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Jobs' Glass Elevator Locks in Group Customers
Juha-Matti Laurio writes "Not eight days after Apple's new New York flagship store was unveiled, Stevie Jobs' fantastical glass elevator began acting a bit wonky, first opening and shutting its doors, then finally sealing in its passengers on the upper level. Apple store employees worked their hardest to release the bunch, but eventually the NYPD had to be called; the elevator's hydraulic system had to be drained. Close-up picture included to the source story as well."
Their elevator got switched with David Blaine's next project...
I guess Microsoft isn't the only proprietary software company trying vendor lock in
or "Serves Apple right for having an (aero) glass lift, instead of an aqua lift!"
or "I wonder if someone overapplied thermal paste to the hydraulics?"
or "NEVER EVER ride first generation hydraulic lifts, everyone knows that."
or "Thank GOD it wasn't a vista lift!"
or "Stuck in a glass Elevator - experience agoraphobia, demophobia and claustrophobia at the same time!"
Thanks, thanks, I'll be here all night, try the sea bass!
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
"Ha! Ha!".
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Steve Jobs met with the distressed shoppers after the incident explaining to them that a security guard had innocently used his Windows laptop to attempt to connect to the store's wireless network.
Jobs showed them diagrams detailing the "evil karma waves" that essentially attacked all the flowers and love that powered the magical glass elevator. He assured the agitated shoppers that there was no one to blame but Bill Gates for their inconvenience. It was proven repeatedly by a brain-washing commercial of two men standing next to each other. It is indicated that one is a PC running Windows and has to shut down during the conversation. The shoppers were encouraged to watch the video as many times as possible and to continue shopping afterward. Although humans don't run operating systems and this ad was farcical, it worked like a charm as it did with millions of Americans.
The shoppers were encouraged to think back to times when they might have been in a home or used in their own home that had a Windows network running wirelessly. Did they recall any of their family or loved ones falling ill during prolonged exposure to Windows wireless packets? They were also encouraged to share these experiences with one another and reinforce the idea that Windows is nothing but pure evil.
My work here is dung.
They could have just used the Ompa Lompas isn't it their job to fix the glass elevator and the rest of the chocolate factory?
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Those customers should have waited for Glass Elevator v1.1. :-)
At least they didnt hit the glass ceiling!
OK Willy Wonka... let them go. Let them go now. You cannot keep them. ...
But the elevator looks so darn sexy even with the people trapped in it!
-Daniel
Only Google does good betas....
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Gotta love that move to the intel architecture :D
Kudos and all for having such a landmark building, even if it is just to sell iPods. Unfortunately, like a lot of expensive things, it was put together wrong (big dig, pennsylvania roads, war on everything). Let's hope this is just a speedbump for Apple and their customers, and I can go on using my Dell, and praying for OSX.
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. . . for Apple's DRM and vendor lock-in -- Brilliant!
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
"Now that's what I call customer lock-in!"
"Best customer retention plan ever!"
anyone else have a few?
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Stevie Job's fantastical glass elevator began acting a bit wonky,
Why isn't anyone talking about the girl that got transformed into a blueberry? There's a cover-up, I tell you!
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Yes, but Windows server software and office software has been corporate customers for YEARS now...
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wouldn't it actually be better to be stuck in a glass elevator, from which you could see out of, than a regular one?
Next we'll have David Blaine advertising Macs.
Buying Apple is like riding their elevators: you think you're "going up" but you're really getting "locked in".
;-)
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How many viruses were written for Apple's elevators as opposed to Microsoft's elevators last year alone?
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Don't you all just love how Apple stuff Just Works(tm)?
FROM: sjobs@apple.com
SUBJECT: My Glass Toy Needs Coverage, Assholes
PRIORITY: Ludicrous
Phil,
My magnificent glass box elevator in New York, which is in no way derivative of the crystal pyramid entrance to the Louvre in Paris, did not receive quite enough press coverage at the unveiling.
Please arrange to have someone locked in until they shit their pants.
thx - Steve
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Apple's doing what they do best - Giving surprises.
Shame the elevator was glass and not made the transparent material Apple use to coat ipods with.
The customers could've just scratched their way out.
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This proves it. Apple is a bad elevator company.
However had this been a MS elevator, it would have repeatedly crashed...
