Yeah and you have to be high to believe that ERP is necessary to run a dispensary. I just can't imagine that they're bringing in enough customers to need that kind of database horsepower.
1. They have to be aggressive because if they don't, someone else will be aggressive to them. It's how it works now.
2. Apple can't "affect" Android because there's nothing to affect. It's an OS and it does its thing. However, when another company makes a reasonable facsimile of their device, on purpose due to popularity and design preference, they have every right to go after them. Right or wrong it's what they have to do in this market.
I hate the lawsuits simply because it ends up in the news and I have to hear about the lawyers continuing to get rich. I really wish they'd go back to ambulance chasing instead. At least they had to work then;-)
I didn't just tell you my preference for paper books. I explained to the OP that there were plenty of reasons why the Kindle was superior to the Nook for some and that his choices were great for him but not for everyone.
My aside was simply to point out that I don't care for either device and thus have no bias towards one or the other.
But hey, go ahead and pounce on one part of my post and blow it out of proportion--I wouldn't expect anything less from an AC.
Yeah I've tried a Kindle. They're great devices. In fact, I'd love to own one. Unfortunately the books cost $10 and I'm more of a $1/book from the local bookstore type of guy.
I want to be able to resell my books to others when I'm done with them so that I can buy more books for $1. When the Kindle lets me do that while smelling, feeling, and touching a nice book while turning its paper pages I'll be all in.
Hey, thankfully there are pros and cons for each device and people have a choice between the two major competing devices.
Some people like the openness of the underlying Android OS on the Nook Color and some people prefer the e-ink and Amazon ease-of-downloading on the Kindle.
To each their own. Glad you are enjoying yours and you find it the superior device. Me? I prefer old-school books and will continue to do so until they pry my entire library from my cold, dead hands.
You should NEVER, EVER, EVER allow an officer of the law, under any circumstances what-so-ever, to search your person, your belongings, or your car. Clearly this includes your mobile phone as well.
And R is free and SAS and/or Excel are not. For most here that would be the big deal breaker.
While I use SAS myself, it's because it's available to me. However, I would not use Excel to build charts simply because if you have to change something it's very likely you will have to recreate the chart too. Personally I like running a block of code and having the output get e-mailed to the report's recipient each day/week/month/quarter/foo w/o me having to do anything manually.
Excel = manual and that scares the shit out of me.
Because the public sector has very little time to handle FOIA requests and they sometimes cost more money to complete than I'm willing to pay (usually because they don't do much of their own data work in-house and have to call on a contractor to do it for me), I use their websites to glean the data I want.
So while there are any number of pitfalls to screen scraping (not understanding the meaning of the data and trends, being fed incomplete or purposefully incorrect data, or even being banned outright) screen scraping can be great for learning about and reporting on the public sector when they are physically or financially incapable or simply unwilling to do it themselves.
I eat foods laced with the ghost pepper often wings and Caribbean to name two of my most favorite) simply because I enjoy eating spicy foods.
The problem with spicy foods is that you apparently gain tolerance to the effects. The first few times I had ghost wings I got an endorphin rush (light headed, arms went numb, etc) but subsequent tastings have provided much less response.
While I know there are plenty of extracts available which will permit me to add up to 15+ million Scoville units, I prefer to keep the fresh pepper taste (or at the very least an all natural experience) when eating my food.
Hot foods aren't for everyone. In fact, I don't recommend you jump right to the ghost pepper (or higher) if you cannot handle anything more than a jalapeno. But being that I really do enjoy eating pickled habaneros raw and adding ghost peppers to most foods, I personally believe that furthering natural Scoville ratings is a great thing.
I cannot wait to try something 50% hotter than the ghost chili. I'm sure it'll bring me right back to that high I experienced the very first time I tried them.
There is another twist to this story. Facebook is guarding this news and it is not letting anyone leak it out until they announce it in near future. According to my source, Facebook might launch a broader Facebook Ads platform later this year.
Basically there is nothing to see here so you can move on now. But! If you want to join the rumor mill here we go:
1. Are the payouts going to be competitive with AdSense's? I make more than enough yearly via AdSense to get taxed on the income. Will it be worth it for me to add Facebook too?
2. Will Facebook (or conversely Google) allow me to run both AdSense and FBAds concurrently or will I have to pick one or the other (see #1).
3. Are general users visiting my website more likely to click FBAds than AdSense? Will they be textual and thus fit into my content better or will we be looking at a lot of images/Flash?
So many questions and no answers in the linked content. Boo.
However, it will be very equally applied. Congress doesn't get paid either--especially being that they're not doing their jobs anyway.
And when we shut it down, it gets shut down. That means no more bombs dropping in countries that don't need to be receiving our expensive military tech. It means no more funding for anything people depend on.
