I feel the same way, I don't buy products from pop-ups or companies that advertise via pop-ups
Sadly, there don't enough of people like us. I'm sure if market research showed that pop-ups had a terribly negative effect on consumers, they would cease to exist.
My guess is that firms feel that if you see a few pop-ups for a G-22 wireless camera, you might be ticked initially, but that you'll still be able to recall the product in the future. So 3 months from now, you may be in the market for such a camera. You may not remember where you first heard of it, but you know of the product and may very well look into purchasing one.
Anyone have a link to some sort of research on this topic?
I like how he lit up the police helicopter which led to his arrest. I mean, with all the flap about this, he HAD to know that police were looking for the guy doing it.
I wonder if just finished a grand theft auto marathon before going to "look at the stars"
Hey hey! He was at the University of Iowa on Friday to use our satellite uplink for interviews. I work in the same building and we tracked him down and got a pic.... here's the scoop
meh -- there are two versions of the owa client, basic and premium -- choose basic. Your server admin may have also setup OWA to pop up a window for composing new messages and replies. Try allowing site popups for that page or turning off the pop-up blocking functionality briefly just to test
DNS dying on you? Just throw it on the pile of other connection problems
I think everyone has several "single" points of failure -- my cable modem dies at least twice a month and my wireless router conks out at least twice a day;)
well we know...
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Well, Joe Schmo customer doesn't agree. He's out at BestBuy or CompUSA looking for a new computer, and all he sees is that Macs 1- cost a lot more, and 2- can't run the games and software that PCs can.
So what are they going to do? Ship windows on the machine? Even if they cut prices to be "competitive" Joe Customer is still going opt for the PC because he can run his games and software on it.
So in your senario Joe Customer would still buy the PC because it still has an advantage over his Mac unless the Mac was priced much lower than the PC to make up for its "crippled" status. Or maybe there's other reasons why folks buy Macs other than price and software availability.
See everyone's a freakin' expert on this, you don't think that Apple has a strategic financial think tank? You don't think that they're plotting the course best for them? Why is it that Apple critics think that becomming Dell is ONLY viable option for Apple?
I think Apple likes where they are. They're not the dominant strip n' ship shop, but they're cutting a profit and they're making innovative designs. Guess what? They're happy with that! Not every company needs to aspire to be Microsoft or Dell.
Risk and return my friend. Lets say a lawyer generally takes cases that he feels have a 30% chance of winning (that's a pretty low threshold) and while we're making up numbers here say he's got to invest $100,000 per law suit (in reality it isn't that high because most of the rejected lawsuits are summarily rejected before you have to pay out for an expert and rack up more billing hours). Anyway using your number lets add my number say for each win, he makes 500,000 bucks.
for 10 lawsuits it costs him a million bucks but he should expect makes a profit of $500,000 since he's going to win three of those ten.
With so much debate on bullshit lawsuits in the system, are you really going to come out and say that there are no bs lawsuits? In actuality the lawyer is going to file as many claims as is economically feasible for him and within his resources (time, etc). Just like spamming, if you can make money off it, they'll do it and they ARE making money off of filing a lot of lawsuits because your costs for a suit that does not go to court are not high at all and amount of fees that you collect when you do win are more than enough to make up for the expensive failures.
Except that you can't PROVE that the whirlpool was the reason for the infection
good point, except that it is VERY standard medical protocol not to soak a surgical wound in warm water for 40 minutes because of the very high risk of infection.
I'll go further into this incident -- the nurse had actually gave the wrong person the whirpool, it was meant for the person in the bed next door. This negligence lead to her apply a treatment with a very significant risk of infection and guess what? She got an infection. Yes a knee infection is a known postoperative complication, but in general, a not
terribly common one.
You're right, I cannot "prove" that the whirpool caused the infection, but lets look at the metric which is used in this case -- preponderance of the evidence. Whirpools are not used because they very significantly increase the chance of infection. Knee infections are not a terribly common result of a knee operation. A whirpool was applied and an infection resulted... hmm... open and shut I think.
