Why would I want to exchange it for a 3GS if what I want is the *new* 4? Design flaw or not, the product isn't working as advertised.
The lawsuit would surely take much longer than 30 days. Why would you even contemplate the continued use a product that doesn't work as advertised? All to have the latest, greatest yet defective product from Apple?
Whenever I read that someone's pissed off enough to leave something then ask why other people are doing the same (particularly when the reasons are widely publicized in the various media), it seems to me that that person is just looking for validation of their own reasons for leaving.
And not only that, he's only got a "theme", not the content. If you have to ask for ideas, it's probably not something you've completely thought through.
But then again, I'm an old coot that never got the tattoo thing.
What do they plan to tell the people who buy Chrome OS Netbooks in the near future?
You may not remember this, but back when Firefox was the new kid on the block, you could only get to most banking sites with IE. Once they started to see an increase in Firefox usage in their logs, they probably then decided to start to allow it. Same with Safari.
And the same will go for Chrome (I sincerely doubt Opera will be included in the list). Contrary to popular slashdot thinking, most people don't use Chrome or consider it a "rising star". It's in the same league as Linux. They might know about it or have heard about it, but that's about as far as it goes.
I have never met an IT person nor worked in a place of IT where I can honestly say we have ever put down a woman that works in the field. But keep in mind,
I have. From a male manager at one job - just out of the army - thought every single female manager didn't know what the hell they were doing.
At another job as a sysadmin, pretty much the entire male help desk was against the lone, new-hire female because she assumed people calling for help actually knew what it was they were calling about, or at least treated them that way.
And yet at another job, my mostly 20-something male co-workers thinking a new female sysadmin was hot and not much else.
Maybe you just haven't worked in enough bay area places yet (Well, that last one was in Chicago).
i have never understood why some people take such great pride in hating something
I don't understand why people even bother to *hate* a sport. I figure, if you don't like a sport, just don't watch it. Ignore it. It's not doing you any harm and most likely isn't a part of your life anyway.
I don't particularly care to watch basketball, but that doesn't mean I'm going to waste energy *hating* it.
Nobody's going to pay for a movie obtained from a camcorder in a movie theater.
They might for DVD quality, but then there's no incentive to get the movie early, since the DVD-quality copy isn't going to be available until months later.
Now, if the movie is DVD quality and "released within days" of theatrical release, then Hollywood has their own problem they need to sort out. It's not the "pirates" getting the new movie out there.
Someone on the inside is letting the DVD-quality copy out early. But then, we already knew that, didn't we?
I get immediate and brief headlines that can be easily followed up from various sources, including Science, Nature, NASA, the Economist, the BBC, and various other sources that are not otherwise succinctly aggregated in one place.
Californians are a majority in California again for the first time in many years because many people aren't willing to foot the bill for a variety of reasons but surely including taxes, and they are leaving.
It's early, and I get the fact that many are leaving California (I was one of them 6 years ago). But the first part of the sentence - Huh?
And now you have, much like most of us hear about things. And then we're curious enough to try them. If we like them enough, they stay on our system. If not, they're removed, no harm done.
I use AWN instead of Docky and absolutely love Gnome-Do. Instead of just spouting "Bah. Never heard of them", I'm glad I tried them out. I have two productive tools at my disposal that I wouldn't have had, had I been such a curmudgeon.
People buy it because they need it much like they need gas.
People don't *need* it at all. They get it most of the when they purchase a new PC.
No matter how easy Ubuntu (or whatever flavor of Linux we could talk about) is to install, people have already got an operating system on their PC and won't bother to install another one unless MS does something to truly piss them off. I say this as someone who pretty much immediately installs Ubuntu on any new machine I buy.
What web site do you recommend for reliable reviews of printers, scanners, and similar peripherals that work in Ubuntu?
You said it in your first response: HCL. There are scores of them available and easily searchable. Doing a quick Google search for Ubuntu+PSC+compatible (just an example) brings up the Ubuntu hardware compatibility list as the first link for me.
*shrug*
I realize you're asking for the sake of the argument here, but people are able to help themselves every once in a while when it comes to purchase decisions. Or at least I'd like to think so.
Going "out to buy a color laser printer for home use" without knowing exactly what you're looking for sounds kind of impulse-ish to me, but like I said, I tend to do research before I buy anything.
Which, btw, I *do* expect people to do when they purchase something. Nobody has any trouble doing any research when something doesn't work, there's no reason the research can't be done beforehand.
Shipping on almost everything I buy is free. Yes, I usually have to wait a few days for delivery. I'm OK with that. I've only had to return one piece of defective hardware, and I didn't pay for it. The company I purchased it from paid for it, and that's quite common.
I'm glad you can find everything you need or want for your Windows machine at your Best Buy - you are their intended customer. I am not. But don't make it out like it's exceedingly difficult to buy stuff for a Linux machine, because it's not.
