I don't even trust those guys with a browser cookie, much less a credit card.
Two notes:
1) It's their cookie:-)
2) I don't think the facebook guys need your credit card to buy shit:-) Of course from the credit card number they can tell which bank you use, which I'm sure they can leverage somehow.
AIUI when a TV show is made it is typically made for and owned by a TV network in it's home country (or sometimes for expensive shows several TV networks in different countries). That TV network (or networks) then sells the rights to it to other TV networks arround the world.
That business model makes a lot of sense if you need the local network to distribute your product.
However technology now allows to cut the middleman. Plus I'm quite sure the Spanish networks wouldn't even blink at allowing the content provider to distribute in internet (as long as it wasn't free). They're quite clueless.
Whoever pays $22.99 for half a season, or any other TV show, when it is available on Netflix is beyond me.
What's beyond me is why AMC, HBO, etc, insist on not taking my money. It's Euros, OK, but really - they can be exchanged to USD and then used for everything.
I can write a walk through should the network exec consider my proposal interesting.
Requiring a user, after the fact, to recall an error message is futile. They simple have seen to many varied ones and their brain goes 'oh an error message' not 'oh a 504 error' or 'oh a invalid data type error'.
Believe it or not a user that doesn't remember the error message is not the worst kind of user.
I have some users that love translating text errors into numeric error themselves. Any time a page doesn't load, it's a 404. So that's what they report. "I'm trying to connect to thisdomaindoesntexist.com and I'm getting a 404."
notifications...which you could simply do with the phone itself. The phone has a means of notifying silently already.
Yes, and usually those notifications are missed. Obviously you don't have a girlfriend or wife with her phone inside a pouch instead a bag which is a few meters away.
For some reason some sysadmin think they're really special and no one should be able to reach them - go via helpdesk, etc.
I'd like to see those sysadmin having a problem with their checks and being told "no no, you can't talk to anyone in HR or the payroll department directly, are you crazy? Please open a ticket and wait for a reply, an intern will get back to you in 24 hours or less".
...For me (which need to do very casual, and trivial, editing) [licensing photoshop] makes no sense.
In that case, using Photoshop at all makes no sense. There are cheaper (or free, or even Free) programs that will do the casual and trivial editing you want more easily than Photoshop.
Maybe, but I don't want to look for, install, and learn the basics of whatever alternative is good this month.
There's plenty of tutorials, templates, etc for photoshop that just don't exist for many others. Just because something else would be enough for what I need it doesn't mean it's the right solution for me.
If you know a lot of people who steal other people's copies of photoshop, you're probably hanging out with the wrong crowd.
Because of the stealing, or because they use photoshop?
Anyway - if Adobe had "per use" licensing, they would get my money. I'm not going to buy their product outright, and I'm not going to pay their huge monthly rental license. I'm sure for a lot of people it's a reasonable cost, but for me (which need to do very casual, and trivial, editing) it makes no sense.
But let me pay $5 per photo I edit, and I'm in. It's still expensive, of course, but I can afford to pay that the 2-3 times I year I actually need photoshop.
Won't Skype tell you the IP that was used by the thief?
No, they won't. In general companies tell you to contact the police, etc and go out of their way to be useless.
Some months ago I had someone purchase a plane ticket using my credit card. My bank sent me a SMS when the charge was made (usual alert system, they SMS each time there's a charge). I had the phone with me so I could do something instantly. This is what happened:
- The charge was made for a plane ticket on Airchile according to the SMS.
- I called the bank *inmediately* (as the SMS said) to notify them of the charge. Well, guess what, it was a Sunday at 23:00 or so and they were closed. So the bank couldn't help.
- I drove to the airport to talk to Airchile, which happened to be opened at the time because they was a flight leaving from Madrid to Santiago in a couple hours (I was hoping that the bastard was there). They couldn't help.
- I went to the police station in the airport and they couldn't help because I needed a bank statement before they could do anything. Really? I have to wait until the end of the month before I can file a report with the police?
You see - even if you are really willing to track things down and not demand your money back, the other parties involved rarely assist.
Eventually I got my statement, filed the report (useless at the time of course) and got my money. But I great chance to catch the guy was lost.
So far they're still mostly making money from ads right? What else?
I'm willing to bet they make money from Google Apps.
And if they wanted to charge something for an ad free gmail account (not in user domains, just the old gmail accounts without any ad) I'm quite sure they'll get lots of cash, too.
Solution (and business decision): Have the exchanges in tax heavens. Make all transfers bitcoin-only, until you really need to cash out.
Not an easy thing to solve for the tax guys, but maybe this time they will bother do something that can eventually be used to prevent the tax evasion and money laundering happening until now with regular currencies.
