You can't seriously rely on ISPs for this sort of thing. Back when it took some work to use the Internet (client software did not come with most home computers, neither did modems) my first ISP wanted to email the settings I should use to connect. They wanted to send that email to the account they were setting up.
No, you had it right the first time. Since you're in California, if you're doing business with a company that, being headquartered anywhere, has a presence in California, they have to pay the California tax. If you were in Michigan, you'd be paying the Michigan tax. Any business that isn't trying to scam the tax code that has a presence in a state must collect and pay the sales tax in that state for customers who are in that state. If the business doesn't have some presence in a state, they don't have to collect or pay sales tax for states that they're just shipping products to.
Getting a little feedback about a book prior to publication is always a good thing, particularly from people who are familiar with the subject matter or those who are the target audience of the book. Going at this on a large scale reminds me more of the two statues Polyclitus made, one according to his sensibilities and another following the advice of all of his friends. I would expect the same results with any creative endeavor.
Yes, it's in the best interest of spyware developers to write proper code. Imaging Joe D. User happily browsing away, no firewall, no mind to security, installing little gems of shovelware. Everything is fine as far as he is concerned, but then he starts getting hit with resource clogging worms, poorly written spyware/adware and things get slow. At this point, he either calls someone to make the computer go fast again or buys a new computer. Either way, he gets back to using a clean system for a few days. The scumware people don't have his machine for a little while. Not a huge deal. They have plenty more and they'll get it back soon enough.
Until one day... Joe D. User has had enough. It takes less and less time for the machines to slow down after he gets them or has them "fixed" and he's fed up. Maybe he starts to look into the cause of this and decides he wants out. He turns on the firewall, gets an anti-malware suite, or maybe he even tries out the Knoppix disc that weird techie at work gave him.
Now the scumware people don't have Joe D. User's computer anymore. Not a huge deal, but enough people pay some attention to security, switch to something with fewer wild exploits, and so on, well now there's a problem.
Sure, the scumware people can devise more clever ways to reach these people, get malware running on other platforms, and so on, but that more time and more money to still reach fewer people than they were back when they had Joe D. User.
What prompted Joe D. User to drop off the malnet? It wasn't that his machine was riddled with spyware. It was the poor quality of the spyware his machine was riddled with. So the best way for the scumware people to keep Joe D. User on the malnet is to make sure to release high quality spyware.
(This message does not endorse or support the development or adware, spyware, malware, scumware, viruses, worms, shovelware, Knoppix, Windows, or anything else at all.)
why the PS3 doesn't contain a separate sound chip: "It's obvious... Because [the audio] is all calculated [through Cell]. Sound is not the about the number of voices, but is itself an object.
So he's bragging that the PS3 won't use specialized hardware where it makes sense to use specialized hardware.
Well, whatever. I'll probably buy one of PS3/360/Revolution, but not until games I'm interested in stop coming out for my PS2 and one of these is out and gets a lineup I'm interested in.
Well, as a member of the 10% that isn't interested in paying for television (that's what the advertisers are there for), if the one channel that my antenna picks up reliably (whichever one that is this week...) that isn't shop at home goes away I'm still not buying a new television (unless my old one dies or is stolen) or switching to pay television. At that point, the television will be a movie/console game display and I'll have to get the weather forecast from the newspaper or online.
It's so sad. I remember when my television could pick up 8 or 9 channels. The stations are still there...
If you delete all email as soon as you get it, why not save yourself the bandwidth and delete your mail before you get it? It's pretty trivial to hack together a program to connect to a mail server, send LIST, then send a bunch of DELE commands. I did this myself several years ago when I was on dialup and found a couple thousand copies of an email worm trying to get to me, but mine could also just delete messages over a specified size (nobody sends me big attachments).
Last time the problem was, IIRC, they didn't get somebody to seriously figure out the software requirements and realized after spending entirely too much money that they would have gotten something obsolete and unsuited to their needs. A feasibility study, if it involves figuring out in advance exactly what the system should do, is what they should have done first last time. I'm betting they'll get it at least almost right this time (to the point that it might not be a good system, but it will be usable and better than doing without).
