His sponsors can still pull their funding, and cost him a lot of money.
And why on earth would they do that? If a thread is getting 10,000 digs and there's no longer any chance of a lawsuit, that means they'd be losing out on having their ads seen during one of the most popular topics in the past 365 days. Any sponsor dumb enough to pull funding at that point was a highly tenuous sponsor to begin with.
I've never understood Bush, and I doubt I ever will. Seriously, every single thing that guy does or says in public really makes him seem retarded. Sure, not everything he does looks this stupid, but for sure I've never heard him say anything which seems quite wise or insightful.
Still, I can't believe that the collective intelligence of the United States would appoint him president for no good reason -- there are many other politicians in the House and Senate who I'm sure would love the chance instead of him. Not just "without" a good reason either; the people appointed him president knowing how he is, and all I've seen of him just seems to be reason not to want him running your country. He has to have some good qualities that makes him suitable for the position, no? I'm almost starting to believe that he's just acting retarded in public to make people think that he's much less of a man than he really is. Call me paranoid, but I almost think that explanation (though he'd have to be a good actor) makes more sense than that he really is retarded and got to be president in spite of it.
The story points to them being a "straight A student". What does this have to do with anything?
I was going to say the exact opposite. It seems to me the fact that he's a straight-A student should have made the school realize this guy was not the loose cannon that Cho was. Cho was deeply anti-establishment and his rantings show a hatred for conformists. It's pretty hard to be anti-establishment and non-conformist and still get straight-A's, for to get them you must follow all your teachers' and school's rules to the letter.
Apparently you haven't purchased gasoline in the past, oh, 5 years. That's cool. It's good to find a GOP member who actually walks or bikes to work instead of riding in the biggest SUV they can get 60 month leasing on.
If ConEd were found to be infringing upon a patent, would a judge shut them down and plunge New York City into darkness? If not, then what is the difference between that and shutting down Vonage, effectively removing a basic utility from its customers? Sure, they can change providers, but not quickly and easily. It would, in effect, be favoring the greed of Verizon over the general public interest, which is something I definitely have heard courts hesitate to do in the past. Why not this one too?
1. Apple does not manufacture hard drives. Be mad at Seagate or Hitachi or whoever made your failed drive.
2. "Destroyed" is an odd term. Just what happened to your iPod?
3. 6 months is within warranty. Didn't Apple replace/fix the problems?
We had pondered this same question when we first got our Intel-based Macs. Then we tried Parallels and never looked back. It solves several problems:
No need to partition, an action which (to our knowledge) cannot be automated over netboot.
Both OSes can be included in a single, NetRestore-able disk image.
No need for end users to reboot to change OSes.
So I strongly suggest you re-examine your decision to use BootCamp, and instead examine Parallels. By switching to Parallels you can use well-established tools such as NetRestore, RadMind, and other off-the-shelf solutions.
I also must disagree with one of the other responders who recommended Target disk mode. While this is good for a few computers (and is a great tool for making your source.dmg you'll deploy using the above tools), it does not work well for reimaging hundreds of Macs that are widely distributed across a campus. It requires that each technician be equipped with a firewire drive, which tend to grow legs. Also, more and more security-conscious companies (and colleges) are locking down computers so that neither USB nor Firewire drives can be used and/or forbidding the use of such devices. And then you'll have the problem of keeping each Firewire drive up to date with exactly the same image instead of just updating a single, master.dmg on the server as you can when using NetRestore.
True, it can be tricky to get NetBoot to work across subnets, but we got around that by putting multiple NICs in our NetBoot XServe, one for each subnet. (Yes, we tried Bombich's boot-across-subnets solution but could not get it to work, probably because of how our routers are configured.)
if you are so antagonistic toward your company that you'd refuse to invest a little bit of your own time/money into doing something that helps the company along with yourself
If the company removes his 2nd monitor without regard for his claims of it increasing his productivity, then it seems pretty clear the antagonism is coming from the company, not him. At that point the company is in no way whatsoever deserving of him putting his own time/money to the company.
The suit also alleges that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates contributed to the company's "deceptive marketing" during a Jan. 29 appearance on the "Today" show, when he said that PC users could upgrade to Windows Vista for less than $100.
"In fact, one can only 'upgrade' to Home Basic for that price, which Mr. Gates and Microsoft know is a product that lacks the features marketed by Microsoft as being Vista," the suit said.
It would be interesting to see Bill get deposed on this one. My main question is how long will it take for this to get to court. Class actions are notoriously slow-moving cases. By the time they get there, nobody will care. And any settlement, if history repeats itself, will just be a $50 certificate applicable to the cost of the next version of Windows.
Imagine how the story of how the U.S. got rich would look if the right person wrote it? Slaves from Africa? Nah. How about "professional immigrant craftsmen" working those fields instead?
It sounds as if you want to believe the pyramids were built with slave labor. Then go ahead--tell us where the slaves came from, considering the Egyptians were not generally a conquering civilization. And how they performed such meticulous work that a knifeblade could not be inserted between any of the stone blocks. That's the work of craftsmen, not men plucked from another life being whipped.
