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LOL *NSFW* *The new Demote thread*

Discussion in 'General' started by adam_bagpuss, 8 Jul 2011.

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  1. Flibblebot

    Flibblebot Smile with me

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    Twitter's response to information requests from the Beeb on the original article also beggared belief: "We don't respond to lies from the legacy media"
    So if you don't like something someone's written about you, the stock response is now to stick your fingers in your ears and shout "La la la, I can't hear you" :rollingeyes:

    Good job, Elon, moving the world one step further to complete enshittification.
     
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  2. Gareth Halfacree

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    Oh, it's much more stupid than that: it's an autoresponder on the official press contact address. All it says is "legacy media lies," that's it. That's all you get.

    Hey, it's better than it was: when Pedo Guy first took over he had them set it to respond with a single poop emoji. Comedy genius(!)
     
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  3. Byron C

    Byron C AKA “Sticky Equilibrium” on weekends

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    The co-op shop near my office, the one I use quite frequently, now has e-ink price tags.

    Cool.

    Because that’s what we need, e-ink price tags.

    Forget those crusty old bits of paper, which can be trivially recycled and cost next to nothing. No, what we need is hundreds of little gadgets, with all those lovely rare earth materials that are extremely difficult, and often quite hazardous, to recycle.

    (I know e-ink price tags are not a new thing. But they’re often deployed with the intent of being able to change pricing on the fly and “demand based pricing”, so seeing them “in the wild” is quite jarring.)
     
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  4. Gareth Halfacree

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    Eh, not so much. The vast majority require manual updating: there's no battery, the power required to update the display comes from the NFC writer you use to program the new pricing in. They can't be updated without someone physically poking 'em with the writer.

    There are systems for true instant-updating fully-wireless hands-off dynamic pricing, but they're usually LCD rather than ePaper and have a battery in 'em.
     
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  5. Arboreal

    Arboreal Keeper of the Electric Currants

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    My local Co-op has had them for a while as have Lidl.
    I would have thought if they had e a decent service life they would be a good option and saves printing and having printers.
     
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  6. Byron C

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    But, this is my (main) point though, how are they any better, cheaper, or more efficient, than paper tickets? Especially if you can’t update them centrally and have to wander round with an NFC doodad to zap each one? I know these companies won’t dare do anything that harms profits, but it surely can’t be more cost-efficient than a small handheld printer and rolls of thermal paper…

    Meh, maybe this is another “old man yells at cloud” moment… But if you’re not even gonna bother implementing a massive labour saving system like remote update, I just can’t see the point… :blah:
     
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  7. Gareth Halfacree

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    Greatly reduced risk of mispricing errors: each tag has a unique ID, and you can set the reader so it won't update the tag with a new price unless the ID matches. No risk of sending promotional pricing live early: the writer won't update the tag if the offer hasn't gone live yet. No need to ship tens of thousands of tickets around the country (they're not printed in-store, usually). No need to print tens of thousands of tickets to ship around the country. No need to dispose of tens of thousands of tickets that you just replaced with tens of thousands of new tickets. Faster to update: poke and beep, no picking at the stupid plastic cover that always seems to wedge itself in place and fishing out the old ticket then making sure you don't get confused about which was your pile of old tickets and which was your pile of new tickets then putting the new ticket in place and pushing the plastic cover back into place why yes I did work in retail no I don't want to do it again thanks. And, yes, you can respond to last-minute pricing changes quickly 'cos nothing needs to be printed, just send Steve round to the shelf with the writer.

    The biggest benefits - for the retailer, not the customer, I hasten to add - do tend to come with the battery-powered wireless ones you can update with a single click from Head Office, tho'...
     
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  8. Arboreal

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    That gets to the core of it Gareth, less overhead for staff and potentially reduced ticketing errors. That's where the cost saving is made in addition to reducing material use and having to used printers, which on many levels can be the devil to get and keep working
     
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  9. Byron C

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    You guys are no fun, just let me be a grumpy curmudgeonly git in the “grumpy curmudgeonly git” thread now and then… :grin:
     
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    Pedanting > grumpmudging
     
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    Pedantry is essential, so we can put right the mistakes of the idiots.
     
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    Pedantry is essential, as it allows us to correct the mistakes of idiots.


    I know, I know, but I've ingested waaaaay too much sugar today.
     
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    Podiatry is essential, it allows us to correct the ingrown toenails.

    I wanted to join in
     
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    Right, so, in case you were wondering where we're at in the UK's goose-step march to the right, this is UKIP's new logo.

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    Yes, that is the Iron Cross. The Iron Cross that was stolen from Prussia and introduced as a German military emblem in 1939 by a certain Adolf Hitler. That Iron cross.

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    No, this is not a joke. Here's the official party registration update.

    Now, OK, the application describes it as "a crusader cross with a circle in the middle and being diagonally crossed by a spear with the head facing upwards to the right," but that's not a thing. The "Crusader's cross" is a thing, but it looks like this:

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    That is not what UKIP has selected. What UKIP has selected is, unambiguously, the Iron Cross.

    So, yeah, that's where we're at. A mainstream(ish) political party just made its official logo a piece of actual honest-to-goodness no-fooling Nazi iconongraphy.

    Yeah.
     
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  16. Mr_Mistoffelees

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    I was going to like this but, it's just not likeable...
     
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    When we lived in the US, we had a Yaris (hatchback, not the god awful ugly ass sedan). It was honestly a bit frightening at times driving that next to the absolutely stonking huge SUVs and pick-ups. I'd hate to be in a 660cc or even an up-lifted 1L around those things.
     
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  20. Gareth Halfacree

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