Communication is also a science. Like all other fields, it can be done ad hoc, or it can be taken seriously, studied, and used methodologically. I do say its the scientists fault if he/she refuses to take the time to work at and understand communication. Just as much as the public's inability to relate to the scientist.
Here is one big tip to all techies out there - listen. Do not jump to solutions. Do not tell people what they should do or want without the other person fully explaining themselves even though you may know the answer. Instead, listen, use deflective listening (rephrasing what the person said and lead them to continue), and lead them in a way that opens up your answer in clearer light. Consider it the foreplay to a response. Easy, and applicable to your occupation, friends, and significant other.
At this point, everybody's choice is to exchange the phone for another or stick with the (broken) iPhone 4 and hope for the best. I agree its not a good solution, but it is the best solution. I doubt they will let you get out of the contract since the contract is an agreement on the plan, not the phone.
Detroit kinda had it coming promoting a monopoly like that. Did they really think that they could tame the beast? Comcast operates off profits... not goodwill. Even if Comcast honored the original contract, the issue still remains that there is a monopoly. Its only a matter of time before something like this happens again or worse.
You can always throw off the criminals by providing false data. At Tuesday, 3PM, User tweets "Gee golly, I hope my pet tiger doesn't trigger those bear traps I left hanging from the ceiling whenever the heat sensor detects human presence."
I'm an adult without kids and while I don't run home from work to play Wii, I casually play the Mario games without being emasculated. Typically on nights when my wife works (she's a night shift nurse), or if I have some friends over - sometimes with beer. Sometimes the goofy, fun nature of the game is a nice break from the typical games I play (SimCity, Civ, shooters, RPGs, etc).
If you are an old school gamer, I highly recommend the new Mario Bros. Playing that with friends is one of the best nostalgic things I've ever experienced. Or Metroid Prime trilogy if you are a metroid and/or FPS shooter fan. Completely new experience from the FPS perspective (I felt like such a noob at first).
Of course it is. Can you really imagine them saying "You know, this will be cheaper for the consumers, so lets change it." Somewhere along the lines, they found this business model to be the most profitable, so they are going with it. My prediction is that they are adjusting themselves for the future. In a few years from now when the network gets pushed even harder and content requires more and more data, unlimited will be long forgotten. There is less resistance because its being taken away from us prematurely while it still seems beneficial to the consumer. In the long run, this screws us all and we'd be better off with unlimited.
The summary sucks. You guys have no idea - it doesn't do it justice. I've RTFA. And to be honest, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
Your issue isn't the speed limit then. Your issue is the poorly designed highway that has a high speed limit and left turns. Any reasonable highway should have on/off ramps, lights, caution signs, cloverleafs, etc. Most of the people on here talking about the flow of highways are talking about properly designed ones that are meant to have several lanes, handle high speeds and don't have people making random turns.
I had an awesome deal to receive a pretty well respected newspaper for only a dollar a month. This included daily papers and the big awesome paper on Sundays. I planned on having a grand ROI by utilizing the coupons which far exceeded the cost of subscription (not because I needed it, but because I have a sick, OCD financial mind). Anyways, fast forward a few months and I could not keep up with throwing these things out. Every morning I would kick the paper inside my door, and everytime I took trash out, I would take them to the recycling bin. After a while though, I had BOXES of newspaper all around my door. It was a MOUND of papers overflowing in several boxes. I did not open or read a single one of them. I meant to cancel, but it was one of those things that you just forget about and it was only a dollar so it was put on the back burner. Eventually, I DID cancel and guess what? THEY KEPT COMING. I called and complaint to take care of it, but it was almost to the point where I wanted to tell them that I would pay to have them stop being delivered. Which brings me to my idea of reverse subscription. Spam everyone with free papers daily. Advertise that you will stop bringing them for a monthly fee.
I was thinking more along the lines of Empire Strikes Back - the asteroid with the space slug/worm. I imagine any second the Millennium Falcon to come flying out of it.
Its good that you are pretty sure and not positive because it depends on the context. A risk with a certain outcome does not mean that certain outcome is guaranteed. In my statement, I was implying that the mission has a high probability of being a one way trip, which most certainly would be a certain death. Which would be different than just saying it has a high probability of death. Cancer has a probability of death, but it is not certain. Russian roulette has a probability of certain death.
Eh, it goes both ways. These people know that there is a world outside those walls and a life past those 500 days. Whereas there is a great, expansive nothingness that extends forever all around their module during the real deal. Sure, it might be a glorious voyage, but with great peril as well... not to mention the fact that it might be a high probability of being a journey to certain death. Even the strongest minds might be impacted by the survival mechanism after a breaking point is reached during that long, cramped journey... I don't think that could be replicated.
But perhaps a badass exoskeleton life form wouldn't be that smart. Think of the Alien movies... they were highly evolved, but not really intelligent. Probably because they became such efficient killers that they never had to outsmart other animals. Which, as a result, would mean that unless we had to conquer a planet, we would never encounter such beasts. And if we did, I would hope that science would have had made enough advances allow us to effectively kill them seeing that we were able to overcome intergalactic travel.
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Communication is also a science. Like all other fields, it can be done ad hoc, or it can be taken seriously, studied, and used methodologically. I do say its the scientists fault if he/she refuses to take the time to work at and understand communication. Just as much as the public's inability to relate to the scientist.
Here is one big tip to all techies out there - listen. Do not jump to solutions. Do not tell people what they should do or want without the other person fully explaining themselves even though you may know the answer. Instead, listen, use deflective listening (rephrasing what the person said and lead them to continue), and lead them in a way that opens up your answer in clearer light. Consider it the foreplay to a response. Easy, and applicable to your occupation, friends, and significant other.
