I think you were too generous (or your time isn't as limited as mine.) "four separate calls to Shady Company and about an hour of my time" seems unreasonable effort to reclaim $10 from a blatantly shady company that clearly and certainly tried to rip you off. I'd say one call (10 minutes max, no arguing) and one week are plenty of opportunity for them to avoid a chargeback in that case. YMMV:)
Most sensible countries (i.e.: any "western" country apart from the US) have tiered minimum wages. So when you need a school kid to fill in on the weekend and cover vacation leave of your full timers, you can pay a low wage. But when you need reliable adults to work full-time jobs, you are going to have to pay adult wages.
Why do you exclude the US from your set of "sensible" countries? The US also has a tiered minimum wage. Employees under 20 can be paid about $1.50 less then the Federal minimum for their first 90 days of employment (think summer jobs for teens.)
Why "Dreaded Chargeback?" I sure don't dread it, it's awesome. I complain once. I give them a week or two to fix it. If they don't, they get a chargeback. Screw wasting hours of my time on the phone begging and arguing. Fix it or get a chargeback. Simple, easy, effective.
He said merchant credit report. As in, how the credit card companies view a merchant, not a consumer. Chargebacks (in sufficient quantity and/or frequency) reflect poorly on a merchant, but not a consumer.
There is no clear answer to the question "Is glass solid or liquid?". In terms of molecular dynamics and thermodynamics it is possible to justify various different views that it is a highly viscous liquid, an amorphous solid, or simply that glass is another state of matter which is neither liquid nor solid. The difference is semantic. In terms of its material properties we can do little better. There is no clear definition of the distinction between solids and highly viscous liquids. All such phases or states of matter are idealisations of real material properties. Nevertheless, from a more common sense point of view, glass should be considered a solid since it is rigid according to everyday experience. The use of the term "supercooled liquid" to describe glass still persists, but is considered by many to be an unfortunate misnomer that should be avoided. In any case, claims that glass panes in old windows have deformed due to glass flow have never been substantiated. Examples of Roman glassware and calculations based on measurements of glass visco-properties indicate that these claims cannot be true. The observed features are more easily explained as a result of the imperfect methods used to make glass window panes before the float glass process was invented.
(Nuclear has limited supply? You mean that theoretically, as in, we only have enough nuclear fuel for 100,000 years, assuming no recycling, right? Right?!)
Right. Congressional staffers have "inside scoop" on the media's bias, and they share it with you. And it's 180 degrees out of phase with what is painfully obvious from watching any media at all, ever, except maybe AM talk radio. You really must come up with something better than "unnamed sources" who provide "unnamed you" with "non-specific inside scoop."
Did you really just cite The Center for Media and Public Affairs as a source to support the notion that the media is tougher on Obama than McCain? The same Center for Media and Public Affairs that has been criticized for advancing a notion of objectivity thought to be ideologically consistent with the values of liberal democracy. The one that Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky argue that is organized around the creation of "flak," which they define as "negative responses to a media statement or program" and which they maintain is part of a project of "disciplining the media." [1]
Yeah, that's pretty funny! Good one!
1. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent. New York: Pantheon, 2002, pp. 2, 26-27
And for all of the smug idiots who think they are paying for me to live in what should be a swamp, you don't think my tax dollars go to benefit you in any way? I pay my own way just like you do.
Your expectations of FEMA were unreasonable. Maybe if you and your fellow citizens held your local and state goverment to higher standards you wouldn't have had a problem.
My twenty dollar Nokia doesn't drop calls, nor have service interruptions, or any of the other problems the iPhone has.
Neither does my updated iphone 3G. *shrug*
Maybe this problem isn't as widespread as the some of the FUD-slinging media would like you to think? Hell, even the Ars Technica article (which is infinitely better than the one in the summary) says:
While it doesn't seem like the issue is very widespread, it's a pretty major one, even if it only affects a handful of users.
That'd be a great story if there were an "RF software group" head at Apple. And if the same exact team that did the RF for the iphone didn't also do the iphone 3G.
Shielding does not improve radio reception or transmission. There are no heat problems with the 3G iphone. You are confused. And the grandparent is lying; the same team, including its leader, did the RF for iphone and iphone 3G.
