yes, i have that exact problem. very annoying. bring up a search engine and start typing in the form, only to find its being typed into the find box at the bottom of the screen.
Yep, that's my main reason for not bothering. For fruit/veg, and for meat, I pick what I want very carefully based on appearance, use by date, origin (I don't buy from some countries), and variety.
The variety is particularly difficult - I don't want to buy Estima potatoes for example, but when I'm offered 'white potatoes' I can't tell unless I see the packaging. This is part of the dumbing down of consumers - so you buy what they wish to sell you rather than looking for the hard-to-grow but nice-to-eat varieties.
Online grocery ordering and delivery is doing quite well in the UK still. Though its generally provided by the existing companies off the back of their own stores, rather than new enterprises (maybe except for Waitrose, who are closely linked with a separate delivery company).
As for the experience in France, well, I see it as publicizing something that is not that interesting. It sounds as if they're just testing to see if telephone payment is an option. Personally I hate that idea since there are many times my telephone battery dies and I'd be stranded. Can you imagine not being able to pay for a taxi because you forgot to charge your battery?
The answer's simple then - passive RFID tags inserted under your skin. If its for the consumer's benefit, why would he argue ?
absolutely. i only use paid-for software, thus guarenteeing it works perfectly and i have the full support of the vendor and their team of flying code monkeys.
There's also the terms which state: * If the software doesn't work, you can't sue us. We never claimed it would work.
Although its an entirely reckless attitude, I just laugh at or ignore these kinds of agreements. They are being made with a tiny company in a country far, far away, who are unlikely to ever have the time, money or inclination to pursue me. Here in the UK (doh, given it away now), there are 'statutary rights' for consumers. These can't be signed away by any contract - even if the contract says you waived them, you actually didn't. I don't know what the reach/effectiveness of this legislation is now, I assume the corporate legal leeches have sucked the goodness away from that protection as well.
If you're on a named user licence, you can have as many Windows servers as required. SQL is a different matter - but why would you use that when there's MySQL on the one side and DB2 on the other ?
Yeah I agree. You can't have your cake and eat it you know.
oh...wait...
you can have your cake, and eat it.
but you can't eat your cake, and still have it.
Not to disagree that hardware and software go hand in hand with services, but software is not an afterthought. According to this : http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2005/cfs_earnings. shtml
they made quite a bit on software in 2005. And the margin on it was enormous.
In the context of arms races, this is very dangerous for the planet. If I don't want your robot bees/monkeys/sharks coming near me, I'll have to poison all bees/monkeys/sharks.
In the near future, most Intel corp employees will be logging off and shutting down before having a relaxing weekend following a hard week's productive work. A variety of leisure activities may be pursued, but a spokesman refused to confirm rumours of beer drinking.
Ah...may be not that near future.
One reason is support. You can't leave your systems on old software if you want vendor support, such as service packs. But since extended support for Win2k lasts til 2010 (and in fact most laptops are XP) - this won't kick in for a few years. 4 years to migrate off the platform is achievable. Another reason is having a trophy linux desktop installation - even if it is your own organisation, 300,000 seats is quite a handy example to tout when selling.
I would guess that most people who want surround and have the means (cash, room, willingness of wife etc) already have it. Adding more speakers seems unlikely to make them junk the old 5.1, nor will it entice previously disinterested consumers to jump in the car and go to the nearest big box.
I'd be much more interested in a 2 speaker virutal surround solution which works in living rooms.
Ok, supplementing or even replacing gas with ethanol is great. Its cleaner, and its slowing down the use of fossil fuels. But where does the ethanol come from ? Plants ? And what's going to encourage those to grow once the oil runs out and there's no cheap fertilisers available.
Yes they'll be a few years of high prices for domestic users. Oh dear, we'll need to economise, maybe take the bus. But that will be nothing compared to what will happen 10 years after that without oil they'll be little mass production of pharmaceuticals, fertilizer (food anyone?), plastics, etc. We'd need a new set of technologies accross the board to address each industry which is currently reliant on oil.
Seems to me that Sun have done a good job of re-using some sparc technology to force lots of threads through a system, but this won't see them much further into the future. Or to put it another way: why isn't the world and his wife buying into SPARC like they are with POWER and other architectures ? Ah, perhaps they are all wrong or blind.
My reply originated from my educational background, which included both latin and history. I understood the context and usage of the word, and (as indicated) the current derived meaning of being largely destroyed. Language evolves and mutates; this vitality is a result of common usage. This doesn't mean that I enjoy every adaptation, particularly the downward trend toward journalistic hyperbole rather than carefully measured usage. Though even in this style, better words than decimated could have been used. For example, one could have used 'strip-mined' rather than 'decimated' to convey a better sense of the destruction of the education system. (This is the cue for someone equally pedantic and foolish as myself to this strip mining analogy).
I'll finish this by acknowledging this is only Slashdot and I really shouldn't have bothered jumping out of my box over linguistic bugbear.
if the education system has only been decimated, that's not so bad i would settle for a technical education system which is 90% as good as the old soviet system. ok with a bit more money for equipment.
perhaps you meant 'almost completely destroyed' rather than decimated.
so who are you at war with ? terrists [sic] ?
or is the war between the ruling corporate elite and the rest of the population ?
either way that is a motto juste....
why did you keep working there if it was too bad ? were you chained to a desk or something ? if you don't like it leave - mobility is one of the perks of being a contractor. that, and being a millionaire.
