My Dad's Name [my.name@emailaddress.net] where the "[" and "]" are sideways carrots.
To make a "sideways carrot," which under the wrong circumstances sounds painful, type & lt; and & gt; (without the space). Like this: <sideways carets>
Somebody actually gets it... I'm very pleased to see that a record label recognizes this and acknowledges it publicly.
Prepared to be slightly less pleased. If you RTFA you'll see that it has not actually happened, but is merely an inference on the part of the guy who wrote the article.
1) Once you make the change that's no longer the average.
2) See #1.
Example: Suppose I go to the same restaurant everyday, and get a cordial hello, just like I always have. Then some other guy walks in and they cheer, give him a complimentary glass of wine, and 20% off anything he orders. So I ask the waitress what's going on and she tells me "Oh, we've decided to treat some of our customers even better than before! But not you."
You don't think I'm now getting treated worse than average?
And no I don't believe this, I assert EVERYONE has shipping EXPECTATIONS based on the shipping method they select and PAY for.
Well sure. And Amazon would love to get everything delivered on time. What they are trying to figure out is which plan causes the least harm in situations where that's temporarily impossible, and some things are going to be late.
They are trying to minimize the overall impact when things go wrong.
If some people are treated at 125 and the rest at 100 then the average is obviously higher than 100, and all those at 100 are treated worse than average.
Zune has occupied the top spot for quite some time. Is this a failure?
That's because Microsoft has been cleverly "sold out" of the other models, thus driving any Zune purchases to the one model. If the others were in greater supply none would rank near the top.
It will make very little difference to me, or to most internet subscribers, if ISPs start imposing hard limits on the amount people can download.
Unless of course that hard limit is lower than the amount you download. This is a bit like driving. Anybody who drives slower is an idiot, and anybody who drives faster is a maniac. This is true for all drivers no matter what speed they go.
On the one hand we have media execs that demand tougher copyright laws "to protect artists" while having clauses inserted in the same bill to cheat them of their returned rights.
On the other we have a bunch of folk who want to have everything for free and construct elaborate explanations as to how this is great for the artists.
You are mixing facts and suppositions. Your first statement is a demonstrable fact. You second statement is only your supposition. A supposition which happens to have some demonstrable evidence to the contrary.
911 then told me to stay outside and wait for police. No thanks. If I had caught the intruder, they would have either given up and waited for the police, or been clobbered by me.
I think you left out one possible outcome. If you don't go in all that's at risk is your stuff. By going in you've raised the stakes enormously. It doesn't matter if you are the toughest guy who ever walked the planet. As they say in poker, "Going all-in works every time. Right up until it doesn't."
I think he was talking about the sharing part. It effectively allows the US to start fingerprinting a larger subset of its population. Also, there is a difference between fingerprinting and not traveling anonymously.
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To make a "sideways carrot," which under the wrong circumstances sounds painful, type & lt; and & gt; (without the space). Like this: <sideways carets>
Billrocks? What kind of business plan is that? Do they ever pay?
Prepared to be slightly less pleased. If you RTFA you'll see that it has not actually happened, but is merely an inference on the part of the guy who wrote the article.
When you sue someone you have an obligation to mitigate the damages. You're supposed to be righting a wrong, not milking it.
I've been writing Java code since its early days, but I'd *much* rather write in Ruby. And JRuby brings access to all the Java libraries.
2) See #1.
Example: Suppose I go to the same restaurant everyday, and get a cordial hello, just like I always have. Then some other guy walks in and they cheer, give him a complimentary glass of wine, and 20% off anything he orders. So I ask the waitress what's going on and she tells me "Oh, we've decided to treat some of our customers even better than before! But not you."
You don't think I'm now getting treated worse than average?
If they thought what they were doing was legitimate they'd take on Harvard too. Harvard gets sued all the time. Just not by people like this.
Maybe he was using the Bizarro Yoda, where he just talks like everyone else.
Where do you get that idea?
Now I'm not going to read the article
I see. That explains it. You're basing it on the fine headline.
but it sounds like what they're doing is computing some sort of score based on the likelihood of return visits
No, that's completely wrong.
They're predicting future repeat business
That's wrong too.
So it is in fact punishing customers (aka bad service)
No, that's wrong too. Maybe you should have actually read the article after all.
Well sure. And Amazon would love to get everything delivered on time. What they are trying to figure out is which plan causes the least harm in situations where that's temporarily impossible, and some things are going to be late.
They are trying to minimize the overall impact when things go wrong.
If some people are treated at 125 and the rest at 100 then the average is obviously higher than 100, and all those at 100 are treated worse than average.
Well as long as this is the "point out flaws in daybot's posts" thread, you might want to go look up what it means to beg the question.
That's because Microsoft has been cleverly "sold out" of the other models, thus driving any Zune purchases to the one model. If the others were in greater supply none would rank near the top.
Sure, but that's just one....oh. Wait a minute. I see what you did there.
Unless of course that hard limit is lower than the amount you download. This is a bit like driving. Anybody who drives slower is an idiot, and anybody who drives faster is a maniac. This is true for all drivers no matter what speed they go.
I just looked at your site. Some really nice work there. You made a good choice :-)
On the other we have a bunch of folk who want to have everything for free and construct elaborate explanations as to how this is great for the artists.
You are mixing facts and suppositions. Your first statement is a demonstrable fact. You second statement is only your supposition. A supposition which happens to have some demonstrable evidence to the contrary.
I think you left out one possible outcome. If you don't go in all that's at risk is your stuff. By going in you've raised the stakes enormously. It doesn't matter if you are the toughest guy who ever walked the planet. As they say in poker, "Going all-in works every time. Right up until it doesn't."
Generally speaking, slashdot posts and reruns of T.J. Hooker run about equal in terms of accuracy.
I once saw a torrent containing what was purported to be *every* episode. It was 180GB. I never noticed if anybody ever completed.
and barrows, for that matter.
One definition of which, I note, is a male pig castrated before maturity. (I just looked it up.)
(And so on.)
f it's not your first language, that's impressive.
Your English is better than 90% of slashdotters (and of course 100% of the editors). If it's not your first language that's impressive.
I think he was talking about the sharing part. It effectively allows the US to start fingerprinting a larger subset of its population. Also, there is a difference between fingerprinting and not traveling anonymously.