I did pay $5 for a lifetime membership at Bi-Mart.
The thing about costco, most of the good prices are on large quantities of things, and I just don't burn through a lot of crap, or eat a bunch of processed food. I don't need a shopping cart full of toilet paper, I don't use disposable napkins, I don't go through giant boxes of envelopes, etc etc. And when I was in there with a member one time, and the electronics weren't cheaper than online; or even well labeled. They had a giant display of small office air conditioning units, for about the same prices as anywhere. They seem to sell a lot of packaged food in large quantities, and fresh cooked whole chickens. Everybody in line had at least one chicken. A chicken in every pot, sans pot.
The thing about the food, I can go to a restaurant wholesaler who is open to the public and buy better stuff, cheaper; sans cooked chickens. If I really wanted that sort of quantity. But I'd rather eat fresher food.
Paper towels are cheaper at the restaurant wholesaler, if I did use them. 20lb blocks of cheese are the same price. But I buy food at a lot of different places, as does anybody who likes to eat well. For a business, it either makes sense or doesn't, depending on what you buy. For an individual... well, they're all sharing a business card between a bunch of people, so they're not actually subscribing.
Wi-fi isn't intrinsically using NAT. However, the very cheapest consumer access points are all using it by default.
I wasn't presuming that a company that used second-hand switches would buy an enterprise-grade access point, which of course wouldn't come with any of that "router" stuff, because the router wants to do that. I'm assuming they would use a second-hand consumer "soho" model. Customers would return it as broken if it didn't do NAT out of the box!
I knew it was a ripoff when they really, really, really wanted to give me 2 day shipping "for free" to try it. Shipping is expensive, even if you're a big customer like they are. If they're giving away that much to so many people, they must have a really nice profit margin on the service.
The movie industry already tries really hard to keep from having content I would pay for. It is funny to me that Amazon wants to make movies even less agreeable to their own customers than they are to the general public.
It really amazes me how many people they've hoodwinked into buying a subscription... to a store. Now they have this marketing idea, "look! Buy a subscription and we'll treat you like a customer, instead of like crap!" I'm just not sure this works out in the long-term, even if it does boost some numbers for a couple cycles. They might really be opening a door to competition.
If a battery is rechargeable, it has two cathodes and two anodes, though not at the same time.
Capacitor is a technical word, but battery might not be. A good enough capacitor would be a battery. No need to introduce engineering jargon as an attempt to understand the journalistic representation.
You could have preserved those minutes by not clicking the shit, and just commenting instead.
At $125 for a lifetime battery, there might even be a significant push for standardized sizes and sharing between devices. Like we had in the olden days!
Yeah, but notice how real patents expire, and "scammer guy whose followers claim was shut down by evil industry" lasts forever? Who cares if they buy the patent and slow it down, it is still a giant advancement and will still make it to market, even if the patent-holder sits on it.
The reality is that battery tech is not developed by battery companies. The companies with their names on the batteries mostly are engineering and product development companies. The biggest name in battery technology is Panasonic, and it isn't the main thing they do. (hint: buy panasonic batteries, they have the best tech and they don't fluff the label value so they're lower priced than the "name brands" licensing the tech)
I agree on use-it-or-lose-it, I just don't think the situation is that bad here without it. This isn't like software patents or something, these are real advancements that are the things that patents were intended to cover. 20 years isn't that bad a wait when you get the design details in public in exchange.
Good point, App Guy! If they were running their bank using apps they would have been on wifi, and they'd at least have been behind NAT and had a minimal firewall.
The record company put restrictions on when and where he could use his stage name of "Prince". He sidestepped that with the "formerly known as" label.
Close, but what he did is change his name to force the studio into using that instead of his popular name. The point was, they disagreed over the contract, but the studio had the fine print on their side, so he spent about 7 years working against his own marketing, losing money to keep them from earning it off of him, while still complying with the terms so he could eventually pass out the other side and move on.
Some stores weren't able to print the symbol for a few years; they didn't have the font. His music was not even available in many places for a significant time period, or was kept in the back of the store and only available on request.
Some of his early music was very influential, but what he did in fighting for his artistic self-determination is more impressive to me. Although, signing the contract you wanted is also important. The importance for artists is: no, the record company would never sign a "Jefferson Airplane contract" ever again in history. But the artist should also refuse to sign a "Prince contract" that gives them too much control.
