I can think of a few, especially with the medical field. If a hospital can't get in touch with the doctors on call because they all have similarly compromised phones then I'd imagine that patient care would suffer. Or if the phones become so glitchy that Epocrate's drug interaction checker doesn't work, leading to that step geting skipped since there's no time to do it manually (3! to 15! possible interactions per patient). Or the doctor's account on the EMR system is compromised so patient information is leaked and used nefariously.
Since you mention Epocrates, I'm going to presume you're in the field. To which I say, if your on-call system for emergency physicians relies solely on cell systems, you're doing something wrong. As someone also in the field, a day job involving EMR, part time EMS, training as a full time medic, if there's even the slightest possibility you might be required on call/demand in our system, pre-hospital or hospital, you have a cell phone and a pager (and in our case we run a pager network, with county-owned towers to ensure as high a quality of reception as possible).
XP, Vista, 7, one version indeed. Yet you have no qualms calling each release of OS X a new version... Let's look at Snow Leopard... the "innovation"... Exchange support, malware checking, "minor improvements to Expose", "minor improvements to the Dock", "more responsive Finder with large icons", "smart eject", "autocorrect", "cleaned up Services menu", "Quicktime X", "enhanced text selection in Preview". Lest you think that's a biased interpretation of SL, that came from macworld.com.
Hint: there's more to "innovation", across the spectrum of the product range, than "oh, shiny". What's innovative in the SQL sphere might generate a giant yawn from your average Mac user, but doesn't lessen the innovation.
For my bias? I used to work at Microsoft, and now develop Linux applications on a Mac Pro... read into that what you will.
MS is big - but why is it that big? Why does it have that many employees? You need only that many to manage your sales etc - they for sure have plenty more programmers than Apple. On the other hand they output less software it seems.
Wait, what? MS makes less software than Apple?
Let's see: Windows, Office and adjuncts, Project, Visio, etc, IIS, SQL Server, Hyper V Server, SharePoint, Streets and Trips, Dynamics Great Plains, Expression, Visual Studio, BizTalk, Commerce Server, Exchange, Forefront. Then games: Halo, Forza, Flight Sim, Gears of War, Fable...
Versus what: OS X, Aperture, Final Cut, Filemaker, iLife, iWork, iTunes, Logic.
I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that MS is outputting less software than Apple...
You sound like the kind of guy that goes on 4chan and shouts "Man the harpoons!" if someone posts a picture of a girl who is anything more than a posterchild for a pro-ana group.
Exactly. My credit union has waived fees on numerous occasions, dug deep into their clearing house internal records and made them available to us during a dispute with our property management company over rent payments and the alleged lateness thereof...
AND has a policy of a) crediting all deposits before withdrawals, b) giving 24 hours grace on any overdraft, and c) assessing all withdrawals during a day in a "smallest to largest" format, to minimize the number of overdrafts generated (although, on the two or three occasions where we had more than one, they seem to also have a non-stated 'one overdraft fee per day' policy.
My millionaire aunt got hit with a 50 dollar fee once and she was talking to the one of the VPs of the bank. Try asking for escalation when you have less than 100 bucks in your account.
Perhaps yes, perhaps no. My wife had an issue with a US Bank credit card that she almost never used, with only a $500 credit line on it. She was late, got a fee which overlimited her, and got a subsequent fee for that. They reversed both, told her to make a payment, $x. Turns out $x was a little small and three days later she was reassessed those fees, as the computer didn't view $x as the minimum payment.
US Bank's credit card department wouldn't entertain the error as being even worth investigating. In their mind, the fact that they had "courtesy waived" fees previously meant that they wouldn't again. They wouldn't accept that we weren't asking for a courtesy waiver, but that although we appreciated it, we were asking them to investigate their error (and had it been shown that my wife was in the wrong, would have accepted it).
No dice.
Even our local branch manager spent 90 minutes on the phone with them with us in her office, but she held no sway.
My wife said "fuck it, we'll pay, and close the account".
I told her I had one last trick... I wrote a letter explaining this, explaining our frustration, the goodwill it had destroyed, years of loyal, though small customer... I had my wife sign the letter, and I addressed and mailed it to US Bancorp's Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer. My wife? "What's the point? They won't care."
Two weeks later, she got a phone call from him, apologizing, offering to reimburse all fees and give her account a $200 credit as a gesture of regret... very little to them, but they could have done a lot less...
