I Cracked my iPhone the first time I dropped it, 30 seconds flat. But if you read the fine print, it turns out Apples warranty doesn't cover the screen.
On the off chance that you're not trolling, why would you think the warranty would cover accidental damage? If I run my car into a tree during the first 5/50, they're not going to give me a new car because the car was defective.
I think Apple would happily replace the screen if something happened that was a manufacturing defect. If you can convince someone that dropping your phone is the latter, then you have far better debating skills than I.
Finally, they asked me how much I thought it was worth. I told them that I'd pay $500.
Yikes! You are either desperate, a liar, or maybe just really rich;-)
I really don't understand your argument. You are asserting that:
A) He's desperate to pay $500 to sign up with an agency that wanted $3500 originally? I'd say paying $3500 may be desperate. $500 is just good negotiating. Besides - he never went into detail regarding what the sevice provided. It could easily be worth $500 if they sponsor dinners / meetings / outings, etc.
B) A liar? What is so hard to believe about him *telling* the agency he thought they were worth / that he would pay $500
C) Rich? $500 is not pocket change, but neither [as the sales pitch goes] is it an excessive amount to meet a future wife / husband.
All that said, I don't think *I* would ever pay that much for something so contrived as one of these matchmaking agencies. I am forced to conclude, however, that there are some people for whom this is the best option. That number is probably a very small one though...
mirroring with RAID 0 does not take the place of regular backups of data. RAID 0 is for rapid recovery to minimize downtime is MOST instances. Data should still be backed up separately in case of a catastrophic failure.
The Robinson R22has only 160HP and is a real helicopter in widespread use as a trainer. Obviously you don't need over 800hp to get a helicopter to work.
Granted, I'm sure his aircraft weighs a great deal more than an R22.
I don't really see this as a big deal for Apple. They're [allegedly] not making much money off of music sales on iTunes. It may help bolster the popularity of the service, but does anyone really believe that all of the existing iPod owners are going to abandon ship should Universal decide to pull out completely?
There are two likely scenarios should Vivendi/Universal drop iTunes:
1) They switch to a competing DRM format with no compatibility with iPods: Users download content from peer-to-peer services / rip CDs and continue to use their players.
2) They switch to a competing store with non-DRM tracks: Users buy tracks and copy them to the iPods. Or, if the prices are much more than they are now, see #1
I'm pretty certain that what you see in that video is actually a Keynote presentation of the activation process using screenshots / mocked up screens. Probably someone slipped up on their decimal points.
Actually, I think the killer app will be uploading to YouTube from the iPhone. It would be predicated upon the chipset having H.264 encoding capabilities as well, but I see this being a potentially huge win for Apple if they could pull it off. It's the logical extension of what they're attempting to do with the platform, and it would transform video blogging and bring it to the mainstream.
...I don't think the iPhone is going to be big at all.
I disagree.
The ipod was/is huge becuase it was a relatively early entrant in a market that was just on the verge of exploding in size, and it was hugely advertised and hyped, and there wasn't any real competition for at least a couple of years.
You could say the same thing about a BMW vs. a Model T.
e.g."The Model T was / is huge because it was a relatively early entrant in a market that was just on the verge of exploding in size..."
Shouldn't we have already saturated the market for automobiles? Why would *anyone* pay USD $100,000 for a Mercedes S-class when you can get a Kia or Hyundai for 1/10th the cost? I just don't think there is a market for a $10,000+ automobile.
In comparison, perhaps you can see how your statement on the iPhone stands.
Apple doesn't need to (or, I suspect) want to take over the low end of the market [yet]. There are enough people that will pay the premium to get the latest-greatest. In addition to the novelty factor, I think it really will be much easier to use than existing phones, lack of tactile feedback notwithstanding.
The target market for this product is someone with the disposable income to purchase a product at this price point, looking for extreme ease of use, but still wanting some of the gee-whiz features that previously required a difficult-to-use smartphone.
Plenty of people are paying $349 for a product that is roughly the same size and has far fewer functions (iPod 60G). I don't think it's a big deal to pay an extra $150 and get a phone along with it. I believe that ten million people will agree with me.
