I forgot to mention that they might also want to display not only the ticker symbol, but the full name of the company.
It may be easy to have typos in ticker symbols, but when you read the full company's name, you'll know you made a mistake for sure when you're suppose to invest in some tech company, but the company displayed is a clothing company.
I read this article a few days ago. I'm pretty sure there was a confirmation page or box, but as someone mentioned it before, it's very likely a reflex most people have when doing the same thing over and over again hundreds of times a day, that confirmation box is as good as gone.
also, when you're trading on the market, sometimes every second counts. i know for a huge order like this, it's better to be safe and maybe lose a couple thousand dollars for the delay and double check everything, but that type of money can add up.
a good design would be to have the user type in key info twice like the ticker symbol or the amount to be traded and on the confirmation page to have an outstanding color such as red and bolded.
Making a causal player friendly MMOG is easy. There is basically one rule; if a player must play more than 1-2 hour every other day to stay on par with the hardcore players (in terms of "stuff") it's not going to work for casual players. The game must rely on skill and knowledge rather than accumulation of wealth and rank. End of casual player requirements.
I totally agree with you. Many a times I've given MMOGs a try and what basically ended up happening was most of my friends would end up way stronger than me because I lack the time to play. Then it just became me trying to level up to catch up which got really boring after awhile and finally me losing interest in the game completely.
haha! i had a similar thing happened to me. I made up a SPAM name and now that guy receives applications with much higher credit lines than I've ever received!
and he had taken apart all of his LEGO things, washed each one piece by piece and put them back together.
hey! i do that to keys on my keyboard about once every 6 months! i use rubbing alcohol tho.
i agree it can be annoying for someone be speaking on the cellfone next to you, but i dont see that as the reason why we shouldn't allow it on planes if we allow them on trains, buses, subways, and probably any other public transportation available. just because you sat next to a family w/ 3 small obnoxious and annoying kids doesn't mean that they should be banned from flying, right?
creating interference i agree is the concern they had before, but if that's no longer a concern, i for one think electronic devices should be allowed on flights. wireless internet would be such an advantage for my flights between los angeles and oakland.
if you really think it's annoying to have someone on a cellfone sit next to you, just bring ear plugs or an mp3 player and drone out the voices next to you. or maybe airplanes can have a cellphone section (like for smokers in restaurants here in CA).
besides the space, one also has to consider the weight. my friend hurt his back this weekend when he was moving his 19" 50-60lb sony trinitron. great display and quality, but super duper heavy.
Just how in hell would you provide a proof? Please be specific if you can.
i think you misread my intention in that paragraph. that was my question to the parent since he wanted exact proof. i was just giving an example that if we can't trust our predictions base on knowledge and 'partial' proofs, then there's no point in believing in science at all.
IMO environmentalism is a form of religion. It is well known in sociology that if you try to suppress some deeply rooted cultural phenomena, it just pops up in another form. So we have environmentalists sayign that we, Man, used to be in a state of bliss in a Garden of Eden, but then we ate from the tree of knowledge and fell into a state of pollution, AKA industrialism, and will face a final apocalytpic reckoning unless we subscribe to the beliefs of the environmentalists, when we can save the world and go to heaven, presumably. Whatever. You're all a bunch of superstitious irrationalists.
that's like saying anything we believe in where there's no hard physical proof is a religion, such as evolution, 1st and 2nd law of thermodynamics, and conservation of energy and matter, and a whole bunch of other laws today's science is founded upon. you can argue there's many cases that show this is fact, but proof by example is not a proof. just like how we can show that CFCs destroy our ozone and how there's a hole in our ozone layer, and how that hole has been shining at our glaciers.
some may argue that we're worrying too much, but personally, besides economic and financial disadvantages (both human creations), i see no harm in trying to help the enivornment by stopping what we believe is causing the damage. if it wasn't us, then there wasn't anything we could've done in the 1st place. But if it was, then we've saved future generations from what could be disastrous or the even the externmination of all humanity.
(If for example 2 people are using computers and one replaces his 2x in a 3 year period and the other only does once, market-share dynamics dictate that one demographic has 75% market share while the other has only 25% -- even though install base is still 50/50.)
from my understanding of that sentence, person A has used 3 computers during a period of 3 years, while person B has used 2 computers during that same period. if that's true, it's a 60/40 split, and not a 75/25 split.
i guess it all comes down to the what the author meant by "the other only does once". by saying "does", i assumed he meant replace, since that's the verb of the previous clause. and by replacing once, that = 2 computers.
then again, when the author said replace, he might've meant that person A only used 2 computers during the 3 year interval and person B only used 1 computer. if that was the case, it would've been a 67/33 split instead.
that these bacteria are going to be evolving quite fast. i mean, in the early earth stages, there was no ozone layer to protect us from the sun's radiation, and bateria evolved quite rapidly into animals we have today (if you believe in evolution). maybe if we send single cell bateria over to mars, in a couple million years, we may see intelligent creatures!
