Nice try, it used to be spelled Andersen Consulting (Accenture), not Anderson Consulting. Besides, the markup is way more than $25 per, unless may be it was 20 years ago and you stopped working in that business since then.
3) Both products are connectible to VGA and HDMI monitors.
No they're not. The Netbook does, but the iPad doesn't. The iPad doesn't let you play video on a bigger screen unless it was purchased through iTunes. So let's say you load the ABC News app, or you load the Netflix app (which is an app you actually had to purchase through iTunes already, plus content that you're already paying for through your Netflix subscription), the iPad tells you that you can't play it on the bigger screen because of DRM restrictions.
DRM restrictions? WTF? It's content that I've already paid for!! And every other device already lets me play my stuff on my LCD!
iPad has built in 3G cellular data - HP Netbook does not.
Actually, all the Netbooks in Europe seem to be able to accept sim cards. In fact, the locals were quite surprised when mine didn't. The only difference with the iPad is that carriers just hand out those NetBooks for free (with a two-year contract), while I doubt that they'll do that for the iPad.
Bull shit!!! Even the US has plenty of fraud. The real questions are: What's the percentage of fraud/theft/loss/damage can a company like Apple expect when shipping/selling to your country? It's all a question of percentages and cost-benefit analysis. No one country is 100% free from fraud (even a country like Japan, I can give you examples of fraud there too).
There is no problem with doing business here. Dell and HP have support centers here that support users all over Europe. IBM has a sales/purchasing center here, they handle accounts all over the world. SAP has a software developer center here, too.
Yeah, you guys can accept money coming in, but what about money coming out? How long does it take for a wire transfer, a check, and/or for a credit card transaction to clear? Eastern European countries (and yes, I'm talking to you too, President of Estonia) have some of the weirdest banking regulations where it comes to detecting fraud and how long it takes to notify the seller.
A disk wrapped in a rigid card box would probably break in my mailbox. In my mailbox (which is an apartment mailbox), if I receive more than one DVD at a time from Netflix -- one of them will at least break (or warp so badly, that it will be completely unplayable). If I receive just one Netflix DVD thought, and I don't have too much bulky mail, it will bend slightly, but no permanent damage will be done.
May be, GameFly should just try Netflix's packaging, and do a test run with it. Sometimes, common sense can lead you astray.
Some of the questions look valid, but others are completely obtuse and look like they are designed to waste GameFly's time and resources, not resolve the problem.
I agree. That being said, as a Netflix customer, I can pretty much testify to the fact that my mail man used to break an awful lot of DVDs trying to shove them in my mailbox and then try to close it (so he could get back his keys, I live in a four apartment building so it's a set of four mailboxes he opens together). It became such a problem, I took down my subscription from 4 DVDs to only 1 DVD at-a-time. Usually, it's when there was more than one DVD in there, that at least one of them would break (or at least warp so badly, that it became completely unplayable).
One fix would have been to ask my landlord that he install a bigger set of mailboxes, but the space in the brick wall is so limited, that any change would become a major construction project to replace anything (so I didn't even ask). Another fix is to try to talk to the mail man, but for some reason, my route is not considered a good one (although, it's still a good neighborhood), so it's nearly a different person delivering the mail every week. Another fix would be to have an additional mailbox made especially for DVDs (that, assuming there was an easy way to attach it to my existing mailbox, I would buy in a jiffy).
The title should really be. What is the best way to *pay* someone to implement your own game concept? And even then, it should really be the person who thought of the idea who should implement it, because he'll be the most motivated to get it done the way he originally thought of it.
Not only, ideas are everywhere, and everyone has ideas, but where it comes to one's creative ego, everyone believes that their own idea is the best in the World (and yes, I do include myself in that category of delusional people).
I wish I had mod points. What you say is correct. Even Darwin argued as much. When he spoke of the survival of the fittest, he was talking of groups, not individuals. It's our modern society that keeps on implying that Darwin's ideas apply only to individuals.
