It took a fully deterministic start menu and made it non-deterministic. (Close your eyes, tap the windows key and type "itunes" and hit return. See what launches.) This is *bad* user interface design.
Yes, that's why google search is bad user interface design too... because its non-deterministic what you'll find when you search.
A search bar... searches.
Menus that update themselves a la Office 2003 or whatever are bad ui, search bars that return the result of searching are not.
Most people prefer the search bar, why? Because not everything i do is "launch a program". More often than not its "open a document", and the search bar handles that very elegantly. I type "company proposal" and it's right there... I type 'employment contract" and its right there... i type "options agreement" or "win7 iso" or "raiders of the lost ark"... no more navigating through deep folder structures to get at documents most of the time.
And it works well for "writer" "calc" to open the openoffice programs... or and notepad, and cmd. Granted its not "deterministic" that the search will return the program I want first on every computer every time. But a glance before pressing enter works just fine, and i only have to type a few keystrokes instead of the full name.
And hey... if I want deterministic behaviour... instead of pressing Win to get to the search bar, I press Win+R to get to the run box.
That's better than your solution because:
a) Win+R is as easy as Win
b) Being able to use Win/Win+R as I expect it to works on every computer I encounter... except yours. It must drive you nuts to use any computer but your own.
c) I don't have to install another program "classic shell"
I put my normal SIM in my old phone, in case people tried to contact me on it.
Which is pretty much the only reason I need a phone when travelling abroad. And the data is for things like gps/maps, restaurant reviews, directions, translation...
For a week of light usage? I just want to get off the plane and have something that works. I don't want 2 devices, I don't want to swap sims. I don't want to potentially locate and purchase and/or troubleshoot a phone problem in another language, while not having a working solution because I didn't do anything with my "home" phone because i figured I'd just get a sim card there...
If I were going to be there a long time, and wanted to make a lot of calls... I think you're suggestion is the way to go. Parents got a local sim for the month they went to Thailand, for example, and it worked well for them.
The corporate enterprise method is similar, except that each device you bring into the business gets the corporate provisioning profile installed on it, you sign the app against that profile and deploy it as above.
But the corporate provisioning profile itself can't be delivered or updated over the air?
And installing the app requires each user take an action to visit the webserver and click on the link?
No, most of us cannot be bothered learning a buttload of inane key bindings. Maybe for some repetitive things, but in general, I have more important things to keep in my head.
That's why the mouse should be enabled and working by default.
That doesn't explain why keyboard navigation is turned off. Having it on doesn't require you to learn or remember anything.
But it allows power users used to being able to use arcane keyshort cuts like "tab" and "arrow key" to move between fields on a form or dialog box to discover that they work.
If its off they can't discover it. Except years later as a random tangent on slashdot.
Isn't there a 'vacation' package you can get that'll give you X MB of international north american data for a one time cost that lasts one month or some other temporary 'add-on'.
Typicially even if you need more than the 'cap', the overage rate is much much lower if you have the package.
e.g. my last trip to italy I bought a 50MB package for $60 or something like that, but it lowered the roaming data rate from 3 cents per kilobyte to $1/MB (or 0.1 / kilobyte). So even though I used 67MB it cost me $17 extra for a grand total of $77... of the $2010 it would have cost without a package. (@.03$ / kB x 67 MB)
How does one access the menu items without a mouse in OSX? Genuinely asking... on windows you press alt, and then you can navigate the menu system with the arrows. I'm pretty sure that doesn't work on the mac.
And I know I've hit thousands of OSX dialog boxes that won't let you tab between the buttons or controls. (especially radio buttons and checkboxes...) My mac's not in arms reach or I'd fool around and find some examples...
Here you have keyboard commands that millions of people have memorized
certainly not millions. thousands for sure. maybe 10s of thousands.
why the hell did they change it?
Because opening the start menu puts you in the search bar. Pressing "U" in the search bar puts a U in the search bar. It can't really be used for a hotkey unless nobody is allowed to search for things that start with 'u'.
