There are many times in history where it's a "rock and a hard place" type of deal. Here, they may have had to choose between collaborating with evil people or getting overrun by other evil people, though it may very well be the same effect either way. In the end, it happened to be the gamble that worked. I think it might seem like a well-kept secret, but it's probably that the people that examined it decided that it's not actually as big if a deal as it would seem like if taken out of context, and it's obscure enough that sensationalist media outlets prone to taking things out of context wouldn't come across this information.
I was told the figure was 1% when I signed onto my merchant account. I don't know if it is 1% by number of transactions or by money. Over 1% was enough to yank your account and basically blacklist you. 3 chargebacks is very low in my opinion - but I've never had one over hundreds of transactions in a year, and I don't think my parent's business had a charge-back and they've had a merchant account for maybe 20 years.
If you can dig up the credit card bills, you might still be able to do a charge-back. I know it's kind of pushing it, but my mom does the CC transactions for the family business, and she says that in some cases, there is time limit for a charge-back. It's really brutal for the merchant though, $15 fees per transaction on top of losing the money. Normally, I'd say doing a chargeback two years after the purchase is pretty dickish, this situation is ridiculous. I'd check your card's policies first, but once you know for sure, I suggest that you take it up with the customer service and threaten to do a charge-back before going through the procedure.
I have to question the the "have to" do this. Palm did this of Apple and I think it blew up in their face. Exactly what point does it become just a habit of dissing other products in order to protect yourself? I think it speaks of a lack of confidence in your own product. Not only that, if everyone catches on to the fact that practicing PR is basically speaking with a forked tongue, then what credibility would the company have when it tries to say something? As such, I think this sort of practice is self-damaging and nullifies or negates any benefit of having a PR department.
I think it's at least odd if not sad or offensive that the school budgets will be used to prosecute this even if school districts can't directly sue anyone. The fact that they are doing this makes me suspicious of their arguments. Not that it really surprises me, educators and school administrators sometimes are known to go on goofy power trips, but knowing nothing about this case, I should try to be fair about it. It's also possible that the parent just has some kind of axe to grind because of some perceived or minor offense.
True on all counts, but I think "pint" has more charm than "half litre". I think he was just pointing out the measuring inconsistencies in the UK, not that it can't be done some other way.
I'll go with the "prototypes" idea. I can actually deal with a lot of basic electronics, but being able to get the concept right and present it to someone that's paying for the work before going though an otherwise tough prototype development phase has plenty of value. There's nothing more annoying than a miscommunication about the functionality and having to rework the project.
An upgrade is just that. I don't think it's cheating to keep as many of the existing parts that makes sense to reuse, especially given the budget. Being able to reuse existing parts is supposedly one of the advantages of assembling your own computer. If it's buying all new parts, then it's cheating to call it an "upgrade" because upgrade usually suggests that you replace or add parts to make an existing system better, not pull out the old power cord and put it into a new computer.
Fans aren't that expensive to replace. Drives aren't that hard to re-use, nor are they hard to swap out later, so it's an expense that can be delayed. I don't see the point in a new optical drive unless it's really old, new ones are mostly gimmicky or negligible upgrades of drives sold two or three years ago. A new hard drive isn't absolutely necessary to game play speed, it might improve boot or game level start-up time, but it has little impact on fps.
The problem is that the market (at least the US market) doesn't seem to be asking for lower wattage notebooks because that means that it's slower than a higher wattage notebook.
I think Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba and others do make 10+ hour notebooks, but they aren't fast, maybe 1.5GHz with 1.8" hard drives (slow!), don't have a dedicated graphics chip, have small screens and keyboards and cost maybe $2000. Or you can get one that's twice as fast, costs half as much, weighs twice as much and lasts 2-3 hours on a charge. Most people in the US seem to chose the second machine, if not for speed, then for cost, screen or keyboard size. Size, weight and battery life really don't seem to be big considerations.
That's a bit much. One thing I would support is some sort of low power transmitter that would set all devices in the area into a vibrate-only mode in case the user is clumsy enough to forget to turn that mode on. I think that would be handy and it might not be that expensive to implement.
It's not that I don't sympathize, but the only doctor that can help you is enjoying some theater or opera. What? There aren't any acceptable fall-back plans such that the kid just dies without said doctor?
I thought it was a well-known psychological thing that one-sided conversations are harder to block out than two-sided conversations, so they "seem" louder even if they are actually the same volume.
I think some talkers might instinctively talk louder because the mic piece picks up a lot of the surrounding noise too.
You can't just do money comparisons, because the cost of labor is the biggest part of rolling out and maintaining a network, and the cost of leasing the land to put a cell tower on is probably a lot different too. Which isn't to say that AT&T isn't evil, but it's easy to pick the worst example in a given region.
