the environmental benefits and lower consumption aren't worth anything to these idiots in salem? this is aimed squarely at those who drive plug-in electrics, but those owners SHOULD get a little break (besides the federal credits at time of purchase) for their choice of car to buy.
not collecting enough fuel tax? just raise the per-gallon rate. that's easy and uses existing systems and infrastructure to collect. costs zero to implement, unlike a complicated system of tracking every vehicle and billing for miles driven -- which has it's own privacy issues besides. if road fuel is to be taxed, the existing method of per-gallon taxes collected by federal and state governments are the ONLY reasonable and fair way to go. it penalizes those who drive less efficient vehicles (we DO want people to drive efficient vehicles), or damage roads (larger, heavier vehicles do more damage) while providing an incentive to change to cleaner, more efficient models or to drive less (or carpool, walk, bike, or take public transit, etc).
a combination of a little higher registration fee (for all vehicles, not just high efficiency or electric ones) combined with a modest per-gallon increase should be more than enough to offset the supposed loss in road tax revenues.
at the risk of -1 from oregon residents... oregon could also start collecting a modest statewide sales tax (it doesn't currently have one) to bring in a few extra bucks. they do not need to violate every state driver's privacy by using a costly to implement and administer per-mile tax. but knowing how the masses usually vote, if it comes down to driver privacy + per mile tax vs a small statewide sales tax, voters will choose to be tracked everywhere they go even if it ends up costing them more money. the stigma of a "state sales tax" will lose every time -- and has numerous times before at the ballots, which is why oregon has one of the highest state personal *income* tax rates in the country instead.
more always on internet, single use serials, dlc that should be part of the original game, and shitty game endings...... just what we always wanted.
the drm being employed these days in games like the new simcity sucks. in this case, they actually went so far as to design the game to require ea servers to run (claiming the game needs the power of their servers, a single pc isn't good enough.. which is total bullshit), even in single player mode.. even if they did strip the drm part out. so in 2-3 years when ea gets tired of paying the upkeep on the servers, you're shit out of luck and your simcity flat-out won't work any more.
http://fallstheatre.com/ survives and thrives as a first-run budget theater, 40 year running with the current owner who has a passion for movies and the movie-going experience. today, tickets are an i'm-not-shitting-you $2.00-$3.00 each, snack prices also low (around a buck now, iirc). admission is only a buck more than it was some 20 years ago. granted, as a first-run theater with a single screen, you might have to wait awhile before you can see a specific new release... but still, it's a very cheap date -- and a true movie-going experience (unlike those mega multiplexes in the big cities) in a building that first opened in 1927. people drive from all over (twin cities, la crosse, eau claire and beyond) to go to the movies there.
those guys in california will crash and burn at $20 a month or $16 per day.. they're better off taking a trip to river falls, wisconsin, to learn how it's done right.
none. and no one should be forced to sign up for a fucking account just to use their computer.
and remember, the vast majority of pc users are not as knowledgeable about this stuff as the average/. reader. they don't and won't know any different, and will just accept the wild tangent bullshit as the way to get their games back.
the metro-first push is the deal-breaker for me... along with everything that's being used to force metro, microsoft's app store and microsoft accounts on people..
they even went so far as to FORCE PEOPLE TO SIGN UP FOR AN APP STORE ACCOUNT (microsoft), which includes providing personal information, JUST TO DOWNLOAD THE FUCKING GAMES (which are metro now, btw) that have always been a part of windows previously... and that most people play at least a little (i know some that basically use their computers just for spider or free cell and nothing else)
the big winner for windows 8 is that fucking nuisance, wild tangent, which has distribution deals with all the large pc makers... their trials and drm/game engine are now the only games that are preinstalled on the majority of windows 8 computers sold at retail.... the average/. reader will know how and where to get games from other sources, but the masses aren't that bright.. they'll see the preloaded trials and think "that's just how it is now" and buy from those scumbags.. not even realizing there are alternatives.
slax is a nifty little slackware-based distribution that is easily customized -- just copy the extra modules you want automatically added to your flash drive. previous versions have been a go-to for me whenever i need to boot up quick to copy stuff off an ailing system before it takes a dump.
used to be a suse studio-like web-based customizer, dunno if they'll do that again for version 7. but i hope they at least do a new popcorn edition (with xfce instead of kde).
don't choose a cheap piece of shit just because it claims a higher '80 plus' certification level than a quality, name brand unit from a reputable company that might cost twice as much.
why the fuck aren't YOU being considered for the position?
if you're qualified to interview and evaluate candidates for that position, you yourself must also be qualified -- even more so because you are already an employee there, know the company, its policies, procedures, customers and other workers.....
i'd be the last to defend ballmer, but that quarterly (4/12 to 6/12) "loss" was due to writing down the $6+ billion acquisition of aquantive.... which was stupidly bought (at a grossly overvalued price) while uncle bill was still in charge.
without the writedown on the books, they would have made MORE than during the same quarter the year prior.
