I used to think that. But popular usage says otherwise. And, unless you live in France, popular usage defines language. I'm sure there've been other words or phrases to have their meaning completely inverted, and I'm sure there'll be more to come..
For card-not-present fraud (such as internet purchases), the merchant wears the cost: if the cardholder complains of fraud, the issuing bank will issue a chargeback (assuming they believe the cardholder). The merchant will end up out of pocket, and will probably have to pay a penalty fee as well. That's why issuing banks don't care about online card fraud: they just pass the costs on to the merchants.
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That's not quite the same thing -- they didn't plan to jump without a parachute. If you throw enough people out of aeroplanes (as WWII did), it's not quite so amazing if a couple survive. This guy wants to be one from one -- much more difficult.
Perhaps I should have been more clear about where "here" is. I live in New Zealand. I don't text enough to follow prices closely, but neither network here offers unlimited texting (Telecom used to, but they stopped -- presumably it was too expensive).
I think Vodafone offers or used to offer unlimited texts to other Vodafone mobiles on weekends, but Telecom was more cost-effective during the day. The vast majority of teenages here are on prepay plans, so there is no monthly bill; the only cost is the cost of the phone (a couple of hundred, say). A hundred texts will cost you $20 at standard prepay rates, so if you do send hundreds a day, it could be worth maintaining two numbers. I wouldn't do it, but then my teenage years are sadly behind me..
Apparently, many teenagers here have two phones, one from each major network, because it's the most cost-effective way of supporting their hundreds-per-day text habit..
The bootloader doesn't expire. The only thing that expired is the Boot Camp partitioning software. Existing boot camp partitions, and your ability to boot into them, are unaffected by Boot Camp Beta's expiry.
Stanislaw Lem wrote a book -- I think it was _The Futurological Congress_ -- which included people who predicted future inventions by predicting possible words. The theory being: things won't be popular unless they have a good name, so by thinking of good names, and then considering what might have those names, you can predict future developments.
INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain
kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be
entrusted with, and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of
proceedings before themselves alone. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible
because the person quoted was unsworn and is not before the court for
examination; yet most momentous actions, military, political,
commercial and of every other kind, are daily undertaken on hearsay
evidence. There is no religion in the world that has any other basis
than hearsay evidence. Revelation is hearsay evidence; that the
Scriptures are the word of God we have only the testimony of men long
dead whose identity is not clearly established and who are not known
to have been sworn in any sense. Under the rules of evidence as they
now exist in this country, no single assertion in the Bible has in its
support any evidence admissible in a court of law. It cannot be
proved that the battle of Blenheim ever was fought, that there was
such as person as Julius Caesar, such an empire as Assyria.
But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily
be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were
a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which
certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a
flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it
were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was
ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery
for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human
testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.
A handsome young cyborg named Ace
Wooed women at every base
But once ladies glanced at
His special enhancement
They vanished with nary a trace.
-- Barracks graffiti, Sparta Command
You should buy a bunch of cheap, big hard disks. Crank your music down to 64kb/s, pack the hard disks full of it (as many copies as necessary), then chuck them.
Just think about it: hundreds of millions of the RIAA's hard-earned dollars, straight into the trash! For the price of a box of hard disks, you could bankrupt the whole organisation!
Well, clearly the airlines do not guarantee their flights to leave on time, because flights are often delayed and people don't get any restitution.
My feeling is that Americans too often shop based only on price. This means companies have to cut costs to compete, and so things (or people) start to break. Hence my question — if consumers were willing to pay more for the same "surface level" service (seat size, frills, etc.), they might get better reliability. And maybe some consumers would value an hour or two of their time more than an extra $100...
Engineers at Rocketdyne, the
manufacturer, estimate the total probability [of mission failure] as 1/10,000. Engineers at
Marshal estimate it as 1/300, while NASA management, to whom these
engineers report, claims it is 1/100,000. An independent engineer
consulting for NASA thought 1 or 2 per 100 a reasonable estimate.
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Dude, this is America we're talking about here...
I used to think that. But popular usage says otherwise. And, unless you live in France, popular usage defines language. I'm sure there've been other words or phrases to have their meaning completely inverted, and I'm sure there'll be more to come..
