I see complaints like this all the time, and I get it, by I feel compelled to defend the drivers because I never have any issues with them, whether UPS, FedEx, or USPS. The only time I have a problem is when something gets hung up in an Amazon warehouse, they ship a day late, and try to blame the shipper on them missing their "guaranteed" date. Never any problem with the local drivers/carriers.
FedEx Smartpost (aka SlowPost) is horribly slow, as anything DHL-related always was, but anything else through the three main services always works out great here. Even the UPS reputation for destroying everything in transit fails to hold up, so maybe I'm just lucky, but I'm happy.
So now JC Penny is blaming the USPS, FedEx, and UPS for their complete and utter failure to adapt to meet the modern expectations of consumers? Yeah, the shippers are surely the problem, which is why Amazon is doing so poorly, too. Right. Nice try, but we're not stupid, JCP; y'all just suck.
I am a bit alarmed by the rapidity of the sea change in shopping habits, with so many big retailers closing their doors. But they are only doing so because we (as a whole) don't value the experience they provide and don't use them much anymore (and, of course, because they haven't been able to evolve). We are beginning to miss the idea of brick n' mortars, but we won't be missing their prices or selection, obviously. I, for one, won't miss JCP, Sears, K-Mart, or any of the traditional department stores once they're completely gone. They mostly given up on my area already, and I've already moved on.
As usual, they are using bad math. One instance of piracy does not equal one lost sale. Since the dawn of media and software piracy, "pirates" have taken advantage of easily available titles to consume much more than they ever would if DRM worked and they had to pay for everything they copied/downloaded for free. To state it another way, if I couldn't download an average of 200+ albums a year, I would still only buy the handful I buy now. The same is true with movies and software, due to the limited disposable income most people have and the spotty quality (i.e. value) of newly released titles. The RIAA, MPAA, and software publishers have been grossly overstating their "lost" sales since the 90s, because they can, and because their math is rarely questioned.
Literally, because OS/2 was already dead! Back then! In 1999! Prince is already dead! Why is this coming out of the grave!
It may as well have been dead when WIndows 95 came out. OS/2 3.0 (Warp) was superior, or some of us thought so anyway, but wasn't able to gain enough traction in the market. I pirated it when it came it (poor kid) and used it for a while, but M$ was the only real choice for a lot of us, until Linux evolved a bit. Bothering with a new release now (and charging$100 for it!) seems like an exercise in futility.
"The Apple Watch Outsold Every Other Wearable Last Quarter"
This is because of two factors, the first being that "wearables" are stupid, with the second being that Apple fanatics will but literally anything that Apple markets to them.
Of course, after rereading the/. summary and title again, I can see how people might misinterpret the findings of this study, since the linked article is much more careful not to jump to grand conclusions, and explicitly mentions that they don't believe the psychedelic experience to necessarily be a "better" state of consciousness. But expecting anyone to actually RTFA instead of basing their opinions on the/. title is silly, I guess.
"Creating complexity" in the sense of more measurable neural events is not a measure of "higher conscience". You can get the same effect with a pair of electrodes, or even getting patterns of neural events in seizures. The destruction of existing structures, and the inability to retain those "new insights" long enough to explain or use them either during or after the influence of psychedelic "events" is evidence that disruption is possible, not evidence of a "higher" consceience.
It's very *exciting* to get blitzed, and it can be *fun* to taste the color red. But it's hardly insightful. You can get more "insight" by simply paying attention.
You could not be more wrong. External electrical influences or seizures absolutely do not create more "complexity," in the same sense as psychedelics; they create dysfunction through disruption, which is very different. And using a ridiculous blanket term like "getting blitzed" shows that you have no understanding whatsoever of the difference between mere intoxication and other types of altered states, such as those produced by psychedelics. This study, while not groundbreaking, is interesting because it has produced more data supporting the notion that psychedelic states are not simply a form of random intoxication, as you suggest, but are indeed indicative of stimulation of certain brain functions.
You are interpreting the summary completely backwards, and you sound like someone who calls all drugs "narcotics," or thinks that any drug use simply amounts to "getting high," regardless of the intentions, results, or method of action in the body. Nancy Reagan and Richard Nixon would be proud.
you will get modded to hell by apple fanbois for that, how dare you question a contrived scenario to make an IPhone look best. heaven forbid they actually compare real world scenarios.
The iphone 7 runs iOS apps way, way waaayy faster than any Android phone, which is a fact you can't deny, so it must be better!
