I pay it every month as well. But when withdrawing cash from the credit card, there is -immediate- interest accrued. It doesn't have the 1-month loophole. And overdraft counts as withdrawing cash.
I pay my credit card by logging into my bank's site and clicking 'transfer funds'. It works just like a regular account, except that I can only push money to it, not draw from it.
This was actually my only criteria for picking my existing bank. I never have to write a check or visit the bank, except the odd instance when I end up with a physical check from someone else. It says a ton of my time. And theirs.
So yes, some banks might choose to go the fees route that you're outlined above, but at least 1 bank is already doing it without the fees.
Oh, and as a bonus, that credit card is hooked to my overdraft protection. There's a fee when it happens, and I'm sure the interest on the amount is insane, but since it's for emergencies only, that's fine.
That's true as far as it goes, but take it another step. If those fat cats can't make their money in America any more, they move to other countries where they can. That means our best and brightest (and often luckiest) will not BE in America any more. Now their success doesn't help America -at all-.
Those laws, as much as we hate them, keep those fat cats from taking their fat loot elsewhere.
Are they too much right now? Absolutely. Should they be abolished? Hell no.
A few years ago, I paid $600 for glasses. They were very good glasses... The best I've ever owned.
Then I found out you can buy glasses online cheap. Now, for a pair of decent (not 'very good') glasses, I pay $40. ($100 if I want all the fancy sun-tints and stuff, too.)
Hearing aids have the same kind of structure, but the units you get for $100 are complete crap, and the $1000+ ones are the 'decent' ones. It's a lot harder to make a hearing aid.
I'm not much of a pioneer, so this 4-person habitat doesn't sound like my thing, but wake me when they've got it up to a few thousand people and internet access and it could be fun to live there.
I've never understood this. Why are you telling other developers what to do with their time? If you don't want their framework, IGNORE IT. If you want libraries, build them.
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Just because it's public data doesn't mean you want anyone else to know what that particular user is doing.
Everyone seems to be glossing over a nice little fact:
Physx works on -all- modern Windows computers, whether they have a graphics accelerator or not. So yes, only have the market can use the hardware accelerated Physx, but the other half isn't barred from the game. They get to play, too.
I don't know if the stories on that site are real, but the stories in general are. I've been a customer of more than 1 company that got screwed by Paypal.
Yesterday, when trying to log into an online account (with the wrong password) I kept getting a 'wrong password. please make sure your caps lock key is off' message. I was typing in all lowercase. It reminded me how stupid error messages can be and how they can make you start to ignore them because of that.
I don't know how you managed to get 'insightful' mods for this.
For a completely random algorithm: Out of 5 slots, EACH item has a 20% chance to be put in any single slot. For any 2 slots, that's 40%.
Let's look at your statement again: "Safari will almost always (almost 50% of the time) be put in the bottom two elements. In fact depending on the algorithm used it's 40-50% chance of being put in one exact slot (either choice four or five)."
Wow. So you're saying that it's working perfectly.
Yeah, the bias in the 'article' (and summary) is disgusting. Vermont is simply doing exactly what -should- be done when safety procedures are not being met. I would hate to see -any- nuclear plants shut down, but it's a lot better to shut it down than let it run unsafe, even for a short time.
If people can make an emulator for an entire game, they can surely make an emulator for just saving the data online.
Even if the game requires online saves (and there's some doubt) it'll only be a few months before pirate servers exist that you can run on your own machine to store the saves. You don't even need to be a pirate to want that server emulator, either!
We should just keep passing pointless laws until our system is flooded with nothing but pointless laws and nothing useful can get done.
While I agree that software should tell the user what their files are being shared, only programs that are already illegal fail to do that. You know, malware, viruses, etc. This doesn't actually protect anyone from anything, even their own stupidity.
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Not from my account online. I can do it at an ATM machine or at the bank, I'm sure.
I pay it every month as well. But when withdrawing cash from the credit card, there is -immediate- interest accrued. It doesn't have the 1-month loophole. And overdraft counts as withdrawing cash.
So as I said, for emergencies it's fine.
I pay my credit card by logging into my bank's site and clicking 'transfer funds'. It works just like a regular account, except that I can only push money to it, not draw from it.
This was actually my only criteria for picking my existing bank. I never have to write a check or visit the bank, except the odd instance when I end up with a physical check from someone else. It says a ton of my time. And theirs.
So yes, some banks might choose to go the fees route that you're outlined above, but at least 1 bank is already doing it without the fees.
Oh, and as a bonus, that credit card is hooked to my overdraft protection. There's a fee when it happens, and I'm sure the interest on the amount is insane, but since it's for emergencies only, that's fine.
