Hey, it made some damn good lemonaid. Actually sold it for parts 14mo later for more than I originally paid for the Compaq. Not a bad deal, if you ask me; 2 years of computing and turning a profit.
Oh, it took me having the battery and HDD replaced under warranty, then sending it in for a CPU replacement and getting it back missing half the case screws and the media keys not working, then they declared it a lemon and replaced it. No video issues on that Compaq, though.
I'm fine with people bringing their culture with them. I never said I wasn't and, in fact, am repeating myself whe I tell you that I am. I'm not being hypocritical at all with my statement: if you're coming here to better yourself, please, come in; if you're coming here to pretend you're still at home, please don't bother. That's not to insist that someone leave every bit of their heritage, culture, and identity behind; by all means bring it with you, it will enrich the lives of everyone you meet here. But, for the love of whichever deity you worship (or humanity, for the athiests), learn and respect the boundaries that are the cultural norm here. That means get your green card, pay taxes like I do, don't try and sit on my lap on the bus or cram me into a corner on the elevator, and don't talk shit about me in your native tongue in my presence, I probably know enough of your language to call you out on it. If any of those requests are unreasonable, please, let me know.
100 years ago, "integrate" was a codeword for "stop being Catholic." What are you using it to try to imply today?
We're not 100 years in the past, we're right here, right now. I'm trying to imply that a person choosing to be in America should abide by our laws, including immigration and tax laws.
Such as? Your couched phrasing is off-putting.
What couched phrasing? Whatever they're here to get away from, the should not bring it with them; I think that's about as specific as I can get, since everyone comes here for a different reason. For a specific example, I'll reference my indian neighbors; one I get along with very well and one with whom I do not.
The neighbor I get along with moved here, amongst other reasons, because he prefers a more private culture where people give each other space. My other indian neighbor, on the other hand, will, on an otherwise empty elevator, make an effort to squeeze right up against me, then proceed to ignore my existance even after I attempt to start a conversation ("Hi, how are you doing today?"). I've got not problem with him being from India, I have a problem with him pretty much cornering me in an otherwise empty, and quite spacious, elevator, trying to cram himself into the corner of the elevator I am already occupying, and generally ignoring my existance while doing so. My firendly indian neighbor goes beyond disliking him, straight into hatred, because that's exactly the type of behavior he came here to get away from.
First off, you're assuming they're not here specifically because they couldn't quietly live their way of life "back home."
If someone wants to come here and live quietly, without imposing themselves on me (see the example above), I have no problem with that. I'm assuming nothing; squeezing my into a corner so that I can't move and can barely breathe, then ignoring me when I ask how your day is going, is not "quietly living your way of life", it's "screaming in the face of my way of life".
Secondly, one would think that a privacy advocate with an anti-SOPA sig would respect others' desire to live life how they choose without trying to impose terms on it.
You're assuming I'm a privacy advocate. You're also assuming that I have a problem with people living their lives; I have a problem with people imposing themselves on me. Again, see the example, above, to which I'd like to add that the majority of indian immigrants I've met are not like this, but damn, if the few who are don't just go out of their way to make up for it. It's the few who impose themselves on others who should not be here, the majority who live their lives and let others do the same are as welcome here as anyone else.
And on that note, I notice you'll capitalize "America" and "Americans," but not "mexican, puerto-rican neighbors, korean, japanese, and indian." And your Puerto Rican neighbor isn't an immigrant! There's a good chance the island could be a state by this time next year.
The capital A in "Americans" was a typo. "America" is a proper noun, "mexican", "puerto-rican", "korean", "japanese" and "indian" are not, while "Mexico", "Puerto-Rico", "Korea", "Japan", and "India" are. Further, Puerto-Rico may become a state next year, maybe tomorrow, maybe never; they're not a state right now, peurto-ricans are immigrants. Implying that Peurto-Rico is not worthy of recognition as a country of origin is pretty damn racist.
My apologies if I have offended anyone of indian descent, I can provide a real life example for any race (including whites). It's simply that the first one that came to mind with another immigrant from the same country, who came over around the same time and feels the same way, involved my two neighbors from India.
I think he's talking about 3rd and 4th generation Americans. I know many who still ain't got no good grasp ov da inglash layngwidge.