Huh?
For card-not-present fraud (such as internet purchases), the merchant wears the cost: if the cardholder complains of fraud, the issuing bank will issue a chargeback (assuming they believe the cardholder). The merchant will end up out of pocket, and will probably have to pay a penalty fee as well. That's why issuing banks don't care about online card fraud: they just pass the costs on to the merchants.
That's not quite the same thing -- they didn't plan to jump without a parachute. If you throw enough people out of aeroplanes (as WWII did), it's not quite so amazing if a couple survive. This guy wants to be one from one -- much more difficult.
Perhaps I should have been more clear about where "here" is. I live in New Zealand. I don't text enough to follow prices closely, but neither network here offers unlimited texting (Telecom used to, but they stopped -- presumably it was too expensive).
I think Vodafone offers or used to offer unlimited texts to other Vodafone mobiles on weekends, but Telecom was more cost-effective during the day. The vast majority of teenages here are on prepay plans, so there is no monthly bill; the only cost is the cost of the phone (a couple of hundred, say). A hundred texts will cost you $20 at standard prepay rates, so if you do send hundreds a day, it could be worth maintaining two numbers. I wouldn't do it, but then my teenage years are sadly behind me..
Apparently, many teenagers here have two phones, one from each major network, because it's the most cost-effective way of supporting their hundreds-per-day text habit..
Huh?
The bootloader doesn't expire. The only thing that expired is the Boot Camp partitioning software. Existing boot camp partitions, and your ability to boot into them, are unaffected by Boot Camp Beta's expiry.
Wow, that puts a whole new spin on the "screwing a subordinate" line from other posters...
I run Tiger. My regular userid is not an administrator.
OSX will prompt me to enter an administrator username and password under three circumstances (in my experience):
In all three cases, I expect the prompt and the reason is clear. I think it works well...
So that's one every round, then?
Ok, it made sense to me, but I had to reread it 3 times. Let's try again, with formatting:
No mention of Windows ME, but perhaps that's as it should be...
In _Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri_, you could build orbital power plants, once you discovered orbital spaceflight.
You could also build orbital hydroponics stations.. I wonder if that would be cost- or energy-effective in real life?
Stanislaw Lem wrote a book -- I think it was _The Futurological Congress_ -- which included people who predicted future inventions by predicting possible words. The theory being: things won't be popular unless they have a good name, so by thinking of good names, and then considering what might have those names, you can predict future developments.
Actually, apparently this is widely misattrbuted to Mark Twain; it's actually from a letter by a guy named M. J. Shields.
In Soviet Russia, the party signs you up!
From the _Devil's Dictionary_:
The user talk page for that IP claims it is part of the "Wikileaks anonymizing network".
A handsome young cyborg named Ace
Wooed women at every base
But once ladies glanced at
His special enhancement
They vanished with nary a trace.
-- Barracks graffiti, Sparta Command
Remember that Germany has proportional representation. The people have the ability to bring about real political change if they want to..
I would have put "The Internet" on the list, personally.
It gives you a research lab in all your cities too :-)
You should buy a bunch of cheap, big hard disks. Crank your music down to 64kb/s, pack the hard disks full of it (as many copies as necessary), then chuck them.
Just think about it: hundreds of millions of the RIAA's hard-earned dollars, straight into the trash! For the price of a box of hard disks, you could bankrupt the whole organisation!
TFA wasn't quite clear.. are they saying that Yahoo! users like Yahoo! slightly more than Google users like Google?
If so ... it's interesting, but it doesn't translate to "Yahoo! is better than Google".
Well, clearly the airlines do not guarantee their flights to leave on time, because flights are often delayed and people don't get any restitution.
My feeling is that Americans too often shop based only on price. This means companies have to cut costs to compete, and so things (or people) start to break. Hence my question — if consumers were willing to pay more for the same "surface level" service (seat size, frills, etc.), they might get better reliability. And maybe some consumers would value an hour or two of their time more than an extra $100...
Would you pay twice as much money for the same kind of seat, on the same kind of plane, if the plane was guaranteed to leave on time?
While I agree with you that you need to accept some mistakes, NASA's bureaucracy has not been faultless. I encourage you to read Richard Feynman's report on the Challenger disaster.
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