Amazon never charges you until your item ships, and you can cancel the order at any time up to that point. With most products you can get a full refund less shipping even after it's arrived. As for asking for confirmation: what part of 1-click don't you understand? You did get a confirmation screen after you clicked it, and you should have received an email informing you of your 1-click purchase.
If you have problems clicking accurately it's very easy to turn off the 1-click feature. You can also tell it not to save your credit card information. Don't blame amazon for your mistake.
You doubt you'd be impressed if you'd gotten what you'd been asking for? Would you rather Sony say "Yeah, sorry guys, you're right, we're just going to shut the company down now. Feel free to download a copy of Casino Royale in ogg.mkv from our website!"?
Presumably... you've been able to initiate the same thing through Google Local for awhile now. Since everyone gets free long distance on their cell phones it isn't really that useful though...
Less expensive, sure; but you say that like PTSD is something that throwing money at solves perfectly. To play the Devil's Advocate for a moment, consider that in many cases Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has such an effect that it's impossible to fully recover and lead a normal life- whereas treating the patient so he or she does not remember the trauma may in fact be the only cure. That it frees the VA's (as recent events seem to reiterate) limited budget to focus on those with more immediately life-threatening injuries is a secondary concern.
I doubt it will ever be approved by the FDA for that sort of thing, though- a more obvious use would be by the various intelligence agencies. Imagine if they could merely erase the memories of ex-agents. Of course it would also have applications in the private sector.
Rumor has it the soviets lost plenty of cosmonauts in orbit... they waited to announce spaceflights until after they'd already recovered the lander for a reason.
I believe it lets you play any level you've already cleared, however you can just pretend you haven't cleared the level and play coop mode after you've already beaten the single player campaign.
What they could have used is a co-op mode.... one person on camera, the other w/ the zapper. Just tell Player 1 not to shoot anything, and you've got your co-op mode. I don't think that sounds fun for Player 1 though.
SNES released, Nintendo touts its graphical superiority Nintendo 64 released, Nintendo touts its graphical superiority Gamecube released, Nintendo touts its graphical superiority
This is true, but if you plot the sales figures of each of those systems you'll notice that each sells less than the previous generation. This suggests that "better graphics" is not enough to sell a system. Nintendo is hoping (and despite my initial skepticism, I'm totally sold) that changing the whole formula is the shot in the arm the console market needs.
Time will tell, obviously, but if the Wii sales vs. PS3 sales in the last few months is anything to go by it seems like they might be on to something.
We either have to draw a line somewhere or decide that "life" isn't as special as we like to think- otherwise any chemical reaction is in danger of being declared "alive".
I do agree, however, that when someone is has been uncovered of wrongdoing they will openly apologize for it. In the US corporate management will deny everything and make excuses to the bitter end. In Japan they'll hold a press conference and make a direct apology to everyone, stating how they've shamed themselves, their family and their company.
And then, dressed in a ceremonial kimono, he will plunge the tanto into his abdomen and drag it across, opening a deep painful wound. After the cut has been made his second will perform the daki-kubi, nearly decapitating the businessman with a precision slash of the sword.
I just got an image spam with NO descriptive text in the image; just a picture of a viagra pill, four $1 bills, and a URL. Can FuzzyOCR be tuned to look for blue diamond shapes?
Typically it just tells the mail filter to be on the lookout for mail that looks similar to this. I doubt the authorities are contacted each time you press the button.
In fact it turns out that Symantec does the first thing I suggested, maybe I should finish the article before posting. It gets defeated by spammers changing pixels here and there in the image, changing the hash of the image- how good are visual fingerprinting systems these days?
Do any large email services compare all email over the entire system to check for spam? If gmail receives 4,000,000 messages from the same IP in 5 minutes, each with the same image attached; you can be sure it's spam. That's still defeatable, though.
The only way I can think of to totally stop the problem is to make it unprofitable. Maybe Bill Gates could stop the problem by producing a high-profile ad campaign telling people to stop buying things from Spam.