doesn't intel require the purchase of the companion intel chipset when companies buy atom processors... even when that processor gets paired with a non-intel chipset (e.g. nvidia)? what makes you think intel wouldn't have a similar policy of requiring these new processors be non-removable (i.e. soldered on) as a condition to purchase and use them in products?
the big PC makers make a ton of money off those crapware distribution deals.. they make money on windows in the end, which is why you won't find a no-OS or linux PC from any of them for the same price as a windows one of the same model and specs...
i suspect windows 8 will be *worse* than earlier versions, due to having two separate user interfaces to pollute instead of just one.
there is no way to legislate a ban on adblockers and enforce that legislation.. absolutely no fucking way.. so that LAWYER that wrote article and the AD-SUPPORTED site that published it both need to find some other tree to bark up.
but rather, being *removed* from an *OPTIONAL* magnet program (where students and parents are expected to follow ITS rules and policies, which will often, and in this case do, differ from the "regular" schools) and placed back in the regular, traditional high school which does not use these ID tags.
she is not being denied an education, she is not being denied a publicly funded education, her civil or constitutional rights are not being violated -- it was HER OWN CHOICE to apply-for and attend the magnet school instead of the 'regular' public school...
now, if ALL the schools in the district did the RFID tags or the district FORCED a student (without a history of disciplinary problems) to attend a school that did.. that would be different.
they didn't have a problem with the name back in 2011.. from tfa:
Maxfield & Oberton had permission from the estate just once to use Bucky's likeness in 2011 for a commemorative edition of Buckyballs
imho, their window to sue based on the name of the product closed when they essentially endorsed it, and its name, when they gave permission for the guy's likeness to be used.. even if it was just one time.
at&t probably pursued and lobbied for charges to be filed so THEY look like the victim here instead of the people at the other end of those 110,000+ email addresses.
to release windows rt with metro separate for the handheld market; and then extend the lifespan for win7 (to at least 2025). that would have been the push businesses needed to finally get off xp before april 2014.
windows 8 is NOT a desktop OS. it's a touch interface with a desktop hidden much like when windows 95 came out and "hid" the previous interface (dos).
actually, a lot of people use office starter, even in soho environments.. and that's microsoft's "problem", it was cutting into sales. not enough people actually *buying* their overpriced office products.
plus, some clever folks online have figured out how to install starter on any newer (vista or seven, i think) pc.
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using chinese as an intermediary will give you text written by motherboard manual writers. perfect cover.
a lot of people need that.. but not just for driving.... for keeping them from texting, twitting or posting pics while drunk.
the environmental benefits and lower consumption aren't worth anything to these idiots in salem? this is aimed squarely at those who drive plug-in electrics, but those owners SHOULD get a little break (besides the federal credits at time of purchase) for their choice of car to buy.
not collecting enough fuel tax? just raise the per-gallon rate. that's easy and uses existing systems and infrastructure to collect. costs zero to implement, unlike a complicated system of tracking every vehicle and billing for miles driven -- which has it's own privacy issues besides. if road fuel is to be taxed, the existing method of per-gallon taxes collected by federal and state governments are the ONLY reasonable and fair way to go. it penalizes those who drive less efficient vehicles (we DO want people to drive efficient vehicles), or damage roads (larger, heavier vehicles do more damage) while providing an incentive to change to cleaner, more efficient models or to drive less (or carpool, walk, bike, or take public transit, etc).
a combination of a little higher registration fee (for all vehicles, not just high efficiency or electric ones) combined with a modest per-gallon increase should be more than enough to offset the supposed loss in road tax revenues.
at the risk of -1 from oregon residents... oregon could also start collecting a modest statewide sales tax (it doesn't currently have one) to bring in a few extra bucks. they do not need to violate every state driver's privacy by using a costly to implement and administer per-mile tax. but knowing how the masses usually vote, if it comes down to driver privacy + per mile tax vs a small statewide sales tax, voters will choose to be tracked everywhere they go even if it ends up costing them more money. the stigma of a "state sales tax" will lose every time -- and has numerous times before at the ballots, which is why oregon has one of the highest state personal *income* tax rates in the country instead.
more always on internet, single use serials, dlc that should be part of the original game, and shitty game endings...... just what we always wanted.
the drm being employed these days in games like the new simcity sucks. in this case, they actually went so far as to design the game to require ea servers to run (claiming the game needs the power of their servers, a single pc isn't good enough.. which is total bullshit), even in single player mode.. even if they did strip the drm part out. so in 2-3 years when ea gets tired of paying the upkeep on the servers, you're shit out of luck and your simcity flat-out won't work any more.
http://fallstheatre.com/ survives and thrives as a first-run budget theater, 40 year running with the current owner who has a passion for movies and the movie-going experience. today, tickets are an i'm-not-shitting-you $2.00-$3.00 each, snack prices also low (around a buck now, iirc). admission is only a buck more than it was some 20 years ago. granted, as a first-run theater with a single screen, you might have to wait awhile before you can see a specific new release ... but still, it's a very cheap date -- and a true movie-going experience (unlike those mega multiplexes in the big cities) in a building that first opened in 1927. people drive from all over (twin cities, la crosse, eau claire and beyond) to go to the movies there.
