Depends on what form of payment and the agreement the shop has with the bank. For credit card purchases in the US, companies can sometimes get a lower fee if they send along the line items on the receipt being paid for. To accept most corporate cards, a shop is required to send a lot of information about the transaction to the bank.
Want to watch a football game? No, sorry, have to enter my vote for whether to change the wording on the outdated form otherwise the folks on the other side of the issue will (or will continue to) commit fraud. And after that, I need to vote on whether to create an exception on the sin tax for poor farmers who only sin once or twice. We also have to vote on whether to increase the quorum for a vote to 2.5% because of that bad law that got passed this morning with only 2.1% of the registered voters actually voting on it. Then, there is the coming issue of whether we should ban something I forget. What was the question again?
When I got a pair of progressive lenses, I encountered similar problems. I explained the issues to my optometrist and he used some extra lenses to work with me to pick out the parts of the lenses that I found difficult or impossible to use. The short answer was that the corrective in the lower and outer portions of the lenses was (were?) not as strong as it should have been, which narrowed the in-focus field, and led to the "tennis match" reading style. With the lenses replaced, I can read across a page without swinging my head. It still doesn't cover dual monitors, but that is due to the glasses not being wide enough. Note: I keep one large monitor directly in front of me and a smaller second off to the side.
This not a machine picking out what authors are worthy of digitizing, it is a computer scanning wikipedia and a few other sites. In other words, it is meta: ranking what regular humans have already ranked by their words and effort to describe. The merit of the critics/reviewers is questionable.
Deciding what is worth digitizing based on the merit of the work itself is not part of this article. For now, I'll stick with librarians deciding what to focus on.
How about a robot that prints, delivers your printed pages, then goes out and plants a tree to compensate for them. To make sure those pesky humans get enough exercise, the robot can also deliver a watering can and instruct the human to water the tree.
Aiming for top 50k apps. Anything less than supporting all the apps I use simply diminishes the value. I don't need to switch to a less valuable device. The type of people who value less closed systems are also those, as a group, with a wide range of needs. If I value my privacy and am willing to use less popular devices, why would I then be willing to use the most popular apps?
What I believe the ecosystem needs more than another device are apps that provide features available in the popular ones, but with the least possible amount of information gathering or sharing.
Calling it a watch would be misleading. Smartphones today could be called an iWatch as they mimic those watches we kept in a pocket (maybe on a chain or strap) and pulled them out when we wanted to know the time. Just that now we expect it to do more than tell time.
I imagine something a wider (along the forearm) than the old wristwatches we loved 20 years ago to give a reasonable* size screen. The rest works a lot like a smartphone.
*reasonable:less of an adjustment than we made to a smartphone screen after attaching larger and larger screens to our desktop computers.
[We] will provide look-alike actors, scene reproduction with suggested "improvements", and plausibly-authentic time stamped footage for a "small" government-only-affordable fee.
They have the indirect-direct correlation backwards. I would describe those 2 million as indirect jobs of other economic forces. I.e., ad supported internet jobs are there because others do things that want/need advertising.
Call it playing Sims (or some facebook game they may know about), just face-to-face using physical items like pencil, paper, and dice. It allows for more creativity & imagination. Akin to playing Kick-the-Can became Golf when we grew up or Toss-the-Ball became Tennis, playing Cops & Robbers didn't become terrorism, it became Rollplaying.
is this is overkill. The gut speakers are hard to swallow and technicians say the kidneys speakers are particularly difficult to install. What I really want is a system that prevents me from hearing other folks cough, laugh at the wrong moment, or left their cell phone on ring. And some will be listening to their ipod or speaking on their iphone during the movie anyway.
To parse the words carefully: 4) Within 5 years, it will become popular within the US to say there is no digital divide - there is no such thing a class divide in the first place. I think reality will look more service caps that limit the average user to software updates, streaming a movie per week, and playing a few hours of a browser game per month.