So you see, it isn't just that the operation had a bad outcome (that is a risk in any medical treatment). It is that there was negligence that heavily contributed to the bad outcome. My grandmother's chances of contracting a knee infection would have been MUCH lower had the nurse been able to tell room 161 from room 160.
A Harvard Medical School study of 30,000 New York City cases found that more than 80% of the lawsuits filed were without merit, that is, no malpractice was found. To add insult to injury, 57% of medical malpractice premiums go to pay for lawyers' fees.
I'm looking for the link for that harvard study but you get the idea. Yeah 80% of the plaintiffs lost but of course, not all of those cases were "bullshit" but say that of that 80% enough were bs to be able to say that 10% of those cases were total balony, I think you would be heavily underestimating the number.
Of course people that usually demand a source usually reject whatever it is (you've pre-rejected one!) so if you're going to continue this thread, I suggest you find an article that says there are very few bullshit lawsuits;)
I totally understand how frustrating it must be to have someone screw up like that (my own grandmother got a terrible knee infection after a nurse screwed up and put her post op knee in a whirlpool). These types of cases *should* be taken to court or some sort of resolution sought.
But having known a doctor in my family, there are tons of people out there looking to start trouble, patients who try to scam the doc's for painkillers and all sorts of scary stuff you wouldn't believe. There are 10 bad patients for every 1 bad doctor. The doc I know has to reject patients all the time because they seem to be the type of person who is looking for any pretense under which to sue.
The question I'd pose to everyone lambasting this blacklist is that if you were a business person and in the course of doing business you exposed yourself to significant risk of liability and you know one of your customers was just looking for a reason to sue you... would you do business with them?
believe me, if you lose a malpractice lawsuit, you are gonna lose a lot of business. come on, is the concept of frivolous law suits so much of a stretch to apply to the medical world?
doc's pay a ton in malpractice insurance and losing one of these cases is desastating. There are tons of patients that show up with a law suit on their minds because they
a) are just that type of person or b) they can't pay for the service and are looking for a way to cover their bills (believe me, this happens).
just like anyone else doing business in this world, doctors have to protect themselves.
not all cases are black and white, and there are definitly some patients who are more likely to sue than others (especially those who have sued before). Malpractice insurance is so expensive these days, losing a suit like this can get your coverage yanked effectively putting you out of business. While no doctor wants to sit there and screen patients based on the likelyhood of them suing, it is a reality that is part of the medical world today.
Yeah it sounds horrible in the case where the doctor really f'd up, but tons of malpractice cases are bullshit and really put a strain on the doctor's ability to do business.
If I was a doctor (in a non-emergency case), hell yeah I'd want to know if a patient has sued before and under what circumstances because this is about protecting my livelihood.
...here at the United Counterfitters of North America (UCNA) when I say that we will no longer be patronizing HP for any of their printing products. Crippled products such as this simply don't fit our needs.
According to BT, the US-side fault should be fixed by the end of this week, which will bring the cable network online again.
The author of the/. post made it sound like they were ignoring the problem, when in fact they appear to be working on it. These things don't get fixed within hours, this cable is at the bottom of the ocean! Yeah, redundacy can fail but I don't think it is because of laziness of the telecoms or anything. They just got unlucky and had two failures close enough together where the first one couldn't be fixed in time to keep the network up.
Fox Television Entertainment Group chairman Sandy Grushow said a decision is expected soon...
In english, "we really screwed the pooch on this one and are currently kissing seth MacFarland's ass to try to get him to come back to do more episodes. If he says yes, then we'll shove them out the door as soon as possible"
I wish they would add "market droid" to the google translation service.
This is just like those Microsoft campus liscence agreements. They come in and say "we know your students are violating our copyrights, sign this agreement or we'll sue you"
nothing but extortion
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Review of Mac OS X 10.3
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what you've done here is really lame.
