Guilt is an emotion you should be feeling when you, say, use your monopoly power to force other people to buy your products when you can't make good products. Any reasonable human being can relate to that.
But if you are a consumer on the wrong end of a situation where your computer lacks quality what you should be feeling is not guilt, but anger. If it broke and you feel cheated, stand up and get your money back and then either get a new powerbook or buy a completely different product!
I mean c'mon, when you say guilt, it sounds like you are some faceless lemming who is feeling peer pressure from fellow linux users for not buying linux. That makes you sound like even more of a pussy. Grow up!
I'll just settle for admonishing you for blowing this way out of proportion. Can I help if I just wanted a little extra proof and a few numbers to back a statement up? Sheesh... chill. Turn the flamethrower off and have a cup of tea:)
And for your information, I have no desire to buy any Mp3, even an iPod. Ask someone their motives before you start accusing them of things.
First of all, I didn't mention the Rio at all (and neither did he), so I don't understand why you brought it up. Second, all I was asking was for confirmed examples because there were no examples. He just made a blanket statement and gave NO examples. I really don't understand how I sound like I'm relating this strictly to the Rio.
You are correct, apple does not allow retailers to sell at a discount. However, by reversing the statement, without proof it doesn't mean that by default every other MP3 player automatically must allow selling at discount. I was pretty sure he was right, I just wanted numbers.
The other reply to my question by the AC has some numbers that can back up the statement.
Many engines are designed to run only with the AC pully there. Try finding the right serpentine belt for the car if you pull out the AC unit.
The parent to the above article to me is talking more about the reality of what consumers might want where the above article is talking about the reality of the car market. These two things do NOT always mesh.
Providing beter gas mileage and handling is a gradual evolution of technology which I can truly find no complaint with. Also, changing the environmental controls from a little knob with points to turn the fan up and down, to a digital system with precise temperature control is also a nifty feature.
Requiring you to buy an air conditioning unit for your car because the design requires it may sound like common sense, but that common sense is thrown out the window when you sell to someone in alaska, the Yukon, Iceland, or Norway. Requiring your car to have a heating system makes no sense in Mexico or Hawaii.
In general, the analogy only fails because the car maker is trying to reach a wide range of consumers, not because the car technically does require an AC to run. The AC unit is more akin to the mouse. Some people really won't need it, but most will, and its cheap enough that it doesn't matter that every computer has a mouse and you probably aren't going to save much money because its so cheap.
However, if I could save $500 by not having an AC system and I lived in Alaska, I'd damn well be pissed to have to buy one. I'd like the option to save money and live without it.
In reality, the analogy should be geared towards things like a GPS system being required on all new cars which increased the cost by $1000 per car. Thanks, I'll keep my $1000, I want choice. Microsoft has the ability to bundle and require everything you install and make it hard for you not to install or even uninstall. They effectively increase the cost of the car by forcing options on you.
Not that I don't believe you, because Apple historically has a pretty tight hold on prices, but before you make such bold statements, if you could at least put up an example or two I think it would lend weight to your argument.
Otherwise you just pulled that statement out of your ass and you didn't confirm that it is indeed the case that the Rio has a fluctuating price based on the retailer selling it.
While I enjoyed 7 Days while it was on, that was before I properly discovered The West Wing. UPN has no chance at competing against the wednesday at 9:00 lineup. They traditionally stick their Star Trek offering on Wednesday at 8:00 because that's their best showing, traditionally. If you see the history of shows that came at 9:00 (even after Voyager when it was still on!) they were mostly throw aways.
Again, the only good lead out was 7 Days, but you can't judge any Star Trek show with its lead out. They ALL get canned after 1 or 2 seasons. Twilight Zone, Jake 2.0, 7 days, you name it. That's because they don't expect to put up a fight then.
I only figured twilight zone would last a while because it can be made relatively cheaply and still turn a profit with low viewership.
That loud whistling sound you heard, followed by the tremendous explosion and screeching of twisted metal... Yeah, well, that was SCOs stock price falling through the floor.
