In England, a shop is not obliged by Contract Law to sell goods at the wrongly marked price. However, in some circumstances (essentially doing it often enough that it looks like bait-and-switch) it becomes a criminal offence. This means that large companies will usually sell one item at the marked price (while dragging the rest off the shelves) just to avoid the customer reporting them to the local Trading Standards Officials. TSOs have the job of investigating and prosecuting such offences, and a wise store manager stays off their radar.
There are several situations where you are supposed to identify yourself. The way this is 'solved' currently, is to show a recent UTILITY BILL.
To be more specific, in some situations the supplier must comply with the Money Laundering Regulations. These specify that the customer's identity must be verfied 'on the basis of documents,
data or information obtained from a reliable and independent source'. It's up to the supplier to decide what documents they want to use as evidence.
Many suppliers demand not only evidence of identity but also of current address (which is why they want utility bills in addition to a passport). AIUI, there's nothing in the MLR 2007 requiring them to establish address, only identity. I assume they just want to make sure they can sue me conveniently.
As a regular guy, I am NOT excited by the thought of thousands of fat, greasy programmers drooling over a test tube and a well worn copy of "Weird Science."
As a programmer, I can assure you that the first code implemented this platform that says "Hello World!" is going to excite you witless.
and an implicit expectation that I'll grok it all Real Soon Now
It is unlikely that your job is really to 'grok it all'. Most likely there are specific issues that need to be solved - stop panicking and pick the simplest one on the list and start working on it.
In a similar position to you, I followed Brook's advice to study on the data structures and found it good. Also just running the application under a debugger, inserting breaks in important looking code and then having a look at the call stack when that code was used also proved enlightening. A good debugger also lets you explore the data structures.
When smart-asses tell you "Bill would have fixed that in ten minutes." I recommend replying "I never met Bill, why do you think he left?"
Many employers only manage to comply with the EU Working Time Directive (which sets a limit of an average of 48 hours working week) by claiming that their staff 'choose to work more' of their own free will. So, here is technology that will be able to show that an employer is forcing staff to work in excess of the maximum hours by knowingly exposing them to harmful levels of stress.
Actually, online banking has *never* implemented two-factor verification. It's just a bunch of different things that you know - password, mom's maiden name, first pet's name, etc.
Not 'never'. I have HSBC online banking that requires a username, a password, and a six-digit pseudo-random number that is generated by a 'security device' and changes every 10s.
Police have described thieves who dressed as workmen to steal copper cable from under a road as "brazen".The theft happened sometime between noon and 1pm on Tuesday, December 4. Two men in a white van and wearing high visibility yellow jackets lifted an inspection cover at the Horse And Dray end of Blackboy Road, Exeter. They then stole a 250-metre length of the copper cable.
It's gonna be a while until I abandon local copies of everything I need.
The shop effectively broke the law by refusing to repair the laptop (but why did the guy not contact the manufacturer directly instead?).
Probably because in the UK the relevant consumer rights only apply to the contract between you and the retailer you bought the product from. The origninal manufacturers may offer an additional warranty but as you have no contract with them you have no remedy against them if they refuse to honour it. (You'd have to sue the retailer and claim that the manufacturer's warranty was an essential part of the reason for the purchase.)
IME (in the UK) in consumer disputes any action that is not focused on working through the chain of evidence needed to get the retailer and/or the credit provider into the small claims court is a waste of effort.
If you did use credit as part of the purchase you are in clover. Credit card companies won't let themselves end up in court because some dodgy retailer. They settle with the consumer as soon as they know you're serious and then recover the money from the retailer. I find this provision in consumer law particularly great. The PC World manager may be trying to screw you, but you know that his destiny is to end up bent over with a bull elephant called Visa about to go to work on him. Priceless!
Pay a lot of attention to the financial system. In most organisations I've seen, people underbid on projects to get the work. As the project progresses it runs out of money so the only way to keep the show on the road by booking out work to another project that is earlier in its life and hence is still in the black. Eventually a meltdown occurs.
In England (and presumably elsewhere) you can't create a contract commisioning a criminal act. This type of agreement is not a contract it's a conspiracy.