I don't see this selling well, and the idea seems a bit like this to me: "Hey, I had that turkey club last time I was here, and it was pretty good. This time, can I get it with a big dog turd on it?"
This gets to the heart of the problem around post-truth. Just who defines "truth"?
How does that fit in to the checks and balances in a democratic society? Does everything have to go through the courts?
Apparently real world data and scientifically proven facts are not considered "truth" any more.
We are now free to define our own alternative truth, like when you say someone wiretapped you, your subordinates who you say would have been responsible for doing so refute your claim, the people who you say will back you up also refuse to do so and say there's no evidence to support you, yet you keep repeating the same thing as your official spokesperson says you misspoke and/or didn't mean it the first time.
I thought truth was universal and limited to what has actually occurred, in a factual sense, rather than a matter of opinion, but a lot of people seem not to agree any more. Pretty scary.
I think Donald Trump is silly and orange, and I don't like him. My previous statement is irrelevant. Please fine me for it, I dare you!
We already have legislation prohibiting libel and slander, so this new bill is not only "excessive" (goes way to far) and inadequate (way too vague), it is also "irrelevant" (due to being unconstitutional and unenforceable, as well as unnecessarily duplicating enforceable laws already on the books). What a stupidly reactionary waste of time.
they told you they were rebooting the Matrix and.... no one showed up.
I'll probably skip it, and just take some pills I got from some creepy strangers who ran from the Feds, or something.
There was a little-known version of the original that featured an alternative ending. Neo took the blue pill, and the movie was only 20 minutes long. Bad movie, but it would have had an upside: no Matrix 2 or 3.
Look the first one was kind of a twist. But to save it they need to go 'down the rabbit hole'.
The first one was great. Lame acting and dialogue, but an interesting movie that was pretty well done overall. The best thing they can do with the reboot is already a given - cast a better actor than Keanu as the lead.
How do you figure? The Force Awakens was a pretty blatent remake of A New Hope.
The plot lines were obviously weak, but the Force Awakens doesn't fit any definition of "remake." Yes, same characters behaving similarly, with similar foes, but it is a continuation that can not possibly be mistaken for a remake. If you disagree, then you must consider any sequel or subsequent movie in every series to be an unoriginal remake.
Thanks, I knew I couldn't be the only one who thought the summary's inclusion of Star Wars was inaccurate. Star Wars has not been reimagined or rebooted on film, as all of the eight current movies cover different parts of a continuous timeline (aside from some overlap with the original at the end of Rogue One, which merely added detail and did not attempt to alter it or retell the story).
With Lucas stepping away, we may see reboots eventually, but that won't happen any time soon. Spin-offs, on the other hand, will likely proliferate. I've heard little to nothing about the upcoming Han Solo movie or any other future Star Wars movies, but I'm eager to see what they'll be like.
"Total construction costs" does not mean "it cost this much to build a complete house," in this case. You could not realistically wire that house for the stated $242 and have it be legal here, and surely the other finishing work would cost more than the supposed $1178 if you weren't in Russia. So maybe it is $10k when built in Russia, with Russian labor and to Russian standards, but I bet you'd be looking at double that to build it to code in the US, with questionable profitability for the builder. I didn't see any mention of whether it was heated or connected to a sewer system or not, and what sort of foundation it is on - looks like it's just on a concrete slab.
This is an impressive tech demonstration, but we're a long way from complete $10k western homes. Plus, the square footage is about a third of the current US minimum for new single-family homes. So for this to be competitive with what an American would consider a house, you'd be looking at more like $30k if you did some work yourself and bribed the local inspectors, and that's without land. This may have a future, but you aren't going to be buying one of these any time soon, so keep saving your old bottles and tires and build an Earthship instead!
A young hippie waitress just told me the other day that global warming is just the Earth's way of healing, since killing us off is what it wants and how it will recover. If I had told her the mantle just got a hundred degrees hotter she probably would have thought I was agreeing with her.
I also want notification LEDs to come back (and not be hidden and disabled).
I loved the little ball on the Nexus One, too.
I won't buy a phone without a notification LED, but fortunately there are still plenty available, as far as I know. Samsung, LG and ZTE include them on flagships at least, off the top of my head.
Of course, this wouldn't be Android without fragmentation, so Moto's method is slightly different (swipe left to go back, right for multitasking, and a tap to go home), but having tried both of them, I can say that they're improvements on the status quo and I'm glad the change is happening. For Android purists, this may all seem like an unnecessary distraction.