You know why this is important? So people revolt and get rid of Obama, all of the Democrats, and all of the Republicans, and all of the rest of the people who sit in Washington and twiddle their thumbs arguing over absolutely ridiculous crap all day.
It's time for change and since one man, who promised to bring it, couldn't. It's time for 300+ million of us to.
Federated authentication has mostly failed to work because the incentives were wrong Identity providers assumed no liability and were open to traceless coercion; relying parties gained little benefit and had to cope with increased complexity; users rightly feared single points of failure.
No, it has mostly failed not because of lack of incentive but simply because *I* want to be the controller of my individual identity online--not some third-party or government sponsored gatekeeper.
We do NOT need this and I wish we'd stop wasting time, money, and effort on something that will always fail. Even if it is adopted it will have been an enormous waste being that those problems it's meant to solve will be circumvented by those who do not want it solved.
I have always used Dell laptops or ones provided by work (HP). I purchased a Dell netbook for my wife assuming that during her time at home it would be portable and easy for her to carry around. After a couple of months she decided it was just too small and underpowered for her and she wanted something else.
We only had a few requirements: built in mic and webcam (Skype with the grandparents), Windows, and a 10-key pad.
NewEgg had a Lenovo laptop which met all those requirements for ~$475. We picked it up and it arrived a few days later. Widescreen, 10-key, mic but a bit of a lame webcam. The rest of the specs are irrelevant as my wife doesn't need anything except Firefox, Word, and Excel.
But the important thing about Lenovo wasn't the hardware. The important thing was when it began shutting down unexpectedly and without warning after 30 minutes of heavy CPU usage (like when my wife was catching up on her shows on Hulu).
I contacted Lenovo support. I explained the problem and what I had done to test it. There was no usual bullshit required script I had to run through with the person on the phone. Nope. They e-mailed us the instructions on how to ship it back and we did.
It arrived at their facility in Texas on the 15th. On the 16th FedEx knocked at our door with the repaired laptop.
Lenovo will get my laptop business again and again until they break the trust level they created with that wonderful service exchange--arguably the best service I have ever received from any manufacturer in my 25 years of dealing with these things.
1. You're right, at the time of the ping the system needs to know where your phone is. It does not need to have a 6 month+ history of where your phone has been.
2. Billing does not need to keep your lat and long.
3. Just because a handful of people have been tracked in this manner doesn't mean that the 6.7 billion others should be.
4. No, we as customers tell the companies how they will operate and not the other way around. If you want to operate as a government sponsored monopoly (by using spectrum purchased from the people) then you get to follow OUR rules.
My company pays for 50% of my mass transit costs. I pay $35.50 a month to ride mass transit unlimited.
The commute is 33 minutes on an average day (not including the 1.5 miles I have to drive (in the winter it dips below -20F in the mornings), walk, or bike (as I do in the spring/summer/fall). Based on the transit options available in the city (light rail or city bus) I would spend about the same amount of time commuting even in much of the city.
Minneapolis. I purchased my home at the height of the boom in 2005 and paid $169,900 for it. I put $60,000 down when I purchased it. We refinanced at less than 5% in 2009.
But the same thing applies. People live in the suburbs because it's more affordable. Plain and simple.
Because my "sprawling" 1280 sq ft. home in the suburbs (where I ride the bus 20 miles each way) costs me $723/month whereas rent would be over $1000/month and a mortgage would be well in excess of $1000/month in the city?
The problem is that when it hits concrete (or the floor of a bus) from any height, including the 2 feet from my pants pocket to the floor, it will shatter the glass.
After owning my iPhone4 for 71 hours I was at the Apple Store paying $65 ($29.99 for the replacement back and the rest of the Griffin case) to get it fixed.
Yes, Apple ended up refunding the repair cost following a survey I took when I noted that NO PHONE SHOULD BE MADE ENTIRELY OF GLASS. They didn't agree but did refund the money because I had only owned it for 71 hours.
I wonder if the woman in front of me in line, 6 days of ownership with the same exact problem, received a retroactive credit for her fix?
Because the restaurant will run into several things:
1. An overload of customers they cannot handle especially right before the coupon is set to expire from it's inflated value.
2. Coupons are generally used to build customer bases. Because the customers are loyal to Groupon, they aren't interested in the restaurant itself, just the deal they got from Groupon. Thus the advertisement does nothing but give them even less money to make and little to no repeat business.
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Actually 230K. But hey, what's another 10 degrees Kelvin when we're already at more than 40 below zero.
From the blurb:
Oh, I expected the sentence to end with, "...and I still don't know why the fuck anyone cares about a number this long."
I'm going to the bar. Who's with me?
...the US government is keeping mostly mum about the threats coming over from China. That and they want to keep getting their money.
Yeah and you have to be high to believe that ERP is necessary to run a dispensary. I just can't imagine that they're bringing in enough customers to need that kind of database horsepower.
