They get the SSN when you get a job. Your license number isn't really sensetive.
Yes, this is true, but they don't need that info until they draw up the offer letter.
Nice thought, but if you are filling out job applications on-line you are most likely not in the position to set any conditions (as opposed to using a headhunter or contacts within the company, in which case you aren't seen as riff-raff off the street.)
I'd also add that with most companies, withholding any information they ask for will raise a red flag. If you don't provide a SSN or license number or whatever else when asked they will immediately assume you have something to hide-- such as a criminal history, a DUI, heavy outstanding debts or a lien against your wages, or the lack of legal work status. Asserting that they do not have the right to ask can just mark you as "trouble"... Companies don't tend to like employees who know their rights and take a stand to protect them.
I'm not saying it's right, but that's the way it is. They're looking for any reason they can NOT to hire you and refusing to play along will seriously hurt your chances. Telling them they can't have your SSN until you get a contract or serious offer will, in most cases, mean you won't get it at all.
My memory may be a bit foggy on some of these but...
I doubt Apple would ever switch to PCI. They've got too much invested in Nubus to abandon it now. I doubt Apple would ever switch to IDE. They've got too much invested in SCSI to abandon it now.
Both were dead ends by the time Apple switched. I don't believe it was necessarily by choice. Besides, we're talking pre-Jobs and mid-90's tech here, has little to do with the Apple of today.
I doubt Apple would ever switch to USB. They've got too much invested in ADB to abandon it now.
Too much invested? They were overjoyed to dump ADB, it was one of Jobs' first moves as CEO. They were USB pioneers-- USB peripherals barely existed when the first iMac was released.
I doubt Apple would ever switch to USB2. They've got too much invested in Firewire to abandon it now.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Last I checked you can't even use USB2 on Final Cut (this may have changed or be changing, I admit I may be wrong.) If you're talking simply about iPods it was a natural switch with the Windows model, but until DV has another standard for importing footage Apple has not and will not abandon Firewire.
I doubt Apple would ever switch to Intel CPUs. They've got too much invested in PowerPC to abandon it now.
Seems to me this was also a case of a dead end and the choice wasn't necessarily theirs. Could be wrong, there's certainly a thousand different opinions on why this happened.
I doubt Apple would ever switch to PDF. They've got too much invested in QuickDraw to abandon it now.
Not really sure this one works at all, way too simplistic and just one of the side effects of the OS X switch IIRC. Quickdraw wasn't dumped as much as it mutated.
I doubt Apple would ever switch to VGA/DVI. They've got too much invested in their proprietary video connector to abandon it now.
They went from proprietary connectors to VGA to proprietary connectors (ADC, ugh) to DVI. The less said about this the better, IMO, but it always seemed in flux and I always had the impression whatever video connector they were using was temporary (and hardly a case for "too much invested")
I doubt Apple would ever switch to a multi-button mouse. They've got too much invested in the single button mouse to abandon it now.
Dragged kicking and screaming here too, I'd say. And they still don't make two-button laptops.
Meanwhile none of this really has anything to do with the iTunes store, and certainly has little to do with whether DRM will remain on their AACs. As it hass been stated many times in this discussion I would think the decision is not Apple's to make (they do have business agreements with the labels, after all.) What should be obvious is that they won't take a step backwards to mp3, whether they end up selling unrestricted AACs or not.
I guess if I buy it I'll have to get a new phone when my service is up in 2yrs...sorta like my Ipod. Sheesh!
No, you can replace the battery relatively easily, or have a service do it for much less than the cost of a new iPod and for a modest charge over the actual cost of the battery (as in $15-30.) When this complaint is thrown around it makes it sound like if only the battery was easily replaced by the user it would cost nothing. Not so, the battery itself is expensive whether you do it yourself or not.
