Spot on! The author of the article needs to realize he is in the same bubble.
After reading the article, the author is in the bubble, sure. But unlike the people they are ranting agains, they don't appear to be actually intelligent. That article was content, fact and even anecdote free. Basically, "here's my opinion, but I'm above examples that demonstrate it."
I think it's worse than that. If the participating companies know who you are, they can then get related "anonymized" data from Adobe, but they still know who you are since you are logged in. Adobe may not know who you are, but everyone else will eventually. Sure the IDs are hashed, but they participating companies are the ones doing the hashing. They can just hash your login later to see what else it matches.
I think the point is there are ways to process foods that donâ(TM)t make as much of such substances, and that they should do that for coffee. On the other hand, any changes would likely affect flavor.
That's only true until your company reaches a certain size. Then you get a slap on the wrist of a few million, while you enjoy your hundreds of millions of ill-gotten gains. And, of course, you can use some of that money to change the laws so you never have to face punishment in the first place, since all legislative branches only really care about the people with money.
Seriously, their management can only get better. I finally had to abandon FF on my development PC because just so slow and buggy anymore. Launching FF on my relatively new PC will solid state drive takes 10 seconds. Chrome is instantaneous.
Inspecting elements on the page is painfully slow in FF and instant in Chrome. Both suck in regard to memory usage, though.
I really do hope they can right the ship and be relevant again, but they've lost ground. We really need competition in the browser market. Safari was once competitive, but as a heavy user on my Mac, it's sort of become the IE of browsers. Pages often don't render correctly, the freezes, etc. But it's still faster than FF.
Unfortunately, developing a good browser is almost as difficult as writing an operating system anymore, because it basically is one.
At least with Zagat you could know it was adults, who could afford a sit down dinner, and weren't there to advance their personal agenda. With online reviews, you should assume none of those things.
I agree, but that may also have been due to the time when it started. The Internet wasn't really as widely used by the idiot activists. By forcing people to pay actual money for the reviews, you really did cut down on the morons. Perhaps they can bring that back. I'd still pay for good reviews.
People around where I live apparently have no taste. Most of the highly rated places are like 80 years old and serving food from cans, yet are rated 4.5 stars. I've been eating out enough that I can often read the menu and have a good guess as to the quality, but I think some places are onto that and have their menus professionally written and then the food is nothing like what's described.
I remember buying the red Zagat booklets for various cities in order to find good restaurants while traveling. Unfortunately, Google made it almost useless. I never could find anything in their web site. The app is useless, too. I rarely found a dud with the old books, almost anything rated as excellent was. There is really nothing like it now. Yelp's reviews and ratings seem to be totally random and usually Google doesn't have enough places or enough reviews. Rating Chic-fil-a the same as some fancy steak place is not useful. One is clearly a better dining experience, but you can't really tell from the ratings. That's why Zagat rated food, ambiance and service separately. Hopefully the new overlords can make it great again.
You have to avoid existing buried telephone, internet, cable, water, sewer, and gas lines.
All neatly displayed on maps.
In theory, but not really true in the US. They send out utility locating companies all the time because the exact location is generally never specified. It's all within a few dozen feet or worse. Even then you have to hand dig much of it. Heck, Comcast drilled through our sewer line at work running a cable. They won't pay, naturally.
Ever got a quote for burring cable? We have on several occasions, and prices are around $25 to $50 per FOOT. That's completely impractical for anything except new construction where they can do whatever and plan ahead. Same reason why most houses don't have natural gas in Southeastern PA, even though there's plenty of it. That costs $100/foot to run pipe. It would be cheaper to burn dollar bills.
Except, any Microsoft entity would likely be a wholly owned subsidiary. Unless they set up an independent company and license everything, but even then I'd be the courts wouldn't let them get away with that either since it's obviously just set up to get around the law.
Perhaps if they had a truly independent company they purchased services from and then had to way to actually get the data. Otherwise, if they have access to it and they are a steward of the data, they'll likely have to provide it. IANAL.
Apple's work in China may provide some intersection options down the road.
I moved away from Flixter when they first announced it early last year. I continue to receive a constant stream of emails, about one a month, making sure I know they are going away.
