This point from the website you mention would seem to apply to this case:
15. What if an item is marked the wrong price and the clerk catches it before I pay; am I entitled to buy the item at the price marked?
This is a fact-specific question best answered by a court. A store may not knowingly charge or attempt to charge a price higher than the price marked on the item. MCL 445.354. Therefore, the consumer may have a claim if the store will not sell the item at the price marked. However, the consumer may face obstacles convincing a court that the store knowingly charged the higher price when the pricing mistake is not intentional and will result in an obvious windfall to the consumer.
My personal take is that unless money has changed hands (in this case it hadn't) the store shouldn't be forced to honour an obvious mistake, especially as in this case the guy was acting in bad faith as he knew that the item was worth > 10x the listed price.
How does this stuff make it too the front page? Did nobody check even the most basic of facts for the story?
There is a moral to this tale...
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I was in a relationship for eight and half years with my ex. We'd bought a house together nine months earlier and I thought things were okay. Yes, I'd been working *a lot*, like nearly every weekend for the last three months. She'd got a promotion which took her out of town a few nights a week, I didn't mind, she'd been really supportive of my career in the early days and I figured it was me returning the favour.
I came home one Sunday evening and she announced she'd met someone else and she was leaving me. She'd known him for a month and was in love with him, she still loved me but she wasn't *in love* with me. WTF?! No it's not up for discussion, I'm moving out. So I got fifteen minutes notice that my relationship was over.
I knew that we'd been distant but I'd resolved that I was going to put the effort into our relationship as soon as this project was delivered.
I was at EIEF in 2005 when Mark Rein from Epic Games put forth this exact viewpoint.
I made the argument that your business model is either "boxed product" or "service provider". So if your selling boxed product then it is fair for the user to resell that product. Alternatively if your selling a service, MMOG for example, then you shouldn't charge for the box and the user would have no desire to resell the box. I don't think Mark understood what I was trying to say as he retorted with "well, would you let someone come into your living room and steal your TV?". I was at a loss as how to respond to that...
The GeForce 4s are now 3 generations old, so I hardly think it's relevent.
It's kind of like pointing out the the original Pentium had a flaw which reduced it's accuracy in certain kinds of division operations, true but irrelavent to the current generation of Pentium IVs.
This works if you put new barcodes on for similar (but cheaper) items. For example, stick the barcode for a Sony ultra-cheapo DVD player on a Sony top-of-the-range DVD player. No checkout assistant is going to notice/care.
I have a Sony DCR-TRV22 mini-dv camcorder and it works fine with all the software I've tried (Adobe Premiere, Microsoft Movie Maker, iMovie etc). I would happily recommend Sony camcorders to anyone, regardless of what platform/software they're using.
Its a rotating screen which has a projector projecting a different image for each of the 24 rotations. Hence you can view an object from 24 different angles. You should be able to increase the number of viewing angles by increasing the frame rate.
Number of Angles * Desired Frame Rate = Required Frame Rate
So I suppose the projectors already doing 576 (24 * 24) frames per second! You could reduce the impact on the projector by having multiple projectors with some sort of high speed blanking plate to ensure they only project on their associated angles.
Sorry for rambling nature of post, just thinking of the top of my head...
I believe the There interface is built around ActiveX and uses a whole bunch of stuff proprietry to IE, which is why it is dependent on it. So even if they didn't server side detect the browser and shut everyone else out it wouldn't work anyway.
As an ex-UK Games Workshop employee (95-96) who has worked in both retail and mail order I can agree with the above post, but **only for the US**.
What you have to bear in mind is that retail penetration in the US is tiny precisely because it's a massive country. In the UK you can find a GW store in any moderate size town and in may small towns and retail makes 100 times the money of mail-order.
The ultimate objective is total distribution control i.e. product is only sold through GW stores, GW mail-order and GW online.
Our patent policy is that if a patent is only likely to be granted in the US then we don't file for it. Basically the patent lawyers feel that it will be too weak to stand up in any european or asia-pac court.
Double / Quad pumped rambus channels refer to the frequency at which they are being driven, not the number of traces laid down. Rambus is as narrow as it has ever been.
No, the XBox is not based arround the nForce chipset. The nForce includes an integrated GeForce 2, where as the XBox includes an custom GeForce 3. The XBox does however include the same audio chipset as the nForce.
Think about the comparison here to the open source model of not paying for the source, but paying for the source in the convienent format of your choice (CD with nice printed manuals etc.).
I think this is a much better way to build a business.
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This is true, it's for accounts where the bank has lost contact with the customer.
My personal take is that unless money has changed hands (in this case it hadn't) the store shouldn't be forced to honour an obvious mistake, especially as in this case the guy was acting in bad faith as he knew that the item was worth > 10x the listed price.
