It shouldn't. However, causing problems and addressing them with "well people shouldn't do that" isn't a technological fix.
But what's the problem with sniping? Please explain why it is wrong. Fraudulent bids by sellers are a problem, but that's a different issue to sniping, and explicitly banned by the terms-of-service.
There is nothing ebay does that couldn't be handled with a live auction done by a person with a bank of phones and people answering them.
That sounds ridiculous to me. How could a live auction with a fixed closing time possibly cope with a flood of bids during the last seconds of the auction? Computers can do this. Human operators can't.
No, doing away with sniping will help the bidders.
How? Please explain.
I like to bid a bid, not a proxy. Evidently, you prefer that too, since you defend sniping as if it's what you do.
No, I'm using both. I'm sniping with a proxy vote. So, if nobody is close to my maximum bid, then I don't pay the maximum amount. With a straight bid, I pay the maximum whether anybody is near my max price or not.
Yeah, that's why so many auctions are buy-it-now only.
What the hell are you talking about? "Buy it now" has nothing to do with sniping. Can you explain what you mean, and show your evidence? Buy it now is simply a way for buyers to make more money from sellers who don't want to risk losing an auction, or don't want to wait days (or weeks) for the auction to end.
And I've followed auctions where the snipers ended up driving the item above what I could buy it new for at the store.
But maybe someone else could not buy it at the store for that price - because they live in a different country or something? Again, you don't give evidence. In my experience, it is more common for early bids to drive the price up too high - while sniping usually keeps the price down.
ebay needs to keep innovating, or they will lose out.
I don't think eBay are short of cash. And I certainly don't think they would benefit by eliminating "sniping." eBay depends on buyers, and eliminating sniping would drive away many buyers, as it would generally drive prices up. So they would most likely lose business if they took your suggestions.
Web developer to me means a programmer/coder kind of position that's usually seperate from page design except at very small sites--the person writing ASP/PHP/ColdFusion/Ruby on Rails/JSP/etc is a web developer,
The problem is that "developer" and "development" are pretty vague and general terms, which programmers have tried to claim as their exclusive terminology. In reality, there are all kinds of developers who have nothing to do with programming. You can be a property developer. You can develop business plans. In photography, developer is the chemical that you put the exposed film or prints in to form an image.
So, a web author is a developer of the web content. A web designer develops visual and interface elements. A web administrator develops procedures.
To develop a site is more than just programming. And why don't programmers simply call themselves programmers - why the obsession with the "developer" title, anyway?
Why are you buying crap that's likely to break in a month?
If you get quality stuff, you usually never need the warranty, as it will last longer than the warranty period. The same quality gear also tends to last when it's sold used. So, why buy new?
But why should they get rid of sniping?
They should do what real auctions do, extend the bidding.
But we are using computers and the internet. Why should our technology and methods be limited to what the "real world" does? Isn't technology supposed to improve things, and make them more efficient? By the way - eBay auctions are real. Do you think they are imaginary or something? If they are imaginary, and not real, then why would you be offended?
I would think the sellers (the ones that pay them money) would like to have sniping done away with because it should result in higher bids.
I see, to benefit the sellers, and screw the buyers. The sellers already have most of the advantages on their side, why give them more? "Sniping" is really an efficient method, and tends to result in a much more accurate market price than stupid bidding wars and emotional investment.
Such bullshit. I have an active life, and as such, if the auction's ending time is not convenient for me, I just skip that auction. I miss many auctions because I'm not able to be there for the auction close. As others have mentioned, you can get automated tools for this. But "sniping" is basically how eBay works. Without it, I would have gotten very few good deals on eBay.
You sound like one of those whiners in an online shooter game who complains about other players taking cover and using smart tactics instead of just walking around in the open to be shot. Indeed, it's interesting the choice of the term "sniping" - when you could have called it "last minute bidding" more accurately. Bidding on an auction has nothing to do with shooting somebody.
For the Macbook, would I just buy some cable or something? Thanks.
I believe the Macbook has a miniDVI connector, and the Macbook Pro has a full-size DVI connector (at least that's how it was with iBooks and Powerbooks, and is now with iMacs and Mac Pros). You can get a miniDVI-DVI, miniDVI-VGA, miniDVI-S-Video, or mini-DVI-composite cable. I'm not sure if it's possible to get a miniDVI-component connector. The best would be the DVI (can easily be converted to HDMI) or VGA adapters if your TV supports VGA, HDMI or DVI.
