I think it's worth mentioning this article talks about P2P, then about SPAM.
While it doesn't imply they are somehow related in their functions, the common nature of these two is the bandwidth consumption, which as stated by the author, can be annoying and disruptive.
With so many arcade game enthusiasts, wouldn't those playable arcades soon become out-of-service? Even $2.50 per token (now it is 25 cents) won't be enough to cover the costs.
Yes I heard some people are scared of PayPal withdrawing/controlling their physical bank accounts. I'm not sure if this is true, but from my normal dealing with banks, you do need specific authorisation (eg a signed form) to give a non-account holder certain (note certain) access to your bank account. Day-to-day example is a direct debit form you signed to allow your power company to charge your checking account automatically.
Other than that, I can't see how PayPal can even touch your bank accounts at all. They can take away all the money you have in your PayPal account, they can put all the money into your bank account, but I don't think the bank will allow them to take anything out without proper authorisation.
So the key thing is, make sure you don't give authorisation or sign forms without reading.
If my bank allows any unauthorised person to take one cent out of my bank account, I'll demand documents allowing that activity, if the bank cannot produce such document, they're dead.
That said Paypal should in no way have the ability to freeze your assets. They should only have the ability to freeze you from using paypal during the disputed time
I believe this is what PayPal's doing - they only restricted certain activities in PayPal, so you cannot transfer money or close account, but otherwise you can still accept payments as usual.
Coming from another point of view - if you're a merchant accepting credit card, any complaints by customers will almost always result in immediate charge-back. This is actually very bad from businesses as it can take weeks to prove/disprove things.
PayPal is under fire because it's so common nowadays that when you buy things online via some sort of money-service, you are entitled to such privilege, ie auto charge back should you complain about it.
PayPal in this case is wrong for misleading customers, they should have come clean and stated clearly that they don't do charge back.
Imagine if we didn't have this 'charge-back' facility in the world as we know it, and suddenly Visa charged back a merchant's account without stating it clearly in its T&C, I'm sure Visa will be in deep water too.
What happens when this OS-less BIOS is corrupted or in need of an update/repair? My worst nightmare in PC is flashing BIOS, it gives you the feeling that if you did something wrong, you're dead. It's worse than reinstalling Windows 10 times, 4 hours each.
I hope it can be designed to be user-friendly enough, or are we going back to DOS style (not that DOS isn't UF-ly).
It's all very nice to have this database and that database, but who is going to search about these 'trouble-making' patients? I can imagine George Clooney comes back to E.R. and before fixing up a patient, he checks this database first.
Oh.. while we're at it, maybe some psychiatrists can use this database to get more patients if you know what I mean.
I was trying to say that we should concentrate on how a device can be used, rather than what it is. A MicroDrive that stores 4GB of photos on a digital camera will sky rocket its demand, but not a MicroDrive alone that has a capacity of 4GB which is so tiny and cute.
Yeah, to correct myself - music is some kind of data too, so are photos and videos. My point is, we should think of a product not as what it is, but how it is used.
Imagine the Internet, it can go from 56kbps to 10Mbps, but this means nothing to consumers. it is the content (how it is used) that puts values to the connection speed.
That is exactly my point, people need to think how a product can be used, not what a product is. Obviously these "people" are the Marketing & Sales departments.
Your mention of Camcorder, PVR and PDA are all good place to use these MicroDrives, but did the orignal MicroDrive manufacturer think of it? Do we see manufacturers using it now?
My original post suggested that iPod changed the use of MicroDrive from storing data to storing music, but by no mean did I suggest music storage is the only use for these MicroDrives.
MicroDrive won't be successful as a storage because nobody really needs to carry that much data around. When iPod comes in, it changed the use of such device, and people do have needs to carry that much of music around.
Similar to Acer's latest monsterous laptop, which is so heavy and short of battery life. Most people said it is too heavy and short-life to be carried around, but in reality this laptop is not designed for you to carry around and use it in pubs, cafe or buses, instead it is for people to move from point A to point B, and station it on a desk again. This immediately changes its intended use and market.
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in order to speed up searching through huge database
Have they consulted Google?
Wasn't there a recent article about how faulty US software was to blame for one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions the world has ever seen?
Deliberately or otherwise, software can and does kill.
That'll probably create another 'profession' after the Spam-Boom.
(Note in all lower cases now in the post-Spam-Boom era)
work from home and make $3000 a day by clicking the charge button
I think it's worth mentioning this article talks about P2P, then about SPAM.
