What is "Apple///"? What is "Karl Rove"? What is "Windows 1.0"? What is "Windows ME"? What is "Microsoft Bob"? What is "Moeller SkyCar"? What is "3DO"? What is "Buran"? And the Daily Double, What is "FEMA"?
People look at the front of things, not the back, doubly so retail stores. When people buy at WalMart, they perceive they buying from a good old 'merican bidniz. They see Sam Walton, Arkansas, Slim Jims, NASCAR and Wrangler - what can be more American? In reality if WalMart were a country they'd be China's 8th largest trading partner. Even when they see things that say "Made in the USA" they don't realize it could be from the Marianas, which is by technicality a US protectorate but is just another Pacific sweatshop haven. For years we likely bought either Singapore or Fremont or Cork -built Macintosh computers, but as long as they said "Designed by Apple in Cupertino California" on the box then nobody thought the next thought. And it didn't matter. But IBM / Lenovo went through some very public wringers over whether to let the Chinese buy the operation and build these computers which are used throughout Gov contracts - so they're been branded as Chinese. Befoer that, when people heard IBM they thought blue suits, white shirts and "Armonk". Lenovo MIGHT have / or might have TO / simply call these ThinkPads and not display the Lenovo name.
I hope that's the other side of the coin - otherwise it makes for some infinite loops of employees who can just make managers dance. I think they fail to mention that they need to retain the RIGHT employees. Rertaining employees at all should be pretty elementary - second most populous country with the 10th GDP - I believe it's an employer's market if these outsourcers are paying well.
A ticket can only be closed by the originating employee. I dare them to implement tickets that can only be closed by the customer. Hoo boy. Someone comes in off the street to do phone drone work, and they can hang a manager up indefintely because they don't like the food in sector 24? Also according to TFA the managers are pretty well vetted & trained, and then have to put up with every whine from a new hire? Think of the hire you've seen that punched a hole in your least expectations in record time and is the low water mark of your work experience - now hand them a pile of tickets that they can use to complain about anything. Anything. Endlessly. And I mean anything. And did I mention endlessly? Is this annoying yet? How about now? Huh? Hello?
If by "modern" they mean "newest", then great. OK - so there's a 'trouble ticket' that reduces a dozen traditional forms to one. Otherwise, what's the difference between this and going to a traditional HR dept to complain about your boss, or you boss about your compensation, putting in a work order for a busted chair, or the way things are already done? Maybe it's simpler - the phone drones are so Americanized that their Indian bosses can't understand them anymore, so they better write everything down? I got one the other day who called herself "Sue Murphy".
Based on what - a three year old diatribe about three-versions-ago iTunes on the second-slowest TiBook ever made? Downhillbattle? So they don't like paying for music. So don't use iTMS, rip your CDs - these folks seeem to think iTunes forces you to buy thru Apple. You want to pimp apps here, great - but citing old and irrelevant arguments?
...And according to Gonzalez, Rush, and the folks at Fox News, Gitmo is Club Med with anchor fence.
I have been to London, where I enjoyed the five or six minutes of sunshine each morning before rolling right into the remaining daylight hours of grey skies, grey ground, and grey air, begging and hoping for merciful sunset so you could see some color from the electric lights.
Shouldn't he be grateful?
They've almost caught up with Newton 1.0!
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"Breakfast at Tiffany's next Thursday" put an event for April 20 - but untimed - guess we'll have to meet at the IHOP next to Tiffany's - they have breakfast all day...
Of course the intermediate error message I got was worthy of the first chapter of Mostly Harmless:
TypeError - Undefined value - undefined['r','__4','ZTNmZjc5MXN1NGRtNWxwOGc3ajg3d WoybDQganBlbGxpbm9AZ21haWwuY29t'],['a','ZTNmZjc5MX N1NGRtNWxwOGc3ajg3dWoybDQganBlbGxpbm9AZ21haWwuY29t ','breakfast at tiffany\047s','20060420','20060421','anBlbGxpbm9AZ 21haWwuY29t',0,0,1280,'tiffany\047s ',0,'',null,null,[]],['_RefreshCalendarWhenDisplay edNext'],['_Ping','500'],['_Ping','3000'],['_Ping' ,'15000'],['_ShowMessage',['Your event was created.']]]
