Someone who doesn't have the right print tries it? Does it just not work at all, or does it only allow the £30 limited option?
I know an inordinately large number of people who effectively share their contactless card with their spouse/partner (just nip into the shop and pick something up for me will you please?) and it's going to cause some major behavioural changes if they suddenly can't do this any more.
and arguably, changing the Edge rendering engine was never all that necessary in the first place.
Edge's problem was never really its engine. From playing with it a bit, it didn't seem to be noticeably worse. The problem was the UI and the design philosophy, and everything that came with them.
The example I always use is that of the custom formatting that MS set up to turn phone numbers in web pages to clickable links, the idea being you could click and it would pass you through to a voip application (eg. Skype) or your phone's dialler if you were on a WinPhone. If you weren't on either of those it could get really annoying. They had an option to turn it off, but that option only worked in full IE, Edge was stuck with it.
In power generation planning terms, this is still a thing. Over here (UK,) there's a known phenomenon where the national grid fires up extra capacity roundabout the approximate times of the main ad breaks of certain soap operas in an evening (on commercial TV, we get fewer ad breaks in general than, say, the US, so this is a more predictable thing), because of so many people getting up to put electric kettles on to make a hot drink during the break (cooker-top kettles being the exception rather than the rule here, so there's a lot of extra oomph, when multiplied.)
My wife's previous employers had a gloriously silly example of the earlier days of wireless proximity key fobs/cards. (this was in one of the Renault models.)
Essentially, the car was designed with a push-button starter, and unlike some of them, the key card only had to be near the car (they had a much more sensible version where there was a slot the card had to go into to make everything work) to start the engine.
You can already see where this is going. Sales rep has his key card in his coat pocket which hangs by his front door. Close enough for the car to register the card and be able to start, Goes out, starts engine, drives off. Leaves coat at home (along with card). The way those systems were designed, for safety purposes, once the engine was started you didn't need the card inserted/in proximity to keep it running. So he had no idea there was a problem. 200 miles later, he parks up, shuts the car off, and goes into work. 6 hours later he comes out, finds out he hasn't got his card.
Which is 200 miles away.
Nobody else had house keys to get in to get his key to bring it to him. You had to order the replacement cards from Renault in France so no spare. Unintended consequences indeed.
This shows an inherent misunderstanding of how employee protections work in the EU/UK.
You can be fired for many things, incompetence, underperformance, and others, but unless it's gross misconduct, generally speaking they can't just fire you out of hand. They also specifically can't fire you because the boss doesn't like you, on a whim because it's Tuesday, or because they think they found somebody better (as long as you are performing within your contract, to the level specified.) Most companies will generally have a contractual notice period to stop you just walking out and leaving them in the lurch.
"When it is the other way you don't have your best people in the best jobs just the people who got there first, they can never be fired. It helps to move the talent through and gives motivation to say producing"
Generally this is handled by cranking up the performance metrics until the best people rise to the top. What you just can't do is say "I know you are meeting your targets and doing sufficient work for us, but I have this guy who will do twice as much so you're fired." We consider that somewhat abusive.
Janeway worked as a character when she was allowed to be one character.. She suffered horribly from Writer of the Week syndrome deciding what she should be and how she should act. She flip-flopped from episode to episode between Team Mum, Hypocritical Martinet and "Professional Ubercaptain." When she was good, she was very very good indeed. She was just so inconsistent.
"We recently discovered that the Pokémon Go account creation process on iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user's Google account. However, Pokémon Go only accesses basic Google profile information (specifically, your user ID and email address) and no other Google account information is or has been accessed or collected. Once we became aware of this error, we began working on a client-side fix to request permission for only basic Google profile information, in line with the data that we actually access. Google has verified that no other information has been received or accessed by Pokémon Go or Niantic. Google will soon reduce Pokémon Go's permission to only the basic profile data that Pokémon Go needs, and users do not need to take any actions themselves."
To be honest, I've never had a problem with the device manufacturers, it's always been my network (carrier) that's been a pain up the ass with spending time adding their extra branding, crap apps, and the like. Even worse, mine has a blanket policy of "We'll tell you when there's new firmware, we aren;t going to give you any ETA's, status reports or anything. You have to wait until it appears (or not)
To expand on this, the context of this is the ongoing debate over the referendum on whether the UK should leave the EU. The Daily Fail is an often-hilariously eurosceptic trashrag, given to exaggerations, stretching points, massaging figures, and sometimes outright making up stories out of whole cloth. This story basically has one purpose, to make the EU look bad to try and convince the technologically illiterate masses that under the EU, people will get things imposed on them that are to their detriment, to try and force a "Leave" vote in a couple of weeks.