Plenty of people believed Linux would fail. Many still do. There are a lot of people who simply don't get the notion that mortals can build something as complicated as an operating system. It's assumed that the people who know how and would be working on that sort of thing would be doing it in a corporate setting, completely ignoring the fact that lots of people developing Linux do so in a corporate setting. Take a random computer using non-geek who has never knowingly encountered Linux (or had a bad introduction to it), present a superficial overview of open development and Free software (on the level that they might encounter in a newspaper) to that person, and you've probably got someone right there who thinks it would never work. To be fair, it's pretty amazing that it does.
The answer is yes. Also bad is when the acting comes out sounding Shatnerian not because the acting is bad but because the code playing the sound files is inserting pauses in unnatural places (presumably for the slow readers out there).
I find that voices in games usually detract from the overall experience (I'm sure there are counter examples, but I haven't played them) or result in the game being inconsistent (why does this scene have voices but these other ones don't?). I really wouldn't mind if the vast majority of games stopped talking. When games started talking, the result was, "Cool! The characters in the game are talking!" That's worn off. If voice acting isn't going to be used effectively and beyond the dated cool factor, it should just be left out.
You're right in that any chemical, artificial or otherwise, will give you problems at obscene doses. That doesn't mean we can't guess that some might be unsafe at doses that might be encountered. Testing higher than that lets you know if there might be a problem. Further testing tells you where the problem starts and if the possible problem is really a problem.
We don't (if we did, it would be a lousy simulation), no way to know (I'll bet no), and not in the slightest (unless you like being pathetic). Not bad to think about, but if you don't have an exploit that removes you from the simulation while preserving yourself beyond it, there isn't anything to be gained by considering the simulation to be anything but either reality or indistinguishable from reality (meaningless).
Studies that intend to find problems with pesticides and other artificial chemical products frequently test at doses that on first glance would seem to be too much. It's better to start out at doses so high you're going to get some problems. Future experiments can then lower that dose and quickly pinpoint the level of exposure needed for results.
Of course, those followups aren't always performed and the press release is premature. A lot of news agencies don't bother to check if science stories are really stories because they don't understand it.
Given that lots of people find W2K appropriate for their needs and won't switch over to a supported Windows, I expect malicious exploit hunters will be paying closer attention to this platform soon.
How big a mess would there need to be to convince Microsoft to continue supporting this?
In that I meant advantage to Google. There are lots of suckers using that tag, even though nobody supports it. If Google did, it's a lot of information available with no additional burden on people with Web sites.
Anyhow, thanks to all who provided good information above.
Okay, I've read the article but I guess I don't really get it. Why do we need an XML sitemap to give Google this information? Does this provide enough of an advantage over the unsupported and obsolete revisit-after meta? As for when things were last changed, wget seems to be able to figure that out just fine already. I'm guessing that it can be used to quickly inform a search engine that new pages exist on the site and I can imagine some nice things being possible to end users with the appropriate browser patches, but strictly from a search perspective, why is this needed? (Honest questions, I want to know if this is something I should have on my sites.)
I take from this that you don't agree, but nothing in your post really counters my argument. From the question:
I could be helping develop a cutting-edge game, the next-generation compiler, or even the Linux kernel as an intern. I have a higher than most college students' understanding of concepts, and some real programming experience in languages like assembly and C/C++, but that isn't going to amount to anything if I can never find an interviewer who will at least listen to me.
x4l seems to think he has the requisite knowledge to do what he wants (this may be wrong, but that is the prerogative of youth). In the case of failure, the person will be old enough, by then, to get an interviewer to listen and the experience of going ahead with the startup seriously provides valuable experience as well.
A good internship has its own merits, as you point out, but the questioner will have an extremely hard time finding one for another two years (a not so good internship which might also be beneficial is a possibility a year from now). I don't think that time should be wasted.
Cultural cats? That sounds familiar... Of course, we all know that these TLDs get misused (see.tv) so I can easily see these domains getting snatched up by all those people who have Web sites for their cat.
Most people doing internships do so because they plan to go into a field where experience is required to get a job that gets you the experience you need to be considered for the job (vicious how that works). If you are planning to go the startup route with a couple friends, you don't need an internship.
I'd say get together with those friends, figure out what you want to do, check to make sure you really can, and then if everything looks good, get that startup going now. If the problem is seed money (though if you can accept that your company will be paying you $0 until it has a revenue stream, you might not need it) you may want to consider something like http://www.rentacoder.com/ or some other means of getting both money and real world experience on smaller projects that you find interesting.
