Tesla maintains their own service centers, they even have one in New Jersey that services the NYC metro area. Regarding loans, they can easily assign that to a 3rd party lender to handle or the customer can arrange their own financing. Dealerships have lending offices as a matter of convenience and profit (sells more cars, plus they can pocket a percentage of the interest on a loan).
Relevant link: https://www.grc.com/fingerprin... This is one reason why companies are opposed to non-IE web browsers. Firefox has its own cert store for example.
Depends on the definition of "legacy". For many, upgrading to a NT based OS (usually XP) from Windows 9x was painful if they had a substantial investment in DOS programs (that won't run in NTVDM) and legacy hardware.
Quite a few Core2Duo machines came with Windows XP MCE2005 when new. Add in businesses using downgrade rights and the occasional special order XP machine post-Vista release and you have a ton of hardware that can run Windows 7 but has XP. Most of them need RAM though. Many of those machines only came with 1GB new (which they could get away with running XP) and were never upgraded. 1GB is barely enough to run 32-bit Windows 7 well, its much happier with 2+GB.
ReBirth RB-338? It was never available as a Windows 3.1x application. It did run on NT 4.0 though. I wonder what Microsoft broke in Vista/7 that prevents it from launching. If I recall it supported both DirectSound and MME output.
Except those users aren't paying anything and have no incentive to stay. There is nothing keeping them from fleeing to another service. At least when Google acquired Doubleclick, the business had existing paying customers included in part of the deal.
Debit cards are common in the USA. the difference is that they can be processed as either a straight debit card (PIN required, no merchant fees for the retailer) or as a credit card (no PIN required, payment is processed by MC, Visa, etc. with retailer paying merchant fee). Many banks encourage debit card holders to process purchases (less securely) as "credit" by offering things like reward points to the cardholder so they can get those merchant fees.
Checks persist in the US because of the lack of a decent standardized person-to-person electronic payment system. We don't have IBAN style transfers. Banks are dabbling in electronic money transfer systems, but they are not standardized and can be cumbersome to use.
My bank has been issuing chip credit cards, but they are NOT full "chip and PIN", but instead "chip and signature". Payment processors have not implemented the full standard here in the US. I don't see how reading the chip is any more secure than the mag stripe without the PIN verification, besides making it harder to clone credit cards.
Don't laugh, until about 3 years ago, the Garden State Parkway still relied on the honor system with regards to toll payment in cash lanes. This was long after license plate cameras were installed to catch toll runners in EZPass lanes. The instructions at the booth if you were unable to pay were to honk your horn (presumably to notify a toll attendant in a staffed lane) and to take a pre-addressed envelope that you could mail the toll in. http://tollroadsnews.com/news/...
The CLJ4700s appear to be tanks. The 4600 was extremely buggy (it was HP's first single pass color laser), avoid it. I have a 3700dn at home and it seems to work fine and supports Postscript 3 (also seems to support direct PDF 1.4 printing), PCL 5c, and PCL 6. Connectivity is great, with Jetdirect slot for networking, USB, and even parallel. Expect to use 3rd party toner carts as nobody seems to carry the HP OEM stuff for the 3500/3700 series.
Wait until the systems start breaking. Nobody will get them fixed because the OEM's dealers will likely be the only one with the tools to fix it. Dealers are never a cheap place to get anything fixed. Right now all those fancy blind spot warning, adaptive cruise control, and lane departure warning systems require an OEM specific computer interface to calibrate along with special calibration machines and targets. They do not self calibrate and the procedure has to be done any time the sensors are moved or replaced.
People get TV's and what not on these 24 month intrest free deals but dont read the fine print that states it also signs them up for a credit card with that same company. I'm fairly certain that wont be the worst abuse hidden in the fine print either.
Its not sneaky, you are opening a revolving credit account and charging the purchase to it with special repayment terms. Its commonplace in the US to the point that it is now impossible to get a traditional installment loan on any financed purchase outside of a car loan.
Actually they do pull your credit. Its called a "soft pull" and they are listed on your credit report as such. American Express is notorious for doing them. Someone with crappy credit isn't going to get the same "pre-approved" offers that someone with good credit has.
Just about every gas station in NJ has a cash discount price now. There is no added convenience of using a credit card here anyway as a pump jockey tenders the transaction right at your car.
If they get you using their credit card, they will have to pay fewer fees.
For a business that does as many transactions as target, the costs for accepting CC's will outstrip their staffing costs.
They could do what the local gas station does and offer a cash discount, but than they can't trap people with 20.99% APR interest.
Tenure was a system originally put in place in higher education to protect academic freedom. It allowed professors to research content that might have been taboo or politically unpopular. Public school teachers somehow managed to get it.... even though they do no original research. The wiki article notes that it was done in Louisiana "because of past political considerations in hiring and dismissal of educators". The reality is all other public (and many private sector) workers are and always were subject to the same "political considerations" of the management, yet they don't receive permanent job protection. Why do teachers get treated differently?
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Tesla maintains their own service centers, they even have one in New Jersey that services the NYC metro area. Regarding loans, they can easily assign that to a 3rd party lender to handle or the customer can arrange their own financing. Dealerships have lending offices as a matter of convenience and profit (sells more cars, plus they can pocket a percentage of the interest on a loan).
Relevant link: https://www.grc.com/fingerprin... This is one reason why companies are opposed to non-IE web browsers. Firefox has its own cert store for example.
