That doesn't work - when I come in person to someone, or someone has picked up my call, they don't know which customer has arrived, and forwarding later to someone else is horribly inefficient and bad service.
I've worked in banking, and seen merchant agreements that say that for transactions above certain amount, if the merchant doesn't verify ID, then merchant bears the risk - thus checking ID isn't mandatory, but they are allowed to check ID and refuse transactions w/o ID. Maybe that doesn't apply to all types for merchants, but for some (say, jewelry - buying a $1000 gold necklace) Visa/Mastercard definitely allow merchants to request ID.
The most basic call center employee needs access to data of all the customers, since any of them may call. How can you partition the data and at the same time achieve seamless customer experience wherever the customer may contact you?
Is it reasonable to restrict people because the doctor/ideological officer says that they might break that oath because they are expressing unhappiness about work conditions or managment? Thoughtcrimes, anyone?
If companies in my place are offering mobile internet (no calls, just an USB GSM modem to plug in your computer) for 12$/mth to consumers with a 5g cap; then I assume that a mass purchase for an expected use of 200mb/month would get a price of 5$/month/light. So, including the data costs and GSM hardware, the mobile connection cost is approximately equivalent to digging a ditch for the first ten feet of cable...
GSM data is dirt-cheap for the phone company, so if you are in a position to negotiate and there is some competition, then GSM is definitely the simplest way and infinitely cheaper than laying a cable (if you don't have a data cable already there for other purposes). If you need to transfer common sizes of data (excepting, say, video from traffic cameras), then there is no reason for GSM data to be expensive at all.
For example, in banking here I've seen now a trend for credit card POS terminals in various vendors (typically restaurants) to use a GSM-connection for calling the bank, as it's cheaper than landlines and mobility for POS terminals is automatically included so they can bring the device right to the customer table.
Sadly, the wire-to-your-house monopoly seems to be here to stay.
The only way out that I see is for mobile internet - 3g technologies can easily offer cable-broadband speeds, and there's no reason (except the same price-gouging as for cable) for it to be hugely expensive. Do you have a healthy competition for mobile services in Canada, or is it also with a lot of lock-in and little price competition?
People will automagically consider "my tribe" as naturally having rights above the others. A couple millenia earlier that would be 'my tribe' in it's historical sense, now we generally consider 'our tribe' to be the whole homo sapiens - but the underlying notion is the same. Who cares what they think or what they can do or what they feel? Even if we find out that they are a super-intelligent tool-using social culture that creates incredible artwork, we wouldn't want to grant them equal rights, we'd just start to preceive them as a threat and attempt to control them, x-men style.
We'll grant them rights if and only if we consider them one of us, or if they'll force us to. Other things haven't mattered historically for right-obtaining of slaves, religious factions, ethnic minorities, serfs, women, castas, etc, and wouldn't likely matter in the future.
You have to put a chinese wall between teaching and testing. Here annual exams are centralised with no involvement of local teachers, and it does immediately show which teachers or shools are giving A's for C-level knowledge, etc. Of
Of course, that means that 'teaching for the test' will be the top priority as we'll be financially motivating teachers to do exactly that.
Persons in coma and infants have behind them a lot of humans that like them and want to give them rights.
It's very simple with dolphins. They will get rights right when either: a) When we humans will just give them rights because it's no big deal/cost for as and we'll just feel like it; b) They successfully fight for them.
Just as for any other rights-gaining example in the history - rights of different ethnicities and races, rights of women, rights of lower social classes. Any 'universal' or 'natural' or 'unalienable' rights weren't such before they were either successfully *taken*, or simply the powerful ones didn't care much about granting them.
Most projects end in failure, period. All that you say applies to all the other professions such as architecture, plumbing, transportation, graphic design, whatever. The management factors you describe would increase the accountant stress as well, so it's not an indicator that software engineer jobs are highly stressful.
A significant chunk of money (100-200 million/year) would come from facebook's cut of the money (30% IIRC) people are paying to online game companies - farmville & friends.
I've always wanted my machine to not support DRM - if restricions management will require a processor feature that I don't have, then there's no way that me or my kids will put DRM-infected content on the computer. As for the 'access to the content' - anybody who wants my money will find a way to offer it without DRM, and pirates will have access anyway.
Picking up low-freq sound wouldn't be that hard, any semi-decent mic would do it - you just need to speed up the recording or check spectral analysis as you wouldn't be able to hear the recorded sound otherwise.
Haven't read the paper, don't know the sample size involved and experiment details, and don't have the time to run the math right now, but it looks like the numbers shown in your post would still support the null hypothesis that there is no precognition effect, so entirely opposite conclusions should be drawn from the same data.
If they intend the next windows to be available for both Intel and ARM processors, they expect the ARM-Windows to be used on tablets, smartphones, etc.
It means that they do not want translation engines and automagic emulation - noone wants to get a pile of win32 application 1-to-1 copies on a tablet platform. They'll supply the changes to the.NET libraries and win32 api required for porting; but the porting needs to involve changes to the UI in any case, including support for low-precision finger pointing, multitouch, physically small screens, etc. All MS needs to do for the current applications is to make the porting process reasonably cheap.