That cost that you pay probably represents a lot more to the average Chinese person than the equivalent fees would in the US.
Each server already sounds like a saw grinding through concrete, multiply that by 1000, and I can understand the problem. Unfortunately, "quiet" just isn't even remotely a consideration in the design of servers, so you have to use ear plugs if you need to work near them. Just 50 of the servers is enough to rattle through insulated walls.
A squirt gun is usually quite a bit different from a real gun. Most of them don't try to trade on someone else's brand identity either, I've never seen any that look like any single specific gun such that they look the same at a glance.
It's the use of someone else's brand identity that I think is unethical. I would consider the general WiiMote design to be part of the Wii brand identity.
I've done Netflix for at least a year now and I've never seen them send me anything that's farther down the list than #2, unless they are sending two discs on the same day, then it's at worst #2 and #3, because #1 might be out.
I think we may need to recognize that there may be some regional differences in both services. My local Netflix center is very good.
The thing is, even with the reduced store exchanges, it's STILL a better deal than Netflix. So going to Netflix to hurt Blockbuster hurts you AND Blockbuster.
I'm fine with Netflix but I really don't have that much of an option with Blockbuster, there aren't any that are nearby, I think it's 15 miles.
Can't typo squaters hide behind existing means of obfuscation anyway? So they can register as a Cayman Islands business and be anyone for all we know. They have a bigger interest in hiding themselves and are more likely to do so anyway.
I think attitude is presented by people that don't understand it.
Nobody claimed that you were buying music. Music subscriptions offers you legal access to more music than you can possibly buy with the same amount of money per month in your lifetime.
If you want subscriptions where you keep your tracks, then eMusic is the way to go, but that limits you to about 30 tracks a month.
Actually, not really a solved problem. The basic principles might not change, but there's still plenty of room for improvement. There are always more boundaries to be pushed and expanded. In part, making this sort of technology cheaper is not a solved problem. Teaching all that other stuff is really enabled by easier access to the equipment. It is possible that a lot can change by allowing more people access to a technology, or when a new technology comes along.
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There are many times in history where it's a "rock and a hard place" type of deal. Here, they may have had to choose between collaborating with evil people or getting overrun by other evil people, though it may very well be the same effect either way. In the end, it happened to be the gamble that worked. I think it might seem like a well-kept secret, but it's probably that the people that examined it decided that it's not actually as big if a deal as it would seem like if taken out of context, and it's obscure enough that sensationalist media outlets prone to taking things out of context wouldn't come across this information.
I was told the figure was 1% when I signed onto my merchant account. I don't know if it is 1% by number of transactions or by money. Over 1% was enough to yank your account and basically blacklist you. 3 chargebacks is very low in my opinion - but I've never had one over hundreds of transactions in a year, and I don't think my parent's business had a charge-back and they've had a merchant account for maybe 20 years.
Maybe six months is the time limit, I don't know.
There may yet be a chance to settle it.
If you can dig up the credit card bills, you might still be able to do a charge-back. I know it's kind of pushing it, but my mom does the CC transactions for the family business, and she says that in some cases, there is time limit for a charge-back. It's really brutal for the merchant though, $15 fees per transaction on top of losing the money. Normally, I'd say doing a chargeback two years after the purchase is pretty dickish, this situation is ridiculous. I'd check your card's policies first, but once you know for sure, I suggest that you take it up with the customer service and threaten to do a charge-back before going through the procedure.
I have to question the the "have to" do this. Palm did this of Apple and I think it blew up in their face. Exactly what point does it become just a habit of dissing other products in order to protect yourself? I think it speaks of a lack of confidence in your own product. Not only that, if everyone catches on to the fact that practicing PR is basically speaking with a forked tongue, then what credibility would the company have when it tries to say something? As such, I think this sort of practice is self-damaging and nullifies or negates any benefit of having a PR department.
I think it sounds like one of those diseases you really don't want to get. Like Gwyneth Paltrow.
I think it's at least odd if not sad or offensive that the school budgets will be used to prosecute this even if school districts can't directly sue anyone. The fact that they are doing this makes me suspicious of their arguments. Not that it really surprises me, educators and school administrators sometimes are known to go on goofy power trips, but knowing nothing about this case, I should try to be fair about it. It's also possible that the parent just has some kind of axe to grind because of some perceived or minor offense.
I think the paying people got a lot more information either way. Maybe this last year was a publicity drive to show that.
True on all counts, but I think "pint" has more charm than "half litre". I think he was just pointing out the measuring inconsistencies in the UK, not that it can't be done some other way.
I think that pales in comparison to a popular consumer electronic whose trade name sounds like a euphemism for penis.
