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This is sort of off-topic, but does anyone know how Zipcar affect your insurance record, since you don't have an individual insurance policy? If you use Zipcar exclusively for a couple years, then stop and go back to a private vehicle and private insurance, do insurance companies consider you "continuously insured" or are you going to get hit for having a break in your insurance record?

(I've tried to ask this question of Zipcar representatives in the past, and no one has been able to give me an answer. Their FAQ on insurance doesn't help either: http://www.zipcar.com/how/faqs/one-faq?faq_number=28)
Facebook is all about capturing and cultivating your relationships. They are a silo. They want to own that data because that data is their business and their entire value. Integration with everything else is about allowing other people to give Facebook more data.

That's a very poor analogy--selling Macs, iPods, iPhones, iPads, Windows, Office, and AdWords are profitable and lucrative business models, while owning social data is only a potential basis for a future business model. How do you turn that social data into revenue? Sell phones to your users with a persistent connection to the social graph? That's a reasonable pivot. The social graph is a value-add to the phone, not an end in itself, not until they find some other way of monetizing it.
I think the person just calls to get a new card on the same account but with a different card number. In fact, I recently got new cards with a different number from my credit card company because they apparently had information that my original card may have been used illegally. This caused a bit of pain as charges to various accounts started failing.
I don't believe that's how most banks handle lost cards, and I don't see how that would avoid the auto-renewals as the original author was trying to do. I assumed the the author was talking about closing the account and re-opening with a new number.

EDIT: I'm sorry, I mis-read your comment originally and thought you said the same number, not a new number. That said, I've been through this a couple times, and each number shows up individually on my credit reports.
Is this new? Am I misremembering that 3/486sx chips were dx chips with the coprocessor disabled?
love the insight of all the notes and use of emacs!
I asked a similar question about building up a no-claims bonus for using ZipCar.

The short answer is no, it's technically ZipCar that is insured and so from a personal capacity you have no car insurance if you only use ZipCars and don't run your own car (and personal insurance).

I'm not clear why that is a problem - you just loose your no claims bonus but surely that's reasonable?
Well ... it sounds like you're plateaued in the "work harder" area (although incremental improvements can no doubt be found). Time to focus on "work smarter"?

Explore powerful tools, from math per se to the more mathematically sound languages and systems?
That's a good question. I think instead of asking Zipcar it might be better to ask an insurance company.
I missed a credit card payment a few months back. The reason? I didn't have direct debit set up on the bill, because I normally paid it in full manually before the bill date. Why manually? Because I actually overpay in order to increase the effective credit limit, since I'm new to the bank (moved to the UK fairly recently) and hence have a low limit. So, for the sake of a 50 GBP missed payment, I'll have that mark on my credit score for the next few years.
An app I have in the App Store has a “Support” button in its in-app settings; I’ve received a lot of blank emails from users (I think they hit Cancel, then “Save Draft,” then send the email later), but I’ve received a fair share of really useful emails from people who have questions and/or comments about the app. I’d definitely ignore the blank ones and keep the button in your app.
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I occasionally do this as a freelancer if it's a larger project. If it's something small, I don't mind answering a few questions for free. I'm visually impaired, as are my father and daughter. I have an interest in making the web more accessible. In fact I'll be writing an article about this for the next PragPub magazine. Feel free to contact me if I can help.
I expect the cost to Zipcar is that they rely on oversubscription and underuse, a bit like porn sites.
Agreed - if he didn't want to use Zipcar anymore, why didn't he just call up and cancel? That's easier than getting new credit cards.
I'm totally into non-profit schemes but from the math I did it seemed that CityCarShare came out more expensive than ZipCar if you want to take the car out of the city because they charge you $0.35c/mile in addition to the hourly rental.

(ZipCar don't charge per mile just per hour).

I also have appreciated being able to use my ZipCar membership in other cities in America and Europe, esp in emergences/unexpectedly.
Thanks for posting it.

Very nice article. I agree with it very much. End of the day its the "I" or "you" that needs to change.

And that's true, it's the habits that needs to change and one needs to have a long term perspective for success in changing them. Its possible to change them, but definitely takes patience, determination and continued effort (in spite of breaks) over time.

I often find it funny when people read books on self improvement and say, "hey this book has nothing new". I keep thinking "if you have made a habit of whats in the earlier books and not just read them, you might not have needed to read this new book"

Cheers to all those out there who want to develop better habits! yaaaaaay!!!
A couple of Scott's archived articles turned my stomach, Watermelon. Such as this piece, where he details his preference for foreign women, because they're more submissive, easily-flattered, and wear skirts:

http://www.alternativeright.com/main/the-magazine/the-case-f...

