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That's because slashdot's HTML still doesn't validate. Even though people have fixed the markup it hasn't been incorporated into slashcode, either because no one has submitted patches or no one in charge cares. I'm surprised that the slashdot people haven't gone ahead and incorporated the changes themselves since it seems it would 1) help their street cred to have a site so focused on standards and computing to actually follow standards and 2) help them save bandwidth to use stylesheets more and get rid of the junk markup like font tags.
What a non-story (not slashdot but the article). The students want it, the parents signed off on it. So what if the school doesn't want it? Then don't involve the school. I'm sure there's plenty of other locations where one could hold the tournament. Maybe a local community center?
They did keep the money flowing. When he got laid off he and his wife looked at their finances and got rid of things that were needless expenses. Like he said, no more HDTV, no more computers, no more gadgets. They sold the house (smart move for the moment) and started concentrating on paying off high-interest debt like student loans and credit cards.
Which income levels are we talking about? Shadow99_1's $20k a year or TrekCycling's family $130k a year? At $130k a year there's no excuse for not contributing the max to your IRA every year.
I mean, contrinute to your IRA all you want, but it won't be tax deductible so you might as well invest it in non-retirement mutual funds.
Are you kidding me? IRAs are free money. The capital gains continue to be reinvested instead of having to pay taxes on them every year like you would with "non-retirement mutual funds."
There're different kinds of IRAs. A traditional IRA is tax deductible for the year you make the contribution. The gains on the earnings are reinvested over the life of the IRA. Paying of the taxes on those gains is deferred until you withdraw the money at which point you are taxed on the withdrawal at your current tax rate. Since you'll probably be retired when you start withdrawing from the IRA your tax rate should be pretty low.
A Roth IRA isn't tax deductible for the year you make the contribution but you don't have to pay taxes on any of the earnings. Ever. You keep making money tax free.
How could you not have a nest egg when making a combined $130k a year?!?!?
Probably because the money was tied up in ways that wouldn't make it easy to spend. A lot of that money could have been going into their 401k's and IRAs. You can usually contribute up to 30% of your pre-tax income to a 401k. On top of that you can contribute $3,000 (now $4000 in 2005) to your IRA. This is per-person.
In a Roth IRA the contribution is post-tax but you don't have to pay taxes on capital gains. The problem is that money can't be withdrawn before you are 59 1/2 years of age without incurring penalties (10% of the amount withdrawn, I believe). You wouldn't want to touch that money anyway as the amount that you would make with compound interest would be a nice nest egg for when you retire. Pulling it out destroys the best advantage that money has which is time to compound. This is important because you can only contribute so much per year.
Ideally you would want to have enough in your savings to pay all of your bills for six months time in case you lose your jobs. I just realized that could be what you meant by nest egg. In any case, it's common to spend a large amount of one's savings towards the downpayment on a home. I saved for years and years until I had $60k in my savings. I spent $50k of it on a downpayment for my home and still had to take out a home equity loan to meet the 20% down so that I wouldn't have to pay PMI on my mortgage. It's going to take me a couple of years to save enough to have my emergency fund built up in my savings.
It could be that this couple was in the same boat. With most of their savings spent on their house and not much left in the bank, it was wise to sell the house. You can always get another one. In this case they re-evaluated what they were spending their money on and what they felt they needed. I think they made the right decision.
I'm doing the same thing you are. I have a case with five drives in it. One 13GB drive that's my OS and junk disk, and four 230GB drives in a RAID5 array. The machine is a Celeron 700MHz with 256MB of RAM. It works great for what I use it for which is:
Firewall for my wireless AP (via Matrox quad NIC)
File server via samba
Postgres
Java development
Personal email and shell stuff
DHCP
Caching DNS
For just a file server you can get away with a much slower machine.
If you pay someone to develop something for you, YOU own the code.
Only if you have specified that in the contract. When I develop software for people I own the code unless they are willing to pay for its release. Otherwise I retain the copyright. You think you own the logo if you pay a designer to create one? Or that you own the photograph if you hire a photographer to take a picture? Check that contract before you assume that you retain all rights.
Nice, but two problems. I use Mozilla not Firefox. Also it doesn't provide the most useful feature which is the quick view link I was talking about. But it'll search as a starting point for me to fix those issues. Thanks.
What I'd like to see Google add is previews of the web pages like IceRocket does. When you do a search on there you see a thumbnail of the web page next to the entry for that web page. You can also click on the quick view link next to each result and it'll expand a frame below the entry to show you the page itself. It's a quick way to see if a site is what you wanted without having to leave the search page.
I doubt that a group of scientists can stand in the way of God's plan.
Login: god Name: God Directory:/home/god Shell:/bin/zsh Last login Wed Jan 19 14:41 (PST) on pts/0 from heaven.af.mil Mail last read Wed Jan 19 19:02 2005 (PST) No Plan.
"Rewrite", to a programmer, doesn't mean to throw everything out and start from scratch, either. It means rethink some the design. Reevaluate why feature X was done the way it was, and if that's stillt he best way to do it. Make sure it's still relevant for modern hardware, and make sure it will still be relevant for tomorrows hardware.