The point was that saying "Oh, but they swore that there were weapons/they did nothing wrong", in and of itself, means somewhere between diddly and squat.
"Person accused of wrongdoing is willing to swear they're innocent. News at 11!"
Everyone I've discussed the video with has agreed that it does look like the guy was preparing to fire an RPG from around the corner.
Eh, maybe if that's what you want to see. Watch it with a more objective eye and you'll realize, as military professionals should certainly realize, you hold an RPG over your shoulder, not up to your face. And if you can see enough perspective to think that the length warrants consideration as a weapon, then you'll see that you can see it is held to his face...
Yes but you have no combat experience, how does a 30-40 cm long camera relate to a 1m long rpg?
And none in photojournalism...
A Canon 1Ds measures 6 x 6 x 4" deep. A Canon 400mm 2.8/L IS lens, which I have used, is 14" long, BEFORE you put a lens hood on it, like you might in a desert in the middle of the day. The aperture of said lens hood is a circular hole close to 10" in diameter.
Speaking as someone who used to work in the comfort of a chair in a climate-controlled room, and who traded that career for a life-or-death, make-a-decision-right-the-hell-now (firefighter/EMS, soon to be fire/paramedic), I can definitely state that I'm not sure I'd have made the proper decision.
That being said, if you're not sure, you're not sure. You don't open up with a cannon "just in case". There were several gray areas in that video (some less gray than others - I felt the entire operation seemed a little less than professional), but to use your analogy:
If you are a police sniper, and you are watching a hostage scenario through your scope, and are currently unable to determine if the soul in your sights is a 'viable target', that means you don't shoot. It doesn't mean you shoot, just in case it is.
Sometimes, unfortunately, this means you forgo a good angle, a good shot, a righteous shot. Sometimes that might even lead to further injury, even death, perhaps even to innocents.
That, unfortunately, is the way of things.
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All that can be found in the report and sworn statements of the soldiers who came on scene.
Apropos of anything else, I laughed.
I seem to recall our soldiers swearing oaths on statements made to military investigators, courts martial, and so on, that nothing untoward or unprofessional happened at Abu Ghraib.
A little while later, some of those soldiers were revealed as posing in some photos that gained quite a bit of infamy...
Pre-teen children are, most often, civilians. As are Reuters journalists...
How do you know they weren't receiving fire?
People under fire usually don't casually mill around in large open spaces talking to each other...
How do you know they could even see the helicopter?
If you're in an AH-64 Apache that is close enough that it needs to manoeuver around the outer wall of a building, or that can fly around the circumference of a minivan in under a minute to get into a better shooting angle for its 20mm cannon, in the middle of the day, I GUARANTEE that the people milling around on the ground, in the open can see you, unless blind, and can hear you, unless deaf.
Which would of course have nothing to do with the fact that the documentary revealed them to be something of an insider's clique not above a bit of favoritism to their own, disdain, suspicion and skepticism of others and their claims?
Ahhh, "lately" is such a useful word. Allows you to completely ignore similar things happening to Democrats. Harry Reid supporters were deliberately misdirecting people going to the Tea Party rally last week? Say it ain't so! It's not like Republicans would evermisdirectpeople, especially not when it was as important as going to vote, not just a rally. Oh, wait...
threatening a guy who was reporting and pelting the charter buses with eggs
Impressive multitasking! Reporting AND pelting charter buses with eggs! So intentionally causing damage to property whilst recording license plates and such ISN'T threatening, only verbally threatening is? I'm confused! My head spins!
I did search for Kenneth Gladney... I was kinda curious about your description, since most reports I read stated that he is a Democrat-leaning supporter, who happened to be selling merchandise outside a rally. Thugs? Sure. Not sure there was much proof of SEIU involvement, or that it happened "for supporting the Tea Party".
Frankly I'd prefer a radio tuner over a camera on my phone/music player. It'd be useful when attending events that have their own broadcasts (F1 and Nascar racing comes to mind).
Nokia N97. Front/back cameras (and the main camera is much nicer than the iPhone). Radio tuner, and transmitter. Mine has 64GB storage... had a few issues with early firmware, but now running quite well.
Sorry, I'm just trying to recollect - if you could remind me, that would be awesome - just who are you to tell me what I should or shouldn't be using to do something?
