I have never understood this. I get boxes from Amazon that are WAY too big for the contents all the time. This must be costing them money, for the cardboard, padding, weight, and volume. Why do they do this?
It seems to me that it would be trivial to write some code to add up the size of the contents to pick the right box. A robot could then pull the box and add it to the picking bin.
There is also a cost to stocking shipping boxes that just happen to be the right size for the products you buy. Making things a uniform size has an efficiency (and hence minimizes cost) of its own. EG look at how cargo containers transformed shipping.
Do you really think that given the number of boxes that Amazon ships that they haven't looked at the price/performance of differing box sizes?
Not to say this report isn't important or that Amazon shouldn't do better, but wow is the first world out of touch.
So you want stressed out drivers, holding their bladders while zipping around at high speed in traffic breaking speeding (and probably other) laws in order to make a minimal amount of money?
Sure it's a first world problem but it also has first world consequences that can affect a lot of people. All it takes is one delivery guy to slip up and all of a sudden he's driving a multi-ton vehicle into a crowd of people.
There's a reason that government entities like OSHA exist.
Makes you wonder how many places you stayed at (Airbnb's, motels, hostels, etc) over the years might have been pulling this kind of shit without your knowledge.
I think I see a consumer market for a device that can detect these kinds of 'bugs'.
1. Sucks to be them when I am in such a place and parading around naked!
2. Unless it's a stand alone camera, then what you are looking for is basically a Network Scanner. Just connect to the Host's network and scan for any devices that look like cameras.
If you come across one of these, steal the camera.
The host won't dare ask where their illegal spy camera overlooking the bed is.
We had some illegal cameras we found in one of our buildings that we simply took down. No one ever asked about them ( and they were pricey cameras ) because doing so would be admitting putting them up illegally in the first place.
I know where I am but you should read TFA
The individual was one of two people who spoke to the website about their experience with finding hidden cameras inside their rental homes. The other renter — a woman named Erin — said her host chose to report her for damages after she unplugged a device she found inside a Houston Airbnb. “They just treated it like I was trying to get out of paying,” she said in reference to the company’s handling of the situation. “I was like, ‘Hello, he is saying he did what I was saying he did,’ and the customer service rep told me that I should ‘respond professionally.'”
If AirBnB's initial response is to blame the renter without investigating things then AirBnB has more than a voyeurism problem.
Watch the video again, she was 'framed' from the waist up. Her head was in the shot, as well as a space above her head. The video may be stupid and self-indulgent, but certainly not the sex show you claim.
OK I mis-remembered.. so sue me. But it is still a close up.
But what does a close up of the act of a woman taking her jacket off serve to sell a suitcase? And why do we need to see her swishing her hair about? And what *is* iconography?
Its has a huge amount of gratuitous sex themed iconography including a close up of a woman's chest as she takes off her leather jacket in order to stow it in this bag.
Err....so, you're saying you would rather look at a guys chest in the video....???
Congratulations on your brand new bouncing baby logical fallacy. Is it your first for the day?
Can those bags use battery types other than Li-Ion? A few alkaline AA batteries should be enough to power a transmitter that takes a GPS reading and "squawks" location over the cell network every hour or so.
One of those "smart bags" https://travelmaterobotics.com... is effectively an autonomous vehicle* that homes in on your smart phone and follows you around. I doubt that a few Alkaline batteries would suffice for that concept.
*I was dumbstruck by the promotional video on that site. Its has a huge amount of gratuitous sex themed iconography including a close up of a woman's chest as she takes off her leather jacket in order to stow it in this bag.
I was also dumbstruck by the announcement on the page as well
On December 7th at 11am, we'll be doing another demonstration, press conference and we'll also be discussing how Travelmate will change the way phone companies work.
I need to get my buzz word bingo card ready for this one!
...from gumming up the future space lanes of Mars. We already have a huge amount of space junk around our own planet. Do we really want to turn Mars into a publicity stunt laden dumping ground?
There's got to be a law against this somewhere...
Given that there is space junk already in orbit around mars I think you might have missed the boat with your fauxrage
Netflix has both streaming and physical movies. But the catalogues are not identical, so there are many movies that you can get on disc that you can't stream.
In addition movies on Netflix come and go with their streaming service. Thus it is possible that a movie you watched previously is no longer available for streaming.
And that doesn't consider that I have had my Netflix streaming service seemingly disappear for days at a time, only to mysteriously re-appear for no reason at all.
So in reality the Netflix situation is just another example of a cloud service ebeing "someone else's computer".
I for one will enjoy the civil suit that follows. Of course we know this is just a bunch of kids throwing a tantrum. Nevermind the fact that they are of adult age.
I prefer to think of it as an experiment in demonstrating access in a post-net-neutrality world to a fixed sample sized demographic in order to obtain sociological impact data to the proposed rule changes.