This isn't fragmentation in the sense that it doesn't introduce something negative. Diversity and innovation make Android great. I've never owned a Huawei or Moto device and probably won't any time soon since my ZTE Axon 7 is still very new, but neither of these new ideas would scare me away form either company's phones.
I like having three dedicated capacitive "buttons," but one space to activate three functions isn't a bad idea. The fact that each of these companies is doing something unique isn't a dectractor, it gives user even more choice. If these don't work or don't sell, we'll only seem them on the current generation, so no harm done.
Back to the days of monopolies and kings queens and peasants. ISPs are utilities and should be regulated as such
I agree 100%, both with your vision of the future and that we need our government to be on our side. But I feel I should point out that this particular case isn't really about ISPs directly, since Time Warner Cable was already bought by Charter and is now being marketed as Spectrum, while AT&T (also an ISP, of course) is buying Time Warner's other business, which include TV networks and a lot of content. I know a lot of folks understand this, but many surely aren't as up to speed.
the tumpanzees will NEVER admit they made a mistake.
as long as they are STIGGINIT to the 'liburals' they are happy.
they could lose their health insurance, be jobless and still think that they 'won'.
That right there is exactly why this is so hard to stomach -- even when the current administration fails miserably, lies to us, lies about lying to us, claims everyone else is lying, and all of us non-rich folks suffer, the self-proclaimed conservative right will never admit their mistakes and will simply make excuses, and blame The Democrat Party. Hell, Rush Limbaugh still blames Bill Clinton for everything that goes wrong these days. I'm one o' them "liburals"(I say progressive), but I'd much rather have us all be healthy, wealthy, and wise than to be able to say "told ya so." Too bad we're only going to be able to go with the latter in a few years.
Maybe I've been spoiled by eight years of having a thoughtful, intelligent leader. THANKS OBAMA...
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Sanders will be dead in 2024.
Take your threats elsewhere, or keep them to yourself, lest you be investigated by Federal law enforcement.
Angry much, AC? No one is going to follow your descriptionless, apparently off-topic, anonymously-posted links, so you can stop now.
I see complaints like this all the time, and I get it, by I feel compelled to defend the drivers because I never have any issues with them, whether UPS, FedEx, or USPS. The only time I have a problem is when something gets hung up in an Amazon warehouse, they ship a day late, and try to blame the shipper on them missing their "guaranteed" date. Never any problem with the local drivers/carriers.
FedEx Smartpost (aka SlowPost) is horribly slow, as anything DHL-related always was, but anything else through the three main services always works out great here. Even the UPS reputation for destroying everything in transit fails to hold up, so maybe I'm just lucky, but I'm happy.
So now JC Penny is blaming the USPS, FedEx, and UPS for their complete and utter failure to adapt to meet the modern expectations of consumers? Yeah, the shippers are surely the problem, which is why Amazon is doing so poorly, too. Right. Nice try, but we're not stupid, JCP; y'all just suck.
I am a bit alarmed by the rapidity of the sea change in shopping habits, with so many big retailers closing their doors. But they are only doing so because we (as a whole) don't value the experience they provide and don't use them much anymore (and, of course, because they haven't been able to evolve). We are beginning to miss the idea of brick n' mortars, but we won't be missing their prices or selection, obviously. I, for one, won't miss JCP, Sears, K-Mart, or any of the traditional department stores once they're completely gone. They mostly given up on my area already, and I've already moved on.
As usual, they are using bad math. One instance of piracy does not equal one lost sale. Since the dawn of media and software piracy, "pirates" have taken advantage of easily available titles to consume much more than they ever would if DRM worked and they had to pay for everything they copied/downloaded for free. To state it another way, if I couldn't download an average of 200+ albums a year, I would still only buy the handful I buy now. The same is true with movies and software, due to the limited disposable income most people have and the spotty quality (i.e. value) of newly released titles. The RIAA, MPAA, and software publishers have been grossly overstating their "lost" sales since the 90s, because they can, and because their math is rarely questioned.
If you read the original stories in Dutch, the whole story becomes a lot clearer.
Personally, I found that reading the whole story in Dutch left me more confused and totally unsure how to take this. I don't read Dutch.
Literally, because OS/2 was already dead! Back then! In 1999! Prince is already dead! Why is this coming out of the grave!