At this point, everybody's choice is to exchange the phone for another or stick with the (broken) iPhone 4 and hope for the best. I agree its not a good solution, but it is the best solution. I doubt they will let you get out of the contract since the contract is an agreement on the plan, not the phone.
ATT has other phones. Exchange it for a 3GS if you are stuck on the iPhone.
http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/legal/return-policy.jsp
I'll wait for Asus to make one. Over the last 5 years or so they've come to be my favorite computer manufacturer.
Not to mention a small wallet. I wouldn't go out of my way to brag to anyone about a $30k car.
Detroit kinda had it coming promoting a monopoly like that. Did they really think that they could tame the beast? Comcast operates off profits... not goodwill. Even if Comcast honored the original contract, the issue still remains that there is a monopoly. Its only a matter of time before something like this happens again or worse.
You had to use a land line, which was associated with a certain address, or you needed to tell the operator where you located.
You can always throw off the criminals by providing false data. At Tuesday, 3PM, User tweets "Gee golly, I hope my pet tiger doesn't trigger those bear traps I left hanging from the ceiling whenever the heat sensor detects human presence."
I'm an adult without kids and while I don't run home from work to play Wii, I casually play the Mario games without being emasculated. Typically on nights when my wife works (she's a night shift nurse), or if I have some friends over - sometimes with beer. Sometimes the goofy, fun nature of the game is a nice break from the typical games I play (SimCity, Civ, shooters, RPGs, etc).
If you are an old school gamer, I highly recommend the new Mario Bros. Playing that with friends is one of the best nostalgic things I've ever experienced. Or Metroid Prime trilogy if you are a metroid and/or FPS shooter fan. Completely new experience from the FPS perspective (I felt like such a noob at first).
Of course it is. Can you really imagine them saying "You know, this will be cheaper for the consumers, so lets change it." Somewhere along the lines, they found this business model to be the most profitable, so they are going with it. My prediction is that they are adjusting themselves for the future. In a few years from now when the network gets pushed even harder and content requires more and more data, unlimited will be long forgotten. There is less resistance because its being taken away from us prematurely while it still seems beneficial to the consumer. In the long run, this screws us all and we'd be better off with unlimited.
The summary sucks. You guys have no idea - it doesn't do it justice. I've RTFA. And to be honest, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
Your issue isn't the speed limit then. Your issue is the poorly designed highway that has a high speed limit and left turns. Any reasonable highway should have on/off ramps, lights, caution signs, cloverleafs, etc. Most of the people on here talking about the flow of highways are talking about properly designed ones that are meant to have several lanes, handle high speeds and don't have people making random turns.
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I had an awesome deal to receive a pretty well respected newspaper for only a dollar a month. This included daily papers and the big awesome paper on Sundays. I planned on having a grand ROI by utilizing the coupons which far exceeded the cost of subscription (not because I needed it, but because I have a sick, OCD financial mind). Anyways, fast forward a few months and I could not keep up with throwing these things out. Every morning I would kick the paper inside my door, and everytime I took trash out, I would take them to the recycling bin. After a while though, I had BOXES of newspaper all around my door. It was a MOUND of papers overflowing in several boxes. I did not open or read a single one of them. I meant to cancel, but it was one of those things that you just forget about and it was only a dollar so it was put on the back burner. Eventually, I DID cancel and guess what? THEY KEPT COMING. I called and complaint to take care of it, but it was almost to the point where I wanted to tell them that I would pay to have them stop being delivered. Which brings me to my idea of reverse subscription. Spam everyone with free papers daily. Advertise that you will stop bringing them for a monthly fee.
The real power of democracy is overthrowing the veil of pretend democracy, which advocates ignorance to a sub-par governance system.
I was thinking more along the lines of Empire Strikes Back - the asteroid with the space slug/worm. I imagine any second the Millennium Falcon to come flying out of it.
Its good that you are pretty sure and not positive because it depends on the context. A risk with a certain outcome does not mean that certain outcome is guaranteed. In my statement, I was implying that the mission has a high probability of being a one way trip, which most certainly would be a certain death. Which would be different than just saying it has a high probability of death. Cancer has a probability of death, but it is not certain. Russian roulette has a probability of certain death.
Not so bad for Eve. Not only is it somewhat relevant to the subject matter, but by the time they get back, they would have skilled up!
Eh, it goes both ways. These people know that there is a world outside those walls and a life past those 500 days. Whereas there is a great, expansive nothingness that extends forever all around their module during the real deal. Sure, it might be a glorious voyage, but with great peril as well... not to mention the fact that it might be a high probability of being a journey to certain death. Even the strongest minds might be impacted by the survival mechanism after a breaking point is reached during that long, cramped journey... I don't think that could be replicated.
Sadly enough, that may be pretty accurate!
And another fifteen years tacked on if the criminal tweets about it.
Majority of people are dumb. Mod me up. Not only is my belief valid, but its supported by scientific backings.
But perhaps a badass exoskeleton life form wouldn't be that smart. Think of the Alien movies... they were highly evolved, but not really intelligent. Probably because they became such efficient killers that they never had to outsmart other animals. Which, as a result, would mean that unless we had to conquer a planet, we would never encounter such beasts. And if we did, I would hope that science would have had made enough advances allow us to effectively kill them seeing that we were able to overcome intergalactic travel.
Also, see also America's Freedom of Information Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)
The U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a law ensuring public access to U.S. government records.