It's extremely revealing that he suggests Mel Gibson's attitude toward women as exemplary.

His articles on class structure expose a rather violent imagination about how best to conduct social intercourse:

"There are two ways of getting along with a lower class person at least to a limited extent. The first way is to beat the [expletive] out of them. They deserve it anyway, and most people lick the boots that kick them."

http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/zeitgeist/social-...

Good grief.
If you do it fast enough, the bank may remove the charge. They might not be able to easily remove the mark on your credit report now - but you won't know without asking. I've had my branch remove a couple of 'late payments' because they were truly just 'late' by a day or two, and generally just a bit of misplanning on my part. I can always move my money elsewhere, and they'll lose a decent customer for the sake of a $30 fine - they've removed the charges in both cases.
Well, there's two sides to this: the cost to the business, and the value to the customer. As you say in another response on this thread, if it's unprofitable to the coffeeshop, they should do something to prevent it. OTOH, if I'm working at a table in a mostly empty coffeeshop I'm not affecting their costs at all (except maybe for a small amount of power); their fixed costs are unchanged and the marginal cost of me sitting there is basically zero. (I'm assuming the situation where the cafe isn't full and other customers are discouraged from buying.)

Also, FWIW, I've seen enough co-working spaces come and go that I find it hard to believe that they are running a massively profitable business relative to coffeeshops (& retail in general).
That's how my banks have handled it, at least. When my Citibank card was stolen, they sent me a card with a new number, but it was still the same online login, same "years open" on my credit statement, etc. It stops auto-renewals because merchants only have the old number, which they can no longer charge. In my case that was mostly unwanted, because I had to go update the auto-renewals I did want with the new number (as well as updating it in places like Amazon), but it'd stop auto-renewals that you didn't want as well.
Yes, some cases are severe. But not all. Which is which is why I, personally, don't think the whole lot should be referred to as "mentally challenged". But that's just my opinion.

I'm an Aspie and don't consider my social deficiencies to be a form of being mentally challenged. I just see my brain as being wired differently than others. I excel at some things my husband is terrible at. He excels at other things I'm terrible at. It doesn't make sense to arbitrarily assign me with the mentally challenged label in that context. In protest, I reject the label :) If we met, you probably wouldn't even know I was an Aspie. I've been told I don't "look like" someone with autism. I don't know what that means, but I'm pretty sure it has to do with stereotyping and labels.

I also say "autistic". I don't care if Jenny McCarthy thinks it sounds like I'm calling myself cancer. Even if she is hot ;)

I'm not saying you're guilty of this, but for many of us (Aspies, Auties) it feels like other people label us and we're not allowed to even engage in a discussion about our own label.
I'm not clear why that is a problem - you just loose your no claims bonus but surely that's reasonable?

Typically your rates are higher if you haven't been continuously insured over the past N years, where N is something in the range of 5-10.
What I want to know is if buyers of the chip who don't buy the upgrade are still paying something for the unused hardware.

Analogy: I pay a contractor to build me a house and specify an 800 sq ft finished basement. The contractor actually builds the house with a 1200 sq ft basement, but walls off 400 sq ft of it so that it appears to only have an 800 sq ft basement. For an modest fee (less than it would normally cost to have a real 800 sq ft basement expanded by 400 sq ft), I can have the contractor come in later and open up the extra 400 sq feet.

Whether this is cool or not depends on just how the contractor charged for the project. If it cost the contractor more to construct that extra 400 sq ft than it would to have constructed just an 800 sq ft basement, and he included that cost in figuring what he charged me, than I'd be mightily annoyed.

If, on the other hand, the extra costs associated with that extra 400 sq ft were eaten by the contractor, then I'd be reasonably OK with it.

Same with Intel. If they are charging me what they would have normally charged for a CPU with the "extra" stuff, and then charging me $50 later if I actually want to use it, then I would be annoyed. On the other hand, if they are charging what they would have normally charged for a chip that doesn't have the extra stuff, and so they are eating the cost of building a chip that costs more to make on speculation that I might later pay to buy access to the extras, that is fine.
I don't know if it's unusual, but none of the credit cards I've had have even reported late payments that were only a few days late. Discussion on places like Fatwallet suggests that most companies report payments that are 30+ days late, with additional badness tiers at 60+ and 120+ days late.
Most chip manufacturers do this, but usually the extra silicon is disabled because that section has failed quality gates - the same thing happens in GPUs, they know the top n% will withstand higher clock rates, so they put those in the expensive cards.

