Sure it's easy enough to justify the action of sniping, just like paying some kid for his spot in line to get a playstation, but it's still an asshole move most often capitalized upon by people with less active lives that have time resources to snipe in whenever their auction of interest happens to be ending. I'm not sure if it's just laziness on the part of programmers at eBay, but I imagine they could gleam a better profit margin by emulating certain aspects of the time tested traditional auction format where bidding is extended upon attempted sniping.
The moral disconnect of the internet should not be overlooked here. By most standards the guy that sees a kid headed toward the last voltron toy in the store and then runs in front of him to grab it is an asshole. But many consider doing the same thing on the internet "fair game."
"All you had to do was call Microsoft and they would have validated you over the phone"
That's such a creepy statement. You are not valid without microsoft's consent... fortunately, for your convenience, you may be validated by telephone.
For an additional $199, Bill Gates will baptize you over the phone.
well sure, but anytime I use my credit card a vendor could theoretically be saving that information indefinitely. However, if I'm not able to access my saved credit data myself, it makes it that much less likely that others can. Many websites are starting to save customer credit info for convenience, and I suppose that's fine as an option, but it should be something that you opt into rather than are roped into.
indeed. google checkout makes you jump through so many fewer hoops than paypal. It's clear that most of the nonsense on paypal is for them to try to really rope you into being a regular user rather than have a convenient one-time interaction, but I do wonder if there is a bit more security inherent in some of the extra steps paypal takes. I was also disappointed to see that google checkout saved my credit card information on their server without ever explicitly warning me that they would do this (at least I never saw the fine print if it was there). Fortunately it was fairly simple to go in and delete the credit info.
are you kidding? My bank, credit card co., bill-pay service, and many other companies I deal with online and consider reputable use images in their email. I also use images embedded in my emails and receive emails from colleagues that also embed images. "Why use images in email?" say the purists, but that's like asking why use images on webpages - multimedia emails are often very obnoxious, but they can also be incredibly useful forms of communication. I simply can't imagine how one could not be receiving emails from individuals or companies with pictures when so many do use images. The answer is in better handling options for images (ie. require whitelisting for images or bayesian learning for automatic building of allowed/unallowed image sender lists) and perhaps in image recognition software.
according to the wiki entry on negative RI in metamaterials, "The Doppler shift is reversed (that is, a light source moving toward an observer appears to reduce its frequency)"
Does this mean if I wrap my car in this stuff, the faster I drive, the slower radar guns/lasers will clock me at? (assuming the material has -RI at those lambdas)
a lot of workplaces require (and understandably so) that people shut their systems down at night to save power. I do this myself on my home system to save on my energy bill as well, and I do find it frustrating that new generations of hardware and OSs really only make minor dents in boot times. I also consider the shutdown time on my new laptop to be annoyingly slow. One of my favorite things about my Palm device is the quick on/off response. I imagine that good solid-state HDs will ultimately help solve this issue, but presently it is surprising/disappointing that more isn't done from a software perspective.
huh, I almost always use ping www.yahoo.com when I'm testing a DNS.
does everyone default to this for some reason that I'm not aware of? Is that what you're referring to?
and money apparently. c'mon how long do you think it will be your favorite for now? the next version will likely be chock full of bloatware on account of this merger.
I didn't really understand that at all, but the real problem is that people read spam and allow it to change their purchasing habits. There will always be spam as long as it is profitable.
I also encourage people to avoid doing business with online businesses that promote spam by selling their customer mailing lists. Does anyone know of a blacklist for companies like this? I know from personal experience that jr.com and sunrocket.com have both participated in this kind of garbage.
wha? rechargables are even more likely to poop out right in the middle of gameplay. is there a battery indicator on-screen / on-remote? Does it give sufficient warning?
excellent! except I'm not sure there would ever be a final day in office - sure you could vote him out but none of his policies would be compatible with any other president and we'd have to spend decades reverse engineering the closed source changes made to programs like healthcare 2.0 and education SE. Everyone would recognize that there were better candidates out there, but would it really be worth all the hassle of switching?
all of that being said, I'd vote for him if Jobs was his VP - it's all about checks and balances.
I'm not sure that's entirely correct. I bought a Wii and suddenly I'm missing some underpants - I suspect this must be part of Nintendo's market strategy somehow.
yeah, I guess the idea is that it's easier to sterilize a flat desk surface than a traditional keyboard. However, I avoid touching keyboards/mice in hospital / public situations as much as possible, but I might be more likely to mistakenly put my donut right on a surface that is actually someone's acoustic keyboard area. Furthermore, if hospitals really were interested in keeping keyboards sterile, there certainly have been ways to go about this (think 2second bleach rag wipedown of your speak n' spell keyboard after your kid sister puked on it) but apparantly very little marketable interest in it - not sure why they would choose to grab up this technology over any other.
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Sure it's easy enough to justify the action of sniping, just like paying some kid for his spot in line to get a playstation, but it's still an asshole move most often capitalized upon by people with less active lives that have time resources to snipe in whenever their auction of interest happens to be ending. I'm not sure if it's just laziness on the part of programmers at eBay, but I imagine they could gleam a better profit margin by emulating certain aspects of the time tested traditional auction format where bidding is extended upon attempted sniping.
