awesome. fuck facebook for not giving the option to export contact lists with useful information. I had to pull a list of e-mails from facebook and I ended up going page by page and copying the e-mails by hand. facebook wants to hold all e-mails within it's walled garden and doesn't reciprocate...
No, really. If Rachel Maddow is right this has happened before and continues to happen in the same way. All same players, all same tactics, all same outcomes.
so what happens when the battery that keeps the RTC running dies or cannot be recharged again? if there's no way to write a new date or remotely synchronize it with sony servers, would the console be effectively bricked?
You guys are all missing the point. The ssn requirement is there because sprint will be running periodic credit checks on its customers. Sprint is probably subsidizing the phone and, internally, they must have customer activation goals to meet (like, the number of new customers who remain active after X months and so on)
The credit checks are there because, as sprint subsidized the phone, you'll be actually repaying it back in installments through the phone usage fees. they could sell the device at full cost, but then wouldn't be able to force you to sign up for a 18 month contract. After you become a customer, the ssn is used for credit checks. If your credit score indicates trouble, then sprint will use that information to either try to get you to move to another plan or will send the collectors to get their money before you actually miss a payment. This is not about privacy, but about managing an instrument sale.
(and, I know you later said that the actual savings were higher -- but the point is, you should _never_ just multiply reoccurring costs or savings by the number of periods to get the equivalent present value, especially for periods of years.)
out of legimitate curiosity... why?
really, I just want to know the implications of doing so and what needs to be done to incorporate that information into financial models
assuming they did things properly, tru;y random sample, blah blah.
Honestly, with such a small sample, the likelihood that the sample has some sort of bias corrupting the analysis is quite high. One would be exceedingly naive to take the results at face value without some evidence that the sample was done properly.
Absolutely agreed. Not only Excel (and all the MS Office tools in the VBA level) promotes a sloppy programming model, the overall sloppiness it facilitates has originated the concept of "spreadsheet risk" since data relations tend to become obsfuscated and hard to debug. Formulas that should be applied uniformly throughout data now have to be double-checked by filling the columns manually with copies of one single formula.
the only way to be 100.1% sure is to read the source, recompile and upload yourself. if you cannot do that, you should consider returning your geek card....
That'd be interesting. Athletes lives would not last for more than one Olympics game, once they reach minimum age/height required for the competition. Think of Formula One engines: those are designed to last one race weekend and that's it.
The games would display the apex of human achievement and give a lesson on balance at the same time. Everyone can relate to that lesson, I guess.
A friend of mine just came from London to Hong Kong and he told that his flight had to be diverted because radar and other navigational aids (sp?) in China, around the quake region, are currently off-line.
C/C++ gives a nice inside view to the core of the machine and you have to learn all the good stuff you mentioned, but I still think the best way to understand programming as an abstract exercise is through some Lisp variant. It forces you to think about data structures and exposes to a whole different way of programming, which is quite useful.
Then you mentioned you feelt sorry for those who started with Java, but then I really feel sorry for those who started with VBA...
I, for the life of me, cannot understand why in the US telecom users get billed for stuff they receive. I read somewhere that it had to do with technical limitations around billing systems and that it just became like that by tradition (or because US law made it impossible to reverse it)
Clearly, who makes the call is the party who has the necessity to communicate, not the receiving end. Why continue to bill in a way that contradicts basic economic reasoning???
Contacts management in Gmail has always been horrendous. It always felt like a hack, an afterthought. Contacts seem so kludgy that I completeley gave up using it at a certain point....
I haven't tried it yet, but any change in Contacts is welcome.
As Chomsky showed half a century ago, linear bounded automata are not
universal Turing machines.
Well, hello-o? This is absolutely obvious! How could they not realize this? I mean, the universality of Turing machines is... gosh, what the heck does this mean?
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awesome. fuck facebook for not giving the option to export contact lists with useful information. I had to pull a list of e-mails from facebook and I ended up going page by page and copying the e-mails by hand. facebook wants to hold all e-mails within it's walled garden and doesn't reciprocate...
