The Apple store sold me an ibook with a glossy screen that has terrible glare and my Grandmother is stuck with it (macular degeneration or not). I didn't even know they made glossy screened macs.
Wait, the apple store sold *you* an ibook that your grandma is now "stuck" with? You didn't know they made glossy screens? Didn't you check out what *you* were buying? I don't get these serial complainers like you who bitch about stuff that is 100% their own douchebaggery fault. Not our problem you're a moron.
That's like TicketBastard lowering their labor and distribution costs by allowing you to print tickets at home on your own printer, instead of having them mailed. But it costs the consumer *more* to print their own ticket at home (isn't it like $3 extra???) and mailing, which should cost them more, is no extra charge. What a racket.
Sorry to threadjack, but obviously everyone is saying that eyeballs lost to blockers is no loss since they weren't going to be buyers anyway (usually).
Corollary to that are the "legal" but borderline abusive telemarketing practices like many sales-shrouded-as-surveys, political, tenuous "existing relationships", etc. Speaking USian here, if I'm on the national DNC list, and you think you can cold call me anyways because the law says you can, you're gonna get a *&^*&^% earful from me before I slam the phone back down.
Upon further analysis, flying Virgin Atlantic for 2,000,000 miles might be a hell of a lot cheaper than just paying the $200,000 fare for Virgin Galactic. Most frequent flyers (like on FlyerTalk) value FF miles at about $0.02 a mile (even down to $0.01 for the hardcore mileage runners). So it might cost you as little as $20,000 to $40,000 to get your 2,000,000 FF miles. That is, if you had the time of course.
This ain't gonna really take off until you get Virgin Atlantic "Flying Club" miles for this (or probably more importantly, you can redeem Flying Club miles for a trip)
was gonna mention that too, but didn't take the time because I originally thought it might have sounded nitpicky. Not only would someone likely have a passing familiarity of what the streetsigns near his home have scrawled on them, this guy should have had a basic understand of the numbering convention used in his area.
It is my understanding that most metro areas have a sensible "hundred block" convention of sequential block by block correlation of street addresses to location in the city. E/W streets numbered one way, N/S another, based on a grid usually. Even those with non-standard layouts that don't fit to a grid, city planners just don't pull house numbers/hundred blocks out of their asses willy nilly. There is usually a rhyme or reason.
Ergo, you can usually tell on number alone the general placement of a particular address in a particular metro area (ok, save for New York City, maybe). But are people like this guy so incredibly stupid that even simple concepts like these are completely over their heads?
Time for a new acronym. One at the end of the post, not the beginning. How about: IIWALIWHSS (if I were a lawyer I would have said so). I ANAL just sounds like a personal problem.
Please provide an example (just one would be sufficient) of where law enforcement has had Onstar shut down a vehicle.
Just one please.
Not conjecture, not hypotheses, but an actual example.
30 seconds on Google. Anecdotal, sure, but here it is:
It turns out that OnStar did shut down my truck at some point in time during the sequence of events. What is unclear is whether the thief left the vehicle because it was shut down or if he decided just to loot my truck and leave.
You don't want a dead-man switch. You want a watchdog: a device which will send a message if you fail to reset it by pressing a button at least once an hour.
Make that once every 108 minutes. And move to a hatch. A plane will probably eventually crash near you, and you'll have a few volunteers to help.
I've actually managed to make a game out of it, I no longer have to take old computers to the salvage place, I just load them in the van and take them downtown.
The City of Omaha does something somewhat similar (or at least DID until they got called on it by a local TV station). The city would load up abandoned vehicles (pickups) at the impount lot with old city computers. Those pickups would make it into the weekly vehicle auction. Since the vehicles are sold "as is", the buyers were required to take the vehicles with all the computers in the bed, thereby transferring the problem of disposing of potentially hazardous waste (CRTs, etc) to the successful bidder on the vehicle auction.
Haven't seen any update on this story so I don't know if the city has stopped doing this. Also don't know whether these machines had hard drives still in them, etc.
The ipod earbuds can damage your hearing because they fit snugly in your ear and don't allow air to escape.
Apparently you have never owned an iPod with the standard white ear buds. They are total shit, and they kill your ear. They most certainly do not fit snugly. Anyone that can stand the standard white earbuds for more than 15 minutes deserves a medal.
I just use Shure in-ear monitors. At a sensible volume, thank you very much.
There's no KFC immediately *in* the square, but there's plenty of western food chains on the surrounding blocks. Wangfujing shopping street is just a very short stroll east from the square... representing every major western shopping compulsion.
The square itself, no. A minute or two of walking, sure.