It may as well have been dead when WIndows 95 came out. OS/2 3.0 (Warp) was superior, or some of us thought so anyway, but wasn't able to gain enough traction in the market. I pirated it when it came it (poor kid) and used it for a while, but M$ was the only real choice for a lot of us, until Linux evolved a bit. Bothering with a new release now (and charging$100 for it!) seems like an exercise in futility.
"The Apple Watch Outsold Every Other Wearable Last Quarter"
This is because of two factors, the first being that "wearables" are stupid, with the second being that Apple fanatics will but literally anything that Apple markets to them.
Of course, after rereading the /. summary and title again, I can see how people might misinterpret the findings of this study, since the linked article is much more careful not to jump to grand conclusions, and explicitly mentions that they don't believe the psychedelic experience to necessarily be a "better" state of consciousness. But expecting anyone to actually RTFA instead of basing their opinions on the /. title is silly, I guess.
"Creating complexity" in the sense of more measurable neural events is not a measure of "higher conscience". You can get the same effect with a pair of electrodes, or even getting patterns of neural events in seizures. The destruction of existing structures, and the inability to retain those "new insights" long enough to explain or use them either during or after the influence of psychedelic "events" is evidence that disruption is possible, not evidence of a "higher" consceience.
It's very *exciting* to get blitzed, and it can be *fun* to taste the color red. But it's hardly insightful. You can get more "insight" by simply paying attention.
You could not be more wrong. External electrical influences or seizures absolutely do not create more "complexity," in the same sense as psychedelics; they create dysfunction through disruption, which is very different. And using a ridiculous blanket term like "getting blitzed" shows that you have no understanding whatsoever of the difference between mere intoxication and other types of altered states, such as those produced by psychedelics. This study, while not groundbreaking, is interesting because it has produced more data supporting the notion that psychedelic states are not simply a form of random intoxication, as you suggest, but are indeed indicative of stimulation of certain brain functions.
You are interpreting the summary completely backwards, and you sound like someone who calls all drugs "narcotics," or thinks that any drug use simply amounts to "getting high," regardless of the intentions, results, or method of action in the body. Nancy Reagan and Richard Nixon would be proud.
you will get modded to hell by apple fanbois for that, how dare you question a contrived scenario to make an IPhone look best. heaven forbid they actually compare real world scenarios.
The iphone 7 runs iOS apps way, way waaayy faster than any Android phone, which is a fact you can't deny, so it must be better!
I don't see this selling well, and the idea seems a bit like this to me: "Hey, I had that turkey club last time I was here, and it was pretty good. This time, can I get it with a big dog turd on it?"
This gets to the heart of the problem around post-truth. Just who defines "truth"?
How does that fit in to the checks and balances in a democratic society? Does everything have to go through the courts?
Apparently real world data and scientifically proven facts are not considered "truth" any more.
We are now free to define our own alternative truth, like when you say someone wiretapped you, your subordinates who you say would have been responsible for doing so refute your claim, the people who you say will back you up also refuse to do so and say there's no evidence to support you, yet you keep repeating the same thing as your official spokesperson says you misspoke and/or didn't mean it the first time.
I thought truth was universal and limited to what has actually occurred, in a factual sense, rather than a matter of opinion, but a lot of people seem not to agree any more. Pretty scary.
I think Donald Trump is silly and orange, and I don't like him. My previous statement is irrelevant. Please fine me for it, I dare you!
We already have legislation prohibiting libel and slander, so this new bill is not only "excessive" (goes way to far) and inadequate (way too vague), it is also "irrelevant" (due to being unconstitutional and unenforceable, as well as unnecessarily duplicating enforceable laws already on the books). What a stupidly reactionary waste of time.
they told you they were rebooting the Matrix and .... no one showed up.
I'll probably skip it, and just take some pills I got from some creepy strangers who ran from the Feds, or something.
There was a little-known version of the original that featured an alternative ending. Neo took the blue pill, and the movie was only 20 minutes long. Bad movie, but it would have had an upside: no Matrix 2 or 3.
Look the first one was kind of a twist. But to save it they need to go 'down the rabbit hole'.
The first one was great. Lame acting and dialogue, but an interesting movie that was pretty well done overall. The best thing they can do with the reboot is already a given - cast a better actor than Keanu as the lead.
How do you figure? The Force Awakens was a pretty blatent remake of A New Hope.
