In many places in Europe, at least, it's the caller who pays for the call (unless it's a toll-free call, of course.) Why should two people pay for one call?
First, not everybody I know who sends me email is savvy enough or willing to use GPG (and i doubt everyone you know is either, let's be real here) - and they shouldn't be expected to be.
Second, even if they are capable of using GPG it does not necessarily logically follow (far from it actually) that they would know when they're sending a virus. The two concepts are not truly connected in any way.
Either you know everyone that this guy knows, or you're assuming that everyone everybody knows is tech-savvy enough to know what's likely a virus and what isn't, or you're assuming that no-one is malicious enough to send viruses to people they know.
True, people almost never knowingly send viruses on to other people, whether they know them or not. That doesn't mean that someone you know won't unknowingly send you a virus. That's the problem.
When a new virus/trojan/worm appears, nobody is even aware of an infection until their virus scanner signatures are updated, unless it's caught by heuristics. But not everything passing through everyone's system is subject to perfect heuristic scanning all the time.
legal is not the same thing as right. illegal is not the same thing as wrong. please take a rudimentary-level ethics class before attempting to lecture people on morals and legality. thanks.
except the ones (most of them) where the button is covered up by the apple tray fascia.
you have to unmount your CD in an apple computer by clicking eject or trashing the CD
yeah, no shit. and that's really useful when the os has a lock on the drive, or is frozen, or trashing the cd just doesn't work, as it often doesn't.
you are not serious that you actually used the paper clip in the manual opening system to open the optical drive are you?
uh, i never said that, genius, and no, i only use the paper clip when the software eject methods (including the keyboard button, you know) don't work. by the way, you sound really dumb. "did you actually use the paper clip hole for its intended purpose!@!?"
are you a fucking retard?
hey, i'm not the deluded fanboy with reading problems here. wtf!? omglolzorzkthxbi!!```1
the article isn't about the ipod itself; it's about the super ingenious marketing device of selling the player and the media. which device has only been used oh, a million times before in the history of the free market.
Because every time Apple does something, it's always the first time in history that it's ever been done. Or if it's not the first time, somehow they did it better.
1) you don't have to buy the item to read the warranty. you can walk into any electronics store and ask them to open a box for you. i've done it myself several times, since i don't like to whine after the fact in the manner of you and the original poster.
2) even if you couldn't find someone willing to show you the warranty, you could buy the item, open it and read the warranty immediately, and walk right back in and return it for a refund if you didn't like what you read. most any electronics store will refund like this, especially if you explain to them what you're doing before you purchase.
3) brainwashed by the right wing??? hahahahha. you're talking to a kerry-voting treehugger spendocrat, my friend. what type of deformed logic would lead you to make such a stupid inference? on second thought, don't answer that. i'm not interested in your ad hominems or your idiot political views.
i have read the UCC, and i have "educated myself." the precedent in cases like this was established in Abraham vs. Volkswagen of America, Inc., 1986. a typical ruling thereafter (in this case from various electrical companies vs. Westinghouse) reads as follows:
...the general rule, from which we see no reason to deviate, is that "an express warranty
does not cover repairs made after the applicable time . . . ha[s] elapsed." Abraham v. Volkswagen of Am., Inc., 795 F.2d 238, 250 (2d Cir. 1986) (citing cases) (applying federal common law). Thus, "'latent defects' discovered after the term of the warranty are not actionable."
of course, since you went to law school and everything, mr. coward, you already knew that. right?
you know, tough luck and all, but you had every chance to know the extent and coverage of the warranty when you bought the thing. i've owned a lot of electronic stuff that failed not long after the warranties ran out, too. do i expect the manufacturers to pay for all the repairs? no.
to top it off, $80 is really not an unreasonable amount of money to pay for a repair on a high-tech electronic device, regardless of the simplicity of the repair or how much the device costs new. you can expect to pay more than that to have a crappy VHS deck adjusted.
no offense, but this all seems a little whiny to me.
