At least in the US, you're right. Moreover, they will charge you a large deposit upfront if you want to get an Internet, phone, or other service without a score/high score.
My country has a different approach as to credit. It's a database with "faults". If you fail to pay stuff, they can report you. And people querying the database will know how "good payer" you are. This sounds more appropriate for a country with a legal system following the "you're innocent until proven guilty".
Nevertheless, there's always a stupid company that gets you in the database just because a glitch or problem and then, when you try to get some loan, it's a hell of a problem to know who added you, why, and try to get yourself out of the problem.
I found this one interesting. I don't live in California nor NY, but I know the cost of living of NYC is relatively higher than most of the places in the US. (If not the highest).
Having an income that seems lower when compared to other places, working for a money making company doesn't sound fair. Particularly, because I bet making this kind of money (100k daily) puts a hell lot of pressure on your shoulders and your boss is probably constantly pushing to get more.
While I still think their MPG is a joke. I wouldn't let myself get confused with marketing words such as "Up to". That means in controlled environments, with particular conditions they manage to get that "50%" (See that this is a percentage rather than a value, meaning that the increase can be from 10mpg "up to" 15mpg, which is still low, and drivers may not even see this improvement based on their driving habits).
People should be more aware of that, because as you said, I've seen people driving suburbans/yukon or the like, by themselves to the store, which to me, unless you're planning on buying cows makes no sense whatsoever.
Look, the guys were looking for an excuse to download porn and illegal movies and they got it! Very clever if you ask me! Learning real statistics and providing more realistic resutls, probably wouldn't get them that much money and the excuse for downloading illegal stuff anyways.:) In the mean time, I'm stuck doing useless research and trying to properly applying statistics.
I think it really doesn't matter. They are getting a paper published (recognition), most likely a degree, and the best part they did it by downloading porn! Those guys are darn clever! I wish I had such ideas! Now I have to stick to usless research... back to the lab.
The E75 was left out of the "free navigation package". As I said before, they have free maps but at least last week, they were still attempting to charge me for the navigation.
At least in the US, I can't seem to find the E75 on the list.
Yes, I read about it and got excited with the news, just to find out the E75 was not on the list. I checked recently, but as I wrote to the previous commenter there are people complaints about not being free for the E75. Although it seems that they are probably charging less than $40 now, but that's still for me to check.
Yes, I don't know why downloading the maps into the Nokia seemed to be such a big problem for the PCPro guys, when that would save them access to the network and bytes in their data plan.
My GF has a Nokia E75, and while they don't provide free navigation they provide free maps. The navigation is an add-on that costs $40 a year (just for this particular phone), the installation of the maps was a easy, but of course takes time to move the whole US info into a microsd card through the USB.
They should have tried it, the GPS seems to be very accurate on the phone, or at least what the trial license demonstrated.
CONCLUSION: Even holding it wrong, a donut provided more feedback than the iPhone, and it didn't drop any calls. The iPhone however, remains considerably prettier than the donut, even when both may be absolutely useless when not holding them properly. iPhone wins./s
While the iPhone was only tested with bars (just four of them), the other phones seem to have better resolution data when applying of the grip of dead... even the donut seems to provide significantly more information when not holding it properly.
I think you have it wrong. If you go to check the content, why do you have to bear with annoying third party ads?
I know some revenue comes from ads, but viewers should have a way to discriminate ads, improve the site appearance and provide feedback to mediocre marketeers. What if your public TV decided to, instead of having 5 minute commercial breaks, add dancing bananas or jumping smiles in the middle of the screen when you're watching a show? That is disrupting and annoying and even if someone paid for those ads, sooner or later the TV station will realize that they need to take care of their customers and better select the ads they present.
It's not about going or not to the site. It's about people thinking that you'll be appealed by a flashing smiley face that slows down the whole content. I think there should be a way of voting for ads in a page, people will get the ads they like and content providers could still put ads that are appealing to people.
