No kidding. My main machine (== my fastest and best equipped) is a meager K6-233 with 96 MB RAM. Wine is a little slow (I reboot to 'doze for serious work), but it's heaps faster than VMWare, which just barely runs on the machine. (And, since I have a K6, VMWare constantly reminds me that there are incompatibilities between Win95 and my CPU.) When I upgrade my CPU though, I'll definitely buy VMWare because I won't know the speed difference - VMWare should run Win95 at least as fast as my current K6-233.
I'm quite happy to report that I've been successfully running Quicken 99 in Wine for over a month now. It's been a long while since I've had to reboot into Windows, and that's a refreshing feeling. Financial software is the biggest thing missing from Linux's software suite, and Wine allows me to still use my OS of choice while continuing to use my financial software of choice.
Actually, it's a use tax. The only difference between sales and use tax is (other than the word used) the location of the seller.
All states that have sales tax have use tax equal to the same amount. You are supposed to pay (sales or use) tax on all tangible items you buy where such tax is collected, no matter the mechanism by which you buy those items. In states in which sales tax is collected, all sellers selling to purchasers in the same state will collect the sales tax for you. Otherwise, it's up to you to keep record of your purchases and pay a use tax on items purchased out-of-state.
But not in North Carolina. Here, we have to put on our STATE INCOME TAX FORM a dollar amount showing out-of-state purchase totals for the previous tax year. This is for items purchased by mail order or online. However, this is NOTInternet Tax. This is use tax.
See, just because sales tax was not collected when you purchased your item doesn't mean you don't owe it. Most people just don't realise that they're supposed to pay taxes on these items.
Either way, it sucks doesn't it?!
On the Internet Tax front, I am totally opposed to it. There is no reason we should pay MORE taxes just because we bought something online.
We'll have to see how these projects come out. If they are over-integrated as Windows is, many will not use them. There are plenty of wm's that aren't that way.
Rock on, man! I really don't {understand|like} this web browser integration into the file browser. When I want to browse the web, I'll do that. When I want to work with local files, I'll do that. Browsing the web does not equal "working with remote files" - as others have attempted to classify it. We don't "work with remote files" except those on remote file servers, for which a file browser is of course relevant.
I just don't understand why more people don't get it.
I agree - I've always liked the MacOS Finder more than anything else I've ever used. It provides a nice interface for file management and software execution/startup. Second to that, I (am probably one of the very few who) really liked the Windows 3.0 (yes, 3.0) File Manager. The same one that was in OS/2 1.3. I've always found Win95's Explorer interface clunky - unlike Mac's more intuitive Finder, I can never get anything done correctly in Win95 with a left-drag, so I always have to right-drag.
In other news, I just got done rebuilding my machine yesterday as RHL6.2 and installed Helixcode 1.2. Thanks to the GNOME developers for providing the GNOME interface, and AbiSoft for providing AbiWord, maybe now I can convince my wife we no longer need to dual-boot to Win95! (Now if I could just figure out why WINE 5/29/00 broke after the reinstall, and can start running Quicken 99 in Linux again, I'll be ready to drop Windows altogether!)
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There may be many people in Clarkesville, TN reading this story now -/. is widely read
You've obviously never been to Clarksville. My grandparents have lived there ever since before my mom was born - they were both born there too. It's not, shall we say, at the pinnacle of the technology forefront.
Don't get me wrong. I love the town and will miss it once I have no reason to go there (after all my grandparents and their immediate families pass on), but ain't too much happenin' 'bout an hour north of Nashville near the KY border.
But it is interesting how this is an achievement, soon 64 big computing will be out and another 7 years later we will be emulating the win64's:)
Is Microsoft's OS running on IA-64 yet? Last I heard it wasn't - only Linux was! Maybe in 7 years Microsoft will have Windows running on 64-bit CPUs...