I would hardly the say the pound is tanking, especially if you look at it over a more sensible time frame.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GBPUSD=X&t=5y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=
Damn, where are my mod points where I need them. Parent post is spot on.
68 million British pounds = 133.17800 million U.S. dollars
google is your friend!
Just to sprinkle some numbers into the discussion...
p layer/version_penetration.html
http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flash
I think that was a miss capitalisation of the word "core". The Xbox 350 is powered by an IBM PowerPC derived processor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#Central_proc essing_unit
Works for me too.
I'm running IE 7.0.5744.16384.
How does this stuff make it too the front page? Did nobody check even the most basic of facts for the story?
I was in a relationship for eight and half years with my ex. We'd bought a house together nine months earlier and I thought things were okay. Yes, I'd been working *a lot*, like nearly every weekend for the last three months. She'd got a promotion which took her out of town a few nights a week, I didn't mind, she'd been really supportive of my career in the early days and I figured it was me returning the favour.
I came home one Sunday evening and she announced she'd met someone else and she was leaving me. She'd known him for a month and was in love with him, she still loved me but she wasn't *in love* with me. WTF?! No it's not up for discussion, I'm moving out. So I got fifteen minutes notice that my relationship was over.
I knew that we'd been distant but I'd resolved that I was going to put the effort into our relationship as soon as this project was delivered.
Have you figured out the moral yet?
I was at EIEF in 2005 when Mark Rein from Epic Games put forth this exact viewpoint.
I made the argument that your business model is either "boxed product" or "service provider". So if your selling boxed product then it is fair for the user to resell that product. Alternatively if your selling a service, MMOG for example, then you shouldn't charge for the box and the user would have no desire to resell the box. I don't think Mark understood what I was trying to say as he retorted with "well, would you let someone come into your living room and steal your TV?". I was at a loss as how to respond to that...
The GeForce 4s are now 3 generations old, so I hardly think it's relevent.
It's kind of like pointing out the the original Pentium had a flaw which reduced it's accuracy in certain kinds of division operations, true but irrelavent to the current generation of Pentium IVs.
I think the closest thing is probably an OQO.
This works if you put new barcodes on for similar (but cheaper) items. For example, stick the barcode for a Sony ultra-cheapo DVD player on a Sony top-of-the-range DVD player. No checkout assistant is going to notice/care.
I have a Sony DCR-TRV22 mini-dv camcorder and it works fine with all the software I've tried (Adobe Premiere, Microsoft Movie Maker, iMovie etc). I would happily recommend Sony camcorders to anyone, regardless of what platform/software they're using.
Just out of interest, do US c/c++ coders say "pound include" or "hash include"?
As a UK/GB c/c++ coder I say "hash include".
Its a rotating screen which has a projector projecting a different image for each of the 24 rotations. Hence you can view an object from 24 different angles. You should be able to increase the number of viewing angles by increasing the frame rate.
Number of Angles * Desired Frame Rate = Required Frame Rate
So I suppose the projectors already doing 576 (24 * 24) frames per second! You could reduce the impact on the projector by having multiple projectors with some sort of high speed blanking plate to ensure they only project on their associated angles.
Sorry for rambling nature of post, just thinking of the top of my head...
I believe the There interface is built around ActiveX and uses a whole bunch of stuff proprietry to IE, which is why it is dependent on it. So even if they didn't server side detect the browser and shut everyone else out it wouldn't work anyway.
Not that I'm defending what they've done...
As an ex-UK Games Workshop employee (95-96) who has worked in both retail and mail order I can agree with the above post, but **only for the US**.
What you have to bear in mind is that retail penetration in the US is tiny precisely because it's a massive country. In the UK you can find a GW store in any moderate size town and in may small towns and retail makes 100 times the money of mail-order.
The ultimate objective is total distribution control i.e. product is only sold through GW stores, GW mail-order and GW online.
I'm fairly sure that
* Version numbers of other software for which Windows Update provides updates
covers "the list of software on the machine"
Has anybody actually read the policy? If you read it it doesn't really sound like they've done anything they said they wouldn't.
I work for a large telco in the UK.
Our patent policy is that if a patent is only likely to be granted in the US then we don't file for it. Basically the patent lawyers feel that it will be too weak to stand up in any european or asia-pac court.
Anybody have any similar experiences?
Interesting set of priorities you have there, credit cards over kids ;)
Double / Quad pumped rambus channels refer to the frequency at which they are being driven, not the number of traces laid down. Rambus is as narrow as it has ever been.
No, the XBox is not based arround the nForce chipset. The nForce includes an integrated GeForce 2, where as the XBox includes an custom GeForce 3. The XBox does however include the same audio chipset as the nForce.
Think about the comparison here to the open source model of not paying for the source, but paying for the source in the convienent format of your choice (CD with nice printed manuals etc.).
I think this is a much better way to build a business.