It is a sad sad day for the Sun community. I am an Enterprise Solaris admin, and it requires working with Sun on almost a daily basis. I still have trouble choking down the ability to call them Oracle. The change is not going to be easy to handle, especially with the fact that Oracle Mysupport is all Flash based (ugh). Hopefully the transition goes better than Sun's last update for their support site.
I had my first experience being denied the privilege to purchase a product yesterday. I called the Apple store at the nearest mall to verify they had units in stock, which they did. I then drove the two hours to said mall, in all eagerness to buy the product. After 30 minutes in line, and 20 minutes in angry negotiation with the Apple employee, I walked out of the store without an iPhone.
They were in stock; I am an AT&T customer with an existing iPhone and eligible for an upgrade; and my account is in good standing. Unfortunately for me, there is a mysterious IFU tag on my account, which AT&T later explained means one of lines has a discount or special promotion on it, rendering me ineligible to purchase in an Apple store.
As Apple refused to sell me the phone, I asked if I could bring an AT&T employee from their kiosk (literally a few dozen meters from the Apple store) to assist with the purchase. Impossible, said Apple. I asked if they could sell the unit to the AT&T kiosk to let AT&T then sell it to me or arrange some such similar inventory transfer. Impossible, Apple said. I asked if there were any way to broker a deal in the Apple store by including an AT&T employee. No, they said, and they asked me to leave. I was, admittedly, very angry.
It's the prerogative of the company to choose how and to whom they sell their products, but it seems in infinitely bad taste to do either in so far as you are able. In fact, it seems like unmitigated arrogance to deny such a sale based on some vainglorious corporate policy to lock your device to a vendor and a service provider.
I've never been disappointed by Apple before now in my last 2 years of Apple fanboydom. But.. hot apple sauce. I still can't believe I don't currently own an iPhone 3G.
I had this same thing happen to me, it seems to be a known issue with the activation process of the new iPhone in the Apple stores. It is a relatively easy process to get around. All that is needed is a quick phone call to AT&T Customer Service, and request to have the corporate discount(or other discount) removed from your account. The whole process takes about 2 minutes, and as this is a known issue, they flag your account for review after 24 hours. Once they see the IMEI added for the new phone, they reapply the discount that was on your account. The Apple store I was at, they even called the Customer service line for me and handed me the phone and waited, to continue on with my iPhone activation.
What I would like to know is how this thing is really going to work. Does anyone actually expect teenagers to tell the truth about turning kids in, or are the just going for the ride and get all the free stuff being given out? All the recent school shootings and threats werent caused by depress kids. Depressed kids kill themselves, not 20 other people so they can sit and rott in jail. All these shootings are caused by media. If these items wouldn't be on the news everyday, they would just start to fade away, like many other things brought on by media. But because of all the publicity the media is giving, It is costing more upon everyone else, raising costs of schools because now they have to have full time security guards, metal detectors, and locked doors which make the schools look like they are ready for World War III. Whats next, security bracelets on every student so they can all be tracked. Overall I think this plan is going to be a lot more trouble than it is worth.
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It is a sad sad day for the Sun community. I am an Enterprise Solaris admin, and it requires working with Sun on almost a daily basis. I still have trouble choking down the ability to call them Oracle. The change is not going to be easy to handle, especially with the fact that Oracle Mysupport is all Flash based (ugh). Hopefully the transition goes better than Sun's last update for their support site.
I had my first experience being denied the privilege to purchase a product yesterday. I called the Apple store at the nearest mall to verify they had units in stock, which they did. I then drove the two hours to said mall, in all eagerness to buy the product. After 30 minutes in line, and 20 minutes in angry negotiation with the Apple employee, I walked out of the store without an iPhone.
They were in stock; I am an AT&T customer with an existing iPhone and eligible for an upgrade; and my account is in good standing. Unfortunately for me, there is a mysterious IFU tag on my account, which AT&T later explained means one of lines has a discount or special promotion on it, rendering me ineligible to purchase in an Apple store.
As Apple refused to sell me the phone, I asked if I could bring an AT&T employee from their kiosk (literally a few dozen meters from the Apple store) to assist with the purchase. Impossible, said Apple. I asked if they could sell the unit to the AT&T kiosk to let AT&T then sell it to me or arrange some such similar inventory transfer. Impossible, Apple said. I asked if there were any way to broker a deal in the Apple store by including an AT&T employee. No, they said, and they asked me to leave. I was, admittedly, very angry.
It's the prerogative of the company to choose how and to whom they sell their products, but it seems in infinitely bad taste to do either in so far as you are able. In fact, it seems like unmitigated arrogance to deny such a sale based on some vainglorious corporate policy to lock your device to a vendor and a service provider.
I've never been disappointed by Apple before now in my last 2 years of Apple fanboydom. But.. hot apple sauce. I still can't believe I don't currently own an iPhone 3G.
I had this same thing happen to me, it seems to be a known issue with the activation process of the new iPhone in the Apple stores. It is a relatively easy process to get around. All that is needed is a quick phone call to AT&T Customer Service, and request to have the corporate discount(or other discount) removed from your account. The whole process takes about 2 minutes, and as this is a known issue, they flag your account for review after 24 hours. Once they see the IMEI added for the new phone, they reapply the discount that was on your account. The Apple store I was at, they even called the Customer service line for me and handed me the phone and waited, to continue on with my iPhone activation.
Thats what all that extra space is for on the 10 disk raid 0. Just remember to store it in /backup or /archive so you know what it is!
Best line in the movie =)
What I would like to know is how this thing is really going to work. Does anyone actually expect teenagers to tell the truth about turning kids in, or are the just going for the ride and get all the free stuff being given out? All the recent school shootings and threats werent caused by depress kids. Depressed kids kill themselves, not 20 other people so they can sit and rott in jail. All these shootings are caused by media. If these items wouldn't be on the news everyday, they would just start to fade away, like many other things brought on by media. But because of all the publicity the media is giving, It is costing more upon everyone else, raising costs of schools because now they have to have full time security guards, metal detectors, and locked doors which make the schools look like they are ready for World War III. Whats next, security bracelets on every student so they can all be tracked. Overall I think this plan is going to be a lot more trouble than it is worth.