This is new because Intel knows that silicon is good (or else they couldn't sell the upgrade), but intentionally disable it. People are upset because they feel like they aren't "buying" anything, it's just a perceived tax to get what already exists (I'm not saying that this is a fair perception, only that it's what most people will feel - I think this is a plan doomed to fail)
I couldn't agree more. I still manage to slip in some meaningless and regrettable comments, but fortunately far less then the drivel you never get to see.
"Turn about is fair play," as they say. AiPlex has been DDOS'ing file-sharing sites for months. http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfit-threatens-to-dos-... RIAA and MPAA have a long history of taking down websites they don't approve of with less-than-legal tactics. http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfit-threatens-to-dos-... Some of those sites weren't even illegal! MediaDefender group broke into Revision3's private tracker (which had ONLY original Rev3 content on it), injected illegal torrents into it in the hope of suing them for illegal distribution, then (accidentally!) DOSed it. http://revision3.com/blog/2008/05/29/inside-the-attack-that-...

Edited for correctness.
BTW every time you use the word "inciteful" I wonder if you made it up on purpose or if you just can't spell. And that worries me because anybody who thinks that "insightful" is spelled "inciteful" clearly doesn't have any idea what it means, and that would imply that maybe you're just using long words even though you don't actually know what they mean, and that doesn't make me inclined to pay attention to the rest of it.

So if you want some free advice, I would stick to using real words unless your neologisms can add a lot more value than they are here.
Intel build a processor with X amount of L3 cache.

They sell it for $400 to initial buyers but "disable" 100 MB of L3 cache without telling them. Then after 6 months, just to make money of the initial buyers again of the same chip, offer this processor "upgrade" for $50. This is immoral and the initial buyers will feel cheated.

This case is not like software where programmers worked on something and then ask a price for upgrade. Intel had already made all investment and work before the purchase. Intel then already took a profit for selling the processor.
This is an old dupe, but I think it's worth revisiting for the "cautionary tale" aspect: this is the link I send to friends who mention wanting to "open a little coffee shop somewhere."
I doubt that Norvig would endorse Cooper's even more insane idea for fixing the problem, though, which is to create a ruling class of "designers" to stand between programmers and users.
Perhaps it's best to say we shouldn't have prison sentences for victim-less crimes. That way, we can clearly identify drug possession or dealing as victim-less, and fraud clearly has victims.

Of course, at that point, you can easily argue that "victim-less crimes" shouldn't be crimes at all. Some sort of exception would have to be made for simple stuff like traffic/parking violations.
I wouldn't say that being a nonprofit makes them any better from a customer service point of view. When I closed an account with them, they continued to charge my card and didn't refund my deposit until almost 2 months later.
Hmm... would it make more sense if the question used "... perceived as arrogant?" instead of just "arrogant?"?

(disclaimer: I am not a hard core programmer, if I were modest I would call myself a beginner)

I have been long perceived as arrogant and an aloof person, while I think I am not really one. Over time trying to analyze the root cause for this (it is a big problem as it interjects into developing personal relationships) perception and reading books and listening to audio books, I realized that there are some other aspects of me that cause this perception. some of them being:

1) Shyness (one of the reason - shy people avoid eye contact giving rise to the perception to others that they don't care about others and by default tag you as arrogant)

2) bad conversation skills - going into monologues ( when you are not into the habit of back and forth conversation style and go into monologues (being highly passionate about some topics doesn't' help either :)), the other party can think that you don't care to listen to others and can tag you as arrogant)

3) giving unsolicited advice ( I have received a hell lot of great advice over years from so many different people that is simply too valuable to put a price on. sometimes, in a misplaced and idealistic view of returning the favor, I used to go about giving unsolicited advice to friends and acquaintances, sometimes putting the value of 'enlightenment of another perspective' in others' problem solving over my relationship with them. I think it gave me lot of tags of being "arrogant", " What does he think of himself?", "he has got a chip on his shoulder" over the years and drained away many possible friendships)

Good thing I have started working on these three and hopefully should be better off in the future in the social aspects.

But coming back to the point, if the programmers that adn37 had in mind when posing this question are the shy type with poor social skills, I think it is highly possible that they may have come across as being more arrogant than they really are. Just one possibility.

