There may even be precedent for this concept... IANAL, but what's the logic behind a "diplomatic pouch"? I believe they are only big enough to allow a limited amount of a thing. A pouch may be big enough to bring a gun in, but not big enough to bring a tank in. A gun is no threat to a country, a tank... somewhat more of a threat. Similarly, I believe the founders of the diplomatic pouch idea felt that ideas are not a threat to a country. Or at least ideas originating from a country that we have a diplomatic relationship with are not a threat.
In essence, there is no such thing - it is in fact any item appropriately documented as being such in nature. Indeed, crypto machines, etc, are routinely brought in - and more than once, countries have or have attempted to extradite people / remove dead bodies via the "diplomatic bag".
Yeah, and Dominos claimed for years to make the best delivery pizza. Now they're running commercials which talk about "Alright, enough people have told us they suck, so we changed things". "Don't be evil" is a marketing slogan that everyone seems to have bought into like an Eleventh Commandment.
Technically, Rebel EFI doesn't crack Apple restrictions, that still needs to be done by other means. It's an EFI emulator. Nice use of rhetoric, though. Not quite at the level of "You wouldn't steal a car, don't pirate a movie", though.
I see a huge problem there. How are you meant to receive calls? Your cell is no longer on your carrier's network. And unless MagicJack has roaming arrangements with all the major carriers..., you're out of contact...
So report them. And doubly so when they use the Opticom to do so (Opticom is the traffic light-changing system) - though many areas the use of that is tracked, so it's less likely to be abused.
I know I would be REAMED by our chief if they heard, even informally, about us flashing lights or such to skip through a red in our ambulance.
If the exemptions for emergency vehicles wasn't in place, then emergency vehicles could be ticketed for violating the rules.
I can guarantee you this has happened. Recently, there was a case that got fairly wide coverage when an ambulance (lights and sirens) en route to hospital with a cardiac patient overtook a cop who was responding to a gas station robbery (where the suspect had already left the scene, and there were other officers on scene). Cop actually pulled the ambulance over and cited them for "failing to yield" to him. Caught on video too, with the patient's son pleading with the cops to follow them to the hospital and work it out there (one of the cops got into something of a physical altercation with the paramedic, too, just for added hilarity).
512 MB internal storage + 4GB flash card vs 16GB (32GB with upgrade)
That sound is a muscle tearing as it grasps at a straw. Funny, it always seems to happen with Apple. Doesn't matter that all the other specs are superior, an Apple fan will say "but it has no X! ergo it is fail/inferior/different", where X can be one criteria, often as small as "Bluetooth 2.1 versus 2.0", or "integrated SD reader or webcam".
That being said, storage is useful. So that's why my Nokia N97 has 32GB on-board by default, and a 32GB SDHC in slot.
My favorite, back in the day, was listening to a salesman claim that the 8x IDE CD recorder should be put back on the shelf, and instead that a 2x SCSI CD recorder (and necessary SCSI card) should be purchased, as "SCSI is a faster interface, so in fact 2x speed SCSI will be faster than 8x IDE" (and in addition to being wrong, would also cost about $100 more)...
I bought my wife a computer - at Best Buy, no less - just a month ago. Met all the criteria there. Salesman attempted the usual obligatory "smoke up the ass" on my wife, she said "no, it's fine, my husband says this will do, and he's in IT". Salesman then says to me, "Oh, so he'll know then that you'll need an external USB drive for backup, etc." "No, I'll back things up to the network." "I'm not sure that'll work, this machine has a lot of disk space." "It's fine. I have 8TB free on my network server." "You mean 8GB. This computer has a 640GB drive, that will never fit." "No, I actually mean eight. tera. bytes. As in 8,000 GB."...
Now that I think of it, she bought her netbook there too. "Optimized". We eventually convinced them to "waive" the optimization fee (I was intending on blowing away XP anyway, and putting Windows 7 on it). Interestingly though, they didn't do it that way. They gave us a $40 discount on the laptop, and charged us for the optimization, "so it will show as a sale for the optimization"... Whatever.