Does anyone have one of these things? If so, can you fast forward through a song or only go to the beginning of a song? I'd like to get one of these but I listen to a lot of hour long (or more) DJ mixes so not being able to seek to a specific point in the song would suck.
Lucky you. Some people get hundreds per day despite their best efforts to keep their address out of the hands of spammers. Giving your email address only to people you trust isn't enough. All it takes is one email virus to harvest addresses from their address book and suddenly you're on spam lists.
This is a highly-visited news site, considered a major source of tech news for geeks, and a corporate-owned entity of OSTG who employs Malda and company. There's an amount of responsibility you ethically must adopt when your site gets so popular that it's name alone becomes a verb due to the server-killing power of its readerbase.
Yet how many slashdot readers have written (not emailed) OSTG to let them know how they feel? Personally, the lack of attention to checking links in stories, dupe posting, Michael's comments, etc, are what keep me from subscribing. I let them know that. Write them and let them know how you feel:
Aspect oriented programming is currently patented (US patent 6,467,086). Do you have permission from the patent holder to distribute this work, particularly under the GPL? As an end user, would I be likely to be sued if I use AOPHP in a project? Would the AOPHP developers be sued if I use this in a project? This isn't a troll, just my valid concerns before I spend any time seeing if this would help my development.
Note: yes, I know there is possible prior art to AOP but that doesn't change the fact that the USPTO has issued a patent on it.
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What a non-story (not slashdot but the article). The students want it, the parents signed off on it. So what if the school doesn't want it? Then don't involve the school. I'm sure there's plenty of other locations where one could hold the tournament. Maybe a local community center?
There're different kinds of IRAs. A traditional IRA is tax deductible for the year you make the contribution. The gains on the earnings are reinvested over the life of the IRA. Paying of the taxes on those gains is deferred until you withdraw the money at which point you are taxed on the withdrawal at your current tax rate. Since you'll probably be retired when you start withdrawing from the IRA your tax rate should be pretty low.
A Roth IRA isn't tax deductible for the year you make the contribution but you don't have to pay taxes on any of the earnings. Ever. You keep making money tax free.
In a Roth IRA the contribution is post-tax but you don't have to pay taxes on capital gains. The problem is that money can't be withdrawn before you are 59 1/2 years of age without incurring penalties (10% of the amount withdrawn, I believe). You wouldn't want to touch that money anyway as the amount that you would make with compound interest would be a nice nest egg for when you retire. Pulling it out destroys the best advantage that money has which is time to compound. This is important because you can only contribute so much per year.
Ideally you would want to have enough in your savings to pay all of your bills for six months time in case you lose your jobs. I just realized that could be what you meant by nest egg. In any case, it's common to spend a large amount of one's savings towards the downpayment on a home. I saved for years and years until I had $60k in my savings. I spent $50k of it on a downpayment for my home and still had to take out a home equity loan to meet the 20% down so that I wouldn't have to pay PMI on my mortgage. It's going to take me a couple of years to save enough to have my emergency fund built up in my savings.
It could be that this couple was in the same boat. With most of their savings spent on their house and not much left in the bank, it was wise to sell the house. You can always get another one. In this case they re-evaluated what they were spending their money on and what they felt they needed. I think they made the right decision.
- Firewall for my wireless AP (via Matrox quad NIC)
- File server via samba
- Postgres
- Java development
- Personal email and shell stuff
- DHCP
- Caching DNS
For just a file server you can get away with a much slower machine.Nice, but two problems. I use Mozilla not Firefox. Also it doesn't provide the most useful feature which is the quick view link I was talking about. But it'll search as a starting point for me to fix those issues. Thanks.
What I'd like to see Google add is previews of the web pages like IceRocket does. When you do a search on there you see a thumbnail of the web page next to the entry for that web page. You can also click on the quick view link next to each result and it'll expand a frame below the entry to show you the page itself. It's a quick way to see if a site is what you wanted without having to leave the search page.
It'd be nice to have the kind of multi-categorization for bookmarks.
Does anyone have one of these things? If so, can you fast forward through a song or only go to the beginning of a song? I'd like to get one of these but I listen to a lot of hour long (or more) DJ mixes so not being able to seek to a specific point in the song would suck.
Gnome 10? But it's really 2.10? Is that like Java 1.2 is Really Java 2 and Java 1.5 is really Java 5? Ow, my head! Please tell me this is just a typo.
Lucky you. Some people get hundreds per day despite their best efforts to keep their address out of the hands of spammers. Giving your email address only to people you trust isn't enough. All it takes is one email virus to harvest addresses from their address book and suddenly you're on spam lists.
Here's a fix.
Excellent. Thanks for the follow up.
Note: yes, I know there is possible prior art to AOP but that doesn't change the fact that the USPTO has issued a patent on it.
Is there a time limit to appeal?
Al: No, Peg. Your fat makes you look fat.
Another ignorant AC. I have an uncorrectable vision problem.