It seems that if your original maximum bid settnig prevents your current bid from falling on an increment then your current bid will be raised to the next increment as soon as you raise your maximum.
1. Doesn't the bid have to raise by certain increments. So if the bidding is alreay at a certain level, it says you have to bid at least (current bid + increment).
2. If you didn't want to bid any higher. Why did you raise your maximum bid?
That would dependant on the car being available to inspect. I have a car registered and insured... and in storage in another state. Want to check the odometer, Mr Taxman? Sure, feel free to travel the 600+ miles to reach it. I can't afford to take off work for your foolish whims.
Now image everyone claiming their vehicles are in a remote locations. The tax would not be enforceable.
If I get the notification, I'm going to request that ChoicePoint pay the costs for me to subscribe to unlimited credit report access from all three credit bureaus. IIRC, that costs about $100/year for each bureau. Since it's ChoicePoint's screwup, I shouldn't have to pay the costs necessary for early detection of fraud in my credit report.
Don't forget. Once the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act takes effect (it's being phased in over the next few months) you'll be able to get a free credit report once a year. Since there are three agencies, I don't know if that's one from any of the three, or one from each per year. You may be able to stagger the reports you get so you recieve one per quarter, only having to pay for the fourth report.
In the Cable world, MSOs are going to be applying QoS tags to the bits containing Voice calls from their customers. When a call originates behind one of their MTAs or eMTAs, they are expected to do this. As a result ALL other traffic should, and will suffer to some degree.
What makes this more interesting is not just port blocking as a way to ruin VoIP businesses but the way a service is "rated" by the provider itself.
VoIP, along with network gaming and certain other applications all require one thing to work well, a constant quality data stream. The TOS for some providers may differ on what exactly a decent connection is.
I work for a cable internet company. A month or so ago we were experiencing an overload of a certain region's systems (they has since been completely rebuilt). Anyway, at the time we instituted some load sharing techniques on the network to make sure more people could connect (although everyone's connection wasn't as fantastic as the fewer who got on before). A side effect of the first iteration of our load balancing was a pronounced latancy that occured at a regular intravel.
Now, to normal web surfers, this was barely noticeable. But we recieved lots of calls from people doing network gaming complaining about slow speed, and VoIP subscribers complaining about the connections effecting their phone service. We got the most calls from people using VPN connections. The latancy was bad enough the VPN servers believed the user was gone and would log them out frequently.
While we don't block any of the traffic for these services, we don't support them either per our terms of usage. The support calls generally went as verifying the user could get on the web. To which they all replied they could. Measuring the latancy, and seeing it appear once in awhile, but since the average packet times were still under 100ms, despite the occasional 500+ms packet, we were providing a decent connection. Since web surfing was not being effected really we were supportting what we could.
The latancy problem was worked on and resolved within 48hrs mostly to appease VPN users, but for gamers and especially VoIP users, our response was "We don't block it, but we don't support it, if it works, hooray. If not, too bad."
While Vonage is upset it is being outright blocked by some providers, some are doing it as part of lessening network congestion by Zombie PC's, and some may simply be disrupting the network's stability accidently as part of dealing with other issues. Vonage will have to realize when it plays on its competitors equipment, things may not always be sunshine and dasies, and they may find themselves effected by issues they have no control over.
This kinda reminds of an art show/sale that occurs every Fall in my hometown. One year I was there taking pictures to the happenings and there was a woman with these great Halloween-themed dolls (scarecrows and figures with Jack-O-Lantern heads and such. She saw me framing a shot of one of the figures and started shouting at me to get away. She said I was violating her copyrights on the designs if I photgraphed them.
I pointed out she was displaying the work at a public art fair being held in a public park so I could photograph what I pleased. She continued to argue so I let it go and left her table area.
The most ludicrious thing was she thought I was going to steal her designs by photographing her works -which I could have just bought from her, they were all for sale.
Colt developed the first production line model, for making their famous 6 shooters,
Not sure about that. I think you are thinking of interchangable parts. That was a development by Colt and made the repair of firearms much easier for everyone. Although this site states the idea was developed long before then.
CEO Elon Musk remarks 'A Ferrari is a very expensive car. It is not reliable.
I like how that's stated like it's a known fact. I'm curious how many Ferraris Elon Musk has owned to come to that opinion.
