They're "holding" it wrong. Same excuse used for antenna-gate.
It's almost like the GP was obliquely referencing exactly that.
I should have added that a recent reply from apple support to a tech site blogger stated not to point the camera at a bright light source, leading the blogger to title his story, Purple-Flare- Apple says you're holding it wrong.
Democracy fights in anger —it fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war. It fights to punish the power that was rash enough and hostile enough to provoke it —to teach that power a lesson it will not forget, to prevent the thing from happening again. ~ George F. Kennan
You said you don't know where to rent movies, I borrow dvd's from my library. Not that this helps you if you want to see a new movie asap. If you don't mind waiting a few weeks+, libraries are a great alternative, assuming yours has a decent selection. I've been able to catch up with all the films I deem worthwhile this way, at no cost to me.
"Because most people have no self esteem and a huge ego."
That's it, in a nutshell. I've grown emotionally quite a lot over the years, have learned 'who I am', and perhaps more importantly, who I am not. Makes a lot of difference, being secure in myself. Not.many people do I allow to 'get to me' anymore.:-)
I googled your fucking "Anger Management" suggestion and after watching that stupid movie I'm still extremely angry you dumb little fuck! *
* written in a style appropriate for the title of this whole Slashdot thread, no personal attacks intended.
None taken, much love! I don't know what video you watched. PsychologyToday has good reading on the subject, I had to use google earlier this year when I lived for a short time in a house that had the angriest guy in town living there. I searched out, "How do I deal with an angry person", or something, and it really helped me understand him. I'm sure he's still an angry fool, but I learned how not responding to an angry person's outbursts is one of the key 'tricks'.
I'm not sure that explains it all. My girlfriend and I both hate our phone conversations but love our in-person conversations, and we certainly know each other. There's something about communicating with a device that ruins a lot of the non-verbal stuff we take for granted.
That's because on the phone you can't read each other's emotional facial cues.
.... OTOH if someone makes you angry, you may spend the rest of the day fuming about them.
No one can make you mad, you let them. It's your choice/decision how you respond to whatever someone has said to you. When someone tells me "He/She made me SO MAD!", I come right back to them with, "No. You 'allowed' them to make you mad."
If you are an adult, then you're supposed to be in control of your emotions.
It is a phenomenon very similar to road rage if we think about it.
Agreed.
And road rage is basically about attempting to have 'power' over someone else. That defines the human condition in many people. They have poor 'anger management' skills. An example: At their job (and in their private life) they HAVE to take orders from others, this creates anger in them, but they can't express their feelings in a correct manner, and that anger builds, and builds. Now put them in 'control' of a 'powerful' automobile, or an online forum, and look out! They'll take out their un-vented anger on anyone who 'dares' (to their mind) to dis-respect them in the slightest. It all comes down to us wanting to have 'control' in our lives. And when we feel we don't have control, the easiest way to regain control, is to yell, lash out inappropiatly, to attempt to 'bully' people to get our way. A childlike response to the situation.
If anyone reading this sees themselves here, or has an angry, controlling person in their lives, I'd suggest you google "angry people" and "anger management" and read up on it. Spending your life upset and angry all the time is a terrible waste, and it just hurts you and the people around you. Have a great day!:-)
From Wikipedia: Sometimes, people deliberately employ rude behaviors to achieve a goal. Early works in linguistic pragmatism interpreted rudeness as a defective mode of communication. However, most rudeness serves functional or instrumental purposes in communication, and skillfully choosing when and how to be rude may indicate a person's pragmatic competence. Robin Lakoff (1989) addressed what she named 'strategic rudeness,' a style of communication used by prosecutors and therapists to force their interlocutors (a courtroom defendant or patient) to talk or react in a certain way. Rudeness in everyday speech "is frequently instrumental, and is not merely pragmatic failure" (Beebe, 1995, p. 154). Most rude speakers are attempting to accomplish one of two important instrumental functions: to vent negative feelings, and/or to get power. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudeness#section_3
Daily News, Oct. 2: Google sailed past Microsoft on Monday to become the world's second biggest technology company.
