Oh he understood the new thing just fine, but found the old thing better, so it was not the new thing he didn't understand, but the popularity of the new thing when the old thing was superior.. A better comparison would be motorcycle vs motorized skateboard.. and then to have motorized skateboarders to tell you you just don't understand new things... too funny.
People live in different societies, with different morals and values.. It is not my job to change them to match my morals or values.. Change comes from within. No one is going to come to my rescue, or get up in arms if my government does something to suppress me, and I wouldn't expect them to., I would do what I could to change my own government.
This is what makes the AV programs not much better than what they are trying to protect you from. By taking all control and automatically removing or disabling a program, with the user having no way to stop or undo it you have much the same experience you would have had when you got a virus or malware.. Where I work, we also use McAfee but our IT controls the updates apparently because we were not hit by this. I don't know if the corporate version of McAfee is better, or if it is because the people who use the machines are monitored (so they don't do stupid things), but going by our systems you would think that McAfee must be the best AV software out there.. We just have no problems. In a year and a half I haven't heard of anyone getting infected with anything (and it would have gotten around).. but the flip side of this, is that our customers who have the commercial version seem to get hit with things all the time.
Well.. Everything is better.. and you get more.. when you have an iPhone.. I mean otherwise it would be stupid to waste (I mean invest) money on an object that is so cool and awesome that just having it, means you get laid more.. I mean, this is how the real world works after all... Brush my teeth, dress nice, have some personality.. all a waste of time.. All I need is a cool phone, and a stick to fight them off with.
But at the time he was asked for the passwords, he wasn't fired.. He was being reassigned, but saw the writing on the wall that he was on his way out the door.. It seems to me, that there were people who did not like the way he was doing his job, and apparently they were right.. As an administrator, he had locked it down to the point where only he had the keys. If he had died in a car crash on the way to work, the city would have been screwed. As a person in a job of responsibility, he was bound to follow laws and policies, but he was also making policies and procedures, and managing systems.. He managed it to the point where only he had the ultimate control, and then tried to use that control to prevent his bosses from removing him. He was basically holding city property as hostage, in an attempt to get things his way.. I don't know how he thought that would work, but he obviously has a screw or two loose to think it would.. Nobody likes to get fired. Your obligations to your employer when getting fired depend on what you were doing for them, and what property of theirs you have.. Just as your obligations when breaking up with a girlfriend are different than getting a divorce from your wife.
Poor, poor, pitiful Microsoft.. can't be bothered with the cost of maintaining a repository of trusted and tested programs, like the fat cat big spenders on the Linux distro world.. but it's ok, their other approaches to security are working so well.. Don't kid yourself, that it's a "cost" issue, or am issue of "too many" applications.. The REAL REASON they don't follow suit with a repository system, is that there are whole industries built around the system they have.. Thousands of little Dutch boys would have to find new uses for their fingers, and be out of work.
What is so complicated ?... You have a dialer, you dial a number.. you have apps, you run them.. The fact that you can do more.. does not make the basic things more complicated.
Better yet.. ban the sale of cell phones in that city altogether.. zero radiation from cell phones is best for them.. In fact I think there should be a ban on using cell phones in restaurants and bars, because I don't want any second had radiation either.. And lets collect a tax from cell phone users, so we can make TV commercials showing babies using cell phones and twitching from brain cancer.. yeah that's best for them.. those mindless idiots should not get away with this drain on society, with all their health problems.. bastards think they can get away with deciding for themselves how they want to treat their body.. well screw that !@!.. they need to join the rest of the overweight McDonalds eating diabetic society.. right F'n now !
Here is my take on this.. First, the noise of the car (or lack of it) doesn't make an accident the pedestrians fault.. and vice versa, the same noise and lack of it doesn't absolve the pedestrian either.. Drivers, noisy car or not, have to watch out for pedestrians as best they can.. and pedestrians (out of self preservation) need to watch out for cars as best they can... So therefore the whole study doesn't mean crap in the real world, and is useless for any practical applications of it's "findings".
So you think a 14yo thoughtfully considers the motives and intentions of the people in a porn flick? Your error (IMHO) is that you believe a teen looks at the world in the same way as an adult. They don't. And don't take my word for it, go read any child psychology book and find out just how far a teenager has to go before their brains develop fully. They are hard wired to learn from adults and by example. How do you think they learn how to behave? By thoughtful consideration? They learn by imitation. And even if they instinctively know that what they're seeing is part reality and part fantasy, they are for the most part unable to draw an accurate line between the two. (Remember that many adults are unable to tell the difference between an actor and the character they play).
