Unfortunately, for any but the largest of shops, that means they simply eat the loss. I'd never do that to a local business. Usually when visa activates their return/fraud clauses, there's simply nothing the vendor can do, regardless of the circumstances or who's at fault. The agreement they signed to do business with visa basically says if A, B, or C happen, you automatically lose - customer keeps the product and you lose the money.
You should never consider dumping your problem off on sone other innocent. If you can't return the problem to the source, burning someone else shouldn't even be considered an option. That makes you worse than the people that shafted you in the first place.
Any single player game that requires an internet connection or a disc to be humming in my drive, is an automatic deal-breaker for me. I'll buy it when I find the crack for it that makes it perform acceptably.
I find the CD checks more offensive than the internet ones, as I prefer to game on my laptop. And having a spinning disc heating up the machine, making the keyboard vibrate, and the sound of the disc spun up at speed ruin it for me. COD, UT, etc, fortunately I've found no-cd-cracks for all of them within a week of purchase. Oh that's right, I can't return it if I can't find a crack. Guess I should go looking for the crack first eh? Oh look it's in that download that just happens to include the whole game.
And they wonder why some people pirate. Sometimes the pirates provide a better quality product, irrespectful of price.
That sounds like the most reasonable scenario from a responsible company that's not just burying its head in the ground saying NaaNaaNaaCan'tHearYou.
But otoh I can see where cost keeps a lot of people stuck in the past. Not too long ago I dealt with someone that had a broken down 12 (yes) year old computer attached to a special printer looking thing. It cut posterboard to exacting sizes for poster printing, which was his business. The unit connected via serial port. A new cutter was 20 grand. New software was 8. (obviously one of those niche markets where hardly no one sells the stuff and it's only used by profitable businesses that have to have it, so they gouge you good) The machine was fine, he'd just dropped 2 bills on new blades. The software he'd lost the discs for and it had some nasty copy protection preventing copying the app to another old machine. So ya, he painted... or rather, cemented himself into a nice corner. I don't know what he did, but there was no way to fix his OS without deactivating the software, which could not be reactivated.
And he has no one to blame but himself really. It's not like he knew this day wouldn't come. Or maybe in the back of his mind he just thought maybe it'd work forever, I dunno.
So true. Funny they didn't mention the level of humidity nor Apple's stated humidity limits.
Equally entertaining how many people are saying that Apple is voiding the warranty based on the LSI being tripped as unfair. Apple also doesn't warranty it when you run it over with your truck, but that's not specifically spelled out in the warranty, so I guess they think that too should be covered?
I tell them, look closer, Apple's stated warranty specifically does not cover "accidental damage/abuse". This is abuse. Exposing electronics to repeated condensation is abuse, plain and simple. As you said, the sensor is doing its job. It's not an "I dropped it in the lake" sensor. It's an "I exposed it to liquid, heavy condensation, or extended high humidity" sensor. And it works just fine.
I can think of half a dozen electronics with a "dew sensor" in them. (very common in digital cameras) They will specifically refuse to power on (which would cause damage) if they sense too high of a humidity or condensation. You have to dry the unit out before it will turn on.
You hate to see an incompetent IT person whose negligence causes his company to lose tens of thousands of dollars getting replaced with someone that knows what they're doing and can actually be relied on?
How do you feel about the company that loses all that due to the incompetence of an employee they were trusting with their future?
I don't feel the least bit bad for that person. From a purely selfish perspective I could even be a little happy about it, I can do better than that, and I can use new job opportunities, and that'd be a win-win situation for that company and me. The only loser is, well, the loser. The only real tragedy in that whole story is what had to happen to the company before he got replaced.
I don't feel the least bit sorry for him. If the company relied on him being the expert and taking care of backups and he completely failed at that aspect of his job, that's the price for catastrophic fail in any job position. Something like that doesn't even rate as an accident. Accidents can happen. That's just plain negligence, and considering the severity, gross negligence. Out you go, mind the door...
if they were running backups, they wouldn't be scratching their heads and behaving completely ignorant of what exactly it was or when it was put in. They obviously lost everything, which I'm sorry but I find some darwinism/justice in that. If you don't even have a backup to look at to see what it was sitting on the hard drive waiting to blow up, you're just beyond help. Maybe better luck next time.
But too many out there simply must learn their lessons the hard way. That will never change.
people have been doing this for years with best buy. get the extended warranty. drop it down a flight of stairs a month before it lapses, get a replacement. (refurb often, but not as worn anyway) They replace it almost regardless of treatment.
