No problem. It was meant to be a matter of the fact response and assumed you wanted one. I've seen people do all that too. Before FB it was forums. Before forums it was usenet, mailing lists, and email. Before that, there was snail mail as many of these internet memes and upsetting news/posts, are just a continuation of old chain letters I'd see on fridges as a kid. Even then, there is just talking to people around you. It might speed up or aggravate such behavior, but I doubt FB causes it (any more then/. does anyway).
It took 14 months for Watergate to lead to Nixon's resignation. Why is it you think that this particular investigation should have such a shorter timeline?
Because it seems that very time his staff comes up with some excuse of plausible deniability for him in a scandalous situation, he just tweets that he really did do the thing he is accused of.
Like I have asked before, what am I missing really?
For the most part, a Rolodex of friends, family, acquaintances, and other people you meet and know, and a messenger app that tends to be more reliable than email, texting, or the phone these days.
From there you get a pretty much random selection of snapshots into the lives of those people according to what they decide to share. If you're really interested in what somebody has been up to, you can check to see what they have said, but pretty much it's just a near random stream of information to waste time reading, and the information they put down is really only as good as they are.
One of the more used functions seems to be the Events. From book clubs at people's houses, to parties, to organized events, you can schedule them, invite people, organize them, etc in what is basically a calendar entry.
From there, there are pages. If you get into a club, hobby group, or some organization these days, chances are they have a Facebook page and have their discussions, share information, and organize their events there. For celebrities, businesses, or such, their pages and posts pretty much do the same thing as Twitter.
It's not just you, I have several friends that don't do FB. Have to keep them in mind and go out of our way to let them know what is going on usually. Luckily, the main one's wife is on FB and she can let him know. Others only check it infrequently, perhaps even only every few weeks. Those people usually use email, but there are even more people who never or rarely check their email also.
This makes no sense at all. Seriously? Robots large enough to see the top shelves just wandering up and down aisles, getting in the way of and creeping out customers, just so they can inform employees that items are running low? What the hell happened to things like RFID technology keeping track of store inventory in real time, which would accomplish the same thing without getting in the way? Or just build the smarts into the shelving if you really think this is so damned important! Who on earth thinks this is a good idea?
I agree. I see something more like a tape farm where the robots are in the backs of the shelves on rails. It scans the shelves for inventory and then loads more product in from the back as needed and the customer never sees it happen.
I can understand that they might also have a shortage of those other things as well as IT workers, but what do developers, engineers, and programmers have to do with answering the phone at the help desk, pulling cat 5/cat 6 cable, using puppet to configure systems, or swapping out disks on raid arrays (aka the stuff that "IT workers" do)?
Ya, weird, I have no idea why people that chemically treat film, drive trains, or schedule TV shows would be put in an IT department. I guess it's just part of the corporate culture in Israel.
I can see a few here and there for functions you need or want but I can't see people spending 3x-10x more in apps in the future.
People, of businesses? We're having to start installing apps for work now, VPN apps, online conference apps, business apps for once we get the VPN app running, and even apps to replace those secure code dongles as everything is going towards two factor security. Personally, yes, I don't expect to spend any more on apps, even less as I have all I want. Work and other businesses however, seems to be spending more on such things and integrating them into the normal workflow.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
There is nothing in this sentence about "Americans". All people have the same rights to life, liberty, and happiness. I am proud to be an American because my country was founded on this principle.
Please forgive these ACs. Russians probably never had an American civics class in primary school.
I wonder how much money was spent on this, rather than, say, cancer research. Sigh...
These are physicists. Whatever they might study, it won't be cancer.
Yes, but perhaps the suitcase industry would have hired biotechs to study cancer rather than physicists to study wheels if they knew about the pre-existing research.
Seems like a lot of trouble for 229 customers, I would think the Comcast loses more customers than that every day. From what I've observed of Comcast this could as easily be incompetence as malice, but likely it's a combination of the two. They should pay either way. Did Comcast raise rates after Telecom went out of business?
My guess would be that it was actually the contractors doing it, and Comcast just didn't care. 229 customers might not be much for Comcast, but for those contractors it was 229 more jobs with billable hours. Comcast is just involved because they were told and knew they hired crooks and didn't do anything about it.