If this was so.. then you would have a hell of a lot of murders.. I don't propose that it should be encouraged for young people to watch porn.. my point is, that the whole idea that movies are a model that is automaticly emulated, or even "usualy" emulated, and become an imprint on how someone behaves is incorrect.
Sex object.. depersonalizing.. that's usually a feminist argument. There is usually no more depersonalizing of women in these films than the men in them. That someone may find them a "lesser" person, well that's on them, and I think they have serious issues. Do the films cause people think this way ? or is it the rhetoric of people who think this way.. if it's said enough it must be true ?
like almost all movies.. most porn is based on formulas, and they create what sells. If you think that most people, even kids, equate movies with reality.. well then your argument is valid.. I just don't think so.. All the other things in your post, objectifying, stuttering, etc.. put you in the sex is wrong an dirty, and men a sexist pigs camp.
I don't think we they talking about yearly snowpack that has melted.. but really thick Ice that is gone or going.. glaciers are not just a bunch of snow.. Now whether or not mankind has caused it, doesn't matter.. What matters is how you plan for the future for people who benefit from the ice, and what will they do if it is no longer there, or diminished.. Water is a staple of life,, surely your not that young, or focused on your own backyard to ignore the famines in history caused by a lack of water.
Android has saved their bacon. And this new model is doing very well, and probably will continue to. The numbers of people who are into running custom ROM's is not enough to make a dent in the sales.. The custom ROM users will go elsewhere, and there will be awesome alternatives for them.. and they will turn their technical noses down on the people who purchase the phone, because they (those idiots) can't do something that most of them would not do anyway.. It's bad for Motorola, as it was these very type of people (the geeks into doing ROM installs) who where a large part of the successful launch of the Droid.. they are the type who brag with enthusiasm about their phone and what it can do to the people with glazed over eyes who don't know the best way to spend their money on a new phone.. but the Droid brand already has made it's dent, and the sales of the newer version show that the brand has worked.
The first video was better because there was a higher percentage of truth to it.. and yes I know that both were made by the same person. Both camps have their "fanbois".. but really, the chance of an Android fan taking their phone into an Apple store is about the most hilarious part of it.
I have used Google Checkout to purchase things for my Android phone.. and have made some other online purchases with them.. Paypal has screwed up 2 out of the 4 times I have used them.. that's not a lot you say, but when something doesn't work from the getgo, and deals with money.. not many chances are given.. If given a choice for a purchase, I would take Checkout over Paypal because thus far their failure rate is 0. The majority of my purchases don't usually require either of them.
But if someone paid him to build a hotel.. they would be paid over and over for different people to enjoy the shelter.. Still I mostly agree with your point.
The urgency in dealing with an angry customer is yours.. You want to get them off the phone. The majority of "angry" calls are BS, and a ploy to get something free. Companies rewarding people for yelling at them is wrong.. I am not saying that compensating someone for inconvenience is wrong, that should happen.. However someone calling in yelling and screaming and cussing does not help resolve the problem, and usually wastes time that could be spent on solving the problem, so that you can finish and help someone else. Access to previous caller information can be useful, but it really depends on how thorough the previous agents notes and troubleshooting are. Often just a few quick questions to the customer are faster than looking up the notes on the previous calls.. but yes it's good to have them is you need them. I have developed a pretty thick skin in dealing with the angry customers.. All you can do is let it play it's course until either the customer is ready to start solving the problem or crosses the line into abuse and you disconnect them.. I have not yet had to disconnect someone.. so that is why I say the majority are BS.
Why do uneducated people have such a chip on their shoulder?
Maybe it's words like.. "uneducated" used by someone in the same manner and tone similar to a phrase like "those people" ?.. The suggestion is that an "educated" person is superior. That someone spends their time, efforts, and brain activity in an "approved" structured environment towards a goal is fine, and more power to them.. However for those people to assume that they are superior because of it, is delusional. To call others that do not follow suit "uneducated" is a symptom of their delusions.
