But it looks like Google is only teaming up with the big box retailers. If preserving brick and mortar businesses is a priority, that's pretty weak sauce.
by erasing, to the greatest degree possible, every single hassle required to buy something, you greatly increase the amount of impulse purchases. You'd be amazed at how often a minor amount of effort keeps people from buying something that they only maybe-kinda-sorta might want to buy.
This is great for retailers, and terrible for customers.
Yeah, at some point, Amazon started getting a ton of Chinese vendors, and so you have to be much more careful now. The days when you can just blindly place an order are gone -- now you have to actually pay attention to who the order is going to.
Weirdly, I've even ordered stuff from Chinese vendors on eBay and had the order fulfilled through Amazon!
A year or so ago, I would have welcomed this -- but since then, you've done pretty much everything in your power to burn your bridge with me. And you've succeeded.
I'll just wait until I can see it at home, I think. I didn't like the original Blade Runner (even the director's cut), so I'm assuming that this one isn't for me either.
True, I wasn't trying to say there's no difference. Only that the difference doesn't really affect me enough to be upset by spoilers. Probably because 9 times out of 10, the twist is pretty obvious by the time you're halfway through the movie anyway.
This may be problematic if you're going to fire the very person that would be performing said actions.
Who has only one person that has admin access to their systems?? What if that person gets hit by a car or quits without notice or something? Shit happen, after all.
That's as insane as telling someone they're being let go before you remove their credentials.
Well, maybe they do for actual button controls, I don't know, but their pages are littered with things that you can interact with that provide no visual cue that you can interact with them.
This is annoying but tolerable if you're using a mouse, but it's actively bad if you're using a touch screen.
Gmail uses black text on a white background by default.
It does?
I'm looking at it right now, and it's using gray on white for the left-side column, and gray on lighter gray for the email list. I haven't changed any color settings.
Note: I'm not complaining -- I prefer this to black-on-white -- but still, it's not black-on-white anywhere on the page that I can see.
Eh, the teenagers don't bother me much, really. They don't tend to go to movies that require a great deal of attention.
I'm with you on the smaller theaters, though. My comments about theaters wasn't talking about those.
My town has three that are tiny, that use home theater equipment for their projection, and never have first-run movies. But they do have couches and overstuffed armchairs, beer, wine, and actually good, real food that you can order with a text and they bring it to you. Those are wonderful theaters that I enjoy going to. They are also thriving, where the more mainstream theaters are struggling, so I'm not the only one who likes them.
Surely you wouldn't have wanted to hear about the ending of Sixth Sense before you saw the movie
Actually, I did know that twist before I saw it. I don't think it reduced my enjoyment of the movie too much. Being surprised is a good thing, but not essential. A good movie is a good movie, whether or not you know how it goes. Perhaps I lost something in knowing the twist beforehand, but it doesn't really feel like it to me.
I realize that I'm probably in the minority, but I've never been bothered by spoilers. If knowing how the movie is going to go in advance ruins it, then it wasn't a good movie to begin with.
Not everybody agrees with you that voting with your feet for a better city with better home Internet access is "just silly".
Moving to a better city isn't silly. Moving away from a city that you love living in, just because of an ISP, is. Or, I would argue, moving to a different city solely because of a bad ISP is silly regardless, unless the ISP is causing a serious degradation of your happiness.
Someone else likes it or doesn't like it - what do I care?
If that someone else shares your taste, then their opinion would be helpful to you. That's they way to read critics: find one or two whose opinions you tend to agree with, listen to what they say about new movies, and ignore literally everybody else.
I've sampled many parts of the nation, and haven't seen anyplace better than where I live. I'm certainly not going to move somewhere that isn't as good just because of a crappy internet provider.
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They are. They'll never say it out loud, but you can see it in their eyes.
But it looks like Google is only teaming up with the big box retailers. If preserving brick and mortar businesses is a priority, that's pretty weak sauce.
It's actually really simple:
by erasing, to the greatest degree possible, every single hassle required to buy something, you greatly increase the amount of impulse purchases. You'd be amazed at how often a minor amount of effort keeps people from buying something that they only maybe-kinda-sorta might want to buy.
This is great for retailers, and terrible for customers.
Yeah, at some point, Amazon started getting a ton of Chinese vendors, and so you have to be much more careful now. The days when you can just blindly place an order are gone -- now you have to actually pay attention to who the order is going to.
Weirdly, I've even ordered stuff from Chinese vendors on eBay and had the order fulfilled through Amazon!