His writing is insightful, witty, technically brilliant and not at all biased. His expert analysis and predictions always hold true. And he's not a filthy publicity-seeking whore like other writers.
Amazing. I heard the legends, but never though that such a creature actually existed. I thought it was just something made-up to scare children. I wonder if he's the same guy that bought the Zune?
This is a woman who stayed with her husband after his very public affair, when any self-respecting woman would have packed her bags and left
Why? Is there some law that states that a woman has to leave her husband after an affair, or she is not "self-respecting"? Where's the sense in that? Many marriages survive trivial shit like affairs. Who knows, maybe they had an open marriage? There are lots of self-respecting women with non-traditional relationships.
This, after she had described herself as "not one of those "stand by your man" kinds of women"
What relevance does this have to anything? So she's not a "stand by your man" type woman. Big deal.
and then had to publish her chocolate chip cookie recipe to prove how domesticated she was.
And what do chocolate chips or domestication have to do with extra-marital affairs or being a "stand by your man" woman? You know, it is possible to bake cookies and not havde traditional marital values. Heck, I love baking cookies, and I'm not into traditional relationships or family values. Cookies are tasty and fun to make.
She stayed after the Lewinski affair because her personal dignity was worth less to her than getting her American Express bill at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
How the hell would you know what her motivation was? You comments seem to be based completely on misogyny, and I strongly doubt you have any idea of what this particular woman thinks.
Hillary is a social and political climber, first, foremost and always. Everything she does and has done in her life has been directed at raising her personal stature. Anything that comes out of her mouth is suspect.
Isn't this true of all politicians? They wouldn't get anywhere in politics if they weren't like this. That's what they do - boost their status and make suspect statements. What makes her particularly worse? I guess it must be the vagina.
Actually, the term "spam" is believed to originate from BBSes and chat systems - and had nothing to do with advertising. Users would type "spam spam, spam... Baked beans and spam... Oooooh, I love it... spam spam spam" etc. - from the Monty Python sketch, until they filled up the chat screen. It was intended to annoy others, and often to frustrate unwanted or newbie users into leaving the chat.
So, no, spam is not limited to email or advertising. It basically means "an annoying waste of bandwidth."
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That penis is significantly larger than 3 feet wide.
And then, Phase Two will begin: hunting for easter eggs in Google Satellite
I think an easter egg might be a little too small to be discernible in a satellite photo. And it takes a fairly long time to update the satellite images, so by the time you get the map, some other kid has already found the chocolate eggs. Would be easily defeated by hiding eggs under objects and shrubberies, so they are not visible from above.
Because if a corp. using DRM doesn't license it and is succeessful anyway, there is a risk of vertical monopoly.
AFAIK, monopolies aren't illegal. Abusing a monopoly is illegal. Can you show me what the abuse is here?
It's like if the most popular movies in your (small) town are all from Columbia because Columbia owns the local theater and won't let it play anyone else's movies. You can always get around it by driving to the next small town, which has only MGM movies, or to the big and distant city with more than one theater chain, but it's inconvenient.
That seems to be an extraordinarily bad analogy. Inconvenience does not mean monopoly abuse. What's to stop a competing company opening up a movie theater, and showing different movies?
Can you please list the other DRM providers that don't license their DRM?
Didn't Realnetworks have some sort of proprietary DRM? I don't really follow the DRM market, but I'm sure you could find various products that are produced with vendor-specific DRM.
Because closed systems are harmful to consumers. I think we've been over that.
So tell me, how are closed systems harmful to consumers? Just asserting it isn't enough. Also, wouldn't all DRM methods be "closed systems"? How do you implement a form of DRM that is "open"?
And if closed systems are inherently harmful to consumers, shouldn't they be banning proprietary car parts, proprietary razor blades, proprietary kitchen appliances, and so forth?
RTFA. From the submission: "European legislators have been giving DRM considerable attention for a while, but Norway has actually gone so far as to declare that Apple's iTunes store is illegal under Norwegian law".
Doesn't seem you read the article, but just the slashdot summary. One person in Norway has offered his opinion that iTunes should be banned. Can you show me the actual article of law in Norway that Apple is violating?