And for what its worth, putting search in the start bar was a GOOD thing. I rarely ever have to go digging through the start menu hierarchy any more.
Search is better than the run dialog as well because it works for documents, as well.
So why they hell did they change it? Because they made it better, and millions of users (this time actual millions) benefitted.
It's almost as if Microsoft doesn't give a damn about their customers
Or maybe its you that doesn't? Because having everyone else have to push an extra key to get the search box just so people like you could still press U instead of right-arrow would be asinine.
Here is how to deploy a custom enterprise app for example:
The process for deploying your own applications is: 1 Register for enterprise development with Apple. 2 Sign your applications using your certificate. 3 Create an enterprise distribution provisioning profile that authorizes devices to use applications youâ(TM)ve signed. 4 Deploy the application and the enterprise distribution provisioning profile to your usersâ(TM) computers. 5 Instruct users to install the application and profile using iTunes.
1, 2, 3 are fine.
4 - wait I can't do this over the air? Everyone has to tether their phone to a computer at work with their "itunes profile" for that device? So.. itunes has to be installed on every corporate computer...er but we use lightweight locked down client installs with virtual desktop infrastructure... or terminal services...
5... wait I have to have the user manually install the profile and application via itunes?
That's not "enterprise deployment" that's small business crap.
Or how about:
Remote Wipe You can remotely wipe the contents of an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Wiping removes all data and configuration information from the device.
So far so good...
If you recover a device that was wiped because it was lost, use iTunes to restore it using the deviceâ(TM)s latest backup.
Wait... what... who is managing the itunes backups the end users? And where exactly is itunes installed again?
Apple's OOB support for iphones in the enterprise is half assed and pathetic. That said, some 3rd parties are picking up some of the slack, from one of the other posts in response to mine.
The only reason blackberry is still in existence is because corporations and IT teams don't want to migrate to a new platform. Blackberry phones aren't anymore secure than an Android of iPhone with the proper corporate sync apps installed
And how does one load 'the proper corporate sync apps'? They create an itunes account for each phone? Or does one purchase of the app qualify the entire organization?
How does IT manage software roll outs to a fleet of iphones?
Sorry, iphones suck in IT. They're ok in environements where only a few CxOs have them and you can have person literally walk to each handset when ever something has to be done, or where staff are responsible for their own handsets, and IT only has to give them their email settings. (which is suitable in some environments... but not all of them)
In any situation where real security is required, or IT is expected have any sort of actual control over the devices, iphones are a nightmare. Yes you can use iphone configuration profiles to set policy... but what if you need to change policy... how do you roll that out? There are all sorts of common cases that are not easy on an iphone that are trivial on a BES.
I don't know much about droids... but i'm skeptical their enterprise / IT support is much better.
The current copyright system is broken, it's ethically bankrupt, so we no longer have an obligation to hold up our end of the social contract.
Sorry. No. We still have a moral obligation to hold up our end of the original social contract.
You want to argue that its morally ok to pirate abandoned software, out of print music from 30 years ago, and 1940s disney movies... I can see the argument.
But how do you justify stealing new releases? Unless your argument is that them doing something morally wrong gives you the moral high ground to do something even worse? But I don't buy that.
If some asshat keys my car, he deserves to be caught and penalized, and restitution made... but I can't say "well he violated the social contract... so now I can gouge his eyes out with a spoon, and feed them to rats, before dousing him with gasoline and setting him on fire. Cuz... you see.. he did 'bad' first... so now I can do whatever i want. I call BS.
Do you know how easy it is to create a filter to de-prioritize emails in Gmail? Gmail filters are the easiest things in the world to use. I don't know why ANYONE would complain about this when they can correct it in about three clicks.
Conversely... I don't know why google would need to automatically prioritize their offers, since anyone who wanted them marked priority could do it themselves in 3 clicks.
That said... I don't know anyone on the planet who actually wants daily marketing email messages automatically marked priority. The only people who would ever want that...are the marketing companies sending them.
