Actually, Americans do speak Queen's English. Americans speak English as it was spoken in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is Brits whose accents have changed in the last 200 years. (yes, I'm serious.)
The hell it is. You are blatantly misusing the word "race" which is wholly independent of linguistics. A black person in the UK has a completely different accent than one in Harlem than one in Haiti. "Racism" indeed.
AT&T has plenty of spectrum. What they don't have is connective infrastructure. I constantly have AT&T signal but data just won't go through because the towers' routers are overloaded. AT&T needs to take the billions it is trying to spend buying T-Mobile to add bandwidth.
Aside from any question of another human being *deserving* our empathy, our empathy doesn't perform any useful function for *us* unless we're willing to extend it to people who are unsympathetic. For example, consider the following part of the article summary:
He gave economic problems as a reason, but mostly it was about his own unreasonably high demands on himself to be successful,
You are assuming his claim is factual. We not only do not have a way of proving he is telling the truth with this explanation, but it's by nature a self-serving statement.
Everyone deserves empathy. That's how empathy works. If you're applying some formula to decide whether someone's worthy then you're not really demonstrating empathy at all.
I would agree with you if empathy were an infinite resource. However, due to our human limitations, each of us is only able to empathize a finite amount. Thus it makes sense to empathize with those who have truly done nothing to deserve punishment they are receiving vs. those who knowingly and willfully put themselves in a place where punishment results. As for your "formula" claim, I propose that every single thing in the entire universe is formula-driven. Any claim empathy is somehow immune to that fact lies somewhere between erroneous and disingenuous.
I realise that it is trendy to be cynical of anyone who has gained any form of celebrity, but I think that it is also appropriate to remind people that the person behind the spotlight is as human as anyone else that you meet. Just like us, they make mistakes.
A mistake is transposing two letters in a word. A mistake is throwing a pitch a few inches too high and letting the batter hit a home run. In other words, a mistake is when you are trying to do the right thing but through a brain or muscle slip-up, you fail to achieve your goal.
What this guy did was not a mistake. He willfully, knowingly, and with intent stole the work of others and lied about owning them. Please use the correct terminology and also acknowledge that there is a significant difference when one examines the intent of the offender.
Negus...has struck back with a £10 million false dismissal suit alleging a culture of drunken parties and claiming that other (Male) management at Microsoft were so drunk they followed a female Microsoft UK manager into the ladies' lavatories.
So because someone else acted improperly, he thinks it was OK for him to do so too? I hope he gets laughed out of court.
I've read (almost) this whole thread and while everyone is talking about cabling and whatnot, I've not seen anyone mention DHCP leasing. I just spent the last 2 weeks traveling and spending every other night in a new hotel. EVERY place had problems with DHCP leases. That is, you could connect to the WiFi spot(s) but often could not get a lease and ended up with a self-assigned IP. From what I read, this is due to leaving the routers in the factory config. which is for long lease times (I think 4 days is common). That sux when you have guests coming and going daily; the leases take days to expire and the router runs out of IP's to dole out. So whatever you end up doing, please have the routers configured for *short* leases (perhaps 1 hour?) so when guests depart their slots can be reallocated to new arrivals.
I tried doing an initial install of Lion today at our enterprise (which I shall not name but it's in the Fortune top 20; a customer you think Apple would want.) Lion failed to install with the error "Can't download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X. Check your internet connection and try again."
The Mac was networked and I know the cause of the error: We have proxy servers. However, the Lion installer has no allowance to enter the addresses of proxy servers. It assumes a clear/clean path to the internet or you are hosed.
This is just the latest in a long string of evidence that Apple had little consideration for enterprise. I'm working to set up an Ubuntu-based transparent proxy to fix this but it's some serious hoop jumping that I should not have to perform. Macs are supposed to "just work". If they don't, we might as well use Windows.
*It's interesting how so many on/. only talked about iphone costs in terms of the cost of the phone + plans, but no one on slashdot ever mentions Apple's high resale value when doing comparing prices of other brands vs. Apple.
Shenanigans. The iPhone 3Gs still goes for over $300 on eBay. No other phone holds that type of value over 2 years after its introduction. Thus the original claim holds true: Apple hardware is amazingly ahead of any competitor at resale value.
Hello? Welcome to the future! Who goes anywhere without access to netflix?
