Why is the standard response for anything anyone is caught doing is to reply that someone else is doing (insert catch word lie: more|also|worse|longer) than we have.
Imagine you've work with 10 people in one room for the last 3 years. At some point you say or do something that offends somebody else. From then on these people you work with take every little quirk you have and blow it out of proportion and endlessly crack jokes about it. Maybe one day somebody thinks you left the bathroom without washing your hands. Another day one of your neighbors is evicted and through some questionable rationale that was your evil doing, too. Every two weeks or so, a new thing comes up to heckle you about but nothing really sticks. One day, fatefully, you drop a pen. You bend over to pick it up and *Frrpbbtbt*, everybody hears you fart. Then, for the next 22 days, you sit there and listen to fart jokes and comments about how much you stink, how brown your undies are, and how everybody in the world pinches their nose when they around you.
Let's not sit here and pretend like the first words out of your mouth wouldn't be: "Yeah, right, like none of you ever fart."
For god sakes, go to t-mobile.com and look it up. If your on the market you should have done this already.
sheesh, need a silver platter too?
Look at the other answers I got in this thread. In exchange I intend to be as forthcoming with my experiences involving products others may be interested in. I don't feel bad at all about asking the question and I hardly think freely exchanging experiences qualifies as being 'spoon-fed'. I'm also grateful to those that answered, I'm sure others are, too.
I'd rather hear more than just T-Mobile's sales pitch, sue me.
I wanted to talk to an actual, customer, butt-dumpling. I thought the whole reason we hated iPhone people is because they weren't being smart shoppers.
JVC makes a TV that uses polarized glasses instead of shutter glasses. It's prohibitively expensive right now, but that will certainly drop into impulse range in the not-too-distant-future. Best 3d display I've seen yet.
Though I know there are no girls on Slashdot, here's a tip: if I can tell you're wearing makeup, you have already failed. Proper makeup application enhances beauty, it doesn't attempt to replace it.
Hmm I still don't get it.. could you translate that into texture mapping terms?
It would appear as the answer to both your questions is along the lines of how long and how big of impact those games had. And if that's not a good enough answer then pretend I ended it with "that's what she said!"
It kind of bugs me when people admit they have done something wrong but because other people also have problems then it is not that bad. Wonder what Jobs would say if there was a coding error in OS X? Doesn't matter 'cos MS do it all the time? It's the normalisation of mediocrity.
Right on, but Slashdot perfected the mod system ten years before these craptacular news sites did (I'm looking at you HuffPost -- uggggghhh). As far as I'm concerned it has been effective and got rid of the GNAAs...
Sure, but the everybody-can-be-a-cop method of moderation means that what's visible on this site is dependent on public opinion. It also creates a race to see who can be the first to post the chair-throwing, overlords, I-want-a-phone-thats-just-a-phone, walled-garden, xhcd-cartoon, privacy, etc comments. The noise level hasn't gone down, it has just had its energy directed into people mugging for that +3 Insightful tag to appear next to their post.
Every other sensible site should follow/.'s model.
He's no doubt referencing the iPhone that police bent over backwards to help Apple recover.
If he had been referencing that phone he wouldn't have used the number 400.
They seemed happy to stoop that low for a corporation, so why not a citizen?
Ah, you seem to be confused about it, too. You and the other guy should go look up what happened.
While it makes sense to assign more resources to high value items, the issue the poster has is obviously the fact that it isn't just "less" resources; it's no resources at all being assigned.
Shit gets stolen all the time. The amount of stuff that is stolen every day is unbelievable. Most of the time the amount of money spent recovering that item is way higher than the amount of money that was actually lost. There is only so much man-power to go around, of course they're going to prioritize high-ticket items first. If you want to make the case that corporate interests are being held in higher regard than the individual citizen's, you're going to have to do a lot better than this example. Seriously, go look it up.
Oh, I knew. Do you know where I got my reference from, and why it's funny?
Anywhoo, while we're on the topic of the EyePhone and it's relevence to the 21st century, I'd like to make an observation that nobody else seems to have picked up on. Throughout that entire episode everybody was using the fancy features of the EyePhone and enjoying them. They didn't throw away their EyePhones like they did their old phones in the beginning or get bored with the features and stop using them. In the end, the Futurama writers deliberately wrote the hordes of sheeple going to buy the EyePhone 2 as satisfied customers. Heh.
We saw that the police bent over backwards and ransacked a man's home when he possessed a missing iPhone of Apple's. But when a normal person loses an item and has a lead for the police to go on, they aren't interested. Just further proof that the justice system is bought and paid for by corporations, and they exist only to ensure that corporations make money. Sickening.
You're complaining that the cops put more resources on a higher-dollar-item case?
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Why is the standard response for anything anyone is caught doing is to reply that someone else is doing (insert catch word lie: more|also|worse|longer) than we have.
Imagine you've work with 10 people in one room for the last 3 years. At some point you say or do something that offends somebody else. From then on these people you work with take every little quirk you have and blow it out of proportion and endlessly crack jokes about it. Maybe one day somebody thinks you left the bathroom without washing your hands. Another day one of your neighbors is evicted and through some questionable rationale that was your evil doing, too. Every two weeks or so, a new thing comes up to heckle you about but nothing really sticks. One day, fatefully, you drop a pen. You bend over to pick it up and *Frrpbbtbt*, everybody hears you fart. Then, for the next 22 days, you sit there and listen to fart jokes and comments about how much you stink, how brown your undies are, and how everybody in the world pinches their nose when they around you.
Let's not sit here and pretend like the first words out of your mouth wouldn't be: "Yeah, right, like none of you ever fart."