I'll go with the "prototypes" idea. I can actually deal with a lot of basic electronics, but being able to get the concept right and present it to someone that's paying for the work before going though an otherwise tough prototype development phase has plenty of value. There's nothing more annoying than a miscommunication about the functionality and having to rework the project.
An upgrade is just that. I don't think it's cheating to keep as many of the existing parts that makes sense to reuse, especially given the budget. Being able to reuse existing parts is supposedly one of the advantages of assembling your own computer. If it's buying all new parts, then it's cheating to call it an "upgrade" because upgrade usually suggests that you replace or add parts to make an existing system better, not pull out the old power cord and put it into a new computer.
Fans aren't that expensive to replace. Drives aren't that hard to re-use, nor are they hard to swap out later, so it's an expense that can be delayed. I don't see the point in a new optical drive unless it's really old, new ones are mostly gimmicky or negligible upgrades of drives sold two or three years ago. A new hard drive isn't absolutely necessary to game play speed, it might improve boot or game level start-up time, but it has little impact on fps.
The problem is that the market (at least the US market) doesn't seem to be asking for lower wattage notebooks because that means that it's slower than a higher wattage notebook.
I think Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba and others do make 10+ hour notebooks, but they aren't fast, maybe 1.5GHz with 1.8" hard drives (slow!), don't have a dedicated graphics chip, have small screens and keyboards and cost maybe $2000. Or you can get one that's twice as fast, costs half as much, weighs twice as much and lasts 2-3 hours on a charge. Most people in the US seem to chose the second machine, if not for speed, then for cost, screen or keyboard size. Size, weight and battery life really don't seem to be big considerations.
That's a bit much. One thing I would support is some sort of low power transmitter that would set all devices in the area into a vibrate-only mode in case the user is clumsy enough to forget to turn that mode on. I think that would be handy and it might not be that expensive to implement.
It's not that I don't sympathize, but the only doctor that can help you is enjoying some theater or opera. What? There aren't any acceptable fall-back plans such that the kid just dies without said doctor?
I thought it was a well-known psychological thing that one-sided conversations are harder to block out than two-sided conversations, so they "seem" louder even if they are actually the same volume.
I think some talkers might instinctively talk louder because the mic piece picks up a lot of the surrounding noise too.
You can't just do money comparisons, because the cost of labor is the biggest part of rolling out and maintaining a network, and the cost of leasing the land to put a cell tower on is probably a lot different too. Which isn't to say that AT&T isn't evil, but it's easy to pick the worst example in a given region.
That cost that you pay probably represents a lot more to the average Chinese person than the equivalent fees would in the US.
For their time, lots of stuff wouldn't have been made without a drafting board, but that doesn't mean that every home had to have a drafting board.
Computers aren't so complicated to use that you needed to grow up with one in order to be able to use it.
Each server already sounds like a saw grinding through concrete, multiply that by 1000, and I can understand the problem. Unfortunately, "quiet" just isn't even remotely a consideration in the design of servers, so you have to use ear plugs if you need to work near them. Just 50 of the servers is enough to rattle through insulated walls.
A squirt gun is usually quite a bit different from a real gun. Most of them don't try to trade on someone else's brand identity either, I've never seen any that look like any single specific gun such that they look the same at a glance.
It's the use of someone else's brand identity that I think is unethical. I would consider the general WiiMote design to be part of the Wii brand identity.
I've done Netflix for at least a year now and I've never seen them send me anything that's farther down the list than #2, unless they are sending two discs on the same day, then it's at worst #2 and #3, because #1 might be out.
I think we may need to recognize that there may be some regional differences in both services. My local Netflix center is very good.
The thing is, even with the reduced store exchanges, it's STILL a better deal than Netflix. So going to Netflix to hurt Blockbuster hurts you AND Blockbuster.
I'm fine with Netflix but I really don't have that much of an option with Blockbuster, there aren't any that are nearby, I think it's 15 miles.
Buffy and Angel were made by Fox but aired on other networks.
Can't typo squaters hide behind existing means of obfuscation anyway? So they can register as a Cayman Islands business and be anyone for all we know. They have a bigger interest in hiding themselves and are more likely to do so anyway.
I think attitude is presented by people that don't understand it.
Nobody claimed that you were buying music. Music subscriptions offers you legal access to more music than you can possibly buy with the same amount of money per month in your lifetime.
If you want subscriptions where you keep your tracks, then eMusic is the way to go, but that limits you to about 30 tracks a month.
Actually, not really a solved problem. The basic principles might not change, but there's still plenty of room for improvement. There are always more boundaries to be pushed and expanded. In part, making this sort of technology cheaper is not a solved problem. Teaching all that other stuff is really enabled by easier access to the equipment. It is possible that a lot can change by allowing more people access to a technology, or when a new technology comes along.