This is a no-concern. Honestly, look bad in whose eyes? Unless they have evidence, they can't keep you arrested. In court, they can't use "he wanted a lawyer" as evidence. So what if they don't like you?
To paraphrase Chris Rock, "Why didn't Kobe use Johnnie Cochran?" "Well, if you use Johnnie Cochran, you like guilty!" "Sure you do, but you're at home. If I gotta choose between looking innocent in jail, and looking guilty at the mall, I know which way I'm going."
Here's what I know from personal experience in dealing with the VA, the SSA, and Medicare. I know that finding someone to talk to is extremely difficult. I know that if a claim is denied there is almost zero recourse in appealing. I DO NOT want to have to deal with a similar bureaucracy for my family's health care.
LMAO. As someone who has worked in the Health Insurance industry... though you might find someone to talk to, I guarantee you there's "almost zero recourse in appealing" a denied claim. The people you speak to are not empowered to authorize what may be tens of thousands of dollars of medical bills that actuaries, accountants and statisticians have determined not to be eligible for coverage, and that programmers have then algorithmized. At best you might find someone who can "re-jig" the break down of services rendered in such a way that some might be accepted, but in the end, they'll be run through the algorithm again.
In the immortal words of Little Britain, if "Computer Says No"... you're shit outta luck. The "Government healthcare will be a mindless bureaucracy" is a complete red herring in the argument over health care.
I feel your pain. I went from an environment where I was asked to do similar, to a home office environment where I have a desktop with a 3.2GHz Core 2 Duo, 12GB of memory, talking to a machine under my desk that is running a Core i7 2.93GHz, 16GB of RAM, 8TB of RAID, and about 6 virtual machines. I couldn't tell you the practical difference between that and 6 physical machines, even under heavy load. Yay XenServer and paravirtualization.
Yeah, it's not like they make a phone with 32gb, expandable to 64gb, a 640x360 24 bit touchscreen, 5mp camera, support for TV/component out, HSDPA, Wifi, BT 2.0, capable of 640x480 30fps video recording, FM radio and transmitter, real GPS, compass, VOIP/SIP support...
LMAO, so you're saying that the iPhone is three times as popular in the rest of the world as it is in the US?
Sorry, still crying with laughter.
Oh, 12% smartphone marketshare? Awesome. No-one could beat that. From the link you submitted:
Nokia is the leader worldwide in smartphone sales, with 42.4 percent of the market. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion comes in second with 15.9 percent. In North America, Apple is in second place behind RIM, with iPhones accounting for over a quarter of all smartphones.
Protip: 12.9% is "A Really Long Way(TM)" behind 42.4%...
An article? Hah. More like "ten bulletpoints that will take you a good 20-30 seconds to skim, but get us several ad impressions", including "insights" such as:
2003 The Windows Mobile brand is launched with Windows Mobile 2003. Windows Mobile is widely used by businesses to do work on the move.
Wow. Or:
2005 Sony Ericsson launches a superb new camera phone called the K750i and a great music phone called the W800i. These two handsets establish Sony Ericsson as a serious consumer player.
Awesome. Just awesome. If you think there's more depth than this, there's not. That is the sum total of the analysis of those two years.
you could even make the commentator act like a dumbshit (hey lets see what happens if I jump off this boulder!)
Steve Irwin had a lock on that one, "Fwoar, I just slapped that crocodile in the testicles, he's not going to like that now, is he?", "I just stole this snake's eggs out from under her, she's probably gonna wanna have a go at me!"...
And forcing my way past flight attendants and taking the inevitable bullshit when I finally land
When you land? They carry handcuffs and tasers onboard. Do you think you're asked to wear the cuffs when you push too far? Or do you think that US Marshal gets up out of his seat, and hits you with the taser, if need be? It's not like Inglourious Basterds:
You'll be shot for this! Nah, I don't think so... more like chewed out. I been chewed out before.
