Almost certain that this will be a screen with a camera that is used for some other system that is being re-purposed as a flight entertainment system. The camera is probably not used and the airline probably had no idea it was even there.
It is a standard procedure to use off-the-shelf components that are already available instead of going to the expense of producing your own spec. The best reaction from the airline would be to tell people the camera is not used and simply apply a label with the airline brand over the camera so there is no doubt about it.
If your competitors can't. If you develop a treatment and your competitor has a cure then your business is flushed down the toilet while your competitor gets rich. So unless the biotech companies collude with each other there is always the risk that a competitor will produce a cure killing your business, so you had better get there first and kill their business instead.
It is essentially the same as Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The Administrators are appointed to determine either a rescue plan or to liquidate the assets and shut down the company.
They describe Hilco as a restructuring company, this is how that "restructuring" works...
1. Buy the company for a knock down price
2. Identify any saleable assets, sell them or mortgage them and pocket the money.
3. Manipulate figures to load the company with as much debt as possible, use that money to pay yourself.
Then sit back ad see what happens, in the unlikely event the business succeeds it can be sold at a further profit to a gullible buyer. If as is more likely the business fails walk away with a big bonus and leave the banks and investors with the loss.
* The catalog is full of inaccurate listings that have been duplicated multiple times and put in multiple categories.
* There is mass manipulation of product reviews and seller feedback
* There are huge scale fraudsters on the site that use tricks like those in the article to get their higher price duplicated listing at the top of the search ranking
* The humans that have any sense and can speak your language have been replaced with minimum wage slaves in the poorest countries in the world, is it any wonder they are targeted for bribes? And because that still costs money even those poor sods are being replaced by keyword bots, that Amazon laughingly calls AI.
Amazon knows all this is going and just doesn't give a damn. I no longer buy on Amazon as it is a fraudsters paradise, both so called buyers and sellers are exploiting it. The buyers that are claiming they didn't get their package is pushing the prices up for genuine people, the fake sellers are also pushing prices up. Every time Amazon does do anything to try and fix it they bring out a thermo nuclear warhead to crack a mustard seed, causing massive problems for everyone and causing more damage than the problem they tried to fix.
There is just no point in going to Amazon for anything, it is hard to find what you want and chances of a bad buying experience are high. Ebay used to be the crooks paradise but they have all moved to Amazon now.
The technology in desktop computers is mature, it is no longer developing at the break neck speed it once was. It wasn't long ago when once a system was 3 years old in seemed ancient and slow by comparison to the latest model. Today however your 3 year old system is still perfectly good and you would hardly notice any difference in performance if you replaced it today, so why bother?
Everything has this cycle, where it gets to the point that what you already have is good enough, and further small tweaks do not justify the cost of replacing.
So the UK is expecting Apple to prove the effectiveness of a product before marketing it as a medical device, what is wrong with that?
People relying on things like this for their health need guarantees that it has been properly tested.
Surely they should go to a breakers where the engines should be dropped out of them and the faulty shell crushed. Seems like a massive waste to just crush the whole of a brand new vehicle.
Here in the UK things are going the other way, almost every household had an antenna (or aerial as we call them). Very few people had any kind of cable, although sky satellite became quite popular in the 90s. It was only with the introduction of broadband that cable started to get more popular, but still a majority get their broadband over some kind of DSL. Now there is a growing movement away from broadcast, people are now choosing what they want to watch and when they want to watch it, using on-line services.
Not so, if someone committed fraud or murder before their death then their assets would be seised in order to pay compensation. In this case if it can be proved that the person made a deliberate decision to kill themselves on rail tracks and therefore force an innocent driver to be party to their death then they committed a crime against that person. If this was a premeditated act then the driver can be awarded compensation just as a fraud victim might. Any family due to inherit would only be entitled to what remained after all debts are settled, including court issued settlements.
Seems reasonable that if the they committed suicide and therefore intentionally subjected the driver to the stress of being an unwilling participant in their death. The driver should have the option of being compensated from the assets of the deceased due to their inconsiderate act. It is one thing to kill yourself it is quite another to involuntarily involve another person, that will have a significant impact on them.
Well that is pretty obvious, those with more money than sense buy overpriced products for the 'prestige'. Those with more sense than money are more careful with their money.
Seems like a pointless exercise, the biggest cost in buying a home is the land price. Construction costs are small in comparison and when spending money on a long term investment like a house you would probably want to pay a little extra to have something with somewhat higher quality standards than something that looks like it has been made from PlayDoh.
This is clearly not a long term solution, the oceans are warming and that is already causing concerns. Sticking a bunch of immersion heaters in the ocean is not exactly going to help.
Except registering a trademark protects you for a single category of goods or services. If you registered a trademark for software someone else could register the same word for financial services as they are sufficiently different to not be considered as causing confusion.
Companies wouldn't have to go through this nonsense if they had set-out treating people properly in the first place. If their email list was created from an explicit opt-in process with clear information on how the customer's email is to be used then it they would not have to go through this re-subscribe nonsense. They all thought they were clever by auto-opting in and buying mailing lists and other questionable ways of subscribing people. Now 90% of their 'customers' will not re-subscribe so they are stuffed.
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Was tried in the UK by a company called OVIVO, it crashed and burned.
Samsung TVs already come with pre-installed malware that plays ads to you!
