From reading the discussions, but not the paper, linked above, I was thinking the exact same thing. Seems kind of annoying to have mod_rewrite check all URLs for the server though, but it would should stop any servers with this from looking like a vector.
Can anyone see any holes in this logic? A practical use for anything after the.pdf extension?
Mining is the first industry that comes to mind, along with construction, various research fields (where they are out in an actual field), and any industry where you could use a 4x4 truck.
And that is the problem. They state the quote wll be honored, then refuse to honor it. Correcting the billing to reflect that quote they agree to *repeatedly* is the only way to truly honor it. Anything less is bad customer service. The billing system is correct based on the standard rate, and can handle a credit to correct the mistake.
The problem is not the computers, it is the people. They could have gone the route of "we screwed up", but they decided not to. They decide to be a**h****s. I have to work with people like that, but I should not pay a company to treat me tht badly (unless I'm into S&M). How they treat problems with other shows how they will treat me. It's not humorous, it's bad customer service. The don't have quite the monopoly they used to, and they need adapt to this reality. I can switch companies quicker than thay can switch their customer service, since this kind of @$@$ should not survive in the age of multiple cell carriers.
The reply: Thank you for contacting Verizon Wireless through our website. My name is Troy, and I am happy to assist you regarding account charges.
I apologize that you feel that George Vaccaro was billed incorrectly. Currently at this time I am unable speak on George Vaccaro account. If he has an issue with his account he would need to contact Verizon Wireless directly.
It has been a pleasure assisting you today, and we appreciate your business. Should you have additional questions or concerns, please reply to this e-mail.
I am writing in regards to the incident recorded at http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/ for the charges of George Vaccaro. He was originally quoted at a rate of.002cents/kb, and this was confirmed multiple times by customer service reps as the rate he was expected to pay. In doing the proper math, his bill should result in a charge of 72cents, not the $72 he has been billed.
What concerns me is not that he may have been misquoted, but that the quote was confirmed to be correct multiple times, and yet, the billing charge remains the same, stated multiple times, due to a simple math error. I fear this lack of proper math skills in both quoting and billing will be applied to my account. I will not continue to have an account with a company that cannot rectify its own math, as I fear this incorrect math will be applied to my account, and it too will result in a bill that is *100 times* larger than it should be.
Verizon needs to correct this math error, charge him the rate he was quoted, and repeatedly confirmed, which results in a charge 72cents, or $0.72, and also publicly apologize not only for the frustration and time loss it has caused to Mr. Vaccaro, but also to assure other customers that they will not be treated the in the same fashion.
And some of us thank you for the reply, as it is useful to those of us that are parents.
I'm not a human proxy server, so I can only teach.
I am not going to firewall my kids to only approved sites. They can get that access at school. I will talk with them instead. This lets me know I don't have to fear the RIAA from my kids (though I will talk to them about the issues - that's out of respect for copyright and copyleft, not out of fear).
It's actually much more complicated than most people think. The best write up I've seen is on Analog's site:
This section is about what happens when somebody connects to your web site, and what statistics you can and can't calculate. There is a lot of confusion about this. It's not helped by statistics programs which claim to calculate things which cannot really be calculated, only estimated. The simple fact is that certain data which we would like to know and which we expect to know are simply not available. And the estimates used by other programs are not just a bit off, but can be very, very wrong. For example (you'll see why below), if your home page has 10 graphics on, and an AOL user visits it, most programs will count that as 11 different visitors!
Despite the terrible person point (I'll take it as a bad joke and not a troll) - it's still a very valid point for many users who use assistive devices. Stephen Hawkins uses a click in his interface - it's about all he can use. Some users *do* need to click to interact.
One of the most famous pictures in modern times, and "tankman" does not come to mind when looking for it. Now, if someone can quote a source for this as the common Chinese name for this photo, then perhaps you have a point. If not, I'd say the difference between the two results is striking.
I'm replying to this solely to remove the accidental "-1 Troll" mod I gave it. I did not in any way view this as a troll, and how do you troll yourself anyway?
I need to double check before I mod. I'm glad I caught it after submitting it so I can revert it.
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After he put a link to the forum post (which is getting slashdotted now as well), I've put a full mirror of the original forum posts, complete with the images on my university servers. Amusing read, especially for seeing just how many users will blindly hit "OK" before getting all this crap.
p.s. Any Google ad credit is still his, as I've copied and pasted his code from the original post to help him deal with his huge bandwidth bill coming up. Mine is on the University tab, so I don't need that money, and I have no ad account. Please check the code for a match is you desire. Karma Whoring is not as bad as ad whoring when you've had your account shut down.
The author has permission to link to my copies of the images, or contact me to have me post a proper mirror (of more than just the front page.
