If you are selling items that are fulfilled from amazon you CANNOT add S&H. That is determined by Amazon and no one else. Also on amazon you have to request permission to have more than one merchant account. They check IPs and other data to try to stop people who do it against the TOS. It does happen though.
I sell on amazon on the side. About 60-70k a year so small potatoes to amazon but a cool side biz. However, competing for the buy box is crucial to sales. One reason that amazon favors themselves and those that pay for services is that the items are in an amazon fulfillment center. This means amazon has control over inventory and shipping. If a 3rd party seller is fulfilling their own items, amazon has no view into inventory levels or shipping times other than past performance metrics (which do play a smaller role).
Amazon closely guards the exact algorithm that chooses who has the buy box. It is known that they strongly favor themselves (of course.. they want the sales). So much so that I often avoid items that Amazon fulfills themselves unless the ROI and/or rank are very good, or my research indicates that amazon regularly runs out of an item and I can exploit the inevitable price jump during those restocking gaps.
If you want more info on how the buy box works, there is a company called feedvisor that does repricing and other services for amazon vendors. I do not use their services (I use others), but they give away a yearly buy box bible. This uses information culled from their clients amazon seller accounts to see how competition and pricing and other changes affect buy box percentage and sales.
Company scrip will likely be some sort of blockchain currency you cannot exchange except at a loss. Unless you of course spend it on overpriced company goods. But, it won't be called scrip or illegal because it's patented and on the interwebs.
Fully automated cars will potentially reduce or remove the need for individual vehicle ownership. Many more people could share a car, or send it out to 'uber' for them and make them money. These vehicles could then be used by those who cannot afford a car or are otherwise disadvantage to transit to employment, appointments, etc.
It is not 120 a year just to play in the background. The main features are streaming from a large catalog of music and uploading your own library for streaming/backup. This pricing is on par with other music streaming providers and just happens to add background play with it.
Want to really piss larry off? Lease some Oracle cloud instances and do nothing but run Android VMs and maybe some bigtable databases inside them. Say it's for app testing.
I know with play music if you switch off the youtube app it stops buffering/rendering the video portion of the stream. Whether chrome is smart enough to signal lost focus to youtube for this is another question.
This also depends on the source material. I have seen '1080p' youtube videos that were poorly encoded prior to upload and of course they sound/look like crap.
I use it for streaming, not purchasing. Music I want to purchase I find CDs and rip my own FLACs and transcode to lossy copies as needed.
For streaming I have it set to the lower quality for mobile data, and in my car it sounds good enough. Even on decent headphones I rarely hear compression artifacts.
I do have a pretty sensitive ear (even in the high frequencies where compression artifacts and lack of headroom show up in abundance), and my normal headphone listening rig is a set of AKG K240 cans and a homemade O2 headphone amp. Not the best but certainly good enough to make bad encoding stand out like a sore thumb.
So while I do not know googles streaming encoding, for me it is sufficient for random playlists on long drives.
I wonder if it will stay after beta. You get this in the youtube app if you play for google play music (which I do for other reasons). It is a nice feature to have, but I do not see them giving it away for free when it is an advertised premium feature in another app.
HP has played shenanigans with firmware. I once had an early 2000s HP Photosmart. It printed well, had an optional duplexing unit and an SD card slot. Pretty advanced for its time. A couple years later, someone sent me a malfunctioning HP Office jet to look at. Different color plastic, no SD card reader or LCD screen, however the frame, head and paper transport mechanisms and duplxing unit were identical. I repaired this printer (just needed the head parking area cleaned) and ran print comparisons. The Photosmart blew it away in quality.
If you know printers, HP printers have the nozzles in the ink carts. Nozzles are the primary factor that determines DPI. This means that the Officejet's driver or firmware nerfed it to a lower DPI for no reason other than that it was a lower cost printer.
This was when I stopped buying or recommending HP..
When it comes to 3rd party ink, I can understand a manufacturer that has a separate print head being sensitive to the quality and source of ink. However HP printers have the nozzles/head in the ink cartridge. The nozzles are also extremely low voltage, so the chance of damage to the printer from 3rd party ink is very low. As we all know this is a money grab, as the consumables are where the money is in printing. Margins on the hardware have been driven to nothing or less.
Yes... Since you can root your instance of android you can even do things like spoof GPS and compass readings for app testing. This is also doable in the android development kit from google, but that is excruciatingly slow for day to day use.
