Well, it probably wouldn't be a good idea for Dell then. Because if it breaks, you just call their support phone lines in India, they keep pushing you from person to person (ignoring the fact that your boss actually has to pay you for all that time wasted calling them) while they keep promising to call you back for about 4-6 months only to charge your credit card to ship you a replacement part that you have to fix yourself and if you don't send back the bad part they won't ever give your money back. And when it's time to upgrade, you just toss your computer out and buy a new one.
You should spring for business-grade support. I call, punch in the number from the machine, get routed to someone in the US who overnights me the parts I ask for -no questions asked unless I ask them talk me through troubleshooting the problem. I swap the part, drop the old one into the box with the prepaid return shipping label. Done.
Exactly. The main problem I have with Firefox is that by the time I've customized it to my liking, it's unusably slow.
Do you also have trouble with your PC running slow once you get Comet Curser and Webshots and McAfee and Java Quick Start and Office Quick Start and iTunes Helper and Bonjour, and all those other little "must haves" installed?
It's the same thing. You don't need all that cruft. If its fast without add-ons, but slow with the add-ons, maybe you don't want those add-ons...
Poorly coded add-ons, no matter how useful they may be, are still poorly coded.
More importantly, trademarks (unlike copyrights and patents) can be taken away from you if you do not "vigorously" defend them. Best Buy is in the unfortunate position of having to take action even if they don't mind this one use, because if they don't take action now it can be used as precedent to defend trademark infringement by another party claiming that Best Buy didn't properly defend it, and thus they should lose the trademark.
Not entirely true. They also have the option of licensing the usage. They easily could have contacted him and offered a free license. If they didn't want to be seen to be endorsing him/ his religion, they could tack on a non disclosure clause to the license.
I've seen "no prior experience required" security guard positions offering more than $15/h.
I've worked those jobs. When I was in college I thought it sounded like a great idea...
The pay rate advertised is only after your 6 month "training period" is completed -you make about half during training. In order to get the job you must complete a (short) class and get a "guard card" issued by the state -the costs of the class and state fees are deducted from your paycheck. You must also purchase a uniform -which is also deducted from your paycheck. Oh, and the $15 an hour job is for armed guard, which requires another (longer) class (deducted from your paycheck), and another state permit (fees deducted from your check), and a gun (also deducted from your check). If you don't go for the armed job, the pay rate is around $10 per hour.
With all the deductions and the lowered pay rate during "training" I owed my employer money for several months. Still, it wasn't the worst job -once you got past the idea that I was being paid to stand around (typically overnight at construction sites) with a target on my chest in a situation where it was expected I might need a gun to defend myself...
While I am inclined to agree with the overall conclusion, your assumption of a 10 year lifespan is incorrect.
A Ford will be lucky to last 10 years. A Mazda will do 10 years, and perhaps a bit more. A Toyota will do 25 or more (of course the battery tech in a Prius may not turn out to have the long-term usefulness that other Toyota vehicles have demonstrated.)
and you have the right to face your accuser so you can get out of these tickets pretty easily. If everyone would start to fight them in court the amount of money to run them at a loss would get rid of them pretty quickly.
Speculation about Microsoft's intentions includes wondering whether the company is taking aim at the iPad, or perhaps looking to produce a next-generation Xbox without the 360's heat problems.
Seriously? Microsoft has been chasing the smartphone market for a while now, but keeps having performance issues. They want a custom designed chip for their next gen smartphone.
they flew all the way from China to America to steal hybrid plans.
They could have just gone to Japan and stole from Toyota, much closer to home....
In America, hiring Chinese people is not unusual. In Japan, it is. Americans view racism as a very bad thing, mostly due to our history of slavery. Japan is not the USA.
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You can prove anything with statistics.
Also 99.9% of all statistics are made up.
Well, it probably wouldn't be a good idea for Dell then. Because if it breaks, you just call their support phone lines in India, they keep pushing you from person to person (ignoring the fact that your boss actually has to pay you for all that time wasted calling them) while they keep promising to call you back for about 4-6 months only to charge your credit card to ship you a replacement part that you have to fix yourself and if you don't send back the bad part they won't ever give your money back. And when it's time to upgrade, you just toss your computer out and buy a new one.
You should spring for business-grade support. I call, punch in the number from the machine, get routed to someone in the US who overnights me the parts I ask for -no questions asked unless I ask them talk me through troubleshooting the problem. I swap the part, drop the old one into the box with the prepaid return shipping label. Done.
Exactly. The main problem I have with Firefox is that by the time I've customized it to my liking, it's unusably slow.
Do you also have trouble with your PC running slow once you get Comet Curser and Webshots and McAfee and Java Quick Start and Office Quick Start and iTunes Helper and Bonjour, and all those other little "must haves" installed?