I am actually surprised this is newsworthy. This one is not a change at all. We've been dealing with changes in taxation since we designed our first retail product in 1986. When we added employee time tracking and more tax reports, the number of tax rules multiplied by about 3. If congress doesn't pass an extension, then we post a small update notice and all our sites (in the US) will have it within a minute, or the next time they launch our software. You want to talk newsworthy, convince all local governments to use the same tax rules, preferably the same tax rate. Then I wouldn't be spending my Decembers and Januaries rooting around bulletins, making tiny rate changes to our tables. My family has learned to not bother inviting me home for the holidays.
I personally would love it. I hate arranging conference calls only to have one person miss, no matter how I phrase the invites. "That's 9 am Mountain time, which is 11 am for you, Steve." Means Steve will call me at 7:10 Mountain time and say, "Where is everyone?"
But why not: Inertia. TV producers will bandy about some straw man like, "Shows are used to delaying by an hour for Central, two for Mountain, and the odd hour out for the West. The common announcement that "x will be shown at y:00, z:00 West Coast" will have to be changed to "x will be shown at y:00, y-1:00 Central, y-2:00 Western, and some other time West Coast." The additional seconds it takes to say that will result in less advertising which will destroy our economy." That cable, satellite, DVR, and streaming have already made that argument pointless will not be understood by said producers or the politicians who listen to them.
Besides, enough voters don't understand. Remember, we're smart and in the minority.
On a counter-argument: am I to believe that 39% of you waste imagination and breath on cursing a computer? Save it for lesser life forms like politicians, marketing directors, and news commentators. Won't you be sorry when computers discover revenge.
"... games in the Hentai genre, an explicit form of anime."
While there is some anime in hentai games (often similar art styles), and some characters in anime are seen playing hentai games, hentai games are not a form of anime. That's akin to saying "people can watch movies in their car; cars are in movies, so cars are an explicit form of movies." (And then there is (are) "Transformers" to mess with my analogy.)
Yes! You've explained this better than I could have. I've found using Japanese kanji actually easier than remembering those English spellings. Stupid "i before e" rules with exceptions too long to list, when to use double or silent letters, or forget the e at the end of potato.
And who ever came up with the idea that English letters look like the sounds (outside of 'o')? Let me see, if I form my lips like a double arch and place my tongue vertically under the center, I should make the sound for 'm', right?
Anecdote: I've regularly switched between English (US) and Japanese on my computers at home and at work for nearly a decade (and doing so keeps getting easier). I started learning Japanese in 1999 and found playing with it on the computer helped by adding experience using the language as opposed to just memorizing for tests.
As a multi-language computer user, I've been careful about application design, which has come in very handy these last three years as we've grown to support our services in more countries. Three weeks ago, one of our salesmen forwarded a question from a potential client in Japan. My answer was this simple: "Yes, switch the regional setting to Japanese and restart the program."
The downside is I now get frustrated when I see an English sentence fail to get across some subtle meaning when Japanese has a direct word for it.
I'm no longer working on engineering systems, I deal with more common users on business management software. I have to interact with clients and executives with no clue what a developer actually does.
Constantly, my thorough (that was a painful class) grounding in boolean logic helps me to write concise code.
Often, I use my discreet structures knowledge to split up a my work in to manageable chunks.
Sometimes, my understanding of graph theory to helps me explain concepts to non-programmers.
Rarely, I use concepts from vectors when designing code or describing a concept to another high-end programmer.
I haven't used any basic math above algebra (ex. trig or calculus) since 1990.
And when they started putting not-quite-right GM parts in them, they destroyed their reliability. Or maybe it was an attempt to bring the traditional 250k mileage cars back down to a respectable 80k. A GM 6-cylinder engine in a Saab... how rude!
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Depends on what form of payment and the agreement the shop has with the bank. For credit card purchases in the US, companies can sometimes get a lower fee if they send along the line items on the receipt being paid for. To accept most corporate cards, a shop is required to send a lot of information about the transaction to the bank.
