If I cross the Delaware and go into Philly, if I buy something, I pay PA sales tax on it, not NJ. So it doesn't make any sense whatsoever to make ecommerce sites to collect taxes for other states, just the taxes for the state the site is located in.
Or you could just save yourself the hassle and move to Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, or Oregon; none of whom have any sales taxes.
The food bank run by my mother's church doesn't accept money donations (although you can donate to the general deacons fund if you really want to give money). It operates completely on food donations.
the first 10+ GB hard drive I ever bought was a Maxtor. It died within the warrenty period. The next 2 warrentied replacements were DOA, so I promised myself I would never buy another Maxtor. OTOH, my PC is currently housing 3 40GB Maxtor drives that I've salvaged from computer's I've recycled.
The first WD drive I ever bought developed a cascading failure of bad sectors 6 months into using the drive.
I bought a 120GB Hitachi back when people considered 80GB more than anyone could ever need. It worked fine until a short developed in my power supply (when I learned to never buy cheap PS's) and the machine caught fire.
It was Seagate's push to 5 year warrenties that sold me on buying them for my customers. When I build machines, I only buy components that come with 3+ year warrenties, so I can ship my boxes with a 3 year warrenty and not have to worry about loosing my shirt.
I must be boring. Or at least very out of touch with popular culture. Throughout the entire zeitgeist '05 site, there were only 3 terms I searched for in 2005: wikipedia, BBC, and Pope John Paul II.
Well, I guess a God, who would create fossils to trick people into not beliving in God, would change well understood laws of nuclear physics.
As a related note, I once had the misfortune of being in the dorm room of one of these ID "science is wrong" morons. He had a poster refuting common scientific "misconceptions" about the history of the Earth. On dinosaurs: the word dinosaur is a relatively new term, during the medeival times there are documented (emphasis added) accounts of dragons (emphasis added again) whose discriptions are very similar to what we call dinosaurs today
There is a way to disprove that statement, it's called radiometric dating. Which leads ID propenents to pick at parts of it they don't understand and show them as facts that radiometric dating isn't valid
well, that is what tenure is for. In NJ, it's 3 years and 1 day. So the 1st day you show up for class your 4th year at a school, you have tenure and basically can only be fired for breaking a law.
First step is deciding exactly what you want your page to do. Simply deliver static information, be interactive? Your objectives are going to determine a lot of what you need to do/learn. Next step, use a good web development program, like Macromedia Dreamweaver. You can get a free 30 (or 60 I forget) day trial of the program and it's a pretty nice WYSIWYG editor that will do must of the work for you, but of course anything more advanced than HTML and CSS (like PHP or js) you will still need do a lot of work by hand.
For learning about the different languages you'd need to learn, I've always found the "For Dummies" and "Sam's Teach Yourself in 21 Days" lines of books to be great to get yourself started with the basics.
Well, there's a difference between someting being a de jure standard (a standards body decides on a specification) and a de facto standard (something that is standard by the fact that (mostly) everyone does it that way). By MS adopting Mozilla's RSS icon, it gives it the weight of being a de facto standard.
Which is a free service paid for by advertisements (the graphic, non-google kind) and is technically compitition to Google's IM service, Google Talk.
My guess would be more like Google wanting to leverage AOL's user base (they are the largest ISP, IIRC) for something. Of course, Google could also then get it's toolbar integrated into AOL's browser.
I hear about problems with ATi drivers all the time, but I've never experienced it. I used to own a 1st generation Radeon AIW. In my PII-400 machine I used Windows 98-XP and Mandrake 7.2 Although I must admit that the lack of linux drivers for the TV-tuner (the AIW was the only TV I had) is probably what stopped me from switching over to linux full time back in college.
But I never had a problem with stability; it never crashed. I'll also grant that the most advanced games I ever played on that machine were Civ III and Test Drive 6.
I bought a duplexer for my HP LaserJet 4. The feedback of the seller was pretty good, over 1200 with a 98%+ feedback rating. I always carefully scour the nuetral and negative feedbacks for potential problems, but most complaints over the shipping cost or downright buyer stupidity (if you buy something "as-is" you don't have a right to compain it doesn't work. If something is "as-is" I assume it's non-working and only buy for parts) Auction closed with mine as the only bid, so I won the duplexer for $1 (it was as-is) plus $29 shipping. The body said shipping was $35, but the invoice only asked for $29. So I sent in $30 through paypal.
A couple days later, I got an email from the seller to send another $6. I told the seller that I couldn't pay anything other then what the invoice charged. We went back and forth on this for a month until the seller agreed to a refund, once the supervisor authorized it. I waited, and waited, and waited. No refund. I contacted the seller saying I hadn't been refunded, and got a response saying that he would check to see if the supervisor sent it.
