Delta had very little choice but to swallow the losses (or face fines). The Department Of Transport has strict rules that ban price changes after a fare has been ticketed (money has changed hands, a contract for carriage is agreed).
-- 8. Does the prohibition on post-purchase price increases in section 399.88(a) apply in the situation where a carrier mistakenly offers an airfare due to a computer problem or human error and a consumer purchases the ticket at that fare before the carrier is able to fix the mistake?
Section 399.88(a) states that it is an unfair and deceptive practice for any seller of scheduled air transportation within, to, or from the United States, or of a tour or tour component that includes scheduled air transportation within, to, or from the United States, to increase the price of that air transportation to a consumer after the air transportation has been purchased by the consumer, except in the case of a government-imposed tax or fee and only if the passenger is advised of a possible increase before purchasing a ticket. A purchase occurs when the full amount agreed upon has been paid by the consumer. Therefore, if a consumer purchases a fare and that consumer receives confirmation (such as a confirmation email and/or the purchase appears on their credit card statement or online account summary) of their purchase, then the seller of air transportation cannot increase the price of that air transportation to that consumer, even when the fare is a “mistake.” A contract of carriage provision that reserves the right to cancel such ticketed purchases or reserves the right to raise the fare cannot legalize the practice described above. The Enforcement Office would consider any contract of carriage provision that attempts to relieve a carrier of the prohibition against post-purchase price increase to be an unfair and deceptive practice in violation of 49 U.S.C. 41712. --
I watched on live YLE 1 in Finland, and the commentators explained as the fireworks were let off that part of the footage of of the giant footsteps before they reached the stadium were generated, but the fireworks at the stadium were live.
Seems to me someone is trying to sensationalize a non issue.
Strangely, I have not seen the same from my hotel stays in Beijing, nor from the offices I have worked at.
I used skype, ssh, MSN among others. both to chinese networks and to swedish networks. with regards to unencrypted content, I didnt notice any of my usual web reading as being filtered (google new, wikipeda etc all worked). The thing i thought might be the case, is at least for now, what is the point of filtering content in english, its not as if a significant amount of people can read it (at least as far as i can tell).
Actually, the government can tell you not to discuss anything they want, especially the specs on as yet unreleased products, and they don't need a contract to do it. And the punishment for disclosing the government's secrets can make a civil suit look trivial.
Hmm, I have no idea about US law here, but going on my experience with regards to classified materials in Australia. When you are given security clearance, I seem to recall it coming with the federal equivalent of an NDA.... So you are consenting to keep material you receive confidential. Thats given you received information through proper channels.
Getting info that you are not meant to have, yeah they have other methods of shutting you up, but that would seem to be a different issue compared to the one under discussion. (we are discussing disemintating opinions based on information recieved under an NDA, or at least I am).
About time this happened. From looking at other countries with a similar solution, this seems to open the broadband market wide open for end-users (referring to sweden, where my understanding is that things work in a similar way)
"(sort-of) current games"
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The reason you see alot of older games is that publishers are hesitant to make games availiable in a G.O.D format at the same time they are released to retail stores. The reason being, G.O.D is perceived as a threat by retailers, and given that currently retailers are the biggest channel, publishers might prefer not to upset them. (this may or may not change in the future as broadband becomes more prevalent as a delivery channel).
As for piracy, the games on demand technology being used here is probably based on the exent system (http://www.exent.com). Application data in the exent system is encyrpted and compressed before being delivered to the consumer, a connection is maintained with the media delivery server at all times, without this connection you cannot start the application or decrypt its data. The user also never has the full application on their computer at any time, its streamed as its needed (they use application profiling to make sure you have downloaded the data you need ahead of when you need it). Its not unbreakable, nothing is, but publishers have signed off on it being secure enough for them to use.
G.O.D probably isn't ready for the market yet (or perhaps the market isn't ready for G.O.D), the technology works fine, but broadband just isnt in enough households for it to be a big market (You need more then just the "hardcore" gamers to use this to see any profit). There is also the reluctance of the publishers to release new titles to G.O.D at the same time as retail holding it back.