If anything, a few of their missteps (like the Newton) played into their image even as they flopped in the market.
Give me a break! It's easy to backwards-rationalize now that you know Apple is a huge success.
Also, Newton wasn't its only set-back. There was Cyberdog, eWorld, the Claris suite, the Motorola ROKR, Pippin, the future looking flat 20th Anniversary Mac, Mac TV, Next, Macintosh Portables, and Apple Lisa. The only difference between HP and Apple is the market they were both used to be aiming at, and it's only recently that HP has been entering the consumer market (which has traditionally been Apple's home turf).
Another difference is that Apple now has a charismatic leader that every Apple employee believes in 100% (since he has not only started the company, but also resurrected it from almost certain doom). With HP, after the countless mergers and the consistent purges of R&D engineers, HP hasn't made itself any friends in the tech community and very few engineers/developers have any desire to work for HP right now (although something like 15 to 20 years ago, most engineers/developers would have been willing to work for that company for a significant pay-cut -- since the company had such a good technical reputation).
The zombie Windows machines are a big part of the problem, but the command & control systems seem to mainly be overseas. As are a lot of the products/scams being pitched.
I don't see the logic in your argument. The US has zombie consumers too. Most of our products come from overseas (because of the impact of the dollar and the lack of laws those countries have). That doesn't mean the command & control Corporate structure isn't in the US.
2. Keyboard is terrible when you need to write in multiple languages (in my case dutch & english). For English alone it's fantastic.
Have you tried the 'Dutch for SlideIT Keyboard'? It's a free app on the Market, it supports a primary language and secondary language(s), and it's getting five star reviews from users (I wish I could tell you what those users are saying, but it's all gibberish to me).
Don't block YouTube/Google Videos/Vimeo, they might actually need those for their job. If your developers have a problem with YouTube, tell them to stop going on it. Do not rely on technology to solve a management/employee problem. A goof off will always find something to distract him, even if he doesn't have access to youtube.
I agree completely. Proactive responses are pointless, everyone knows that! That's why I've been working hard over the last year to convince my city that we don't need a fire department, smoke alarms, or all those silly building-codes designed to prevent fires. We have so few people die in fires that there's clearly no way to justify such over-the-top policies.
Are you advocating that firemen now frisk and x-ray every person for lighters and flammable materials in certain high-risk fire areas? because that's how freaking proactive Homeland Security has become. Let's compare oranges to oranges please, not firemen to the TSA.
Didn't you guys (Americans) just get a new set of laws that explicitly prevent insurance companies from screwing you like that?
Yes, and no. Yes, Insurance Companies are now explicitly forbidden to use genetic testing information to deny health coverage, or health benefits.
But no, Life Insurance is specifically not included in those laws (even in the US). Life Insurance represents a peculiar thorny problem in that regard. If you do give guaranteed privacy, even in the case of Life Insurance Claims. Then, the people that know they're going to die because of some genetics tests they did, would invest all their money in Life Insurance policies, and that would give them an unfair edge in the Life Insurance system (it would be like playing with a stacked deck in a casino, just having the knowledge that the deck is stacked a particular way would give a player an unfair advantage over the others in the game).
Also even for health insurance, insurance companies could pretend that they did not discriminate based on genetics test results, but if for some reason, they found a particular high incidence of costly genetics markers in a particular region, they could shut down their offices in that region (red-line it, so to speak), and try to use some other reasons to justify their decisions (thus, they could try to discriminate based on that information, and it would be very difficult for outsiders to really know/prove that they had been discriminated against).