i did the same thing (ziploc and all) with a WD external 250gb that was killed by shipment across the atlantic to me. clunk clunk clunk, etc. it took a couple of tries at freezing, but it really did work. i lost exactly one divx movie but as able to retrieve and back up everything else (~200gb). it clicked a lot at first, but the drive is actually working better now than it did after freezing, 3 months later. it doesn't even click at all anymore.
strangely, 2 other drives that died during the same shipment weren't helped by freezing. just luck, i guess.
if you didn't toss the drive, it may be worth it to try freezing again. it is really a great feeling when you see all those files return from the grave. it's not just an internet myth.
but if it still fails, the next resort before spending loads on a data recovery service: find an identical drive (same revision and everything) on ebay or whatever, and just swap out the mechanics and electronics into your drive. a few torx screws and a delicate ribbon cable connection, but nothing further required. that has worked brilliantly for me twice. of course i threw them out after retrieving the data, but who cares?
"freedom and democracy" - which really means the freedom to hand over your natural resources to the US, and enjoy a new puppet regime, installed by the US under the guise of a phony election, which is more than glad to facilitate such process.
i'm sure the Islamic world would appreciate your view that their culture is a "problem" and we must solve it by replacing it with our culture. nothing like total homogenization for a stronger future, right?
it's just laughable to compare this situation with World War II. if our actions are so just, where is the support of the rest of the world? looking around, i see condemnation and refusal of support, and rightfully so. this is a war for money, for corporate plundering rights, and half of this country, along with the rest of the world, sees right through this "stay the course" "presidenting is hard" bullshit.
the terms freedom and democracy have received more than enough abuse from the right in the last four years. this must be some new definition of those terms that only exists in Webster's New Republican & Libertarian Edition.
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In many places in Europe, at least, it's the caller who pays for the call (unless it's a toll-free call, of course.) Why should two people pay for one call?
How else would you expect it to work?
The vastness of the fabric? Why does he have to make fun of us just because we're fat?
mmm.... salted hash.
hahahhaha! man, i wish i had mod points. frink++
RPGs are 'cool?' Where are YOU from, Finland or something? ...Oh.
First, not everybody I know who sends me email is savvy enough or willing to use GPG (and i doubt everyone you know is either, let's be real here) - and they shouldn't be expected to be.
Second, even if they are capable of using GPG it does not necessarily logically follow (far from it actually) that they would know when they're sending a virus. The two concepts are not truly connected in any way.
I doubt someone you know would send you a virus.
Either you know everyone that this guy knows, or you're assuming that everyone everybody knows is tech-savvy enough to know what's likely a virus and what isn't, or you're assuming that no-one is malicious enough to send viruses to people they know.
True, people almost never knowingly send viruses on to other people, whether they know them or not. That doesn't mean that someone you know won't unknowingly send you a virus. That's the problem.
When a new virus/trojan/worm appears, nobody is even aware of an infection until their virus scanner signatures are updated, unless it's caught by heuristics. But not everything passing through everyone's system is subject to perfect heuristic scanning all the time.
It's got nothing to do with who knows whom.
Dad?
IE doesn't have over 90% of the market. Currently the number is somewhere around 60-80% and falling. Still too much, but the situation is improving.
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Source 1: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.
Source 2: http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm/
haha, that's what i meant :)
..or choose "Plain Old Text."
legal is not the same thing as right. illegal is not the same thing as wrong. please take a rudimentary-level ethics class before attempting to lecture people on morals and legality. thanks.
all of apple's drives have eject buttons
except the ones (most of them) where the button is covered up by the apple tray fascia.
you have to unmount your CD in an apple computer by clicking eject or trashing the CD
yeah, no shit. and that's really useful when the os has a lock on the drive, or is frozen, or trashing the cd just doesn't work, as it often doesn't.
you are not serious that you actually used the paper clip in the manual opening system to open the optical drive are you?
uh, i never said that, genius, and no, i only use the paper clip when the software eject methods (including the keyboard button, you know) don't work. by the way, you sound really dumb. "did you actually use the paper clip hole for its intended purpose!@!?"
are you a fucking retard?
hey, i'm not the deluded fanboy with reading problems here. wtf!? omglolzorzkthxbi!!```1
the article isn't about the ipod itself; it's about the super ingenious marketing device of selling the player and the media. which device has only been used oh, a million times before in the history of the free market.
but most of the world's optical drives, unlike most of apple's, come with eject buttons.