I believe that a considerable energy saving could be made if the guys who write scripts for popular websites would make them a little snappier. This is based on the assumption that every second wasted executing some lame script could otherwise be spent by the processor having an environmentally correct snooze.
What really happened was she was presented with a dialog that clearly showed the machine would need to be rebooted if she proceeded and she then clicked the "Install Items" button. Then she was asked to authenticate as an admin user, then she was give a dialog asking for permission to reboot, which she could have ignored until a better time but didn't.
However, under no circumstances tell her this. She is your wife and this automatically makes the reboot YOUR fault. So just apologize to her and go buy flowers, you insensitive clod.
The Chief Executive of the British Bankers' Association was interviewed on the BBC's (RAM) flagship radio news programme this morning. He claimed that the problem was either: (a) it was a very small number of rogue employees, or most likely (b) the customers' fault! The journalist doing the interview was rendered close to speechless by this anwer.
The BBA was upholding a long-established UK tradition whereby banks claim that their systems are infallible, and accuse customers who have the cheek to complain (about, e.g. phantom withdrawals) of commiting fraud.
Trying enforce attendance at lectures by restricting access to Podcasts is so indirect it is perverse. If you want students to attend lectures, make them compulsory and register attendance or keep a class register.
Videos of lectures have been made available by many universities for many years. IME they are hardly used by students for two reasons.
Firstly. "I have to go to class" is an acceptable excuse for students to protect time for work against peer pressure to socialise. "I have to watch a video" doesn't work for this.
Secondly, the quality of videos is invariably appalling. (To make a good quality video of a lecture requires it to be shot several times from several angles/distances, have diagrams inserted in a visible form, a clean soundtrack, etc.) They take the same time, or longer (because of the need to repeat sections due to poor quality) to watch as to attend the live lecture and there is no social interaction and no chance to ask questions or compare notes with a neighbour when something is not clear.
So, I'd advise not wasting time trying to restrict access to the podcasts. Make the system as cheap and low maintenance as possible - very few students will watch them anyway.
The series opened in 1948 with Bertrand Rusell on "Authority and the Individual". A recent highlight for me was Onora O'Niell on a "Question of Trust".
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In England, a shop is not obliged by Contract Law to sell goods at the wrongly marked price. However, in some circumstances (essentially doing it often enough that it looks like bait-and-switch) it becomes a criminal offence. This means that large companies will usually sell one item at the marked price (while dragging the rest off the shelves) just to avoid the customer reporting them to the local Trading Standards Officials. TSOs have the job of investigating and prosecuting such offences, and a wise store manager stays off their radar.
Namgge
To be more specific, in some situations the supplier must comply with the Money Laundering Regulations. These specify that the customer's identity must be verfied 'on the basis of documents, data or information obtained from a reliable and independent source'. It's up to the supplier to decide what documents they want to use as evidence.
Many suppliers demand not only evidence of identity but also of current address (which is why they want utility bills in addition to a passport). AIUI, there's nothing in the MLR 2007 requiring them to establish address, only identity. I assume they just want to make sure they can sue me conveniently.
Namgge
As a programmer, I can assure you that the first code implemented this platform that says "Hello World!" is going to excite you witless.
Namgge
I'm waiting for something with a smaller screen and a slower clock speed.
Apple, please, those of us who travel really want a 12" screen, maximum battery life, and as little heat as possible.
Namgge
It is unlikely that your job is really to 'grok it all'. Most likely there are specific issues that need to be solved - stop panicking and pick the simplest one on the list and start working on it.
In a similar position to you, I followed Brook's advice to study on the data structures and found it good. Also just running the application under a debugger, inserting breaks in important looking code and then having a look at the call stack when that code was used also proved enlightening. A good debugger also lets you explore the data structures.
When smart-asses tell you "Bill would have fixed that in ten minutes." I recommend replying "I never met Bill, why do you think he left?"
Namgge
Many employers only manage to comply with the EU Working Time Directive (which sets a limit of an average of 48 hours working week) by claiming that their staff 'choose to work more' of their own free will. So, here is technology that will be able to show that an employer is forcing staff to work in excess of the maximum hours by knowingly exposing them to harmful levels of stress.