Mine works fine under 2.0.2, as it did under 2.0.1. This is clearly not a universal problem -- I know a dozen or so others with 3G iphones online and in Real Life who have had no problems. Maybe someone should start a database of serial numbers to see if there's some kind of trend in which phones are problematic?
(1) You missed the joke, (2) it's "loser", and (3) it's "bored." I usually wouldn't bother, but your post has so much compressed failure that it's rather remarkable. I'm still reeling from the time-travel implied by "Then now what."
Right on. Digital and Mixed-signal ASIC guy here: try billions of transistors. I'm supposed to arrange those 45nm-sized things with my fucking hands? And then wire them up to make sure they all talk to each other with picosecond accuracy? With my hands?! Give me a break. The first article reads like an ad for the Tinker School. Don't get me wrong -- that's cool and all, and good for learning, especially for kids. But to claim that "next-generation electronic circuits" are (a) "highly abstract" and (b) require "hands-on experiences" to make is utter bullshit.
The second article doesn't mention electronic circuits, but it does talk about Craftsmen and their tools. Well, for my craft, computers are my tools. It's not like you can go to Best Buy and purchase a software package that will run by itself and spit out artwork for a 10-million-gate ASIC. It takes an expert to use the computer, often writing his or her own custom programs to do what no existing commercial software can. That's still craftsmanship, and it's still "hands-on" -- on the keyboard:)
Besides, the original iPhone came out a little over a year ago, and I don't recall it using only the edge network being that big of a deal.
It was a huge deal for many people. Apple/AT&T has sold many times more 3G iphones than the original. Millions of people were waiting for 3G support. Lack of it was the #1 complaint about the original iphone, by far.
3G isn't about "watching TV" -- it's about ~2Mbps internet versus ~200kbps (YMMV, that's the difference I get 3G versus edge in the Boston area). 2Mbps makes streaming audio and video (from my home PC) and browsing the web, google maps, etc. actually usable. Night and day.
How unfortunate. Isn't t-mobile the smallest network in the US, with the least coverage, and no 3G/high-speed data whatsoever?
It was bad enough when Apple locked the iphone to AT&T, but at least they have some 3G and good coverage (after acquiring Cingular.) But t-mobile? That's not going to be good for business:(
Is this "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that matters?" Is there anyone here that hasn't seen the "Idle.slashdot.org is a total waste of your time, never go there" teaser atop the page? Besides the fact that it's embarrassing to have such tripe "social link sharing" site associated with slashdot, idle honestly adds zero advantages or new things over digg/reddit/etc.
In my humble opinion it's a terrible idea to dilute the slashdot brand at a time when it's already pretty weak.
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Ah, I see.
:)
I think you were too generous (or your time isn't as limited as mine.) "four separate calls to Shady Company and about an hour of my time" seems unreasonable effort to reclaim $10 from a blatantly shady company that clearly and certainly tried to rip you off. I'd say one call (10 minutes max, no arguing) and one week are plenty of opportunity for them to avoid a chargeback in that case. YMMV
Why do you exclude the US from your set of "sensible" countries? The US also has a tiered minimum wage. Employees under 20 can be paid about $1.50 less then the Federal minimum for their first 90 days of employment (think summer jobs for teens.)
Why "Dreaded Chargeback?" I sure don't dread it, it's awesome. I complain once. I give them a week or two to fix it. If they don't, they get a chargeback. Screw wasting hours of my time on the phone begging and arguing. Fix it or get a chargeback. Simple, easy, effective.
He said merchant credit report. As in, how the credit card companies view a merchant, not a consumer. Chargebacks (in sufficient quantity and/or frequency) reflect poorly on a merchant, but not a consumer.
Not really:
Then why did you cite a widely-discredited opinion in stead of, you know, judging things on your own?
So they're criticized by Noam Chomsky, and cheered by Biill O'Reilly, and this is supposed to be a good thing?
Global warming is a scam.
Don't look at me, people didn't do it.
Al Gore is a weenie.
Just doing my part!
(Nuclear has limited supply? You mean that theoretically, as in, we only have enough nuclear fuel for 100,000 years, assuming no recycling, right? Right?!)
Right. Congressional staffers have "inside scoop" on the media's bias, and they share it with you. And it's 180 degrees out of phase with what is painfully obvious from watching any media at all, ever, except maybe AM talk radio. You really must come up with something better than "unnamed sources" who provide "unnamed you" with "non-specific inside scoop."