The plot lines were obviously weak, but the Force Awakens doesn't fit any definition of "remake." Yes, same characters behaving similarly, with similar foes, but it is a continuation that can not possibly be mistaken for a remake. If you disagree, then you must consider any sequel or subsequent movie in every series to be an unoriginal remake.
Thanks, I knew I couldn't be the only one who thought the summary's inclusion of Star Wars was inaccurate. Star Wars has not been reimagined or rebooted on film, as all of the eight current movies cover different parts of a continuous timeline (aside from some overlap with the original at the end of Rogue One, which merely added detail and did not attempt to alter it or retell the story).
With Lucas stepping away, we may see reboots eventually, but that won't happen any time soon. Spin-offs, on the other hand, will likely proliferate. I've heard little to nothing about the upcoming Han Solo movie or any other future Star Wars movies, but I'm eager to see what they'll be like.
Total construction costs were $10,134 (USD)
"Total construction costs" does not mean "it cost this much to build a complete house," in this case. You could not realistically wire that house for the stated $242 and have it be legal here, and surely the other finishing work would cost more than the supposed $1178 if you weren't in Russia. So maybe it is $10k when built in Russia, with Russian labor and to Russian standards, but I bet you'd be looking at double that to build it to code in the US, with questionable profitability for the builder. I didn't see any mention of whether it was heated or connected to a sewer system or not, and what sort of foundation it is on - looks like it's just on a concrete slab.
This is an impressive tech demonstration, but we're a long way from complete $10k western homes. Plus, the square footage is about a third of the current US minimum for new single-family homes. So for this to be competitive with what an American would consider a house, you'd be looking at more like $30k if you did some work yourself and bribed the local inspectors, and that's without land. This may have a future, but you aren't going to be buying one of these any time soon, so keep saving your old bottles and tires and build an Earthship instead!
...is global warming.
A young hippie waitress just told me the other day that global warming is just the Earth's way of healing, since killing us off is what it wants and how it will recover. If I had told her the mantle just got a hundred degrees hotter she probably would have thought I was agreeing with her.
I want metric days! I could get so much more done if I had 100 hours to work with.
I also want notification LEDs to come back (and not be hidden and disabled). I loved the little ball on the Nexus One, too.
I won't buy a phone without a notification LED, but fortunately there are still plenty available, as far as I know. Samsung, LG and ZTE include them on flagships at least, off the top of my head.
Of course, this wouldn't be Android without fragmentation, so Moto's method is slightly different (swipe left to go back, right for multitasking, and a tap to go home), but having tried both of them, I can say that they're improvements on the status quo and I'm glad the change is happening. For Android purists, this may all seem like an unnecessary distraction.
This isn't fragmentation in the sense that it doesn't introduce something negative. Diversity and innovation make Android great. I've never owned a Huawei or Moto device and probably won't any time soon since my ZTE Axon 7 is still very new, but neither of these new ideas would scare me away form either company's phones.
I like having three dedicated capacitive "buttons," but one space to activate three functions isn't a bad idea. The fact that each of these companies is doing something unique isn't a dectractor, it gives user even more choice. If these don't work or don't sell, we'll only seem them on the current generation, so no harm done.
Back to the days of monopolies and kings queens and peasants. ISPs are utilities and should be regulated as such
I agree 100%, both with your vision of the future and that we need our government to be on our side. But I feel I should point out that this particular case isn't really about ISPs directly, since Time Warner Cable was already bought by Charter and is now being marketed as Spectrum, while AT&T (also an ISP, of course) is buying Time Warner's other business, which include TV networks and a lot of content. I know a lot of folks understand this, but many surely aren't as up to speed.
the tumpanzees will NEVER admit they made a mistake.
as long as they are STIGGINIT to the 'liburals' they are happy.
they could lose their health insurance, be jobless and still think that they 'won'.
That right there is exactly why this is so hard to stomach -- even when the current administration fails miserably, lies to us, lies about lying to us, claims everyone else is lying, and all of us non-rich folks suffer, the self-proclaimed conservative right will never admit their mistakes and will simply make excuses, and blame The Democrat Party. Hell, Rush Limbaugh still blames Bill Clinton for everything that goes wrong these days. I'm one o' them "liburals"(I say progressive), but I'd much rather have us all be healthy, wealthy, and wise than to be able to say "told ya so." Too bad we're only going to be able to go with the latter in a few years.
Maybe I've been spoiled by eight years of having a thoughtful, intelligent leader. THANKS OBAMA...