on that long. Other series like Pern and Discworld happily went on for 20-plus years, but no one story arc within them took so long to be resolved.
That may hold true for some states, but not Michigan - there's no local sales taxes at all, and the income tax certainly isn't what I'd consider "very low".
That's not really related to having locked phones - that's because he has a CDMA phone. You could have a GSM phone with SIM card and still have it be locked.
Given my university's propensity to send irrelevant e-mails to all students, students marking some e-mail from your university as spam was probably quite legitimate.
All of the Vorkosigan Saga books were published by Baen (though it looks like more than there really are thanks to omnibus editions). She does have a handful of non-Baen-published fantasy novels, but those are maybe 15-20% of her total output (with the rest through Baen).
* With GPS devices, the accused is forced to pay for his own surveillance (the extra gas to move the GPS device around town), not the police. * Traditional police surveillance requires the police to invest effort and money into the surveillance, so they can only follow probable leads. With GPS surveillance, they are not forced to constrain their surveillance to the scope of the case, and can track hundreds or thousands of people (with minimal or no connection to the crime) without expending any extra effort. * Traditional police surveillance is bound by their jurisdictional authority, while GPS surveillance allows the person tagged to be tracked world-wide.
It's simplified if you're using an Adobe Digital Editions device (ePub or PDF). It's only Kindles that need to go out of their way, and that's because Amazon is unwilling to let anybody but themselves do the DRM encryption.
There is one added bonus to the "roundabout" way, in that your Kindle book is "first class" - you get to use all of the features from purchased books (syncing notes and current page to Amazon's servers, etc.), rather than the subset they allow sideloaded books.
Why should the rate be dependent on delivery address instead of billing? Why should the amount magically change because it's shipped to me, then I drive it to my family's house for Christmas, instead of it being shipped to them directly?
"Dramatically reduced"? I routinely see Firefox 4.4—sorry, 7—sucking up over 750 MB of RAM, where Firefox 3.6 used to be fine hovering around the 300 MB mark.
That leaves the timetable up to Microsoft for most users; however, Microsoft is deliberately delaying it for everybody. If you get it early, great, but you can't count on the update being available to you until a month after the "release date". And even if you get an update notification on the phone it will still sometimes refuse to update. I've tried three different desktops—no joy.
My old PS2 takes a USB keyboard & mouse to play games like Deus Ex. I haven't tried keyboard & mouse on our XBox 360 but it has USB, so I don't see why not if the game supports it.
Unfortunately, very few games do support it; Microsoft doesn't allow 360 titles to support mouse/keyboard, and while Sony allows it I think the only titles which take advantage of it are Unreal Tournament III and Rage. (And the forthcoming Counter-Strike port.)
Really? I never felt like 2000 was meant to be the jump-in point to the NT kernel. If it was, the starting point probably shouldn't have been the "Professional" edition.:-P
2000 might've been useable for home users (unlike NT4 and its lack of DirectX support), but the real jumping point probably wasn't intended to be until XP's Home Edition.
Steam has a better multiplayer system now. A few years ago it didn't (no player-to-player support, just client/server). And it still has an inferior achievements & storage system (requiring one copy of the game to be purchased per player, instead of allowing anybody in the house to have their own achievement progress/saved games/configuration files).
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But they wouldn't "constantly" have a scapegoat. Here they would - "the gubermint raised all of your prices".
"Just as likely" that retailers will cut prices? You're kidding, right?
I don't see this doing anything but increasing prices. Ignoring that I'm already under a lower local sales tax, take that $9.99 item. Add your sales tax, you get $10.69. Retailers will round up to $10.99. Congratulations, you've just created a 10% sales tax.
The problem isn't that a series went on that long, it's that the story went on that long. Other series like Pern and Discworld happily went on for 20-plus years, but no one story arc within them took so long to be resolved.
At the scale of game we're talking about, these wouldn't be pressed discs, they'd be XBLA/PSN titles.
