And how would that be measured (non-invasively)? Blood pressure is read by squeezing off the artery and listening and watching for the various points in the pulse. If there is no pulse, there is no measurement.
See the response above. We had an appointment, arrived within our time slot and got sent to the back of the bus because we were a few minutes late (due to a traffic accident). We we not asking to be put in front of people who had waited longer. But as people keep coming in for their later appointment, nothing was done to try and fit us in for a trivial procedure that should not require a "genius" to process.
1) We had an appointment time. 2) We missed the appointment time by 4 minutes (due to a traffic accident that we were stuck in), but we still arrived within our allotted 10 minute window. 3) What we needed done only took about 6 minutes to process. 4) We were put at the back of the standby queue and ended up waiting until closing time before they got around to handling the problem.
No matter how you look at this, Apple does not look good to me. First, they have "geniuses" bogged down in mundane activities. Second, they are unable to recognize that it might be better to process a quick turn item rather than make that customer sit around for a long time. Third, we had an appointment window that we met. At worst, they should have handled us at the front of the standby queue. Ideally, they should have handled us next. This is simply good customer service.
If I were in line and someone with an appointment before mine was taken first I would not have a problem with that, even though they missed their appointment time. I have had that happen many times at other places. I figure that karma should work in your favor every now and again.
They lost my wife as a computer customer, which is part of the idea of iPods and iPhones - to convert PeeCee users into Mac users. At least with the PeeCees, she can get things resolved at a variety of places. Now she feels that any trouble she gets into is going to result in her dealing with long lines and "pretentious" technicians, even for the most mundane of tasks.
Doing a swap out is not "genius" territory. We should not have to wait in the same line as someone with real software issues. Forcing everyone into the same funnel is the problem.
To use a simple analogy, they need an "express line" where simple retail (not technical) problems can be addressed.
The genius bar is a joke. My wife spent an hour an a half waiting for a "genius" to do a 5 minute phone swap (LCD had cracked). They kept saying that it would take time to diagnose the problem and that they had to take care of the people in front of her.
It is a broken screen - there is nothing to diagnose. It only took 5 minutes of work to swap it out. They need to be smart enough to recognize the people who have a quick fix versus the lady who will spend an hour trying to get her desktop configured just so.
As she said,
"I'm not getting a Mac laptop if I have to make an appointment to some pretentious technician for the simplest of problems".
Writing fiction is fine, but disclosure is probably warranted if someone is portraying themselves as an "independent" reviewer when they are really in the vendor's pocket.
Even Orwell got this right with "War of the Worlds". It is just that a lot of people tuned in too late for the notice.
Except one doesn't have to go through those extra steps when using Windows which is kind of the point.
Someone at Lenovo went through the steps to tune XP to the computer. I bet if you took a retail Windows XP and installed it, it would get about the same battery life.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the Postal Service is funded by postage, not taxpayer money. All the other stuff is typical government stuff.
A better analogy would be NASA. Most of the work of building an launching things is done by contractors, not the government itself. Having the government pay a company to develop something is not unheard of. The only thing I hope they did is stipulate that the technology is free to all takers since it was funded with public money.
No more mumbo-jumbo than the other religions. This one has formed recently and the creator is within in living memory. As time goes on, the legends will grow and add to the allure. Rationalizations will be tested and refined. The fact that it has survived this long is probably an indication that it will be around for some time to come.
I'd imagine similar discussions going on in the Jewish and Roman communities 2000 years ago about an undead man-god who floated into the sky and wants people to take part in ritualistic cannibalism while awaiting his return. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Science fiction can provide some fertile ground for research, but keep in mind that the concept of "warp drive" was simply a plot device to get around the fact that space travel, even at light speed, is not compatible with a 40 minute show.
It was "invented" to make space travel appear like terrestrial travel. That makes it one less thing for the audience to be distracted by.
My guess is that if we ever travel the starts, it will probably not look like passengers aboard glorified boat.
I could deal with that. Some headphones oughta do the trick. She's not half bad to look at. Certainly better than the mumbling, staple-hoarding type I have to look at now.
A technician is unlikely to have studied the statistics and mathematics used to create the models. They are often tasked with running the experiments, and often do understand a good deal of what is happening. But the lack of a deep understanding of the subject material can lead to grossly wrong conclusions.
I recall an interview on the radio the other day with a Caltech geologist and he mentioned that radon release only happened in about 5% of major earthquakes. They had studied hundreds of earthquakes in dozens of locations around the world and they did not find any reliable predictors of earthquakes.
It sounds to me like this Italian guy got lucky. Either that or he looked at this one fault very closely. Perhaps the radon release is reliable on this particular fault. In either case, I'm sure there will be an ample amount of data in the coming months.
Memory and Hard drives are generic. They are not iSATA or iSDRAM. As far main boards and power supplies, Dell and HP often do the same thing - proprietary boards instead of ATX form factors.
Apple different in only one way - they make their own OS. Dell et. al. buy someone else's.
That is all well and good, but what do you do when the police don't show up for work and the hospital is flooded out? When it comes to preparing for disasters, you need more self reliance than under normal circumstances because the authorities will have their hands full with recovery efforts.
This is why you need to be able to feed yourself, defend yourself, and heal yourself and otherwise manage your own affairs until the situation returns to normal. If you are unprepared to do this, you leave yourself at the mercy of the situation.
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And how would that be measured (non-invasively)? Blood pressure is read by squeezing off the artery and listening and watching for the various points in the pulse. If there is no pulse, there is no measurement.
Hey! Us thirty and forty something whiz kids can show up the IT guys, too! After fifty, though - good luck.