Dear idiot who went to Malaysia so you could live well working for for peanuts: You are fucking everyone else you left behind, by lowering their wages a bit, and if you come back you will find a much worse country.
I assume you are working from Malaysia with US clients, of course, not Malaysian clients who wouldn't pay for $10/hour if that what it takes to live a king there.
I never knew the original Titanic didn't have internet access.
It did, but being telegraph based the bandwidth was horrible, and with Hamming codes not having been invented yet transmission errors were a real issue.
Besides, PayPal is sufficiently optional across the entire web with very few exceptions (beyond eBay, I'm not sure of anything of note that requires PayPal).
Try starting a online business in Europe. There's no google checkout or amazon payments, all paypal competitors seem as sketchy as paypal or worse, and the online payment solutions offered by traditional banks are an absolute joke.
I've noticed that online a lot of women have insanely high standards, even an average (in terms of both looks and personality) woman gets used to being contacted by multiple men every day so they tend to not even reply to messages unless you're in the top n% (for small values of n) by their standards.
This is true when those women are new to dating services. Once they show up to a couple dates and learn the reality of things they behave quite differently.
Anyway the strategy of (successful) men using the service is a lot different than in real life. In these service you can just prune the women you absolutely wouldn't want have anything to do with and then approach all others. Success is in the numbers. Yes, 95% of women won't reply, fuck them. 5% will give you a chance, so work on those and forget about the others. You'll figure out quite soon what works most of the time, what doesn't work most of the time, and relate what you say with the type of women that like it (which is also a useful pruning tool).
If you think you know what you want out of another human you're just objectifying them, which is treacherously immoral.
This is absurd. Usually you know what you want as a matter of fact - or are you immorally objectifying a store clerk when you walk in to buy something?
Plus the "object" can also want something from you (or not want anything) which is also fine.
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I don't even trust those guys with a browser cookie, much less a credit card.
Two notes: :-) :-) Of course from the credit card number they can tell which bank you use, which I'm sure they can leverage somehow.
1) It's their cookie
2) I don't think the facebook guys need your credit card to buy shit
AIUI when a TV show is made it is typically made for and owned by a TV network in it's home country (or sometimes for expensive shows several TV networks in different countries). That TV network (or networks) then sells the rights to it to other TV networks arround the world.
That business model makes a lot of sense if you need the local network to distribute your product.
However technology now allows to cut the middleman. Plus I'm quite sure the Spanish networks wouldn't even blink at allowing the content provider to distribute in internet (as long as it wasn't free). They're quite clueless.
Whoever pays $22.99 for half a season, or any other TV show, when it is available on Netflix is beyond me.
What's beyond me is why AMC, HBO, etc, insist on not taking my money. It's Euros, OK, but really - they can be exchanged to USD and then used for everything. I can write a walk through should the network exec consider my proposal interesting.
Requiring a user, after the fact, to recall an error message is futile. They simple have seen to many varied ones and their brain goes 'oh an error message' not 'oh a 504 error' or 'oh a invalid data type error'.
Believe it or not a user that doesn't remember the error message is not the worst kind of user.
I have some users that love translating text errors into numeric error themselves. Any time a page doesn't load, it's a 404. So that's what they report. "I'm trying to connect to thisdomaindoesntexist.com and I'm getting a 404."
I'm still waiting for a PHP 6.0 that's an actual rewrite without all the stupid.
Here you are (just run on shell):
/dev/null
tar cvfz php-6.0.0-stupidless.tar --files-from
You're welcome.
notifications...which you could simply do with the phone itself. The phone has a means of notifying silently already.
Yes, and usually those notifications are missed. Obviously you don't have a girlfriend or wife with her phone inside a pouch instead a bag which is a few meters away.
For some reason some sysadmin think they're really special and no one should be able to reach them - go via helpdesk, etc.
I'd like to see those sysadmin having a problem with their checks and being told "no no, you can't talk to anyone in HR or the payroll department directly, are you crazy? Please open a ticket and wait for a reply, an intern will get back to you in 24 hours or less".
Photoshop is not available in none of those places, plus of course I'm trying to *save* work, not do more.
I don't need excuses not to buy from Adobe. It's them who need to give me reasons to buy.
In that case, using Photoshop at all makes no sense. There are cheaper (or free, or even Free) programs that will do the casual and trivial editing you want more easily than Photoshop.
Maybe, but I don't want to look for, install, and learn the basics of whatever alternative is good this month.
There's plenty of tutorials, templates, etc for photoshop that just don't exist for many others. Just because something else would be enough for what I need it doesn't mean it's the right solution for me.
If you know a lot of people who steal other people's copies of photoshop, you're probably hanging out with the wrong crowd.
