Absolutely sure. My wife's 3G runs like a/dog/ with iOS 4 on it. 4.1 is better than 4.0, which was painful, but is still far slower than iOS 3 ever was. She is unimpressed.
But are you okay with paying for MobileMe, which has had so many issues and failings that it's bordering on laughable to define it as "a good service"?
Alternatively, you can presume that, since I am responding to another commenter, I am in fact responding to his claim, rather than hitting reply to the article, and bitching about the issue of not being comped cell phone usage, which is an entirely separate fucking issue.
I've never seen a mobile phone with a built-in feature to count used minutes, other than a prepaid one.
Though not built-in, per se, I've not seen a phone in several years that won't respond with an informative system message when you type "#MIN#" on the keypad.
I know - it's fucking horrible. Like AT&T for example, their interface to do this is a disaster. I have to go to "www.att.com/myWireless", off a button on the front page of AT&T's site, no less, then, get this, they ask for my cell number and a password. Once I enter that in, it's this onerous, convoluted situation where I am forced to let my eyes wander roughly four inches from the top of the page to this tiny graphic that occupies, hmmm, no more than a third of the page width, and has all this legalistic jargon like:
As of October 13, 2010, you have 3 days left in your billing cycle.
And then, under the graphic that purports to show the same data, it tries to bamboozle you with phrases like:
I recently added a global data plan (at a rate of about $1 per day over my regular data plan) for an overseas trip and was shocked to see a $130 data charge that didn't show up until a couple of weeks after the trip.
Maybe you should read more carefully. On all the carriers I've activated global roaming (T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon - I can't imagine Sprint being different), when activating, you are expressly advised that billing reconciliation with international providers may take several weeks and "charges may not be reflected until a later bill".
Perl is actually one of the few languages (perhaps even the only one, but I can't be sure) that try to make sense to someone who's not already well-versed in the field
The parent sued and got a small part of the settlement as part of a suit or the parents didn't sue and got nothing. Unless you have a lawyer, you're not getting anywhere.
Yeah, I think that's part of people's problem. "You got nothin'. We'll do it for you - what with our monopoly on such things - but we're taking the vast majority of the win. Don't like it? Well, you're just shit outta luck, huh?"
On average, lawyers make between 50-100K
Ehhh, not really. In 2006, the middle 50% of lawyers made between $82,000 and $168,000.
The clients themselves can dispute the costs if they wish. Again, the lawyers have to detail their bills.
That's great. And if they say "Phone calls: $2/min in telephony charges, plus standard rate for attorney, plus $30/hr for dictation", the issue isn't in the itemization.
This would be a serious ethical breach opening the door to a legal malpractice suit, disciplinary action, and potentially disbarment for the attorney.
It would be a serious ethical breach. It's also a highly subjective area, and lawyers and bar associations are notoriously difficult to persuade to sanction a lawyer, possibly from fear that they, one day, might be subject to sanctions for such a claim.
Legal malpractice is no joke. About the same amount is paid out in legal malpractice each year as medical malpractice.
Great soundbite. Then you realize that while there are 700,000 physicians in the US (not all practicing), there are 1.7 million active lawyers.
LMAO. You're having a laugh if you think that filing and court fees don't come out of your end of the settlement/award. If the lawyers eat any of that, at all, it's a token sum.
Cases like this are risky endeavors for lawyers. Clients don't have many choices in this kind of case because they are very difficult if not impossible to win. The lawyer and the client, before the case was even filed, assigned value to the risk in a mutually agreed to contract.
Wronged person has no opportunity for recourse other than to utilize services of lawyer at essentially any rate lawyer chooses, because some recourse is better than none. Other than choosing no recourse for a wrong (how about that, a society where justice has a price you have to be able to pay), that sounds almost suspiciously close to "duress", what with a legal monopoly on being admitted to the bar (you cannot represent 'yourself' in a class action).
Now that the risk has been played out and the plaintiff has won, the outcome looks unfair. Before the case, only a crazy person would take the case, even with the huge payout potential. After the case, that crazy person that went all-or-nothing when no one else would is lambasted by a bunch of uninvolved bystanders for being greedy.
Alternatives: crazy person actually is not all that crazy at all, and had a reasonable belief and expectation that there was a significant likelihood of success, however much lawyers like to pull out the "risky endeavour, very difficult if not impossible to win" card.
Or crazy person is entirely crazy, in which case is of suspect judgment. If you jump from a plane without a parachute, you're crazy. You don't become less crazy because you survived, to use your attempt at an analogy.
reestablished my open SSH sessions to my Linux box
Strange... there I was thinking of that little KeyRegenerationInterval parameter - and just how an SSH connection would be re-established following a key mismatch. That is, of course, following the whole issue of the ClientAliveInterval, by default 5 minutes - no response received, connection dropped. Methinks your mind might be deceiving you...
FWIW, the majority of PC laptops (with the exception of high-end and gaming laptops) have integrated Intel GFX hardware.