So we can import our calendar to their web app, but not actually view it on the acutal web?
OK - it's actually Safari "sorta" - here's the notice you get:
"Sorry, Google Calendar does not support your browser yet, so things may break in unexpected ways. Press OK to see a list of browsers that we support. Or cancel to try to use it anyways." (sic)
Just to be on the safe side I'll wait until they fix it so it breaks in expected ways.
Your use of the word 'secret' here stems from the playground meaning, not the legal one. A trade secret is something deemed so by the owner, and doesn't cease to be defined as such just because Timmy told Bobby. Someone at Apple violated their NDA and the criminal code. By your claim, once someone else knows it' it's not a trade secret, so the violater is off the hook and so is anyone else. Jason's far too familiar with the way things work in the computer world to not have at least an inkling that there could be a problem with info from a company known to embargo product info until their own official release date.
Jason (and Nick) needs to memorize this phrase:
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"Is this under an NDA?" and banish this one from his vocabulary: "Gosh, it looks legit. I think I'll tell the world." Really. I can't believe that people who make it their business to report inside news can't understand or be sensitive to the notion that much heck, most - of what's not on the Apple press page is probably under NDA. If it never occurred to you that any Apple employee that has detailed knowledge of unreleased products JUST MIGHT be breaking the contract and possibly law - then you need to review what we all seem to be able to guess - and we're not journalists like you claim to be. As for the First Amendment angle, you're not Woodward and Bernstein, Apple is not subverting the government. You are not saving the world or fixing anything by telling us about improved LRF support for the next Apple doohicky three days early. I salivate over new Apple product as much as anyone - but I'm not going to risk my business to report it before the other guy. Speaking of which - for all their breathless competition - how come NOBODY - and I mean NOBODY saw BootCamp even 10 minutes early? It's not about journalistic skill - it's about the one poor shlub who's not smart enough to honor the NDA they signed finding you and figuring you can't resist the tasty nugget. Jason, you've been a decent supporter of Apple, but that doesn't mean they're going to look the other way when you're on the receiving end of an NDA violation that is covered by law as others here have pointed out directly.
I've got a half a dozen 5200s, none of them have such problems. Then again my 5200s are desktop all-in-ones. You're thinking of the PowerBook 5300. The only batteries that had problems were the Sony Li-Ion, which according to info at the time, caused two fires on the bench at Apple, but never caused a fire in any consumer machine. And as it was a recall direct from Apple, I'm guessing you must have ignored it. Yep, that would be embarrasing.
So let me get this straight: His plan is to drop/donate $1.5B on immunization programs and employ nearly 300 people in a foundation just so he can gain back the taxes on that money? And that $1.5B generates business for drug companies so he can get a dividend on that increased business? That's the plan you envision for making more money?
Look at what Bill Gates has decided to do with his money. Love him or hate him, consider this:
He has a pile of money to through around. He's throwing it at two things: the smaller portion at improving educational resources in the US, and the larger portion of it to help provide immunizations in the third world.
He made choices - first world | second world | third world. High tech | MS shilling | honest good.
You could be cynical and think he's doing it to aggrandize himself - but he's up there with Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola already.
He could do it to make people think nice thoughts about - and therefore buy more - MS, but there's no succinct path that leads there, and they could easily get further with more good advertising.
He didn't buy every village a PC. He didn't give everyone a copy of Windows. He didn't try to shove technology down the throats of people who are dying by the thousands daily of diseases we'll never see in person.
Also - the MIT project isn't in this arena - OLPC isn't going to give them to every starving kid or one per starving village - they're focusing on countries that have a working educational infrastructure but dead-end at technology.
Always. Repeat after me - ALWAYS - get the extended warranty on an iBook / PB/ MBP. You can buy it on the 364th day of the original warranty. It's a bargain compared to any tier of notebook service from Apple.
We've had a mess of SEs, LCs, PM 6xxx/7xxx, Cubes, iBooks, eMacs, iMacs from Bondi thru G5. Rare repair needs (one machine in a dozen batch?), and never more than once thru the loop to get anything done.