It occurred to me...Could this encoding be vulnerable to a sort of 'buffer overflow' type attack? i.e., if the data encodes for the duplication of the 'data' DNA, wouldn't it be possible, by artfully crafting the data, to compel the bacterium to produce an altered copy that would do other than its designers intended? It seems like this could be very useful, or potentially very dangerous.
As many people in this forum have noted, the 0x86 Mac is just an expensive plain-vanilla 0x86 PC that you can buy from Dell at a much lower price. There really is no way for Apple to "lock" its MacOS and to prevent it from being run on a Dell PC. Also, there really is no way for Microsoft to "lock" Vista and to prevent it from being run on an 0x86 Mac.
You keep using "0x86". I think you mean "x86", denoting [3456]86 chips. 0x86 is the standard representation for the hexadecimal equivalent of the number '134'.:)
I disagree with your assertion. I often use lynx (a text-only browser) to access sites, both internal to my company and externally. Sometimes when you are connected via an SSH connection, console is all you have. It is very annoying to me when sites make use of javascript as the only method of navigating a site, especially when it detracts from normal functionality. It is not that difficult to make a very basic site that allows for at least a minimal level of functionality to a text-based user.
I don't work for them (really), but I own one, and you might want to check out washing machines at askousa.com. They're front loaders and do up to (IIRC) 7 rinses. They state (pretty accurately, I think) that most american top-loaders leave most of the soap in the clothes. They're not cheap appliances, but you can usually find used ones for relatively low prices. I don't know if that would help or not, but it sounds like you'd benefit from having less detergent, etc. left in your clothing.
"But, despite the violent times our country was born in, they didn't have liabilities like extremely efficient transportation and communication systems or weapons of mass destruction. I don't know how the right to bear arms would have been drafted if the writers of the constitution wrote for today's world, nor how the search & siesure clause would be different. I do know that we often times have defacto freedoms greater than what the founders envisioned because advances in technology and infrastructure have given me the freedom to call my parent who live 200 miles away or go visit them and return home within a single day. Granted, this new freedom isn't quite the same as freedom of speach, but it is no less a freedom available to me."
The specifics of the law or laws are not the point, it goes to the fundamental philosophy and foundation of our country. We were created as a nation of the free, and that is what the framers had in mind; a philosophy of government that explicitly states that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"
This concept is key: that man's right derive from God or their creator, whether or not you believe in a universal creator or god or what have you, the concept remains the same. The rights we have are not those endowed by other men, or by government, but rights which we have implicitly as human beings. The fact that our country recognizes [recognized?] this is what has set us apart through the last two centuries. The fact that our country is based on these principles is what has led people here, to escape oppression, to find freedom, to find a country where they can be considered upon the basis of their acts rather than their lineage.
To eliminate these rights for any reason, even if that purported reason is to "preserve" our freedom and protect us from "terrorists", is to forsake all for which our predecessors fought.
I sympathize deeply with those who have lost family or friends due to the tragedy of 9/11. Raw statistics, however, shame use with the fact that we lose far more people to car accidents each year than died in 9/11. Yes, terrorists could explode a radiological or nuclear device and wipe out a city. There are concrete measures we can take to help prevent such a thing. Fundamentally, though, it is impossible to completely prevent an attack by a determined adversary that is willing to sacrifice their life to take yours. Despite all of our precautions, and even if we give up all of our freedoms to live in a police state, someone can still get through if they are determined enough. All we will have accomplished is to destroy the freedoms we have - a goal we attribute to the terrorists, yet are accomplishing on our own.
Needing to have a library card is one thing. Asecret search is a different story and something altogether different.
I'm not opposed to showing ID to board a plane. I don't, however, like the thought of my email, phone calls, and other communications being secretly monitored because I might be 'a person of interest', said monitoring being approved by a
secret court.
I'm not anti-military and I'm not anti-government. I just feel that the provisions of the constitution regarding things like freedom of speech and unreasonable search and seizure are there for a reason. Many people have died so that we could have these rights and we're giving them up quietly, one by one, in bits and pieces.
"RFID chip implants don't have to be mandatory. All you have to do is make it a rule that you can't fly, or cross the border, or get a drivers license without one."
"Are you implying that Americans will just sit back and let that happen in the first place? I don't know a single person that would stand for the government pulling that one over on us."
