Come on, the site's called "The Chive." You know, like "The Onion?"
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You can commit on simple edits (like a ui typo change), or on adding a whole new chunk of code. And, if you're busy, you might make both an edit and the addition in the same commit.
Is someone who makes five typo change commits doing five times the work of someone adding one with a new function? I seriously doubt it.
They are often easily swayed by a nifty presentation from a guy who doesn't know too much either but promises everything, and of course the ability to cut cost in half, if not more, so they buy.
If you've worked in a huge shop, you know that the big software vendors send reps out to IT managers for golf outings and the like. Screw it if the software works or not, just fluff up the guy with the budget rubber stamp.
Reminds me of when I heard the manager of a customer service organization I used to be attached to signed off on a new phone system costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, along with the offhand remark that he and a couple other managers were attending "training meetings" in Hawaii for a few days.
You can grab a bare CD and bend it in half without physically breaking it... it takes compressive force on the fold before the CD shatters.
It all depends. I destroyed a lot of old backup CDs and DVDs when we went to a disk system, and I can say that even samples from the same product line, same vendor, can react differently. Some will snap if I just convulsively bend the disk fast but not very far, others only crack, some do very little visibly (but the coating flakes and the plastic striates rendering it unreadable) if I do less than completely bend them in half...
If you really don't see how this happens, take one of your packages, drop it into a canvas bag at an angle, then take a big rolled mass of newspaper and shove it in on top, filling up the bag. Clutch it under your arm and walk across the room. Now drop that bag 4 feet. And so on. That sort of action can cause no real wear on envelope seams but devastate anything not reinforced.
TL;DR version: you are not adequately protecting your mailing
Well couple things may be in play, other than the USPS being meanies:
1) Netflix may well consider a fairly high rate of loss acceptable. Depending on the prices they have to pay for the discs, it might not matter to them. Remember that the media itself is cheap. In large runs I'd be surprised if you could get a disc to cost $0.10. So if they have a situation with the studios where they can buy the discs cheap, separate of the rental rights, it might not matter to them.
They also have arrangements (or have had in the past) where they ship DVDs they printed themselves. In situations like that, they could be even cheaper, because there's no delay in waiting for replacements from the vendors, and they could be printed at the distribution centers nearest the subscribers asking for them.
It's definitely better for ongoing journaling type things, where you want input from friends, than either/. or fb.
On the other hand, complete strangers hardly ever wander into the conversation on * or fb, even when it's set to public. Sometimes you want the ability for people to find you interesting and start interacting. Few of us would have met each other naturally over at *, unless we looked for common interest groups. But most of us seem to get along, though the circle is certainly large enough now that not everyone is equidistant from each other:) And having circle friends carry over to fb makes for interesting overlap with completely nontechie friends. And we haven't even mentioned twitter, yet:)
Why yes, I am CAPITALIZING random WORDS this evening
Doesn't look random at all to me. Looks like fairly judicious use of capitalization to focus particular aspects of your contribution to the discussion.:0)
That was you last night, posting anonymously, wasn't it?:)
"consumers who purchase an e-reader buy more books than those who stick with traditional bound volumes. Amazon reports that Kindle owners buy, on average, 3.1 times as many books on the site as other customers."
If you have a Kindle reader, you mostly have to buy your paid-content from Amazon -- there's not a lot of alternate choice. Whereas the fact that I may have bought four books from them in hardcover last year tells them nothing about the three dozen I may have bought from Barnes & Noble, Borders, Powell's, etc. in the same time period. This is not a legitimate extrapolation.
Different hardware models every year, different complete form factor when the tablet gets out... surely these people could take a page from the people who design for corporate laptop orders, and make a rugged model that simply doesn't change for 3-5 years? These poor countries have enough trouble paying for these up front without having to worry about not being able to cannibalize parts among the models when some break.
Not to mention the possibility that the hardware user interface may change enough among the models to require some extra training for teachers of classrooms with mixed hardware.
