The guy that "found" the phone "found" a working, unlocked phone unit. Since the guy didn't bother to contact the person that lost it KNOWING WHO WAS since the phone was logged in his Facebook account, or give it back to the bartender, or make a call to ANY of the people in the contact list or redial the last number dialed, from the very beginning it was clear for Gizmodo or EnGadget that they were dealing with a thief selling stolen goods. Plain and simple.
The excuse that the thief instead did the most unintuitive, unreasonable thing, to call Apple support, and really expect to be taken seriously about he being in possession of a secret prototype iPhone, is absurd. Only a stupid moron would believe that; well, perhaps the same kind of stupid idiot that would boast publicly that he paid $5K for an stolen good.
One thing is to use your freedom of speech to oppose the government and another is to push for a coup, that is what those tv companies did. Even in the USA, if you publicly express your desire to kill the president you could end with a visit from the US Secret Service, and you could bet that if a TV station repeatedly called for the overthrow of Bush on his time or Obama now, they would end with their broadcasting license revoked by the FCC.
Now, before you think that I am a chavista tool, I will list what I think are Chávez shortcomings:
- He doesn't know when to keep is mouth shut.
- After 10 years, the security in Caracas hasn't improved noticeably
- His government has been weak in the fight against corruption
- Lack of provision in the design of the electrical grid of the country, that was under rolling blackouts.
- Inflation
Now, about his government successes:
- Increaced greatly the medical care coverture.
- A successful campaign against analfabetism.
- A big push toward education.
- The strengtening of the OPEP that helped to increase noticeably the governments income from the oil.
- The new metro line (or lines) in Caracas.
- The steady recovery of real wages under his government, despite the inflation.
Sadly, looks like for the 75% of americans, killing, poisoning or maiming people around the world is not bad if it doesn't end affecting them or their pocket.
Aside from that, it kills the internal market. If I were an american citizen, I would request that this guy will be sent has soon has possible to the front in Afghanistan. Any of the kids fighting there is a better representative than this as**ole.
I wasn't aware that Mexico already annexed the United States of America.
Here this type of deals are very common. In fact, the majority of largest local and foreign corporations in Mexico pay after tax credits, tax cuts and deductions around USD$6.5 of income tax every year, I repeat: USD$6.5 of income tax every year. How much the working/.ter pays now?
Meanwhile, the shrinking middle class pays 28% income taxes, 16% VAT and, to add insult to injury, a 2% tax on bank deposits if they go over USD$1,100 monthly. This inequity is one of the main reasons that the country is currently a fucking hell hole that makes people prefer to die in Arizona's desert than to risk to spend the rest of their lives in this miserable place. If americans don't act now your country will become like ours really soon.
In fact, modern USA is on the same track that Mexico has been in the last 30 years. 30 years ago, Mexico and Korea were very similar countries in their development. Now, Korea is a first world country and a thecnical and economical powerhouse. The dumb people that deny healthcare to their own countrymen don't understand that the infectious diseases of the untreated will eventually reach them or their loved ones, that the lack of opportunities and education for the poor will bite them in the ass with a severe increase in crime, or that the lack of respect of humans rights and workers rights will end in economic crisis, just like the last years. Now if this guy wants go live in Mexico, Somalia or North Korea, that is his choice.
You don't even need to do that. Last week in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, the port and the cruise ship "Princess of the Sea" (or something like that) needed to be evacuated and searched by Mexican Navy units because some dumbass called with a fake bomb threat asking for a big sum of money for not blowing up the ship. The economic damage could easily go up to several million US dollars, like if our tourism industry didn't ad already enough troubles.
It is counterproductive. Nobody likes to be called sheep or idiot. Thats the main reason why most geeks doesn't have significant other. Thinking that everybody is stupid except oneself is the fastest way to be disliked.
The problem is that most of the whining here comes from people that looks like "rebel" adolescents, not people with purchasing power. They will be dissmised acordingly.
I used in my first trip to Japan my Macbook and Google maps to find my way around Tokyo an Kyoto; I would love to have something like this at the time, the iPad is small enough to fit inside a women's bag or a coat pouch, and very light. This coupled with a car kit will be an amazing GPS device.
Thanks to the public libraries, the public school system of Mexico and UN's UNESCO is that I earn a good paycheck and, instead of cleaning windshields like many poor uneducated people does here or joining the half million people in Mexico that works for the drug lords.
Now I pay USD$13,000 yearly in taxes, perhaps I already paid around USD$70,000 in all my productive years. I no regret it, but really loathe the stupid clowns/corporate lap dogs politicians that have made Mexico the damned hell hole that it currently is.
