Groupon is not, however, selling deals that puts other businesses out of business. Groupon does not make up the deals, the individual businesses do. You can kill your own business by offering something for nothing, but just because a limited number of better deal coupons exist does not run others out out of business.
I'm not sure I know anyone who would blame gift cards if they had one for a business that went bankrupt. Most rational people would blame the business, not the concept of gift cards. Same thing with Groupon, it would obviously be the business' fault.
The razor analogy is apt. Groupon could also cut the price of the coupons in half by forgoing their 50%. This does not affect the price the photographer gets from Groupon. Gillette can still send out their own coupons.
So an idiot offered a deal where he lost money. It's not like Groupon set up the deal, decided on the services offered or set the price and number of packages. That was all the photographer's choice, it's not Groupon's job to decide any of that or do an analysis of the deal. Their job is to sell the coupons.
Stores didn't tell Gillette to charge for the razor, they just sold the blades. It's not the store's job to determine if the manufacturer makes money. Groupon is no different.
If they deploy an in car sensor, it will be hacked within days, they will have a high rate of "breaking" on their own, and they will be removed and kept at home. If they require it in new cars, it will kill car sales and boost the used car market.
Public acceptance will never happen. GPS tracking is out, the recent iPhone debacle showed that people won't stand for it. Every other method will be defrauded on a massive scale (Disable speedo/odometer, use cell phone GPS for speedometer, for example.)
This is neat technology and all, but I have to wonder why they're worried about correcting for the barrel heating up. I thought it was pretty rare that a sniper would be taking more than one shot, and really don't think one would ever be were taking enough shots to heat the barrel to the point of distortion. I'm no metallurgist, and the longest shot I've taken is 350 yards with a smaller caliber (5.56mm, but it had 30 rounds through it right before I shot it and I hit my first and only shot), so maybe I'm mistaken.
The only sniper I know this would help that comes to mind was the guy in the clock tower in Texas, and I'm pretty sure that's not the guy they designed the sights for.
Did they fix the bug that makes the bookmarks suck? You know, the one that makes you choose between the incredibly clunky bookmarks sidebar or the waste of space that is a bookmarks toolbar.
No?
I'll wait for Chrome 12 and hope they've fixed it by then.
Bookmarks are probably the best example of a drop down menu usage - a menu you occasionally want, and once you make a selection, it goes away.
I've seen so many people try Chrome and delete it because of it's stubborn idiocy in handling one of the most commonly used functions in a web browser.
Woah! That means that if they dedicate their entire company to R & D, they could possibly have the technology to make any color iPhone within 5 years! I stand corrected!
It's incredible that in only one year that technology has advanced so far that they're able to now produce these with plastic of a different color. Some futurists claim that in another 5 years, we might posses the technology to produce iPhone 4's in any color, but I'm think that's far too optimistic.
This story is the opposite of "news for nerds, stuff that matters."
The blind acceptance of Apple stating that the phone isn't tracking your locations is what is truly staggering, especially since their own explanation describes that they're storing all the data needed to get your location except the final calculation, which can be done at anytime after the fact. Which is exactly what the researchers did.
This, coupled with Michigan's recent purchase of equipment to download all your cell phone's data during traffic stops and California's supreme court decision stating that cell phones can be searched during traffic stops, is a huge problem. Calling the availability of warrant-less tracking of your location for the past year "hysteria" is not helping.
Why is my iPhone logging my location? The iPhone is not logging your location.
No, they're just logging the location of things you go near and the time you passed by them. This is not a location the same way that "314 Evergreen Street, Pigsknuckle, Arkansas at 2:31:14am on April 17, 2011" is not a location because it doesn't specify if you're inside or outside the house.
And then, two sentences later...
iPhone can reduce this time to just a few seconds by using Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data to quickly find GPS satellites, and even triangulate its location using just Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data when GPS is not available (such as indoors or in basements).
So they're not tracking your location, just the data needed to triangulate your location. Just like the GPS doesn't track your location, since it also only gives the data needed to triangulate your location.
The location data that researchers are seeing on the iPhone is not the past or present location of the iPhone, but rather the locations of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers surrounding the iPhoneâ(TM)s location
The data from the GPS is not the location of the receiver, but rather the locations of the satellites surrounding the receiver's location.
