If it was a one-time loss, it wouldn't factor into the optimization, no. But since it's an ongoing problem, it seems like it'd be a good idea for them to, I don't know, stop having it.
They will not stop having the problem by generally raising prices for their products.
If they want to stop having the problem by adjusting prices, they will have to raise the price for the exploited product so much that noone buys it.
If they consider it an ongoing problem for the exploited product, they can try to avoid having the loss or they can make the loss part of the cost calculation for that particular product which may lead to a changed optimum sales price for that particular product.
Right. I'm sure that they'll just meekly take the hit from fraud and not try to pass those costs along.
It is obvious that you did not understand what I wrote.
They will not meekly do anything. They will all the time boldly try to maximize their profit by optimizing their prices. But a one-time loss does not affect this optimum.
f course. The customers are going to pay for all losses; the correct question is, will banks make the individual who made a foolish decision pay for his mistake, or will they make all of the customers (like me) pay, in the form of reduced interest payouts, higher lender rates, increased fees, etc.?
I am so tired of hearing this "Company X lost Y millions. But they will just raise their prices so the customers will pay the bill".
Ask yourself one simple question: If the company could earn an extra Y millions by raising the prices, then why did they not do this long ago instead of waiting for a loss?
Within the given limits, a company will always try to optimize prices to maximize profit. If they have done this right, any price change within those given limits will reduce profit.
> a bank could perhaps continuously move the URLs for images on the bank's site
I like that idea a lot! Use a sessionID-named folder for any URLs that have bank logos, and any requests for logos that use an expired session ID would return an image of a stopsign with the text: "STOP - ERASE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM THIS PAGE - THIS IS A FRAUDULENT WEBSITE!!! SOMEONE IS TRYING TO STEAL YOUR MONEY!!!"
Visiting your bank through a proxy could be a really scary experience then, depending on the configuration of said proxy.
If they prevent sharing more than once or twice, kids will finally understand what DRM trully means. IOW=It kills ZUNE
No. Sorry.
99.9% of all users including kids will just think it is a natural behaviour and not think "why?". Most people are ready to accept a lot of shit from computers.
You have to remember that the rumour of the irreplaceable batteries started out as pure thruth. It may not be true anymore, but it should never be forgotten that it was true once.
People payed several hundred dollars for these devices and when the batteries failed, Apple first refused to do anything, even for money. When a battery failed after the warranty, the reply from Apple was "Throw your iPod away and buy a new one. We do not sell or replace batteries."
It took a lot of customer pressure to convince Apple to change that policy.
And now you are suggesting that people must be fools if they think that the battery of their iPod is irreplaceable?
So the coffee hitting millions of screens after one particularly funny/. comment or another incident similar to the Janet Jackson Superbowl incident might cause lots of vibrations simultaneously around the world and set of an alarm.
If this Janet Jackson thing should happen again, it would be advisable to seek cover anyway.
Alien satisfies both mass audiences with requisite scares, but it also satisfies the scientifically-minded audience
Perhaps. My very first thought when seing this story was: "I wonder if they can explain how an alien is sucked out into space through a 20 mm hole."
One should think that most living organisms with the exception of jellyfish will be able to withstand a pressure difference of 1 bar over such a tiny area. But of course - it may be possible that the pressure in that spaceship for some reason was 100 bar.
While the paranoÃac among you see this as a potential invasion of privacy, I see this as an easy way for the city to have me pay taxes only on what I put in the bin.
Whoosh.
This story is not about the dangers of the bin itself being scanned. It is about the dangers of the contents of the bin being scanned.
LOL, thanks for proving my point with numbers for me. Yes, NOW the chips are $99 and last month they were $200.
Yes, and before that they had probably dropping really, really slowly down to $200 for quite some time as processor prices has been stagnant for the last 1-2 years. People who bought these processors just when prices stagnated have had them almost "for free" until a few weeks ago. People who bought them a few weeks ago have already seen the price of their new processor cut to half.
Which of those two groups do you think are most satisfied with the timing of their purchase?