One of the first rules of user interface design is that defaults should fit what most users want. This is why defaulting "yes" to installing toolbars for X when you install Y, or defaulting to opting in to affiliate marketing messaging is a user interface fail. Its not what the vast majority of users want, and forcing them to have to use software almost "defensively" to keep from being abused makes the software markedly less enjoyable to use.
It doesn't matter how few clicks users need to go through to "fix" it.
If you are an ultra-high bandwidth user, perhaps cheapest consumer class tier isn't the best fit for you.
The average user uses under 10GB of month on an average month. So you can use up to 25x times the average users usage for the same price, effectively subsidized by those other users. Seems like a pretty good deal for high bandwidth users. 250GB is quite a lot really.
Oh wait... you want to use 100x times more than the average user, but still pay the same. And its grossly unfair that you have to upgrade to a higher tier and pay more than the people using 1/100th the bandwidth you do?
Yeah, cry me a river.
Seriously. Lots of people... scratch that... some people need more than 250GB/mo and that's fine... but I don't see any reason you shouldn't pay for it.
Except that its illegal to be a slave, and legal to be a slave owner? That seems a bit backwards don't you think?
Perhaps the laws should be targeting the "businesses who abuse the workers"?
Perhaps the workers should be extended some rights and protections so that they aren't as easy to abuse?
And of course thy think laws targeting the abused workers as criminals and in the process dragging legitimate innocent legal citizens into constant scrutiny where they have to demonstrate they are here legally at law enforcements whim is a rights issue.
You do realize that you switched from talking about me, to talking about yourself in the same comment, right?
Yes. Becuase the first two lines were things I know apple directs at all users including you.
The last line was about my experience, because i don't know if apple is trying to cram safari and mobileme down your throat every couple weeks. I only know they constantly bug me about them.
I imagine YOU already have them (with a name like macs4all that seemed probable), and maybe you didn't realize how hard they try to get everyone to install them. Ask yourself what's in it for them?
BTW, I didn't say anything about iTunes. I said I haven't received a targeted EMAIL from Apple.
And?
If you read the original post, you'll see that I didn't say anything about EMAIL either. I said:
"Don't be daft. They absolutely want to know what songs you have, and which you listen to, and how often you listen to them, so they can profile you and sell you more crap."
Your "counter argument" was that you didn't get targeted email. To which my reply demonstrated that they were profiling you and trying to sell you targeted crap in other ways besides email.
I have never gotten a targeted email from Apple. Never.
Right. That must be why itunes is literally stuffed with links to buy stuff from the store. And the whole 'genius' thing that they rolled out to suggest even more itunes music for you to buy.
If you haven't noticed apple's been trying to profile you and sell you crap for a while.
Not to mention trying to cram mobileme and safari down my throat every couple weeks.
But things like Surgery and MRI etc are a limited resource. In a public system where supply is fixed by tax budget and demand is relatively inelastic relative to population how should "supply" get allocated against "demand".
Letting the market sort it out according to what people are willing to pay, favoring the rich and leaving the poor by the wayside isn't it.
First Come first serve is idiotic. You'll have a guy with a punctured lung expiring in the waiting room while you treat a twisted ankle.
Hmm... wait... there is a system that doctors the world over use when the objective is to dispense limited medical aid to the most people possible with the greatest benefit... triage.
And that's the situation here effectively. If someone needs surgery immediately, they are rushed to the front of the line, pushing back those who 'need it' but can go another week or month without it.
The upshot is that its fair, and those who need urgent treatment are treated first. One outcome, given limited resources, is there is a category of people who need treatment, but who aren't urgent... and they can tend to wait a while... often in considerable but not life threatening discomfort.
Occasionally, someone who is waiting takes a turn for the worse, and gets elevated to urgent, and everyone laments that "if only they'd been seen sooner, it could have been prevented". And this is absolutely true...and its tragic. But think it through, there is no way to know which people will take a turn for the worse, or when. And if they'd been treated as urgent out of the gate, then someone else who needed treatment urgently would have been delayed and that would be no less tragic.
