This is a problem across the retail industry. Cell phones have the wonderful ability to be small, common, and expensive. So this makes it easy for employees to grab and resell a phone, if they are short on cash. By locking them, it makes it much harder for them to get away, as their customers will demand a refund or get beaten up. For giving them a non-functional product.
Well if the secondary market is what "Fell off the Truck" then yes they are protecting their profits.
from TFS: "But later in the spring, the company will begin the practice of keeping the phone locked for a period of time after the purchase"
It doesn't seem like it is permanent lock down, just long enough to get these devices sold to the customers. Now if this period of time is reasonable, it isn't about hindering the legit secondary market, where people had paid for the phones that Verizon had bought from the phone manufacturer, but from people who steal the phones from Verizon.
The google Maps when was released was impressive, as it used the newer features in the browser, where other vendors were a bit wary to implement. During this time, including Javascript as only for form validations, and was coded to be expected not to be used. However these new features in the browser have became commonplace. But other then using the new standard browser features, Google didn't do too much that was crazy, Like having a plug in, using a MS or Firefox only feature. They followed the HTML 4 Standards. By actually following the standards it allowed for easier forward compatibility, as features are removed and deprecated much slower from a standard then they are in some crazy hack.
I myself have some fairly advanced HTML pages still running on modern hardware without worrying about upgrades, Because I followed the standards and didn't include any browser/os/hardware particular features. So they still work decades later.
This is why I have been a proponent of the Web Application method. The software has a much longer life span then with a say Windows forms.
Having done printer repair, I am not proud of it but I needed the money. However the most common causes are the following. 1. Worn out feet: Those rubber wheels that pull up the paper, get warn out over time and has a hard time grabbing the paper, when it does it is past the timeout period on the sensor. 2. Warn out fuser: The fuser is a heated roller they have a plastic/silicon covering on it, to prevent burning the paper. over time with heating and cooling the covering gets warped so the paper will not always fit in. 3. Bad Paper: Cheap paper that just sticks and doesn't flow properly. 4. A previous jam: There was a jam previously that wasn't as cleared out as people expected. 5. Bad ink (for solid ink printers): Cheap ink has a slightly different melting and cooling point then devices specification, causing ink to gum up the pathway. 6. Bad solenoid: over time they get sluggish or stuck. 7. Warn out gear. Those plastic gear if handing paper a bit too much for them ware out. 8. Blocked or malfunctioning sensor: a bad sensor says there is a problem when there isn't really anything. 9. Non-Paper blockage: Staples, Paperclips, bubble gum, rodents, bugs, hair, fingernails... causes blockage. 10. Abuse: Just smacking bending parts breaking pins....
Most of the Jamming problems can be fixed with regular maintenance. As unlike other computers moving parts (such as a hard drive, or DVD or floppy drives) there is a lot of torque and energy evolved with a lot of parts exposed to the elements.
In essence the notch space is just used for a menu location. Being that most Application have a menu bar with a lot of white space. the notch is enough to fit probably up to 4 top level menu options. with the stuff in the middle. I expect smaller notches will just have a little more white space. Apples interface may display some info on both sides of the notch, using a drag down gesture for extra options depending on which side of the notch you are doing the gesture.
For the most part the notch is a good idea, utilizing space for display and interaction where it would had normally just be dead space. However we are mostly trained to interact with devices in a rectangle space. Having a notch we don't see as extra display space, but a cut taken out of our display space.
Once bit-coins were taken seriously they become a center of greed. Capitalism itself isn't bad, but what is happening is the focus on acquiring wealth has exceeded the wish to produce anything.
The market in general doesn’t really like boxy anymore. They want small, stylish, and rugged. That means the big, boxy desktop like devices and appliances are not what people really want anymore. Easiy repairable device requires free space to remove parts, fasteners meant for multiple entries. Then you have engineering challenge such as keeping the devices in place, dealing with heat and ventilation. Legal stuff like replacing a part with an incompatible device which could harm your system. The desktop market is really just a small niche. Not because people want them but they just need it out of nessessity.
