Heck, like many other problems, you can just throw a little less money than they are extorting out of you to solve the problem.
For $180, you can begin get a HDMI to Component converter. It's not as cheap as those other solutions but it's still cheaper than running out to get your MPAA approved device.
I assume you're argument is that Google has every right to ads on the page going to the news, but nothing more. The problem at hand shows that Google has gotten so good at aggregating the meta-data about any topic that they can actually use that to the aggregate the data itself, whether it be news, real estate, restaurants etc.
Think about it: Google already knows search patterns of people searching for travel plans and airfare. They're in a good position to start using that information to find the cheapest fares, hotel and rentals and, without "evil" intentions, start crowding companies like Orbitz, etc.
And this is all fine and well as long as Google is the one obtaining this data on their own dime. The problem you are getting at is that Google is not paying the original aggregator for the original data.
For the realestate article though, the original host of the data(a realestate agent's website) will still get a hit and a possible revenue from their primary income source: selling or renting real estate. Google makes some money of adsense from providing the link to direct data.
Unfortunately for realestate.com.au, they might get left in the dust because their data aggregation algorithm pales in comparison to that of Google and they can't compete with them. Worse, why are they paying a competitor to hopefully promote them over a free service? That just doesn't make any sense.
Now, if Google starts pimping their own service over that of paying customers, as IS this case of that article..well...What I'd do is don't do business with Google, watch as their service fails because of the lack of reliable & meaningful data and hope they don't "tweak" the search results to eliminate you from the search results. Then cash out when Google writes you a 8+ figure check to buy you and your data aggregation company out.
If they actually do a better job than you and force you out of business...well...I guess you're f'ed.
Sorry if this hardly makes sense....All this "meta" stuff is confusing and I'm about to head out for the day.
I can't help but remember the good times and I keep hoping that if I come back, I'll get that sense of wonder when my toon took it's first steps into BRD. I remember the first time my toon helped drop Rag and Onyx....and then that big night when Nef died for the first time in our guild. The next week the expansion came out and it all went downhill from there it seems.
After that, nothing really seemed all that special. There was nothing like that first scholo or dead mines run.
I think Blizz should just slow down and release things slower so folks can actually enjoy the lead up grind. Let the game mature with each expansion rather than keep pouring on content faster than folks can wring the last drop of the last.
2.9% + $0.30 per transaction Fee is paid by the sender or recipient-sender decides.
I used my bank account to pay a friend, so it was free. Though, if it were anything more serious, I would be leery since I can't do charge back or other convenient stuff.
The writer does NOT mention that in the article what source the money came from.
Perhaps another person could say why the bank account/paypal is free and the other stuff costs money.
I recently went with a BYOD VOIP provider and have two cordless phones at home.
I have to say that,a side from the occasional QOS hiccup(maybe once ever 5 calls it has a delay), the quality of the call puts my cell phone to shame.
I don't mind using my mobile for quick chats or when I'm obviously not home, but when I really want to talk and listen to a person, I reach for the "obsolete" phone next to my desk. That and the cellphones get way too hot after 30 minutes of talking.
Then again, is the phone even really a landline? Only thing that it and the traditional landline have is that there is a RJ-11 at somepoint.
There is a paper trail actually, if the damned county uses them. The problem though is that old folks running the precients barely understand the devices, so they don't bother with the additional hassle of a vote-by-vote trail and just settle for a total count printout.
Read one of my journals for when I worked for Dieb-errr....Premier Election Solutions last year. The best thing I like is a electronic tabulator which can deliver results fast as can be but still has a paper ballot. Touchscreen's should not be for anyone to use but the handicapped.
I can see it now....rogue programmers, up late at night working in secret groups on some highly illegal, highly explosive software. Their code may not be perfect but it's the illegal cool factor that makes it worthwhile.
"NO WARRANTY OR GUARANTEE IS IMPLIED. USE THIS SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK" or some combination of that. Even my home server says that every time I SSH into it.
So.....you're going to sue a developer for a defect, intentional or not, even though they said it was not warrantied and use at your own risk?
It's simple: Relatively Unrestricted WiFi - (You can block off the obvious Battle.net and filter anything involving porn) and this allows any student with a laptop to research anything they want. Alot of kids today are getting laptops for the sake of college and university. Its almost a must.
