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Without a presence in Texas, Amazon is not obligated to collect sales tax. However, the customer must then pay a 'use tax', which is the same rate as the sales tax: http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/sales/faq_use.html

What the public in general seems to miss is that the tax revenue is due one way or another - either Amazon collects or customers self pay. Most of the public who are not business owners do not realize they need to self pay - it is neither enforced nor made obvious that one needs to do so. So instead of making the public aware of 'use tax' and trying to enforce it, the Texas legislature is trying to change the definition of an in-state presence to include independent subsidiaries, affiliates, etc. Then by doing so, the government can force the merchant to collect the taxes owed for them.

The first 'internet sales tax' bill was passed by the legislature but vetoed by the governor. Similar language was added to an omnibus spending bill, which is much more likely to survive.
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I dropped my phone, yes a fall of two feet onto fluffy carpet is 'dropping' but really come on! Later on when I looked the screen was blank.

Called HTC support and the first question I was asked mere seconds after calling was "Did you drop it?" so me being an honest person said yes. Apparently that's bad being honest and in this situation it meant any damage was my fault no matter what it was. The phone was still under warranty.

I argued with them for a month it was under warranty and the phone can't be so delicate that dropping it like I did caused the problem. The stalemate ended when HTC threatened to send it back to me charging me a fee for looking at the phone. I said fix it since it didn't make sense having a six month old $600 phone and not be able to use it!

There was absolutely no effort to help you it's just by the book you are wrong, it's all your fault no chance, warranty be damned.

Then after they repaired it they asked me to complete a "how did we do" survey and I ripped them a new arsehole I let them know exactly how I felt about their service. Then the calls started coming wanted to talk about the incident but it didn't involve me getting my money back. They called everyday and I know it was HTC because the first call I answered which was an HTC representative and all the others which I didn't answer were very odd no name, no number calls - I never saw such a thing.

Anyway I've owned cellphones since 1996 and this Google Nexus One/HTC Passion crap is the worst phone I have ever owned and the HTC service is just as bad.

Oh and the phone is still not fixed it's acting weird.
It's more like they shut down a wing of a mall and relocated it to another place.

Good luck!
I doubt it's going to work. What is going to prevent state from becoming a totalitarian authority? The state is going to attract sociopaths and power crazy individuals.

Democracy is probably the system which can do the least damage.
I will reiterate dumbphone 5's point that you should make it more clear what happens when a user clicks a "fake button." Also, I don't know if the value proposition is there in order to demand such a high price. I would suggest changing the pricing models. Since you can demand more money from sites that make more money, pegging price with the number of page views might be a more appropriate metric. Also, what is email collection?
In CT it is a line on your tax form.

It is only on certain goods and I just do an estimate, but yes, I paid it.
I was working on an idea for this RFS myself. Basically it was an itunes model for news. Users could purchase a single news item (called a newslet) and by doing so you would get access to all published and unpublished information that are associated to that news topic.

Unfortunately, the only dev working on this with me left for greener pastures and so I'm left working on this alone. I am a web designer with limited coding skills, so I would not expect this project to launch anytime soon.

Here's a sneak peek at it though:
http://i.imgur.com/1Ltoz.png
Apparently he has, I guess he's not a huge fan: http://blog.zuupy.com/the-disadvantages-of-ab-testing
You could probably do it, but it's not clear why it would be superior to stereo vision. Both approaches have the same pitfalls (CPU-intensive, need texture to work well) and stereo vision is largely a solved problem that works on commodity hardware.
I would be reluctant to do so, because that establishes one more connection between me and the state. The best thing, in general, is to minimize your profile with the state.
> Once again, the electorate is not monolithic, but highly fragmented.

That's irrelevant to my point.

I'm not making a public choice theory argument. Yes, public choice theory discusses rent-seeking, but it isn't the only basis for doing so.
Yes, I keep receipts on anything I buy out of state and pay the sales tax at the end of the year. It's mostly Amazon.com purchases, really. I'm in PA.
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Because you don’t need a second sensor and a second lens?
> Has anyone here ever voluntarily paid sales taxes?

Yes.

FWIW, it's a line on CA's form 540 (I paid on the long form but assume that it's on the short form as well).