The milestone reflects both the rise of internet advertising and search - an area where the two giants compete - and the decline of the PC industry, which Microsoft dominates.
Google's market capitalization hit $249.9 billion at the close, just edging out Microsoft's tally of $247.2 billion. Both are still behind Apple, which comes in at a weighty $618.1 billion. Google's search engine holds about 66% of the search market, far exceeding Microsoft's 16% share, according to ComScore.
Elizabeth Lazarowitz, with News Wire Services.
I don't hate much in life except for bullies. I do root for the underdog in any fight. Apple may have seen it's zenith already, there are many up and comers in the game now. Or 'war', if that's what Jobs wanted, Apple's got one now for real. Let's have this discussion again a year from now, and the above numbers may be a lot closer. In a war, you lose some battles like Samsung has recently. They just won one. Its going to be interesting, and Apple is ceded more ground recently. As my Dad used to say, "We shall see what we shall see."
Ehh..., there are not a few 'issues' with your magic iphone5, like purple flare. Apple is falling back on their standard "it's how you're holding it" excuse on that one... http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/02/tech/mobile/iphone-5-purple-photos/index.html Scuffgate, battery drain on older iphones when updated to ios6, there are more issues, but I'm getting bored of the tennis game here.
Android Fanboy: You paid how much for that phone that does half of what mine does?
iPhone user: Actually I jailbroke it, so I have a far higher quality of real apps and I can do anything you can in terms of configuration or customization.
Sorry Captain Obvious, you met your match when Captain Reality showed up.
So, you're saying that in order to get your apple phone to 'work right', you had to 'break' it.? Just askin'...
Signed, Captain Obvious' successor.
You mean like how Andriod users root their devices & install other flavors/builds of Andriod on their devices to remove manufacturer or carrier specific crap?
Signed, the guy that hit Captain Obvious, Captain Reality & Captain Obvious' Successor in the fucking face with a brick.
Have you not taken your anti-angry pills this morning? Better check on yout blood pressure, sounds like it's skyrocketing!
Android Fanboy: You paid how much for that phone that does half of what mine does?
iPhone user: Actually I jailbroke it, so I have a far higher quality of real apps and I can do anything you can in terms of configuration or customization.
Sorry Captain Obvious, you met your match when Captain Reality showed up.
So, you're saying that in order to get your apple phone to 'work right', you had to 'break' it.? Just askin'...
Daily News, Oct. 2: Google sailed past Microsoft on Monday to become the world's second biiggest technology company.
The milestone reflects both the rise of internet advertising and search - an area wwhere the two giants compete - and the decline of the PC industry, which Microsoft dominates.
Google's market capitalization hit $249.9 billion at the close, just edging out Microsoft's tally of $247.2 billion. Both are still behind Apple, which comes in at a weighty $618.1 billion. Google's search engine holds about 66% of the search market, far exceeding Microsoft's 16% share, according to comscore.
About 30 years back, long before there were helmet laws I was in a serious bicycle accident, suffered serious head injury. I've long since recovered, though the facial scars remain, and I'll always have a titanium wire keeping one piece of my skull connected to the other part. And no other vehicle was involved, on a dark road my 10 speed bikes tire got caught in a sewer grating, propelling me forward and off the bike. My head impacted with the I-beam that guard rails are comnnected to. Lost the lower 'orbit' of my right eye, that is what supports the eyeball. I was fortunate that my eye 'fell back' and I did not lose vision in that eye. A rib graft was done by the great doctor's of Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat to replace the 'orbit'. I went through about 3 years of going to doctors and undergoing operations before I felt good enough to go back to work. And I feel that, compared to othersm I got off easy. No lasting traumatic brain injury. So I feel I am 'qualified' to comment on this topic.
Protective gear in any sport or recreational activity is the intelligent way to go. Whether or not laws force people to protect themselves from serious injury, I say this... Wear the damn helmets people! It's better to risk looking a little 'dorky' than to risk your health and future. In my humble opinion.
Scroll up... Then again, it's not much of a secret when his username is "SteveWoz".
Well, a man of Woz's stature would by default merit a different/. moniker, so as to be able to participate (in other/. stories) while not giving away that it's him every time. I'd want that if I had his noteriety.
