I’ve had to do help a client in a similar position. We got contact with the domain registrar’s phone support, took over an hour, “proved” we were the legitimate owner of the domain with credit card details along with other personal information the registrar knew but was not public. They changed the recovery email of the domain account temporarily so we could login and get control back.
And the biometric check is still password based, right? You can't use Touch ID until you've entered your password, and then it's only a convenience for a given time.
There's a joke in Greenlandic, closely related to Inuktitut, about polysemy. The joke stems from Greenlandic having very little polysemy when it comes to hunting, nature, practicalities and activities, while European languages is quite a bit more polysemic in nature.
I don't know how well this joke translates into English but it works very well in Danish. Here it goes:
> A Danish police officer gets called on the radio by a Greenlandic hunter who has been in an accident. The hunter tells that his partner have fallen into the water and have been pulled up again but might have died from the freezing water. The officer tells the hunter to "make sure he is dead". Over the radio the officer hears a riffle shot and the hunter replies: "There, he's dead now for sure".
The design of Inuktitut and Greenlandic is very in tune with nature but I agree that it doesn't mean you can absorb it's qualities into other languages. That said, doesn't mean you can't learn anything from them, as the author fo the article claims.
Denmark is geographically a relatively small country, and it is not uncommon for children to travel alone across the country in dedicated trains[1] for the children during the weekends.
That said, its really not uncommon for other family members besides grandparents and even friends of the family to take care of your children in Denmark.
Most children have two parents. The few cases where both parents work in health care they most likely have immediate family and/or friends who are either public workers or private sector workers who can work from home.
I saw the Joe Rogan clip[1] and I agree that Michael Osterholm's analysis of this seems correct when it comes to the United States.
Denmark however has a completely different structure socially. All private sector employees who can work from home are urged to work from home. All public sector employees who are not working in any matter-of-life-and-death function are forced to stay at home. The public sector employees will still get paid despite not working. Practically this means very, very few cases of health care workers with children needs to be home supervising the children.
I'm not preaching morals, I'm taking business. Business' care not for fair software but their investment which is why I used the "somewhat open standard"-wording.
In the history you're clinging to you completely ignore that there was no real alternative. Open standards weren't in a viable state. Furthermore the competition from closed standards have forced open standards to shape up.
That's only weird to those who think open standards to be the only viable standard. MS Office is the de facto standard and your data is not vendor-locked when using it. Please provide link to a somewhat decent Word/Excel/... alternative which doesn't at least let you read the document and save it in their own format.
And, not to mention no business owner want to get locked into a solution, they want their "data" transferable and standardized to at least some extend.
The code this produces is so horrible you've lost all the time spent with it. Muse dies out, and your time spent in it dies with it.
I definitely want and wish for tools that can allow me to design websites without having to know what IE developers were thinking the day they decided to have some fun.
The reason vim, emacs and the likes are still used a lot isn't because of nostalgia but because it works great for the user.
The issue with all the WYSIWYG editors is they take the "a web site can be anything and everyone can be a designer"-approach which is completely make believe. Till they make some form of WYSIWYM editor aimed at the web designer to use, all other approaches are worthless because they are basically just Word that's fancied up.
Most graphic designer classes have a field trip to see how typographers worked for newspapers 60 years go, and learn why their job was important - and such a day will come for designers some day too when it comes to writing code in hand.
Please, tell me this is Adobe trying to mock IE. It has to be, right?
I mean, they've always sort of not valued source code, but this is beyond torturing it.
Not sure why someone down-voted that... But it doesn't sound too pricey as long as it does what it needs to do and it does it well. 20-30 dollars is probably what most store owners pay just for being able to accept credit cards. In my country the credit card terminal alone costs the same as a mid-end desktop computer and you still pay for the service to be able to accept credit cards and in some cases fees for the processing.
In my case suscription models with somewhat absolute pricing were attractive because it provides a way to even out the money cost over time.
But the price was not the only thing in consideration when it came to costs.
The concerns my client had with suscription model was if the provider would still exist and provide same service in a year, or in five years for that matter. The amount of time they had to invest for the PoS (which was with inventory management) needed to be secured. They were okay with phasing in the inventory over a long period (it was a specialty store with a huge inventory) given the system didn't rely on being functional if only it knew the inventory - as long as the time investment couldn't be lost. Should the PoS provider go bankrupt or otherwise stop the service they wanted to be sure their effort time-wise wasn't worthless and could be ported somewhere else. Contracts with a minimum binding periods was okay as long as it didn't mean the time they used the system couldn't benefit them elsewhere.
Someone pointed out that the robustness wasn't a deal-breaker because you could revert to handwriting receipts. It's true that you can just do that but the point about PoS isn't just that it's slightly more effective than a calculator that can print out receipts for customers. A PoS grants valuable data. Even older cash-registers have data capabilities such as who the salesperson was and time of purchase.
If you can provide great analytic tools for the data it has gathered, that'll be a major improvement of many available PoS systems.
But store owners also care about stability very much. If the system doesn't work when there's internet shortage they won't be happy. No electricity is probably only acceptable factor when it comes to having a PoS on a computer.
If the system is slow and customers are waiting because there's unstable internet they will also be dissatisfied. Debit card processing all goes over the internet and when it's slow customers have bad experiences but at least they know it's because the internet is messing up and some ISP probably is to blame. If the cash-register is screwing it up they will blame the store.
I've worked in a store for a couple of years as a sales person so if you have more questions I'd be happy to help. I'm available through email: [email protected].
The "connection between things that are not really connected" part match my own experience of having schizophrenia very well.
It's not uncommon for me to have thoughts that very much makes sense and is meaningful to me while others simply can't make any sense of it what-so-ever.
This means I'll have to be cautious of my own thoughts and I often doubt them.
Thoughts as well as meanings change over time too. Sometimes I write down ideas I think is brilliant to save for later. Revisiting those writings can be troubling because I might not be able to make a similar sense of what I wrote earlier.
Having researched potential PoS systems for a local shop I can say there is a lot of room for improving the PoS products but I'm far from convinced it's actually lucrative to provide such solutions.
As rick888 is pointing out you will definitely need a solution that is forgiving towards system threats. The system needs to be functional in all sorts of conditions.
Reading that at first I thought the writer had completely mixed up schizophrenia and multiple personality disorders. Something that is not uncommon at all in the media and pop culture.
This is obviously an attempt at a smart or funny remark. :)
But for arguments sake, lets take a serious approach to it:
How would it work, getting back those two minutes? Would it be adding two more minutes to your total life span? If so, how would that be justifiable because those two minutes you add, might be worse than the experience of reading this. If you wouldn't just add two more minutes to your total life span how would you do it? It's hard to convert time value... I can't pay you for your time because that doesn't mean it'll reimburse what "you spent".
I could perhaps waste 2 minutes of my life but that doesn't give them to you...