Application of common legal doctrines such as nexus, the step doctrine, and alter ego theory may lead to findings that Microsoft owes the state more than $1 billion in taxes, interest, and penalties.
Microsoft doesn't owe Washington jack crap, because what's it's doing with this Nevada thing is entirely legal. If Washington wants a piece of the pie then they need to change their state law to prohibit this practice by entities incorporated in Washington.
Kano points out the verse from 1 Corinthians, but there's also 1 Timothy 1:10. The word translated "homosexual" is arsenokoites. This word is derived from arsen, meaning "man", and koite which is the root for the Latin "coitus". There's also Romans 1:26-27. Now clearly there's some disagreement on what these verses actually mean, but it seems clear to me, at least, that Paul agreed with the Mosaic view that homosexuality was abhorrent to God.
Actually most fundamentalists probably do not, depending on how you define "fundamentalist". Pick some of the more culturally foreign laws and you'll find that most self-identified fundamentalists would not support their return. The belief that the system of laws and punishments given to Israel was a universal template for human government was mostly popularized by Rushdoony in the 70s. Fundamentalism predates Rushdoony. The small group of folks who agree with him seem to mostly come from the Reformed camp.
Food laws were explicitly repealed in the new testament. The prohibition on homosexuality, however, was reiterated in the new testament.
The system of punishments which includes stoning for not honoring the sabbath was specifically given to Israel. While there are a few who do, the vast, vast majority of Christians do not consider this system of punishments to be a universal template for all human government. Or that it was ever intended to be used as such.
If the engadget page l inked from the WaPo article is accurate, then the phone is butt ugly. Meaning it won't lure away most iPhone users, who, as a group, tend to actually value style and ergonomics.
The only two apps on my computer that actually cost money are Windows XP and Office 2003. And both of them are volume license copies from a previous employer, meaning I'm technically not covered under the volume license anymore. So for me it's 100%.
This will have the interesting side effect of removing older kids from the job market, theoretically creating more opportunities for unskilled adults to occupy those slots. Of course, this means employers will likely have to pay more to fill those positions, which they won't be happy about.
I'm not opposed to lengthening the school year if we also reduce the hours spent per day. Both in classroom and at home in the form of homework:
"The United States is among the most homework-intensive countries in the world for seventh- and eighth-grade math classes. U.S. math teachers on average assigned more than two hours of mathematics homework per week in 1994-95," said LeTendre. "Contrary to our expectations, one of the lowest levels was recorded in Japan -- about one hour a week. These figures challenge previous stereotypes about the lackadaisical American teenager and his diligent peer in Japan."
Actually compilation itself is a questionable benchmark due to all the variables you can't control. For instance, maybe the code contains pre-processor directives that result in entire modules not being compiled on one OS or the other? But if you're going to use it as an OS benchmark, you should at least use the same version of GCC.
The other dumb thing I often see are benchmarks using tasks that are single-threaded and almost entirely processor-bound. In other words, tests that are mostly useless for exposing differences between operating systems, most of which revolve around scheduling, memory management and I/O.
Though I'd exchange the word "enables" for "promotes". Downloading twenty feature films per month is possible because it's no more expensive to download twenty feature films than it is to use your account just for email. If the cost of net access were actually tied to bandwidth consumed, though perhaps not linearly, this would no longer be the case, and it would become cost prohibitive to download movies indiscriminately. IMHO this is the "right" way to handle issues such this, rather than ISPs attempting to block certain ports, throttle users, inspect content, etc.
Teach kids to read cursive. That way they can still decipher old letters, historical manuscripts, etc. Teaching them to write cursive? Not so valuable.
If the posts are in fact libelous, then the department has a firm platform to pursue the individuals responsible and I support them in that effort. If the posts are not libelous then they're being idiots and should grow a thicker skin. I haven't seen the posts so I can't say either way.
Apps can affect battery life. Hence Intel's PowerTOP effort. If Firefox does the same thing as IE but uses twice as many cycles then it's going to suck more juice.
