Except in Germany, the default voice is always male, as it was shown that most people were offended(word choice?) to take directions from a female. BMW even had to issue a recall to fix that problem.
They should really just relocate their head-office to another country in which they already operate. And take any developers that want to live overseas someplace.
I say have them set up a development centre in THailand, or the Philippines, and then with the influx of Apple Money, the developers, and their families will be living like wealthy estate owners, complete with house-workers, at a fraction of their current Bay Area living expenses.
They would lose the American Tax loophole, which exists because most countries charge taxes based on where management is located, to avoid what the US does: charges taxes based on region incorporated.
Thus, new tech boom begins in Asia, Massive gentrification, and infrastructure improvements paid for by private companies.
It'd be a Republican's dream.
And as a side-effect, would create a new middle class in the area due to the sudden creation of service economies; and raise wealth due to the influx of US$ (or whatever currency they would use to pay employees)
I would relocate if they gave me the option to (and keep my CA salary)
I would personally take a job in the Philippines and continue to take my California Salary. Live like a king, fraction of the cost of living, and better quality of life with the given income level. It wouldn't be hard to convince most of the single, male, developers to relocate overseas.
BlueFox: I've been reading through your comments, and you've got a lot of really intriguing/fascinating views on the human brain, memory, and learning, which has caught my interest.
Is there any means to contact you more directly to have a conversation? I was wanting to gleam more insight into your mind, and your mental processes -- in the hopes to be able to improve my own, or at least to give inspiration on how to improve my own modes of thinking.
>> Netflix... seems to actively avoid including shows already licensed to local television networks.
Probably because, the local provider has full broadcasting rights to the content in the country, which usually include internet streaming. (those are being split out in newer contracts)
You can call your CC company up and set your billing address to anything you want, in any country. I've done this hundreds of times over the past 15 years. More so in Canada, just set my billing address to a non-existent US address. (CC has paperless billing)
Or, when I needed something from iTunes, I set my US Capital One card billing address to one in the UK. Capital One has this to an art, in that you can set your Card Replacement Mailing address separate from your Billing Address -- just for this reason. So I keep my card address in US, and the Billing address in the EU.
For US Credit Card Validation, For Zip Code: Strip non-numeric characters, and 0-pad. So, for the billing address 123 Fake St, Leeds, LS11 7EJ You can enter the address: 123 Fake St; Leeds; NY, 11700 - And it passes ZIP validatio and US Processor Validation (nearly all explictly state they cannot validate non-US billing addresses, and will always succeed. - Using NY, just satifies website logic in case they are trying to be "smart" and applying the state's zipcode range; - Entering the correct Address and City will trigger a successful validation if they are in the few systems (I've never actually seen one in the US that does) that validate non-US billing addreses.
They used to provide this information for Canadians renting cars to the US, so they can figure out what ZipCode to enter on Gas Station Pumps. ( Zip = 2C3 R4L; enter 23400 )
You do realise you can set your billing address to anything you want, arbitrarily, anytime?
I do this all the time to get around credit-card geolocation. I call up my CC company (CapitalOne, Chase, USAA, or Bank of Montreal), and say "I'd like to temporarily change my billing address" and then give them an appropriate out of country address. It's nice if it exists, but it doesn't have to.
And if you have paperless billing, it really doesn't matter at all.
The law explictly excludes any data derived from photos: "... Biometric information does not include information derived from items or procedures excluded under the definition of biometric identifiers."
Since they derived all this information from photographs, it's explictly NOT biometric information. So, this lawsuit shouldn't have been heard, as they are clearly deriving all their information from "items excluded under the definition of biometric identifiers" (photographs)
The law also says: "... Biometric information does not include information derived from items or procedures excluded under the definition of biometric identifiers"
So, any information derived from photographs (items excluded under the definition of biometric identifiers), is not biometric information.
Since they derived all this information from photographs, it's explictly NOT biometric information.
US Courts have generally decided that the point of sale is where the customer is located, not the server. Hence sales tax is taxed at the customer's location, and not the server location (otherwise the original idea of putting servers / warehouses in states with no sales-tax would have continued to work).
If you provide a digital service to a European citizen, you are required to submit VAT payments; as you are completing a sale in the EU. (Much like how the US treats the customer's location as the point of sale, in determining tax-rates, applicable laws, etc.)
Thus, in this case, you will be breaking the law in Europe. Which is perfectly fine if you don't have any intention of ever stepping foot in Europe. Or are not evading taxes to such an extent that the EU decides to extradite you.