Linux (the OS not the kernel, as opposed to Android which is a different is with a Linux kernel) isn’t really setup for the consumer market. It works as a server OS and a workstation OS. But it never caught on for the general public. This makes Linux a waste of resources for gaming companies. Say 5% uses Linux at home. 85% of this group will be willing to use non-open source software. 50% of this group is interested in serious gaming. 25% of this group may be interested in their products...
For gaming it is a tough business model to be Linux friendly. Not impossible but it takes a lot of effort and resources for a small return.
It isn’t that Linux can’t do it, it is that not enough people are using it to make it with the effort.
Razor employees may love Linux. But they can not justify the expense in supporting it. And digging all the legal to make things open enough for the community to do something about it.
These three elements seem to be the root cause of nearly every illness. Yet they use them all the time in our food, and our body has a large concentration of this in our systems ready to kill us at any time.
Even in terms of computer science, there are algorithms that cannot be done in parallel. These algorithms need a faster CPU core, not more cores or more computers to get the job done faster.
In terms of having multiple rocket engines. The question to bring up, Will the extra size and weight of each engine be less efficient then having just one engine.
Granted smaller engines allows for easier scaling to larger rockets, and if they are setup so if one goes out they don't cascade to a massive failure, then that would be a good choice.
The biggest problem is most companies are so focused on cutting costs, they are not focusing on bringing in customers.
Efficiencies + Proper leadership doesn't mean lowering your workforce, but moving your workforce into a more productive state, that allows for proper growth.
Lets say the Machine Learning system, is handling the billing, it can do it faster and more accurate then a person can. The person who use to have to handle all the billing, can not be in a position where they are not bogged down by paperwork, but can communicate with the customer base, to help them get their bills in faster and work out any other issues. Where before such job would had been rushed, and often with less tact because this person was bogged down with thousands of invoices to review.
This makes the company far easier for the customer to work with, and continue their business. I see AI opening the door for a Kindness economy where for good or for ill, our jobs being less stressful on the minutia we can focus more on the bigger picture problems, and dealing with the people on a more personal level, allowing for better services, and product quality.
Yea, but for the most part one of them wins out. While we can fight semantics, Hollywood will always win. The Anti-Hero is a Hacker, not a cracker. Because it can cover so many types of people who do so many different things. From just being good at a computer to breaking into a high security area.
The same thing with AI and Machine Learning. The AI gives the computer a personality that we could learn to love or fear.
Well there has been so much news about AI about doing things better and cheaper then a person could do. It is important to show that it isn't a human replacement, just a human supplement.
It is a case of too many "Man bites dog " news, and we have forgotten that the Dog normally bites the man.
It is important that the public is properly informed on the news. We do not want business owners to rush the gun, fire all the employees and install an AI system that cannot get the job done, causing harm to both the employees and the company. Nor do we want the the technology with so much ability and promise to be ignored, causing the company to be not be competitive and having to layoff all the employees because it went out of business.
I think it is also from Google trying to copy Apples keep it secrete until release day. While it is good way to get some early marketing buzz and more entertaining keynotes also to try to prevent an Osborne 2 problem where the hope of a future item will kill the sales of the existing one. In terms of user testing it really sucks. Because normal people under normal conditions will not be able to test out these products. An Apple or Google employee isn't a good sample of normal use, especially in thick cases to prevent the public for getting a good look at it. And under the general fear of getting fired if someone got a good look at the product. Means that people will be holding the device differently, they will not be bringing it to places where it may be used differently or take some hits and dips. Beyond the clinical scientific tests, which are measurable and can be reproduced.