The only "fix" is to increase funding to the point that nobody ever waits "too long" but that's probably more than the country can afford.
Capitalist medical systems don't fix the problem at all. If the Canadian who needed treatment but not urgently lived in the states... there is no gaurantee he'd get treatment in the states any faster. He might not be able to afford it.
Now the fact that middle and upper class Canadian's may elect to "jump the queue" by seeking treatment in the states does represent a lack of capacity in the system. A lack that could be alleviated by raising taxes on the upper and middle class... yet they aren't having any of that... they want to pay as little as possible in taxes just like anyone else.
Until THEY get ill... and then suddenly all the money in the world isn't as important to THEM as seeing a doctor as soon as possible... and since they have the money... they spend it. That's just human nature, not a failing of the Canadian system.
Don't be daft. They absolutely want to know what songs you have, and which you listen to, and how often you listen to them, so they can profile you and sell you more crap.
which is probably a different scenario than the OP.
Probably.
He probably thinks his Dad as a friend.
I know do... and I have my own house and family too. In fact, after moving out and having kids is about when I started thinking of my parents as friends.
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Yeah, it is. You can provision a blackberry without tethering it. And once provisioned you can install software, update policies, etc all ota.
It took a fully deterministic start menu and made it non-deterministic. (Close your eyes, tap the windows key and type "itunes" and hit return. See what launches.) This is *bad* user interface design.
Yes, that's why google search is bad user interface design too... because its non-deterministic what you'll find when you search.
A search bar ... searches.
Menus that update themselves a la Office 2003 or whatever are bad ui, search bars that return the result of searching are not.
Most people prefer the search bar, why? Because not everything i do is "launch a program". More often than not its "open a document", and the search bar handles that very elegantly. I type "company proposal" and it's right there... I type 'employment contract" and its right there... i type "options agreement" or "win7 iso" or "raiders of the lost ark" ... no more navigating through deep folder structures to get at documents most of the time.
And it works well for "writer" "calc" to open the openoffice programs... or and notepad, and cmd. Granted its not "deterministic" that the search will return the program I want first on every computer every time. But a glance before pressing enter works just fine, and i only have to type a few keystrokes instead of the full name.
And hey... if I want deterministic behaviour... instead of pressing Win to get to the search bar, I press Win+R to get to the run box.
That's better than your solution because:
a) Win+R is as easy as Win
b) Being able to use Win/Win+R as I expect it to works on every computer I encounter... except yours. It must drive you nuts to use any computer but your own.
c) I don't have to install another program "classic shell"
I put my normal SIM in my old phone, in case people tried to contact me on it.
Which is pretty much the only reason I need a phone when travelling abroad. And the data is for things like gps/maps, restaurant reviews, directions, translation...
For a week of light usage? I just want to get off the plane and have something that works. I don't want 2 devices, I don't want to swap sims. I don't want to potentially locate and purchase and/or troubleshoot a phone problem in another language, while not having a working solution because I didn't do anything with my "home" phone because i figured I'd just get a sim card there...
If I were going to be there a long time, and wanted to make a lot of calls... I think you're suggestion is the way to go. Parents got a local sim for the month they went to Thailand, for example, and it worked well for them.
The corporate enterprise method is similar, except that each device you bring into the business gets the corporate provisioning profile installed on it, you sign the app against that profile and deploy it as above.
But the corporate provisioning profile itself can't be delivered or updated over the air?
And installing the app requires each user take an action to visit the webserver and click on the link?
"Opening the start menu should put you into the start menu, not some component thereof whereby you then can't get out of."
Press tab or an arrow key?!
No, most of us cannot be bothered learning a buttload of inane key bindings. Maybe for some repetitive things, but in general, I have more important things to keep in my head.
That's why the mouse should be enabled and working by default.
That doesn't explain why keyboard navigation is turned off. Having it on doesn't require you to learn or remember anything.
But it allows power users used to being able to use arcane keyshort cuts like "tab" and "arrow key" to move between fields on a form or dialog box to discover that they work.
