Half the stuff I'm looking for that shows up on Walmart is something sold by Zoro, not Walmart, which means it comes with exactly zero CS support should something not go right (and 9 times out of 10 stuff from Zoro is horribly overpriced, though I'v also gotten my share of deals directly from their website).
Oh, hey - look - your capacitor came from Zoro. Surprise (not). Might as well go straight to their store.
$11 for a faily-hefty Motor-Start cap. is much cheaper than he would have found it at a local appliance-parts store (if he even lived in a city large enough to have such a thing), or even at online appliance-parts sites.
So, $11 was a good deal, IMHO. And who cares if there was a hand-in-the-middle (Walmart) between the actual etailer and the customer?
B&H is the best there is, especially if you're in the northeast. They've always been my go-to place for camera gear, but these days they have pretty much everything tech-related. I recently bough a NAS setup from them and they had both more selection and lower prices than Newegg, with none of the uncertainty of Amazon and faster shipping than Prime. I knew that I would be getting what I needed the next day at the lowest price. I'll only order from someone else if I can't get it locally or from B&H.
Yep. Absolutely!
I have "purchased" (well, actually "spec-ed") 3 Synology NASes and their Drives from B&H (1 for my employer, and two for a friend of mine), and am getting ready to recommend a 4th one, to replace the first one for work.
B&H has great prices, great selection, and wonderful fulfillment-times. What more can you ask? With Amazon, they've become such a "bazaar" it's like "Ok, I found an EXAMPLE of the thing I want; now I wonder how many OTHER "examples" there are OF THE EXACT SAME THING floating around on this site, but with ENTIRELY different prices? And how many of them are actually REFURBS and COUNTERFEITS?" It's almost worse than Alibaba, FFS!
I hate to say it, but even with all things being equal you still have to worry about your owner having a kid. Men work harder when their wives get pregnant, woman take time off.
You'd take time off, too, if you spent nine months carrying a bowling-ball strapped to your abdomen.
Or JK Rowling, George Eliot, and other writers of fiction
I've done the opposite with my gender-neutral pen name, C.D. Reimer, writing short stories with lead female characters, and submitting them to anthologies edited by female editors. I've gotten quite a few first serial sales that way. Mostly because writers, including female writers, tend to write short stories with a lead male character. A short story with a lead female character stands out from the crowd.
No, my point was that to give the user the fastest response the phone switches networks for them. The priority is on the speed of transfer (which is fair enough, users want content NOW),, not any associated cost that might arise from it.
Maybe Apple think that if you can afford their stuff you're most likely on an unmetered plan or don't mind a few dollars extra on your bill at the end of the month. Or maybe they didn't even consider the unintended circumstance because it didn't affect any of those who thought it was a good idea. I'd go with the latter because of the complaints mentioned in TFS.
I think that any algorithm may have corner-cases and weighting-issues; and I also think that Apple will need some real-world data to tune said algorithm.
Haven't you heard? There's no team working on AirPort products at Apple anymore. That means even Apple users need to buy bug-ridden, backdoor-infested routers from crap companies now.
Which actually concerns me greatly. Since they were never one of the growing number of router and AP brands that had exploits.
Guess I need to buy one of their AC routers before they're all gone...
again, the consumer is kept dumb. the intelligent thing to do, would be to INFORM the user that wifi is crappy and SHOW him/her a nice graph (of detected APs and their used channels) that explains WHY the wifi is crappy.
but nooooo, the consumer is just a big baby that needs to have decisions made for them.
i am sure all apple wifi products are thus superior and will get a higher threshold of "crappyness" before the apple lus3r is disconnected from them...
note: there are many free wifi "spectrum scanners" out there. the people that making these are very nice. i am sorry if my suggestion might remove some revenue stream, but it is for the grater good of mankind : P
You have so little understanding of human nature, it is actually frightening.
Go back to your Mom's basement. That's where you belong.
Nothing there suggests that users still won't get bumped to a cellular network should the wireless one be deemed to be slow / unreliable (what is "slow"? Is that configurable?) just that you have to force the connection as it has been flagged. Will the forced connection remain even if it is "unreliable"?
How about just a notification on the icon (like a ! ) to easily let the user know the connection isn't up to snuff for whatever reason? Then the _user_ can decide if they want to go on a (potentially metered) cellular network. This can have an configuration option (default off) that automatically does this should the user be on an unmetered plan.
Given the options of "pay and get the content (probably an add) quicker" or "I can wait a few more seconds for free" even iPhone users would probably choose the latter.
Yeah, Apple is evil, and wants you to spend money ON A CELL NETWORK THEY DON'T OWN.
10 years without a UI update is EXACTLY what I would want in an OS. The whole point of an OS is to allow me to run software and stay the hell out of my way. Changing a usable UI just for the sake of changing it is just a learning curve nobody needs.
