Gave up on iTunes. About 1 in 5 items I purchased were either incorrectly labelled so I didn't get what I wanted, or very poor quality but with a high quality sample.
The pricing was fine but getting these things fixed via their customer service is pretty painful, particularly when it was a very similar item (show 5 from season 2 instead of show 2 from season 5).
Sample set was well over 100 items. I haven't tried the alternatives yet, but iTunes is out.
On a regular basis? Yes. Than exist in barns today for special occasions or limited use, possibly not.
It has been indicated that more people know how to properly shoe a horse today than in the late 1800's. Lower percentage of the population, and not something they do every-day, but a larger total number of people.
I wouldn't be surprised if the total number of documents on Gopher continued to climb despite the percentage of content on Gopher decreasing rapidly. The cost to host has rapidly decreased and amount of content in general has increased significantly that the total number of items could still be higher today than in the 90's.
Wait, I thought Microsoft was hated because they embrace and extend everything to kill the original? It is only copyright and patent law that prevent them from doing this to everything instead of just a few standardized protocols.
Maybe they are so sure of that it's spam, that it doesn't even end up in the spam box?
That's it. Most spam is rejected without telling you about it, possibly even before it gets delivered to the mail server. The spam folder gets the questionable stuff.
there's still some stuff the core Oracle engine did ten years ago you can't get anywhere else
I am genuinely interested in what these include, particularly the business case or problem you are solving with them. There are lots of features or specific implementations of features that are unique to Oracle.
I wouldn't say 80 reactors over 20 years is tiny; but it certainly isn't huge compared to the existing and expanding coal infrastructure. The have about 40GW of Nuclear under construction at this time.
I know, i know, i might not get all the fine points of American culture, but how exactly can someone sue the company over this? They're just acting as an internet provider.
Anybody can sue anybody for anything. Winning is a different matter. A really bad case, one which gets thrown our of court immediately, can still cost tens of thousands in time to go through the paperwork, document what happened, have various meetings about it, and show up in court.
An employee looking to be fired with a really good package (for going away) may approach the firm from this angle as well. From personal experience, they'll also file frivolous lawsuits if they didn't like being let go for not doing work.
It's like asking why there is a fence at the edge of a cliff. How could anybody step over it? Answer is, because they can
99% of people want 1 advanced feature in their word processor. Thing is, they all want a different advanced feature which the other 98% will consider unnecessary.
Really? As a Canadian who visits the US about once a month I would seriously consider using a US carrier with that type rate for Canadian roaming. It's a better deal than living in Montreal and roaming to Toronto.
In IT all the 25 through 40 years olds stand around the water cooler discussing what they watched the previous night (sports, sitcom, whatever...). Smoke breaks, coffee breaks, lunch, before/after work; all seemed to revolve around this at the small office in Toronto where I worked.
I didn't understand it when it was manually done and I fail to understand it when it is automatically done; but at least the ones using tweets will be have something else to talk about because TV watching habits will already be known.
For heavily used surfaces it probably wouldn't work.
Most shoulders (in Canada) are paved and very lightly used. Most of the streets in neighbourhoods are also very lightly used (hundreds of slow moving cars per day and not tens of thousands).
I imagine there are locations where this could be used as a surface that is durable enough. The big question mark is production cost (more expensive than current surfacing for a 50 year period) and does it generate enough to make it worth wiring it into the grid.
The test seems very cheap. Surfacing tests of different asphalt mixtures on the order of millions are regularly done.
... and fast forward through the commercials... we probably represent a statistically significant group.
Which means Neilson SHOULD be ignoring you. Ratings for eyeballs watching commercials. Popularity of a show doesn't really mean anything to the advertisers (buyers of the numbers); it's the number of eyes on the advertisements that Neilson measures.
Yup. I submitted fixes for things like the date of an event which I knew to be incorrect since I was at the event. I found the correct date in a document already cited for other facts.
I left a note explaining where the correct date came from, the citation, and personal experience confirming the correct article. My edit got reverted and this article still shows the incorrect date 5 years later and it seems I'm not the only person to attempt to correct it.
That's the only edit I've ever attempted and the only edit I will both to try to fix. Also, I tend to read the documents cited rather than wikipedia itself for anything I actually care about.
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Gave up on iTunes. About 1 in 5 items I purchased were either incorrectly labelled so I didn't get what I wanted, or very poor quality but with a high quality sample.
The pricing was fine but getting these things fixed via their customer service is pretty painful, particularly when it was a very similar item (show 5 from season 2 instead of show 2 from season 5).
Sample set was well over 100 items. I haven't tried the alternatives yet, but iTunes is out.
On a regular basis? Yes. Than exist in barns today for special occasions or limited use, possibly not.
It has been indicated that more people know how to properly shoe a horse today than in the late 1800's. Lower percentage of the population, and not something they do every-day, but a larger total number of people.