Being personally acquainted with at least one of the #NotYourShield folks, they definitely aren't all sockpuppets. There's people in back of there that really believe in what they're saying, There's also at least one developer in there who isn't either.
Now as to whether the people giving them grief are the anti-GG types, or the GG-types running a false-flag, that's another debate entirely.
Being a license fee payer, this years olympic coverage from the BBC was actually good enough for me to consider the license fee to be 100% justified. The lack of ads alone was awesome.
The debate about the license fee tends to rage back and forth on a regular basis over here. We genuinely do get a metric ton of generally good quality tv, ad-free and with free streaming. And a lot of tat too. Although it's interesting to note that the UK really came late to the Pay-per-view party. Convincing people that paid a license fee/monthly fee for their cable or sat package that they have to pay again? The main selling points they used over here were the "when you want" nature of the beast, for movies and such, and for sporting events, likening it to buying a ticket. They worked very hard not to remind people that you'd already paid them for the priviledge.
Guess I'll always sneakily love the BBC as being one of the last holdouts against the paywalling of culture, or the slow posioning of it by 1000 ads for things I never knew I could be irritated by.
You know, I'm fairly sure thats not what those bugs say.
Mark says they won't fix the issue that you can't move the panel to the other side or bottom of the screen. Honestly it's down to you whether you feel this is a good or a bad thing.
The multiple monitor bug is something entirely different whereby X is putting the panel on a specific (possibly wrong) monitor due to underlying code issues. Mark has NOT said they won't fix this, in fact he's not weighed in on it. Again, YMMV on whether you believe they're doing enough about it.
But really, he hasn't said they won't fix the second bug, which is the one you're referring to, and conflating with the first bug.
Not so sure about that, I think they're more untested. What is interesting is there's a part in UK consumer law, that would take an act of parliment to change, that basically says "You cannot sign away your statutory consumer rights. Not now, not ever. No rule or contract, however phrased, trumps your basic rights as a consumer."
it's even an essential part of most T&C's in the UK "Your statutory rights are not affected."
What was also interesting about the IRA thing was just how much funding from various irish interest groups in the US basically dried up after 9/11, as people in said interest groups suddenly had it brought home to them just what the money that was "supporting the cause" was going towards. To be blunt about it, the message that "Terrorism is not big and clever, it's unpleasant and nastyt" was beaten into the US in the worst possible fashion. The fact that all those new laws about funding terror and so forth also covered the relevant groups only helped hasten that drying up. All of a sudden, passing the hat round in the bar to "help our boys win the struggle" was not only in exceedingly poor taste, it was also on the list of things they'd stick you in Guantanamo for.
That said, in terms of the anniversary, I have only one thing to say, as spoken by those two wise prophets, Bill S. Preston, Esquire, and Ted "Theodore" Logan. Words, that if you strip out the comic hyperbole, make a huge amount of sense.
To be fair, back in the day, Infogrames were a popular (in europe) software house who did some very good 8-bit games. I saw the takeover as more of a rebranding exercise than anything else.
"The alternative was arguably even worse -- stories that were more interactive and interesting, yet full of people who wanted to RP every breath they took, with no actual game involved. You want to actually kill a monster? You want to gain a level?! Powergamer! Ban him!"
Sounds suspiciously like the roleplaying servers that people set up for NWN. The ones that think that in order to have proper rp and immersion, you need glacially slow levelling and miniscual amounts of magic.
PTerry already does a huge amount for Alzheimers projects. He doesn't expect the fix to come in before it's too late for him, and so he's making his plans and raising a stink about the issues while he still can.
As for "he should look at these examples," he's already keeping abreast of everything that's going on in this field. In fact, right at the beginning of all this, he asked all the n-thousand people who would write to him going "have you tried X, Y or Z" option to please not do so, unless they were a neurosurgeon or brain expert, to keep the clutter down and the signal-to-noise ratio up.
Amusingly, a disproportionate number of top-flight experts in these areas are fans. He effectively has a whole bunch of experts who keep him aware of the state of play.
Put simply, he's doing everything he can in his position, including laying the ground work in the event it's not quick enough.
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Someone who doesn't have the right print tries it? Does it just not work at all, or does it only allow the £30 limited option?
I know an inordinately large number of people who effectively share their contactless card with their spouse/partner (just nip into the shop and pick something up for me will you please?) and it's going to cause some major behavioural changes if they suddenly can't do this any more.
and arguably, changing the Edge rendering engine was never all that necessary in the first place.
