And these are all valid points about the limitations of the device. Still, I'm holding one in my hand right now, and it's cooler than I ever imagined. Swear to God.
Well, I'm thinking of comparing the iPhone more to the iPod, and in that case, Apple totally does own the market share (for portable music players) And that's because of style and user interface features.
You could debate PC market share reasons forever (and Apple has made serious historical mistakes) but portable electronics are really a different market.
Yeah, Verizon can sure be proud of themselves. I bet it's been really refreshing to not be bothered by one of the largest product launches in the last few decades. I mean it's just a phone, right ? (the iPod was just an MP3 player, right ?) It's not like anyone has been "talking" about the iPhone. It's not like hordes of customers are going to be switching to AT&T Wireless.
You can bitch about how overhyped all this is and how other phones already do this and it's not 3G and blah blah blah - shut up, I want one, so do lots of other people. It's cool. It's looks like it works well. It's going to be seemless with my mac and share information really well. It's going to get updated with new features via software update, and that'll just "happen" when I plug it in to charge it. I'm not going to bitch when I have to replace it in four years, because that's a pretty good run for any tech device these days. I haven't used any applications that came on my Nokia. I'll use all the ones on the iPhone, because they look and act just like the software I'm using THIS VERY MINUTE. How many times do you Apple haters have to have this beaten into you ? We, the great unwashed, just want the damn thing to work. Make it easy. We're stupid. Not as smart as you, Mr. "I can build a computer out of tinfoil and Linux"
Oh, poor Verizon doesn't get to handle customer service complaints ? Jesus, it'll suck for AT&T not to listen to customers bitch when things go wrong. Whatever horror stories people have about Apple, I'll take their customer service ANY DAY over a friggin cell phone company. If my iPhone doesn't work, I'll take it into the Apple store at my local mall, where a helpful, perky 20-something will hand me a new one from the back. Have you dealt with cell phone insurance replacement plans recently ? Does the phrase "hell-bitch-hassle" ring a bell ?
Damn, Apple "forced" AT&T to let them set the conditions for sign up. Now I have to click a few buttons in iTunes, instead of watching a rep spend 30 minutes on each customer, slowly going through all the options and explaining to fat, retarded people what "anytime minutes" are. I sure am going to hate how fast and easy the signup process will be. Way to go, Verizon !! Don't let the man tell you how to make things easy and user-friendly !!
Please. AT&T needs to sit back and get paid. Apple is worth whatever money they're getting. You will never convince me otherwise.
There's a link in the new product pages for the Keynote Address (as of 11:30pst, it isn't working yet, but it's a safe bet that they'll have it up soon)
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf06/
Yes, let us scurry to save the hugely government subsidized current radio system, for I beam with girlish glee everytime I listen to the same song 40+ times a day, as well as the constant performances of "Under the Bridge" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Yea, for this awesome display of man must be saved, so as to bore the crapnuts out of future generations.
You sent millions of unwanted emails, clogging my inbox with offers to make my penis hard like concrete, but chew gum while walking down the sidewalk, and it's a public ass-whipping with a cane ? Nice.
...with over 200 strips in the archives (free for the reading !) and a "best-of" collection coming out this holiday season, it's still one of the funniest underground comics on the internet. Check it out at StupidChildren.com
There's an easy and great looking "rack storage" solution for my Xbox and PS2, as well as for thousands of other devices...custom rackshelves from Middle Atlantic.
It's basically a rack shelf with a laser cut panel in the front that perfects fits the components (it doesn't work for Game Cube or any other "top loading" system, unless you put those on a sliding rack shelf, which is certainly doable.) I've not only racked my game systems, but everything else...DVD players, DSS, etc. And I've got a neat, clean, "custom fitted" appearance for everything.
Today, technology has allowed one of my friends to send me a video of someone juggling and playing the piano at the same time, two other friends sent me jokes I'd heard several years ago, countless marketers have offerered to make my penis more rigid while I refinance my home, and no less than four people have informed me that it is "Talk Like A Pirate Day"
Hell yeah, technology has made me more smart-thing !!
Like everyone else, the folks who run the humor site StupidChildren.com were deeply saddened at the destruction to befall the Gulf Coast.
We thought it'd be a cool idea to donate all the proceeds from the sales at our online store (now until September 15th) to the American Red Cross. That way, people can buy a "Cinnamon Ass-Man" shirt, and strangely enough, feel good about it.