Then you completely lockdown outter-access to anything within the physical domain of the Campus - being the plugs in the wall. Let them access their shared drives if they're in that kind of course - let them use the library printers, let them use outlook for email - (or your own campus built email). Other than that, they shouldn't need anything outside of the campus available to them on Campus computers.
This becomes maddening to enforce. EBSCO Host, wikipedia, and countless other research websites that reference other summaries on other websites. Heck, even a blog might have a key reference to a paper you are searching for.
A simple response of "Sorry. Internal use only." to a student is tantamount to a slap in the face for trusting their ISP(the school) to provide them the tools to do their work.
Another thing is this: A friend and I would have never gotten as far into programming if we couldn't have the occasional C&C Generals game on our own computers. Same goes for facebook, etc. I understand that it's not entirely academic, but neither is the typical undergrad education. You learn some academics but it's not everything.
Exactly. The video they showed kicks the crap out of Augmented Reality. The bokode is transmitting code that is only visible at a certain angle with much higher precision. IE- if you can see this code at pos(x,y) that means you are looking at this from these angles. Same principle applies to motion capture.
Those funny green suits would capture things a lot better with this bokode device I bet.
I'll read the paper later but I agree that, unless it adds some justified value that the existing barcode system doesn't have, it's going to be hard pressed.
Good point. The usage of a flat rate is nice when you show up and the problem isn't as simple as a RAM install from what they described.
I'd only quote that price if I knew for a fact it was that simple. I'd rather come down on my price than ever bill more than what I quoted them.
On top of that, I pulled that # out of nowhere. If I ever did it professionally(IE-earn my rent/food/gas money), I'm sure I'd have to work out on paper to find the right rate in this town.
But if you bought RAM from me, I'd install it for you, for free. But you'd complain that I charge 30% more than some mail order place and is ripping people off there too.
This is a good one.
Consider a $47 memory pack from Newegg. You charge 30% and either pull it from stock you've had to make a bet on not going obsolete and having to sell at a loss or pay for shipping(you could pass the buck here...)& wait for the part. Even then you're only charging ~$14 to customer for you to choose, buy and install the RAM, in which case the customer saves $33 over having you install THEIR ram.
What you get back is the customer is more willing to come to you for minor upgrades rather than shrug and do it themselves. After all, you'll do it cheaper and still carry the liability if you burn out a mobo, get an incompatible part, etc..
Lesee...considering most of their clientele might say, "I think I need more storage memory. Something about Virtual Memory low?"
Geeksquad has to first, before all else, pay for coverage in case the tech drops the computer on his foot and hurts him and the computer or the computer, for some arsonist reason, catches fire and burns the building down. Even though there is the release waiver, someone who gets back a shattered mobo when they only wanted RAM is going to demand a repayment. All of this has to be paid just in case, before anything can happen.
Then they need to have a tech be able to make a call on what RAM type, how much and if it'll fit into the machine. The actual labor is maybe $10 worth. It's another $15 to know how to exactly do it. Another $25 in overhead, liability and profit. They're making some change all right, but I'd say not as bad as $115/hr company I've heard say it would take 45 minutes to do everything.
Me? I'd charge $25(brought to me, otherwise $45 for me to come to them) and a 5% markup on the ram, but I'm not dealing with idiots that might try to force DDR2 RAM into a DDR3 slot.
To be honest, Comcast has this nasty habit of changing DNS servers in my area. Every so often I'm unable to make outgoing request while incoming requests to my domain(provided by DynDns) come through just fine. Dependability would be nice but not at the cost of having to see ads, even if I can disable it.
Don't worry. They've modded me into oblivion it looks like. I wish it would have remained at 1 so it'd warn other folks.
As you and many others have pointed out, they're just cashing in on the "open" washing while "offering services" to "guide" a user straight into an ad-ridden ass pounding. Thanks again for setting me right.
Right kind of moderation going on here. I posted a suggestion from someone a while back and get lots of good(albeit slightly over-critical) feedback to correct me and warn other users. Thanks./ community.