As I have mentioned before... (Score:4, Interesting) by teamhasnoi (554944) on Thursday January 08, @02:19PM (#7918259) due to some missed upgrade of my DSL modem, my download and upload speeds have been reversed. I u/l at 760 and d/l at 128. Most people would be "HEY! THIS SUCKS! FIX IT!" to their ISP. I have decided to hold off for a bit.
I am often bittorrenting and VNC home from work - this speed has been only a boon for that stuff. Bittorrent never gave me the speeds I get now, and everyone on the other side is my new best friend. At work, I often have to upload giant inDesign files and hundreds of megs of photos. From work (with the normal speeds in place) such a task was estimated at 10+ hours. From home, it took an hour. Nice - less babysitting from me, and I get to go home early.
That said, I wonder why I *haven't* gotten a letter since my upload speed is beyond even the top level service they offer, and is often maxed out.
The nice thing is that this is their fault and not me 'hacking' it.
I wish this was a 'feature' that I could choose on a web interface: "Choose 760dl/128up or 128dl/760up".
This is little more than effectively giving you 760/760, but making it inconvenient to enable. It's also not practical from the ISP's standpoint because its easy to abuse, especially with some simple scripts.
What would make more practical sense is to have this as an option per account, which would make the ISPs happy and the customer happy. I can buy an account which my intent is to only host something, so I'll buy 760 ul but 128 dl. That way I can run a machine where I know I'm pushing more info than I'm pulling, like a webserver (or your local warez/pr0n site;))
What would truly make a customer happy would be 3.0 up and downstream for only 19.95 a month, but I'm working within the parameters that the ISP has limited people to.
The man mentions Porn in one form or another five times, makes a reference to blow up dolls, and in general blames porn for many of the problems in the world. Then he puts porn on the same level as mafia crime, pedophilia, and drugs.
The man is spewing little more than dogma and slashdotters admire this man?
Maybe its because everyone respects his obviously repressed urges to ogle massive amounts of pictures of nekkid women.
I heard the same thing on NPR yesterday on the news. However, the story I heard only claimed this was a correlation between people who drink coffee and not causation. Scientists found definite figures that coffee drinkers had a lowered risk of type II diabetes, but that no evidence linked it to the coffee.
I'd start listening to the audio links and do research, but I'm stuck at this place called My Job and if anyone else can confirm this I'd appreciate it. The link given is not the official paper with its findings and I'm not sure I trust the person who wrote it.
In the 70's, 80's and early 90's, we had a proprietary unix system which we sold to a customer that was about 80% of their business system. This system wasn't too flexible but it was the defacto business model for centralized order and business transaction processing. We had to provide the user everything from the hardware to the network to the software. It was a turnkey solution for the most part but it wasn't as flexible in providing revenue streams.
In the mid 90's we developed a windows application solution. Now we provide the application CD and tell them the requirements (SQL server, windows network, recommended hardware requirements). Everything except our software is a commodity on their network now and so we extract ourselves from the costs of having to work on buying it. We allow the customer to pick their own or they can pay our consultants to help them out. We negotiate contracts for how much an hour they would have to pay for consulting. Everything is driven by consulting, custom work, training, services. Our software is the only hard good we produce any more, and its questionable if you want to call that a hard good these days. In fact we aren't worried too much about piracy, because our main source of income is the customer paying on the contracts we sign for purchasing the software (which requires a huge amount of setup) and for supporting the software, which is a percentage of their initial purchase contract.
Expertise is never a commodity and as companies find a way to make hardware construction cheaper, people move to providing quality by just having a bunch of knowledgable people sitting around who know how to provide some kind of technological help (read: billable consulting, not tech support) to a specific market space.
I also see the tech support outsource trend swinging back to the US a bit as US companies demand better quality of support. Between the cookie cutter, script reading mentality of overseas operations and some unintelligible accents, customers, especially businesses, will demand a change. They already are.
I think the law has the right idea. The driver needs to concentrate on driving and human beings are careless on the road compared to anything else. We are scared of SARS and mad cow now, but heaven forbid we be scared of auto accidents, which are one of the largest killers of Americans every year.