Did you really just cite The Center for Media and Public Affairs as a source to support the notion that the media is tougher on Obama than McCain? The same Center for Media and Public Affairs that has been criticized for advancing a notion of objectivity thought to be ideologically consistent with the values of liberal democracy. The one that Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky argue that is organized around the creation of "flak," which they define as "negative responses to a media statement or program" and which they maintain is part of a project of "disciplining the media." [1]
Yeah, that's pretty funny! Good one!
1. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent. New York: Pantheon, 2002, pp. 2, 26-27
No, you just sail. One may sail faster than the wind in a craft with only one sail.
Not really. Louisiana receives $1.78 in federal funds for every $1.00 collected in federal taxes So the other states are taking care of you. In fact, LA is the 4th most leechy state.
Your expectations of FEMA were unreasonable. Maybe if you and your fellow citizens held your local and state goverment to higher standards you wouldn't have had a problem.
At a therapist's office?
Neither does my updated iphone 3G. *shrug*
Maybe this problem isn't as widespread as the some of the FUD-slinging media would like you to think? Hell, even the Ars Technica article (which is infinitely better than the one in the summary) says:
That'd be a great story if there were an "RF software group" head at Apple. And if the same exact team that did the RF for the iphone didn't also do the iphone 3G.
Shielding does not improve radio reception or transmission. There are no heat problems with the 3G iphone. You are confused. And the grandparent is lying; the same team, including its leader, did the RF for iphone and iphone 3G.
Mine works fine under 2.0.2, as it did under 2.0.1. This is clearly not a universal problem -- I know a dozen or so others with 3G iphones online and in Real Life who have had no problems. Maybe someone should start a database of serial numbers to see if there's some kind of trend in which phones are problematic?
"Even it was was" "than now what" still baffled I I were was is am.
(1) You missed the joke, (2) it's "loser", and (3) it's "bored." I usually wouldn't bother, but your post has so much compressed failure that it's rather remarkable. I'm still reeling from the time-travel implied by "Then now what."
Right on. Digital and Mixed-signal ASIC guy here: try billions of transistors. I'm supposed to arrange those 45nm-sized things with my fucking hands? And then wire them up to make sure they all talk to each other with picosecond accuracy? With my hands?! Give me a break. The first article reads like an ad for the Tinker School. Don't get me wrong -- that's cool and all, and good for learning, especially for kids. But to claim that "next-generation electronic circuits" are (a) "highly abstract" and (b) require "hands-on experiences" to make is utter bullshit.
:)
The second article doesn't mention electronic circuits, but it does talk about Craftsmen and their tools. Well, for my craft, computers are my tools. It's not like you can go to Best Buy and purchase a software package that will run by itself and spit out artwork for a 10-million-gate ASIC. It takes an expert to use the computer, often writing his or her own custom programs to do what no existing commercial software can. That's still craftsmanship, and it's still "hands-on" -- on the keyboard
It was a huge deal for many people. Apple/AT&T has sold many times more 3G iphones than the original. Millions of people were waiting for 3G support. Lack of it was the #1 complaint about the original iphone, by far.
3G isn't about "watching TV" -- it's about ~2Mbps internet versus ~200kbps (YMMV, that's the difference I get 3G versus edge in the Boston area). 2Mbps makes streaming audio and video (from my home PC) and browsing the web, google maps, etc. actually usable. Night and day.
How unfortunate. Isn't t-mobile the smallest network in the US, with the least coverage, and no 3G/high-speed data whatsoever?
:(
It was bad enough when Apple locked the iphone to AT&T, but at least they have some 3G and good coverage (after acquiring Cingular.) But t-mobile? That's not going to be good for business
But that's not even true at all, not even a little bit: Manhunt, Resident Evil, Call of Duty, No More Heroes, Godfather, Scarface, etc.
Not to mention Manhunt, one of the most violent games ever made.
What a stupid article.
Is this "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that matters?" Is there anyone here that hasn't seen the "Idle.slashdot.org is a total waste of your time, never go there" teaser atop the page? Besides the fact that it's embarrassing to have such tripe "social link sharing" site associated with slashdot, idle honestly adds zero advantages or new things over digg/reddit/etc.
In my humble opinion it's a terrible idea to dilute the slashdot brand at a time when it's already pretty weak.