I'm a Retail Manager
A Chip & Pin transaction at the till takes 30 seconds from triggering, Maybe 1/2 to 1/4 of the time for a properly checked Signature.
Contactless (which is now at least 10% of my sales) takes 15 seconds.
Across thousands of card transactions per day this is moving people through my tills faster meaning I have to have fewer people serving to keep customers moving at the same rate.
ANY card that requires only signature that is used to pay in my store has to be verified with a telephone call as a matter of company policy, and we see maybe one such transaction per month. The burden of getting it wrong rests with my store, UK banks now take no responsibility for Signature card fraud.
Apparently Robert Peston did some digging and it wasn't searching for the Article that was being removed but searching for one of the comments.
Right to be forgotten is all well and good, but using that to try and remove a post you yourself put in a public place is a bit barmy.
Props to the first person who changes their name to Anonymous Coward then makes the request for all their posts to be unsearchable.
How long before U have to declare that i've had this sort of surgery before going into a bookshop?
If I can go in, take a book off the shelf, take it to the instore coffee shop and read it into my phone by bluetooth with one of these then i'm set.
If Sony & Microsoft didn't try to make money by selling their consoles at a loss and making the money on games sales then this proof would never have been nessessary.
If you sell a PC game then it's generally priced in line with the console release, which is inflated by the console markup.
Rather than blame themselves for pricing games out of peoples spending brackets, both are trying to blame the second hand market for reducing sales and work out ways to kill it. Pro Evolution Soccer on the PS3 is the start of the slope. If you buy a second hand copy you can't play it online if it has been used online before. It won't be long before disks brought in shops only count as a "non-transfereable licence to play" rather than ownership of the game and it'll still be at the current prices.
I still maintain that I wasn' taught Maths at A level or GCSEm I was taught how to pass a maths exam. For the entire second year leading up to the exams we were taught past papers. In Maths, (as well as Physics, Chemistry and Electronics) I was set each paper, full and mock exams from the previous 15 years.
In the end this meant that I coasted my final exams as 75% of the questions on each paper were reprints from previous years that I had already not only done myself but been taken through ideal examples for afterwards. This didn't help when I reaached University as I had very little idea about the mechainics behind the maths causing me (and many other students) to have to pay for extra maths modules to keep up.
The entire focus of the school system is not the education of the students but meeting the targets set by the government.
It doesn't help that everytime someone raises a set of valid complaints the government springs into action and sets a completely new set of guidelines and targets which the teachers then have to spend more time working out how they can fudge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ice_(video_game) would most definatly qualify for me. I still load it up occasionally to try and work out what the hell is going on. Apparently even the authors walkthrough doesn't really help you finish the game.
Also Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest - The Lord Jabu-Jabu's belly level. Every switch (which in the first game had been nice normal crystals) has been replaced by a cow, usually sticking half out of the wall or ceiling.
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I'm a Retail Manager A Chip & Pin transaction at the till takes 30 seconds from triggering, Maybe 1/2 to 1/4 of the time for a properly checked Signature. Contactless (which is now at least 10% of my sales) takes 15 seconds. Across thousands of card transactions per day this is moving people through my tills faster meaning I have to have fewer people serving to keep customers moving at the same rate. ANY card that requires only signature that is used to pay in my store has to be verified with a telephone call as a matter of company policy, and we see maybe one such transaction per month. The burden of getting it wrong rests with my store, UK banks now take no responsibility for Signature card fraud.
Apparently Robert Peston did some digging and it wasn't searching for the Article that was being removed but searching for one of the comments. Right to be forgotten is all well and good, but using that to try and remove a post you yourself put in a public place is a bit barmy. Props to the first person who changes their name to Anonymous Coward then makes the request for all their posts to be unsearchable.
How long before U have to declare that i've had this sort of surgery before going into a bookshop?
If I can go in, take a book off the shelf, take it to the instore coffee shop and read it into my phone by bluetooth with one of these then i'm set.
Ditto for achivement
If Sony & Microsoft didn't try to make money by selling their consoles at a loss and making the money on games sales then this proof would never have been nessessary. If you sell a PC game then it's generally priced in line with the console release, which is inflated by the console markup. Rather than blame themselves for pricing games out of peoples spending brackets, both are trying to blame the second hand market for reducing sales and work out ways to kill it. Pro Evolution Soccer on the PS3 is the start of the slope. If you buy a second hand copy you can't play it online if it has been used online before. It won't be long before disks brought in shops only count as a "non-transfereable licence to play" rather than ownership of the game and it'll still be at the current prices.
I still maintain that I wasn' taught Maths at A level or GCSEm I was taught how to pass a maths exam. For the entire second year leading up to the exams we were taught past papers. In Maths, (as well as Physics, Chemistry and Electronics) I was set each paper, full and mock exams from the previous 15 years. In the end this meant that I coasted my final exams as 75% of the questions on each paper were reprints from previous years that I had already not only done myself but been taken through ideal examples for afterwards. This didn't help when I reaached University as I had very little idea about the mechainics behind the maths causing me (and many other students) to have to pay for extra maths modules to keep up. The entire focus of the school system is not the education of the students but meeting the targets set by the government. It doesn't help that everytime someone raises a set of valid complaints the government springs into action and sets a completely new set of guidelines and targets which the teachers then have to spend more time working out how they can fudge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ice_(video_game) would most definatly qualify for me. I still load it up occasionally to try and work out what the hell is going on. Apparently even the authors walkthrough doesn't really help you finish the game.
Also Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest - The Lord Jabu-Jabu's belly level. Every switch (which in the first game had been nice normal crystals) has been replaced by a cow, usually sticking half out of the wall or ceiling.
I don't think i'll bother until they get round to releasing these http://www.alpern.org/weblog/stories/2003/01/09/pr ojectionKeyboards.html