"[D]uring the time Mr. Luna spent calling, the contractors had cut three additional cable lines. Defendants paid no notice to Telecom’s markings and continued to destroy Telecom’s lines, and Telecom's complaints fell on deaf ears. One would like to believe that the destruction was accidental, but the comprehensiveness of it—coupled with Comcast’s prior interest in Telecom—renders such a conclusion doubtful. Within six weeks, Defendants destroyed or damaged the lines servicing every single Telecom customer in Weston Lakes, and not one of those lines was ever repaired by Defendants."
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.
People said that back in the 1950s too. Then along came this thing called greed, and its enabler called power.
Actually, you could work a part time job and live as they predicted, so long as you wanted to live at the same standard of living as they did in the 50's. Very few electric appliances and maybe one car per family. 8 days worth of clothes. Spend a third of your pay on food. Much smaller house. That was considered middle class in the early 50's. There are some catches. One, there aren't that many part time jobs, especially good paying ones. Two, they just don't make housing like they used to. In some cases, it's not even legal any more.
Putting Lance Armstrongs indiscretions aside for a moment, the Livestrong foundation sold 80 million wristlets, and was created as a fund-raising item which other organizations have developed similar programs funding charities, so yes they did something far more than just sit on your wrist.
Generally speaking, plastic bracelets preceded Lance Armstrong and snap bracelets. Then there were braided friendship bracelets also which bled into the 80's all the way from the 60's. Bracelets and such did serve a purpose, besides a crafts that kids can get involved in, it allowed for socialization and interaction between kids as they traded and gave them away.
I think I remember looking at those and thinking "I have a stylus and plan to write like I am already doing. I've also had chicklet keyboards and am not a fan compared to graffitti. Get rid of the keyboard and give me all screen and I'll buy one." Then came the iPhone and once I played with one and convinced myself their soft keyboard worked, I jumped on board.
Going online would have killed the brick and mortar stores. Without brick and mortar stores everyone forgets who Seers is. So its a catch22. They were doomed from the beginning.
As Kodak learned, you cannibalize your own market if you can, otherwise somebody else will do it for you.
Palm had a good product at the time, people seem to accept the risks it took using graffiti interface vs. full handwriting recognition (Like apple did on the Newton). It had the features and was priced and had a brand name that was recognizable. Nearly any of these things could had backfired, and Palm wouldn't never had gotten where it got.
I had a Palm PDA since they were US Robotics to the Palm V. After that, I never saw anything that made me want to trade up. Even after getting a cell phone, I kept looking and kept deciding to keep carrying my Palm V and a cell phone rather than get a newer Palm device (until the iPhone anyway).
Come on. Do you honestly think any of that could be done in such a short timeframe? No. The truth is they couldn't launch with an App Store because it was not quite ready, but it had always been planned to have one far in advance or none the significant app signing infrastructure to make that all possible would have been in place at launch.
There is also the possibility that they hadn't worked out all the details with AT&T yet. Remember, at this time, phone apps were pretty expensive and only available from the carriers who had a hold on them. Apple shows up and needs to get that bit away from the carriers, so they simply announces, websites are the apps, which while not perfect, would have been a workable solution, more workable than letting AT&T keep controlling apps. Faced with that, Apple might have been using it to leverage various legal details out of the hands of the carriers. Friends of mine used to develop phone apps and games well before the iPhone, and they stress that the important and game changing bit off all of this is how Apple freed the market place of control by getting apps out of the hands of the carriers. Apple's app store terms were trivial compared to the control and costs carriers had on apps perviously.
This was years ago, so maybe the tech wasn't ready, or maybe they just tried to cheap out and got crappy machines.
That's pretty much it, all about the software. I've seen self checkouts go in and the software change and bad software makes the entire process long and frustrating and good software pretty much means you just move your stuff from one side to the other. If you shop every day you can tell when they change th software because the pattern changes. About two months ago, the grocery store I stop at on the way home fairly often did some 'upgrade' to the software, probably for chip and pin, and everything took longer just to scan, had some confusion, and even got stuck in circular messages. About a week ago it reverted back to its old self with a few of the changes at the end.