I started redeeming UV titles a couple of years ago and was glad I did when Movies Anywhere was announced. I'm glad I'll never need to use UV again, which is and has been total crap from day one. iTunes, while a cluttered mess of an app, at least lets me view my movies when and where I want.
Having Google and Amazon in the mix makes it all the easier to watch stuff anywhere I want. I was wondering what sort of mind trick Disney used on everyone to get them to agree to all support Movies Anywhere, but was very glad they did. It's amazing when an industry that's so out of touch as the entertainment industry can actually do something beneficial for their consumers.
No kidding. I will never buy a car that serves me ads. I'd debate driving one even for free. Any manufacturer that ops into this will lose me as a customer, too, even if the car I wanted didn't have the ads (yet).)
I develop on iOS and Android. They both are bloated and fragmented, granted iOS less so. I think it's actually easier to write Android apps that work on most all phones than writing iOS apps that look good on all iOS devices.
I'll bet Android will be around for a long time. I can see Google moving more features under the "Google" brand since Android is becoming a generic term, but web-based OSes are crap and pretty much always will be.
They start with 0.15%, but they will raise fees if they manage to get everyone on board with their payment system. Also, people had the option to save 0.15% by not using Apple Pay, nobody would be using it. Especially not for big purchases.
People potentially have the option to save 3% by paying cash and not using a credit card. People don't. Credit cards give you 1% of it back, so it's really 2% net and often get longer warranties, fraud protection and 30 days float.
I use credit card for everything because it's easier to track stuff and I hate change. Plus it's much faster for merchants, or was before the stupid chip cards slowed everything down again. Still faster than cash and checks.
Sometimes their app notifies you it was delivered. About 15% of the time, that is. Their delivery service is really bad, and I didn't think anyone could remain in business being as bad as FedEx, but they proved me wrong.
Of the packages I've had shipped by AMZL, at least 50% were either late or damaged. They have more mechanical problems than any company I've ever seen.
Mostly, they just have unexpected issues that cause a day or two delay. However, both AMZL and UPS will change your package tracking information after the fact, which is rather dishonest. They'll say it went out for delivery, but when it doesn't make it, all that info will be wiped. Amazon has "guaranteed two day delivery" but their guarantee is worthless because it just claims they'll refund your free shipping. I've complained to "customer service" about this and they just apologize and move on.
I had a monitor delivered 6 days late, and only when I called them. Their excuse, "it wouldn't fit." Odd that the other identical one I ordered fit and arrived on time.
Not sure I agree. If North Korea tortures you until you provide they key, what's the difference between that and no encryption as far as they are concerned? Sure you may not have a key, but then you die and your pictures never see the light of day. Keeps the source safe, but they've taken risks for no benefit. Or they install malware on all your devices and hack into your home computer and get the key. People suck with keeping things secure.
These are likely the issues as to why manufacturers won't ever do this. Either it gets someone killed (bad PR) or is an incomplete solution (especially since NK's pal China can likely break your cheap camera encryption anyway.) Doing nothing is the safest solution. The photographers can learn to hide the good pictures and gave lots of pictures of happy NK citizens for a cover.
If you are in North Korea taking pictures, you aren't going to get away with "they are encrypted!" They'll confiscate your camera and memory cards and destroy both. Then lock you in a second-century jail for the rest of your life.
I'm a customer, and I hate PayPal. It's worthless. Any idiot can accept credit and debit cards directly for lower fees than PayPal. With Square Cash and Apple Pay Cash, there's no reason to use PayPal to send people cash. Their policies are anti-consumer and they randomly take people's money citing some policy you are violating.
I verified my account by linking it to a savings account, which I then closed. Good luck taking my money. Even better luck when I can completely cancel my account and pay for stuff like the rest of the web has been for 20 years.
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Spot on! The author of the article needs to realize he is in the same bubble.
After reading the article, the author is in the bubble, sure. But unlike the people they are ranting agains, they don't appear to be actually intelligent. That article was content, fact and even anecdote free. Basically, "here's my opinion, but I'm above examples that demonstrate it."
A new low even for slashdot.