Turbotax even asks about it.
"Sony [is now] officially 50% …" – The "is now" is implied.
Not that I'm some kind of tax expert, but AFAIK, "sales and use tax" is levied on categories of goods and services, regardless of where they're purchased.

There's only an obligation to COLLECT the tax by retailers with a presence in the state, but all residents of the state have to pay the tax on all purchases.

When it's collected by the retailer it's called sales tax, when it's not it's called use tax and you have to send it in yourself.
Can an editor or someone with more knowledge on how the site works comment here? It seems unreasonable for users to end up without the ability to post/comment (as long as they are not spammers or repeatedly posting extremely low content). I myself am I very new user to the site, and something like this would definitely turn me off. What is the criteria anyways?
I mentioned replacing the SD card in the notes on the youtube video. I didn't want to overly bore the reader with the troubleshooting steps, but I believe I listed everything in the youtube video notes.

Also, I'm using the "old" SD card and battery from the defective phone in the new phone without incident.
Yep, on the California Tax form - called the Use Tax. I go through my eBay/Amazon/etc stuff and work up a total. I like having stuff like libraries and roads without potholes.
I could go the rest of my life without buying a book. There's enough information and entertainment on the Internet and among my friends.

If corporations and states require me, the consumer, to keep track of their bookkeeping for them, indeed make it dangerous to purchase something online when I don't have the time, inclination or ability to find out where each vendor's presence happens to be, I might just opt out entirely. It's the safe thing to do.
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They have a distribution center there as well as the Woot offices/warehouse in Dallas... as an outsider without all the facts, my first impression is that Amazon has a significant physical presence in Texas and really should be collecting sales tax already.
Quite right -- a better example is PCI compliance (hundreds of pages IIRC, and several volumes depending on exactly what you're doing; not a law, but similar ramifications if you don't comply);

Still, complying with HIPAA does make one point _very_ clear -- audit controls - Dropbox has none exposed to you, and thus it simply does not comply unless you have your own layer of controls (encryption) on top.

It also seems to fall down under 'Standard: Person or entity authentication' as well, but that's just me being snarky.

Health-care and finance are places with legal (or contractual) obligations -- and that was my main point: if you have a set of rules (or even best practices), and you fall afowl of them, don't go screaming that someone else is to blame.
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The downsides, which, of course, this press release doesn't mention:

- Greatly, greatly reduced image resolution. Great big dedicated-camera sized lens and image sensor, cellphone-camera sized pictures. 1680×1050, at most. (1.76MP)

- Color aberration. The microlenses have to be small, of course, so they're going to be made of single physical elements, rather than doublets.[1]

- Various amusing aliasing problems. (note the fine horizontal lines on some of the demo shots)

- Low FPS. Each image requires lots of processing, which means the CPU will have to chew on data for a while before you can take another image.

- Proprietary toolchain for the dynamic images. Sure, cameras all have their particular RAW sensor formats, but this is also going to have its own output image format. No looking at thumbnails in file browsers. Photoshop won't have any idea what to do with it. Can't print it, of course.

- - You can just produce a composite image that's sharp all over, but why not use a conventional camera with stopped-down[2] lens, then?

- It's going to be really thrillingly expensive. This is a given, of course, with new camera technology.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublet_(lens)
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F/stop#Effects_on_image_quality
Great catch, Ryan. I haven't fully thought through the pricing.
I've never understood anarchism. As long as there are weapons capable of coercion, and groups of people willing to work together to coerce there will be 'government' of some sort or another. Well, at least in the long term. There could be several groups, without monopoly control (otherwise known as 'war'), but this isn't a stable state.

So as I see it, anarchism is only possible if everyone's an anarchist.
oh, then it doesn't make any sense.
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Damn man, that sucks. I'm obsessively careful with my phone/comps because of that very reason. But no matter how careful they still fall occasionally. Falling in a manner you described shouldn't break a phone, it's just not realistic that that sort of jostling won't happen through normal use.

Good for you for at least giving them some negative feedback.
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Looks good, I would move the content where you talk about what a fake button is higher on the page so it is seen on first load (I know this depends on the resolution of the user). Maybe even include an actual fake button on the front page. Its easier for people to understand what the product does if they can see it in action. In this case, a "demo" is relatively easy to demonstrate.
Thanks, HoyaSaxa. I should probably add some sort of demo outside of the logged in area.