**some parts of this post may be a wind-up.
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yes, i have that exact problem. very annoying. bring up a search engine and start typing in the form, only to find its being typed into the find box at the bottom of the screen.
Yep, that's my main reason for not bothering. For fruit/veg, and for meat, I pick what I want very carefully based on appearance, use by date, origin (I don't buy from some countries), and variety. The variety is particularly difficult - I don't want to buy Estima potatoes for example, but when I'm offered 'white potatoes' I can't tell unless I see the packaging. This is part of the dumbing down of consumers - so you buy what they wish to sell you rather than looking for the hard-to-grow but nice-to-eat varieties.
Online grocery ordering and delivery is doing quite well in the UK still. Though its generally provided by the existing companies off the back of their own stores, rather than new enterprises (maybe except for Waitrose, who are closely linked with a separate delivery company).
absolutely. i only use paid-for software, thus guarenteeing it works perfectly and i have the full support of the vendor and their team of flying code monkeys.
There's also the terms which state:
* If the software doesn't work, you can't sue us. We never claimed it would work.
Although its an entirely reckless attitude, I just laugh at or ignore these kinds of agreements. They are being made with a tiny company in a country far, far away, who are unlikely to ever have the time, money or inclination to pursue me.
Here in the UK (doh, given it away now), there are 'statutary rights' for consumers. These can't be signed away by any contract - even if the contract says you waived them, you actually didn't. I don't know what the reach/effectiveness of this legislation is now, I assume the corporate legal leeches have sucked the goodness away from that protection as well.
If you're on a named user licence, you can have as many Windows servers as required. SQL is a different matter - but why would you use that when there's MySQL on the one side and DB2 on the other ?
Yeah I agree. You can't have your cake and eat it you know.
oh...wait...
you can have your cake, and eat it.
but you can't eat your cake, and still have it.
but changing your email address every couple of years is really annoying.
Not to disagree that hardware and software go hand in hand with services, but software is not an afterthought. According to this : http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2005/cfs_earnings. shtml
they made quite a bit on software in 2005. And the margin on it was enormous.
In the context of arms races, this is very dangerous for the planet. If I don't want your robot bees/monkeys/sharks coming near me, I'll have to poison all bees/monkeys/sharks.
In the near future, most Intel corp employees will be logging off and shutting down before having a relaxing weekend following a hard week's productive work. A variety of leisure activities may be pursued, but a spokesman refused to confirm rumours of beer drinking.
Ah...may be not that near future.
One reason is support. You can't leave your systems on old software if you want vendor support, such as service packs. But since extended support for Win2k lasts til 2010 (and in fact most laptops are XP) - this won't kick in for a few years. 4 years to migrate off the platform is achievable.
Another reason is having a trophy linux desktop installation - even if it is your own organisation, 300,000 seats is quite a handy example to tout when selling.
I would guess that most people who want surround and have the means (cash, room, willingness of wife etc) already have it. Adding more speakers seems unlikely to make them junk the old 5.1, nor will it entice previously disinterested consumers to jump in the car and go to the nearest big box. I'd be much more interested in a 2 speaker virutal surround solution which works in living rooms.
Ok, supplementing or even replacing gas with ethanol is great. Its cleaner, and its slowing down the use of fossil fuels. But where does the ethanol come from ? Plants ? And what's going to encourage those to grow once the oil runs out and there's no cheap fertilisers available.
Yes they'll be a few years of high prices for domestic users. Oh dear, we'll need to economise, maybe take the bus. But that will be nothing compared to what will happen 10 years after that without oil they'll be little mass production of pharmaceuticals, fertilizer (food anyone?), plastics, etc. We'd need a new set of technologies accross the board to address each industry which is currently reliant on oil.
We're metric - its so much easier. That's a 363.2kg monkey you've got there.
Seems to me that Sun have done a good job of re-using some sparc technology to force lots of threads through a system, but this won't see them much further into the future.
Or to put it another way: why isn't the world and his wife buying into SPARC like they are with POWER and other architectures ? Ah, perhaps they are all wrong or blind.
ditto ! oops there i go again with the latin. any way, happy new year.
My reply originated from my educational background, which included both latin and history. I understood the context and usage of the word, and (as indicated) the current derived meaning of being largely destroyed.
Language evolves and mutates; this vitality is a result of common usage. This doesn't mean that I enjoy every adaptation, particularly the downward trend toward journalistic hyperbole rather than carefully measured usage. Though even in this style, better words than decimated could have been used. For example, one could have used 'strip-mined' rather than 'decimated' to convey a better sense of the destruction of the education system. (This is the cue for someone equally pedantic and foolish as myself to this strip mining analogy).
I'll finish this by acknowledging this is only Slashdot and I really shouldn't have bothered jumping out of my box over linguistic bugbear.
if the education system has only been decimated, that's not so bad
i would settle for a technical education system which is 90% as good as the old soviet system.
ok with a bit more money for equipment.
perhaps you meant 'almost completely destroyed' rather than decimated.
so who are you at war with ? terrists [sic] ?
or is the war between the ruling corporate elite and the rest of the population ?
either way that is a motto juste....
why did you keep working there if it was too bad ? were you chained to a desk or something ? if you don't like it leave - mobility is one of the perks of being a contractor. that, and being a millionaire. **some parts of this post may be a wind-up.
I hear they don't mind you landing in bad weather north of the border.
what ? the at&t phone wasn't cheap and mass produced ?
but true - things have used cheaper materials and techniques and *are* crap as a result.