Processing credit card orders costs companies money. Depending on the frequency that you process them. But companies can adjust their frequency of orders processed and hold them for a few more days after a user buys something. This saves them money. So instead of charging immediately for each order they can wait a few days to see if the customer orders anything else before processing the completed order. The fact that the number of CCs processed is lower by 65% more then likely indicated that they are now saving a lot more money then before.
English seems (at least in High School) to be a strange combination of reading,writing,grammer,speech and concept recognition. To me that means communictation. Communication is a more nebulus subject when you dont really focus on language. An english teacher should not grade so harshly because a student uses l33t speak as much as they use mispellings simply because its not "REAL" english. If a student can successfully communicate a feeling or idea with l33t speak then kudos to them, the focus should be on choosing the most effective form of communication and using that as your medium. If standard english is the best method for your communication (as it will reach a broader or far less technological audience), then not choosing that method should merit a lower grade. Now, im not saying lets just let students use any old language they wish and blow off the real teaching of english, what im saying is that people nowadays have a better recognition mechanism thanks to computers. If your communication method works just fine within the limits of your audiences recognition then lets not punish somone for using the obvious abilities of the human mind. Digital devices (phones,compuers,pagers) have made people open to the idea of "compressed communication", communication that is NOT english but close enough to effectively communicate the originators intent. Lets not have our children be taught by people who are teaching the same way that things were taught 100 years ago. The world is an ever changing place, and we must teach the next generation how to understand what is now and take it further. Lets not stifle our childrens communication just because were scared that they might forget the past.
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Processing credit card orders costs companies money. Depending on the frequency that you process them. But companies can adjust their frequency of orders processed and hold them for a few more days after a user buys something. This saves them money. So instead of charging immediately for each order they can wait a few days to see if the customer orders anything else before processing the completed order. The fact that the number of CCs processed is lower by 65% more then likely indicated that they are now saving a lot more money then before.
English seems (at least in High School) to be a strange combination of reading,writing,grammer,speech and concept recognition. To me that means communictation. Communication is a more nebulus subject when you dont really focus on language. An english teacher should not grade so harshly because a student uses l33t speak as much as they use mispellings simply because its not "REAL" english. If a student can successfully communicate a feeling or idea with l33t speak then kudos to them, the focus should be on choosing the most effective form of communication and using that as your medium. If standard english is the best method for your communication (as it will reach a broader or far less technological audience), then not choosing that method should merit a lower grade. Now, im not saying lets just let students use any old language they wish and blow off the real teaching of english, what im saying is that people nowadays have a better recognition mechanism thanks to computers. If your communication method works just fine within the limits of your audiences recognition then lets not punish somone for using the obvious abilities of the human mind. Digital devices (phones,compuers,pagers) have made people open to the idea of "compressed communication", communication that is NOT english but close enough to effectively communicate the originators intent. Lets not have our children be taught by people who are teaching the same way that things were taught 100 years ago. The world is an ever changing place, and we must teach the next generation how to understand what is now and take it further. Lets not stifle our childrens communication just because were scared that they might forget the past.