I wouldn't be surprised if the total number of documents on Gopher continued to climb despite the percentage of content on Gopher decreasing rapidly. The cost to host has rapidly decreased and amount of content in general has increased significantly that the total number of items could still be higher today than in the 90's.
Wait, I thought Microsoft was hated because they embrace and extend everything to kill the original? It is only copyright and patent law that prevent them from doing this to everything instead of just a few standardized protocols.
You might want to double check FireFox's revenue streams before suggesting they implement adblocking by default.
It isn't bloat if they are features you want. It is only bloat when they are features somebody else wanted.
Their funding for doing the project was enough for 3 pigs. They sent 2 into the ocean.
Mmmm.. Thinly sliced and fried pork bellies.
Another consideration is that reproducing the data will get cheaper over time due to the decreasing cost of CPU time.
If I don't survive I really don't care if the data does or not.
How Gmail manages to work out what I want and do not want, and gets it right is either very clever or very chilling.
Google has no way to know what you want. Instead, they focus on making you want what they give you.
Seems to work well enough.
Maybe they are so sure of that it's spam, that it doesn't even end up in the spam box?
That's it. Most spam is rejected without telling you about it, possibly even before it gets delivered to the mail server. The spam folder gets the questionable stuff.
You don't spend $10,000 per CPU then put in a small amount of crappy ram and a single tiny SATA harddisk.
there's still some stuff the core Oracle engine did ten years ago you can't get anywhere else
I am genuinely interested in what these include, particularly the business case or problem you are solving with them. There are lots of features or specific implementations of features that are unique to Oracle.
I wouldn't say 80 reactors over 20 years is tiny; but it certainly isn't huge compared to the existing and expanding coal infrastructure. The have about 40GW of Nuclear under construction at this time.
I know, i know, i might not get all the fine points of American culture, but how exactly can someone sue the company over this? They're just acting as an internet provider.
Anybody can sue anybody for anything. Winning is a different matter. A really bad case, one which gets thrown our of court immediately, can still cost tens of thousands in time to go through the paperwork, document what happened, have various meetings about it, and show up in court.
An employee looking to be fired with a really good package (for going away) may approach the firm from this angle as well. From personal experience, they'll also file frivolous lawsuits if they didn't like being let go for not doing work.
It's like asking why there is a fence at the edge of a cliff. How could anybody step over it? Answer is, because they can
99% of people want 1 advanced feature in their word processor. Thing is, they all want a different advanced feature which the other 98% will consider unnecessary.
This would make a feature size of about 0.3nm?
If the publisher who puts out the book received a percentage of the spoils from the robbery, then probably.
Nope. The Pigeon carrying the "o" had to initiate a feline avoidance manoeuvre which put it behind schedule.
Really? As a Canadian who visits the US about once a month I would seriously consider using a US carrier with that type rate for Canadian roaming. It's a better deal than living in Montreal and roaming to Toronto.
In IT all the 25 through 40 years olds stand around the water cooler discussing what they watched the previous night (sports, sitcom, whatever...). Smoke breaks, coffee breaks, lunch, before/after work; all seemed to revolve around this at the small office in Toronto where I worked.
I didn't understand it when it was manually done and I fail to understand it when it is automatically done; but at least the ones using tweets will be have something else to talk about because TV watching habits will already be known.
Take your money and divide by 100, become a direct investor in 100 startup companies.
Why 100? Good change 99 will fail within a year or two.
For heavily used surfaces it probably wouldn't work.
Most shoulders (in Canada) are paved and very lightly used. Most of the streets in neighbourhoods are also very lightly used (hundreds of slow moving cars per day and not tens of thousands).
I imagine there are locations where this could be used as a surface that is durable enough. The big question mark is production cost (more expensive than current surfacing for a 50 year period) and does it generate enough to make it worth wiring it into the grid.
The test seems very cheap. Surfacing tests of different asphalt mixtures on the order of millions are regularly done.
Not really. We are best at detecting large planets in very close orbits around their sun.
This one is so close that it makes it one of the easiest to detect.
The unusual situation makes it more likely to be observed by us with current technology.
... and fast forward through the commercials ... we probably represent a statistically significant group.
Which means Neilson SHOULD be ignoring you. Ratings for eyeballs watching commercials. Popularity of a show doesn't really mean anything to the advertisers (buyers of the numbers); it's the number of eyes on the advertisements that Neilson measures.
Yup. I submitted fixes for things like the date of an event which I knew to be incorrect since I was at the event. I found the correct date in a document already cited for other facts.
I left a note explaining where the correct date came from, the citation, and personal experience confirming the correct article. My edit got reverted and this article still shows the incorrect date 5 years later and it seems I'm not the only person to attempt to correct it.
That's the only edit I've ever attempted and the only edit I will both to try to fix. Also, I tend to read the documents cited rather than wikipedia itself for anything I actually care about.