The prompt is generated automatically in response to their request for location data, as you suggested [...]
Can you talk to the hardware?
I remember seeing iPhone apps way back when that appeared to do this in order to query information from the GPS like what satellites it was using, etc. It was awhile ago and maybe these were jailbroken apps...
Also I've heard in Vegas you can rent a Ferrari, but around here I've only seen the worlds most boring 4-door commuter cars, with the exception of a couple heavy duty trucks [...]
I sometimes do this--not the Ferraris or Lamborghinis, mind you, but somewhat more modestly priced cars (Audis, BMWs, etc.). Check around for "exotic" rentals. You may not be able to find Ferraris, but you can probably rent more than just you standard econobox.
One interesting thing about these agencies is that they do not provide insurance on these cars. You are responsible for any damage to the vehicle. Now you may think your insurance will cover any car you drive, but there is a maximum value on your policy. I spoke with the owner of the shop about this--it's basically too expensive for them to have insurance on these cars for any driver. So they don't even offer it. And he does call the insurance companies to verify that the insurance will cover the car. He said it's always funny because he'll call some insurance company and say that someone wants to rent a car and here's the policy number and do they have coverage? The insurance company just says, "Yeah, yeah, it's covered." He'll reply, "So I can rent him the $150,000 Audi R8 and you'll cover the replacement cost?" Brief pause. "Let me check the policy..."
Also, these cars are being rented based on their looks. If you're spending the money to rent a high-end car, you want it to be pristine. So any scratch. scrape, bump, or blemish will be your responsibility.
I would assume that if you're doing a car-sharing type of arrangement, the insurance will be an important consideration. Before I let some maniac behind the wheel of my Corvette or Cadillac, I'd want to make sure that his insurance will be buying me a new one if he totals it.
Just out of curiosity, is it smart enough to figure out that--at least by default--I want metric units if I'm in Europe and Imperial units if I'm in Liberia?
One training video I watched was incredibly sexist. All the food service jobs were depicted by women, and the operations were handled by men. The video was made in 1970, so it's pretty easy, in an internal setting, to just not care.
Yeah, 'cause Apple Stores have been around since, like, forever...
If my TeeVee has taught me anything, it's that no matter how far into the future or past we go--even if we travel to other worlds--everybody speaks 20th Century English.
It is possible mother nature could counterbalance increasing CO2 levels by putting CO2 consuming organisms in to overdrive.
But plants convert CO2 to Carbon and Oxygen. If we increase Oxygen levels, we're more at risk for catastrophic fires! You're already seeing this Colorado!
[...] if you have to touch *every* box to make a change, that's a significant time sink and not a good use of personnel. [...] if the boxes you guys ordered don't work with the setup you want to use, something went wrong.
This is the important part.
It's good that you figured out what was wrong so quickly. Now, which is cheaper for the company: Having you go through 30 boxes today and however many boxes tomorrow and change the settings before they can be imaged with XP or return the 100 boxes to the vendor and have them change them? That depends on the situation--will those machines, in general, be running XP or is it just this lab? Will Windows 7 boot in legacy mode? Which is the best way to go so we don't have to configure each machine we send out separately, which takes valuable and expensive personnel time?
Fun example: My roomate works for a company that makes fishing reels. They have a policy that they will repair issues with their reels for the life of the reel--send in the reel that's dirty and broken and they will fix it or send you a new one. She briefly worked fixing reels, something she really enjoyed. She loved disassembling it and figuring out what was wrong, fixing the problem, reassembling the reel and making it work like new. She was a dedicated worker, coming in and working hard all day fixing reels.
The problem was that when a reel came in, she would set about fixing it. Sometimes she would take the entire day to do so. So the company, paying her $12/hr, spent $96 to repair a reel which cost $50. Sure, the cost in parts to the company was cheap: a penny screw or rubber washer or something like that. Meanwhile, only one reel was fixed that day and there were 9 more waiting to be fixed.
She would complain about her "lazy" co-workers who would "fix" five reels in a day by guessing that fixing it "would be too much work" and would just order them a new one. She would complain about her boss that was on her case about fixing more reels in a day--didn't they understand that tearing these things down and putting them back together took time?! Even when they explained it to her that she was costing the company more money by doing what she was doing, she just couldn't seem to understand that it was sometimes cheaper to send them a new one than to fix the old one and the ability to estimate how much time it would take to fix the reel was an important skill.
Eventually, the company moved her out of fixing reels and put her in a different position where she has excelled.
So the point is that figuring out what was wrong is a good thing. But, in the bigger picture, it might have been more cost-effective for the company to return the computers and get ones that were correctly configured for their needs than paying someone to reconfigure the machines themselves.
That was almost a whole decade wasted from the time that John Sculley, the man who saved Apple, was kicked out.
Rubbish.
First, they wouldn't have kicked Steve Jobs out in the first place if the stuff he was in charge of was actually selling. Remember the Apple III? Steve's baby and it bombed. Macintosh sold way below estimates when it was first released.