We're not Google or Yahoo, and we won't raise millions of dollars, but we've already raised a couple of hundred. And regardless, if everyone just helped out a little, did anything (donating $5 online somewhere, or buying a shirt from us) those little gestures add up. In the face of overwhelming devastation, it's hard to think that a small gesture could help, but it does.
That's how we've used technology to help. Hopefully, people will remember that you don't have to be a huge corporation to help.
Jesus, you make it seem like you're in some kind of P.O.W. camp...
"It's becoming too much to simply "put up with it." What advice do those of you in the IT field have for this issue ?"
Here's some advice, and I don't care if you mod me down. Quit your bitching and get back to work, or talk to his supervisor (if he has one) or get another job. This air of entitlement that seems to be the norm in this country these days makes me ill. "Well, I'm smarter than the boss, so I should be in charge." Since when was life ever fair ? Christ, the whole point of being a manager is to hire people who know more about certain things than you do, and to delegate tasks. Can you blame him for wanting to learn ?
I work in Hollywood, and for the last few years we've actually watched higher-ups switch to computers FOR THE FIRST TIME. You want to know what training those people is like ?
Not every boss you work for is going to know more than you know. Your job is to do the best you can. I know plenty of people who aren't being used to their full potential. If it's making you so miserable, quit and give your job to the hoards of other eager young IT professionals that would love to have it. But enough with the cries for sympathy.
It all sounds well and good now, but the generations that come after us and suffer the scorched earth will curse us for the invention that brought forth the legions of robotic vampires.
Forgive us, for we know not what we hath wrought.
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"Damnit kids ! Stop playing PlayStation on that thing and come say goodbye to your grandmother !!"
"The New York Times Sarah Boxer takes a look at the evolution of comics from paper to the Internet..."
That sentence struck me as fairly amusing.
We started drawing our comic (link below) over a year ago, put it exclusively on the internet, and (oddly enough) grew such a devoted and wonderful audience, that we're printing a "best-of" collection this fall. We went from internet to paper.
So in a way, I guess we're the opposite of what Sarah Boxer calls "evolution" And I'd wager we're not the only ones.
I guess that means 9 billion potential more sites to hopefully buy their way into Yahoo's directory. Because if you're unwilling to pay, you're pretty damn sure not to get in for free.
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And these are all valid points about the limitations of the device. Still, I'm holding one in my hand right now, and it's cooler than I ever imagined. Swear to God.
Well, I'm thinking of comparing the iPhone more to the iPod, and in that case, Apple totally does own the market share (for portable music players) And that's because of style and user interface features. You could debate PC market share reasons forever (and Apple has made serious historical mistakes) but portable electronics are really a different market.
Yeah, Verizon can sure be proud of themselves. I bet it's been really refreshing to not be bothered by one of the largest product launches in the last few decades. I mean it's just a phone, right ? (the iPod was just an MP3 player, right ?) It's not like anyone has been "talking" about the iPhone. It's not like hordes of customers are going to be switching to AT&T Wireless.
You can bitch about how overhyped all this is and how other phones already do this and it's not 3G and blah blah blah - shut up, I want one, so do lots of other people. It's cool. It's looks like it works well. It's going to be seemless with my mac and share information really well. It's going to get updated with new features via software update, and that'll just "happen" when I plug it in to charge it. I'm not going to bitch when I have to replace it in four years, because that's a pretty good run for any tech device these days. I haven't used any applications that came on my Nokia. I'll use all the ones on the iPhone, because they look and act just like the software I'm using THIS VERY MINUTE. How many times do you Apple haters have to have this beaten into you ? We, the great unwashed, just want the damn thing to work. Make it easy. We're stupid. Not as smart as you, Mr. "I can build a computer out of tinfoil and Linux"
Oh, poor Verizon doesn't get to handle customer service complaints ? Jesus, it'll suck for AT&T not to listen to customers bitch when things go wrong. Whatever horror stories people have about Apple, I'll take their customer service ANY DAY over a friggin cell phone company. If my iPhone doesn't work, I'll take it into the Apple store at my local mall, where a helpful, perky 20-something will hand me a new one from the back. Have you dealt with cell phone insurance replacement plans recently ? Does the phrase "hell-bitch-hassle" ring a bell ?