I contacted paypal. Because the transaction was more than 45 days old at that point, paypal would log the complaint, but not do anything about it. SO I contacted eBay. If ebay investigates a fraud and finds in the buyer's favor, they will only refund the auction amount, not the shipping, and they take a $25 cut. So ebay won't even bother to investigate a fraud unless it's at least $26
If you want to live somewhere where people actually care about freedom and privacy, move to New Hampshire, also known as the Free State. The Free State Project's purpose is to get 20,000 liberty lovers to move to the free-est state in the United States. New hampshire has a rich history of standing up for citizen's rights and small government. It has one of the smallest polices per capita of anywhere in the country. NH has permitless open-carry and "shall-issue" concealed carry gun laws. The state constitution explicitly acknowledges the citizens right to revolt against the government.
Art. 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being
instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the
whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of
any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends
of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly
endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the
people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new
government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power,
and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and
happiness of mankind.
And unlike in many other states, the NH constitution doesn't specifically prohibit seccession.
Once your in NH, there are many different groups you can join to effect positive change. NH Free regularly stages protests on usch things as emminent domain, and national ID
Ever since NewEgg built a warehouse in my state and I have to pay sales tax or submit my ST-4 (which NewEgg really doesn't have any good mechenism to do so) for resale purchases, I've started using eWiz.com Their selection isn't as wide as NewEgg and they tend to push SuperTalent products, but every side by side comparison I've done, eWiz had a lower price. Very professionally packaged with lots of packing in the needed places, and for "cheap" memory, SuperTalent seems quite solid, and each stick has a heat spreader.
Sadly, that's probably what will happen. Does pricegrabber currently have any policy regarding the accuracy of the reviews and any losses incurred from buying based on an inccorrect review? If not the parent co could be open to lawsuit if they persue revenue over reliability.
Well, the point of TFA, is deciding what fonts are the most readable. I have to say, I agree with their research for the most part, but I'm confused about large x-height increasing readability.
I'd also like to add to the list the following traits for font readabilty: line width. Similar to the issue of font size. Other factors being equal, a font with more to see is easier to read then a font with less to read. Font complexity. simple shapes are more readily identified then more complex ones. And column width. Take a notebook. Write a sentence in the margin, and again in the main section. The margin will be harder to read. But websites have picked up the bad habit of newspapers of putting 1" collumns of text around large images. Even TFA does this.
The author's talk about additive vs subtractive colors on readability is interesting, but I've found that white text on black screen is harder to read at length. My theory on this is because that when the text is emmiting the light, it tends to "glow" and flow over its boundaries. Or it could just be that we have been looking at black text on a light background since the invention of paper, and the alternate system goes against all of our experience. But over all, contrast is one of the biggest killers of readability.
Another pet peave of most websites is scalability. By that I mean the ability of the website to have the same usability if you change the font size with Ctrl++ like I do with many websites due to my poor vision. But all the time, increasing the font size just once, causes web elements to run over each other. I was on one site a few days ago, I actually had to DECREASE the font size on each page to read the beginning and end of each paragraph, because the default size caused the text blocks to OVERLAP.
In general, it sounds like we're saying pretty similar things. In my original post I started out with qualifying that I thought that DirecTV would only be liable IF they knew that the telemarketing company was breaking the law. You are saying that DirecTV was aware of the telemarketer's actions. Ergo, DirecTV is indeed liable.
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Or you could just save yourself the hassle and move to Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, or Oregon; none of whom have any sales taxes.
The food bank run by my mother's church doesn't accept money donations (although you can donate to the general deacons fund if you really want to give money). It operates completely on food donations.
The first WD drive I ever bought developed a cascading failure of bad sectors 6 months into using the drive.
I bought a 120GB Hitachi back when people considered 80GB more than anyone could ever need. It worked fine until a short developed in my power supply (when I learned to never buy cheap PS's) and the machine caught fire.
It was Seagate's push to 5 year warrenties that sold me on buying them for my customers. When I build machines, I only buy components that come with 3+ year warrenties, so I can ship my boxes with a 3 year warrenty and not have to worry about loosing my shirt.
I'll see what I can do to locate it.
I must be boring. Or at least very out of touch with popular culture. Throughout the entire zeitgeist '05 site, there were only 3 terms I searched for in 2005: wikipedia, BBC, and Pope John Paul II.
