Whoever approved this or submitted it should have posting/approving privileges revoked. T\he beginning, middle, and end of the summary make very little sense and provide barely any value. The new learned shortcut is new, but one could have added that this feature will not work for Chrome running Incognito mode (as other bloggers have pointed out).
One of the issues with forcing a company like Amazon to collect sales tax in all 50 states is that states have weird sales tax laws. For example, in Iowa the sales tax is different depending on the county. So a customer who orders a part in one county has to have X amount of sales tax collected from him. A customer who lives in another county, might have a different. This is hard enough to do in Iowa, but doing it in all 50 states, plus maintaining these tax tables (I am assuming every state is different in regards to taxing shipping costs, etc).
I am not against taxes, but the more hurdles we put in front of commerce, the more we will hurt entrepreneurship.
Many people are taking an arrogant view of these people and there math skills. Yet those same people leaving comments live in houses they couldn't afford to buy outright. They drive cars, they can't afford either. I think most people use the Rent-To-Own because of cash-flow problems, not stupidity.
Remember, it only takes one major emergency to help you lose everything. Don't laugh or look down upon these people.
You are missing the whole idea of minimal pricing. If you sell your apples, and I sell my apples, I have no right to tell you what minimum price to sell your apples at.
However, the minimal pricing that is discussed here is wether or not a manufacturer has the right to say "Don't sell my product below a minimum price". Essentially, it is used by manufacturers to artificially keep the value of the products up.
A lot of automotive parts manufacturers have this. Also, some manufacturers (Royal Purple Synthetic Oils) refuse to sell to Walmart, because they fear by doing so, would lower the selling price and perceived quality of the product.
I feel that if the courts do not allow manufacturers to set the minimimum selling price, then in a certain way their rights are violated. If I produce high quality apples that you want to resell, why shouldn't I be allowed to limit the minimum price you can sell them at?
I currently work for a company that uses Exchange to host their own email in the office. The solution is not the best solution we could possibly have had, but we already have it. The system works, it does not incur a monthly hosting cost. Yes it has its downfall (we have to manage our own spam and virus filtering), but it works for us. Windows Updates will usually get installed in the middle of the night when nobody is checking the email. Also, what is the big deal with having to reboot to install patches? I'd imagine most customers don't require zero downtime, and those who do would not trust the application to a single server....
What Joel is trying to say is that at the time that Excel and other Office products were made, it was not possible to store it in XML. Joel also reminds us that as Microsoft had new versions of the software come out, they had to keep the compatability with the older versions.
I think Joel makes a lot of good points and gives great insight into thinking at Microsoft.
I blame Microsoft for not including a PDF reader the way Ubuntu did. I'd say PDF is a pretty standard format for now. It could have been bundled with it. The way they bundled the browser and media player.
My windows got a virus (my stupidity). I installed Ubuntu and it detected my video card, sound card, etc. Software came installed for most of what I wanted to do. My roommate asked me to make it dual-boot and install Windows for her. I did. It did not detect my sound card or ethernet card. I had to boot back into Ubuntu, download the drivers, burn a DVD, and then install it on Windows. I could not download Adobe Reader (some error with the adobe site). Some software would not install either because of service pack 2.
I can't find any excuse why Windows XP would not detect my sound automatically where Ubuntu did. Ubuntu might be more work for certain things, but for me it beat my windows experience. In fact, I could install Ubuntu on my work computer, and do everything I do with Windows.
I use Google Adwords where I work. With proper monitoring and analytics we are maximizing our performance from these Adwords. The rules are pretty simple. Maximize what works, minimize what does not.
Just to put it in a small scale, if we can generate 100 dollars in sales a day by using 10 dollars in Adwords, that's success.
The linux user group in my area (Sioux City, IA) changed its name to something more general in hopes of raising attendance. Even with a more general name and audience, I think the group is all but dead now. Some people tried to get meetings back to monthly, but it never quite worked out. I did enjoy the few meetings I did go to though.