Caps Lock assists in performance for all the language-specific layouts that rely on it to enter characters. (In these layouts, CAPS state, != SHIFT state; and thus yields a new CAPS+SHIFT state. See: Swiss German, Czech, ]
Others just use it to switch between national language, and latin characters (so caps is more a latin-lock, than caps lock). Which is becoming more required if one wants to type on the Internet which seems to assume that most people have the letters a-z on their keyboard....
Use of the caps lock is very common in Switzerland, nad Czech Republic. Because in many layouts SHIFT != CAPS
Swiss German and Czech; they have four states NONE; SHIFT; CAPS; CAPS-SHIFT. shift ü = è CAPS ON: Shift-Ü = È
Czech: The number row is actually all letters. ; to get the numbers 1234567890; you have to use shift. Caps Lock: the top row are now uppercased; shift still gets you the numbers.
Some non-latin layouts use CAPS to toggle between national characters, and latin-letters. (so caps lock on, gives lowercase latin-alpha); caps-lock off gives you lower-case cyrillic.
How would that work in the Swiss (German), or Czech markets? As Shift and Caps are different states. Shift-ü = è CAPS; shift-Ü = È would that mean, to type Èt, one would have to do [shift, shift, shift-ü, shift, shift], t ? And for that matter, a Ü would be what [shift, shift, ü, shift shift] I hope they didn't do that home/end thing in the European markets.
In other layouts it does different things. Swiss German and Czech; they have four states NONE; SHIFT; CAPS; CAPS-SHIFT. shift ü = è CAPS ON: Shift-Ü = È
Czech: The number row is actually all letters. ; to get the numbers 1234567890; you have to use shift. Caps Lock: the top row are now uppercased; shift still gets you the numbers.
In some non-latin based layouts: Caps-Lock toggles between national script, and latin script (so you can say, type in a URL, or otherwise use the internet that demands usernames be a-z when the letters a-z don't even exist on the keyboard....; people in these markets often allow usernames, passwords, etc in local script; rather than "english letters")
So, inconvenience entire countries because US english doesn't use it.
Or what about doing away with the # key, because it's rarely used. (On bristish english keyboards, the # is it's own key. Shift-# = ~; Shift-` (backtick) = (not) )
Several Keyboard layouts have 4 shift states. CAPS !== SHIFT. See Czech and Swiss German for common examples.
the upper row of CZ are letters. SHIFT gets you 123457890 CAPS: gets uppercased letters CAPS-Shift: numbers again
Swiss: Shift ü = è CAPS ON: Shift Ü = È
If you get rid of the caps lock, you'll have to introduce a common dual-state key for the dozens of languges that require it. n other layouts, CAPS switches between national language script, and latin letter script (which is pretty much required now if you ever want to type a URL)
Several Keyboard layouts have 4 shift states. CAPS !== SHIFT. See Czech and Swiss German for common examples.
the upper row of CZ are letters. SHIFT gets you 123457890 CAPS: gets uppercased letters CAPS-Shift: numbers again
Swiss: Shift ü = è CAPS ON: Shift Ü = È
If you get rid of the caps lock, you'll have to introduce a common dual-state key for the dozens of languges that require it. In other layouts, CAPS switches between national language script, and latin letter script (which is pretty much required now if you ever want to type a URL)
Then there are all the keyboard layouts where CAPS != SHIFT. Giving 4 states NONE (lowercase) SHIFT (alternate characters, lowercase) CAPS (uppercase) CAPS SHIFT (alternate characters, uppercase)
See Czech, and Swiss German for two common examples. in Czech: shift-ú = / CAPS, ú = Ú CAPS, Shift-ú = / á í é SHIFT: 8 9 0 CAPS: Á Í É CAPS SHIFT: 8 9 0
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Except in Germany, the default voice is always male, as it was shown that most people were offended(word choice?) to take directions from a female.
BMW even had to issue a recall to fix that problem.
http://www.hoaxorfact.com/Tech...
http://cuindependent.com/2010/...
They should really just relocate their head-office to another country in which they already operate.
And take any developers that want to live overseas someplace.
I say have them set up a development centre in THailand, or the Philippines, and then with the influx of Apple Money, the developers, and their families will be living like wealthy estate owners, complete with house-workers, at a fraction of their current Bay Area living expenses.
They would lose the American Tax loophole, which exists because most countries charge taxes based on where management is located, to avoid what the US does: charges taxes based on region incorporated.
Thus, new tech boom begins in Asia, Massive gentrification, and infrastructure improvements paid for by private companies.
It'd be a Republican's dream.
And as a side-effect, would create a new middle class in the area due to the sudden creation of service economies; and raise wealth due to the influx of US$ (or whatever currency they would use to pay employees)
I would relocate if they gave me the option to (and keep my CA salary)
I would personally take a job in the Philippines and continue to take my California Salary. Live like a king, fraction of the cost of living, and better quality of life with the given income level.
