Which is discriminatory, the military isn't exactly an equal opportunity employer. There're plenty of folks out there that aren't eligible to enlist for one reason or another but are perfectly suitable for jobs of this nature. Bumping people, particularly in the period of a recession, who didn't have that option is just plain wrong.
That's not accurate, it really depends upon where the sale is considered to have taken place. If I go on vacation to Ohio, my home state wouldn't be able to collect tax on it. However if I buy something online from home and the retailer is in Ohio then there would be an argument as to where exactly the sale took place. I suspect that would be at my home as that's ultimately where I take possession of the goods.
It's more than that, even if I did want to pay the tax I'm not even sure where or how to do it. I don't even know where I would get the form to fill out as my state has no income tax and as such doesn't generally expect to get tax forms from citizens that aren't engaged in commercial activity.
Trust me, if the catch you doing that you'll end up in prison for wire fraud and tax evasion.
The current problem is that it's extremely onerous for folks to keep those records as I would literally have to keep the receipts and figure out where to send the check. I hear tell that in most other states there's a line on the income tax form to add sales tax, but we don't have an income tax here so if the retailer doesn't collect it things quickly get out of hand.
With the exception of the police, fire departments and schools you can propose reasonable metrics that can evaluate that. However with police, fire departments and schools it's actually extremely complicated assessing whether money is being well spent in most cases. For police and fire response time is a huge factor, but it's hardly the only factor and it's ultimately intertwined with other ones as well. The local police department had to find more money because of a sudden gang war that's broken out recently.
Or you have absolutely no clue how expensive things are. Services have been cut back pretty substantially over the last 3 decades or so to the point where infrastructure is beginning to literally fall down. It's not the spending that's the issue it's the refusal to collect the taxes necessary to maintain what we have.
Around here the infrastructure has been crumbling since at least the late 70s and it's gotten to the point where the city is just working on the worst streets first and has a tremendous backlog. And this is a city in which the voters generally understand that we need to pay taxes to maintain and invest in the infrastructure.
They're not inconsequential they're enough to prevent Firefox and law abiding distros from including the support. Somebody has to pay for the license fee, and the money could otherwise be used to pay for other things.
As far as that goes, there's absolutely no guarantee that in the future the licensing fee will be that low. They would be well within their rights to raise rates in the future. On top of that it's a licensing fee per software to encode and decode, the total amount of money is not small for most projects.
The problem is that it's non-zero, which means that somebody has to pay it. Paying patent trolls to use a standard is not something that I personally think is acceptable. On top of that, it's an absolute nightmare to collect.
Except that there are some times when you need the DRM. It's an awfully big risk for the content providers to let a subscription service use a DRM-Free format for rentals. For sales, it's not as big of a deal since there are ways of finding pirates, but for those that just download from a legitimate source and capture it to disk. That's a completely different issue.
I took a look at the links, and now I get it. This stuff isn't even credible enough for Fox News, which should be a pretty clear indicator of just how accurate it is.
No, the reason for that is that pirates don't pay licensing fees for using codecs. The rest of us ultimately do pay for licensing those codecs or we do without.
As for why, the reason why is that h.264 isn't free for use, which means that Linux and Firefox and all the other free software out there would have to either start charging or nudge people to a pirate codec package.
The more people that move their money to Credit Unions and non-profit mutal funds the more difficult it's going to be for bankers to get money for bonuses.
GOP isn't going to win.Obama is up in the polls and the GOP is still retreating to the right. It's shocking that Obama is presently ahead in the polls given how poorly the economy is doing. But, he did take down Osama bin Ladin, get health care reform passed and likely staved off another great depression like the Great Depression or the depression of the 1890s.
At this point, it's mostly just the hardcore conservatives and mentally enfeebled that are still touting a GOP candidate as the winner next election. There is still quite a bit of time left before the election, but it would require a whiplash inducing flip flop for any of the current GOP candidates to win over the moderates necessary to win the election.
You mean as opposed to when he had the DoJ stand down over DOMA and got DADT repealed or used a tremendous amount of political capital to get healthcare reform?
