Did you read the last line of my last post? Even when you are buying a product, service is important, too. We aren't talking about a trip to Fry's, here, the future of said product is also important. Otherwise you wouldn't be talking to a sales rep.
If you are making a choice for your company to go with a particular vendor, and their sales person is making you feel like you're being lied to, they will not get your recommendation.
It's not just about meeting specs, it's often about service, too.
Before I got it changed, I used to get calls from my old condo intercom from half way across the country. My unit had a separate entrance so I never buzzed people in, even when I lived there. If the system responded to touch-tones then there is not much to invent here. It's just a feature-add.
No, it's not.
Your condo was using the phone system to act as an intercom, this kid's invention is a phone and doesn't require one already be installed. That means my apartment, which doesn't have an intercom system like your condo does, could have this system with minimal installation work.
If you're capable of physically ringing the doorbell to cause abuse then you already have a million and one ways at your disposal to do it. You already know they're not home.
Vandalism? Really? They attached some signboard to a TEMPORARY FACADE, of which the only purchase is to cover the building while under construction.
What's worse is that there isn't even any Apple signage there. Instead of dinging Apple, they basically just gave Microsoft some free advertising. Tee hee giggle snort.
you seem to be under the perception that that changes the fact that it's the well-known site of a new apple store, of course it has no impact on it whatsoever.
Oh I'm quite sure that that particular store is quite important to both Apple Fanboys in Germany and to the people who were challenged to find the importance of this prank.
again, it's not about whether you find it funny, but whether you can see the humor in it. the humor in them is pretty damn obvious satire...how are you incapable of seeing that?
Well, I guess I wasn't too clear when I answered this question before so I'll phrase it more directly: No, I don't see a lot of comedic value in these videos and that's mainly because they are acting upon problems that the various incarnations of Windows OS's have provided for people. If I had ever, for example, had to replace the guts of my machine to go from one version of Windows for another, I'd be more inclined to smiles at the image of the fat guy on the operating table.
so you didn't post about how you were incapable of seeing the humor?
You should read that post again.
you sure are if you're incapable of seeing comedic value in things where it is so obvious, even if you don't find it funny.
I'm sorry I don't hate Apple (or is it love Microsoft?) enough to find that value significantly measurable.
It was a building covered in black, clearly under construction. There is not even a clear sign there saying 'Apple Store Coming Soon!" Nobody walking by even bats an eye, except for one person who stops to take a photo. The odds are good she was one of the pranksters. Ho Hum.
...clearly they were meant to have a comedic aspect yet you are unable to see that, or are denying it for some reason.
Sorry, I don't see a lot of comedic value in them. The parodies of those videos were much funnier. It's probably because I know too much about what using a Windows system is really like and those ads were mostly bullshit. You can ding me for this if you like but the actual humor in this is that it means I should have found this particular prank funny.
...the fact that you even felt the need to post that you were incapable of seeing humor in it in an attempt to reduce it to a humorless attack on apple is evidence enough of that.
It's not a fact, it's a desire of yours that you hope is true. What happened was I spent a minute and a half watching a video described as 'destined to become a classic' and it was just.... dull. I'm missing something that would make me find that funny and it's either love of MS or hatred of Apple. It's obvious now that the problem wasn't that I missed a detail in the video.
The fact that people who simply looked like they were supposed to be doing were able to put the logo of the company's rival on the Apple store does have comedic value,
It would if the building looked like an Apple store. It didn't so there was no reason for anybody to think twice about it. if they had pulled that off at the big Apple store in NYC, then they might have earned the title 'classic'.
I'm sure you - like the rest of us - saw the humor in the 'I'm a Mac' ads for Apple
Not really, they were pretentious.
...but since you are so emotionally invested in Apple you can't possibly see that.
The problem is that I am not emotionally invested enough.
So if I didn't have my head up my ass, I'd be hoo-hawing to the point of passing out and slapping my knee because they dressed up in a costume and put a Windows logo on an Apple building that isn't even open? Are you absolutely certain that a prerequisite of that humor isn't hatred of Apple or love of Microsoft?
By averaging over a great many photons passing through the apparatus, and only measuring the light patterns on a camera, the team was able to infer what paths the photons had taken. While they were able to easily observe the interference pattern indicative of the wave nature of light, they were able also to see from which slits the photons had come, a sure sign of their particle nature."
I'd also mention we have websites dedicated to kids doing even stupider things than this kid did. At least this kid's 'stupidity' was a step towards saving somebody else's life.
Oh come on, that's a completely different answer from the topic we're on. He's saying that On-Live is the new DRM, he isn't talking at all about the streaming quality. He's talking about no longer 'owning' the game. You're not getting a different scenario with Netflix. So why is his comment about On-Live streaming becoming the new 'DRM' a +5 Insightful when we're so happy about Netflix streaming?
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Well, it's better than what liberals do and just pretend that their heros didn't say the things they said (Obama, "I have visited all 57 states").
Do you believe Obama thinks there are 57 states?
Did you read the last line of my last post? Even when you are buying a product, service is important, too. We aren't talking about a trip to Fry's, here, the future of said product is also important. Otherwise you wouldn't be talking to a sales rep.
i thought
No, you didn't.
apple fanboys generally dont
No rebuttal? I can safely say my question was answered.
I apologize for being unclear.
If you are making a choice for your company to go with a particular vendor, and their sales person is making you feel like you're being lied to, they will not get your recommendation.
It's not just about meeting specs, it's often about service, too.