What kind of news is this? It's an elevator. The only thing "innovative" is the use of transparent materials for the fashion components. The rest of it is plain old off-the-shelf engineering in a plain old retail store. If a two-story CompUSA outlet has elevator trouble in its first month, it's not a major Slashdot story, it's not even a Joe "Windows 4ever" Sixpack blog story.
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Let's see...
Stunning visual appearance.... check
Elegant and simple user interface.... check(?)
Maybe 1 or 2 'minor' design flaws not caught during development.... check!
It's amazing. Anything coming out of Apple these days has great design, works well for the most part, but there's always something screwy- iPod batteries, hot laptops, etc.
Simple Unexpected Concrete Credible Emotional Stories
Sure the UI has some issues, but it looks so beautiful!
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It's just the Mac Experience(TM)!
People who live in glass elevators should, erm...
Did anyone else think this had something to do with employees at apple not being allowed to advance up the chain of command? But I really got confused when I could not determine what this had to do with locking groupware vendors into using apple products.
Wow. Caught in a glass cube for 45 minutes? They are lucky this didn't happen in the daytime, with the sun shining in....!
I for one welcome our glass-lift overlords...
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So there we were in this big glass elevator and it was moving along and then suddenly it was like *beep*beep*beep* and then it stopped moving. And we were all like OMG! The elevator just stopped. And it was a good elevator ride, too...
Why isn't anyone talking about the girl that got transformed into a blueberry?
Actually, she was turned into a Blackberry. The reason no one is talking about it is that they're still trying to unravel the IP issues.
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In other news, a Best Buy in Hoboken, NY had a clogged toilet. Two employees attempted to unclog it before professional help was called in. Bob's Plumbing was rushed to the scene.
"It was a standard class 4 poop," the plumber stated, "nothing I can't handle."
The stall was returned to normal operation shortly thereafter.
Reminds me of the time when my mother & I were stuck in an elavator.
We waited for several hours without any help. People who tried to use the lift didn't realize that there were two people stuck inside.
I finally managed to pry the doors apart and we managed to get out.
Didn't think it was big event until I read this on Slashdot.
http://news.com.com/MS+to+invest+150+million+in+Ap ple/2100-1001_3-202143.html
Can anybody say "Sleeping with the enemy" ???
Our esteemed president addressed the poor language skills of the nation's youth, asking wisely, "Is our children learning?"
Hi, I'm a Mac elevator, I'm sexy and sleek, and never lock u-
Hi, I'm a PC elevator, I've been around for decades, so you know I'm relia- AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! *SMASH*
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"Wha--AHHHhhhh..."
--insert loud metallic clang here--
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This is another dupe story... =)
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People who live in glass elevators shouldn't throw Macs
The glass elevator was originally designed as a way to get around the glass ceiling
The elevator had a kernel panic because someone forgot to run the optimize program
Thank God it was running OSX, so it just froze a single elevator instead of crashing the whole store.
I guess the hydraulic system is not user-replaceable. Besides, it's probably some Taiwanese OEM's fault anyway.
Does the elevator control panel show a Sad Elevator Icon when it stops working?
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Breath in,
:(?
Did the elevator show a big unhappy face
Someone must have dual booted the elevator to run Windows.
The G4 Cube reincarnated as an elevator, if they waited long enough, the sides of the elevator would have cracked and released them.
Its typical of Apple to make something look good, but ignore some obvious working defect.
Its not that the doors wouldn't open, someone forgot to take the plastic off the elevator!!!!!!
Breath out!
OK, I am done.
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- Don't mod me down because the original article was a waste of time too!
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
It wouldn't be so bad, but Jobs decided he didn't want the elevator to have any fans.
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I bet passer-bys thought the Apple store was doing something really different and putting people on display. Like that trouple of men who lives in a glass box for a couple of days, on display in the mall.
Aw, come on. You know that if Microsoft had built an obnoxious-looking store in the middle of New York and the elevator broke, we would be neck-deep in "must have been running Windows XP Elevator Edition" jokes. You must see at least a little humor in this story.
iStuck?
-Kurt
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So what if the hydraulics failed. Big deal. I don't see how this is unique to the Apple store, really. Besides, if I were trapped in an elevator, I'd prefer it to be glass so I can actually see what's going on, rather than steel so I have no real idea. That said, the glass elevators in the Apple Store in Ginza, Tokyo seem to be fine.
;-)
It seems that everyone wants to pick on Apple, so I'll bite back. Yeah, Apple's are expensive. Yeah, sometimes they malfunction. My Lamborghini Diablo does too. But that doesn't mean you're not envious as hell, does it?