That is nice and all.. but calls are placed over GSM frequencies aren't they ?.. Don't you essentially have 2 radios in your cell phone ?... This goes back to the assumption that people have made for (well a long time) that iPhone data users are the cause of dropped calls.. they are different frequencies.. the data side should have no impact on the phone side of things.. Many people are drooling over voip on cell phones, but personally I would never keep it as my only method of being able to make and receive calls.. and I don't think having the phone and data going through the same pipe is the way to go either.. at least not yet.
What is with all the "was".. Nexus is still selling and the first phone to get upgraded to the latest version of Android.. both AT&T and Tmobile users who have purchased them seem very happy with them..
There are some changes taking place with the AT&T network, and late late Saturdays and early morning Sundays they are, and have been, doing a lot of maint and changes for awhile now.. It has absolutely nothing to do with the iPhone, and has to do with improving the network overall. Most of these changes don't (for the most part) impact the user at all.. regardless of whether they are trying to order something from Apple, or any other company on the Internet these things are unrelated (the servers for iPhone orders are a minuscule part of the Internet).. As some inevitable glitches happen over the next few months, I am sure that the same people who rant and rave that AT&T does not upgrade or spend any money their network will again rant and rave about any problem they have.. I guess the real point I am trying to make it, that the world (even AT&T's) does not revolve around the iPhone order processing system.
Have you had any breaches ?.. do you know of anyone who has ?.. I am also on T-Mobile, I'm not too worried.. I made a conscious choice for GSM tech, because the whole CDMA thing being only in the US felt like the companies choosing it, were intentionally screwing over customers into locking in to their network.. and I can, and have, taken my GSM phone overseas and used it.. As to the carrier wars, they all have pro and cons.. I think both AT&T and Verizon get more of a bad rap than they probably deserve. T-Mobile fits my lifestyle and Sprint is used by several of my family members and they all seem to be happy with it.. I have one family member who only has a choice between Verizon and AT&T and he is happy with Verizon, but has never tried AT&T.. I don't buy in to too much of the trash talking done about one network over another, I think they all do a reasonably good job.
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Oh he understood the new thing just fine, but found the old thing better, so it was not the new thing he didn't understand, but the popularity of the new thing when the old thing was superior.. A better comparison would be motorcycle vs motorized skateboard.. and then to have motorized skateboarders to tell you you just don't understand new things... too funny.
People live in different societies, with different morals and values.. It is not my job to change them to match my morals or values.. Change comes from within. No one is going to come to my rescue, or get up in arms if my government does something to suppress me, and I wouldn't expect them to., I would do what I could to change my own government.
This is what makes the AV programs not much better than what they are trying to protect you from. By taking all control and automatically removing or disabling a program, with the user having no way to stop or undo it you have much the same experience you would have had when you got a virus or malware.. Where I work, we also use McAfee but our IT controls the updates apparently because we were not hit by this. I don't know if the corporate version of McAfee is better, or if it is because the people who use the machines are monitored (so they don't do stupid things), but going by our systems you would think that McAfee must be the best AV software out there.. We just have no problems. In a year and a half I haven't heard of anyone getting infected with anything (and it would have gotten around).. but the flip side of this, is that our customers who have the commercial version seem to get hit with things all the time.
Well.. Everything is better.. and you get more.. when you have an iPhone.. I mean otherwise it would be stupid to waste (I mean invest) money on an object that is so cool and awesome that just having it, means you get laid more.. I mean, this is how the real world works after all... Brush my teeth, dress nice, have some personality.. all a waste of time.. All I need is a cool phone, and a stick to fight them off with.
But at the time he was asked for the passwords, he wasn't fired.. He was being reassigned, but saw the writing on the wall that he was on his way out the door.. It seems to me, that there were people who did not like the way he was doing his job, and apparently they were right.. As an administrator, he had locked it down to the point where only he had the keys. If he had died in a car crash on the way to work, the city would have been screwed. As a person in a job of responsibility, he was bound to follow laws and policies, but he was also making policies and procedures, and managing systems.. He managed it to the point where only he had the ultimate control, and then tried to use that control to prevent his bosses from removing him. He was basically holding city property as hostage, in an attempt to get things his way.. I don't know how he thought that would work, but he obviously has a screw or two loose to think it would.. Nobody likes to get fired. Your obligations to your employer when getting fired depend on what you were doing for them, and what property of theirs you have.. Just as your obligations when breaking up with a girlfriend are different than getting a divorce from your wife.
