It was produced by an outside company, so I find it hilarious to think that the show has now gotten a "second act" by moving to some abandoned dot-com-era data center as a well-powered venue, where participants can play via videoconference, so they don't have to bore a real audience.
This slashdot thread has NOTHING to do with the stage show to which you're referring.
You're totally right, but looking at slashdot's main page right now, most of the articles have each word capitalized except for articles, prepositions, and conjunctions. (I see one "For" capitalization.)
Want to reduce your personnel costs? Get a reservation system that doesn't require so much typing and you could have a single clerk at the desk instead of three.
While not specifically airline reservation systems, this general sort of thing is one that has happened multiple times on the reality show "Undercover Boss". They see how slow, confusing, repetitive, and error-prone the various computer systems the grunts have to use are. (Sure, they're better than NO computer system, but still bad.) The latest one I remember was inventory scanning at a sporting goods store where they had to scan each item, then hit a key on the keyboard. Doesn't sound bad, but it made the process much more of a pain than it needed to be.
The "discount" for doing self checkout is getting out of there faster (the vast majority of the time.. yes, sometimes there are mixups, and having to get some things authorized by the 1 employee for 4-8 self checkout counters can be an issue).
I'm not sure who thought that "watching other people play video games" would be entertaining enough for a show
I presume you're joking (due to the 2nd paragraph), but at least from what I've seen in media coverage, in other countries, people *do* do this. For example, professional gamers in IIRC Japan and/or South Korea, and others pay to watch them play.
Think of it as paying for the shows. I use a DVR to avoid most ads (yes, there is product placement, but as someone who hates regular commercials, product placement doesn't bug me).
Remember They still count you if your TV is off but your cable box is on(like is generally required for DVR's to function).
It sounds like you're talking about 'older' DVRs, e.g. using an IR blaster. Nowadays, you just get a DVR that has a cable card in it (which the cable company ones do, or a TiVo, or the cable card boxes that work with Windows Media Center), and it *is* the cable box. The latter ones work better than cable company DVRs, and can even be _cheaper_ than the cable company one since you pay for only the cable card.
Netflix, hulu, amazon video, itunes, history channel.com, comedy central.com, etc. â¦.. People have no problem paying for content; It is the extra $50 to $100 a month plus commercials that many don't see worth whatever extra value they provide over the above services.
That's ironic, since hulu and the web pages you mention have commercials that are WORSE than on cable, since you can't skip them with a DVR. (Even if you do site blocking, don't you still have to WAIT 30 seconds?)
Even though I watch mostly stuff from rebroadcast versions of OTA channels, I prefer having a DVR where I can skip the commercials.
Would I prefer *instead* to have new shows absolutely on demand (with less often expiring and/or long lead times to expiration) WITHOUT commercials? Yes, but with the current "pay per episode" methods, I'd pay MORE than I pay for cable currently.
The U.S. postal service, while government subsidized is actually still a private subsidy, they are also competing against USPS and Fedex.
Obviously you meant UPS in the latter, though they're really only competing for *packages*. The USPS is the only one allowed to actually send normal mail.
How much interest do you pay per year on your credit cards? Money you are GIVING away for something if you had waited to buy you could have had at half the priceâ¦
I spend $0 in interest on my credit cards. In fact, I've gotten a PS2, a PS3, a bunch of games for each, free, and that's just from one of my credit cards. From another, I've gotten $50 cash back checks.
So I'm getting *paid* to let them loan me money for an average of 15 days, interest free. (Yes, merchants, and thus technically me, pay fees to use credit cards, but my individual purchase price is either the same, or the same after counting cash back (gas only).. Plus, it's more convenient to use credit cards. They autopay in full every month.)
Feel free to off yourself (and you only, not you + a bunch of co-workers or random people), and make room for the rest of us who want to live as long as possible (combined with a reasonable standard of life.. e.g. I still want tasty food).
I've been lead to believe that it is fairly common practice for big corporations in the U.S. to enforce a "use-it-or-lose-it" policy on vacation, where unused vacation expires in the year it was granted with no pay-in-lieu if it hasn't been used.
I don't have any proof otherwise, but I think at least in tech companies (I would presume all companies), that it's more relaxed than that. At least where I am and from what I've heard directly from employees of other companies, you can accrue more than 1 year's worth of vacation, but at some point accrual will stop. For me, it's 240 hours. So that would be several years without taking ANY vacation to hit that maximum. There are also sporadic vacation cash outs, where at least for us, you can cash out 1-1 with what you take.
Do you have a maximum accrual? At my company, in the U.S., 240 hours is the maximum accrual. I wish companies that had a maximum accrual would just pay you if you went over. (I stay around 200, and lately take a day off every 2 weeks much of the time, and still end up hovering around 200 hours.)
So I'm inferring that you need it to be a *social* activity?
If not, skiing (fits your bunch of money, need equipment, etc. though), running, biking (need equipment)?? Not that I do any of those much (would ski if it were closer). I run (well mostly walk) on a treadmill so that I can veg and watch TV while doing it, to get my mind off of it.
Is this for efficiency? That is, is the diesel engine always running at peak efficiency, generating electricity? As opposed to (like a car engine) speeding up or slowing down to change speed.
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This is the part that I thought was a joke:
This slashdot thread has NOTHING to do with the stage show to which you're referring.