If its off they can't discover it. Except years later as a random tangent on slashdot.
Thanks for the information.
I wonder why on earth is that not on by default?
Isn't there a 'vacation' package you can get that'll give you X MB of international north american data for a one time cost that lasts one month or some other temporary 'add-on'.
Typicially even if you need more than the 'cap', the overage rate is much much lower if you have the package.
e.g. my last trip to italy I bought a 50MB package for $60 or something like that, but it lowered the roaming data rate from 3 cents per kilobyte to $1/MB (or 0.1 / kilobyte). So even though I used 67MB it cost me $17 extra for a grand total of $77... of the $2010 it would have cost without a package. (@ .03$ / kB x 67 MB)
OSX ?
How does one access the menu items without a mouse in OSX? Genuinely asking... on windows you press alt, and then you can navigate the menu system with the arrows. I'm pretty sure that doesn't work on the mac.
And I know I've hit thousands of OSX dialog boxes that won't let you tab between the buttons or controls. (especially radio buttons and checkboxes...) My mac's not in arms reach or I'd fool around and find some examples...
Here you have keyboard commands that millions of people have memorized
certainly not millions.
thousands for sure.
maybe 10s of thousands.
why the hell did they change it?
Because opening the start menu puts you in the search bar. Pressing "U" in the search bar puts a U in the search bar. It can't really be used for a hotkey unless nobody is allowed to search for things that start with 'u'.
And for what its worth, putting search in the start bar was a GOOD thing. I rarely ever have to go digging through the start menu hierarchy any more.
Search is better than the run dialog as well because it works for documents, as well.
So why they hell did they change it? Because they made it better, and millions of users (this time actual millions) benefitted.
It's almost as if Microsoft doesn't give a damn about their customers
Or maybe its you that doesn't? Because having everyone else have to push an extra key to get the search box just so people like you could still press U instead of right-arrow would be asinine.
It mostly it answers them with useless responses.
Here is how to deploy a custom enterprise app for example:
The process for deploying your own applications is:
1 Register for enterprise development with Apple.
2 Sign your applications using your certificate.
3 Create an enterprise distribution provisioning profile that authorizes devices to use
applications youâ(TM)ve signed.
4 Deploy the application and the enterprise distribution provisioning profile to your
usersâ(TM) computers.
5 Instruct users to install the application and profile using iTunes.
1, 2, 3 are fine.
4 - wait I can't do this over the air? Everyone has to tether their phone to a computer at work with their "itunes profile" for that device? So.. itunes has to be installed on every corporate computer...er but we use lightweight locked down client installs with virtual desktop infrastructure... or terminal services...
5 ... wait I have to have the user manually install the profile and application via itunes?
That's not "enterprise deployment" that's small business crap.
Or how about:
Remote Wipe
You can remotely wipe the contents of an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Wiping removes
all data and configuration information from the device.
So far so good...
If you recover a device that was wiped because it was lost, use iTunes to restore it using
the deviceâ(TM)s latest backup.
Wait ... what... who is managing the itunes backups the end users? And where exactly is itunes installed again?
Apple's OOB support for iphones in the enterprise is half assed and pathetic. That said, some 3rd parties are picking up some of the slack, from one of the other posts in response to mine.
The only reason blackberry is still in existence is because corporations and IT teams don't want to migrate to a new platform. Blackberry phones aren't anymore secure than an Android of iPhone with the proper corporate sync apps installed
And how does one load 'the proper corporate sync apps'? They create an itunes account for each phone? Or does one purchase of the app qualify the entire organization?
How does IT manage software roll outs to a fleet of iphones?
Sorry, iphones suck in IT. They're ok in environements where only a few CxOs have them and you can have person literally walk to each handset when ever something has to be done, or where staff are responsible for their own handsets, and IT only has to give them their email settings. (which is suitable in some environments... but not all of them)
In any situation where real security is required, or IT is expected have any sort of actual control over the devices, iphones are a nightmare. Yes you can use iphone configuration profiles to set policy... but what if you need to change policy... how do you roll that out? There are all sorts of common cases that are not easy on an iphone that are trivial on a BES.