That may hold true for some states, but not Michigan - there's no local sales taxes at all, and the income tax certainly isn't what I'd consider "very low".
"In the next 18 weeks" is about eight months too late for them to fix those problems. They needed to have all that worked out before Firefox 5.
That's not really related to having locked phones - that's because he has a CDMA phone. You could have a GSM phone with SIM card and still have it be locked.
Verizon and Sprint are—or should be—no-gos for anybody even thinking about ever visiting outside North America.
Replying to fix bad mod.
Given my university's propensity to send irrelevant e-mails to all students, students marking some e-mail from your university as spam was probably quite legitimate.
All of the Vorkosigan Saga books were published by Baen (though it looks like more than there really are thanks to omnibus editions). She does have a handful of non-Baen-published fantasy novels, but those are maybe 15-20% of her total output (with the rest through Baen).
That's not just Calibre's fault, any PDF converter will do that. PDF is singularly unsuitable to being converted to any non-whole-page-display format.
* With GPS devices, the accused is forced to pay for his own surveillance (the extra gas to move the GPS device around town), not the police.
* Traditional police surveillance requires the police to invest effort and money into the surveillance, so they can only follow probable leads. With GPS surveillance, they are not forced to constrain their surveillance to the scope of the case, and can track hundreds or thousands of people (with minimal or no connection to the crime) without expending any extra effort.
* Traditional police surveillance is bound by their jurisdictional authority, while GPS surveillance allows the person tagged to be tracked world-wide.
Replying to undo bad moderation.
It's simplified if you're using an Adobe Digital Editions device (ePub or PDF). It's only Kindles that need to go out of their way, and that's because Amazon is unwilling to let anybody but themselves do the DRM encryption.
There is one added bonus to the "roundabout" way, in that your Kindle book is "first class" - you get to use all of the features from purchased books (syncing notes and current page to Amazon's servers, etc.), rather than the subset they allow sideloaded books.
2. Any less than that, and it'll work fine.
Ad-free is $110, not $150.
Why should the rate be dependent on delivery address instead of billing? Why should the amount magically change because it's shipped to me, then I drive it to my family's house for Christmas, instead of it being shipped to them directly?
"Dramatically reduced"? I routinely see Firefox 4.4—sorry, 7—sucking up over 750 MB of RAM, where Firefox 3.6 used to be fine hovering around the 300 MB mark.
It comes from Microsoft, but the cell provider can delay it. So far, only a few specific models are delayed (at least in the US).
That leaves the timetable up to Microsoft for most users; however, Microsoft is deliberately delaying it for everybody. If you get it early, great, but you can't count on the update being available to you until a month after the "release date". And even if you get an update notification on the phone it will still sometimes refuse to update. I've tried three different desktops—no joy.
My old PS2 takes a USB keyboard & mouse to play games like Deus Ex. I haven't tried keyboard & mouse on our XBox 360 but it has USB, so I don't see why not if the game supports it.
Unfortunately, very few games do support it; Microsoft doesn't allow 360 titles to support mouse/keyboard, and while Sony allows it I think the only titles which take advantage of it are Unreal Tournament III and Rage. (And the forthcoming Counter-Strike port.)
Really? I never felt like 2000 was meant to be the jump-in point to the NT kernel. If it was, the starting point probably shouldn't have been the "Professional" edition. :-P
2000 might've been useable for home users (unlike NT4 and its lack of DirectX support), but the real jumping point probably wasn't intended to be until XP's Home Edition.
Steam has a better multiplayer system now. A few years ago it didn't (no player-to-player support, just client/server). And it still has an inferior achievements & storage system (requiring one copy of the game to be purchased per player, instead of allowing anybody in the house to have their own achievement progress/saved games/configuration files).
There's not differing branches of the CLR proper, but there is a Client Profile version of the framework which omits some of the standard libraries.