Fact: Much of what winders suffers from is incompetent users. Nothing is really stopping the developers from writing spam bots for windows because idiot users on Linux could run bad code just as easily as idiot users on windows.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but the fact Linux is hard for the average user to get a usable system going with is what keeps them on Windows. There are few "idiot users" on Linux because an idiot wouldn't ba able to get the computer working to start with.
Since when is a store loyalty card a legal record of what you've bought? You get three of them when you first sign up, and promptly lose/give away the ones you don't keep.
This is why the last time I needed a new card, I just gave a false name, address, ect.
With Apple DRM, Apple can take away your use privileges whenever it feels like it.
Really? So why was it to make the iTunes sharing programs that worked in version 4.0 stop working, I had to download and install 4.0.1? Why is it to lower the number of burns of a single playlist from 10 to 7, and increase the number of shared computers from 3 to 5, I had to install a newer version of iTunes (4.5).
If Apple is truely in control of everything as you say they are they should be able to make DRM changes remotely. As far as I can tell, once the computer is authorized and I have downloaded by music I can drop my ISP service and my purchased music will continue to play fine no matter if the iTMS completely ceases to exist.
Couldn't Fraunhofer sue the MPAA for defamation, since the tool labels all mp3's as potentially infringing material? It implies the format itself is illegal.
"Dvorak speculates that a Firefox based Google browser and Google-OS may soon be coming to a cluster near you."
Just as I said last time the idea of a Google OS was brought up, there is no reason for Google to start it's own OS when it has everything running in a way that is platform-agnostic to begin with.
I wonder if it will be released before Bush gets out of office.
On a similar thread, I wonder if the political/philosophical background will be changed to suit mass audience demographics. Telling the public they are responsible for their own problems usually doesn't go over too well with them.
"The suit is filed against site owner The dePlume Organization, as well as its owner who uses the pseudonym Nick dePlume, whose real identity Apple has not determined." Which I find slightly curious, in that I thought it was widely known in Mac insider circles that dePlume is Nick Ciarelli, whose identity as Nick dePlume was hinted at by byline changes at eWeek. While working at eWeek, "Nick dePlume" shared several eWeek bylines with Matthew Rothenberg on Mac rumor-related stories; starting in 2003, similar stories were bylined "Nick Ciarelli and Matthew Rothenberg"."
Not everyone involved in Government has access to primo government mail servers/networks.
During my time as a tech support agent for a regional dial-up ISP, I recieved calls from the Dept of Energy, Defense, and a Russian official having trouble sending a Word documant over email, Hotmail email as it turned out.
Why _not_ let the family of this person have access unless that person has a will or last testament that says otherwise?
Why should he have to request that we please, please, not let everyone read his personal email when he dies?
Shouldn't the right to privacy be explictit, rather then reqested?
He may have emails in his sent box about problems he had with family members, friends. Would he want them to remember him for those bitter memories, or how he was when he died.
If he wanted others to have access to his email, he could have given them his password. The fact he didn't seems to make his wishes clear.
"Perhaps violent games should be restricted to those who are legally recognized at knowing wrong from right?"
The problem is, legallity is based purely on one's age and not on any actual measure of the person's morality or intelligence. You're only as old as you act.
Even the politicians were claiming: millions of people are making a living off eBay.
How would politicians have figures like this? Most eBay transactions are not taxed and you can believe the people runnng eBay businesses are not giving acurate figures, if any, for how much they supplement their income with eBay to the IRS.
I reckon the politicians claiming figures like these are the same ones trying to institute sales tax on all internet transactions. Why? With state budgets shrinking and more demand being put on them (increased enforcement of the ADA on civic buildings, the No Child Left Behind Act and other school funding issues, ect) sales taxes collected would strengthen the state budgets and allow them to avoid what they should be doing in the first place (raising taxes). Hence, another generation of greasy politicans gets through term without having to make any unpopular decisions, passing on growing budgetary problems to the next guy in line.
Am I just following a trail of bread crumbs, or publishing a conspiracy theory?
Microsoft has announced an intent to pick up some of the PeopleSoft customers currently fleeing from possible support contract increases and an uncertain future
Because the future is always certian when it comes to Microsoft software products!
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It seems that if your original maximum bid settnig prevents your current bid from falling on an increment then your current bid will be raised to the next increment as soon as you raise your maximum.
1. Doesn't the bid have to raise by certain increments. So if the bidding is alreay at a certain level, it says you have to bid at least (current bid + increment).
2. If you didn't want to bid any higher. Why did you raise your maximum bid?
Let's call it the Villa Straylight instead.