I don't know much about droids... but i'm skeptical their enterprise / IT support is much better.
You still haven't heard about that idea of making punishment greater than the earnings from the missbehaviour, did you?
What you are doing isn't punishment. its vigilantism at best, and just rationalizing being a criminal at worst.
If Ferrari makes a car with a defect that kills a bunch of people, and then tries to cover it up.
Do you...
a) Sue them for negligence causing loss of life, for millions of dollars including punitive damages.
b) Lobby to have relevant law and regulations passed to ensure the vehicles are safe, and that the company meets its obligations.
c) Hit the CEO with a baseball bat and steal his wallet.
d) File a class action lawsuit on behalf of all ferrari owners. Only the lawyers wins in a class action... but Ferrari at least loses.
e) Walk into a dealership and steal a Ferrari.
f) Hack their bank account, and transfer millions of dollars into yours.
Can you spot the one's that aren't the appropriate responses?
The current copyright system is broken, it's ethically bankrupt, so we no longer have an obligation to hold up our end of the social contract.
Sorry. No. We still have a moral obligation to hold up our end of the original social contract.
You want to argue that its morally ok to pirate abandoned software, out of print music from 30 years ago, and 1940s disney movies... I can see the argument.
But how do you justify stealing new releases? Unless your argument is that them doing something morally wrong gives you the moral high ground to do something even worse? But I don't buy that.
If some asshat keys my car, he deserves to be caught and penalized, and restitution made... but I can't say "well he violated the social contract... so now I can gouge his eyes out with a spoon, and feed them to rats, before dousing him with gasoline and setting him on fire. Cuz... you see.. he did 'bad' first... so now I can do whatever i want. I call BS.
Do you know how easy it is to create a filter to de-prioritize emails in Gmail? Gmail filters are the easiest things in the world to use. I don't know why ANYONE would complain about this when they can correct it in about three clicks.
Conversely... I don't know why google would need to automatically prioritize their offers, since anyone who wanted them marked priority could do it themselves in 3 clicks.
That said... I don't know anyone on the planet who actually wants daily marketing email messages automatically marked priority. The only people who would ever want that...are the marketing companies sending them.
One of the first rules of user interface design is that defaults should fit what most users want. This is why defaulting "yes" to installing toolbars for X when you install Y, or defaulting to opting in to affiliate marketing messaging is a user interface fail. Its not what the vast majority of users want, and forcing them to have to use software almost "defensively" to keep from being abused makes the software markedly less enjoyable to use.
It doesn't matter how few clicks users need to go through to "fix" it.
250GB is plenty for EVERYONE
You do realize they have other tiers of service.
If you are an ultra-high bandwidth user, perhaps cheapest consumer class tier isn't the best fit for you.
The average user uses under 10GB of month on an average month. So you can use up to 25x times the average users usage for the same price, effectively subsidized by those other users. Seems like a pretty good deal for high bandwidth users. 250GB is quite a lot really.
Oh wait... you want to use 100x times more than the average user, but still pay the same. And its grossly unfair that you have to upgrade to a higher tier and pay more than the people using 1/100th the bandwidth you do?
Yeah, cry me a river.
Seriously. Lots of people... scratch that... some people need more than 250GB/mo and that's fine... but I don't see any reason you shouldn't pay for it.
illegal immigration = modern slavery
Except that its illegal to be a slave, and legal to be a slave owner? That seems a bit backwards don't you think?
Perhaps the laws should be targeting the "businesses who abuse the workers"?
Perhaps the workers should be extended some rights and protections so that they aren't as easy to abuse?
And of course thy think laws targeting the abused workers as criminals and in the process dragging legitimate innocent legal citizens into constant scrutiny where they have to demonstrate they are here legally at law enforcements whim is a rights issue.
They aren't daily driver cars
Well the Porsches honestly can be. The rest ... not so much.