I don't think it is very appropriate to edit the article like you have. While the edits are obvious (at least some of them) who knows what else you subtly changed without reading both versions as closely as possible. While you're not bound in anyway to provide the exact text, I think you should treat the/. community a little better than that.
here's the lines that I noticed
When you use Mac OS X, you feel like sodomy; should be
When you use Mac OS X, you feel like it's yours; when you use Windows, you feel as though you're using someone else's toys,
and
You can have incoming faxes automatically printed out, saved into a folder, smeared with diarrhea, sent to yourself by e-mail, or any combination of those.should be
You can have incoming faxes automatically printed out, saved into a folder, sent to yourself by e-mail, or any combination of those.
you don't have to put up with anything when it comes down to it. Why haven't I purchased a CD in the past six months? I'm tired of paying $18 for a disc and it's a pain in the butt to import them all into my computer.
iTunes is a service that I like, cheap music, easy to download and I can do everything I want with the music without running into the DRM.
If you don't like iTunes, then don't use it, obviously people like you are not their target customer. I just don't understand the smug attitude that everyone brings up on this topic. "because business X doesn't sell what I want for the price that I want they are evil and are shoving everything down our throats"
So allow me to clairfy, comon if you want legit downloads of mainstream artists, there are going to have to be restrictions. Restrictions that don't bug me in the least because guess what? i haven't run into them yet because i'm not trying to pirate the music.
I guess I don't understand your complaint... you can burn these into a CD ALL YOU WANT and from there you can do anything you want to them (mp3, record them onto a *cough* tape player, whatever).
or maybe you're just upset that there's a resonable compromise between DRM and free use rights. Come on, if you want legit digital downloads, there's going to have to be some restrictions.
I know a lot of people rag on 1x because it isn't supported by every POS WiFi card out there but the security enhancement you get is really indispensible espeically when you consider that your average corporate WEP network is no safer than my linksys AP at home.
A really great client for getting multiple cards to work on 1x networks is the Aegis client from Meetinghouse Their supplicant will take many standard WiFi cards and allow them to use 1x.
Our IT dept doesn't support it (most probably won't) but if you're a frustrated user who doesn't want to buy a new card for a 1x network they've got a 15 day demo which should give you enough time to figure out if it works for you.
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I feel the same way, I don't buy products from pop-ups or companies that advertise via pop-ups
Sadly, there don't enough of people like us. I'm sure if market research showed that pop-ups had a terribly negative effect on consumers, they would cease to exist.
My guess is that firms feel that if you see a few pop-ups for a G-22 wireless camera, you might be ticked initially, but that you'll still be able to recall the product in the future. So 3 months from now, you may be in the market for such a camera. You may not remember where you first heard of it, but you know of the product and may very well look into purchasing one.
Anyone have a link to some sort of research on this topic?
This is going to take a whole lot of floorin'! /obligatory simpsons quote
I like how he lit up the police helicopter which led to his arrest. I mean, with all the flap about this, he HAD to know that police were looking for the guy doing it.
I wonder if just finished a grand theft auto marathon before going to "look at the stars"
Hey hey! He was at the University of Iowa on Friday to use our satellite uplink for interviews. I work in the same building and we tracked him down and got a pic.... here's the scoop
meh -- there are two versions of the owa client, basic and premium -- choose basic. Your server admin may have also setup OWA to pop up a window for composing new messages and replies. Try allowing site popups for that page or turning off the pop-up blocking functionality briefly just to test
well, if my cable modem doesn't work, I really don't give a damn about akamai, do i? So to me, its just as important.
DNS dying on you? Just throw it on the pile of other connection problems
;)
I think everyone has several "single" points of failure -- my cable modem dies at least twice a month and my wireless router conks out at least twice a day
... that they don't know where the '4' key is
Well, Joe Schmo customer doesn't agree. He's out at BestBuy or CompUSA looking for a new computer, and all he sees is that Macs 1- cost a lot more, and 2- can't run the games and software that PCs can.
So what are they going to do? Ship windows on the machine? Even if they cut prices to be "competitive" Joe Customer is still going opt for the PC because he can run his games and software on it. So in your senario Joe Customer would still buy the PC because it still has an advantage over his Mac unless the Mac was priced much lower than the PC to make up for its "crippled" status. Or maybe there's other reasons why folks buy Macs other than price and software availability.
See everyone's a freakin' expert on this, you don't think that Apple has a strategic financial think tank? You don't think that they're plotting the course best for them? Why is it that Apple critics think that becomming Dell is ONLY viable option for Apple?