However, if I have a passenger, or "Navigator," siting in the seat next to me, it very well should be allowed that they have a PDA or laptop which can connect to something like driving directions. How many times have you seen a nervous travelling couple get into an accident because they were lost and didn't know where to go? I think the driver should have both hands on the wheel but the passenger can really help out by helping the driver get there.
DVDs are entertainment only, and its real easy for the driver to get caught up for fifteen crucial seconds in a cute little scene in Finding Nemo and cause an accident. There's also not a very good way for the front seat passenger to watch DVDs without also allowing the driver to do so. With a laptop in use by the passenger there are simply too many useful things that you can do, some of which in fact help prevent accidents!
I also think banning all cell phone use by the driver is a bit much too, for example. If I drive, I always always always use my cell phone with an earphone and keep both hands on the wheel. It feels like legislation will be passed on of these days to require including in a car clamps that keep both hands on the wheel while the engine is on. Next thing you know, manual transmissions are going to be illegal because you have to take a hand off the wheel!
Perhaps if the United States invested more in affordable public transportation we'd fix the problems of accidents more easily.
I don't know if that's true of constitutions, but Britain has had a relatively peaceful (if slow) development from feudalism to near-democracy. Compared with almost any other country on Earth that's remarkably stable - even Belgium had a revolution.
What about Oliver Cromwell and his period? He overthrew the crown for a period of time.
And thank you for reminding me. I knew it was a nickelodeon show and it was one of their older cartoons, I couldn't place it. That's the last sound in their opening music.
Now, I admit I can't view half the I, Robot movie site because flash is broken on my web browser at work and its impossible to fix without a reinstall, but the credits on IMDB show no evidence of Daneel. If there's no Daneel, its not Caves of Steel.
What it does sound like is a munging of several Asimov ideas into an action flick, and Asimov is decidedly NOT action. Del Spooner isn't even the right character name for Caves of Steel.
I don't think you can call it Caves of Steel, but what you can call it is a licensing of the basic idea around Asimov's universe and adapting it so that the general populace can relate to it in an action movie.
I.E. all you are going to get that's asimov-related are the three laws and a couple of character names.
Michael Moore is a brilliant man. He has always brought something new to the table. Al Franken is not only intelligent but funny.
You sound like you are dismissing all political books as useless without actually reading them, because they do contribute new information. The information they contribute is in the DETAILS. For example, Al Franken refutes a lot of statements in Ann Coulter's and Bill O'Reilly's books as borderline libelous. It's that kind of discussion we NEED in the country, especially if one side is spreading false accusations. This discussion is not happening enough.
You sound kind of ignorant when you attack me and don't analyze what I just said.
#1 I have experience in supporting bugs. This comes from my experience. If you can't see this in what I just said then tis you who sounds ignorant.
#2 admittedly I didn't say this, but I have a firewire 400 drive with absolutely no problems. It's some generic drive too. ZERO problems.
Oxford barely admitted anything, "there are problems" is exactly the extent to which things were admitted, but frankly that's a weak statement that we support people use to keep the user calm while we figure out what the hell they are talking about.
You have a problem? I feel for you. But based on your information so far I have no real basis for establishing its 10.3 yet. Why? I don't know you and I dunno if you are a shmoe or a tech guru. I deal with shmoes every day and each one of them SWEARS they didn't change anything between yesterday and today except upgrades the software, but then I find out they are lying and find a setting which they switched which, in their situation, shouldn't have been turned on.
I'm not saying you are a liar, I'm just saying that the resource sites are not reliable on bugs like this because all they do is regurgitate emails of screaming users who insist the problem is someone elses fault. As a support rep I merely must remain skeptical.
Okay first of all, from the male perspective, TLC is crap because its nots about geek stuff, or science, or history, or any of those things geeks value as learning.
Now try to put yourself in the place of the average woman, stay at home or otherwise. Women learn a lot from that home decorating stuff! You might be surprised what you might learn. Also there all those medical shows which tell you about medical conditions people have and stories of what they have gone through. Your average female TV viewer, especially the stay at home mom, eats that stuff up, and its still learning!