... then probably very similar to that. Tho I can't remember when potatoes became common.
Except we have spent the last 400 years actively changing breeding stock - hence the flavors of what we eat today are fundamentally different from those of yesteryear.
Case in point is the way that meat chickens have changed in just over the last 60 years since they started to be bred for more and more white meat.
Helvetica has been around since 1957, and its use by Apple is comparatively minor. It was only Mac OS X's system font for one year. Helvetica is hugely influential and widely well-regarded, while Arial is basically just a generic knockoff.
Not only that, there has even been a documentary about Helvetica
Sheesh.. it's amazing what goes for critical thinking around here.
1. The OP made a statement about Apple enforcing its NDAs. Like them or hate them, if they are legal and you don't comply with them, well sucks to be you.
2. The 1st AC called the OP a fucking asshole. That was not an insightful comment, that was an Ad Hom pure and simple because there was no argument as to why the AC disliked/disagreed with the actual contents of the OPs spot.
3. The 2nd AC points out this same line of reasoning.
3. Thus in your reply to the 2nd AC, without any substance from the 1st AC, your contention that "Assholes can be insightful" is purely a red herring. It has nothing to do with the OPs post or the 2nd AC's post. It appears to only exist for the sake of you justifying calling someone an asshole because I dunno.. Free Speech??? (and heads up.. that last part was sarcasm)
You expected your $1k phone to have a cheap screen?
If you want to save money on your phone, don’t buy the most expensive phone available.
You obviously don't know what you are talking about. A $1k phone is not the most expensive phone available. I preordered the 256GB version today and I can assure you that it's more than $1k.
But yeah, this article is lame. Expensive phone is expensive.
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Amazon uses boxes grossly larger than needed
I have never understood this. I get boxes from Amazon that are WAY too big for the contents all the time. This must be costing them money, for the cardboard, padding, weight, and volume. Why do they do this?
It seems to me that it would be trivial to write some code to add up the size of the contents to pick the right box. A robot could then pull the box and add it to the picking bin.
There is also a cost to stocking shipping boxes that just happen to be the right size for the products you buy. Making things a uniform size has an efficiency (and hence minimizes cost) of its own. EG look at how cargo containers transformed shipping.
Do you really think that given the number of boxes that Amazon ships that they haven't looked at the price/performance of differing box sizes?
11 hour days? Holy first world problems.
Not to say this report isn't important or that Amazon shouldn't do better, but wow is the first world out of touch.
So you want stressed out drivers, holding their bladders while zipping around at high speed in traffic breaking speeding (and probably other) laws in order to make a minimal amount of money?
Sure it's a first world problem but it also has first world consequences that can affect a lot of people. All it takes is one delivery guy to slip up and all of a sudden he's driving a multi-ton vehicle into a crowd of people.
There's a reason that government entities like OSHA exist.
Makes you wonder how many places you stayed at (Airbnb's, motels,
hostels, etc) over the years might have been pulling this kind of shit
without your knowledge.
I think I see a consumer market for a device that can detect these kinds of 'bugs'.
1. Sucks to be them when I am in such a place and parading around naked!
2. Unless it's a stand alone camera, then what you are looking for is basically a Network Scanner. Just connect to the Host's network and scan for any devices that look like cameras.
If you come across one of these, steal the camera.
The host won't dare ask where their illegal spy camera overlooking the bed is.
We had some illegal cameras we found in one of our buildings that we simply took down. No one ever asked about them ( and they were pricey cameras ) because doing so would be admitting putting them up illegally in the first place.
I know where I am but you should read TFA
The individual was one of two people who spoke to the website about their experience with finding hidden cameras inside their rental homes.
The other renter — a woman named Erin — said her host chose to report her for damages after she unplugged a device she found inside a Houston Airbnb.
“They just treated it like I was trying to get out of paying,” she said in reference to the company’s handling of the situation. “I was like, ‘Hello, he is saying he did what I was saying he did,’ and the customer service rep told me that I should ‘respond professionally.'”
If AirBnB's initial response is to blame the renter without investigating things then AirBnB has more than a voyeurism problem.
Watch the video again, she was 'framed' from the waist up. Her head was in the shot, as well as a space above her head. The video may be stupid and self-indulgent, but certainly not the sex show you claim.
OK I mis-remembered .. so sue me. But it is still a close up.
But what does a close up of the act of a woman taking her jacket off serve to sell a suitcase?
And why do we need to see her swishing her hair about?
And what *is* iconography?
You mean now there's even hated between age groups?
With ignorance like that I'd peg you as being one of those ignorant and self absorbed millennials.
Err....so, you're saying you would rather look at a guys chest in the video....???
Congratulations on your brand new bouncing baby logical fallacy. Is it your first for the day?
a close up of a woman's chest
You must be new to the internet...
Seriously: she took of her jacket, what did you expect to see? And you cannot really call that a close up.