My city banned stores from giving them out a few years ago. It is a much more pleasant world without them. We allow paper bags, but the store is required to charge 5 cents each for them.
Before the ban, stores were practically forcing plastic bags on me, even when I didn't need them. Because clerks are lazy and distracted. Now, people bring their own bags most of the time, and if they forget it only costs them 5 cents. The streets aren't littered with an excess of bags anymore. The doom and gloom the store owners predicted? Never happened, the same as the doom and gloom business owners predict for everything else that involves small changes.
BTW, you just wave your hands and presume that some places have perfect banking laws, but actually there is a lot of argument to be made that those places do not have perfect, non-controversial banking rules.
And furthermore, under the American system, I have substantial protections from liability as a matter of contract, not law. There is absolutely nothing at all preventing VISA from extending the protections that would encourage me to use the new technology. They think they can get people to use it anyways. But, they can't force me to use their card, so I'm the only one who can win the contest over if I will make purchases in the way I'm most comfortable.
And, this idea that Europeans have more liability protection than Americans? Funny. But I'm not going to give you that lecture, because you're too snooty.
You should blame the magstripe for that. As soon as it's phased out any only chips are available you will be required to...
go back to cash, unless VISA decides to go back to providing liability protection. And the funny part, the least secure way to use the card is online, and that will become the only way it is safe (for the customer) to use it!
In the US we don't have worry about banks getting rid of "card not present" transactions. We have enough democracy that the government could never mandate that, and we have banks that are ruled by a desire to make money, so they won't get rid of it willingly. Without "card not present" a significant portion of the population is going to use cash on local goods, and the banks don't have any way to get a cut of that.
I don't really care that much about the theoretical security. I avoid this technology because it shifts liability onto me, that with swiping the card the old way rests with the bank.
I don't want to take on a smaller liability to save the bank from the larger old one. It isn't like the savings pass through to me.
There is actually very little that is similar between this and what Volkswagen did. It is like saying that a shoplifter "pulls a Blackbeard" or something. In this case, they lied about their fuel economy to increase sales. In the other case, they sold cars with completely illegal emissions and built them to detect an emissions test and cheat on it.
Your claim about "no one wanted to rock the boat" is horse shit. The regulators who uncovered the VW cheat have been testing other manufacturers too, and nobody else appears to be doing that thing. The reason that nobody pointed the finger at VW is that they don't all buy competitors cars and road test the emissions. They test things like comfort and performance of competitors, they don't attempt to re-create all their regulatory compliance. They spend that money on their own compliance! That testing is expensive, and they don't really benefit from it. Performance testing of competitors they do benefit from, because it is more likely to lead to engineering insights.
You're going to find it exceptionally hard to defend statements like "nobody..." You've obviously never been to an event at a convention center where mattresses are being sold. I mean, fuck-an-a, if you've never been in a place where that would be topical for a raffle, then you'd have never seen one, but why would that cause you to believe it doesn't exist? You'd have to actually spend a bunch of time at mattress-related events to even have a basis for believing it uncommon. A mattress salesperson who is the top seller in the store and gets to go to the convention, they might be ready to say it is uncommon, but you?
And, the store at the mall that sells $5000 mattresses absolutely has raffles. You probably have never even visited a high end mattress store!
I think it is pretty obvious this is targeted at rich guys who are evaluating gold-diggers as potential trophy wives, and they won't be changing any sheets. The maid does that. But the maid is never ever going to tell you about changing the sheets an extra time for your girlfriend, because what if you forgive her? Then you have to get a new maid because the girlfriend hates the old one. Maids are professionals and understand discretion well enough not to get into that situation.
How can you end up on slashdot without having met this guy? He's half the room's boss around here.;)
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You don't have to just stand by, you can also get busy lamenting or prognosticating.
I did pay $5 for a lifetime membership at Bi-Mart.
The thing about costco, most of the good prices are on large quantities of things, and I just don't burn through a lot of crap, or eat a bunch of processed food. I don't need a shopping cart full of toilet paper, I don't use disposable napkins, I don't go through giant boxes of envelopes, etc etc. And when I was in there with a member one time, and the electronics weren't cheaper than online; or even well labeled. They had a giant display of small office air conditioning units, for about the same prices as anywhere. They seem to sell a lot of packaged food in large quantities, and fresh cooked whole chickens. Everybody in line had at least one chicken. A chicken in every pot, sans pot.
