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  1. Re:Why? on WWDC Sells Out In 2 Minutes; Ticket On eBay 45 Minutes Later · · Score: 0

    And what problems can they answer for you that you can't solve using the internet? If you are creating something for a product yet to come out, then you are already in a program where they will field your questions via..the Internet.

    The only reason I would want to go is to slap the designer of the xcode IDE.

    It's a great IDE...if it was 1999.
    horrid.

  2. The real question is on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a System Integration Room At VAR? · · Score: 1

    why are they letting someone who doesn't even know the basics set up a 100 Million dollar VAR?

  3. Re:VAR = what? on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a System Integration Room At VAR? · · Score: -1

    Proper use of an acronym is that you spell it out once. It's not like there are a dozen different meanings of VAR.

  4. Re:Does this really surprise anyone? on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    TMobile is great.
    There service in the 12 or so years I have been with them has always been exceptional. The last time I went to upgrade my phone(Nexus 4), they found a better plan without me asking He just said "Did you know we offer this plan, it gets you 4g, and based on you usage you won't exceed the minute...and it has unlimited texts." I walked out with a new phone, and a 60 dollar drop in my monthly rate, and that includes the 20 a month for the phone. 0% loan? sign me up.

    I literally can no imagine better customer services. within reason, natch.

  5. Re:It is no-contract *service* on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    It would if that was the the agreement you made when you bought the car. You can also use those services with a car you own and then you can go to another service station without incurring fees.

    You can also get a personal loan, pay for the phone up front. Then you can take the phone and not pay off the loan. Of course with TMobile its a 0% loan, and a personal loan will have higher interest rate.

  6. Re:Idiot on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    The is no fee for cancelling the service,. You do have the choice to enter into an agreement regarding paying off the phone over time. If you agree to that, then you agree to payoff the loan, and 0% interests and fees at the time you decide to go elsewhere.

    T-mobile offers exactly what the advertise. They also offer other services for people who want to pay for a smart phone over time at 0%

    It might as well say "Washington AG gets mad becasue company offers service besides what they advertise."

  7. Re:What an idiot on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    Then don't get the fucking loan.

    Seriously, you can't afford the 20 bucks then you shouldn't have a smart phone.

    "Else, why the installment in the first place?"
    good financial understanding. it's a 0% loan. I can keep the 600 dollars in my bank and use it as leverage for other things, while paying a 0% loan over time.

    If you can't understand that, then..well enjoy mediocrity.

    "part here is the "stay or pay" gun to the chest."
    Gun to the chest? yeah it's exactly the same as killing someone one. way to keep prespective Capt. Mediocre

  8. Re:Car analogy on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    It's like getting a car from shell and a 0% loan with the agreement you use shell for gas.
    You can also use Shell without a contract, if you paid for your car.

  9. Re:Car analogy on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    ", it's the phone that has a loan (contract). "
    IF you want to do that, you can also bring in your own devices, or pay outright.

  10. Re:Car analogy on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    Except they offer EXACTLY what they advertise. They also offer other things as well.
    Here is the ads I have seen:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N9N1jYw_kA

    and this one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOP3cFzZehU

    and here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rRjIGAlIdI

  11. Re:Car analogy on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    Becasue people insit on a car example, here is an accurate one.

    A car dealership has no contract cars. You pay cash and leave.

    TMobile has a no contract service, you pay for the phone, and you are good to go.

    They offer EXACTLY what the advertise.
    Car dealerships ALSO have car purchasing contracts, loans.

    Tmobile ALSO offers contract services.

    The only difference is in T-mobile case, they are ALSO the loan company.

  12. Re:exactly the same as Blockbuster on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    Can you not think of complex things? can you count past 3?

    T-Mobile offers a no contract. They ALSO offer other things. So yes, you can get service without a contract. OR you can get it with a contract; whichever works for you.

  13. Re:exactly the same as Blockbuster on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    once a gain? no, this is the exception. Big business usually deserves what it gets.

  14. Re:The next Clippy? on IBM Robotic Coworker Will Help Engineers Fix Broken Systems · · Score: 1

    It won't be perfect! why then never build anything that won't be perfect again.

  15. I have a concern on IBM Robotic Coworker Will Help Engineers Fix Broken Systems · · Score: 1

    I'm just scared I'll come home one day and find it screwing a toaster.

  16. Re:Perhaps they didn't have a choice? on Device Keeps Liver Alive Outside Body For 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    Give back you medical degree. It isn't then only organ that can regenerate.