It's the same thing. You don't need all that cruft. If its fast without add-ons, but slow with the add-ons, maybe you don't want those add-ons...
Poorly coded add-ons, no matter how useful they may be, are still poorly coded.
ICE?!?! In scotch? You pervert...
(yeah, I do adulterate my scotch with ice on exceptionally warm days.)
More importantly, trademarks (unlike copyrights and patents) can be taken away from you if you do not "vigorously" defend them. Best Buy is in the unfortunate position of having to take action even if they don't mind this one use, because if they don't take action now it can be used as precedent to defend trademark infringement by another party claiming that Best Buy didn't properly defend it, and thus they should lose the trademark.
Not entirely true. They also have the option of licensing the usage. They easily could have contacted him and offered a free license. If they didn't want to be seen to be endorsing him/ his religion, they could tack on a non disclosure clause to the license.
BFG made good gear.
I understand its just business, and $ win, but you have lost a customer.
Keep it up, and I hope you go bankrupt.
Which would you rather have - choice, or net neutrality?
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This is a classic fallacy... False Dilemma.
Perhaps leaking everything you can get your hands on it's always the best thing to do. Just a thought.
Transparency can suck. It can have serious repercussions.
It is still better than secrecy.
Each department is doing it's job well. Upper management is responsible for overseeing and coordinating departments into a cohesive whole.
Guess who failed?
I've seen "no prior experience required" security guard positions offering more than $15/h.
I've worked those jobs. When I was in college I thought it sounded like a great idea...
The pay rate advertised is only after your 6 month "training period" is completed -you make about half during training. In order to get the job you must complete a (short) class and get a "guard card" issued by the state -the costs of the class and state fees are deducted from your paycheck. You must also purchase a uniform -which is also deducted from your paycheck. Oh, and the $15 an hour job is for armed guard, which requires another (longer) class (deducted from your paycheck), and another state permit (fees deducted from your check), and a gun (also deducted from your check). If you don't go for the armed job, the pay rate is around $10 per hour.
With all the deductions and the lowered pay rate during "training" I owed my employer money for several months. Still, it wasn't the worst job -once you got past the idea that I was being paid to stand around (typically overnight at construction sites) with a target on my chest in a situation where it was expected I might need a gun to defend myself...
I take it you have never been to the southern portion of the mid-west in the united states.
I will not be surprised to find soon there is an inexpensive way of shielding against this.
Perhaps even a free method of dampening ones clothing to the point of interfering with the beam -I'll call it sweating!
Also true... and completely irrelevant to this discussion.
Lets see how this goes on appeal.
This is the kind of issue that winds up before the supreme court. It is simple, and obvious, but somebody is going to argue it to their last breath.
oh no. I can picture the marketing now...
HAMR time!
and now I can't get it out of my head...
While I am inclined to agree with the overall conclusion, your assumption of a 10 year lifespan is incorrect.
A Ford will be lucky to last 10 years.
A Mazda will do 10 years, and perhaps a bit more.
A Toyota will do 25 or more (of course the battery tech in a Prius may not turn out to have the long-term usefulness that other Toyota vehicles have demonstrated.)
What is California's definition of "partial zero-emissions"? To me, that translates as "non-zero emissions" but I'm not fluent in Californian.
Part of the time (while the vehicle is operating) it produces zero emissions.
Stop trying to confuse him with the facts!
and you have the right to face your accuser so you can get out of these tickets pretty easily. If everyone would start to fight them in court the amount of money to run them at a loss would get rid of them pretty quickly.
See the second link in the summary...
The court filing obtained says offenders "are not entitled to a trial by jury, a presumption of innocence or a heightened burden of proof."
...but what's to prevent someone from taping a traffic stop and using the recording to blackmail the driver?
There are laws against blackmail.
so in your idealized world, who does the marketing?
Ideally? No one does. Social networking and word-of-mouth is all that is needed.
Realistically? The retailer does most of the marketing while the author does a smaller portion themselves.
Speculation about Microsoft's intentions includes wondering whether the company is taking aim at the iPad, or perhaps looking to produce a next-generation Xbox without the 360's heat problems.
Seriously? Microsoft has been chasing the smartphone market for a while now, but keeps having performance issues. They want a custom designed chip for their next gen smartphone.
they flew all the way from China to America to steal hybrid plans.
They could have just gone to Japan and stole from Toyota, much closer to home....
In America, hiring Chinese people is not unusual. In Japan, it is. Americans view racism as a very bad thing, mostly due to our history of slavery. Japan is not the USA.
So they are formalizing common sense into a policy.
It is a lot better than the previous formal policy of bat-shit crazy.