The key phrase is "fulfilled by Amazon". If you see that, Amazon isn't the company that is selling you the goods. Amazon's friendly return policies may not apply.
However, Amazon does have some buyer protections in place for anything that is bought through their site, even if it is actually sold by a third party. (The exact protections vary depending on the type of merchandise; they're weakest for software and digital goods.) That makes the site safer overall than eBay. eBay's buyer protection applies to fewer purchases and their protection policies are weaker than Amazon's.
You can also get same day delivery of some things from Amazon if you live in or near one of the cities where they offer that service. It's only available in places where Amazon has its own delivery workers, not in places that only get deliveries from the USPS or the big private delivery companies.
When Amazon first started offering same day delivery here in Boston, there was controversy because the map of the areas where they offered it had a big hole in the middle of the city - that was Roxbury, which is a relatively poor neighborhood that is populated primarily by people of color. Amazon relented and offered the service city-wide, probably because of the bad publicity they were getting.
Postal rates went up. So has the cost of packaging. It's true that the cost of sending a used book or disc is probably closer to $3 than $4 even after the increases, but there is also the weird phenomenon of selling things for $0.01 plus shipping. That would obviously be an unsustainable business model if the cost of shipping and packaging equaled the charge for those things. If Amazon were to lower the shipping rate on those items, the sellers would just have to increase their prices to compensate.
I don't think I can agree with that. There are plenty of bad jobs held by both men and women.
Men predominate in the jobs that require extremes of physical labor, which isn't surprising because on average they are larger and stronger. Things like manual labor, trash collection, and any kind of working with heavy machinery are good examples. On the other hand, nursing and cleaning, two jobs where women predominate, can both be very physically demanding jobs in their own way; they don't require quite the same peaks of strength but they are unrelenting. And being waitstaff is equal opportunity awfulness - though it can be a good job if you do it in a restaurant that is good to work for.
Women are not going into science and engineering. It is, however, difficult to tease out whether that is a true choice that reflects personal inclinations. Women are less likely to be encouraged to go into those fields from a young age. If they do, they often encounter a culture that is hostile to women.
It particularly saddens me that the culture of software development has become an unfriendly one for women. That was far less true in the early days of the field. The rise of brogrammer culture, so far as I can tell, started in the 90s; before that there was frequently indifference to the needs of women (especially about scheduling things like childcare responsibilities) but not the degree of active hostility that came later.
There are indeed systemic biases both ways. Men are more likely to get promotions to management, and the salary and responsibilities that come with those promotions. Partly that's because women choose not to take on the necessary hours or are unable to do so because of childrearing responsibilities, but there is also discrimination against women who want those positions.
On the other hand, the bias against men in family court is well known and documented. All else being equal, women are more likely to get child custody than men are, even adjusting for the fact that men are less likely to ask for it. And men are more likely to be required to pay child support, even if the woman earns more money. A man getting sole custody? Forget about it unless the woman is grossly incompetent or criminal.
Both of these biases operate to maintain the status quo of gender role division. Women have a harder time getting jobs that would let them be the primary or sole income earner, while men have a harder time taking responsibility for children. Both get steered in the direction that society deems appropriate for them, and that's a real problem for the people who want to follow another path.
Comparing men and women in the same job is not the end of the story. There is also the fact that fewer women are in the higher paying management jobs because those jobs aren't being offered to women. Men with the same amount of experience and talent move up the corporate ladder; women don't.
There are differences in the fit: on a women's jacket the waist will be smaller in relation to the shoulder size, the jacket will be shorter, and the arms will be shorter and thinner. The arm length is the most important issue; the arms on a male jacket that otherwise fits are likely to be too long for many women.
Oh yeah... the zipper will be on the other side. But women can generally deal with that.
No, they weren't offered men's jackets. They were told that they were not getting them at the last minute, after the order had been placed. Uber told them they could get jackets if they could find some at the same price as the bulk order... but at that point even getting the SAME jackets would no longer be the same price because they would not be part of the order. If management had dealt with the situation earlier they probably could have found a satisfactory solution; I think it's clear that they had no intention of doing anything of the sort.