Sprint PCS Wireless Web Option For $9.99 a month, you can add the Sprint PCS Wireless WebSM to your existing service plan of $29.99 or more. This Option lets you use your calling plan minutes for both clear calls and accessing the wireless internet, and you get 30 Sprint PCS Wireless Web updates included. Each additional minute of Sprint PCS Wireless Web access costs $0.25. Each additional update costs $0.10.
I figure it's cheaper for me to pay the 39c per minute (I never go under on my minutes, but don't go over enough to bump up) rate instead of paying $10 for 30 minutes + 25c/minute after that.
Are you really getting an "unlimited service is only about $11/month" through Sprint PCS?
Check your Sprint PCS store in the next month or so: they're supposed to begin offering a belt holster for this phone a la the StarTAC. I can't wait to get mine!
You don't blame Borland's TASM or NASM for all of the real virii out there or do you? So how can you blame Microsoft for something that requires a user to consciously execute and open a file
How do you...
blame gun manufacturers when people use them for murder?
blame McDonalds when you spill coffee on yourself?
blame RJ Reynolds when you get lung cancer after smoking for 50 years?
blame Microsoft when some punk writes and spreads a virus?
Microsoft wasn't responsible for the virus - just for writing stupid software that allowed for the easy spread of it. I suppose you could liken it to trigger locks for guns: the default might make it more difficult for "accidental murders" and "accidental viruses." Either way people need to start taking responsibility for their own actions.
Besides Microsoft, the RBOCs are the most pernicious monopolies in the United States.
Don't forget about Time Warner for cable! At least there are other options instead of cable, but that's the only cable option there is for much (if not all) of the US!
The only monopoly I don't have a problem with is the power company. They seem to charge a reasonable amount for their service, which (at least in my area) is rarely interrupted even during most storms.
I guess it really depends on who'd be calling you doesn't it? If I was to have a SIM card with a US-based phone #, it'd be much cheaper for friends to call me while I'm abroad. But then that's because I'd be footing the bill for the international LD isn't it?:)
I guess with a Euro rental or prepaid handset they could still call a single # to get me...just that they'd be footing the international LD bill.
It will probably be better yet to rent your GSM handset in the countries you visit.
Yeah, and you can still use your US-based SIM card while travelling overseas. Since I travel to Europe often but hate my local GSM provider, I've had thoughts of buying only a SIM card just to use it in a rental GSM set next time I head to the Motherland (France).
I still can't get Columbia House to stop sending me spam snail-mail though:(
You know, I can't either! I get nearly zero calls per month now, and about the same amount of junkmail. Actually, I get so few calls at all, I wonder why I even still have Caller ID, or even a local phone!
I get so little junkmail now, it's nearly impossible to determine the source of it. Columbia House included.
We have the TCPA - Telephone Consumer Protection Act. I know someone who sues telemarketers with the TCPA. He tells them he charges $50 per minute of his time, and he actually collects money from this! Go read about the TCPA at www.junkbusters.com.
Also, you should know that the telemarketing bozos work on an OPT OUT system. You need to tell every company with whom you do business, and every company with whom you ever share PII (Personally Identifying Information) that you do not want your PII sold or rented.
Also, my wife (yes, some geeks do get married!) is big into personal privacy and life simplification, and we wrote to the DMA and about 15 other places. Now we literally NEVER get calls. I mean, maybe one per MONTH, and I LOVE it. Except that I'm missing out on suing the telemarketers now, like my friend above!:(
Telemarketing & SPAM - Just Say No. I did, and it works!
You don't think the manufacturer of your security system has codes to bypass your code?
It's not the same. A security system isn't software and the tools to detect and use such a hole aren't (readily) available. OK, maybe in Wargames but not for most people in the real world.
If your mailbox is forwarded to your cell phone, do the spammers then automatically violate the TCPA?
Similarly, when my home phone is forwarded to my cell (as in, if I'm online - gotta love Call Forward Busy!), are telemarketers in violation of the TCPA? I bet so, because I always tell 'em "You've reached me on my cellphone." Rarely does the conversation go on for more than 5 more seconds: "Oh, I'm sorry sir."