Poor, poor, pitiful Microsoft.. can't be bothered with the cost of maintaining a repository of trusted and tested programs, like the fat cat big spenders on the Linux distro world.. but it's ok, their other approaches to security are working so well.. Don't kid yourself, that it's a "cost" issue, or am issue of "too many" applications.. The REAL REASON they don't follow suit with a repository system, is that there are whole industries built around the system they have.. Thousands of little Dutch boys would have to find new uses for their fingers, and be out of work.
What is so complicated ? ... You have a dialer, you dial a number.. you have apps, you run them .. The fact that you can do more.. does not make the basic things more complicated.
Better yet.. ban the sale of cell phones in that city altogether.. zero radiation from cell phones is best for them.. In fact I think there should be a ban on using cell phones in restaurants and bars, because I don't want any second had radiation either.. And lets collect a tax from cell phone users, so we can make TV commercials showing babies using cell phones and twitching from brain cancer.. yeah that's best for them.. those mindless idiots should not get away with this drain on society, with all their health problems.. bastards think they can get away with deciding for themselves how they want to treat their body.. well screw that !@!.. they need to join the rest of the overweight McDonalds eating diabetic society.. right F'n now !
Here is my take on this.. First, the noise of the car (or lack of it) doesn't make an accident the pedestrians fault.. and vice versa, the same noise and lack of it doesn't absolve the pedestrian either.. Drivers, noisy car or not, have to watch out for pedestrians as best they can.. and pedestrians (out of self preservation) need to watch out for cars as best they can... So therefore the whole study doesn't mean crap in the real world, and is useless for any practical applications of it's "findings".
So you think a 14yo thoughtfully considers the motives and intentions of the people in a porn flick? Your error (IMHO) is that you believe a teen looks at the world in the same way as an adult. They don't. And don't take my word for it, go read any child psychology book and find out just how far a teenager has to go before their brains develop fully. They are hard wired to learn from adults and by example. How do you think they learn how to behave? By thoughtful consideration? They learn by imitation. And even if they instinctively know that what they're seeing is part reality and part fantasy, they are for the most part unable to draw an accurate line between the two. (Remember that many adults are unable to tell the difference between an actor and the character they play).
If this was so.. then you would have a hell of a lot of murders.. I don't propose that it should be encouraged for young people to watch porn.. my point is, that the whole idea that movies are a model that is automaticly emulated, or even "usualy" emulated, and become an imprint on how someone behaves is incorrect.
Sex object.. depersonalizing.. that's usually a feminist argument. There is usually no more depersonalizing of women in these films than the men in them. That someone may find them a "lesser" person, well that's on them, and I think they have serious issues. Do the films cause people think this way ? or is it the rhetoric of people who think this way.. if it's said enough it must be true ?
like almost all movies.. most porn is based on formulas, and they create what sells. If you think that most people, even kids, equate movies with reality.. well then your argument is valid.. I just don't think so.. All the other things in your post, objectifying, stuttering, etc.. put you in the sex is wrong an dirty, and men a sexist pigs camp.
I don't think we they talking about yearly snowpack that has melted.. but really thick Ice that is gone or going.. glaciers are not just a bunch of snow.. Now whether or not mankind has caused it, doesn't matter.. What matters is how you plan for the future for people who benefit from the ice, and what will they do if it is no longer there, or diminished.. Water is a staple of life,, surely your not that young, or focused on your own backyard to ignore the famines in history caused by a lack of water.
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Android has saved their bacon. And this new model is doing very well, and probably will continue to. The numbers of people who are into running custom ROM's is not enough to make a dent in the sales.. The custom ROM users will go elsewhere, and there will be awesome alternatives for them.. and they will turn their technical noses down on the people who purchase the phone, because they (those idiots) can't do something that most of them would not do anyway.. It's bad for Motorola, as it was these very type of people (the geeks into doing ROM installs) who where a large part of the successful launch of the Droid.. they are the type who brag with enthusiasm about their phone and what it can do to the people with glazed over eyes who don't know the best way to spend their money on a new phone.. but the Droid brand already has made it's dent, and the sales of the newer version show that the brand has worked.
The first video was better because there was a higher percentage of truth to it.. and yes I know that both were made by the same person. Both camps have their "fanbois".. but really, the chance of an Android fan taking their phone into an Apple store is about the most hilarious part of it.