Edge's problem was never really its engine. From playing with it a bit, it didn't seem to be noticeably worse. The problem was the UI and the design philosophy, and everything that came with them.
The example I always use is that of the custom formatting that MS set up to turn phone numbers in web pages to clickable links, the idea being you could click and it would pass you through to a voip application (eg. Skype) or your phone's dialler if you were on a WinPhone. If you weren't on either of those it could get really annoying. They had an option to turn it off, but that option only worked in full IE, Edge was stuck with it.
On the other hand, they aren't wrong in some cases:
From the Daily Mail results: "The site repeatedly publishes false information and has been forced to pay damages in numerous high-profile cases."
Yup.
In power generation planning terms, this is still a thing. Over here (UK,) there's a known phenomenon where the national grid fires up extra capacity roundabout the approximate times of the main ad breaks of certain soap operas in an evening (on commercial TV, we get fewer ad breaks in general than, say, the US, so this is a more predictable thing), because of so many people getting up to put electric kettles on to make a hot drink during the break (cooker-top kettles being the exception rather than the rule here, so there's a lot of extra oomph, when multiplied.)
My wife's previous employers had a gloriously silly example of the earlier days of wireless proximity key fobs/cards. (this was in one of the Renault models.)
Essentially, the car was designed with a push-button starter, and unlike some of them, the key card only had to be near the car (they had a much more sensible version where there was a slot the card had to go into to make everything work) to start the engine.
You can already see where this is going. Sales rep has his key card in his coat pocket which hangs by his front door. Close enough for the car to register the card and be able to start, Goes out, starts engine, drives off. Leaves coat at home (along with card). The way those systems were designed, for safety purposes, once the engine was started you didn't need the card inserted/in proximity to keep it running. So he had no idea there was a problem. 200 miles later, he parks up, shuts the car off, and goes into work. 6 hours later he comes out, finds out he hasn't got his card.
Which is 200 miles away.
Nobody else had house keys to get in to get his key to bring it to him. You had to order the replacement cards from Renault in France so no spare. Unintended consequences indeed.
This shows an inherent misunderstanding of how employee protections work in the EU/UK.
You can be fired for many things, incompetence, underperformance, and others, but unless it's gross misconduct, generally speaking they can't just fire you out of hand. They also specifically can't fire you because the boss doesn't like you, on a whim because it's Tuesday, or because they think they found somebody better (as long as you are performing within your contract, to the level specified.) Most companies will generally have a contractual notice period to stop you just walking out and leaving them in the lurch.
"When it is the other way you don't have your best people in the best jobs just the people who got there first, they can never be fired. It helps to move the talent through and gives motivation to say producing"
Generally this is handled by cranking up the performance metrics until the best people rise to the top. What you just can't do is say "I know you are meeting your targets and doing sufficient work for us, but I have this guy who will do twice as much so you're fired." We consider that somewhat abusive.
Janeway worked as a character when she was allowed to be one character.. She suffered horribly from Writer of the Week syndrome deciding what she should be and how she should act. She flip-flopped from episode to episode between Team Mum, Hypocritical Martinet and "Professional Ubercaptain." When she was good, she was very very good indeed. She was just so inconsistent.
From Niantic:
"We recently discovered that the Pokémon Go account creation process on iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user's Google account. However, Pokémon Go only accesses basic Google profile information (specifically, your user ID and email address) and no other Google account information is or has been accessed or collected. Once we became aware of this error, we began working on a client-side fix to request permission for only basic Google profile information, in line with the data that we actually access. Google has verified that no other information has been received or accessed by Pokémon Go or Niantic. Google will soon reduce Pokémon Go's permission to only the basic profile data that Pokémon Go needs, and users do not need to take any actions themselves."
To be honest, I've never had a problem with the device manufacturers, it's always been my network (carrier) that's been a pain up the ass with spending time adding their extra branding, crap apps, and the like. Even worse, mine has a blanket policy of "We'll tell you when there's new firmware, we aren;t going to give you any ETA's, status reports or anything. You have to wait until it appears (or not)
To expand on this, the context of this is the ongoing debate over the referendum on whether the UK should leave the EU. The Daily Fail is an often-hilariously eurosceptic trashrag, given to exaggerations, stretching points, massaging figures, and sometimes outright making up stories out of whole cloth. This story basically has one purpose, to make the EU look bad to try and convince the technologically illiterate masses that under the EU, people will get things imposed on them that are to their detriment, to try and force a "Leave" vote in a couple of weeks.
Most of the rest of the world has had EMV for about 10 years, often wondered why it never caught on sooner over there.
