The G4 iBooks are just as bad, but Apple didn't get a class action threat, so they haven't decided to cover those of us who have had logic board failures.
Mine started with the on-board RAM not working, which they "fixed" by taking out my 128 meg SODIMM and replacing it with a 256 meg SODIMM instead of replacing the logic board, which since failed just out of warranty.
And the G4 logic boards are impossible to come by... That and my 40 gig iPod having a drive die only to be replaced with a new one that came with a bad dock connector that they refused to replace is why I may never buy Apple again. My flat-panel iMac is the only Apple hardware I've bought in the last three years that still works.
AppleCare is a must, unfortunately I learned that lesson too late to avoid losing $1600 in a dead iPod and a laptop.
"to use" is a phrase, nto a verb, and using "use" instead of "leverage" would make the statement blatently incorrect, as Virgin Galactic is not using Spaceship One, Spaceship One is at the smithsonian. They are using some technologies developed for Spaceship One, or quite correctly are leveraging Spaceship One.
Always remember, sometimes a PHB seems like a PHB because you do not understand or have possession of all the information.
Look, maybe you missed George W's memo, but there is only ONE country, the US of fucking A, everyone is a supplier, a terrorist supporter or a communist country.
So when someone says "the country", you better snap to attention and start saying the pledge of allegance, or you may find Bin Laden has been moving WMDs through your piss-ant country.
*heil!*
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No, its not news, its one of four Slashdot front page stories copied from Digg.
And like the last one (which I pointed out and got moderated as a troll), it wasn't one of the good ones.
There are definitely better ones that could've gotten onto here for the sake of those who don't read both sites, there's some great scuba photography linked on there and a very funny 720p vs 1080i thing.
Don't expect anything for references other than affirmation you actually did work there.
This may not be obvious to people who haven't run a business before, but the reason for that has nothing to do with the fact that you quit, its because companies have been sued before for giving bad references to people who didn't expect it.
No competant HR or legal department would allow a company to do anything more than confirm employment on an official company basis. Sometimes a good manager will be willing to give a personal reference, but never as a reference coming from the company.
That doesn't matter to employers, though -- they all do the same thing and understand that...
Seriously, is that even remotely a suprise to anyone here? What amazes me is someone could end up in a position like that and not a) understand the reaction and b) expect (s)he'd do the same if someone under them left
Complaining about two weeks of paid vacation? The only reason I could think someone would complain about that is that they had personal things they wanted to get off the systems (why was anything personal at work?) or work-related things they wanted "backups" of (which is precisely why shutting access off is the correct thing to do).
To the original poster (and to moderators, this is not meant as a flame): don't assume your boss thinks you're going to be malicious. He just clearly understands your job more than you do.
Well you can't exactly TELL them you're talking about Alaska? I mean its pretty simple to find something in an area that small, best to tell them its in Canada, and throw them off!
It should worry you because it signals a growing lack of ability to read something and understand it, and think intelligently about it.
The GP's post, while ignorant of the value of information, is equally ignorant of the fundamentals of the $100 laptop. MIT, and all the companies involved are not donating these laptops to the third world at the expense of poor in the US or anywhere else -- they are producing something inexpensive enough that OTHERS can choose to buy them for whomever they feel is appropriate.
If the GP wants kids in appalachia to have them, star ponying up the money. Thats what anyone in Africa or any other 3rd world country will need to do.
And the GP clearly has not experienced the living conditions of the poor in the US versus the poor elsewhere. Most of the world couldn't consider our poor to be poor.
Maybe you are a stand up guy, but the fact of the matter is if you're running your business out of a closet in your house and your partner's garage, I'd like to know that. It means, all the polish you may have been able to put on your website aside, you are not a company I can trust. There is no real loss for you walking away from the business, there is no established history, as demonstrated by being big enough to have a real warehouse with a real sign, and not some shady back room in a shared building.
There is no such thing as an internet business -- there is just business. And either your business shows traits that suggest it should be trusted, or it doesn't. I wouldn't buy a $3000 camera from someone selling it out of a closet in person any more than I would online. I might buy a $20 pack of film though... and its through those sort of sales that a business can generate the history to be trusted with large transactions.
I wish you the best of luck with your business, but this isn't 1998 -- people should not just blindly trust your company is legit even though it has no physical presence, just because you've got an excuse that you are cutting costs.
I've got 10k+ e-mails in my gmail account, though, and I don't think any have any virus-laden attachments, though.
What I really want is a "yes, I'm unilingual, I speak English and if an e-mail isn't in English, its spam" setting.
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You miss the point -- thats precisely where it'll get installed.
This is about people with bad credit.
And its nothing new. Its already done commonly in the high-risk loan industry.
If you have good credit, you'll never own a car with one. But when you get to a point where you've got a 25% interest rate on your car, and you have the option of a lien on your house, or one of these...
My sister is in high-risk loans. Her bank took someones house for defaulting on a car loan once. That guy, I'd bet, would tell you which he'd prefer.
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The G4 iBooks are just as bad, but Apple didn't get a class action threat, so they haven't decided to cover those of us who have had logic board failures.
Mine started with the on-board RAM not working, which they "fixed" by taking out my 128 meg SODIMM and replacing it with a 256 meg SODIMM instead of replacing the logic board, which since failed just out of warranty.
And the G4 logic boards are impossible to come by... That and my 40 gig iPod having a drive die only to be replaced with a new one that came with a bad dock connector that they refused to replace is why I may never buy Apple again. My flat-panel iMac is the only Apple hardware I've bought in the last three years that still works.
AppleCare is a must, unfortunately I learned that lesson too late to avoid losing $1600 in a dead iPod and a laptop.
I'm just wondering how that question got submitted to them, but my +5 question asking for Kari's phone number on the Mythbusters interview didn't.