Damn, Apple "forced" AT&T to let them set the conditions for sign up. Now I have to click a few buttons in iTunes, instead of watching a rep spend 30 minutes on each customer, slowly going through all the options and explaining to fat, retarded people what "anytime minutes" are. I sure am going to hate how fast and easy the signup process will be. Way to go, Verizon !! Don't let the man tell you how to make things easy and user-friendly !!
Please. AT&T needs to sit back and get paid. Apple is worth whatever money they're getting. You will never convince me otherwise.
Then Madonna must have starred in a shitload of video games.
I for one, welcome our considerably mutated, radioactive animal overlords.
If Katie speaks during the delivery ? "Yellow."
If she touches the child within a week after the birth ? "Burnt Umber."
There's a link in the new product pages for the Keynote Address (as of 11:30pst, it isn't working yet, but it's a safe bet that they'll have it up soon) http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf06/
Yea, for this awesome display of man must be saved, so as to bore the crapnuts out of future generations.
Don't you mean "What a long, strange "rip" it's been..." ?
You sent millions of unwanted emails, clogging my inbox with offers to make my penis hard like concrete, but chew gum while walking down the sidewalk, and it's a public ass-whipping with a cane ? Nice.
...with over 200 strips in the archives (free for the reading !) and a "best-of" collection coming out this holiday season, it's still one of the funniest underground comics on the internet. Check it out at StupidChildren.com
(god...i feel so dirty inside...please move along)
It's basically a rack shelf with a laser cut panel in the front that perfects fits the components (it doesn't work for Game Cube or any other "top loading" system, unless you put those on a sliding rack shelf, which is certainly doable.) I've not only racked my game systems, but everything else...DVD players, DSS, etc. And I've got a neat, clean, "custom fitted" appearance for everything.
Check them out...http://www.middleatlantic.com/
Hell yeah, technology has made me more smart-thing !!
We thought it'd be a cool idea to donate all the proceeds from the sales at our online store (now until September 15th) to the American Red Cross. That way, people can buy a "Cinnamon Ass-Man" shirt, and strangely enough, feel good about it.
We're not Google or Yahoo, and we won't raise millions of dollars, but we've already raised a couple of hundred. And regardless, if everyone just helped out a little, did anything (donating $5 online somewhere, or buying a shirt from us) those little gestures add up. In the face of overwhelming devastation, it's hard to think that a small gesture could help, but it does.
That's how we've used technology to help. Hopefully, people will remember that you don't have to be a huge corporation to help.
I knew there was a reason that coffee was so goddamn expensive !!
Then why does my girlfriend have two black eyes ?
"It's becoming too much to simply "put up with it." What advice do those of you in the IT field have for this issue ?"
Here's some advice, and I don't care if you mod me down. Quit your bitching and get back to work, or talk to his supervisor (if he has one) or get another job. This air of entitlement that seems to be the norm in this country these days makes me ill. "Well, I'm smarter than the boss, so I should be in charge." Since when was life ever fair ? Christ, the whole point of being a manager is to hire people who know more about certain things than you do, and to delegate tasks. Can you blame him for wanting to learn ?
I work in Hollywood, and for the last few years we've actually watched higher-ups switch to computers FOR THE FIRST TIME. You want to know what training those people is like ?
Not every boss you work for is going to know more than you know. Your job is to do the best you can. I know plenty of people who aren't being used to their full potential. If it's making you so miserable, quit and give your job to the hoards of other eager young IT professionals that would love to have it. But enough with the cries for sympathy.
Now drop and give me fifty, soldier !!
Forgive us, for we know not what we hath wrought.
"Damnit kids ! Stop playing PlayStation on that thing and come say goodbye to your grandmother !!"
That sentence struck me as fairly amusing.
We started drawing our comic (link below) over a year ago, put it exclusively on the internet, and (oddly enough) grew such a devoted and wonderful audience, that we're printing a "best-of" collection this fall. We went from internet to paper.
So in a way, I guess we're the opposite of what Sarah Boxer calls "evolution" And I'd wager we're not the only ones.
"You've Got Jail !"
Zing !
Well, yeah. But if everyone did that, we wouldn't have a Slashdot.
I guess that means 9 billion potential more sites to hopefully buy their way into Yahoo's directory. Because if you're unwilling to pay, you're pretty damn sure not to get in for free.