Others forgot their locker number upon their return, or didn't remember which finger they had used to check it out.
That would be my worry. At least with oldschool lockers, you would get a big fat key with a number on it, so you knew what was yours. Unfortunately, there's no mention if there's a receipt printed out or anything with a locker number and/or time on it or something.
I'm not sure the savings would be as significant. It would really depend on the car. At least, I think...
My (skewed) logic in that: If you're driving faster (within reason), you're moving faster, so you'd be travelling for less time overall. So while you may burn slightly more gas from a higher revving engine, you may save time and theoretically run the engine for shorter periods.
The same respect, if you're driving slower, your engine may rev less, but it may take you longer to get there, so the engine would be running for a longer period.
I'm not sure that makes sense to anyone else. Of course it would all be really negligible, but it's a theory anyways I guess. If anyone can prove or disprove it, please do. I think I may have just made it up...:)
The customer would then plug the device into the on-board diagnostic port under the dashboard. The port is on all models sold in the USA since 1996.
Looks like I'm out, I have a '94. I don't have Progressive anyways, but it's not even compatible with my car.
In Minnesota, where the highway speed limit is 70 mph, drivers who go over 75 less than 0.1% of the time get an extra 5% discount.
Less than 0.1% of the time and it's only 5%?! Now I don't live in Minnesota, but I don't think I'd get much discount at all. The highway speedlimit here in NY is either 55 or 65 (depending) and my avg speed would probably be 65+ and 75+ (respectively) for a lot more than 0.1% of the time. Maybe that would get me 0.1% discount?
IMO, I think they'd have to offer a little bit more of a discount for the masses to really consider it. I'd slow down a bit if it were worth it. But for someone who may be paying $500/yr for insurance and getting MAYBE 5% off, that's only $25, or maybe $2/month. Just doesn't sound too enticing to me, though some people may jump at the opportunity to save a little. But your results may vary.
That's even relatively cheap though. You could probably charge a bit more. I very occasionally charge $25 for house calls on troubleshooting stuff (though, unfortunately, more than just an adaware/spybot install), and I think that is cheap. But I'm usually doing it for a friend of the family or something.
No, I agree, and definitely understand what you're saying. I worked at a help desk at a large university and it was not uncommon at all to have 5+ computers in the (small) office all just sitting there with blue bars going across the screen, whether they were XP installations in whole or patches/updates for them.
They're simple things to do, but it's just tedious and annoying.
I'm not sure where you're going with this, but I would say that just because they release it before then, doesn't mean people are going to install it...
That is, assuming you want people to install it before they get to you so that you don't have to do it.
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Redmond, Washington-Microsoft originally had planned to deliver the final production version of Service Pack 2 (SP2) to computer makers on Wednesday, but instead said the update would be release "imminently," possibly within days."
"imminently"... so that's how long in "Microsoft" days? November?
When people buy their iPods, they know exactly what they're getting and exactly what is compatible with it. And that compatibility does not include Real's store. How is it something they "should have" or anything of that sort? People know it's not supposed to work with other stores.
It's not a case where Apple has this big secret that they don't tell anyone the iPod doesn't work with other stores... and then someone finally gets it to work and it's some big revolution. People KNOW that it is not supposed to work with the Real store. End of story. If Apple wanted it to work with other stores, they'd license it. They haven't.
This is just blatant disrespect of all sorts... Real already tried to setup an "alliance" with Apple once and was denied, and now it just goes around it in it's own world and bypasses Apple. Not cool.
Jobs needs to lay some smack down on these people or something.
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Actually, it does seem like you need to have lost money. That's from the long form, and the short form has a very similar wording.
Well I didn't get it either, but the documentation (ie. packaging instructions) said to include it. So I did. Who knows what kind of crazy rules they might have reguarding what is sent/not sent and what they can do... So it was a "just to be safe and include everything they want" sort of thing.