Ditto my personal equipment - with the sole exception of my PowerBook Duo - whch had a string of lousy keyboards. Apple replaced them, they were just lousy design and kept failing. On the other hand I've never gotten rid of my PB1400 - you can practically pound nails with it and it does everything it ever did plus new life thru processor upgrades and wifi.
I also like them because in one university lab I ran, we had 16 "fruit" iMacs and 4 mainstream Gateways. It took me and my techs as much time to babysit the 4 Gateways as it did to keep the 16 macs in line. That's reason enough.
I'm not sure this is anything more than a troll article or a quick generator of comments for a sociology thesis on xenophobia, but assuming it's sincere, what would be the benefit?
What possible gain (other than someone figuring out how to provide tollgate access across regions - think DVD) would there be for the end users?
Spam reduction? They'd redistribute before the ribbon was cut.
Address space? No longer a real problem, just coming slowly.
And do "Bored Of The RIngs" - there are parts of that that still make me laugh hard enough to be asked to leave the building. IIRC there's a few song and dance-able moments in it.
But there's no right angles or hard reflection surfaces or heavy exhaust on eagles - they're born stealthy! Oh, wait. You mean "old school" stealth. Ah. Never mind. (Moderators: this is the laugh-it's-funny part of this exchange.)
As a fan since the 70s, I never thought about this until one of my elementary students pointed it out - if the eagles could snatch the heroes off the top of Mt. Doom after all this noise, why couldn't they have simply sent the eagles to drop in the ring? Stick around for the "7th Night Free!" promotion at the Prancing Pony and head home fat and happy.
You'll love it, baby - think "The Andy Griffith Show" - but with marauding sand people! The lovable aunt, the local yokel imperial stormtrooper set to partol the armpit of the solar system, the laconic barber with laser clippers, the goofy landspeeder greasemonkey, and good old Bachelor Ben... We need to find the next Opie - call every casting director we know!
we got a heads up from RS edu and govt rep thru first that the sale was on and was only thru their office - then we got word that every store in our area was selling it out and the sale is online too. somthing's up, and it's not just some stores closing...
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Ooh Ohh I know this one!
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What is "Apple
What is "Karl Rove"?
What is "Windows 1.0"?
What is "Windows ME"?
What is "Microsoft Bob"?
What is "Moeller SkyCar"?
What is "3DO"?
What is "Buran"?
And the Daily Double,
What is "FEMA"?
People look at the front of things, not the back, doubly so retail stores.
When people buy at WalMart, they perceive they buying from a good old 'merican bidniz. They see Sam Walton, Arkansas, Slim Jims, NASCAR and Wrangler - what can be more American? In reality if WalMart were a country they'd be China's 8th largest trading partner.
Even when they see things that say "Made in the USA" they don't realize it could be from the Marianas, which is by technicality a US protectorate but is just another Pacific sweatshop haven.
For years we likely bought either Singapore or Fremont or Cork -built Macintosh computers, but as long as they said "Designed by Apple in Cupertino California" on the box then nobody thought the next thought. And it didn't matter.
But IBM / Lenovo went through some very public wringers over whether to let the Chinese buy the operation and build these computers which are used throughout Gov contracts - so they're been branded as Chinese.
Befoer that, when people heard IBM they thought blue suits, white shirts and "Armonk".
Lenovo MIGHT have / or might have TO / simply call these ThinkPads and not display the Lenovo name.
I hope that's the other side of the coin - otherwise it makes for some infinite loops of employees who can just make managers dance. I think they fail to mention that they need to retain the RIGHT employees. Rertaining employees at all should be pretty elementary - second most populous country with the 10th GDP - I believe it's an employer's market if these outsourcers are paying well.
A ticket can only be closed by the originating employee.
I dare them to implement tickets that can only be closed by the customer.
Hoo boy. Someone comes in off the street to do phone drone work, and they can hang a manager up indefintely because they don't like the food in sector 24?
Also according to TFA the managers are pretty well vetted & trained, and then have to put up with every whine from a new hire? Think of the hire you've seen that punched a hole in your least expectations in record time and is the low water mark of your work experience - now hand them a pile of tickets that they can use to complain about anything. Anything. Endlessly. And I mean anything. And did I mention endlessly? Is this annoying yet? How about now? Huh? Hello?
If by "modern" they mean "newest", then great.
