They only take reviews from purchases into account when sorting by rating. At this point people started randomly receiving packages because the seller was buying items and having them shipped to valid addresses in order to game the system.
Apparently the difference between the #1 spot and the #2 spot is pretty drastic when it comes to sales. They can spend a few thousand dollars on items and push themselves into the number 1 spot and easily cover the cost. All of this can be done with your "one purchase one review" suggestion. This will be a game of cat and mouse until the end of time.
(we consume more sugar per capita than anyone else, and we're almost 25% higher than the next country)
This is actually kind of funny because, per capita, Cuban sugar consumption is through the roof. It's actually more than the average American, but Cuba is usually not included in those "top 10" list type things. See https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/b...
Anyway, there's actually a reason for this. Before the fall of the USSR, Cuba had a deal with the Soviets where they would produce sugar in exchange for just about everything that Cuba wanted / needed -- meat, cars, televisions, you name it. They ramped up their sugar production and this worked, for a while, until the USSR collapsed and the trade stopped. They were left with huge amounts of sugar and a people who knew how to cultivate sugar. When your food supply dwindles and you have a lot of sugar, the obvious thing happens and people eat the sugar. I was told, while I was there, that people piled sugar on mango and pineapple to this day because they had grown used to eating such massive amounts of sugar.
They are very active, though, which certainly puts them at an advantage over the average American.
I went there a few years back and the only fat people I saw were tourists. While this is not indicative of overall health, there are a lot of medical conditions revolving around obesity. Their medical facilities, equipment, and even medication are not up to par when compared to other countries, but they do a phenomenal job of working with what they do have, to the point where their average life expectancy is competitive with what we would consider "first world" countries.
I wonder if VPS providers will have to throttle VM creation because nefarious people spin up VMs looking for a particular neighboring host on the same physical server..
You're missing the point. People have been using 3rd party bulbs for years, and they are working in their setup. Then, they get prompted to update the firmware of the bridge, and, in doing so, can now suddenly not use these bulbs. It was not announced. It was not listed in the changelog.
They are taking something away. It has nothing to do with security, since they are inherently insecure as it is:
In the long run btrfs will be good to have, especially with solid state drives gaining popularity. Even embedded devices can easily have multi-gigabyte flash chips, and btrfs would be faster and more efficient on these when compared to jffs2 and yaffs.
You would be upset at a one time change? It's hardly more button smashing than moving an hour back in the fall, assuming you can only advance the hours.
If we were going to change the rules, we should have just added 30 minutes to the time and left it alone forever. Would anyone honestly quibble over 30 minutes?
Sure, the PS3 may be beating the xbox 360 in Japan. Unfortunately, the 360 is barely selling at all over there. That's like saying that your pizza is selling better than a turd sandwich, even though the turd sandwich has been for sale for over a year.
This is my biggest gripe with Thunderbird. If someone sends me three 1 MB attachments, it forces me to download all three just to see the message. Then, when I go to save the attachment... it downloads all of them again just to save the file!
how many of those xboxes were duds? I know more than one person who had to return theirs because it was defective. I have never met anyone whose gamecube had manufacturing problems.
When someone returns a defective console, does the sales number go up or stay the same?
I read something which suggested that the reason Sony ports the linux kernel to their hardware is so they can sell the console as a computer, avoiding VAT.
I don't know if it has any merit, though. Anyone know?
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Exactly this.
https://www.gimletmedia.com/re...
They only take reviews from purchases into account when sorting by rating. At this point people started randomly receiving packages because the seller was buying items and having them shipped to valid addresses in order to game the system.
Apparently the difference between the #1 spot and the #2 spot is pretty drastic when it comes to sales. They can spend a few thousand dollars on items and push themselves into the number 1 spot and easily cover the cost. All of this can be done with your "one purchase one review" suggestion. This will be a game of cat and mouse until the end of time.