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That's a typo, should be $163 million plus. http://www.esecurityplanet.com/malware/ftc-wins-163-million-judgment-against-scareware-marketer.html
Link to ESecurity's scareware story... http://www.esecurityplanet.com/malware/ftc-wins-163-million-judgment-against-scareware-marketer.html
They're "holding" it wrong. Same excuse used for antenna-gate.
It's almost like the GP was obliquely referencing exactly that.
I should have added that a recent reply from apple support to a tech site blogger stated not to point the camera at a bright light source, leading the blogger to title his story, Purple-Flare- Apple says you're holding it wrong.
Democracy fights in anger —it fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war. It fights to punish the power that was rash enough and hostile enough to provoke it —to teach that power a lesson it will not forget, to prevent the thing from happening again. ~ George F. Kennan
and or something like $25,000 usd per "offense".
You said you don't know where to rent movies, I borrow dvd's from my library. Not that this helps you if you want to see a new movie asap. If you don't mind waiting a few weeks+, libraries are a great alternative, assuming yours has a decent selection. I've been able to catch up with all the films I deem worthwhile this way, at no cost to me.
That's it, in a nutshell. I've grown emotionally quite a lot over the years, have learned 'who I am', and perhaps more importantly, who I am not. Makes a lot of difference, being secure in myself. Not.many people do I allow to 'get to me' anymore. :-)
I googled your fucking "Anger Management" suggestion and after watching that stupid movie I'm still extremely angry you dumb little fuck! * * written in a style appropriate for the title of this whole Slashdot thread, no personal attacks intended.
None taken, much love! I don't know what video you watched. PsychologyToday has good reading on the subject, I had to use google earlier this year when I lived for a short time in a house that had the angriest guy in town living there. I searched out, "How do I deal with an angry person", or something, and it really helped me understand him. I'm sure he's still an angry fool, but I learned how not responding to an angry person's outbursts is one of the key 'tricks'.
I'm not sure that explains it all. My girlfriend and I both hate our phone conversations but love our in-person conversations, and we certainly know each other. There's something about communicating with a device that ruins a lot of the non-verbal stuff we take for granted.
That's because on the phone you can't read each other's emotional facial cues.
.... OTOH if someone makes you angry, you may spend the rest of the day fuming about them.
No one can make you mad, you let them. It's your choice/decision how you respond to whatever someone has said to you. When someone tells me "He/She made me SO MAD!", I come right back to them with, "No. You 'allowed' them to make you mad."
If you are an adult, then you're supposed to be in control of your emotions.
No. They are clicking it wrong. Besides. It is a feature not a bug.
They're "holding" it wrong. Same excuse used for antenna-gate.
Fair enough, sir. It's been fun, you have a good one. :-)
It is a phenomenon very similar to road rage if we think about it.
Agreed.
And road rage is basically about attempting to have 'power' over someone else. That defines the human condition in many people. They have poor 'anger management' skills. An example: At their job (and in their private life) they HAVE to take orders from others, this creates anger in them, but they can't express their feelings in a correct manner, and that anger builds, and builds. Now put them in 'control' of a 'powerful' automobile, or an online forum, and look out! They'll take out their un-vented anger on anyone who 'dares' (to their mind) to dis-respect them in the slightest. It all comes down to us wanting to have 'control' in our lives. And when we feel we don't have control, the easiest way to regain control, is to yell, lash out inappropiatly, to attempt to 'bully' people to get our way. A childlike response to the situation.
If anyone reading this sees themselves here, or has an angry, controlling person in their lives, I'd suggest you google "angry people" and "anger management" and read up on it. Spending your life upset and angry all the time is a terrible waste, and it just hurts you and the people around you. Have a great day! :-)
From Wikipedia: Sometimes, people deliberately employ rude behaviors to achieve a goal. Early works in linguistic pragmatism interpreted rudeness as a defective mode of communication. However, most rudeness serves functional or instrumental purposes in communication, and skillfully choosing when and how to be rude may indicate a person's pragmatic competence. Robin Lakoff (1989) addressed what she named 'strategic rudeness,' a style of communication used by prosecutors and therapists to force their interlocutors (a courtroom defendant or patient) to talk or react in a certain way. Rudeness in everyday speech "is frequently instrumental, and is not merely pragmatic failure" (Beebe, 1995, p. 154). Most rude speakers are attempting to accomplish one of two important instrumental functions: to vent negative feelings, and/or to get power. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudeness#section_3
Daily News, Oct. 2: Google sailed past Microsoft on Monday to become the world's second biggest technology company.