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Whoever approved this or submitted it should have posting/approving privileges revoked. T\he beginning, middle, and end of the summary make very little sense and provide barely any value. The new learned shortcut is new, but one could have added that this feature will not work for Chrome running Incognito mode (as other bloggers have pointed out).
One of the issues with forcing a company like Amazon to collect sales tax in all 50 states is that states have weird sales tax laws. For example, in Iowa the sales tax is different depending on the county. So a customer who orders a part in one county has to have X amount of sales tax collected from him. A customer who lives in another county, might have a different. This is hard enough to do in Iowa, but doing it in all 50 states, plus maintaining these tax tables (I am assuming every state is different in regards to taxing shipping costs, etc). I am not against taxes, but the more hurdles we put in front of commerce, the more we will hurt entrepreneurship.
Many people are taking an arrogant view of these people and there math skills. Yet those same people leaving comments live in houses they couldn't afford to buy outright. They drive cars, they can't afford either. I think most people use the Rent-To-Own because of cash-flow problems, not stupidity. Remember, it only takes one major emergency to help you lose everything. Don't laugh or look down upon these people.
Am I the only one who noticed it should be apologized not apologised?
You are missing the whole idea of minimal pricing. If you sell your apples, and I sell my apples, I have no right to tell you what minimum price to sell your apples at.
However, the minimal pricing that is discussed here is wether or not a manufacturer has the right to say "Don't sell my product below a minimum price". Essentially, it is used by manufacturers to artificially keep the value of the products up.
A lot of automotive parts manufacturers have this. Also, some manufacturers (Royal Purple Synthetic Oils) refuse to sell to Walmart, because they fear by doing so, would lower the selling price and perceived quality of the product.
I feel that if the courts do not allow manufacturers to set the minimimum selling price, then in a certain way their rights are violated. If I produce high quality apples that you want to resell, why shouldn't I be allowed to limit the minimum price you can sell them at?
I currently work for a company that uses Exchange to host their own email in the office. The solution is not the best solution we could possibly have had, but we already have it. The system works, it does not incur a monthly hosting cost. Yes it has its downfall (we have to manage our own spam and virus filtering), but it works for us. Windows Updates will usually get installed in the middle of the night when nobody is checking the email. Also, what is the big deal with having to reboot to install patches? I'd imagine most customers don't require zero downtime, and those who do would not trust the application to a single server....
What Joel is trying to say is that at the time that Excel and other Office products were made, it was not possible to store it in XML. Joel also reminds us that as Microsoft had new versions of the software come out, they had to keep the compatability with the older versions.
I think Joel makes a lot of good points and gives great insight into thinking at Microsoft.
I blame Microsoft for not including a PDF reader the way Ubuntu did. I'd say PDF is a pretty standard format for now. It could have been bundled with it. The way they bundled the browser and media player.
My windows got a virus (my stupidity). I installed Ubuntu and it detected my video card, sound card, etc. Software came installed for most of what I wanted to do. My roommate asked me to make it dual-boot and install Windows for her. I did. It did not detect my sound card or ethernet card. I had to boot back into Ubuntu, download the drivers, burn a DVD, and then install it on Windows. I could not download Adobe Reader (some error with the adobe site). Some software would not install either because of service pack 2.
I can't find any excuse why Windows XP would not detect my sound automatically where Ubuntu did. Ubuntu might be more work for certain things, but for me it beat my windows experience. In fact, I could install Ubuntu on my work computer, and do everything I do with Windows.
Is your firm Goldman Sachs as per your resume on your website?
I use Google Adwords where I work. With proper monitoring and analytics we are maximizing our performance from these Adwords. The rules are pretty simple. Maximize what works, minimize what does not. Just to put it in a small scale, if we can generate 100 dollars in sales a day by using 10 dollars in Adwords, that's success.
The linux user group in my area (Sioux City, IA) changed its name to something more general in hopes of raising attendance. Even with a more general name and audience, I think the group is all but dead now. Some people tried to get meetings back to monthly, but it never quite worked out. I did enjoy the few meetings I did go to though.
My first post to Slashdot. Just wanted to remind everyone that the BBC is hosted in NY at Telehouse (25 Broadway).