When my company provides a quote for a job, we're expected to do the job at that price. If the job ends up costing more, or we mis-quoted for some reason, we can attempt to re-negotiate the contract, but the customer is under no legal obligation to do so. We certainly can't do it after the quote has been fulfilled and the job is complete. We have to eat the cost of our mistake. It's called "the price of doing business" and it's the reason why you want to make sure you hire competent people and not monkeys. How is this any different? Amazon screwed up a quote for a job. They signed a binding contract of sale with the customers, and then they want to renege on that contract.
Companies like Amazon cannot continue to claim "website error" for their bait-and-switch tactics any more than casinos should be allowed to claim "mechanical error" to get out of paying a jackpot.
I took the numbers off my house so they wouldn't be able to find it. I had to take the numbers off the neighbors' houses, too, so they couldn't just look for the house with no numbers.
How is it FUD when that is my real-life experience from supporting that garbage in the field? I'm glad you had such a positive experience with SBS. Mine has been less than stellar virtually every time my company has been called upon to fix an SBS box.
Ah yes. SBS. The lovely "server" from Microsoft that has all "services" rolled together. As in "you can't uninstall and reinstall a broken service without reloading the entire OS". The one where a slight problem with one service affects everything on the box. No thanks. I'll stick with W2K3 STD.
I've never gotten sleep or hibernate to work on any laptop (at all under linux, highly buggy but occasionally works under windows) that I've ever used. On my desktop, I generally don't ever shut it down anyway, so it's not an issue there.
It's highly sucktitudinous that sleep or hibernate don't work on my current laptop as I have to shut it down frequently throughout the day to travel from customer to customer.
I did, and I wasn't. It was a giant pain in the a** to set up and configure, it didn't work reliably, and the cost for hardware was way higher than buying a TiVo.
Unfortunately, you may not receive the spam, but it's still sent. It's still consuming network resources in the form of bandwidth and CPU time required to filter it. Right now, my company is filtering around 20,000 messages per day, and we're fairly small, with only around 75 mailboxes.
I'm responding more to the subject line than the content here, but "Made ya flinch!" sums up everything that's wrong with the horror genre in general, whether it's games, movies, whatever. It's easy easy easy to scare someone by having something jump out at them. How many movies have you seen where the music builds to a crescendo and then a freaking cat jumps down from a shelf in front of the protagonist and everyone in the audience screams? It takes no effort whatsoever. It's hack. It's not worth my time and I'm not interested in being startled. Few producers/writers/directors understand the difference between startling someone and *scaring* them. This is why Japanese horror movies like The Ring are suddenly doing so well. The writer knows how to scare without cats jumping out at you. They're showing people what horror is supposed to be.
You want to startle me? No thanks. In the context of a game, it's even worse. When I save/reload, I don't want that moronic thing jumping out at me over and over. You want to *scare* me, though? Let's go! I'm in.
I was referring to the precision of the polishing and its light gathering ability and how they were afraid that core would affect it, rather than its focal length.
I remember reading, as a kid, an article in some kids' magazine about the creation of the mirror for the Hubble. In particular, I remember reading about this hairline crack they found and how they weren't sure if it would destroy the mirror altogether. Ultimately, to fix it, they cored out the area, leaving a small circular hole. When they finished polishing, the mirror (even with the hole) was even more accurate than they had originally hoped. It's kinda cool to still see pictures and science like this from an instrument I (sort of) grew up with.
We've seen this tried before on CDs and the response was that they'd have to stop using the "Compact Disc" trademark because that's only for people who follow the standard.
Yeah. That showed 'em.
I would buy one...except...
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Sounds like a really useful concept. I would love to buy one! Oh, except that they've fallen into the usual corporate trap of taking an open standard and locking it down so it's not useful with anything but the products of the companies they've partnered with, it's way way too expensive, and Oh Lord is it FUGLY!
I don't know about *high quality*, but you can access a WEALTH of moon landing information, including radio transmission transcripts, astronaut commentary, mission logs, photos, and tons of video from the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.
Eaten fast food lately? The average teen can't make change without using the cash register computer. I think you overestimate the average teen's abilities.
It is such animportant element, you see, that duration of time. I consider twelve hours a substantial measure. So I ran along the drive and upthe steps and into the house, but did not see either Mrs. Iobserved:Your Excellency is not easily satisfied. And I marvelled, and said:How comes it that I have hitherto been deaf to these distressfultones? Il passe sur la route, mais toujours en sens inverse. For a mental state such astheirs, appetency rather than instability is the right word. Which reminds me that the old adage about let us eat and drink, forto-morrow, etc. Mais odonc est la vie, sinon dans le peuple? They lamented dismally among themselves in many tongues:How I suffer! Take that little one on Lzards, for instance;or, in the other volume, the bizarre Joies Noires.
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Yeah, but then who will make sure all our phones are clean?
When my company provides a quote for a job, we're expected to do the job at that price. If the job ends up costing more, or we mis-quoted for some reason, we can attempt to re-negotiate the contract, but the customer is under no legal obligation to do so. We certainly can't do it after the quote has been fulfilled and the job is complete. We have to eat the cost of our mistake. It's called "the price of doing business" and it's the reason why you want to make sure you hire competent people and not monkeys. How is this any different? Amazon screwed up a quote for a job. They signed a binding contract of sale with the customers, and then they want to renege on that contract.