I'm not belittling women's TV by far, I'm in fact showing that comments like the parent to this are subjective, usually based on the male or geek (or both) point of view. Learning is subjective. Just because it's not science, history, or math doesn't mean its not learning. The channel just switched tracks from men to women. Yes it was done for business reasons, switching to a better demographic, and yes I, personally, absolutely do not like, what they show now, but the discovery and history channels filled in for me quite nicely, and this science channel will help too.
I watch Queer Eye for the Straight guy (okay that's on Bravo but its the same idea), and it's decidedly a "chick show." But DAMN do you know how much stuff guys could learn from that? And I'm not talking about "learning to match clothes so you can be superficial." I'm talking about things that matter (or should matter) to geeks like:
1) Getting your house organized so you don't look like a slob and can find things. 2) Keeping and staying healthy and reasonably well groomed. 3) Learning to cook more than ramen noodles. 4) Looking and acting like a guy a woman might want to go to bed with. 5) Looking like a guy someone might want to hire. 6) keeping your girlfriend happy!!
I call that learning... maybe that's why the gender gap is still so wide, because men don't think these things that women consider learning about are learning.
Think of it this way... this is a low level sociology channel. Be fascinated by the interations of people and their living spaces!
In my experience, places like Macfixit, MacResource, and MacInTouch either have two philosophies for the way they handle updates:
1) Report all the news on possible bugs as matter of factly, display all reports of bugs as they were emailed to the site, and do no filtering whatsoever of any information, despite the fact that most of the posts are drivel that no one else in the world can replicate and may have missed something that they claim to have tried (not everyone is logical). 2) Tilt the story to sensationalize the fact that there were tons of reports of problems to generate readership and scare people.
Now I can't fault any sources really if their motivation is #1, but frankly, this doesn't help either. I work in support, and I also take a gander at our users email list which we actually run. There are weekly emails of builds and patches of our software that are bad because they would be applied and suddely a whole bunch of problems would occur. Yet mysteriously they never would report them to support, and I couldn't make happen what they had happen.
I'll see emails on these site screaming at apple for making crappy bug fixes and complaining about issues that make their life a living hell, but I don't see anyone else saying this. I also see a lot of "me too's." The firewire 800 issue also saw a lot of people complaining about firewire 400 drives, which Apple claims are not experiencing problems. I'm having problems believing the me too's about firewire 400 because not enough people are having problems on those drives, and I have a general distrust of users who claim they worked on a problem and found it to be something when in fact they missed 2 or 3 other possibilities.
Everyone who submits an email to these places should contact a support rep. Unfortunately, support costs money these days, which sucks and I do sympathize, but on the opposite side of the coin you have to make sure this kind of stuff is real and not FUD.
Thank you... more evidence that slashdot needs a flame resistant spell checker
Ever think that maybe this was just a typo? They happen yanno. Not every mistake is made by a "low brow" trying to sound fancy. Some philosophers are just not good spellers:)
1) If Lance can post something regarding his opinion of an operating system, then Richard can post his opinion of Lance's article.
2) Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but not all opinions are equally valid. This is a fundamental point of epistomology. Lance is spreading FUD. What his motivation is, is unclear. But that doesn't give Lance the right to be spreading false accusations. Someone has to stand up and say so. If I were as good a writer as Richard I might have done it.
3) Lance KNOWS what he's doing, and either he know he's wrong or he's so blinded by his opinion that he can't reason properly. However, some people are going to think he's right. That's not fair to anyone who enjoys using Apple products or is one of these "mac zealots" who want to expand the user base.
4) This isn't in the same degree as some gross mischaracterizations that the media is known for (such as overblowing safety warnings or terrorism alerts, or incorrectly running news stories on urban legends and hoaxes which aren't true; yes that has happened before and continues to do so!), but every article, factual or opinionated, that contains false facts must be refuted. The journalism industry is taken for granted, at least in America, and when one of them screws up in order to get more money or get a promotion or because someone ordered them to, or some other sleazy means, then better journalists, or the public in general, should stand up and say the media is dead wrong.
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Guilt is an emotion you should be feeling when you, say, use your monopoly power to force other people to buy your products when you can't make good products. Any reasonable human being can relate to that.
But if you are a consumer on the wrong end of a situation where your computer lacks quality what you should be feeling is not guilt, but anger. If it broke and you feel cheated, stand up and get your money back and then either get a new powerbook or buy a completely different product!