I have used Google Checkout to purchase things for my Android phone.. and have made some other online purchases with them.. Paypal has screwed up 2 out of the 4 times I have used them.. that's not a lot you say, but when something doesn't work from the getgo, and deals with money.. not many chances are given.. If given a choice for a purchase, I would take Checkout over Paypal because thus far their failure rate is 0. The majority of my purchases don't usually require either of them.
But if someone paid him to build a hotel.. they would be paid over and over for different people to enjoy the shelter.. Still I mostly agree with your point.
The urgency in dealing with an angry customer is yours.. You want to get them off the phone. The majority of "angry" calls are BS, and a ploy to get something free. Companies rewarding people for yelling at them is wrong.. I am not saying that compensating someone for inconvenience is wrong, that should happen.. However someone calling in yelling and screaming and cussing does not help resolve the problem, and usually wastes time that could be spent on solving the problem, so that you can finish and help someone else. Access to previous caller information can be useful, but it really depends on how thorough the previous agents notes and troubleshooting are. Often just a few quick questions to the customer are faster than looking up the notes on the previous calls.. but yes it's good to have them is you need them. I have developed a pretty thick skin in dealing with the angry customers.. All you can do is let it play it's course until either the customer is ready to start solving the problem or crosses the line into abuse and you disconnect them.. I have not yet had to disconnect someone.. so that is why I say the majority are BS.
Just try buying glasses by telling them what your phone prescription is.. I doubt they will do it.
Why do uneducated people have such a chip on their shoulder?
Maybe it's words like.. "uneducated" used by someone in the same manner and tone similar to a phrase like "those people" ?.. The suggestion is that an "educated" person is superior. That someone spends their time, efforts, and brain activity in an "approved" structured environment towards a goal is fine, and more power to them.. However for those people to assume that they are superior because of it, is delusional. To call others that do not follow suit "uneducated" is a symptom of their delusions.
That is nice and all.. but calls are placed over GSM frequencies aren't they ? .. Don't you essentially have 2 radios in your cell phone ? ... This goes back to the assumption that people have made for (well a long time) that iPhone data users are the cause of dropped calls.. they are different frequencies.. the data side should have no impact on the phone side of things.. Many people are drooling over voip on cell phones, but personally I would never keep it as my only method of being able to make and receive calls.. and I don't think having the phone and data going through the same pipe is the way to go either.. at least not yet.
T-Mobiles Android phones are not bad,, they have been leap-frogged with by higher end hardware, but all their phones are decent.. and they have a dual core phone in the hopper that looks to be interesting.. http://phandroid.com/2010/06/25/dual-core-4-3-inch-htc-vision-headed-for-t-mo-this-year/ probably looking at around holiday season though..
What is with all the "was".. Nexus is still selling and the first phone to get upgraded to the latest version of Android.. both AT&T and Tmobile users who have purchased them seem very happy with them..
Yes but your chances of getting accepted into the trials are what ?.. and then you don't know if your getting a treatment, or placebo.
There are some changes taking place with the AT&T network, and late late Saturdays and early morning Sundays they are, and have been, doing a lot of maint and changes for awhile now.. It has absolutely nothing to do with the iPhone, and has to do with improving the network overall. Most of these changes don't (for the most part) impact the user at all.. regardless of whether they are trying to order something from Apple, or any other company on the Internet these things are unrelated (the servers for iPhone orders are a minuscule part of the Internet).. As some inevitable glitches happen over the next few months, I am sure that the same people who rant and rave that AT&T does not upgrade or spend any money their network will again rant and rave about any problem they have.. I guess the real point I am trying to make it, that the world (even AT&T's) does not revolve around the iPhone order processing system.
Have you had any breaches ?.. do you know of anyone who has ?.. I am also on T-Mobile, I'm not too worried.. I made a conscious choice for GSM tech, because the whole CDMA thing being only in the US felt like the companies choosing it, were intentionally screwing over customers into locking in to their network.. and I can, and have, taken my GSM phone overseas and used it.. As to the carrier wars, they all have pro and cons.. I think both AT&T and Verizon get more of a bad rap than they probably deserve. T-Mobile fits my lifestyle and Sprint is used by several of my family members and they all seem to be happy with it.. I have one family member who only has a choice between Verizon and AT&T and he is happy with Verizon, but has never tried AT&T.. I don't buy in to too much of the trash talking done about one network over another, I think they all do a reasonably good job.