That has nothing to do with carrying cash, but about reporting cash transactions that total more than $10,000.
I can carry $100,000 in hundreds in my pocket if I want, and buy things at stores all over America but if I spend less than $10,000 in any one store, I don't have to go on a list or file paperwork.
This is thanks to the two part transaction fee exacted from the vendor.
A flat-rate transaction charge (say $.25) and a negotiable rate for the dollar value of the transaction, say (2-5%).
For a large transaction of $100, those charges get lost in all the noise. For a $3 cup of coffee and danish, it might be the difference between turning a profit, and breaking even.
I think that fee is still present for debit cards, but the percentage isn't.
Oddly enough, the DMV in Reading Mass appears to be the complete opposite, and the MA Department of Fisheries and Wildlife where I get my lobster license is pretty solicitous.
What I REALLY wish is for the CC vendors to allow some way of uploading RECEIPTs to my account, then I can get the receipts of my purchases with my monthly PDF statements, and go completely paperless.
Excel, that I could see being a skill to teach. Teaching formulas and what not (like it or not, the business world uses them) is useful. Learning to format documents, not so tough. Word processing hasn't changed, and if you're doing layout or important presentation copy, you should be using a proper layout tool, not Word.
Not so bad when you move the big nasty bits of the roaming profile to network home directories. About the only thing you want to copy are the ntuser.dat (registry) and a default desktop/start menu.
The desktop/start menu get left on network home directory. Requires making sure all the PC's are either configured identically, or you install your apps to the network or Citrix.:-/
HP made the c-class PC client blades that had remote keyboards over Cat5 - you put the computers in the backoffice, and only keyboards mice and display on the desk. Too bad it seems they're not looking to improve this product line... I had a complex development environment that could have used this...
It's too bad this model hasn't really taken off - this coupled with roaming profiles, network home dirs, and citrix would have let me implement home-shoring better at my last few gigs.:-/
plus it can reduce the ability of getting viruses on the network if there's no CD/USB to plug stuff into (with all the headaches of NOT having those available).
Ah yes, but you don't have some hallucination of a hot super-sexy robodroid in your head fucking with you. Baltar isn't sane. A sane person might do the things you imagine, but head-Six has him so convinced he'd be persecuted, that he didn't. Did you *MISS* season one where he built the Cylon detector? The whole fleet was ready to lynch anything remotely collaborating with the Cylons.
And what makes you think this recession is any different? Real estate prices are still higher than the recession of the early 1990's. I guess it depends on your definition of "short".:-)
I'm thinking about getting an N810. I have a Treo 700p and find the keypad JUST RIGHT... I'm concerned the N810 will be a bit much for my fat fingers... any input?
You're almost there, but not quite. OSS definitely has the identity based stuff taken care of, in fact AD stole most of it from the FOSS world (Kerberos + ldap). It's the other stuff, the central configuration of proxies, certificates and other applications that we're missing. Not just configuration, but ENFORCEMENT.
This may not be important to the GP, but it's important to a lot of people.
I used a demo unit of an IBM X61 tablet for my math classes in '07. I absolutely loved the ability to draw symbols and formulas, and then cut and paste into larger documents I used to help explain the work to myself.
Even in my English class I used it - the pen is much quieter than the fools blasting away on their keyboards. All I needed was a small printer so I could turn in assignments at the end of class...
Okay, I get your point, AD is vendor lock-in, that's not the point I'm trying to argue. I'm trying to argue that it's valid for the FOSS movement to support the features that Windows/AD does with GPOs. This has nothing to do with lock-in and everything to do with allowing Corp. admins to secure and manage their desktops using a single tool.
GPOs may be a bad way of doing this, but it's THE way the Windows world is working, and no one has yet to come up with something better. It would be nice if this changed.:-)
<parentQuote>Windows clients and servers, on the other hand, are VERY well coupled. The day someone cares to fix this in the FOSS world, a lot of people will start using Linux in corporate networks. </parentQuote> This is otherwise known as vendor lock in. Some of use have tried very hard to break free of it to avoid being held to ransom by a vendor. </quote>
No, it's not. You've obviously never used GPOs to control the behavior of applications from the backoffice all the way out to the laptops in the field, setting enforced application permissions, client-side secure certificates, and Windows Update parameters. This is just ONE small part of getting AD working in your organization.
And it's arguably the single BEST reason for having AD to begin with.
Using IBM SGE on a thinkpad, yes, I did notice the difference. I consume every available drop of CPU power in my machines, and the 5-10% +/- I lost when I had to convert the disk with SGE, it hurt. Then again, I'm not your typical road warrior...
I'm trying mercurial, it seems to have better tool support. But you're right with SVK, allowing individual changes to be applied is a serious deficiency - it has some nuances in changeset management that lead to a righteous PITA when I first started.
But I use it for three system synchronization and I love it.
Bricks can provide vaults, which can provide cheap structural elements, which you can then cover with meters upon meters of regolith, using a cheap electro-Ford tractor, without needing complex tunneling equipment, explosives, and risk.
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That has nothing to do with carrying cash, but about reporting cash transactions that total more than $10,000.
I can carry $100,000 in hundreds in my pocket if I want, and buy things at stores all over America but if I spend less than $10,000 in any one store, I don't have to go on a list or file paperwork.
Kudos on the citation though.
do you not understand sarcasm?
This is thanks to the two part transaction fee exacted from the vendor.