It could be written by a Climate Scientist working for ExxonMobile. Just because he is working for a company that has its own self interests, it doesn't necessary make the science wrong. If read, we should know that it did indeed come from an Employee of ExxonMobile so if the idea is in conflict with other sources, we can assume that the science may not have gone across a complete peer review, and its findings may had been influenced by the employer. However if it jives with the findings of other sources with different self interests, it may offer good insight into the area that should be studied further.
Way back in 7th grade when we started to learn how to do research papers. The early lesson is this. Use Encyclopedias as a way to give yourself a starter in researching a topic that you know little about. But after you get the Gist of what the topic is about, you can follow its sources, or know enough about the topic to intelligently look for more official sources. After reading the official sources to gain the knowledge you are looking for you would cite them.
Wikipedia had a lot of good info, and for the most part it is truthful and accurate information... But it is still an encyclopedia, where topics in areas are summarized. This is good for the general knowledge questions. For the most part this is good, for general knowledge, arguing on a message board, or even while you are working on something just for a fast reference refresher. But if you are going to be doing an official research on a topic. Wikipedia may be a starting point, but not a good place to cite learned information.
The problem with suicide there are so many people are on the edge with only their natural instinct of survival keeping them failing. A single influence from a popular figure or a loved one, could be enough to push them a little further, to allow them to bypass such instinct. Taboo's in a free society are often there to break, many of these Taboo's should be broken, as they may be holding us back from progress. Lets use the Taboo about eating insects. Now the correlation between insects and illness have been well known. So this Taboo about eating them isn't unfounded. However now that we know about germs, viruses, and how many of these illnesses spread, we now can reliability figure out which insects are safe to eat and ones that are not, and best ways to prepare them. We will happily eat shellfish (allergies aside) which are the same class of animal. And Insects are shown to be more environmentally friendly way to retrieve our nutrients. But the Taboo is holding this back.
Now other Taboo's are still better off following. Because the benefit from breaking it may be much less then the overall risk it could cause.
Legislation is often needed when the Taboo should be followed, and breaking it has a big detriment to society.
Not a failure in regulation, Just regulations that are being replaced by technology. Being that GPS is used the the UK, using US infrastructure, while we have had good relations for about 200 years. It wouldn't make sense to put your infrastructure purely in the hands of a foreign power, no matter how friendly they are.
For the most part what Trump had said which is really bad is on the record. While things that Hillary and Obama had done is placed in an overly complex chain of events to show some sort of devious long term plot. Now just because you are left leaning doesn't mean you get a free pass for your own mindless rants. I have heard plenty of bad arguments about Trump and the GOP that are just as crazy and complex as the right wing nut. Trump is just a Bad President and a Bad Person. Thus it is much easier for more people to point out the problems, these people who do so may or may not partisan nut jobs. A lot of the people who complain about Trump, may have been mostly silent if an other GOP President was in the office, even if they didn't vote for them, they will just take it in stride that they didn't get who they wanted. However Trump is on record stating things that are stepping on our rights, and encouraging fear who do not follow him, which is not the America that I want to live in.
Under George W Bush, while I disagreed with the policies, I wasn't worried about the country direction as I am now. Policies even if I disagree with them based on moderated reasoning, and for the most part with the general interest of the country at hand I can deal with and willing to put up with a policy I don't like for 4-8 years while using my rights as a citizen to disagree with it. However today I don't feel the in power party is out for anyone's interests expect for that of the party. They are looking for things that can get past, they have disrupted many of the 2/3 majority votes in order to Ram policies and a supreme court placement in order to cut out the minority party.
Yes the democrats are just as bad as the republicans under Obama in obstruction as much as they can, I am not excusing that where they could possible try harder to find a good middle ground. However the GOP is just trying to scramble to show that they can do something, no matter the cost, and with the view to try to make Blue States Pay for not being in line.
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This is a problem across the retail industry.
Cell phones have the wonderful ability to be small, common, and expensive. So this makes it easy for employees to grab and resell a phone, if they are short on cash.
By locking them, it makes it much harder for them to get away, as their customers will demand a refund or get beaten up. For giving them a non-functional product.