It helps to force web developers to design their sites based on standards, not for the browser with the largest market share. I have many friends with Apple computers that use exclusively Firefox even when Safari on OS X is a very good browser. This helps a little to keep the overall security of the plataform up, since you can't be sure that all users of OS X also are users of Safari.
Nokia tried and failed to make a gaming platform, the NGage; Apple released the iPod Touch and iPhone, that are a sucess, to say that only the iPod and the iPhone only succeeded because they had good marketing is ridiculous. A good development environment, a good distribution system for third party developers, a good OS and good compromises in the hardware design helped to make both devices the gold standard in their respective markets. The fact that Nokia wants so badly a cross licensing agreement with Apple is a strong indication that really Apple developed valuable IP.
Is that most people here in Mexico couldn't pay for software even if they really, really wanted to. When the minimum wage is around USD$3.5 daily, the average income is USD$9 daily, there is not enough spare money to pay USD$200 +16% VAT for commonly used software. I personally, pay for almost all the software that I use, but then, I have a good enough income that could keep honest people honest. The shameful and stupid failure (I still think that this was made on purpose to kiss Bill Gates ass, even the panistas aren't that incompetent) of the Fox's administration to successfully promote the use of Linux in Mexico's schools in the early 2000's kept Microsoft entrenchment in the OS and apps arena in the country, making rampant piracy and corruption the norm in computer use.
Aside from that, Nokia is being trollish when they are stating that not only the iPhone -that any reasonable person would be lead to believe that could be infringing Nokia's patents and that Apple must pay Nokia a reasonable amount from Nokia's POV for the license to use key cell phone technology- but also the iPod and Apple computers are infringing Nokia's IP. That weakens Nokia's case, aside from the fact that after the iPhone, all phone manufacturers rushed to do iPhone look-alikes or "iPhone killers", including Nokia. As a happy owner of products from both companies, I only wish that this litigation doesn't end hurting consumers.
My older brother and I used to find in the same bus we ride to go back home from the school a guy who was studying Electronics Engineering. It was really neat to see his protoboard with all those wires and strange -at the time- components. It inspired both of us to study Electronics. If this kid's motion detector really worked, perhaps it could have inspired his friends to study harder an make other interesting projects. Instead, the kids learned that they shouldn't make anything that could inspire irrational fear on adults and to be fearful too.
Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School motto: working hard to make USA a third world country since xxxx.
You guys need proportional representation (sp?) for Congress; also you need more citizens and less "consummers". I used to look up to the USA, but these days America looks more and more like it is becoming a north Mexico. Sad.
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Not securing written permission to install it was his worst mistake. They would get him on court. Now, they sould fire the dumbass that put in place the policy of keeping the computers on 24h everyday. In Alaska that waste heat could have been useful, in Arizona is plainly stupid.
At 20w extra per machine, they would add 341200 BTU's per hour those 5k pc's. Nice on winter, awful on Arizona's spring-summer. I can't think of a worst environment to learn that a hot and noisy computer classroom.
I use a USB fan connected to my Time Capsule to protect it from overheating, since in my city the mean temp is around 28-32C and electricity prices are really high, so using AC is out of the question. In fact, I use fans on everything: entertainment center furniture, computer furniture, aquarium, fridge, etc. etc. I must have around 20 DC fans around the house:)
Yup, looks like there is a significant minority of really mad people in USA. When an american citizen can get better and cheaper health care in a fucked up hell hole like Mexico than in USA, really its time to give a hard look to the state of the american health care industry. If the current bills are bad, well, write to your congressman to suggest changes to improve them. Its really pathetic to see the americans argue about how they can't build a better health care system than the mexicans, canadians, british or french.
But also, at least Obama is a man that deserves respect, his more nuanced approach on international politics leaves with less ammo all the guys around the world that used and abused the fact that the USA under Bush was ruled by mad militaristic coward oilmen driving and Express train to fascist hell. More than Obama, the prize goes for the tenuos mayority of american people that want peace and a change; this is a obvious way to strengten the hand of the americans that think that is better to use the taxpayers money providing health care to the american citizens than using it to blow up houses or cities or to put even more puppet regimes around the world.
That means a lot for the rest of the world, because even if we like it or not, America still is the most influential and powerful country in the planet.
There was an issue with the firmware. I had one from the first generation too. The problem was solved with a firmware uptdate; of course, I would have liked better to not need a firmware update to stop my Mac hanging or overheating. On the plus side, that machine is still working today after 3 years of use and abuse. About the chargers, I would like them to be made of alluminium too -except for the plug part, naturally. When they are charging the battery and the computer is working too, they get unconfortably hot, but not enough has the GP said to need a kitchen glove. If what the GP says is true, he got a faulty machine.
