Remind me to never visit Cali... Finding lost property is so not 'theft' in any reasonable place. It's not like the guy lifted it off of this apple employee. While personally I'd probably not care about keeping someones lost cellphone, I know plenty of people who have kept things they find and frankly the police aren't going to care or even ever look into it.
The only difference here is that he realized it wasn't just any Iphone, but a new version and he tried to use that to his advantage. I don't exactly blame the guy for that, it's like finding a wallet with $10k cash in it. That's tempting unless your own wallet has $10k in it.
Btw don't Iphones have GPS? Shouldn't Apple have known exactly where the phone was any time they felt like looking? It all feels like Apple did this on purpose to me.
As for your cellphone analogy goes... People always think they need mroe than they do with minutes. It's one of the reasons the most popular plan option tends to be 'unlimited' and people will pay out the ass for 'unlimited' when all they need in a particular month is 400 minutes, which would have been 1/10th the cost.
The problem with broadband is that we've never been 'billed' for the 'minutes' we use (not since dial-up at least & plenty of people using the internet now, never dealt with dial-up). I personally think it's to late in the game for them to want to change the rules....
You do know files form CD's can be on playlists to right...? As can streaming music. It's not such a stretch that nothing in a plalist is actually local to that machine...
I've had users whose keyboards didn't work... And to me they said 'The internets are broken!' (the s added for the way they said it, as if their was more than one).... Users need brainsurgery to often reach the level of a monkey... ~_~
Sometimes I've foudn the opposite to be true... The only thing keeping me out of an accident was moving faster than the other vehicle who would have hit me... Speed lets you move further within a given timespan after all...
(Btw just as a note I've been hit 2 times by people who can't apparently understand what a red light is and how that means to stop.... As They've gone directly through intersections with not a care in the world... It's second in my history only to being hit at a red light by someone behind me that can't understand what a red light is... Which has been the reason for 3 others accidents I've been in... Maybe we should do something to fix those damn lights no one seems to care about first...?)
As a kid I lived on a farm, one where you went out and killed the chicken for dinner that night. It's as close to working at a slaughter house as most people get & frankly I'm a die hard carnivore. I don't hve a problem killing something else (plant or animal) to sustain myself. I abhor unneeded cruelty, but killing animals for food doesn't need to be terribly cruel.
Even 'business' printers don't work in alot of cases. I have alot of Ubuntu boxes where I work & it's a pain to get HP 1200 & 1300 laserjets to work with them... Worse over a network... This btw includes manually reinstalling the HP printer services software that Ubuntu includes (But never seems to work)...
It's almost impossible to get 'road legal' diesels in the US. I know of 12 that cover 3 decades of cars that are desiel and roal legal. The big problems tending to be things like cadialitic converters which are required by law... Though some vehicles got grandfathered in...and really the rules for what is legal on the road vary by state... and the laws change all the time, so you ahve an ever moving target most companies will just not want to deal with. Even Chrysler (a canadian company) won't sell desiles in the US.
It's ~$200 cheaper form Blackbox than CDW... $1k in a place that wants to buy spools of cable, heads, and crimpers anyways shouldn't be such a big cost.
I'm a network admin for a charter school... I can match you story for story... Like the maintenance guy that they stuck his office in the boiler room... A room that is covered in dust and more every day... The efforts I've gone through to make sure that thing runs... Not to mention it's block walls wouldn't let me run cable through them (they are designated 'load bearing' so I can't cut them) as their was no network or power cabling/jacks...
My 'office' is a closet... Though thankfully not the server closet as that has 5 servers and no AC... I see PC's as old as 486's on a fairly regular basis and I have kids crawling up my ass everytime I have to go into a classroom... Usually because the kids have broken something... They are very creative about breaking things to...
I've been a PC tech, and I can say I do as much now as I did then... heck even more... and usually in worse conditions... I didn't have to worry about budgets or 5 year plans back as a tech...
I know that feeling... It's why I have '_1' in my username... Maybe we should get another achievement "Lost account details and created new account, before Slashdot hit 100k accounts'... Maybe it needs reworded though, that was quite a mouthful...
My old Nissan Sentra GXE (95 model year) did the same thing. Turning on the A/C killed acceleration. Turning it of gave you full acceleration. So you'd get used to turning it off when going onto the interstate and then flicking it back on when you where up to speed.
What small companies...? Few places in the US (the area of focus for the RIAA), have an option of using a small company for internet. Our choices are usually dictated by who owns the lines, and that's the cable company and the phone company. Other options can exist in certain areas, but with those two industries getting states to pass laws limiting other potential broadband solutions your quickly looking at dialup... I've seen the web on dialup in the last year and it isn't pretty... It reminds me of the days of the 14.4kbps modems (aka go grab lunch while your page loads, use the bathroom while the sub-page you wanted laods, etc)...
For education at least I've seen some effort put into making that sort of thing easier... However the resources for it aren't on par with projects like KDE or Gnome (for instance), so progress can be slow...