While it doesn't imply they are somehow related in their functions, the common nature of these two is the bandwidth consumption, which as stated by the author, can be annoying and disruptive.
With so many arcade game enthusiasts, wouldn't those playable arcades soon become out-of-service? Even $2.50 per token (now it is 25 cents) won't be enough to cover the costs.
Yes I heard some people are scared of PayPal withdrawing/controlling their physical bank accounts. I'm not sure if this is true, but from my normal dealing with banks, you do need specific authorisation (eg a signed form) to give a non-account holder certain (note certain) access to your bank account. Day-to-day example is a direct debit form you signed to allow your power company to charge your checking account automatically.
Other than that, I can't see how PayPal can even touch your bank accounts at all. They can take away all the money you have in your PayPal account, they can put all the money into your bank account, but I don't think the bank will allow them to take anything out without proper authorisation.
So the key thing is, make sure you don't give authorisation or sign forms without reading.
If my bank allows any unauthorised person to take one cent out of my bank account, I'll demand documents allowing that activity, if the bank cannot produce such document, they're dead.
That said Paypal should in no way have the ability to freeze your assets. They should only have the ability to freeze you from using paypal during the disputed time
I believe this is what PayPal's doing - they only restricted certain activities in PayPal, so you cannot transfer money or close account, but otherwise you can still accept payments as usual.
Coming from another point of view - if you're a merchant accepting credit card, any complaints by customers will almost always result in immediate charge-back. This is actually very bad from businesses as it can take weeks to prove/disprove things.
PayPal is under fire because it's so common nowadays that when you buy things online via some sort of money-service, you are entitled to such privilege, ie auto charge back should you complain about it.
PayPal in this case is wrong for misleading customers, they should have come clean and stated clearly that they don't do charge back.
Imagine if we didn't have this 'charge-back' facility in the world as we know it, and suddenly Visa charged back a merchant's account without stating it clearly in its T&C, I'm sure Visa will be in deep water too.
What happens when this OS-less BIOS is corrupted or in need of an update/repair? My worst nightmare in PC is flashing BIOS, it gives you the feeling that if you did something wrong, you're dead. It's worse than reinstalling Windows 10 times, 4 hours each.
I hope it can be designed to be user-friendly enough, or are we going back to DOS style (not that DOS isn't UF-ly).
It's all very nice to have this database and that database, but who is going to search about these 'trouble-making' patients? I can imagine George Clooney comes back to E.R. and before fixing up a patient, he checks this database first.
Oh.. while we're at it, maybe some psychiatrists can use this database to get more patients if you know what I mean.
It is probably because energy is stored in the spring (mechanical?), so unless you have a really big spring, you can only do so much (30 seconds).
I would imagine if you are a fast winder, you could achieve the same talk time in 15 seconds.
Heehee, my typing speed is about 60wpm, so that'll be roughly 60 Watt per minute = 3.6KWh :)
Even if we have some cool hand-powered hardware, how are we going to use it properly?
Maybe a power-generating keyboard and mouse, so the faster you type and move your mouse, the longer your hand-powered PC will stay on.
Yes I corrected myself here earlier.
I was trying to say that we should concentrate on how a device can be used, rather than what it is. A MicroDrive that stores 4GB of photos on a digital camera will sky rocket its demand, but not a MicroDrive alone that has a capacity of 4GB which is so tiny and cute.
Yeah, to correct myself - music is some kind of data too, so are photos and videos. My point is, we should think of a product not as what it is, but how it is used.
Imagine the Internet, it can go from 56kbps to 10Mbps, but this means nothing to consumers. it is the content (how it is used) that puts values to the connection speed.
That is exactly my point, people need to think how a product can be used, not what a product is. Obviously these "people" are the Marketing & Sales departments.
Your mention of Camcorder, PVR and PDA are all good place to use these MicroDrives, but did the orignal MicroDrive manufacturer think of it? Do we see manufacturers using it now?
My original post suggested that iPod changed the use of MicroDrive from storing data to storing music, but by no mean did I suggest music storage is the only use for these MicroDrives.
MicroDrive won't be successful as a storage because nobody really needs to carry that much data around. When iPod comes in, it changed the use of such device, and people do have needs to carry that much of music around.
Similar to Acer's latest monsterous laptop, which is so heavy and short of battery life. Most people said it is too heavy and short-life to be carried around, but in reality this laptop is not designed for you to carry around and use it in pubs, cafe or buses, instead it is for people to move from point A to point B, and station it on a desk again. This immediately changes its intended use and market.