It's perverse, though. I've been thinking about whether I can call managing my IRA a small business, because the income would be tax free but I get to deduct all my "business expenses" from my other ordinary income... The thought of it makes me giddy, but I have no idea if it's legal, yet.
We pay her $300, and she typically finds a more then a thousand dollars worth of deductions that we missed when we practiced on our own (even with TurboTax).
There are so many things like savers' credits and adoption credits and education credits and on and on and on, just one mistake can mean losing hundreds of dollars on the return. It's really amazing, and it penalizes people who are not smart enough to do it on their own or who cannot afford to pay a professional preparer. Income tax preparation is almost a tax on its own (pretty much everyone has to pay to get their taxes prepared).
I guess they don't care enough to release better than Acrobat 5 for Solaris/SPARC. It would be neat if Acrobat 7 worked under Solaris/x86's Linux compatibility layer.
The whitelisting is best for young kids, and the parent needs to choose when the whitelisting can be lifted. I didn't mean to suggest that 16-year-olds aren't mature enough for the WWW, that was just an example. Also, there are much worse things than goatse.cx out there (dead body fetish sites, animal porn, scat sites, religious cult sites, and so forth).
Other than dust collecting, there isn't any disadvantage to leaving it on all the time. The fans all have dual-ball bearings, the hard drive is a 5-year-warranty Ultra320 SCSI unit, the RAM has ECC, and my UPS handles power irregularities. This baby is set for years.
OSS is a perfect stomping ground for new ideas. As these ideas mature, the bad ones get weeded out, and they gain popularity, even the big commercial vendors adopt them.
For example, Solaris now officially includes and supports with Netscape/Mozilla, Perl, GTK, Python, Tcl/TK, Ghostscript, Apache, Ant, Bash, BIND, bzip, cdrw, Evolution, FreeType, lots of GNU utilities, GNOME, ImageMagick, IP Filter, SSH, MySQL, Ogg Vorbis, OpenSSL, Samba, Sendmail, Tomcat, X.org, and others, I'm sure. There's also sunfreeware.com and blastwave.org for pretty much everything else.
My W2K machine hasn't crashed for weeks (is that good?).
My Solaris 9 box has never crashed in two years, except for one X Windows glitch over a year ago. I only shut down my computer when leaving town or there is a power outage. Is this also good?
I think computers would be vastly superior to crappy Saturday-morning cartoons, with careful attention. For example, setting up your firewall such that the child's computer can access _only_ the IP address ranges you specify would go a long way to making the WWW a very positive thing. Online encyclopedias, dictionaries, kid-oriented websites, etc. could be whitelisted while everything by default is blocked. This way, no accidental trips to goatse.cx would occur, sparing your child expensive counseling later on.
With the firewall being your point of control, you can feel comfortable dual-booting your computer into Windows for games, too.
Once the kid is old enough (say 16 or 18 or 21, you pick), you can remove all the blocks for the full on-line experience. Just make sure you _ALWAYS_ knock on the door. Please, don't take this advice lightly.
I hate to say this, but Bush's campaign was pure brilliance. While the Democrats were trying to gather together the intellectuals, the lawyers, the inner cities, the gays, women, etc., Bush got out the religious right, the gay-haters, small businesspeople, and government contractors. There was no way for Kerry to win this numbers game; Bush won the election even before the Democratic primaries were over.
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Apple's new line of personal portable electronic suppository product line. "Hey, Carl, your ass is ringing!" "Damn, I'm busy, could you get the call for me!" "Fuck, man, no way am I touching that thing!" "Stupid salesman told me that this suppository was all the rage, dammit!" "Good luck getting a refund, buddy."
Does anyone on earth really like vibrating controllers? It isn't like my hand vibrating really feels like a missle hit my fighter or my character got eaten by an alligator or anything. Turning off that vibrator deal is always the first thing I do in a game.
It would probably evolve into a scenario where people can buy regular PCs as we do today, and the only real way people get DRMd hardware is through a lease agreement with their service provider. You would agree to a year or two year contract for a monthly fee to be able to watch reruns on cable.
One thing I see is that the customer's ability to record and keep shows becomes a selling point. Imagine several companies who sell DRMd hardware and access to TV shows, etc. They will be forced to compete, and the one who offers the most features plus content plus low price gets an edge over the others. This will force them to open up aspects of their service, because no one would buy their services otherwise.
I think that DRM will always be a self-limiting technology.
I really don't see how Itanium can possibly succeed over IBM's POWER, though it may have a good chance against SPARC since Sun is floundering so badly.
Interesting you say this, because Sun sells many more UltraSPARCs than IBM sells POWER. Add in SPARC 64 from Fujitsu, and that just increases the market share futher. Note that you didn't say PowerPC, which is a different numbers game, entirely.
