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The important thing is however that even though there might be less info it is much more consistent! It is even so old fashioned that you can work without Internet how-to's - it is all there in the "man" pages.
Here in Denmark we have a GIER 40/42 bit computer from 1961 which is kept in running order by volunteers. This is the first generation without tubes.
I made a few short videos (the last 3 on the page) of Henrik repairing the interface for the punched tape reader: http://datamuseum.dk/2013/04/torsdagsaktive-2013041/
Somewhere I have a video of it playing music via the console - but I cannot find it right now. They are truly fun beasts to play around with.
For those interested (and can live with Google Translate) they have a very active and informative blog on:
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/6040e408-ed33-11e6-ba01-119a44939...
There where agreements in place to ensure reasonable costs. This made it cheap to use. And it was so popular it surely did make a profit.
Then the big banks realized they where helping the smaller banks and even more profit could be made by themselves. Hence a lot of lobbying for a "liberal" market.
We still have the card. But slightly more expensive. Not sure for how long. I do not look forward to a future with global players setting the rules on "market" terms.
But yes - it is available for "remote orders" with the debit card. But only for phone, mail and Internet orders. Not from a physical shop using pin code.
My personal guess is that it is tied to good consumer protection laws. We do not need to misuse chargebacks as we have other avenues of regress. You further more need to have your documentation in order when asking for the chargeback. They do do not offer blanket chargeback. You need to document your case and that the vendor is not cooperating.
Important caveat: If the receiver went bankrupt the bank cannot help you - you Will have to take it up with the executor.
My point was that they're still tiny compared to the giants such as AmEx or Visa. And it shows that the old players can be unseated faster than expected.
It has been amazing to see how fast such apps gain penetration in the market.
You are fully covered if you in no way have been negligent.
If the PIN code have been used you have a own risk of $173.
Have you been negligent the own risk goes up to $1255.
In very severe cases you can be made fully liable but that is very rare.
It became popular with the consumers because there is no difference between cash and the debit card. It was popular with retail because it was cheap to handle.
Consumers would typically get the card for free from the bank. If you wanted it to work as a VISA card abroad as well - then you would typically pay $31/year. Points, percentage, milage and whatnot are virtually unknown.
Many retailers opted only to accept this card because the international cards where more expensive (but available!).
Unfortunately regulations are going in the wrong direction. The banks have now gotten their saving by handling less cash - so now they're pushing for more fees.
A brilliant construction which could have been a great stepping stone for a true cashless society now slowly turns into a "same same". It goes to tell - never let liberals near infrastructure.
I am however scared that HTML will go the way of Gopher. Why would anyone care to maintain boring hypertext documents when we can have app of the day. Marketing departments everywhere tend to turn the web into Blinkenlights.
How many support documents of more than 15-20 years ago are you able to still find using the old links? So many sites are working as dumb front-ends for a database.
The information retrieval and persistence over time is not something many worries about.
The cat is for sure out of the bag. I just hope what was still can survive.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_bridge
Maybe too contrived.
But I did not think the blatant xenophobia in the OP should stand unopposed.
Especially for a word which already to a high degree has been assimilated into (US) English.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czar_(political_term)
But when I need to explain the joke I must admit defeat :-)
Thinking in terms of REST requires that you concern yourself about the full infrastructure. Many programmers i have met simply do not care. Super nice properties such as cacheable and discoverable are outside their domain. Most simply just want remote RPC.
Try convincing a programmer of the benefits of HATEOAS is though. It will be dismissed as too much hassle with no real benefit.
But if you look at it from a data architectural perspective everything just "clicks". Few projects are however approached from that angle.
On that note we maybe should change the name of the game of Bridge.
If so I would like to change the meaning of playing a trump card at the same time.
Politics are important. Please let us not trivialize them by such non-issues. The etymology of the words goes much much deeper.
"The one who only takes joking for joke and seriously only seriously, he and she have actually taken both of them badly"
And more importantly I think you put in too much trust in the good will of people. To me it is important to factor in the "human nature" which not always conform to higher ideals. And that does put me firmly in the paternalistic camp.
