Maybe I'm the only one who detected a bit of negativity in the summary, but seriously, how is this bad? It's very noble of women to give up the privilege of a chance at education to start families. One could say the greatest and most fulfilling job in the world is parenthood.
Yeah, we had to do that for the first few weeks. I too wonder why they hadn't just changed the prices in the system to begin with. It was a real mess trying to calculate all those discounts(and typing our password in every single time for each item to confirm our price adjust).
I worked for Circuit City before and during liquidation. All the prices for the items went back UP to MSRP. I was part of the stocking team at the time and we had to rewrite almost every single tag in the store to reflect this. We used to sell stuff at (usually)below MSRP, usually by $10 to $20. This is how every retail store works generally. In liquidation they take a small discount off of the MSRP price(the "was" price), and sell it at that discounted price(the "you pay" price). Over time they increase that discount off of MSRP until they reach 90% or some other high number. Only at about 40-60% off do you finally get a better price than it was originally.
Actually that sort of thing is handled by the liquidation company and in no way is set by the former Circuit City management.
Basically, as in all liquidation sales, they put everything up to MSRP, then take 10%(or whatever the starting discount is) off. Chances are you'd have gotten a better deal the week before liquidation began.
Ubuntu wouldn't have to offer anything since its software repositories are considered "part of the OS". In fact Ubuntu(GNOME flavor) comes with Epiphany as well, if I recall correctly.
They could just develop a version of Windows Explorer without web browsing capabilities, and just launch the default browser when a location with "http://" is entered.
I had an idea a little while ago that involved adding an LED timer right next to the stoplight that counts down to red when the light turns yellow, to tell people exactly how much time they have before it turns red.
Agreed. I bought some memory there a while back, through their in-store pickup option. I paid for it online, drove to the store, and had to wait 30 MINUTES for them to figure out how to process my order. Without exception, every time I went in to a Circuit City, I left disgusted and vowing to avoid shopping there again.
The half-hour wait times would occur from time to time due to seemingly random situations that have a tendency to happen at the worst and least probable times. Generally, these include server issues, inventory issues, etc. I always hated when this happened as it was usually because of some idiot in upper management.
However, even though the system was not "working" properly there should be no reason why the employees did not give you your item instead of making you wait for 30 minutes, as they could have simply given it to you(and got a carbon copy of your credit card) and released it from the inventory later on manually after they had fixed the problem. I have worked for CC for a while and had to do this on a number of occasions. I am a stocker there and actually handle the fetching of items when they are bought online.
If this patent were granted and devices really did contain chips designed specifically for this purpose, what are the odds of people reflashing the firmware in their devices to disable this "feature"?
As a short-term solution, why doesn't the court just make open-source products exempt from patent violation? If you code something and release the code for it, you're not hiding anything, right?
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Maybe I'm the only one who detected a bit of negativity in the summary, but seriously, how is this bad? It's very noble of women to give up the privilege of a chance at education to start families.
One could say the greatest and most fulfilling job in the world is parenthood.
Yeah, we had to do that for the first few weeks. I too wonder why they hadn't just changed the prices in the system to begin with. It was a real mess trying to calculate all those discounts(and typing our password in every single time for each item to confirm our price adjust).
I worked for Circuit City before and during liquidation. All the prices for the items went back UP to MSRP. I was part of the stocking team at the time and we had to rewrite almost every single tag in the store to reflect this. We used to sell stuff at (usually)below MSRP, usually by $10 to $20. This is how every retail store works generally. In liquidation they take a small discount off of the MSRP price(the "was" price), and sell it at that discounted price(the "you pay" price). Over time they increase that discount off of MSRP until they reach 90% or some other high number. Only at about 40-60% off do you finally get a better price than it was originally.
I worked for store #3628 in Maryland and this is exactly how it was.
Actually that sort of thing is handled by the liquidation company and in no way is set by the former Circuit City management.
Basically, as in all liquidation sales, they put everything up to MSRP, then take 10%(or whatever the starting discount is) off. Chances are you'd have gotten a better deal the week before liquidation began.
Cool! I think I'll try for myse
Ubuntu wouldn't have to offer anything since its software repositories are considered "part of the OS". In fact Ubuntu(GNOME flavor) comes with Epiphany as well, if I recall correctly.
They could just develop a version of Windows Explorer without web browsing capabilities, and just launch the default browser when a location with "http://" is entered.
Just what are the "other" impact hazards? I'm very curious about this.
Planet X, of course!
But that would require them to admit to a mistake they made.
Everybody knows that's impossible.
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I had an idea a little while ago that involved adding an LED timer right next to the stoplight that counts down to red when the light turns yellow, to tell people exactly how much time they have before it turns red.
Why hasn't something like this been added yet?
Agreed. I bought some memory there a while back, through their in-store pickup option. I paid for it online, drove to the store, and had to wait 30 MINUTES for them to figure out how to process my order. Without exception, every time I went in to a Circuit City, I left disgusted and vowing to avoid shopping there again.
The half-hour wait times would occur from time to time due to seemingly random situations that have a tendency to happen at the worst and least probable times. Generally, these include server issues, inventory issues, etc. I always hated when this happened as it was usually because of some idiot in upper management.
However, even though the system was not "working" properly there should be no reason why the employees did not give you your item instead of making you wait for 30 minutes, as they could have simply given it to you(and got a carbon copy of your credit card) and released it from the inventory later on manually after they had fixed the problem. I have worked for CC for a while and had to do this on a number of occasions. I am a stocker there and actually handle the fetching of items when they are bought online.
I believe all warranties will be handled by a separate company so that all warranties don't just go dead.
I am a CC employee and I will say that we have had the 110% guarantee to this day.
You're sure that's not a Monster Cable rebrand?
Apparently the holes let "first post"-ers through as well.
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If this patent were granted and devices really did contain chips designed specifically for this purpose, what are the odds of people reflashing the firmware in their devices to disable this "feature"?
We all know this is a car analogy.
Not to mention file uploads(for Blackboard) only work on Windows. I had a teacher in my college who submitted a patch but was turned down.
As a short-term solution, why doesn't the court just make open-source products exempt from patent violation? If you code something and release the code for it, you're not hiding anything, right?
Until HD-DVD finally bites the dust, I won't be getting into any of the new formats. I suggest others do the same.
It _is_ Quake 2.
"Some are complaining that they can't get to the server..."
They must not be close enough.