A flat-rate transaction charge (say $.25) and a negotiable rate for the dollar value of the transaction, say (2-5%).
For a large transaction of $100, those charges get lost in all the noise. For a $3 cup of coffee and danish, it might be the difference between turning a profit, and breaking even.
I think that fee is still present for debit cards, but the percentage isn't.
Um, I'm pretty sure this isn't true...
File with the IRS for any banking transaction greater than $10K, yes, but actually to carry it?
You have a citation for that claim?
Oddly enough, the DMV in Reading Mass appears to be the complete opposite, and the MA Department of Fisheries and Wildlife where I get my lobster license is pretty solicitous.
What I REALLY wish is for the CC vendors to allow some way of uploading RECEIPTs to my account, then I can get the receipts of my purchases with my monthly PDF statements, and go completely paperless.
That would be a useful service.
If you go the windows route, network booting is NOT an option... which is why you should be using Linux... :-)
Excel, that I could see being a skill to teach. Teaching formulas and what not (like it or not, the business world uses them) is useful. Learning to format documents, not so tough. Word processing hasn't changed, and if you're doing layout or important presentation copy, you should be using a proper layout tool, not Word.
Not so bad when you move the big nasty bits of the roaming profile to network home directories. About the only thing you want to copy are the ntuser.dat (registry) and a default desktop/start menu.
:-/
The desktop/start menu get left on network home directory. Requires making sure all the PC's are either configured identically, or you install your apps to the network or Citrix.
HP made the c-class PC client blades that had remote keyboards over Cat5 - you put the computers in the backoffice, and only keyboards mice and display on the desk.
:-/
Too bad it seems they're not looking to improve this product line... I had a complex development environment that could have used this...
It's too bad this model hasn't really taken off - this coupled with roaming profiles, network home dirs, and citrix would have let me implement home-shoring better at my last few gigs.
plus it can reduce the ability of getting viruses on the network if there's no CD/USB to plug stuff into (with all the headaches of NOT having those available).
Men are the afterbirth? Ewwwww.
Any more detectable than the already massive magnetic anomaly the submarine itself provides?
Ah yes, but you don't have some hallucination of a hot super-sexy robodroid in your head fucking with you. Baltar isn't sane. A sane person might do the things you imagine, but head-Six has him so convinced he'd be persecuted, that he didn't. Did you *MISS* season one where he built the Cylon detector? The whole fleet was ready to lynch anything remotely collaborating with the Cylons.
And what makes you think this recession is any different? Real estate prices are still higher than the recession of the early 1990's. I guess it depends on your definition of "short". :-)
I'm thinking about getting an N810. I have a Treo 700p and find the keypad JUST RIGHT... I'm concerned the N810 will be a bit much for my fat fingers... any input?
PalmOS vs. Blackberry. No comparison needed. You wouldn't know one was running Java if it hit you on the hit with a giant strychnine laced bean. :-)
You're almost there, but not quite. OSS definitely has the identity based stuff taken care of, in fact AD stole most of it from the FOSS world (Kerberos + ldap). It's the other stuff, the central configuration of proxies, certificates and other applications that we're missing. Not just configuration, but ENFORCEMENT.
This may not be important to the GP, but it's important to a lot of people.
I used a demo unit of an IBM X61 tablet for my math classes in '07. I absolutely loved the ability to draw symbols and formulas, and then cut and paste into larger documents I used to help explain the work to myself.
Even in my English class I used it - the pen is much quieter than the fools blasting away on their keyboards. All I needed was a small printer so I could turn in assignments at the end of class...
Okay, I get your point, AD is vendor lock-in, that's not the point I'm trying to argue. I'm trying to argue that it's valid for the FOSS movement to support the features that Windows/AD does with GPOs. This has nothing to do with lock-in and everything to do with allowing Corp. admins to secure and manage their desktops using a single tool.
:-)
GPOs may be a bad way of doing this, but it's THE way the Windows world is working, and no one has yet to come up with something better. It would be nice if this changed.
<parentQuote>Windows clients and servers, on the other hand, are VERY well coupled. The day someone cares to fix this in the FOSS world, a lot of people will start using Linux in corporate networks.
</parentQuote>
This is otherwise known as vendor lock in. Some of use have tried very hard to break free of it to avoid being held to ransom by a vendor.
</quote>
No, it's not. You've obviously never used GPOs to control the behavior of applications from the backoffice all the way out to the laptops in the field, setting enforced application permissions, client-side secure certificates, and Windows Update parameters. This is just ONE small part of getting AD working in your organization.
And it's arguably the single BEST reason for having AD to begin with.
What a pig dog Firefox is... 2GB of memory? For 50 tabs?
Using IBM SGE on a thinkpad, yes, I did notice the difference. I consume every available drop of CPU power in my machines, and the 5-10% +/- I lost when I had to convert the disk with SGE, it hurt. Then again, I'm not your typical road warrior...
I'm trying mercurial, it seems to have better tool support. But you're right with SVK, allowing individual changes to be applied is a serious deficiency - it has some nuances in changeset management that lead to a righteous PITA when I first started.
But I use it for three system synchronization and I love it.
Live off the land when you can. Our first huts in the New World certainly didn't resemble any of the great Cathedrals of Europe (Mayan's excepted).
Bricks can provide vaults, which can provide cheap structural elements, which you can then cover with meters upon meters of regolith, using a cheap electro-Ford tractor, without needing complex tunneling equipment, explosives, and risk.