Heh. That's a good one.
http://filext.com/file-extension/SCH
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mark krawczuk wrote:
> hi, any body know of a free .sch viewer ?
Depends whose (what CAD program) made your .sch !
Mnay CAD programs have a free demo that'll allow you to look at their
schematic files.
Graham
It bugs me that one of those
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help you" types
(National Bureau of Standards?, Library of Congress?)
didn't see this way back when and push for a protocol that said
"If you want to send documents to the government,
they must be in a standard format;
one year from today we won't accept proprietary formats.
Now, lets get to work on this standard format."
You pointed noted what happens when it's left to the industry:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.cad/browse_frm/thread/b20fcdf704044b8b/41b2d61a68924dfc?q=*-*-created-by-*-*-COMMITTEE+*-*-almost-the-same-effort+they-all-think-*-they're-Microsoft+*-Software-companies-don't-want-you-*-*-*-to-translate-between-tools+zzz+*-nasty-cost+3rd-party-*+turf-battle+Pulsonix-*-*-*-*-*-EDIF
Massachusetts, California, and others
are pushing for this with ODF for office-type documents.
This is the kind of shit we're actually getting from the Feds:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:slashdot.org+intitle:Library-of-Congress+Microsoft+SilverLight+Cory
Brad Velander described the real problem pretty well:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.cad/browse_frm/thread/f85d28a336c67dae/7a528d64a1391bbb?q=*-*-*-equivalents-in-*-other-packages+Pulsonix-*-*-*-*-above-anything-else-*-*-*-*-importing+Autovue+doesn't+zzz+*-*-only-a-viewer+retrieve-data+*-*-*-limited-*-list-of-compatible-versions+*-*-exist+*-*-limitations-*-what-will-import-successfully+supports
There's a tool named there as well
that's probably closest to the magic tool that the OP wants.
Am I the only one who finds it a little odd that you can send in your taxes
for free... after which they'll most likely be OCRed and fed into a computer
for analysis... whereas eFiling your taxes, in most cases, costs ~$20? How is
it that the option that results in less work for the government costs more for
the citizen?
> Am I the only one who finds it a little odd that you can send in your taxes
> for free... after which they'll most likely be OCRed and fed into a computer
> for analysis... whereas eFiling your taxes, in most cases, costs ~$20? How
> is
> it that the option that results in less work for the government costs more
> for
> the citizen?
A - send them in on paper. They want anything else, they should bloody
well provide free access to it.
B - the IRS and/or Congress are evidently more interested in supporting
tax software businesses than in providing a sane electronic access to
the system. Do you smell inappropriate payoffs and palm-grease? I sure
do.
C - let's wipe out the IRS and the tax software businesses in one go by
_really_ reforming the tax system.
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Perhaps they are trying to fund the cost of bureaucratic retrenchment.
That's why I fill mine out with software then transcribe it to paper
forms manually. If they really want to read my scratching, fine.
> B - the IRS and/or Congress are evidently more interested in supporting
> tax software businesses than in providing a sane electronic access to
> the system. Do you smell inappropriate payoffs and palm-grease? I sure
> do.
No evidence of that. "Stupid" explains it all well enough.
> C - let's wipe out the IRS and the tax software businesses in one go by
> _really_ reforming the tax system.
Dream on...
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