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Perhaps as a note taker it is a show-stopper.  Forgot that this is a note-taking thread.  I use it for writing, so haven't really thought nor investigated any of those.

My titles are actually in the files, so all of my information is there.  As I don't really worry about it since the export works enough for me, and I can, and already do edit my novels/books in other programs (and even on my ipad), I haven't really thought about it.

Oh no... Star Trek meme wars!

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Yes... headbanging Kirk is a thing.

But, as always, Picard one up's him!

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I haven't found that.  I look in my files directory, and the RTF files open fine in Word.  They are named numerically, but it's pretty easy to see what it is.  And as far as vendor lock-in in regards to that, it has a pretty extensive export function.  I edit the files outside of scrivener all the time, even syncing them with Skydrive.  So, at least on windows, I haven't had the same experience as you, other than the numerical file names.

Honestly, if you are pissed off that your state now has a way to stop you from evading taxes, the problem isn't the fact they can force you to comply with the law, the problem isn't Congress allowing them to do it, the problem is within your state...the tax laws themselves. And if you don't like how much your state charges in taxes and for what, take it up with your state's law makers and don't blame Congress for it, because it's your state that is the problem this time, not the federal government.

This is missing the point.

It's sort of like the whole patent fight.  Is what they're doing with software and hardware patents legal?  Is it legal to patent the shape of an iphone and sue samsung for it?  Apparently so.

But is that legality best for the consumers and the economy or the businesses?

I think we can all answer that question.

And that's the point of this Act.  It isn't to make things better for the consumers or the taxpayers or the economy.  It's not even to make things better for the state, though that is a side effect.  It's a result of lobby gone mad, and competition by legislation rather than competition on its own merits. 

And this is shown by the exclusions clause.  How much more revenue (if that was the point) could they get without such a generous exclusion?  You could reduce it to $100,000, get a lot more evaded taxes, and not penalize Mrs. Housewife selling her children's old clothes on ebay to pay for the new clothes.  But by removing that exclusion, Main Street would be penalized, as they would be hoisted by their own petard.

It is what it is, and it's not what's best for the consumers nor the economy. 

It's trade regulation, not tax regulation.  And any statement otherwise is either naive or willfully oblivious to the political environment that surrounds this decision.

Republicans have been fighting since the first Clinton administration to get an internet sales tax.

I was going to go there.  But I stopped at the NAFTA reference.

Only be a matter of time before they bring back those so-called Fair-Trade laws too.

You kid... but hmmm...

Couldn't the taxes in the way that they are levied as use taxes be considered a reverse tariff?  I wouldn't doubt that is the way that we're going.  And since much of the economic recovery has been fueled by online sales (which is the other reason for the Act... to tap into this increase), and the economic recovery is still an ongoing process, it seems that the results have been predicted by history.

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It has nothing to do with brick & mortar being able to compete with online stores.

That is one of the most naive statements I've ever heard.  Have you seen who the lobbyists are to the legislative body that caused this even to be an issue/brought up before the legislature?  

Among the groups supporting the Marketplace Fairness Act are the American Conservative Union, Consumer Electronics Association, the National Retail Federation, the Retail Industry Leaders Association, Amazon.com, Best Buy, the American Booksellers Association and the Alliance for Main Street Fairness.

And look at the name of the Act... they aren't shying away from this at all, i.e. the Marketplace Fairness Act.  And if it was because of the fact that they are losing revenue, why is there an exemption clause?  At the level of the exemption, this is aimed squarely at larger sellers, i.e. Amazon.

"The bill would protect small Main Street businesses from unfair competition from Internet sellers," said Senator Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican.

And while what you say is true in theory, it is also not true universally.  Some states don't charge a use tax for transactions out of state.  And it places an undue burden on those (especially small businesses) that do business with out of state customers, having to keep up with the tax laws in each state/municipality, since even in a state, the sales tax for the local region varies by municipality.  And it changes.  That's not an insignificant amount of data to keep up with, and you can be that they will have to pay for the service.  While the B&M will only have to worry about a grand total of 1.  And then having to deal with the disbursements to each municipality state separately.  Believe me, having worked in retail for a small shop in a state where they passed something similar (but it was amended and watered down later because of the collateral damage), it's a lot easier and in the long run less expensive just not to ship out of state depending on your revenue from the same. (section 2 on tax simplification handles this, and creates a mandate to create, maintain, and provide for free the software to do this)

Though they tout the revenue gained by this, it was squarely and surely aimed at the online retailers, not the consumers.  And it was squarely aimed at increasing the perceived costs (though you say they won't be charging you, the perception is totally different).

And what about all of those people selling second hand good on e-bay and amazon marketplace? (Section 2c handles this, as you have to have reported sales of over $1 million a calendar year to be required to collect taxes)

This is one of those times that I'm glad that neither party has a majority in both branches of Congress.  Hopefully it won't make it out of the House alive.

UPDATE: I completely read through the bill, and the part stricken above isn't applicable to this, because of a couple of provisions.  Though it does require that the state provide at its own cost the software to report, maintain a database of products, and allow payment.  Knowing (from working for the state on a few software contracts) how inefficient and sometimes almost criminal the waste is on these projects, one also wonders the actual revenue that each state will actually receive after paying taxpayer monies for such programs/maintenance...