That would dependant on the car being available to inspect. I have a car registered and insured... and in storage in another state. Want to check the odometer, Mr Taxman? Sure, feel free to travel the 600+ miles to reach it. I can't afford to take off work for your foolish whims.
Now image everyone claiming their vehicles are in a remote locations. The tax would not be enforceable.
If I get the notification, I'm going to request that ChoicePoint pay the costs for me to subscribe to unlimited credit report access from all three credit bureaus. IIRC, that costs about $100/year for each bureau. Since it's ChoicePoint's screwup, I shouldn't have to pay the costs necessary for early detection of fraud in my credit report.
Don't forget. Once the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act takes effect (it's being phased in over the next few months) you'll be able to get a free credit report once a year. Since there are three agencies, I don't know if that's one from any of the three, or one from each per year. You may be able to stagger the reports you get so you recieve one per quarter, only having to pay for the fourth report.
In the Cable world, MSOs are going to be applying QoS tags to the bits containing Voice calls from their customers. When a call originates behind one of their MTAs or eMTAs, they are expected to do this. As a result ALL other traffic should, and will suffer to some degree.
What makes this more interesting is not just port blocking as a way to ruin VoIP businesses but the way a service is "rated" by the provider itself.
VoIP, along with network gaming and certain other applications all require one thing to work well, a constant quality data stream. The TOS for some providers may differ on what exactly a decent connection is.
I work for a cable internet company. A month or so ago we were experiencing an overload of a certain region's systems (they has since been completely rebuilt). Anyway, at the time we instituted some load sharing techniques on the network to make sure more people could connect (although everyone's connection wasn't as fantastic as the fewer who got on before). A side effect of the first iteration of our load balancing was a pronounced latancy that occured at a regular intravel.
Now, to normal web surfers, this was barely noticeable. But we recieved lots of calls from people doing network gaming complaining about slow speed, and VoIP subscribers complaining about the connections effecting their phone service. We got the most calls from people using VPN connections. The latancy was bad enough the VPN servers believed the user was gone and would log them out frequently.
While we don't block any of the traffic for these services, we don't support them either per our terms of usage. The support calls generally went as verifying the user could get on the web. To which they all replied they could. Measuring the latancy, and seeing it appear once in awhile, but since the average packet times were still under 100ms, despite the occasional 500+ms packet, we were providing a decent connection. Since web surfing was not being effected really we were supportting what we could.
The latancy problem was worked on and resolved within 48hrs mostly to appease VPN users, but for gamers and especially VoIP users, our response was "We don't block it, but we don't support it, if it works, hooray. If not, too bad."
While Vonage is upset it is being outright blocked by some providers, some are doing it as part of lessening network congestion by Zombie PC's, and some may simply be disrupting the network's stability accidently as part of dealing with other issues. Vonage will have to realize when it plays on its competitors equipment, things may not always be sunshine and dasies, and they may find themselves effected by issues they have no control over.
This kinda reminds of an art show/sale that occurs every Fall in my hometown. One year I was there taking pictures to the happenings and there was a woman with these great Halloween-themed dolls (scarecrows and figures with Jack-O-Lantern heads and such. She saw me framing a shot of one of the figures and started shouting at me to get away. She said I was violating her copyrights on the designs if I photgraphed them.
I pointed out she was displaying the work at a public art fair being held in a public park so I could photograph what I pleased. She continued to argue so I let it go and left her table area.
The most ludicrious thing was she thought I was going to steal her designs by photographing her works -which I could have just bought from her, they were all for sale.
Colt developed the first production line model, for making their famous 6 shooters,
Not sure about that. I think you are thinking of interchangable parts. That was a development by Colt and made the repair of firearms much easier for everyone. Although this site states the idea was developed long before then.
CEO Elon Musk remarks 'A Ferrari is a very expensive car. It is not reliable. I like how that's stated like it's a known fact. I'm curious how many Ferraris Elon Musk has owned to come to that opinion.
Fact: Much of what winders suffers from is incompetent users. Nothing is really stopping the developers from writing spam bots for windows because idiot users on Linux could run bad code just as easily as idiot users on windows.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but the fact Linux is hard for the average user to get a usable system going with is what keeps them on Windows. There are few "idiot users" on Linux because an idiot wouldn't ba able to get the computer working to start with.
Since when is a store loyalty card a legal record of what you've bought? You get three of them when you first sign up, and promptly lose/give away the ones you don't keep.
