And that would be assuming that 50$ is what the developer could make from it. For the developer to get that the retailer would have to charge between 75 and 100$ or possibly more.
What I said when I said misleading may be misleading, what I meant is that if for example a good is sold outside the country since the earlier VATs were already figured in, it isn't usually possible to remove them and you can end up being taxed for the product more if it goes through multiple countries, this is of course a problem being a member of the EU is supposed to solve, and of course instead of taxes if the product is sold outside the country you have tarrifs, so in theory is all works out, but with the VAT being at 17.5% compared to the highest sales taxes I've seen in the US at 10% that theory doesn't hold up well.
It is called Value Added Tax due to it being applied whenever the value of a product is increased.
In the US for example if a product is taxable it is taxed once, at the end to the consumer, everyone else in the chain gets a tax certificate which enables them to buy the raw goods without tax.
In places where a VAT is applied everytime the product increases in value it is applied. Shoes for example, once on the raw leather, once again when it gets assembled, and once more at the retailer, so that 17.5% is even more misleading depending on how many peoples hands it went through.
Growing the population in the USA (31 people per sq km)is wonderful, if we had the population density of Germany (232 people per sq km) we would have 2,233,949,112 people, a far cry from the just turned 300,000,000 we do have.
Then again Germany had a couple slight problems last century do to living space.
But even allowing that we the USA doesn't quite want Germany's population density I think it can handle quite a bit more than it has now.
Figures were found on wikipedia, take them with whatever grain of salt you wish.
Well you know, that "Related Stories" section, uhm, you might want to click the link there. It kind of spells out everything without rehashing it for the people that already know.
They're not supposed to for that exact reason. The company I formerly worked for installed OEM versions of XP Pro and part of the process before shipping the machine to the customer is to run sysprep, which then presents the click through license, no desktop until they do.
But in 2-3 years the next Nintendo will still only be 250$(Nintendo has quite a long history of pricing at this point) and so adjusted for inflation cheaper than what you bought today. But a the Sony PS3 you bought for 700$ today will no longer be top of the line, will "only" do 1080P and will also have a replacement, guess how much it will cost.
AMD and Intel are both expecting to ship dual processor quad core configurations by the end of this year, Slahdot recently had an article about AMD doing this, Anandtech has a review of a new dual CPU Apple that had dual core chips that they upgraded and had running two quad core chips.
Based on this somewhere around 20 core systems would not be out of place in 5 years on the professional desktop.
It still is a niche market, now with 500 more niches.
Re:How about some more *durable* flash drives?
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The current ones are pretty durable, I recently thought I misplaced or lost the 1GB SanDisk Cruzer micro I have, as I was thinking about maybe getting a replacement my neighbor comes by and asks me if I had lost a flash drive, turns out it was mine and his kid had found it, one side of the rubber sleeve that is on it had turned completely clear from a flourescent pink color and there are a couple patches of what might be rust, so it had been sitting outside for a while for the sun to bleach it like that, thing is it still works perfectly fine.
My favorite was when a co worker installed either AOL IM or ICQ on his machine and it dropped a Install AOL icon on his desktop, except it wasn't really an icon it was some kind of weird thing, if you tried to delete it it ignored you, you could right click and choose delete and it would tell you that you had to be an administrator to remove it, problem was, he was part of the administrators group, we ended up having to have him actually log on the Administrator to remove, we never did figure out what the hell it was and we told him to just use Gaim from then on anywho.
But if they're making lots of money, that kind of implies not as many people are copying it, at least to a certain degree.
Say two bands have each 1,000,000 albums in circulation, band A makes a new album and only sells one copy and the other 999,999 are copied and put onto blank CDs, they would only get the royalty for the one CD, now take band B, who makes a new album and all 1,000,000 out there are originals, now they get all the royalties for each album sold and have sales 1,000,000 times greater, and they're the ones who get the money from this new tax?
Of course we all know the record companies and RIAA equivelants are the only ones who will see any of this money.
>Paper files are not kept within folders within folders within folders.
Not folders within folders within folders, but close enough, documents which are in folders sometimes in other folders, then in a cabinet, which is in a specific place in a room, the room is within a wing of a building, which is in a building, which is on a street, which is in a city, which is in a state, which is in a country. So far we don't have to specify which world.