While I wouldn't be opposed to a +1 insightful, a +4 informative on my post is wholly undeserved.
My guess is that the business rules behind the application were known by each of the COBOL programmers. They didn't want to ditch the COBOL guys, but could see the age creeping in. So they decided to switch to Java as a compromise between a expensive rewrite that would render the COBOL programmers mostly useless and business as usual. Hey, you get a modern, functional language that is popular and get transition your COBOL guys into the syntax.
I think it will come back to bite them in that they aren't going to magically be able to hire a Java programmer and have them ready to work within the same transition time as, say a truly OOP project would. The code is still the same, just with java syntax. Worse, a new programmer may start to write OOP code in a manner that the COBOL folks don't understand.
All it appears to be doing is mapping COBOL line of code to Java Line of code, per Slide 25.
This is more about being able to find someone who can read and write java. The code remains procedural, the COBOL programmers do the same stuff, just in Java now.
Here's an example of the code that was spit out:
sql("SELECT * FROM RS0403 WHERE CDPROJ=#1").into(vrs0403a.dvrs0403a).param(1, tuazone.tua_I_Cdproj)
Not to dissuade, but in someways, they avoided doing a rewrite at all cost.
Great if you want to get off legacy systems, but it's not going to magically improve your code base. GIGO rules still apply.
Weird. I knew they shut them down after they failed to produce any proof. I haven't seen smiling bob for a long time.
Funny part about why it took so long is that in order to get a refund for the product, the patient had to go to a medical doctor and get confirmation that his, er, smiling face did not get larger and continued to stay small.
Hence, no one really wanted to complain and get a refund.
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Ages ago? Man. You've missed some rather interesting shows that might appeal to your nerdier side.
I'll just say "Good Eats" and leave it at that.
Heck, like many other problems, you can just throw a little less money than they are extorting out of you to solve the problem.
For $180, you can begin get a HDMI to Component converter. It's not as cheap as those other solutions but it's still cheaper than running out to get your MPAA approved device.
I assume you're argument is that Google has every right to ads on the page going to the news, but nothing more. The problem at hand shows that Google has gotten so good at aggregating the meta-data about any topic that they can actually use that to the aggregate the data itself, whether it be news, real estate, restaurants etc.
Think about it:
Google already knows search patterns of people searching for travel plans and airfare. They're in a good position to start using that information to find the cheapest fares, hotel and rentals and, without "evil" intentions, start crowding companies like Orbitz, etc.
And this is all fine and well as long as Google is the one obtaining this data on their own dime. The problem you are getting at is that Google is not paying the original aggregator for the original data.
For the realestate article though, the original host of the data(a realestate agent's website) will still get a hit and a possible revenue from their primary income source: selling or renting real estate. Google makes some money of adsense from providing the link to direct data.
Unfortunately for realestate.com.au, they might get left in the dust because their data aggregation algorithm pales in comparison to that of Google and they can't compete with them. Worse, why are they paying a competitor to hopefully promote them over a free service? That just doesn't make any sense.
Now, if Google starts pimping their own service over that of paying customers, as IS this case of that article..well...What I'd do is don't do business with Google, watch as their service fails because of the lack of reliable & meaningful data and hope they don't "tweak" the search results to eliminate you from the search results. Then cash out when Google writes you a 8+ figure check to buy you and your data aggregation company out.
If they actually do a better job than you and force you out of business...well...I guess you're f'ed.
Sorry if this hardly makes sense....All this "meta" stuff is confusing and I'm about to head out for the day.
It's like an abusive relationship.
I can't help but remember the good times and I keep hoping that if I come back, I'll get that sense of wonder when my toon took it's first steps into BRD. I remember the first time my toon helped drop Rag and Onyx....and then that big night when Nef died for the first time in our guild. The next week the expansion came out and it all went downhill from there it seems.
After that, nothing really seemed all that special. There was nothing like that first scholo or dead mines run.
I think Blizz should just slow down and release things slower so folks can actually enjoy the lead up grind. Let the game mature with each expansion rather than keep pouring on content faster than folks can wring the last drop of the last.
I had this problem a few weeks ago.
If I remember correctly, you have to switch to the personal tab and make sure the source is a paypal balance or a bank account
They even tell you what costs what when you send the money and click "When fees apply" link.