I think Apple likes where they are. They're not the dominant strip n' ship shop, but they're cutting a profit and they're making innovative designs. Guess what? They're happy with that! Not every company needs to aspire to be Microsoft or Dell.
Hell yes he'll sue
Risk and return my friend. Lets say a lawyer generally takes cases that he feels have a 30% chance of winning (that's a pretty low threshold) and while we're making up numbers here say he's got to invest $100,000 per law suit (in reality it isn't that high because most of the rejected lawsuits are summarily rejected before you have to pay out for an expert and rack up more billing hours). Anyway using your number lets add my number say for each win, he makes 500,000 bucks.
for 10 lawsuits it costs him a million bucks but he should expect makes a profit of $500,000 since he's going to win three of those ten.
With so much debate on bullshit lawsuits in the system, are you really going to come out and say that there are no bs lawsuits? In actuality the lawyer is going to file as many claims as is economically feasible for him and within his resources (time, etc). Just like spamming, if you can make money off it, they'll do it and they ARE making money off of filing a lot of lawsuits because your costs for a suit that does not go to court are not high at all and amount of fees that you collect when you do win are more than enough to make up for the expensive failures.
Except that you can't PROVE that the whirlpool was the reason for the infection
good point, except that it is VERY standard medical protocol not to soak a surgical wound in warm water for 40 minutes because of the very high risk of infection.
I'll go further into this incident -- the nurse had actually gave the wrong person the whirpool, it was meant for the person in the bed next door. This negligence lead to her apply a treatment with a very significant risk of infection and guess what? She got an infection. Yes a knee infection is a known postoperative complication, but in general, a not terribly common one.
You're right, I cannot "prove" that the whirpool caused the infection, but lets look at the metric which is used in this case -- preponderance of the evidence. Whirpools are not used because they very significantly increase the chance of infection. Knee infections are not a terribly common result of a knee operation. A whirpool was applied and an infection resulted... hmm... open and shut I think.
So you see, it isn't just that the operation had a bad outcome (that is a risk in any medical treatment). It is that there was negligence that heavily contributed to the bad outcome. My grandmother's chances of contracting a knee infection would have been MUCH lower had the nurse been able to tell room 161 from room 160.
No Problem! MDCALA:Facts About Lawsuit Abuse
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from the article:
A Harvard Medical School study of 30,000 New York City cases found that more than 80% of the lawsuits filed were without merit, that is, no malpractice was found. To add insult to injury, 57% of medical malpractice premiums go to pay for lawyers' fees.
I'm looking for the link for that harvard study but you get the idea. Yeah 80% of the plaintiffs lost but of course, not all of those cases were "bullshit" but say that of that 80% enough were bs to be able to say that 10% of those cases were total balony, I think you would be heavily underestimating the number.
Of course people that usually demand a source usually reject whatever it is (you've pre-rejected one!) so if you're going to continue this thread, I suggest you find an article that says there are very few bullshit lawsuits
I totally understand how frustrating it must be to have someone screw up like that (my own grandmother got a terrible knee infection after a nurse screwed up and put her post op knee in a whirlpool). These types of cases *should* be taken to court or some sort of resolution sought.
But having known a doctor in my family, there are tons of people out there looking to start trouble, patients who try to scam the doc's for painkillers and all sorts of scary stuff you wouldn't believe. There are 10 bad patients for every 1 bad doctor. The doc I know has to reject patients all the time because they seem to be the type of person who is looking for any pretense under which to sue.
The question I'd pose to everyone lambasting this blacklist is that if you were a business person and in the course of doing business you exposed yourself to significant risk of liability and you know one of your customers was just looking for a reason to sue you... would you do business with them?
believe me, if you lose a malpractice lawsuit, you are gonna lose a lot of business. come on, is the concept of frivolous law suits so much of a stretch to apply to the medical world?
doc's pay a ton in malpractice insurance and losing one of these cases is desastating. There are tons of patients that show up with a law suit on their minds because they
a) are just that type of person
or
b) they can't pay for the service and are looking for a way to cover their bills (believe me, this happens).
just like anyone else doing business in this world, doctors have to protect themselves.
pardon the pun
not all cases are black and white, and there are definitly some patients who are more likely to sue than others (especially those who have sued before). Malpractice insurance is so expensive these days, losing a suit like this can get your coverage yanked effectively putting you out of business. While no doctor wants to sit there and screen patients based on the likelyhood of them suing, it is a reality that is part of the medical world today.