There are a few apps that use low level CPU specific code. One example that comes to mind is MX player ( a video player). It will runn (being java) on and android hardware using a software decoder for audio/video. You can get hardware decoders for it but they are pre-compiled for specific architectures. Another category is gaming console emulators and many 3d games, some have cpu/gpu specific code or optomizations in them but fall back to a software mode for incompatible hardware.
Your average day to day apps will still run fine. Mouse navigation works okay too. Android has built in mouse support. You can get a usb on the go cable and plug any mouse or keyboard in to a phone or tablet and it works, so that support is baked in. Apps that rely on things like touch pressure or multi touch (like pinch to zoom) can be harder to use though.
Many cheap tablets including a lot of Asus kit are Atom CPU running android on an x86. Apps are java (or art or dalvik or whatever), they are not native apps but JIT compiled bytecode. So yes, apps will run on android on whatever platform, with few exceptions.
Ting allows you to do this. Independently for voice/text/data. You can get a phone that rides either sprint or tmobile depending on the coverage in the area. If you get a nexus, you can get a sim for both providers and switch when necessary (extra 6 per month). Each sim will have it's own number and be treated as a different phone on Ting.
I used to do this, and forwarded a google voice number to both SIM numbers so I could get calls no matter what network I was on.
Tings customer service is great too.
My girlfriend is still on Ting, I am currently testing out project fi from Google. I like the autoswitching to a degree (I was wearing out my SIM contacts switching networks when I needed data). I am not sure however if Fi lets you set a hard cap.
To clarify my statement, location tracking is here. The benefits in devices are many, and you can do without them by leaving the phone behind or off.
More critically what we need are clear lines into who has access to that data and for what purposes. Google telling me that the drive into work is 10 minutes longer due to an accident is handy. Google noting I went fishing instead of work is a little more creepy. Telling my my boss is worse. Letting gov have the data without warrant is worse still.
Given the need for location awareness in many apps (regardless of the privacy implications), this makes some sense. Google could make it more granular, but most people want easy. They want to be able to say show me restaurants near me, or have pokemon go work. That said, if you do not want this level of tracking, you can turn your phone off when not in use.
The power button still exists (unless apple deems it is not necessary in the next iphone). BTW, apple and MS location track as much as they can too.
This is a surprise? In Cuba? If you leave out failed states like Somalia, Cuba is not far behind NK. It is not a democracy by any stretch, it is a communist nation, and has a government and tactics similar to the olf USSR, and current China and Vietnam.
I am curious why some of the Somos Mas leadership are not yet wearing Colombian neckties.
No drivers is often the case for 3rd party ROMS. Should not be for google. They commissioned that device be built and were there for the design work. They wrote the drivers (or were heavily involved) for every chip, sensor and camera in that phone. Saying they cannot now write or commission a driver for nougat is untrue. It may not be economically feasible (I will leave ethical feasibility for another debate), but it is well within their ability to do so.
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Get a $100 brother laser. B&w o ly bit no clogs and just works. Hook it to USB so it can't lose wifi settings and forget about it.
Two, They are using Note 7 recall batteries for storage!
If you are selling items that are fulfilled from amazon you CANNOT add S&H. That is determined by Amazon and no one else. Also on amazon you have to request permission to have more than one merchant account. They check IPs and other data to try to stop people who do it against the TOS. It does happen though.
Amazon closely guards the exact algorithm that chooses who has the buy box. It is known that they strongly favor themselves (of course.. they want the sales). So much so that I often avoid items that Amazon fulfills themselves unless the ROI and/or rank are very good, or my research indicates that amazon regularly runs out of an item and I can exploit the inevitable price jump during those restocking gaps.
If you want more info on how the buy box works, there is a company called feedvisor that does repricing and other services for amazon vendors. I do not use their services (I use others), but they give away a yearly buy box bible. This uses information culled from their clients amazon seller accounts to see how competition and pricing and other changes affect buy box percentage and sales.
http://feedvisor.com/r/resourc... - warning it does require email registration, but it is an interesting read.
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Fully automated cars will potentially reduce or remove the need for individual vehicle ownership. Many more people could share a car, or send it out to 'uber' for them and make them money. These vehicles could then be used by those who cannot afford a car or are otherwise disadvantage to transit to employment, appointments, etc.