Hmm? As soon as you hit the heady heights of the ~$450 range, Dell laptops (for one) are offering ATI Mobility Radeon as their standard video card option...
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Then you don't know anything about Amiga OS.
Workbench ROMs, all of which were copyright owned by Commodore and normally only sold with a complete system
Speaking of not knowing anything about Amiga. There was a huge market for Kickstart (the firmware, Workbench was the software) 2.0 ROMs and most people didn't buy a new system to upgrade.
Store policy on pre-optimized units (be they laptops, game consoles, etc.) is that if the sales person cannot "sell" the service to the customer, and the last units are all pre-setup, the customer does not pay for a service that they do not want.
Store policy may well be that. Reality, however, is not. As I've experienced on two separate occasions. "Sorry, we cannot provide the service for free, and it has already been performed."
Often times a customer will gladly pay the 40 bucks for a laptop with no trial software, a full battery charge and all updates
"No trial software" - I saw this once. They'd deleted the icons from the desktop. Not even from the start menu. "A full battery charge" - with LiIon/LiPolymer batteries, the last four laptops I've taken from their boxes had 99%+ battery charge on first plug in. "All updates" - potentially valid, but it's not like manufacturers don't slipstream.
a simple call to the corporate number would fix that issue if it ever occurred to you
I'm not the Best Buy Sales Policeman. Instead I'll go home, and buy it online, and Best Buy will get none of that sale.
Why not just admit that you work for Best Buy? You've posted nine comments in this topic, all defending the practice from various angles. Hell, four of your posts make the same point about network connectivity, which whilst valid, is most definitely in the very small minority - "people who buy a state of the art console, buy games that are as old as the console's original release date (and hence have no firmware), and / or have dialup Internet, or less". Okay then...
his is so far from the truth its not even funny. I'm a Geek Squad Agent and this is not the case at all. In fact if they are the only ones left and you dont want it, you get the service for FREE. You are NEVER EVER EVER required to pay for a service you dont want.
Utter BS. My wife bought a Netbook at BB. Surprise surprise, they were all "pre-optimized". None that hadn't been touched were in stock, surprise surprise - but they had six pre-optimized models below the desk.
I didn't want the pre-optimization (heh, what basically amounted to 'uninstall some Windows features, remove the System Restore image, and install a trial of Norton Antivirus').
They weren't willing to compromise, even at the cost of losing the sale. They lost the sale.
I think he'd be a borderline celebrity. Anyone who is doing a job that only a select handful of people on the planet will ever do, who are trotted out regularly for press conferences and PR, who appear before Congress, who have a TV channel dedicated to showing what they are doing can't really claim to be "a person of no public interest".
I'd love to get an even taller moniter... a 2560x1600 30" S-IPS would be heaven, but for the price you could buy half a dozen cheaper screeens.
This... I upgraded from an S-IPS (early model Westinghouse L2410NM) 24" 1920x1200 this week to a Dell 3007 WFP-HC 30" 2560x1600, and it is another world. Entirely beautiful.
A likely alternative in the market would be that his insurance company would have deals with local fire departments or multi-function firms and if they failed to help the client they'd pay out to replace it and sue the department.
Insurance companies are already using private firefighters to protect "high-value homes" of clients, whilst ignoring other homes burning around them...
Perhaps in this case if his home insurer wanted the assistance of the fire department, they could have footed the bill and added it to his premium.
Firefighters get paid, or there would be no firefighters (AS THIS STORY HAS PROVEN!). The city pays for and has firefighters. The county DOES NOT HAVE firefighters.
Actually, no. 73% of American firefighters are volunteer.
Hefty? My small fire district has 6,000 people, 24 sq. mi. We have three engines, two tenders (water supply), two ambulances, command vehicles, three stations, 8 full time staff, and approx. 50 volunteers who receive approximately $5,000 each a year for their efforts. Plus all assorted and associated equipment. Our "hefty" county tax for this fire service is $1.05 per $1,000 of assessed property value.
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Absolutely sure. My wife's 3G runs like a /dog/ with iOS 4 on it. 4.1 is better than 4.0, which was painful, but is still far slower than iOS 3 ever was. She is unimpressed.
But are you okay with paying for MobileMe, which has had so many issues and failings that it's bordering on laughable to define it as "a good service"?
Yeah, because at $1MM for 50TB, a $20MM investment by a publicly owned company in such a thing would entirely fly under the radar...
Or you can choose not to.
Though not built-in, per se, I've not seen a phone in several years that won't respond with an informative system message when you type "#MIN#" on the keypad.
And then, under the graphic that purports to show the same data, it tries to bamboozle you with phrases like:
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This is the kind of shit we shouldn't stand for.
Maybe you should read more carefully. On all the carriers I've activated global roaming (T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon - I can't imagine Sprint being different), when activating, you are expressly advised that billing reconciliation with international providers may take several weeks and "charges may not be reflected until a later bill".