Most data is subject to throttling after you reach a usage threshold. Video streaming is completely unlimited; it won't get slowed down no matter how much you use. But it's also the first candidate to be dropped altogether if the network is congested.
Your car has a high quality FM tuner and a decent antenna that is outside the car and you use it outdoors. Your cell phone does not have as good a receiver or antenna and you'll probably use it inside a building, so the range will be much smaller. Still better than nothing.
The Spanish chiquita (that's the female form; a male would be a chiquito) is derived from the Spanish language use of chico and chica as words to describe children and teens. (The literal meaning is small, from the Latin ciccum; they're also used as adjectives with the literal meaning.) A chiquito or chiquita is a diminutive form, and thus literally a small small person. Diminutive forms are used as endearments in Spanish, even for seemingly unlikely words like abuelo/abuela (grandfather/grandmother).
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (source: https://www.merriam-webster.co...), the Chiquitos are a people of southeast Bolivia and also their language. The etymology is given as being derived from the Spanish word chico.
Now that BDXL is being used in Ultra Blu-Ray players (they're not using the name but they are using the format), is it still true that there are only two manufacturers? And there is M-Disc... expensive but they claim a much longer lifetime for the discs.
Since you speak of "when you are in the US", your phone probably doesn't support the bands used for LTE in North America. They're not the same as the ones used in the rest of the world. Nobody produces a true LTE world phone yet, though we're gradually getting closer.
T-Mobile did refer to their HSPA+ service as 4G for marketing reasons, but they were also building out LTE service at the same time. In the places where they had HSPA+42 available on the 1700 MHz band the speeds were actually comparable to first generation LTE service, though the latency was worse and they couldn't support as many users. Since then they have reallocated their spectrum; 1700 MHz is now being used for LTE. They're running HSPA+ on their smaller 1900 MHz allocations and are only running HSPA+21 there. Their data service actually got worse for the handful of phones that support HSPA+42 but not LTE.
There are still parts of T-Mobile's coverage map where the fastest service available is HSPA+. They are mostly remote areas with relatively low demand, so it's good enough for now. They are continuing to roll out LTE to those areas, as well as upgrading more densely populated areas with higher speed LTE and band 12 (700 MHz) service.
There won't be enough Bolts available in the near future to fill that demand. Chevy is only planning to produce 30,000 of them this year. The big obstacle to ramping up Bolt production is probably making the battery packs - that and the fact that it is widely believed that the company will be losing money on every Bolt they sell this year. Battery cost is likely to come down in 2018 so perhaps they can start making money on the Bolt then.
Everyone should learn the basics of coding. Not because they will all use them to actually program computers, but because you learn important lessons about logical thought. You learn the importance of including all the instructions, not including any incorrect instructions, and putting them all in the correct order. Somebody who has experienced coding will write better recipes and give better directions to their house. Proof geometry teaches many of the same things, but coding does it better and comes with an automated tool that provides immediate feedback.
On the other hand, learning how to code is not a substitute for learning another human language. Language education carries important lessons about how people think; each language has different assumptions built into it, and experiencing a different set broadens the horizons of the learner. Language education usually also contains a large component of learning about another culture, which is valuable as well.
There is only one solution that will ever really work: ban network providers from offering content. So long as we allow that kind of cross-ownership, the network companies will ALWAYS find ways to favor their own content.
Sadly, that's not going to happen. We'd have to shut down Go90 or require Verizon to divest it. We'd have to undo Verizon's purchases of AOL and Yahoo. We would have to block Sprint from buying a stake in Tidal. And the biggest one: we'd have to undo the merger of Comcast and NBC, which never should have been allowed in the first place. Neither party currently has the political will for that kind of restructuring of the industry.
Regulations that attempt to rein in the worst abuses of cross-ownership are a second-best solution. But at least they're better than not having them, which is what the Republicans and the Trump administration want. I expect to see some seriously anticompetitive behavior by internet providers in the upcoming years.
Some of the Android Wear watches look a lot more like an Apple Watch. The ZenWatch 2 from ASUS is a good example. Though it can be told apart easily enough if you see it from the correct side because it has only a single crown knob - which is actually a button, it doesn't twist - not the knob-plus-button that the Apple Watch has.
