If it wasn't insubordination and he had the authority to do this, then that policy would be the very first thing he would point out to Gamestop. I'm surprised he wasn't fired.
I don't have a copy of the Gamestop policy handbook, but I'd be willing to bet big money they don't have a policy allowing the store manager to REFUSE SALES based on any arbitrary rules he happens to think up. And that's exactly what he did. If any employee of Wal-Mart (Manager or otherwise) pulled this stunt they'd be looking for a new job before lunch time.
Sure, that's how many stores do operate, but why does a store have to operate that way?
WTF does that have to do with this particular incident? If that's your idea, then take it to the owners! Maybe it will go over well and their stock will double and everyone will drink champagne next year. But notice I said "owners" not "some employee."
In this case, whether it is "morally good" or not doesn't even enter the equation. He's not giving a discount for good grades, which is good for the community AND the store (and has been done by numerous businesses), he's outright refusing sales which could be good for the community, but is insubordination to the highest order!
Ok, so I have no problem with buying a CD, but actually playing it on your computer is old school and unecessary. Your playlist consists of one album of 74 minutes. And let's not kid ourselves, one album is probably 50 minutes on average... Sounds a bit like using an 8-track to me.
I ripped all my audio CDs to the hard drive and never looked back. Don't forget there's formats like FLAC or just plain 'ol WAV so this method is by no means inferior to CDs. In most ways it's MUCH better, portability would be the only loss, although my house stereo is connected to my computer so I haven't even lost that.
Most of the price difference between Apple and PC is actually represented in the 2ndary, specs, and build quality. If you were to spec a dell or asus that matches on all the 2ndary features, the price premium for apple is a pittance.
I think you've been reading too much Prince lately.
There's many minor problems with their implementation, but the major problem is that it ignores key presses while listening to messages.
I am a longtime T-Mobile customer, and I ALWAYS press 7 to delete my voicemail messages before waiting for them to end. Usually I listen to them long enough to know who it is then delete. I assume their voicemail system is the same nationwide.
I'm replying to an obvious troll, but have you ever even used an iPhone?
Feature list comparisons do not always tell the whole story, ESPECIALLY when a software interface is involved. It doesn't matter if it includes the kitchen sink, if you can't figure out how to get to it easily, it's sluggish at best, or the phone resets 50% of the time you get there and the other 50% of the time your hacking the OS to forcibly close all apps to keep the memory from being full.
Oh, and the MDA loses the media player contest terribly compared to the iPhone's built-in iPod.
Every phone in my company is solely VOIP and we have thousands of employees. It works great.
Yep, VOIP is a great replacement for landlines. This is the reason the employees at your company still carry cellphones, even though they have VOIP lines. If VOIP was a direct replacement for cellular, then they wouldn't need these redundant cell phones. Or maybe you work at a prison?
Apple's claims are based on comparisons to cellular phones, not internet tablets or other small computers. This is a critical distinction.
My laptop makes calls over VOIP as well, but that doesn't make it a cellular phone; I'm still tethered to a WAP or it's useless. And my laptop has much better web browsing ability than the N800. So by your argument, a laptop is preferable over the N800.
Gee, you forgot one thing in your comparison. The ability to make PHONE CALLS! The Nokia N800 is solely an internet tablet. Why are you comparing it to the iPhone?
What's next? A comparison between a MacBook and a PS3?
(And don't start about VOIP. That's good as a backup, but you aren't going to roam the streets looking for an open WAP when you need to make a phone call!)
This is true to a point. The main difference is the latency of a click on a desktop app is (for all practical purposes) zero and is greater than zero for a browser app, often by quite a bit. When I'm in a clicking frenzy, I don't want to wait for the AJAX to load if I can avoicd it, and with a native app, I can. In time, this issue will go away. For most people, this probably isn't an issue even now--You have to click fast enough to notice.
There is also the annoying issue that I have more than one google account, and my gf uses yet another google account, so there is a constant log in/log out battle going on, where Thunderbird and the associated Google Calendars are always logged in to the account(s) that are set up in it. I'm not sure of any work around for this, and logging out and back in all the time, even with saved passwords is very annoying.
Why not use both? I have my Sunbird (Lightning, actually) syncing back and forth with Google Calendar so I get a real desktop client at home, but still can see my schedule online from anywhere.
It's mentioned in the release notes, and you can get the extension here.
