Whole Foods is all hippy-dippy Earth loving stuff I thought. What would Amazon want with that? It's like Walmart buying out an Amish quilter and saying they have no plans for a factory. No duh! They can't go high-tech, it would defeat the purpose of why it was successful in the first place.
Brick and Mortar locations with decent brand recognition (and, among their target customers it's a well liked brand) in high-income areas with a lot of cross-over with their existing customer base (You think hippy-dippy upper-middle class buyers don't also use Amazon?) They can also use these locations and their existing back-end to expand their grocery delivery business and get real experience in retail.
Until the store's wifi system captive portal makes a user accept a certificate to connect. Then they can MITM all they want. You know most users would blindly click accept for that glorious free wifi.
They could do this as well, lots of companies do it with their internal networks to monitor HTTPS traffic moving through their firewalls. One hopes that the first company to do it would get crucified over it though.
It would have been cheaper, quicker, and more technically effective for Amazon to just use SSL on all of their pages and render this method ineffective... which they already do.
SSL would prevent manipulating the traffic or getting specific info about what the customer was looking up, but it would not prevent outright blocking it or redirecting it to the store's website instead. Both scenarios are part of the patent.
This is a great idea, in theory. In practice it's shit. The problem is companies don't want to pay for good developers, so they usually end up with the people who can't get jobs writing shitty commercial verticals (the 2nd lowest rung on the skilled developer ladder). So usually in-house projects end up a gigantic, undocumented, unsustainable mess.
The 2nd problem is that most companies don't understand the effort required to maintain once it's built. This isn't just labor but also softer things like knowledge transfer and training for new people coming in. So 10 years down the line you end up in a situation where you can't maintain anymore and you have to either try to make do, bandaid until it collapses, or start from scratch and repeat the cycle all over again.
I have to wonder if the simpler non-nicotine versions are anywhere near as harmful. Food-grade vegetable glycerine and peppermint oil just don't scream, "I am chemical death" to me, but what do I know.
I wonder that as well. A number of the liquid makers are using flavor ingredients that are listed by the FDA as GRAS, but that was never meant to cover inhalation, only ingestion. One example is that there are flavorings used in e-cig fluid that contain diacetyl. Perfectly safe in food, but can cause catastrophic lung damage when inhaled over time. It's the chemical that causes "popcorn lung".
You sold the rights to your name to make a quick buck, now stop whining when someone uses it in a way you don't like. If you wanted your name only to be associated with good (ok, reasonable) quality gear you should have kept it in house.
They are not whining, they are conniving. They sold off the name rights in the US market when they were tanking as a company. Now that they recovered a bit, they want the name back and are using this as a means to get out of the existing agreement.
So you need a system wide change to elevate the permissions temporarily? Does it work when you turn it back on? Why does Windows not have sudo?
It does, sorta: UAC. Either way it does not apply in this case. This change isn't a privilege elevation, it turns off a security feature that requires drivers to be signed. It's designed on purpose to be non-trivial to do to discourage using it.
He probably got to eat for free, and take home left overs and feed rest of his family too. Saved money definitely. Only compromise is having to agree that what Red Lobster dishes out is food then have the gumption to eat it.
Yes, because that's totally how it works at big chain restaurants...
1. You can pick your hours and change them on a moment's notice.
I'm guessing you never worked in food service if you are saying this. While it's true these types of jobs offer some scheduling flexibility, they certainly don't let you pick your own hours or change them at a moment's notice. At most restaurants shifts are usually scheduled a week or so out and if you don't like it you better find someone to trade shifts with or you are most likely SOL.
The price for ESPN is high because the cost of their content is ridiculous. They are charging 7-10x what a normal cable channel charges and currently losing money. Since they are the main national sports channel available on cable, with the biggest name recognition, they can demand placement in basic tiers. Add to the fact that they are owned by Disney, which just increases their negotiating power. L
So yea, ESPN gets brought up a lot because the price per subscriber is way higher than any other channel. By contrast BET is probably in the $0.25-$0.50 range.
If you are up for paying double to triple for your cable then cool, let the cable companies know right away
Both Hulu and CBS All Access offer an ad-free option at not quite double the price of the pay-to-watch-commercials tier. When I quote the prices of Hulu and CBS All Access to others considering cutting the cord, I mention the ad-free price, not the paying-to-watch-commercials price.
