So instead of walking across their own parking lot Google has to bus them in from the surrounding community. This is the solution to the traffic problem?
Or, you know, they could build offices in cities with free capacity.
Amazing. Apparently in your world, only right wing folks use blanket statements!
And yet, I am not amazed that in your world, straw man arguments are considered valid. I must not be new here.
We should remember that FLOSS reacted very quickly to the "revelation," but the bug itself has been sitting there for years, which isn't really supposed to happen.
Unfortunately, the very same thing happens in proprietary software. And "isn't supposed to happen" is a misunderstanding. It's just supposed to happen less, and it's supposed to get fixed easier. The latter, at least, has been proven out.
It would be fine with me if the USB port was just powered.
Given how simple USB wiring is, that's trivial to fix. Get a nice buck converter for a few bucks on eBay, and wire in a USB power injection cable.
like the other poster said, all I want in there is an amp and speakers with a jack for audio input
That's what I put in my truck. You can't listen to optical media in it unless you have a heavy load, because the suspension is too hard. So I have a $20 amplifier with stereo in and four outputs.
I'd like my 1964 Dodge back. fixable, the controls fall where your hands are, no menus, and no nonsense.
Yes, if I had perfect foresight instead of excellent hindsight, I'd have kept my 1960 Dodge. It got over 20 mpg on the freeway and it was stupid simple. But I didn't know how to rebuild a brake system then (dirt simple, as it turns out) and so I couldn't afford to keep it.
It's more reliable. Bluetooth Audio is miserably finicky. The only thing that ever worked right with my JVC was AT&T Fuze. With a couple different Android devices now including the Nexus 4 I get occasional skips. I used to use an Xperia Play, that skipped a lot. Flawless using the headphone cable in my truck instead.
I'm going to try adding bluetooth to my car anyway, switching into the line inputs from the changer with an audio signal relay, and using an ultra-cheap receiver. but i'm also going to have line in, just in case.
I also don't doubt that there are times when 3rd parties are served or even well served by the outcomes of such lobbying.
So lobbying can have good outcomes.
But these things ought not be decided based on who has money and who doesn't. I am all for impacts being analyzed and plans being made to make sure people are not unduly disrupted, but decisions should be made on merit.
It is difficult to separate the feelings that someone bought a result you don't like from an objective analysis of whether what you wanted them to do was rejected after an analysis of the issues. In this case, a "tell me how much I owe" version of federal taxes -- I seem to recall that there was such a system in place many years ago (1970's?) where the taxpayer would send in a form saying "tell me what you want" and the IRS did. I don't hear much about that anymore, so I suspect that it died, and why it died may give a clue to why it wasn't a good idea to bring it back. I don't know.
We should not allow buggy whip manufactures to be able to lobby to ensure their livelihood.
Why not? If you grant that there are sometimes good outcomes from lobbying, just how do you write this new law prohibiting buggy whip makers while still allowing the useful lobbying?
What SHOULD be the rule is that decisions are made based on merit, and anyone who wants to lobby should have the right to make that speech.
Let's face it, there are a lot of people employed as accountants and I guess nowadays, a fair amount of software developers and business.
The people who this simplified "let the government figure it out and send back what they think I deserve" plan wouldn't apply to the vast majority of people who use accountants or probably even most of those who use TurboTax. They're using an accountant because they want every penny back that they deserve. Yes, I said deserve -- the legal amount.
There are already several free tax filing systems. TaxACT Online, H&R Block, The IRS, and even TurboTAX, the very company that is being slammed for allegedly standing in the way of free tax filing. If you are a die-hard, you can download the forms and send them in for the price of a stamp or two (my state forms, seven pages of paper, cost $0.70 to mail.)
Incoming water is also charged a sewer fee, essentially doubling the cost. I can put a separate meter on my outside nozzle so that when I fill the pool, wash the car or water the garden, I'm not also being billed for the (not directly used) sewer fee.
Just wait, the city will start to tax you for evaporation for water released into the outside world...
I let my C64 go already. Still have a 1541, can't bear to actually throw it away but they're not really worth much and who knows if it even still works.
The big story up here in Canada last year was the IRS going after dual-citizens who'd not filed their incomes with the US
It's not just the country, it's the states, too. I moved to Texas for a while, and California had enough information to know this. You're not required to file if you don't owe, but they decided to tax me for my Texan income and then I did owe according to them, and then they came after me for back taxes of thousands when they actually owed me over a hundred bucks.
Corruption weakens governments. We're ripe for plucking.
As is always the case with situations like this it's not that the update is broken it's that there is some common software that prevents it installing.
That should not be possible. If it is, then both the update and the OS are broken.
This isn't even a Windows specific issue, god only knows I've had Linux software break enough times that apt-get update fails on some items.
Yes. Apt-get is really pretty miserable. It just happens to be better than everything else. Although, to be fair, there is no permission-fixing tool, something that commercial Unixes had back in the 1980s. That's horrendous. Having to reinstall all packages on the system to fix perms is insane.
I'm not overtly trying to defend Microsoft here, but I do sympathise with the problem and it would be completely dishonest to claim only Microsoft has this problem.
Nobody claimed that. You wrote that whole comment just so you could wind up by attacking a straw man? I see why you didn't log in.
But but but, AMD really used to suck 10 years ago, so they must still suck and are unacceptable!
Ten years ago, AMD had good hardware but shitty drivers. Ten years on, nothing has changed, except that Intel makes faster processors.
The latest greatest drivers for the last AMD stuff I tried led to bluescreens in Win7 on boot which I fixed by replacing the card with an nvidia unit. Worked fine with the VGA driver, then I had to load last known good config because having the ATI driver active meant crash.
When AMD figures out how to write drivers, they can call me. I was willing to pay a lot less for a little less performance, but I'm tired of not actually being able to use the hardware.
And now we know why cars that have a metal value of a few bucks cost thousands,
First, the metal value of a car is actually in the hundreds. You need to compare at least the sheet metal and forged stock, not just the ingots. Second, that metal has been made into stuff. You need to also account for the cost of things like fasteners. Electronics aside, many cars have a significant cost of production. Some of the fanciest cars that cost millions of dollars aren't even profitable, they're just made to maintain cachet.
I don't think there is much of a taboo on discussing climate engineering. It's just that all of the proposals I have heard about are just stupid / won't work / would screw up things more, etc. Then there is the "what could possibly go wrong" factor.
It's fine to discuss climate engineering but they'll have to come up with something much better than anything now out there.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.