The thing about the food, I can go to a restaurant wholesaler who is open to the public and buy better stuff, cheaper; sans cooked chickens. If I really wanted that sort of quantity. But I'd rather eat fresher food.
Paper towels are cheaper at the restaurant wholesaler, if I did use them. 20lb blocks of cheese are the same price. But I buy food at a lot of different places, as does anybody who likes to eat well. For a business, it either makes sense or doesn't, depending on what you buy. For an individual... well, they're all sharing a business card between a bunch of people, so they're not actually subscribing.
Wi-fi isn't intrinsically using NAT. However, the very cheapest consumer access points are all using it by default.
I wasn't presuming that a company that used second-hand switches would buy an enterprise-grade access point, which of course wouldn't come with any of that "router" stuff, because the router wants to do that. I'm assuming they would use a second-hand consumer "soho" model. Customers would return it as broken if it didn't do NAT out of the box!
I knew it was a ripoff when they really, really, really wanted to give me 2 day shipping "for free" to try it. Shipping is expensive, even if you're a big customer like they are. If they're giving away that much to so many people, they must have a really nice profit margin on the service.
The movie industry already tries really hard to keep from having content I would pay for. It is funny to me that Amazon wants to make movies even less agreeable to their own customers than they are to the general public.
It really amazes me how many people they've hoodwinked into buying a subscription... to a store. Now they have this marketing idea, "look! Buy a subscription and we'll treat you like a customer, instead of like crap!" I'm just not sure this works out in the long-term, even if it does boost some numbers for a couple cycles. They might really be opening a door to competition.
If a battery is rechargeable, it has two cathodes and two anodes, though not at the same time.
Capacitor is a technical word, but battery might not be. A good enough capacitor would be a battery. No need to introduce engineering jargon as an attempt to understand the journalistic representation.
You could have preserved those minutes by not clicking the shit, and just commenting instead.
At $125 for a lifetime battery, there might even be a significant push for standardized sizes and sharing between devices. Like we had in the olden days!
Yeah, but notice how real patents expire, and "scammer guy whose followers claim was shut down by evil industry" lasts forever? Who cares if they buy the patent and slow it down, it is still a giant advancement and will still make it to market, even if the patent-holder sits on it.
The reality is that battery tech is not developed by battery companies. The companies with their names on the batteries mostly are engineering and product development companies. The biggest name in battery technology is Panasonic, and it isn't the main thing they do. (hint: buy panasonic batteries, they have the best tech and they don't fluff the label value so they're lower priced than the "name brands" licensing the tech)
I agree on use-it-or-lose-it, I just don't think the situation is that bad here without it. This isn't like software patents or something, these are real advancements that are the things that patents were intended to cover. 20 years isn't that bad a wait when you get the design details in public in exchange.
Good point, App Guy! If they were running their bank using apps they would have been on wifi, and they'd at least have been behind NAT and had a minimal firewall.
It would be an improvement!
I think they actually make some routers in china that include firewalls.
They actually might be the world leader in firewalls, having a Great Firewall of China.
I don't care where a switch is made, it doesn't replace a firewall.
If I have a cart, I put my bags under the cart on that shelf that was apparently made for cases of beer and sugardrink.
I made my wife a fancy canvas bag, but she uses it as a purse. Oops. I guess there is about a $5 limit before a bag becomes impractical for shopping.
The record company put restrictions on when and where he could use his stage name of "Prince".
He sidestepped that with the "formerly known as" label.
Close, but what he did is change his name to force the studio into using that instead of his popular name. The point was, they disagreed over the contract, but the studio had the fine print on their side, so he spent about 7 years working against his own marketing, losing money to keep them from earning it off of him, while still complying with the terms so he could eventually pass out the other side and move on.
Some stores weren't able to print the symbol for a few years; they didn't have the font. His music was not even available in many places for a significant time period, or was kept in the back of the store and only available on request.
Some of his early music was very influential, but what he did in fighting for his artistic self-determination is more impressive to me. Although, signing the contract you wanted is also important. The importance for artists is: no, the record company would never sign a "Jefferson Airplane contract" ever again in history. But the artist should also refuse to sign a "Prince contract" that gives them too much control.