Those don't work as counter-examples because 99% of the content on both has already run on their respective networks and captured their ad revenues. However if you want to consider CBS All Access, consider the fact that it is one channel out of dozens that are on most even basic cable packages. The ad free tier is $10 a month, and that is for a service that is showing all but 2 shows that already have their first run ad capture.
Here's a strange thing: cable companies pay for the content on their wire (retransmission fees).
Why are there ads on that wire if the subscriber is paying for the content already?
Because the channels they are retransmitting are not charging 100% of their cost+ profit to the cable nets in retrans fees. If you are up for paying double to triple for your cable then cool, let the cable companies know right away and they will pass it on to the networks!
Why do you people always single out sports channels and whine about them? I have no problem paying for ESPN, but I want to find a way to avoid paying for BET. It's racist that there's Black Entertainment Television but no White EntertainmentâTelevision. How can I combat this racism and avoid paying for BET while continuing to receive worthwhile channels like ESPN?
1-So if I can get the cartridge out without breaking the seal I'm not under contract?
2-For a contract to be made, both sides must get something. I already have the right to use the cartridge in my printer so what are they offering?
I have no idea. I just ripped it out and gave 0 fucks about the license. I wasn't planning on re-using the carts anyway, it was bought for one purpose (printing a ton of invites because someone not me was too cheap to get them done professionally) and shelved. As for #2, well you get the privilege of using their printers!
Pretty much any PC game you want. As long as you only want to install one at a time!
With my ISPs download caps, I can only download one per month anyway.
yea I moved from a 100mb/s down no-cap connection to a 18mb/s capped connection. Before I moved I downloaded my entire steam library. 2.6TB total. Took an entire week but so worth it.
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Yes, I do. I think most would just think it's a glitch and wouldn't even know how to switch back to cellular.
to get the benefit of this?
Read the summary to find out
Whole Foods is all hippy-dippy Earth loving stuff I thought. What would Amazon want with that? It's like Walmart buying out an Amish quilter and saying they have no plans for a factory. No duh! They can't go high-tech, it would defeat the purpose of why it was successful in the first place.
Brick and Mortar locations with decent brand recognition (and, among their target customers it's a well liked brand) in high-income areas with a lot of cross-over with their existing customer base (You think hippy-dippy upper-middle class buyers don't also use Amazon?) They can also use these locations and their existing back-end to expand their grocery delivery business and get real experience in retail.
And you think users won't work around it if it's that blatantly obvious?
I don't think most users who would use in-store wifi in the first place would work around it, no.
Until the store's wifi system captive portal makes a user accept a certificate to connect. Then they can MITM all they want. You know most users would blindly click accept for that glorious free wifi.
They could do this as well, lots of companies do it with their internal networks to monitor HTTPS traffic moving through their firewalls. One hopes that the first company to do it would get crucified over it though.
It would have been cheaper, quicker, and more technically effective for Amazon to just use SSL on all of their pages and render this method ineffective... which they already do.
SSL would prevent manipulating the traffic or getting specific info about what the customer was looking up, but it would not prevent outright blocking it or redirecting it to the store's website instead. Both scenarios are part of the patent.
Looks like they did: GTA IV demo at E3
Did you bother to actually click on any of that shit? All those videos are fake.
Are they patenting it so they can license it, or so they can prevent others from doing it by not licensing it?
I suspect they did this to lock it up so brick and mortar stores can't use it to prevent people from using it to check Amazon prices.
Yea I was kind of surprised myself but they are still kicking. Mostly for embedded systems, thin clients, and small form-factor stuff.
They recently displayed a GTA VI demo at E3.
You got a link to that, because I'm pretty sure they didn't.
This is a great idea, in theory. In practice it's shit. The problem is companies don't want to pay for good developers, so they usually end up with the people who can't get jobs writing shitty commercial verticals (the 2nd lowest rung on the skilled developer ladder). So usually in-house projects end up a gigantic, undocumented, unsustainable mess.
The 2nd problem is that most companies don't understand the effort required to maintain once it's built. This isn't just labor but also softer things like knowledge transfer and training for new people coming in. So 10 years down the line you end up in a situation where you can't maintain anymore and you have to either try to make do, bandaid until it collapses, or start from scratch and repeat the cycle all over again.
Outsource the IT to India.
You didn't RTFA. That is on the list.
You must not have read the article to the very end: #13: Don't read the article, just assume from the title and move one like you know what it said.
and which brand backdoored cpu will you be buying instead?
Well VIA still makes some x86 CPUs. Not sure if they have management engines built in or not though....