You're totally right, but looking at slashdot's main page right now, most of the articles have each word capitalized except for articles, prepositions, and conjunctions. (I see one "For" capitalization.)
Hopefully you complained to the insurance company and explained this exact situation.
While not specifically airline reservation systems, this general sort of thing is one that has happened multiple times on the reality show "Undercover Boss". They see how slow, confusing, repetitive, and error-prone the various computer systems the grunts have to use are. (Sure, they're better than NO computer system, but still bad.) The latest one I remember was inventory scanning at a sporting goods store where they had to scan each item, then hit a key on the keyboard. Doesn't sound bad, but it made the process much more of a pain than it needed to be.
The "discount" for doing self checkout is getting out of there faster (the vast majority of the time.. yes, sometimes there are mixups, and having to get some things authorized by the 1 employee for 4-8 self checkout counters can be an issue).
I presume you're joking (due to the 2nd paragraph), but at least from what I've seen in media coverage, in other countries, people *do* do this. For example, professional gamers in IIRC Japan and/or South Korea, and others pay to watch them play.
Yes, it can be read multiple ways. No, it was not capitalized improperly.
It's (Rock Band) (Live), not (Rock Band Live).
Think of it as paying for the shows. I use a DVR to avoid most ads (yes, there is product placement, but as someone who hates regular commercials, product placement doesn't bug me).
It sounds like you're talking about 'older' DVRs, e.g. using an IR blaster. Nowadays, you just get a DVR that has a cable card in it (which the cable company ones do, or a TiVo, or the cable card boxes that work with Windows Media Center), and it *is* the cable box. The latter ones work better than cable company DVRs, and can even be _cheaper_ than the cable company one since you pay for only the cable card.
That's ironic, since hulu and the web pages you mention have commercials that are WORSE than on cable, since you can't skip them with a DVR. (Even if you do site blocking, don't you still have to WAIT 30 seconds?)
Even though I watch mostly stuff from rebroadcast versions of OTA channels, I prefer having a DVR where I can skip the commercials.
Would I prefer *instead* to have new shows absolutely on demand (with less often expiring and/or long lead times to expiration) WITHOUT commercials? Yes, but with the current "pay per episode" methods, I'd pay MORE than I pay for cable currently.
Obviously you meant UPS in the latter, though they're really only competing for *packages*. The USPS is the only one allowed to actually send normal mail.
I spend $0 in interest on my credit cards. In fact, I've gotten a PS2, a PS3, a bunch of games for each, free, and that's just from one of my credit cards. From another, I've gotten $50 cash back checks.
So I'm getting *paid* to let them loan me money for an average of 15 days, interest free. (Yes, merchants, and thus technically me, pay fees to use credit cards, but my individual purchase price is either the same, or the same after counting cash back (gas only).. Plus, it's more convenient to use credit cards. They autopay in full every month.)
That's not a spelling mistake, it's a grammatical mistake.
Wink, is that you?
Feel free to off yourself (and you only, not you + a bunch of co-workers or random people), and make room for the rest of us who want to live as long as possible (combined with a reasonable standard of life.. e.g. I still want tasty food).
I don't have any proof otherwise, but I think at least in tech companies (I would presume all companies), that it's more relaxed than that. At least where I am and from what I've heard directly from employees of other companies, you can accrue more than 1 year's worth of vacation, but at some point accrual will stop. For me, it's 240 hours. So that would be several years without taking ANY vacation to hit that maximum. There are also sporadic vacation cash outs, where at least for us, you can cash out 1-1 with what you take.
Do you have a maximum accrual? At my company, in the U.S., 240 hours is the maximum accrual. I wish companies that had a maximum accrual would just pay you if you went over. (I stay around 200, and lately take a day off every 2 weeks much of the time, and still end up hovering around 200 hours.)
Shh.. Don't try to convince him to move to CA. We're full.
So they *do* care. The rest of your post implies otherwise.
(No, I'm not going to put a smiley here. Just because "I can figure out what you really mean" doesn't excuse using incorrect phrases.)
The summary is incorrect. Playing online poker was NOT deemed illegal, despite the name of that bill.
Payment processing to online poker sites was made illegal (e.g. credit card payments).
The various other things that people involved with sites did were sometimes illegal payment processing, sometimes other scummy things.
(BTW, I have never played online poker, but I listen to some poker podcasts & watch WPT & WSOP.)
So I'm inferring that you need it to be a *social* activity?
If not, skiing (fits your bunch of money, need equipment, etc. though), running, biking (need equipment)?? Not that I do any of those much (would ski if it were closer). I run (well mostly walk) on a treadmill so that I can veg and watch TV while doing it, to get my mind off of it.
Citation needed. I presume you are implying that that was *legal*, not just that you could physically do it. How was that not copyright infringement?
Sheet music was copyrighted, even in the late 1800s.. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Maple_Leaf_Rag.PNG
He wasn't making broad generalizations, he was describing what HE is going to do. (Even the Stallman comment can just be him describing himself.)
Dang summary made me go look at various Miranda/phone call pages on tvtropes!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MirandaRights
Is this for efficiency? That is, is the diesel engine always running at peak efficiency, generating electricity? As opposed to (like a car engine) speeding up or slowing down to change speed.