Jeff Crammond just released Grand Prix 3, Which as usual is now the definative Grand Prix type game (for those of you who enjoy racing around in circles)
They were handing out copies of Mandrake 7.1 and do doing some nice Demos. They even followed up some questions i asked.
Hi
I have some answers for the questions you asked at ECTS.
1. DMA-100 : Should be supported in version 7.2. Currently buggy, but
works most of the time.
2. Touch Screens : Should work via the mouse/keyboard port. If that's
not how it connects to the machine, please send the screen's model/brand
info, and we'll look into it more.
I have her on video, She didn't even look like she was enjoying it. Once i have it off the tape an on my system It will be posted on http://www.mgon.com
I'd agree that yes there has been a rash of quake/hl/unreal copies... But after attending both E3 and ECTS i've seen enough to convince me that there are still some original concepts and alot of talent out there. Take for example, Black and White, which in my opinion will be the ultimate game, Z:2 from the bitmap brothers, Rune from Human Head, Sacrifice from Shiny and B:17 from wayward, which will bring life to flight sims once again.
Those are just a few examples of upcomming mainstream games that get away from the usual C&C RTS style, or quake FPS style that has recently been the trend.
Another exceptional game that has recently redefined the RTS is Ground Control, from Swedish developers Massive. Taking an RTS and changing the way you would traditionally play.
Even the FPS red faction is attempting to innvoate in the FPS field, with AI that compensates for the terrain you can blow apart. There are also the team baed FPS's, that are alot more then point and shoot (tribes, Counter-Strike, Halo)
We have found that a high spec x86 machine can be built alot cheaper, and in many cases will out perform the large brand name servers *cough*RS6000*cough*. A 4 unit high rack case will easily accomodate a good quality server motherboard (Intel or maybe Tyan) and will aloow for a DUAL PIII configuration, and depending on your board, between and one and two gig of RAM. My db program of choice would be mySQL.
"Only high-resolution images viewed using specialized graphic software such as Sierra Imaging's Image Expert CE and Microsoft Internet Explorer will be affected." Since when has IE been specialized graphic software???
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Delta had very little choice but to swallow the losses (or face fines). The Department Of Transport has strict rules that ban price changes after a fare has been ticketed (money has changed hands, a contract for carriage is agreed).
TLDR:
From: http://airconsumer.dot.gov/rules/EAPP_2_FAQ_01-11-2012final.pdf
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8.
Does the prohibition on post-purchase price increases in section 399.88(a) apply in the situation where a carrier mistakenly offers an airfare due to a computer problem or human error and a consumer purchases the ticket at that fare before the carrier is able to fix the mistake?
Section 399.88(a) states that it is an unfair and deceptive practice for any seller of scheduled air transportation within, to, or from the United States, or of a tour or tour component that includes scheduled air transportation within, to, or from the United States, to increase the price of that air transportation to a consumer after the air transportation has been purchased by the consumer, except in the case of a government-imposed tax or fee and only if the passenger is advised of a possible increase before purchasing a ticket. A purchase occurs when the full amount agreed upon has been paid by the consumer. Therefore, if a consumer purchases a fare and that consumer receives confirmation (such as a confirmation email and/or the purchase appears on their credit card statement or online account summary) of their purchase, then the seller of air transportation cannot increase the price of that air transportation to that consumer, even when the fare is a “mistake.” A contract of carriage provision that reserves the right to cancel such ticketed purchases or reserves the right to raise the fare cannot legalize the practice described above. The Enforcement Office would consider any contract of carriage provision that attempts to relieve a carrier of the prohibition against post-purchase price increase to be an unfair and deceptive practice in violation of 49 U.S.C. 41712.
--
I watched on live YLE 1 in Finland, and the commentators explained as the fireworks were let off that part of the footage of of the giant footsteps before they reached the stadium were generated, but the fireworks at the stadium were live.
Seems to me someone is trying to sensationalize a non issue.
This begs the question, why would anyone be using silverware?
Investors think its a failure, look at the loss in share price that hit MSFT over recent Xbox numbers;
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=msft
Thats a bigger indication of failure that any marketshare or loss per box figure.
There are many PSU's on the market that do no have fans. For example, the "Antec Phantom"
I could blast you for not reading the article, but maybe its just you didn't see the pictures?
