When I went from the US to Australia in 2002, all it took was one phone call to Wells Fargo (via an international toll-free number) to sort things out. After the initial lockout and re-enabling, I used that card in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and Italy without further issues.
I continued to use the account for another 4-5 years after deciding to stay on in Oz. Got WF to change my statement address to my place in Brisbane, and they even automatically sent me a replacement card a month or so before the old one was due to expire.
Sounds to me as though someone maybe got their knickers in a knot over having to prove their identity to the bank's satisfaction — providing info that WF almost certainly already had in any case.
Too bad you chose to dilute the 1 or 2 possibly relevant and/or useful points you might otherwise made with a bunch of stuff that is utterly beside the point (and mostly out of date besides).
That's not the point. The point is that Chase, after making the results highly public, made them vanish without explanation from public view as soon as they started trending in a direction that Chase didn't care for.
If they'd actually come out and *said* "We're disqualifying these organisations on the grounds of _______..." and then removed those groups from the tally, that would be one thing, but this is quite another.
Chase should at least be honest about what they're doing and why.
Nice to see some honest feedback from someone who's obviously tried the product. Glad you like ALTER ONLINE -- I'll pass that along to the devs.
MySQL 5.1.41 mainline has just been merged into what will be the next set of MySQL Cluster releases, BTW.
True variable-width columns on disk, indexes on disk, and better join performance are high on our list of priorities. As well as a few other goodies that'll be coming out early next year, but I can't talk about those just yet.:)
Hmm, Flash works virtually flawlessly for me in 3 of 4 browsers I have on my Linux machines, and 4 of 4 on Windows. I regularly use 32 and 64-bit versions of both operating systems. (Doesn't seem to work at all with Konqueror, but I've not really tried very hard so maybe I'm just missing something.)
I would greatly prefer to see something based on a truly open standard take its place (you mentioned SVG). And obviously Silverlight doesn't even come close to that.
But 'not working' and 'browser crashing' are not among my (recent) complaints about it.
WTF is this modded Insightful? I know plenty of Mac users in Australia and the EU.
And the EU still counts as more than one country IMO.
(Don't like the company, the OS, or the hardware very much, but facts is facts: they're there, and people do use them in lots of places outside the US.)
If by "like a charm" you mean you have problems with WPA2 despite the fact that it's 2009, sure.
I guess parent was modded Troll by some fanboi who has never actually tried to *use* WPA2 while running Linux...?
Staying in a hotel offering "free" wifi that uses WPA2 is the pits. Invariably, their network drowns out any other networks within range that I might actually be able to use, otherwise.
I had the exactly same first reaction as parent. There is no such thing as a "region code" for wifi AFAIK. I've used the same laptop and wifi card on 4 different continents (Asia, Australia, Europe, North America) and never had problems (except in certain hotels that insist on "free" wifi protected via passphrase which doesn't work with the Linux drivers for my card, but that's a different issue.)
No transformer should be necessary, either. I've used the same laptop power supply with 240V (Australia), 230V (most of Europe and Asia), and 120V (US) with nothing more than an adaptor plug. I think most small electronics are auto-voltage-sensing these days, including my camera's battery charger, MP3 player, electric razor, mobile phone charger, external USB drive, etc.
Tip: Go buy a universal adaptor plug *before* going to the airport. You'll save 40 to 50 percent on the price. And be sure to take a small power strip, so you can run/charge laptop, battery charger for camera, electric razor, external USB drive, etc., without having to unplug something else or having to do without something because your camera battery *and* your laptop battery are both flat and you don't have time to charge both.
BTW, I've never had airport security ask me to turn on my laptop, only to open the lid. Nonetheless, you definitely want to make sure you've got it charged for those longhaul flights, unless you're not flying economy (for mine, it's not worth the extra money just to have an electrical outlet).
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I also call bullshit.
When I went from the US to Australia in 2002, all it took was one phone call to Wells Fargo (via an international toll-free number) to sort things out. After the initial lockout and re-enabling, I used that card in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and Italy without further issues.
I continued to use the account for another 4-5 years after deciding to stay on in Oz. Got WF to change my statement address to my place in Brisbane, and they even automatically sent me a replacement card a month or so before the old one was due to expire.
Sounds to me as though someone maybe got their knickers in a knot over having to prove their identity to the bank's satisfaction — providing info that WF almost certainly already had in any case.
Maureeen O'Gara, is that you?
Did someone decide that today was Backwards Moderation Day and forget to tell us? Parent should be Funny.
"Offtopic" does *not* mean "I'm too dense to 'get it'."
Too bad you chose to dilute the 1 or 2 possibly relevant and/or useful points you might otherwise made with a bunch of stuff that is utterly beside the point (and mostly out of date besides).