ADDITION: In my opinion, if what we're really concerned with is the tax remuneration, there's an easy way to deal with it.  The taxes should be collected for the state where the company is located.  Instead of a use tax, just make it a sales tax.  Charging for use of the item is just backwards, it's called a sales tax, and should be a sales tax if you're going to collect it.

Scrivener does use individual files on the file system, so what does Atlantis offer that scrivener doesnt?

Exactly, meaning the "value" is becoming erratic! And even in areas that do have players, a lot of the ones I used to go to began quietly "not holding" Type 1 tourneys, thus making all of those Super Cards "valueless", which was the point I was hoping to make.

The value is as erratic as the market in anything.  There is no intrinsic value in anything, other than what the market will put on it.

Here you go.

It's pretty cool, too!

Someone's already done it.

Eh... I'm a die hard gamer though.  I just try to be smarter in my purchases, especially with the steam sales.

It's fascinating to watch, because it's all taking place rather slowly. If I were more connected and smarter in the early days etc I "shoulda/woulda" gotten my early Bitcoins then sat on them to make a living!

"Limited number of bitcoins" - so did no one else remember the story of the Black Lotus in Magic the Gathering?

You mean that same Magic the Gathering that I paid for part of college off of my collection?

Investment = $450.  Return = $6000+, plus a pretty fun game.

She's an avid reader and a lover of fine books - as in the paper variety. But she absolutely treasures that little glass and plastic gadget. You'll only take her Nook away from her when you can pry it from her cold dead fingers.

I'm in the same boat.  Even to the point that when my daughter got a new nook from her grandparents and offered me her color, I turned it down- the one with the digital paper is the one I love.

I got that, but I doubt the publishers could force an update through somebody elses platform.  Pretty sure that's where Steam becomes culpable (remember, steam isn't in this for love).

They can through the use of money- that great equalizer.  You *have* to keep our games up to date, or we won't distribute using your platform.

The Gold Master way of getting to retail sucks.  That's why I've been against physical distribution since working in commercial software.  That's the biggest offender in this.  To get to retail, the gold master was done *months* before it actually hit the shelves (at least 1, in some cases 3).  So you work during that time, and that's how you get day zero patches.  And in this age of just release it, we can patch it- the date is more important by the time it gets to retail, so much has changed that a patch just isn't enough.  That DVD on the shelves is a coaster.  It just has a couple of bootstrapper files that are relevant.  Most of them are overwritten as the whole game is downloaded over the internet. 

That's why I don't buy boxed product anymore.

He's my favorite classic doctor.  However, 10 and 11 have become my favorites overall.

^ I think your link is wrong.

Thanks!  I had a hard time entering b/c steamgifts wouldn't see that I had dwarves   Even after following your instructions and syncing a few times, it was still acting strange.

I wish everyone would stick to the base-2 way of expressing file sizes.

Unfortunately, that way is a bit more than the populace is actually comfortable with, especially considering other things in regards to memory usage.

But the software publishers are selling a product that is separate to internet.

And that's why I said it seems your problem is Activision (publisher) vs. Steam (distribution platform).  That, and the hackers that make them take such extremes.  CoD hasn't really been a single-player game for a long time.  They make their money because people play online.  And so, day zero, the game is already outdated.  That's a problem for physical sales.

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Oops... crossing the memes there.  (Perhaps even three times...)

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Latest installment is CoD MW3.  I couldn't even install it without a steam connection (hang on, didn't i just pay good money for this?).  I live in a rural area so even connecting to Steam can be a trial.  It eventually installed fine (EGAD!! requires 35G of disk space!!) but when I went to play, steam said, hang on, there's an update (WTF? I just paid for this and now you're telling me I can only play on your terms?).  The update was only (!!) a few hundred Mb, so I let it update.

This doesn't really seem a steam problem as much as an Activision problem.  They are selling you a product on DVD that is already outdated, and cannot be played unless it is updated.  That's your problem right there.  It sucks that it is that way, but lets call a spade a spade.  You can also uncheck the keep automatically updated, but I don't think that will help you in this case.  The only part of it that was truly steam was the initial install and update.  The other part is all on Activision.

markdown - isn't that what Wikipedia uses?
(if so, go to a page there Tao, and click edit to see what it looks like)

No, Wikipedia doesn't use it.  It uses its own syntax, which shares some similarities, but is not Markdown.  For well known sites that use Markdown, refer to GitHub, reddit and Stack Overflow.

Wordpress is good because the deployment on the server is easy and hosted platform is also free and easy to use. If the ghost can do that then well, it would be better. but if the ghost is built on something like rails or say node.js then I dont think there would be more takers.

It is built on node.js (as stated in the link), and uses by default SQLLite through JugglingDB ORM.  I was a bit concerned about the use of node.js, but a couple of things mitigate this- first they are using the Express framework (which is already easy to deploy), and they are packaging using NPM, making it even easier.

^ My thoughts, said in a more concise and better way. 

Or, I can give you one link.