I wonder how much of this is FUD spread by Apple/AT&T's competitors and how much is legit. If most of what they're saying is legit, I can see the phone being still born, or the TOS changing quickly. (But then again, I don't have the pride that Jobs does.) I tend to agree with you here. Also, I think people forget this is an Apple product launch we're talking about. It's (obstinately) only because of the FCC that it was announced early. But if one manager from one AT&T store says something, readers should take it with the largest grain of NaCl they can find. He may have heard a rumor, now stated as fact, when he most likely hasn't even seen the contract yet. Remember? Apple launch? Much secrecy. Details aren't revealed even to management until absolutely necessary.
Also, if he didn't sue, I'm sure he'd be sued by Microsoft, after the release of his TV station. And when that happened, a judge might wonder why he didn't go for MSFT first.
it makes life so much easier Sometimes...
Other times, I get asked to slow down, because apparently they're writing it out:
ZuluIndiaWhiskeyCharleyAlphaMike...
Why is it that whenever anything even remotely of interest happens at MIT, it immediately shows up on the front page of Slashdot, Digg, and Boingboing?
I'll gladly admit that xkcd is a great comic, and that there are plenty of smart students and professors at MIT. However, the disproportinate amount of press coverage that MIT (and the Ivies) receive is downright insulting to the rest of us.
Wow. You sound JUST like the people that bitch about how much press Apple gets...
The similarities between post-9/11 data mining and Stasi are also... disconcerting. In the 1960s, the lack of surveillance infrastructure was one of the reasons Americans thought themselves more free than Soviets.
At the risk of bringing politics into the discussion (lol), I must say that I agree with you, but like so many others, we're doing it to ourselves, by continuing to elect leaders who are creating more laws to reduce our freedom.
My favorite example is of how we can no longer carry liquids greater than 3oz on a plane, 1 qt container limit, etc. etc. Obstinately this is because of a foiled plan to mix liquid explosives on the plane. And I'll bet a good portion of the US population is either clueless as to the reason for this new regulation, or believe the story that those terrorists could have mixed said explosive on the plane. Both of those are a lack of education on the part of the American public as to what's going on around them, and much of that is apathy. So the leaders will keep doing what makes them rich and keeps them in power (security theatre) while the rest of us slowly give away our rights, freedoms, and conveniences.
Wait, are you trying to suggest that this kind of reckless driving is somehow limited to people who drive SUV's? Or are you just THAT much more pissed off because they're driving an SUV? Perhaps you're jealous that they have an SUV, so you're taking your frustration with reckless drivers out on them?
I see that kind of behavior more often from people driving smaller vehicles. It endangers me more when some lady talking on her mobile phone in an SUV does it, than when same lady driving a car that weighs as much as mine does it... Standard psychics apply. If her vehicle weighs 3 times as much as mine, she imparts 3 times as much force onto my vehicle when she hits it because the bitch wasn't paying attention.
Because it endangers me more, it frustrates me more, and pisses me off more.
(note: I mentioned women because this is a recent, real-life experience for me. I am in no way implying that men don't do the same thing...)
The problem is you need to make sure it burns completely. If you have a filing cabinet of paper, and your house burns down, there's a good chance that a fairly large percentage of those documents won't burn completely, even if the fire is allowed to put itself out.
The wall itself wasn't to prevent people fleeing in terror, not initially anyway, but to prevent economic migration of people from the increasingly poor east to the wealthier west. I'm curious: what's your opinion on building a wall to prevent the economic migration of people from increasingly poor Mexico to the wealthier USA?
West Germany didn't build the wall to keep the East Germans out... East Germany built the wall to keep the East Germans in. This would be like Mexico building the wall along the boarder to prevent its citizens from entering the USA. If that ever happens, I'll eat my words.
I'm sick of hearing the East/West Germany vs. US/Mexico comparisons. Sure, there are some similarities, but the differences are enough to make it a completely different situation.
I still have a copy of Boondock Saints that I bought over 4 years ago from Best Buy which has no content on it. I've never been motivated enough to drive over to a Best Buy with the disk to try to exchange it
I know BestBuy has a fairly lax return/exchange policy, but I'm guessing you're a bit out....
1. Log into AOL and only use the first 8 characters
My AOL password happens to be exactly 8 characters long. When I tried salting it with asdf afterwards, the OS X AOL client (which I havn't opened in a year, mind you:-) will not accept characters after the 8th.
