More likely, the user mis-used or mis-handled the product.
While I was leaving it completely unattended. Besides, I'm not the only one whose battery burst into flames--just the only one whose house burned down by now.
Because during normal operation, they burst into flames and burned down my entire apartment! Why do you think they issue a product recall on these batteries if only 1 out of 100,000 of them will ever catch fire? Because remote probability is no defense against the company's liability for making a dangerous product. Let's say 1 out of 100,000 Sony batteries manages to catch fire, 1 out of 10 manages to do so while the user is not present (battery is used more while the computer is more active, and most computers are active only when they're being used at the moment), and 1 out of 24 times the laptop is left sitting so that the battery is in direct contact with easily flammable materials. That adds up to a 1 out of 24 million probability that my house gets burned down by the laptop battery, but that is still no argument that Sony would not be liable.
Legitimate mastery experiences do far more to improve self-efficacy, and in turn, improve self-concept, than all the unearned praise you can lavish on someone. It is worth noting that Nathaniel Branden never published any peer-reviewed research on any of his ideas, and that most of them came from his guru Ayn Rand, who never took a psych course in her life, much less a philosophy course.
First, it's a mistake to mistake Branden's conception of self-esteem with the kind of crap that's foisted off as "self-esteem" now. Secondly, Ayn Rand did take psych courses, along with studying philosophy and history. Source.
Stella Liebeck, a passenger in a car, took a cup of hot McDonalds coffe, placed it between her (pointy) knees, and proceeded to PULL the lid off, thereby dumping the coffee in her lap. Instead of pulling the hot-coffee-soaked cloth away from her skin (she was wearing sweatpants), she sat in the puddle of coffee for at least 7 seconds. This resulted in severe burns to her crotch and legs.
First, there's actually a separate issue with the lid having been secured too tightly, making it impossible to remove without spilling. Secondly, lady was old. 7 seconds to pull down her sweatpants (and probably underpants since it had soaked through) is about the reaction time I would expect. Hell, takes me about that long when I'm sitting down.
Actually, when you factor in how many cups of coffee were sold, you find that only 1 in every 24 million caused a burn. That means, for each person who burned thenselves, 23,999,999 were able to buy coffee without injury. How does this make McDonalds coffee 'unreasonably dangerous'? A: it doesn't.
If something is capable of causing severe injury to a person within the realm of reasonable use and predictable accident, the statistical improbability of that happening doesn't matter. If I had a Sony battery that burned up my entire apartment, is Sony off the hook because 24 million other Sony battery users didn't have their domiciles destroyed by their battery?
No, he may be repeating other people (and several less-than-credible rumor sits) who most certainly are obviously making shit up.
No one said it was easy. But then again, there were "usability" options alleged to have been part of the settlement when Apple sued...
There was a patent cross-license. I seriously doubt Microsoft included enough for Apple to make a Win32 compatibility layer. And once again, I don't see any good reason Apple would want to do such a thing.
Nonsense. I can always tell that people who seriously think voice-driven UI's will displace all other forms of input either haven't seriously written anything in their lives, or are probably extremely poor writers. I'm not just saying this because I'm the quiet writer type--even the most chatty and extraverted people on earth (teenage girls) prefer using the world's worst keyboards to communicate with each other than actually speaking. Just in this very comment I was able to change the thrust of my argument and carefully consider what I was going to say instead of verbally leading you down each false path that came to mind as I thought. Were I speaking to you, or dictating this post into the computer, it would have been more of a struggle. And if it's easier to compose a well-worded Slashdot comment by keyboard than by voice, imagine a dissertation.
Since your argument is predicated on men being unable to pleasure women for any longer than 10 minutes, it appears that I will have no problem under the new order. Sucks for you, though.
Are you kidding? Babies have cellphones. Right when they're born, they're signed up with a 2 year contract and a free phone, right after they're registered with the state and with Social Security. And now that you can take your number with you when you switch providers, there's no downside!
Mod parent "obviously making shit up". They're doing nothing of the kind, have no good reason to, and building a Win32 compatibility layer is not an easy task.
The last car accident I was in, I just sort of scraped alongside the other car. No one was hurt, and no damage was done. Everyone hears "car accident" and they think about head-on collisions with semis. But there have been car accidents since then and they haven't been that bad. Therefore, worrying about safe driving is bullshit.
Lagos is a growing supermetropolis. At current rates, it is expected to be the largest city in the world by mid-century.
I had 1 dollar on Monday, 2 dollars on Tuesday, 4 dollars yesterday, and 8 dollars today. At current rates, I'm expected to be the richest man in the world by mid-December. (Hint: some rates are unsustainable, especially without the infrastructure for sanitation and public health.)
You can throw the credit check on your iTunes activation by giving your SSN as 999-99-9999. Then you won't be eligible for a contract and will be able to go month-by-month.
Along with the purchase price of a phone, Apple receives revenue from AT&T over the course of the first contract, so the total income indeed comes in over a 24-month period. Amoritizing the purchase revenue isn't really "tricky"--it may even be standard for the mobile phone industry.
Among other things, the iPod touch didn't even exist until months after iPhone came out. Although more to the point, iPhone doesn't do anything without being activated unless you hack it.