I mean c'mon, when you say guilt, it sounds like you are some faceless lemming who is feeling peer pressure from fellow linux users for not buying linux. That makes you sound like even more of a pussy. Grow up!
I'll just settle for admonishing you for blowing this way out of proportion. Can I help if I just wanted a little extra proof and a few numbers to back a statement up? Sheesh... chill. Turn the flamethrower off and have a cup of tea :)
And for your information, I have no desire to buy any Mp3, even an iPod. Ask someone their motives before you start accusing them of things.
You misinterpret me.
First of all, I didn't mention the Rio at all (and neither did he), so I don't understand why you brought it up. Second, all I was asking was for confirmed examples because there were no examples. He just made a blanket statement and gave NO examples. I really don't understand how I sound like I'm relating this strictly to the Rio.
You are correct, apple does not allow retailers to sell at a discount. However, by reversing the statement, without proof it doesn't mean that by default every other MP3 player automatically must allow selling at discount. I was pretty sure he was right, I just wanted numbers.
The other reply to my question by the AC has some numbers that can back up the statement.
Many engines are designed to run only with the AC pully there. Try finding the right serpentine belt for the car if you pull out the AC unit.
The parent to the above article to me is talking more about the reality of what consumers might want where the above article is talking about the reality of the car market. These two things do NOT always mesh.
Providing beter gas mileage and handling is a gradual evolution of technology which I can truly find no complaint with. Also, changing the environmental controls from a little knob with points to turn the fan up and down, to a digital system with precise temperature control is also a nifty feature.
Requiring you to buy an air conditioning unit for your car because the design requires it may sound like common sense, but that common sense is thrown out the window when you sell to someone in alaska, the Yukon, Iceland, or Norway. Requiring your car to have a heating system makes no sense in Mexico or Hawaii.
In general, the analogy only fails because the car maker is trying to reach a wide range of consumers, not because the car technically does require an AC to run. The AC unit is more akin to the mouse. Some people really won't need it, but most will, and its cheap enough that it doesn't matter that every computer has a mouse and you probably aren't going to save much money because its so cheap.
However, if I could save $500 by not having an AC system and I lived in Alaska, I'd damn well be pissed to have to buy one. I'd like the option to save money and live without it.
In reality, the analogy should be geared towards things like a GPS system being required on all new cars which increased the cost by $1000 per car. Thanks, I'll keep my $1000, I want choice. Microsoft has the ability to bundle and require everything you install and make it hard for you not to install or even uninstall. They effectively increase the cost of the car by forcing options on you.
Not that I don't believe you, because Apple historically has a pretty tight hold on prices, but before you make such bold statements, if you could at least put up an example or two I think it would lend weight to your argument.
Otherwise you just pulled that statement out of your ass and you didn't confirm that it is indeed the case that the Rio has a fluctuating price based on the retailer selling it.
While I enjoyed 7 Days while it was on, that was before I properly discovered The West Wing. UPN has no chance at competing against the wednesday at 9:00 lineup. They traditionally stick their Star Trek offering on Wednesday at 8:00 because that's their best showing, traditionally. If you see the history of shows that came at 9:00 (even after Voyager when it was still on!) they were mostly throw aways.
Again, the only good lead out was 7 Days, but you can't judge any Star Trek show with its lead out. They ALL get canned after 1 or 2 seasons. Twilight Zone, Jake 2.0, 7 days, you name it. That's because they don't expect to put up a fight then.
I only figured twilight zone would last a while because it can be made relatively cheaply and still turn a profit with low viewership.
Wooooo me too!
:)
I also hope it has lots of tentacles and large breasted women who....
Oh wait... you didn't mean that? Nevermind
Tim also stars as one of the Porn Movie stand ins in Love Actually.
;)
He's the guy who's fondling the cute blonde while the crew are testing the lighting conditions.
That loud whistling sound you heard, followed by the tremendous explosion and screeching of twisted metal... Yeah, well, that was SCOs stock price falling through the floor.