Oh, and will it will be harder to care for tablets, which don't have a protective cover over them when being carried around? They might be "unbreakable," but what about unscratchable?
What's more, the NSA does have a legitimate reason to be involved. It's the same reason they wrote the SE/Linux extensions. They are required (in their public role) to provide the federal government with analysis and review of software for security purposes. To avoid having the NSA say, "Win 7 is too insecure, don't use it," Microsoft would go to them for review and comments prior to release, and respond to whatever concerns they have.
People often forget that the NSA has a public function.
Just what I was thinking. I'm sure they were working to make sure they'd get CC EAL4+ again, or something like that.
Dell's business computers can be ordered plain vanilla or without the OS loaded, if you wish. I always recommend their business line, whether the person asking is a business or home user.
Business lines can be expensive though and hard to justify to a home user who surfs the web three times a week.
Not really. Check their SOHO stuff and it's sometimes actually cheaper for the same gear with a different model number from their home user stuff. As always, you want to check their FB or Twitter feeds for special deals before dropping the dough.
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Come on, the site's called "The Chive." You know, like "The Onion?"
You can commit on simple edits (like a ui typo change), or on adding a whole new chunk of code.
And, if you're busy, you might make both an edit and the addition in the same commit.
Is someone who makes five typo change commits doing five times the work of someone adding one with a new function?
I seriously doubt it.
What could be another reason and would that reason be any better?
They could be being blocked simply because they're a political party that's in the minority.
If political speech is protected there, they should sue.
I know, we can call it "Bitterface," because of the experimental Btrfs support.
They are often easily swayed by a nifty presentation from a guy who doesn't know too much either but promises everything, and of course the ability to cut cost in half, if not more, so they buy.
If you've worked in a huge shop, you know that the big software vendors send reps out to IT managers for golf outings and the like. Screw it if the software works or not, just fluff up the guy with the budget rubber stamp.
Reminds me of when I heard the manager of a customer service organization I used to be attached to signed off on a new phone system costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, along with the offhand remark that he and a couple other managers were attending "training meetings" in Hawaii for a few days.
Yeah.
Oh, hey, these DNA tests show we don't have trouble metabolizing lactose or alcohol!
We should check these results.
Let's drink lots of white russians!
You can grab a bare CD and bend it in half without physically breaking it... it takes compressive force on the fold before the CD shatters.
It all depends. I destroyed a lot of old backup CDs and DVDs when we went to a disk system, and I can say that even samples from the same product line, same vendor, can react differently. Some will snap if I just convulsively bend the disk fast but not very far, others only crack, some do very little visibly (but the coating flakes and the plastic striates rendering it unreadable) if I do less than completely bend them in half...
If you really don't see how this happens, take one of your packages, drop it into a canvas bag at an angle, then take a big rolled mass of newspaper and shove it in on top, filling up the bag. Clutch it under your arm and walk across the room. Now drop that bag 4 feet. And so on. That sort of action can cause no real wear on envelope seams but devastate anything not reinforced.
TL;DR version: you are not adequately protecting your mailing
Well couple things may be in play, other than the USPS being meanies:
1) Netflix may well consider a fairly high rate of loss acceptable. Depending on the prices they have to pay for the discs, it might not matter to them. Remember that the media itself is cheap. In large runs I'd be surprised if you could get a disc to cost $0.10. So if they have a situation with the studios where they can buy the discs cheap, separate of the rental rights, it might not matter to them.
They also have arrangements (or have had in the past) where they ship DVDs they printed themselves. In situations like that, they could be even cheaper, because there's no delay in waiting for replacements from the vendors, and they could be printed at the distribution centers nearest the subscribers asking for them.
Heh. Your high school friends must actually be friends :)
I try to keep my fb presence, if not shallow, at least light.
It's definitely better for ongoing journaling type things, where you want input from friends, than either /. or fb.