By the way you, or at least most iPhone customers will probably buy a new model at the end of their contract (if not before.) Not because the battery is dead (though that may be the excuse), but because (as any iPod or Mac owner knows) there will be a new model out (or two!) that make the 1st generation look and feel horribly dated. The attention to design-- and constant radical change-- is one of the secrets to Apple's success. A Dell laptop or Creative mp3 player from 2002,2003 or even 2004 looks relatively up to date today (if you notice it at all)... But an Apple product looks out of date in a couple of years. Think of how dated the original shuffle looks now, or a lamp-style iMac, or Titanium powerbook or even g4 ibook.
(BTW I think the sealed case sucks too, but this is a relatively minor issue that is constantly blown way out of proportion with the iPod. The phone may be another matter, as having a spare for when you run out of power "in the field" is much more necessary, but I think it's safe to assume there will be a third-party add-on for a spare battery or quick charge)
I think episodic content could be a good thing, particularly in a story-based RPG.
Think of it as the difference between a great television show or an epic movie. In a movie everything has to be "big." You basically have half of the first act for exposition before the main plot unfolds. And the story itself must be of epic proportions, even world-shattering (certainly character changing.) Put simply a movie is almost always about the most important thing that ever happened to this set of characters and the world they inhabit.
An episodic show, on the other hand, can really dig into the little things. Characters build, the world develops. You get a level of detail you would never get in a feature film. It is a lot of little stories that lead to one big one. There is much more room for minor conflicts and even humor. Television gets a bad rap and much of it is crap (in part because many series are dragged out much longer than they should be) but when it's good (like The Sopranos) it's really good, and you get to know the characters and world much better than you possibly could if the story was told in a two hour feature.
I don't know if Bioware is thinking along these lines but if they are I would certainly be interested. In an RPG for example every episode could be self contained and appropriate for the character's level. The first few would be based around his or her area of origin, gradually expanding to other areas of the world as the series progresses and the character grows. You can concentrate on dealing with the issues and hand and won't have the carrot dangling in from of you of rapidly levelling up to get to the end boss because that part of the story isn't ready to be told yet. In short an epic story could be told in a larger story arc, as the sum of many smaller stories along the way.
1 Switch to an ATI card. They always seem to work better with OS X. I don't know why, but the NVIDIA cards never seem to work that well for me in OS X.
You're suggesting that he purchase a new card on his own dime to correct the problem?
2 Take out one stick of memory. 3GB is kind of excessive IMO for OS X unless you REALLY need that much memory. I used to run WoW, iTunes, Firefox, Ventrilo, and other apps just fine (when I played WoW) and never had any memory issues with 2 GB. I think the Mac Pro benefits from interleaving as well (don't quote me on that, I don't have one) and requires a specific memory configuration.
There are plenty of reasons a Mac Pro owner would need over 2 gigs. Real time rendering in Final Cut or Motion, for example. Or large Photoshop files (particularly with the Rosetta crutch.) He uses WOW as an example but I doubt he bought a $3000 workstation to run a game that will play on an iMac. At least I hope he didn't.
3 Play WoW under windows with bootcamp. It was always a little faster for me under XP than OS X, but my subscription ran out a little while ago.
Obviously unacceptable. Booting Windows is not a solution. For one, you'll be going online, which means you will need to become a Windows security expert quickly-- and you will have to purchase a retail copy of XP, again on your own dime, to solve a problem Apple should fix.
This is Apple's problem. If it is a known issue they should fix it, or issue a recall to replace the cards. If the machine is under warranty he needs to raise a continual stink to get the problem fixed (one thing I do know about Apple support, if you draw one "genius" who won't help you you have to keep trying until you find one who will.)
As I live and work in a major city (L.A.) and rarely leave my 10-mile radius I would love an electric car. Unfortunately, I live in an apartment and park on the street. No, I do not think an extension cord would work.
That seems to be a paradox I haven't seen addressed. Electric cars seem to be designed for urban drivers with short commutes. Many of those who live in urban areas do not have a garage and charging would be difficult, if not impossible. Will there be a way to "fill" the battery as quickly and easily as you can at a gas station?
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They get the SSN when you get a job. Your license number isn't really sensetive.