As the TFA states, in most companies someone should scan the forums - but it shouldn't be the developers. Hire (or recruit from users) someone to sift the bug-reports and reasonable suggestions from the junk and bile.
I wouldn't sell even a wooden block in USA without a ten times larger disclaimer stating that it's not meant for anything, the last decades of litigation have taught everyone that. The materials are very different - some are flexible, some are brittle, of course they might not be safe for kids as you may easily make small or pointy objects that are considered hazards; of course they should not come in contact with electricity (as for most objects), and the chemicals most likely are not rated as food-safe.
Still, the disclaimer doesn't mean that a frigging glass blob is somehow non-durable or not permanent, no matter how it got made.
In PC utility market, at least for the dozen types of utilities that I use, the #1 spot in quality seems to be taken by free utilities, all the popular niches seem to be segmented into a free leader or three, a big pile of paid crap and a big pile of free crap. And sometimes, but not everywhere, a really good but expensive (not 'app' or 'utility' prices) commercial option, for example pro digital audio software packages.
And google searches return a lot of crap products that may look shiny to clueless buyers, but are quite obviously shoddy and just distributed to make a quick buck - if you don't know what you're looking for, then you have to sift through piles of crap both in freeware and costly software, only in the latter case often trying costs you money.
The fact that they are charging you a few dollars doesn't really mean that it's somehow going to be better quality, better maintained or even in any way useful; The categories of 'good vs. bad products' and 'free and non-free products' don't have a strong correlation.
True story from my local area - here on the seaside the environmental laws prohibit any permanent buildings some distance from the sea, in order to protect the dunes from erosion or something like that; so pretty much nothing larger than an outhouse can be built legally. So, one guy installed a single section of rails (30-40 metres? something like that) and built a summer cottage on top of a series of railroad chassis to get around the restrictions - it's legally classified as a vehicle, not as real estate. Quite reasonable houses can be built this way, as rails can support an order of magnitude more weight than trailer wheels.
You most definitely can print durable goods, commercial 3d-printing services are already offering printing glass and metal objects. See http://www.shapeways.com/materials/ for example.
If they port the software and allow the same Kinect sensors to be used, then riding on the xbox mass production the price might be below $99 in a year - not that expensive at all compared to other gadgets.
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That doesn't work - when I come in person to someone, or someone has picked up my call, they don't know which customer has arrived, and forwarding later to someone else is horribly inefficient and bad service.
Where does your info come from?
I've worked in banking, and seen merchant agreements that say that for transactions above certain amount, if the merchant doesn't verify ID, then merchant bears the risk - thus checking ID isn't mandatory, but they are allowed to check ID and refuse transactions w/o ID. Maybe that doesn't apply to all types for merchants, but for some (say, jewelry - buying a $1000 gold necklace) Visa/Mastercard definitely allow merchants to request ID.
The most basic call center employee needs access to data of all the customers, since any of them may call. How can you partition the data and at the same time achieve seamless customer experience wherever the customer may contact you?
Is it reasonable to restrict people because the doctor/ideological officer says that they might break that oath because they are expressing unhappiness about work conditions or managment?
Thoughtcrimes, anyone?
Well, in that case nothing but regulation will help to get some market competition started again, it's a clear oligopoly unless government intervenes.
If companies in my place are offering mobile internet (no calls, just an USB GSM modem to plug in your computer) for 12$/mth to consumers with a 5g cap; then I assume that a mass purchase for an expected use of 200mb/month would get a price of 5$/month/light. So, including the data costs and GSM hardware, the mobile connection cost is approximately equivalent to digging a ditch for the first ten feet of cable...
GSM data is dirt-cheap for the phone company, so if you are in a position to negotiate and there is some competition, then GSM is definitely the simplest way and infinitely cheaper than laying a cable (if you don't have a data cable already there for other purposes). If you need to transfer common sizes of data (excepting, say, video from traffic cameras), then there is no reason for GSM data to be expensive at all.
For example, in banking here I've seen now a trend for credit card POS terminals in various vendors (typically restaurants) to use a GSM-connection for calling the bank, as it's cheaper than landlines and mobility for POS terminals is automatically included so they can bring the device right to the customer table.
Sadly, the wire-to-your-house monopoly seems to be here to stay.
The only way out that I see is for mobile internet - 3g technologies can easily offer cable-broadband speeds, and there's no reason (except the same price-gouging as for cable) for it to be hugely expensive. Do you have a healthy competition for mobile services in Canada, or is it also with a lot of lock-in and little price competition?
That's the whole intent.
People will automagically consider "my tribe" as naturally having rights above the others. A couple millenia earlier that would be 'my tribe' in it's historical sense, now we generally consider 'our tribe' to be the whole homo sapiens - but the underlying notion is the same. Who cares what they think or what they can do or what they feel? Even if we find out that they are a super-intelligent tool-using social culture that creates incredible artwork, we wouldn't want to grant them equal rights, we'd just start to preceive them as a threat and attempt to control them, x-men style.