Tho this all falls under the name of "insurance fraud". There's no reason to be surprised that when a new model of anything comes out, that there won't be a short spat of insurance fraud by owners of the previous model. This article has nothing whatsoever to do specifically with the ipod, and is just using it for a buzzword to attract attention to something we all already know goes on.
And I believe the actual point Landis is making is that he felt the drug testing companies were somehow in error, somehow-or--other hacked into their network, and unearthed evidence that supports his claim.
It's not surprising that a drug company would go on the offensive to try to cover up their mistakes. That's the entire point Landis is trying to make here. It doesn't look like he's necessarily even denying the doping charges. He's questioning the evidence gathering and handling process that led to the accusation.
Unfortunately, breaking a different law when attempting to gather counter-evidence usually gets your counter-evidence thrown out in court. BUT, sometimes when it's a "court of the public" and a PR issue, it can prove useful. And I believe that's where he's going with this.
good blockers will "collapse" the content in most places, so instead of leaving gaping whitespace you get more content per page. Articles that would take scrolling three pages down to read it all, show up entirely on the first page. Link bars that are scattered mixed vertically with vertical banners on the left and right sides of the page all pile up at the top on page 1. It's a beautiful thing.
But then when you use someone else's computer it'll drive you crazy all the crap you suddenly get shocked with, makes for a jarring experience going to a web page you visit all the time, to see it change so much.
the information from the iPhone could be useful for correctly placing a photo in an application such as Google Earth.
iPhoto and Aperture are already taking advantage of this enhanced metadata.
Digital cameras can really stuff the metadata in. Exposure etc are all in there usually. Sometimes other things like camera model and firmware rev.
I wonder if any of them are putting in too much information though? As in phone number, phone ESN, email address, etc, things most would not want in their pictures without notice...
and Apple uses open directory instead, which is a much more open system. But it too can become something of a tangle. But having worked with both, Apple's use of OD is a good deal more sane than Windows AD.
considering your time constraints, and trying to get several students up to the telescope one at a time, a star tracker is an absolute must. You'd be strongly advised to get some kind of setup with a computer camera attached to the telescope so you can spend 1/2 the event with the students getting hands-on with the telescope eyepiece, and the other 1/2 of the timeslot showing the entire group five times as many other objects live while huddled around a laptop screen. The hands-on is important, but having a live camera to the scope that the entire group can look at all at once will allow you to cover a lot more ground in a night, and make things much less boring for the students.
You can also record the live observations to be used later in classroom activities, and for those students that are forced to miss one of the few nights you do manage to pull off.
I think it's also more a case of they lie, you know they lie, they know you know they lie, and they DON'T CARE.
Not much you can do at that point besides feel sorry for their citizens. It's a waste of time to catch someone in a lie that doesn't care if you catch the lie.
Reminds me so much of 1984... back when the book was written, most of what went on was considered so absurd no one could possibly have tolerated it to let it get that far, but now look here at how governments can get away with it and even manage to make it grow.
It's possible that Windows is just getting better at reporting battery condition and catching failing batteries, and so the problem that has already existed for awhile is just now becoming more noticeable? Windows PC grade hardware can be any level of quality, just because Windows is identifying your battery has crapped out before it should doesn't make it MS's fault. Maybe you just bought crap or need a new battery?
That's probably the only variation where there's a positive tilt. If you've MacGyvered something generally it's expected you made something brilliant with almost impossible resources. All the others look at it as assembling a substandard solution based on a random assortment of garbage.
and that looks like it delivers. Interesting idea to forge the frame from a single piece of aluminum... definitely saved some weight on a bunch more seals...
I think it depends on why she called the police. She might have been a UFO nut or something that wa really freaked out by the light which is why she called. I don't think she realized who or what it was. The police she called however, may have been aware of the missing person, put the facts together, and took a chance on it.
well if E still equals MC^2, if you can teleport energy, then you can teleport mass. And that causes all sorts of problems with issues such as angular momentum and conservation of energy, so I remain skeptical.
Generally speaking, the 'to every action there is an equal but opposite reaction" means that if you teleport something, something else of an opposite nature also was teleported the other way. So either they're wrong, or they've overlooked something important.
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Unfortunately, for any but the largest of shops, that means they simply eat the loss. I'd never do that to a local business. Usually when visa activates their return/fraud clauses, there's simply nothing the vendor can do, regardless of the circumstances or who's at fault. The agreement they signed to do business with visa basically says if A, B, or C happen, you automatically lose - customer keeps the product and you lose the money.