They're just hiring people who don't understand the product, and aren't trained to know better.
Which is funny, as BB's rebuttal was that they "only just trained staff last week" (which either means their staff have really shitty recall, or that BB's training really sucks... or both...
If he persists you say "You are now harassing me and I will call the police if you do not stop."
Go on, then, and when the police arrive tell them what lead to you calling. You'll be lucky if YOU aren't charged with wasting police time. "Officer, I entered these private premises to buy a product for them, but they attempted to sell me more than I was looking for. Rather than leaving the store, I called 911."
Oh, don't think I was being elitist... I have a $50 8 port D-link gigE switch, and a $30 Netgear 5 port switch, and just to make life interesting, my wife and I's PCs, the media center etc, are on the 8 port, and we have 2 NASes (1 FreeNAS box with 4TB of storage), our firewall (running pfSense on a Comcast 50/5 connection, as I work from home), and a XenServer machine running several Linux and Windows VMs on the 5 port, so there is a lot of interplay of traffic... I usually see between 300 and 600mbps depending on what I'm doing, and this is good enough for me.
Random fun fact: despite what it might claim about being a 'switch', if your consumer 10/100/1000 device has only 1 collision light, it is probably barely smarter than a hub, if that...
And yet for every iPhone / iPad devotee, you'll often hear "But it IS running a real OS, that's OS X there! That's why it's better than Symbian, WinMo, etc!"... I'm confused... what exactly is the iPad running, then?:P
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Since you mention Epocrates, I'm going to presume you're in the field. To which I say, if your on-call system for emergency physicians relies solely on cell systems, you're doing something wrong. As someone also in the field, a day job involving EMR, part time EMS, training as a full time medic, if there's even the slightest possibility you might be required on call/demand in our system, pre-hospital or hospital, you have a cell phone and a pager (and in our case we run a pager network, with county-owned towers to ensure as high a quality of reception as possible).
Hint: there's more to "innovation", across the spectrum of the product range, than "oh, shiny". What's innovative in the SQL sphere might generate a giant yawn from your average Mac user, but doesn't lessen the innovation.
For my bias? I used to work at Microsoft, and now develop Linux applications on a Mac Pro... read into that what you will.
Wait, what? MS makes less software than Apple?
Let's see: Windows, Office and adjuncts, Project, Visio, etc, IIS, SQL Server, Hyper V Server, SharePoint, Streets and Trips, Dynamics Great Plains, Expression, Visual Studio, BizTalk, Commerce Server, Exchange, Forefront. Then games: Halo, Forza, Flight Sim, Gears of War, Fable...
Versus what: OS X, Aperture, Final Cut, Filemaker, iLife, iWork, iTunes, Logic.
I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that MS is outputting less software than Apple...
Interesting... which world is this?
You sound like the kind of guy that goes on 4chan and shouts "Man the harpoons!" if someone posts a picture of a girl who is anything more than a posterchild for a pro-ana group.
AND has a policy of a) crediting all deposits before withdrawals, b) giving 24 hours grace on any overdraft, and c) assessing all withdrawals during a day in a "smallest to largest" format, to minimize the number of overdrafts generated (although, on the two or three occasions where we had more than one, they seem to also have a non-stated 'one overdraft fee per day' policy.
Perhaps yes, perhaps no. My wife had an issue with a US Bank credit card that she almost never used, with only a $500 credit line on it. She was late, got a fee which overlimited her, and got a subsequent fee for that. They reversed both, told her to make a payment, $x. Turns out $x was a little small and three days later she was reassessed those fees, as the computer didn't view $x as the minimum payment.
US Bank's credit card department wouldn't entertain the error as being even worth investigating. In their mind, the fact that they had "courtesy waived" fees previously meant that they wouldn't again. They wouldn't accept that we weren't asking for a courtesy waiver, but that although we appreciated it, we were asking them to investigate their error (and had it been shown that my wife was in the wrong, would have accepted it).
No dice.
Even our local branch manager spent 90 minutes on the phone with them with us in her office, but she held no sway.
My wife said "fuck it, we'll pay, and close the account".
I told her I had one last trick... I wrote a letter explaining this, explaining our frustration, the goodwill it had destroyed, years of loyal, though small customer... I had my wife sign the letter, and I addressed and mailed it to US Bancorp's Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer. My wife? "What's the point? They won't care."