No, really. If Rachel Maddow is right this has happened before and continues to happen in the same way. All same players, all same tactics, all same outcomes.
Kinda WTF, but check this out:
http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/c8sqn/rachel_maddow_finds_one_massive_wtf/
so what happens when the battery that keeps the RTC running dies or cannot be recharged again? if there's no way to write a new date or remotely synchronize it with sony servers, would the console be effectively bricked?
have a try with Lightroom. It provides all the ease of use of, say, Picasa, with all the quality of Photoshop.
You guys are all missing the point. The ssn requirement is there because sprint will be running periodic credit checks on its customers. Sprint is probably subsidizing the phone and, internally, they must have customer activation goals to meet (like, the number of new customers who remain active after X months and so on) The credit checks are there because, as sprint subsidized the phone, you'll be actually repaying it back in installments through the phone usage fees. they could sell the device at full cost, but then wouldn't be able to force you to sign up for a 18 month contract. After you become a customer, the ssn is used for credit checks. If your credit score indicates trouble, then sprint will use that information to either try to get you to move to another plan or will send the collectors to get their money before you actually miss a payment. This is not about privacy, but about managing an instrument sale.
out of legimitate curiosity... why?
really, I just want to know the implications of doing so and what needs to be done to incorporate that information into financial models
the uac model is inherently broken. I cannot understand how these paliative measures will improve security beyond just the sense of it....
Let's patent, then, a way to check if something is already patented.
That should short-circuit the whole system.
Honestly, with such a small sample, the likelihood that the sample has some sort of bias corrupting the analysis is quite high. One would be exceedingly naive to take the results at face value without some evidence that the sample was done properly.
Absolutely agreed. Not only Excel (and all the MS Office tools in the VBA level) promotes a sloppy programming model, the overall sloppiness it facilitates has originated the concept of "spreadsheet risk" since data relations tend to become obsfuscated and hard to debug. Formulas that should be applied uniformly throughout data now have to be double-checked by filling the columns manually with copies of one single formula.
the only way to be 100.1% sure is to read the source, recompile and upload yourself. if you cannot do that, you should consider returning your geek card....
That'd be interesting. Athletes lives would not last for more than one Olympics game, once they reach minimum age/height required for the competition. Think of Formula One engines: those are designed to last one race weekend and that's it.
The games would display the apex of human achievement and give a lesson on balance at the same time. Everyone can relate to that lesson, I guess.
I mean, it's evil, it's right there!
that is... 2 phone numbers on the same SIM card
all nokia phones I ever had can do 2 numbers / 1 phone. just hold the # key until a "2" icon shows up - it means that you switched to line 2.
the problem is that the telcon may not support it.
Wow.
How can they guarantee this if civillian GPS is (said to be) only accurate to 15 meters?
Then you'll need to hire a MS-business partner to configure that to you, since the very basic modules won't be useful by themselves.
MS would create a steady, endless cash flow from that!
C/C++ gives a nice inside view to the core of the machine and you have to learn all the good stuff you mentioned, but I still think the best way to understand programming as an abstract exercise is through some Lisp variant. It forces you to think about data structures and exposes to a whole different way of programming, which is quite useful.
Then you mentioned you feelt sorry for those who started with Java, but then I really feel sorry for those who started with VBA...
I, for the life of me, cannot understand why in the US telecom users get billed for stuff they receive. I read somewhere that it had to do with technical limitations around billing systems and that it just became like that by tradition (or because US law made it impossible to reverse it)
Clearly, who makes the call is the party who has the necessity to communicate, not the receiving end. Why continue to bill in a way that contradicts basic economic reasoning???
/. Tagging System Impossible To Figure Out meta, bug, mystery, haha ... there, happy now? :)
no photoshopped pics! that was the rule as I understood!
I haven't tried it yet, but any change in Contacts is welcome.
From TFA:
Well, hello-o? This is absolutely obvious! How could they not realize this? I mean, the universality of Turing machines is... gosh, what the heck does this mean?
Time to close the facebook account. It was fun while it lasted....