People who remember how to do anything physical (tennis, swimming, skiing, biking) during which you do what you're doing, not watching Netflix.
People who want to actually get away from it all and not be doing the same watching of LCD screens on vacation they do at home the other 50 weeks of the year.
People who bittorrent.
People who actually talk to each other instead of watching little screens.
People who are not Netflix subscribers.
The list goes on. Personally I fall in all 5 categories thankyouverymuch. Welcome to the present.
it seems that increasing your fees and offering nothing more seems to be a really good way to shoot yourself in the foot. If Netflix was using that increase to payoff the ISPs to get their traffic excluded from the caps it might be worth it.
The other questionable part of this is the timing. Isn't summertime when a higher % of people go outside due to the warm weather and longer days, and also go on vacation? Thus this is time when more Netflix customers would be inclined to react to the price increase with a cancellation. Compare to the scenario where Netflix did this as a huge snowstorm hit the eastern seaboard, stranding millions in their homes. Parents with cabin-fevered kids would gladly pay double to get a fresh movie on the TV to shut those kids up.
A VM under Windows or OS X is a perfectly acceptable option for his mother, and is much better than a CD-based version in my opinion because the performance will be better than from CD when drive access to the OS is needed....
If she doesn't want to sit through an OS installation, there are also pre-made VM's
Sitting through the install is kind of the entire point of her exercise. She's supposed to learn about operating systems and how to install them. For her to use your pre-made VM's would quite literally cheating. Sure, to those of us being paid to implement solutions ASAP in enterprise or education, they're great. Borrowing others' work makes us look like heroes to our bosses (or at least keeps us employed). But that's not what's going on here.
Actually, there's no end of reasons to put Capcom on your "do not buy" list.
True. Just for the sake of completeness, add to your long list of reasons to avoid them, that they are the iPhone developer who tricked all the tots into spending $100's on Smurfberries. They have no shame whatsoever; nothing to them takes a backseat to immediate profit, not even long-term self-destruction via public shunning.
It's a surprise because mac users are usually happy when someone else decides what's best for them.
Mac users are happy when Steve Jobs decides not best for them, and not just some random "someone".
True enough, but the thing is, Jobs is much more often right than wrong. He's hired teams of hundreds of people to ensure his user interfaces don't suck and therefore aren't despised, as Skype 5.0 is. Steve Jobs is quite possibly the only living example of a "benevolent despot."
the government is not a legitimate entity unto itself. I can't cheat the government, I can only cheat my fellow citizens and myself out of some worthy use of those potential tax dollars.
Ah, nothing like a tax story to bring the "illegitimate government" buffoons down from the trees....
I hope Apple gets spanked for this. It was their lack of due diligence, and even if Apple was aware of this other company, it chose to engage this "Imma show you whose boss" mentality. Apple decided to play the game, so too damn bad if they lose.
It is hard to believe that you actually think Apple didn't perform due diligence on such a huge product announcement.
They're looking for any type of dirt they can find.
This happens with every candidate of any party. See also Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner.
And this is why Palin isn't going to run for President. She's far more powerful wealthy as a regular person
Fixed that for you.
If Palin were the idiot that everyone makes her out to be, then why does everyone the media get their panties in such a bind every time she says anything about anything?
FTFY again. And I do not know why the media follows here. There is no there there. Please ask them why they do it. If I never saw Palin's name in a "news" story again I would be very happy.
It was a blight-resistant potato field, you half-witted fucktard.
No, it MIGHT HAVE BEEN a blight-resistant potato field. It might also have had some other genetic anomaly that attacks and wipes out all other potatoes even a single grain of pollen from this field comes in contact with. Our race has a long history of thinking it is smarter than nature and being proven very, very wrong.
Sure is funny how those who use the term "fucktard" are usually the less-learned ones.....
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Actually, Americans do speak Queen's English. Americans speak English as it was spoken in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is Brits whose accents have changed in the last 200 years. (yes, I'm serious.)
It's just racism, plain and simple.
The hell it is. You are blatantly misusing the word "race" which is wholly independent of linguistics. A black person in the UK has a completely different accent than one in Harlem than one in Haiti. "Racism" indeed.