Companies like Amazon cannot continue to claim "website error" for their bait-and-switch tactics any more than casinos should be allowed to claim "mechanical error" to get out of paying a jackpot.
The expected app to be demo'ed will be Duke Nukem Forever.
I took the numbers off my house so they wouldn't be able to find it. I had to take the numbers off the neighbors' houses, too, so they couldn't just look for the house with no numbers.
How is it FUD when that is my real-life experience from supporting that garbage in the field? I'm glad you had such a positive experience with SBS. Mine has been less than stellar virtually every time my company has been called upon to fix an SBS box.
Ah yes. SBS. The lovely "server" from Microsoft that has all "services" rolled together. As in "you can't uninstall and reinstall a broken service without reloading the entire OS". The one where a slight problem with one service affects everything on the box. No thanks. I'll stick with W2K3 STD.
I've never gotten sleep or hibernate to work on any laptop (at all under linux, highly buggy but occasionally works under windows) that I've ever used. On my desktop, I generally don't ever shut it down anyway, so it's not an issue there.
It's highly sucktitudinous that sleep or hibernate don't work on my current laptop as I have to shut it down frequently throughout the day to travel from customer to customer.
Check it out, and you'll be amazed.
I did, and I wasn't. It was a giant pain in the a** to set up and configure, it didn't work reliably, and the cost for hardware was way higher than buying a TiVo.
2) People don't post on Slashdot because they're smart.
Hey! No I'm...doesn't!
Unfortunately, you may not receive the spam, but it's still sent. It's still consuming network resources in the form of bandwidth and CPU time required to filter it. Right now, my company is filtering around 20,000 messages per day, and we're fairly small, with only around 75 mailboxes.
I'm responding more to the subject line than the content here, but "Made ya flinch!" sums up everything that's wrong with the horror genre in general, whether it's games, movies, whatever. It's easy easy easy to scare someone by having something jump out at them. How many movies have you seen where the music builds to a crescendo and then a freaking cat jumps down from a shelf in front of the protagonist and everyone in the audience screams? It takes no effort whatsoever. It's hack. It's not worth my time and I'm not interested in being startled. Few producers/writers/directors understand the difference between startling someone and *scaring* them. This is why Japanese horror movies like The Ring are suddenly doing so well. The writer knows how to scare without cats jumping out at you. They're showing people what horror is supposed to be.
You want to startle me? No thanks. In the context of a game, it's even worse. When I save/reload, I don't want that moronic thing jumping out at me over and over. You want to *scare* me, though? Let's go! I'm in.
I was referring to the precision of the polishing and its light gathering ability and how they were afraid that core would affect it, rather than its focal length.
I remember reading, as a kid, an article in some kids' magazine about the creation of the mirror for the Hubble. In particular, I remember reading about this hairline crack they found and how they weren't sure if it would destroy the mirror altogether. Ultimately, to fix it, they cored out the area, leaving a small circular hole. When they finished polishing, the mirror (even with the hole) was even more accurate than they had originally hoped. It's kinda cool to still see pictures and science like this from an instrument I (sort of) grew up with.
We've seen this tried before on CDs and the response was that they'd have to stop using the "Compact Disc" trademark because that's only for people who follow the standard.
Yeah. That showed 'em.
Sounds like a really useful concept. I would love to buy one! Oh, except that they've fallen into the usual corporate trap of taking an open standard and locking it down so it's not useful with anything but the products of the companies they've partnered with, it's way way too expensive, and Oh Lord is it FUGLY!
Correction: No one has stayed awake through Koyannisqatsi.
(FWIW, Powaqqatsi was a better flick, IMHO)
See, I liked the first one better, and I didn't have any trouble staying awake. I like Philip Glass and I like Francis Ford Coppola, though.
However, this approach falls apart because no one has seen Koyaanisqatsi
;)
Well...almost no one.
DO NOT WANT
It's a shelf full of Snuckey's crap! :-)
There's no five-and-dime near me, either.
Watch closer. The whole of ST:TOS was an exploration of the Human Condition. It just happened to take place in space, ergo it was "Sci Fi".
I don't know about *high quality*, but you can access a WEALTH of moon landing information, including radio transmission transcripts, astronaut commentary, mission logs, photos, and tons of video from the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.
But not that much trickier for the average teen.
Eaten fast food lately? The average teen can't make change without using the cash register computer. I think you overestimate the average teen's abilities.
It is such animportant element, you see, that duration
of time. I consider twelve hours a substantial measure. So I ran along
the drive and upthe steps and into the house, but did not see either
Mrs. Iobserved:Your Excellency is not easily satisfied. And I marvelled,
and said:How comes it that I have hitherto been deaf to these
distressfultones? Il passe sur la route, mais toujours en sens inverse.
For a mental state such astheirs, appetency rather than instability is
the right word. Which reminds me that the old adage about let us eat and
drink, forto-morrow, etc. Mais odonc est la vie, sinon dans le peuple?
They lamented dismally among themselves in many tongues:How I suffer!
Take that little one on Lzards, for instance;or, in the other volume,
the bizarre Joies Noires.
They said "visible from space", not "visible from the internet".
I know. Why bother even posting an internet article these days and not include a picture?