Yeah it sounds horrible in the case where the doctor really f'd up, but tons of malpractice cases are bullshit and really put a strain on the doctor's ability to do business.
If I was a doctor (in a non-emergency case), hell yeah I'd want to know if a patient has sued before and under what circumstances because this is about protecting my livelihood.
...here at the United Counterfitters of North America (UCNA) when I say that we will no longer be patronizing HP for any of their printing products. Crippled products such as this simply don't fit our needs.
ah jeez - I'm in the wrong thread, a new one got posted as I was modding a different story. Feel free to take shots at my karma ;)
actually I modded this up, but seeing as the images are not on that site, I'm posting this to nuke my moderation.
According to BT, the US-side fault should be fixed by the end of this week, which will bring the cable network online again.
/. post made it sound like they were ignoring the problem, when in fact they appear to be working on it. These things don't get fixed within hours, this cable is at the bottom of the ocean! Yeah, redundacy can fail but I don't think it is because of laziness of the telecoms or anything. They just got unlucky and had two failures close enough together where the first one couldn't be fixed in time to keep the network up.
The author of the
Fox Television Entertainment Group chairman Sandy Grushow said a decision is expected soon...
In english, "we really screwed the pooch on this one and are currently kissing seth MacFarland's ass to try to get him to come back to do more episodes. If he says yes, then we'll shove them out the door as soon as possible"
I wish they would add "market droid" to the google translation service.
This is just like those Microsoft campus liscence agreements. They come in and say "we know your students are violating our copyrights, sign this agreement or we'll sue you"
nothing but extortion
what you've done here is really lame.
/. community a little better than that.
I don't think it is very appropriate to edit the article like you have. While the edits are obvious (at least some of them) who knows what else you subtly changed without reading both versions as closely as possible. While you're not bound in anyway to provide the exact text, I think you should treat the
here's the lines that I noticed
When you use Mac OS X, you feel like sodomy; should be When you use Mac OS X, you feel like it's yours; when you use Windows, you feel as though you're using someone else's toys,
and
You can have incoming faxes automatically printed out, saved into a folder, smeared with diarrhea, sent to yourself by e-mail, or any combination of those.should be You can have incoming faxes automatically printed out, saved into a folder, sent to yourself by e-mail, or any combination of those.
you don't have to put up with anything when it comes down to it. Why haven't I purchased a CD in the past six months? I'm tired of paying $18 for a disc and it's a pain in the butt to import them all into my computer.
iTunes is a service that I like, cheap music, easy to download and I can do everything I want with the music without running into the DRM.
If you don't like iTunes, then don't use it, obviously people like you are not their target customer. I just don't understand the smug attitude that everyone brings up on this topic. "because business X doesn't sell what I want for the price that I want they are evil and are shoving everything down our throats"
So allow me to clairfy, comon if you want legit downloads of mainstream artists, there are going to have to be restrictions. Restrictions that don't bug me in the least because guess what? i haven't run into them yet because i'm not trying to pirate the music.
I guess I don't understand your complaint... you can burn these into a CD ALL YOU WANT and from there you can do anything you want to them (mp3, record them onto a *cough* tape player, whatever).
or maybe you're just upset that there's a resonable compromise between DRM and free use rights. Come on, if you want legit digital downloads, there's going to have to be some restrictions.
I know a lot of people rag on 1x because it isn't supported by every POS WiFi card out there but the security enhancement you get is really indispensible espeically when you consider that your average corporate WEP network is no safer than my linksys AP at home.
A really great client for getting multiple cards to work on 1x networks is the Aegis client from Meetinghouse Their supplicant will take many standard WiFi cards and allow them to use 1x.
Our IT dept doesn't support it (most probably won't) but if you're a frustrated user who doesn't want to buy a new card for a 1x network they've got a 15 day demo which should give you enough time to figure out if it works for you.