They are incompetent dickbags who do their best to only hire the dumbest people on the planet. Their autorouting system is so pathetic that it creates routing loops that can only be broken by deliberate human intervention. Their hours are garbage that robs the nation of productivity by expecting people to run their errands at the same time that their employer expects them to work. They suffer no penalties for failure, and there is no accountability. Every single package is scanned and the data handed to the government as part of the spying-on-citizens program.
It's like you've never actually had a package delivery attempt by FedEx or UPS. lol
Or they could maybe build a facility somewhere else and expand there. Somewhere the engineers AND the janitor can get a place to live within a 30 minute drive.
Like anywhere in the plains or mid-west? Trouble with that is that if they move too far away, then they lose the pool of workers they are seeing for high tech jobs. This pool is looking currently at moving between jobs regularly in an affluent neighborhood, so if they move out where this company is, they cut themselves off from their next job, better pay, upward mobility, and the place they want to live. Cities have been trying to get in on that high tech industry for two decades now, but most can't. In general, people decide where they want to live first, move there, and then look for a job. Certainly, job market can figure into the first part, but it is not the major thing.
The other 99% is market hype and bubbles.
When I am buying a dishwasher, a pair of shoes, or a car I want hardware. It is CRAZY to force me into SaaS or Cloud or even just apps in these cases. This is pets.com all over again.
This is more like wireless on printers and desktop computers. You think you're getting just what you want because that's the way it has always been, but eventually, the demand will be high enough and the cost low enough, that such features will come automatically with such devices. They might even be active by default and unadvertised unless you search the user manual for such because they have simply become a default service due to demand or industry implimentation. It's already to the point where a new car will most likely come with some sort of cloud service that will be near impossible to turn off the free trial period. Dishwashers are probably next. Eventually, I won't be surprised when your shoes communicate with fitness apps on your watch or phone.
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No problem. It was meant to be a matter of the fact response and assumed you wanted one. I've seen people do all that too. Before FB it was forums. Before forums it was usenet, mailing lists, and email. Before that, there was snail mail as many of these internet memes and upsetting news/posts, are just a continuation of old chain letters I'd see on fridges as a kid. Even then, there is just talking to people around you. It might speed up or aggravate such behavior, but I doubt FB causes it (any more then /. does anyway).
It took 14 months for Watergate to lead to Nixon's resignation. Why is it you think that this particular investigation should have such a shorter timeline?
Because it seems that very time his staff comes up with some excuse of plausible deniability for him in a scandalous situation, he just tweets that he really did do the thing he is accused of.
I think the correct term is Tech Priest.
Tech Priest of the Adeptus Mechanicus under the command of The Fabricator-General who must communicate with the machine sprits and appease them.
Like I have asked before, what am I missing really?
For the most part, a Rolodex of friends, family, acquaintances, and other people you meet and know, and a messenger app that tends to be more reliable than email, texting, or the phone these days.
From there you get a pretty much random selection of snapshots into the lives of those people according to what they decide to share. If you're really interested in what somebody has been up to, you can check to see what they have said, but pretty much it's just a near random stream of information to waste time reading, and the information they put down is really only as good as they are.
One of the more used functions seems to be the Events. From book clubs at people's houses, to parties, to organized events, you can schedule them, invite people, organize them, etc in what is basically a calendar entry.
From there, there are pages. If you get into a club, hobby group, or some organization these days, chances are they have a Facebook page and have their discussions, share information, and organize their events there. For celebrities, businesses, or such, their pages and posts pretty much do the same thing as Twitter.
It's not just you, I have several friends that don't do FB. Have to keep them in mind and go out of our way to let them know what is going on usually. Luckily, the main one's wife is on FB and she can let him know. Others only check it infrequently, perhaps even only every few weeks. Those people usually use email, but there are even more people who never or rarely check their email also.
This makes no sense at all. Seriously? Robots large enough to see the top shelves just wandering up and down aisles, getting in the way of and creeping out customers, just so they can inform employees that items are running low? What the hell happened to things like RFID technology keeping track of store inventory in real time, which would accomplish the same thing without getting in the way? Or just build the smarts into the shelving if you really think this is so damned important! Who on earth thinks this is a good idea?