Not having read the study, one thing they should definitely do (which they may have done) is fix the amount of work being done, instead of just looping each machine doing website loads. That is to say if Firefox loads pages 1.5x as fast as IE then figure out exactly how many IE loads it takes to kill the battery and have the Firefox test run only that many loads, after which is allowed to sit idle (but not enter sleep mode).
Possibly not, depending on how you set it up. Loading flash animations is likely substantially more CPU intensive than loading a static image. If the ad-block plugin has to evaluate hundreds of regular expressions for each HTTP request just to block some static images, it might be a net loss CPU-wise. But I guess if you block enough flash adds then you come out on top regardless.
So what exactly do you oppose? All wire tapping? What about other forms of information gathering, such as bugging your house? What about searching your property? Should these things be removed as tools for law enforcement altogether, or should they just require a warrant, as they currently do?
Browser: I use Firefox for the features (i.e. plugins), but the stability leaves something to be desired.
IM: Pidgin on Windows, mainly for the features (multi-protocol), price (free) and simplicity. I'd use Adium instead if there were a Windows version.
Office apps: Vastly prefer MS Office 2003 (Word/Excel) to OpenOffice. Mainly due to features (compatibility) and performance (OO is bloated and slow).
Picture management: Picasa. Free, has the features I want, stable, good performance.
PDF reader: Foxit. Adobe Acrobat Reader is bloated and slow.
OS: Windows XP. Runs the apps I want, is free (to me), minimal hassle. Performance and stability aren't measurably worse than Linux/OSX. Lacks features, but not ones that are especially important to me.
Per the article the pigeon flies 50 mph. Suppose I want to transfer a 32 GB file, stored on a compact flash card, from one side of my town to the other, which is about 15 miles. The pigeon gives me a transfer rate of 24 Mbps. That's faster than any residential broadband in my area, and probably most peoples' areas, considering you're looking at upstream transfer rate. In my area the "high end" DSL option offers an upstream rate of 768 Kbps. Cable isn't much better.
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Microsoft doesn't owe Washington jack crap, because what's it's doing with this Nevada thing is entirely legal. If Washington wants a piece of the pie then they need to change their state law to prohibit this practice by entities incorporated in Washington.
Big cosign.
Kano points out the verse from 1 Corinthians, but there's also 1 Timothy 1:10. The word translated "homosexual" is arsenokoites. This word is derived from arsen, meaning "man", and koite which is the root for the Latin "coitus". There's also Romans 1:26-27. Now clearly there's some disagreement on what these verses actually mean, but it seems clear to me, at least, that Paul agreed with the Mosaic view that homosexuality was abhorrent to God.
Actually most fundamentalists probably do not, depending on how you define "fundamentalist". Pick some of the more culturally foreign laws and you'll find that most self-identified fundamentalists would not support their return. The belief that the system of laws and punishments given to Israel was a universal template for human government was mostly popularized by Rushdoony in the 70s. Fundamentalism predates Rushdoony. The small group of folks who agree with him seem to mostly come from the Reformed camp.
Food laws were explicitly repealed in the new testament. The prohibition on homosexuality, however, was reiterated in the new testament.
The system of punishments which includes stoning for not honoring the sabbath was specifically given to Israel. While there are a few who do, the vast, vast majority of Christians do not consider this system of punishments to be a universal template for all human government. Or that it was ever intended to be used as such.
If the engadget page l inked from the WaPo article is accurate, then the phone is butt ugly. Meaning it won't lure away most iPhone users, who, as a group, tend to actually value style and ergonomics.
The only two apps on my computer that actually cost money are Windows XP and Office 2003. And both of them are volume license copies from a previous employer, meaning I'm technically not covered under the volume license anymore. So for me it's 100%.
Cosign.
Will home insurance be more expensive with these things installed, considering roof replacement is one of the most common claims?
Robert Jordan in a high school literature class? Makes me want to home school. And, yes, I've read most of the WoT books.
This will have the interesting side effect of removing older kids from the job market, theoretically creating more opportunities for unskilled adults to occupy those slots. Of course, this means employers will likely have to pay more to fill those positions, which they won't be happy about.