On the other hand, complete strangers hardly ever wander into the conversation on * or fb, even when it's set to public. Sometimes you want the ability for people to find you interesting and start interacting. Few of us would have met each other naturally over at *, unless we looked for common interest groups. But most of us seem to get along, though the circle is certainly large enough now that not everyone is equidistant from each other :) And having circle friends carry over to fb makes for interesting overlap with completely nontechie friends. And we haven't even mentioned twitter, yet :)
I work with a youth group at my church, mainly the teenage boys, and some are forced to attend by their parents, and they are impossible to control.
Why are you putting up with that? Your tacit approval of the parents' unreasonable requirements is part of the problem.
Watching the video clip, I felt she could pass until she opened her mouth. :)
Simple solution to that, then; don't let her talk
Why yes, I am CAPITALIZING random WORDS this evening
Doesn't look random at all to me. Looks like fairly judicious use of capitalization to focus particular aspects of your contribution to the discussion. :0)
That was you last night, posting anonymously, wasn't it? :)
Now we know that you slashdot while inside your girlfriend's privacy zone. Heh. :)
Buzz lets you choose who to follow, and I don't see how you can get spam from people you didn't choose to hear from?
Let's not confuse this with a bad cop who breaks both of a man's knees to get a confession, then calls it a "hunch".
True. But could you say it if you broke his back? Not that you'd stoop to that, of course.
I talked with Gil Gerard at DragonCon this year - he's trying to get it rebooted. (as a producer not an actor)
Sweet.
Princess Ardala, Col. Wilma Deering, and little robots that want to be your best friend.
What more could any nerd boy want?
"consumers who purchase an e-reader buy more books than those who stick with traditional bound volumes. Amazon reports that Kindle owners buy, on average, 3.1 times as many books on the site as other customers."
If you have a Kindle reader, you mostly have to buy your paid-content from Amazon -- there's not a lot of alternate choice. Whereas the fact that I may have bought four books from them in hardcover last year tells them nothing about the three dozen I may have bought from Barnes & Noble, Borders, Powell's, etc. in the same time period. This is not a legitimate extrapolation.
AT&T is now telling everyone that it's because of online fraud from that area. See TUAW and other sites for the story.
"the XO-3 should really be considered a concept model, much like the XO-2 which it seems to be replacing."
So... these weren't intended to be used practically?
Now his impression of Al Pacino keeps running through my head: "liar liar... pants on FIRE!"
Different hardware models every year, different complete form factor when the tablet gets out... surely these people could take a page from the people who design for corporate laptop orders, and make a rugged model that simply doesn't change for 3-5 years? These poor countries have enough trouble paying for these up front without having to worry about not being able to cannibalize parts among the models when some break.
Not to mention the possibility that the hardware user interface may change enough among the models to require some extra training for teachers of classrooms with mixed hardware.
Oh, and will it will be harder to care for tablets, which don't have a protective cover over them when being carried around? They might be "unbreakable," but what about unscratchable?
What's more, the NSA does have a legitimate reason to be involved. It's the same reason they wrote the SE/Linux extensions. They are required (in their public role) to provide the federal government with analysis and review of software for security purposes. To avoid having the NSA say, "Win 7 is too insecure, don't use it," Microsoft would go to them for review and comments prior to release, and respond to whatever concerns they have.
People often forget that the NSA has a public function.
Just what I was thinking. I'm sure they were working to make sure they'd get CC EAL4+ again, or something like that.
Dell's business computers can be ordered plain vanilla or without the OS loaded, if you wish. I always recommend their business line, whether the person asking is a business or home user.
Business lines can be expensive though and hard to justify to a home user who surfs the web three times a week.
Not really. Check their SOHO stuff and it's sometimes actually cheaper for the same gear with a different model number from their home user stuff. As always, you want to check their FB or Twitter feeds for special deals before dropping the dough.