No it's not... But plenty of other people have issues as well... I was just in the kubuntu forums yesterday trying to work out a seemingly ever increasing cascade of failures on a Athlon 2400+/Nforce2 box where they screen refused to work @ greater than 640x480, then the PC stopped seeing the network (though wireshark could still read the packets coming in), and then the system hung during setup... Even with help I decided to go back to windows were the system 'just worked'.
porn vs. sex though is a huge difference... porn doesn't do much for me compared to what a good woman making out with me does...
This from someone who waited to have actual sex (& hence mostly looked at porn when I needed to relieve my urges) until I was engaged to a woman (Yeah that wasn't such a great idea to wait that long & she certainly hadn't done so)... In fact I've found in the time since that my interest in porn is fairly low and I've had both premature and delayed ejaculation at times which seem related to a difference from masturbation to actual sex and how our minds and bodies adjust to them...
Anyways... If I'm at all typical of the difference between porn and real sex, then porn should have little to do with real sex... though it may show what kinks you'd have in RL...
I'll second everything you say, though I live in the US since I can't say much about drivers there. You however have had better luck then me with avoiding being hit, I think I had a bullseye painted on my first car... rear-ended 3 times (1 stopped at an intersection for a red light, another time behind a big giant dump truck trying to cross traffic)... Side-swiped twice (once by someone driving through a red light)... Most people can't drive... It's just to much for them...
You left out 'old' as one reason for vibration in steering... My car is 10 years old and loves to vibrate even with a tweaked suspension/alignment & no engine issues...
You also left out 'transmission' as a cause... I've had that be the cause of vibration in my car before...
yeah know... what I find funny in that is how 'federal minimum wage' and 'pauper' are defined to be one and the same.... yet the federal minimum wage is supposed to let someone provide for a family in concept...
I wish I had some mod points for this. It's already bad in the US for a balance between work & home life (Europe does better, but it's spotty). The way to fix the biggest 'differences' in career for women is to shove the divide between work & home back more toward home!
Have you ever thought that she just (shock!) may not like mechanics/electronics/computers? Not everyone is suited to those 3 fields. It's not even a gender issue, I know guys that don't like mechanics or electronics (let alone computers which few jocks want to be seen near even today outside their console systems) and I know women who have a knack for all three.
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Remind me to never visit Cali... Finding lost property is so not 'theft' in any reasonable place. It's not like the guy lifted it off of this apple employee. While personally I'd probably not care about keeping someones lost cellphone, I know plenty of people who have kept things they find and frankly the police aren't going to care or even ever look into it.
The only difference here is that he realized it wasn't just any Iphone, but a new version and he tried to use that to his advantage. I don't exactly blame the guy for that, it's like finding a wallet with $10k cash in it. That's tempting unless your own wallet has $10k in it.
Btw don't Iphones have GPS? Shouldn't Apple have known exactly where the phone was any time they felt like looking? It all feels like Apple did this on purpose to me.
As for your cellphone analogy goes... People always think they need mroe than they do with minutes. It's one of the reasons the most popular plan option tends to be 'unlimited' and people will pay out the ass for 'unlimited' when all they need in a particular month is 400 minutes, which would have been 1/10th the cost.
The problem with broadband is that we've never been 'billed' for the 'minutes' we use (not since dial-up at least & plenty of people using the internet now, never dealt with dial-up). I personally think it's to late in the game for them to want to change the rules....
You do know files form CD's can be on playlists to right...? As can streaming music. It's not such a stretch that nothing in a plalist is actually local to that machine...
I've had users whose keyboards didn't work... And to me they said 'The internets are broken!' (the s added for the way they said it, as if their was more than one).... Users need brainsurgery to often reach the level of a monkey... ~_~
Sometimes I've foudn the opposite to be true... The only thing keeping me out of an accident was moving faster than the other vehicle who would have hit me... Speed lets you move further within a given timespan after all...
(Btw just as a note I've been hit 2 times by people who can't apparently understand what a red light is and how that means to stop.... As They've gone directly through intersections with not a care in the world... It's second in my history only to being hit at a red light by someone behind me that can't understand what a red light is... Which has been the reason for 3 others accidents I've been in... Maybe we should do something to fix those damn lights no one seems to care about first...?)
More often this is "The Inrnet is broken!"... I've heard that so often when something goes wrong it's not funny...
As a kid I lived on a farm, one where you went out and killed the chicken for dinner that night. It's as close to working at a slaughter house as most people get & frankly I'm a die hard carnivore. I don't hve a problem killing something else (plant or animal) to sustain myself. I abhor unneeded cruelty, but killing animals for food doesn't need to be terribly cruel.
Even 'business' printers don't work in alot of cases. I have alot of Ubuntu boxes where I work & it's a pain to get HP 1200 & 1300 laserjets to work with them... Worse over a network... This btw includes manually reinstalling the HP printer services software that Ubuntu includes (But never seems to work)...