He claims the DPRK hackers to be 'equal to that of the CIA,' whatever that might mean.
1. S. Korea knows how good N. Korean hackers are. meaning they've seen their work or have been attacked. 2. S. Korea knows how good CIA hackers are through the same methods. 3. CIA's hacking qualities has to be 'up there' or else making the comparison would be meaningless.
will they be using the x86 instruction set or will intel be making a new line purely for apple computers. if it does use x86, imagine the possibilities! no longer are we restricted to one OS on an apple system.
i have an interesting story regarding my friend's incident at the airport security. at the security checkpoint, my friend was about to walk through the metal detector. he had on white sneakers, which usually aren't required to be taken off.
the metal detector guard asked if my friend wanted to take off his shoes. he didn't request it, just asked if he wanted to. my friend, being lazy, of course said he'd rather just walk through. the moment he expressed this, he was asked for follow the guard and they went into one of those corners and he closed the drapes around him and did a full body search (no cavity search though).
either way, by saying you want an anonymous card is similar to this situation, where you have the option to, but you'll be more suspicious for them to check you out, probably finding stuff about you that they wouldn't have else known.
Even when microsoft lost their case, they gave money (vouchers) that you can redeem on any computer software/hardware you purchase. Apple's giving $50GC to their own store forcing you to continue supporting Apple products. Even Microsoft wasn't as croocked as that forcing you to buy more Microsoft products.
so how does it exactly work? is there a magnetic strip on the cellfone itself? is there an RFID tag which the stores have a system to scan it with? or is there a totally new system such that you can beam the credit card info to the system, or give the clerk your cell fone # and you can enter a pin of some sort.
also, can i use any credit card, or only the credit provided by my cell phone company? i mean, i'd rather carry my 5% rewards card, than to carry less cards.
email addiction is when you wake up in the middle of the night to take a piss, and on the way back, you stop by to check your email.
email addiction is when you you wake up in the morning, and before going to the bathroom, before changing your clothes, even before making coffee, you go check your email.
email addiction is when you click the "Check for New Mail" button every minute
email addiction is when you connect to juno every 5 minutes to check for a response
email addiction is when you get really depressed for not receiving any new email.
email addiction is when you're happy to even receive spam!
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I forgot to mention that they might also want to display not only the ticker symbol, but the full name of the company.
It may be easy to have typos in ticker symbols, but when you read the full company's name, you'll know you made a mistake for sure when you're suppose to invest in some tech company, but the company displayed is a clothing company.
I read this article a few days ago. I'm pretty sure there was a confirmation page or box, but as someone mentioned it before, it's very likely a reflex most people have when doing the same thing over and over again hundreds of times a day, that confirmation box is as good as gone.
also, when you're trading on the market, sometimes every second counts. i know for a huge order like this, it's better to be safe and maybe lose a couple thousand dollars for the delay and double check everything, but that type of money can add up.
a good design would be to have the user type in key info twice like the ticker symbol or the amount to be traded and on the confirmation page to have an outstanding color such as red and bolded.
Making a causal player friendly MMOG is easy. There is basically one rule; if a player must play more than 1-2 hour every other day to stay on par with the hardcore players (in terms of "stuff") it's not going to work for casual players. The game must rely on skill and knowledge rather than accumulation of wealth and rank. End of casual player requirements.
I totally agree with you. Many a times I've given MMOGs a try and what basically ended up happening was most of my friends would end up way stronger than me because I lack the time to play. Then it just became me trying to level up to catch up which got really boring after awhile and finally me losing interest in the game completely.
haha! i had a similar thing happened to me. I made up a SPAM name and now that guy receives applications with much higher credit lines than I've ever received!
and he had taken apart all of his LEGO things, washed each one piece by piece and put them back together. hey! i do that to keys on my keyboard about once every 6 months! i use rubbing alcohol tho.
i agree it can be annoying for someone be speaking on the cellfone next to you, but i dont see that as the reason why we shouldn't allow it on planes if we allow them on trains, buses, subways, and probably any other public transportation available. just because you sat next to a family w/ 3 small obnoxious and annoying kids doesn't mean that they should be banned from flying, right?
creating interference i agree is the concern they had before, but if that's no longer a concern, i for one think electronic devices should be allowed on flights. wireless internet would be such an advantage for my flights between los angeles and oakland.
if you really think it's annoying to have someone on a cellfone sit next to you, just bring ear plugs or an mp3 player and drone out the voices next to you. or maybe airplanes can have a cellphone section (like for smokers in restaurants here in CA).
besides the space, one also has to consider the weight. my friend hurt his back this weekend when he was moving his 19" 50-60lb sony trinitron. great display and quality, but super duper heavy.
Just how in hell would you provide a proof? Please be specific if you can.
i think you misread my intention in that paragraph. that was my question to the parent since he wanted exact proof. i was just giving an example that if we can't trust our predictions base on knowledge and 'partial' proofs, then there's no point in believing in science at all.
