The point is that after they have entered their password, the child has 30 minutes of unfettered purchasing power and there is NO warning of this at all.
No warning sign... except for entering the password...
Am I missing something, or are you trying to be funny?
What if you went to an Indian casino, exchanged your dollars for chips, and when you went to leave and cash out your remaining chips, they refused to exchange the chips for dollars, and instead decided to close shop. Would you still trust the dollar?
I think you've got your analogy backwards and upside-down. The correct question would be, "Would you still trust the casino chips?"
I don't know about most people, but if I'm driving more than an hour or two, I'm renting a car so as not to put the miles on my own cars. I would never drive my commuter long distances
I see this as being a real problem on Android and iPhone, because one needs to download a relatively large number of "apps" to get the same functionality built into Windows Phone right out of the box. Windows Phone has a lot fewer "apps" because there's obviously a smaller customer base right now, but also because fewer are needed in Windows Phone 8 than are needed in an Android or iOS environment.
I read the web site, and I still don't understand what this web site is all about. Is it really just yet another messaging platform designed to get around SMS messaging charges? Am I missing something obvious?
1. There are tons and tons of ways to send messages to people last I checked. Why is this one worth "$16B"?
2. Who still pays for SMS messages? I've had unlimited texting plans for the better part of a decade, and they're cheaper than most people's cable TV bills. Are text messages significantly expensive outside of the US?
Sadly, I'm going to be moving on from Slashdot, but I don't know of anywhere on the Net has such good discussions with such relatively intelligent people. The stories on Slashdot often suck, but the moderation moderation, I think, is what has kept it such a great place to have discussions. Is there any other site that has similar moderation?
Who cares if it "feels right" or not? What a silly question. If one is an contractor, paid hourly, then why should it matter if the project "feels right"? Unless the subject of the project is something like child porn or genocide, then just do the damn work and take the pay.
When I was a developer (and a contractor), and I saw a project that was a mess, I'd think, "Oh good, this project is going to require a lot of work. I should be able to make a lot of money from this contract." My "feelings" about the quality of the code were irrelevant.
Nintendo needs some fresh blood in the upper ranks of management. These guys are still trying to wring more money out of 20-30 year old stories, characters, and technology. The Pokemon-Mario crowd has outgrown Nintendo, and those that are left are insufficient to support an entire gaming platform. I think they're incredibly myopic at this point. It's time to dump the whole Japan-themed everything if they want to continue to be able to sell to the world.
Google just folded up their Google Wallet service for merchants a few weeks ago. I think they've just finished up their venture into online payments to anybody other than themselves. I would think that anybody who actually had any real information about the current state of online payment stuff would know that,
Besides, the article is on Reddit, a website that currently has, as it's top story, "This actually happened on MSNBC today (youtube.com)"
This was a horribly uninformed Slashdot article, all around.
I think it's time they dump the whole Japanimation thing. The Japanese-themed content is stale, and a relatively tiny niche of worldwide console players. I think it's time to jettison the whole Japanese-themed content and move towards something a bit more appealing to the world at large. I look at Nintendo, as a lifelong game player, and most of the content doesn't appeal to me at all.
. My phone or tablet should connect DIRECTLY to my in home equipment or server without anyone else having to be involved.
Hahahaha! Now what happens when some bad software gets root on the gadget you use to talk to your house?
And while we're at it, why do you need to control your house temperature with anything other than your finger pushing a button on the thermostat? Is there some level of complexity to a thermostat that I'm missing? Is your thermostat located somewhere other than inside your house? Do you have some interesting situation that would require you to remotely change the temperature of your house? If so, what is it (the situation)?
I'm a security concious guy
If that were true, you'd walk over to your thermostat on the wall and push a button.
I've never been mugged, but I've had fraudulent charges on my CC several times in my life. I guess the whole "mugging" concern depends on where one lives!
Cash transactions take longer, so they need more checkers, it takes longer to get cash to the bank do they lose interest.
Sorry, none of this is true. Cash takes the same amount of time as credit/debit, sometimes less. Cash gets to the bank immediately, credit cards/debit cards take 2-3 days. Credit/debit costs about 2-3%. Cash doesn't cost anywhere near that amount. If the business is using a credit union, the cost of accepting cash is near 0%.
How many brand PC units were replaced by custom built PCs?
There's very little incentive to create a "custom" PC any more. Very powerful machines can be gotten refurbished for less than $300. My guess would be that custom PC's are less than 1% of the entire PC market.
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The point is that after they have entered their password, the child has 30 minutes of unfettered purchasing power and there is NO warning of this at all.
No warning sign... except for entering the password...
Am I missing something, or are you trying to be funny?
That's a lot of complexity and room for error just to save a few hundred bucks.
I have a 16 TB media collection at home that I just back up on more hard drives.
External hard drives in USB cases + Robocopy works great for me.
Speak or yourself. I eat according to the food pyramid, and at 40, with moderate exercise, I'm in incredible shape.
If this is true, then this is a really profound discovery that could help millions of people.
What I'm wondering, is why no other society, that we know of, has discovered this low-tech, yet seemingly incredibly useful thing previously?