(Yes, I really do own one. And yes, it really does break down. Like a Pinto.)
From the submission: Juha-Matti Laurio writes "Not eight days after Apple's new New York flagship store was unveiled, Stevie Job's fantastical glass elevator began acting a bit wonky, first opening and shutting its doors, then finally sealing in its passengers on the upper level. Apple store employees worked their hardest to release the bunch, but eventually the NYPD had to be called; the elevator's hydraulic system had to be drained. Close-up picture included to the source story as well."
From the Engadget article linked in the submission: Well, that was fast. Not eight days after Apple's new flagship store was unveiled, Stevie J.'s fantastical glass elevator began acting a bit wonky, first opening and shutting its doors, then finally sealing in its passengers on the upper level. Apple store employees worked their hardest to release the bunch, but eventually the NYPD had to be called; the elevator's hydraulic system had to be drained, and the confined group was let out in the store's bowels (i.e. lower level).
They even ripped off the nonsensical title of the article itself!
Slashdot title: Apple: Jobs' Glass Elevator Locks in Group Customers
Engadget title: Jobs' glass elevator locks in group customers.
Shouldn't there be an 'of' in there? Maybe an 'a'? I'm thinking "Jobs' glass elevator locks in a group of customers." But the submitter couldn't even be bothered to add three little letters to make it a read more smoothly.
Slashdot submitter: Juha-Matti Laurio.
Engadget blogger: Ryan Block.
Removing a couple phrases and tacking one sentence of your own onto the end of the submission does NOT make it your own original work. If you're going to rip off your source word-for-word, at least have the courtesy to cite them instead of representing their work as your own.
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I was 30 minutes late to my own wedding because I got trapped in a hotel elevator. The elevator was less than a month old. The hotel manager couldn't do anything to get us out, they had to call the elevator manufacturer to send over a maintenence man who only barely managed to force the doors open after breaking off the elevator key in the jammed lock. New elevators are scary!
Also, for all those unmarried geeks out there, I have a piece of advice: on your wedding day, take the stairs.
I was going to post, "Now that is what I call Platform Lock-In!"
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Nothing like reading old news on slashdot again. Time to up the time table on publishing news articles.
Open the iPod bay doors Hal.
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The man said nothing about microsoft, but I guess if you dare to critizie apple on slashdot then you get an automatic zero score.
You should compare Apple to the PC not Apple to Microsoft when you talking about freedom of choices for platforms.
I just reported it on Apple's Bug Reporter site. Feedback helps them improve their products and services, you know.
From Xerox and Unix, just like Apple ???
"or 'Stuck in a glass Elevator - experience agoraphobia, demophobia and claustrophobia at the same time!'"
Now that was quite clever and I applaud your creative retorting ability.
BSD is designed. Linux is grown. C++ libs
Each person stuck in the elevator was then given a $50 ticket for loitering and a $75 ticket for improper use of a glass elevator. Their untrapped friends were cited a comparable amount of money for summoning the police to a scene where they couldn't shoot anyone.
FTA: acting a bit wonky, first opening and shutting its doors,
I assumed that all elevators open and shut their doors. How is this behavior 'wonky'?
Didn't anyone tell them NOT to press the red button?
I had an iPod and returned it after I realized the DRM on that thing prevents you from doing almost anything you would normally want to do with an mp3 player. Its ironic they get caught in this fiasco "locking in" their customers.. haha They design their products to lock you in.
It's really a shame - I never would have thought to hear about Apple, of all the new-aged right thinking companies, having a problem with a glass ceiling.
"My heart is in the work." - Andrew Carnegie
Other than to scare acrophobics?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-do I've got a brand new computer for you Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-drool Let's just face it, it looks really cool. Haven't you seen the ads on TV? Only old nerdy guys use PCs. Or else your files will all get hacked Why don't you all just get a Mac? Then we'll let you out of there. Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-zod While you are at it, get an iPod Then you'll live in happiness too Like the Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do!
That was 9 years ago. NINE!
Sheesh...
Do you still have bullets in your pocket?
Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-do
I've got a brand new computer for you
Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-drool
Let's just face it, it looks really cool.
Haven't you seen the ads on TV?
Only old nerdy guys use PCs.
Or else your files will all get hacked
Why don't you all just get a Mac?
Then we'll let you out of there.