I have to wonder if the simpler non-nicotine versions are anywhere near as harmful. Food-grade vegetable glycerine and peppermint oil just don't scream, "I am chemical death" to me, but what do I know.
I wonder that as well. A number of the liquid makers are using flavor ingredients that are listed by the FDA as GRAS, but that was never meant to cover inhalation, only ingestion. One example is that there are flavorings used in e-cig fluid that contain diacetyl. Perfectly safe in food, but can cause catastrophic lung damage when inhaled over time. It's the chemical that causes "popcorn lung".
You sold the rights to your name to make a quick buck, now stop whining when someone uses it in a way you don't like. If you wanted your name only to be associated with good (ok, reasonable) quality gear you should have kept it in house.
They are not whining, they are conniving. They sold off the name rights in the US market when they were tanking as a company. Now that they recovered a bit, they want the name back and are using this as a means to get out of the existing agreement.
Yes, thank you for restating what I just said.
So you need a system wide change to elevate the permissions temporarily? Does it work when you turn it back on? Why does Windows not have sudo?
It does, sorta: UAC. Either way it does not apply in this case. This change isn't a privilege elevation, it turns off a security feature that requires drivers to be signed. It's designed on purpose to be non-trivial to do to discourage using it.
He probably got to eat for free, and take home left overs and feed rest of his family too. Saved money definitely. Only compromise is having to agree that what Red Lobster dishes out is food then have the gumption to eat it.
Yes, because that's totally how it works at big chain restaurants...
1. You can pick your hours and change them on a moment's notice.
I'm guessing you never worked in food service if you are saying this. While it's true these types of jobs offer some scheduling flexibility, they certainly don't let you pick your own hours or change them at a moment's notice. At most restaurants shifts are usually scheduled a week or so out and if you don't like it you better find someone to trade shifts with or you are most likely SOL.
The price for ESPN is high because the cost of their content is ridiculous. They are charging 7-10x what a normal cable channel charges and currently losing money. Since they are the main national sports channel available on cable, with the biggest name recognition, they can demand placement in basic tiers. Add to the fact that they are owned by Disney, which just increases their negotiating power. L
So yea, ESPN gets brought up a lot because the price per subscriber is way higher than any other channel. By contrast BET is probably in the $0.25-$0.50 range.
If you are up for paying double to triple for your cable then cool, let the cable companies know right away
Both Hulu and CBS All Access offer an ad-free option at not quite double the price of the pay-to-watch-commercials tier. When I quote the prices of Hulu and CBS All Access to others considering cutting the cord, I mention the ad-free price, not the paying-to-watch-commercials price.
Those don't work as counter-examples because 99% of the content on both has already run on their respective networks and captured their ad revenues. However if you want to consider CBS All Access, consider the fact that it is one channel out of dozens that are on most even basic cable packages. The ad free tier is $10 a month, and that is for a service that is showing all but 2 shows that already have their first run ad capture.
Here's a strange thing: cable companies pay for the content on their wire (retransmission fees).
Why are there ads on that wire if the subscriber is paying for the content already?
Because the channels they are retransmitting are not charging 100% of their cost+ profit to the cable nets in retrans fees. If you are up for paying double to triple for your cable then cool, let the cable companies know right away and they will pass it on to the networks!
Why do you people always single out sports channels and whine about them? I have no problem paying for ESPN, but I want to find a way to avoid paying for BET. It's racist that there's Black Entertainment Television but no White EntertainmentâTelevision. How can I combat this racism and avoid paying for BET while continuing to receive worthwhile channels like ESPN?
Why? Because of this: https://bwi.forums.rivals.com/threads/how-much-cable-subscribers-pay-per-channel-2014-2018.156845/
1-So if I can get the cartridge out without breaking the seal I'm not under contract? 2-For a contract to be made, both sides must get something. I already have the right to use the cartridge in my printer so what are they offering?
I have no idea. I just ripped it out and gave 0 fucks about the license. I wasn't planning on re-using the carts anyway, it was bought for one purpose (printing a ton of invites because someone not me was too cheap to get them done professionally) and shelved. As for #2, well you get the privilege of using their printers!
what games fit on a 128GB SSD?
Pretty much any PC game you want. As long as you only want to install one at a time!
With my ISPs download caps, I can only download one per month anyway.
yea I moved from a 100mb/s down no-cap connection to a 18mb/s capped connection. Before I moved I downloaded my entire steam library. 2.6TB total. Took an entire week but so worth it.