wouldn't they really want to charge on # of viewers?
I read (somewhere) that the movie houses wanted to force that on the rental companies, like Blockbuster, way, way back. Along with requiring a special device to rewind the tapes so you'd have to bring them in and pay for another viewing. Don't think that worked out too well.
On the other hand, an XBone w/Kinect can track the people in the room, so...
Not every movie benefits from HD. Yes, it will probably look and sound better, but that doesn't necessarily make the movie or experience better. For example, one my local TV stations boasts that they broadcast the news in HD - it's the fucking *news*.
Firefox 29, now with sleek and smooth tabs!
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The tabs are sleek and smooth to help you navigate the Web faster. It’s easy to see what tab you’re currently visiting and the other tabs fade into the background to be less of a distraction when you’re not using them.
Sigh, was this really a problem for anyone?
In related news, all I see here are a new bunch of things to disable or re-configure.
Technically a "Living Will" only applies while you're alive specifying health care directives should you become incapacitated. It terminates when you do. Your "Will" would be the place to specify your funeral wishes.
People in the US can setup/register and maintain a Living Will at the U.S. Living Will Registry for a small fee (I think $5) - or free if submitted through a local hospital. You get a registration card for your wallet and the document can be accessed and maintained online.
My wife had a Living Will when she was dying of a brain tumor specifying her health care wishes (with a DNR) and me as her proxy - to make decisions not specifically documented in her Living Will (generally, the proxy cannot circumvent specific directives). After she died, according to her verbal wishes, I donated her body to the Virginia Anatomical Society (I donated her body to science). A year later her body was cremated by the medical school and her ashes scattered out near the school in Blacksburg VA. (There was no cost to me.) See: Remember Sue...
It doesn't do you any good if you don't itemize your deductions though.
True. In my case, even being debt-free (including mortgage paid off) itemizing is a must to get full benefit - any my accountant computes my return both ways to be sure. IANAA but imagine that anyone with a mortgage and/or a few grand in charitable donations should be itemizing, especially if living in a state w/state taxes.
I payed someone at H&R a good hundred bucks just to give me the exact same information. Sad day, but a lesson learned for next year I guess.
Just remember to deduct that $100 next year (for those that don't know, tax prep fees are deductible).
And to answer the article question, I use an accountant and e-file. I'm debt-free (including my mortgage) so my taxes aren't difficult, excepting some charitable donations, associated tax-credits and dividends, but the $245 I pay is less than my salary for the time I would spent and I like having someone else review my situation to make sure I'm not doing anything stupid.
Theo De Raadt makes comments about Linux being for losers. Linus Torvalds makes comments about OpenBSD users being masturbating monkeys. You usually have to take some of their comments with a grain of salt.
He said, prophesying a future Ubuntu release name.
Yup, and I was an admin on one at NASA LaRC from 1988-92. Always wanted to put some fake floaty fish inside the thing, but people have no sense of humor about something that cost ~ $20M.
All you can do with somebody like that is just look them over, wince, be perplexed for a moment, and then move on. They aren't interested, nor would they listen to any attempt to aid their understanding.
It's not a winnable battle, so don't start the fight.
Things like mandatory rear view cameras for people who are too lazy to look in the rear view mirror...
Of course you realize that, when backing up, it's better to turn and actually look out the back window - right? In addition to directly seeing what's behind you, you also get a better view out the side windows for things that may be moving toward the back of the car...
I added a filter to my Proxomitron proxy to strip out the "autoplay" tag from the audio element on/. pages. (Am considering stripping out the audio element all together.) Regardless of whether this is an April Fools day joke or not, the person who decided to use the "autoplay" tag should be taken out back and beaten into unconsciousness.
However in terms of justice it is much too extreme.
Absolutely. Punishment that greatly exceeds the crime is reserved for people that download/copy music or movies or access MIT websites. I mean, let's not get carried away into the absurd.
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wouldn't they really want to charge on # of viewers?
I read (somewhere) that the movie houses wanted to force that on the rental companies, like Blockbuster, way, way back. Along with requiring a special device to rewind the tapes so you'd have to bring them in and pay for another viewing. Don't think that worked out too well.
On the other hand, an XBone w/Kinect can track the people in the room, so...
He explicitly says "pay for the inches you watch".
So, streaming porn is going to get a lot more expensive...
(Hint: I always buy HD)
Not every movie benefits from HD. Yes, it will probably look and sound better, but that doesn't necessarily make the movie or experience better. For example, one my local TV stations boasts that they broadcast the news in HD - it's the fucking *news*.
The tabs are sleek and smooth to help you navigate the Web faster. It’s easy to see what tab you’re currently visiting and the other tabs fade into the background to be less of a distraction when you’re not using them.
Sigh, was this really a problem for anyone?
In related news, all I see here are a new bunch of things to disable or re-configure.
Not only will nobody try to steal that stack of electronics, but if they did try to mug you for it, you could hit them with it.