Oompa loompa doom-pa-dee-zod
While you are at it, get an iPod
Then you'll live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do!
In keeping with Apple Design Philosophy®, we designed the elevator with only one button, and, well ....
The "omg we're gonna die" sex is evem more interesting when everyone can see you.
It would be great to know on what platform that building automation software runs.
Why would you call the police department if an elevator is stuck. Maybe the NYFD, but why not the company that built the elevator.
Maybe they'll call the NYFD when the Apple store gets robbed
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I can't help wondering if the embedded software running the elevator was made by Microsoft.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
I guess they didn't have the right DRM to move themselves off the elevator and into the building. They should try reinstalling.
Is it just me, or does the person at the front of the elevator holding the bag look "odd" ?
It looks like a guys head/hair cut, some moderately muscular arms... wearing a SKIRT, white panty hose, and womens shoes!
Oh, wait... Its an Apple store. Nevermind, nothing to see here.
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I'm not in on the story behind it. Was this some crazy design thing that Steve demanded? Or is it just the usual "BLAME EVERYTHING ON STEVE JOBS" headline?
If an Apple delivery truck crashes will the headline be "STEVE JOBS' TRUCK CRASHES"
... of those Apple ads on TV with the PC computer locking up two or three times, while the Mac keeps running.
the building must've been running on a ppc processor
In this case, it is news because the building in question had only been open for a week and was widely reported as being a very good example of a modern building.
However, it's clear that the Apple engineers have done a lot better (managing seven days of hassle-free operation up to that point) than those at the Spinnaker Tower.
Burns: We're building a casino!
McAllister: Arrr. Give me 5 minutes.
The elevator needs to go down just one floor so it is kind of silly to use. I guess it is needed for handicapped people or "group customers."
Some bird probably flew too close to the master on/off switch on the top ...
./ gushes over EVERYTHING Ad Nauseum that Apple does, so why not this?
Slashdot - Where the slash is most definitely to the left.
I thought user lock-in was more a Microsoft strategy with .doc files and all their file formats. /me ducks
Touching a raw spot there, eh ?
Check out the commentary (with more pictures, and some personal touches) at http://ranex.blogspot.com/2006/05/stuck-at-apple.h tml -- the blogger in question was not stuck inside the elevator, but his friends were. See the amazing elevator dancing. Hear the story of the miraculous water bottle drop.
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
Fantastical glass elevator? It's not like glass elevators are uncommon or something... I mean I grew up in a Tind ciry (less than 100,000 people), and one of our main malls had a glass elevator since I was a kid. I can't imagine these things would be uncommon in New York.
Actually, she was turned into a Blackberry. The reason no one is talking about it is that they're still trying to unravel the IP issues.
I heard she was turned into a Newton and Steve Jobs accidentally tried to eat her.
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I'm kind of not surprised. I was in line on the first day and had front row (er, "line," rather) seats. A work crew was fiddling with the elevator all day - up to maybe about 2 hours before opening. It raised some eyebrows with us. We joked about how it would be funny if Steve Jobs got stuck in it.
Ever hear the one about the agoraphobic, agnostic, dyslectic, insomniac?
Stayed up all night, in a glass elevator, wondering if there really is a Dog.
Damn I wish I had mod points right now. And that the mod system went to 11...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Can anybody say "Sleeping with the enemy" ???
They're just trying to get with that sexy Japanese Digital Camera. Can you blame them?
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See http://ranex.blogspot.com/2006/05/stuck-at-apple.h tml
"They finaly had to call the NYPD to get my comrades out of the elevator, by the time the NYPD go there they started to leak the hydralic lines to lower the elevator to the lower floor, and the wonderfull NYPD was rushing down the stairs with equipment to pry the door open, when the elevator got even with the lower floor the doors started to open and the police fully opened and held them open. The elevator was still going down to the basement floor, they the last person got out it was a good 2 foot step up. and two people burned there hands badly enough for them to blister on the hot lights in the shaft."
Raw spot? Not particularly.
In terms of OS, I tend to be fairly neutral. I generally write tools to report on the status of a machine. I don't care what it is, or what it's running, as long as I can talk to it.
It is my belief that people who feel the need to reference a 9 year old news story are harboring a great deal of resentment towards Microsoft for this investment, or a great deal of resentment towards Apple for accepting it.
Either way, it's old news.