Even my PHB is bright enough to pass on this one.
namgge
Not 'never'. I have HSBC online banking that requires a username, a password, and a six-digit pseudo-random number that is generated by a 'security device' and changes every 10s.
namgge
It's gonna be a while until I abandon local copies of everything I need.
namgge
Probably because in the UK the relevant consumer rights only apply to the contract between you and the retailer you bought the product from. The origninal manufacturers may offer an additional warranty but as you have no contract with them you have no remedy against them if they refuse to honour it. (You'd have to sue the retailer and claim that the manufacturer's warranty was an essential part of the reason for the purchase.)
IME (in the UK) in consumer disputes any action that is not focused on working through the chain of evidence needed to get the retailer and/or the credit provider into the small claims court is a waste of effort.
If you did use credit as part of the purchase you are in clover. Credit card companies won't let themselves end up in court because some dodgy retailer. They settle with the consumer as soon as they know you're serious and then recover the money from the retailer. I find this provision in consumer law particularly great. The PC World manager may be trying to screw you, but you know that his destiny is to end up bent over with a bull elephant called Visa about to go to work on him. Priceless!
namgge
Pay a lot of attention to the financial system. In most organisations I've seen, people underbid on projects to get the work. As the project progresses it runs out of money so the only way to keep the show on the road by booking out work to another project that is earlier in its life and hence is still in the black. Eventually a meltdown occurs.
In England (and presumably elsewhere) you can't create a contract commisioning a criminal act. This type of agreement is not a contract it's a conspiracy.
It's not even essential to involve Terminal.app
5 .html
do shell script "/bin/tcsh my-command-file-path"
see: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn206
namgge
I believe that a considerable energy saving could be made if the guys who write scripts for popular websites would make them a little snappier. This is based on the assumption that every second wasted executing some lame script could otherwise be spent by the processor having an environmentally correct snooze.
IME banks are particularly bad offenders.
What really happened was she was presented with a dialog that clearly showed the machine would need to be rebooted if she proceeded and she then clicked the "Install Items" button. Then she was asked to authenticate as an admin user, then she was give a dialog asking for permission to reboot, which she could have ignored until a better time but didn't.
However, under no circumstances tell her this. She is your wife and this automatically makes the reboot YOUR fault. So just apologize to her and go buy flowers, you insensitive clod.
Namgge
The Chief Executive of the British Bankers' Association was interviewed on the BBC's (RAM) flagship radio news programme this morning. He claimed that the problem was either: (a) it was a very small number of rogue employees, or most likely (b) the customers' fault! The journalist doing the interview was rendered close to speechless by this anwer. The BBA was upholding a long-established UK tradition whereby banks claim that their systems are infallible, and accuse customers who have the cheek to complain (about, e.g. phantom withdrawals) of commiting fraud.
Trying enforce attendance at lectures by restricting access to Podcasts is so indirect it is perverse. If you want students to attend lectures, make them compulsory and register attendance or keep a class register.
Videos of lectures have been made available by many universities for many years. IME they are hardly used by students for two reasons.
Firstly. "I have to go to class" is an acceptable excuse for students to protect time for work against peer pressure to socialise. "I have to watch a video" doesn't work for this.
Secondly, the quality of videos is invariably appalling. (To make a good quality video of a lecture requires it to be shot several times from several angles/distances, have diagrams inserted in a visible form, a clean soundtrack, etc.) They take the same time, or longer (because of the need to repeat sections due to poor quality) to watch as to attend the live lecture and there is no social interaction and no chance to ask questions or compare notes with a neighbour when something is not clear.
So, I'd advise not wasting time trying to restrict access to the podcasts. Make the system as cheap and low maintenance as possible - very few students will watch them anyway.
Namgge
The most secure facility I've visited had a sergent in a green beret on the gate.
He wants secure so give him secure - no luser access. What's the guy's username?
BOFH
The BBC has recently been putting its annual Reith lectures online:
r eith_historic.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith/historic_audio/
The series opened in 1948 with Bertrand Rusell on "Authority and the Individual". A recent highlight for me was Onora O'Niell on a "Question of Trust".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2002/
The good news is they're free (Thanks Auntie), the bad news is they're Real.
Namgge.
They are not 'Meritless'.
They are 'Not even meritless'.