2. Log into the AOL webmail and only use the first 8 characters.
In this case, salting with asdfasdfasdf results in an error saying the password must be 16 characters or less, so salting it with asdfasdf (making the attempted password exactly 16 characters) I'm still allowed to log in, even though my true password doesn't contain the asdf's, and is only 8 characters long.
I have an alarm clock for when I really really need to get up. There's no going back to sleep afterwards because you're either in cardiac arrest or wide awake, it lacks any concept of gentle wake-up and is only slightly less annoying than the smoke detector. To avoid the former I use my regular cell phone first, so I'm only slumbering or in light sleep when it goes off.
Quoted for truthiness. I'm fairly good about getting up on time. Some mornings, I'm up before the alarm (my phone). I also usually plan an extra 30 minutes into my schedule, so if I do want to snooze I can re-set the alarm and roll over, guilt free.
Mornings when I really have to be there, on time, and I can't build that 30 minute extra block, I can't get back to sleep even if I do snooze. If I'm that sleepy that the alarm startles me, I'm so adrenaline-pumped that I can't get back to sleep anyway. Heck, that even happens some mornings during my 30 minute extra time.
Break the rules, lose the money you invested. It's not hard. It's not morally wrong. Nobody is requiring you to break the EULA. If you do, its by your own choice, and you deserve to lose the money you paid for the product (whos agreement you so wantonly (sp?) ignored)
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the reason the iPod succeeded in the marketplace is the tight integration of hardware and software
AKA vendor lock-in. All hail the Apple monoculture!
What you call a "vendor lock-in" I call "It just works(TM)".
Also, at the risk of starting a flame war, dare I mention that Windows is the greatest lock-in of all? Business use it because initial cost is cheap, thus causing many home users to be "required" to buy a windows machine so they can work at home.
I see it almost daily. Somebody wants to buy a computer, and they tell me they've always loved the Macintosh (and many were former Mac owners) but that they had to leave the platform so that they could work at home. Breaks my heart every time.
A couple days ago, a 17 year old girl won a 100,000 dollar science fair prize, and at least 1/3 of the comments were about whether she was hot or not. I can't believe I missed that discussion. So, uh... was she hot? I stumbled upon the story on CNN after reading your comment. You can decide for yourself.
It's sad that one can actually secure a patent on something like that.
I agree. And since I don't have mod points, I'll quote you and say that I agree.
I wonder if the patent owner could extract a fee from laser manufacturers because their product could be used to infringe on his invention (a-la Canadian CD-R fee)
The only time on that list that a janitor could be some what reasonable would be at a hospital as good sanitation is required, but they still could be replaced easily by nurses and doctors.
The reason a janitor is a legitmate position is not because he can be replaced by the others who work there, but because he can do it cheaper. Sure, you could pay a doctor $100 per hour (random figure, pulled out of my arse) to sweep the halls at the end of a day. Me? I'll hire a janitor to do it for $9 per hour.
Kids don't listen to adults. There have been plenty of sex-ed classes, since even when I was in school. Kids are told don't have sex, and here's why... but guess what? If you tell your kid not to push the red button, 9 times out of 10 s/he will push it. Why? Because they want to know what fun they're missing.
Also, your math is wrong. 400 x 20 $80,000. Its $8,000. I know teachers don't get paid much, but I think their average salary is at least 3 times that amount.
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Also, if he didn't sue, I'm sure he'd be sued by Microsoft, after the release of his TV station. And when that happened, a judge might wonder why he didn't go for MSFT first.
Heh, I just love people that call other people ignorant, but fail to grasp 6th grade spelling.
Other times, I get asked to slow down, because apparently they're writing it out:
ZuluIndiaWhiskeyCharleyAlphaMike...
Not a dirty trick. On my Apple display, I can see the difference quite well. Better call your lawyers...
Yes, but when you're reading a domain name, you don't know which you're supposed to say...
www.penisland.com
I'll gladly admit that xkcd is a great comic, and that there are plenty of smart students and professors at MIT. However, the disproportinate amount of press coverage that MIT (and the Ivies) receive is downright insulting to the rest of us.
Wow. You sound JUST like the people that bitch about how much press Apple gets...
Heh... whoops! Of course, the word I meant to type was Physics. Someone must have moved the letters on my keyboard around
At the risk of bringing politics into the discussion (lol), I must say that I agree with you, but like so many others, we're doing it to ourselves, by continuing to elect leaders who are creating more laws to reduce our freedom.