EXACTLY.
The opposite of that is what you got with the Windows 7 to 8 transition.
You mean to tell me Amazon follows the same business practices of virtually every single retail business when having big "sales"!? Say it ain't so, lol.
I always think back to a Mad Magazine piece called "What they say (and what it really means)". One of the "panels" showed a supposed "Sale" sign that sc reamed in gigantic type:
Prices Slashed by 50% !!!...and then below it, in much smaller print...
(on things we increased the price by 50%)
That economic lesson has stayed with me since I was about 12 years old.
I buy a lot of stuff on Amazon but I don't keep a running list of prices. Newegg is a different story. Most of their promotional prices are the same prices they charge every day, and the promotional discounts are just enough to reduce the sales tax being charged. A good deal is once in a blue moon.
Newegg is, and has always-been, one of the worst, slowest, most unscrupulous mail-order retailers in history.
Amazon has tackled that, too. I live in a warehouse city, so there are many items I can get the same day.......so I don't have to leave the house and I can have it just as fast as if I got dressed, drove to the store, hoped they had it, bought it, and returned home.
I agree that that is cool.
I also live in a city that has an Amazon warehouse in a nearby town. It was Thanksgiving day, and i found that my digital meat thermometer had decided to die.
Got on Amazon, and a couple of HOURS later, there was a knock at the door... Same day delivery (via a Courier service), and on a HOLIDAY!
There's a lot not to like about Amazon; but delivery is rarely one of them...
"you buy from amazon for the convenience and the pre-paid 2 day shipping you signed up for with amazon prime"
Yes, and the painless returns. You have to shop smart, but Amazon has one of the best direct/3rd party systems. Have you seen the dumpster fire that Newegg has turned into, or - God forbid - have you every looked for something at Sears/Kmart or Walmart online? Those last two are case studies in making a 3rd party marketplace a total clusterfuck on your site.
I agree that Amazon has the logistics down "pat".
Newegg always WAS a dumpster-fire. I haven't tried to order online from Kmart/Sears, but Walmart isn't THAT bad. Nice touch that you can avoid shipping costs if you have a Walmart nearby.
For "tech" stuff, I often prefer B&H Photo over Amazon these days. Generally better prices, no sales tax, often free shipping, fast service (they even shipped something ON July 4th!), and there doesn't seem to be the issue with "counterfeit stuff" that is getting to be rampant on Amazon.
For example, Apple recently studied all the supposed "Genuine Apple" AC adapters and cables on Amazon, and I think they found that some 90% of them were counterfeits.
OTOH, B&H is a much smaller target for those people, and has been in the mail-order business since the mid to late 1960s, at least, decades longer than Amazon; so, IMHO, they have as much, or even more, experience in this business, at least as applies to "tech" items. As for groceries...?
It also looks like its over 10 years old, which probably means a lot of installs have been lost to system wipes, drives being replaced, and even system failures. 10 years is forever in computer years.
So?
Even if 10 "installs" were lost to every one still found, that's still a minuscule infection rate over 10 days, let alone 10 YEARS.
If it's MALware, doesn't it have to do something MALicious? I can't see what this stuff does that is bad. It just sits around watching what you do and doesn't bother you. Nobody even noticed it for years. I think it should be called PALware, like some guy who comes over and sits in your garage and watches while you work on your car. A real PAL. And it doesn't even drink your beer.
Wait! I thought that Apple placed an LED in parallel with the Power to the Camera Module; so it COULDN'T be turned-on without also lighting the little LED next to it.
There were some claims in the past made by many people, that Mac's don't get computer virus's. For the most part that was true for a while. As far significance goes, the FruitFly virus is not. However, it is an attack vector. So, Apple needs to fix this problem.
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Half the stuff I'm looking for that shows up on Walmart is something sold by Zoro, not Walmart, which means it comes with exactly zero CS support should something not go right (and 9 times out of 10 stuff from Zoro is horribly overpriced, though I'v also gotten my share of deals directly from their website).
Oh, hey - look - your capacitor came from Zoro. Surprise (not). Might as well go straight to their store.
$11 for a faily-hefty Motor-Start cap. is much cheaper than he would have found it at a local appliance-parts store (if he even lived in a city large enough to have such a thing), or even at online appliance-parts sites.
So, $11 was a good deal, IMHO. And who cares if there was a hand-in-the-middle (Walmart) between the actual etailer and the customer?
So much for your Zoro bs.
Just don't try to impulse buy on a Saturday(you know the day after pay day), since you know, the WEBSITE IS CLOSED ON SATURDAY.
WTF.
Oh, WAAAAH.