And last but not least, ancestry and ancestral migration patterns doesn't just affect belief systems. That data, and its corresponding interpretation, can be leveraged to make property claims to former burial grounds or hunting grounds (at least politically, if not legally), and I guess it could possibly be used to deny/accept the claims of Native American tribes/individuals that are currently receiving ongoing reparations from the US government. Also such genetic testing could even put into question the tribal legitimacy of some Native Americans individuals that were the products of white-on-native rapes that occurred as an indirect result of the Eugenics program (forced removal of the kids to educate them, and to make them work as maids) that occurred as late as the 60s in some States.
Is this the kind of justice you have down under? All it takes is just one guy writing a story based on one long email that he received from an anonymous source, and you're ready to hang the defendant despite the fact that you haven't heard anything from his side yet. Wow!
Somehow, I think we're missing a part of this story. Was there a fight just before she happen to kick the door in? Was there an history between the superintendent and her? What Federal Prison was this in???
On a more serious note. If you ever photocopy a manual more than 50 pages long, I think you'll find out why. Nobody wants to wait around for each page to get printed before feeding the next page in. Also, nobody wants to resubmit the entire stack of originals, if for some reason the printer gets jammed midway through, or if midway through for some reason your boss just asks you to get 10 copies of those 50+ pages, not that the 5 copies that he originally asked.
When it comes down to it, there is great business sense in decoupling the scanning task from the printing task. It's just something that most of us would never think about, when disposing one of those newer machines. In my opinion, manufacturers shouldn't be required to get rid of this feature, they should just be required to put a warning label on the machines that have it, at the very least. It's more of an education issue.
What won't it do to convince you that you need to do something half way across the world using systems under their control, what you once did perfectly in your office?
You've obviously never printed something remotely to Kinkos. That feature is convenient and can be a life-saver sometimes.
This doesn't mean that everyone will start printing remotely 100% of the time, but personally, I'd be glad to have this feature -- even if I only very rarely use it. If Google made it easy enough, I could see myself printing from my phone, from my television set up box, and whenever I'm away from my home or office, or my printer is broken, or my printer doesn't support the colors I want, the particular size, or the quantities of copies I want.
Also, this means that Google could lower the barrier of entry for every mom and pop printer store out there to be able to work like Kinkos, and this should facilitate economies of scales and reduce the cost of printing (Kinkos is nice, but its prices can really be high sometimes).
You had me until you said you used paypal. Paypal is not cash, not even close. Also as to the buddy, you just seem to be pawning the risk off to him, so your advice doesn't scale. If I unload my risk to my buddy, and if my buddy unloads his risk to another buddy, the chain will eventually break when the last person figures out they've been taking on the risk for everyone else.
Oh, and I just love that in the article, the most relevant bits of information are listed near the bottom, and quite in the most dismissive fashion as well.
The study that appears in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine openly lists a few caveats. Aside from being partially funded by Taser International, the study authors include two physicians who represent medical consultants and stockholders of the company. One of the two is also the medical director of Taser International.
Medical director of Taser International?? Really? WTF?
"But neither the smaller nor larger sheep showed signs of the ventricular fibrillation condition" is all well and good but I have to wonder if the fact that the sheep were sedated might not help out with this.
Since the study was funded by Taser International, Inc (a for profit corporation), and that company might be about to go the way of the Asbestos companies very very soon. It was absolutely imperative that no sheep got hurt, or killed, during that test.
...he cashier's behaviour was inappropriate. That's not how to treat a costumer.
That really depends on the establishment, and on the true underlying intent at the time of the cashier.
With Southwest Airlines, Trader Joes, or Ikea for instance, trying to cheer up a kid who seems down is rewarded and encouraged by management. I think they operate under the assumption that the more you become familiar with your customers, the less likely those customers will try to sue you or even try to go else where. A silly notion I know, but that assumption may still hold true -- even if there is the occasional exception once in a while.
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Nice try, it used to be spelled Andersen Consulting (Accenture), not Anderson Consulting. Besides, the markup is way more than $25 per, unless may be it was 20 years ago and you stopped working in that business since then.
You mean saving a shortcut that goes to a local file, or dragging and dropping the local url to put on your desktop?