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Amazon never charges you until your item ships, and you can cancel the order at any time up to that point. With most products you can get a full refund less shipping even after it's arrived. As for asking for confirmation: what part of 1-click don't you understand? You did get a confirmation screen after you clicked it, and you should have received an email informing you of your 1-click purchase. If you have problems clicking accurately it's very easy to turn off the 1-click feature. You can also tell it not to save your credit card information. Don't blame amazon for your mistake.
You doubt you'd be impressed if you'd gotten what you'd been asking for? Would you rather Sony say "Yeah, sorry guys, you're right, we're just going to shut the company down now. Feel free to download a copy of Casino Royale in ogg .mkv from our website!"?
Presumably... you've been able to initiate the same thing through Google Local for awhile now. Since everyone gets free long distance on their cell phones it isn't really that useful though...
The business plan is probably a million users/day for more than a hundred days.
Wow, yeah, the front page of slashdot- the extra 50,000 eyeballs, of which maybe 50% belong to eligible US voters, will really help Obama's campaign.
Less expensive, sure; but you say that like PTSD is something that throwing money at solves perfectly. To play the Devil's Advocate for a moment, consider that in many cases Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has such an effect that it's impossible to fully recover and lead a normal life- whereas treating the patient so he or she does not remember the trauma may in fact be the only cure. That it frees the VA's (as recent events seem to reiterate) limited budget to focus on those with more immediately life-threatening injuries is a secondary concern. I doubt it will ever be approved by the FDA for that sort of thing, though- a more obvious use would be by the various intelligence agencies. Imagine if they could merely erase the memories of ex-agents. Of course it would also have applications in the private sector.
Sorry, you must be lost. [H]ardOCP is just down the street a few blocks.
Thanks a lot, nobody else here knows how to run a whois
Rumor has it the soviets lost plenty of cosmonauts in orbit... they waited to announce spaceflights until after they'd already recovered the lander for a reason.
That they spared Boston from the Quad-Laser.
I believe it lets you play any level you've already cleared, however you can just pretend you haven't cleared the level and play coop mode after you've already beaten the single player campaign.
Especially the posts that begin "I have a Wii, and..."
Nintendo 64 released, Nintendo touts its graphical superiority
Gamecube released, Nintendo touts its graphical superiority
This is true, but if you plot the sales figures of each of those systems you'll notice that each sells less than the previous generation. This suggests that "better graphics" is not enough to sell a system. Nintendo is hoping (and despite my initial skepticism, I'm totally sold) that changing the whole formula is the shot in the arm the console market needs.
Time will tell, obviously, but if the Wii sales vs. PS3 sales in the last few months is anything to go by it seems like they might be on to something.
We either have to draw a line somewhere or decide that "life" isn't as special as we like to think- otherwise any chemical reaction is in danger of being declared "alive".
That's a FireFox thing iirc, it's "pre-fetching" search result pages just in case you decide to click them. There's a way to turn it off.
I just got an image spam with NO descriptive text in the image; just a picture of a viagra pill, four $1 bills, and a URL. Can FuzzyOCR be tuned to look for blue diamond shapes?
Most aren't, but the spam still gets through.
Ironic since Mr. T is in recent years reduced to doing commercials for home equity loan companies.
Typically it just tells the mail filter to be on the lookout for mail that looks similar to this. I doubt the authorities are contacted each time you press the button.
In fact it turns out that Symantec does the first thing I suggested, maybe I should finish the article before posting. It gets defeated by spammers changing pixels here and there in the image, changing the hash of the image- how good are visual fingerprinting systems these days?
Do any large email services compare all email over the entire system to check for spam? If gmail receives 4,000,000 messages from the same IP in 5 minutes, each with the same image attached; you can be sure it's spam. That's still defeatable, though.
The only way I can think of to totally stop the problem is to make it unprofitable. Maybe Bill Gates could stop the problem by producing a high-profile ad campaign telling people to stop buying things from Spam.
A huge percentage of legitimate email is random sentences with buzz words and a picture.
Maybe it would be possible to OCR every image as it comes through but then you'll just have spammers sending you CAPTCHA'd messages.
The last thing we need is another politician.