That's true as far as it goes, but take it another step. If those fat cats can't make their money in America any more, they move to other countries where they can. That means our best and brightest (and often luckiest) will not BE in America any more. Now their success doesn't help America -at all-.
Those laws, as much as we hate them, keep those fat cats from taking their fat loot elsewhere.
Are they too much right now? Absolutely. Should they be abolished? Hell no.
So they're saying that when Flash isn't -doing- anything, it still sucks down 12% of the CPU. Yeah, that's awesome! Whoo!
They're also saying that With Flash using the GPU to the hilt, and HTML 5 not, they use about the same CPU.
Seriously, these are not impressive numbers.
A few years ago, I paid $600 for glasses. They were very good glasses... The best I've ever owned.
Then I found out you can buy glasses online cheap. Now, for a pair of decent (not 'very good') glasses, I pay $40. ($100 if I want all the fancy sun-tints and stuff, too.)
Hearing aids have the same kind of structure, but the units you get for $100 are complete crap, and the $1000+ ones are the 'decent' ones. It's a lot harder to make a hearing aid.
When you can fit that $400 laptop in your ear, then you can stop wondering why hearing aids cost so much.
I'm not much of a pioneer, so this 4-person habitat doesn't sound like my thing, but wake me when they've got it up to a few thousand people and internet access and it could be fun to live there.
I've never understood this. Why are you telling other developers what to do with their time? If you don't want their framework, IGNORE IT. If you want libraries, build them.
Just because it's public data doesn't mean you want anyone else to know what that particular user is doing.
"can", yes. But do most people do so?
I only eat breakfast in front of my computer. However, when I'm watching TV, I almost always have something to eat either in my hand or nearby.
I was thinking the same thing. It doesn't even need to be there... It's the law!
Everyone seems to be glossing over a nice little fact:
Physx works on -all- modern Windows computers, whether they have a graphics accelerator or not. So yes, only have the market can use the hardware accelerated Physx, but the other half isn't barred from the game. They get to play, too.
And you're crying about crybabies. Was that some attempt to prove your own point?
If sometimes you 'have to accept those ads' then I have to block your ads totally. Maybe you should rethink that strategy, Ars?
I don't know if the stories on that site are real, but the stories in general are. I've been a customer of more than 1 company that got screwed by Paypal.
Actually, they never said 'unusable'. They said 'ill-suited'. And it is, if their technical objections are all correct.
It sounds like Ogg tried to be too much and as with any over-generalization, the specifics suffer for it.
That doesn't mean it should't be used, it just means it's not optimal.
I missed the part where it 'morphs'... Do they mean the part where they change the video on the touchscreen? Cuz seriously, that's not 'morphing'.
Somehow, cutting grooves in a touchscreen doesn't excite me.
Yesterday, when trying to log into an online account (with the wrong password) I kept getting a 'wrong password. please make sure your caps lock key is off' message. I was typing in all lowercase. It reminded me how stupid error messages can be and how they can make you start to ignore them because of that.
That's great, and given an infinite amount of money, manpower and time, I'm sure they'd do that.
However, the reality is that sometimes you have to have your users do some thinking.
I don't know how you managed to get 'insightful' mods for this.
For a completely random algorithm: Out of 5 slots, EACH item has a 20% chance to be put in any single slot. For any 2 slots, that's 40%.
Let's look at your statement again: "Safari will almost always (almost 50% of the time) be put in the bottom two elements. In fact depending on the algorithm used it's 40-50% chance of being put in one exact slot (either choice four or five)."
Wow. So you're saying that it's working perfectly.
Here's my translation of it:
Rich people could learn how to safe money from watching poor people.
Seriously? All you can learn from poor people about money is how they spend it when they -have no choice- in how they spend it.
Yeah, the bias in the 'article' (and summary) is disgusting. Vermont is simply doing exactly what -should- be done when safety procedures are not being met. I would hate to see -any- nuclear plants shut down, but it's a lot better to shut it down than let it run unsafe, even for a short time.
2 words: WoW Emulator.
If people can make an emulator for an entire game, they can surely make an emulator for just saving the data online.
Even if the game requires online saves (and there's some doubt) it'll only be a few months before pirate servers exist that you can run on your own machine to store the saves. You don't even need to be a pirate to want that server emulator, either!
We should just keep passing pointless laws until our system is flooded with nothing but pointless laws and nothing useful can get done.
While I agree that software should tell the user what their files are being shared, only programs that are already illegal fail to do that. You know, malware, viruses, etc. This doesn't actually protect anyone from anything, even their own stupidity.