Being personally acquainted with at least one of the #NotYourShield folks, they definitely aren't all sockpuppets. There's people in back of there that really believe in what they're saying, There's also at least one developer in there who isn't either.
Now as to whether the people giving them grief are the anti-GG types, or the GG-types running a false-flag, that's another debate entirely.
I rather doubt they'll be able to implant a newtype in it, however.
"If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say."
Depressingly true in the current climate too.
...milkmen. Housewives choice, and all that.
Depends where you are I suspect. In the UK, all new cards over the last few years have been chip and pin.
Being a license fee payer, this years olympic coverage from the BBC was actually good enough for me to consider the license fee to be 100% justified. The lack of ads alone was awesome.
The debate about the license fee tends to rage back and forth on a regular basis over here. We genuinely do get a metric ton of generally good quality tv, ad-free and with free streaming. And a lot of tat too. Although it's interesting to note that the UK really came late to the Pay-per-view party. Convincing people that paid a license fee/monthly fee for their cable or sat package that they have to pay again? The main selling points they used over here were the "when you want" nature of the beast, for movies and such, and for sporting events, likening it to buying a ticket. They worked very hard not to remind people that you'd already paid them for the priviledge.
Guess I'll always sneakily love the BBC as being one of the last holdouts against the paywalling of culture, or the slow posioning of it by 1000 ads for things I never knew I could be irritated by.
You know, I'm fairly sure thats not what those bugs say.
Mark says they won't fix the issue that you can't move the panel to the other side or bottom of the screen. Honestly it's down to you whether you feel this is a good or a bad thing.
The multiple monitor bug is something entirely different whereby X is putting the panel on a specific (possibly wrong) monitor due to underlying code issues. Mark has NOT said they won't fix this, in fact he's not weighed in on it. Again, YMMV on whether you believe they're doing enough about it.
But really, he hasn't said they won't fix the second bug, which is the one you're referring to, and conflating with the first bug.
Not so sure about that, I think they're more untested. What is interesting is there's a part in UK consumer law, that would take an act of parliment to change, that basically says "You cannot sign away your statutory consumer rights. Not now, not ever. No rule or contract, however phrased, trumps your basic rights as a consumer."
it's even an essential part of most T&C's in the UK "Your statutory rights are not affected."
Lets put it this way. The movie was Very Loosely based on the novel.
What was also interesting about the IRA thing was just how much funding from various irish interest groups in the US basically dried up after 9/11, as people in said interest groups suddenly had it brought home to them just what the money that was "supporting the cause" was going towards. To be blunt about it, the message that "Terrorism is not big and clever, it's unpleasant and nastyt" was beaten into the US in the worst possible fashion. The fact that all those new laws about funding terror and so forth also covered the relevant groups only helped hasten that drying up. All of a sudden, passing the hat round in the bar to "help our boys win the struggle" was not only in exceedingly poor taste, it was also on the list of things they'd stick you in Guantanamo for.
That said, in terms of the anniversary, I have only one thing to say, as spoken by those two wise prophets, Bill S. Preston, Esquire, and Ted "Theodore" Logan. Words, that if you strip out the comic hyperbole, make a huge amount of sense.
"Be excellent to each other."
To be fair, back in the day, Infogrames were a popular (in europe) software house who did some very good 8-bit games. I saw the takeover as more of a rebranding exercise than anything else.
It's not just you who thinks Blackout is awful. Charlie Stross thinks so too:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=528863866&sk=wall
In fact, there's a LOT of criticism coming out of fandom in general about this years winner.
"The alternative was arguably even worse -- stories that were more interactive and interesting, yet full of people who wanted to RP every breath they took, with no actual game involved. You want to actually kill a monster? You want to gain a level?! Powergamer! Ban him!"
Sounds suspiciously like the roleplaying servers that people set up for NWN. The ones that think that in order to have proper rp and immersion, you need glacially slow levelling and miniscual amounts of magic.
PTerry already does a huge amount for Alzheimers projects. He doesn't expect the fix to come in before it's too late for him, and so he's making his plans and raising a stink about the issues while he still can.
As for "he should look at these examples," he's already keeping abreast of everything that's going on in this field. In fact, right at the beginning of all this, he asked all the n-thousand people who would write to him going "have you tried X, Y or Z" option to please not do so, unless they were a neurosurgeon or brain expert, to keep the clutter down and the signal-to-noise ratio up.
Amusingly, a disproportionate number of top-flight experts in these areas are fans. He effectively has a whole bunch of experts who keep him aware of the state of play.
Put simply, he's doing everything he can in his position, including laying the ground work in the event it's not quick enough.