It's almost impossible to get 'road legal' diesels in the US. I know of 12 that cover 3 decades of cars that are desiel and roal legal. The big problems tending to be things like cadialitic converters which are required by law... Though some vehicles got grandfathered in...and really the rules for what is legal on the road vary by state... and the laws change all the time, so you ahve an ever moving target most companies will just not want to deal with. Even Chrysler (a canadian company) won't sell desiles in the US.
It's ~$200 cheaper form Blackbox than CDW... $1k in a place that wants to buy spools of cable, heads, and crimpers anyways shouldn't be such a big cost.
Of course they'd make more money! They would blame any losses in sale son piracy after all!
Join the club...
I'm a network admin for a charter school... I can match you story for story... Like the maintenance guy that they stuck his office in the boiler room... A room that is covered in dust and more every day... The efforts I've gone through to make sure that thing runs... Not to mention it's block walls wouldn't let me run cable through them (they are designated 'load bearing' so I can't cut them) as their was no network or power cabling/jacks...
My 'office' is a closet... Though thankfully not the server closet as that has 5 servers and no AC... I see PC's as old as 486's on a fairly regular basis and I have kids crawling up my ass everytime I have to go into a classroom... Usually because the kids have broken something... They are very creative about breaking things to...
I've been a PC tech, and I can say I do as much now as I did then... heck even more... and usually in worse conditions... I didn't have to worry about budgets or 5 year plans back as a tech...
I know that feeling... It's why I have '_1' in my username... Maybe we should get another achievement "Lost account details and created new account, before Slashdot hit 100k accounts'... Maybe it needs reworded though, that was quite a mouthful...
Same here...
I think I vaguely remember capping it the first few months after it was released... It's all been downhill since then....
My old Nissan Sentra GXE (95 model year) did the same thing. Turning on the A/C killed acceleration. Turning it of gave you full acceleration. So you'd get used to turning it off when going onto the interstate and then flicking it back on when you where up to speed.
What small companies...? Few places in the US (the area of focus for the RIAA), have an option of using a small company for internet. Our choices are usually dictated by who owns the lines, and that's the cable company and the phone company. Other options can exist in certain areas, but with those two industries getting states to pass laws limiting other potential broadband solutions your quickly looking at dialup... I've seen the web on dialup in the last year and it isn't pretty... It reminds me of the days of the 14.4kbps modems (aka go grab lunch while your page loads, use the bathroom while the sub-page you wanted laods, etc)...
Exactly... and we have a phrase to describe this that has existed for years:
They want to have their cake and eat it to!
Except we all no the cake is a lie... ~_~
For education at least I've seen some effort put into making that sort of thing easier... However the resources for it aren't on par with projects like KDE or Gnome (for instance), so progress can be slow...
No it's not... But plenty of other people have issues as well... I was just in the kubuntu forums yesterday trying to work out a seemingly ever increasing cascade of failures on a Athlon 2400+/Nforce2 box where they screen refused to work @ greater than 640x480, then the PC stopped seeing the network (though wireshark could still read the packets coming in), and then the system hung during setup... Even with help I decided to go back to windows were the system 'just worked'.
porn vs. sex though is a huge difference... porn doesn't do much for me compared to what a good woman making out with me does...
This from someone who waited to have actual sex (& hence mostly looked at porn when I needed to relieve my urges) until I was engaged to a woman (Yeah that wasn't such a great idea to wait that long & she certainly hadn't done so)... In fact I've found in the time since that my interest in porn is fairly low and I've had both premature and delayed ejaculation at times which seem related to a difference from masturbation to actual sex and how our minds and bodies adjust to them...
Anyways... If I'm at all typical of the difference between porn and real sex, then porn should have little to do with real sex... though it may show what kinks you'd have in RL...
I'll second everything you say, though I live in the US since I can't say much about drivers there. You however have had better luck then me with avoiding being hit, I think I had a bullseye painted on my first car... rear-ended 3 times (1 stopped at an intersection for a red light, another time behind a big giant dump truck trying to cross traffic)... Side-swiped twice (once by someone driving through a red light)... Most people can't drive... It's just to much for them...
You left out 'old' as one reason for vibration in steering... My car is 10 years old and loves to vibrate even with a tweaked suspension/alignment & no engine issues...
You also left out 'transmission' as a cause... I've had that be the cause of vibration in my car before...
yeah know... what I find funny in that is how 'federal minimum wage' and 'pauper' are defined to be one and the same.... yet the federal minimum wage is supposed to let someone provide for a family in concept...
I wish I had some mod points for this. It's already bad in the US for a balance between work & home life (Europe does better, but it's spotty). The way to fix the biggest 'differences' in career for women is to shove the divide between work & home back more toward home!
Have you ever thought that she just (shock!) may not like mechanics/electronics/computers? Not everyone is suited to those 3 fields. It's not even a gender issue, I know guys that don't like mechanics or electronics (let alone computers which few jocks want to be seen near even today outside their console systems) and I know women who have a knack for all three.