Hmmm, yeah, I can see exactly what you mean ...
Yeah, I think that's part of people's problem. "You got nothin'. We'll do it for you - what with our monopoly on such things - but we're taking the vast majority of the win. Don't like it? Well, you're just shit outta luck, huh?"
Ehhh, not really. In 2006, the middle 50% of lawyers made between $82,000 and $168,000.
That's great. And if they say "Phone calls: $2/min in telephony charges, plus standard rate for attorney, plus $30/hr for dictation", the issue isn't in the itemization.
It would be a serious ethical breach. It's also a highly subjective area, and lawyers and bar associations are notoriously difficult to persuade to sanction a lawyer, possibly from fear that they, one day, might be subject to sanctions for such a claim.
Great soundbite. Then you realize that while there are 700,000 physicians in the US (not all practicing), there are 1.7 million active lawyers.
LMAO. You're having a laugh if you think that filing and court fees don't come out of your end of the settlement/award. If the lawyers eat any of that, at all, it's a token sum.
Wronged person has no opportunity for recourse other than to utilize services of lawyer at essentially any rate lawyer chooses, because some recourse is better than none. Other than choosing no recourse for a wrong (how about that, a society where justice has a price you have to be able to pay), that sounds almost suspiciously close to "duress", what with a legal monopoly on being admitted to the bar (you cannot represent 'yourself' in a class action).
Alternatives: crazy person actually is not all that crazy at all, and had a reasonable belief and expectation that there was a significant likelihood of success, however much lawyers like to pull out the "risky endeavour, very difficult if not impossible to win" card.
Or crazy person is entirely crazy, in which case is of suspect judgment. If you jump from a plane without a parachute, you're crazy. You don't become less crazy because you survived, to use your attempt at an analogy.
Err, I was running a Hackintosh with an X58 board well over a year ago...
Strange ... there I was thinking of that little KeyRegenerationInterval parameter - and just how an SSH connection would be re-established following a key mismatch. That is, of course, following the whole issue of the ClientAliveInterval, by default 5 minutes - no response received, connection dropped. Methinks your mind might be deceiving you ...
Hmm? As soon as you hit the heady heights of the ~$450 range, Dell laptops (for one) are offering ATI Mobility Radeon as their standard video card option...
Speaking of not knowing anything about Amiga. There was a huge market for Kickstart (the firmware, Workbench was the software) 2.0 ROMs and most people didn't buy a new system to upgrade.
Store policy may well be that. Reality, however, is not. As I've experienced on two separate occasions. "Sorry, we cannot provide the service for free, and it has already been performed."
"No trial software" - I saw this once. They'd deleted the icons from the desktop. Not even from the start menu. "A full battery charge" - with LiIon/LiPolymer batteries, the last four laptops I've taken from their boxes had 99%+ battery charge on first plug in. "All updates" - potentially valid, but it's not like manufacturers don't slipstream.
I'm not the Best Buy Sales Policeman. Instead I'll go home, and buy it online, and Best Buy will get none of that sale.
Why not just admit that you work for Best Buy? You've posted nine comments in this topic, all defending the practice from various angles. Hell, four of your posts make the same point about network connectivity, which whilst valid, is most definitely in the very small minority - "people who buy a state of the art console, buy games that are as old as the console's original release date (and hence have no firmware), and / or have dialup Internet, or less". Okay then...
Utter BS. My wife bought a Netbook at BB. Surprise surprise, they were all "pre-optimized". None that hadn't been touched were in stock, surprise surprise - but they had six pre-optimized models below the desk.
I didn't want the pre-optimization (heh, what basically amounted to 'uninstall some Windows features, remove the System Restore image, and install a trial of Norton Antivirus').
They weren't willing to compromise, even at the cost of losing the sale. They lost the sale.
I think he'd be a borderline celebrity. Anyone who is doing a job that only a select handful of people on the planet will ever do, who are trotted out regularly for press conferences and PR, who appear before Congress, who have a TV channel dedicated to showing what they are doing can't really claim to be "a person of no public interest".
~ Yours, A Volunteer Firefighter
This... I upgraded from an S-IPS (early model Westinghouse L2410NM) 24" 1920x1200 this week to a Dell 3007 WFP-HC 30" 2560x1600, and it is another world. Entirely beautiful.
Insurance companies are already using private firefighters to protect "high-value homes" of clients, whilst ignoring other homes burning around them...
Perhaps in this case if his home insurer wanted the assistance of the fire department, they could have footed the bill and added it to his premium.
Actually, no. 73% of American firefighters are volunteer.
Hefty? My small fire district has 6,000 people, 24 sq. mi. We have three engines, two tenders (water supply), two ambulances, command vehicles, three stations, 8 full time staff, and approx. 50 volunteers who receive approximately $5,000 each a year for their efforts. Plus all assorted and associated equipment. Our "hefty" county tax for this fire service is $1.05 per $1,000 of assessed property value.