As an aside, when the day comes (shortly) and I no longer have a landline, am I automagically exempted from telemarketing for the same reason as above?
It sounds like they're trying to imply that it's all due to DeCSS, and I don't buy that story at all.
You don't have to buy that story. They're not "selling" it to you. They're selling it to John & Jane Q. Public, residents of Anytown, USA. You & I know that there has been no such damages - it's totally impractical to pirate a DVD - but if they succeed in selling that to the rest of the nation, who's going to listen to us?
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No kidding. My main machine (== my fastest and best equipped) is a meager K6-233 with 96 MB RAM. Wine is a little slow (I reboot to 'doze for serious work), but it's heaps faster than VMWare, which just barely runs on the machine. (And, since I have a K6, VMWare constantly reminds me that there are incompatibilities between Win95 and my CPU.) When I upgrade my CPU though, I'll definitely buy VMWare because I won't know the speed difference - VMWare should run Win95 at least as fast as my current K6-233.
Good work, guys!
Why does the FBI worry? It's not like US law isn't enforced in other countries already. DeCSS, anyone?
Just this time, it's the Internet and not just another company (a la Netscape).
All states that have sales tax have use tax equal to the same amount. You are supposed to pay (sales or use) tax on all tangible items you buy where such tax is collected, no matter the mechanism by which you buy those items. In states in which sales tax is collected, all sellers selling to purchasers in the same state will collect the sales tax for you. Otherwise, it's up to you to keep record of your purchases and pay a use tax on items purchased out-of-state.
But not in North Carolina. Here, we have to put on our STATE INCOME TAX FORM a dollar amount showing out-of-state purchase totals for the previous tax year. This is for items purchased by mail order or online. However, this is NOT Internet Tax. This is use tax.
See, just because sales tax was not collected when you purchased your item doesn't mean you don't owe it. Most people just don't realise that they're supposed to pay taxes on these items.
Either way, it sucks doesn't it?!
On the Internet Tax front, I am totally opposed to it. There is no reason we should pay MORE taxes just because we bought something online.
The "E-Mail Peta" link is simply a link to mail info@peta-online.org. I'm going to write them there.
Rock on, man! I really don't {understand|like} this web browser integration into the file browser. When I want to browse the web, I'll do that. When I want to work with local files, I'll do that. Browsing the web does not equal "working with remote files" - as others have attempted to classify it. We don't "work with remote files" except those on remote file servers, for which a file browser is of course relevant.
I just don't understand why more people don't get it.
In other news, I just got done rebuilding my machine yesterday as RHL6.2 and installed Helixcode 1.2. Thanks to the GNOME developers for providing the GNOME interface, and AbiSoft for providing AbiWord, maybe now I can convince my wife we no longer need to dual-boot to Win95! (Now if I could just figure out why WINE 5/29/00 broke after the reinstall, and can start running Quicken 99 in Linux again, I'll be ready to drop Windows altogether!)
You've obviously never been to Clarksville. My grandparents have lived there ever since before my mom was born - they were both born there too. It's not, shall we say, at the pinnacle of the technology forefront.
Don't get me wrong. I love the town and will miss it once I have no reason to go there (after all my grandparents and their immediate families pass on), but ain't too much happenin' 'bout an hour north of Nashville near the KY border.
Is Microsoft's OS running on IA-64 yet? Last I heard it wasn't - only Linux was! Maybe in 7 years Microsoft will have Windows running on 64-bit CPUs...
Perhaps there are differences between what you're using and what I'm using, but from Sprint's web site (http://s4.sprintpcs.com/wireless/pricin g.html), I see
Sprint PCS Wireless Web Option
For $9.99 a month, you can add the Sprint PCS Wireless WebSM to your existing service plan of $29.99 or more. This Option lets you use your calling plan minutes for both clear calls and accessing the wireless internet, and you get 30 Sprint PCS Wireless Web updates included. Each additional minute of Sprint PCS Wireless Web access costs $0.25. Each additional update costs $0.10.