3) Both products are connectible to VGA and HDMI monitors.
No they're not. The Netbook does, but the iPad doesn't. The iPad doesn't let you play video on a bigger screen unless it was purchased through iTunes. So let's say you load the ABC News app, or you load the Netflix app (which is an app you actually had to purchase through iTunes already, plus content that you're already paying for through your Netflix subscription), the iPad tells you that you can't play it on the bigger screen because of DRM restrictions.
DRM restrictions? WTF? It's content that I've already paid for!! And every other device already lets me play my stuff on my LCD!
iPad has built in 3G cellular data - HP Netbook does not.
Actually, all the Netbooks in Europe seem to be able to accept sim cards. In fact, the locals were quite surprised when mine didn't. The only difference with the iPad is that carriers just hand out those NetBooks for free (with a two-year contract), while I doubt that they'll do that for the iPad.
My country is not one of them.
Bull shit!!! Even the US has plenty of fraud. The real questions are: What's the percentage of fraud/theft/loss/damage can a company like Apple expect when shipping/selling to your country? It's all a question of percentages and cost-benefit analysis. No one country is 100% free from fraud (even a country like Japan, I can give you examples of fraud there too).
There is no problem with doing business here. Dell and HP have support centers here that support users all over Europe. IBM has a sales/purchasing center here, they handle accounts all over the world. SAP has a software developer center here, too.
Yeah, you guys can accept money coming in, but what about money coming out? How long does it take for a wire transfer, a check, and/or for a credit card transaction to clear? Eastern European countries (and yes, I'm talking to you too, President of Estonia) have some of the weirdest banking regulations where it comes to detecting fraud and how long it takes to notify the seller.
Or get your lazy ass out of the house and use a USPS drop box. Just sayin'
a drop box? I think you misunderstood. It gets broken when I receive it, not when I send it back.
A disk wrapped in a rigid card box would probably break in my mailbox. In my mailbox (which is an apartment mailbox), if I receive more than one DVD at a time from Netflix -- one of them will at least break (or warp so badly, that it will be completely unplayable). If I receive just one Netflix DVD thought, and I don't have too much bulky mail, it will bend slightly, but no permanent damage will be done.
May be, GameFly should just try Netflix's packaging, and do a test run with it. Sometimes, common sense can lead you astray.
Some of the questions look valid, but others are completely obtuse and look like they are designed to waste GameFly's time and resources, not resolve the problem.
I agree. That being said, as a Netflix customer, I can pretty much testify to the fact that my mail man used to break an awful lot of DVDs trying to shove them in my mailbox and then try to close it (so he could get back his keys, I live in a four apartment building so it's a set of four mailboxes he opens together). It became such a problem, I took down my subscription from 4 DVDs to only 1 DVD at-a-time. Usually, it's when there was more than one DVD in there, that at least one of them would break (or at least warp so badly, that it became completely unplayable).
One fix would have been to ask my landlord that he install a bigger set of mailboxes, but the space in the brick wall is so limited, that any change would become a major construction project to replace anything (so I didn't even ask). Another fix is to try to talk to the mail man, but for some reason, my route is not considered a good one (although, it's still a good neighborhood), so it's nearly a different person delivering the mail every week. Another fix would be to have an additional mailbox made especially for DVDs (that, assuming there was an easy way to attach it to my existing mailbox, I would buy in a jiffy).
The title should really be. What is the best way to *pay* someone to implement your own game concept? And even then, it should really be the person who thought of the idea who should implement it, because he'll be the most motivated to get it done the way he originally thought of it.
Not only, ideas are everywhere, and everyone has ideas, but where it comes to one's creative ego, everyone believes that their own idea is the best in the World (and yes, I do include myself in that category of delusional people).
I wish I had mod points. What you say is correct. Even Darwin argued as much. When he spoke of the survival of the fittest, he was talking of groups, not individuals. It's our modern society that keeps on implying that Darwin's ideas apply only to individuals.
