But, really, this comes down to "do I own the phone or does the phone company". If I own it, I should be able to do anything I want with it. If I don't own it, WTF am I doing paying for it?
I don't think this is completely the way to look at it. If a person got a discounted phone in return for signing a contract then it is kind of a joint ownership. It is akin to saying you "own" your house when you owe 80% of the value to a bank. You get full usage of an asset for which you didn't pay in full for by agreeing to pay for the rest over time. If you sell that asset you have to compensate the bank for the rest it is owed. It can be argued that the payments for the subsidy are unreasonable (I think an iPhone ends up costing $2,500 over two years) but if the consumer made a deal then the phone company should get what is due. Once that initial agreement is up, or if a phone is purchased for full price with no subsidy then it *is* owned by the consumer who should be able to take it to whichever carrier they choose.
Okay, my post was meant to be a joke but apparently that was missed completely and I got modded "troll." Was there something I was supposed to put to make it more obvious?
It was meant to be completely tongue in cheek. I attempted to write that way though it appears I missed completely because I got modded down to "troll." I need to learn to write sarcasm more obviously it seems.
Why do you think every person that uses a laptop in a movie is always using a MacBook when IRL that is less than 10% of the population? Product placement.
Cool people are enlightened and therefore use Macs. Stars are, by definition, "cool," so it only follows that a greater proportion of important characters would use Apple products.
Depending on how savvy the manager is, he could be. The problem with hiring grossly overqualified people is they get bored and leave or get hired away to do something more befitting their skills. Either way the manager has to find and train another employee.
Probably not, unless these were packaged for the eventual end retail location. If these were destined for a distribution point they would be large boxes of identical units. Back-end warehouse operation is very inefficient if similar items are randomly mixed.
Also the engines need to be started using an external device
Jets have a little turbine called an APU, or Auxiliary Power Unit, that is started electrically from on-board batteries. Once the little jet is powered up it can be used to start the big engines. The external unit, often called a start cart, is only used when insufficient power exists to start electrically or on military planes that don't usually have an APU.
I'm sorry, but Tim must not have tested the right user base. My company issues employees iPads with the ZAGG case with the bluetooth keyboard and we love them, all they way from our gray haired senior management to twenty-something whiz kids. We use them to the point that we complain when our laptops don't respond to touch gestures. While it lacks precision, the fingertip is more intuitive than sliding around a mouse. Even with a touch pad, the pad interface represents an intermediary between the finger and the movement seen on the screen. My bet is that a not very far future version of the MacBook sports a touch screen when Tim realizes how wrong he is on this.
IFR lets aircraft fly through clouds wherein visibility extends no farther than the windshield. You could not pay me enough to be the trailing pilot flying through a cloud formation close enough behind a plane to draft/wingtip vortex surf. I get tense enough IFR in the clouds without also worrying about colliding with another plane.
Consider the car and oil industries. They are reputed to have patented all sorts of things to stop them.This is why we have not had any alternatives to fuel guzzling junkhepas (sic) until very recently.
Do you really believe this? If some kind of magical additive or technology existed that would allow practical cars to get 100 mpg do you really think the Chinese or Soviet Russians, who have shown our IP claims mean nothing to them, would choose to not utilize it and tell the patent holder "fine, take us to court.?"
I do not think it is logically consistent to honestly believe that TPTB can successfully suppress markedly superior technology to maintain the status quo to the level of no other country adopting its usage. With every auto company spending billions to develop "green" technology, if one company had something like that in their back pocket wouldn't they pull it out, if for no reason more than showing their superiority to their competition?
If I am wrong, please submit one example of a 10% improvement in efficiency or power that could be used but is not because of suppression by patent.
Please show me the Mac currently made with an i3 CPU or any Macbook with a 17" screen. I can get either of those from Dell and have system fully capable of running the software 99.9% of the public needs at levels of performance more than adequate. Apple offers B through C- at best.
I respectfully disagree that the primary problem is the data.
The complaints aren't so much about the pictures as the location data. Since upgrading to iOS6 I have been frustrated several times when stores I needed to look up simply weren't in Yelp's database. I wanted a store five miles from my house and its best suggestion was one 15 miles away. I don't care about the pictures; what I want is to know the best route through Houston to a place I have been previously but have never driven to from where I happen to be.
Forgive my ignorance but I thought diamond was a defined crystal lattice structure. How can it be "twice as hard" if it is a diamond? Is this another naturally occurring state of carbon that should be called something else?
I seem to recall the Emperor stating "Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!" I think the unfinished portions and shield were to lure the rebel fleet into thinking it was vulnerable. The Star Destroyers were there to trap the fleet in a pincer move.
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Buy a pitchfork.
Did you throw a trident?
But, really, this comes down to "do I own the phone or does the phone company". If I own it, I should be able to do anything I want with it. If I don't own it, WTF am I doing paying for it?