I have friends of all races, some who only came here in the last few years, I have no problem with someone wanting to live here, bring with them parts of their culture not better left behind, and integrate into our society; that's what made this country great.
What I, and many others, take issue with is that some of these people come over here and bring with them the very parts of their culture they were coming here to get away from. If you're going to come here to live your life exactly as you were living it in your home country, go back home. Immigrating to America is supposed to be about improving your life and our country; if you're not interested in doing at least one of those things, we're not interested in having you here.
My mexican, puerto-rican neighbors, korean, japanese, and indian friends and neighbors all seem to agree with the above, it's not a racist statement, it's what this country was founded on.
Your replacement wwas a bottom of the line Compaq because that was what was stipulated in the court-ordered settlement agreed to by the attorneys representing you and the attorneys representing NVidia. That NVidia bargained for the cheapest way out and was only ordered to pay for the cheapest replacement possible from each of the respective manufacturers to whom they supplied the defective parts is in now way HP's fault.
To be clear, the HP laptop that they replaced my Compaq with was one of the affected models, as well, so I did follow the class action. Of course, by the time I knew there even was a class action, that laptop was 2 months out of warranty, had died (bad GPU), and had been sold on eBay as a parts-or-repair system, so I didn't recieve a replacement.
NVidia was the one being sued, not HP. The settlement put a minimum value on the replacement equipment to be provided. NVidia arranged with HP to reimburse them for any replacements provided as a result of the settlement and dictated that the replacement equipment must be the least expensive equipment available that met the minimum value requirement, in order for them to be reimbursed by NVidia. What was HP supposed to do? Take a loss to fix NVidia's screwup?
I, too, avoid HP products, and have for the last 4 years or so, but not because of NVidia's screw up. HP has always stepped up to take care of me when I've asked them to; the problem is that their quality is so poor, I found myself asking a lot.
If they couldn't do right by the customer with the parts they had on hand then they should have given the customer a better replacement.
And that's just what HP did for me when it was determined that my Compaq laptop was a lemon. They didn't just give me an equivelant Compaq, they gave me a near top of the line HP.
Not in Ohio, which is not a so-called "right to work" state. Sadly, no, that would be upheld in Ohio.
I wasn't in the business of providing SEO services, so it didn't matter to me at all. Of course, my own sites had better SEO than she could provide her own clients, so she had cause for concern should I ever enter that market. She even went so far as to "train" me on how to do SEO, giving me as much bad information as possible (and certainly the opposite of what she was actually doing for her own clients). It was so blatantly an attempt at sabotage that I just had to let my inner troll out and go along with her "training" like I was none the wiser. I even tanked the SEO on one of my smaller sites, to make her confident that I was "learning". A month after that site all but dropped out of search results, I redid the SEO properly and had it back at the top, which she surely noticed, as she mentioned it to me a couple weeks later. At that point she, I think she realized I knew what she was up to.
I ended up finding a kickass job in California and moved 2400 miles away, never did commercial SEO but she did, eventually, half-heartedly admit to (and apologize for) attempting to hamstring me. She seemed a little worried that I might decide to get into SEO, but I had something better up my sleeve, so I assured her she didn't have to worry about that for the time being.
As it turns out, the IRS has very strict definitions for contractor vs employee and my working relationship with her company fit the definition of employee, right down to the wording of the contract she insisted on writing (mine wasn't good enough though it would have protected her in this instance, but I know how to read a contract and I liked hers better). In the end, she sent my a 1099 and I, having documentation of my working relationship with her company, filed that income as employment income for which my employer did not provide a W-2, she got dinged for employment taxes on the 10k she paid me, and I got a nasty letter from her a few months later, followed shortly by one from her attorney. I replied to both, explaining exactly why I did what I did. I also provided copies of every document related to the work I did for her, including the requirements she placed upon me that made my relationship with her company employer-employee, rather than contract work. I recieved a letter of apology from her 2 weeks later.
Had she not tried to screw me, I would not have had anything to turn around on her and she would have avoided paying taxes and penalties on the wages she paid me. As it was, she could only turn over to the IRS a copy of the "Employment Contract" she had me sign, no invoices and no evidence that I was working for her as a contractor, because I never invoiced, I was paid out of payroll, along with the rest of her employees.