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You can't seriously rely on ISPs for this sort of thing. Back when it took some work to use the Internet (client software did not come with most home computers, neither did modems) my first ISP wanted to email the settings I should use to connect. They wanted to send that email to the account they were setting up.
No, you had it right the first time. Since you're in California, if you're doing business with a company that, being headquartered anywhere, has a presence in California, they have to pay the California tax. If you were in Michigan, you'd be paying the Michigan tax. Any business that isn't trying to scam the tax code that has a presence in a state must collect and pay the sales tax in that state for customers who are in that state. If the business doesn't have some presence in a state, they don't have to collect or pay sales tax for states that they're just shipping products to.
Getting a little feedback about a book prior to publication is always a good thing, particularly from people who are familiar with the subject matter or those who are the target audience of the book. Going at this on a large scale reminds me more of the two statues Polyclitus made, one according to his sensibilities and another following the advice of all of his friends. I would expect the same results with any creative endeavor.
Yes, it's in the best interest of spyware developers to write proper code. Imaging Joe D. User happily browsing away, no firewall, no mind to security, installing little gems of shovelware. Everything is fine as far as he is concerned, but then he starts getting hit with resource clogging worms, poorly written spyware/adware and things get slow. At this point, he either calls someone to make the computer go fast again or buys a new computer. Either way, he gets back to using a clean system for a few days. The scumware people don't have his machine for a little while. Not a huge deal. They have plenty more and they'll get it back soon enough.
Until one day... Joe D. User has had enough. It takes less and less time for the machines to slow down after he gets them or has them "fixed" and he's fed up. Maybe he starts to look into the cause of this and decides he wants out. He turns on the firewall, gets an anti-malware suite, or maybe he even tries out the Knoppix disc that weird techie at work gave him.
Now the scumware people don't have Joe D. User's computer anymore. Not a huge deal, but enough people pay some attention to security, switch to something with fewer wild exploits, and so on, well now there's a problem.
Sure, the scumware people can devise more clever ways to reach these people, get malware running on other platforms, and so on, but that more time and more money to still reach fewer people than they were back when they had Joe D. User.
What prompted Joe D. User to drop off the malnet? It wasn't that his machine was riddled with spyware. It was the poor quality of the spyware his machine was riddled with. So the best way for the scumware people to keep Joe D. User on the malnet is to make sure to release high quality spyware.
(This message does not endorse or support the development or adware, spyware, malware, scumware, viruses, worms, shovelware, Knoppix, Windows, or anything else at all.)
Plus the Professor had that secret underground bunker. The whole show was just his flirtation with sociology.
Either way, it's not really a bragging point.
Well, whatever. I'll probably buy one of PS3/360/Revolution, but not until games I'm interested in stop coming out for my PS2 and one of these is out and gets a lineup I'm interested in.
You missed the funniest bit:
This is exactly why it can take a long time to ship an IE patch. [snip] We have to make sure it doesn't break the Internet.
So, the next time someone tells you, "The Internet is broken," you can just blame Microsoft for putting out an IE patch too quickly.
Well, as a member of the 10% that isn't interested in paying for television (that's what the advertisers are there for), if the one channel that my antenna picks up reliably (whichever one that is this week...) that isn't shop at home goes away I'm still not buying a new television (unless my old one dies or is stolen) or switching to pay television. At that point, the television will be a movie/console game display and I'll have to get the weather forecast from the newspaper or online.
It's so sad. I remember when my television could pick up 8 or 9 channels. The stations are still there...
Closed captioning is mandated? Wow! My television must really be out of date.
And I'm not replacing it until it dies.
If you delete all email as soon as you get it, why not save yourself the bandwidth and delete your mail before you get it? It's pretty trivial to hack together a program to connect to a mail server, send LIST, then send a bunch of DELE commands. I did this myself several years ago when I was on dialup and found a couple thousand copies of an email worm trying to get to me, but mine could also just delete messages over a specified size (nobody sends me big attachments).