He linked the original article as you pointed out. What more do you want, a full bibliography at the end of the article? This is Slashdot, not a thesis paper. Using a link as citation is good enough.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
it was sulking in an existential funk after realizing it couldn't go sideways;-)
It's not just an elevator, it's also a metaphor for all things Apple (both good and bad). Certainly that was the intention of its builders.
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Attracted by a flashy, hip marketing and packaging, customers flocked to the Mac store. Once entering the "Mac World", customers found their experience, while aesthetically pleasing, was glitchy and bugged. Soon the customers realised that their Mac Experience was an exclusive experience, with no options outside the Mac World. While they could still see the outside world, they were not allowed to interact with it. The feeling of being trapped set in. Once serious problems began to develop, Mac was unable to solve the problems it had created and was force to call in a third party to undo to mess.
It's over. Totally? No chance of getting back together? Steve and Bill made a great couple. Sure they can't take another shot at it for old time's sake?
I think if CompUSA had a 'premier' outlet with some fancy gadget equivalent to a glass elevator that broke down embarassingly in its first week of operation we'd probably have similar news story to heap scorn upon them.
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Seeing the picture reminded me of the famous scene from "This Is Spinal Tap".
Where is Moke with the blowtorch when you need him?
I don't know if the store has stairs to a regular entrance, but in any case they'd have to have stairs for the emergency exits.
Naa, the batteries ran out!
The knife cuts both ways. If you want to make a glass elevator to get press, you can expect press when that same elevator fails spectacularly.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
(Obligatory gripe about apple-bashers:)
:)
If this had been a Microsoft store, the elevator would have had to kill a dozen people before they got any bad press...
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elevators in new buildings have notoriously high problem rates for the first year or so "slashdot" for the elevator crowd: http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic= Elevator%20Problem%20Discussion
"Incidents involving elevators and escalators kill about 30 and seriously injure about 17,100 people each year in the United States, according to data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Injuries to people working on or near elevators - including those installing, repairing, and maintaining elevators, and working in or near elevator shafts - account for 14- 15 (almost half) of the deaths. The two major causes of death are falls and being caught in/between moving parts of elevators/escalators. Incidents where workers are in or on elevators or platforms that collapse, are struck by elevators or counterweights, or are electrocuted are also numerous."
They switched to oil later.
(Apparently Slashdot can't take the greek upsilon-delta-omega-rho).
Slashdot entertains. Windows pays the mortgage.
Lemme see... *glass* elevator, it *froze*... must be running Windows!!
Obviously there was nothing wrong with the elevator. It was the confusing "one button" elevator panel that had the riders stumped.
Both demophobia and agoraphobia are fear of crowds. You probably meant acrophobia, fear of high places.
Apple fanboys are so brainwashed that they will put up with mostly anything. Even if the elevator door was known to crush people to death the fanboys would still be shopping at Apple's shiny store.
The link to the story he ripped off is NOT acceptable when the submitter is claiming that he wrote that summary when he quite obviously didn't.
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WTF, if I had gotten stuck inside a puny GLASS elevator, I would have said "F this" and busted out the GLASS door and walked out. It's sad when you are trapped by ordinary glass.
I wonder if anyone's tried cross-posting this story to digg. Oh. wait.. sorry. right.
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Custom Hardware Guarantees Customer Lock-in. I love it.
Sure I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
Jobs isn't the plural of Job.
i don't think the elevator was built specifically just to get press, i think it is part of the overall design of the Apple store. Apple always spends a lot of effort on little details, and that's why industrial designers love their stuff. the spend tons of time on little things the average user will never think about, but would if it was done wrong. Of course this new flagship store will get a ton of coverage, but there are a ton of Apple stores around the country that get no coverage beyond dedicated Apple news sites. they all have a lot of thought and money put into their design. no glass stairs or elevators, but a lot more effort than some discount sneaker outlet.... or even a Microcenter or CompUSA.
i realize those other stores are set up for maximum amount of products in a given space, where the Apple store is there to promote their products in the best possible setting. Sony has (had?) a store like that just a few blocks from the new Apple store in NYC. from what i recall it was not as design crazy as the Apple store, but it is basically an interactive showcase of everything Sony makes. Sony has a lot more stuff to fit in a store than Apple.
Plagiarism is relatively commonplace in journalism. It's a masochistic profession with tight deadlines, and staff writers are more than likely to just copy and paste an AP news wire, change a few words here and there, cite the article, and submit it. The first thing my boss told me about dealing with reporters is that they're fundamentally lazy individuals, and if you give them a leading, poetic way to phrase something (say, about your product), as long as it doesn't sound blatently like a slogan, they'll write it down and use it word for word as if they'd said it themselves.