Well if the secondary market is what "Fell off the Truck" then yes they are protecting their profits.
from TFS:
"But later in the spring, the company will begin the practice of keeping the phone locked for a period of time after the purchase"
It doesn't seem like it is permanent lock down, just long enough to get these devices sold to the customers. Now if this period of time is reasonable, it isn't about hindering the legit secondary market, where people had paid for the phones that Verizon had bought from the phone manufacturer, but from people who steal the phones from Verizon.
The google Maps when was released was impressive, as it used the newer features in the browser, where other vendors were a bit wary to implement. During this time, including Javascript as only for form validations, and was coded to be expected not to be used. However these new features in the browser have became commonplace. But other then using the new standard browser features, Google didn't do too much that was crazy, Like having a plug in, using a MS or Firefox only feature. They followed the HTML 4 Standards. By actually following the standards it allowed for easier forward compatibility, as features are removed and deprecated much slower from a standard then they are in some crazy hack.
I myself have some fairly advanced HTML pages still running on modern hardware without worrying about upgrades, Because I followed the standards and didn't include any browser/os/hardware particular features. So they still work decades later.
This is why I have been a proponent of the Web Application method. The software has a much longer life span then with a say Windows forms.
Having done printer repair, I am not proud of it but I needed the money.
However the most common causes are the following.
1. Worn out feet: Those rubber wheels that pull up the paper, get warn out over time and has a hard time grabbing the paper, when it does it is past the timeout period on the sensor.
2. Warn out fuser: The fuser is a heated roller they have a plastic/silicon covering on it, to prevent burning the paper. over time with heating and cooling the covering gets warped so the paper will not always fit in.
3. Bad Paper: Cheap paper that just sticks and doesn't flow properly.
4. A previous jam: There was a jam previously that wasn't as cleared out as people expected.
5. Bad ink (for solid ink printers): Cheap ink has a slightly different melting and cooling point then devices specification, causing ink to gum up the pathway.
6. Bad solenoid: over time they get sluggish or stuck.
7. Warn out gear. Those plastic gear if handing paper a bit too much for them ware out.
8. Blocked or malfunctioning sensor: a bad sensor says there is a problem when there isn't really anything.
9. Non-Paper blockage: Staples, Paperclips, bubble gum, rodents, bugs, hair, fingernails... causes blockage.
10. Abuse: Just smacking bending parts breaking pins....
Most of the Jamming problems can be fixed with regular maintenance. As unlike other computers moving parts (such as a hard drive, or DVD or floppy drives) there is a lot of torque and energy evolved with a lot of parts exposed to the elements.
In essence the notch space is just used for a menu location. Being that most Application have a menu bar with a lot of white space. the notch is enough to fit probably up to 4 top level menu options. with the stuff in the middle. I expect smaller notches will just have a little more white space. Apples interface may display some info on both sides of the notch, using a drag down gesture for extra options depending on which side of the notch you are doing the gesture.
For the most part the notch is a good idea, utilizing space for display and interaction where it would had normally just be dead space. However we are mostly trained to interact with devices in a rectangle space. Having a notch we don't see as extra display space, but a cut taken out of our display space.
Once bit-coins were taken seriously they become a center of greed.
Capitalism itself isn't bad, but what is happening is the focus on acquiring wealth has exceeded the wish to produce anything.
The market in general doesn’t really like boxy anymore.
They want small, stylish, and rugged. That means the big, boxy desktop like devices and appliances are not what people really want anymore.
Easiy repairable device requires free space to remove parts, fasteners meant for multiple entries. Then you have engineering challenge such as keeping the devices in place, dealing with heat and ventilation. Legal stuff like replacing a part with an incompatible device which could harm your system.
The desktop market is really just a small niche. Not because people want them but they just need it out of nessessity.
Linux (the OS not the kernel, as opposed to Android which is a different is with a Linux kernel) isn’t really setup for the consumer market. It works as a server OS and a workstation OS. But it never caught on for the general public.