AT&T has plenty of spectrum. What they don't have is connective infrastructure. I constantly have AT&T signal but data just won't go through because the towers' routers are overloaded. AT&T needs to take the billions it is trying to spend buying T-Mobile to add bandwidth.
Aside from any question of another human being *deserving* our empathy, our empathy doesn't perform any useful function for *us* unless we're willing to extend it to people who are unsympathetic. For example, consider the following part of the article summary:
He gave economic problems as a reason, but mostly it was about his own unreasonably high demands on himself to be successful,
You are assuming his claim is factual. We not only do not have a way of proving he is telling the truth with this explanation, but it's by nature a self-serving statement.
Everyone deserves empathy. That's how empathy works. If you're applying some formula to decide whether someone's worthy then you're not really demonstrating empathy at all.
I would agree with you if empathy were an infinite resource. However, due to our human limitations, each of us is only able to empathize a finite amount. Thus it makes sense to empathize with those who have truly done nothing to deserve punishment they are receiving vs. those who knowingly and willfully put themselves in a place where punishment results. As for your "formula" claim, I propose that every single thing in the entire universe is formula-driven. Any claim empathy is somehow immune to that fact lies somewhere between erroneous and disingenuous.
I realise that it is trendy to be cynical of anyone who has gained any form of celebrity, but I think that it is also appropriate to remind people that the person behind the spotlight is as human as anyone else that you meet. Just like us, they make mistakes.
A mistake is transposing two letters in a word. A mistake is throwing a pitch a few inches too high and letting the batter hit a home run. In other words, a mistake is when you are trying to do the right thing but through a brain or muscle slip-up, you fail to achieve your goal.
What this guy did was not a mistake. He willfully, knowingly, and with intent stole the work of others and lied about owning them. Please use the correct terminology and also acknowledge that there is a significant difference when one examines the intent of the offender.
Negus...has struck back with a £10 million false dismissal suit alleging a culture of drunken parties and claiming that other (Male) management at Microsoft were so drunk they followed a female Microsoft UK manager into the ladies' lavatories.
So because someone else acted improperly, he thinks it was OK for him to do so too? I hope he gets laughed out of court.
I've read (almost) this whole thread and while everyone is talking about cabling and whatnot, I've not seen anyone mention DHCP leasing. I just spent the last 2 weeks traveling and spending every other night in a new hotel. EVERY place had problems with DHCP leases. That is, you could connect to the WiFi spot(s) but often could not get a lease and ended up with a self-assigned IP. From what I read, this is due to leaving the routers in the factory config. which is for long lease times (I think 4 days is common). That sux when you have guests coming and going daily; the leases take days to expire and the router runs out of IP's to dole out. So whatever you end up doing, please have the routers configured for *short* leases (perhaps 1 hour?) so when guests depart their slots can be reallocated to new arrivals.
I tried doing an initial install of Lion today at our enterprise (which I shall not name but it's in the Fortune top 20; a customer you think Apple would want.) Lion failed to install with the error "Can't download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X. Check your internet connection and try again."
The Mac was networked and I know the cause of the error: We have proxy servers. However, the Lion installer has no allowance to enter the addresses of proxy servers. It assumes a clear/clean path to the internet or you are hosed.
This is just the latest in a long string of evidence that Apple had little consideration for enterprise. I'm working to set up an Ubuntu-based transparent proxy to fix this but it's some serious hoop jumping that I should not have to perform. Macs are supposed to "just work". If they don't, we might as well use Windows.
*It's interesting how so many on /. only talked about iphone costs in terms of the cost of the phone + plans, but no one on slashdot ever mentions Apple's high resale value when doing comparing prices of other brands vs. Apple.
You sure? I see the $599 iPhone selling for $50.
Shenanigans. The iPhone 3Gs still goes for over $300 on eBay. No other phone holds that type of value over 2 years after its introduction. Thus the original claim holds true: Apple hardware is amazingly ahead of any competitor at resale value.
Hello? Welcome to the future! Who goes anywhere without access to netflix?
The list goes on. Personally I fall in all 5 categories thankyouverymuch. Welcome to the present.
$8/month streaming only - great for hopping around when I don't know what to watch.
$1/DVD rental at the video store at the end of my block for DVDs.