He's cared up until this point, it's just surprising hard to fight with bat shit insane.
They're not disputing the legitimacy of the patents here they're disputing MS' right to charge as much to license those 5 patents as the entire Windows Mobile OS. It's in the non-paywall version of the article.
Without providing figures, Barnes & Noble said Microsoft was demanding the same amount in patent fees that it would charge users of its Windows Phone operating system.
I can't blame them for crying foul, the patents themselves are a minor portion of MS' total IP related to Windows Mobile and yet they're expecting to charge B&N the same price as if they were licensing Windows Mobile. That's not a matter of being unable to afford the patents, that's a matter of not being able to afford to license an OS that they're not going to use.
This isn't fundamentally any different than MS making it really hard to buy laptops without their OS.
I think the difference is that Apple hasn't yet tried to shake B&N down. I think until or unless that happens that B&N isn't going to be too concerned about that. They are a huge corporation, but they do have to focus somewhat on litigation incoming rather than filing lots of extraneous law suits.
Unless, I missed Apple trying to shake B&N down for pocket change in which case never mind.
Except that in practice it's more like "him that doth work doth not eat either." A society that fails to care for the poor and sick tends not to do well in the long run.
Yes and in the process you add bulk an an additional component that can break down. Plus, you're limited to a tiny print compared with a small printer. There may very well be a niche, but I can't imagine it being a worthwhile endeavor in that form factor.
Some experiments are just expensive. Thought experiments are really helpful in helping one refine the idea to the point of a testable hypothesis, but ultimately you do have to do the experiments at some point. At this point most of the cheap easy to do experiments, at least as far as Newtonian Mechanics go, have already been done by somebody.
Now, when it comes to Quantum Mechanics, there's still that sort of opportunity, I've observed some really strange happenings myself over the years that seem to be analogous to things that one studies with regards to Quantum Mechanics.
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Which is discriminatory, the military isn't exactly an equal opportunity employer. There're plenty of folks out there that aren't eligible to enlist for one reason or another but are perfectly suitable for jobs of this nature. Bumping people, particularly in the period of a recession, who didn't have that option is just plain wrong.
That's not accurate, it really depends upon where the sale is considered to have taken place. If I go on vacation to Ohio, my home state wouldn't be able to collect tax on it. However if I buy something online from home and the retailer is in Ohio then there would be an argument as to where exactly the sale took place. I suspect that would be at my home as that's ultimately where I take possession of the goods.
It's more than that, even if I did want to pay the tax I'm not even sure where or how to do it. I don't even know where I would get the form to fill out as my state has no income tax and as such doesn't generally expect to get tax forms from citizens that aren't engaged in commercial activity.
Trust me, if the catch you doing that you'll end up in prison for wire fraud and tax evasion.
The current problem is that it's extremely onerous for folks to keep those records as I would literally have to keep the receipts and figure out where to send the check. I hear tell that in most other states there's a line on the income tax form to add sales tax, but we don't have an income tax here so if the retailer doesn't collect it things quickly get out of hand.
With the exception of the police, fire departments and schools you can propose reasonable metrics that can evaluate that. However with police, fire departments and schools it's actually extremely complicated assessing whether money is being well spent in most cases. For police and fire response time is a huge factor, but it's hardly the only factor and it's ultimately intertwined with other ones as well. The local police department had to find more money because of a sudden gang war that's broken out recently.
Or you have absolutely no clue how expensive things are. Services have been cut back pretty substantially over the last 3 decades or so to the point where infrastructure is beginning to literally fall down. It's not the spending that's the issue it's the refusal to collect the taxes necessary to maintain what we have.
Around here the infrastructure has been crumbling since at least the late 70s and it's gotten to the point where the city is just working on the worst streets first and has a tremendous backlog. And this is a city in which the voters generally understand that we need to pay taxes to maintain and invest in the infrastructure.
They're not inconsequential they're enough to prevent Firefox and law abiding distros from including the support. Somebody has to pay for the license fee, and the money could otherwise be used to pay for other things.
As far as that goes, there's absolutely no guarantee that in the future the licensing fee will be that low. They would be well within their rights to raise rates in the future. On top of that it's a licensing fee per software to encode and decode, the total amount of money is not small for most projects.