I agree. I see something more like a tape farm where the robots are in the backs of the shelves on rails. It scans the shelves for inventory and then loads more product in from the back as needed and the customer never sees it happen.
I can understand that they might also have a shortage of those other things as well as IT workers, but what do developers, engineers, and programmers have to do with answering the phone at the help desk, pulling cat 5/cat 6 cable, using puppet to configure systems, or swapping out disks on raid arrays (aka the stuff that "IT workers" do)?
Ya, weird, I have no idea why people that chemically treat film, drive trains, or schedule TV shows would be put in an IT department. I guess it's just part of the corporate culture in Israel.
I can see a few here and there for functions you need or want but I can't see people spending 3x-10x more in apps in the future.
People, of businesses? We're having to start installing apps for work now, VPN apps, online conference apps, business apps for once we get the VPN app running, and even apps to replace those secure code dongles as everything is going towards two factor security. Personally, yes, I don't expect to spend any more on apps, even less as I have all I want. Work and other businesses however, seems to be spending more on such things and integrating them into the normal workflow.
Americans have RIGHTS! Non-citizens DO NOT!
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
There is nothing in this sentence about "Americans". All people have the same rights to life, liberty, and happiness. I am proud to be an American because my country was founded on this principle.
Please forgive these ACs. Russians probably never had an American civics class in primary school.
Except that ACs aren't usually people, just very small perl scripts designed to troll.
People who tow trailers have known about this for decades.
I wonder how much money was spent on this, rather than, say, cancer research. Sigh...
These are physicists. Whatever they might study, it won't be cancer.
Yes, but perhaps the suitcase industry would have hired biotechs to study cancer rather than physicists to study wheels if they knew about the pre-existing research.
Maybe they were just trying to stay hip?
Seems like a lot of trouble for 229 customers, I would think the Comcast loses more customers than that every day. From what I've observed of Comcast this could as easily be incompetence as malice, but likely it's a combination of the two. They should pay either way. Did Comcast raise rates after Telecom went out of business?
My guess would be that it was actually the contractors doing it, and Comcast just didn't care. 229 customers might not be much for Comcast, but for those contractors it was 229 more jobs with billable hours. Comcast is just involved because they were told and knew they hired crooks and didn't do anything about it.
I bet if you had logged in, your user name would be "Russian Comcast Shill".
"[D]uring the time Mr. Luna spent calling, the contractors had cut three additional cable lines. Defendants paid no notice to Telecom’s markings and continued to destroy Telecom’s lines, and Telecom's complaints fell on deaf ears. One would like to believe that the destruction was accidental, but the comprehensiveness of it—coupled with Comcast’s prior interest in Telecom—renders such a conclusion doubtful. Within six weeks, Defendants destroyed or damaged the lines servicing every single Telecom customer in Weston Lakes, and not one of those lines was ever repaired by Defendants."
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.
People said that back in the 1950s too. Then along came this thing called greed, and its enabler called power.
Actually, you could work a part time job and live as they predicted, so long as you wanted to live at the same standard of living as they did in the 50's. Very few electric appliances and maybe one car per family. 8 days worth of clothes. Spend a third of your pay on food. Much smaller house. That was considered middle class in the early 50's. There are some catches. One, there aren't that many part time jobs, especially good paying ones. Two, they just don't make housing like they used to. In some cases, it's not even legal any more.
How can this be over? I just found out last week...
You're old.
Putting Lance Armstrongs indiscretions aside for a moment, the Livestrong foundation sold 80 million wristlets, and was created as a fund-raising item which other organizations have developed similar programs funding charities, so yes they did something far more than just sit on your wrist.
Generally speaking, plastic bracelets preceded Lance Armstrong and snap bracelets. Then there were braided friendship bracelets also which bled into the 80's all the way from the 60's. Bracelets and such did serve a purpose, besides a crafts that kids can get involved in, it allowed for socialization and interaction between kids as they traded and gave them away.
I think I remember looking at those and thinking "I have a stylus and plan to write like I am already doing. I've also had chicklet keyboards and am not a fan compared to graffitti. Get rid of the keyboard and give me all screen and I'll buy one." Then came the iPhone and once I played with one and convinced myself their soft keyboard worked, I jumped on board.
