Sure the individual would benefit by not having fault when they were driving safely. However, in the large scale the insurance company pays either way and if they dont have to get involved with lawyers they can run a much more efficient business. If each insurance company was miserly in accepting fault on their client's behalf for every single accident, then insurance companies as a whole would now be paying lawyers a significant ammount. That is why when you call them, they just care care of the issue whatever way is the fastest for them.
"Buffering" money in Paypal is how they make money. Unless you have an account sweep setup (read Paypal Hacks) then you will have money in your account after each transaction. That money collects them interest, unless you use the paypal money market fund.
If you never withdraw that money, that's their profit. If you pay fees for a person-to-person transaction and the money is already in paypal ("buffered") they don't have to pay fees to initiate the transaction. That money is profit.
By removing account balances, you have removed all possibility of profit, reducing them to broker for other transaction systems: credit card, checking account...
Google wallet will be supporting payments down to the scale of 1/10 cent. The current plan realizes this will be best for the rest of us with respect to collecting money on personal websites, etc.
As far as atomic fee values. No. Users will simply see the total value collected to the account. The fee will be accessed against this total value. The fees will be competitive, read: better than paypal in most popular cases. It is possible that your account will have a fractional-cent balance, but clearly withdraws will be in whole-cent ammounts.
Ok, you can click allow or deny on each cookie. But I say allow them all. OH NO!@! what about privacy!/!?. Oh you mean sites like ads.doubleclick.net and 2o7.net harvesting cookies and identifying me? I though adblock took care of that?
That means I'm getting an extra $714.24 value out of my $80 Comcast bill, or whatever they charge now.
And since I only watch my porn that I stream from the internet at H.264 1280p HD (5-6Mbps), caching the data on Comcast's servers is just as good as saving it on my own hard drive.
Now I already know what you're going to say:
Q: I get all my questionable content from the internet at H.264 1920p Full High Definition (7-8Mbps), so streaming is not feasible over a 6mbps cable internet line. It is therefore necessary for me to invest in local caching (hard drives) to maintain the full bandwidth during playback.
Other than that, we need a superset of existing packaging systems, let's call it ".app", which will allow a binary (or source) package to be installed on all popular Linux distributions. It would contain enough metadata and be compatible and supported by all package managers.
Then the only differences between distributions would only be default settings, artwork, support and distribution-specific packages.
Now you could acurately call the differences between linux distros "flavors" rather than now where I'd call them "forks" or "reinventions"
I've modded my k/b and have this feature among others:
All keys are covered in duct tape.
All "internet keys" are removed.
Duct tape over the rest of the k/b.
Removed CapsLock, Insert and NumLock, since they are only ever hit by accident.
Added a three digit lcd readout on the top right that counts the number of keys pressed (wraps around at 1000) also only works when scroll lock is on, or if you tell your OS to keep the scrolllock light lit. Let me tell you: that was a bitch to set up.
Will the new version prefer SVG in that accept header, or will SVG fall after png, in the q=0.5 category?
I'm askng because in certain software projects I work with, I use content negotiation to deliver the image format the user wants [PLUG: http://fdcl.sourceforge.net/] and that lets them decide if they can handle PNG or they must use the crummy gif equivalent. Firefox specifically prefers png, so that wins. I'm sure this would be the only method that SVG's are delivered to Firefox, since nobody wants to put a file onto a website that will never be seen.
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It's surprising that someone on slashdot would say that.
Replies to this thread will list specific references to companies that provide this service, or hashes of files on P2P.
Sure the individual would benefit by not having fault when they were driving safely. However, in the large scale the insurance company pays either way and if they dont have to get involved with lawyers they can run a much more efficient business. If each insurance company was miserly in accepting fault on their client's behalf for every single accident, then insurance companies as a whole would now be paying lawyers a significant ammount. That is why when you call them, they just care care of the issue whatever way is the fastest for them.
Cable quality clearly blows. And you seem like someone that might know something about why. Do you know the figures for these:
HD 1020i bandwidth:
HD 720p bandwidth:
FCC OTA maximum usable transmission bandwidth:
Proposed FCC OTA mutb:
For Comcast, Cox:
Digital cable line bandwidth:
Average digital cable channel bandwidth:
For popular providers:
Satelite line bandwidth:
Average satelite channel bandwidth:
And is there someway to quantify bandwidth of analog cable quality?