Last time the problem was, IIRC, they didn't get somebody to seriously figure out the software requirements and realized after spending entirely too much money that they would have gotten something obsolete and unsuited to their needs. A feasibility study, if it involves figuring out in advance exactly what the system should do, is what they should have done first last time. I'm betting they'll get it at least almost right this time (to the point that it might not be a good system, but it will be usable and better than doing without).
Plenty of people believed Linux would fail. Many still do. There are a lot of people who simply don't get the notion that mortals can build something as complicated as an operating system. It's assumed that the people who know how and would be working on that sort of thing would be doing it in a corporate setting, completely ignoring the fact that lots of people developing Linux do so in a corporate setting. Take a random computer using non-geek who has never knowingly encountered Linux (or had a bad introduction to it), present a superficial overview of open development and Free software (on the level that they might encounter in a newspaper) to that person, and you've probably got someone right there who thinks it would never work. To be fair, it's pretty amazing that it does.
The answer is yes. Also bad is when the acting comes out sounding Shatnerian not because the acting is bad but because the code playing the sound files is inserting pauses in unnatural places (presumably for the slow readers out there).
I find that voices in games usually detract from the overall experience (I'm sure there are counter examples, but I haven't played them) or result in the game being inconsistent (why does this scene have voices but these other ones don't?). I really wouldn't mind if the vast majority of games stopped talking. When games started talking, the result was, "Cool! The characters in the game are talking!" That's worn off. If voice acting isn't going to be used effectively and beyond the dated cool factor, it should just be left out.
You're right in that any chemical, artificial or otherwise, will give you problems at obscene doses. That doesn't mean we can't guess that some might be unsafe at doses that might be encountered. Testing higher than that lets you know if there might be a problem. Further testing tells you where the problem starts and if the possible problem is really a problem.
We don't (if we did, it would be a lousy simulation), no way to know (I'll bet no), and not in the slightest (unless you like being pathetic). Not bad to think about, but if you don't have an exploit that removes you from the simulation while preserving yourself beyond it, there isn't anything to be gained by considering the simulation to be anything but either reality or indistinguishable from reality (meaningless).
It looks very cool, but it also looks like it could make a neat programming game.
Studies that intend to find problems with pesticides and other artificial chemical products frequently test at doses that on first glance would seem to be too much. It's better to start out at doses so high you're going to get some problems. Future experiments can then lower that dose and quickly pinpoint the level of exposure needed for results.
Of course, those followups aren't always performed and the press release is premature. A lot of news agencies don't bother to check if science stories are really stories because they don't understand it.
Given that lots of people find W2K appropriate for their needs and won't switch over to a supported Windows, I expect malicious exploit hunters will be paying closer attention to this platform soon.
How big a mess would there need to be to convince Microsoft to continue supporting this?
In that I meant advantage to Google. There are lots of suckers using that tag, even though nobody supports it. If Google did, it's a lot of information available with no additional burden on people with Web sites.
Anyhow, thanks to all who provided good information above.
Okay, I've read the article but I guess I don't really get it. Why do we need an XML sitemap to give Google this information? Does this provide enough of an advantage over the unsupported and obsolete revisit-after meta? As for when things were last changed, wget seems to be able to figure that out just fine already. I'm guessing that it can be used to quickly inform a search engine that new pages exist on the site and I can imagine some nice things being possible to end users with the appropriate browser patches, but strictly from a search perspective, why is this needed? (Honest questions, I want to know if this is something I should have on my sites.)
A good internship has its own merits, as you point out, but the questioner will have an extremely hard time finding one for another two years (a not so good internship which might also be beneficial is a possibility a year from now). I don't think that time should be wasted.
Cultural cats? That sounds familiar... Of course, we all know that these TLDs get misused (see .tv) so I can easily see these domains getting snatched up by all those people who have Web sites for their cat.
Most people doing internships do so because they plan to go into a field where experience is required to get a job that gets you the experience you need to be considered for the job (vicious how that works). If you are planning to go the startup route with a couple friends, you don't need an internship.
I'd say get together with those friends, figure out what you want to do, check to make sure you really can, and then if everything looks good, get that startup going now. If the problem is seed money (though if you can accept that your company will be paying you $0 until it has a revenue stream, you might not need it) you may want to consider something like http://www.rentacoder.com/ or some other means of getting both money and real world experience on smaller projects that you find interesting.
Thanks! I'll look into that.