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The guy that "found" the phone "found" a working, unlocked phone unit. Since the guy didn't bother to contact the person that lost it KNOWING WHO WAS since the phone was logged in his Facebook account, or give it back to the bartender, or make a call to ANY of the people in the contact list or redial the last number dialed, from the very beginning it was clear for Gizmodo or EnGadget that they were dealing with a thief selling stolen goods. Plain and simple.
The excuse that the thief instead did the most unintuitive, unreasonable thing, to call Apple support, and really expect to be taken seriously about he being in possession of a secret prototype iPhone, is absurd. Only a stupid moron would believe that; well, perhaps the same kind of stupid idiot that would boast publicly that he paid $5K for an stolen good.
Sadly, Mexico has lost the monopoly in this stupid behavior too -.-
One thing is to use your freedom of speech to oppose the government and another is to push for a coup, that is what those tv companies did. Even in the USA, if you publicly express your desire to kill the president you could end with a visit from the US Secret Service, and you could bet that if a TV station repeatedly called for the overthrow of Bush on his time or Obama now, they would end with their broadcasting license revoked by the FCC.
Now, before you think that I am a chavista tool, I will list what I think are Chávez shortcomings:
- He doesn't know when to keep is mouth shut.
- After 10 years, the security in Caracas hasn't improved noticeably
- His government has been weak in the fight against corruption
- Lack of provision in the design of the electrical grid of the country, that was under rolling blackouts.
- Inflation
Now, about his government successes:
- Increaced greatly the medical care coverture.
- A successful campaign against analfabetism.
- A big push toward education.
- The strengtening of the OPEP that helped to increase noticeably the governments income from the oil.
- The new metro line (or lines) in Caracas.
- The steady recovery of real wages under his government, despite the inflation.
Sadly, looks like for the 75% of americans, killing, poisoning or maiming people around the world is not bad if it doesn't end affecting them or their pocket.
Aside from that, it kills the internal market. If I were an american citizen, I would request that this guy will be sent has soon has possible to the front in Afghanistan. Any of the kids fighting there is a better representative than this as**ole.
I wasn't aware that Mexico already annexed the United States of America.
Here this type of deals are very common. In fact, the majority of largest local and foreign corporations in Mexico pay after tax credits, tax cuts and deductions around USD$6.5 of income tax every year, I repeat: USD$6.5 of income tax every year. How much the working /.ter pays now?
Meanwhile, the shrinking middle class pays 28% income taxes, 16% VAT and, to add insult to injury, a 2% tax on bank deposits if they go over USD$1,100 monthly. This inequity is one of the main reasons that the country is currently a fucking hell hole that makes people prefer to die in Arizona's desert than to risk to spend the rest of their lives in this miserable place. If americans don't act now your country will become like ours really soon.
In fact, modern USA is on the same track that Mexico has been in the last 30 years. 30 years ago, Mexico and Korea were very similar countries in their development. Now, Korea is a first world country and a thecnical and economical powerhouse. The dumb people that deny healthcare to their own countrymen don't understand that the infectious diseases of the untreated will eventually reach them or their loved ones, that the lack of opportunities and education for the poor will bite them in the ass with a severe increase in crime, or that the lack of respect of humans rights and workers rights will end in economic crisis, just like the last years. Now if this guy wants go live in Mexico, Somalia or North Korea, that is his choice.
You don't even need to do that. Last week in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, the port and the cruise ship "Princess of the Sea" (or something like that) needed to be evacuated and searched by Mexican Navy units because some dumbass called with a fake bomb threat asking for a big sum of money for not blowing up the ship. The economic damage could easily go up to several million US dollars, like if our tourism industry didn't ad already enough troubles.
It is counterproductive. Nobody likes to be called sheep or idiot. Thats the main reason why most geeks doesn't have significant other. Thinking that everybody is stupid except oneself is the fastest way to be disliked.
The problem is that most of the whining here comes from people that looks like "rebel" adolescents, not people with purchasing power. They will be dissmised acordingly.
Subject says it all.
I used in my first trip to Japan my Macbook and Google maps to find my way around Tokyo an Kyoto; I would love to have something like this at the time, the iPad is small enough to fit inside a women's bag or a coat pouch, and very light. This coupled with a car kit will be an amazing GPS device.
Thanks to the public libraries, the public school system of Mexico and UN's UNESCO is that I earn a good paycheck and, instead of cleaning windshields like many poor uneducated people does here or joining the half million people in Mexico that works for the drug lords.
Now I pay USD$13,000 yearly in taxes, perhaps I already paid around USD$70,000 in all my productive years. I no regret it, but really loathe the stupid clowns/corporate lap dogs politicians that have made Mexico the damned hell hole that it currently is.
