Hell yeah on the audio thing. I am just trying to watch some recorded "webinars". The video quality is quite good, but the audio is really gruesome. Sounds like recorded through a tin can and is hard to understand. I am near headaches just a couple minutes in.
This has nothing to do with "big company blah blah". It is simply bad taste and people react accordingly. The market is not the ultimate guideline for human behaviour.
An accident means that the employee did not intend to raise the prices in the first place. I do not see that.
An employee had the authority and the means to raise the prizes and he decided to do so because he thought that would be a nice way to increase income. Because it was a PR disaster, someone above him reversed the decision. It was a mistake, but it was in no way an accident.
Yep, learnt about the contact lens stuff as well. But there is always a risk. Some goon might not know the rule and not allow the bottle. You throw it away, fly, arrive at the customer, you have stay at their office for the rest of the day, shops are now closed and you do not have your contact lens cleaning liquid. Therefore I still use small containers, just to minimize my risk.
The whole restriction to 100ml is bogus anyway. The rational being that if you manage to get dangerous stuff on board, if will be a relatively small amount (they do not test any of the liquid after all). Never mind that you could just split the liquid to multiple containers and even have passengers as partners to bring more of it. It truly is security theater.
Actually, we do not know if the approval rate is due to the FISA courts just nodding off requests or if it is due to good self-selection of cases. You can argue both sides. What side you lean towards depends on how much you trust these courts to do their job. Without an independent, trusted review, we will never really know.
These multiple choice tests at schools are quite curious to me as a German. The first time I have seen multiple choice question in a test was at university, and then only in one course by a professor with a huge affinity to the U.S.
When given the "Mario sells 80 pencils a day from his supply of 1,000 pencils." question, pupils here have to write down how they got to the solution, even if they could calculate it in their head. You got only part of the points if you did not provide the process. At later grades, this also allowed for different approaches, and you would get at least some points if you made a mistake in a step and got the wrong solution.
OneNote is also superior in free-form note taking and information arranging. Click anywhere on the page and write/draw/annotate. Move your text to any place on the page. Evernote has a line oriented, top-to-bottom documents last time I checked.
> How could he have seriously expected the WebOS tablet thing to be successful.
It is a gamble. If it is a success, he gets all the glory and a huge bonus. If it fails, he gets a golden parachute. There is no way to lose for him, no risk, and he does not bet his own money.
So it is like taking a GPS navigation unit that bases arrival time on past traffic patterns (standard feature even on basic units for a few years now), type in the delivery addresses and notify when you are x minutes away according to the readout? Not much of an invention, IMHO.
> No, it clearly didn't since no one in the industry came up with it.
That is not so clear cut. Someone might have thought of it, but did not think of patenting it or thought it was a conceptually trivial extension of existing systems. But did not implement it due to lack of resources.
And GPS navigation systems estimate driving duration based of past traffic data for some time now.
> Not that your statement is an actual test in any shape or form.
"any fucking idiot in this business can come up with this" is a more colorful way to state the "non-obvious" criterion for patent application.
In that particular case some weeks ago, the girl noticed her mistake, closed the post and cancel her party. People found it "funny" to show up regardless. Her parents had to hire private security for their home, massive police presence to close the street and control the hundreds that came (even from far away).
Some further notes:
1) The police is opposing the "ban it" back-seat politicians, they say it is not feasible.
2) The boulevard press jumped on the bandwagon and accelerated events by persistent reporting (look at that, massive party) even after the cancellation. Afterwards they fueled it some more (already there are new parties on facebook, see here and here, we wonder how big these get). And that is the despicable part to me, not the poor girl that made the mistake and corrected it.
That is not the complaint. There is no info if Amazon does compatibility checks at all.
The author himself specified compatibility in a spec file ("Manifest file") in the app package. The Android Market uses that information to automatically not show the app to incompatible devices. Amazon ignores that information and either does not do any testing at all, or does a bad work on it.
> 10 years ago Amazon tried providing differentiated pricing for different customers under the same premise: they would charge based on what the customer is willing to pay.
3rd degree price differentiation is not at all what he is talking about. He is talking about financially punishing / rewarding players' behaviour in the game.
It is a very sad state of affairs. You probably can image how much time/effort it took me to get a 30 Euro headset. I dare not calculate the true cost of that requisition.
> So they would require an additional warrant to investigate additional email addresses for emails older than 6 months?
Why would they need two warrants? They would need ONE warrant to access ALL emails. Currently, they need NO warrant to access old emails and ONE warrant to access new emails.
The initiative wants to get rid of the provision for warrantless access. More power to that.
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Hell yeah on the audio thing. I am just trying to watch some recorded "webinars". The video quality is quite good, but the audio is really gruesome. Sounds like recorded through a tin can and is hard to understand. I am near headaches just a couple minutes in.
Funny, they thankfully switched from SDI to MDI for Dynamics AX only two years ago.
They are allowed to ask about them. They are just not allowed to base any decisions or treatment on them.
Thank god I snatched up one of these rare MP3 before Sony ran out of stock!
This has nothing to do with "big company blah blah". It is simply bad taste and people react accordingly. The market is not the ultimate guideline for human behaviour.
