Yes, I'd rather people not subscribe to the relationship Apple is trying to establish. I don't think it will be good for the people on the receiving end of it.
Oh the other hand, I'm not terribly optimistic that my view is important to people, and I don't expend a great deal of energy pushing it.
So I don't want my mom to buy one. And I don't want other people to buy them either. Because I think that most of the advantages bandied about for the closed system are mental gymnastics with little basis in rationality.
And really, your analogy is pretty stupid. There are no obvious benefits from combining a microwave with a refrigerator, whereas one obvious benefit of not paying $100 to be able to install non Apple approved software is that I save $100 (sure, there is jailbreaking, but Apple is treating it as a security problem).
And it would be very simple for Apple to know who was using software they hadn't approved, they could enable that feature with an official Apple app in the app store, an app that made all sorts of dire warnings about how running software that Apple did not approve will cause the moon to turn into a muffin, and so forth.
A couple of hours isn't going to make much difference, especially if you aren't planning on storing what is left after that. This page seems legitimate enough, and it says below 70 F in 2 hours, below 40 F in 4 hours:
There probably shouldn't be any legal intervention, but you shouldn't be surprised that technical people are shouting about how Apple is trying to position themselves.
"It's not a computer" doesn't really answer the charges that it could be so much more than it is.
You really think that is true? People seem to have cell phones and gym memberships and cars and bank accounts that they are mostly satisfied with. Sure, there are lots of complaints about all of those things, but there doesn't seem to be tens of millions of complaints about how hard they were to understand.
Have you been charged far more than you expected for parking?
Of course, I have a pay-go cell phone, run for exercise, own a car I purchased used and have an account at a credit union. Of those things, the car is probably the 'hardest' one compared to your list, because it doesn't come with repair services. Pay-go cell phones keep getting better (there are several contract free phone services with unlimited voice for $50; that's less than a local landline cost in 1980. If people can't understand "You pay $50, it works for a month", it isn't the social system that is holding them back.) Various bipedal motions are within the grasp of most people that would bother going to a gym, and most people that get burned by not bothering to understand their bank account (I don't think they are as complicated as you imply) just end up not using banks at all, which isn't really all that expensive.
To an extent. There are a lot of people who will never fill a 500 GB drive, so once 500 GB SSDs get to their 'reasonable', they won't use spinning media anymore.
Oh, it's even worse than that. If Newegg prices are a reasonable reflection of the market, Intel SSDs have fallen by quite a bit since October of last year:
Any airline that cares so little about its equipment that it destroys it to make a single flight deserves to go out of business (and it seems fairly obvious that they would, one way or another). Their attitude towards customer safety doesn't even have to enter into it, they are interested in maintaining their ability to do business (of course, customer safety enters into that, but it isn't quite as important as having working airplanes).
I'm skeptical that any current carriers are that stupid, but the world is full of surprises.
It helps that he likely knew of those requirements when he applied for the job.
The question isn't really that interesting anyway, even if the person decides to fight the company and wins, some other battle will follow soon after, and so on. So the easiest thing is probably to bite the bullet until they can find another position working for an employer that respects their employees a little more.
Slashdot Mirror
So, to use a car analogy, they stole the car, but only to see how fast it would go?
Yes, I'd rather people not subscribe to the relationship Apple is trying to establish. I don't think it will be good for the people on the receiving end of it.
Oh the other hand, I'm not terribly optimistic that my view is important to people, and I don't expend a great deal of energy pushing it.
So I don't want my mom to buy one. And I don't want other people to buy them either. Because I think that most of the advantages bandied about for the closed system are mental gymnastics with little basis in rationality.
And really, your analogy is pretty stupid. There are no obvious benefits from combining a microwave with a refrigerator, whereas one obvious benefit of not paying $100 to be able to install non Apple approved software is that I save $100 (sure, there is jailbreaking, but Apple is treating it as a security problem).