Yeah, I'm still working out the pricing. Good idea on pegging it to page views. Email collection is the ability to collect emails when someone clicks on a fake button. A message will popup and say something like "Thanks for your interest -- add your email to be notified when this is ready."
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IE team loves to poke shots at other browsers. Anyone remember the giant E placed on the lawn of Netscape's office in Mountain View? I think it was ~1997. They then dominated the browser market for the next few years.
Everyone has their own balance. I sold my car 4 years ago (biking feels better), I never bought a TV, etc...

On the other hand, I like inviting people over for drinks, potlucks, etc... So, owning decent cookware and some living room furniture adds a lot to my life. The important thing seems to be to step outside automatic assumptions and actually figure what makes you happier (and what drains your energy).
Great idea, Salman89! Sounds like a demo on the front page is in order and would make this more clear.
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"How exactly is this discount eroding leverage?" ... "the taxi companies no longer have a pressure to restore their service".

The pressure to restore the service would also get directed towards those they're bargaining with. That's part of how strikes work.
Well, Hulu comes pre-neglected, so it will fit right in to Yahoo's portfolio management.
How practical would it be to initially trust Accept-Language but also prominently display a link to change to the language detected through IP geolocation (with an easy way to hide/decline the link)?
This is a very interesting concept, I would be doubly interested to see this technology used for video in camcorders. However, I'm curious to see if they have the resources available to go toe to toe with Nikon, Canon, and Olympus. The camera industry is so competitive... and the life cycles on digital cameras are so quick nowadays. They may find it difficult to keep up.
>cellphone-camera sized pictures.

With 5+ megapixel cell phone cameras being common these days, what resolution do you imply in that sentence?
I think the problem is that internet users have generally become accustomed to the idea that written content, especially news, on the internet should be free (supported by ad revenue). When ad revenue cannot support high quality writing, the quality of journalism generally goes down (compare the news you can read at AOL vs a print issue of The Economist).

The challenge is to create some value proposition that internet users will pay for news content - I will be very interested to see how magazine subscriptions perform on the iPad (and other tablet formats). Obviously magazine subscribers would be the best market to go after as they are the users who already are paying for written content.
Well, to be fair, you actually need a whole array of (micro)lenses, so 2 lenses sounds pretty reasonable.
I may be in the minority, but the idea of talking to Google Ventures makes me nervous. As a tiny startup that is pre-launch, the last thing I want is Google deciding they want to go into my business. It is kind of like Microsoft in the 90s.

I'm not saying it is a well founded fear, but it is enough to keep me from talking to them.
The number one thing Tesla has to do if they want to become part of the mainstream is to get the United States Government to establish standards for car batteries. The downside to this is that it limits innovation. However, without the ability to swap batteries at "battery (gas) stations" electric cars will stay in the "early adapters" phase indefinitely.
The alternative is to develop a cost effective battery that can last for a very long time (read: 500+ miles) which actually might be in the near future.
On a side note, I wish Tesla sold gas hybrid cars because I love the design.
It's most likely a bug somewhere. People who run this forum wouldn't just shut people out.
Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2681554.
I don't think it is fair to lump "frequent updates," "large updates," and "background updates" into a single category:

Frequent updates, if properly managed, are generally a plus: security vulnerabilities get patched before they are widely exploited and minor bugs can be fixed without waiting for a major release. Other than the minor annoyance of downloading and installing frequent updates, I don't see a negative.

Unnecessarily large updates are always negative. If different patching practices would compress a 300 MB update to 15 MB, then there is absolutely no reason to prefer the larger patch. Apple is notorious for this: every software "update" requires downloading an entirely new piece of software (note: this is likely changing in Lion).

Background downloading and patching is a matter of preference. It's something I love in a web browser because of the security updates, but would be much less welcome in professional tools. Since it's a matter of opinion, I don't have much to say here.
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The second amendment is childish lunacy?
I like when developers can put aside the retarded faux hatred we are all supposed to have for each other as dictated by our corporate / OSS overlords and do things like this, of course I am sure many will find some demeaning/ulterior motivevs, because you know, no way the IE team actually has human beings on it.
Using Jquery to do ajax requests and updating part of a web page is emulatimg state over http.

