ebay is a bunch of ass-hats. in an attempt to wring more money out of people ebay has become heavy and hard to understand.
google could pull the rug out from under them pretty quick. they could allow people to post auctions for free while in beta... this would get them a huge user group.
My experience has been very good with their betas, the product is completely usable and any problems are usaly very subtle bugs or usability issues. I get annoyed at companies that use betas to unit test their applications.
I for one would very much NOT like to return to the user experience of performance of 15 years ago. For christsake burning a CD 10 years ago was witchcraft.
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Adobe After Effects is like this as well... way better compositing and less of a memory hog.
If I saw my kid zombiing out over some video game and withdrawing from everybody I would get him some help. Thats what a good parent would do.
Jeffrey Dahmler came from a well adjusted family. Has dad was a pretty important chemist at PPG in Ohio.
In britian the if you lose a civil lawsuit you have to pay the other party's legal fees.
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Truly American Icons...
I have been in this industry a long time and have NO interest in doing any of the things you mention.
Assuming that people want to spend MORE time after work sitting behind a computer is foolish.
Does anyone(including non slashdot reading it) think that TCO studies aren't marketing BS? Give people a little credit.
i have known plenty of people with disabilities that like to joke about their situation.
Another victim of moderation by insensitive clods... this post was directed towards the 2004 elections.
I for one, welcome our new learning disabled overloards....
WH 2004
caring for a salt water animal of any kind is a serious and expensive undertaking.
Also octopus only live a year so they aren't the best pets if you grow attached.
Maybe the Matrix wasn't so far off after all...
non of these scenarios are reasonable. any geek trying to shoplift would be immediatly caught.
I would bet the costs of catching and gathering evidence on a file-sharer are much higher as well.
My objection to ebay is less about their fees than their interface. I distinctly remember my disgust when they released their 'new' interface.
Now you have to wade through a ton of non-auction(ebay store) adds to get to the real stuff.
void CreateProduct(Products products)
{
Product* product = new Product;
product->setType(Product::Beta);
products.append(product);
CreateProduct(products);
}
ebay is a bunch of ass-hats.
in an attempt to wring more money out of people ebay has become heavy and hard to understand.
google could pull the rug out from under them pretty quick.
they could allow people to post auctions for free while in beta... this would get them a huge user group.
My experience has been very good with their betas, the product is completely usable and any problems are usaly very subtle bugs or usability issues.
I get annoyed at companies that use betas to unit test their applications.
the fact that hitler delayed funding for the jet fighters for two years probably was (one of) his biggest mistakes.
I for one, welcome our new star-flinging overlords.
try that with APL
So what? When their design is done and proven, the US will contract them to build them here for a fraction of what it would cost to do ourselves.
When the economic incentive is there to make the switch, it will happen.
I for one would very much NOT like to return to the user experience of performance of 15 years ago. For christsake burning a CD 10 years ago was witchcraft.
not goverment... tightly regulated businesses like water company and electric
i think that companies would offer a 'bridge' service (this would work especially well if it was tied into the municipality)
businesses would continue to use landlines until the quality of voiceip matches that of the conventional serice.