Depends on the definition of "legacy". For many, upgrading to a NT based OS (usually XP) from Windows 9x was painful if they had a substantial investment in DOS programs (that won't run in NTVDM) and legacy hardware.
I wonder if some enterprising individuals will attempt to port the security fixes to retail XP.
Quite a few Core2Duo machines came with Windows XP MCE2005 when new. Add in businesses using downgrade rights and the occasional special order XP machine post-Vista release and you have a ton of hardware that can run Windows 7 but has XP. Most of them need RAM though. Many of those machines only came with 1GB new (which they could get away with running XP) and were never upgraded. 1GB is barely enough to run 32-bit Windows 7 well, its much happier with 2+GB.
Windows Easy Transfer is present in 8.1. Looks like it can't transfer data out of the machine though, just restore it from a previous computer.
ReBirth RB-338? It was never available as a Windows 3.1x application. It did run on NT 4.0 though. I wonder what Microsoft broke in Vista/7 that prevents it from launching. If I recall it supported both DirectSound and MME output.
Except those users aren't paying anything and have no incentive to stay. There is nothing keeping them from fleeing to another service. At least when Google acquired Doubleclick, the business had existing paying customers included in part of the deal.
Like every good suit, they have a story: http://www.fatman.com/stories....
Debit cards are common in the USA. the difference is that they can be processed as either a straight debit card (PIN required, no merchant fees for the retailer) or as a credit card (no PIN required, payment is processed by MC, Visa, etc. with retailer paying merchant fee). Many banks encourage debit card holders to process purchases (less securely) as "credit" by offering things like reward points to the cardholder so they can get those merchant fees.
Checks persist in the US because of the lack of a decent standardized person-to-person electronic payment system. We don't have IBAN style transfers. Banks are dabbling in electronic money transfer systems, but they are not standardized and can be cumbersome to use.
My bank has been issuing chip credit cards, but they are NOT full "chip and PIN", but instead "chip and signature". Payment processors have not implemented the full standard here in the US. I don't see how reading the chip is any more secure than the mag stripe without the PIN verification, besides making it harder to clone credit cards.
Don't laugh, until about 3 years ago, the Garden State Parkway still relied on the honor system with regards to toll payment in cash lanes. This was long after license plate cameras were installed to catch toll runners in EZPass lanes. The instructions at the booth if you were unable to pay were to honk your horn (presumably to notify a toll attendant in a staffed lane) and to take a pre-addressed envelope that you could mail the toll in. http://tollroadsnews.com/news/...
Plenty of people are still using a 12.5 year old version of Windows for their day to day computing tasks!
I can't help but laugh at all the people that will be trying to reuse the key shown to unlock their Photoshops.
CS2 has been effectively "free" since Adobe turned off the activation servers and gave away the keys.
The CLJ4700s appear to be tanks. The 4600 was extremely buggy (it was HP's first single pass color laser), avoid it. I have a 3700dn at home and it seems to work fine and supports Postscript 3 (also seems to support direct PDF 1.4 printing), PCL 5c, and PCL 6. Connectivity is great, with Jetdirect slot for networking, USB, and even parallel. Expect to use 3rd party toner carts as nobody seems to carry the HP OEM stuff for the 3500/3700 series.
I wonder how his strategy compares to Ken Jennings and Watson. Would be an interesting comparison.
Wait until the systems start breaking. Nobody will get them fixed because the OEM's dealers will likely be the only one with the tools to fix it. Dealers are never a cheap place to get anything fixed. Right now all those fancy blind spot warning, adaptive cruise control, and lane departure warning systems require an OEM specific computer interface to calibrate along with special calibration machines and targets. They do not self calibrate and the procedure has to be done any time the sensors are moved or replaced.
What I can't get over is how Office 2013 was released with the ribbon tab names in all CAPS. It looks like crap.
People get TV's and what not on these 24 month intrest free deals but dont read the fine print that states it also signs them up for a credit card with that same company. I'm fairly certain that wont be the worst abuse hidden in the fine print either.
Its not sneaky, you are opening a revolving credit account and charging the purchase to it with special repayment terms. Its commonplace in the US to the point that it is now impossible to get a traditional installment loan on any financed purchase outside of a car loan.
Actually they do pull your credit. Its called a "soft pull" and they are listed on your credit report as such. American Express is notorious for doing them. Someone with crappy credit isn't going to get the same "pre-approved" offers that someone with good credit has.
Just about every gas station in NJ has a cash discount price now. There is no added convenience of using a credit card here anyway as a pump jockey tenders the transaction right at your car.
If they get you using their credit card, they will have to pay fewer fees. For a business that does as many transactions as target, the costs for accepting CC's will outstrip their staffing costs.
They could do what the local gas station does and offer a cash discount, but than they can't trap people with 20.99% APR interest.
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Tenure was a system originally put in place in higher education to protect academic freedom. It allowed professors to research content that might have been taboo or politically unpopular. Public school teachers somehow managed to get it.... even though they do no original research. The wiki article notes that it was done in Louisiana "because of past political considerations in hiring and dismissal of educators". The reality is all other public (and many private sector) workers are and always were subject to the same "political considerations" of the management, yet they don't receive permanent job protection. Why do teachers get treated differently?
The Apple AUI connector was used on more than Apple machines. There was an IBM Microchannel Ethernet card that used it too.