Wasn't that reliability data based on 'how many devices they saw for repair'? I have this funny feeling, maybe only a suspicion, that more Apple users are likely to buy AppleCare than other extended warranties, and thus third parties would see less Apple devices.
As someone who has worked in a modern Emergency Department, trust me, you want, need a ruggedized device - the WinMo devices we used for scanning patient ID tags, ordering and printing labels, and even the label printer devices themselves were ruggedized. An "extended warranty against accidental damage" does little to protect against the ingestment of (possibly infected) bodily fluids that you might see in a medical setting than a ruggedized device does.
No. They weren't. That's why you can't find the outcome.
In August 2005, lead interrogator Specialist Glendale Wells of the US army pleaded guilty at a military court to pushing Dilawar against a wall and doing nothing to prevent other soldiers from abusing him. Wells was subsequently sentenced to two months in a military prison. Two other soldiers convicted in connection with the case escaped custodial sentences. The sentences were criticized by Human Rights Watch.
The other evening I was at the movies and got an emergency email from my sister that my dad had a heart attack and was in the hospital (I had turned the ringer off, as I always do when I'm at the movies). THere were a few emails back and forth between her, me, my mother, and my brother coordinating flights, airport pickups, etc, so we could all be there at his side by Christmas.
And yet you didn't actually think it might be a good idea to leave the movie and do all your emergency email coordination in the lobby. Instead, you stayed in the theater. Why? So you didn't miss a minute of the latest Judd Apatow film, apparently of an equal priority to your father's heart attack?
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LMAO. You owe me for the coffee sprayed over my screen.
Pray tell, dear linguist, is there a style of writing, of syntax, grammar, and of vocabulary that defines a programmer as being "MS"?
Thousands of ears are curious. I await your reply.
I doubt it will have merit, though...
In essence, there is no such thing - it is in fact any item appropriately documented as being such in nature. Indeed, crypto machines, etc, are routinely brought in - and more than once, countries have or have attempted to extradite people / remove dead bodies via the "diplomatic bag".
Yeah, and Dominos claimed for years to make the best delivery pizza. Now they're running commercials which talk about "Alright, enough people have told us they suck, so we changed things". "Don't be evil" is a marketing slogan that everyone seems to have bought into like an Eleventh Commandment.
Actually, I'd go a step further. "Tortious interference" - where one party induces another to break a contract with a third party.
Technically, Rebel EFI doesn't crack Apple restrictions, that still needs to be done by other means. It's an EFI emulator. Nice use of rhetoric, though. Not quite at the level of "You wouldn't steal a car, don't pirate a movie", though.
I see a huge problem there. How are you meant to receive calls? Your cell is no longer on your carrier's network. And unless MagicJack has roaming arrangements with all the major carriers..., you're out of contact...
You, Sir, have made my day.
I know I would be REAMED by our chief if they heard, even informally, about us flashing lights or such to skip through a red in our ambulance.
I can guarantee you this has happened. Recently, there was a case that got fairly wide coverage when an ambulance (lights and sirens) en route to hospital with a cardiac patient overtook a cop who was responding to a gas station robbery (where the suspect had already left the scene, and there were other officers on scene). Cop actually pulled the ambulance over and cited them for "failing to yield" to him. Caught on video too, with the patient's son pleading with the cops to follow them to the hospital and work it out there (one of the cops got into something of a physical altercation with the paramedic, too, just for added hilarity).
That sound is a muscle tearing as it grasps at a straw. Funny, it always seems to happen with Apple. Doesn't matter that all the other specs are superior, an Apple fan will say "but it has no X! ergo it is fail/inferior/different", where X can be one criteria, often as small as "Bluetooth 2.1 versus 2.0", or "integrated SD reader or webcam".
That being said, storage is useful. So that's why my Nokia N97 has 32GB on-board by default, and a 32GB SDHC in slot.