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Wellsfargo charges $2 for each "out of network" ATM transaction. This is one of the reasons I will be leaving Wellsfargo soon.
You should have read the eBay rules before accepting Paypal. It strictly states that you CANNOT accept Paypal without also accepting credit card payments through it. If you attempt to make this statement in your auction, the auction can get cancelled on those grounds if eBay notices or someone complains.
Agree 100%. About the only area I think Thinkpads can improve on are the quality of the screen. They're already built like a tank, have trackpoint, an astounding keyboard, and timeless design. I even *like* the IBM-bundled software, because it's useful (Access connections, IBM Predesktop, etc). Imagine getting useful bundled software with a Dell!
I was very sad to see IBM sell the hardware business to Lenovo. I figure it's only a matter of time now.
I have a V300 and it CAN be adjusted if you have a data cable ($3 on ebay) and do some research on SEEM editing. My V300 makes no sound at all when I use the side rocker button to change ring styles.
That this isn't possible without editing the firmware is completely unacceptable. Imagine this very common scenario: You are in some location that requires you to change your ring type such as a movie theatre, church, meeting, etc. You forget to do this before hand and realize this 5 minutes into the event. So now thanks to Motorola's stupid decision, you can: A) Hope someone doesn't call you B) Open the phone, light up the screen (imagine a dark theater), and fiddle through the menus until you can change the ring type C) Use the quick ring type change external rocker button that lets out a very loud beep with each button press, even though you are attempting to set it to SILENT!
"Refusing to help someone because they caused their own suffering is deplorable. I certainly don't want to suffer for every immoral thing I've done. Keeping your children healthy is well worth letting them see your tacit acceptance of their sex life, but don't pretend when you tell them "this is so you won't get sick when you have sex" that what they're going to hear isn't "have sex."
Wouldn't it be easier and just as truthful to call it a vaccine necessary to prevent the spread of a virus/disease, just as the flu shot is? The "condoning sex" argument is weak at best, and extremely harmful at worst.
One absolutely HUGE feature that puts Gmail on top IMO, is the FREE option to forward all your mail to any other email address permanently. I know Yahoo makes you pay to do this, as this gives them vendor lock-in. I believe Hotmail does the same.
Some people would rather walk over hot coals than change their email address (or phone number for that matter), but Gmail makes it painless and free to do so. To me that means they've chosen to compete on features instead of lock-in.
Ok, I understand why you'd say that now. I think they are equally prone to corruption, but you're right that the federal government would cause more damage, even if they are only as corrupt as the state government.
One of my clients is configured to always delete mail from the server, and any of the others (a PDA, or a laptop used when away from home) will always leave mail on the server, so that the home client will pick it up next time I use it.
So what do you do when you forget to close your client at home and then try to access your mail from your PDA or laptop?
All it takes is for this to happen once and you'll realize why IMAP is so much better.
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If it wasn't insubordination and he had the authority to do this, then that policy would be the very first thing he would point out to Gamestop. I'm surprised he wasn't fired.
I don't have a copy of the Gamestop policy handbook, but I'd be willing to bet big money they don't have a policy allowing the store manager to REFUSE SALES based on any arbitrary rules he happens to think up. And that's exactly what he did. If any employee of Wal-Mart (Manager or otherwise) pulled this stunt they'd be looking for a new job before lunch time.
In this case, whether it is "morally good" or not doesn't even enter the equation. He's not giving a discount for good grades, which is good for the community AND the store (and has been done by numerous businesses), he's outright refusing sales which could be good for the community, but is insubordination to the highest order!
Ok, so I have no problem with buying a CD, but actually playing it on your computer is old school and unecessary. Your playlist consists of one album of 74 minutes. And let's not kid ourselves, one album is probably 50 minutes on average... Sounds a bit like using an 8-track to me.
I ripped all my audio CDs to the hard drive and never looked back. Don't forget there's formats like FLAC or just plain 'ol WAV so this method is by no means inferior to CDs. In most ways it's MUCH better, portability would be the only loss, although my house stereo is connected to my computer so I haven't even lost that.
I think if you put XP on that same computer, you'd be surprised at how much faster it is on identical hardware.
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Go without visual voice mail or without a 2 year contract. Hmmm. Tough choice...NOT!
I'm replying to an obvious troll, but have you ever even used an iPhone?