It's incompatible. It's more expensive. It's better?!? It's even hotter. It has no workstation vendors.
Once a person makes the decision to consider Itanium, POWER and SPARC become _equivalent_ choices. Intel is competing against established well-performing architectures that have mature development tools and huge software bases. Who would have Itanium when they could get a POWER 5 or a SPARC 64? Even Sun's own UltraSPARC will be caught up to Itanium this year (Itanium performance...with software to experience it with!).
I don't have a Tivo but have seen people start getting PVRs with satellite service. What is Tivo's "value added proposition" specifically? Or is it a case that their product is too easily cloned?
Okay. Of the free ones, NONE are complete. However, the Java ones at least have a chance, given that Microsoft is in a position to leverage patents and trade secrets against Mono and Rotor. At least certain versions of Java (e.g., 1.3.x) provide a fixed target and Sun allows complete implementations and encourages them. Sun is a hardware company and considers Java an enabler, Microsoft is a software company and considers.NET part of their only source of revenue. Only people completely committed to the Microsoft platform should ever consider.NET. Mono and Rotor are for entertainment purposes only.
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Currently you have arcade machine emus, NES, SNES, Gameboy (up to Advance), Genesis, Sega Master System, Game Gear, Atari 2600 & 5200, Atari 8 bit computers, Atari ST, Commodore Pet, Vic 20 and 64, Amiga, PC Engine (Turbographix), Apple II and IIGS, Sinclair Spectrum, Lynx, Wonderswan, MSX computers, Colecovision, MS DOS, Intellivision, Neo Geo, Odyssey, Amstrad CPC even Playstation and N64 to a degree.
According to Intel, Itanium production is still going forward with no plans to decrease it.
I predict that in 2008, HP will have all the access panels removed on the servers in inventory, and they will sink them all in the ocean to at least get the PR for reef restoration. That's something the stockholders can bank on...
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It's a great system, and it works.
It's perverse, though. I've been thinking about whether I can call managing my IRA a small business, because the income would be tax free but I get to deduct all my "business expenses" from my other ordinary income... The thought of it makes me giddy, but I have no idea if it's legal, yet.
In your country, what do you call cream-cheese-filled breakfast cakes? I'm really curious.
We pay her $300, and she typically finds a more then a thousand dollars worth of deductions that we missed when we practiced on our own (even with TurboTax).
There are so many things like savers' credits and adoption credits and education credits and on and on and on, just one mistake can mean losing hundreds of dollars on the return. It's really amazing, and it penalizes people who are not smart enough to do it on their own or who cannot afford to pay a professional preparer. Income tax preparation is almost a tax on its own (pretty much everyone has to pay to get their taxes prepared).
I guess they don't care enough to release better than Acrobat 5 for Solaris/SPARC. It would be neat if Acrobat 7 worked under Solaris/x86's Linux compatibility layer.
The whitelisting is best for young kids, and the parent needs to choose when the whitelisting can be lifted. I didn't mean to suggest that 16-year-olds aren't mature enough for the WWW, that was just an example. Also, there are much worse things than goatse.cx out there (dead body fetish sites, animal porn, scat sites, religious cult sites, and so forth).
Do the fans suffer because of it?
Other than dust collecting, there isn't any disadvantage to leaving it on all the time. The fans all have dual-ball bearings, the hard drive is a 5-year-warranty Ultra320 SCSI unit, the RAM has ECC, and my UPS handles power irregularities. This baby is set for years.
OSS is a perfect stomping ground for new ideas. As these ideas mature, the bad ones get weeded out, and they gain popularity, even the big commercial vendors adopt them.
For example, Solaris now officially includes and supports with Netscape/Mozilla, Perl, GTK, Python, Tcl/TK, Ghostscript, Apache, Ant, Bash, BIND, bzip, cdrw, Evolution, FreeType, lots of GNU utilities, GNOME, ImageMagick, IP Filter, SSH, MySQL, Ogg Vorbis, OpenSSL, Samba, Sendmail, Tomcat, X.org, and others, I'm sure. There's also sunfreeware.com and blastwave.org for pretty much everything else.
My W2K machine hasn't crashed for weeks (is that good?).
My Solaris 9 box has never crashed in two years, except for one X Windows glitch over a year ago. I only shut down my computer when leaving town or there is a power outage. Is this also good?
I think computers would be vastly superior to crappy Saturday-morning cartoons, with careful attention. For example, setting up your firewall such that the child's computer can access _only_ the IP address ranges you specify would go a long way to making the WWW a very positive thing. Online encyclopedias, dictionaries, kid-oriented websites, etc. could be whitelisted while everything by default is blocked. This way, no accidental trips to goatse.cx would occur, sparing your child expensive counseling later on.