DIY is frequently less expensive than paying someone else to do it. You don't have to pay for the labor in many cases and can use less expensive alternatives if you're willing to be your own maintainer.
Have you built anything before or do you only buy consumer made products? If you haven't built anything yourself (hardware or software), leave your geek card at the door on your way out.
Which means that it is probably either the content providers who are not going back to the maters to encode high quality, or it is stuff that Apple probably doesn't have access to the originals, which then the shouldn't re-sell it.
My guess is that it's the content providers who haven't re-encoded. I don't see Apple as being *that* dumb.
Aside from "all my life, you've got a good point, and it appears that I might be low in that number - the first is recent and from a "non-lefty biased" source, the others vary in source quality and recent (the last is 1977).
from TFA: "The most obvious choice would be to flip Link's character model, but with the rest of the game designed around Link attacking from a southpaw stance that would be sure to change the way at least some of the fights worked. No, the quickest and easiest solution was to simply mirror the entire game!"
I suppose it's to have the sword on the same side as the attackers' (how it is with a lefty fighting a right handed swordsman). So they are *planning* to have a world where most (if not all) of the people are left handed, with the main player being right handed. That way the swords are in the same line, not crossing across the body. They're choosing to mirror the NPCs too, and I think that's probably wrong, but I guess it's to "simulate" fighting as a lefty to the right handed link - swords on the "same" side, openings change, stances have to change: you're not fighting across your body, but in a more linear line.
My son definitely has a different play sword technique because I'm playing with him and he's a righty on a lefty instead of the norm right on right. I know that I get an advantage when going against a right handed person who isn't used to fighting a left handed person.
If sword fighting doesn't make sense in this regard, think of baseball and changing the pitcher because someone is left/right handed at bat.
Try playing baseball as a switch hitter come time, or throwing with your off hand. You'll see. I can do both, but I'm no where near as good that way, and don't want to work hard enough to be. It's a game after all, so I want to do what comes naturally. Video games should apply the same principles.
I said in another response is that the potential of the wiimote is to make controlling more natural. Having to adjust that much (using your off hand - unless it's an intentional game design, which this isn't) is an example of a cop out for design. From a flagship title from the company that makes the console & controller, such a cop out sends a big message and is a big disappointment.
Now if this was a Princess' Bride fight scene that made me use my off hand for the first part of the fight - that would be good design. This is not.
This is a cop out. And it's a bigger cop out than breaking barrels.
Not because he's not left handed, but because I can't play him left handed. I could care less about him being left handed in the historic games.
In my message I made reference to playing baseball - I would not buy a baseball game if I can't swing left handed. I'm not a switch hitter. This is no different.
The potential of the wiimote is to make things more natural. If controlling with it can't be made natural, I may as well not use the wiimote at all.
Assuming Link is the only major character who is left handed, then all the NPCs are right handed. "Fixing" the game by merely mirror imaging makes *all* the characters switch. Now all of the NPCs are left handed. Most sword fighting, etc. is right on right handed (look at spiral stair case design in mideval castles), and an advantage is usually to the lefty who is used to fighting against a right handed opponent, while the right handed opponent rarely fights a left handed opponent.
This actually changes *a lot* and is disapointing as a fix. It does not balance the world, or make it correct. Making Link right handed fighting right handed opponents would be a more accurate fix, though it defeats the purpose of having Link being left handed in the first place.
Not having an option to play a left handed Link also disapoints me because I am a lefty. I would like the option to use the sword in whatever hand I choose to. This is one game I was excited about, but am now indifferent to. This is a deal breaker for the Wiimote to lefties. Left handed batting? Left handed catching? If these are not possible, I'm not buying.
I'm sure, given time, this will be adressed in other games if they don't want to cut out 10% of the population
I've got a LSW worshiping video collection for those who need more than screen shots. After playing about 100+ hours of this with my son, I decided to record a speed run through the entire game.
and LSW II looks like they's integrated it into the extras. You can unlock a timed run of an episode. Started it this morning, but I didn't get to finish. I did get to play the race to collect 1,000,000 studs in a giant battle with my son. This one is even better than the last (more challenging too, but not so much my 8 year old gets frustrated).
It took a bit of digging to find it again, but I ran across this in some huge chain of events that is way off topic, but the result is one translator's approach to using a digital camera to scan his manga collection without unbinding. The foot petal idea is what tipped off my memory.
Slashdot Mirror
From reading the discussions, but not the paper, linked above, I was thinking the exact same thing. Seems kind of annoying to have mod_rewrite check all URLs for the server though, but it would should stop any servers with this from looking like a vector.
.pdf extension?
Can anyone see any holes in this logic? A practical use for anything after the
Mining is the first industry that comes to mind, along with construction, various research fields (where they are out in an actual field), and any industry where you could use a 4x4 truck.