Otherwise, they'd have to digest the material, think about it, understand it, and regurgitate it. And believe me, wordsmithing takes time. Generally speaking if I have an article to post on Tuesday I'll write it Friday, rewrite it Monday, and look at it again in the morning on Tuesday. This is a luxury jounalists don't really have.
Of course, I'm not saying that all journalists are lazy people willing to appropriate anything so they can go home early. My favorite author used to be a journalist, if I recall, and he has an absolutely enviable command of English. But enough of them are. I'd wager that amongst themselves they're more than likely to look the other way because they're all in the same grind. Blog plagiarism is kind of a culture shock for them, because they've been ripping off people from papers on the other coast for years, and now these geeks are getting all bothered over a few filched words here and there.
I'm working in a building near the apple store; let me tell you, the elevator is not that big of a deal. The staircase is so short, it's very surprising that people use the elevator (save, obviously, the disabled.) Walking down the steps is part of the experience :)
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I thought the entire description was metaphorical of some kind of sneakiness on Apple's part. Lock-in of "high level" customers in some kind of corporate licensing back-stab.
Why am I this paranoid? A real elevator really malfunction actually trapping real people. Who'd have thunk? I just bought a MacBook, hasn't even arrived yet, and I'm ready to believe Gatesian levels of corporate nuttiness?
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Why's it obnoxious looking? Or, more specifically, any more obnoxious looking than the thousands of other buildings in the city, some of which are designed in artistic fashion, others of which are just thrown together as cheaply as possible?
theyre really lucky actually. I was in that elevator the other day and since it is not shielded from the sun in any way I could see it gettin pretty hot in there in a hurry. I woulda been freakin the fuck out. iPod my ass, I would have demanded a macbook pro in exchange for signing a piece of paper saying I wont sue them.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
The problem is finding the tiny hole for Eject.
To whom? LOL. You say it as if he's accountable to you, Random Joe Slashloser. Go puff up your chest somewhere else.
Listen p*ssy. I'm sure your the same homo that posted earlier about alf's boner and you just want to remain anonymous fo
The hydraulic system is completely contained within the glass elevator, has a limited life, and cannot be replaced. You got screwed.
Why would making a glass elevator be a way to get press? It's hardly a new idea or something that hasn't been done many times before. Quite a few expensive buildings have elevators whose walls are largely transparent. Have you never seen one?
'Yes' and 'no'. To answer the question "Are you sure you want to go up ?".
Soon the customers realised that their Mac Experience was an exclusive experience, with no options outside the Mac World.
Wake up, Rip! Wake up! You've been asleep for 20 years!
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
I call that Adventures in Babysitting!
From the bottom of every page of Engadget: "All contents copyright © 2006, Weblogs, Inc."
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx
Where is he claiming that he wrote it? Slashdot puts "[Submitter] writes [Blurb]" in its standard form. There's no option for "[Submitter] quotes [3rd party]: [Blurb]." It's just put in the submitter, put in the story, and pick a section. Seriously. Try it out sometime. You don't have to actually click submit.
If he was actually stealing credit for the story, then why did he put a link right back to where he got it from? The intent was obviously to show the original story. I mean it's not like real thieves act like the Riddler and deliberately plant blatant clues to their crimes in real life.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Looks to me like the problem is probably that they made the whole damn elevator out of Windows!
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx
Elevators break down all the time and people get stuck in them. This is only on here because it was "apples" elevator which aparently is supposed to be perfect compared to all other elevators. I guarentee that if the elevator at my school or any major place broke down besides apples, it wouldnt be slashdoted.
A lecture on copyright from someone who steals music online. LOL.
Listen p*ssy. I'm sure your the same homo that posted earlier about alf's boner and you just want to remain anonymous fo
By not referencing the fact that he copied and pasted the text, he plagiarised. End of story.
He REFERENCED the fact that he copied the story by posting the link back to it. That is what a reference is! End of story.
You're flat out wrong if you're claiming that he didn't reference the original. If you want to claim that he didn't do so properly, then fine -- that's a matter of opinion. But for purposes of what is essentially a blog entry, it's good enough in mine, and the accusation of plagarism is a bit strident and exaggerated.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
The original story is at http://ranex.blogspot.com/ FYI
This is a metaphor to working with Apple technology. A closed, locked-in proprietary system that once you enter, you may never leave.