I bought my wife a computer - at Best Buy, no less - just a month ago. Met all the criteria there. Salesman attempted the usual obligatory "smoke up the ass" on my wife, she said "no, it's fine, my husband says this will do, and he's in IT". Salesman then says to me, "Oh, so he'll know then that you'll need an external USB drive for backup, etc." "No, I'll back things up to the network." "I'm not sure that'll work, this machine has a lot of disk space." "It's fine. I have 8TB free on my network server." "You mean 8GB. This computer has a 640GB drive, that will never fit." "No, I actually mean eight. tera. bytes. As in 8,000 GB." ...
Now that I think of it, she bought her netbook there too. "Optimized". We eventually convinced them to "waive" the optimization fee (I was intending on blowing away XP anyway, and putting Windows 7 on it). Interestingly though, they didn't do it that way. They gave us a $40 discount on the laptop, and charged us for the optimization, "so it will show as a sale for the optimization"... Whatever.
Awesome. I can see how that would be of value on a brand new, unbooted PC. All that fragmentation...
Alright, fine - how about Shadow Copying which has been in Windows since XP?
To paraphrase Chris Rock, "Why didn't Kobe use Johnnie Cochran?" "Well, if you use Johnnie Cochran, you like guilty!" "Sure you do, but you're at home. If I gotta choose between looking innocent in jail, and looking guilty at the mall, I know which way I'm going."
LMAO. As someone who has worked in the Health Insurance industry... though you might find someone to talk to, I guarantee you there's "almost zero recourse in appealing" a denied claim. The people you speak to are not empowered to authorize what may be tens of thousands of dollars of medical bills that actuaries, accountants and statisticians have determined not to be eligible for coverage, and that programmers have then algorithmized. At best you might find someone who can "re-jig" the break down of services rendered in such a way that some might be accepted, but in the end, they'll be run through the algorithm again.
In the immortal words of Little Britain, if "Computer Says No"... you're shit outta luck. The "Government healthcare will be a mindless bureaucracy" is a complete red herring in the argument over health care.
I feel your pain. I went from an environment where I was asked to do similar, to a home office environment where I have a desktop with a 3.2GHz Core 2 Duo, 12GB of memory, talking to a machine under my desk that is running a Core i7 2.93GHz, 16GB of RAM, 8TB of RAID, and about 6 virtual machines. I couldn't tell you the practical difference between that and 6 physical machines, even under heavy load. Yay XenServer and paravirtualization.
I didn't infringe upon i4i's patent. i4i was made whole by the damages awarded to them by the court against Microsoft.
i4i has no grounds to seek restitution from me, even if I continue to use an unpatched Word.
Oh wait, they do.
Sorry, still crying with laughter.
Oh, 12% smartphone marketshare? Awesome. No-one could beat that. From the link you submitted:
Protip: 12.9% is "A Really Long Way(TM)" behind 42.4%...
Wow. Or:
Awesome. Just awesome. If you think there's more depth than this, there's not. That is the sum total of the analysis of those two years.
Steve Irwin had a lock on that one, "Fwoar, I just slapped that crocodile in the testicles, he's not going to like that now, is he?", "I just stole this snake's eggs out from under her, she's probably gonna wanna have a go at me!"...
When you land? They carry handcuffs and tasers onboard. Do you think you're asked to wear the cuffs when you push too far? Or do you think that US Marshal gets up out of his seat, and hits you with the taser, if need be? It's not like Inglourious Basterds:
As someone who has worked in a modern Emergency Department, trust me, you want, need a ruggedized device - the WinMo devices we used for scanning patient ID tags, ordering and printing labels, and even the label printer devices themselves were ruggedized. An "extended warranty against accidental damage" does little to protect against the ingestment of (possibly infected) bodily fluids that you might see in a medical setting than a ruggedized device does.
And yet you didn't actually think it might be a good idea to leave the movie and do all your emergency email coordination in the lobby. Instead, you stayed in the theater. Why? So you didn't miss a minute of the latest Judd Apatow film, apparently of an equal priority to your father's heart attack?