There is no actual reason not to use a key, there is no usability increase from using a button and most certainly usability problems from using a button.
That's not true. I have one of the push-button cars, and when combined with keyless entry, I never take the key fob out of my pocket ever.
No juggling groceries while trying to get your key out of your pocket ever again.
Nowhere, EVER, does "America" refer to an entire continent. That's because there is a North America and a South America. "The Americas" can refer to both continents combined, or if you want to stretch it, even "America" can refer to both continents combined.
But context matters. When using English, "America" in the singular almost always means "United States of America". Especially in comments on a website based in the US.
Not that the rest of the GP's post makes any sense.....
The submitter entirely misses the point when he asks "How does your company keep or build a community environment using technology?"
Answer: YOU DON'T!
You build a community through SOCIAL ACTIVITY! That means get rid of as much technology as possible.
There is no single answer here, as it's going to depend a lot on culture. One thing that will definitely not work in Utah is to stock beer in the fridges and on the occasional Friday afternoon have managers pull their groups into a free-beer (or beverage of choice) activity. Or twice a year blow a paid day and have everyone go somewhere as a company outing.
No matter what you do, the most important part is LEAVE THE TECHNOLOGY IN THE CUBE!
I have a 3G phone as well as a 3G broadband modem (a couple actually) The modems are configured to go for 3G at all costs, and I find they do a much better job at sticking to 3G than phones do.
For phones, it's really a no-win situation... do you want customers to be pissed that their data rate stinks or that their call quality/total connectivity stinks?
Why is it that next day air on FedEx for a box that doesn't require any climate control at all that could still fit a person in it is MORE expensive than flying a person PLUS the same amount of baggage?
The only thing I can think of is that FedEx actually guarantees the box will get there.
I hope that the photo of the overweight dressed with Nintendo garb is from someone you know, and that they gave permission for you to humiliate them in front of thousands of other people.
What makes you think the picture is humiliating?
If you think the picture is humiliating, aren't you the problem?
If we all thought there was nothing wrong with the picture, then there wouldn't be anything humiliating about it, would there?
Your post sounds incredibly plausible. It's just completely mistaken.
The issue is that it's illegal to add ANYTHING to food or beverages sold in the US, unless:
1) You have proven to the FDA that the additive is safe and they have approved the use of the additive, or 2) The additive is "Generally Accepted" as safe (sugar and salt would be considered generally accepted as safe additives)
Caffeine is an additive, and the FDA has only approved the use of caffeine as an additive in soft drinks in amounts less than 200mg, so unless the companies distributing these products can show that caffeine is generally accepted as safe, it's illegal to add it to alcoholic beverages. Or anything else that isn't a soft drink.
This has nothing to do with having alcohol and caffeine together specifically. It's just a natural extension of the law in the US that says "You can't put shit in food if you don't show it's safe first."
As a developer, I'll be avoiding this like the plague.
Why on earth would I want to add the burden of handling and protecting sensitive financial information when I can just send the user to a website they are familiar with to complete the transaction? No credit card numbers in my DB to steal, added trust for the user - this API seems like fail-fail.
He meant greedy business entity strongly financially motivated to avoid any uncontrolled release of your information.
PayPal very diligently acts to protect their bottom line. You may not like their policies on withholding balances, but that same financial diligence also goes in to maintaining security to prevent the huge financial losses that would occur should the public no longer perceive paypal as secure.
The video game company is trading on the likeness of a person. This isn't a painting in a gallery, it is software sold by the millions around the globe, with millions in profit involved.
Personally, I think the obvious ruling here is that you can't put someone's likeness in a game without their consent.
That said, I don't NECESSARILY agree that stats and a hairstyle constitute a likeness.
Sometimes when someone is hellbent on causing their own self-destruction, and they want your help, you should give it to them! So if ASCAP wants a law that requires anyone playing a 30-second sample of a song to pay a fee, then let them have it! All the law will do is hurt their sales, which is exactly what they deserve!
If it costs 1/4th the value of the product to secure it, unless the number of thefts exceeds one fourth the number of locations, it's cheaper to not secure the goods and let it be stolen.
Or, put another way, it's cheaper to let $40k of stuff be stolen once a year than to pay a security guard to watch it get stolen.
but you also have to pay google for the privilege of asking "so whats wrong?
Or, you could NOT pay Google at all, and when something goes wrong, realize that being able to call and ask what is going wrong is not going to get it fixed any sooner, and wait until they fix it.
Having someone soothe you over the phone during the process is a waste of money.
A customer who buys a computer with Linux preloaded is likely to be more techncially savvy than a customer who buys a computer with Windows preloaded, and technically savvy customers are less likely to encounter issues that prompt them to return the purchase?