Can Apple locate me based on my geo-tagged Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data? No. This data is sent to Apple in an anonymous and encrypted form. Apple cannot identify the source of this data.
Using the preceding logic, it probably only contains your iTunes logon, phone number, SSN, DOB and profile information. But since it doesn't contain your name, they can't identify the source of this data. Also, I would guess that they replace all spaces with an underline, rendering it unreadable and thus encrypted.
I calculated a while back that the Air Force cluster would still take a million times longer than the universe has existed to brute force AES-256 encryption (which doesn't have any known cryptanalytic vulnerabilities, so brute force is it). Can't find that post yet (it wasn't here,) so it may have only been as little as 1,000 times the age of everything.
If this costs Sony a ton of money, then the console makers will stay far away from ever trying this sort of blatant, anti-consumer, post-purchase downgrade again.
Jacking up the price of the consoles and games will just make people not buy them. They can't just charge whatever they want, that's not how economics works. Jacking up developer licenses would cause the console to die entirely as new games would be few and far between.
Another version of Chrome that forces a choice between having bookmarks visible all the time or having them several mouse clicks away in a window/tab/panel that needs to be closed. It's like having a smart phone that has a scrollable contact list as your homescreen and a rotary dial; one you don't want open all the time and the other is clunky.
Every program has drop down menus for selecting from lists of items because they work better than everything else that's been tried. Bookmarks are probably the best use cases for a drop down menu, you just want to make a selection and have the menu go away.
Also, how did non-scrollable tabs make it through the first alpha version? After 10 tabs are smashed together, you can't really tell which is which and after about 20, they're just blank nubs. How is that useful?
Sorry, I just went back to the website the "5 years of billion dollar profits" sentence came from, and it was an old article on about.com. My mistake for following a few links and not checking the source.
They have lost money the last 3 years, as the annual report states (which is what I should have looked up.)
Take it from the millions of consumers who send mail everyday - the are clearly, convincingly and absolutely NOT overpriced. The only way they could screw you is if they stopped delivering the mail.
A postmaster has no more knowledge of the entire USPS financials than an fast food restaurant manager does of the corporation's financials. They can't possibly make the determination that it's overpriced, they can only comment on how their own inept management style makes it seem that way.
It cannot exist without raising fees year to year and dicking people around.
Yeah, the billion dollar profits over each of the last 5 years shows they've clearly overpriced themselves in the market, and won't survive long.
Personally, I think the fact you can get letters delivered up to 5,000 miles away for less than $.50 is pretty amazing, but if you want to think that's overpriced and they're screwing you, go right ahead.
At what point did WAY become a substitute for MUCH?
Around 800 years ago. Didn't you get the memo?
way â 2â/weÉ/ â"adverb 1.Also, 'way. away; from this or that place: Go way. 2.to a great degree or at quite a distance; far: way too heavy; way down the road. Origin: 1175â"1225; Middle English, aphetic variant of away
Why did they make an app to just view this information? Why didn't they make one that deleted the information or replaced it with 0's? Wouldn't that have made it more secure?
I guess I didn't analyze the phrase: "we've already transcoded videos that make up 99% of views on the site" accurately enough, and thought that 99% of views were transcoded videos, which isn't what the phrase says.
I'm downloading FF4 now, I had been assuming it was still in beta since I've been updating Firefox 3.6 regularly and it's never asked if I wanted 4.
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Doh! I cut-and-paste edited that sentence into idiocy. It originally started as "Although heartburn is a symptom of angina, it is frequently self-diagnosed as a heart problem, it's the first thing the doctor should have suggested." I managed to replace "it" with "angina" instead of "heartburn" when removing the first phrase.
And now the preview button is just staring at me, laughing.
I noticed this week that YouTube videos will now make my old laptop overheat and shut down. I can't get through a 4 minute video anymore. I took it apart, cleaned the fans/heat sinks, made sure the fans still ran, and tried a few different video sites, but YouTube seems to be the only one with a problem.
Is this a freak coincidence (or not so freak, it is a 4 year old laptop and my test was far from scientific), or is WebM more processor intensive to decode than the old encoding?
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I'd suggest getting a new doctor. I'd be scared of one who ordered a $2,000 MRI/cat scan before asking you to try an over-the-counter $0.12 heartburn tablet. Angina is frequently self-diagnosed as a heart problem, it's the first thing the doctor should have suggested.