IMO environmentalism is a form of religion. It is well known in sociology that if you try to suppress some deeply rooted cultural phenomena, it just pops up in another form. So we have environmentalists sayign that we, Man, used to be in a state of bliss in a Garden of Eden, but then we ate from the tree of knowledge and fell into a state of pollution, AKA industrialism, and will face a final apocalytpic reckoning unless we subscribe to the beliefs of the environmentalists, when we can save the world and go to heaven, presumably. Whatever. You're all a bunch of superstitious irrationalists.
that's like saying anything we believe in where there's no hard physical proof is a religion, such as evolution, 1st and 2nd law of thermodynamics, and conservation of energy and matter, and a whole bunch of other laws today's science is founded upon. you can argue there's many cases that show this is fact, but proof by example is not a proof. just like how we can show that CFCs destroy our ozone and how there's a hole in our ozone layer, and how that hole has been shining at our glaciers.
some may argue that we're worrying too much, but personally, besides economic and financial disadvantages (both human creations), i see no harm in trying to help the enivornment by stopping what we believe is causing the damage. if it wasn't us, then there wasn't anything we could've done in the 1st place. But if it was, then we've saved future generations from what could be disastrous or the even the externmination of all humanity.
(If for example 2 people are using computers and one replaces his 2x in a 3 year period and the other only does once, market-share dynamics dictate that one demographic has 75% market share while the other has only 25% -- even though install base is still 50/50.)
from my understanding of that sentence, person A has used 3 computers during a period of 3 years, while person B has used 2 computers during that same period. if that's true, it's a 60/40 split, and not a 75/25 split.
i guess it all comes down to the what the author meant by "the other only does once". by saying "does", i assumed he meant replace, since that's the verb of the previous clause. and by replacing once, that = 2 computers.
then again, when the author said replace, he might've meant that person A only used 2 computers during the 3 year interval and person B only used 1 computer. if that was the case, it would've been a 67/33 split instead.
when SP3 comes out, does that mean it won't upgrade to SP3 and at that you'd need to do a full reinstallation with SP3 integrated into the CD?
bunnies are are good investment! they make tons of new bunnies which you then need to either sell or get rid of. ;p
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that these bacteria are going to be evolving quite fast. i mean, in the early earth stages, there was no ozone layer to protect us from the sun's radiation, and bateria evolved quite rapidly into animals we have today (if you believe in evolution). maybe if we send single cell bateria over to mars, in a couple million years, we may see intelligent creatures!
haha. when i first read this, it reminded me of the move The Core. movie was in a way hilariously stupid.
i didn't know we actually had so many projects trying to get closer to earth's core.
He claims the DPRK hackers to be 'equal to that of the CIA,' whatever that might mean.
1. S. Korea knows how good N. Korean hackers are. meaning they've seen their work or have been attacked.
2. S. Korea knows how good CIA hackers are through the same methods.
3. CIA's hacking qualities has to be 'up there' or else making the comparison would be meaningless.
will they be using the x86 instruction set or will intel be making a new line purely for apple computers. if it does use x86, imagine the possibilities! no longer are we restricted to one OS on an apple system.
or else we can inject ancient cave bear dna into an ancient cave bear egg.
Take for instance, Frozen Bubble. Great game play and highly addictive, got a lot of people to use Linux who didn't before.
too bad frozen bubbles is now ported to java and any system that has java can run it.
i have an interesting story regarding my friend's incident at the airport security. at the security checkpoint, my friend was about to walk through the metal detector. he had on white sneakers, which usually aren't required to be taken off.
the metal detector guard asked if my friend wanted to take off his shoes. he didn't request it, just asked if he wanted to. my friend, being lazy, of course said he'd rather just walk through. the moment he expressed this, he was asked for follow the guard and they went into one of those corners and he closed the drapes around him and did a full body search (no cavity search though).
either way, by saying you want an anonymous card is similar to this situation, where you have the option to, but you'll be more suspicious for them to check you out, probably finding stuff about you that they wouldn't have else known.
Even when microsoft lost their case, they gave money (vouchers) that you can redeem on any computer software/hardware you purchase. Apple's giving $50GC to their own store forcing you to continue supporting Apple products. Even Microsoft wasn't as croocked as that forcing you to buy more Microsoft products.
so how does it exactly work? is there a magnetic strip on the cellfone itself? is there an RFID tag which the stores have a system to scan it with? or is there a totally new system such that you can beam the credit card info to the system, or give the clerk your cell fone # and you can enter a pin of some sort.
also, can i use any credit card, or only the credit provided by my cell phone company? i mean, i'd rather carry my 5% rewards card, than to carry less cards.
my internet?
email addiction is when you wake up in the middle of the night to take a piss, and on the way back, you stop by to check your email.
email addiction is when you you wake up in the morning, and before going to the bathroom, before changing your clothes, even before making coffee, you go check your email.
email addiction is when you click the "Check for New Mail" button every minute
email addiction is when you connect to juno every 5 minutes to check for a response
email addiction is when you get really depressed for not receiving any new email.
email addiction is when you're happy to even receive spam!
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