Africa is a big place. Yes, there are cities, but there is also a whole lot of not cities.
To imply that the greatest population of starving children in the world is in Appalachia either grossly underestimates the number of children in Africa or greatly overestimates the number of people in Appalachia. Not to mention totally misses the thousands of children literally dying of starvation in Africa where no such problem exists in the US. Malnourished maybe, but that's about it.
Your analogy assumes the only options are GPL and Copyright - for sake of analogy, let's call them mushrooms and dirt. If you are hungry, and your options are mushrooms or dirt, mushrooms will look pretty good. But what if your options are mushrooms, dirt, chicken nuggets, BBQ ribs, or steak? Sure, if you're a fascist vegetarian, you might still go for the mushrooms, but no one is going to take you seriously if you just run around screaming about how all anyone should eat are mushrooms, because they're much better than dirt.
If copyright is the least free, then licenses like BSD are *MORE* free than GPL, because they grant an even WIDER license to use the software than the GPL does.
How many people spent money on it in the last month? That's the number that REALLY matters. You'll notice they don't release that one.
You realize the game is FREE, right? So the number of people who spent money on it is probably a very poor measurement?
Average concurrent users is probably the metric you want to look at for game 'popularity'. Of course, then you have to ask, is the most popular game the best game? Lots of people listen to Brittany! Lots of them even PAID to listen to Brittany!
The congress and the supreme court tossed him from office when he violated the constitution. The Army just fulfilled their constitutional duty.
It would be no different than the US Senate convicting a President at trial, and the President refusing to leave office. At that point what the rest of the government is supposed to do is toss him, forcefully, if need be, although in the US it would probably be the Secret Service that did it.
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there are concrete consequences
Did someone invent concrete that runs on electricity?
I think you meant:
DON'T TRUST PROGRAMMERS
Computers are nearly infallible.
Programmers, not so much.
There is no actual reason not to use a key, there is no usability increase from using a button and most certainly usability problems from using a button.
That's not true. I have one of the push-button cars, and when combined with keyless entry, I never take the key fob out of my pocket ever.
No juggling groceries while trying to get your key out of your pocket ever again.
Nowhere, EVER, does "America" refer to an entire continent. That's because there is a North America and a South America. "The Americas" can refer to both continents combined, or if you want to stretch it, even "America" can refer to both continents combined.
But context matters. When using English, "America" in the singular almost always means "United States of America". Especially in comments on a website based in the US.
Not that the rest of the GP's post makes any sense.....
You actually hit this nail on the head.
The submitter entirely misses the point when he asks "How does your company keep or build a community environment using technology?"
Answer: YOU DON'T!
You build a community through SOCIAL ACTIVITY! That means get rid of as much technology as possible.
There is no single answer here, as it's going to depend a lot on culture. One thing that will definitely not work in Utah is to stock beer in the fridges and on the occasional Friday afternoon have managers pull their groups into a free-beer (or beverage of choice) activity. Or twice a year blow a paid day and have everyone go somewhere as a company outing.
No matter what you do, the most important part is LEAVE THE TECHNOLOGY IN THE CUBE!
I have a 3G phone as well as a 3G broadband modem (a couple actually) The modems are configured to go for 3G at all costs, and I find they do a much better job at sticking to 3G than phones do.
For phones, it's really a no-win situation... do you want customers to be pissed that their data rate stinks or that their call quality/total connectivity stinks?
Why is it that next day air on FedEx for a box that doesn't require any climate control at all that could still fit a person in it is MORE expensive than flying a person PLUS the same amount of baggage?
The only thing I can think of is that FedEx actually guarantees the box will get there.
internet a utility that I use for average 8hrs a day. That is pretty steep compared to electricity which I use 24hrs a day
Your power runs 110Hz.
Your DSL runs at.... 3000000Hz. And is bi-directional.
I never have any voltage fluctuations or power outs
Your power never goes out? That may be true depending on where you live, or at least extremely rare, but you definitely have voltage fluctuations.
Also, the costs of the power network are born by more users.
I hope that the photo of the overweight dressed with Nintendo garb is from someone you know, and that they gave permission for you to humiliate them in front of thousands of other people.
What makes you think the picture is humiliating?
If you think the picture is humiliating, aren't you the problem?
If we all thought there was nothing wrong with the picture, then there wouldn't be anything humiliating about it, would there?
Your post sounds incredibly plausible. It's just completely mistaken.