Here's the excerpt from Paypal:
I used my bank account to pay a friend, so it was free. Though, if it were anything more serious, I would be leery since I can't do charge back or other convenient stuff.
The writer does NOT mention that in the article what source the money came from.
Perhaps another person could say why the bank account/paypal is free and the other stuff costs money.
I recently went with a BYOD VOIP provider and have two cordless phones at home.
I have to say that,a side from the occasional QOS hiccup(maybe once ever 5 calls it has a delay), the quality of the call puts my cell phone to shame.
I don't mind using my mobile for quick chats or when I'm obviously not home, but when I really want to talk and listen to a person, I reach for the "obsolete" phone next to my desk. That and the cellphones get way too hot after 30 minutes of talking.
Then again, is the phone even really a landline? Only thing that it and the traditional landline have is that there is a RJ-11 at somepoint.
There is a paper trail actually, if the damned county uses them. The problem though is that old folks running the precients barely understand the devices, so they don't bother with the additional hassle of a vote-by-vote trail and just settle for a total count printout.
Read one of my journals for when I worked for Dieb-errr....Premier Election Solutions last year. The best thing I like is a electronic tabulator which can deliver results fast as can be but still has a paper ballot. Touchscreen's should not be for anyone to use but the handicapped.
I can see it now....rogue programmers, up late at night working in secret groups on some highly illegal, highly explosive software. Their code may not be perfect but it's the illegal cool factor that makes it worthwhile.
"NO WARRANTY OR GUARANTEE IS IMPLIED. USE THIS SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK" or some combination of that. Even my home server says that every time I SSH into it.
So.....you're going to sue a developer for a defect, intentional or not, even though they said it was not warrantied and use at your own risk?
Don't worry. I've got it for you right here. Make sure you notify your next of kin before clicking thru.
It's simple: Relatively Unrestricted WiFi - (You can block off the obvious Battle.net and filter anything involving porn) and this allows any student with a laptop to research anything they want. Alot of kids today are getting laptops for the sake of college and university. Its almost a must.
Then you completely lockdown outter-access to anything within the physical domain of the Campus - being the plugs in the wall. Let them access their shared drives if they're in that kind of course - let them use the library printers, let them use outlook for email - (or your own campus built email). Other than that, they shouldn't need anything outside of the campus available to them on Campus computers.
This becomes maddening to enforce. EBSCO Host, wikipedia, and countless other research websites that reference other summaries on other websites. Heck, even a blog might have a key reference to a paper you are searching for.
A simple response of "Sorry. Internal use only." to a student is tantamount to a slap in the face for trusting their ISP(the school) to provide them the tools to do their work.
Another thing is this: A friend and I would have never gotten as far into programming if we couldn't have the occasional C&C Generals game on our own computers. Same goes for facebook, etc. I understand that it's not entirely academic, but neither is the typical undergrad education. You learn some academics but it's not everything.
Exactly. The video they showed kicks the crap out of Augmented Reality. The bokode is transmitting code that is only visible at a certain angle with much higher precision. IE- if you can see this code at pos(x,y) that means you are looking at this from these angles. Same principle applies to motion capture.
Those funny green suits would capture things a lot better with this bokode device I bet.
I'll read the paper later but I agree that, unless it adds some justified value that the existing barcode system doesn't have, it's going to be hard pressed.
Good point. The usage of a flat rate is nice when you show up and the problem isn't as simple as a RAM install from what they described.
I'd only quote that price if I knew for a fact it was that simple. I'd rather come down on my price than ever bill more than what I quoted them.
On top of that, I pulled that # out of nowhere. If I ever did it professionally(IE-earn my rent/food/gas money), I'm sure I'd have to work out on paper to find the right rate in this town.
But if you bought RAM from me, I'd install it for you, for free. But you'd complain that I charge 30% more than some mail order place and is ripping people off there too.
This is a good one.
Consider a $47 memory pack from Newegg. You charge 30% and either pull it from stock you've had to make a bet on not going obsolete and having to sell at a loss or pay for shipping(you could pass the buck here...)& wait for the part. Even then you're only charging ~$14 to customer for you to choose, buy and install the RAM, in which case the customer saves $33 over having you install THEIR ram.