OK - so there's a 'trouble ticket' that reduces a dozen traditional forms to one.
Otherwise, what's the difference between this and going to a traditional HR dept to complain about your boss, or you boss about your compensation, putting in a work order for a busted chair, or the way things are already done?
Maybe it's simpler - the phone drones are so Americanized that their Indian bosses can't understand them anymore, so they better write everything down? I got one the other day who called herself "Sue Murphy".
Based on what - a three year old diatribe about three-versions-ago iTunes on the second-slowest TiBook ever made?
Downhillbattle? So they don't like paying for music. So don't use iTMS, rip your CDs - these folks seeem to think iTunes forces you to buy thru Apple.
You want to pimp apps here, great - but citing old and irrelevant arguments?
this also supports the notion that search engines are really good at what they're doing.
...And according to Gonzalez, Rush, and the folks at Fox News, Gitmo is Club Med with anchor fence.
I have been to London, where I enjoyed the five or six minutes of sunshine each morning before rolling right into the remaining daylight hours of grey skies, grey ground, and grey air, begging and hoping for merciful sunset so you could see some color from the electric lights.
Shouldn't he be grateful?
"Breakfast at Tiffany's next Thursday" put an event for April 20 - but untimed - guess we'll have to meet at the IHOP next to Tiffany's - they have breakfast all day...
d WoybDQganBlbGxpbm9AZ21haWwuY29t'],['a','ZTNmZjc5MX N1NGRtNWxwOGc3ajg3dWoybDQganBlbGxpbm9AZ21haWwuY29t ','breakfast at tiffany\047s','20060420','20060421','anBlbGxpbm9AZ 21haWwuY29t',0,0,1280,'tiffany\047s ',0,'',null,null,[]],['_RefreshCalendarWhenDisplay edNext'],['_Ping','500'],['_Ping','3000'],['_Ping' ,'15000'],['_ShowMessage',['Your event was created.']]]
Of course the intermediate error message I got was worthy of the first chapter of Mostly Harmless:
TypeError - Undefined value - undefined['r','__4','ZTNmZjc5MXN1NGRtNWxwOGc3ajg3
So we can import our calendar to their web app, but not actually view it on the acutal web?
OK - it's actually Safari "sorta" - here's the notice you get:
"Sorry, Google Calendar does not support your browser yet, so things may break in unexpected ways. Press OK to see a list of browsers that we support. Or cancel to try to use it anyways." (sic)
Just to be on the safe side I'll wait until they fix it so it breaks in expected ways.
Your use of the word 'secret' here stems from the playground meaning, not the legal one. A trade secret is something deemed so by the owner, and doesn't cease to be defined as such just because Timmy told Bobby. Someone at Apple violated their NDA and the criminal code. By your claim, once someone else knows it' it's not a trade secret, so the violater is off the hook and so is anyone else. Jason's far too familiar with the way things work in the computer world to not have at least an inkling that there could be a problem with info from a company known to embargo product info until their own official release date.
"Is this under an NDA?"
and banish this one from his vocabulary:
"Gosh, it looks legit. I think I'll tell the world."
Really. I can't believe that people who make it their business to report inside news can't understand or be sensitive to the notion that much heck, most - of what's not on the Apple press page is probably under NDA.
If it never occurred to you that any Apple employee that has detailed knowledge of unreleased products JUST MIGHT be breaking the contract and possibly law - then you need to review what we all seem to be able to guess - and we're not journalists like you claim to be.
As for the First Amendment angle, you're not Woodward and Bernstein, Apple is not subverting the government. You are not saving the world or fixing anything by telling us about improved LRF support for the next Apple doohicky three days early. I salivate over new Apple product as much as anyone - but I'm not going to risk my business to report it before the other guy. Speaking of which - for all their breathless competition - how come NOBODY - and I mean NOBODY saw BootCamp even 10 minutes early? It's not about journalistic skill - it's about the one poor shlub who's not smart enough to honor the NDA they signed finding you and figuring you can't resist the tasty nugget.
Jason, you've been a decent supporter of Apple, but that doesn't mean they're going to look the other way when you're on the receiving end of an NDA violation that is covered by law as others here have pointed out directly.