The moral of the story is: If you're going to play dirty, you need to realize that others can do the same. Oh, and if a contractor has taken the time to draft up a contract that protects your interest as well as his own, don't stupidly replace it with your own contract that provides you no protection; especially if you intend to play dirty.
My disclaimer is, indeed, factual. I run a CentOS 6.2 host with OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8 in one VM and Windows 7 Ultimate in another.
I'd be shit for a web developer if I did not test on all three platforms, as well as Android, Blackberry, and iOS, and my employer has standardized on using Coda, an OSX application, for development.
How often does a troll come back wit ha valid reference for his setup? You'll also note that I talk about this setup in several other posts in several other threads.
Apple's kit is far from premium quality, 2 of the 3 iMacs in my office go unused and my boss can't keep his MacBook Pro connected to a wireless network for more than a couple hours at a time. It was purchased in mid-2010 and replaced last December with a new machine, both with the same issue across multiple networks in multiple locations. I have never experienced this with a PC, none of our iMacs do this (well, the workong one doesn't, the other two didn't) and my wife's MacBook Pro has no issues staying connected to any network. I'm not saying Apple kit is crap, it's decent stuff, but premium quality it is not; the same person doesn't get two lemons in a row from a manufacturer of premium goods.
A former client of mine, who did SEO, wanted me to sign a non-compete preventing me from performing SEO services within 500 miles of her office for a period of 2 years. Since I had no interest in performing SEO services at the time, I signed it without a second thought.
Boy, did she get nervous when I moved from Ohio to California.
DISCLAIMER: I work in a mixed OSX/Windows/Linux office and run all three operating systems personally.
Funny, I bought an Acer Aspire One in 2008. I gave it to my sister for christmas last year, still working, still useful, with not a scratch on it. Runs Win7 just fine and handled everything I, as a developer, ever threw at it, including running CentOS and OSX in VMs on a Win7 host (it was a tight squeeze in 2GB of RAM, but it did it).
For $239.95 plus tax.
Further, I'm not sure of your definition of "last much longer", but I routinely see PC laptops physically outlast their Mac counterparts. Further to the point, I can go out and get a PC laptop that outspecs the top-end MBP, for less than the top-end MBP, so if you're touting top-end hardware that won't be as obsolete, as fast, I'm sorry, you're wrong there, as well.
Simple. Require the same credentials that are required to make any other account changes. As an additional failsafe, keep record of the account the phone was associated with when it was marked as stolen and allow it to be reactivated on that account. That way, if someone loses, then finds, their phone, or it is stolen, then recovered, or, say, as you said, someone does gain access to an account and reports a phone stolen "as a prank", the owner can simply have it reactivated on that same account. Simple.
Huh, that's funny, when my MicroCell stopped working, I was advised to head to the nearest device support center, which was just down the street from me, with my defective unit, and pick up a new one. They did not take the defective unit, but they did take a deposit on it and provide a UPS shipping label, with pick-up service, after asking me if I wanted to opt for the insurance (which I declined at that time, but later added when scheduling the pick-up time with UPS).
Both phones I ordered from att.com came UPS, as well, and an RMA on a Blackberry device, handled through AT&T, was done via UPS, as well. All of this was spread out over the last 10 years or so, as recent as 6 months ago.
When did they start using USPS, the more expensive, slower option and when did USPS start offering third-party prepaid shipping labels? Yes, I know you can print your own labels online, but those are first-party only.
Except that you're still arguing based entirely on those two sentences, 3 posts later. Had I not provided all of that other information, you would be 100% in the right, here. But, I did.
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Hey, it made some damn good lemonaid. Actually sold it for parts 14mo later for more than I originally paid for the Compaq. Not a bad deal, if you ask me; 2 years of computing and turning a profit.
Oh, it took me having the battery and HDD replaced under warranty, then sending it in for a CPU replacement and getting it back missing half the case screws and the media keys not working, then they declared it a lemon and replaced it. No video issues on that Compaq, though.
