No.. I would say that this is just a very unfortunate response by an low level entry clerk. I can promise you that ebay/paypal did not want this outcome. Ebay and Paypal as a company is made of of people who care very much about not only their customers, but definitely the people in the military who serve this country.
People many times forget that systems are built to serve us, not us to serve them. For low level entry clerks, many times this fact is forgotten.
This issue could have been easily resolved by continuely asking to speak to higher level people. Policies are put in place for good reasons, but exceptions are always made. In short, no system is perfect.
Please stop trashing the Paypal name, and instead start to talk up the chain of command. I can assure you will find a number of people who will bend over backwards for you, and especially for any family of a fallen soldier.
Hopefully Redhat will sue for slander if Ballmer continues to repeat his statement and it starts effecting their bottom line. After the SCO incident, though, I suspect most companies are wise to the difficulting in defending any patent related suit...
Go ahead with your shortsightedness Ballmer and start sueing.... Four things will happen
1) I will buy your stock and it will rise (please read below before you flame me...) 2) Wait for the US Congressional hearing(s)... 3) Wait for Patent re-write laws to finally pass specifically tailored to defang M$.. 3) Sell the stock and watch it tumble...
Any company that resorts to this type of tactic clearly shows they are on the way down. MS is no innovation company, and most question if they ever were. I never thought of them as a patent trolling company, though...
Also, there is only one thing that big company execs fear more than going to prison, and that is sitting in front of a congressional hearing while old men grill them on national TV.
The system works by using a key words off of the AP new feeds. When it picks a match, it creates an "exception" ticket, and proceeds to exclude different commercials. An operator can go in and delete the exception item as needed, and the system proceeds as normal.
Keep in mind that in the media business, there is very little harm in *NOT* showing something, but showing something at the wrong time is the worst offense of all because it can easily destroy the image of a company. No matter what contract you have with a vendor, being careless will kill you every time.
Finally, in the early days, disk I/O, HD limitations, and reliability concerns were always the limitation of doing high quality media on low cost x86 hardware. Those days are over, however. What this guy is looking to do is very easy to do as long as his requirements are well laid out before hand. Pulling it off, however, will depend on how who does the work, and how management rolls it out. In short, roll out small with few responsabilities, and then build on the success with a constant supply small updates.
I designed something similar to this for their CNN Headline news division in Atlanta. The long and short of it is yes you can do it, but rollout approach is very important. For HL, the issue was the shear amount of requirment responsabilities. Everything from "if a plane crashes, do not show American Airlines commercials", to "In this special case, do this" type of thing.... It performs flawlessly, but you really need a good senior developer to pull it off...
It is the best distro I have ever used. Can it be hard to someone who is not very knowledgable? Absolute, but it also was the distro that forced me to truely learn Linux....:-)
In fact, IMAX's stock has risen > 100% over the last 3 years. Gross revenues are also pretty strong.
I find it very interesting that this fact was not even approached in the article that maybe the movie industry should consider implementing or creating new technology to attract people. Maybe 3D movie technology?? Dont know of any home movie theaters that you can buy with that...
As with most markets, newer technology is the answer.
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No.. I would say that this is just a very unfortunate response by an low level entry clerk. I can promise you that ebay/paypal did not want this outcome. Ebay and Paypal as a company is made of of people who care very much about not only their customers, but definitely the people in the military who serve this country.
People many times forget that systems are built to serve us, not us to serve them. For low level entry clerks, many times this fact is forgotten.
This issue could have been easily resolved by continuely asking to speak to higher level people. Policies are put in place for good reasons, but exceptions are always made. In short, no system is perfect.
Please stop trashing the Paypal name, and instead start to talk up the chain of command. I can assure you will find a number of people who will bend over backwards for you, and especially for any family of a fallen soldier.
Great point...
Hopefully Redhat will sue for slander if Ballmer continues to repeat his statement and it starts effecting their bottom line. After the SCO incident, though, I suspect most companies are wise to the difficulting in defending any patent related suit...
Go ahead with your shortsightedness Ballmer and start sueing.... Four things will happen
1) I will buy your stock and it will rise (please read below before you flame me...)
2) Wait for the US Congressional hearing(s)...
3) Wait for Patent re-write laws to finally pass specifically tailored to defang M$..
3) Sell the stock and watch it tumble...
Any company that resorts to this type of tactic clearly shows they are on the way down. MS is no innovation company, and most question if they ever were. I never thought of them as a patent trolling company, though...
Also, there is only one thing that big company execs fear more than going to prison, and that is sitting in front of a congressional hearing while old men grill them on national TV.
Using this logic...
:)
If a 30" gives me more productivity, then just think what I can do with a 55" mounted on my wall can do...
Sweet!! All I needed was a reason to get one....
The system works by using a key words off of the AP new feeds. When it picks a match, it creates an "exception" ticket, and proceeds to exclude different commercials. An operator can go in and delete the exception item as needed, and the system proceeds as normal.
Keep in mind that in the media business, there is very little harm in *NOT* showing something, but showing something at the wrong time is the worst offense of all because it can easily destroy the image of a company. No matter what contract you have with a vendor, being careless will kill you every time.
Finally, in the early days, disk I/O, HD limitations, and reliability concerns were always the limitation of doing high quality media on low cost x86 hardware. Those days are over, however. What this guy is looking to do is very easy to do as long as his requirements are well laid out before hand. Pulling it off, however, will depend on how who does the work, and how management rolls it out. In short, roll out small with few responsabilities, and then build on the success with a constant supply small updates.
I know this is probably kind of mean to say, but someone has to say it...
:)
I suspect they arent going to find anything on his HD. Just a guess....
I designed something similar to this for their CNN Headline news division in Atlanta. The long and short of it is yes you can do it, but rollout approach is very important. For HL, the issue was the shear amount of requirment responsabilities. Everything from "if a plane crashes, do not show American Airlines commercials", to "In this special case, do this" type of thing.... It performs flawlessly, but you really need a good senior developer to pull it off...
It is the best distro I have ever used. Can it be hard to someone who is not very knowledgable? Absolute, but it also was the distro that forced me to truely learn Linux.... :-)
Or you could just get a gym membership and workout regularly... :-)
In fact, IMAX's stock has risen > 100% over the last 3 years. Gross revenues are also pretty strong.
I find it very interesting that this fact was not even approached in the article that maybe the movie industry should consider implementing or creating new technology to attract people. Maybe 3D movie technology?? Dont know of any home movie theaters that you can buy with that...
As with most markets, newer technology is the answer.