Horns are really just a broken halo.
STFU - It's been on their front page since the store was opened. It's ALL about press, as it always is. Again, STFU
Just be happy you didn't ride the elevators at Redmond, they just crash.
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Where the bass player gets stuck. I think it was during "stonehenge"?
sigs are for losers (except to point out that sigs are for losers)
they were confronted with the burial tome of Mary Magdalene, thus confirming that Jesus WAS married!
Because teenage pranks are fun when you're about to die!
If this isn't news, then neither was the shop opening in the first place. If the media can fawn and masturbate over Apple opening a shop, then they can get the knives out when it goes wrong.
Apple can't have their cake and eat it.
If they had, they might have gotten out sooner.
People who buy glass elevators shouldn't throw stones?
In case of emergency, break glass!!!
A long time ago I was an elevator mechanic (the 80's). I was already a licensed electrician so the transition was an easy one. Although there were some things that struck me as odd.
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The first thing was the tendency of elevator companies to use their own home-grown parts to control the elevator.
For example, for speed control for some of the lifts used what we called "bedsprings" to limit the current going to the motor. The reason why they were called bedsprings was because that's what they were, bedsprings.
Bigger motors would use fence springs mounted on an insulated backplane (Bakelite?) to limit the current going to them. And yes, it worked with AC motors just fine. Even though the frequency wasn't lowered, the motor would slow to about one third speed (making one hell of a racket as it did).
The control voltage was DC, rectified by selenium rectifiers.
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Samples
With DC it was easy to make a timer out of a capacitor and a resisitor. The downside was that DC tends to eat up your contacts really quick.
Occasionally you will have a set of contacts open up and the current continue to flow as an arc. The contacts will soon melt down, drip, drip, drip...
They could have just used dashpot timers and got away from DC. That shows just how little experience with control systems they had outside of elevators.
For determining what stop you were at some elevators used wooden blocks that were mounted to steel bands (think the metal bands that shippers use around boxes).
These bands went from the pit to the crow's nest. Wherever there was a stop, there were blocks screwed to the bands. Limit switches on the cab hit these blocks and told the cab where to slow down and where to stop.
The cabs, cabling, hydraulics, and various mechanical parts were always robust and seldom wore out (other than the rails, which always needed oiling). You could tell that most elevator mechanics were from the mechanical side and not the controls side.
To be fair, I was working on elevators that were made from the 80's all the way back to 1913. So you couldn't expect the controls to be all that robust.
But I still tell people that if they knew how elevators were built, they would take the stairs.
As for what happened over at the Apple store, first off the employees should never try to rescue trapped customers. Someone needs a serious bitch-slapping over that.
Nor would I trust the NYPD, FD, Chamber of Commerce, the ASPCA, or whoever to get me out. These guys don't have the training, it's as simple as that.
And please tell me that they really didn't drain the hydraulic fluid onto the floor because they couldn't figure out how to bypass a valve.
And it's not like there aren't any other options.
http://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&lr=&q=otis+eleva
I dream in binary.
One more reason to use Appletalk instead of IP: It NEVER fucking shuts up.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
New Vista TV Commercial:
"Hi! I'm a Mac. And I'm stuck in an elevator."
-David
Of the Bastard Operator from Hell!
(Damn, trying to find the link to the story of where the BOFH locks a guy in a revolving door for 48 hours)
Judging from the picture of the women stuck in the glass elevator I was thinking this was a Slashdot post about Steve Jobs inventing transparent aluminum to transport whales.
Slashdot is just like our political life. One party, Apple, has a stylish, successful event: the new Apple Store in very ritzy Manhattan. Other party fumes. Then, an embarrassing episode happens -- not untypical for a new building -- and the elevator jams. This is milked by the opposition party, made a cosmic excuse for little tribal dances around the despised party, as though this one episode sums up everything about the Apple Party. Just like Gates's several embarrassing flops at demos is derided by the Apple Party as proof that the Windows Party is junk code and a monopoly and nothing else.
But nobody knows how to end it. Aha! How about attacking the messenger, and a plagiarism riff?
The big story is that it was plain to see there were people stuck inside.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
I agree, it's not like Apple actually built the store+elevator themselves, they would have hired contractors to build it. It's mildly amusing, but not Apples fault.
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