those guys in california will crash and burn at $20 a month or $16 per day.. they're better off taking a trip to river falls, wisconsin, to learn how it's done right.
you can hibernate your windows 7 (which is essentially what windows 8 is actually doing, btw.. ) and get nearly the same "boot up" times.
none. and no one should be forced to sign up for a fucking account just to use their computer.
and remember, the vast majority of pc users are not as knowledgeable about this stuff as the average /. reader. they don't and won't know any different, and will just accept the wild tangent bullshit as the way to get their games back.
microsoft linux? i've heard of that http://www.mslinux.org/
treat 98se as being separate from 98... so you have 95 good, 98 not so much, 98se good.... me.... well, you know.
the metro-first push is the deal-breaker for me... along with everything that's being used to force metro, microsoft's app store and microsoft accounts on people..
they even went so far as to FORCE PEOPLE TO SIGN UP FOR AN APP STORE ACCOUNT (microsoft), which includes providing personal information, JUST TO DOWNLOAD THE FUCKING GAMES (which are metro now, btw) that have always been a part of windows previously... and that most people play at least a little (i know some that basically use their computers just for spider or free cell and nothing else)
the big winner for windows 8 is that fucking nuisance, wild tangent, which has distribution deals with all the large pc makers... their trials and drm/game engine are now the only games that are preinstalled on the majority of windows 8 computers sold at retail.... the average /. reader will know how and where to get games from other sources, but the masses aren't that bright.. they'll see the preloaded trials and think "that's just how it is now" and buy from those scumbags.. not even realizing there are alternatives.
*WE* saw it.... microsoft, of course, did not. history continues -- every other release of windows sucks hairy donkey balls.
the year of the patent wars.
this shit is getting old.
slax is a nifty little slackware-based distribution that is easily customized -- just copy the extra modules you want automatically added to your flash drive. previous versions have been a go-to for me whenever i need to boot up quick to copy stuff off an ailing system before it takes a dump.
used to be a suse studio-like web-based customizer, dunno if they'll do that again for version 7. but i hope they at least do a new popcorn edition (with xfce instead of kde).
don't choose a cheap piece of shit just because it claims a higher '80 plus' certification level than a quality, name brand unit from a reputable company that might cost twice as much.
why the fuck aren't YOU being considered for the position?
if you're qualified to interview and evaluate candidates for that position, you yourself must also be qualified -- even more so because you are already an employee there, know the company, its policies, procedures, customers and other workers.....
i miss the days when a TV was just a TV, and phones were just phones (and cars were just cars..... etc etc etc)
i'd be the last to defend ballmer, but that quarterly (4/12 to 6/12) "loss" was due to writing down the $6+ billion acquisition of aquantive.... which was stupidly bought (at a grossly overvalued price) while uncle bill was still in charge.
without the writedown on the books, they would have made MORE than during the same quarter the year prior.
doesn't intel require the purchase of the companion intel chipset when companies buy atom processors... even when that processor gets paired with a non-intel chipset (e.g. nvidia)? what makes you think intel wouldn't have a similar policy of requiring these new processors be non-removable (i.e. soldered on) as a condition to purchase and use them in products?
the big PC makers make a ton of money off those crapware distribution deals.. they make money on windows in the end, which is why you won't find a no-OS or linux PC from any of them for the same price as a windows one of the same model and specs...
i suspect windows 8 will be *worse* than earlier versions, due to having two separate user interfaces to pollute instead of just one.
there is no way to legislate a ban on adblockers and enforce that legislation.. absolutely no fucking way.. so that LAWYER that wrote article and the AD-SUPPORTED site that published it both need to find some other tree to bark up.
but rather, being *removed* from an *OPTIONAL* magnet program (where students and parents are expected to follow ITS rules and policies, which will often, and in this case do, differ from the "regular" schools) and placed back in the regular, traditional high school which does not use these ID tags.
she is not being denied an education, she is not being denied a publicly funded education, her civil or constitutional rights are not being violated -- it was HER OWN CHOICE to apply-for and attend the magnet school instead of the 'regular' public school...
now, if ALL the schools in the district did the RFID tags or the district FORCED a student (without a history of disciplinary problems) to attend a school that did.. that would be different.
they didn't have a problem with the name back in 2011.. from tfa:
imho, their window to sue based on the name of the product closed when they essentially endorsed it, and its name, when they gave permission for the guy's likeness to be used.. even if it was just one time.
at&t probably pursued and lobbied for charges to be filed so THEY look like the victim here instead of the people at the other end of those 110,000+ email addresses.
to release windows rt with metro separate for the handheld market; and then extend the lifespan for win7 (to at least 2025). that would have been the push businesses needed to finally get off xp before april 2014.
windows 8 is NOT a desktop OS. it's a touch interface with a desktop hidden much like when windows 95 came out and "hid" the previous interface (dos).
actually, a lot of people use office starter, even in soho environments.. and that's microsoft's "problem", it was cutting into sales. not enough people actually *buying* their overpriced office products.
plus, some clever folks online have figured out how to install starter on any newer (vista or seven, i think) pc.