Why the transaction will ALWAYS be in the merchant's favor of course!
I really doubt this will happen. For the 3 to 4 cents you might gain it is just not worth the risk that someone might pull out their phone, calculate it and throw a major fit in your store. Even if no one ever throws a fit, word will get around, (See internet) and people will simply not shop at retailers who do this.
I usually have very little faith in people, but in this case I will tend to believe in honesty.
Did you miss the part where it said purchases would be rounded to the nearest nickle?
As a Canadian I can tell you that the pennies will disappear quickly, because the banks have been told to collect them.
The place I get my morning breakfast has already started rounding to the nearest nickle. My breakfast comes to $3.66 total, and I am always asked for $3.65
If only there were some place to search for knowledge. But even if there were, it would be unlikely to contain technical knowledge, or any way to get like minded people in touch with each other.
Sounds like a great idea for a new business. I am sure it would be a real money maker.
Science, genetics specifically, still offers us a little hope of finally leaving superstition behind us.
Have you not seen idiocracy? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
It seems much more likely, to me, that the future depicted in that film is our future.
I am using this as my list of five technologies not to invest in.
My breakdown:
Touch through your phone, No chance.
Visual recognition for medicine, I doubt it.
Computers hearing everything, Ever heard of the ACLU?
Computerized taste, Why?
Computers that can smell, Why, also redundant (See taste)
DID ANYONE EVER DO THIS? Think, this oil is to hot, why not dump in some frozen water to cool it down...
When I was 12 years old I coined "Rob's first law", which states:
People are generally stupid.
I have seen no evidence to the contrary in the past over 30 years.
may I ask Eastern-EU folks to please refrain from hacking my servers during the holiday season?
Just reply to this message with the IP addresses of any servers you want to make sure will not be hacked and I will make sure the list gets to the right people.
I hear they are going to replace the ribbon with unintuitive keyboard shortcuts. Most requiring at least four fingers and a keyboard template. (Like the templates for wordperfect back in the day.)
I'd rather err on the side of having murders and rapes go unsolved, rather than err on the side of police having everyone's DNA sequences.
Why? Not trolling, but it seems to me that if everyone's DNA were on record the crime rates would drop through the floor.
Maybe I feel this way because a good friend of mine was raped a few years ago, and if all DNA were recorded the asshole who did that to her would probably be rotting in jail right now.
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I really doubt this will happen. For the 3 to 4 cents you might gain it is just not worth the risk that someone might pull out their phone, calculate it and throw a major fit in your store. Even if no one ever throws a fit, word will get around, (See internet) and people will simply not shop at retailers who do this.
I usually have very little faith in people, but in this case I will tend to believe in honesty.
Did you miss the part where it said purchases would be rounded to the nearest nickle?
As a Canadian I can tell you that the pennies will disappear quickly, because the banks have been told to collect them.
The place I get my morning breakfast has already started rounding to the nearest nickle. My breakfast comes to $3.66 total, and I am always asked for $3.65
I for one, say "About bloody time!"
That's just crazy talk! You need to lay off the drugs.
If only there were some place to search for knowledge. But even if there were, it would be unlikely to contain technical knowledge, or any way to get like minded people in touch with each other.
Sounds like a great idea for a new business. I am sure it would be a real money maker.
Have you not seen idiocracy?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
It seems much more likely, to me, that the future depicted in that film is our future.
I am spending my time and money buying peoples houses. Spent every penny I have, but on Jan 1/2013 I take possession of 4 houses.
I am using this as my list of five technologies not to invest in.
My breakdown:
Touch through your phone, No chance.
Visual recognition for medicine, I doubt it.
Computers hearing everything, Ever heard of the ACLU?
Computerized taste, Why?
Computers that can smell, Why, also redundant (See taste)
You have obviously never dealt directly with a CEO.
Correction:
sudo apt-get pay
Even better, just don't have kids. Then you can torrent all the nasty ass porn you want 24 hours a day.
Note: Voice of experience.
Intravenous coffee seems like a damn good idea to me most mornings.
Always remember to add a decimal point or two to your made up statics. It makes them 82.4582645389319% more believable.
We're number 1!
All others are #2 or worse!
Vote for the one with lube. Obviously.
This was done in Canada, and it worked. Within about a year the one dollar bills were basically gone.
In the Stephen King book The Stand the virus that wiped out most of humanity was part of Project Blue.
Seems almost fitting somehow.
When I was 12 years old I coined "Rob's first law", which states:
People are generally stupid.
I have seen no evidence to the contrary in the past over 30 years.
Just reply to this message with the IP addresses of any servers you want to make sure will not be hacked and I will make sure the list gets to the right people.
Happy to help.
I am pretty sure that would qualify as a warcrime, and possibly as a crime against humanity.
Are you new here? Microsoft has a long history of not sanity checking, damn near anything until long after it breaks.
That was a Powerbook, not a Macbook you philistine. :)
Shut up Meg.
My warped mind goes there every time I see her name in an article.
I hear they are going to replace the ribbon with unintuitive keyboard shortcuts. Most requiring at least four fingers and a keyboard template. (Like the templates for wordperfect back in the day.)
Why? Not trolling, but it seems to me that if everyone's DNA were on record the crime rates would drop through the floor.
Maybe I feel this way because a good friend of mine was raped a few years ago, and if all DNA were recorded the asshole who did that to her would probably be rotting in jail right now.
Better suggestion. Offer to buy their house. Car. Or other valuable item. :)
They are not going to need it.