It wouldn't be hard to convince most of the single, male, developers to relocate overseas.
BlueFox: I've been reading through your comments, and you've got a lot of really intriguing/fascinating views on the human brain, memory, and learning, which has caught my interest.
Is there any means to contact you more directly to have a conversation? I was wanting to gleam more insight into your mind, and your mental processes -- in the hopes to be able to improve my own, or at least to give inspiration on how to improve my own modes of thinking.
It's not a debt until you have taken possession of the goods or services.
Until then, it's just a pending transaction, and there is no debt.
If you go to a restaurant, eat. That incurred a debt.
Going to a checkout at a store, at the time you hit the cashier, you have not incurred a debt.
http://www.greenoptimistic.com...
2012 increased efficiency in PZE design by 25% by reducing coating area.
And, then it says, you just put hundreds of thousands of these things under highways, and start reaping a non-trivial amount of electricity
>> Netflix ... seems to actively avoid including shows already licensed to local television networks.
Probably because, the local provider has full broadcasting rights to the content in the country, which usually include internet streaming. (those are being split out in newer contracts)
Not quite correct.
You can call your CC company up and set your billing address to anything you want, in any country.
I've done this hundreds of times over the past 15 years. More so in Canada, just set my billing address to a non-existent US address. (CC has paperless billing)
Or, when I needed something from iTunes, I set my US Capital One card billing address to one in the UK. Capital One has this to an art, in that you can set your Card Replacement Mailing address separate from your Billing Address -- just for this reason. So I keep my card address in US, and the Billing address in the EU.
For US Credit Card Validation, For Zip Code: Strip non-numeric characters, and 0-pad.
So, for the billing address 123 Fake St, Leeds, LS11 7EJ
You can enter the address: 123 Fake St; Leeds; NY, 11700
- And it passes ZIP validatio and US Processor Validation (nearly all explictly state they cannot validate non-US billing addresses, and will always succeed.
- Using NY, just satifies website logic in case they are trying to be "smart" and applying the state's zipcode range;
- Entering the correct Address and City will trigger a successful validation if they are in the few systems (I've never actually seen one in the US that does) that validate non-US billing addreses.
They used to provide this information for Canadians renting cars to the US, so they can figure out what ZipCode to enter on Gas Station Pumps.
( Zip = 2C3 R4L; enter 23400 )
You do realise you can set your billing address to anything you want, arbitrarily, anytime?
I do this all the time to get around credit-card geolocation.
I call up my CC company (CapitalOne, Chase, USAA, or Bank of Montreal), and say "I'd like to temporarily change my billing address" and then give them an appropriate out of country address. It's nice if it exists, but it doesn't have to.
And if you have paperless billing, it really doesn't matter at all.
The law explictly excludes any data derived from photos: "... Biometric information does not include information derived from items or procedures excluded under the definition of biometric identifiers."
Since they derived all this information from photographs, it's explictly NOT biometric information.
So, this lawsuit shouldn't have been heard, as they are clearly deriving all their information from "items excluded under the definition of biometric identifiers" (photographs)
The law also says:
"... Biometric information does not include information derived from items or procedures excluded under the definition of biometric identifiers"
So, any information derived from photographs (items excluded under the definition of biometric identifiers), is not biometric information.
Since they derived all this information from photographs, it's explictly NOT biometric information.
US Courts have generally decided that the point of sale is where the customer is located, not the server. Hence sales tax is taxed at the customer's location, and not the server location (otherwise the original idea of putting servers / warehouses in states with no sales-tax would have continued to work).
If you provide a digital service to a European citizen, you are required to submit VAT payments; as you are completing a sale in the EU. (Much like how the US treats the customer's location as the point of sale, in determining tax-rates, applicable laws, etc.)
Thus, in this case, you will be breaking the law in Europe.
Which is perfectly fine if you don't have any intention of ever stepping foot in Europe.
Or are not evading taxes to such an extent that the EU decides to extradite you.
And apparently, that's what they went with
http://forum.projektneptun.ch/...
Caps Lock assists in performance for all the language-specific layouts that rely on it to enter characters. (In these layouts, CAPS state, != SHIFT state; and thus yields a new CAPS+SHIFT state. See: Swiss German, Czech, ]
Others just use it to switch between national language, and latin characters (so caps is more a latin-lock, than caps lock). Which is becoming more required if one wants to type on the Internet which seems to assume that most people have the letters a-z on their keyboard....
THIS.
Shift + Letter yields --- DIFFERENT Lowercased Letters!
Shift ä = à
Shift ö = é
Shift ü = è
To get uppercased version of any of those letters, you have to turn Caps Lock on.