Sculley gave us Macintosh II, 24-bit color, multiple display support, QuickTime, and Hypercard. On the hardware side, Apple pretty much invented the "mini tower" (Macintosh IIcx), was one of the first companies to include CD-ROM drives standard on PCs, ADB--precursor to USB, and the switch to RISC architecture.
One difference is that Sculley wasn't the vibrant guy Steve Jobs was. Jean-Louis Gassée was sort of the "personality" at Apple, Sculley was more the book-keeper.
You want to blame somebody, blame Spindler. Now there was a useless CEO.
Sometimes it's better to blame people than to blame nature. People can be fixed. Nature, not so much.
"Oh, the problem was this collusion between industry and regulators. So we'll pass some new laws and we'll hire watchers to watch the watchers and everything will be just fine. We can turn the other reactors back on."
Compared to:
"Oh, the problem was that this big tsunami--the biggest tsunami in 1,142 years--came along and there's no way we could plan for such an event and, by the way, all of these other reactors could possibly be affected by something unforeseen and make those areas unlivable and there really isn't anything that can realistically be done. But we'll turn those other reactors back on and just hope that something bad doesn't happen."
Actually, I was just thinking that it would be packaged in a pill that helps you lose weight. You may look like you weigh 300 pounds, but you're really only 98 pounds! Step on the scale and see for yourself.
The ability to dynamically change your weight might also be interesting for American football. Next time Vince Wilfork gets an interception, dial his weight down and he's suddenly sprinting for the goal line.
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He didn't express discontent. He committed mass murder.
True. But how about the children who were forced to view this man? They're scarred for life!
We have to nip this in the bud or we'll have perverts at the airport exposing themselves and claiming "free speech."
So let me get this straight: This app managed to break through the sandbox and present that information? And, back in May, somebody approved this!?
Gee, I wonder what other apps that aren't so blatant about breaking through the sandbox got approved...
The prompt is generated automatically in response to their request for location data, as you suggested [...]
Can you talk to the hardware?
I remember seeing iPhone apps way back when that appeared to do this in order to query information from the GPS like what satellites it was using, etc. It was awhile ago and maybe these were jailbroken apps...
In Los Angeles. You can come and visit it.
I sometimes do this--not the Ferraris or Lamborghinis, mind you, but somewhat more modestly priced cars (Audis, BMWs, etc.). Check around for "exotic" rentals. You may not be able to find Ferraris, but you can probably rent more than just you standard econobox.
One interesting thing about these agencies is that they do not provide insurance on these cars. You are responsible for any damage to the vehicle. Now you may think your insurance will cover any car you drive, but there is a maximum value on your policy. I spoke with the owner of the shop about this--it's basically too expensive for them to have insurance on these cars for any driver. So they don't even offer it. And he does call the insurance companies to verify that the insurance will cover the car. He said it's always funny because he'll call some insurance company and say that someone wants to rent a car and here's the policy number and do they have coverage? The insurance company just says, "Yeah, yeah, it's covered." He'll reply, "So I can rent him the $150,000 Audi R8 and you'll cover the replacement cost?" Brief pause. "Let me check the policy..."
Also, these cars are being rented based on their looks. If you're spending the money to rent a high-end car, you want it to be pristine. So any scratch. scrape, bump, or blemish will be your responsibility.
I would assume that if you're doing a car-sharing type of arrangement, the insurance will be an important consideration. Before I let some maniac behind the wheel of my Corvette or Cadillac, I'd want to make sure that his insurance will be buying me a new one if he totals it.
Actually, I was thinking of the Robin Williams line from Good Morning, Vietnam.
Just out of curiosity, is it smart enough to figure out that--at least by default--I want metric units if I'm in Europe and Imperial units if I'm in Liberia?
Or next time a wildfire approaches my house, I'll just stick speakers out the window and start playing loud music.
One training video I watched was incredibly sexist. All the food service jobs were depicted by women, and the operations were handled by men. The video was made in 1970, so it's pretty easy, in an internal setting, to just not care.
Yeah, 'cause Apple Stores have been around since, like, forever...
If my TeeVee has taught me anything, it's that no matter how far into the future or past we go--even if we travel to other worlds--everybody speaks 20th Century English.
Really? I do iOS development on Snow Leopard on my MBP. I had to hack a few files here and there, but it works fine.
I know it's a bit late, but a quick google reminded me of this, which is what I believe I used.
What a silly bunt.
It is possible mother nature could counterbalance increasing CO2 levels by putting CO2 consuming organisms in to overdrive.
But plants convert CO2 to Carbon and Oxygen. If we increase Oxygen levels, we're more at risk for catastrophic fires! You're already seeing this Colorado!
DEAR GOD, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
Or are you rowdy?
(Ow-Di versus Aw-Di)
Good idea. Maybe they can use the one they cancelled.