Yes, this is true, but they don't need that info until they draw up the offer letter.
Nice thought, but if you are filling out job applications on-line you are most likely not in the position to set any conditions (as opposed to using a headhunter or contacts within the company, in which case you aren't seen as riff-raff off the street.)
I'd also add that with most companies, withholding any information they ask for will raise a red flag. If you don't provide a SSN or license number or whatever else when asked they will immediately assume you have something to hide-- such as a criminal history, a DUI, heavy outstanding debts or a lien against your wages, or the lack of legal work status. Asserting that they do not have the right to ask can just mark you as "trouble"... Companies don't tend to like employees who know their rights and take a stand to protect them.
I'm not saying it's right, but that's the way it is. They're looking for any reason they can NOT to hire you and refusing to play along will seriously hurt your chances. Telling them they can't have your SSN until you get a contract or serious offer will, in most cases, mean you won't get it at all.
My memory may be a bit foggy on some of these but...
I doubt Apple would ever switch to PCI. They've got too much invested in Nubus to abandon it now.
I doubt Apple would ever switch to IDE. They've got too much invested in SCSI to abandon it now.
Both were dead ends by the time Apple switched. I don't believe it was necessarily by choice. Besides, we're talking pre-Jobs and mid-90's tech here, has little to do with the Apple of today.
I doubt Apple would ever switch to USB. They've got too much invested in ADB to abandon it now.
Too much invested? They were overjoyed to dump ADB, it was one of Jobs' first moves as CEO. They were USB pioneers-- USB peripherals barely existed when the first iMac was released.
I doubt Apple would ever switch to USB2. They've got too much invested in Firewire to abandon it now.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Last I checked you can't even use USB2 on Final Cut (this may have changed or be changing, I admit I may be wrong.) If you're talking simply about iPods it was a natural switch with the Windows model, but until DV has another standard for importing footage Apple has not and will not abandon Firewire.
I doubt Apple would ever switch to Intel CPUs. They've got too much invested in PowerPC to abandon it now.
Seems to me this was also a case of a dead end and the choice wasn't necessarily theirs. Could be wrong, there's certainly a thousand different opinions on why this happened.
I doubt Apple would ever switch to PDF. They've got too much invested in QuickDraw to abandon it now.
Not really sure this one works at all, way too simplistic and just one of the side effects of the OS X switch IIRC. Quickdraw wasn't dumped as much as it mutated.
I doubt Apple would ever switch to VGA/DVI. They've got too much invested in their proprietary video connector to abandon it now.
They went from proprietary connectors to VGA to proprietary connectors (ADC, ugh) to DVI. The less said about this the better, IMO, but it always seemed in flux and I always had the impression whatever video connector they were using was temporary (and hardly a case for "too much invested")
I doubt Apple would ever switch to a multi-button mouse. They've got too much invested in the single button mouse to abandon it now.
Dragged kicking and screaming here too, I'd say. And they still don't make two-button laptops.
Meanwhile none of this really has anything to do with the iTunes store, and certainly has little to do with whether DRM will remain on their AACs. As it hass been stated many times in this discussion I would think the decision is not Apple's to make (they do have business agreements with the labels, after all.) What should be obvious is that they won't take a step backwards to mp3, whether they end up selling unrestricted AACs or not.
Do you think the average Google employee knows how to install a toilet main?
+ toilet+main&btnG=Google+Search
I know how they could find out fast:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=installing+a
I guess if I buy it I'll have to get a new phone when my service is up in 2yrs...sorta like my Ipod. Sheesh!
No, you can replace the battery relatively easily, or have a service do it for much less than the cost of a new iPod and for a modest charge over the actual cost of the battery (as in $15-30.) When this complaint is thrown around it makes it sound like if only the battery was easily replaced by the user it would cost nothing. Not so, the battery itself is expensive whether you do it yourself or not.
