Well, my needs sort of grew up with my online baking and I have not opened a new checking in years--citibank has simply been able to do everything I needed. The actual reason behind opening the citibank account was that in my 1st year of college, they had the only convenient ATM machines and wanted to be able to make machine deposits and no-fee withdrawals.
The large banks have also served me incredibly well overseas...I can't think of anywhere I have gone where I wasn't able to find an ATM belonging to one of my international banks (or their fee-less partners). I don't mean to belittle the importance of small banks and credit unions...last time my dad had a disagreement with his credit union (of which he is now one of their oldest customers for his business and personal accounts), he was called on personally by the president to fix his problem--that certainly will never happen at citi. Their online features sure don't compare though, and neither does their reach/convenience (He still has to go to the physical location to make a deposit...I just have to find an ATM belonging to one of my banks).
The beauty is that you can have as many bank relationships as you want...you don't have to use citibank for your auto loan just because you have a checking account with them and you don't have to set up automatic payments and transfers with a bank whose system can't figure out biweekly periods (you'd be surprised...)
If you have activities that don't require any personal interaction but instead benefit from having a vast array of web based features?
I have a bunch of bank accounts and citibank (the largest of the ones I use) definitely has the best website. Maybe I won't use them when I want to take out a loan or do some other activity where I would prefer to interact with a banker but for some online juggling of money they work great, especially since they are the only account I have that is able to initiate a "next day" ACH transfer to or from any of my other accounts (all my other accounts can only do standard 3-day ACH transfers if they support online external transfers at all).
Come to think of it, in the last couple of years when I have called citibank I have had remarkably short hold times and helpful, english speaking operators (most recently readily refunding a $39 fee without even asking why I thought they should remove it).
Of course this article is really about business accounts which are a completely different arena...I actually wouldn't be surprised if banks frequently reject business customers
There is just too much amazing street/candid photography out there to justify that policy. If you look at it from the other side, you are really restricting the photographer's rights. I just don't think someone standing on a street corner has that much of a right to privacy, certainly not enough to overshadow the photographer's right to the (non-commercial) use of a photo taken in a public space where that person happens to be recognizable.
What's next? will I not be allowed to describe what I see with words instead of pictures? Can I still write a poem about a person I see on the street (assuming I use their name or make it identifiable) without their explicit permission?
I see this as a freedom of speech issue and when you start imposing different restrictions on different media, it gets really questionable (especially when you already have to shoehorn in vague exceptions for "people of interest").
I thought the reasoning was that sports betting was tarnishing their image (and maybe raising regulatory questions) as the InTrade portion was growing so they opted to shut down the questionable side of their business.
Pressure from organized crime might make sense but there is a good business reason for dropping it too
Countries with no copyright or no personal rights laws like the United States or most of the rest of the developed world?
It looks like you may be from Germany which is one of the few places in the world that has somewhat strict rules about needing permission to take a photo (and the page I found with info on it was from 2003). In most of the rest of the world, non-commercial use of images is perfectly acceptable without any sort of a release (I can't use a picture of you talking on an iphone in an iphone advertisement, etc.). I am not sure why Germany is quite so backwards about this as I feel that if I am out in public and can see something with my eyes, I should be able to capture it on film--at which point the photo itself is mine to publish (and if you didn't want to be in a photo, why were you out in public?).
Maybe your parents could make some sort of claim since they technically created you, but if I take a picture of you hanging out somewhere (or getting beat up somewhere) and my photo becomes the next taking of Iwo Jima or sailor kissing nurse, I am free to sell prints of your likeness to art galleries and license it to news organizations and college dorm poster manufacturers for years to come.
What gave it away? The part where I explicitly say I didn't read it or the part where I was dead on about the submitter being a blatant anti-microsoft troll...
Yeah, but I was right... and you can basically tell from the summary that the submitter tried to load their submission with more bias than that damn nuclear energy post.
So those schools followed through with their decision to reject the candidates that had checked?
Were there any lawsuits filed? I certainly wouldn't want to go to any school I had to sue to get in (and I imagine that if I got into HBS, I could get in somewhere else)...but I can see the plight of a person who read a forum post that said "decisions already posted! the link isn't up yet but you can just change &profile= to &decision="
seems like something *anyone* reading it might try...
Yup...When I played wow, it was all PvP (because PvE felt lame). It added a *little* bit of fun to some of the shared areas...it even added a little bit more fun to the unshared areas with areas the enemy might like to go: typically low level areas belonging to the opposite faction...like allies going to scarlet monastary. They are bigger than the normal horde hanging out in that area, so it is not so hard to move around...but every once and a while somebody big will be coming/going from UC...
Most of the time however...it did not matter. World PvP never really got big and ganking was pretty infrequent for most of the world so other than a few moments of tension, the game was exactly the same.
However, I think the parent was referring to to the harvard admissions website (business school maybe?) where people could figure out if they got in early by playing with the URL. IIRC Harvard took the douche route and decided not to admit those who tried this. I would hope they eventually realized that when someone posts simple URL changing instructions to a business website, peoples curiosity will kick in...