What you get back is the customer is more willing to come to you for minor upgrades rather than shrug and do it themselves. After all, you'll do it cheaper and still carry the liability if you burn out a mobo, get an incompatible part, etc..
I'd hardly consider that ripping someone off.
Lesee...considering most of their clientele might say, "I think I need more storage memory. Something about Virtual Memory low?"
Geeksquad has to first, before all else, pay for coverage in case the tech drops the computer on his foot and hurts him and the computer or the computer, for some arsonist reason, catches fire and burns the building down. Even though there is the release waiver, someone who gets back a shattered mobo when they only wanted RAM is going to demand a repayment. All of this has to be paid just in case, before anything can happen.
Then they need to have a tech be able to make a call on what RAM type, how much and if it'll fit into the machine. The actual labor is maybe $10 worth. It's another $15 to know how to exactly do it. Another $25 in overhead, liability and profit. They're making some change all right, but I'd say not as bad as $115/hr company I've heard say it would take 45 minutes to do everything.
Me? I'd charge $25(brought to me, otherwise $45 for me to come to them) and a 5% markup on the ram, but I'm not dealing with idiots that might try to force DDR2 RAM into a DDR3 slot.
To be honest, Comcast has this nasty habit of changing DNS servers in my area. Every so often I'm unable to make outgoing request while incoming requests to my domain(provided by DynDns) come through just fine. Dependability would be nice but not at the cost of having to see ads, even if I can disable it.
Depending on how your view is setup. For me, if the OP is 0 or -1, the entire thread doesn't appear unless I click on the below threshold...
It's fun to occasionally set the threshold to -1 and see an entire flamewar taking place.
Don't worry. They've modded me into oblivion it looks like. I wish it would have remained at 1 so it'd warn other folks.
As you and many others have pointed out, they're just cashing in on the "open" washing while "offering services" to "guide" a user straight into an ad-ridden ass pounding. Thanks again for setting me right.
Right kind of moderation going on here. I posted a suggestion from someone a while back and get lots of good(albeit slightly over-critical) feedback to correct me and warn other users. Thanks ./ community.
While I wouldn't be opposed to a +1 insightful, a +4 informative on my post is wholly undeserved.
Everyone go to opendns here and avoid this all together?
Or perhaps ANNOUCE THE FREAKIN' FREE UPGRADE DATE more than a day before it starts. That'd help.
It'd have helped alot actually.
They just bought a laptop(old one was stolen) and couldn't wait for Win7 to come out.
Good to know Microsoft is kicking them for paying the MS tax.
I was wondering that too.
My guess is that the business rules behind the application were known by each of the COBOL programmers. They didn't want to ditch the COBOL guys, but could see the age creeping in. So they decided to switch to Java as a compromise between a expensive rewrite that would render the COBOL programmers mostly useless and business as usual. Hey, you get a modern, functional language that is popular and get transition your COBOL guys into the syntax.
I think it will come back to bite them in that they aren't going to magically be able to hire a Java programmer and have them ready to work within the same transition time as, say a truly OOP project would. The code is still the same, just with java syntax. Worse, a new programmer may start to write OOP code in a manner that the COBOL folks don't understand.
All it appears to be doing is mapping COBOL line of code to Java Line of code, per Slide 25.
This is more about being able to find someone who can read and write java. The code remains procedural, the COBOL programmers do the same stuff, just in Java now.
Here's an example of the code that was spit out:
sql("SELECT * FROM RS0403 WHERE CDPROJ=#1").into(vrs0403a.dvrs0403a).param(1, tuazone.tua_I_Cdproj)
Not to dissuade, but in someways, they avoided doing a rewrite at all cost.
Great if you want to get off legacy systems, but it's not going to magically improve your code base. GIGO rules still apply.
Weird. I knew they shut them down after they failed to produce any proof. I haven't seen smiling bob for a long time.
Funny part about why it took so long is that in order to get a refund for the product, the patient had to go to a medical doctor and get confirmation that his, er, smiling face did not get larger and continued to stay small.
Hence, no one really wanted to complain and get a refund.