Again, if you think every concept that can be described by the noun "freedom" is equally important, I can see how you might reach that conclusion. Few sane people, if any, actually think that way, though.
Riiight. So, sane people think that freedom is increased by outlawing choices, or the freedom to control your property? LMAO.
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But what's the problem with sniping? Please explain why it is wrong. Fraudulent bids by sellers are a problem, but that's a different issue to sniping, and explicitly banned by the terms-of-service.
There is nothing ebay does that couldn't be handled with a live auction done by a person with a bank of phones and people answering them.That sounds ridiculous to me. How could a live auction with a fixed closing time possibly cope with a flood of bids during the last seconds of the auction? Computers can do this. Human operators can't.
No, doing away with sniping will help the bidders.How? Please explain.
I like to bid a bid, not a proxy. Evidently, you prefer that too, since you defend sniping as if it's what you do.No, I'm using both. I'm sniping with a proxy vote. So, if nobody is close to my maximum bid, then I don't pay the maximum amount. With a straight bid, I pay the maximum whether anybody is near my max price or not.
Yeah, that's why so many auctions are buy-it-now only.What the hell are you talking about? "Buy it now" has nothing to do with sniping. Can you explain what you mean, and show your evidence? Buy it now is simply a way for buyers to make more money from sellers who don't want to risk losing an auction, or don't want to wait days (or weeks) for the auction to end.
And I've followed auctions where the snipers ended up driving the item above what I could buy it new for at the store.But maybe someone else could not buy it at the store for that price - because they live in a different country or something? Again, you don't give evidence. In my experience, it is more common for early bids to drive the price up too high - while sniping usually keeps the price down.
ebay needs to keep innovating, or they will lose out.I don't think eBay are short of cash. And I certainly don't think they would benefit by eliminating "sniping." eBay depends on buyers, and eliminating sniping would drive away many buyers, as it would generally drive prices up. So they would most likely lose business if they took your suggestions.
The problem is that "developer" and "development" are pretty vague and general terms, which programmers have tried to claim as their exclusive terminology. In reality, there are all kinds of developers who have nothing to do with programming. You can be a property developer. You can develop business plans. In photography, developer is the chemical that you put the exposed film or prints in to form an image.
So, a web author is a developer of the web content. A web designer develops visual and interface elements. A web administrator develops procedures.
To develop a site is more than just programming. And why don't programmers simply call themselves programmers - why the obsession with the "developer" title, anyway?
If you get quality stuff, you usually never need the warranty, as it will last longer than the warranty period. The same quality gear also tends to last when it's sold used. So, why buy new?
It is fraud, because it's against eBay's terms of service.
But we are using computers and the internet. Why should our technology and methods be limited to what the "real world" does? Isn't technology supposed to improve things, and make them more efficient? By the way - eBay auctions are real. Do you think they are imaginary or something? If they are imaginary, and not real, then why would you be offended?
I would think the sellers (the ones that pay them money) would like to have sniping done away with because it should result in higher bids.I see, to benefit the sellers, and screw the buyers. The sellers already have most of the advantages on their side, why give them more? "Sniping" is really an efficient method, and tends to result in a much more accurate market price than stupid bidding wars and emotional investment.
I don't know why ebay hasn't fixed it.Because it isn't broken?
You sound like one of those whiners in an online shooter game who complains about other players taking cover and using smart tactics instead of just walking around in the open to be shot. Indeed, it's interesting the choice of the term "sniping" - when you could have called it "last minute bidding" more accurately. Bidding on an auction has nothing to do with shooting somebody.
Ummm, SPAM is made out of ham. It's just spiced and canned ham. So, how is spam not ham? I am.
I thought is went like this:
I believe the Macbook has a miniDVI connector, and the Macbook Pro has a full-size DVI connector (at least that's how it was with iBooks and Powerbooks, and is now with iMacs and Mac Pros). You can get a miniDVI-DVI, miniDVI-VGA, miniDVI-S-Video, or mini-DVI-composite cable. I'm not sure if it's possible to get a miniDVI-component connector. The best would be the DVI (can easily be converted to HDMI) or VGA adapters if your TV supports VGA, HDMI or DVI.