Under warranty, Apple pays shipment both ways - express FedEx. They also provide the (very secure) packaging, which was at least safe in my opinion. You can even follow the status of it like a RMA type deal, where it will say when they received it and where it's currently at. I was quite pleased with the rest of the process.
I have the G3 800mhz white one. And it's the white brick (and ya, now I remember they referred to it as the duck head, thanks). But apparently the two different white brick models have different connectors. Both have that big pin that the connector slides on to (and yes, the one they sent back was plastic, the one I originally had was the metal one), but the receiving part of them are different - on one of them, it has an indentation on one side, the other has one on each side... I forget which way it is. I just happened to have the duckhead/power cord that didn't go with the brick they sent me.
Like I said, I'm still satisfied with the overall process and they were quick to get one to me. But it just seemed like one of those little stupid errors that should have totally been avoided if the process were different.
Well, yes, they corrected it and all is well. That's the good part. But I just feel that it was a mistake that could have easily been avoided - so it became an issue. I'm still completely satisfied with Apple though. Just pointing out one fault.
When the hard drive in my iBook died, I had to send it back to Apple (no problem there). As the documentation requested, I included my power adapter and the cord for it with the laptop back.
*repairs*
When my laptop was returned, not only did I not get my same power cord back, but the two pieces (the brick and the cord) we incompatible... Not only that, but I still had the small plug to go directly into the wall (I forget what they referred to it as), and that wasn't compatible with the brick piece either. WTF?
So I had to call them back up and have them send me a power cord and the small plug piece. They were quick and fairly understanding about it, but I'm yet to figure out why it would have been so hard to just send the same cord/brick piece back with it that I sent in...
But the laptop itself was repaired without issue and in a timely manner, it was just a minor inconvenience of not being able to plug in my laptop to charge it...:/
I don't think that the big issues are that it's still "rough" in general... but that they're already on to RC2 and have already delayed the release multiple times and it's still "rough". And my guess would be that if it really is still this bad, the release might get delayed yet again.
I mean, I wouldn't expect it to be near perfect yet, but if they're on RC2, I don't think they should have this major of a problem. Then again, this is obviously not a good sample size... it just sounds bad because it was more than half of the ones that it was tested on.
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I'm not sure the savings would be as significant. It would really depend on the car. At least, I think...
:)
My (skewed) logic in that: If you're driving faster (within reason), you're moving faster, so you'd be travelling for less time overall. So while you may burn slightly more gas from a higher revving engine, you may save time and theoretically run the engine for shorter periods.
The same respect, if you're driving slower, your engine may rev less, but it may take you longer to get there, so the engine would be running for a longer period.
I'm not sure that makes sense to anyone else. Of course it would all be really negligible, but it's a theory anyways I guess. If anyone can prove or disprove it, please do. I think I may have just made it up...
IMO, I think they'd have to offer a little bit more of a discount for the masses to really consider it. I'd slow down a bit if it were worth it. But for someone who may be paying $500/yr for insurance and getting MAYBE 5% off, that's only $25, or maybe $2/month. Just doesn't sound too enticing to me, though some people may jump at the opportunity to save a little. But your results may vary.
That's even relatively cheap though. You could probably charge a bit more. I very occasionally charge $25 for house calls on troubleshooting stuff (though, unfortunately, more than just an adaware/spybot install), and I think that is cheap. But I'm usually doing it for a friend of the family or something.
No, I agree, and definitely understand what you're saying. I worked at a help desk at a large university and it was not uncommon at all to have 5+ computers in the (small) office all just sitting there with blue bars going across the screen, whether they were XP installations in whole or patches/updates for them.
They're simple things to do, but it's just tedious and annoying.
I wonder what that would be like...
... whatever, just go away, I'm playing solitaire."
PC: "Virtual Bouncer has detected a parasite..."
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I'm not sure where you're going with this, but I would say that just because they release it before then, doesn't mean people are going to install it...
That is, assuming you want people to install it before they get to you so that you don't have to do it.
"imminently"
Guess I have a shorter attention span than I thought... Either that or I just don't read the end of stories...