It's actually much more plausible that the pyramids were huge public works projects, much like the Hoover Dam. They helped the economy and required skilled labor to achieve.
The supposed reason we're waiting for the iPhone (at least for those of us who are waiting for it) is that Apple needed 5 months to get FCC approval for it. How are all these "iPhone killer" rivals getting their products to market faster? Sure, one could say "they started first" but when why don't we know about their products already? Apple seemed deathly afraid of not being able to keep their application secret, but it is said they could not keep it secret any longer once they submitted it to the FCC. This implies that if there is an "iPhone killer" out there, its application to the FCC is on file and all we need to do is check with the FCC or get a spy there to leak the info. N'est pas?
Instead of posting yet another "Well, it works for me" message about Apple wireless & the latest security patch, I'll recommend you reinstall your OS. As a consultant, I've found invariably that users who have had trouble with the latest Apple updates did not run disk checks before they applied them. Those who did had no problems. The patch definitely works, as you know from all those who have told you they are functional. So instead of keeping those ethernet cables strung across your house as you curse the darkness, please light a candle by backing up your data & reinstalling OS X. You'll be happier in the long run.
Hope this helps & good luck!
In response to the three posters who say their Mac labs go unused, that is probably because those who prefer Macs have one. People who use a computer lab anymore are those who probably aren't that computer literate and therefore have only ever been exposed to PC's a few times and will therefore gravitate towards the only thing they've ever seen. PC costs have dropped such that anyone with an interest in computers can buy what they want (PC or Mac).
If you're having so many problems with your computers that you have to speak to your rep once a week
Nice. In fact, he calls me half the time just to see how things are going, to let me know what show Apple will next be at (yesterday he gave us two tickets to NAB), or to let me know the status of our latest hardware orders/quotes. We call him to get info as we develop our own custom OS images, deploy them over netboot, test Apple beta software, and develop strategic 18-month plans for which we need Apple roadmaps, etc. In short, there's a whole lot more to talk to a hardware representative about than broken hardware.
Wow, that sounds like a bunch of that stuffed-shirt/John Hodgeman/PC stuff. Surely a hipster like Apple would never lower themselves to such uncool depths as "assigning an account representative from Apple Corporate." They're more the free-wheeling, outside the box, creative types.
I know you were being funny, but fact is that we do have an assigned account representative at Apple Computer. I speak with him at least once per week. He gets us custom quotes and takes care of any issues we have (though he is not our first call if we need hardware service--we call AppleCare for that.) And yes, we do get on-site hardware service. I recommend the original poster call Apple Enterprise support at 866-752-7753 and see if they can help him out.
It isn't bait and switch because you're told the higher price before purchase.
It most certainly is bait and switch, as they bait you to the store with a lower price and then present you with a higher price once you're there. It's a textbook example of bait & switch in fact.
On the contrary, having kids is about the most egotistical thing you can possibly do in your lifetime. Doing so requires that you:
A. Consider yourself fuckable,
B. Consider your genes worthy of passing on to another generation,
C. Consider your parenting skills worthy,
D. Expect your employer to pay you for being out of work for an extended period of time and save your job until you return,
E. Expect your employer to give you extra time off over the next 18 years as you attend to sick kids, parent-teacher conferences, etc.
F. Expect the government to give you tax breaks/credits,
G. Expect your friends and family to all make allowances for you and to give you baby shower gifts, new parent gifts, and birthday and holiday presents for the rest of their lifes,
H. Expect everyone around you in public areas (stores, airplanes, restaurants) to just accept your kid screaming & misbehaving without complaint,
I. Expect the government to educate your child (exceptions made on this one for those who send their kids to private schools).
And this is just off the top of my head. "Unselfish"? Hardly.
As far as I can see from the article the RIAA had somebody busted that they had previously employed on a different project.
Incorrect. If you read to the end of the article, it says that within days after the bust, the DJ's received additional tracks from the RIAA to remix. Therefore they were still currently employed by the RIAA. And it wasn't just one different project they were employed for but hundreds. Therefore this is hardly making up stories about the RIAA--they are in this one up to their eyeballs.
What the RIAA essentially did to these DJ's was the same as if you hired someone to housesit for you and then you called the police to report them for breaking and entering. As such, I would think the DJ's have a really good defense.
theft is theft no matter how you coach it in terms of a 'sale'
This is way out of line. The buyers of this item did not walk out of a store with the intent of not paying for goods. If you want to draw an accurate analogy to a brick & mortar, they took the goods to the cashier who then chose not to charge them and wished them a nice day. Trying to throw that back in the customer's face is disingenuous at best and libel at worst.