Not to say I want to remove all liberty. But with the gym examples they clearly show they need to be regulated. They've shown no intent to listen to reasonable random commoners.
I live a place with better consumer protection. I have never in my life had to do a charge back. And have the same bank account. Reasonable consumer protection makes life better - not worse. With the added benefit of making the market more fair for the reasonable players and not cater for the buccaneers.
But Scratch is one step up the ladder to me. It is a commitment to an eco-system and a super nice but blank canvas.
I find Logo to be simpler and more limited. This is a "good thing"(tm) when getting kids hooked. The first hit should always be free :-)
I have gotten some of my non-technical friends to buy mbots. They like the idea but the learning curve was to steep for them.
The physicality of the Logo turtle robot we had at our school back in the eighties was what made it "click" for me. Playing with something connected to the real world takes it to another level.
"Fully inform" is that not simply what we in real life call "the small print"?
Taking advantage of people is never ok in my book. If you think you're allowed just because you are a little smarter than us I would question your moral and welcome any basic consumer protection.
Quote from the page:
> Does Oxy have...
> Years of testing and battle hardening? No, it's super green. But hey, if you try it you'll help make it less green!
Maybe not at the top of the page. But at the very least in the relevant section.
I find the page absolutely clear and to the point. Yes - it would be nice with code signing. Being slightly less anonymous might also be better to gain traction. But overall I think it is an impressive start to a rather ambitious goal.
I tried answering a few awk questions being verbose and explaining the steps. But I noticed that most are not asking to learn but to get a quick fix. Soon after that came the second realization: several of the answers did not understand what they where doing.
My conclusion: We are living in a cut'n'paste world were actual understanding is less valued.
Naturally code reuse is nice. But I doubt that many users are able to construct their magic awk snippets from the ground up. Hence the prolific terse magic snippets.
Yet we keeper our focus elsewhere.
I get why your question is on hold. But I find it unfair. Some of the best questions and answers have been highly opinionated. And I have often been led to on hold questions by google.
An opinionated SO site might be nice. In the old days we had newsgroups for this. But that audience has disappeared when everything moved to the web.
The information overload then becomes huge. And I would like some more filtrering.
My approach today is to try to give quality answers when I can anyway. Even if the quality of the question is low. Sometimes I get surprised and the asker engages in a positive way. But mostly not.
I spend most of my time on Unix SO and it has a very low voting activoty bit a very high rate of "fix my problem".
So I try to be a good netizen but I feel more regulation is needed to fix the current status quo.
Those who seek enlightenment want to ask good questions and learn. They want to be educated and be a part of the community. You need to give some to get some.
And then there are the fixers. The least effort they can put in getting their immediate problem solved. Long term value and learning something is not a priority.
Unfortunately there are a number of "fixers" who answers too. They give short extremely to the point answers without much depth. Some because it is a quick way to handle ”easy" questions. And others simply hunting for points.
As everybody else I have my own view on how to solve this. Raise the bar to ask a question. Spend more effort on actually build a well founded and good question before allowing answers. With the current system the churn is too high and there is too much focus on fixing rather than learning.
How cool would it be if people started to ask "What questions do I need to ask to try fixing this problem?”
With all its flaws SO is still one of the best resources out there. But I am afraid that it is considered "good enough" for anyone willing to make greater changes. Or it has reached a size with too much inertia to make such changes viable.
The link posted above will show a prominent "techcrunch.com" at the top - but the URL is still Google. I am not redirected to their own site.
Just because you speak another language does not mean you assimilate the culture. The word "please" is easy to translate - but I have to remember to be more cordial and remember to use it. It does not come naturally in my own tongue.
Things do get lost in translation.
I absolutely loathe the amount of "sorry for your inconvenience" in each and every communication with american support staff. To my ear it sounds insincere. But I do appreciate the fact that it would sound impolite to an american user if left out.
Being polite is not in the words themselves but how they're used. And to my mind that is predicated on culture.
I did your exact follow up - politely and persistent!!
It was a dead-end. They had no idea - and worse - no escalation path to the SMTP team.