I figure it's cheaper for me to pay the 39c per minute (I never go under on my minutes, but don't go over enough to bump up) rate instead of paying $10 for 30 minutes + 25c/minute after that.
Are you really getting an "unlimited service is only about $11/month" through Sprint PCS?
Check your Sprint PCS store in the next month or so: they're supposed to begin offering a belt holster for this phone a la the StarTAC. I can't wait to get mine!
How do you...
- blame gun manufacturers when people use them for murder?
- blame McDonalds when you spill coffee on yourself?
- blame RJ Reynolds when you get lung cancer after smoking for 50 years?
- blame Microsoft when some punk writes and spreads a virus?
Microsoft wasn't responsible for the virus - just for writing stupid software that allowed for the easy spread of it. I suppose you could liken it to trigger locks for guns: the default might make it more difficult for "accidental murders" and "accidental viruses." Either way people need to start taking responsibility for their own actions.Don't forget about Time Warner for cable! At least there are other options instead of cable, but that's the only cable option there is for much (if not all) of the US!
The only monopoly I don't have a problem with is the power company. They seem to charge a reasonable amount for their service, which (at least in my area) is rarely interrupted even during most storms.
<sarcasm> Yeah, and we should sue gun manufacturers because guns can be used to kill people. Same with auto manufacturers. </sarcasm>
As a good friend says: what EVER! (picture her bobbing her head left & right as she says that)
I thought we went over this in the 80s with the VCR case: you don't sue a manufacturer of a dual-use item! You go after the criminal user.
Sheesh.
I guess with a Euro rental or prepaid handset they could still call a single # to get me...just that they'd be footing the international LD bill.
Yeah, and you can still use your US-based SIM card while travelling overseas. Since I travel to Europe often but hate my local GSM provider, I've had thoughts of buying only a SIM card just to use it in a rental GSM set next time I head to the Motherland (France).
You know, I can't either! I get nearly zero calls per month now, and about the same amount of junkmail. Actually, I get so few calls at all, I wonder why I even still have Caller ID, or even a local phone!
I get so little junkmail now, it's nearly impossible to determine the source of it. Columbia House included.
Also, you should know that the telemarketing bozos work on an OPT OUT system. You need to tell every company with whom you do business, and every company with whom you ever share PII (Personally Identifying Information) that you do not want your PII sold or rented.
Also, my wife (yes, some geeks do get married!) is big into personal privacy and life simplification, and we wrote to the DMA and about 15 other places. Now we literally NEVER get calls. I mean, maybe one per MONTH, and I LOVE it. Except that I'm missing out on suing the telemarketers now, like my friend above! :(
Telemarketing & SPAM - Just Say No. I did, and it works!
It's not the same. A security system isn't software and the tools to detect and use such a hole aren't (readily) available. OK, maybe in Wargames but not for most people in the real world.
yeah, but is this still true when they called my landline which was (at the time of their telemarketing call) forwarded to my cell?
Similarly, when my home phone is forwarded to my cell (as in, if I'm online - gotta love Call Forward Busy!), are telemarketers in violation of the TCPA? I bet so, because I always tell 'em "You've reached me on my cellphone." Rarely does the conversation go on for more than 5 more seconds: "Oh, I'm sorry sir."
As an aside, when the day comes (shortly) and I no longer have a landline, am I automagically exempted from telemarketing for the same reason as above?
You don't have to buy that story. They're not "selling" it to you. They're selling it to John & Jane Q. Public, residents of Anytown, USA. You & I know that there has been no such damages - it's totally impractical to pirate a DVD - but if they succeed in selling that to the rest of the nation, who's going to listen to us?
Here's the real problem with not caring:
but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Unionist.
but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
there was no-one left to speak up for me.
This is a quote from Rev. Martin Niemoller, commenting on events in Germany 1933-1939
You're right. I don't blame them, but I still think it sux. ;) Either way, Unix rocks!