We have one of those in Seattle, and Minnesota had a freeway bridge collapse in August. If someone can recommend a country that does a good job with their physical infrastructure let me know.
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18 year old kids don't have houses, dipshit. And we can borrow money (with federal guarantees) to pay for college without one.
While I was leaving it completely unattended. Besides, I'm not the only one whose battery burst into flames--just the only one whose house burned down by now.
Because during normal operation, they burst into flames and burned down my entire apartment! Why do you think they issue a product recall on these batteries if only 1 out of 100,000 of them will ever catch fire? Because remote probability is no defense against the company's liability for making a dangerous product. Let's say 1 out of 100,000 Sony batteries manages to catch fire, 1 out of 10 manages to do so while the user is not present (battery is used more while the computer is more active, and most computers are active only when they're being used at the moment), and 1 out of 24 times the laptop is left sitting so that the battery is in direct contact with easily flammable materials. That adds up to a 1 out of 24 million probability that my house gets burned down by the laptop battery, but that is still no argument that Sony would not be liable.
Sumner Redstone, is that you?
First, it's a mistake to mistake Branden's conception of self-esteem with the kind of crap that's foisted off as "self-esteem" now. Secondly, Ayn Rand did take psych courses, along with studying philosophy and history. Source.
First, there's actually a separate issue with the lid having been secured too tightly, making it impossible to remove without spilling. Secondly, lady was old. 7 seconds to pull down her sweatpants (and probably underpants since it had soaked through) is about the reaction time I would expect. Hell, takes me about that long when I'm sitting down.
Actually, when you factor in how many cups of coffee were sold, you find that only 1 in every 24 million caused a burn. That means, for each person who burned thenselves, 23,999,999 were able to buy coffee without injury. How does this make McDonalds coffee 'unreasonably dangerous'? A: it doesn't.If something is capable of causing severe injury to a person within the realm of reasonable use and predictable accident, the statistical improbability of that happening doesn't matter. If I had a Sony battery that burned up my entire apartment, is Sony off the hook because 24 million other Sony battery users didn't have their domiciles destroyed by their battery?
No, he may be repeating other people (and several less-than-credible rumor sits) who most certainly are obviously making shit up.
No one said it was easy. But then again, there were "usability" options alleged to have been part of the settlement when Apple sued...There was a patent cross-license. I seriously doubt Microsoft included enough for Apple to make a Win32 compatibility layer. And once again, I don't see any good reason Apple would want to do such a thing.
Nonsense. I can always tell that people who seriously think voice-driven UI's will displace all other forms of input either haven't seriously written anything in their lives, or are probably extremely poor writers. I'm not just saying this because I'm the quiet writer type--even the most chatty and extraverted people on earth (teenage girls) prefer using the world's worst keyboards to communicate with each other than actually speaking. Just in this very comment I was able to change the thrust of my argument and carefully consider what I was going to say instead of verbally leading you down each false path that came to mind as I thought. Were I speaking to you, or dictating this post into the computer, it would have been more of a struggle. And if it's easier to compose a well-worded Slashdot comment by keyboard than by voice, imagine a dissertation.
Since your argument is predicated on men being unable to pleasure women for any longer than 10 minutes, it appears that I will have no problem under the new order. Sucks for you, though.
Are you kidding? Babies have cellphones. Right when they're born, they're signed up with a 2 year contract and a free phone, right after they're registered with the state and with Social Security. And now that you can take your number with you when you switch providers, there's no downside!
FACT: Cell phones come with an "off" switch.
Mod parent "obviously making shit up". They're doing nothing of the kind, have no good reason to, and building a Win32 compatibility layer is not an easy task.
Now it's in one. That's what's new.
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The last car accident I was in, I just sort of scraped alongside the other car. No one was hurt, and no damage was done. Everyone hears "car accident" and they think about head-on collisions with semis. But there have been car accidents since then and they haven't been that bad. Therefore, worrying about safe driving is bullshit.
Your netgrocer idea would work great, unless the epidemic was something that could be transmitted from people to food.
I had 1 dollar on Monday, 2 dollars on Tuesday, 4 dollars yesterday, and 8 dollars today. At current rates, I'm expected to be the richest man in the world by mid-December. (Hint: some rates are unsustainable, especially without the infrastructure for sanitation and public health.)
But you save money buying in bulk--which you need, to make up for the cost of your car elevator.
You really miss being able to enslave people, huh?
You can throw the credit check on your iTunes activation by giving your SSN as 999-99-9999. Then you won't be eligible for a contract and will be able to go month-by-month.
Along with the purchase price of a phone, Apple receives revenue from AT&T over the course of the first contract, so the total income indeed comes in over a 24-month period. Amoritizing the purchase revenue isn't really "tricky"--it may even be standard for the mobile phone industry.
Among other things, the iPod touch didn't even exist until months after iPhone came out. Although more to the point, iPhone doesn't do anything without being activated unless you hack it.
We have one of those in Seattle, and Minnesota had a freeway bridge collapse in August. If someone can recommend a country that does a good job with their physical infrastructure let me know.
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Canadian: ...I, unfortunately, live in Canada...
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The SDK is due in February.