1. They have to be aggressive because if they don't, someone else will be aggressive to them. It's how it works now.
2. Apple can't "affect" Android because there's nothing to affect. It's an OS and it does its thing. However, when another company makes a reasonable facsimile of their device, on purpose due to popularity and design preference, they have every right to go after them. Right or wrong it's what they have to do in this market.
I hate the lawsuits simply because it ends up in the news and I have to hear about the lawyers continuing to get rich. I really wish they'd go back to ambulance chasing instead. At least they had to work then ;-)
I didn't just tell you my preference for paper books. I explained to the OP that there were plenty of reasons why the Kindle was superior to the Nook for some and that his choices were great for him but not for everyone.
My aside was simply to point out that I don't care for either device and thus have no bias towards one or the other.
But hey, go ahead and pounce on one part of my post and blow it out of proportion--I wouldn't expect anything less from an AC.
Yeah I've tried a Kindle. They're great devices. In fact, I'd love to own one. Unfortunately the books cost $10 and I'm more of a $1/book from the local bookstore type of guy.
I want to be able to resell my books to others when I'm done with them so that I can buy more books for $1. When the Kindle lets me do that while smelling, feeling, and touching a nice book while turning its paper pages I'll be all in.
Hey, thankfully there are pros and cons for each device and people have a choice between the two major competing devices.
Some people like the openness of the underlying Android OS on the Nook Color and some people prefer the e-ink and Amazon ease-of-downloading on the Kindle.
To each their own. Glad you are enjoying yours and you find it the superior device. Me? I prefer old-school books and will continue to do so until they pry my entire library from my cold, dead hands.
Officer: "May I search your car?"
You: "No, you may not."
Done.
You should NEVER, EVER, EVER allow an officer of the law, under any circumstances what-so-ever, to search your person, your belongings, or your car. Clearly this includes your mobile phone as well.
And R is free and SAS and/or Excel are not. For most here that would be the big deal breaker.
While I use SAS myself, it's because it's available to me. However, I would not use Excel to build charts simply because if you have to change something it's very likely you will have to recreate the chart too. Personally I like running a block of code and having the output get e-mailed to the report's recipient each day/week/month/quarter/foo w/o me having to do anything manually.
Excel = manual and that scares the shit out of me.
YMMV.
Because the public sector has very little time to handle FOIA requests and they sometimes cost more money to complete than I'm willing to pay (usually because they don't do much of their own data work in-house and have to call on a contractor to do it for me), I use their websites to glean the data I want.
Last week I gave a talk about using SAS to do screen scraping and then perform analysis on the data of jail inmate registries and level 3 sex offenders in MN. I have dashboards of the data available on my website and as I mentioned in my presentation it has even been used to help one county avoid what could have been a serious privacy issue.
So while there are any number of pitfalls to screen scraping (not understanding the meaning of the data and trends, being fed incomplete or purposefully incorrect data, or even being banned outright) screen scraping can be great for learning about and reporting on the public sector when they are physically or financially incapable or simply unwilling to do it themselves.
I eat foods laced with the ghost pepper often wings and Caribbean to name two of my most favorite) simply because I enjoy eating spicy foods.
The problem with spicy foods is that you apparently gain tolerance to the effects. The first few times I had ghost wings I got an endorphin rush (light headed, arms went numb, etc) but subsequent tastings have provided much less response.
While I know there are plenty of extracts available which will permit me to add up to 15+ million Scoville units, I prefer to keep the fresh pepper taste (or at the very least an all natural experience) when eating my food.
Hot foods aren't for everyone. In fact, I don't recommend you jump right to the ghost pepper (or higher) if you cannot handle anything more than a jalapeno. But being that I really do enjoy eating pickled habaneros raw and adding ghost peppers to most foods, I personally believe that furthering natural Scoville ratings is a great thing.
I cannot wait to try something 50% hotter than the ghost chili. I'm sure it'll bring me right back to that high I experienced the very first time I tried them.
YMMV.
From the blog post:
Basically there is nothing to see here so you can move on now. But! If you want to join the rumor mill here we go:
1. Are the payouts going to be competitive with AdSense's? I make more than enough yearly via AdSense to get taxed on the income. Will it be worth it for me to add Facebook too?
2. Will Facebook (or conversely Google) allow me to run both AdSense and FBAds concurrently or will I have to pick one or the other (see #1).
3. Are general users visiting my website more likely to click FBAds than AdSense? Will they be textual and thus fit into my content better or will we be looking at a lot of images/Flash?
So many questions and no answers in the linked content. Boo.
However, it will be very equally applied. Congress doesn't get paid either--especially being that they're not doing their jobs anyway.
And when we shut it down, it gets shut down. That means no more bombs dropping in countries that don't need to be receiving our expensive military tech. It means no more funding for anything people depend on.