I'm not opposed to lengthening the school year if we also reduce the hours spent per day. Both in classroom and at home in the form of homework:
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Actually compilation itself is a questionable benchmark due to all the variables you can't control. For instance, maybe the code contains pre-processor directives that result in entire modules not being compiled on one OS or the other? But if you're going to use it as an OS benchmark, you should at least use the same version of GCC.
The other dumb thing I often see are benchmarks using tasks that are single-threaded and almost entirely processor-bound. In other words, tests that are mostly useless for exposing differences between operating systems, most of which revolve around scheduling, memory management and I/O.
I stopped reading when I realized they didn't even use the same version of GCC in their compilation comparison.
Though I'd exchange the word "enables" for "promotes". Downloading twenty feature films per month is possible because it's no more expensive to download twenty feature films than it is to use your account just for email. If the cost of net access were actually tied to bandwidth consumed, though perhaps not linearly, this would no longer be the case, and it would become cost prohibitive to download movies indiscriminately. IMHO this is the "right" way to handle issues such this, rather than ISPs attempting to block certain ports, throttle users, inspect content, etc.
If your installation is big enough, you could probably get some good advice from...an Apple technical sales rep.
Teach kids to read cursive. That way they can still decipher old letters, historical manuscripts, etc. Teaching them to write cursive? Not so valuable.
If the posts are in fact libelous, then the department has a firm platform to pursue the individuals responsible and I support them in that effort. If the posts are not libelous then they're being idiots and should grow a thicker skin. I haven't seen the posts so I can't say either way.
Apps can affect battery life. Hence Intel's PowerTOP effort. If Firefox does the same thing as IE but uses twice as many cycles then it's going to suck more juice.
Not having read the study, one thing they should definitely do (which they may have done) is fix the amount of work being done, instead of just looping each machine doing website loads. That is to say if Firefox loads pages 1.5x as fast as IE then figure out exactly how many IE loads it takes to kill the battery and have the Firefox test run only that many loads, after which is allowed to sit idle (but not enter sleep mode).
I have AdBlock configured to even eliminate non-visible cruft. Google analytics, hit counters, etc.
I would wager that the Safari market share among Mac users is as high or higher than the IE market share among Windows users. Just a guess.
Possibly not, depending on how you set it up. Loading flash animations is likely substantially more CPU intensive than loading a static image. If the ad-block plugin has to evaluate hundreds of regular expressions for each HTTP request just to block some static images, it might be a net loss CPU-wise. But I guess if you block enough flash adds then you come out on top regardless.
And I thought Russia couldn't get any more comical.
So what exactly do you oppose? All wire tapping? What about other forms of information gathering, such as bugging your house? What about searching your property? Should these things be removed as tools for law enforcement altogether, or should they just require a warrant, as they currently do?
It really depends on the apps in question:
Browser: I use Firefox for the features (i.e. plugins), but the stability leaves something to be desired.
IM: Pidgin on Windows, mainly for the features (multi-protocol), price (free) and simplicity. I'd use Adium instead if there were a Windows version.
Office apps: Vastly prefer MS Office 2003 (Word/Excel) to OpenOffice. Mainly due to features (compatibility) and performance (OO is bloated and slow).
Picture management: Picasa. Free, has the features I want, stable, good performance.
PDF reader: Foxit. Adobe Acrobat Reader is bloated and slow.
OS: Windows XP. Runs the apps I want, is free (to me), minimal hassle. Performance and stability aren't measurably worse than Linux/OSX. Lacks features, but not ones that are especially important to me.
Per the article the pigeon flies 50 mph. Suppose I want to transfer a 32 GB file, stored on a compact flash card, from one side of my town to the other, which is about 15 miles. The pigeon gives me a transfer rate of 24 Mbps. That's faster than any residential broadband in my area, and probably most peoples' areas, considering you're looking at upstream transfer rate. In my area the "high end" DSL option offers an upstream rate of 768 Kbps. Cable isn't much better.