This makes Linux a waste of resources for gaming companies.
Say 5% uses Linux at home. 85% of this group will be willing to use non-open source software. 50% of this group is interested in serious gaming. 25% of this group may be interested in their products...
For gaming it is a tough business model to be Linux friendly. Not impossible but it takes a lot of effort and resources for a small return.
It isn’t that Linux can’t do it, it is that not enough people are using it to make it with the effort.
Razor employees may love Linux. But they can not justify the expense in supporting it. And digging all the legal to make things open enough for the community to do something about it.
Ok, the rules are very simple.
1. You don't assault women.
If a woman is dressing inappropriately that can be called out, however it isn't an excuse to assault women.
It is about getting the Riff-Raff out. So they can get serious investors money in it.
Oh I hated Zombies. They stayed too popular for way too long. And for a monster problem, they weren't really that scary, complex or that interesting.
These three elements seem to be the root cause of nearly every illness. Yet they use them all the time in our food, and our body has a large concentration of this in our systems ready to kill us at any time.
No not always.
Even in terms of computer science, there are algorithms that cannot be done in parallel. These algorithms need a faster CPU core, not more cores or more computers to get the job done faster.
In terms of having multiple rocket engines. The question to bring up, Will the extra size and weight of each engine be less efficient then having just one engine.
Granted smaller engines allows for easier scaling to larger rockets, and if they are setup so if one goes out they don't cascade to a massive failure, then that would be a good choice.
The biggest problem is most companies are so focused on cutting costs, they are not focusing on bringing in customers.
Efficiencies + Proper leadership doesn't mean lowering your workforce, but moving your workforce into a more productive state, that allows for proper growth.
Lets say the Machine Learning system, is handling the billing, it can do it faster and more accurate then a person can. The person who use to have to handle all the billing, can not be in a position where they are not bogged down by paperwork, but can communicate with the customer base, to help them get their bills in faster and work out any other issues. Where before such job would had been rushed, and often with less tact because this person was bogged down with thousands of invoices to review.
This makes the company far easier for the customer to work with, and continue their business. I see AI opening the door for a Kindness economy where for good or for ill, our jobs being less stressful on the minutia we can focus more on the bigger picture problems, and dealing with the people on a more personal level, allowing for better services, and product quality.
Yea, but for the most part one of them wins out. While we can fight semantics, Hollywood will always win.
The Anti-Hero is a Hacker, not a cracker. Because it can cover so many types of people who do so many different things. From just being good at a computer to breaking into a high security area.
The same thing with AI and Machine Learning. The AI gives the computer a personality that we could learn to love or fear.
Well there has been so much news about AI about doing things better and cheaper then a person could do. It is important to show that it isn't a human replacement, just a human supplement.
It is a case of too many "Man bites dog " news, and we have forgotten that the Dog normally bites the man.
It is important that the public is properly informed on the news. We do not want business owners to rush the gun, fire all the employees and install an AI system that cannot get the job done, causing harm to both the employees and the company. Nor do we want the the technology with so much ability and promise to be ignored, causing the company to be not be competitive and having to layoff all the employees because it went out of business.
I think it is also from Google trying to copy Apples keep it secrete until release day.
While it is good way to get some early marketing buzz and more entertaining keynotes also to try to prevent an Osborne 2 problem where the hope of a future item will kill the sales of the existing one. In terms of user testing it really sucks. Because normal people under normal conditions will not be able to test out these products. An Apple or Google employee isn't a good sample of normal use, especially in thick cases to prevent the public for getting a good look at it. And under the general fear of getting fired if someone got a good look at the product. Means that people will be holding the device differently, they will not be bringing it to places where it may be used differently or take some hits and dips. Beyond the clinical scientific tests, which are measurable and can be reproduced.
It could be written by a Climate Scientist working for ExxonMobile.