Coffeescript, SASS/SCSS are just examples of making the Rails stack even taller.

I don't have any experience with Sproutcore or Cappuccino but both look like clientside-only frameworks and would only extend the state & stack problems that I already dislike.
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Just to play devil's advocate:

Who says the PC industry is doomed? I think with Apple's recent announcement on what they envision cloud computing to be, I think that one can still argue that OS is still in the forefront.

If PCs were doomed, we would not see a huge uptick in tablet sales (most data points to that consumers want iPads, not tablets)? What are your criteria for saying that PCs are doomed?
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I don't think they need to keep up with the middle-to-high end yet.

Given the choice of glass and bodies, I think most professionals would still keep with Nikon and Canon (especially for print).

But for entry-level, I could see it being a killer because of the ease.
Imagine it being combined with technology that tracks your eyes motion, focusing the part of the image you're looking at automatically.
"- Low FPS. Each image requires lots of processing, which means the CPU will have to chew on data for a while before you can take another image."

This will improve and processor speed improves eventually making it a nonissue.

"- Proprietary toolchain for the dynamic images. Sure, cameras all have their particular RAW sensor formats, but this is also going to have its own output image format. No looking at thumbnails in file browsers. Photoshop won't have any idea what to do with it. Can't print it, of course."

Sure, the raw image needs to be processed but you can export the focused product and do what you like, can't you? I can invasion a raw pic and a "best guess on what you'd like to be in focus" jpeg along with it. You can then improve on the jpeg by using the raw image to change what's in focus and recreate the jpeg.
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Mine wasn't working for several days. It's back working now.
There may be an opportunity in 'doing something' with all the data collected ..
Yes, a notification email would have been nice.
This was exactly the same experience[1] I had with HTC back when I got the first Nexus One (hardware defect). A year later I got a myTouch 4G, again rampant hardware issues with the screen.

I plan to honor my initial promise of never trying another HTcC device, but I get weak in the knees from high end tech and they seem to be leading the android race the most aggressively right now,

Bah.

[1] http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/my-experience-with-htc-nexus-one...
I meant that in the sense that they are switching to rolling versions (i.e. no more versions, it's just 'firefox')
I'd like to remind HNers that Australia is filled with bright, intelligent, thoughtful and well-educated people.

We also have Senators.
Same goes for GM, large banks, etc. and those are only the ones we read about.
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This is exactly how they handled my 14 day old Nexus One hardware issue as well.

I think they incentify the CS reps to avoid replacements or repairs with rewards. It shows in the service, it is like dealing with used car salesmen.
How'd the Nazis come into power? The argument isn't so much about the vote, but that democracy failed to stop tyranny.
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Agree "Go" is not particularly search friendly. I tend to use Golang instead when post or blog. #golang is the Twitter tag used by Rob Pike FYI.
Funny story, the original plan was to use Java as the premier .NET language. Then Sun got all litigious and ish. So MSFT made their own. They have the benefit of having full control of C# good thing too. Look at what Oracle is doing to Google over Android.
Looking forward, I see interesting applications of this tech in motion graphics and film. Where 3D movies have failed in forcing the user to focus on something, I can see this bringing photos and eventually film to life in ways that let the audience control more of what they want to experience.

On the motion graphics side, I imagine all kinds of creative potential in compositing photography together with procedural or rendered graphics.
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I suspect the magic spell "national security" was cast. Hackers seem to be becoming the new terrorists.
Html5 youtube is starting to work quite well. Grooveshark is entirely html5 except for the audio, that is only because the html5 audio components are a little lacking at the moment (but they are making leaps and bounds, and within a year there should be good support in the firefox and chrome). Standards have pretty much caught up, we just need to wait for people to upgrade to browsers that support these standards.

> The reality is, we won't be able to. As soon as standards are all caught up, Flash will have included 5+ years worth of advancements that will be absolutely necessary for some types of interaction with the user.

The next big feature for the next flash player is full 3d support. WebGL, the html5 mirror of this already has support in firefox and chrome (although, it can't be used on XP or linux with intel due to bad driver support). In this case, the open standards are ahead of Flash.
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