I don't think this is completely the way to look at it. If a person got a discounted phone in return for signing a contract then it is kind of a joint ownership. It is akin to saying you "own" your house when you owe 80% of the value to a bank. You get full usage of an asset for which you didn't pay in full for by agreeing to pay for the rest over time. If you sell that asset you have to compensate the bank for the rest it is owed. It can be argued that the payments for the subsidy are unreasonable (I think an iPhone ends up costing $2,500 over two years) but if the consumer made a deal then the phone company should get what is due. Once that initial agreement is up, or if a phone is purchased for full price with no subsidy then it *is* owned by the consumer who should be able to take it to whichever carrier they choose.
Okay, my post was meant to be a joke but apparently that was missed completely and I got modded "troll." Was there something I was supposed to put to make it more obvious?
It was meant to be completely tongue in cheek. I attempted to write that way though it appears I missed completely because I got modded down to "troll." I need to learn to write sarcasm more obviously it seems.
Why do you think every person that uses a laptop in a movie is always using a MacBook when IRL that is less than 10% of the population? Product placement.
Cool people are enlightened and therefore use Macs. Stars are, by definition, "cool," so it only follows that a greater proportion of important characters would use Apple products.
Depending on how savvy the manager is, he could be. The problem with hiring grossly overqualified people is they get bored and leave or get hired away to do something more befitting their skills. Either way the manager has to find and train another employee.
Does this mean the end of pixelation?
It's probably a mix of models
Probably not, unless these were packaged for the eventual end retail location. If these were destined for a distribution point they would be large boxes of identical units. Back-end warehouse operation is very inefficient if similar items are randomly mixed.
Also the engines need to be started using an external device
Jets have a little turbine called an APU, or Auxiliary Power Unit, that is started electrically from on-board batteries. Once the little jet is powered up it can be used to start the big engines. The external unit, often called a start cart, is only used when insufficient power exists to start electrically or on military planes that don't usually have an APU.
If this company has a CPA, Controller or CFO worth the money they are being paid the value of this ram was included in equipment expensed long ago.
I'm sorry, but Tim must not have tested the right user base. My company issues employees iPads with the ZAGG case with the bluetooth keyboard and we love them, all they way from our gray haired senior management to twenty-something whiz kids. We use them to the point that we complain when our laptops don't respond to touch gestures. While it lacks precision, the fingertip is more intuitive than sliding around a mouse. Even with a touch pad, the pad interface represents an intermediary between the finger and the movement seen on the screen. My bet is that a not very far future version of the MacBook sports a touch screen when Tim realizes how wrong he is on this.
IFR lets aircraft fly through clouds wherein visibility extends no farther than the windshield. You could not pay me enough to be the trailing pilot flying through a cloud formation close enough behind a plane to draft/wingtip vortex surf. I get tense enough IFR in the clouds without also worrying about colliding with another plane.
Next thing you know he'll be strutting like a rooster.
Consider the car and oil industries. They are reputed to have patented all sorts of things to stop them.This is why we have not had any alternatives to fuel guzzling junkhepas (sic) until very recently.
Do you really believe this? If some kind of magical additive or technology existed that would allow practical cars to get 100 mpg do you really think the Chinese or Soviet Russians, who have shown our IP claims mean nothing to them, would choose to not utilize it and tell the patent holder "fine, take us to court.?"
I do not think it is logically consistent to honestly believe that TPTB can successfully suppress markedly superior technology to maintain the status quo to the level of no other country adopting its usage. With every auto company spending billions to develop "green" technology, if one company had something like that in their back pocket wouldn't they pull it out, if for no reason more than showing their superiority to their competition?
If I am wrong, please submit one example of a 10% improvement in efficiency or power that could be used but is not because of suppression by patent.
I own and use as my primary portable a 15" Macbook, btw. I do wish it hadn't cost twice as much as my wife's 17" Dell i3.
Apple has A,B,C,D and E
Please show me the Mac currently made with an i3 CPU or any Macbook with a 17" screen. I can get either of those from Dell and have system fully capable of running the software 99.9% of the public needs at levels of performance more than adequate. Apple offers B through C- at best.
I respectfully disagree that the primary problem is the data.
The complaints aren't so much about the pictures as the location data. Since upgrading to iOS6 I have been frustrated several times when stores I needed to look up simply weren't in Yelp's database. I wanted a store five miles from my house and its best suggestion was one 15 miles away. I don't care about the pictures; what I want is to know the best route through Houston to a place I have been previously but have never driven to from where I happen to be.
Forgive my ignorance but I thought diamond was a defined crystal lattice structure. How can it be "twice as hard" if it is a diamond? Is this another naturally occurring state of carbon that should be called something else?
When do we get to see Deanna Troi?
This sounds like a classic side scroller video game. What are you going to do for power-ups or extra lives?
I seem to recall the Emperor stating "Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!" I think the unfinished portions and shield were to lure the rebel fleet into thinking it was vulnerable. The Star Destroyers were there to trap the fleet in a pincer move.
there is nothing I can't do on my Ubuntu laptop that I can't do on any other O.S.
I'm pretty sure you can't develop and submit iOS app to the iTunes store on your Quixotic Quail system.
You could theoretically pack a solid block of osmium the size of your suitcase's interior.
I am not sure the forklift required to lift it is allowable on as checked baggage on an aircraft.
My vacuum has point mass rubber chickens, thank you.
Just watch out the child does not find Asimov so interesting they read up to Robots of Dawn. You may have some explaining to do.