For god sakes, go to t-mobile.com and look it up. If your on the market you should have done this already.
sheesh, need a silver platter too?
Look at the other answers I got in this thread. In exchange I intend to be as forthcoming with my experiences involving products others may be interested in. I don't feel bad at all about asking the question and I hardly think freely exchanging experiences qualifies as being 'spoon-fed'. I'm also grateful to those that answered, I'm sure others are, too.
I'd rather hear more than just T-Mobile's sales pitch, sue me.
Thank you for taking the time to write this, it's very helpful.
Have a good week, man.
Look at their website, dummy.
I wanted to talk to an actual, customer, butt-dumpling. I thought the whole reason we hated iPhone people is because they weren't being smart shoppers.
Type 't-mobile.com'. Voila.
I wanted to hear from a customer, not from a sales website. If you had ever paid for cell service before, you'd understand why.
Thirty a month? Really? If you don't mind me asking, how much are you paying a month? (I mean after all the taxes and bs...)
JVC makes a TV that uses polarized glasses instead of shutter glasses. It's prohibitively expensive right now, but that will certainly drop into impulse range in the not-too-distant-future. Best 3d display I've seen yet.
Though I know there are no girls on Slashdot, here's a tip: if I can tell you're wearing makeup, you have already failed. Proper makeup application enhances beauty, it doesn't attempt to replace it.
Hmm I still don't get it.. could you translate that into texture mapping terms?
There's a great many people who think that BP should be using its resources to clean up the oil, rather than cleaning up photographs.
And there are others who think that's incredibly petty considering they also expect BP to keep people employed.
What kind of discount? Can you do it without contract?
Lots of people mentioning T-Mobile here and NOT giving details.
It would appear as the answer to both your questions is along the lines of how long and how big of impact those games had. And if that's not a good enough answer then pretend I ended it with "that's what she said!"
You left out Radar O'Reilly.
You just didn't scroll down enough. He was on #4077 on the list.
A better question is this: If you were in international waters is it even a violation of copyright? What jurisdication's rules would be followed?
If you used an American 'satellite internet' service, would they then use that as their basis for busting you in their territory?
It kind of bugs me when people admit they have done something wrong but because other people also have problems then it is not that bad. Wonder what Jobs would say if there was a coding error in OS X? Doesn't matter 'cos MS do it all the time? It's the normalisation of mediocrity.
No, it's about pointing out media sensationalism.
Right on, but Slashdot perfected the mod system ten years before these craptacular news sites did (I'm looking at you HuffPost -- uggggghhh). As far as I'm concerned it has been effective and got rid of the GNAAs...
Sure, but the everybody-can-be-a-cop method of moderation means that what's visible on this site is dependent on public opinion. It also creates a race to see who can be the first to post the chair-throwing, overlords, I-want-a-phone-thats-just-a-phone, walled-garden, xhcd-cartoon, privacy, etc comments. The noise level hasn't gone down, it has just had its energy directed into people mugging for that +3 Insightful tag to appear next to their post.
Every other sensible site should follow /.'s model.
All it does is arm people during fanboy wars.
He's no doubt referencing the iPhone that police bent over backwards to help Apple recover.
If he had been referencing that phone he wouldn't have used the number 400.
They seemed happy to stoop that low for a corporation, so why not a citizen?
Ah, you seem to be confused about it, too. You and the other guy should go look up what happened.
While it makes sense to assign more resources to high value items, the issue the poster has is obviously the fact that it isn't just "less" resources; it's no resources at all being assigned.
Shit gets stolen all the time. The amount of stuff that is stolen every day is unbelievable. Most of the time the amount of money spent recovering that item is way higher than the amount of money that was actually lost. There is only so much man-power to go around, of course they're going to prioritize high-ticket items first. If you want to make the case that corporate interests are being held in higher regard than the individual citizen's, you're going to have to do a lot better than this example. Seriously, go look it up.
Right. So what does that have to do with my post?
You're right! They'd go off and find other people who haven't spent money yet and aren't locked in a contract. Heh.
It's from Futurama.
You are all heathens for not knowing.
Oh, I knew. Do you know where I got my reference from, and why it's funny?
Anywhoo, while we're on the topic of the EyePhone and it's relevence to the 21st century, I'd like to make an observation that nobody else seems to have picked up on. Throughout that entire episode everybody was using the fancy features of the EyePhone and enjoying them. They didn't throw away their EyePhones like they did their old phones in the beginning or get bored with the features and stop using them. In the end, the Futurama writers deliberately wrote the hordes of sheeple going to buy the EyePhone 2 as satisfied customers. Heh.
We saw that the police bent over backwards and ransacked a man's home when he possessed a missing iPhone of Apple's. But when a normal person loses an item and has a lead for the police to go on, they aren't interested. Just further proof that the justice system is bought and paid for by corporations, and they exist only to ensure that corporations make money. Sickening.
You're complaining that the cops put more resources on a higher-dollar-item case?
Were you a Sprint customer in 2007/2008? If so, has there been an improvement in service?
... in a year or two or ten when the contract is up and now you've got the uphill battle of vendor lock-in. Heh.
This is how salesmen keep their jobs.
Heh. Yeah, leads to new customers and contracts that have already spent the money and signed contracts. Making lots of sense, there!
- Okay, it's 500 dollars, you have no choice of carrier, the battery can't hold the charge and the reception isn't very
- Shut up and take my money!
Wait.. was that the iPhone video or the Evo one?
Does anyone really trust Consumer Report's opinion on technology?
I trust them way more than Slashdot or Gizmodo.