Either they will learn or they won't be making wire transfers online--wire transfers are not a particularly common method of moving money in the US due to the high costs and as such are only used for special transactions (ACH transfers are far more common...though usually limited to movement between your own accounts and the auth process is not instant)
I would guess that the people who don't know how to check voicemail do not have a big overlap with the people who want to wire money.
Exactly. I have used dreamhost on a site for years (referral link in my URL field...help out a poor college student if you decide to use their service) and they promise either "unlimited" or just ridiculous amounts of everything.
For low volume stuff, their service is great. I know that their service is too good to be true, they will shut me off if I start using a ton of bandwidth month after month or if I start eating up their cpus--but I don't have to worry if I need to post a giant file for a couple of people to download.
If you want guarantees though, it is probably time to step up to a dedicated (or at least virtual dedicated) server where you know how big your disk is and how fat your pipe is...If you want more, you pay more but until you reach your limit, you can be confidant that you are ok. It costs more but if you actually make money *from* the website...you need it.
It is unpleasent, but it is often easy to detect and easy to ban in a game like TF2.
Battle.net does not give you the option to kick somebody from your server...and blizzard was not very hard on diablo 1 cheaters (they were a little better with D2...and cheating beyond maphack was harder). Valve is very hard on cheaters, and certainly where I play TF2, there is almost always an admin in game and if not, there are several signed into steam who are willing to believe me when I tell them a player is abusive (we have pretty strict rules as some of the admins are old enough to have kids who play) or cheating.
You always see douchey kids playing with names with lots of messed up characters...but this only makes it hard for bad admins
Where I play, they will just ban your steamID and that will be the end of it...no need to attempt to type some god-awful name. Also, most admin mods have a menu based interface that eliminates having to type invisible/nonstandard characters.
Sorry, I should have specified: it is my TV (and 2 friends' TVs that I have used) that won't accept higher than 1336x768 over the vga input and since we are talking about HD video, I was thinking TV.
of course VGA can do more than 768...although now that I think about it, my ubuntu-running eee might not be able to hit much higher
playing 1080 or 720p content would be a mild improvement but not particularly noticeable vs 480. I do have a vga output which can get me 768 lines on my hdtv (can't go higher without DVI/HDMI) so it might be usable there...but if I just want to play to my TV, I just need a 20ft DVI-HDMI cable or a $200 acer computer with ION and xbmc and not a netbook.
I am amused by NBC's inability to even display the top 10 finishers in some events.
I thought the womens moguls coverage was pretty good, you saw a lot of runs, even from middle of the pack athletes and such.
The womens downhill coverage was a steaming pile of shit. They show a select few runs (lets get the winners, the best crashes, and the one german girl who is friends with the famous american). When the last runner makes it down do they even bother to show a full screen list of the top 10-15 finishers? No. Instead they manage to show a list of times that only takes up half the screen and features: All of the americans (including the one that was disqualified), the non-american medal winner, and the aforementioned german chick that they kept talking about (who failed to even come close to medaling).
Do they seriously have such a small world view that they can't even fill the screen with scores and show me the top 10? Its not like there was anything important going on in the background shot. I know that everyone has the internet and could look these things up (hours before NBC plays them since they are refusing to carry a lot of stuff live) but it seems really disrespectful to the athletes.
Because all of the people on 10mbit cable (or university wireless...lots of youtube here) can stream the higher res stuff just fine.
Also, do the higher res videos also have better quality audio tracks? This would certainly explain why VEVO likes them...original youtube audio is utter shite
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The large banks have also served me incredibly well overseas...I can't think of anywhere I have gone where I wasn't able to find an ATM belonging to one of my international banks (or their fee-less partners). I don't mean to belittle the importance of small banks and credit unions...last time my dad had a disagreement with his credit union (of which he is now one of their oldest customers for his business and personal accounts), he was called on personally by the president to fix his problem--that certainly will never happen at citi. Their online features sure don't compare though, and neither does their reach/convenience (He still has to go to the physical location to make a deposit...I just have to find an ATM belonging to one of my banks).
The beauty is that you can have as many bank relationships as you want...you don't have to use citibank for your auto loan just because you have a checking account with them and you don't have to set up automatic payments and transfers with a bank whose system can't figure out biweekly periods (you'd be surprised...)
I have a bunch of bank accounts and citibank (the largest of the ones I use) definitely has the best website. Maybe I won't use them when I want to take out a loan or do some other activity where I would prefer to interact with a banker but for some online juggling of money they work great, especially since they are the only account I have that is able to initiate a "next day" ACH transfer to or from any of my other accounts (all my other accounts can only do standard 3-day ACH transfers if they support online external transfers at all).
Come to think of it, in the last couple of years when I have called citibank I have had remarkably short hold times and helpful, english speaking operators (most recently readily refunding a $39 fee without even asking why I thought they should remove it).
Of course this article is really about business accounts which are a completely different arena...I actually wouldn't be surprised if banks frequently reject business customers
What's next? will I not be allowed to describe what I see with words instead of pictures? Can I still write a poem about a person I see on the street (assuming I use their name or make it identifiable) without their explicit permission?