*grumbles*
I wish I had mod points to counteract the doofus who modded you a troll.
Parent post is exactly the problem, as has been published all over the place. And most if not all tray-load disc players have the same problem.
The dupes happen when you're looking over your shoulder before clicking! ;-)
Its all the people clicking to it who read it on Digg a couple hours ago.
/. story just before this one.
Just like the
What the fuck is wrong with this country?
Did you get stuck in cryogenic suspension for the last five years?
Its been a LONG time that the logo should read Slashdot: Ads for Nerds, Repost that Don't Matter.
"to use" is a phrase, nto a verb, and using "use" instead of "leverage" would make the statement blatently incorrect, as Virgin Galactic is not using Spaceship One, Spaceship One is at the smithsonian. They are using some technologies developed for Spaceship One, or quite correctly are leveraging Spaceship One.
Always remember, sometimes a PHB seems like a PHB because you do not understand or have possession of all the information.
Look, maybe you missed George W's memo, but there is only ONE country, the US of fucking A, everyone is a supplier, a terrorist supporter or a communist country.
So when someone says "the country", you better snap to attention and start saying the pledge of allegance, or you may find Bin Laden has been moving WMDs through your piss-ant country.
*heil!*
No, its not news, its one of four Slashdot front page stories copied from Digg.
And like the last one (which I pointed out and got moderated as a troll), it wasn't one of the good ones.
There are definitely better ones that could've gotten onto here for the sake of those who don't read both sites, there's some great scuba photography linked on there and a very funny 720p vs 1080i thing.
Seriously... there were a lot more interesting digg stories to rip off today than this one.
(heh, I crack myself up)
This may not be obvious to people who haven't run a business before, but the reason for that has nothing to do with the fact that you quit, its because companies have been sued before for giving bad references to people who didn't expect it.
No competant HR or legal department would allow a company to do anything more than confirm employment on an official company basis. Sometimes a good manager will be willing to give a personal reference, but never as a reference coming from the company.
That doesn't matter to employers, though -- they all do the same thing and understand that...
Seriously, is that even remotely a suprise to anyone here? What amazes me is someone could end up in a position like that and not a) understand the reaction and b) expect (s)he'd do the same if someone under them left
Complaining about two weeks of paid vacation? The only reason I could think someone would complain about that is that they had personal things they wanted to get off the systems (why was anything personal at work?) or work-related things they wanted "backups" of (which is precisely why shutting access off is the correct thing to do).
To the original poster (and to moderators, this is not meant as a flame): don't assume your boss thinks you're going to be malicious. He just clearly understands your job more than you do.
I thought the EFF was bad. I'm so confused now.
Its a searchable database OF code from other products, containing 275 million lines you can search across.
Its not a searchable database written in 275 million lines of code.
Well you can't exactly TELL them you're talking about Alaska? I mean its pretty simple to find something in an area that small, best to tell them its in Canada, and throw them off!
Thats not why it should worry you.
It should worry you because it signals a growing lack of ability to read something and understand it, and think intelligently about it.
The GP's post, while ignorant of the value of information, is equally ignorant of the fundamentals of the $100 laptop. MIT, and all the companies involved are not donating these laptops to the third world at the expense of poor in the US or anywhere else -- they are producing something inexpensive enough that OTHERS can choose to buy them for whomever they feel is appropriate.
If the GP wants kids in appalachia to have them, star ponying up the money. Thats what anyone in Africa or any other 3rd world country will need to do.
And the GP clearly has not experienced the living conditions of the poor in the US versus the poor elsewhere. Most of the world couldn't consider our poor to be poor.
Maybe you are a stand up guy, but the fact of the matter is if you're running your business out of a closet in your house and your partner's garage, I'd like to know that. It means, all the polish you may have been able to put on your website aside, you are not a company I can trust. There is no real loss for you walking away from the business, there is no established history, as demonstrated by being big enough to have a real warehouse with a real sign, and not some shady back room in a shared building.
There is no such thing as an internet business -- there is just business. And either your business shows traits that suggest it should be trusted, or it doesn't. I wouldn't buy a $3000 camera from someone selling it out of a closet in person any more than I would online. I might buy a $20 pack of film though... and its through those sort of sales that a business can generate the history to be trusted with large transactions.
I wish you the best of luck with your business, but this isn't 1998 -- people should not just blindly trust your company is legit even though it has no physical presence, just because you've got an excuse that you are cutting costs.
I've got 10k+ e-mails in my gmail account, though, and I don't think any have any virus-laden attachments, though.
What I really want is a "yes, I'm unilingual, I speak English and if an e-mail isn't in English, its spam" setting.
You miss the point -- thats precisely where it'll get installed.
This is about people with bad credit.
And its nothing new. Its already done commonly in the high-risk loan industry.
If you have good credit, you'll never own a car with one. But when you get to a point where you've got a 25% interest rate on your car, and you have the option of a lien on your house, or one of these...
My sister is in high-risk loans. Her bank took someones house for defaulting on a car loan once. That guy, I'd bet, would tell you which he'd prefer.
Huh? What?
5mhz?
The 400 and 800 were tied to the NTSC clock, and were 1.8mhz.
What a dream 5mhz would've been back then! That would've nearly tripled the amount of stuff one could do during a HBI or VBI.
I still have all that stuff in storage, but the serial cables to plug it all together have gone bad over the years.
What, an accumulator wasn't enough for you?
Kids these days...
You mean I don't know a very good representative sampling of XBox users.
That may be the case.
I, however, know several dozen people with XBoxen and every one of them has XBox Live.
What would be an interesting figure is what the correlation between XBox live accounts and users with larger collections of games is.
Don't forget XBL.
I don't know anyone with an XBox who doesn't have a Live account. Thats another $70/year.