Because every time Apple does something, it's always the first time in history that it's ever been done. Or if it's not the first time, somehow they did it better.
...unless he can throw up bullets.
the first "just to" doesn't refer to Tania.
2) even if you couldn't find someone willing to show you the warranty, you could buy the item, open it and read the warranty immediately, and walk right back in and return it for a refund if you didn't like what you read. most any electronics store will refund like this, especially if you explain to them what you're doing before you purchase.
3) brainwashed by the right wing??? hahahahha. you're talking to a kerry-voting treehugger spendocrat, my friend. what type of deformed logic would lead you to make such a stupid inference? on second thought, don't answer that. i'm not interested in your ad hominems or your idiot political views.
i have read the UCC, and i have "educated myself." the precedent in cases like this was established in Abraham vs. Volkswagen of America, Inc., 1986. a typical ruling thereafter (in this case from various electrical companies vs. Westinghouse) reads as follows:
of course, since you went to law school and everything, mr. coward, you already knew that. right?
maybe RTFWarranty next time?
you know, tough luck and all, but you had every chance to know the extent and coverage of the warranty when you bought the thing. i've owned a lot of electronic stuff that failed not long after the warranties ran out, too. do i expect the manufacturers to pay for all the repairs? no.
to top it off, $80 is really not an unreasonable amount of money to pay for a repair on a high-tech electronic device, regardless of the simplicity of the repair or how much the device costs new. you can expect to pay more than that to have a crappy VHS deck adjusted.
no offense, but this all seems a little whiny to me.
i did the same thing (ziploc and all) with a WD external 250gb that was killed by shipment across the atlantic to me. clunk clunk clunk, etc. it took a couple of tries at freezing, but it really did work. i lost exactly one divx movie but as able to retrieve and back up everything else (~200gb). it clicked a lot at first, but the drive is actually working better now than it did after freezing, 3 months later. it doesn't even click at all anymore.
strangely, 2 other drives that died during the same shipment weren't helped by freezing. just luck, i guess.
if you didn't toss the drive, it may be worth it to try freezing again. it is really a great feeling when you see all those files return from the grave. it's not just an internet myth.
but if it still fails, the next resort before spending loads on a data recovery service: find an identical drive (same revision and everything) on ebay or whatever, and just swap out the mechanics and electronics into your drive. a few torx screws and a delicate ribbon cable connection, but nothing further required. that has worked brilliantly for me twice. of course i threw them out after retrieving the data, but who cares?
The Italians developed a car like this back in the 60's. It's called the Ronzoni Downhill.
thank you! try the shrimp!
"freedom and democracy" - which really means the freedom to hand over your natural resources to the US, and enjoy a new puppet regime, installed by the US under the guise of a phony election, which is more than glad to facilitate such process.
i'm sure the Islamic world would appreciate your view that their culture is a "problem" and we must solve it by replacing it with our culture. nothing like total homogenization for a stronger future, right?
it's just laughable to compare this situation with World War II. if our actions are so just, where is the support of the rest of the world? looking around, i see condemnation and refusal of support, and rightfully so. this is a war for money, for corporate plundering rights, and half of this country, along with the rest of the world, sees right through this "stay the course" "presidenting is hard" bullshit.
the terms freedom and democracy have received more than enough abuse from the right in the last four years. this must be some new definition of those terms that only exists in Webster's New Republican & Libertarian Edition.
The 20th century was known as the "American" century, and it's thankfully gone. The century we're in now will likely be called the Chinese century.
if bush understood the problem, wouldn't his "problem-solving" methods have made the middle east situation better by now, instead of much, much worse?
personally i doubt that bush understands much of anything beyond how to fasten his pants in the morning.
-a "librrrl" in florida