And to your "no billion dollar open source companies" comment - I have no problem with that either. I'd much rather give my money to a smaller local company that to a huge multi-national. Same goes for my food consumption.
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MLK was not a tourist in Birmingham. He was a US citizen, in a US jail.
There's an idea for a server name. Maybe I'll name my media server attention_harlot too.
It's called blind fanboyism. Happens with all sorts of products, not just from Apple.
The lawsuit would surely take much longer than 30 days. Why would you even contemplate the continued use a product that doesn't work as advertised? All to have the latest, greatest yet defective product from Apple?
All those cheap Linksys routers, network devices and webcams now carry the Cisco brand name. They no longer say "Linksys" on them.
Sure, they had to buy a company to get into the home networking market, but they're there now.
If someone questions your motive, that doesn't mean they're tolling.
Whenever I read that someone's pissed off enough to leave something then ask why other people are doing the same (particularly when the reasons are widely publicized in the various media), it seems to me that that person is just looking for validation of their own reasons for leaving.
Why?
Once he got a 5 GHz phone all was well.
Long story, short: lots of things use the 2.4 GHz spectrum. It may not have anything to do with WiFi.
Of course, attaching an autistic spectrum disorder to a view different than yours is logical too.
But then again, I'm an old coot that never got the tattoo thing.
You may not remember this, but back when Firefox was the new kid on the block, you could only get to most banking sites with IE. Once they started to see an increase in Firefox usage in their logs, they probably then decided to start to allow it. Same with Safari.
And the same will go for Chrome (I sincerely doubt Opera will be included in the list). Contrary to popular slashdot thinking, most people don't use Chrome or consider it a "rising star". It's in the same league as Linux. They might know about it or have heard about it, but that's about as far as it goes.
Most people use what's already on their machine.
I have. From a male manager at one job - just out of the army - thought every single female manager didn't know what the hell they were doing.
At another job as a sysadmin, pretty much the entire male help desk was against the lone, new-hire female because she assumed people calling for help actually knew what it was they were calling about, or at least treated them that way.
And yet at another job, my mostly 20-something male co-workers thinking a new female sysadmin was hot and not much else.
Maybe you just haven't worked in enough bay area places yet (Well, that last one was in Chicago).
I don't think a book about using free software is all that "literary", but maybe that's just me.
They might for DVD quality, but then there's no incentive to get the movie early, since the DVD-quality copy isn't going to be available until months later.
Now, if the movie is DVD quality and "released within days" of theatrical release, then Hollywood has their own problem they need to sort out. It's not the "pirates" getting the new movie out there.
Someone on the inside is letting the DVD-quality copy out early. But then, we already knew that, didn't we?
If you asked a trucker, s/he'd tell you that it's actually truckers that make the world go 'round.
It's all about perception from where you're sitting.
You mean like any bog-standard RSS reader?
It's purple now.
It's early, and I get the fact that many are leaving California (I was one of them 6 years ago). But the first part of the sentence - Huh?
Two 20 oz cups of coffee don't seem to help.
And now you have, much like most of us hear about things. And then we're curious enough to try them. If we like them enough, they stay on our system. If not, they're removed, no harm done.
I use AWN instead of Docky and absolutely love Gnome-Do. Instead of just spouting "Bah. Never heard of them", I'm glad I tried them out. I have two productive tools at my disposal that I wouldn't have had, had I been such a curmudgeon.
People don't *need* it at all. They get it most of the when they purchase a new PC.
No matter how easy Ubuntu (or whatever flavor of Linux we could talk about) is to install, people have already got an operating system on their PC and won't bother to install another one unless MS does something to truly piss them off. I say this as someone who pretty much immediately installs Ubuntu on any new machine I buy.
You said it in your first response: HCL. There are scores of them available and easily searchable. Doing a quick Google search for Ubuntu+PSC+compatible (just an example) brings up the Ubuntu hardware compatibility list as the first link for me.
*shrug*
I realize you're asking for the sake of the argument here, but people are able to help themselves every once in a while when it comes to purchase decisions. Or at least I'd like to think so.
Which, btw, I *do* expect people to do when they purchase something. Nobody has any trouble doing any research when something doesn't work, there's no reason the research can't be done beforehand.
Shipping on almost everything I buy is free. Yes, I usually have to wait a few days for delivery. I'm OK with that. I've only had to return one piece of defective hardware, and I didn't pay for it. The company I purchased it from paid for it, and that's quite common.
I'm glad you can find everything you need or want for your Windows machine at your Best Buy - you are their intended customer. I am not. But don't make it out like it's exceedingly difficult to buy stuff for a Linux machine, because it's not.
And to your "no billion dollar open source companies" comment - I have no problem with that either. I'd much rather give my money to a smaller local company that to a huge multi-national. Same goes for my food consumption.