As I have mentioned before... (Score:4, Interesting)
;))
by teamhasnoi (554944) on Thursday January 08, @02:19PM (#7918259)
due to some missed upgrade of my DSL modem, my download and upload speeds have been reversed. I u/l at 760 and d/l at 128.
Most people would be "HEY! THIS SUCKS! FIX IT!" to their ISP. I have decided to hold off for a bit.
I am often bittorrenting and VNC home from work - this speed has been only a boon for that stuff. Bittorrent never gave me the speeds I get now, and everyone on the other side is my new best friend. At work, I often have to upload giant inDesign files and hundreds of megs of photos. From work (with the normal speeds in place) such a task was estimated at 10+ hours. From home, it took an hour. Nice - less babysitting from me, and I get to go home early.
That said, I wonder why I *haven't* gotten a letter since my upload speed is beyond even the top level service they offer, and is often maxed out.
The nice thing is that this is their fault and not me 'hacking' it.
I wish this was a 'feature' that I could choose on a web interface: "Choose 760dl/128up or 128dl/760up".
This is little more than effectively giving you 760/760, but making it inconvenient to enable. It's also not practical from the ISP's standpoint because its easy to abuse, especially with some simple scripts.
What would make more practical sense is to have this as an option per account, which would make the ISPs happy and the customer happy. I can buy an account which my intent is to only host something, so I'll buy 760 ul but 128 dl. That way I can run a machine where I know I'm pushing more info than I'm pulling, like a webserver (or your local warez/pr0n site
What would truly make a customer happy would be 3.0 up and downstream for only 19.95 a month, but I'm working within the parameters that the ISP has limited people to.
The man mentions Porn in one form or another five times, makes a reference to blow up dolls, and in general blames porn for many of the problems in the world. Then he puts porn on the same level as mafia crime, pedophilia, and drugs.
The man is spewing little more than dogma and slashdotters admire this man?
Maybe its because everyone respects his obviously repressed urges to ogle massive amounts of pictures of nekkid women.
I heard the same thing on NPR yesterday on the news. However, the story I heard only claimed this was a correlation between people who drink coffee and not causation. Scientists found definite figures that coffee drinkers had a lowered risk of type II diabetes, but that no evidence linked it to the coffee.
I'd start listening to the audio links and do research, but I'm stuck at this place called My Job and if anyone else can confirm this I'd appreciate it. The link given is not the official paper with its findings and I'm not sure I trust the person who wrote it.
In the 70's, 80's and early 90's, we had a proprietary unix system which we sold to a customer that was about 80% of their business system. This system wasn't too flexible but it was the defacto business model for centralized order and business transaction processing. We had to provide the user everything from the hardware to the network to the software. It was a turnkey solution for the most part but it wasn't as flexible in providing revenue streams.
In the mid 90's we developed a windows application solution. Now we provide the application CD and tell them the requirements (SQL server, windows network, recommended hardware requirements). Everything except our software is a commodity on their network now and so we extract ourselves from the costs of having to work on buying it. We allow the customer to pick their own or they can pay our consultants to help them out. We negotiate contracts for how much an hour they would have to pay for consulting. Everything is driven by consulting, custom work, training, services. Our software is the only hard good we produce any more, and its questionable if you want to call that a hard good these days. In fact we aren't worried too much about piracy, because our main source of income is the customer paying on the contracts we sign for purchasing the software (which requires a huge amount of setup) and for supporting the software, which is a percentage of their initial purchase contract.
Expertise is never a commodity and as companies find a way to make hardware construction cheaper, people move to providing quality by just having a bunch of knowledgable people sitting around who know how to provide some kind of technological help (read: billable consulting, not tech support) to a specific market space.
I also see the tech support outsource trend swinging back to the US a bit as US companies demand better quality of support. Between the cookie cutter, script reading mentality of overseas operations and some unintelligible accents, customers, especially businesses, will demand a change. They already are.
I think the law has the right idea. The driver needs to concentrate on driving and human beings are careless on the road compared to anything else. We are scared of SARS and mad cow now, but heaven forbid we be scared of auto accidents, which are one of the largest killers of Americans every year.