Why bother calling someone? Just telnet into this, a telnet reboot device. I know I see advertisements for these kinds of devices all the time in Sysadmin Magazine.
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There are a lot of newspaper clippings in the game that tell what happened, you have to have the resolution set decently and some stuff you have to use the zoom on, but if you're just running from room to room you will definately miss it. There was a link to it in another post here, but I'll repeat it, on that page is links to some of the newspapers found in the game.
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HDTV defeinately does not all use the same standard, there's at least 4 different SMPTE standards I know of 260M, 295M, 274M, and 296M, and most of them have multiple standards within them.
260M is 1920x1035 at either 30Hz or 29.97Hz, 295M is 1920x1080 at 25Hz, but at more lines per frame the spec in 274M, 274M has a ton of standards, all 1920x1080, but at many varying frame rates, including 30, 29.97, and 25, at both progressive(1 field per frame) and interlaced(2 fields per frame), and also a 24Hz frame rate, and 23.976Hz, and then 296M comes in with 1280x720 at 30Hz and 29.97Hz progressive.
So a movie running at 1920x1080@25Hz interlaced will run 20% faster at 1920x1080@30Hz.
Isn't that great?
Sorry, I work with television signals everyday and the massive amount of standards causes me no end of annoyance.
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And that would be assuming that 50$ is what the developer could make from it. For the developer to get that the retailer would have to charge between 75 and 100$ or possibly more.
Sorry to reply to myself.
What I said when I said misleading may be misleading, what I meant is that if for example a good is sold outside the country since the earlier VATs were already figured in, it isn't usually possible to remove them and you can end up being taxed for the product more if it goes through multiple countries, this is of course a problem being a member of the EU is supposed to solve, and of course instead of taxes if the product is sold outside the country you have tarrifs, so in theory is all works out, but with the VAT being at 17.5% compared to the highest sales taxes I've seen in the US at 10% that theory doesn't hold up well.
It is called Value Added Tax due to it being applied whenever the value of a product is increased.
In the US for example if a product is taxable it is taxed once, at the end to the consumer, everyone else in the chain gets a tax certificate which enables them to buy the raw goods without tax.
In places where a VAT is applied everytime the product increases in value it is applied. Shoes for example, once on the raw leather, once again when it gets assembled, and once more at the retailer, so that 17.5% is even more misleading depending on how many peoples hands it went through.
Good examples shown at Wikipedia.
What I am unsure of is how you have never learned of this, but me as someone who grew up and lived his whole life in the US has.
Growing the population in the USA (31 people per sq km)is wonderful, if we had the population density of Germany (232 people per sq km) we would have 2,233,949,112 people, a far cry from the just turned 300,000,000 we do have.
Then again Germany had a couple slight problems last century do to living space.
But even allowing that we the USA doesn't quite want Germany's population density I think it can handle quite a bit more than it has now.
Figures were found on wikipedia, take them with whatever grain of salt you wish.
Well you know, that "Related Stories" section, uhm, you might want to click the link there. It kind of spells out everything without rehashing it for the people that already know.
They're not supposed to for that exact reason. The company I formerly worked for installed OEM versions of XP Pro and part of the process before shipping the machine to the customer is to run sysprep, which then presents the click through license, no desktop until they do.
But in 2-3 years the next Nintendo will still only be 250$(Nintendo has quite a long history of pricing at this point) and so adjusted for inflation cheaper than what you bought today. But a the Sony PS3 you bought for 700$ today will no longer be top of the line, will "only" do 1080P and will also have a replacement, guess how much it will cost.
He didn't say RHE to WinXP he said RHWS to WinXP. Ubuntu still doesn't fill the need he has ie support and or training.
AMD and Intel are both expecting to ship dual processor quad core configurations by the end of this year, Slahdot recently had an article about AMD doing this, Anandtech has a review of a new dual CPU Apple that had dual core chips that they upgraded and had running two quad core chips.
Based on this somewhere around 20 core systems would not be out of place in 5 years on the professional desktop.
So uh, when did actors stop being members of the public?
Can I stop being a member of the public?