It is not 120 a year just to play in the background. The main features are streaming from a large catalog of music and uploading your own library for streaming/backup. This pricing is on par with other music streaming providers and just happens to add background play with it.
Want to really piss larry off? Lease some Oracle cloud instances and do nothing but run Android VMs and maybe some bigtable databases inside them. Say it's for app testing.
I know with play music if you switch off the youtube app it stops buffering/rendering the video portion of the stream. Whether chrome is smart enough to signal lost focus to youtube for this is another question.
This also depends on the source material. I have seen '1080p' youtube videos that were poorly encoded prior to upload and of course they sound/look like crap.
For streaming I have it set to the lower quality for mobile data, and in my car it sounds good enough. Even on decent headphones I rarely hear compression artifacts.
I do have a pretty sensitive ear (even in the high frequencies where compression artifacts and lack of headroom show up in abundance), and my normal headphone listening rig is a set of AKG K240 cans and a homemade O2 headphone amp. Not the best but certainly good enough to make bad encoding stand out like a sore thumb.
So while I do not know googles streaming encoding, for me it is sufficient for random playlists on long drives.
I wonder if it will stay after beta. You get this in the youtube app if you play for google play music (which I do for other reasons). It is a nice feature to have, but I do not see them giving it away for free when it is an advertised premium feature in another app.
If you know printers, HP printers have the nozzles in the ink carts. Nozzles are the primary factor that determines DPI. This means that the Officejet's driver or firmware nerfed it to a lower DPI for no reason other than that it was a lower cost printer.
This was when I stopped buying or recommending HP..
When it comes to 3rd party ink, I can understand a manufacturer that has a separate print head being sensitive to the quality and source of ink. However HP printers have the nozzles/head in the ink cartridge. The nozzles are also extremely low voltage, so the chance of damage to the printer from 3rd party ink is very low. As we all know this is a money grab, as the consumables are where the money is in printing. Margins on the hardware have been driven to nothing or less.
There are a few apps that use low level CPU specific code. One example that comes to mind is MX player ( a video player). It will runn (being java) on and android hardware using a software decoder for audio/video. You can get hardware decoders for it but they are pre-compiled for specific architectures. Another category is gaming console emulators and many 3d games, some have cpu/gpu specific code or optomizations in them but fall back to a software mode for incompatible hardware.
Your average day to day apps will still run fine. Mouse navigation works okay too. Android has built in mouse support. You can get a usb on the go cable and plug any mouse or keyboard in to a phone or tablet and it works, so that support is baked in. Apps that rely on things like touch pressure or multi touch (like pinch to zoom) can be harder to use though.
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Can you please convert that to Olympic swimming pools or football fields? I am american. Thanks!
Many cheap tablets including a lot of Asus kit are Atom CPU running android on an x86. Apps are java (or art or dalvik or whatever), they are not native apps but JIT compiled bytecode. So yes, apps will run on android on whatever platform, with few exceptions.
I solemnly testify that I Officer Green saw the defendant driving with a failed indicator lamp. That i when I discovered 20 kilograms of cocaine.
I used to do this, and forwarded a google voice number to both SIM numbers so I could get calls no matter what network I was on.
Tings customer service is great too.
My girlfriend is still on Ting, I am currently testing out project fi from Google. I like the autoswitching to a degree (I was wearing out my SIM contacts switching networks when I needed data). I am not sure however if Fi lets you set a hard cap.
More critically what we need are clear lines into who has access to that data and for what purposes. Google telling me that the drive into work is 10 minutes longer due to an accident is handy. Google noting I went fishing instead of work is a little more creepy. Telling my my boss is worse. Letting gov have the data without warrant is worse still.
No need to broadcast or jam on licensed spectrum or buy a device.
The power button still exists (unless apple deems it is not necessary in the next iphone).
BTW, apple and MS location track as much as they can too.
This, and even passive interception has limits. There -used- to be a thing called reasonable expectation of privacy, regardless of the medium used.
I am curious why some of the Somos Mas leadership are not yet wearing Colombian neckties.
No drivers is often the case for 3rd party ROMS. Should not be for google. They commissioned that device be built and were there for the design work. They wrote the drivers (or were heavily involved) for every chip, sensor and camera in that phone. Saying they cannot now write or commission a driver for nougat is untrue. It may not be economically feasible (I will leave ethical feasibility for another debate), but it is well within their ability to do so.