Because of the stealing, or because they use photoshop?
Anyway - if Adobe had "per use" licensing, they would get my money. I'm not going to buy their product outright, and I'm not going to pay their huge monthly rental license. I'm sure for a lot of people it's a reasonable cost, but for me (which need to do very casual, and trivial, editing) it makes no sense.
But let me pay $5 per photo I edit, and I'm in. It's still expensive, of course, but I can afford to pay that the 2-3 times I year I actually need photoshop.
Won't Skype tell you the IP that was used by the thief?
No, they won't. In general companies tell you to contact the police, etc and go out of their way to be useless.
Some months ago I had someone purchase a plane ticket using my credit card. My bank sent me a SMS when the charge was made (usual alert system, they SMS each time there's a charge). I had the phone with me so I could do something instantly. This is what happened:
- The charge was made for a plane ticket on Airchile according to the SMS.
- I called the bank *inmediately* (as the SMS said) to notify them of the charge. Well, guess what, it was a Sunday at 23:00 or so and they were closed. So the bank couldn't help.
- I drove to the airport to talk to Airchile, which happened to be opened at the time because they was a flight leaving from Madrid to Santiago in a couple hours (I was hoping that the bastard was there). They couldn't help.
- I went to the police station in the airport and they couldn't help because I needed a bank statement before they could do anything. Really? I have to wait until the end of the month before I can file a report with the police?
You see - even if you are really willing to track things down and not demand your money back, the other parties involved rarely assist.
Eventually I got my statement, filed the report (useless at the time of course) and got my money. But I great chance to catch the guy was lost.
So far they're still mostly making money from ads right? What else?
I'm willing to bet they make money from Google Apps. And if they wanted to charge something for an ad free gmail account (not in user domains, just the old gmail accounts without any ad) I'm quite sure they'll get lots of cash, too.
Solution (and business decision): Have the exchanges in tax heavens. Make all transfers bitcoin-only, until you really need to cash out. Not an easy thing to solve for the tax guys, but maybe this time they will bother do something that can eventually be used to prevent the tax evasion and money laundering happening until now with regular currencies.
Or maybe it's just a guy who wants a well paying job and he knows all the technobabble is just that...
I hear he's going to be in charge of T.P.S. reports
Dear idiot who went to Malaysia so you could live well working for for peanuts: You are fucking everyone else you left behind, by lowering their wages a bit, and if you come back you will find a much worse country.
I assume you are working from Malaysia with US clients, of course, not Malaysian clients who wouldn't pay for $10/hour if that what it takes to live a king there.
You are doing it backwards.
Who would pay for their hosting?
Anyone who cannot afford $30/year or convince someone to host their blog for them for free because it is interesting does not need a blog.
Really? So only people with a proper job with Western salaries are allowed to blog now?
I never knew the original Titanic didn't have internet access.
It did, but being telegraph based the bandwidth was horrible, and with Hamming codes not having been invented yet transmission errors were a real issue.
Um...there goes my plans of choosing the next Pope myself...
Now if only it was possible to bribe the clergy that votes. Well, one can dream.
Besides, PayPal is sufficiently optional across the entire web with very few exceptions (beyond eBay, I'm not sure of anything of note that requires PayPal).
Try starting a online business in Europe. There's no google checkout or amazon payments, all paypal competitors seem as sketchy as paypal or worse, and the online payment solutions offered by traditional banks are an absolute joke.
Seriously, EU, you should go after PayPal first. They are doing whatever the fuck they want over here.
Seedboxes have been around for years, they solve this problem too.
I've noticed that online a lot of women have insanely high standards, even an average (in terms of both looks and personality) woman gets used to being contacted by multiple men every day so they tend to not even reply to messages unless you're in the top n% (for small values of n) by their standards.
This is true when those women are new to dating services. Once they show up to a couple dates and learn the reality of things they behave quite differently.
Anyway the strategy of (successful) men using the service is a lot different than in real life. In these service you can just prune the women you absolutely wouldn't want have anything to do with and then approach all others. Success is in the numbers. Yes, 95% of women won't reply, fuck them. 5% will give you a chance, so work on those and forget about the others. You'll figure out quite soon what works most of the time, what doesn't work most of the time, and relate what you say with the type of women that like it (which is also a useful pruning tool).
If you think you know what you want out of another human you're just objectifying them, which is treacherously immoral.
This is absurd. Usually you know what you want as a matter of fact - or are you immorally objectifying a store clerk when you walk in to buy something?
Plus the "object" can also want something from you (or not want anything) which is also fine.
You forgot: Because developers are in general worse than they think they are.
I would go with German,
This would lead, by definition, to a boring as hell job.
Beware of SAP!