See the response above. We had an appointment, arrived within our time slot and got sent to the back of the bus because we were a few minutes late (due to a traffic accident). We we not asking to be put in front of people who had waited longer. But as people keep coming in for their later appointment, nothing was done to try and fit us in for a trivial procedure that should not require a "genius" to process.
Some other fact also need to be shared...
1) We had an appointment time.
2) We missed the appointment time by 4 minutes (due to a traffic accident that we were stuck in), but we still arrived within our allotted 10 minute window.
3) What we needed done only took about 6 minutes to process.
4) We were put at the back of the standby queue and ended up waiting until closing time before they got around to handling the problem.
No matter how you look at this, Apple does not look good to me. First, they have "geniuses" bogged down in mundane activities. Second, they are unable to recognize that it might be better to process a quick turn item rather than make that customer sit around for a long time. Third, we had an appointment window that we met. At worst, they should have handled us at the front of the standby queue. Ideally, they should have handled us next. This is simply good customer service.
If I were in line and someone with an appointment before mine was taken first I would not have a problem with that, even though they missed their appointment time. I have had that happen many times at other places. I figure that karma should work in your favor every now and again.
They lost my wife as a computer customer, which is part of the idea of iPods and iPhones - to convert PeeCee users into Mac users. At least with the PeeCees, she can get things resolved at a variety of places. Now she feels that any trouble she gets into is going to result in her dealing with long lines and "pretentious" technicians, even for the most mundane of tasks.
Doing a swap out is not "genius" territory. We should not have to wait in the same line as someone with real software issues. Forcing everyone into the same funnel is the problem.
To use a simple analogy, they need an "express line" where simple retail (not technical) problems can be addressed.
The genius bar is a joke. My wife spent an hour an a half waiting for a "genius" to do a 5 minute phone swap (LCD had cracked). They kept saying that it would take time to diagnose the problem and that they had to take care of the people in front of her.
It is a broken screen - there is nothing to diagnose. It only took 5 minutes of work to swap it out. They need to be smart enough to recognize the people who have a quick fix versus the lady who will spend an hour trying to get her desktop configured just so.
As she said,
"I'm not getting a Mac laptop if I have to make an appointment to some pretentious technician for the simplest of problems".
Writing fiction is fine, but disclosure is probably warranted if someone is portraying themselves as an "independent" reviewer when they are really in the vendor's pocket.
Even Orwell got this right with "War of the Worlds". It is just that a lot of people tuned in too late for the notice.
And how much would a thorough analysis cost?
Except one doesn't have to go through those extra steps when using Windows which is kind of the point.
Someone at Lenovo went through the steps to tune XP to the computer. I bet if you took a retail Windows XP and installed it, it would get about the same battery life.
D10 dice. Roll for enhanced "jerk". Less than 4 succeeds.
And naked lady mud flaps.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the Postal Service is funded by postage, not taxpayer money. All the other stuff is typical government stuff.
A better analogy would be NASA. Most of the work of building an launching things is done by contractors, not the government itself. Having the government pay a company to develop something is not unheard of. The only thing I hope they did is stipulate that the technology is free to all takers since it was funded with public money.
No more mumbo-jumbo than the other religions. This one has formed recently and the creator is within in living memory. As time goes on, the legends will grow and add to the allure. Rationalizations will be tested and refined. The fact that it has survived this long is probably an indication that it will be around for some time to come.
I'd imagine similar discussions going on in the Jewish and Roman communities 2000 years ago about an undead man-god who floated into the sky and wants people to take part in ritualistic cannibalism while awaiting his return. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Science fiction can provide some fertile ground for research, but keep in mind that the concept of "warp drive" was simply a plot device to get around the fact that space travel, even at light speed, is not compatible with a 40 minute show.
It was "invented" to make space travel appear like terrestrial travel. That makes it one less thing for the audience to be distracted by.
My guess is that if we ever travel the starts, it will probably not look like passengers aboard glorified boat.
I could deal with that. Some headphones oughta do the trick. She's not half bad to look at. Certainly better than the mumbling, staple-hoarding type I have to look at now.
A technician is unlikely to have studied the statistics and mathematics used to create the models. They are often tasked with running the experiments, and often do understand a good deal of what is happening. But the lack of a deep understanding of the subject material can lead to grossly wrong conclusions.
One new data point.
I recall an interview on the radio the other day with a Caltech geologist and he mentioned that radon release only happened in about 5% of major earthquakes. They had studied hundreds of earthquakes in dozens of locations around the world and they did not find any reliable predictors of earthquakes.
It sounds to me like this Italian guy got lucky. Either that or he looked at this one fault very closely. Perhaps the radon release is reliable on this particular fault. In either case, I'm sure there will be an ample amount of data in the coming months.
Video games, blogs and podcasts will be the memoirs of the 21st century.
I was losing to a computer in chess in the 80's. Where's my fame?
Use the mouse.
A standard does not have to be a high standard. Just a base for comparison.
Speaking of cursing in Chinese...
"It's about gorram time, too"
Memory and Hard drives are generic. They are not iSATA or iSDRAM. As far main boards and power supplies, Dell and HP often do the same thing - proprietary boards instead of ATX form factors.
Apple different in only one way - they make their own OS. Dell et. al. buy someone else's.
That is all well and good, but what do you do when the police don't show up for work and the hospital is flooded out? When it comes to preparing for disasters, you need more self reliance than under normal circumstances because the authorities will have their hands full with recovery efforts.
This is why you need to be able to feed yourself, defend yourself, and heal yourself and otherwise manage your own affairs until the situation returns to normal. If you are unprepared to do this, you leave yourself at the mercy of the situation.
There should not be workers here on visas. Especially for high-tech jobs.
Give them full legal residency and give them the option to stay instead of sending them home after 6 years and perpetuating the "shortage".