Please understand that when price reduction tend to follow a stepped curve rather than a linear curve, some times are better than other times for buying.
I just googled (ha, take that, Google) to find some evidence on the net to back up may claim that processor has been stagnant for 1-2 years before the recent price drop. I did not find any curves showing 2 years, but I did find one showing 6 months for one particular processor: http://anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2782&p= 4. That curve is completely flat - or perhaps even rising a bit - for 3½ months until prices recently dropped 50% in one day.
Being reinvented-- that is, thought of independently-- only protects with respect to copyright, not patents. Copyright is about copying-- patents are about the thing or process. The thing or process is protected no matter how you came about producing it or thinking of it.
Did you hear the "whoosh" sound?
I think the GP was talking about patenting a reinvention, not reinventing something which is patented by others.
Nvidia started using the "XT" monkier (6800 XT) after ATI used it for years.
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Since the release of the GeForce 4 series, all Nvidia product numbers have been divisible by 100. The GeForce 7950 GX2 is the first and only exception to this rule, and is obviously inspired by ATI's recent naming schemes.
Both statements are wrong, though the correct answer will not change anything in the Nvidia vs. ATI naming race: Nvidia 5900XT and 5600XT are approx. ½ year older than Nvidia 6800XT. Nvidia 5950 is approx. 2½ year older than Nvidia 7950.
like to ask folks who are rigid about sticking with MS Office what features they use and/or in their minds really make MS Office stand out.
People tend to discuss the large features like PDF export.
But I never see anyone discussing the obstacles which you will meet in everyday use. Calc certainly seems more clumsy than Excel, even for trivial tasks. Examples of tiny pieces of everyday functionality which I use a lot in Excel but have not been able to find in Calc:
Pressing Ctrl-d will copy the contents from the above cell(s) down to the current cell(s). In Calc, I will have to use ArrowUp, Ctrl-C, ArrowDown, Ctrl-V.
Pressing Crtl-r will do the same as Ctrl-d, but left-right instead of up-down.
Pressing Shift while dragging a row will move the row in between the existing rows instead of overwriting them. Same with columns or cells. In Calc I will have to make space in advance by inserting empty columns.
Cutting a row with Ctrl-X and then inserting a row somewhere else with Ctrl-+ will cause the cut row to be inserted. (Same result as above, but without using the mouse.) Again, in Calc I will have to make space in advance.
When marking a cell area in both Excel and Calc, I will get a handle in the lower, left corner of the area which I can grab with the mouse and use for filling adjacent cells. There are some differences in the filling method (when will numbers count up instead of being copied, etc.) but no clear winner. However, when marking a row or a column in Calc, the handle will still be in the lower left corner of the marked area. That is with 99.9% probability in the wrong end of the spreadsheet. Excel will always try to show the handle within the visible area in that situation.
Disclaimer: I have not tested the latest versions of Calc. I think my last attempt before giving up on Calc was around 2.01, and that may not even have covered all of the functions above.
As long as people are running programs from administrator accounts, there will be far more security problems than there should be.
Actually, in the Windows version, automatic updating of Firefox depends on Firefox being run with administrative priviledges. When running as a restricted user, I am not even informed about the availability of new updates.
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I miss one item in that list:
"PDF documents with readable text under the black rectangles."
It is obvious that you did not understand what I wrote.
They will not meekly do anything. They will all the time boldly try to maximize their profit by optimizing their prices. But a one-time loss does not affect this optimum.
I am so tired of hearing this "Company X lost Y millions. But they will just raise their prices so the customers will pay the bill".
Ask yourself one simple question:
If the company could earn an extra Y millions by raising the prices, then why did they not do this long ago instead of waiting for a loss?
Within the given limits, a company will always try to optimize prices to maximize profit. If they have done this right, any price change within those given limits will reduce profit.
No. Sorry.
99.9% of all users including kids will just think it is a natural behaviour and not think "why?". Most people are ready to accept a lot of shit from computers.
You have to remember that the rumour of the irreplaceable batteries started out as pure thruth. It may not be true anymore, but it should never be forgotten that it was true once.