You should never consider dumping your problem off on sone other innocent. If you can't return the problem to the source, burning someone else shouldn't even be considered an option. That makes you worse than the people that shafted you in the first place.
Any single player game that requires an internet connection or a disc to be humming in my drive, is an automatic deal-breaker for me. I'll buy it when I find the crack for it that makes it perform acceptably.
I find the CD checks more offensive than the internet ones, as I prefer to game on my laptop. And having a spinning disc heating up the machine, making the keyboard vibrate, and the sound of the disc spun up at speed ruin it for me. COD, UT, etc, fortunately I've found no-cd-cracks for all of them within a week of purchase. Oh that's right, I can't return it if I can't find a crack. Guess I should go looking for the crack first eh? Oh look it's in that download that just happens to include the whole game.
And they wonder why some people pirate. Sometimes the pirates provide a better quality product, irrespectful of price.
I certainly hope they remain a technology demonstrator only by some gentlemans agreement.
Oh that holds out well in war. They can't even reasonably hold the Geneva Convention.
* WHOOSH* ... you missed.
and while we're at it, remember, nobody actually said they were virgin women (@4:30)
Are there any phone manufacturers that will certify their products as 'washing machine safe'? :)
Be sure to set the washer on delicate, and dry on low heat
That sounds like the most reasonable scenario from a responsible company that's not just burying its head in the ground saying NaaNaaNaaCan'tHearYou.
But otoh I can see where cost keeps a lot of people stuck in the past. Not too long ago I dealt with someone that had a broken down 12 (yes) year old computer attached to a special printer looking thing. It cut posterboard to exacting sizes for poster printing, which was his business. The unit connected via serial port. A new cutter was 20 grand. New software was 8. (obviously one of those niche markets where hardly no one sells the stuff and it's only used by profitable businesses that have to have it, so they gouge you good) The machine was fine, he'd just dropped 2 bills on new blades. The software he'd lost the discs for and it had some nasty copy protection preventing copying the app to another old machine. So ya, he painted... or rather, cemented himself into a nice corner. I don't know what he did, but there was no way to fix his OS without deactivating the software, which could not be reactivated.
And he has no one to blame but himself really. It's not like he knew this day wouldn't come. Or maybe in the back of his mind he just thought maybe it'd work forever, I dunno.
trip the sensor and possibly ruin the electronics
So true. Funny they didn't mention the level of humidity nor Apple's stated humidity limits.
Equally entertaining how many people are saying that Apple is voiding the warranty based on the LSI being tripped as unfair. Apple also doesn't warranty it when you run it over with your truck, but that's not specifically spelled out in the warranty, so I guess they think that too should be covered?
I tell them, look closer, Apple's stated warranty specifically does not cover "accidental damage /abuse". This is abuse. Exposing electronics to repeated condensation is abuse, plain and simple. As you said, the sensor is doing its job. It's not an "I dropped it in the lake" sensor. It's an "I exposed it to liquid, heavy condensation, or extended high humidity" sensor. And it works just fine.
I can think of half a dozen electronics with a "dew sensor" in them. (very common in digital cameras) They will specifically refuse to power on (which would cause damage) if they sense too high of a humidity or condensation. You have to dry the unit out before it will turn on.
You hate to see an incompetent IT person whose negligence causes his company to lose tens of thousands of dollars getting replaced with someone that knows what they're doing and can actually be relied on?
How do you feel about the company that loses all that due to the incompetence of an employee they were trusting with their future?
I don't feel the least bit bad for that person. From a purely selfish perspective I could even be a little happy about it, I can do better than that, and I can use new job opportunities, and that'd be a win-win situation for that company and me. The only loser is, well, the loser. The only real tragedy in that whole story is what had to happen to the company before he got replaced.
Sadly, the admin lost his job over this one
I don't feel the least bit sorry for him. If the company relied on him being the expert and taking care of backups and he completely failed at that aspect of his job, that's the price for catastrophic fail in any job position. Something like that doesn't even rate as an accident. Accidents can happen. That's just plain negligence, and considering the severity, gross negligence. Out you go, mind the door...
if they were running backups, they wouldn't be scratching their heads and behaving completely ignorant of what exactly it was or when it was put in. They obviously lost everything, which I'm sorry but I find some darwinism/justice in that. If you don't even have a backup to look at to see what it was sitting on the hard drive waiting to blow up, you're just beyond help. Maybe better luck next time.