You know why this is important? So people revolt and get rid of Obama, all of the Democrats, and all of the Republicans, and all of the rest of the people who sit in Washington and twiddle their thumbs arguing over absolutely ridiculous crap all day.
It's time for change and since one man, who promised to bring it, couldn't. It's time for 300+ million of us to.
I think recent hacks supposedly out of Iran have proven that third parties aren't any more trustworthy than the end user.
From the article:
No, it has mostly failed not because of lack of incentive but simply because *I* want to be the controller of my individual identity online--not some third-party or government sponsored gatekeeper.
We do NOT need this and I wish we'd stop wasting time, money, and effort on something that will always fail. Even if it is adopted it will have been an enormous waste being that those problems it's meant to solve will be circumvented by those who do not want it solved.
I have always used Dell laptops or ones provided by work (HP). I purchased a Dell netbook for my wife assuming that during her time at home it would be portable and easy for her to carry around. After a couple of months she decided it was just too small and underpowered for her and she wanted something else.
We only had a few requirements: built in mic and webcam (Skype with the grandparents), Windows, and a 10-key pad.
NewEgg had a Lenovo laptop which met all those requirements for ~$475. We picked it up and it arrived a few days later. Widescreen, 10-key, mic but a bit of a lame webcam. The rest of the specs are irrelevant as my wife doesn't need anything except Firefox, Word, and Excel.
But the important thing about Lenovo wasn't the hardware. The important thing was when it began shutting down unexpectedly and without warning after 30 minutes of heavy CPU usage (like when my wife was catching up on her shows on Hulu).
I contacted Lenovo support. I explained the problem and what I had done to test it. There was no usual bullshit required script I had to run through with the person on the phone. Nope. They e-mailed us the instructions on how to ship it back and we did.
It arrived at their facility in Texas on the 15th. On the 16th FedEx knocked at our door with the repaired laptop.
Lenovo will get my laptop business again and again until they break the trust level they created with that wonderful service exchange--arguably the best service I have ever received from any manufacturer in my 25 years of dealing with these things.
Good luck.
1. You're right, at the time of the ping the system needs to know where your phone is. It does not need to have a 6 month+ history of where your phone has been.
2. Billing does not need to keep your lat and long.
3. Just because a handful of people have been tracked in this manner doesn't mean that the 6.7 billion others should be.
4. No, we as customers tell the companies how they will operate and not the other way around. If you want to operate as a government sponsored monopoly (by using spectrum purchased from the people) then you get to follow OUR rules.
My company pays for 50% of my mass transit costs. I pay $35.50 a month to ride mass transit unlimited.
The commute is 33 minutes on an average day (not including the 1.5 miles I have to drive (in the winter it dips below -20F in the mornings), walk, or bike (as I do in the spring/summer/fall). Based on the transit options available in the city (light rail or city bus) I would spend about the same amount of time commuting even in much of the city.
Minneapolis. I purchased my home at the height of the boom in 2005 and paid $169,900 for it. I put $60,000 down when I purchased it. We refinanced at less than 5% in 2009.
But the same thing applies. People live in the suburbs because it's more affordable. Plain and simple.
Because my "sprawling" 1280 sq ft. home in the suburbs (where I ride the bus 20 miles each way) costs me $723/month whereas rent would be over $1000/month and a mortgage would be well in excess of $1000/month in the city?
1. Since you quoted me but didn't seem to understand what you quoted let me help you there. See, two feet (I was sitting).
2. Being careful means putting it in my pocket when it's not in use.
3. I was under the misconception that it was made of some sort of magic "hardened" glass. I didn't expect it to shatter.
The problem is that when it hits concrete (or the floor of a bus) from any height, including the 2 feet from my pants pocket to the floor, it will shatter the glass.
After owning my iPhone4 for 71 hours I was at the Apple Store paying $65 ($29.99 for the replacement back and the rest of the Griffin case) to get it fixed.
Yes, Apple ended up refunding the repair cost following a survey I took when I noted that NO PHONE SHOULD BE MADE ENTIRELY OF GLASS. They didn't agree but did refund the money because I had only owned it for 71 hours.
I wonder if the woman in front of me in line, 6 days of ownership with the same exact problem, received a retroactive credit for her fix?
Remember the stupid story making the rounds yesterday about Apple sending a free iPad2 to the man who reported, "Wife said No."?
Yeah well Apple should send the elected officials, "Apple Says No."
Because the restaurant will run into several things:
1. An overload of customers they cannot handle especially right before the coupon is set to expire from it's inflated value.
2. Coupons are generally used to build customer bases. Because the customers are loyal to Groupon, they aren't interested in the restaurant itself, just the deal they got from Groupon. Thus the advertisement does nothing but give them even less money to make and little to no repeat business.