They made an IoT button as well, which was quite a bit more flexible.
(we consume more sugar per capita than anyone else, and we're almost 25% higher than the next country)
This is actually kind of funny because, per capita, Cuban sugar consumption is through the roof. It's actually more than the average American, but Cuba is usually not included in those "top 10" list type things. See https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/b...
Anyway, there's actually a reason for this. Before the fall of the USSR, Cuba had a deal with the Soviets where they would produce sugar in exchange for just about everything that Cuba wanted / needed -- meat, cars, televisions, you name it. They ramped up their sugar production and this worked, for a while, until the USSR collapsed and the trade stopped. They were left with huge amounts of sugar and a people who knew how to cultivate sugar. When your food supply dwindles and you have a lot of sugar, the obvious thing happens and people eat the sugar. I was told, while I was there, that people piled sugar on mango and pineapple to this day because they had grown used to eating such massive amounts of sugar.
They are very active, though, which certainly puts them at an advantage over the average American.
I went there a few years back and the only fat people I saw were tourists. While this is not indicative of overall health, there are a lot of medical conditions revolving around obesity. Their medical facilities, equipment, and even medication are not up to par when compared to other countries, but they do a phenomenal job of working with what they do have, to the point where their average life expectancy is competitive with what we would consider "first world" countries.
Also, their rum is amazing.
I wonder if VPS providers will have to throttle VM creation because nefarious people spin up VMs looking for a particular neighboring host on the same physical server..
You can no longer link 3rd party bulbs, even using the API. The bridge does not expose them.
The Hue Hub 2.0 (square one, not the round one) implements HomeKit.
The hue hub and bulbs are zigbee, not Z-Wave.
You're missing the point. People have been using 3rd party bulbs for years, and they are working in their setup. Then, they get prompted to update the firmware of the bridge, and, in doing so, can now suddenly not use these bulbs. It was not announced. It was not listed in the changelog.
They are taking something away. It has nothing to do with security, since they are inherently insecure as it is:
http://www.extremetech.com/ele...
I'm glad to see a lot of = 4 digit user ids here. It's amazing how many of us are still around, even if we are not very active.
In the long run btrfs will be good to have, especially with solid state drives gaining popularity. Even embedded devices can easily have multi-gigabyte flash chips, and btrfs would be faster and more efficient on these when compared to jffs2 and yaffs.
and when they shut down WoW, we will have a true revolution.
You would be upset at a one time change? It's hardly more button smashing than moving an hour back in the fall, assuming you can only advance the hours.
If we were going to change the rules, we should have just added 30 minutes to the time and left it alone forever. Would anyone honestly quibble over 30 minutes?
Sure, the PS3 may be beating the xbox 360 in Japan. Unfortunately, the 360 is barely selling at all over there. That's like saying that your pizza is selling better than a turd sandwich, even though the turd sandwich has been for sale for over a year.
Try picking one up. Unless they load them with bricks, they are the actual product.
This is my biggest gripe with Thunderbird. If someone sends me three 1 MB attachments, it forces me to download all three just to see the message. Then, when I go to save the attachment... it downloads all of them again just to save the file!
Mario GTA -- sorry, you will need a youtube login to watch this one.
Robot Chicken is quite amusing!
how many of those xboxes were duds? I know more than one person who had to return theirs because it was defective. I have never met anyone whose gamecube had manufacturing problems.
When someone returns a defective console, does the sales number go up or stay the same?
Perhaps they mean the source code to the interpeter, not the class library?
It is interesting to hear people dictate urls in german. v v v sounds so much better than w w w, IMHO.
Perhaps we should lobby against those who voted against this. We already know where their interests are. Hit them at the next election.
I read something which suggested that the reason Sony ports the linux kernel to their hardware is so they can sell the console as a computer, avoiding VAT.
I don't know if it has any merit, though. Anyone know?
Yeah, see, that was the problem. She was supposed to be draining something else.