This is why the last time I needed a new card, I just gave a false name, address, ect.
With Apple DRM, Apple can take away your use privileges whenever it feels like it.
Really? So why was it to make the iTunes sharing programs that worked in version 4.0 stop working, I had to download and install 4.0.1? Why is it to lower the number of burns of a single playlist from 10 to 7, and increase the number of shared computers from 3 to 5, I had to install a newer version of iTunes (4.5).
If Apple is truely in control of everything as you say they are they should be able to make DRM changes remotely. As far as I can tell, once the computer is authorized and I have downloaded by music I can drop my ISP service and my purchased music will continue to play fine no matter if the iTMS completely ceases to exist.
Couldn't Fraunhofer sue the MPAA for defamation, since the tool labels all mp3's as potentially infringing material? It implies the format itself is illegal.
How about
'Mozilla/5.0 (Not Lynx/Do not arrest user) Gecko/20041107 Harmless/1.7.3'
"Dvorak speculates that a Firefox based Google browser and Google-OS may soon be coming to a cluster near you."
Just as I said last time the idea of a Google OS was brought up, there is no reason for Google to start it's own OS when it has everything running in a way that is platform-agnostic to begin with.
Google is above the OS wars.
"I'm not sure that word means what you think it means ;) Just to clarify, did you mean heresy, or hearsay?"
:(
I thought he said Hershey.
Now I really am hungry.
Ironically, the question of numeric keypad layouts was just addressed on AskYahoo.
I wonder if it will be released before Bush gets out of office.
On a similar thread, I wonder if the political/philosophical background will be changed to suit mass audience demographics. Telling the public they are responsible for their own problems usually doesn't go over too well with them.
The real identity of ThinkSecret's author has not been all that secret.
Maybe Apple just now read Daring Fireball's January 5th column: "Plugging Leaks"
"The suit is filed against site owner The dePlume Organization, as well as its owner who uses the pseudonym Nick dePlume, whose real identity Apple has not determined." Which I find slightly curious, in that I thought it was widely known in Mac insider circles that dePlume is Nick Ciarelli, whose identity as Nick dePlume was hinted at by byline changes at eWeek. While working at eWeek, "Nick dePlume" shared several eWeek bylines with Matthew Rothenberg on Mac rumor-related stories; starting in 2003, similar stories were bylined "Nick Ciarelli and Matthew Rothenberg"."
Not everyone involved in Government has access to primo government mail servers/networks.
During my time as a tech support agent for a regional dial-up ISP, I recieved calls from the Dept of Energy, Defense, and a Russian official having trouble sending a Word documant over email, Hotmail email as it turned out.
Why _not_ let the family of this person have access unless that person has a will or last testament that says otherwise?
Why should he have to request that we please, please, not let everyone read his personal email when he dies?
Shouldn't the right to privacy be explictit, rather then reqested?
He may have emails in his sent box about problems he had with family members, friends. Would he want them to remember him for those bitter memories, or how he was when he died.
If he wanted others to have access to his email, he could have given them his password. The fact he didn't seems to make his wishes clear.
Ah, so the figures are probably not backed up with any hard data, just speculation.
Thanx for the source, though. I'd mod you as informative, but you're replying to me so I'm kinda powerless.
"Perhaps violent games should be restricted to those who are legally recognized at knowing wrong from right?"
The problem is, legallity is based purely on one's age and not on any actual measure of the person's morality or intelligence. You're only as old as you act.
Even the politicians were claiming: millions of people are making a living off eBay.
How would politicians have figures like this? Most eBay transactions are not taxed and you can believe the people runnng eBay businesses are not giving acurate figures, if any, for how much they supplement their income with eBay to the IRS.
I reckon the politicians claiming figures like these are the same ones trying to institute sales tax on all internet transactions. Why? With state budgets shrinking and more demand being put on them (increased enforcement of the ADA on civic buildings, the No Child Left Behind Act and other school funding issues, ect) sales taxes collected would strengthen the state budgets and allow them to avoid what they should be doing in the first place (raising taxes). Hence, another generation of greasy politicans gets through term without having to make any unpopular decisions, passing on growing budgetary problems to the next guy in line.
Am I just following a trail of bread crumbs, or publishing a conspiracy theory?
Sounds like a great upsell oppertunity for the Bluetooth option.
Microsoft has announced an intent to pick up some of the PeopleSoft customers currently fleeing from possible support contract increases and an uncertain future
Because the future is always certian when it comes to Microsoft software products!