I see this as a freedom of speech issue and when you start imposing different restrictions on different media, it gets really questionable (especially when you already have to shoehorn in vague exceptions for "people of interest").
Pressure from organized crime might make sense but there is a good business reason for dropping it too
It looks like you may be from Germany which is one of the few places in the world that has somewhat strict rules about needing permission to take a photo (and the page I found with info on it was from 2003). In most of the rest of the world, non-commercial use of images is perfectly acceptable without any sort of a release (I can't use a picture of you talking on an iphone in an iphone advertisement, etc.). I am not sure why Germany is quite so backwards about this as I feel that if I am out in public and can see something with my eyes, I should be able to capture it on film--at which point the photo itself is mine to publish (and if you didn't want to be in a photo, why were you out in public?).
Maybe your parents could make some sort of claim since they technically created you, but if I take a picture of you hanging out somewhere (or getting beat up somewhere) and my photo becomes the next taking of Iwo Jima or sailor kissing nurse, I am free to sell prints of your likeness to art galleries and license it to news organizations and college dorm poster manufacturers for years to come.
What gave it away? The part where I explicitly say I didn't read it or the part where I was dead on about the submitter being a blatant anti-microsoft troll...
Yeah, but I was right... and you can basically tell from the summary that the submitter tried to load their submission with more bias than that damn nuclear energy post.
There are plenty of perfectly good reasons to oppose a bridge that may well be a bad idea to build.
Are you a liar?
Were there any lawsuits filed? I certainly wouldn't want to go to any school I had to sue to get in (and I imagine that if I got into HBS, I could get in somewhere else)...but I can see the plight of a person who read a forum post that said "decisions already posted! the link isn't up yet but you can just change &profile= to &decision="
seems like something *anyone* reading it might try...
Most of the time however...it did not matter. World PvP never really got big and ganking was pretty infrequent for most of the world so other than a few moments of tension, the game was exactly the same.
However, I think the parent was referring to to the harvard admissions website (business school maybe?) where people could figure out if they got in early by playing with the URL. IIRC Harvard took the douche route and decided not to admit those who tried this. I would hope they eventually realized that when someone posts simple URL changing instructions to a business website, peoples curiosity will kick in...
its a problem if you want your turbocharger, cold air intake, and ssh app to be interchangeable between the two
I would guess that the people who don't know how to check voicemail do not have a big overlap with the people who want to wire money.
For low volume stuff, their service is great. I know that their service is too good to be true, they will shut me off if I start using a ton of bandwidth month after month or if I start eating up their cpus--but I don't have to worry if I need to post a giant file for a couple of people to download.
If you want guarantees though, it is probably time to step up to a dedicated (or at least virtual dedicated) server where you know how big your disk is and how fat your pipe is...If you want more, you pay more but until you reach your limit, you can be confidant that you are ok. It costs more but if you actually make money *from* the website...you need it.
And it only costs $40?
The article fails to note if there are any bad traits to this phone...
Battle.net does not give you the option to kick somebody from your server...and blizzard was not very hard on diablo 1 cheaters (they were a little better with D2...and cheating beyond maphack was harder). Valve is very hard on cheaters, and certainly where I play TF2, there is almost always an admin in game and if not, there are several signed into steam who are willing to believe me when I tell them a player is abusive (we have pretty strict rules as some of the admins are old enough to have kids who play) or cheating.
Where I play, they will just ban your steamID and that will be the end of it...no need to attempt to type some god-awful name. Also, most admin mods have a menu based interface that eliminates having to type invisible/nonstandard characters.
AFAIK, my TV (and several of my friends TVs) won't accept VGA beyond 1336x768...not exactly sure why this is, but it requires HDMI for 1080p
of course VGA can do more than 768...although now that I think about it, my ubuntu-running eee might not be able to hit much higher
still won't get you to 1080p like mentioned in the article...I can't get past 768 lines without switching to dvi/hdmi (which my netbook lacks)
playing 1080 or 720p content would be a mild improvement but not particularly noticeable vs 480. I do have a vga output which can get me 768 lines on my hdtv (can't go higher without DVI/HDMI) so it might be usable there...but if I just want to play to my TV, I just need a 20ft DVI-HDMI cable or a $200 acer computer with ION and xbmc and not a netbook.
I thought the womens moguls coverage was pretty good, you saw a lot of runs, even from middle of the pack athletes and such.
The womens downhill coverage was a steaming pile of shit. They show a select few runs (lets get the winners, the best crashes, and the one german girl who is friends with the famous american). When the last runner makes it down do they even bother to show a full screen list of the top 10-15 finishers? No. Instead they manage to show a list of times that only takes up half the screen and features: All of the americans (including the one that was disqualified), the non-american medal winner, and the aforementioned german chick that they kept talking about (who failed to even come close to medaling).
Do they seriously have such a small world view that they can't even fill the screen with scores and show me the top 10? Its not like there was anything important going on in the background shot. I know that everyone has the internet and could look these things up (hours before NBC plays them since they are refusing to carry a lot of stuff live) but it seems really disrespectful to the athletes.
Also, do the higher res videos also have better quality audio tracks? This would certainly explain why VEVO likes them...original youtube audio is utter shite