Going online would have killed the brick and mortar stores. Without brick and mortar stores everyone forgets who Seers is. So its a catch22. They were doomed from the beginning.
As Kodak learned, you cannibalize your own market if you can, otherwise somebody else will do it for you.
Palm had a good product at the time, people seem to accept the risks it took using graffiti interface vs. full handwriting recognition (Like apple did on the Newton). It had the features and was priced and had a brand name that was recognizable. Nearly any of these things could had backfired, and Palm wouldn't never had gotten where it got.
I had a Palm PDA since they were US Robotics to the Palm V. After that, I never saw anything that made me want to trade up. Even after getting a cell phone, I kept looking and kept deciding to keep carrying my Palm V and a cell phone rather than get a newer Palm device (until the iPhone anyway).
Come on. Do you honestly think any of that could be done in such a short timeframe? No. The truth is they couldn't launch with an App Store because it was not quite ready, but it had always been planned to have one far in advance or none the significant app signing infrastructure to make that all possible would have been in place at launch.
There is also the possibility that they hadn't worked out all the details with AT&T yet. Remember, at this time, phone apps were pretty expensive and only available from the carriers who had a hold on them. Apple shows up and needs to get that bit away from the carriers, so they simply announces, websites are the apps, which while not perfect, would have been a workable solution, more workable than letting AT&T keep controlling apps. Faced with that, Apple might have been using it to leverage various legal details out of the hands of the carriers. Friends of mine used to develop phone apps and games well before the iPhone, and they stress that the important and game changing bit off all of this is how Apple freed the market place of control by getting apps out of the hands of the carriers. Apple's app store terms were trivial compared to the control and costs carriers had on apps perviously.
Why the special treatment of ni--gger?
Because that's the one that Anonymous Cowards keep wanting to use?
This was years ago, so maybe the tech wasn't ready, or maybe they just tried to cheap out and got crappy machines.
That's pretty much it, all about the software. I've seen self checkouts go in and the software change and bad software makes the entire process long and frustrating and good software pretty much means you just move your stuff from one side to the other. If you shop every day you can tell when they change th software because the pattern changes. About two months ago, the grocery store I stop at on the way home fairly often did some 'upgrade' to the software, probably for chip and pin, and everything took longer just to scan, had some confusion, and even got stuck in circular messages. About a week ago it reverted back to its old self with a few of the changes at the end.
They are incompetent dickbags who do their best to only hire the dumbest people on the planet. Their autorouting system is so pathetic that it creates routing loops that can only be broken by deliberate human intervention. Their hours are garbage that robs the nation of productivity by expecting people to run their errands at the same time that their employer expects them to work. They suffer no penalties for failure, and there is no accountability. Every single package is scanned and the data handed to the government as part of the spying-on-citizens program.
It's like you've never actually had a package delivery attempt by FedEx or UPS. lol
Isn't FedEx or UPS who they're talking about?
Or they could maybe build a facility somewhere else and expand there. Somewhere the engineers AND the janitor can get a place to live within a 30 minute drive.
Like anywhere in the plains or mid-west? Trouble with that is that if they move too far away, then they lose the pool of workers they are seeing for high tech jobs. This pool is looking currently at moving between jobs regularly in an affluent neighborhood, so if they move out where this company is, they cut themselves off from their next job, better pay, upward mobility, and the place they want to live. Cities have been trying to get in on that high tech industry for two decades now, but most can't. In general, people decide where they want to live first, move there, and then look for a job. Certainly, job market can figure into the first part, but it is not the major thing.
The other 99% is market hype and bubbles. When I am buying a dishwasher, a pair of shoes, or a car I want hardware. It is CRAZY to force me into SaaS or Cloud or even just apps in these cases. This is pets.com all over again.
This is more like wireless on printers and desktop computers. You think you're getting just what you want because that's the way it has always been, but eventually, the demand will be high enough and the cost low enough, that such features will come automatically with such devices. They might even be active by default and unadvertised unless you search the user manual for such because they have simply become a default service due to demand or industry implimentation. It's already to the point where a new car will most likely come with some sort of cloud service that will be near impossible to turn off the free trial period. Dishwashers are probably next. Eventually, I won't be surprised when your shoes communicate with fitness apps on your watch or phone.