If anything, a few of their missteps (like the Newton) played into their image even as they flopped in the market.
Give me a break! It's easy to backwards-rationalize now that you know Apple is a huge success.
Also, Newton wasn't its only set-back. There was Cyberdog, eWorld, the Claris suite, the Motorola ROKR, Pippin, the future looking flat 20th Anniversary Mac, Mac TV, Next, Macintosh Portables, and Apple Lisa. The only difference between HP and Apple is the market they were both used to be aiming at, and it's only recently that HP has been entering the consumer market (which has traditionally been Apple's home turf).
Another difference is that Apple now has a charismatic leader that every Apple employee believes in 100% (since he has not only started the company, but also resurrected it from almost certain doom). With HP, after the countless mergers and the consistent purges of R&D engineers, HP hasn't made itself any friends in the tech community and very few engineers/developers have any desire to work for HP right now (although something like 15 to 20 years ago, most engineers/developers would have been willing to work for that company for a significant pay-cut -- since the company had such a good technical reputation).
The zombie Windows machines are a big part of the problem, but the command & control systems seem to mainly be overseas. As are a lot of the products/scams being pitched.
I don't see the logic in your argument. The US has zombie consumers too. Most of our products come from overseas (because of the impact of the dollar and the lack of laws those countries have). That doesn't mean the command & control Corporate structure isn't in the US.
2. Keyboard is terrible when you need to write in multiple languages (in my case dutch & english). For English alone it's fantastic.
Have you tried the 'Dutch for SlideIT Keyboard'? It's a free app on the Market, it supports a primary language and secondary language(s), and it's getting five star reviews from users (I wish I could tell you what those users are saying, but it's all gibberish to me).
- Block Youtube et. al., they eat your time
Don't block YouTube/Google Videos/Vimeo, they might actually need those for their job. If your developers have a problem with YouTube, tell them to stop going on it. Do not rely on technology to solve a management/employee problem. A goof off will always find something to distract him, even if he doesn't have access to youtube.
I agree completely. Proactive responses are pointless, everyone knows that! That's why I've been working hard over the last year to convince my city that we don't need a fire department, smoke alarms, or all those silly building-codes designed to prevent fires. We have so few people die in fires that there's clearly no way to justify such over-the-top policies.
Are you advocating that firemen now frisk and x-ray every person for lighters and flammable materials in certain high-risk fire areas? because that's how freaking proactive Homeland Security has become. Let's compare oranges to oranges please, not firemen to the TSA.
Didn't you guys (Americans) just get a new set of laws that explicitly prevent insurance companies from screwing you like that?
Yes, and no. Yes, Insurance Companies are now explicitly forbidden to use genetic testing information to deny health coverage, or health benefits.
But no, Life Insurance is specifically not included in those laws (even in the US). Life Insurance represents a peculiar thorny problem in that regard. If you do give guaranteed privacy, even in the case of Life Insurance Claims. Then, the people that know they're going to die because of some genetics tests they did, would invest all their money in Life Insurance policies, and that would give them an unfair edge in the Life Insurance system (it would be like playing with a stacked deck in a casino, just having the knowledge that the deck is stacked a particular way would give a player an unfair advantage over the others in the game).
Also even for health insurance, insurance companies could pretend that they did not discriminate based on genetics test results, but if for some reason, they found a particular high incidence of costly genetics markers in a particular region, they could shut down their offices in that region (red-line it, so to speak), and try to use some other reasons to justify their decisions (thus, they could try to discriminate based on that information, and it would be very difficult for outsiders to really know/prove that they had been discriminated against).