No one said invented, but they are the current publisher and therefore maker of D&D.
It still is a niche market, now with 500 more niches.
The current ones are pretty durable, I recently thought I misplaced or lost the 1GB SanDisk Cruzer micro I have, as I was thinking about maybe getting a replacement my neighbor comes by and asks me if I had lost a flash drive, turns out it was mine and his kid had found it, one side of the rubber sleeve that is on it had turned completely clear from a flourescent pink color and there are a couple patches of what might be rust, so it had been sitting outside for a while for the sun to bleach it like that, thing is it still works perfectly fine.
But then it loses value and ends up just an ordinary baseball you can get for 5$.
My favorite was when a co worker installed either AOL IM or ICQ on his machine and it dropped a Install AOL icon on his desktop, except it wasn't really an icon it was some kind of weird thing, if you tried to delete it it ignored you, you could right click and choose delete and it would tell you that you had to be an administrator to remove it, problem was, he was part of the administrators group, we ended up having to have him actually log on the Administrator to remove, we never did figure out what the hell it was and we told him to just use Gaim from then on anywho.
Proportional to their royalties?
But if they're making lots of money, that kind of implies not as many people are copying it, at least to a certain degree.
Say two bands have each 1,000,000 albums in circulation, band A makes a new album and only sells one copy and the other 999,999 are copied and put onto blank CDs, they would only get the royalty for the one CD, now take band B, who makes a new album and all 1,000,000 out there are originals, now they get all the royalties for each album sold and have sales 1,000,000 times greater, and they're the ones who get the money from this new tax?
Of course we all know the record companies and RIAA equivelants are the only ones who will see any of this money.
If you're in the US, Circuit City has it on sale this week for 8$, or grab their flyer and take it to most anyone else that price matches.
20$ was too much to ask for, but 8$ was just about right.
>Paper files are not kept within folders within folders within folders.
Not folders within folders within folders, but close enough, documents which are in folders sometimes in other folders, then in a cabinet, which is in a specific place in a room, the room is within a wing of a building, which is in a building, which is on a street, which is in a city, which is in a state, which is in a country. So far we don't have to specify which world.
Why bother calling someone? Just telnet into this, a telnet reboot device. I know I see advertisements for these kinds of devices all the time in Sysadmin Magazine.
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This computer system, including all related equipment, networks, and network devices (specifically Internet access), are provided only for authorized U.S. government use.
DoD Computer systems may be monitored for all lawful purposes, including to ensure that their use is authorized, for management of the system, to facilitate protection against unauthorized access, and to verify security procedures, servivability, and operational security. Monitoring includes active attacks by authorized DoD entities to test or verify the security of this system. During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied, and used for authorized purposes. All information, including personal information, placed on or sent over this system may be monitored. There is no expectation of privacy in any information transmitted in or through this system.
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Really? The FAQ on the page you linked to seems to indicate that collaboration is one of the main aspects of the app.
There are a lot of newspaper clippings in the game that tell what happened, you have to have the resolution set decently and some stuff you have to use the zoom on, but if you're just running from room to room you will definately miss it. There was a link to it in another post here, but I'll repeat it, on that page is links to some of the newspapers found in the game.
HDTV defeinately does not all use the same standard, there's at least 4 different SMPTE standards I know of 260M, 295M, 274M, and 296M, and most of them have multiple standards within them.
260M is 1920x1035 at either 30Hz or 29.97Hz, 295M is 1920x1080 at 25Hz, but at more lines per frame the spec in 274M, 274M has a ton of standards, all 1920x1080, but at many varying frame rates, including 30, 29.97, and 25, at both progressive(1 field per frame) and interlaced(2 fields per frame), and also a 24Hz frame rate, and 23.976Hz, and then 296M comes in with 1280x720 at 30Hz and 29.97Hz progressive.
So a movie running at 1920x1080@25Hz interlaced will run 20% faster at 1920x1080@30Hz.
Isn't that great?
Sorry, I work with television signals everyday and the massive amount of standards causes me no end of annoyance.
If it is an OEM copy then it is at least against the EULA, and most people have OEM copies.
I'm still waiting for a follow up for History of the World: Part I featuring Hitler on Ice! and Jews in Space.