I think it's worse than that. If the participating companies know who you are, they can then get related "anonymized" data from Adobe, but they still know who you are since you are logged in. Adobe may not know who you are, but everyone else will eventually. Sure the IDs are hashed, but they participating companies are the ones doing the hashing. They can just hash your login later to see what else it matches.
I think the point is there are ways to process foods that donâ(TM)t make as much of such substances, and that they should do that for coffee. On the other hand, any changes would likely affect flavor.
That's only true until your company reaches a certain size. Then you get a slap on the wrist of a few million, while you enjoy your hundreds of millions of ill-gotten gains. And, of course, you can use some of that money to change the laws so you never have to face punishment in the first place, since all legislative branches only really care about the people with money.
Seriously, their management can only get better. I finally had to abandon FF on my development PC because just so slow and buggy anymore. Launching FF on my relatively new PC will solid state drive takes 10 seconds. Chrome is instantaneous.
Inspecting elements on the page is painfully slow in FF and instant in Chrome. Both suck in regard to memory usage, though.
I really do hope they can right the ship and be relevant again, but they've lost ground. We really need competition in the browser market. Safari was once competitive, but as a heavy user on my Mac, it's sort of become the IE of browsers. Pages often don't render correctly, the freezes, etc. But it's still faster than FF.
Unfortunately, developing a good browser is almost as difficult as writing an operating system anymore, because it basically is one.
At least with Zagat you could know it was adults, who could afford a sit down dinner, and weren't there to advance their personal agenda. With online reviews, you should assume none of those things.
I agree, but that may also have been due to the time when it started. The Internet wasn't really as widely used by the idiot activists. By forcing people to pay actual money for the reviews, you really did cut down on the morons. Perhaps they can bring that back. I'd still pay for good reviews.
People around where I live apparently have no taste. Most of the highly rated places are like 80 years old and serving food from cans, yet are rated 4.5 stars. I've been eating out enough that I can often read the menu and have a good guess as to the quality, but I think some places are onto that and have their menus professionally written and then the food is nothing like what's described.
I remember buying the red Zagat booklets for various cities in order to find good restaurants while traveling. Unfortunately, Google made it almost useless. I never could find anything in their web site. The app is useless, too. I rarely found a dud with the old books, almost anything rated as excellent was. There is really nothing like it now. Yelp's reviews and ratings seem to be totally random and usually Google doesn't have enough places or enough reviews. Rating Chic-fil-a the same as some fancy steak place is not useful. One is clearly a better dining experience, but you can't really tell from the ratings. That's why Zagat rated food, ambiance and service separately. Hopefully the new overlords can make it great again.
You have to avoid existing buried telephone, internet, cable, water, sewer, and gas lines.
All neatly displayed on maps.
In theory, but not really true in the US. They send out utility locating companies all the time because the exact location is generally never specified. It's all within a few dozen feet or worse. Even then you have to hand dig much of it. Heck, Comcast drilled through our sewer line at work running a cable. They won't pay, naturally.
Ever got a quote for burring cable? We have on several occasions, and prices are around $25 to $50 per FOOT. That's completely impractical for anything except new construction where they can do whatever and plan ahead. Same reason why most houses don't have natural gas in Southeastern PA, even though there's plenty of it. That costs $100/foot to run pipe. It would be cheaper to burn dollar bills.
Of course it is ridiculous as is international law. Why would NK care if it's legal in the US?
I'd bet the courts would see though that and start assessing large fines.
Except, any Microsoft entity would likely be a wholly owned subsidiary. Unless they set up an independent company and license everything, but even then I'd be the courts wouldn't let them get away with that either since it's obviously just set up to get around the law.
Perhaps if they had a truly independent company they purchased services from and then had to way to actually get the data. Otherwise, if they have access to it and they are a steward of the data, they'll likely have to provide it. IANAL.
Apple's work in China may provide some intersection options down the road.
That the survey was online via SurveyMoney. Perhaps not the best sampling.
Ha, I used to watch that. It was entertaining for the time. Too bad it ended on that cliffhanger.
I moved away from Flixter when they first announced it early last year. I continue to receive a constant stream of emails, about one a month, making sure I know they are going away.