> because even though it likely was an accident
An accident means that the employee did not intend to raise the prices in the first place. I do not see that.
An employee had the authority and the means to raise the prizes and he decided to do so because he thought that would be a nice way to increase income. Because it was a PR disaster, someone above him reversed the decision. It was a mistake, but it was in no way an accident.
Yeah, about that discipline thing... http://www.norcalblogs.com/bullfight/archives/fitness.jpg
Oh yeah, also contact lens liquids are way too expensive to just throw away.
Yep, learnt about the contact lens stuff as well. But there is always a risk. Some goon might not know the rule and not allow the bottle. You throw it away, fly, arrive at the customer, you have stay at their office for the rest of the day, shops are now closed and you do not have your contact lens cleaning liquid. Therefore I still use small containers, just to minimize my risk.
The whole restriction to 100ml is bogus anyway. The rational being that if you manage to get dangerous stuff on board, if will be a relatively small amount (they do not test any of the liquid after all). Never mind that you could just split the liquid to multiple containers and even have passengers as partners to bring more of it. It truly is security theater.
Actually, we do not know if the approval rate is due to the FISA courts just nodding off requests or if it is due to good self-selection of cases. You can argue both sides. What side you lean towards depends on how much you trust these courts to do their job. Without an independent, trusted review, we will never really know.
These multiple choice tests at schools are quite curious to me as a German. The first time I have seen multiple choice question in a test was at university, and then only in one course by a professor with a huge affinity to the U.S.
When given the "Mario sells 80 pencils a day from his supply of 1,000 pencils." question, pupils here have to write down how they got to the solution, even if they could calculate it in their head. You got only part of the points if you did not provide the process. At later grades, this also allowed for different approaches, and you would get at least some points if you made a mistake in a step and got the wrong solution.
OneNote is also superior in free-form note taking and information arranging. Click anywhere on the page and write/draw/annotate. Move your text to any place on the page. Evernote has a line oriented, top-to-bottom documents last time I checked.
Again? Google Earth, Google Streetview, every time the same doomsday scenarios... Run people, run!!1! Teh terrists are coming!!1!
Thank god that kind thinking was not prevalent in the past or we would not have electricity, cars or aircrafts.
Yes, yes. And we better stop Google Streetview altogether because of possible burglars and Google Earth because of possible terrorists!
> How could he have seriously expected the WebOS tablet thing to be successful.
It is a gamble. If it is a success, he gets all the glory and a huge bonus. If it fails, he gets a golden parachute. There is no way to lose for him, no risk, and he does not bet his own money.
So it is like taking a GPS navigation unit that bases arrival time on past traffic patterns (standard feature even on basic units for a few years now), type in the delivery addresses and notify when you are x minutes away according to the readout? Not much of an invention, IMHO.
> No, it clearly didn't since no one in the industry came up with it.
That is not so clear cut. Someone might have thought of it, but did not think of patenting it or thought it was a conceptually trivial extension of existing systems. But did not implement it due to lack of resources.
And GPS navigation systems estimate driving duration based of past traffic data for some time now.
> Not that your statement is an actual test in any shape or form.
"any fucking idiot in this business can come up with this" is a more colorful way to state the "non-obvious" criterion for patent application.
In that particular case some weeks ago, the girl noticed her mistake, closed the post and cancel her party. People found it "funny" to show up regardless. Her parents had to hire private security for their home, massive police presence to close the street and control the hundreds that came (even from far away).
Some further notes:
1) The police is opposing the "ban it" back-seat politicians, they say it is not feasible.
2) The boulevard press jumped on the bandwagon and accelerated events by persistent reporting (look at that, massive party) even after the cancellation. Afterwards they fueled it some more (already there are new parties on facebook, see here and here, we wonder how big these get). And that is the despicable part to me, not the poor girl that made the mistake and corrected it.
That is not the complaint. There is no info if Amazon does compatibility checks at all.
The author himself specified compatibility in a spec file ("Manifest file") in the app package. The Android Market uses that information to automatically not show the app to incompatible devices. Amazon ignores that information and either does not do any testing at all, or does a bad work on it.
If your are content with iWeb, stay with it. IWeb is not bound to MobileMe, it can just as well publish to your own FTP server. See http://www.apple.com/findouthow/web/ or http://macintoshhowto.com/software/how-to-upload-iweb-sites-without-a-mac-account-iweb-09.html
> 10 years ago Amazon tried providing differentiated pricing for different customers under the same premise: they would charge based on what the customer is willing to pay.
3rd degree price differentiation is not at all what he is talking about. He is talking about financially punishing / rewarding players' behaviour in the game.
It is a very sad state of affairs. You probably can image how much time/effort it took me to get a 30 Euro headset. I dare not calculate the true cost of that requisition.
Not if they use a binary diff algorithm on the volume file.
Hear, hear!
On my last job, I wanted a 20 Euro head-set, so I can work better when on phone with my customers. The cost of the time spent on that... Insane!
> So they would require an additional warrant to investigate additional email addresses for emails older than 6 months?
Why would they need two warrants? They would need ONE warrant to access ALL emails. Currently, they need NO warrant to access old emails and ONE warrant to access new emails.
The initiative wants to get rid of the provision for warrantless access. More power to that.