Re:How is this news for nerds?
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OK, how about you go find a technical book on a subject you know, and write a review? The idea behind "user submitted content", which is one of the coolest things about/. (and the web), is USER + SUBMISSION = CONTENT. If you want more technical content, submit more technical content. I personally prefer to take it as it is and see what the universe is up to today.
And the Story about Ping is still my favorite/. review of all time.
My understanding of Ohio sales tax law is that it applies to Ohio residents, requiring Ohio businesses to collect sales tax from them, and requiring them to pay sales tax on purchases made out of state. This hasn't stopped decades of driving to PA to buy clothing (sales-tax free) or mail-order by catalog. It's not legal, but it's commonly recognized as unenforceable. Since non-Ohio residents get charged sales tax while in Ohio, I consider my purchases in other states and on-line to be a balancing factor.
From what I've seen, most on-line merchants based in the US collect sales tax for the residents of their state (unless they're lucky like Oregon) and wal-mart.com collects state and county sales tax. (For some reason they know the tax rate in all those counties;-)
Scary? I do it for a living! I probably could have written that book! I'm babysitting 1200 NT boxes in four states, with nothing more than the resource kit and my trusty Perl scripts. Anything I need to do, I can write.
I agree that M$ can't break the core because ActiveState isn't the sole repository of the code, like they did with Sun. I would be happy if they would just FINISH the implementation! I want my fork() and gethostbyname() and stuff.
If they add an interface to the GUI (even MsgBox() would be good) that's a bonus, but I want all the "not implemented"s fixed first.
Damn. The one thing (besides the software) that I really liked about WinAMP was the one-time registration. I hate paying for bug fixes every year from Micro$oft. Oh Well. I guess I'll just have to live with version 2.22 until something better comes along.
My guess as to the 'why' of the whole thing is that they wanted ShoutCast, which is inherently cool. Maybe there's a place in the universe for an integrated IM/WinAMP/ShoutCast applet.
How much UV do you need to ionize air? In nature, you need lightning, or sunshine in the thinner air above/in the IONOSPHERE. And now you're going to build something portable that generates that level of UV in air at sea-level density? Look at the size and cost of lights used in sports stadiums that only approximate daylight. A coherent beam like a laser will keep the energy provided in a straight line, but I don't see how it can be enough energy to cause ionization at any reasonable range. Anybody out there have any information on how many coulombs are required per liter of air to ionize? (Sorry, chemistry and physics were a long time ago.)
Any source of information is filtered by the people that run it. CNN doesn't care about InstallFests, and CmdrTaco doesn't care about how much money went into 401(k)s nationwide last month. You, the reader, get to pick which sources you like, or make up your own if you wish. If you don't like how someone does their thing, don't read it. And/. is even nice enough to let you filter out the topics you don't like. Web sites are like the people behind them, and you choose who (or where) you hang out with (at). Personally, I think it's one of the best info sites on the web.
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OK, how about you go find a technical book on a subject you know, and write a review? The idea behind "user submitted content", which is one of the coolest things about /. (and the web), is USER + SUBMISSION = CONTENT. If you want more technical content, submit more technical content. I personally prefer to take it as it is and see what the universe is up to today.
/. review of all time.
And the Story about Ping is still my favorite
My understanding of Ohio sales tax law is that it applies to Ohio residents, requiring Ohio businesses to collect sales tax from them, and requiring them to pay sales tax on purchases made out of state. This hasn't stopped decades of driving to PA to buy clothing (sales-tax free) or mail-order by catalog. It's not legal, but it's commonly recognized as unenforceable. Since non-Ohio residents get charged sales tax while in Ohio, I consider my purchases in other states and on-line to be a balancing factor.
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From what I've seen, most on-line merchants based in the US collect sales tax for the residents of their state (unless they're lucky like Oregon) and wal-mart.com collects state and county sales tax. (For some reason they know the tax rate in all those counties
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Black Box makes several external power switch options that can be controlled by serial and/or touch tone. But they're not cheap.
The other way to go might be to find a UPS that can cycle the power based on commands sent to its serial port. I know Best and some APCs can do this.
Scary? I do it for a living! I probably could have written that book! I'm babysitting 1200 NT boxes in four states, with nothing more than the resource kit and my trusty Perl scripts. Anything I need to do, I can write.
I agree that M$ can't break the core because ActiveState isn't the sole repository of the code, like they did with Sun. I would be happy if they would just FINISH the implementation! I want my fork() and gethostbyname() and stuff.
If they add an interface to the GUI (even MsgBox() would be good) that's a bonus, but I want all the "not implemented"s fixed first.
Damn. The one thing (besides the software) that I really liked about WinAMP was the one-time registration. I hate paying for bug fixes every year from Micro$oft. Oh Well. I guess I'll just have to live with version 2.22 until something better comes along.
My guess as to the 'why' of the whole thing is that they wanted ShoutCast, which is inherently cool. Maybe there's a place in the universe for an integrated IM/WinAMP/ShoutCast applet.
How much UV do you need to ionize air? In nature, you need lightning, or sunshine in the thinner air above/in the IONOSPHERE. And now you're going to build something portable that generates that level of UV in air at sea-level density? Look at the size and cost of lights used in sports stadiums that only approximate daylight. A coherent beam like a laser will keep the energy provided in a straight line, but I don't see how it can be enough energy to cause ionization at any reasonable range. Anybody out there have any information on how many coulombs are required per liter of air to ionize? (Sorry, chemistry and physics were a long time ago.)
They're prob'ly running NT and IIS. Two PalmPilots and a Nokia cellphone can /. it.
Gang,
/. is even nice enough to let you filter out the topics you don't like. Web sites are like the people behind them, and you choose who (or where) you hang out with (at). Personally, I think it's one of the best info sites on the web.
Any source of information is filtered by the people that run it. CNN doesn't care about InstallFests, and CmdrTaco doesn't care about how much money went into 401(k)s nationwide last month. You, the reader, get to pick which sources you like, or make up your own if you wish. If you don't like how someone does their thing, don't read it. And
Nah, RedHat buys Microsoft for a case of Jolt, two AOL coasters and a green fedora.