Feature list comparisons do not always tell the whole story, ESPECIALLY when a software interface is involved. It doesn't matter if it includes the kitchen sink, if you can't figure out how to get to it easily, it's sluggish at best, or the phone resets 50% of the time you get there and the other 50% of the time your hacking the OS to forcibly close all apps to keep the memory from being full.
Oh, and the MDA loses the media player contest terribly compared to the iPhone's built-in iPod.
Apple's claims are based on comparisons to cellular phones, not internet tablets or other small computers. This is a critical distinction.
My laptop makes calls over VOIP as well, but that doesn't make it a cellular phone; I'm still tethered to a WAP or it's useless. And my laptop has much better web browsing ability than the N800. So by your argument, a laptop is preferable over the N800.
Gee, you forgot one thing in your comparison. The ability to make PHONE CALLS! The Nokia N800 is solely an internet tablet. Why are you comparing it to the iPhone?
What's next? A comparison between a MacBook and a PS3?
(And don't start about VOIP. That's good as a backup, but you aren't going to roam the streets looking for an open WAP when you need to make a phone call!)
Under is like hanging a picture on the wall with the backing facing out. Why would you do this?
If you're going to offer a rebuttal, the least you could do is post a list for comparison, otherwise you look like a Bush apologist.
This is true to a point. The main difference is the latency of a click on a desktop app is (for all practical purposes) zero and is greater than zero for a browser app, often by quite a bit. When I'm in a clicking frenzy, I don't want to wait for the AJAX to load if I can avoicd it, and with a native app, I can. In time, this issue will go away. For most people, this probably isn't an issue even now--You have to click fast enough to notice.
There is also the annoying issue that I have more than one google account, and my gf uses yet another google account, so there is a constant log in/log out battle going on, where Thunderbird and the associated Google Calendars are always logged in to the account(s) that are set up in it. I'm not sure of any work around for this, and logging out and back in all the time, even with saved passwords is very annoying.
Why not use both? I have my Sunbird (Lightning, actually) syncing back and forth with Google Calendar so I get a real desktop client at home, but still can see my schedule online from anywhere.
It's mentioned in the release notes, and you can get the extension here.
Wellsfargo charges $2 for each "out of network" ATM transaction. This is one of the reasons I will be leaving Wellsfargo soon.
You should have read the eBay rules before accepting Paypal. It strictly states that you CANNOT accept Paypal without also accepting credit card payments through it. If you attempt to make this statement in your auction, the auction can get cancelled on those grounds if eBay notices or someone complains.
Agree 100%. About the only area I think Thinkpads can improve on are the quality of the screen. They're already built like a tank, have trackpoint, an astounding keyboard, and timeless design. I even *like* the IBM-bundled software, because it's useful (Access connections, IBM Predesktop, etc). Imagine getting useful bundled software with a Dell!
I was very sad to see IBM sell the hardware business to Lenovo. I figure it's only a matter of time now.
I have a V300 and it CAN be adjusted if you have a data cable ($3 on ebay) and do some research on SEEM editing. My V300 makes no sound at all when I use the side rocker button to change ring styles.
That this isn't possible without editing the firmware is completely unacceptable. Imagine this very common scenario: You are in some location that requires you to change your ring type such as a movie theatre, church, meeting, etc. You forget to do this before hand and realize this 5 minutes into the event. So now thanks to Motorola's stupid decision, you can:
A) Hope someone doesn't call you
B) Open the phone, light up the screen (imagine a dark theater), and fiddle through the menus until you can change the ring type
C) Use the quick ring type change external rocker button that lets out a very loud beep with each button press, even though you are attempting to set it to SILENT!
One absolutely HUGE feature that puts Gmail on top IMO, is the FREE option to forward all your mail to any other email address permanently. I know Yahoo makes you pay to do this, as this gives them vendor lock-in. I believe Hotmail does the same.
Some people would rather walk over hot coals than change their email address (or phone number for that matter), but Gmail makes it painless and free to do so. To me that means they've chosen to compete on features instead of lock-in.
Ok, I understand why you'd say that now. I think they are equally prone to corruption, but you're right that the federal government would cause more damage, even if they are only as corrupt as the state government.
So your argument is that federal government is "always" bad and local government is good?
This *should* be a good thing, if done right.
So what do you do when you forget to close your client at home and then try to access your mail from your PDA or laptop?
All it takes is for this to happen once and you'll realize why IMAP is so much better.