Agreed. Took me a few days to realise I had to give the printer a fixed ip address on my router though. It never mentioned that in the instructions.

Erm, you don't have to. I just plugged the WiFi passcode in and I was done.

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Windows kept trying to print to a set IP address. Initially the IP address of the printer changed every time I turned it on, so it didn't work half of the time.
Once I fixed the IP address to the same one that it had when it was set up in Windows, it worked every time.

[LIFTED] students who can't be arsed to even use Google.
No [LIFTED] research done on even the simplest of essays, huge sweeping assumptions with no research to back up their suppositions and things presented as 'fact'.
GAAAAHHHHHHH.

journalism college?

F
simple

I was told in an authoratative tone that a professional camera could cost up to £400.
I requested the entire class Google 'Professional camera' and tell me what they found.
Then go further and look at Hasselblad, Leaf and Phase One systems.

WTF is it with companies that don't update their stock list/website in this day and age? How the hell do they expect to keep customers?!

With computerisation it should be simple, even easier if people are buying online.

Even Apple can update their website although it does require them to take it down or a court order served on them for it to happen lol

To be fair, 'live' stock control isn't actually entirely straightforward. It's not rocket science but it needs to be thought through before you start or you end up in a horrible state over locking issues. I'd expect anyone big enough to hire a proper web developer to be able to do it, but a 'one man shop' or someone using predefined template based web sites and such might not be up to it.

Yes but do you allow a lot more leeway for a small online trader over stocking issues than say Amazon? I do.

There are also problems, if the store has a physical store as well, or a chain.

We worked with an large catalog house and the website would receive accurate stock figures every half an hour from their SAP system. The website would then calculate the stock based on sales and pass the transactions back to SAP. Half an hour later, the new stock figures would come in and we would have to re-adjust our figures to match the SAP system, to cover non-web sales and new stock arriving, damages etc.

The biggest problem with most web shops, is that the shop front-end is not an important entity. The stock control software comes from a big name, such as SAP, and it has priority, because getting that changed costs hundreds of thousands of pounds, so the other systems, including the customer facing systems, like an e-shop, have to cope with its foibles.

Doing stock levels within the e-shop itself isn't the problem, the problem is the stock control system itself.

Yes that would explain the occasions where my online grocery shop is missing items. At least with a decent substitutions policy it is not an issue. Though it surprises me when you order something in advance and they still end up with a shortage because someone has gone into the shop and collected 24 cans of whatever it is, instantly creating a lack of stock.

That's one of the major disadvantages of operating an online grocery service out of supermarkets, and why Tesco, for example, have started using dark stores in the South East.

Standard disclaimer about me working for an online grocer who does not use supermarkets applies.