But the sales numbers for those are a rounding error compared to the popularity of the Apple Watch. Android Wear hasn't been a big hit (though the upcoming version 2 and the accompanying release of new, better looking watches may change that), and the most successful Android Wear watches don't look like an Apple Watch. For starters, many of them are round like the Moto 360 or the Huawei Watch, and most of this year's new releases are round.
Clever idea. And I like the slick little thing on the right side that serves as the interconnect; it blends in well enough that I missed it on my first look. But it doesn't provide the missing RAM or a GPU that's good enough for VR.
Make up a small personal business. No big deal. They don't ask for a lot of info, and you don't have to provide a tax number if you don't want to. Yes, you'll get email spam from Dell, but you're going to get that no matter what you buy from them; sending you tons of email begging you to buy more stuff is a key part of their business model.
Somebody can want Android without wanting the entire collection of Google apps. Apps for Google services that are pre-installed typically include Chrome, Gmail, Maps, Calendar, Photos, Hangouts, Books, Games, Movies & TV, Music, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Google Settings (that's separate from the Settings app that deals with basic OS stuff), and YouTube. I use the Google infrastructure extensively so I'm happy to have all of those around, but other people may prefer alternatives or not use those functions at all.
In addition there is the Google Play store, and possibly the Google Now launcher unless the manufacturer has replaced it with a custom one. Those are reasonable to include in the OS image and make impossible to remove, because the usefulness of the device would be seriously impaired if you accidentally deleted them. If you delete Play you can't get any of the other apps back unless you sideload Play or have another app source installed, and having one launcher always there is a good idea just in case you accidentally delete all the other ones.
Finally, there is Google Play Services. That's not actually an app, but rather a collection of APIs and API extensions that a lot of other apps depend on. Removing it will break a lot of apps, and not just Google's own; many third party apps also use it.
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The key phrase is "fulfilled by Amazon". If you see that, Amazon isn't the company that is selling you the goods. Amazon's friendly return policies may not apply.
However, Amazon does have some buyer protections in place for anything that is bought through their site, even if it is actually sold by a third party. (The exact protections vary depending on the type of merchandise; they're weakest for software and digital goods.) That makes the site safer overall than eBay. eBay's buyer protection applies to fewer purchases and their protection policies are weaker than Amazon's.
You can also get same day delivery of some things from Amazon if you live in or near one of the cities where they offer that service. It's only available in places where Amazon has its own delivery workers, not in places that only get deliveries from the USPS or the big private delivery companies.
When Amazon first started offering same day delivery here in Boston, there was controversy because the map of the areas where they offered it had a big hole in the middle of the city - that was Roxbury, which is a relatively poor neighborhood that is populated primarily by people of color. Amazon relented and offered the service city-wide, probably because of the bad publicity they were getting.
Postal rates went up. So has the cost of packaging. It's true that the cost of sending a used book or disc is probably closer to $3 than $4 even after the increases, but there is also the weird phenomenon of selling things for $0.01 plus shipping. That would obviously be an unsustainable business model if the cost of shipping and packaging equaled the charge for those things. If Amazon were to lower the shipping rate on those items, the sellers would just have to increase their prices to compensate.
I don't think I can agree with that. There are plenty of bad jobs held by both men and women.
Men predominate in the jobs that require extremes of physical labor, which isn't surprising because on average they are larger and stronger. Things like manual labor, trash collection, and any kind of working with heavy machinery are good examples. On the other hand, nursing and cleaning, two jobs where women predominate, can both be very physically demanding jobs in their own way; they don't require quite the same peaks of strength but they are unrelenting. And being waitstaff is equal opportunity awfulness - though it can be a good job if you do it in a restaurant that is good to work for.
Women are not going into science and engineering. It is, however, difficult to tease out whether that is a true choice that reflects personal inclinations. Women are less likely to be encouraged to go into those fields from a young age. If they do, they often encounter a culture that is hostile to women.