Substitute:
The government will set up 'Free Speech Zones' where protesters must stand, set apart from regular crowds
People will be held without a trial for indefinite periods of time, without access to counsel and without even public mention made of the fact that they have been imprisoned
The government will perform wiretaps and searches without specific cause, and without receiving a court order, or with the permission of 'secret courts', the membership and findings of which must remain sealed
I'm sure all of us would have said...
Are you implying that Americans will just sit back and let that happen in the first place? I don't know a single person that would stand for the government pulling that one over on us.
"Or just blame piracy. See, it's win-win. Blaming piracy can never lose because it's unfalsifiable.
Blame pirates, being suing people randomly/needlessly. There are three possibilities:
1) Sales go up (The pirates were the problem! Let's kill the bastards!
2) Sales go down. (We aren't being harsh enough on the pirates! They're still stealing from us, we need to crack down harder!)
3) Sales stay the same. (The pirates are still pirating as much as they always have, we need to send a firmer message! KILL THE PIRATES!)"
Seems like if you substitute 'terrorists' for 'pirates', and 'terrorism' for 'sales', you could have a workable foreign policy / justification for a domestic spying program...
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I love the performance comparison bar graphs in TFA. Anyone have any idea what application was used to generate them?
No, you wouldn't really want a single expensive 1TB drive eggbasket -- what you'd want is a couple smaller drives to RAID together for redundancy plus performance higher than a single, big, slow drive could provide.
Actually, yes, I would. I'd want eight of them to put into a raid 5 array. That's still only 7TB.
You make the incorrect assumption that someone would only want 1TB total.
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On the off chance that you're not trolling, why would you think the warranty would cover accidental damage? If I run my car into a tree during the first 5/50, they're not going to give me a new car because the car was defective.
I think Apple would happily replace the screen if something happened that was a manufacturing defect. If you can convince someone that dropping your phone is the latter, then you have far better debating skills than I.
I really don't understand your argument. You are asserting that:
A) He's desperate to pay $500 to sign up with an agency that wanted $3500 originally? I'd say paying $3500 may be desperate. $500 is just good negotiating. Besides - he never went into detail regarding what the sevice provided. It could easily be worth $500 if they sponsor dinners / meetings / outings, etc.
B) A liar? What is so hard to believe about him *telling* the agency he thought they were worth / that he would pay $500
C) Rich? $500 is not pocket change, but neither [as the sales pitch goes] is it an excessive amount to meet a future wife / husband.
All that said, I don't think *I* would ever pay that much for something so contrived as one of these matchmaking agencies. I am forced to conclude, however, that there are some people for whom this is the best option. That number is probably a very small one though...
RAID 0 != mirroring.
See: RAID 1
It's the difference between HA [High Availability] and DR [Disaster Recovery].
Unfortunately, they suffered a disaster, not a 'mere' server failure.
All that said, my condolences to the server admin / founder, and especially, to all of the contributors. Thirteen years is a lot of data.
The Robinson R22has only 160HP and is a real helicopter in widespread use as a trainer.
Obviously you don't need over 800hp to get a helicopter to work. Granted, I'm sure his aircraft weighs a great deal more than an R22.
Cue the "Nobody needs more than []300GB []1TB []x because I don't have a reason for it" posters
How about the tradeoff between $399 and $899? (If it came with 64GB). Big market for that, I'm sure...
I don't really see this as a big deal for Apple. They're [allegedly] not making much money off of music sales on iTunes. It may help bolster the popularity of the service, but does anyone really believe that all of the existing iPod owners are going to abandon ship should Universal decide to pull out completely?
There are two likely scenarios should Vivendi/Universal drop iTunes:
1) They switch to a competing DRM format with no compatibility with iPods: Users download content from peer-to-peer services / rip CDs and continue to use their players.
2) They switch to a competing store with non-DRM tracks: Users buy tracks and copy them to the iPods. Or, if the prices are much more than they are now, see #1
I'm pretty certain that what you see in that video is actually a Keynote presentation of the activation process using screenshots / mocked up screens. Probably someone slipped up on their decimal points.
Actually, I think the killer app will be uploading to YouTube from the iPhone. It would be predicated upon the chipset having H.264 encoding capabilities as well, but I see this being a potentially huge win for Apple if they could pull it off. It's the logical extension of what they're attempting to do with the platform, and it would transform video blogging and bring it to the mainstream.