And last but not least, ancestry and ancestral migration patterns doesn't just affect belief systems. That data, and its corresponding interpretation, can be leveraged to make property claims to former burial grounds or hunting grounds (at least politically, if not legally), and I guess it could possibly be used to deny/accept the claims of Native American tribes/individuals that are currently receiving ongoing reparations from the US government. Also such genetic testing could even put into question the tribal legitimacy of some Native Americans individuals that were the products of white-on-native rapes that occurred as an indirect result of the Eugenics program (forced removal of the kids to educate them, and to make them work as maids) that occurred as late as the 60s in some States.
I wish I were on the jury so I could vote guilty.
Is this the kind of justice you have down under? All it takes is just one guy writing a story based on one long email that he received from an anonymous source, and you're ready to hang the defendant despite the fact that you haven't heard anything from his side yet. Wow!
I see you're going for the Aspergers defense.
Somehow, I think we're missing a part of this story. Was there a fight just before she happen to kick the door in? Was there an history between the superintendent and her? What Federal Prison was this in???
Why did they start designing copy machines to have long term storage, and to keep a copy of everything ever copied?
The Cold War.
On a more serious note. If you ever photocopy a manual more than 50 pages long, I think you'll find out why. Nobody wants to wait around for each page to get printed before feeding the next page in. Also, nobody wants to resubmit the entire stack of originals, if for some reason the printer gets jammed midway through, or if midway through for some reason your boss just asks you to get 10 copies of those 50+ pages, not that the 5 copies that he originally asked.
When it comes down to it, there is great business sense in decoupling the scanning task from the printing task. It's just something that most of us would never think about, when disposing one of those newer machines. In my opinion, manufacturers shouldn't be required to get rid of this feature, they should just be required to put a warning label on the machines that have it, at the very least. It's more of an education issue.
Yeah, they better not turn on the GPS, or they'll get former Special Forces (Steve Jobs' personal security detail) barreling down on them in no time.
What won't it do to convince you that you need to do something half way across the world using systems under their control, what you once did perfectly in your office?
You've obviously never printed something remotely to Kinkos. That feature is convenient and can be a life-saver sometimes.
This doesn't mean that everyone will start printing remotely 100% of the time, but personally, I'd be glad to have this feature -- even if I only very rarely use it. If Google made it easy enough, I could see myself printing from my phone, from my television set up box, and whenever I'm away from my home or office, or my printer is broken, or my printer doesn't support the colors I want, the particular size, or the quantities of copies I want.
Also, this means that Google could lower the barrier of entry for every mom and pop printer store out there to be able to work like Kinkos, and this should facilitate economies of scales and reduce the cost of printing (Kinkos is nice, but its prices can really be high sometimes).
You had me until you said you used paypal. Paypal is not cash, not even close. Also as to the buddy, you just seem to be pawning the risk off to him, so your advice doesn't scale. If I unload my risk to my buddy, and if my buddy unloads his risk to another buddy, the chain will eventually break when the last person figures out they've been taking on the risk for everyone else.
The study that appears in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine openly lists a few caveats. Aside from being partially funded by Taser International, the study authors include two physicians who represent medical consultants and stockholders of the company. One of the two is also the medical director of Taser International.
Medical director of Taser International?? Really? WTF?
"But neither the smaller nor larger sheep showed signs of the ventricular fibrillation condition" is all well and good but I have to wonder if the fact that the sheep were sedated might not help out with this.
Since the study was funded by Taser International, Inc (a for profit corporation), and that company might be about to go the way of the Asbestos companies very very soon. It was absolutely imperative that no sheep got hurt, or killed, during that test.
...he cashier's behaviour was inappropriate. That's not how to treat a costumer.
That really depends on the establishment, and on the true underlying intent at the time of the cashier.
With Southwest Airlines, Trader Joes, or Ikea for instance, trying to cheer up a kid who seems down is rewarded and encouraged by management. I think they operate under the assumption that the more you become familiar with your customers, the less likely those customers will try to sue you or even try to go else where. A silly notion I know, but that assumption may still hold true -- even if there is the occasional exception once in a while.