It particularly saddens me that the culture of software development has become an unfriendly one for women. That was far less true in the early days of the field. The rise of brogrammer culture, so far as I can tell, started in the 90s; before that there was frequently indifference to the needs of women (especially about scheduling things like childcare responsibilities) but not the degree of active hostility that came later.
There are indeed systemic biases both ways. Men are more likely to get promotions to management, and the salary and responsibilities that come with those promotions. Partly that's because women choose not to take on the necessary hours or are unable to do so because of childrearing responsibilities, but there is also discrimination against women who want those positions.
On the other hand, the bias against men in family court is well known and documented. All else being equal, women are more likely to get child custody than men are, even adjusting for the fact that men are less likely to ask for it. And men are more likely to be required to pay child support, even if the woman earns more money. A man getting sole custody? Forget about it unless the woman is grossly incompetent or criminal.
Both of these biases operate to maintain the status quo of gender role division. Women have a harder time getting jobs that would let them be the primary or sole income earner, while men have a harder time taking responsibility for children. Both get steered in the direction that society deems appropriate for them, and that's a real problem for the people who want to follow another path.
Comparing men and women in the same job is not the end of the story. There is also the fact that fewer women are in the higher paying management jobs because those jobs aren't being offered to women. Men with the same amount of experience and talent move up the corporate ladder; women don't.
There are differences in the fit: on a women's jacket the waist will be smaller in relation to the shoulder size, the jacket will be shorter, and the arms will be shorter and thinner. The arm length is the most important issue; the arms on a male jacket that otherwise fits are likely to be too long for many women.
Oh yeah... the zipper will be on the other side. But women can generally deal with that.
No, they weren't offered men's jackets. They were told that they were not getting them at the last minute, after the order had been placed. Uber told them they could get jackets if they could find some at the same price as the bulk order... but at that point even getting the SAME jackets would no longer be the same price because they would not be part of the order. If management had dealt with the situation earlier they probably could have found a satisfactory solution; I think it's clear that they had no intention of doing anything of the sort.
Some cities and towns here in Massachusetts collect monitors from their residents for free. But the city pays to have them recycled.
Except for the fact that you may not have the right to stay anywhere else, short of applying for asylum.
Most data is subject to throttling after you reach a usage threshold. Video streaming is completely unlimited; it won't get slowed down no matter how much you use. But it's also the first candidate to be dropped altogether if the network is congested.
Your car has a high quality FM tuner and a decent antenna that is outside the car and you use it outdoors. Your cell phone does not have as good a receiver or antenna and you'll probably use it inside a building, so the range will be much smaller. Still better than nothing.
I'd moderate this funny but I've already commented on this post.
The Spanish chiquita (that's the female form; a male would be a chiquito) is derived from the Spanish language use of chico and chica as words to describe children and teens. (The literal meaning is small, from the Latin ciccum; they're also used as adjectives with the literal meaning.) A chiquito or chiquita is a diminutive form, and thus literally a small small person. Diminutive forms are used as endearments in Spanish, even for seemingly unlikely words like abuelo/abuela (grandfather/grandmother).
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (source: https://www.merriam-webster.co...), the Chiquitos are a people of southeast Bolivia and also their language. The etymology is given as being derived from the Spanish word chico.
Now that BDXL is being used in Ultra Blu-Ray players (they're not using the name but they are using the format), is it still true that there are only two manufacturers? And there is M-Disc... expensive but they claim a much longer lifetime for the discs.
Since you speak of "when you are in the US", your phone probably doesn't support the bands used for LTE in North America. They're not the same as the ones used in the rest of the world. Nobody produces a true LTE world phone yet, though we're gradually getting closer.
T-Mobile did refer to their HSPA+ service as 4G for marketing reasons, but they were also building out LTE service at the same time. In the places where they had HSPA+42 available on the 1700 MHz band the speeds were actually comparable to first generation LTE service, though the latency was worse and they couldn't support as many users. Since then they have reallocated their spectrum; 1700 MHz is now being used for LTE. They're running HSPA+ on their smaller 1900 MHz allocations and are only running HSPA+21 there. Their data service actually got worse for the handful of phones that support HSPA+42 but not LTE.