No.
Yes, initially, though they appear to figure it out.
Tough to tell. Birds require gravity to swallow, so it'd have to be a really quick flight...
Not sure they've ever tried free-floating ants. They had to engineer an ant farm because the ants would have been crushed by dirt during lift-off.
And that's just after a quick google.
Would you trust this man's opinion as to what is cool and what isn't?
...then, maybe, they'll make a movie out of it.
[...] if you have to touch *every* box to make a change, that's a significant time sink and not a good use of personnel. [...] if the boxes you guys ordered don't work with the setup you want to use, something went wrong.
This is the important part.
It's good that you figured out what was wrong so quickly. Now, which is cheaper for the company: Having you go through 30 boxes today and however many boxes tomorrow and change the settings before they can be imaged with XP or return the 100 boxes to the vendor and have them change them? That depends on the situation--will those machines, in general, be running XP or is it just this lab? Will Windows 7 boot in legacy mode? Which is the best way to go so we don't have to configure each machine we send out separately, which takes valuable and expensive personnel time?
Fun example: My roomate works for a company that makes fishing reels. They have a policy that they will repair issues with their reels for the life of the reel--send in the reel that's dirty and broken and they will fix it or send you a new one. She briefly worked fixing reels, something she really enjoyed. She loved disassembling it and figuring out what was wrong, fixing the problem, reassembling the reel and making it work like new. She was a dedicated worker, coming in and working hard all day fixing reels.
The problem was that when a reel came in, she would set about fixing it. Sometimes she would take the entire day to do so. So the company, paying her $12/hr, spent $96 to repair a reel which cost $50. Sure, the cost in parts to the company was cheap: a penny screw or rubber washer or something like that. Meanwhile, only one reel was fixed that day and there were 9 more waiting to be fixed.
She would complain about her "lazy" co-workers who would "fix" five reels in a day by guessing that fixing it "would be too much work" and would just order them a new one. She would complain about her boss that was on her case about fixing more reels in a day--didn't they understand that tearing these things down and putting them back together took time?! Even when they explained it to her that she was costing the company more money by doing what she was doing, she just couldn't seem to understand that it was sometimes cheaper to send them a new one than to fix the old one and the ability to estimate how much time it would take to fix the reel was an important skill.
Eventually, the company moved her out of fixing reels and put her in a different position where she has excelled.
So the point is that figuring out what was wrong is a good thing. But, in the bigger picture, it might have been more cost-effective for the company to return the computers and get ones that were correctly configured for their needs than paying someone to reconfigure the machines themselves.
That was almost a whole decade wasted from the time that John Sculley, the man who saved Apple, was kicked out.
Rubbish.
First, they wouldn't have kicked Steve Jobs out in the first place if the stuff he was in charge of was actually selling. Remember the Apple III? Steve's baby and it bombed. Macintosh sold way below estimates when it was first released.
Sculley gave us Macintosh II, 24-bit color, multiple display support, QuickTime, and Hypercard. On the hardware side, Apple pretty much invented the "mini tower" (Macintosh IIcx), was one of the first companies to include CD-ROM drives standard on PCs, ADB--precursor to USB, and the switch to RISC architecture.
One difference is that Sculley wasn't the vibrant guy Steve Jobs was. Jean-Louis Gassée was sort of the "personality" at Apple, Sculley was more the book-keeper.
You want to blame somebody, blame Spindler. Now there was a useless CEO.
For a consumer device, a stylus is just another thing to lose. Or, as Steve put it, "If you see a stylus, they blew it."
I'll throw my tinfoil hat into the ring.
Sometimes it's better to blame people than to blame nature. People can be fixed. Nature, not so much.
"Oh, the problem was this collusion between industry and regulators. So we'll pass some new laws and we'll hire watchers to watch the watchers and everything will be just fine. We can turn the other reactors back on."
Compared to:
"Oh, the problem was that this big tsunami--the biggest tsunami in 1,142 years--came along and there's no way we could plan for such an event and, by the way, all of these other reactors could possibly be affected by something unforeseen and make those areas unlivable and there really isn't anything that can realistically be done. But we'll turn those other reactors back on and just hope that something bad doesn't happen."
And if it has a 1024x768 screen (same was as iPad 1 & iPad 2), it will accomodate the apps fine.
Of course, it will have to come with sandpaper so users can file down their fingers.
Actually, I was just thinking that it would be packaged in a pill that helps you lose weight. You may look like you weigh 300 pounds, but you're really only 98 pounds! Step on the scale and see for yourself.
The ability to dynamically change your weight might also be interesting for American football. Next time Vince Wilfork gets an interception, dial his weight down and he's suddenly sprinting for the goal line.
See?! Apple was right in trying to stop this travesty from getting into the public's hands!
I knew Apple were the good guys... *dreamily looking at my picture of Steve Jobs*
(The above is intended as humor...)