However, if I have a passenger, or "Navigator," siting in the seat next to me, it very well should be allowed that they have a PDA or laptop which can connect to something like driving directions. How many times have you seen a nervous travelling couple get into an accident because they were lost and didn't know where to go? I think the driver should have both hands on the wheel but the passenger can really help out by helping the driver get there.
DVDs are entertainment only, and its real easy for the driver to get caught up for fifteen crucial seconds in a cute little scene in Finding Nemo and cause an accident. There's also not a very good way for the front seat passenger to watch DVDs without also allowing the driver to do so. With a laptop in use by the passenger there are simply too many useful things that you can do, some of which in fact help prevent accidents!
I also think banning all cell phone use by the driver is a bit much too, for example. If I drive, I always always always use my cell phone with an earphone and keep both hands on the wheel. It feels like legislation will be passed on of these days to require including in a car clamps that keep both hands on the wheel while the engine is on. Next thing you know, manual transmissions are going to be illegal because you have to take a hand off the wheel!
Perhaps if the United States invested more in affordable public transportation we'd fix the problems of accidents more easily.
I don't know if that's true of constitutions, but Britain has had a relatively peaceful (if slow) development from feudalism to near-democracy. Compared with almost any other country on Earth that's remarkably stable - even Belgium had a revolution.
What about Oliver Cromwell and his period? He overthrew the crown for a period of time.
And thank you for reminding me. I knew it was a nickelodeon show and it was one of their older cartoons, I couldn't place it. That's the last sound in their opening music.
Now, I admit I can't view half the I, Robot movie site because flash is broken on my web browser at work and its impossible to fix without a reinstall, but the credits on IMDB show no evidence of Daneel. If there's no Daneel, its not Caves of Steel.
What it does sound like is a munging of several Asimov ideas into an action flick, and Asimov is decidedly NOT action. Del Spooner isn't even the right character name for Caves of Steel.
I don't think you can call it Caves of Steel, but what you can call it is a licensing of the basic idea around Asimov's universe and adapting it so that the general populace can relate to it in an action movie.
I.E. all you are going to get that's asimov-related are the three laws and a couple of character names.
Michael Moore is a brilliant man. He has always brought something new to the table. Al Franken is not only intelligent but funny.
You sound like you are dismissing all political books as useless without actually reading them, because they do contribute new information. The information they contribute is in the DETAILS. For example, Al Franken refutes a lot of statements in Ann Coulter's and Bill O'Reilly's books as borderline libelous. It's that kind of discussion we NEED in the country, especially if one side is spreading false accusations. This discussion is not happening enough.
You sound kind of ignorant when you attack me and don't analyze what I just said.
#1 I have experience in supporting bugs. This comes from my experience. If you can't see this in what I just said then tis you who sounds ignorant.
#2 admittedly I didn't say this, but I have a firewire 400 drive with absolutely no problems. It's some generic drive too. ZERO problems.
Oxford barely admitted anything, "there are problems" is exactly the extent to which things were admitted, but frankly that's a weak statement that we support people use to keep the user calm while we figure out what the hell they are talking about.
You have a problem? I feel for you. But based on your information so far I have no real basis for establishing its 10.3 yet. Why? I don't know you and I dunno if you are a shmoe or a tech guru. I deal with shmoes every day and each one of them SWEARS they didn't change anything between yesterday and today except upgrades the software, but then I find out they are lying and find a setting which they switched which, in their situation, shouldn't have been turned on.
I'm not saying you are a liar, I'm just saying that the resource sites are not reliable on bugs like this because all they do is regurgitate emails of screaming users who insist the problem is someone elses fault. As a support rep I merely must remain skeptical.
If you need a television show to teach you how to groom yourself, not be a slob, follow a recipe and be a nice guy, then you're a fucking retard.
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Now taking estimates of the percentage of slashdotters this person just called a retard
Okay first of all, from the male perspective, TLC is crap because its nots about geek stuff, or science, or history, or any of those things geeks value as learning.
Now try to put yourself in the place of the average woman, stay at home or otherwise. Women learn a lot from that home decorating stuff! You might be surprised what you might learn. Also there all those medical shows which tell you about medical conditions people have and stories of what they have gone through. Your average female TV viewer, especially the stay at home mom, eats that stuff up, and its still learning!