There are still parts of T-Mobile's coverage map where the fastest service available is HSPA+. They are mostly remote areas with relatively low demand, so it's good enough for now. They are continuing to roll out LTE to those areas, as well as upgrading more densely populated areas with higher speed LTE and band 12 (700 MHz) service.
There won't be enough Bolts available in the near future to fill that demand. Chevy is only planning to produce 30,000 of them this year. The big obstacle to ramping up Bolt production is probably making the battery packs - that and the fact that it is widely believed that the company will be losing money on every Bolt they sell this year. Battery cost is likely to come down in 2018 so perhaps they can start making money on the Bolt then.
Everyone should learn the basics of coding. Not because they will all use them to actually program computers, but because you learn important lessons about logical thought. You learn the importance of including all the instructions, not including any incorrect instructions, and putting them all in the correct order. Somebody who has experienced coding will write better recipes and give better directions to their house. Proof geometry teaches many of the same things, but coding does it better and comes with an automated tool that provides immediate feedback.
On the other hand, learning how to code is not a substitute for learning another human language. Language education carries important lessons about how people think; each language has different assumptions built into it, and experiencing a different set broadens the horizons of the learner. Language education usually also contains a large component of learning about another culture, which is valuable as well.
There is only one solution that will ever really work: ban network providers from offering content. So long as we allow that kind of cross-ownership, the network companies will ALWAYS find ways to favor their own content.
Sadly, that's not going to happen. We'd have to shut down Go90 or require Verizon to divest it. We'd have to undo Verizon's purchases of AOL and Yahoo. We would have to block Sprint from buying a stake in Tidal. And the biggest one: we'd have to undo the merger of Comcast and NBC, which never should have been allowed in the first place. Neither party currently has the political will for that kind of restructuring of the industry.
Regulations that attempt to rein in the worst abuses of cross-ownership are a second-best solution. But at least they're better than not having them, which is what the Republicans and the Trump administration want. I expect to see some seriously anticompetitive behavior by internet providers in the upcoming years.
Some of the Android Wear watches look a lot more like an Apple Watch. The ZenWatch 2 from ASUS is a good example. Though it can be told apart easily enough if you see it from the correct side because it has only a single crown knob - which is actually a button, it doesn't twist - not the knob-plus-button that the Apple Watch has.
But the sales numbers for those are a rounding error compared to the popularity of the Apple Watch. Android Wear hasn't been a big hit (though the upcoming version 2 and the accompanying release of new, better looking watches may change that), and the most successful Android Wear watches don't look like an Apple Watch. For starters, many of them are round like the Moto 360 or the Huawei Watch, and most of this year's new releases are round.
Clever idea. And I like the slick little thing on the right side that serves as the interconnect; it blends in well enough that I missed it on my first look. But it doesn't provide the missing RAM or a GPU that's good enough for VR.
Make up a small personal business. No big deal. They don't ask for a lot of info, and you don't have to provide a tax number if you don't want to. Yes, you'll get email spam from Dell, but you're going to get that no matter what you buy from them; sending you tons of email begging you to buy more stuff is a key part of their business model.
Nothing is stopping you from buying one for personal use. But it does mean they don't have any Linux systems at lower price points.
Somebody can want Android without wanting the entire collection of Google apps. Apps for Google services that are pre-installed typically include Chrome, Gmail, Maps, Calendar, Photos, Hangouts, Books, Games, Movies & TV, Music, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Google Settings (that's separate from the Settings app that deals with basic OS stuff), and YouTube. I use the Google infrastructure extensively so I'm happy to have all of those around, but other people may prefer alternatives or not use those functions at all.
In addition there is the Google Play store, and possibly the Google Now launcher unless the manufacturer has replaced it with a custom one. Those are reasonable to include in the OS image and make impossible to remove, because the usefulness of the device would be seriously impaired if you accidentally deleted them. If you delete Play you can't get any of the other apps back unless you sideload Play or have another app source installed, and having one launcher always there is a good idea just in case you accidentally delete all the other ones.
Finally, there is Google Play Services. That's not actually an app, but rather a collection of APIs and API extensions that a lot of other apps depend on. Removing it will break a lot of apps, and not just Google's own; many third party apps also use it.