You gave yourself 5 days to look up "communicate," and then you failed to comprehend. LOL
My city banned stores from giving them out a few years ago. It is a much more pleasant world without them. We allow paper bags, but the store is required to charge 5 cents each for them.
Before the ban, stores were practically forcing plastic bags on me, even when I didn't need them. Because clerks are lazy and distracted. Now, people bring their own bags most of the time, and if they forget it only costs them 5 cents. The streets aren't littered with an excess of bags anymore. The doom and gloom the store owners predicted? Never happened, the same as the doom and gloom business owners predict for everything else that involves small changes.
I know what I'm giving out for the holidays this year!
Or, I am in the US, and you're familiar with these details. ;) The thing I was talking about? It is a thing. Didn't know about it? Still a thing.
You got some derp on your chin there.
BTW, you just wave your hands and presume that some places have perfect banking laws, but actually there is a lot of argument to be made that those places do not have perfect, non-controversial banking rules.
And furthermore, under the American system, I have substantial protections from liability as a matter of contract, not law. There is absolutely nothing at all preventing VISA from extending the protections that would encourage me to use the new technology. They think they can get people to use it anyways. But, they can't force me to use their card, so I'm the only one who can win the contest over if I will make purchases in the way I'm most comfortable.
And, this idea that Europeans have more liability protection than Americans? Funny. But I'm not going to give you that lecture, because you're too snooty.
You should blame the magstripe for that. As soon as it's phased out any only chips are available you will be required to...
go back to cash, unless VISA decides to go back to providing liability protection. And the funny part, the least secure way to use the card is online, and that will become the only way it is safe (for the customer) to use it!
In the US we don't have worry about banks getting rid of "card not present" transactions. We have enough democracy that the government could never mandate that, and we have banks that are ruled by a desire to make money, so they won't get rid of it willingly. Without "card not present" a significant portion of the population is going to use cash on local goods, and the banks don't have any way to get a cut of that.
I don't really care that much about the theoretical security. I avoid this technology because it shifts liability onto me, that with swiping the card the old way rests with the bank.
I don't want to take on a smaller liability to save the bank from the larger old one. It isn't like the savings pass through to me.
There is actually very little that is similar between this and what Volkswagen did. It is like saying that a shoplifter "pulls a Blackbeard" or something. In this case, they lied about their fuel economy to increase sales. In the other case, they sold cars with completely illegal emissions and built them to detect an emissions test and cheat on it.
Your claim about "no one wanted to rock the boat" is horse shit. The regulators who uncovered the VW cheat have been testing other manufacturers too, and nobody else appears to be doing that thing. The reason that nobody pointed the finger at VW is that they don't all buy competitors cars and road test the emissions. They test things like comfort and performance of competitors, they don't attempt to re-create all their regulatory compliance. They spend that money on their own compliance! That testing is expensive, and they don't really benefit from it. Performance testing of competitors they do benefit from, because it is more likely to lead to engineering insights.
I hope it is comfortable
That's why no one raffles mattresses.
You're going to find it exceptionally hard to defend statements like "nobody..."
You've obviously never been to an event at a convention center where mattresses are being sold. I mean, fuck-an-a, if you've never been in a place where that would be topical for a raffle, then you'd have never seen one, but why would that cause you to believe it doesn't exist? You'd have to actually spend a bunch of time at mattress-related events to even have a basis for believing it uncommon. A mattress salesperson who is the top seller in the store and gets to go to the convention, they might be ready to say it is uncommon, but you?
And, the store at the mall that sells $5000 mattresses absolutely has raffles. You probably have never even visited a high end mattress store!
That makes me think of Slave on South Park.
Found your beta tester!
I think it is pretty obvious this is targeted at rich guys who are evaluating gold-diggers as potential trophy wives, and they won't be changing any sheets. The maid does that. But the maid is never ever going to tell you about changing the sheets an extra time for your girlfriend, because what if you forgive her? Then you have to get a new maid because the girlfriend hates the old one. Maids are professionals and understand discretion well enough not to get into that situation.
How can you end up on slashdot without having met this guy? He's half the room's boss around here. ;)
Maybe a power bar, like a video game?
A meter... needs to be installed.
It's called a pimp. They have them in some places.
It might already defeat the purpose if you both have the app.