The hard disk and power supply were not submerged.
Strangely, I have not seen the same from my hotel stays in Beijing, nor from the offices I have worked at.
I used skype, ssh, MSN among others. both to chinese networks and to swedish networks. with regards to unencrypted content, I didnt notice any of my usual web reading as being filtered (google new, wikipeda etc all worked). The thing i thought might be the case, is at least for now, what is the point of filtering content in english, its not as if a significant amount of people can read it (at least as far as i can tell).
Ummm i don't suppose you have heard of Barings? From what I understand Nick Leeson hid his losses in dummy accounts.
Actually, the government can tell you not to discuss anything they want, especially the specs on as yet unreleased products, and they don't need a contract to do it. And the punishment for disclosing the government's secrets can make a civil suit look trivial.
Hmm, I have no idea about US law here, but going on my experience with regards to classified materials in Australia. When you are given security clearance, I seem to recall it coming with the federal equivalent of an NDA.... So you are consenting to keep material you receive confidential. Thats given you received information through proper channels.
Getting info that you are not meant to have, yeah they have other methods of shutting you up, but that would seem to be a different issue compared to the one under discussion. (we are discussing disemintating opinions based on information recieved under an NDA, or at least I am).
Hippies. They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
I seem to recall Gamespy Arcade shipped with some form of nimda.
So a virus piggybacking on a virus.
About time this happened. From looking at other countries with a similar solution, this seems to open the broadband market wide open for end-users (referring to sweden, where my understanding is that things work in a similar way)
The reason you see alot of older games is that publishers are hesitant to make games availiable in a G.O.D format at the same time they are released to retail stores. The reason being, G.O.D is perceived as a threat by retailers, and given that currently retailers are the biggest channel, publishers might prefer not to upset them. (this may or may not change in the future as broadband becomes more prevalent as a delivery channel).
As for piracy, the games on demand technology being used here is probably based on the exent system (http://www.exent.com). Application data in the exent system is encyrpted and compressed before being delivered to the consumer, a connection is maintained with the media delivery server at all times, without this connection you cannot start the application or decrypt its data. The user also never has the full application on their computer at any time, its streamed as its needed (they use application profiling to make sure you have downloaded the data you need ahead of when you need it). Its not unbreakable, nothing is, but publishers have signed off on it being secure enough for them to use.
G.O.D probably isn't ready for the market yet (or perhaps the market isn't ready for G.O.D), the technology works fine, but broadband just isnt in enough households for it to be a big market (You need more then just the "hardcore" gamers to use this to see any profit). There is also the reluctance of the publishers to release new titles to G.O.D at the same time as retail holding it back.
http://www.mgon.com/reviews. phtml?id=30044&language=en
Hi
I have some answers for the questions you asked at ECTS.
1. DMA-100 : Should be supported in version 7.2. Currently buggy, but works most of the time.
2. Touch Screens : Should work via the mouse/keyboard port. If that's not how it connects to the machine, please send the screen's model/brand info, and we'll look into it more.
Hope that helps!
I have her on video, She didn't even look like she was enjoying it. Once i have it off the tape an on my system It will be posted on http://www.mgon.com
Those are just a few examples of upcomming mainstream games that get away from the usual C&C RTS style, or quake FPS style that has recently been the trend.
Another exceptional game that has recently redefined the RTS is Ground Control, from Swedish developers Massive. Taking an RTS and changing the way you would traditionally play.
Even the FPS red faction is attempting to innvoate in the FPS field, with AI that compensates for the terrain you can blow apart. There are also the team baed FPS's, that are alot more then point and shoot (tribes, Counter-Strike, Halo)
Creativity is alive and kicking.
We have found that a high spec x86 machine can be built alot cheaper, and in many cases will out perform the large brand name servers *cough*RS6000*cough*. A 4 unit high rack case will easily accomodate a good quality server motherboard (Intel or maybe Tyan) and will aloow for a DUAL PIII configuration, and depending on your board, between and one and two gig of RAM. My db program of choice would be mySQL.
"Only high-resolution images viewed using specialized graphic software such as Sierra Imaging's Image Expert CE and Microsoft Internet Explorer will be affected." Since when has IE been specialized graphic software???