Just because he is working for a company that has its own self interests, it doesn't necessary make the science wrong. If read, we should know that it did indeed come from an Employee of ExxonMobile so if the idea is in conflict with other sources, we can assume that the science may not have gone across a complete peer review, and its findings may had been influenced by the employer. However if it jives with the findings of other sources with different self interests, it may offer good insight into the area that should be studied further.
Way back in 7th grade when we started to learn how to do research papers. The early lesson is this.
Use Encyclopedias as a way to give yourself a starter in researching a topic that you know little about. But after you get the Gist of what the topic is about, you can follow its sources, or know enough about the topic to intelligently look for more official sources. After reading the official sources to gain the knowledge you are looking for you would cite them.
Wikipedia had a lot of good info, and for the most part it is truthful and accurate information... But it is still an encyclopedia, where topics in areas are summarized. This is good for the general knowledge questions. For the most part this is good, for general knowledge, arguing on a message board, or even while you are working on something just for a fast reference refresher. But if you are going to be doing an official research on a topic. Wikipedia may be a starting point, but not a good place to cite learned information.
The problem with suicide there are so many people are on the edge with only their natural instinct of survival keeping them failing. A single influence from a popular figure or a loved one, could be enough to push them a little further, to allow them to bypass such instinct. Taboo's in a free society are often there to break, many of these Taboo's should be broken, as they may be holding us back from progress.
Lets use the Taboo about eating insects. Now the correlation between insects and illness have been well known. So this Taboo about eating them isn't unfounded. However now that we know about germs, viruses, and how many of these illnesses spread, we now can reliability figure out which insects are safe to eat and ones that are not, and best ways to prepare them. We will happily eat shellfish (allergies aside) which are the same class of animal. And Insects are shown to be more environmentally friendly way to retrieve our nutrients. But the Taboo is holding this back.
Now other Taboo's are still better off following. Because the benefit from breaking it may be much less then the overall risk it could cause.
Legislation is often needed when the Taboo should be followed, and breaking it has a big detriment to society.
Not a failure in regulation, Just regulations that are being replaced by technology.
Being that GPS is used the the UK, using US infrastructure, while we have had good relations for about 200 years. It wouldn't make sense to put your infrastructure purely in the hands of a foreign power, no matter how friendly they are.
Their economy looks fairly good for a country their size.
And that is an outdated offensive statement.
For the most part what Trump had said which is really bad is on the record. While things that Hillary and Obama had done is placed in an overly complex chain of events to show some sort of devious long term plot. Now just because you are left leaning doesn't mean you get a free pass for your own mindless rants. I have heard plenty of bad arguments about Trump and the GOP that are just as crazy and complex as the right wing nut.
Trump is just a Bad President and a Bad Person. Thus it is much easier for more people to point out the problems, these people who do so may or may not partisan nut jobs.
A lot of the people who complain about Trump, may have been mostly silent if an other GOP President was in the office, even if they didn't vote for them, they will just take it in stride that they didn't get who they wanted. However Trump is on record stating things that are stepping on our rights, and encouraging fear who do not follow him, which is not the America that I want to live in.
Who in their right mind would look for one?
Under George W Bush, while I disagreed with the policies, I wasn't worried about the country direction as I am now. Policies even if I disagree with them based on moderated reasoning, and for the most part with the general interest of the country at hand I can deal with and willing to put up with a policy I don't like for 4-8 years while using my rights as a citizen to disagree with it.
However today I don't feel the in power party is out for anyone's interests expect for that of the party. They are looking for things that can get past, they have disrupted many of the 2/3 majority votes in order to Ram policies and a supreme court placement in order to cut out the minority party.
Yes the democrats are just as bad as the republicans under Obama in obstruction as much as they can, I am not excusing that where they could possible try harder to find a good middle ground. However the GOP is just trying to scramble to show that they can do something, no matter the cost, and with the view to try to make Blue States Pay for not being in line.