  17. Re:exactly the same as Blockbuster on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it's not. The advertise no contract; which the provide. If you don't want to pay for the phone up front, you can pay for it over time. Obviously if you leave before you are done paying for it, they want the rest of the money you own them for the phone.

  18. What an idiot on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The contract is only if you don't pay for the phone upfront. Obviously if you are pating for it a month at a time they want you to finish paying before you leave.

    Right now, you can walk into a T Mobile store, plunk down cash and get a smartphone and not have a contract beyond a month to month agreement; which you can end without fees.

    I wonder if it was AT&T or Verizon the complained?

  19. Re:Let's not kid ourselves here on Netflix: 'Arrested Development' Won't Crash Our Service · · Score: 1

    Don't underestimate the networks to bungle any show outside there normal expected pattern.

    I love Arrested Development, but I don't have high hopes for it's return. I don't know if they can recapture the high energy.

    Also, I love Futurama.

    Interestingly enough, I never even hear dog the show until it went off the air. I suspect there advertising was such it didn't draw my attention.

    I know about 20 people I've got to watch it and they all seem to enjoy it.

    So who knows. Maybe it was in a bad time slot.

    Not that I'm telling YOU to like it or that you are wrong no to like it. I hate those assholes.
    It is clever.

  20. Re:OH NO! Not again! on Modelling Reveals Likely Spread of New H7N9 Avian Flu · · Score: 0

    You, and apparently the motley fool, are completely ignorant on who flu vaccines are paid for and handled.

    "when what actually happens is that the people who die tend to be elderly or otherwise already sick"
    WRONG fuck twad. The last influenza epidemic killed health people as well. ..while healthy adults fight it off pretty easily.
    Wrong ag.. you know what? fuck you and fuck slashdot. AS some who spends time around world experts in this field I can say you are wrong. You are ignorant beyond belief. I can site extremely good studies. I can show number and prove it, but fuck you. I'll save it for actual scientists and policy makers. I just wish people like you would shut the fuck up with you ignorant statements and foolish examples. People like you create FUD.

    I hope you learn to think before you talk..or die in a fire, either way is good with me.

  21. Re:OH NO! Not again! on Modelling Reveals Likely Spread of New H7N9 Avian Flu · · Score: 2

    You're an idiot. the worse kind of idiot, a loud mouth idiot.

    "that's what they said about H5N1, "
    yes, and a lot of people dies, nad hospitales were full, and portland rea was completly out of respirators.

    It was bad, and it it had gone for another day, yes DAY, before starting to subside hospitals would have been turning people away.

    100's of people at PAX alone got very ill, and several people died.
    Dodged a bullet.

    But you don't know that right? you don't read the numbers, look at morbidity rates do you? you don't run statistics and look at the impact from over use of JIT delivery systems DO YOU?

    no, you don't. You just blow it off like nothing as if it's some scam. You are stupid. You are ignorant, you are a worthless piece of shit that needs to STFU.

  22. Re:OH NO! Not again! on Modelling Reveals Likely Spread of New H7N9 Avian Flu · · Score: 1

    You are wrong stop saying shit and pretending you know what you are talking about.
    Its an epidemic when it substantially exceed what is expected based on recent experience.

    The number of countries is irrelevant.

    God I hate people like you.

  23. Re:you call THAT a pandemic?! on Modelling Reveals Likely Spread of New H7N9 Avian Flu · · Score: 1

    It would have been if it wasn't for hard work, quick response, and well trained individuals.

  24. Re:OH NO! Not again! / Flu Apocalypse! on Modelling Reveals Likely Spread of New H7N9 Avian Flu · · Score: 2

    Exactly like it in that it was adverted, barely, through hard work.

    Every respiratory and er bad in Portland alone was completely full. If there has been literally 1 more case, they would have been turned away,and in all likely hood would have been another death..

    Yes LITERALLY.

    A lot of people died, but we cut it off. Yes jerkwads show up saying how it was nothing because they are ignorant SOBs.
    Epidemic hits:"WHY DIDN'T YOU DO SOMETHING!!!"
    epidemic averted through hard word: "YOU DID ALL THAT FOR NOTHING!!!!"

    Fucking idiots.

  25. Re:Do they know why? on NASA Lets Us Watch the Sun Spin For 3 Years In 4 Minute Video · · Score: 2

    Haha yes scientists don't get sex haha. yeah, that's new.

    Yawn. Got anything YOU might have thought up?