That's not the point. The point is that Chase, after making the results highly public, made them vanish without explanation from public view as soon as they started trending in a direction that Chase didn't care for.
If they'd actually come out and *said* "We're disqualifying these organisations on the grounds of _______..." and then removed those groups from the tally, that would be one thing, but this is quite another.
Chase should at least be honest about what they're doing and why.
This from an obvious expert in the field, no less. :)
I read and write raw DocBook all day, no problem.
Nice to see some honest feedback from someone who's obviously tried the product. Glad you like ALTER ONLINE -- I'll pass that along to the devs.
MySQL 5.1.41 mainline has just been merged into what will be the next set of MySQL Cluster releases, BTW.
True variable-width columns on disk, indexes on disk, and better join performance are high on our list of priorities. As well as a few other goodies that'll be coming out early next year, but I can't talk about those just yet. :)
Hmm, Flash works virtually flawlessly for me in 3 of 4 browsers I have on my Linux machines, and 4 of 4 on Windows. I regularly use 32 and 64-bit versions of both operating systems. (Doesn't seem to work at all with Konqueror, but I've not really tried very hard so maybe I'm just missing something.)
I would greatly prefer to see something based on a truly open standard take its place (you mentioned SVG). And obviously Silverlight doesn't even come close to that.
But 'not working' and 'browser crashing' are not among my (recent) complaints about it.
You've obviously never worked for the company, then.
One of the first things a new hire learns (if he doesn't know it already) is that the official pronunciation is my-ess-cue-ell.
Digg used to be a decent site for discussion...
...back before it went online, you mean?
You left out DOS Ain't Done Till Lotus Won't Run.
Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy -> Show Passwords and get the passwords, then doing the upgrade also works.
(Now very thankful that I always do this when upgrading T-Bird.)
Apparently you're not real clear on what "EU" means.
In any case, I have colleagues in Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Croatia, and Russia who use Macs.
WTF is this modded Insightful? I know plenty of Mac users in Australia and the EU.
And the EU still counts as more than one country IMO.
(Don't like the company, the OS, or the hardware very much, but facts is facts: they're there, and people do use them in lots of places outside the US.)
If by "like a charm" you mean you have problems with WPA2 despite the fact that it's 2009, sure.
I guess parent was modded Troll by some fanboi who has never actually tried to *use* WPA2 while running Linux...?
Staying in a hotel offering "free" wifi that uses WPA2 is the pits. Invariably, their network drowns out any other networks within range that I might actually be able to use, otherwise.
...the Acer wifi is unsupported!
Hey, 2005 called and wants its joke back.
Two words for you: Al Gore. Moderately wealthy attention-seeking nobody...
Allow me to refresh your memory:
*US Representative, 1977-1985
*US Senator, 1985-1993
*Vice President of the US, 1993-2001
*Copped (half of) a Nobel Peace Prize a couple years ago.
Now tell us again who's the real seven billion ton robot nobody here, Mr AC?
Portraying "WalMart vs Mom-and-Pop" issues as being only about financial considerations is hardly insightful.
Right. Figure out how to jam all that into 128 chars and get back to me. :)
3) Make sure your father is the head of the NSA and can keep you out of jail. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Worm)
Actually, his father was Chief Scientist at NCSC, not quite the same thing.
It can also be argued that Morris (the son, that is) honestly screwed up.
How nice for you. That does nothing to obviate the OP's point, which you still seem to be missing.
So you've never made a typo?
I had the exactly same first reaction as parent. There is no such thing as a "region code" for wifi AFAIK. I've used the same laptop and wifi card on 4 different continents (Asia, Australia, Europe, North America) and never had problems (except in certain hotels that insist on "free" wifi protected via passphrase which doesn't work with the Linux drivers for my card, but that's a different issue.)
No transformer should be necessary, either. I've used the same laptop power supply with 240V (Australia), 230V (most of Europe and Asia), and 120V (US) with nothing more than an adaptor plug. I think most small electronics are auto-voltage-sensing these days, including my camera's battery charger, MP3 player, electric razor, mobile phone charger, external USB drive, etc.
Tip: Go buy a universal adaptor plug *before* going to the airport. You'll save 40 to 50 percent on the price. And be sure to take a small power strip, so you can run/charge laptop, battery charger for camera, electric razor, external USB drive, etc., without having to unplug something else or having to do without something because your camera battery *and* your laptop battery are both flat and you don't have time to charge both.
BTW, I've never had airport security ask me to turn on my laptop, only to open the lid. Nonetheless, you definitely want to make sure you've got it charged for those longhaul flights, unless you're not flying economy (for mine, it's not worth the extra money just to have an electrical outlet).
Perhaps you've never heard of the Socratic Method?