I'm fine with people bringing their culture with them. I never said I wasn't and, in fact, am repeating myself whe I tell you that I am. I'm not being hypocritical at all with my statement: if you're coming here to better yourself, please, come in; if you're coming here to pretend you're still at home, please don't bother. That's not to insist that someone leave every bit of their heritage, culture, and identity behind; by all means bring it with you, it will enrich the lives of everyone you meet here. But, for the love of whichever deity you worship (or humanity, for the athiests), learn and respect the boundaries that are the cultural norm here. That means get your green card, pay taxes like I do, don't try and sit on my lap on the bus or cram me into a corner on the elevator, and don't talk shit about me in your native tongue in my presence, I probably know enough of your language to call you out on it. If any of those requests are unreasonable, please, let me know.
100 years ago, "integrate" was a codeword for "stop being Catholic." What are you using it to try to imply today?
We're not 100 years in the past, we're right here, right now. I'm trying to imply that a person choosing to be in America should abide by our laws, including immigration and tax laws.
Such as? Your couched phrasing is off-putting.
What couched phrasing? Whatever they're here to get away from, the should not bring it with them; I think that's about as specific as I can get, since everyone comes here for a different reason. For a specific example, I'll reference my indian neighbors; one I get along with very well and one with whom I do not.
The neighbor I get along with moved here, amongst other reasons, because he prefers a more private culture where people give each other space. My other indian neighbor, on the other hand, will, on an otherwise empty elevator, make an effort to squeeze right up against me, then proceed to ignore my existance even after I attempt to start a conversation ("Hi, how are you doing today?"). I've got not problem with him being from India, I have a problem with him pretty much cornering me in an otherwise empty, and quite spacious, elevator, trying to cram himself into the corner of the elevator I am already occupying, and generally ignoring my existance while doing so. My firendly indian neighbor goes beyond disliking him, straight into hatred, because that's exactly the type of behavior he came here to get away from.
First off, you're assuming they're not here specifically because they couldn't quietly live their way of life "back home."
If someone wants to come here and live quietly, without imposing themselves on me (see the example above), I have no problem with that. I'm assuming nothing; squeezing my into a corner so that I can't move and can barely breathe, then ignoring me when I ask how your day is going, is not "quietly living your way of life", it's "screaming in the face of my way of life".
Secondly, one would think that a privacy advocate with an anti-SOPA sig would respect others' desire to live life how they choose without trying to impose terms on it.
You're assuming I'm a privacy advocate. You're also assuming that I have a problem with people living their lives; I have a problem with people imposing themselves on me. Again, see the example, above, to which I'd like to add that the majority of indian immigrants I've met are not like this, but damn, if the few who are don't just go out of their way to make up for it. It's the few who impose themselves on others who should not be here, the majority who live their lives and let others do the same are as welcome here as anyone else.
And on that note, I notice you'll capitalize "America" and "Americans," but not "mexican, puerto-rican neighbors, korean, japanese, and indian." And your Puerto Rican neighbor isn't an immigrant! There's a good chance the island could be a state by this time next year.
The capital A in "Americans" was a typo. "America" is a proper noun, "mexican", "puerto-rican", "korean", "japanese" and "indian" are not, while "Mexico", "Puerto-Rico", "Korea", "Japan", and "India" are. Further, Puerto-Rico may become a state next year, maybe tomorrow, maybe never; they're not a state right now, peurto-ricans are immigrants. Implying that Peurto-Rico is not worthy of recognition as a country of origin is pretty damn racist.
My apologies if I have offended anyone of indian descent, I can provide a real life example for any race (including whites). It's simply that the first one that came to mind with another immigrant from the same country, who came over around the same time and feels the same way, involved my two neighbors from India.
LOL!
Languages evolve. We've got a more culturally diverse ecosystem over here and, as a result, our English evolved differently than England's English.
Did you read the rest of my post? Your reply implies that you did not; pretty god damned narrow-minded, I think.
I think he's talking about 3rd and 4th generation Americans. I know many who still ain't got no good grasp ov da inglash layngwidge.
I have friends of all races, some who only came here in the last few years, I have no problem with someone wanting to live here, bring with them parts of their culture not better left behind, and integrate into our society; that's what made this country great.