Other, than that, I think the incidence of arrogance among programmers is as likely or not, as in any other professions.
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I agree with Jobs on this one, while perhaps it could have been done more tactfully they don't have to answer responses from every random journalism student that comes along asking for a comment. I'm impressed she got a response at all especially with the letter's whiny tone.
One of my favorite simulator websites! The electronic circuits alone:
http://www.falstad.com/circuit/e-index.html

Awesome!
That's really amazing. I don't understand why they would do this, since by all counts it was hugely popular and respected among gamers.
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Reading the Qt3 forums, this seems more like an abrupt PR stunt.

“I think GoG.com marketing just rolled a critical fumble.” - Tom Ohle
The way you asked the question, I assumed you simply didn't know. :-)

I have heard Jenny McCarthy referred to on autism email lists. But I am not actually familiar with whatever her position is. Actually, I have no idea who she is either, other than someone controversial in the autism community.

To quote Madonna: "I hate labels. They are too limiting."
But, as I often add in such discussions, we still need some means to talk about and think about such things, and that generally means labeling them.
Let me start off by saying, clearly I am the author of this post. While I understand the call to "sue me" seems to not carry much weight I assure you it is not far from being done and posted on my site. And while I can appreciate your post concerning my lack of free market knowledge you should know that it could not be further from the truth. I have built and sold several (albeit small) companies since I turned 18 and have continued on a daily basis to work on new products and releases every day because it's what I love not because it makes me money. While I understand the frustrations of some people with my rant (and that's exactly what this article is) I would also like everyone to realize what it is they are doing. Some would argue that they sell these at a going rate, however the truth is demand sets the price of processors. The fact that most computer users wait for prices to drop before purchasing the highest end products is a testament to that. However intel effectively takes advantage of those of us who always want the newest and best technology and then proceeds to drop the price to "fair market value" for the rest of consumers only to sell another "higher end" chip with several more features that in many cases are just unlocked from the previous version of the product. Paying for technology, should in effect, be paying for the research and development of the people who put their efforts into it. Intel simply believes that in paying for technology you should be paying for what they choose. My point in writing this article is not that it was a new concept. It was not even that intel was alone in these business practices, it was simply to point out that these practices are not fair to the consumers who support these companies. I never said this was not an example of the free market, I simply stated that sometimes the free market simply is not a fair market for the consumers who drive it.
I will definitely have to watch it.

Yes, a "mental challenge" just like it might be a mental challenge for someone without my skill set to do something that I excel at naturally, yet I don't call them "mentally challenged". But that's not the issue.

There are some people who, when using "mentally challenged", are relying on your implicit understanding of those connotations to communicate something else. It is by pretending those connotations aren't there that we now have stereotypes about autism, etc. It's why people tell me I don't "look like" I have autism.

So, in that sense... I don't think it's fair. But I'm an Aspie and that renders my opinion on the matter of my own labeling inconsequential ;)
I think a way to avoid the negative calcification of descriptive process documents, would be to have those who use the document as a guide to append their own experiences using the document to that document for future implementers.
Their liability coverage is better - up to $1mil per incident vs. $300,000 with zipcar. I know at least one person who chose CityCarShare for this reason.
http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-mecha...
The chips are not priced on cost, they're priced at the level the market will bare, to earn back the massive fixed costs of design and fab construction.

Paying for unused hardware is a faulty way to think about it - in reality, you're paying a price set based on the performance of the part and its competition in the marketplace.
A few thoughts (I'm a ZipCar member btw):

I don't pay an annual fee because I used a company code I found on a discount site that gave me no annual fee (use Google to find one).

They wrote and said that he was several weeks overdue paying for his annual subscription but I wonder if he'd tried to book a car whether they'd have let him without a valid credit card on file? Point is, if they wouldn't have let him rent a car then I think it's crap to say he was overdue because the membership was still in effect. I think his MO on the "loosing his card" is crappy, but this seems equally crappy.

Finally as an FYI, Felix Salmon wrote (admittedly a while back, but then this OP link is old too) that ZipCar insurance is very weak in places, see http://www.felixsalmon.com/000855.html. I'm not aware they've done much to improve the situation
Adobe requires $0 to build a copy of Photoshop. Pfizer requires $0.03 to make a pill. What does vendor cost have to do with market price?

The feeling customers have of being "ripped off" is irrational. If you buy a part with X L3 cache and find out later that you're a web page away from X+1M L3 cache, your vendor did you a favor.
That choice isn't better for the consumer. The choice you've set up is between:

(1) A chip that costs less because it has fewer capabilities that can't be upgraded.

(2) A chip that costs less because it has fewer capabilities that can be upgraded.

In neither (1) nor (2) does the price of an Intel CPU have anything to do with the cost of (say) "a transistor". You cannot go to the transistor mines and harvest yourself CPU ore; chips are not commodities.
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