The problem is that it's non-zero, which means that somebody has to pay it. Paying patent trolls to use a standard is not something that I personally think is acceptable. On top of that, it's an absolute nightmare to collect.
I've had jobs like that and it's tough. Best thing really is to develop a relaxing life outside the job while looking for a better one.
You must be new here, nobody RTFA on slashdot.
Except that there are some times when you need the DRM. It's an awfully big risk for the content providers to let a subscription service use a DRM-Free format for rentals. For sales, it's not as big of a deal since there are ways of finding pirates, but for those that just download from a legitimate source and capture it to disk. That's a completely different issue.
In this case that would be a step in the right direction. Flash is much more widely available than Silverlight is at present.
I took a look at the links, and now I get it. This stuff isn't even credible enough for Fox News, which should be a pretty clear indicator of just how accurate it is.
No, the reason for that is that pirates don't pay licensing fees for using codecs. The rest of us ultimately do pay for licensing those codecs or we do without.
As for why, the reason why is that h.264 isn't free for use, which means that Linux and Firefox and all the other free software out there would have to either start charging or nudge people to a pirate codec package.
I assume he means nibbles.
The more people that move their money to Credit Unions and non-profit mutal funds the more difficult it's going to be for bankers to get money for bonuses.
Do you have any evidence at all for that doesn't originate at Fox News?
GOP isn't going to win.Obama is up in the polls and the GOP is still retreating to the right. It's shocking that Obama is presently ahead in the polls given how poorly the economy is doing. But, he did take down Osama bin Ladin, get health care reform passed and likely staved off another great depression like the Great Depression or the depression of the 1890s.
At this point, it's mostly just the hardcore conservatives and mentally enfeebled that are still touting a GOP candidate as the winner next election. There is still quite a bit of time left before the election, but it would require a whiplash inducing flip flop for any of the current GOP candidates to win over the moderates necessary to win the election.
You mean as opposed to when he had the DoJ stand down over DOMA and got DADT repealed or used a tremendous amount of political capital to get healthcare reform?
He's cared up until this point, it's just surprising hard to fight with bat shit insane.
They're not disputing the legitimacy of the patents here they're disputing MS' right to charge as much to license those 5 patents as the entire Windows Mobile OS. It's in the non-paywall version of the article.
From the non-paywall version of the article. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-08/barnes-noble-urges-u-s-regulators-to-probe-microsoft-on-mobile-patents.html
Without providing figures, Barnes & Noble said Microsoft was demanding the same amount in patent fees that it would charge users of its Windows Phone operating system.
I can't blame them for crying foul, the patents themselves are a minor portion of MS' total IP related to Windows Mobile and yet they're expecting to charge B&N the same price as if they were licensing Windows Mobile. That's not a matter of being unable to afford the patents, that's a matter of not being able to afford to license an OS that they're not going to use.
This isn't fundamentally any different than MS making it really hard to buy laptops without their OS.
I think the difference is that Apple hasn't yet tried to shake B&N down. I think until or unless that happens that B&N isn't going to be too concerned about that. They are a huge corporation, but they do have to focus somewhat on litigation incoming rather than filing lots of extraneous law suits.
Unless, I missed Apple trying to shake B&N down for pocket change in which case never mind.
Except that in practice it's more like "him that doth work doth not eat either." A society that fails to care for the poor and sick tends not to do well in the long run.
Yes and in the process you add bulk an an additional component that can break down. Plus, you're limited to a tiny print compared with a small printer. There may very well be a niche, but I can't imagine it being a worthwhile endeavor in that form factor.
Some experiments are just expensive. Thought experiments are really helpful in helping one refine the idea to the point of a testable hypothesis, but ultimately you do have to do the experiments at some point. At this point most of the cheap easy to do experiments, at least as far as Newtonian Mechanics go, have already been done by somebody.
Now, when it comes to Quantum Mechanics, there's still that sort of opportunity, I've observed some really strange happenings myself over the years that seem to be analogous to things that one studies with regards to Quantum Mechanics.