ruaok: ING US services are for transactiions in the US, and must be linked to a US account (thus the Wells Fargo connection)
ruaok
thanks. that is the impression I got from their site
yllona
to accomplish what you need, you'll need you can talk to the london office
i'll email you the number, the i have unlimited EUR calling plan and can call for you
ruaok
ING's LONDON office?
thats a bit odd.
yllona
they were thinking "english speaking"
i forgot you speak german, sorry ;)
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ruaok
I don't speak dutch, but someone working in a bank in .nl would speak english.
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yllona
okay, either or you need to talk to europe
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ruaok
I'll talk to ING via WF and see what that will cost.
Iknow what the .eu banks will tell me. I did my due diligence two years ago.
yllona
yeah, but i'd compare going to ING without the middle man
it's bound to be less expensive
wells fargo isn't offering these services out of kindess, they're making money on the transaction for sure
ruaok
but its not POSSIBLE.
yllona
it is possible. wells fargo os working thru ING direct, which is US only
won't know more until you talk to ING corporate -- which is EUR
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but do what you want
ruaok
I've already wasted all that time. I'm not wasting it again.
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yllona
transfer and/or transaction fees are going to be painful given fluctuating US currency, typically the fee are based upon a percentage of the transaction
never make "small transactions" make a transaction large enough to reduce the fee
basically a lump sum transaction
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yllona
the larger the lower the transaction fee (typically, until you get into really big numbers, like lots of zeros)
Shepard
but don't forget the commit then to unlock all tables!
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niklas__
are accepted GSoC proposals announced internally tomorrow? and then announced for the public on the 21st? or just on the 21st?
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ruaok
not sure.
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ok
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yllona
:)
BrianFreud
really kind of surprised noone had ever had reason to add Benny Mardonez before
zoke: the question is what to do with the cases where the "coverart url is blank"
zoke
how does it get onto the list if there is no coverart ?
BrianFreud
"coverart url is blank" == "has ASIN, has no cover / user cover"?
ruaok
BrianFreud: kinda. but its not quite clear to me anymore.
zoke
use the Amazon AR but not the CoverArt AR ?
ruaok
I *think* it had to do with the coverart retrieved.
theses cases ought to be checked for images that are 1x1 gifs.
zoke
ruaok, question about your list
BrianFreud
well, I think we at least stand the chance of getting commissions from those, and AZN can always later add art and we'd automatically then pick it up
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So I don't see any harm in them, and do see some potential benefits
zoke
I randomly picked release 16105 asin B0000031FW: migrate to AR.
ruaok
lemme check my hypothesis
zoke
is the ASIN known ? Do I just get the URL for that ASIN and make the AR ?
ruaok
yes, in theory that is it.
but our goal here is not to hand add them.
but to craft a list that we're confident with that we can have a bot auto convert them.
where "bot" is a script I write. :)
zoke
well you can break it down into chunks
first you can look for releases that have UPC's but not ASINs
then look for releases where there is a label/artist name/release name match
then cdbaby
BrianFreud
The only thing I notice on the (empty coverarturl) ones is that there's nothing at all being displayed. So they would have had much less chance over the past 1-2 years to be cleaned out where incorrect.
ruaok
you don't happen to code perl, do you? :)
oh.
BrianFreud
Perhaps auto-add all the non (empty coverarturl) ones, and do the (empty coverarturl) ones without auto-approve turned on?
ruaok
the greater goal of this script is to do away with an outdated table in the DB.
zoke
I think its better not to have data than incorrect data
ruaok
the goal is not to find more ARs, but to make all the AR edits avilable tot he end user
agreed. that's why we're working on this script to figure out where to draw the line.
zoke
I think it would be cool if we just could get a releationship with Amazon
BrianFreud
hmmm, 19.814 - noone would ever check all those in a 2 week period...
ruaok
I'm perfectly ok saying that if my script marks somehting as questionable that we don't import.
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Russss[home]
hello
ruaok
que paso, russss
pbryan
Hello Russss[home].
ruaok
And Russss[home]
zoke
ruaok, what ever course of action that you choose to do, I strongly recomend you to utilize the UPC's in the database
Russss[home]
yeah, the other russss is at work
BrianFreud
yes, I was about to suggest, perhaps dump the 19.814, only do the 62,774, we can then pick up maybe 20,000 confident ones via UPCs to replace the 19,814 non-confident ones
zoke
and if we have ASINs, could we also try to grab UPCs ?
ruaok
zoke: that vastly complicates what I am doing. :-(