And that is the problem. They state the quote wll be honored, then refuse to honor it. Correcting the billing to reflect that quote they agree to *repeatedly* is the only way to truly honor it. Anything less is bad customer service. The billing system is correct based on the standard rate, and can handle a credit to correct the mistake.
The problem is not the computers, it is the people. They could have gone the route of "we screwed up", but they decided not to. They decide to be a**h****s. I have to work with people like that, but I should not pay a company to treat me tht badly (unless I'm into S&M). How they treat problems with other shows how they will treat me. It's not humorous, it's bad customer service. The don't have quite the monopoly they used to, and they need adapt to this reality. I can switch companies quicker than thay can switch their customer service, since this kind of @$@$ should not survive in the age of multiple cell carriers.
The reply:
Thank you for contacting Verizon Wireless through our website. My name is Troy, and I am happy to assist you regarding account charges.
I apologize that you feel that George Vaccaro was billed incorrectly. Currently at this time I am unable speak on George Vaccaro account. If he has an issue with his account he would need to contact Verizon Wireless directly.
It has been a pleasure assisting you today, and we appreciate your business. Should you have additional questions or concerns, please reply to this e-mail.
Sincerely,
Troy
Verizon Wireless
Customer Service
"We never stop working for you!"
I am writing in regards to the incident recorded at http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/ for the charges of George Vaccaro. He was originally quoted at a rate of .002cents/kb, and this was confirmed multiple times by customer service reps as the rate he was expected to pay. In doing the proper math, his bill should result in a charge of 72cents, not the $72 he has been billed.
What concerns me is not that he may have been misquoted, but that the quote was confirmed to be correct multiple times, and yet, the billing charge remains the same, stated multiple times, due to a simple math error. I fear this lack of proper math skills in both quoting and billing will be applied to my account. I will not continue to have an account with a company that cannot rectify its own math, as I fear this incorrect math will be applied to my account, and it too will result in a bill that is *100 times* larger than it should be.
Verizon needs to correct this math error, charge him the rate he was quoted, and repeatedly confirmed, which results in a charge 72cents, or $0.72, and also publicly apologize not only for the frustration and time loss it has caused to Mr. Vaccaro, but also to assure other customers that they will not be treated the in the same fashion.
And that's just Goofy! (be sure to tip your waitress)
And some of us thank you for the reply, as it is useful to those of us that are parents.
I'm not a human proxy server, so I can only teach.
I am not going to firewall my kids to only approved sites. They can get that access at school. I will talk with them instead. This lets me know I don't have to fear the RIAA from my kids (though I will talk to them about the issues - that's out of respect for copyright and copyleft, not out of fear).
I am in a coma, you insensitive clod!
It's actually much more complicated than most people think. The best write up I've seen is on Analog's site:
This section is about what happens when somebody connects to your web site, and what statistics you can and can't calculate. There is a lot of confusion about this. It's not helped by statistics programs which claim to calculate things which cannot really be calculated, only estimated. The simple fact is that certain data which we would like to know and which we expect to know are simply not available. And the estimates used by other programs are not just a bit off, but can be very, very wrong. For example (you'll see why below), if your home page has 10 graphics on, and an AOL user visits it, most programs will count that as 11 different visitors!
Despite the terrible person point (I'll take it as a bad joke and not a troll) - it's still a very valid point for many users who use assistive devices. Stephen Hawkins uses a click in his interface - it's about all he can use. Some users *do* need to click to interact.
One of the most famous pictures in modern times, and "tankman" does not come to mind when looking for it. Now, if someone can quote a source for this as the common Chinese name for this photo, then perhaps you have a point. If not, I'd say the difference between the two results is striking.
I'm replying to this solely to remove the accidental "-1 Troll" mod I gave it. I did not in any way view this as a troll, and how do you troll yourself anyway?
I need to double check before I mod. I'm glad I caught it after submitting it so I can revert it.
After he put a link to the forum post (which is getting slashdotted now as well), I've put a full mirror of the original forum posts, complete with the images on my university servers. Amusing read, especially for seeing just how many users will blindly hit "OK" before getting all this crap.
http://iddl.vt.edu/~jackie/ie7/
Enjoy!
p.s. Any Google ad credit is still his, as I've copied and pasted his code from the original post to help him deal with his huge bandwidth bill coming up. Mine is on the University tab, so I don't need that money, and I have no ad account. Please check the code for a match is you desire. Karma Whoring is not as bad as ad whoring when you've had your account shut down.
The author has permission to link to my copies of the images, or contact me to have me post a proper mirror (of more than just the front page.
DIY is frequently less expensive than paying someone else to do it. You don't have to pay for the labor in many cases and can use less expensive alternatives if you're willing to be your own maintainer.
Have you built anything before or do you only buy consumer made products? If you haven't built anything yourself (hardware or software), leave your geek card at the door on your way out.
no really lameness filter, there is no point in text in this message....