Thanks.
What, so now we're going to have keyboards without '/' or SHIFT?
SunnComm Says Pointing to Shift Key 'Possible Felony'
Are you talking about Google Adwords Conversion Tracking?
"Buffering" money in Paypal is how they make money. Unless you have an account sweep setup (read Paypal Hacks) then you will have money in your account after each transaction. That money collects them interest, unless you use the paypal money market fund.
If you never withdraw that money, that's their profit. If you pay fees for a person-to-person transaction and the money is already in paypal ("buffered") they don't have to pay fees to initiate the transaction. That money is profit.
By removing account balances, you have removed all possibility of profit, reducing them to broker for other transaction systems: credit card, checking account...
OMG Mac is going to run on Intel? Let me guess, next Windows is going to run on PPC!
Google wallet will be supporting payments down to the scale of 1/10 cent. The current plan realizes this will be best for the rest of us with respect to collecting money on personal websites, etc.
As far as atomic fee values. No. Users will simply see the total value collected to the account. The fee will be accessed against this total value. The fees will be competitive, read: better than paypal in most popular cases. It is possible that your account will have a fractional-cent balance, but clearly withdraws will be in whole-cent ammounts.
What do you think about them supporting micropayments? Is there anything that they could tie in with micropayments?
http://www.w3.org/P3P/
You are quite correct, in fact, this is the only way people make money in the stock market.
Actually, yes.
:-p
Running IE on wine for me doesn't cut it
...on a technical level.
They'd be storing this much information on me: http://www.google.com/search?q=6+million+per+secon d+*+1+month
Which works out to about 1.80 TiB
And since hard drives are about $0.3875/GB,/ www.pricewatch.com/prc.aspx%3Fi%3D26%26a%3D4429
http://www.pricewatch.com/default.aspx?p=http%3A/
That means I'm getting an extra $714.24 value out of my $80 Comcast bill, or whatever they charge now.
And since I only watch my porn that I stream from the internet at H.264 1280p HD (5-6Mbps), caching the data on Comcast's servers is just as good as saving it on my own hard drive.
Now I already know what you're going to say:
To which I say:
Just as logically sound, while more practical, is the focus on standards organizations:
.app
http://www.linuxbase.org/
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/
They promote compatibilty between distributions.
Other than that, we need a superset of existing packaging systems, let's call it ".app", which will allow a binary (or source) package to be installed on all popular Linux distributions. It would contain enough metadata and be compatible and supported by all package managers.
Then the only differences between distributions would only be default settings, artwork, support and distribution-specific packages.
Now you could acurately call the differences between linux distros "flavors" rather than now where I'd call them "forks" or "reinventions"
*No intended correlation to Mac OS X
SHA? MD5?
- All keys are covered in duct tape.
- All "internet keys" are removed.
- Duct tape over the rest of the k/b.
- Removed CapsLock, Insert and NumLock, since they are only ever hit by accident.
- Added a three digit lcd readout on the top right that counts the number of keys pressed (wraps around at 1000) also only works when scroll lock is on, or if you tell your OS to keep the scrolllock light lit. Let me tell you: that was a bitch to set up.
Here's a picture of the last feature up and working if you're interested: http://camera.phor.net/photo.php?id=5003This is devastating! I need this fixed yesterday.
This is the solution archive.org uses.
http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php
They are on the order of petabytes
I'm not really sure if I want a car with windows on it.
Last time I changed my video card without restarting, I destroyed the old one and the new one.
Then the only way I could read slashdot was with my Matrix neural connect.
I guess that makes sense, since I should have been using the Matrix connect all along.
When I loaded this page, Firefox uses the request header:
x t/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,te
Will the new version prefer SVG in that accept header, or will SVG fall after png, in the q=0.5 category?
I'm askng because in certain software projects I work with, I use content negotiation to deliver the image format the user wants [PLUG: http://fdcl.sourceforge.net/] and that lets them decide if they can handle PNG or they must use the crummy gif equivalent. Firefox specifically prefers png, so that wins. I'm sure this would be the only method that SVG's are delivered to Firefox, since nobody wants to put a file onto a website that will never be seen.
Sorry guys, I created this website a long time ago for April fools day and have since forgotten to take it down.
I didn't know submitting stories to slashdot took so long...