I'm not belittling women's TV by far, I'm in fact showing that comments like the parent to this are subjective, usually based on the male or geek (or both) point of view. Learning is subjective. Just because it's not science, history, or math doesn't mean its not learning. The channel just switched tracks from men to women. Yes it was done for business reasons, switching to a better demographic, and yes I, personally, absolutely do not like, what they show now, but the discovery and history channels filled in for me quite nicely, and this science channel will help too.
I watch Queer Eye for the Straight guy (okay that's on Bravo but its the same idea), and it's decidedly a "chick show." But DAMN do you know how much stuff guys could learn from that? And I'm not talking about "learning to match clothes so you can be superficial." I'm talking about things that matter (or should matter) to geeks like:
1) Getting your house organized so you don't look like a slob and can find things.
2) Keeping and staying healthy and reasonably well groomed.
3) Learning to cook more than ramen noodles.
4) Looking and acting like a guy a woman might want to go to bed with.
5) Looking like a guy someone might want to hire.
6) keeping your girlfriend happy!!
I call that learning... maybe that's why the gender gap is still so wide, because men don't think these things that women consider learning about are learning.
Think of it this way... this is a low level sociology channel. Be fascinated by the interations of people and their living spaces!
In my experience, places like Macfixit, MacResource, and MacInTouch either have two philosophies for the way they handle updates:
1) Report all the news on possible bugs as matter of factly, display all reports of bugs as they were emailed to the site, and do no filtering whatsoever of any information, despite the fact that most of the posts are drivel that no one else in the world can replicate and may have missed something that they claim to have tried (not everyone is logical).
2) Tilt the story to sensationalize the fact that there were tons of reports of problems to generate readership and scare people.
Now I can't fault any sources really if their motivation is #1, but frankly, this doesn't help either. I work in support, and I also take a gander at our users email list which we actually run. There are weekly emails of builds and patches of our software that are bad because they would be applied and suddely a whole bunch of problems would occur. Yet mysteriously they never would report them to support, and I couldn't make happen what they had happen.
I'll see emails on these site screaming at apple for making crappy bug fixes and complaining about issues that make their life a living hell, but I don't see anyone else saying this. I also see a lot of "me too's." The firewire 800 issue also saw a lot of people complaining about firewire 400 drives, which Apple claims are not experiencing problems. I'm having problems believing the me too's about firewire 400 because not enough people are having problems on those drives, and I have a general distrust of users who claim they worked on a problem and found it to be something when in fact they missed 2 or 3 other possibilities.
Everyone who submits an email to these places should contact a support rep. Unfortunately, support costs money these days, which sucks and I do sympathize, but on the opposite side of the coin you have to make sure this kind of stuff is real and not FUD.
I'm hoping with the upgrades they will start looking for sexy green women.
Thank you... more evidence that slashdot needs a flame resistant spell checker
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Ever think that maybe this was just a typo? They happen yanno. Not every mistake is made by a "low brow" trying to sound fancy. Some philosophers are just not good spellers
I disagree with you for several reasons:
1) If Lance can post something regarding his opinion of an operating system, then Richard can post his opinion of Lance's article.
2) Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but not all opinions are equally valid. This is a fundamental point of epistomology. Lance is spreading FUD. What his motivation is, is unclear. But that doesn't give Lance the right to be spreading false accusations. Someone has to stand up and say so. If I were as good a writer as Richard I might have done it.
3) Lance KNOWS what he's doing, and either he know he's wrong or he's so blinded by his opinion that he can't reason properly. However, some people are going to think he's right. That's not fair to anyone who enjoys using Apple products or is one of these "mac zealots" who want to expand the user base.
4) This isn't in the same degree as some gross mischaracterizations that the media is known for (such as overblowing safety warnings or terrorism alerts, or incorrectly running news stories on urban legends and hoaxes which aren't true; yes that has happened before and continues to do so!), but every article, factual or opinionated, that contains false facts must be refuted. The journalism industry is taken for granted, at least in America, and when one of them screws up in order to get more money or get a promotion or because someone ordered them to, or some other sleazy means, then better journalists, or the public in general, should stand up and say the media is dead wrong.