Why would you want people to judge your great content by the crappy ad a third party decided to place on your page?
I think there is. While, I said there may be ways to overcome the problem, it's different to the problem on land given the water has better reflecting characteristics than the land.
While HUGHES has good history with satellite communications, I'd say that using a BGAN terminal (which appears to be for land) may not correctly work as well on water. As our friends at Apple should learn, radio frequencies have to be carefully analyzed.
Earth does not reflects RF signals as water. RF bouncing on moving water can become a multipath living hell, thus I'd believe that solutions involving open sea should be better targeted to big boats and should be very conflicting and expensive on small ones. But I guess it's worth checking .
I happens that there may be many people in front of the billboard.
I'd assume that when the detector cannot discriminate, a general advertisement should come up.
I could come up with a basic list of what could be shown:
Old man: viagra
Middle age man: sport cars
Young man: condoms
Old woman: Body lotion
Middle age woman: gym equipment or subscriptions
Young woman: tampons or female hygiene products
man (unable to discriminate age): cars
woman (unable to discriminate age): magazine subscriptions
young (unable to discriminate sex): video games/soda
middle aged (unable to discriminate sex): banking products
old (unable to discriminate sex): vacation spots
unable to discriminate age and sex: consumer electronics/cellphone plans
Now, group these categories and show something different every time.
Worse, this can be further exploited to shake net neutrality if they decide to start charging for carrying the "pirated content". Because, who's going to pay for all the bits going to another countries?
Slashdot Mirror
At least in the US, you're right. Moreover, they will charge you a large deposit upfront if you want to get an Internet, phone, or other service without a score/high score.
My country has a different approach as to credit. It's a database with "faults". If you fail to pay stuff, they can report you. And people querying the database will know how "good payer" you are. This sounds more appropriate for a country with a legal system following the "you're innocent until proven guilty".
Nevertheless, there's always a stupid company that gets you in the database just because a glitch or problem and then, when you try to get some loan, it's a hell of a problem to know who added you, why, and try to get yourself out of the problem.
I wonder how will they compare Solaris to Windows (and/or Ubuntu)
Yes, in the pictures from the original submission the prototype looks more like the body of the Porsche Carrera GT.
I found this one interesting. I don't live in California nor NY, but I know the cost of living of NYC is relatively higher than most of the places in the US. (If not the highest).
Having an income that seems lower when compared to other places, working for a money making company doesn't sound fair. Particularly, because I bet making this kind of money (100k daily) puts a hell lot of pressure on your shoulders and your boss is probably constantly pushing to get more.
So they are finally starting to sell re-branded fingerworks devices.
Registered slashdot users also tend not to be complete morons
Do you also have the "Apple" section blocked?
While I still think their MPG is a joke. I wouldn't let myself get confused with marketing words such as "Up to". That means in controlled environments, with particular conditions they manage to get that "50%" (See that this is a percentage rather than a value, meaning that the increase can be from 10mpg "up to" 15mpg, which is still low, and drivers may not even see this improvement based on their driving habits).
People should be more aware of that, because as you said, I've seen people driving suburbans/yukon or the like, by themselves to the store, which to me, unless you're planning on buying cows makes no sense whatsoever.
Look, the guys were looking for an excuse to download porn and illegal movies and they got it! Very clever if you ask me! Learning real statistics and providing more realistic resutls, probably wouldn't get them that much money and the excuse for downloading illegal stuff anyways. :)
In the mean time, I'm stuck doing useless research and trying to properly applying statistics.
I think it really doesn't matter. They are getting a paper published (recognition), most likely a degree, and the best part they did it by downloading porn! Those guys are darn clever! I wish I had such ideas! Now I have to stick to usless research... back to the lab.
He probably meant the GM hybrids, such as the Yukon, Escalade, Silverado and Tahoe. Now, that's what I think is a joke. :)
The E75 was left out of the "free navigation package". As I said before, they have free maps but at least last week, they were still attempting to charge me for the navigation.