It's the Wrong Trousers!
a beowulf cluster of "Powerbook 5200s" (see yesterday's news...)
I've got a half a dozen 5200s, none of them have such problems.
Then again my 5200s are desktop all-in-ones.
You're thinking of the PowerBook 5300.
The only batteries that had problems were the Sony Li-Ion, which according to info at the time, caused two fires on the bench at Apple, but never caused a fire in any consumer machine.
And as it was a recall direct from Apple, I'm guessing you must have ignored it.
Yep, that would be embarrasing.
So let me get this straight:
His plan is to drop/donate $1.5B on immunization programs and employ nearly 300 people in a foundation just so he can gain back the taxes on that money?
And that $1.5B generates business for drug companies so he can get a dividend on that increased business?
That's the plan you envision for making more money?
Look at what Bill Gates has decided to do with his money. Love him or hate him, consider this:
He has a pile of money to through around. He's throwing it at two things: the smaller portion at improving educational resources in the US, and the larger portion of it to help provide immunizations in the third world.
He made choices - first world | second world | third world. High tech | MS shilling | honest good.
You could be cynical and think he's doing it to aggrandize himself - but he's up there with Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola already.
He could do it to make people think nice thoughts about - and therefore buy more - MS, but there's no succinct path that leads there, and they could easily get further with more good advertising.
He didn't buy every village a PC. He didn't give everyone a copy of Windows. He didn't try to shove technology down the throats of people who are dying by the thousands daily of diseases we'll never see in person.
Also - the MIT project isn't in this arena - OLPC isn't going to give them to every starving kid or one per starving village - they're focusing on countries that have a working educational infrastructure but dead-end at technology.
Or is this year's 4/1 just too obvious and lame.
Always. Repeat after me - ALWAYS - get the extended warranty on an iBook / PB/ MBP. You can buy it on the 364th day of the original warranty. It's a bargain compared to any tier of notebook service from Apple.
We've had a mess of SEs, LCs, PM 6xxx/7xxx, Cubes, iBooks, eMacs, iMacs from Bondi thru G5. Rare repair needs (one machine in a dozen batch?), and never more than once thru the loop to get anything done.
Ditto my personal equipment - with the sole exception of my PowerBook Duo - whch had a string of lousy keyboards. Apple replaced them, they were just lousy design and kept failing. On the other hand I've never gotten rid of my PB1400 - you can practically pound nails with it and it does everything it ever did plus new life thru processor upgrades and wifi.
I also like them because in one university lab I ran, we had 16 "fruit" iMacs and 4 mainstream Gateways. It took me and my techs as much time to babysit the 4 Gateways as it did to keep the 16 macs in line. That's reason enough.
I'm not sure this is anything more than a troll article or a quick generator of comments for a sociology thesis on xenophobia, but assuming it's sincere, what would be the benefit?
What possible gain (other than someone figuring out how to provide tollgate access across regions - think DVD) would there be for the end users?
Spam reduction? They'd redistribute before the ribbon was cut.
Address space? No longer a real problem, just coming slowly.
And do "Bored Of The RIngs" - there are parts of that that still make me laugh hard enough to be asked to leave the building. IIRC there's a few song and dance-able moments in it.
But there's no right angles or hard reflection surfaces or heavy exhaust on eagles - they're born stealthy!
Oh, wait. You mean "old school" stealth. Ah. Never mind.
(Moderators: this is the laugh-it's-funny part of this exchange.)
As a fan since the 70s, I never thought about this until one of my elementary students pointed it out - if the eagles could snatch the heroes off the top of Mt. Doom after all this noise, why couldn't they have simply sent the eagles to drop in the ring? Stick around for the "7th Night Free!" promotion at the Prancing Pony and head home fat and happy.
You'll love it, baby - think "The Andy Griffith Show" - but with marauding sand people!
The lovable aunt, the local yokel imperial stormtrooper set to partol the armpit of the solar system, the laconic barber with laser clippers, the goofy landspeeder greasemonkey, and good old Bachelor Ben...
We need to find the next Opie - call every casting director we know!
we got a heads up from RS edu and govt rep thru first that the sale was on and was only thru their office - then we got word that every store in our area was selling it out and the sale is online too. somthing's up, and it's not just some stores closing...