Or, if it was established at that distance, why wasn't the amplified distance longer than the non?
I was going to add it (after I posted and realized I forgot it) - but didn't want to add the extra post... my bad.
Thinkgeek has a special section just for SysAdmins as well as an interest store for it too.
Check it out.
When people buy their iPods, they know exactly what they're getting and exactly what is compatible with it. And that compatibility does not include Real's store. How is it something they "should have" or anything of that sort? People know it's not supposed to work with other stores. It's not a case where Apple has this big secret that they don't tell anyone the iPod doesn't work with other stores... and then someone finally gets it to work and it's some big revolution. People KNOW that it is not supposed to work with the Real store. End of story. If Apple wanted it to work with other stores, they'd license it. They haven't.
No... Real Networks are the evil ones.
But I suppose it depends on how you look at it. Apple could be the evil one if you're somone who really wants Fairplay to be licensed.
But I think Real is the evil on here because they went behind Apple to do this after being previously denied an "alliance."
Oh ya... another article over at DesignTechnica with the full Apple statement and other stuff.
This is just blatant disrespect of all sorts... Real already tried to setup an "alliance" with Apple once and was denied, and now it just goes around it in it's own world and bypasses Apple. Not cool.
Jobs needs to lay some smack down on these people or something.
The ZDNet story they link in the article is actually for eBay's problem with double charging fees, but mentions the PayPal situation near the end...
THIS is the actual PayPal story (from 6/14/04), which is referenced at the bottom of the eBay one linked in the article.
Well I didn't get it either, but the documentation (ie. packaging instructions) said to include it. So I did. Who knows what kind of crazy rules they might have reguarding what is sent/not sent and what they can do... So it was a "just to be safe and include everything they want" sort of thing.
Under warranty, Apple pays shipment both ways - express FedEx. They also provide the (very secure) packaging, which was at least safe in my opinion. You can even follow the status of it like a RMA type deal, where it will say when they received it and where it's currently at. I was quite pleased with the rest of the process.
I have the G3 800mhz white one. And it's the white brick (and ya, now I remember they referred to it as the duck head, thanks). But apparently the two different white brick models have different connectors. Both have that big pin that the connector slides on to (and yes, the one they sent back was plastic, the one I originally had was the metal one), but the receiving part of them are different - on one of them, it has an indentation on one side, the other has one on each side... I forget which way it is. I just happened to have the duckhead/power cord that didn't go with the brick they sent me.
Like I said, I'm still satisfied with the overall process and they were quick to get one to me. But it just seemed like one of those little stupid errors that should have totally been avoided if the process were different.
Well, yes, they corrected it and all is well. That's the good part. But I just feel that it was a mistake that could have easily been avoided - so it became an issue. I'm still completely satisfied with Apple though. Just pointing out one fault.
Apple is at the top, but not perfect.
:/
When the hard drive in my iBook died, I had to send it back to Apple (no problem there). As the documentation requested, I included my power adapter and the cord for it with the laptop back.
*repairs*
When my laptop was returned, not only did I not get my same power cord back, but the two pieces (the brick and the cord) we incompatible... Not only that, but I still had the small plug to go directly into the wall (I forget what they referred to it as), and that wasn't compatible with the brick piece either. WTF?
So I had to call them back up and have them send me a power cord and the small plug piece. They were quick and fairly understanding about it, but I'm yet to figure out why it would have been so hard to just send the same cord/brick piece back with it that I sent in...
But the laptop itself was repaired without issue and in a timely manner, it was just a minor inconvenience of not being able to plug in my laptop to charge it...
I don't think that the big issues are that it's still "rough" in general... but that they're already on to RC2 and have already delayed the release multiple times and it's still "rough". And my guess would be that if it really is still this bad, the release might get delayed yet again.
I mean, I wouldn't expect it to be near perfect yet, but if they're on RC2, I don't think they should have this major of a problem. Then again, this is obviously not a good sample size... it just sounds bad because it was more than half of the ones that it was tested on.