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I've never understood Bush, and I doubt I ever will. Seriously, every single thing that guy does or says in public really makes him seem retarded. Sure, not everything he does looks this stupid, but for sure I've never heard him say anything which seems quite wise or insightful. Still, I can't believe that the collective intelligence of the United States would appoint him president for no good reason -- there are many other politicians in the House and Senate who I'm sure would love the chance instead of him. Not just "without" a good reason either; the people appointed him president knowing how he is, and all I've seen of him just seems to be reason not to want him running your country. He has to have some good qualities that makes him suitable for the position, no? I'm almost starting to believe that he's just acting retarded in public to make people think that he's much less of a man than he really is. Call me paranoid, but I almost think that explanation (though he'd have to be a good actor) makes more sense than that he really is retarded and got to be president in spite of it.
If ConEd were found to be infringing upon a patent, would a judge shut them down and plunge New York City into darkness? If not, then what is the difference between that and shutting down Vonage, effectively removing a basic utility from its customers? Sure, they can change providers, but not quickly and easily. It would, in effect, be favoring the greed of Verizon over the general public interest, which is something I definitely have heard courts hesitate to do in the past. Why not this one too?
1. Apple does not manufacture hard drives. Be mad at Seagate or Hitachi or whoever made your failed drive. 2. "Destroyed" is an odd term. Just what happened to your iPod? 3. 6 months is within warranty. Didn't Apple replace/fix the problems?
- No need to partition, an action which (to our knowledge) cannot be automated over netboot.
- Both OSes can be included in a single, NetRestore-able disk image.
- No need for end users to reboot to change OSes.
So I strongly suggest you re-examine your decision to use BootCamp, and instead examine Parallels. By switching to Parallels you can use well-established tools such as NetRestore, RadMind, and other off-the-shelf solutions.I also must disagree with one of the other responders who recommended Target disk mode. While this is good for a few computers (and is a great tool for making your source .dmg you'll deploy using the above tools), it does not work well for reimaging hundreds of Macs that are widely distributed across a campus. It requires that each technician be equipped with a firewire drive, which tend to grow legs. Also, more and more security-conscious companies (and colleges) are locking down computers so that neither USB nor Firewire drives can be used and/or forbidding the use of such devices. And then you'll have the problem of keeping each Firewire drive up to date with exactly the same image instead of just updating a single, master .dmg on the server as you can when using NetRestore.
True, it can be tricky to get NetBoot to work across subnets, but we got around that by putting multiple NICs in our NetBoot XServe, one for each subnet. (Yes, we tried Bombich's boot-across-subnets solution but could not get it to work, probably because of how our routers are configured.)
Any chance this project was funded by Symantec or any of the other companies that will now market an iPod version of their security products?
Y2K isn't on the list because it was a bug not a flop. They're not the same thing.
It's actually much more plausible that the pyramids were huge public works projects, much like the Hoover Dam. They helped the economy and required skilled labor to achieve.
The supposed reason we're waiting for the iPhone (at least for those of us who are waiting for it) is that Apple needed 5 months to get FCC approval for it. How are all these "iPhone killer" rivals getting their products to market faster? Sure, one could say "they started first" but when why don't we know about their products already? Apple seemed deathly afraid of not being able to keep their application secret, but it is said they could not keep it secret any longer once they submitted it to the FCC. This implies that if there is an "iPhone killer" out there, its application to the FCC is on file and all we need to do is check with the FCC or get a spy there to leak the info. N'est pas?
Instead of posting yet another "Well, it works for me" message about Apple wireless & the latest security patch, I'll recommend you reinstall your OS. As a consultant, I've found invariably that users who have had trouble with the latest Apple updates did not run disk checks before they applied them. Those who did had no problems. The patch definitely works, as you know from all those who have told you they are functional. So instead of keeping those ethernet cables strung across your house as you curse the darkness, please light a candle by backing up your data & reinstalling OS X. You'll be happier in the long run. Hope this helps & good luck!
In response to the three posters who say their Mac labs go unused, that is probably because those who prefer Macs have one. People who use a computer lab anymore are those who probably aren't that computer literate and therefore have only ever been exposed to PC's a few times and will therefore gravitate towards the only thing they've ever seen. PC costs have dropped such that anyone with an interest in computers can buy what they want (PC or Mac).
A. Consider yourself fuckable,
B. Consider your genes worthy of passing on to another generation,
C. Consider your parenting skills worthy,
D. Expect your employer to pay you for being out of work for an extended period of time and save your job until you return,
E. Expect your employer to give you extra time off over the next 18 years as you attend to sick kids, parent-teacher conferences, etc.
F. Expect the government to give you tax breaks/credits,
G. Expect your friends and family to all make allowances for you and to give you baby shower gifts, new parent gifts, and birthday and holiday presents for the rest of their lifes,
H. Expect everyone around you in public areas (stores, airplanes, restaurants) to just accept your kid screaming & misbehaving without complaint,
I. Expect the government to educate your child (exceptions made on this one for those who send their kids to private schools).
And this is just off the top of my head. "Unselfish"? Hardly.
What the RIAA essentially did to these DJ's was the same as if you hired someone to housesit for you and then you called the police to report them for breaking and entering. As such, I would think the DJ's have a really good defense.
(Morality aside,) Wise customers either cancelled their credit cards or placed blocks on Amazon being able to charge them.