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Groupon is not, however, selling deals that puts other businesses out of business. Groupon does not make up the deals, the individual businesses do. You can kill your own business by offering something for nothing, but just because a limited number of better deal coupons exist does not run others out out of business.
I'm not sure I know anyone who would blame gift cards if they had one for a business that went bankrupt. Most rational people would blame the business, not the concept of gift cards. Same thing with Groupon, it would obviously be the business' fault.
The razor analogy is apt. Groupon could also cut the price of the coupons in half by forgoing their 50%. This does not affect the price the photographer gets from Groupon. Gillette can still send out their own coupons.
So an idiot offered a deal where he lost money. It's not like Groupon set up the deal, decided on the services offered or set the price and number of packages. That was all the photographer's choice, it's not Groupon's job to decide any of that or do an analysis of the deal. Their job is to sell the coupons.
Stores didn't tell Gillette to charge for the razor, they just sold the blades. It's not the store's job to determine if the manufacturer makes money. Groupon is no different.
If they deploy an in car sensor, it will be hacked within days, they will have a high rate of "breaking" on their own, and they will be removed and kept at home. If they require it in new cars, it will kill car sales and boost the used car market.
Public acceptance will never happen. GPS tracking is out, the recent iPhone debacle showed that people won't stand for it. Every other method will be defrauded on a massive scale (Disable speedo/odometer, use cell phone GPS for speedometer, for example.)
Woah, some executives bowed in apology? That makes everything better now! All is forgiven, and we* can get back with our lives now.
They were in the prison shower with Bubba standing behind them when this happened, right?
* - "We" refers to each individual PSN member and the guy who's running around with the PSN member's ID and credit card.
This is neat technology and all, but I have to wonder why they're worried about correcting for the barrel heating up. I thought it was pretty rare that a sniper would be taking more than one shot, and really don't think one would ever be were taking enough shots to heat the barrel to the point of distortion. I'm no metallurgist, and the longest shot I've taken is 350 yards with a smaller caliber (5.56mm, but it had 30 rounds through it right before I shot it and I hit my first and only shot), so maybe I'm mistaken.
The only sniper I know this would help that comes to mind was the guy in the clock tower in Texas, and I'm pretty sure that's not the guy they designed the sights for.
Did they fix the bug that makes the bookmarks suck? You know, the one that makes you choose between the incredibly clunky bookmarks sidebar or the waste of space that is a bookmarks toolbar.
No?
I'll wait for Chrome 12 and hope they've fixed it by then.
Bookmarks are probably the best example of a drop down menu usage - a menu you occasionally want, and once you make a selection, it goes away.
I've seen so many people try Chrome and delete it because of it's stubborn idiocy in handling one of the most commonly used functions in a web browser.
Woah! That means that if they dedicate their entire company to R & D, they could possibly have the technology to make any color iPhone within 5 years! I stand corrected!
It's incredible that in only one year that technology has advanced so far that they're able to now produce these with plastic of a different color. Some futurists claim that in another 5 years, we might posses the technology to produce iPhone 4's in any color, but I'm think that's far too optimistic.
This story is the opposite of "news for nerds, stuff that matters."
The blind acceptance of Apple stating that the phone isn't tracking your locations is what is truly staggering, especially since their own explanation describes that they're storing all the data needed to get your location except the final calculation, which can be done at anytime after the fact. Which is exactly what the researchers did.
This, coupled with Michigan's recent purchase of equipment to download all your cell phone's data during traffic stops and California's supreme court decision stating that cell phones can be searched during traffic stops, is a huge problem. Calling the availability of warrant-less tracking of your location for the past year "hysteria" is not helping.
My favorite answer:
No, they're just logging the location of things you go near and the time you passed by them. This is not a location the same way that "314 Evergreen Street, Pigsknuckle, Arkansas at 2:31:14am on April 17, 2011" is not a location because it doesn't specify if you're inside or outside the house.
And then, two sentences later...
So they're not tracking your location, just the data needed to triangulate your location. Just like the GPS doesn't track your location, since it also only gives the data needed to triangulate your location.
The data from the GPS is not the location of the receiver, but rather the locations of the satellites surrounding the receiver's location.