With CAPS ON:
Shift Ä = À
Shift Ö = É
Shift Ü = È
Use of the caps lock is very common in Switzerland, nad Czech Republic.
Because in many layouts SHIFT != CAPS
Swiss German and Czech; they have four states
NONE; SHIFT; CAPS; CAPS-SHIFT.
shift ü = è
CAPS ON: Shift-Ü = È
Czech: The number row is actually all letters. ; to get the numbers 1234567890; you have to use shift.
Caps Lock: the top row are now uppercased; shift still gets you the numbers.
Some non-latin layouts use CAPS to toggle between national characters, and latin-letters. (so caps lock on, gives lowercase latin-alpha); caps-lock off gives you lower-case cyrillic.
How would that work in the Swiss (German), or Czech markets?
As Shift and Caps are different states.
Shift-ü = è
CAPS; shift-Ü = È
would that mean, to type Èt, one would have to do [shift, shift, shift-ü, shift, shift], t ?
And for that matter, a Ü would be what [shift, shift, ü, shift shift]
I hope they didn't do that home/end thing in the European markets.
In other layouts it does different things.
Swiss German and Czech; they have four states
NONE; SHIFT; CAPS; CAPS-SHIFT.
shift ü = è
CAPS ON: Shift-Ü = È
Czech: The number row is actually all letters. ; to get the numbers 1234567890; you have to use shift.
Caps Lock: the top row are now uppercased; shift still gets you the numbers.
In some non-latin based layouts:
Caps-Lock toggles between national script, and latin script (so you can say, type in a URL, or otherwise use the internet that demands usernames be a-z when the letters a-z don't even exist on the keyboard....; people in these markets often allow usernames, passwords, etc in local script; rather than "english letters")
Swss German
Czech.
the upper row of CZ are letters.
SHIFT gets you 123457890
CAPS: gets uppercased letters
CAPS-Shift: numbers again
Swiss:
Shift ü = è
CAPS ON: Shift Ü = È
So, inconvenience entire countries because US english doesn't use it.
Or what about doing away with the # key, because it's rarely used. (On bristish english keyboards, the # is it's own key. Shift-# = ~; Shift-` (backtick) = (not) )
Several Keyboard layouts have 4 shift states. CAPS !== SHIFT.
See Czech and Swiss German for common examples.
the upper row of CZ are letters.
SHIFT gets you 123457890
CAPS: gets uppercased letters
CAPS-Shift: numbers again
Swiss:
Shift ü = è
CAPS ON: Shift Ü = È
If you get rid of the caps lock, you'll have to introduce a common dual-state key for the dozens of languges that require it.
n other layouts, CAPS switches between national language script, and latin letter script (which is pretty much required now if you ever want to type a URL)
Several Keyboard layouts have 4 shift states. CAPS !== SHIFT.
See Czech and Swiss German for common examples.
the upper row of CZ are letters.
SHIFT gets you 123457890
CAPS: gets uppercased letters
CAPS-Shift: numbers again
Swiss:
Shift ü = è
CAPS ON: Shift Ü = È
If you get rid of the caps lock, you'll have to introduce a common dual-state key for the dozens of languges that require it.
In other layouts, CAPS switches between national language script, and latin letter script (which is pretty much required now if you ever want to type a URL)
Niche environments.
Like the country of Switzerland; or the Czech Republic.
Several Keyboard layouts have 4 shift states. CAPS !== SHIFT.
See Czech and Swiss German for common examples.
the upper row of CZ are letters.
SHIFT gets you 123457890
CAPS: gets uppercased letters
CAPS-Shift: numbers again
Swiss German:
Shift ü = è
CAPS ON: Shift Ü = È
If you get rid of the caps lock, you'll have to introduce a common dual-state key for the dozens of languges that require it.
Several Keyboard layouts have 4 shift states. CAPS !== SHIFT.
See Czech and Swiss German for common examples.
the upper row of CZ are letters.
SHIFT gets you 123457890
CAPS: gets uppercased letters
CAPS-Shift: numbers again
Swiss:
Shift ü = è
CAPS ON: Shift Ü = È
If you get rid of the caps lock, you'll have to introduce a common dual-state key for the dozens of languges that require it.
Then there are all the keyboard layouts where
CAPS != SHIFT.
Giving 4 states
NONE (lowercase)
SHIFT (alternate characters, lowercase)
CAPS (uppercase)
CAPS SHIFT (alternate characters, uppercase)
See Czech, and Swiss German for two common examples.
in Czech:
shift-ú = /
CAPS, ú = Ú
CAPS, Shift-ú = /
á í é
SHIFT: 8 9 0
CAPS: Á Í É
CAPS SHIFT: 8 9 0