What I, and many others, take issue with is that some of these people come over here and bring with them the very parts of their culture they were coming here to get away from. If you're going to come here to live your life exactly as you were living it in your home country, go back home. Immigrating to America is supposed to be about improving your life and our country; if you're not interested in doing at least one of those things, we're not interested in having you here.
My mexican, puerto-rican neighbors, korean, japanese, and indian friends and neighbors all seem to agree with the above, it's not a racist statement, it's what this country was founded on.
Your replacement wwas a bottom of the line Compaq because that was what was stipulated in the court-ordered settlement agreed to by the attorneys representing you and the attorneys representing NVidia. That NVidia bargained for the cheapest way out and was only ordered to pay for the cheapest replacement possible from each of the respective manufacturers to whom they supplied the defective parts is in now way HP's fault.
To be clear, the HP laptop that they replaced my Compaq with was one of the affected models, as well, so I did follow the class action. Of course, by the time I knew there even was a class action, that laptop was 2 months out of warranty, had died (bad GPU), and had been sold on eBay as a parts-or-repair system, so I didn't recieve a replacement.
NVidia was the one being sued, not HP. The settlement put a minimum value on the replacement equipment to be provided. NVidia arranged with HP to reimburse them for any replacements provided as a result of the settlement and dictated that the replacement equipment must be the least expensive equipment available that met the minimum value requirement, in order for them to be reimbursed by NVidia. What was HP supposed to do? Take a loss to fix NVidia's screwup?
I, too, avoid HP products, and have for the last 4 years or so, but not because of NVidia's screw up. HP has always stepped up to take care of me when I've asked them to; the problem is that their quality is so poor, I found myself asking a lot.
Indeed it does. That's why CentOS 6.2 is my primary OS, with OSX and Windows existing in VMs, for the few applications I use that require them.
If they couldn't do right by the customer with the parts they had on hand then they should have given the customer a better replacement.
And that's just what HP did for me when it was determined that my Compaq laptop was a lemon. They didn't just give me an equivelant Compaq, they gave me a near top of the line HP.
Not in Ohio, which is not a so-called "right to work" state. Sadly, no, that would be upheld in Ohio.
I wasn't in the business of providing SEO services, so it didn't matter to me at all. Of course, my own sites had better SEO than she could provide her own clients, so she had cause for concern should I ever enter that market. She even went so far as to "train" me on how to do SEO, giving me as much bad information as possible (and certainly the opposite of what she was actually doing for her own clients). It was so blatantly an attempt at sabotage that I just had to let my inner troll out and go along with her "training" like I was none the wiser. I even tanked the SEO on one of my smaller sites, to make her confident that I was "learning". A month after that site all but dropped out of search results, I redid the SEO properly and had it back at the top, which she surely noticed, as she mentioned it to me a couple weeks later. At that point she, I think she realized I knew what she was up to.
I ended up finding a kickass job in California and moved 2400 miles away, never did commercial SEO but she did, eventually, half-heartedly admit to (and apologize for) attempting to hamstring me. She seemed a little worried that I might decide to get into SEO, but I had something better up my sleeve, so I assured her she didn't have to worry about that for the time being.
As it turns out, the IRS has very strict definitions for contractor vs employee and my working relationship with her company fit the definition of employee, right down to the wording of the contract she insisted on writing (mine wasn't good enough though it would have protected her in this instance, but I know how to read a contract and I liked hers better). In the end, she sent my a 1099 and I, having documentation of my working relationship with her company, filed that income as employment income for which my employer did not provide a W-2, she got dinged for employment taxes on the 10k she paid me, and I got a nasty letter from her a few months later, followed shortly by one from her attorney. I replied to both, explaining exactly why I did what I did. I also provided copies of every document related to the work I did for her, including the requirements she placed upon me that made my relationship with her company employer-employee, rather than contract work. I recieved a letter of apology from her 2 weeks later.
Had she not tried to screw me, I would not have had anything to turn around on her and she would have avoided paying taxes and penalties on the wages she paid me. As it was, she could only turn over to the IRS a copy of the "Employment Contract" she had me sign, no invoices and no evidence that I was working for her as a contractor, because I never invoiced, I was paid out of payroll, along with the rest of her employees.