Because voting on everything takes a lot of time.
Want to watch a football game? No, sorry, have to enter my vote for whether to change the wording on the outdated form otherwise the folks on the other side of the issue will (or will continue to) commit fraud. And after that, I need to vote on whether to create an exception on the sin tax for poor farmers who only sin once or twice. We also have to vote on whether to increase the quorum for a vote to 2.5% because of that bad law that got passed this morning with only 2.1% of the registered voters actually voting on it. Then, there is the coming issue of whether we should ban something I forget. What was the question again?
When I got a pair of progressive lenses, I encountered similar problems. I explained the issues to my optometrist and he used some extra lenses to work with me to pick out the parts of the lenses that I found difficult or impossible to use. The short answer was that the corrective in the lower and outer portions of the lenses was (were?) not as strong as it should have been, which narrowed the in-focus field, and led to the "tennis match" reading style. With the lenses replaced, I can read across a page without swinging my head. It still doesn't cover dual monitors, but that is due to the glasses not being wide enough. Note: I keep one large monitor directly in front of me and a smaller second off to the side.
These days, money speaks louder than words, in any language, even C++.
This not a machine picking out what authors are worthy of digitizing, it is a computer scanning wikipedia and a few other sites. In other words, it is meta: ranking what regular humans have already ranked by their words and effort to describe. The merit of the critics/reviewers is questionable.
Deciding what is worth digitizing based on the merit of the work itself is not part of this article. For now, I'll stick with librarians deciding what to focus on.
How about a robot that prints, delivers your printed pages, then goes out and plants a tree to compensate for them.
To make sure those pesky humans get enough exercise, the robot can also deliver a watering can and instruct the human to water the tree.
I'm not sure I trust Bloomberg on what is acceptable behavior for folks with a lot of money flowing around.
Aiming for top 50k apps. Anything less than supporting all the apps I use simply diminishes the value. I don't need to switch to a less valuable device.
The type of people who value less closed systems are also those, as a group, with a wide range of needs. If I value my privacy and am willing to use less popular devices, why would I then be willing to use the most popular apps?
What I believe the ecosystem needs more than another device are apps that provide features available in the popular ones, but with the least possible amount of information gathering or sharing.
If we stack them with the rest of the family, they won't complain. After all, they're meek. And nice.
There are a lot who don't even inherit that. A few ashes, maybe a lantern to float down the river.
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Calling it a watch would be misleading. Smartphones today could be called an iWatch as they mimic those watches we kept in a pocket (maybe on a chain or strap) and pulled them out when we wanted to know the time. Just that now we expect it to do more than tell time.
I imagine something a wider (along the forearm) than the old wristwatches we loved 20 years ago to give a reasonable* size screen. The rest works a lot like a smartphone.
*reasonable:less of an adjustment than we made to a smartphone screen after attaching larger and larger screens to our desktop computers.
[We] will provide look-alike actors, scene reproduction with suggested "improvements", and plausibly-authentic time stamped footage for a "small" government-only-affordable fee.
They have the indirect-direct correlation backwards. I would describe those 2 million as indirect jobs of other economic forces. I.e., ad supported internet jobs are there because others do things that want/need advertising.
Call it playing Sims (or some facebook game they may know about), just face-to-face using physical items like pencil, paper, and dice. It allows for more creativity & imagination.
Akin to playing Kick-the-Can became Golf when we grew up or Toss-the-Ball became Tennis, playing Cops & Robbers didn't become terrorism, it became Rollplaying.
-- Wagr
is this is overkill. The gut speakers are hard to swallow and technicians say the kidneys speakers are particularly difficult to install.
What I really want is a system that prevents me from hearing other folks cough, laugh at the wrong moment, or left their cell phone on ring.
And some will be listening to their ipod or speaking on their iphone during the movie anyway.
To parse the words carefully:
4) Within 5 years, it will become popular within the US to say there is no digital divide - there is no such thing a class divide in the first place.