We'll grant them rights if and only if we consider them one of us, or if they'll force us to. Other things haven't mattered historically for right-obtaining of slaves, religious factions, ethnic minorities, serfs, women, castas, etc, and wouldn't likely matter in the future.
You have to put a chinese wall between teaching and testing. Here annual exams are centralised with no involvement of local teachers, and it does immediately show which teachers or shools are giving A's for C-level knowledge, etc. Of
Of course, that means that 'teaching for the test' will be the top priority as we'll be financially motivating teachers to do exactly that.
Persons in coma and infants have behind them a lot of humans that like them and want to give them rights.
It's very simple with dolphins. They will get rights right when either:
a) When we humans will just give them rights because it's no big deal/cost for as and we'll just feel like it;
b) They successfully fight for them.
Just as for any other rights-gaining example in the history - rights of different ethnicities and races, rights of women, rights of lower social classes. Any 'universal' or 'natural' or 'unalienable' rights weren't such before they were either successfully *taken*, or simply the powerful ones didn't care much about granting them.
Most projects end in failure, period.
All that you say applies to all the other professions such as architecture, plumbing, transportation, graphic design, whatever. The management factors you describe would increase the accountant stress as well, so it's not an indicator that software engineer jobs are highly stressful.
A significant chunk of money (100-200 million/year) would come from facebook's cut of the money (30% IIRC) people are paying to online game companies - farmville & friends.
I've always wanted my machine to not support DRM - if restricions management will require a processor feature that I don't have, then there's no way that me or my kids will put DRM-infected content on the computer. As for the 'access to the content' - anybody who wants my money will find a way to offer it without DRM, and pirates will have access anyway.
Isn't that the point of a sales tax, to apply to every purchase?
Picking up low-freq sound wouldn't be that hard, any semi-decent mic would do it - you just need to speed up the recording or check spectral analysis as you wouldn't be able to hear the recorded sound otherwise.
Haven't read the paper, don't know the sample size involved and experiment details, and don't have the time to run the math right now, but it looks like the numbers shown in your post would still support the null hypothesis that there is no precognition effect, so entirely opposite conclusions should be drawn from the same data.
If they intend the next windows to be available for both Intel and ARM processors, they expect the ARM-Windows to be used on tablets, smartphones, etc.
It means that they do not want translation engines and automagic emulation - noone wants to get a pile of win32 application 1-to-1 copies on a tablet platform. .NET libraries and win32 api required for porting; but the porting needs to involve changes to the UI in any case, including support for low-precision finger pointing, multitouch, physically small screens, etc. All MS needs to do for the current applications is to make the porting process reasonably cheap.
They'll supply the changes to the
As the TFA states, in most companies someone should scan the forums - but it shouldn't be the developers. Hire (or recruit from users) someone to sift the bug-reports and reasonable suggestions from the junk and bile.
I wouldn't sell even a wooden block in USA without a ten times larger disclaimer stating that it's not meant for anything, the last decades of litigation have taught everyone that.
The materials are very different - some are flexible, some are brittle, of course they might not be safe for kids as you may easily make small or pointy objects that are considered hazards; of course they should not come in contact with electricity (as for most objects), and the chemicals most likely are not rated as food-safe.
Still, the disclaimer doesn't mean that a frigging glass blob is somehow non-durable or not permanent, no matter how it got made.
In PC utility market, at least for the dozen types of utilities that I use, the #1 spot in quality seems to be taken by free utilities, all the popular niches seem to be segmented into a free leader or three, a big pile of paid crap and a big pile of free crap. And sometimes, but not everywhere, a really good but expensive (not 'app' or 'utility' prices) commercial option, for example pro digital audio software packages.
And google searches return a lot of crap products that may look shiny to clueless buyers, but are quite obviously shoddy and just distributed to make a quick buck - if you don't know what you're looking for, then you have to sift through piles of crap both in freeware and costly software, only in the latter case often trying costs you money.
The fact that they are charging you a few dollars doesn't really mean that it's somehow going to be better quality, better maintained or even in any way useful; The categories of 'good vs. bad products' and 'free and non-free products' don't have a strong correlation.
In summary: some people purchase utilities temporarily while the market isn't yet saturated by free utilities.
True story from my local area - here on the seaside the environmental laws prohibit any permanent buildings some distance from the sea, in order to protect the dunes from erosion or something like that; so pretty much nothing larger than an outhouse can be built legally. So, one guy installed a single section of rails (30-40 metres? something like that) and built a summer cottage on top of a series of railroad chassis to get around the restrictions - it's legally classified as a vehicle, not as real estate.
Quite reasonable houses can be built this way, as rails can support an order of magnitude more weight than trailer wheels.
You most definitely can print durable goods, commercial 3d-printing services are already offering printing glass and metal objects.
See http://www.shapeways.com/materials/ for example.
If they port the software and allow the same Kinect sensors to be used, then riding on the xbox mass production the price might be below $99 in a year - not that expensive at all compared to other gadgets.