Before I got it changed, I used to get calls from my old condo intercom from half way across the country. My unit had a separate entrance so I never buzzed people in, even when I lived there. If the system responded to touch-tones then there is not much to invent here. It's just a feature-add.
No, it's not.
Your condo was using the phone system to act as an intercom, this kid's invention is a phone and doesn't require one already be installed. That means my apartment, which doesn't have an intercom system like your condo does, could have this system with minimal installation work.
RTFA.
Brilliant! Android users can keep iOS users away, and iOS users can keep Android users away...
As if anybody who would go to this extent would be getting hordes of people knocking on their doors to visit.
If you're capable of physically ringing the doorbell to cause abuse then you already have a million and one ways at your disposal to do it. You already know they're not home.
Vandalism? Really? They attached some signboard to a TEMPORARY FACADE, of which the only purchase is to cover the building while under construction.
What's worse is that there isn't even any Apple signage there. Instead of dinging Apple, they basically just gave Microsoft some free advertising. Tee hee giggle snort.
you seem to be under the perception that that changes the fact that it's the well-known site of a new apple store, of course it has no impact on it whatsoever.
Oh I'm quite sure that that particular store is quite important to both Apple Fanboys in Germany and to the people who were challenged to find the importance of this prank.
again, it's not about whether you find it funny, but whether you can see the humor in it. the humor in them is pretty damn obvious satire...how are you incapable of seeing that?
Well, I guess I wasn't too clear when I answered this question before so I'll phrase it more directly: No, I don't see a lot of comedic value in these videos and that's mainly because they are acting upon problems that the various incarnations of Windows OS's have provided for people. If I had ever, for example, had to replace the guts of my machine to go from one version of Windows for another, I'd be more inclined to smiles at the image of the fat guy on the operating table.
so you didn't post about how you were incapable of seeing the humor?
You should read that post again.
you sure are if you're incapable of seeing comedic value in things where it is so obvious, even if you don't find it funny.
I'm sorry I don't hate Apple (or is it love Microsoft?) enough to find that value significantly measurable.
It's the well-known site of a new apple store.
It was a building covered in black, clearly under construction. There is not even a clear sign there saying 'Apple Store Coming Soon!" Nobody walking by even bats an eye, except for one person who stops to take a photo. The odds are good she was one of the pranksters. Ho Hum.
...clearly they were meant to have a comedic aspect yet you are unable to see that, or are denying it for some reason.
Sorry, I don't see a lot of comedic value in them. The parodies of those videos were much funnier. It's probably because I know too much about what using a Windows system is really like and those ads were mostly bullshit. You can ding me for this if you like but the actual humor in this is that it means I should have found this particular prank funny.
...the fact that you even felt the need to post that you were incapable of seeing humor in it in an attempt to reduce it to a humorless attack on apple is evidence enough of that.
It's not a fact, it's a desire of yours that you hope is true. What happened was I spent a minute and a half watching a video described as 'destined to become a classic' and it was just.... dull. I'm missing something that would make me find that funny and it's either love of MS or hatred of Apple. It's obvious now that the problem wasn't that I missed a detail in the video.
The fact that people who simply looked like they were supposed to be doing were able to put the logo of the company's rival on the Apple store does have comedic value,
It would if the building looked like an Apple store. It didn't so there was no reason for anybody to think twice about it. if they had pulled that off at the big Apple store in NYC, then they might have earned the title 'classic'.
I'm sure you - like the rest of us - saw the humor in the 'I'm a Mac' ads for Apple
Not really, they were pretentious.
...but since you are so emotionally invested in Apple you can't possibly see that.
The problem is that I am not emotionally invested enough.
When did that happen? Was it hard to pull off? Was it hard to remove? Were customers in the store? Overall, was it a much less wimpy prank?
So if I didn't have my head up my ass, I'd be hoo-hawing to the point of passing out and slapping my knee because they dressed up in a costume and put a Windows logo on an Apple building that isn't even open? Are you absolutely certain that a prerequisite of that humor isn't hatred of Apple or love of Microsoft?
... to see hilarity in this?
Sure, but if they don't trust the sales person, they're not gonna back it.
I'm not sure what's so confusing about this.
Is that your password or a recently erupted volcano?
Yeah I fail. Feel free to point and laugh. :)
Heh yeah because Sony's implementation of a big ball at the end of their controller proved to be so much more secure.
You have to believe that what the sales person says about it meeting the requirement is true.
Yeah, he's right! We should go back to arguing about which smartphone OS is the best!
By averaging over a great many photons passing through the apparatus, and only measuring the light patterns on a camera, the team was able to infer what paths the photons had taken. While they were able to easily observe the interference pattern indicative of the wave nature of light, they were able also to see from which slits the photons had come, a sure sign of their particle nature."
Just like over-inflating a balloon...
Okay, fine, so why pay somebody $3500 for a kidney? Is it a delicacy there?
It was botched, fine, but I have a lot more respect for this kid than I do for kids who do things like try to jump over cars.
I'd also mention we have websites dedicated to kids doing even stupider things than this kid did. At least this kid's 'stupidity' was a step towards saving somebody else's life.
Oh come on, that's a completely different answer from the topic we're on. He's saying that On-Live is the new DRM, he isn't talking at all about the streaming quality. He's talking about no longer 'owning' the game. You're not getting a different scenario with Netflix. So why is his comment about On-Live streaming becoming the new 'DRM' a +5 Insightful when we're so happy about Netflix streaming?
Do you live a stupid-free life? If you do, you'd be the first I've ever met.