People payed several hundred dollars for these devices and when the batteries failed, Apple first refused to do anything, even for money. When a battery failed after the warranty, the reply from Apple was "Throw your iPod away and buy a new one. We do not sell or replace batteries."
It took a lot of customer pressure to convince Apple to change that policy.
And now you are suggesting that people must be fools if they think that the battery of their iPod is irreplaceable?
If this Janet Jackson thing should happen again, it would be advisable to seek cover anyway.
Noticed that the text you are reading dissappears for a very long moment?
Yes of course. When you have to stop reading because the text disappears, I would say it is very noticable.
Perhaps. My very first thought when seing this story was:
"I wonder if they can explain how an alien is sucked out into space through a 20 mm hole."
One should think that most living organisms with the exception of jellyfish will be able to withstand a pressure difference of 1 bar over such a tiny area. But of course - it may be possible that the pressure in that spaceship for some reason was 100 bar.
Or to be more clear:
The article is about scanning bins. The question raised in the resume is about scanning contents of bins.
Whoosh.
This story is not about the dangers of the bin itself being scanned. It is about the dangers of the contents of the bin being scanned.
It is usually recommended to use analogies which the target audience can relate to.
Yes, and before that they had probably dropping really, really slowly down to $200 for quite some time as processor prices has been stagnant for the last 1-2 years. People who bought these processors just when prices stagnated have had them almost "for free" until a few weeks ago. People who bought them a few weeks ago have already seen the price of their new processor cut to half.
Which of those two groups do you think are most satisfied with the timing of their purchase?
Please understand that when price reduction tend to follow a stepped curve rather than a linear curve, some times are better than other times for buying.
I just googled (ha, take that, Google) to find some evidence on the net to back up may claim that processor has been stagnant for 1-2 years before the recent price drop. I did not find any curves showing 2 years, but I did find one showing 6 months for one particular processor: http://anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2782&p
Both statements are wrong, though the correct answer will not change anything in the Nvidia vs. ATI naming race:
Nvidia 5900XT and 5600XT are approx. ½ year older than Nvidia 6800XT.
Nvidia 5950 is approx. 2½ year older than Nvidia 7950.
People tend to discuss the large features like PDF export.
But I never see anyone discussing the obstacles which you will meet in everyday use. Calc certainly seems more clumsy than Excel, even for trivial tasks. Examples of tiny pieces of everyday functionality which I use a lot in Excel but have not been able to find in Calc:
Pressing Ctrl-d will copy the contents from the above cell(s) down to the current cell(s).
In Calc, I will have to use ArrowUp, Ctrl-C, ArrowDown, Ctrl-V.
Pressing Crtl-r will do the same as Ctrl-d, but left-right instead of up-down.
Pressing Shift while dragging a row will move the row in between the existing rows instead of overwriting them. Same with columns or cells.
In Calc I will have to make space in advance by inserting empty columns.
Cutting a row with Ctrl-X and then inserting a row somewhere else with Ctrl-+ will cause the cut row to be inserted. (Same result as above, but without using the mouse.)
Again, in Calc I will have to make space in advance.
When marking a cell area in both Excel and Calc, I will get a handle in the lower, left corner of the area which I can grab with the mouse and use for filling adjacent cells. There are some differences in the filling method (when will numbers count up instead of being copied, etc.) but no clear winner. However, when marking a row or a column in Calc, the handle will still be in the lower left corner of the marked area. That is with 99.9% probability in the wrong end of the spreadsheet. Excel will always try to show the handle within the visible area in that situation.
Disclaimer: I have not tested the latest versions of Calc. I think my last attempt before giving up on Calc was around 2.01, and that may not even have covered all of the functions above.
So there are three possibilities:
1. Your normal program file location is writeable for normal users. Bad.
2. You did not install your Mozilla software to the normal program file location. Messy.
3. Your PC runs some kind of a Mozilla update daemon which has system priviledges. May be better, depending on personal taste.
However, if you use that kind of German in Denmark, we will get along just fine - as long as you stop calling it German.