I think reality will look more service caps that limit the average user to software updates, streaming a movie per week, and playing a few hours of a browser game per month.
I am actually surprised this is newsworthy. This one is not a change at all.
We've been dealing with changes in taxation since we designed our first retail product in 1986. When we added employee time tracking and more tax reports, the number of tax rules multiplied by about 3. If congress doesn't pass an extension, then we post a small update notice and all our sites (in the US) will have it within a minute, or the next time they launch our software.
You want to talk newsworthy, convince all local governments to use the same tax rules, preferably the same tax rate. Then I wouldn't be spending my Decembers and Januaries rooting around bulletins, making tiny rate changes to our tables.
My family has learned to not bother inviting me home for the holidays.
I personally would love it. I hate arranging conference calls only to have one person miss, no matter how I phrase the invites. "That's 9 am Mountain time, which is 11 am for you, Steve." Means Steve will call me at 7:10 Mountain time and say, "Where is everyone?"
But why not: Inertia. TV producers will bandy about some straw man like, "Shows are used to delaying by an hour for Central, two for Mountain, and the odd hour out for the West. The common announcement that "x will be shown at y:00, z:00 West Coast" will have to be changed to "x will be shown at y:00, y-1:00 Central, y-2:00 Western, and some other time West Coast." The additional seconds it takes to say that will result in less advertising which will destroy our economy." That cable, satellite, DVR, and streaming have already made that argument pointless will not be understood by said producers or the politicians who listen to them.
Besides, enough voters don't understand. Remember, we're smart and in the minority.
On a counter-argument: am I to believe that 39% of you waste imagination and breath on cursing a computer? Save it for lesser life forms like politicians, marketing directors, and news commentators. Won't you be sorry when computers discover revenge.
Or go back #00 years and move to Japan.
"... games in the Hentai genre, an explicit form of anime."
While there is some anime in hentai games (often similar art styles), and some characters in anime are seen playing hentai games, hentai games are not a form of anime. That's akin to saying "people can watch movies in their car; cars are in movies, so cars are an explicit form of movies." (And then there is (are) "Transformers" to mess with my analogy.)
Yes! You've explained this better than I could have. I've found using Japanese kanji actually easier than remembering those English spellings. Stupid "i before e" rules with exceptions too long to list, when to use double or silent letters, or forget the e at the end of potato.
And who ever came up with the idea that English letters look like the sounds (outside of 'o')? Let me see, if I form my lips like a double arch and place my tongue vertically under the center, I should make the sound for 'm', right?
Anecdote: I've regularly switched between English (US) and Japanese on my computers at home and at work for nearly a decade (and doing so keeps getting easier). I started learning Japanese in 1999 and found playing with it on the computer helped by adding experience using the language as opposed to just memorizing for tests.
As a multi-language computer user, I've been careful about application design, which has come in very handy these last three years as we've grown to support our services in more countries. Three weeks ago, one of our salesmen forwarded a question from a potential client in Japan. My answer was this simple: "Yes, switch the regional setting to Japanese and restart the program."
The downside is I now get frustrated when I see an English sentence fail to get across some subtle meaning when Japanese has a direct word for it.
I'm no longer working on engineering systems, I deal with more common users on business management software. I have to interact with clients and executives with no clue what a developer actually does.
Constantly, my thorough (that was a painful class) grounding in boolean logic helps me to write concise code.
Often, I use my discreet structures knowledge to split up a my work in to manageable chunks.
Sometimes, my understanding of graph theory to helps me explain concepts to non-programmers.
Rarely, I use concepts from vectors when designing code or describing a concept to another high-end programmer.
I haven't used any basic math above algebra (ex. trig or calculus) since 1990.
And when they started putting not-quite-right GM parts in them, they destroyed their reliability. Or maybe it was an attempt to bring the traditional 250k mileage cars back down to a respectable 80k. A GM 6-cylinder engine in a Saab ... how rude!