Just look on eBay
:)
In mid 2008
I disagree.
You could say the same thing about a BMW vs. a Model T.
e.g."The Model T was / is huge because it was a relatively early entrant in a market that was just on the verge of exploding in size..."
Shouldn't we have already saturated the market for automobiles? Why would *anyone* pay USD $100,000 for a Mercedes S-class when you can get a Kia or Hyundai for 1/10th the cost? I just don't think there is a market for a $10,000+ automobile.
In comparison, perhaps you can see how your statement on the iPhone stands.
Apple doesn't need to (or, I suspect) want to take over the low end of the market [yet]. There are enough people that will pay the premium to get the latest-greatest. In addition to the novelty factor, I think it really will be much easier to use than existing phones, lack of tactile feedback notwithstanding.
The target market for this product is someone with the disposable income to purchase a product at this price point, looking for extreme ease of use, but still wanting some of the gee-whiz features that previously required a difficult-to-use smartphone.
Plenty of people are paying $349 for a product that is roughly the same size and has far fewer functions (iPod 60G). I don't think it's a big deal to pay an extra $150 and get a phone along with it. I believe that ten million people will agree with me.
It occurred to me...Could this encoding be vulnerable to a sort of 'buffer overflow' type attack? i.e., if the data encodes for the duplication of the 'data' DNA, wouldn't it be possible, by artfully crafting the data, to compel the bacterium to produce an altered copy that would do other than its designers intended? It seems like this could be very useful, or potentially very dangerous.
That was my first thought, too...
You keep using "0x86". I think you mean "x86", denoting [3456]86 chips. 0x86 is the standard representation for the hexadecimal equivalent of the number '134'.
I disagree with your assertion. I often use lynx (a text-only browser) to access sites, both internal to my company and externally. Sometimes when you are connected via an SSH connection, console is all you have. It is very annoying to me when sites make use of javascript as the only method of navigating a site, especially when it detracts from normal functionality. It is not that difficult to make a very basic site that allows for at least a minimal level of functionality to a text-based user.
Don't even get me started on *flash* sites...
I don't work for them (really), but I own one, and you might want to check out washing machines at askousa.com. They're front loaders and do up to (IIRC) 7 rinses. They state (pretty accurately, I think) that most american top-loaders leave most of the soap in the clothes. They're not cheap appliances, but you can usually find used ones for relatively low prices. I don't know if that would help or not, but it sounds like you'd benefit from having less detergent, etc. left in your clothing.
To eliminate these rights for any reason, even if that purported reason is to "preserve" our freedom and protect us from "terrorists", is to forsake all for which our predecessors fought. I sympathize deeply with those who have lost family or friends due to the tragedy of 9/11. Raw statistics, however, shame use with the fact that we lose far more people to car accidents each year than died in 9/11. Yes, terrorists could explode a radiological or nuclear device and wipe out a city. There are concrete measures we can take to help prevent such a thing. Fundamentally, though, it is impossible to completely prevent an attack by a determined adversary that is willing to sacrifice their life to take yours. Despite all of our precautions, and even if we give up all of our freedoms to live in a police state, someone can still get through if they are determined enough. All we will have accomplished is to destroy the freedoms we have - a goal we attribute to the terrorists, yet are accomplishing on our own.
Asecret search is a different story and something altogether different.
I'm not opposed to showing ID to board a plane. I don't, however, like the thought of my email, phone calls, and other communications being secretly monitored because I might be 'a person of interest', said monitoring being approved by a secret court.
I'm not anti-military and I'm not anti-government. I just feel that the provisions of the constitution regarding things like freedom of speech and unreasonable search and seizure are there for a reason. Many people have died so that we could have these rights and we're giving them up quietly, one by one, in bits and pieces.
- The government will set up 'Free Speech Zones' where protesters must stand, set apart from regular crowds
- People will be held without a trial for indefinite periods of time, without access to counsel and without even public mention made of the fact that they have been imprisoned
- The government will perform wiretaps and searches without specific cause, and without receiving a court order, or with the permission of 'secret courts', the membership and findings of which must remain sealed
I'm sure all of us would have said...I love the performance comparison bar graphs in TFA. Anyone have any idea what application was used to generate them?
2^n? n being what exactly? Evidence, please?
Cool! Thanks.