The milestone reflects both the rise of internet advertising and search - an area where the two giants compete - and the decline of the PC industry, which Microsoft dominates.
Google's market capitalization hit $249.9 billion at the close, just edging out Microsoft's tally of $247.2 billion. Both are still behind Apple, which comes in at a weighty $618.1 billion. Google's search engine holds about 66% of the search market, far exceeding Microsoft's 16% share, according to ComScore.
Elizabeth Lazarowitz, with News Wire Services.
I don't hate much in life except for bullies. I do root for the underdog in any fight. Apple may have seen it's zenith already, there are many up and comers in the game now. Or 'war', if that's what Jobs wanted, Apple's got one now for real. Let's have this discussion again a year from now, and the above numbers may be a lot closer. In a war, you lose some battles like Samsung has recently. They just won one. Its going to be interesting, and Apple is ceded more ground recently. As my Dad used to say, "We shall see what we shall see."
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I agree. That was a good one! :-)
I'll leave you with this one. http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2012/10/02/android-could-soon-overtake-apple-in-tablet-market/ No wonder apple defenders get so crazed here, I think the future is scary for them.
Android Fanboy: You paid how much for that phone that does half of what mine does?
iPhone user: Actually I jailbroke it, so I have a far higher quality of real apps and I can do anything you can in terms of configuration or customization.
Sorry Captain Obvious, you met your match when Captain Reality showed up.
So, you're saying that in order to get your apple phone to 'work right', you had to 'break' it.? Just askin'...
Signed, Captain Obvious' successor.
You mean like how Andriod users root their devices & install other flavors/builds of Andriod on their devices to remove manufacturer or carrier specific crap?
Signed, the guy that hit Captain Obvious, Captain Reality & Captain Obvious' Successor in the fucking face with a brick.
Have you not taken your anti-angry pills this morning? Better check on yout blood pressure, sounds like it's skyrocketing!
Android Fanboy: You paid how much for that phone that does half of what mine does?
iPhone user: Actually I jailbroke it, so I have a far higher quality of real apps and I can do anything you can in terms of configuration or customization.
Sorry Captain Obvious, you met your match when Captain Reality showed up.
So, you're saying that in order to get your apple phone to 'work right', you had to 'break' it.? Just askin'...
Signed, Captain Obvious' successor.
The milestone reflects both the rise of internet advertising and search - an area wwhere the two giants compete - and the decline of the PC industry, which Microsoft dominates.
Google's market capitalization hit $249.9 billion at the close, just edging out Microsoft's tally of $247.2 billion. Both are still behind Apple, which comes in at a weighty $618.1 billion. Google's search engine holds about 66% of the search market, far exceeding Microsoft's 16% share, according to comscore.
Elizabeth Lazarowitz, with News Wire Services.
Well, you get trollism from both sides here. When you disregard those posts, what you're left with are intelligent arguements on the issue.
Some links: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410451,00.asp http://m.cnet.com/news/woz-i-wish-itunes-could-run-on-my-android-devices/57524293 http://m.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/woz-sees-little-difference-between-iphone-android-6225572
Protective gear in any sport or recreational activity is the intelligent way to go. Whether or not laws force people to protect themselves from serious injury, I say this... Wear the damn helmets people! It's better to risk looking a little 'dorky' than to risk your health and future. In my humble opinion.
Scroll up... Then again, it's not much of a secret when his username is "SteveWoz".
Well, a man of Woz's stature would by default merit a different /. moniker, so as to be able to participate (in other /. stories) while not giving away that it's him every time. I'd want that if I had his noteriety.
First 2 weren't big enough!