What if you went to an Indian casino, exchanged your dollars for chips, and when you went to leave and cash out your remaining chips, they refused to exchange the chips for dollars, and instead decided to close shop. Would you still trust the dollar?
I think you've got your analogy backwards and upside-down. The correct question would be, "Would you still trust the casino chips?"
I don't know about most people, but if I'm driving more than an hour or two, I'm renting a car so as not to put the miles on my own cars. I would never drive my commuter long distances
It's a big deal because a year later, lots of people STILL think it's the best car on the market.
I see this as being a real problem on Android and iPhone, because one needs to download a relatively large number of "apps" to get the same functionality built into Windows Phone right out of the box. Windows Phone has a lot fewer "apps" because there's obviously a smaller customer base right now, but also because fewer are needed in Windows Phone 8 than are needed in an Android or iOS environment.
$19B is a reasonableamount of money to spend on defense to make a network that - internationally - is bigger than Twitter disappear as a risk.
It's so big that nobody I know has ever heard of it. That's pretty amazing.
I read the web site, and I still don't understand what this web site is all about. Is it really just yet another messaging platform designed to get around SMS messaging charges? Am I missing something obvious?
1. There are tons and tons of ways to send messages to people last I checked. Why is this one worth "$16B"?
2. Who still pays for SMS messages? I've had unlimited texting plans for the better part of a decade, and they're cheaper than most people's cable TV bills. Are text messages significantly expensive outside of the US?
The Beta of Slashdot is horrible.
Sadly, I'm going to be moving on from Slashdot, but I don't know of anywhere on the Net has such good discussions with such relatively intelligent people. The stories on Slashdot often suck, but the moderation moderation, I think, is what has kept it such a great place to have discussions. Is there any other site that has similar moderation?
Who cares if it "feels right" or not? What a silly question. If one is an contractor, paid hourly, then why should it matter if the project "feels right"? Unless the subject of the project is something like child porn or genocide, then just do the damn work and take the pay.
When I was a developer (and a contractor), and I saw a project that was a mess, I'd think, "Oh good, this project is going to require a lot of work. I should be able to make a lot of money from this contract." My "feelings" about the quality of the code were irrelevant.
Nintendo needs some fresh blood in the upper ranks of management. These guys are still trying to wring more money out of 20-30 year old stories, characters, and technology. The Pokemon-Mario crowd has outgrown Nintendo, and those that are left are insufficient to support an entire gaming platform. I think they're incredibly myopic at this point. It's time to dump the whole Japan-themed everything if they want to continue to be able to sell to the world.
everything you buy.
Speak for yourself. I use cash.
Google just folded up their Google Wallet service for merchants a few weeks ago. I think they've just finished up their venture into online payments to anybody other than themselves. I would think that anybody who actually had any real information about the current state of online payment stuff would know that,
Besides, the article is on Reddit, a website that currently has, as it's top story, "This actually happened on MSNBC today (youtube.com)"
This was a horribly uninformed Slashdot article, all around.
I think it's time they dump the whole Japanimation thing. The Japanese-themed content is stale, and a relatively tiny niche of worldwide console players. I think it's time to jettison the whole Japanese-themed content and move towards something a bit more appealing to the world at large. I look at Nintendo, as a lifelong game player, and most of the content doesn't appeal to me at all.
Windows XP has been out for 12 years and they just started to look into the problem last month?
Or you can look at it in another way: "They fixed a bug on a 12 year old OS?! Awesome!"
. My phone or tablet should connect DIRECTLY to my in home equipment or server without anyone else having to be involved.
Hahahaha! Now what happens when some bad software gets root on the gadget you use to talk to your house?
And while we're at it, why do you need to control your house temperature with anything other than your finger pushing a button on the thermostat? Is there some level of complexity to a thermostat that I'm missing? Is your thermostat located somewhere other than inside your house? Do you have some interesting situation that would require you to remotely change the temperature of your house? If so, what is it (the situation)?
I'm a security concious guy
If that were true, you'd walk over to your thermostat on the wall and push a button.
1. Purchase HDMI cable.
2. Plug one end into computer of some kind.
3. Plug other end into TV/stereo.
I don't understand why everybody has to use special gadgets and software and such just to watch TV and movies.
I saw military jets do a flyover over our local University football stadium this weekend.
Now, tell me more about this wasted $13.50 that you witnessed...
Visa doesnt charge consumers a dime to use their cards, so Im not clear how those costs are being spread.
Are you kidding?
I've never been mugged, but I've had fraudulent charges on my CC several times in my life. I guess the whole "mugging" concern depends on where one lives!
Cash transactions take longer, so they need more checkers, it takes longer to get cash to the bank do they lose interest.
Sorry, none of this is true. Cash takes the same amount of time as credit/debit, sometimes less. Cash gets to the bank immediately, credit cards/debit cards take 2-3 days. Credit/debit costs about 2-3%. Cash doesn't cost anywhere near that amount. If the business is using a credit union, the cost of accepting cash is near 0%.
How many brand PC units were replaced by custom built PCs?
There's very little incentive to create a "custom" PC any more. Very powerful machines can be gotten refurbished for less than $300. My guess would be that custom PC's are less than 1% of the entire PC market.