B&H is the best there is, especially if you're in the northeast. They've always been my go-to place for camera gear, but these days they have pretty much everything tech-related. I recently bough a NAS setup from them and they had both more selection and lower prices than Newegg, with none of the uncertainty of Amazon and faster shipping than Prime. I knew that I would be getting what I needed the next day at the lowest price. I'll only order from someone else if I can't get it locally or from B&H.
Yep. Absolutely!
I have "purchased" (well, actually "spec-ed") 3 Synology NASes and their Drives from B&H (1 for my employer, and two for a friend of mine), and am getting ready to recommend a 4th one, to replace the first one for work.
B&H has great prices, great selection, and wonderful fulfillment-times. What more can you ask? With Amazon, they've become such a "bazaar" it's like "Ok, I found an EXAMPLE of the thing I want; now I wonder how many OTHER "examples" there are OF THE EXACT SAME THING floating around on this site, but with ENTIRELY different prices? And how many of them are actually REFURBS and COUNTERFEITS?" It's almost worse than Alibaba, FFS!
I hate to say it, but even with all things being equal you still have to worry about your owner having a kid. Men work harder when their wives get pregnant, woman take time off.
You'd take time off, too, if you spent nine months carrying a bowling-ball strapped to your abdomen.
Or JK Rowling, George Eliot, and other writers of fiction
I've done the opposite with my gender-neutral pen name, C.D. Reimer, writing short stories with lead female characters, and submitting them to anthologies edited by female editors. I've gotten quite a few first serial sales that way. Mostly because writers, including female writers, tend to write short stories with a lead male character. A short story with a lead female character stands out from the crowd.
Nice example of Zen Marketing! Kudos!
Making stuff nice for people.
PERFECTLY stated!
No, my point was that to give the user the fastest response the phone switches networks for them. The priority is on the speed of transfer (which is fair enough, users want content NOW),, not any associated cost that might arise from it.
Maybe Apple think that if you can afford their stuff you're most likely on an unmetered plan or don't mind a few dollars extra on your bill at the end of the month. Or maybe they didn't even consider the unintended circumstance because it didn't affect any of those who thought it was a good idea. I'd go with the latter because of the complaints mentioned in TFS.
I think that any algorithm may have corner-cases and weighting-issues; and I also think that Apple will need some real-world data to tune said algorithm.
IOW, it's too soon to tell.
No, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.
(um, it's just a phone...)
Tell that to the Haters.
When they are making bank on their desktop and Server CPUs the way they are, the last thing they need is a bunch of snot-nosed kids.
Instead, they are focusing their resources on staving-off the coming AMD CPU wave...
HELLO! 1990 is calling!
What goes around...
Let me guess, it would check the MAC Address of the WiFi AP.
00-1B-63 (hex) Apple Inc.
if the MAC address doesn't match, the network is "unreliable".
Or, if some proprietary "apple handshake" fails, the network is unreliable.
Basically, if it's not apple branded hardware, it's unreliable.
Hey DUMBASS:
Apple went OUT of the Router/AP business over a YEAR ago.
Stupid fucking Hater. DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE!!!
Haven't you heard? There's no team working on AirPort products at Apple anymore. That means even Apple users need to buy bug-ridden, backdoor-infested routers from crap companies now.
Which actually concerns me greatly. Since they were never one of the growing number of router and AP brands that had exploits.
Guess I need to buy one of their AC routers before they're all gone...
Soon you will need to have iRouters and iAcceePoints if you want to use apple devices.
Hey dumbass!
In case you didn't notice before you posted your fucking SCREED, Apple exited the Router/AP business about a year ago.
Do try to keep up, if you're going to spew HATE.
again, the consumer is kept dumb.
the intelligent thing to do, would be to INFORM the user that wifi is crappy and SHOW him/her
a nice graph (of detected APs and their used channels) that explains WHY the wifi is crappy.
but nooooo, the consumer is just a big baby that needs to have decisions made for them.
i am sure all apple wifi products are thus superior and will get a higher threshold of "crappyness" before the ...
apple lus3r is disconnected from them
note: there are many free wifi "spectrum scanners" out there. the people that making these are very nice.
i am sorry if my suggestion might remove some revenue stream, but it is for the grater good of mankind : P
You have so little understanding of human nature, it is actually frightening.
Go back to your Mom's basement. That's where you belong.
Nothing there suggests that users still won't get bumped to a cellular network should the wireless one be deemed to be slow / unreliable (what is "slow"? Is that configurable?) just that you have to force the connection as it has been flagged. Will the forced connection remain even if it is "unreliable"?
How about just a notification on the icon (like a ! ) to easily let the user know the connection isn't up to snuff for whatever reason? Then the _user_ can decide if they want to go on a (potentially metered) cellular network. This can have an configuration option (default off) that automatically does this should the user be on an unmetered plan.
Given the options of "pay and get the content (probably an add) quicker" or "I can wait a few more seconds for free" even iPhone users would probably choose the latter.