The issue is that it's illegal to add ANYTHING to food or beverages sold in the US, unless:
1) You have proven to the FDA that the additive is safe and they have approved the use of the additive, or
2) The additive is "Generally Accepted" as safe (sugar and salt would be considered generally accepted as safe additives)
Caffeine is an additive, and the FDA has only approved the use of caffeine as an additive in soft drinks in amounts less than 200mg, so unless the companies distributing these products can show that caffeine is generally accepted as safe, it's illegal to add it to alcoholic beverages. Or anything else that isn't a soft drink.
This has nothing to do with having alcohol and caffeine together specifically. It's just a natural extension of the law in the US that says "You can't put shit in food if you don't show it's safe first."
As a developer, I'll be avoiding this like the plague.
Why on earth would I want to add the burden of handling and protecting sensitive financial information when I can just send the user to a website they are familiar with to complete the transaction? No credit card numbers in my DB to steal, added trust for the user - this API seems like fail-fail.
He meant greedy business entity strongly financially motivated to avoid any uncontrolled release of your information.
PayPal very diligently acts to protect their bottom line. You may not like their policies on withholding balances, but that same financial diligence also goes in to maintaining security to prevent the huge financial losses that would occur should the public no longer perceive paypal as secure.
The video game company is trading on the likeness of a person. This isn't a painting in a gallery, it is software sold by the millions around the globe, with millions in profit involved.
Personally, I think the obvious ruling here is that you can't put someone's likeness in a game without their consent.
That said, I don't NECESSARILY agree that stats and a hairstyle constitute a likeness.
Sometimes when someone is hellbent on causing their own self-destruction, and they want your help, you should give it to them! So if ASCAP wants a law that requires anyone playing a 30-second sample of a song to pay a fee, then let them have it! All the law will do is hurt their sales, which is exactly what they deserve!
If it costs 1/4th the value of the product to secure it, unless the number of thefts exceeds one fourth the number of locations, it's cheaper to not secure the goods and let it be stolen.
Or, put another way, it's cheaper to let $40k of stuff be stolen once a year than to pay a security guard to watch it get stolen.
but you also have to pay google for the privilege of asking "so whats wrong?
Or, you could NOT pay Google at all, and when something goes wrong, realize that being able to call and ask what is going wrong is not going to get it fixed any sooner, and wait until they fix it.
Having someone soothe you over the phone during the process is a waste of money.
...he will attempt to talk to women!
A customer who buys a computer with Linux preloaded is likely to be more techncially savvy than a customer who buys a computer with Windows preloaded, and technically savvy customers are less likely to encounter issues that prompt them to return the purchase?
Africa is a big place. Yes, there are cities, but there is also a whole lot of not cities.
To imply that the greatest population of starving children in the world is in Appalachia either grossly underestimates the number of children in Africa or greatly overestimates the number of people in Appalachia. Not to mention totally misses the thousands of children literally dying of starvation in Africa where no such problem exists in the US. Malnourished maybe, but that's about it.
Your analogy assumes the only options are GPL and Copyright - for sake of analogy, let's call them mushrooms and dirt. If you are hungry, and your options are mushrooms or dirt, mushrooms will look pretty good. But what if your options are mushrooms, dirt, chicken nuggets, BBQ ribs, or steak? Sure, if you're a fascist vegetarian, you might still go for the mushrooms, but no one is going to take you seriously if you just run around screaming about how all anyone should eat are mushrooms, because they're much better than dirt.
If copyright is the least free, then licenses like BSD are *MORE* free than GPL, because they grant an even WIDER license to use the software than the GPL does.
Ok, so a bad month is, what, $20k? So $240,000 a year? And down 40% of that is still $136,000 a year?
In NIGERIA?
Dude probably owns a village or two by now.
How many people spent money on it in the last month? That's the number that REALLY matters. You'll notice they don't release that one.
You realize the game is FREE, right? So the number of people who spent money on it is probably a very poor measurement?
Average concurrent users is probably the metric you want to look at for game 'popularity'. Of course, then you have to ask, is the most popular game the best game? Lots of people listen to Brittany! Lots of them even PAID to listen to Brittany!
There is no reason for the populace to have semi-automatic weapons, since any single-shot pistol will do?
The congress and the supreme court tossed him from office when he violated the constitution. The Army just fulfilled their constitutional duty.
It would be no different than the US Senate convicting a President at trial, and the President refusing to leave office. At that point what the rest of the government is supposed to do is toss him, forcefully, if need be, although in the US it would probably be the Secret Service that did it.
...when the populace was armed with muskets, and the government was armed with muskets.
Now the populace is armed with, at best, assault rifles, and the government is armed with tanks.
What really keeps the government in check is the right to join the military.