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Wait, the apple store sold *you* an ibook that your grandma is now "stuck" with? You didn't know they made glossy screens? Didn't you check out what *you* were buying? I don't get these serial complainers like you who bitch about stuff that is 100% their own douchebaggery fault. Not our problem you're a moron.
STFU.
That's like TicketBastard lowering their labor and distribution costs by allowing you to print tickets at home on your own printer, instead of having them mailed. But it costs the consumer *more* to print their own ticket at home (isn't it like $3 extra???) and mailing, which should cost them more, is no extra charge. What a racket.
A-1, 10 star, "+100 well-duh" answer of the century. The only tragedy in your post is that Slashdot doesn't offer any mod rating higher than +5.
I mean 299,999,999. Being a US citizen doesn't require one to be good at numbers I guess.
Back to 2,999,999 we go. Lather, rinse, repeat. At least we gave more people the shot at being the magic number! The American Dream!
Like the whole spinny-rings thing in "Contact"??
Oh wait, that was terrorism. My bad.
But wait, they were saved by the *build two* approach!
Companies/company's I can live with. Misuse of loose/lose is the one that bugs the hell out of most people here.
corollary maybe not being the right word, hopefully you got the gist
Sorry to threadjack, but obviously everyone is saying that eyeballs lost to blockers is no loss since they weren't going to be buyers anyway (usually).
Corollary to that are the "legal" but borderline abusive telemarketing practices like many sales-shrouded-as-surveys, political, tenuous "existing relationships", etc. Speaking USian here, if I'm on the national DNC list, and you think you can cold call me anyways because the law says you can, you're gonna get a *&^*&^% earful from me before I slam the phone back down.
ba-dum-pah
Hmm, maybe I should have taken the Aussie approach and said "lockers"
Upon further analysis, flying Virgin Atlantic for 2,000,000 miles might be a hell of a lot cheaper than just paying the $200,000 fare for Virgin Galactic. Most frequent flyers (like on FlyerTalk) value FF miles at about $0.02 a mile (even down to $0.01 for the hardcore mileage runners). So it might cost you as little as $20,000 to $40,000 to get your 2,000,000 FF miles. That is, if you had the time of course.
Oops, my bad, I guess you can
http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/frequentflyer /fcpartners/virgingroup/virgingalactic.jsp
Where's the overhead bin space? I'm gonna have to board early to find space for my rollerboard!
was gonna mention that too, but didn't take the time because I originally thought it might have sounded nitpicky. Not only would someone likely have a passing familiarity of what the streetsigns near his home have scrawled on them, this guy should have had a basic understand of the numbering convention used in his area.
It is my understanding that most metro areas have a sensible "hundred block" convention of sequential block by block correlation of street addresses to location in the city. E/W streets numbered one way, N/S another, based on a grid usually. Even those with non-standard layouts that don't fit to a grid, city planners just don't pull house numbers/hundred blocks out of their asses willy nilly. There is usually a rhyme or reason.
Ergo, you can usually tell on number alone the general placement of a particular address in a particular metro area (ok, save for New York City, maybe). But are people like this guy so incredibly stupid that even simple concepts like these are completely over their heads?
OK, so maybe it was a rhetorical question.
Time for a new acronym. One at the end of the post, not the beginning. How about: IIWALIWHSS (if I were a lawyer I would have said so). I ANAL just sounds like a personal problem.
30 seconds on Google. Anecdotal, sure, but here it is:
http://strategize.blogspot.com/2005/10/my-car-was- stolen-this-weekend-onstar.html
Make that once every 108 minutes. And move to a hatch. A plane will probably eventually crash near you, and you'll have a few volunteers to help.
The City of Omaha does something somewhat similar (or at least DID until they got called on it by a local TV station). The city would load up abandoned vehicles (pickups) at the impount lot with old city computers. Those pickups would make it into the weekly vehicle auction. Since the vehicles are sold "as is", the buyers were required to take the vehicles with all the computers in the bed, thereby transferring the problem of disposing of potentially hazardous waste (CRTs, etc) to the successful bidder on the vehicle auction.
Haven't seen any update on this story so I don't know if the city has stopped doing this. Also don't know whether these machines had hard drives still in them, etc.
delays because of post office mail screening, etc, dipshit.
I just use Shure in-ear monitors. At a sensible volume, thank you very much.
There's no KFC immediately *in* the square, but there's plenty of western food chains on the surrounding blocks. Wangfujing shopping street is just a very short stroll east from the square... representing every major western shopping compulsion. The square itself, no. A minute or two of walking, sure.
In Korea, only old people's IP addresses are interesting.
How about, take all email addresses out of my account profile, period, and we'll call it a day. No email from you. Sounded simple enough to me.
Ya think they might wait til it passed?