I'd like to see him get that thing past the TSA w/o getting a cavity search - I mean "enhanced pat-down".
Musk said, "We'll get much bigger boats next time."
Is he retrieving a booster or a shark?
Make your living wills now.
Get the funeral (or lack of one) that you want.
Technically a "Living Will" only applies while you're alive specifying health care directives should you become incapacitated. It terminates when you do. Your "Will" would be the place to specify your funeral wishes.
People in the US can setup/register and maintain a Living Will at the U.S. Living Will Registry for a small fee (I think $5) - or free if submitted through a local hospital. You get a registration card for your wallet and the document can be accessed and maintained online.
My wife had a Living Will when she was dying of a brain tumor specifying her health care wishes (with a DNR) and me as her proxy - to make decisions not specifically documented in her Living Will (generally, the proxy cannot circumvent specific directives). After she died, according to her verbal wishes, I donated her body to the Virginia Anatomical Society (I donated her body to science). A year later her body was cremated by the medical school and her ashes scattered out near the school in Blacksburg VA. (There was no cost to me.) See: Remember Sue...
Verizon was given a shit load of cash in tax breaks, rate hikes, etc in return for providing 45Mb broadband to all state residents.
I'm sure they'll ship that money back at 4G speed...
There was a period in English prescriptivist grammar when people authors of grammar books would attempt to "rationalize" the language...
In contrast to those non-people authors... ?
When can I 3D print one at home? Surely in this era of 3D printed guns and powerful computers, this should be trivial.
Just 3D print the split logs - duh.
They just want less animals to be born.
Or fewer.
It does not suck that bad anymore. For anyone still having a grudge against Unity, I recommend trying it again at this point.
How would you feel about the sentence: "Your brain surgeon does not suck that bad anymore."
That's better than the one I saw:
Line 1: How much did you make last year? ______
Line 2: Send it in.
It doesn't do you any good if you don't itemize your deductions though.
True. In my case, even being debt-free (including mortgage paid off) itemizing is a must to get full benefit - any my accountant computes my return both ways to be sure. IANAA but imagine that anyone with a mortgage and/or a few grand in charitable donations should be itemizing, especially if living in a state w/state taxes.
I payed someone at H&R a good hundred bucks just to give me the exact same information. Sad day, but a lesson learned for next year I guess.
Just remember to deduct that $100 next year (for those that don't know, tax prep fees are deductible).
And to answer the article question, I use an accountant and e-file. I'm debt-free (including my mortgage) so my taxes aren't difficult, excepting some charitable donations, associated tax-credits and dividends, but the $245 I pay is less than my salary for the time I would spent and I like having someone else review my situation to make sure I'm not doing anything stupid.
Fuck Comcast
Comcast, the /. Beta of ISPs. [ okay, perhaps that's a little unfair to Comcast. :-) ]
Just thank your lucky stars that you're not in Linux-land, or some other godawful free software environment, 'cause you would have to type
>apt-get upgrade
in a terminal. This is obviously way too difficult for any human being, ...
Don't kid yourself, it would be: apt-get dist-upgrade
Theo De Raadt makes comments about Linux being for losers. Linus Torvalds makes comments about OpenBSD users being masturbating monkeys. You usually have to take some of their comments with a grain of salt.
He said, prophesying a future Ubuntu release name.
The Cray-2 did this in 1985 using a liquid called Fluorinert also invented by 3M:
Cray-2
Fluorinert
Yup, and I was an admin on one at NASA LaRC from 1988-92. Always wanted to put some fake floaty fish inside the thing, but people have no sense of humor about something that cost ~ $20M.
Okay, while not a jetpack, this thing could send you 100 miles at Mach 7. Obviously, sticking the landing might be rough.
The institute will continue operating both clocks for now at its campus in Boulder, Colorado.
A man with one atomic clock knows the time, a man with two is never sure - every 300 million years or so, sigh.
All you can do with somebody like that is just look them over, wince, be perplexed for a moment, and then move on. They aren't interested, nor would they listen to any attempt to aid their understanding.
It's not a winnable battle, so don't start the fight.
In other words: You can't argue with stupid.
Things like mandatory rear view cameras for people who are too lazy to look in the rear view mirror...
Of course you realize that, when backing up, it's better to turn and actually look out the back window - right? In addition to directly seeing what's behind you, you also get a better view out the side windows for things that may be moving toward the back of the car...
Please have an option to turn that audio OFF.
I added a filter to my Proxomitron proxy to strip out the "autoplay" tag from the audio element on /. pages. (Am considering stripping out the audio element all together.) Regardless of whether this is an April Fools day joke or not, the person who decided to use the "autoplay" tag should be taken out back and beaten into unconsciousness.
However in terms of justice it is much too extreme.
Absolutely. Punishment that greatly exceeds the crime is reserved for people that download/copy music or movies or access MIT websites. I mean, let's not get carried away into the absurd.