I started redeeming UV titles a couple of years ago and was glad I did when Movies Anywhere was announced. I'm glad I'll never need to use UV again, which is and has been total crap from day one. iTunes, while a cluttered mess of an app, at least lets me view my movies when and where I want.
Having Google and Amazon in the mix makes it all the easier to watch stuff anywhere I want. I was wondering what sort of mind trick Disney used on everyone to get them to agree to all support Movies Anywhere, but was very glad they did. It's amazing when an industry that's so out of touch as the entertainment industry can actually do something beneficial for their consumers.
Telenav is betting you won't mind much
I'll take that bet.
No kidding. I will never buy a car that serves me ads. I'd debate driving one even for free. Any manufacturer that ops into this will lose me as a customer, too, even if the car I wanted didn't have the ads (yet).)
I know right? You half expect Pai to check his bank statements before he makes any decision on who is interfering with whom.
How do you know he didn't? Sort of sounds like T-Mobile pays the FCC for spectrum and this guy doesn't.
[citation needed]
I develop on iOS and Android. They both are bloated and fragmented, granted iOS less so. I think it's actually easier to write Android apps that work on most all phones than writing iOS apps that look good on all iOS devices.
I'll bet Android will be around for a long time. I can see Google moving more features under the "Google" brand since Android is becoming a generic term, but web-based OSes are crap and pretty much always will be.
They start with 0.15%, but they will raise fees if they manage to get everyone on board with their payment system.
Also, people had the option to save 0.15% by not using Apple Pay, nobody would be using it. Especially not for big purchases.
People potentially have the option to save 3% by paying cash and not using a credit card. People don't. Credit cards give you 1% of it back, so it's really 2% net and often get longer warranties, fraud protection and 30 days float.
I use credit card for everything because it's easier to track stuff and I hate change. Plus it's much faster for merchants, or was before the stupid chip cards slowed everything down again. Still faster than cash and checks.
Sometimes their app notifies you it was delivered. About 15% of the time, that is. Their delivery service is really bad, and I didn't think anyone could remain in business being as bad as FedEx, but they proved me wrong.
Of the packages I've had shipped by AMZL, at least 50% were either late or damaged. They have more mechanical problems than any company I've ever seen.
Mostly, they just have unexpected issues that cause a day or two delay. However, both AMZL and UPS will change your package tracking information after the fact, which is rather dishonest. They'll say it went out for delivery, but when it doesn't make it, all that info will be wiped. Amazon has "guaranteed two day delivery" but their guarantee is worthless because it just claims they'll refund your free shipping. I've complained to "customer service" about this and they just apologize and move on.
I had a monitor delivered 6 days late, and only when I called them. Their excuse, "it wouldn't fit." Odd that the other identical one I ordered fit and arrived on time.
Not sure I agree. If North Korea tortures you until you provide they key, what's the difference between that and no encryption as far as they are concerned? Sure you may not have a key, but then you die and your pictures never see the light of day. Keeps the source safe, but they've taken risks for no benefit. Or they install malware on all your devices and hack into your home computer and get the key. People suck with keeping things secure.
These are likely the issues as to why manufacturers won't ever do this. Either it gets someone killed (bad PR) or is an incomplete solution (especially since NK's pal China can likely break your cheap camera encryption anyway.) Doing nothing is the safest solution. The photographers can learn to hide the good pictures and gave lots of pictures of happy NK citizens for a cover.
If you are in North Korea taking pictures, you aren't going to get away with "they are encrypted!" They'll confiscate your camera and memory cards and destroy both. Then lock you in a second-century jail for the rest of your life.
Thank goodness for encryption.
I'm a customer, and I hate PayPal. It's worthless. Any idiot can accept credit and debit cards directly for lower fees than PayPal. With Square Cash and Apple Pay Cash, there's no reason to use PayPal to send people cash. Their policies are anti-consumer and they randomly take people's money citing some policy you are violating.
I verified my account by linking it to a savings account, which I then closed. Good luck taking my money. Even better luck when I can completely cancel my account and pay for stuff like the rest of the web has been for 20 years.