His writing is insightful, witty, technically brilliant and not at all biased. His expert analysis and predictions always hold true. And he's not a filthy publicity-seeking whore like other writers.
Amazing. I heard the legends, but never though that such a creature actually existed. I thought it was just something made-up to scare children. I wonder if he's the same guy that bought the Zune?
Oh come on, you don't like bush? What if we called it pussy instead? I always vote for bush.
Why? Is there some law that states that a woman has to leave her husband after an affair, or she is not "self-respecting"? Where's the sense in that? Many marriages survive trivial shit like affairs. Who knows, maybe they had an open marriage? There are lots of self-respecting women with non-traditional relationships.
This, after she had described herself as "not one of those "stand by your man" kinds of women"What relevance does this have to anything? So she's not a "stand by your man" type woman. Big deal.
and then had to publish her chocolate chip cookie recipe to prove how domesticated she was.And what do chocolate chips or domestication have to do with extra-marital affairs or being a "stand by your man" woman? You know, it is possible to bake cookies and not havde traditional marital values. Heck, I love baking cookies, and I'm not into traditional relationships or family values. Cookies are tasty and fun to make.
She stayed after the Lewinski affair because her personal dignity was worth less to her than getting her American Express bill at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.How the hell would you know what her motivation was? You comments seem to be based completely on misogyny, and I strongly doubt you have any idea of what this particular woman thinks.
Hillary is a social and political climber, first, foremost and always. Everything she does and has done in her life has been directed at raising her personal stature. Anything that comes out of her mouth is suspect.Isn't this true of all politicians? They wouldn't get anywhere in politics if they weren't like this. That's what they do - boost their status and make suspect statements. What makes her particularly worse? I guess it must be the vagina.
What's a pandler? Is it some kind of baby panda, or is it an abbreviation for "pan handler"?
Hey! My head after a big night of drinking is not a national security risk. Well, not unless I was drinking tequila.
Nah, they'll just replace your sign with one reading "Klansman lives here" and an arrow pointing to your house.
So, no, spam is not limited to email or advertising. It basically means "an annoying waste of bandwidth."
That penis is significantly larger than 3 feet wide.
Except for goatse, which either leaves people speechless, or results in unintelligible gibberish.
I think an easter egg might be a little too small to be discernible in a satellite photo. And it takes a fairly long time to update the satellite images, so by the time you get the map, some other kid has already found the chocolate eggs. Would be easily defeated by hiding eggs under objects and shrubberies, so they are not visible from above.
Dang it, isn't one Bill O'Reilly already too many?
Shhh! now everybody knows his real email address! Do you really want to get sued by Gates?
Including DVDs? I really doubt many people are going to give up watching DVDs.
AFAIK, monopolies aren't illegal. Abusing a monopoly is illegal. Can you show me what the abuse is here?
It's like if the most popular movies in your (small) town are all from Columbia because Columbia owns the local theater and won't let it play anyone else's movies. You can always get around it by driving to the next small town, which has only MGM movies, or to the big and distant city with more than one theater chain, but it's inconvenient.That seems to be an extraordinarily bad analogy. Inconvenience does not mean monopoly abuse. What's to stop a competing company opening up a movie theater, and showing different movies?
Didn't Realnetworks have some sort of proprietary DRM? I don't really follow the DRM market, but I'm sure you could find various products that are produced with vendor-specific DRM.
Because closed systems are harmful to consumers. I think we've been over that.So tell me, how are closed systems harmful to consumers? Just asserting it isn't enough. Also, wouldn't all DRM methods be "closed systems"? How do you implement a form of DRM that is "open"?
And if closed systems are inherently harmful to consumers, shouldn't they be banning proprietary car parts, proprietary razor blades, proprietary kitchen appliances, and so forth?
RTFA. From the submission: "European legislators have been giving DRM considerable attention for a while, but Norway has actually gone so far as to declare that Apple's iTunes store is illegal under Norwegian law".Doesn't seem you read the article, but just the slashdot summary. One person in Norway has offered his opinion that iTunes should be banned. Can you show me the actual article of law in Norway that Apple is violating?
Again, if you think every concept that can be described by the noun "freedom" is equally important, I can see how you might reach that conclusion. Few sane people, if any, actually think that way, though.Riiight. So, sane people think that freedom is increased by outlawing choices, or the freedom to control your property? LMAO.