But too many out there simply must learn their lessons the hard way. That will never change.
people have been doing this for years with best buy. get the extended warranty. drop it down a flight of stairs a month before it lapses, get a replacement. (refurb often, but not as worn anyway) They replace it almost regardless of treatment.
Tho this all falls under the name of "insurance fraud". There's no reason to be surprised that when a new model of anything comes out, that there won't be a short spat of insurance fraud by owners of the previous model. This article has nothing whatsoever to do specifically with the ipod, and is just using it for a buzzword to attract attention to something we all already know goes on.
Come on, noone is suggesting he did it himself
And I believe the actual point Landis is making is that he felt the drug testing companies were somehow in error, somehow-or--other hacked into their network, and unearthed evidence that supports his claim.
It's not surprising that a drug company would go on the offensive to try to cover up their mistakes. That's the entire point Landis is trying to make here. It doesn't look like he's necessarily even denying the doping charges. He's questioning the evidence gathering and handling process that led to the accusation.
Unfortunately, breaking a different law when attempting to gather counter-evidence usually gets your counter-evidence thrown out in court. BUT, sometimes when it's a "court of the public" and a PR issue, it can prove useful. And I believe that's where he's going with this.
good blockers will "collapse" the content in most places, so instead of leaving gaping whitespace you get more content per page. Articles that would take scrolling three pages down to read it all, show up entirely on the first page. Link bars that are scattered mixed vertically with vertical banners on the left and right sides of the page all pile up at the top on page 1. It's a beautiful thing.
But then when you use someone else's computer it'll drive you crazy all the crap you suddenly get shocked with, makes for a jarring experience going to a web page you visit all the time, to see it change so much.
because he gets ad revenue from each page's banners, 22 in all.
the information from the iPhone could be useful for correctly placing a photo in an application such as Google Earth.
iPhoto and Aperture are already taking advantage of this enhanced metadata.
Digital cameras can really stuff the metadata in. Exposure etc are all in there usually. Sometimes other things like camera model and firmware rev.
I wonder if any of them are putting in too much information though? As in phone number, phone ESN, email address, etc, things most would not want in their pictures without notice...
and Apple uses open directory instead, which is a much more open system. But it too can become something of a tangle. But having worked with both, Apple's use of OD is a good deal more sane than Windows AD.
Didn't it say something about having to use the state's mailserver for the organization's personal email too?
considering your time constraints, and trying to get several students up to the telescope one at a time, a star tracker is an absolute must. You'd be strongly advised to get some kind of setup with a computer camera attached to the telescope so you can spend 1/2 the event with the students getting hands-on with the telescope eyepiece, and the other 1/2 of the timeslot showing the entire group five times as many other objects live while huddled around a laptop screen. The hands-on is important, but having a live camera to the scope that the entire group can look at all at once will allow you to cover a lot more ground in a night, and make things much less boring for the students.
You can also record the live observations to be used later in classroom activities, and for those students that are forced to miss one of the few nights you do manage to pull off.
I think it's also more a case of they lie, you know they lie, they know you know they lie, and they DON'T CARE.
Not much you can do at that point besides feel sorry for their citizens. It's a waste of time to catch someone in a lie that doesn't care if you catch the lie.
Reminds me so much of 1984... back when the book was written, most of what went on was considered so absurd no one could possibly have tolerated it to let it get that far, but now look here at how governments can get away with it and even manage to make it grow.
It's possible that Windows is just getting better at reporting battery condition and catching failing batteries, and so the problem that has already existed for awhile is just now becoming more noticeable? Windows PC grade hardware can be any level of quality, just because Windows is identifying your battery has crapped out before it should doesn't make it MS's fault. Maybe you just bought crap or need a new battery?
That's probably the only variation where there's a positive tilt. If you've MacGyvered something generally it's expected you made something brilliant with almost impossible resources. All the others look at it as assembling a substandard solution based on a random assortment of garbage.
and that looks like it delivers. Interesting idea to forge the frame from a single piece of aluminum... definitely saved some weight on a bunch more seals...
I think it depends on why she called the police. She might have been a UFO nut or something that wa really freaked out by the light which is why she called. I don't think she realized who or what it was. The police she called however, may have been aware of the missing person, put the facts together, and took a chance on it.
well if E still equals MC^2, if you can teleport energy, then you can teleport mass. And that causes all sorts of problems with issues such as angular momentum and conservation of energy, so I remain skeptical.
Generally speaking, the 'to every action there is an equal but opposite reaction" means that if you teleport something, something else of an opposite nature also was teleported the other way. So either they're wrong, or they've overlooked something important.