Two weeks later, she got a phone call from him, apologizing, offering to reimburse all fees and give her account a $200 credit as a gesture of regret... very little to them, but they could have done a lot less...
"I've upped my offer. Now, up yours!"
Yeesh.
The point was that saying "Oh, but they swore that there were weapons/they did nothing wrong", in and of itself, means somewhere between diddly and squat.
"Person accused of wrongdoing is willing to swear they're innocent. News at 11!"
Eh, maybe if that's what you want to see. Watch it with a more objective eye and you'll realize, as military professionals should certainly realize, you hold an RPG over your shoulder, not up to your face. And if you can see enough perspective to think that the length warrants consideration as a weapon, then you'll see that you can see it is held to his face...
And none in photojournalism ...
A Canon 1Ds measures 6 x 6 x 4" deep. A Canon 400mm 2.8/L IS lens, which I have used, is 14" long, BEFORE you put a lens hood on it, like you might in a desert in the middle of the day. The aperture of said lens hood is a circular hole close to 10" in diameter.
Don't even start me on a 600mm lens, at 18"+...
That being said, if you're not sure, you're not sure. You don't open up with a cannon "just in case". There were several gray areas in that video (some less gray than others - I felt the entire operation seemed a little less than professional), but to use your analogy:
If you are a police sniper, and you are watching a hostage scenario through your scope, and are currently unable to determine if the soul in your sights is a 'viable target', that means you don't shoot. It doesn't mean you shoot, just in case it is.
Sometimes, unfortunately, this means you forgo a good angle, a good shot, a righteous shot. Sometimes that might even lead to further injury, even death, perhaps even to innocents.
That, unfortunately, is the way of things.
Apropos of anything else, I laughed.
I seem to recall our soldiers swearing oaths on statements made to military investigators, courts martial, and so on, that nothing untoward or unprofessional happened at Abu Ghraib.
A little while later, some of those soldiers were revealed as posing in some photos that gained quite a bit of infamy...
Pre-teen children are, most often, civilians. As are Reuters journalists...
Which would of course have nothing to do with the fact that the documentary revealed them to be something of an insider's clique not above a bit of favoritism to their own, disdain, suspicion and skepticism of others and their claims?
Impressive multitasking! Reporting AND pelting charter buses with eggs! So intentionally causing damage to property whilst recording license plates and such ISN'T threatening, only verbally threatening is? I'm confused! My head spins!
I did search for Kenneth Gladney... I was kinda curious about your description, since most reports I read stated that he is a Democrat-leaning supporter, who happened to be selling merchandise outside a rally. Thugs? Sure. Not sure there was much proof of SEIU involvement, or that it happened "for supporting the Tea Party".
Nokia N97. Front/back cameras (and the main camera is much nicer than the iPhone). Radio tuner, and transmitter. Mine has 64GB storage... had a few issues with early firmware, but now running quite well.
You appear to have confused the words 'need' and 'choice', with unfortunate consequences for your argument.
Have you considered a career at Apple?
Not very "It just works", really...
Which is funny, as BB's rebuttal was that they "only just trained staff last week" (which either means their staff have really shitty recall, or that BB's training really sucks... or both...
Go on, then, and when the police arrive tell them what lead to you calling. You'll be lucky if YOU aren't charged with wasting police time. "Officer, I entered these private premises to buy a product for them, but they attempted to sell me more than I was looking for. Rather than leaving the store, I called 911."
Sounds like a Social Adjustment Disorder...
Oh, don't think I was being elitist... I have a $50 8 port D-link gigE switch, and a $30 Netgear 5 port switch, and just to make life interesting, my wife and I's PCs, the media center etc, are on the 8 port, and we have 2 NASes (1 FreeNAS box with 4TB of storage), our firewall (running pfSense on a Comcast 50/5 connection, as I work from home), and a XenServer machine running several Linux and Windows VMs on the 5 port, so there is a lot of interplay of traffic... I usually see between 300 and 600mbps depending on what I'm doing, and this is good enough for me.
Random fun fact: despite what it might claim about being a 'switch', if your consumer 10/100/1000 device has only 1 collision light, it is probably barely smarter than a hub, if that...
And yet for every iPhone / iPad devotee, you'll often hear "But it IS running a real OS, that's OS X there! That's why it's better than Symbian, WinMo, etc!" ... I'm confused... what exactly is the iPad running, then? :P