As a related note, I once had the misfortune of being in the dorm room of one of these ID "science is wrong" morons. He had a poster refuting common scientific "misconceptions" about the history of the Earth. On dinosaurs: the word dinosaur is a relatively new term, during the medeival times there are documented (emphasis added) accounts of dragons (emphasis added again) whose discriptions are very similar to what we call dinosaurs today
There is a way to disprove that statement, it's called radiometric dating. Which leads ID propenents to pick at parts of it they don't understand and show them as facts that radiometric dating isn't valid
well, that is what tenure is for. In NJ, it's 3 years and 1 day. So the 1st day you show up for class your 4th year at a school, you have tenure and basically can only be fired for breaking a law.
Okay, so it's your infrastructure that's down, not mine. I guess now I could care less.
What if the infrastructure is down where I am, but not where you are? The BPL in you area could keep you from receiving my emergency signal.
For learning about the different languages you'd need to learn, I've always found the "For Dummies" and "Sam's Teach Yourself in 21 Days" lines of books to be great to get yourself started with the basics.
I think anywhere you go just about, there will be more males named David than females named David. No big surprise there. :)
Well, there's a difference between someting being a de jure standard (a standards body decides on a specification) and a de facto standard (something that is standard by the fact that (mostly) everyone does it that way). By MS adopting Mozilla's RSS icon, it gives it the weight of being a de facto standard.
Maybe my seller reads /. Yesterday, I finally got my money back! Of course I'm STILL looking for a freaking duplexer, but at least I got my money!
My guess would be more like Google wanting to leverage AOL's user base (they are the largest ISP, IIRC) for something. Of course, Google could also then get it's toolbar integrated into AOL's browser.
But I never had a problem with stability; it never crashed. I'll also grant that the most advanced games I ever played on that machine were Civ III and Test Drive 6.
A couple days later, I got an email from the seller to send another $6. I told the seller that I couldn't pay anything other then what the invoice charged. We went back and forth on this for a month until the seller agreed to a refund, once the supervisor authorized it. I waited, and waited, and waited. No refund. I contacted the seller saying I hadn't been refunded, and got a response saying that he would check to see if the supervisor sent it.
I contacted paypal. Because the transaction was more than 45 days old at that point, paypal would log the complaint, but not do anything about it. SO I contacted eBay. If ebay investigates a fraud and finds in the buyer's favor, they will only refund the auction amount, not the shipping, and they take a $25 cut. So ebay won't even bother to investigate a fraud unless it's at least $26
And unlike in many other states, the NH constitution doesn't specifically prohibit seccession.
Once your in NH, there are many different groups you can join to effect positive change. NH Free regularly stages protests on usch things as emminent domain, and national ID
Ever since NewEgg built a warehouse in my state and I have to pay sales tax or submit my ST-4 (which NewEgg really doesn't have any good mechenism to do so) for resale purchases, I've started using eWiz.com Their selection isn't as wide as NewEgg and they tend to push SuperTalent products, but every side by side comparison I've done, eWiz had a lower price. Very professionally packaged with lots of packing in the needed places, and for "cheap" memory, SuperTalent seems quite solid, and each stick has a heat spreader.
Sadly, that's probably what will happen. Does pricegrabber currently have any policy regarding the accuracy of the reviews and any losses incurred from buying based on an inccorrect review? If not the parent co could be open to lawsuit if they persue revenue over reliability.
Cosponsored by MTV... Does that mean that in a few years, you won't be able to download music, just reality TV shows like Real World?
Even if you disagree with the reasons for the research, the actual research is worthwhile.
I guess thats a good reason to start using encrypted proxies.
I'd also like to add to the list the following traits for font readabilty: line width. Similar to the issue of font size. Other factors being equal, a font with more to see is easier to read then a font with less to read. Font complexity. simple shapes are more readily identified then more complex ones. And column width. Take a notebook. Write a sentence in the margin, and again in the main section. The margin will be harder to read. But websites have picked up the bad habit of newspapers of putting 1" collumns of text around large images. Even TFA does this.
The author's talk about additive vs subtractive colors on readability is interesting, but I've found that white text on black screen is harder to read at length. My theory on this is because that when the text is emmiting the light, it tends to "glow" and flow over its boundaries. Or it could just be that we have been looking at black text on a light background since the invention of paper, and the alternate system goes against all of our experience. But over all, contrast is one of the biggest killers of readability.
Another pet peave of most websites is scalability. By that I mean the ability of the website to have the same usability if you change the font size with Ctrl++ like I do with many websites due to my poor vision. But all the time, increasing the font size just once, causes web elements to run over each other. I was on one site a few days ago, I actually had to DECREASE the font size on each page to read the beginning and end of each paragraph, because the default size caused the text blocks to OVERLAP.
In general, it sounds like we're saying pretty similar things. In my original post I started out with qualifying that I thought that DirecTV would only be liable IF they knew that the telemarketing company was breaking the law. You are saying that DirecTV was aware of the telemarketer's actions. Ergo, DirecTV is indeed liable.