I calculated a while back that the Air Force cluster would still take a million times longer than the universe has existed to brute force AES-256 encryption (which doesn't have any known cryptanalytic vulnerabilities, so brute force is it). Can't find that post yet (it wasn't here,) so it may have only been as little as 1,000 times the age of everything.
If this costs Sony a ton of money, then the console makers will stay far away from ever trying this sort of blatant, anti-consumer, post-purchase downgrade again.
Jacking up the price of the consoles and games will just make people not buy them. They can't just charge whatever they want, that's not how economics works. Jacking up developer licenses would cause the console to die entirely as new games would be few and far between.
Another version of Chrome that forces a choice between having bookmarks visible all the time or having them several mouse clicks away in a window/tab/panel that needs to be closed. It's like having a smart phone that has a scrollable contact list as your homescreen and a rotary dial; one you don't want open all the time and the other is clunky.
Every program has drop down menus for selecting from lists of items because they work better than everything else that's been tried. Bookmarks are probably the best use cases for a drop down menu, you just want to make a selection and have the menu go away.
Also, how did non-scrollable tabs make it through the first alpha version? After 10 tabs are smashed together, you can't really tell which is which and after about 20, they're just blank nubs. How is that useful?
It was a 1988 Mercedes. The laptop and antenna might have cost more than the car.
Sorry, I just went back to the website the "5 years of billion dollar profits" sentence came from, and it was an old article on about.com. My mistake for following a few links and not checking the source.
They have lost money the last 3 years, as the annual report states (which is what I should have looked up.)
For anyone who thinks that this is no big deal, I agree with you, it isn't one now.
That will all change the first time the information is subpoenaed in a divorce case. Then it will be an incredibly huge deal.
Take it from the millions of consumers who send mail everyday - the are clearly, convincingly and absolutely NOT overpriced. The only way they could screw you is if they stopped delivering the mail.
A postmaster has no more knowledge of the entire USPS financials than an fast food restaurant manager does of the corporation's financials. They can't possibly make the determination that it's overpriced, they can only comment on how their own inept management style makes it seem that way.
Yeah, the billion dollar profits over each of the last 5 years shows they've clearly overpriced themselves in the market, and won't survive long.
Personally, I think the fact you can get letters delivered up to 5,000 miles away for less than $.50 is pretty amazing, but if you want to think that's overpriced and they're screwing you, go right ahead.
Around 800 years ago. Didn't you get the memo?
way â 2â /weÉ/ â"adverb
1.Also, 'way. away; from this or that place: Go way.
2.to a great degree or at quite a distance; far: way too heavy; way down the road.
Origin:
1175â"1225; Middle English, aphetic variant of away
The app can be run more than once.
Deleting or replacing insecure data = way more secure than not replacing it.
Why did they make an app to just view this information? Why didn't they make one that deleted the information or replaced it with 0's? Wouldn't that have made it more secure?
Thanks, I didn't know that.
I guess I didn't analyze the phrase: "we've already transcoded videos that make up 99% of views on the site" accurately enough, and thought that 99% of views were transcoded videos, which isn't what the phrase says.
I'm downloading FF4 now, I had been assuming it was still in beta since I've been updating Firefox 3.6 regularly and it's never asked if I wanted 4.
Doh! I cut-and-paste edited that sentence into idiocy. It originally started as "Although heartburn is a symptom of angina, it is frequently self-diagnosed as a heart problem, it's the first thing the doctor should have suggested." I managed to replace "it" with "angina" instead of "heartburn" when removing the first phrase.
And now the preview button is just staring at me, laughing.
I noticed this week that YouTube videos will now make my old laptop overheat and shut down. I can't get through a 4 minute video anymore. I took it apart, cleaned the fans/heat sinks, made sure the fans still ran, and tried a few different video sites, but YouTube seems to be the only one with a problem.
Is this a freak coincidence (or not so freak, it is a 4 year old laptop and my test was far from scientific), or is WebM more processor intensive to decode than the old encoding?
I'd suggest getting a new doctor. I'd be scared of one who ordered a $2,000 MRI/cat scan before asking you to try an over-the-counter $0.12 heartburn tablet. Angina is frequently self-diagnosed as a heart problem, it's the first thing the doctor should have suggested.