I'm an old fart, but I've never had brand loyalty as such. The very idea always struck me as bizarre.
Their quest for World Domination(tm) may come back to bit them.
But Google's quest for world domination won't?
I have a hard time seeing how people who would like to avoid Amazon for being monopolistic would be OK with Google's monopolistic tendencies.
A year or so ago, I would have welcomed this -- but since then, you've done pretty much everything in your power to burn your bridge with me. And you've succeeded.
I'll just wait until I can see it at home, I think. I didn't like the original Blade Runner (even the director's cut), so I'm assuming that this one isn't for me either.
But I am curious nonetheless.
The dark web -- a pack of websites that hides their physical location with special software
The "dark web" used to mean websites that weren't indexed in any search engines.
Has the definition changed? Damn, I missed that memo.
I replied, very politely, but in front of other people, "Do you even know how computers work?"
"Do you even know how computers work?" is not a polite response no matter what tone of voice you used.
True, I wasn't trying to say there's no difference. Only that the difference doesn't really affect me enough to be upset by spoilers. Probably because 9 times out of 10, the twist is pretty obvious by the time you're halfway through the movie anyway.
They call him a "Professional" ? On what basis ?
Technically, a "professional" is someone who gets paid for their work, nothing more or less. You're using "professional" in the slang sense.
This may be problematic if you're going to fire the very person that would be performing said actions.
Who has only one person that has admin access to their systems?? What if that person gets hit by a car or quits without notice or something? Shit happen, after all.
That's as insane as telling someone they're being let go before you remove their credentials.
Material Design works well on mobile
I don't really think so. It's too ambiguous and unclear, and lacks discovery. You can't tell how to do what you want to do by looking at it.
Google doesn't do that, though.
Well, maybe they do for actual button controls, I don't know, but their pages are littered with things that you can interact with that provide no visual cue that you can interact with them.
This is annoying but tolerable if you're using a mouse, but it's actively bad if you're using a touch screen.
Gmail uses black text on a white background by default.
It does?
I'm looking at it right now, and it's using gray on white for the left-side column, and gray on lighter gray for the email list. I haven't changed any color settings.
Note: I'm not complaining -- I prefer this to black-on-white -- but still, it's not black-on-white anywhere on the page that I can see.
Trust, but verify
"Trust but verify" makes no logical sense at all, and never has. If you're verifying, then trust is not required.
Eh, the teenagers don't bother me much, really. They don't tend to go to movies that require a great deal of attention.
I'm with you on the smaller theaters, though. My comments about theaters wasn't talking about those.
My town has three that are tiny, that use home theater equipment for their projection, and never have first-run movies. But they do have couches and overstuffed armchairs, beer, wine, and actually good, real food that you can order with a text and they bring it to you. Those are wonderful theaters that I enjoy going to. They are also thriving, where the more mainstream theaters are struggling, so I'm not the only one who likes them.
Surely you wouldn't have wanted to hear about the ending of Sixth Sense before you saw the movie
Actually, I did know that twist before I saw it. I don't think it reduced my enjoyment of the movie too much. Being surprised is a good thing, but not essential. A good movie is a good movie, whether or not you know how it goes. Perhaps I lost something in knowing the twist beforehand, but it doesn't really feel like it to me.
I realize that I'm probably in the minority, but I've never been bothered by spoilers. If knowing how the movie is going to go in advance ruins it, then it wasn't a good movie to begin with.
Not everybody agrees with you that voting with your feet for a better city with better home Internet access is "just silly".
Moving to a better city isn't silly. Moving away from a city that you love living in, just because of an ISP, is. Or, I would argue, moving to a different city solely because of a bad ISP is silly regardless, unless the ISP is causing a serious degradation of your happiness.
could you have the position that perhaps your taste might not be quite aligned with the market that Scorsese's is intended for?
Indeed. Thus the phrase "in my opinion".
Someone else likes it or doesn't like it - what do I care?
If that someone else shares your taste, then their opinion would be helpful to you. That's they way to read critics: find one or two whose opinions you tend to agree with, listen to what they say about new movies, and ignore literally everybody else.
The real problem is the idiot audience who supports making shit films.
I gotta say, it's hard to argue with this. However, this is also nothing new -- such is the way it's been for all of the history of Hollywood.
Hollywood isn't interested in making movies that are good. They're interested in making movies that maximize their profits.
That's just silly.
I've sampled many parts of the nation, and haven't seen anyplace better than where I live. I'm certainly not going to move somewhere that isn't as good just because of a crappy internet provider.