My favorite example is of how we can no longer carry liquids greater than 3oz on a plane, 1 qt container limit, etc. etc. Obstinately this is because of a foiled plan to mix liquid explosives on the plane. And I'll bet a good portion of the US population is either clueless as to the reason for this new regulation, or believe the story that those terrorists could have mixed said explosive on the plane. Both of those are a lack of education on the part of the American public as to what's going on around them, and much of that is apathy. So the leaders will keep doing what makes them rich and keeps them in power (security theatre) while the rest of us slowly give away our rights, freedoms, and conveniences.
Because it endangers me more, it frustrates me more, and pisses me off more.
(note: I mentioned women because this is a recent, real-life experience for me. I am in no way implying that men don't do the same thing...)
The problem is you need to make sure it burns completely. If you have a filing cabinet of paper, and your house burns down, there's a good chance that a fairly large percentage of those documents won't burn completely, even if the fire is allowed to put itself out.
West Germany didn't build the wall to keep the East Germans out... East Germany built the wall to keep the East Germans in. This would be like Mexico building the wall along the boarder to prevent its citizens from entering the USA. If that ever happens, I'll eat my words.
I'm sick of hearing the East/West Germany vs. US/Mexico comparisons. Sure, there are some similarities, but the differences are enough to make it a completely different situation.
I know BestBuy has a fairly lax return/exchange policy, but I'm guessing you're a bit out....
My AOL password happens to be exactly 8 characters long. When I tried salting it with asdf afterwards, the OS X AOL client (which I havn't opened in a year, mind you :-) will not accept characters after the 8th.
2. Log into the AOL webmail and only use the first 8 characters.In this case, salting with asdfasdfasdf results in an error saying the password must be 16 characters or less, so salting it with asdfasdf (making the attempted password exactly 16 characters) I'm still allowed to log in, even though my true password doesn't contain the asdf's, and is only 8 characters long.
Tagged at as such...
Quoted for truthiness. I'm fairly good about getting up on time. Some mornings, I'm up before the alarm (my phone). I also usually plan an extra 30 minutes into my schedule, so if I do want to snooze I can re-set the alarm and roll over, guilt free.
Mornings when I really have to be there, on time, and I can't build that 30 minute extra block, I can't get back to sleep even if I do snooze. If I'm that sleepy that the alarm startles me, I'm so adrenaline-pumped that I can't get back to sleep anyway. Heck, that even happens some mornings during my 30 minute extra time.
Break the rules, lose the money you invested. It's not hard. It's not morally wrong. Nobody is requiring you to break the EULA. If you do, its by your own choice, and you deserve to lose the money you paid for the product (whos agreement you so wantonly (sp?) ignored)
AKA vendor lock-in. All hail the Apple monoculture!
What you call a "vendor lock-in" I call "It just works(TM)".
Also, at the risk of starting a flame war, dare I mention that Windows is the greatest lock-in of all? Business use it because initial cost is cheap, thus causing many home users to be "required" to buy a windows machine so they can work at home.
I see it almost daily. Somebody wants to buy a computer, and they tell me they've always loved the Macintosh (and many were former Mac owners) but that they had to leave the platform so that they could work at home. Breaks my heart every time.
(Disclosure: I work at an Apple retail store)
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One man may be insignificant... but 6 billion? Now that's another story...
I agree. And since I don't have mod points, I'll quote you and say that I agree.
I wonder if the patent owner could extract a fee from laser manufacturers because their product could be used to infringe on his invention (a-la Canadian CD-R fee)
The reason a janitor is a legitmate position is not because he can be replaced by the others who work there, but because he can do it cheaper. Sure, you could pay a doctor $100 per hour (random figure, pulled out of my arse) to sweep the halls at the end of a day. Me? I'll hire a janitor to do it for $9 per hour.
No.
Kids don't listen to adults. There have been plenty of sex-ed classes, since even when I was in school. Kids are told don't have sex, and here's why... but guess what? If you tell your kid not to push the red button, 9 times out of 10 s/he will push it. Why? Because they want to know what fun they're missing.
Also, your math is wrong. 400 x 20 $80,000. Its $8,000. I know teachers don't get paid much, but I think their average salary is at least 3 times that amount.
AC, meet Pun. Pun, meet AC.