Yeah, Apple is evil, and wants you to spend money ON A CELL NETWORK THEY DON'T OWN.
Riiiight.
Fucking Haters.
10 years without a UI update is EXACTLY what I would want in an OS. The whole point of an OS is to allow me to run software and stay the hell out of my way. Changing a usable UI just for the sake of changing it is just a learning curve nobody needs.
EXACTLY.
The opposite of that is what you got with the Windows 7 to 8 transition.
If you wanted control, you would never go for apple. Apple is for sheep. :)
Listen, FUCKTARD:
1. You can disable Auto-Join.
2. You can tell it to "Forget" a Network.
3. It NEVER Joins a "NEW" (never previously connected) Network without ASKING first.
So, take your HATER BULLSHIT and SHOVE IT UP YOUR ANONYMOUS, COWARDLY ASS!!!
Got it?
You mean to tell me Amazon follows the same business practices of virtually every single retail business when having big "sales"!? Say it ain't so, lol.
I always think back to a Mad Magazine piece called "What they say (and what it really means)". One of the "panels" showed a supposed "Sale" sign that sc reamed in gigantic type:
Prices Slashed by 50% !!! ...and then below it, in much smaller print...
(on things we increased the price by 50%)
That economic lesson has stayed with me since I was about 12 years old.
I buy a lot of stuff on Amazon but I don't keep a running list of prices. Newegg is a different story. Most of their promotional prices are the same prices they charge every day, and the promotional discounts are just enough to reduce the sales tax being charged. A good deal is once in a blue moon.
Newegg is, and has always-been, one of the worst, slowest, most unscrupulous mail-order retailers in history.
Amazon has tackled that, too. I live in a warehouse city, so there are many items I can get the same day.......so I don't have to leave the house and I can have it just as fast as if I got dressed, drove to the store, hoped they had it, bought it, and returned home.
I agree that that is cool.
I also live in a city that has an Amazon warehouse in a nearby town. It was Thanksgiving day, and i found that my digital meat thermometer had decided to die.
Got on Amazon, and a couple of HOURS later, there was a knock at the door... Same day delivery (via a Courier service), and on a HOLIDAY!
There's a lot not to like about Amazon; but delivery is rarely one of them...
"you buy from amazon for the convenience and the pre-paid 2 day shipping you signed up for with amazon prime"
Yes, and the painless returns. You have to shop smart, but Amazon has one of the best direct/3rd party systems. Have you seen the dumpster fire that Newegg has turned into, or - God forbid - have you every looked for something at Sears/Kmart or Walmart online? Those last two are case studies in making a 3rd party marketplace a total clusterfuck on your site.
I agree that Amazon has the logistics down "pat".
Newegg always WAS a dumpster-fire. I haven't tried to order online from Kmart/Sears, but Walmart isn't THAT bad. Nice touch that you can avoid shipping costs if you have a Walmart nearby.
For "tech" stuff, I often prefer B&H Photo over Amazon these days. Generally better prices, no sales tax, often free shipping, fast service (they even shipped something ON July 4th!), and there doesn't seem to be the issue with "counterfeit stuff" that is getting to be rampant on Amazon.
For example, Apple recently studied all the supposed "Genuine Apple" AC adapters and cables on Amazon, and I think they found that some 90% of them were counterfeits.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...
OTOH, B&H is a much smaller target for those people, and has been in the mail-order business since the mid to late 1960s, at least, decades longer than Amazon; so, IMHO, they have as much, or even more, experience in this business, at least as applies to "tech" items. As for groceries...?
When they are making bank on their desktop and Server CPUs the way they are, the last thing they need is a bunch of snot-nosed kids.
Instead, they are focusing their resources on staving-off the coming AMD CPU wave...
It also looks like its over 10 years old, which probably means a lot of installs have been lost to system wipes, drives being replaced, and even system failures. 10 years is forever in computer years.
So?
Even if 10 "installs" were lost to every one still found, that's still a minuscule infection rate over 10 days, let alone 10 YEARS.
If it's MALware, doesn't it have to do something MALicious? I can't see what this stuff does that is bad. It just sits around watching what you do and doesn't bother you. Nobody even noticed it for years. I think it should be called PALware, like some guy who comes over and sits in your garage and watches while you work on your car. A real PAL. And it doesn't even drink your beer.
Wait! I thought that Apple placed an LED in parallel with the Power to the Camera Module; so it COULDN'T be turned-on without also lighting the little LED next to it.
There were some claims in the past made by many people, that Mac's don't get computer virus's. For the most part that was true for a while. As far significance goes, the FruitFly virus is not. However, it is an attack vector. So, Apple needs to fix this problem.
They will.
Is it really a self-installing virus, or user-installed malware?
With that low of an infection-rate, do you even have to ask?