With the firewall being your point of control, you can feel comfortable dual-booting your computer into Windows for games, too.
Once the kid is old enough (say 16 or 18 or 21, you pick), you can remove all the blocks for the full on-line experience. Just make sure you _ALWAYS_ knock on the door. Please, don't take this advice lightly.
I hate to say this, but Bush's campaign was pure brilliance. While the Democrats were trying to gather together the intellectuals, the lawyers, the inner cities, the gays, women, etc., Bush got out the religious right, the gay-haters, small businesspeople, and government contractors. There was no way for Kerry to win this numbers game; Bush won the election even before the Democratic primaries were over.
Apple's new line of personal portable electronic suppository product line. "Hey, Carl, your ass is ringing!" "Damn, I'm busy, could you get the call for me!" "Fuck, man, no way am I touching that thing!" "Stupid salesman told me that this suppository was all the rage, dammit!" "Good luck getting a refund, buddy."
My favorite is the lava lamp with the hammock hanging inside of it. All the drug trips without the drugs!
Does anyone on earth really like vibrating controllers? It isn't like my hand vibrating really feels like a missle hit my fighter or my character got eaten by an alligator or anything. Turning off that vibrator deal is always the first thing I do in a game.
The people who do say these things are also Microsoft's customer base. I don't think it's a coincidence.
Microsoft is optional. Always has been and always will be. Anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong...and pathetically brainwashed.
It would probably evolve into a scenario where people can buy regular PCs as we do today, and the only real way people get DRMd hardware is through a lease agreement with their service provider. You would agree to a year or two year contract for a monthly fee to be able to watch reruns on cable.
One thing I see is that the customer's ability to record and keep shows becomes a selling point. Imagine several companies who sell DRMd hardware and access to TV shows, etc. They will be forced to compete, and the one who offers the most features plus content plus low price gets an edge over the others. This will force them to open up aspects of their service, because no one would buy their services otherwise.
I think that DRM will always be a self-limiting technology.
Just wait till your online banking, your taxes, and your foo are all on the "secure" Internet.
Who cares, when there will always be the postal service and paper forms. At worst, I do my income tax by hand and double-check the numbers.
I really don't see how Itanium can possibly succeed over IBM's POWER, though it may have a good chance against SPARC since Sun is floundering so badly.
Interesting you say this, because Sun sells many more UltraSPARCs than IBM sells POWER. Add in SPARC 64 from Fujitsu, and that just increases the market share futher. Note that you didn't say PowerPC, which is a different numbers game, entirely.
Itanium owns 20% of the Risc server market.
Nice troll, HP still sells a lot more PA-RISC chips than they do Itaniums. Hows that for a ROTFLMAO!
Yeah, she could probably afford to put unsold Itaniums into her limo seats to warm her fanny on cold days.
The actual technology is far superior.
It's incompatible. It's more expensive. It's better?!? It's even hotter. It has no workstation vendors.
Once a person makes the decision to consider Itanium, POWER and SPARC become _equivalent_ choices. Intel is competing against established well-performing architectures that have mature development tools and huge software bases. Who would have Itanium when they could get a POWER 5 or a SPARC 64? Even Sun's own UltraSPARC will be caught up to Itanium this year (Itanium performance...with software to experience it with!).
I don't have a Tivo but have seen people start getting PVRs with satellite service. What is Tivo's "value added proposition" specifically? Or is it a case that their product is too easily cloned?
Your post doesn't address that at all.
.NET part of their only source of revenue. Only people completely committed to the Microsoft platform should ever consider .NET. Mono and Rotor are for entertainment purposes only.
Okay. Of the free ones, NONE are complete. However, the Java ones at least have a chance, given that Microsoft is in a position to leverage patents and trade secrets against Mono and Rotor. At least certain versions of Java (e.g., 1.3.x) provide a fixed target and Sun allows complete implementations and encourages them. Sun is a hardware company and considers Java an enabler, Microsoft is a software company and considers
Currently you have arcade machine emus, NES, SNES, Gameboy (up to Advance), Genesis, Sega Master System, Game Gear, Atari 2600 & 5200, Atari 8 bit computers, Atari ST, Commodore Pet, Vic 20 and 64, Amiga, PC Engine (Turbographix), Apple II and IIGS, Sinclair Spectrum, Lynx, Wonderswan, MSX computers, Colecovision, MS DOS, Intellivision, Neo Geo, Odyssey, Amstrad CPC even Playstation and N64 to a degree.
Do you work for Infinium Labs, by any chance?
According to Intel, Itanium production is still going forward with no plans to decrease it.
I predict that in 2008, HP will have all the access panels removed on the servers in inventory, and they will sink them all in the ocean to at least get the PR for reef restoration. That's something the stockholders can bank on...