The moral of the story is: If you're going to play dirty, you need to realize that others can do the same. Oh, and if a contractor has taken the time to draft up a contract that protects your interest as well as his own, don't stupidly replace it with your own contract that provides you no protection; especially if you intend to play dirty.
The MPBs haven't had a heat issue since they were first introduced
I have a wife and a boss who would both love to hear you say that to their faces.
My disclaimer is, indeed, factual. I run a CentOS 6.2 host with OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8 in one VM and Windows 7 Ultimate in another.
I'd be shit for a web developer if I did not test on all three platforms, as well as Android, Blackberry, and iOS, and my employer has standardized on using Coda, an OSX application, for development.
How often does a troll come back wit ha valid reference for his setup? You'll also note that I talk about this setup in several other posts in several other threads.
Apple's kit is far from premium quality, 2 of the 3 iMacs in my office go unused and my boss can't keep his MacBook Pro connected to a wireless network for more than a couple hours at a time. It was purchased in mid-2010 and replaced last December with a new machine, both with the same issue across multiple networks in multiple locations. I have never experienced this with a PC, none of our iMacs do this (well, the workong one doesn't, the other two didn't) and my wife's MacBook Pro has no issues staying connected to any network. I'm not saying Apple kit is crap, it's decent stuff, but premium quality it is not; the same person doesn't get two lemons in a row from a manufacturer of premium goods.
A former client of mine, who did SEO, wanted me to sign a non-compete preventing me from performing SEO services within 500 miles of her office for a period of 2 years. Since I had no interest in performing SEO services at the time, I signed it without a second thought.
Boy, did she get nervous when I moved from Ohio to California.
DISCLAIMER: I work in a mixed OSX/Windows/Linux office and run all three operating systems personally.
Funny, I bought an Acer Aspire One in 2008. I gave it to my sister for christmas last year, still working, still useful, with not a scratch on it. Runs Win7 just fine and handled everything I, as a developer, ever threw at it, including running CentOS and OSX in VMs on a Win7 host (it was a tight squeeze in 2GB of RAM, but it did it).
For $239.95 plus tax.
Further, I'm not sure of your definition of "last much longer", but I routinely see PC laptops physically outlast their Mac counterparts. Further to the point, I can go out and get a PC laptop that outspecs the top-end MBP, for less than the top-end MBP, so if you're touting top-end hardware that won't be as obsolete, as fast, I'm sorry, you're wrong there, as well.
In other words, take your smug elsewhere.
Shaved, or just bald?
At its roots, WebKit is actually KHTML, part of KDE. It's a derivative of a GLP-licensed product. De-facto, it is *not* Apple's renderer.
Simple. Require the same credentials that are required to make any other account changes. As an additional failsafe, keep record of the account the phone was associated with when it was marked as stolen and allow it to be reactivated on that account. That way, if someone loses, then finds, their phone, or it is stolen, then recovered, or, say, as you said, someone does gain access to an account and reports a phone stolen "as a prank", the owner can simply have it reactivated on that same account. Simple.
I think someone already did that and called it Android. I wonder if Google knows their apps are being used in this way?
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That's right, people, you saw it here first.
Just curious, am I being modded Informative for saying "Comcast blows"?
Shit. You said Dentist, not Doctor.
He's an oncologist.
Huh, that's funny, when my MicroCell stopped working, I was advised to head to the nearest device support center, which was just down the street from me, with my defective unit, and pick up a new one. They did not take the defective unit, but they did take a deposit on it and provide a UPS shipping label, with pick-up service, after asking me if I wanted to opt for the insurance (which I declined at that time, but later added when scheduling the pick-up time with UPS).
Both phones I ordered from att.com came UPS, as well, and an RMA on a Blackberry device, handled through AT&T, was done via UPS, as well. All of this was spread out over the last 10 years or so, as recent as 6 months ago.
When did they start using USPS, the more expensive, slower option and when did USPS start offering third-party prepaid shipping labels? Yes, I know you can print your own labels online, but those are first-party only.
Except that you're still arguing based entirely on those two sentences, 3 posts later. Had I not provided all of that other information, you would be 100% in the right, here. But, I did.
Good day to you, sir.