By the way you, or at least most iPhone customers will probably buy a new model at the end of their contract (if not before.) Not because the battery is dead (though that may be the excuse), but because (as any iPod or Mac owner knows) there will be a new model out (or two!) that make the 1st generation look and feel horribly dated. The attention to design-- and constant radical change-- is one of the secrets to Apple's success. A Dell laptop or Creative mp3 player from 2002,2003 or even 2004 looks relatively up to date today (if you notice it at all)... But an Apple product looks out of date in a couple of years. Think of how dated the original shuffle looks now, or a lamp-style iMac, or Titanium powerbook or even g4 ibook.
(BTW I think the sealed case sucks too, but this is a relatively minor issue that is constantly blown way out of proportion with the iPod. The phone may be another matter, as having a spare for when you run out of power "in the field" is much more necessary, but I think it's safe to assume there will be a third-party add-on for a spare battery or quick charge)
I think episodic content could be a good thing, particularly in a story-based RPG.
Think of it as the difference between a great television show or an epic movie. In a movie everything has to be "big." You basically have half of the first act for exposition before the main plot unfolds. And the story itself must be of epic proportions, even world-shattering (certainly character changing.) Put simply a movie is almost always about the most important thing that ever happened to this set of characters and the world they inhabit.
An episodic show, on the other hand, can really dig into the little things. Characters build, the world develops. You get a level of detail you would never get in a feature film. It is a lot of little stories that lead to one big one. There is much more room for minor conflicts and even humor. Television gets a bad rap and much of it is crap (in part because many series are dragged out much longer than they should be) but when it's good (like The Sopranos) it's really good, and you get to know the characters and world much better than you possibly could if the story was told in a two hour feature.
I don't know if Bioware is thinking along these lines but if they are I would certainly be interested. In an RPG for example every episode could be self contained and appropriate for the character's level. The first few would be based around his or her area of origin, gradually expanding to other areas of the world as the series progresses and the character grows. You can concentrate on dealing with the issues and hand and won't have the carrot dangling in from of you of rapidly levelling up to get to the end boss because that part of the story isn't ready to be told yet. In short an epic story could be told in a larger story arc, as the sum of many smaller stories along the way.
1 Switch to an ATI card. They always seem to work better with OS X. I don't know why, but the NVIDIA cards never seem to work that well for me in OS X.
You're suggesting that he purchase a new card on his own dime to correct the problem?
2 Take out one stick of memory. 3GB is kind of excessive IMO for OS X unless you REALLY need that much memory. I used to run WoW, iTunes, Firefox, Ventrilo, and other apps just fine (when I played WoW) and never had any memory issues with 2 GB. I think the Mac Pro benefits from interleaving as well (don't quote me on that, I don't have one) and requires a specific memory configuration.
There are plenty of reasons a Mac Pro owner would need over 2 gigs. Real time rendering in Final Cut or Motion, for example. Or large Photoshop files (particularly with the Rosetta crutch.) He uses WOW as an example but I doubt he bought a $3000 workstation to run a game that will play on an iMac. At least I hope he didn't.
3 Play WoW under windows with bootcamp. It was always a little faster for me under XP than OS X, but my subscription ran out a little while ago.
Obviously unacceptable. Booting Windows is not a solution. For one, you'll be going online, which means you will need to become a Windows security expert quickly-- and you will have to purchase a retail copy of XP, again on your own dime, to solve a problem Apple should fix.
This is Apple's problem. If it is a known issue they should fix it, or issue a recall to replace the cards. If the machine is under warranty he needs to raise a continual stink to get the problem fixed (one thing I do know about Apple support, if you draw one "genius" who won't help you you have to keep trying until you find one who will.)
As I live and work in a major city (L.A.) and rarely leave my 10-mile radius I would love an electric car. Unfortunately, I live in an apartment and park on the street. No, I do not think an extension cord would work.
That seems to be a paradox I haven't seen addressed. Electric cars seem to be designed for urban drivers with short commutes. Many of those who live in urban areas do not have a garage and charging would be difficult, if not impossible. Will there be a way to "fill" the battery as quickly and easily as you can at a gas station?