The video framed her chest and excluded above and below. That's a closeup.
Can those bags use battery types other than Li-Ion? A few alkaline AA batteries should be enough to power a transmitter that takes a GPS reading and "squawks" location over the cell network every hour or so.
One of those "smart bags" https://travelmaterobotics.com... is effectively an autonomous vehicle* that homes in on your smart phone and follows you around. I doubt that a few Alkaline batteries would suffice for that concept.
*I was dumbstruck by the promotional video on that site. Its has a huge amount of gratuitous sex themed iconography including a close up of a woman's chest as she takes off her leather jacket in order to stow it in this bag.
I was also dumbstruck by the announcement on the page as well
On December 7th at 11am, we'll be doing another demonstration, press conference and we'll also be discussing how Travelmate will change the way phone companies work.
I need to get my buzz word bingo card ready for this one!
...from gumming up the future space lanes of Mars. We already have a huge amount of space junk around our own planet. Do we really want to turn Mars into a publicity stunt laden dumping ground?
There's got to be a law against this somewhere...
Given that there is space junk already in orbit around mars I think you might have missed the boat with your fauxrage
It seems to be the answer to everything these days
GCSEs are exams given to 16 year olds in the UK, not that you would know that from the summary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Don't worry .. even TFA doesn't define it.
Well, at least it's s*x and not sex.
Yeah but it could be anyone of these things as well
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It's that old sawhorse of "now you have two problems"
Netflix has both streaming and physical movies. But the catalogues are not identical, so there are many movies that you can get on disc that you can't stream.
In addition movies on Netflix come and go with their streaming service. Thus it is possible that a movie you watched previously is no longer available for streaming.
And that doesn't consider that I have had my Netflix streaming service seemingly disappear for days at a time, only to mysteriously re-appear for no reason at all.
So in reality the Netflix situation is just another example of a cloud service ebeing "someone else's computer".
I for one will enjoy the civil suit that follows. Of course we know this is just a bunch of kids throwing a tantrum. Nevermind the fact that they are of adult age.
I prefer to think of it as an experiment in demonstrating access in a post-net-neutrality world to a fixed sample sized demographic in order to obtain sociological impact data to the proposed rule changes.
... then probably very similar to that. Tho I can't remember when potatoes became common.
Except we have spent the last 400 years actively changing breeding stock - hence the flavors of what we eat today are fundamentally different from those of yesteryear.
Case in point is the way that meat chickens have changed in just over the last 60 years since they started to be bred for more and more white meat.
Helvetica has been around since 1957, and its use by Apple is comparatively minor. It was only Mac OS X's system font for one year. Helvetica is hugely influential and widely well-regarded, while Arial is basically just a generic knockoff.
Not only that, there has even been a documentary about Helvetica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
because Windows 7 just works and there's no need to upgrade
I work with commercial desktop software written by GE and they *still* haven't certified this code for Windows 10.
Apple generally gives updates for 5 years, and let's be real are you really trying to use a phone older than 5 years old?
I am using 10 year old RAZR. So yes people do hang onto things rather than go "ooh shiny shiny".
Also my Late 2012 4th generation iPad is still running strong, but it won't see iOS 11 because .. Apple.
I can't update my perfectly working iPad because it is not supported by iOS11.
Somebody needs to learn a little tech history. The Linux (monolithic kernel) versus Minix (micro kernel) debate is well known.
Apparently you don't hear that whooshing sound over your head.
I'm on non-Xfinity internet from Comcast and I am here wasting time and posting on /.
I almost feel compelled to do a "carrier lost" joke, but that would take way from pointing out the above.
You don't think assholes can be insightful?
Prince.
Sheesh .. it's amazing what goes for critical thinking around here.
1. The OP made a statement about Apple enforcing its NDAs. Like them or hate them, if they are legal and you don't comply with them, well sucks to be you.
2. The 1st AC called the OP a fucking asshole. That was not an insightful comment, that was an Ad Hom pure and simple because there was no argument as to why the AC disliked/disagreed with the actual contents of the OPs spot.
3. The 2nd AC points out this same line of reasoning.
3. Thus in your reply to the 2nd AC, without any substance from the 1st AC, your contention that "Assholes can be insightful" is purely a red herring. It has nothing to do with the OPs post or the 2nd AC's post. It appears to only exist for the sake of you justifying calling someone an asshole because I dunno .. Free Speech??? (and heads up .. that last part was sarcasm)
So does this make me an asshole too?
You expected your $1k phone to have a cheap screen?
If you want to save money on your phone, don’t buy the most expensive phone available.
You obviously don't know what you are talking about. A $1k phone is not the most expensive phone available. I preordered the 256GB version today and I can assure you that it's more than $1k.
But yeah, this article is lame. Expensive phone is expensive.
I enjoyed this more, but just as scripted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...