Which means that it is probably either the content providers who are not going back to the maters to encode high quality, or it is stuff that Apple probably doesn't have access to the originals, which then the shouldn't re-sell it.
My guess is that it's the content providers who haven't re-encoded. I don't see Apple as being *that* dumb.
Aside from "all my life, you've got a good point, and it appears that I might be low in that number - the first is recent and from a "non-lefty biased" source, the others vary in source quality and recent (the last is 1977).
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13.8% http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd
12-15% http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/faq.html#per
13% http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/lefty-faq.ht
11% http://www.righthandlefthand.com/
8-15% (Wikipedia really, but I've confirmed the original source through my University's access to the online copy Hardyck, C., & Petrinovich, L. F. (1977). "Left-handedness," Psychological Bulletin, 84, 385-404. - You have to read the article itself to get the range, the abstract lists only 10%)
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Do you have a source for my impending doom? Inquiring minds want to know.... (And then I can blame the right handed fascist regime.)
from TFA: "The most obvious choice would be to flip Link's character model, but with the rest of the game designed around Link attacking from a southpaw stance that would be sure to change the way at least some of the fights worked. No, the quickest and easiest solution was to simply mirror the entire game!"
I suppose it's to have the sword on the same side as the attackers' (how it is with a lefty fighting a right handed swordsman). So they are *planning* to have a world where most (if not all) of the people are left handed, with the main player being right handed. That way the swords are in the same line, not crossing across the body. They're choosing to mirror the NPCs too, and I think that's probably wrong, but I guess it's to "simulate" fighting as a lefty to the right handed link - swords on the "same" side, openings change, stances have to change: you're not fighting across your body, but in a more linear line.
My son definitely has a different play sword technique because I'm playing with him and he's a righty on a lefty instead of the norm right on right. I know that I get an advantage when going against a right handed person who isn't used to fighting a left handed person.
If sword fighting doesn't make sense in this regard, think of baseball and changing the pitcher because someone is left/right handed at bat.
Try playing baseball as a switch hitter come time, or throwing with your off hand. You'll see. I can do both, but I'm no where near as good that way, and don't want to work hard enough to be. It's a game after all, so I want to do what comes naturally. Video games should apply the same principles.
I said in another response is that the potential of the wiimote is to make controlling more natural. Having to adjust that much (using your off hand - unless it's an intentional game design, which this isn't) is an example of a cop out for design. From a flagship title from the company that makes the console & controller, such a cop out sends a big message and is a big disappointment.
Now if this was a Princess' Bride fight scene that made me use my off hand for the first part of the fight - that would be good design. This is not.
This is a cop out. And it's a bigger cop out than breaking barrels.
Not because he's not left handed, but because I can't play him left handed. I could care less about him being left handed in the historic games.
In my message I made reference to playing baseball - I would not buy a baseball game if I can't swing left handed. I'm not a switch hitter. This is no different.
The potential of the wiimote is to make things more natural. If controlling with it can't be made natural, I may as well not use the wiimote at all.
Assuming Link is the only major character who is left handed, then all the NPCs are right handed. "Fixing" the game by merely mirror imaging makes *all* the characters switch. Now all of the NPCs are left handed. Most sword fighting, etc. is right on right handed (look at spiral stair case design in mideval castles), and an advantage is usually to the lefty who is used to fighting against a right handed opponent, while the right handed opponent rarely fights a left handed opponent.
This actually changes *a lot* and is disapointing as a fix. It does not balance the world, or make it correct. Making Link right handed fighting right handed opponents would be a more accurate fix, though it defeats the purpose of having Link being left handed in the first place.
Not having an option to play a left handed Link also disapoints me because I am a lefty. I would like the option to use the sword in whatever hand I choose to. This is one game I was excited about, but am now indifferent to. This is a deal breaker for the Wiimote to lefties. Left handed batting? Left handed catching? If these are not possible, I'm not buying.
I'm sure, given time, this will be adressed in other games if they don't want to cut out 10% of the population
I've got a LSW worshiping video collection for those who need more than screen shots. After playing about 100+ hours of this with my son, I decided to record a speed run through the entire game.
http://kalak.dhs.org/
and LSW II looks like they's integrated it into the extras. You can unlock a timed run of an episode. Started it this morning, but I didn't get to finish. I did get to play the race to collect 1,000,000 studs in a giant battle with my son. This one is even better than the last (more challenging too, but not so much my 8 year old gets frustrated).
It took a bit of digging to find it again, but I ran across this in some huge chain of events that is way off topic, but the result is one translator's approach to using a digital camera to scan his manga collection without unbinding. The foot petal idea is what tipped off my memory.
1 .php
http://www.mrdummy.net/mangatranslation/tutorial0