You do realize that you switched from talking about me, to talking about yourself in the same comment, right?
Yes. Becuase the first two lines were things I know apple directs at all users including you.
The last line was about my experience, because i don't know if apple is trying to cram safari and mobileme down your throat every couple weeks. I only know they constantly bug me about them.
I imagine YOU already have them (with a name like macs4all that seemed probable), and maybe you didn't realize how hard they try to get everyone to install them. Ask yourself what's in it for them?
BTW, I didn't say anything about iTunes. I said I haven't received a targeted EMAIL from Apple.
And?
If you read the original post, you'll see that I didn't say anything about EMAIL either. I said:
"Don't be daft. They absolutely want to know what songs you have, and which you listen to, and how often you listen to them, so they can profile you and sell you more crap."
Your "counter argument" was that you didn't get targeted email. To which my reply demonstrated that they were profiling you and trying to sell you targeted crap in other ways besides email.
Psychologists call that "transference".
I'd call it "You missing the point."
I have never gotten a targeted email from Apple. Never.
Right. That must be why itunes is literally stuffed with links to buy stuff from the store. And the whole 'genius' thing that they rolled out to suggest even more itunes music for you to buy.
If you haven't noticed apple's been trying to profile you and sell you crap for a while.
Not to mention trying to cram mobileme and safari down my throat every couple weeks.
How long do you wait for an appt?
Not long at all.
But things like Surgery and MRI etc are a limited resource. In a public system where supply is fixed by tax budget and demand is relatively inelastic relative to population how should "supply" get allocated against "demand".
Letting the market sort it out according to what people are willing to pay, favoring the rich and leaving the poor by the wayside isn't it.
First Come first serve is idiotic. You'll have a guy with a punctured lung expiring in the waiting room while you treat a twisted ankle.
Hmm... wait... there is a system that doctors the world over use when the objective is to dispense limited medical aid to the most people possible with the greatest benefit... triage.
And that's the situation here effectively. If someone needs surgery immediately, they are rushed to the front of the line, pushing back those who 'need it' but can go another week or month without it.
The upshot is that its fair, and those who need urgent treatment are treated first. One outcome, given limited resources, is there is a category of people who need treatment, but who aren't urgent... and they can tend to wait a while... often in considerable but not life threatening discomfort.
Occasionally, someone who is waiting takes a turn for the worse, and gets elevated to urgent, and everyone laments that "if only they'd been seen sooner, it could have been prevented". And this is absolutely true...and its tragic.
But think it through, there is no way to know which people will take a turn for the worse, or when. And if they'd been treated as urgent out of the gate, then someone else who needed treatment urgently would have been delayed and that would be no less tragic.
The only "fix" is to increase funding to the point that nobody ever waits "too long" but that's probably more than the country can afford.
Capitalist medical systems don't fix the problem at all. If the Canadian who needed treatment but not urgently lived in the states... there is no gaurantee he'd get treatment in the states any faster. He might not be able to afford it.
Now the fact that middle and upper class Canadian's may elect to "jump the queue" by seeking treatment in the states does represent a lack of capacity in the system. A lack that could be alleviated by raising taxes on the upper and middle class... yet they aren't having any of that... they want to pay as little as possible in taxes just like anyone else.
Until THEY get ill... and then suddenly all the money in the world isn't as important to THEM as seeing a doctor as soon as possible... and since they have the money... they spend it. That's just human nature, not a failing of the Canadian system.
What if they don't have the file I want? There is tons of music not on itunes...
Don't be daft. They absolutely want to know what songs you have, and which you listen to, and how often you listen to them, so they can profile you and sell you more crap.
which is probably a different scenario than the OP.
Probably.
He probably thinks his Dad as a friend.
I know do... and I have my own house and family too. In fact, after moving out and having kids is about when I started thinking of my parents as friends.
Here's the best clip I've ever seen...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8xbgdw9uvY&NR=1&feature=fvwp
If you haven't seen it watch the whole "Friendface" episode some time... hell watch the whole series...