The moral disconnect of the internet should not be overlooked here. By most standards the guy that sees a kid headed toward the last voltron toy in the store and then runs in front of him to grab it is an asshole. But many consider doing the same thing on the internet "fair game."
fine, but he has to ask Al Gore first.
"All you had to do was call Microsoft and they would have validated you over the phone"
That's such a creepy statement. You are not valid without microsoft's consent... fortunately, for your convenience, you may be validated by telephone.
For an additional $199, Bill Gates will baptize you over the phone.
well sure, but anytime I use my credit card a vendor could theoretically be saving that information indefinitely. However, if I'm not able to access my saved credit data myself, it makes it that much less likely that others can. Many websites are starting to save customer credit info for convenience, and I suppose that's fine as an option, but it should be something that you opt into rather than are roped into.
indeed. google checkout makes you jump through so many fewer hoops than paypal. It's clear that most of the nonsense on paypal is for them to try to really rope you into being a regular user rather than have a convenient one-time interaction, but I do wonder if there is a bit more security inherent in some of the extra steps paypal takes. I was also disappointed to see that google checkout saved my credit card information on their server without ever explicitly warning me that they would do this (at least I never saw the fine print if it was there). Fortunately it was fairly simple to go in and delete the credit info.
and you can switch the UI theme too. the modern theme that comes packaged with it is quite slick. I'm a fan of the home button plugin too.
Why do navel ships have an abundance of electricity? I can come up with some guesses, but it's just hand waving.
huh, from what I can tell MySpace's demographics are "people looking to induce seizures in themselves"
"It's like buying a car with turbo and finding out after buying it that this turbo 'feature' was disabled."
isn't it more like buying a computer with turbo and finding out that the turbo 'feature' was disabled?
now I can hang my map of dark matter up right next to my picture of albino polar bears walking the tundra in a blizzard.
i don't think you have any idea what misleading means.
and the machine is powered by the flow of tears from green party members.
are you kidding? My bank, credit card co., bill-pay service, and many other companies I deal with online and consider reputable use images in their email. I also use images embedded in my emails and receive emails from colleagues that also embed images. "Why use images in email?" say the purists, but that's like asking why use images on webpages - multimedia emails are often very obnoxious, but they can also be incredibly useful forms of communication. I simply can't imagine how one could not be receiving emails from individuals or companies with pictures when so many do use images. The answer is in better handling options for images (ie. require whitelisting for images or bayesian learning for automatic building of allowed/unallowed image sender lists) and perhaps in image recognition software.
according to the wiki entry on negative RI in metamaterials, "The Doppler shift is reversed (that is, a light source moving toward an observer appears to reduce its frequency)"
Does this mean if I wrap my car in this stuff, the faster I drive, the slower radar guns/lasers will clock me at? (assuming the material has -RI at those lambdas)
Surely I can't be the only one who actually *likes* the default XP theme?
Of course not, there are thousands of 13 yr old girls with similar taste.
holy crap, apparently you need to have four hands to play some of these pieces! No wonder so few people can play mozart well.
mod points to the first person to get a goatse etched powerbook and post it.
you know it's going to happen.
a lot of workplaces require (and understandably so) that people shut their systems down at night to save power. I do this myself on my home system to save on my energy bill as well, and I do find it frustrating that new generations of hardware and OSs really only make minor dents in boot times. I also consider the shutdown time on my new laptop to be annoyingly slow. One of my favorite things about my Palm device is the quick on/off response. I imagine that good solid-state HDs will ultimately help solve this issue, but presently it is surprising/disappointing that more isn't done from a software perspective.
huh, I almost always use ping www.yahoo.com when I'm testing a DNS.
does everyone default to this for some reason that I'm not aware of? Is that what you're referring to?
and money apparently. c'mon how long do you think it will be your favorite for now? the next version will likely be chock full of bloatware on account of this merger.
I didn't really understand that at all, but the real problem is that people read spam and allow it to change their purchasing habits. There will always be spam as long as it is profitable.
I also encourage people to avoid doing business with online businesses that promote spam by selling their customer mailing lists. Does anyone know of a blacklist for companies like this? I know from personal experience that jr.com and sunrocket.com have both participated in this kind of garbage.
wha? rechargables are even more likely to poop out right in the middle of gameplay. is there a battery indicator on-screen / on-remote? Does it give sufficient warning?
excellent! except I'm not sure there would ever be a final day in office - sure you could vote him out but none of his policies would be compatible with any other president and we'd have to spend decades reverse engineering the closed source changes made to programs like healthcare 2.0 and education SE. Everyone would recognize that there were better candidates out there, but would it really be worth all the hassle of switching?
all of that being said, I'd vote for him if Jobs was his VP - it's all about checks and balances.
I'm not sure that's entirely correct. I bought a Wii and suddenly I'm missing some underpants - I suspect this must be part of Nintendo's market strategy somehow.
yeah, I guess the idea is that it's easier to sterilize a flat desk surface than a traditional keyboard. However, I avoid touching keyboards/mice in hospital / public situations as much as possible, but I might be more likely to mistakenly put my donut right on a surface that is actually someone's acoustic keyboard area. Furthermore, if hospitals really were interested in keeping keyboards sterile, there certainly have been ways to go about this (think 2second bleach rag wipedown of your speak n' spell keyboard after your kid sister puked on it) but apparantly very little marketable interest in it - not sure why they would choose to grab up this technology over any other.