At least in the US, I can't seem to find the E75 on the list.
Yes, I read about it and got excited with the news, just to find out the E75 was not on the list. I checked recently, but as I wrote to the previous commenter there are people complaints about not being free for the E75. Although it seems that they are probably charging less than $40 now, but that's still for me to check.
I checked last week, and the E75 still was on the list of "no, you're not getting free navigation".
You may still check how other users still complain about it
They don't let the AT&T make decisions.
Like tethering for example? You're saying that's Apple decision?
Yes, I don't know why downloading the maps into the Nokia seemed to be such a big problem for the PCPro guys, when that would save them access to the network and bytes in their data plan.
My GF has a Nokia E75, and while they don't provide free navigation they provide free maps. The navigation is an add-on that costs $40 a year (just for this particular phone), the installation of the maps was a easy, but of course takes time to move the whole US info into a microsd card through the USB.
They should have tried it, the GPS seems to be very accurate on the phone, or at least what the trial license demonstrated.
CONCLUSION: Even holding it wrong, a donut provided more feedback than the iPhone, and it didn't drop any calls. The iPhone however, remains considerably prettier than the donut, even when both may be absolutely useless when not holding them properly. /s
iPhone wins.
While the iPhone was only tested with bars (just four of them), the other phones seem to have better resolution data when applying of the grip of dead... even the donut seems to provide significantly more information when not holding it properly.
I think you have it wrong. If you go to check the content, why do you have to bear with annoying third party ads?
I know some revenue comes from ads, but viewers should have a way to discriminate ads, improve the site appearance and provide feedback to mediocre marketeers. What if your public TV decided to, instead of having 5 minute commercial breaks, add dancing bananas or jumping smiles in the middle of the screen when you're watching a show? That is disrupting and annoying and even if someone paid for those ads, sooner or later the TV station will realize that they need to take care of their customers and better select the ads they present.
It's not about going or not to the site. It's about people thinking that you'll be appealed by a flashing smiley face that slows down the whole content. I think there should be a way of voting for ads in a page, people will get the ads they like and content providers could still put ads that are appealing to people.
Why would you want people to judge your great content by the crappy ad a third party decided to place on your page?
I think there is. While, I said there may be ways to overcome the problem, it's different to the problem on land given the water has better reflecting characteristics than the land.
While HUGHES has good history with satellite communications, I'd say that using a BGAN terminal (which appears to be for land) may not correctly work as well on water. As our friends at Apple should learn, radio frequencies have to be carefully analyzed.
Earth does not reflects RF signals as water. RF bouncing on moving water can become a multipath living hell, thus I'd believe that solutions involving open sea should be better targeted to big boats and should be very conflicting and expensive on small ones.
But I guess it's worth checking .
I happens that there may be many people in front of the billboard.
I'd assume that when the detector cannot discriminate, a general advertisement should come up.
I could come up with a basic list of what could be shown: Old man: viagra
Middle age man: sport cars
Young man: condoms
Old woman: Body lotion
Middle age woman: gym equipment or subscriptions
Young woman: tampons or female hygiene products
man (unable to discriminate age): cars
woman (unable to discriminate age): magazine subscriptions
young (unable to discriminate sex): video games/soda
middle aged (unable to discriminate sex): banking products
old (unable to discriminate sex): vacation spots
unable to discriminate age and sex: consumer electronics/cellphone plans
Now, group these categories and show something different every time.
"... and all customers that bought the iPhone 4 will receive a $10 gift certificate when buying the new iPhone 5."
Worse, this can be further exploited to shake net neutrality if they decide to start charging for carrying the "pirated content". Because, who's going to pay for all the bits going to another countries?
I'd personally go with trying to engage a lower gear first. Neutral may take a little longer to reduce the speed of the car, but could work as well.