Way to flame bait and make sweeping generalizations. Maybe you meant to say, there is a very vocal group of apple users that will not be ignored.... Less "bitch" in that...
. I myself have bought multiple first-gen Apple products
A company that I work for bought about 60 first gen. iMac G5's. One by one they crapped out, becoming unbootable. The problem was with the logic board and Power Supply, which both had to be replaced.
To apple's credit, they offered an extended warranty period on those defective models, but they didn't recall them, or do anything proactive to help consumers that were already stuck with them.
So they fixed them, but for every machine that fell it cost about 2 man hours to get them repaired = 120 man hours, = 3 ENTIRE FUCKING WORK WEEKS getting iMacs repaired.
Ditto for 12" powerbooks, but they were considerably harder to repair.
Seriously, though, if the police put a tracker on my car, and are unable to produce documentation demonstrating that they have done so, is the tracker mine if I discover it before they remove it?
IANAL but I'd never want to piss of a cop, knowing that some are loose cannons.
Please cease from using digg / 4chan style comments on slashdot. We have our own memes here that we are very proud of, thank you very much, and have no desire to sink into the morass of 1 and 2 word comments that proliferate on those sites.
What not to say: EPIC X where X = win / lose / tie / etc. MOAR, Put keyboard on head, oh and did I mention EPIC ANYTHING ?
Acceptable memes: In soviet russia...., 123... PROFIT!, Imagine a beowulf cluster of, jokes based on original ipod post (no wifi, LAME).....
We have a long standing tradition that you are FUCKING UP.
Ahh, another case of life imitating nethack. Perhaps you are stuck with cursed armor or a loadstone. Or maybe you should "D" some of those items and do a polypile later.
The Sample with the Built-in Bias The Well-Chosen Average The Little Figures That Are Not There Much Ado about Practically Nothing The Gee-Whiz Graph The One-Dimensional Picture The Semi-attached Figure Post Hoc Rides Again How to Statisticulate How to Talk Back to a Statistic
This is funny and true. As a desktop admin, there is nothing harder than getting someone to take the time to learn a new application. Even worse is asking someone to relearn the same application that they have been using for over a decade. 2007 completely changes the user interface, which is not a good thing for the target audience: people that use computers for document editing. All I hear is people wishing for the "old toolbars" back.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
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Pay toilets were popular in the U.S. in the 1970s. They ended up being banned in many cities
Thank god, I was getting tired of "just crawling under". Thanks mom.
Apple's users are a bunch of whiny bitches.
Way to flame bait and make sweeping generalizations.
Maybe you meant to say, there is a very vocal group of apple users
that will not be ignored.... Less "bitch" in that...
. I myself have bought multiple first-gen Apple products
A company that I work for bought about 60 first gen. iMac G5's.
One by one they crapped out, becoming unbootable. The problem
was with the logic board and Power Supply, which both had to be
replaced.
To apple's credit, they offered an extended warranty period on those defective models, but
they didn't recall them, or do anything proactive to help consumers that
were already stuck with them.
So they fixed them, but for every machine that fell it cost about 2 man hours to get them repaired = 120 man hours, = 3 ENTIRE FUCKING WORK WEEKS getting iMacs repaired.
Ditto for 12" powerbooks, but they were considerably harder to repair.
Seriously, though, if the police put a tracker on my car, and are unable to produce documentation demonstrating that they have done so, is the tracker mine if I discover it before they remove it?
IANAL but I'd never want to piss of a cop, knowing that some are loose cannons.
Can I just point out that THAT phone looks like a clock/radio, not an awesome phone ?
let a rare piece of art vanish into oblivion rather than have it digitized and spread to preserve its existance.
You DO know that there is more recorded music that is unreleased than released, right?
And that record companies sometimes shelve projects and even block the artists from releasing the already recorded material.
I agree with you.... They suck.
hehe. Its funny because its true !
TANDY Model 100 4ever ! Spy on that...
Stop the invasion. Mod down !
I'm sometimes dealing with child-like men on this site, many times with egos far exceeding their humanity.
That is the most cogent statement I have seen on or about this site in a long time.
Hah, you guys think slashdot is full of them, you should try the rest of the world / internet!
Don't even make me mention that shovely site, which doesn't even have the men, just children.
Obviously you've never seen 24 and that room full of awesome computer at CTU HQ,
and Jack Bauer's cell phone that works EVERYWHERE.
I mean all that stuff is real, its basically a documentary.
All it takes is one determined tow headed ex special forces DUDE with a license to ill,
and your whole encryption thingy comes tumbling down.
I got several 0 result queries when I tried Cuil, so I think they forgot to index some sites.
At least with broad results you can refine with more terms or operators or both.
I didn't like the format of cuil, I like using google to get 100 listings per page.....
EPIC FAIL!!!!
Please cease from using digg / 4chan style comments on slashdot. We have our own
memes here that we are very proud of, thank you very much, and have no desire to
sink into the morass of 1 and 2 word comments that proliferate on those sites.
What not to say: EPIC X where X = win / lose / tie / etc.
MOAR, Put keyboard on head, oh and did I mention EPIC ANYTHING ?
Acceptable memes: In soviet russia...., 123... PROFIT!, Imagine a beowulf cluster of,
jokes based on original ipod post (no wifi, LAME).....
We have a long standing tradition that you are FUCKING UP.
Yes, but on this thread I get to say, Oshkosh? B'Gosh !!
There is always one bad Apple (tm) that spoils the whole bunch.
**chirp** **chirp**
I upgraded from onboard audio to an X-Fi Fatal1ty. My Kill to Death ratio went up by about 25% within a few days.
NEVER underestimate the power of.... Celebrity Endorsement !
Get the Fatal1ty mousepad to go up another percent.
How about you name droppping some more distros within an otherwise useless comment.
(I'm a knot theorist)
So how is work coming on the time cube knot ?
I am happy, but I feel encumbered.
Ahh, another case of life imitating nethack.
Perhaps you are stuck with cursed armor or a loadstone.
Or maybe you should "D" some of those items
and do a polypile later.
I wonder if the great orgy spike of 2006 had anything to do with
the subsequent surfing decline and what was the net overall effect on Apple Pie-ism?
For even more fun with statistics, I recommend
How to Lie with Statistics.
Even the chapter titles are funny:
The Sample with the Built-in Bias
The Well-Chosen Average
The Little Figures That Are Not There
Much Ado about Practically Nothing
The Gee-Whiz Graph
The One-Dimensional Picture
The Semi-attached Figure
Post Hoc Rides Again
How to Statisticulate
How to Talk Back to a Statistic
It is funny to read comments in slashdot where people is talking out of their asses.
It is funny to read comments up in slashdot where people is talking out of they asses.
There, fixed that for you.
Yes, we should stick with the toolbar paradigm regardless application complexity for all eternity.
FINALLY! Someone who understands.
This is funny and true. As a desktop admin, there is nothing harder than
getting someone to take the time to learn a new application. Even worse
is asking someone to relearn the same application that they have been using
for over a decade. 2007 completely changes the user interface, which
is not a good thing for the target audience: people that use computers for
document editing. All I hear is people wishing for the "old toolbars" back.
I wish there were a card you could hand out to people that says basically
Genius! It could be in the format of the (pure genius) spamsolutions.txt,
you know the one that starts out:
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
How many shares can I get for $0.02 ?