It helps to force web developers to design their sites based on standards, not for the browser with the largest market share. I have many friends with Apple computers that use exclusively Firefox even when Safari on OS X is a very good browser. This helps a little to keep the overall security of the plataform up, since you can't be sure that all users of OS X also are users of Safari.
Nokia tried and failed to make a gaming platform, the NGage; Apple released the iPod Touch and iPhone, that are a sucess, to say that only the iPod and the iPhone only succeeded because they had good marketing is ridiculous. A good development environment, a good distribution system for third party developers, a good OS and good compromises in the hardware design helped to make both devices the gold standard in their respective markets. The fact that Nokia wants so badly a cross licensing agreement with Apple is a strong indication that really Apple developed valuable IP.
developed by Tim Bersner Lee on a NeXT computer. Following your "logic", Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and Facebook didn't develop anything of worth.
Is that most people here in Mexico couldn't pay for software even if they really, really wanted to. When the minimum wage is around USD$3.5 daily, the average income is USD$9 daily, there is not enough spare money to pay USD$200 +16% VAT for commonly used software. I personally, pay for almost all the software that I use, but then, I have a good enough income that could keep honest people honest. The shameful and stupid failure (I still think that this was made on purpose to kiss Bill Gates ass, even the panistas aren't that incompetent) of the Fox's administration to successfully promote the use of Linux in Mexico's schools in the early 2000's kept Microsoft entrenchment in the OS and apps arena in the country, making rampant piracy and corruption the norm in computer use.
Aside from that, Nokia is being trollish when they are stating that not only the iPhone -that any reasonable person would be lead to believe that could be infringing Nokia's patents and that Apple must pay Nokia a reasonable amount from Nokia's POV for the license to use key cell phone technology- but also the iPod and Apple computers are infringing Nokia's IP. That weakens Nokia's case, aside from the fact that after the iPhone, all phone manufacturers rushed to do iPhone look-alikes or "iPhone killers", including Nokia. As a happy owner of products from both companies, I only wish that this litigation doesn't end hurting consumers.
My older brother and I used to find in the same bus we ride to go back home from the school a guy who was studying Electronics Engineering. It was really neat to see his protoboard with all those wires and strange -at the time- components. It inspired both of us to study Electronics. If this kid's motion detector really worked, perhaps it could have inspired his friends to study harder an make other interesting projects. Instead, the kids learned that they shouldn't make anything that could inspire irrational fear on adults and to be fearful too.
Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School motto: working hard to make USA a third world country since xxxx.
You guys need proportional representation (sp?) for Congress; also you need more citizens and less "consummers". I used to look up to the USA, but these days America looks more and more like it is becoming a north Mexico. Sad.
Not securing written permission to install it was his worst mistake. They would get him on court. Now, they sould fire the dumbass that put in place the policy of keeping the computers on 24h everyday. In Alaska that waste heat could have been useful, in Arizona is plainly stupid.
At 20w extra per machine, they would add 341200 BTU's per hour those 5k pc's. Nice on winter, awful on Arizona's spring-summer. I can't think of a worst environment to learn that a hot and noisy computer classroom.
I use a USB fan connected to my Time Capsule to protect it from overheating, since in my city the mean temp is around 28-32C and electricity prices are really high, so using AC is out of the question. In fact, I use fans on everything: entertainment center furniture, computer furniture, aquarium, fridge, etc. etc. I must have around 20 DC fans around the house :)
Yup, looks like there is a significant minority of really mad people in USA. When an american citizen can get better and cheaper health care in a fucked up hell hole like Mexico than in USA, really its time to give a hard look to the state of the american health care industry. If the current bills are bad, well, write to your congressman to suggest changes to improve them. Its really pathetic to see the americans argue about how they can't build a better health care system than the mexicans, canadians, british or french.
But also, at least Obama is a man that deserves respect, his more nuanced approach on international politics leaves with less ammo all the guys around the world that used and abused the fact that the USA under Bush was ruled by mad militaristic coward oilmen driving and Express train to fascist hell. More than Obama, the prize goes for the tenuos mayority of american people that want peace and a change; this is a obvious way to strengten the hand of the americans that think that is better to use the taxpayers money providing health care to the american citizens than using it to blow up houses or cities or to put even more puppet regimes around the world.
That means a lot for the rest of the world, because even if we like it or not, America still is the most influential and powerful country in the planet.
There was an issue with the firmware. I had one from the first generation too. The problem was solved with a firmware uptdate; of course, I would have liked better to not need a firmware update to stop my Mac hanging or overheating. On the plus side, that machine is still working today after 3 years of use and abuse. About the chargers, I would like them to be made of alluminium too -except for the plug part, naturally. When they are charging the battery and the computer is working too, they get unconfortably hot, but not enough has the GP said to need a kitchen glove. If what the GP says is true, he got a faulty machine.