And it would be very simple for Apple to know who was using software they hadn't approved, they could enable that feature with an official Apple app in the app store, an app that made all sorts of dire warnings about how running software that Apple did not approve will cause the moon to turn into a muffin, and so forth.
A couple of hours isn't going to make much difference, especially if you aren't planning on storing what is left after that. This page seems legitimate enough, and it says below 70 F in 2 hours, below 40 F in 4 hours:
http://web.extension.illinois.edu/meatsafety/storing/holding.html
(I'm using meat as a simplification, I would think that the bread, cheese, sauce and other toppings will all be less of a problem...)
At least the first one can't have been that bad.
There probably shouldn't be any legal intervention, but you shouldn't be surprised that technical people are shouting about how Apple is trying to position themselves.
"It's not a computer" doesn't really answer the charges that it could be so much more than it is.
States have their own laws about how far back they can look at tax returns.
You really think that is true? People seem to have cell phones and gym memberships and cars and bank accounts that they are mostly satisfied with. Sure, there are lots of complaints about all of those things, but there doesn't seem to be tens of millions of complaints about how hard they were to understand.
Have you been charged far more than you expected for parking?
Of course, I have a pay-go cell phone, run for exercise, own a car I purchased used and have an account at a credit union. Of those things, the car is probably the 'hardest' one compared to your list, because it doesn't come with repair services. Pay-go cell phones keep getting better (there are several contract free phone services with unlimited voice for $50; that's less than a local landline cost in 1980. If people can't understand "You pay $50, it works for a month", it isn't the social system that is holding them back.) Various bipedal motions are within the grasp of most people that would bother going to a gym, and most people that get burned by not bothering to understand their bank account (I don't think they are as complicated as you imply) just end up not using banks at all, which isn't really all that expensive.
You should probably qualify that with some hand waving about having enough resources.
Actually, if you don't feel you understand these products, you can simply not purchase them.
There are plenty of simpler financial products out there.
The obvious intent of the assignments is for the students to create a solution on their own, not for the students to find and turn in a solution.
hmm, look at the giant red box on the left hand side of the screen (the one that lists the date with the highest recorded price!).
Especially the ones that you notice, right?
To an extent. There are a lot of people who will never fill a 500 GB drive, so once 500 GB SSDs get to their 'reasonable', they won't use spinning media anymore.
Oh, it's even worse than that. If Newegg prices are a reasonable reflection of the market, Intel SSDs have fallen by quite a bit since October of last year:
http://camelegg.com/product/N82E16820167024
So apparently the real problem is that SSD prices aren't falling fast enough.
Or maybe just use the natural gas and diesel directly (or have the energy numbers changed a whole bunch on grain->ethanol?).
I'm a lot more concerned about their attitude than I am about their technical effectiveness.
You are using 'technically' in the wrong sense here.
Technically, a judge would laugh you out of his court if you made that argument.
Bicycles are traffic.
There are restrictions, such as freeways, but this is true for most roads.
There are pilot programs going on.
I think it is Tazer that is making the hardware/selling the service (the video is uploaded to their system, to reduce tampering).
I saw a blurb on television, so no links.
I'm pretty sure you are well past "She's not worth it" if you are having that discussion.
Actually, lactose intolerant people often appreciate it when bacteria break down the lactose before they eat the food.
Right. In this case, the financial incentives/motivations of the airlines are quite well aligned with the needs of customer safety.
Any airline that cares so little about its equipment that it destroys it to make a single flight deserves to go out of business (and it seems fairly obvious that they would, one way or another). Their attitude towards customer safety doesn't even have to enter into it, they are interested in maintaining their ability to do business (of course, customer safety enters into that, but it isn't quite as important as having working airplanes).
I'm skeptical that any current carriers are that stupid, but the world is full of surprises.
It helps that he likely knew of those requirements when he applied for the job.
The question isn't really that interesting anyway, even if the person decides to fight the company and wins, some other battle will follow soon after, and so on. So the easiest thing is probably to bite the bullet until they can find another position working for an employer that respects their employees a little more.