You did exactly what they wanted you to: stuck with them. Now you are paying the same amount as before but they're providing you less.
it seems that increasing your fees and offering nothing more seems to be a really good way to shoot yourself in the foot. If Netflix was using that increase to payoff the ISPs to get their traffic excluded from the caps it might be worth it.
The other questionable part of this is the timing. Isn't summertime when a higher % of people go outside due to the warm weather and longer days, and also go on vacation? Thus this is time when more Netflix customers would be inclined to react to the price increase with a cancellation. Compare to the scenario where Netflix did this as a huge snowstorm hit the eastern seaboard, stranding millions in their homes. Parents with cabin-fevered kids would gladly pay double to get a fresh movie on the TV to shut those kids up.
A VM under Windows or OS X is a perfectly acceptable option for his mother, and is much better than a CD-based version in my opinion because the performance will be better than from CD when drive access to the OS is needed. ...
If she doesn't want to sit through an OS installation, there are also pre-made VM's
Sitting through the install is kind of the entire point of her exercise. She's supposed to learn about operating systems and how to install them. For her to use your pre-made VM's would quite literally cheating. Sure, to those of us being paid to implement solutions ASAP in enterprise or education, they're great. Borrowing others' work makes us look like heroes to our bosses (or at least keeps us employed). But that's not what's going on here.
"Serious restrictions on freedom of expression"? It would be nice to know WHAT part of Europe you are referring to
Well, for example, the fact that in the U.K. you can place anonymous gagging orders on newspapers so that they can't publish facts about you.
Or also in the U.K. how you cannot play music to your horses because that is considered a "public performance."
Actually, there's no end of reasons to put Capcom on your "do not buy" list.
True. Just for the sake of completeness, add to your long list of reasons to avoid them, that they are the iPhone developer who tricked all the tots into spending $100's on Smurfberries. They have no shame whatsoever; nothing to them takes a backseat to immediate profit, not even long-term self-destruction via public shunning.
It's a surprise because mac users are usually happy when someone else decides what's best for them.
Mac users are happy when Steve Jobs decides not best for them, and not just some random "someone".
True enough, but the thing is, Jobs is much more often right than wrong. He's hired teams of hundreds of people to ensure his user interfaces don't suck and therefore aren't despised, as Skype 5.0 is. Steve Jobs is quite possibly the only living example of a "benevolent despot."
people earning second incomes by acting as private tutors.
Ah, yes. Because we all know it's the teachers who are responsible for the budget shortfalls. Wisconsin recently proved that. [/sarcasm]
the government is not a legitimate entity unto itself. I can't cheat the government, I can only cheat my fellow citizens and myself out of some worthy use of those potential tax dollars.
Ah, nothing like a tax story to bring the "illegitimate government" buffoons down from the trees....
Time for a revolution if you ask me. I won't support our robot masters!
Why not? Ken Jennings does.
I hope Apple gets spanked for this. It was their lack of due diligence, and even if Apple was aware of this other company, it chose to engage this "Imma show you whose boss" mentality. Apple decided to play the game, so too damn bad if they lose.
It is hard to believe that you actually think Apple didn't perform due diligence on such a huge product announcement.
They've had 50 years to prepare for a triffid attack, but I bet they're not ready for that, either.
Darn it...I was blissfully unaware of triffids until I read your post and went a-googling. Now I'll not sleep a wink tonight. Thanks a lot!
They're looking for any type of dirt they can find.
This happens with every candidate of any party. See also Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner.
And this is why Palin isn't going to run for President. She's far more powerful wealthy as a regular person
Fixed that for you.
If Palin were the idiot that everyone makes her out to be, then why does everyone the media get their panties in such a bind every time she says anything about anything?
FTFY again. And I do not know why the media follows here. There is no there there. Please ask them why they do it. If I never saw Palin's name in a "news" story again I would be very happy.
You can watch the Frontline episode on PBS's website.
And many of us now will. WikiLeaks is about to learn the full force of the Streisand Effect.
It was a blight-resistant potato field, you half-witted fucktard.
No, it MIGHT HAVE BEEN a blight-resistant potato field. It might also have had some other genetic anomaly that attacks and wipes out all other potatoes even a single grain of pollen from this field comes in contact with. Our race has a long history of thinking it is smarter than nature and being proven very, very wrong.
Sure is funny how those who use the term "fucktard" are usually the less-learned ones.....