Almost certain that this will be a screen with a camera that is used for some other system that is being re-purposed as a flight entertainment system. The camera is probably not used and the airline probably had no idea it was even there. It is a standard procedure to use off-the-shelf components that are already available instead of going to the expense of producing your own spec. The best reaction from the airline would be to tell people the camera is not used and simply apply a label with the airline brand over the camera so there is no doubt about it.
If your competitors can't. If you develop a treatment and your competitor has a cure then your business is flushed down the toilet while your competitor gets rich. So unless the biotech companies collude with each other there is always the risk that a competitor will produce a cure killing your business, so you had better get there first and kill their business instead.
It is essentially the same as Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Administrators are appointed to determine either a rescue plan or to liquidate the assets and shut down the company.
They describe Hilco as a restructuring company, this is how that "restructuring" works...
Then sit back ad see what happens, in the unlikely event the business succeeds it can be sold at a further profit to a gullible buyer. If as is more likely the business fails walk away with a big bonus and leave the banks and investors with the loss.
* The catalog is full of inaccurate listings that have been duplicated multiple times and put in multiple categories.
* There is mass manipulation of product reviews and seller feedback
* There are huge scale fraudsters on the site that use tricks like those in the article to get their higher price duplicated listing at the top of the search ranking
* The humans that have any sense and can speak your language have been replaced with minimum wage slaves in the poorest countries in the world, is it any wonder they are targeted for bribes? And because that still costs money even those poor sods are being replaced by keyword bots, that Amazon laughingly calls AI.
Amazon knows all this is going and just doesn't give a damn. I no longer buy on Amazon as it is a fraudsters paradise, both so called buyers and sellers are exploiting it. The buyers that are claiming they didn't get their package is pushing the prices up for genuine people, the fake sellers are also pushing prices up. Every time Amazon does do anything to try and fix it they bring out a thermo nuclear warhead to crack a mustard seed, causing massive problems for everyone and causing more damage than the problem they tried to fix.
There is just no point in going to Amazon for anything, it is hard to find what you want and chances of a bad buying experience are high. Ebay used to be the crooks paradise but they have all moved to Amazon now.
Everything has this cycle, where it gets to the point that what you already have is good enough, and further small tweaks do not justify the cost of replacing.
Well, yes it did, it was in in the 2000's when they stopped and that was responsible for killing them off.
So the UK is expecting Apple to prove the effectiveness of a product before marketing it as a medical device, what is wrong with that? People relying on things like this for their health need guarantees that it has been properly tested.
Surely they should go to a breakers where the engines should be dropped out of them and the faulty shell crushed. Seems like a massive waste to just crush the whole of a brand new vehicle.
Here in the UK things are going the other way, almost every household had an antenna (or aerial as we call them). Very few people had any kind of cable, although sky satellite became quite popular in the 90s. It was only with the introduction of broadband that cable started to get more popular, but still a majority get their broadband over some kind of DSL. Now there is a growing movement away from broadcast, people are now choosing what they want to watch and when they want to watch it, using on-line services.
Game, meh, no game ever figured on my radar, I just wanted a faster computer so that everything was snappier.
They should have just told anyone trying to upload a vertical video that they are an idiot and they should learn how to hold their phone.
If they got a miniengineer they could do this on a much larger scale.
Not so, if someone committed fraud or murder before their death then their assets would be seised in order to pay compensation. In this case if it can be proved that the person made a deliberate decision to kill themselves on rail tracks and therefore force an innocent driver to be party to their death then they committed a crime against that person. If this was a premeditated act then the driver can be awarded compensation just as a fraud victim might. Any family due to inherit would only be entitled to what remained after all debts are settled, including court issued settlements.
Seems reasonable that if the they committed suicide and therefore intentionally subjected the driver to the stress of being an unwilling participant in their death. The driver should have the option of being compensated from the assets of the deceased due to their inconsiderate act. It is one thing to kill yourself it is quite another to involuntarily involve another person, that will have a significant impact on them.
Well that is pretty obvious, those with more money than sense buy overpriced products for the 'prestige'. Those with more sense than money are more careful with their money.
Just set the time half way between summer and winter and leave it there like Sri Lanka.
Seems like a pointless exercise, the biggest cost in buying a home is the land price. Construction costs are small in comparison and when spending money on a long term investment like a house you would probably want to pay a little extra to have something with somewhat higher quality standards than something that looks like it has been made from PlayDoh.
This is clearly not a long term solution, the oceans are warming and that is already causing concerns. Sticking a bunch of immersion heaters in the ocean is not exactly going to help.
Except registering a trademark protects you for a single category of goods or services. If you registered a trademark for software someone else could register the same word for financial services as they are sufficiently different to not be considered as causing confusion.
Companies wouldn't have to go through this nonsense if they had set-out treating people properly in the first place. If their email list was created from an explicit opt-in process with clear information on how the customer's email is to be used then it they would not have to go through this re-subscribe nonsense. They all thought they were clever by auto-opting in and buying mailing lists and other questionable ways of subscribing people. Now 90% of their 'customers' will not re-subscribe so they are stuffed.
Jìng-Yáng has finally taken over from Eric Buckman.
Chinese sellers are sending packets into the US for less than it costs to deliver them. The USPS is subsidizing China.