Comment Re:Can I pick two options? (Score 1) 469
However, if he were to disappear, there's not a whole lot of finger pointing at anyone - After all, he may be in hiding...
Comment Re:Physically demanding (Score 1) 168
Yep-- I laugh when people sit back and say racing isn't a sport, doesn't take any physical strength, etc... I have a brother-in-law that races in the "below ARCA" asphalt circuits. It's basically amateur racing with a decent car... He spends 3 days in the gym a week just for keeping his upper body in shape for handling the g-forces.
Comment Re:I think Shakespear had it right (Score 0) 240
Correction: "The death penalty doesn't work ". If we actually convicted people, took them out behind the courthouse, and hung them right away, it would work much better than 50 years of appeals...
Comment Re:Flashback to TRS-80 Color Computer days (Score 1) 280
Bah, wasn't logged in...
Comment Re:Flashback to TRS-80 Color Computer days (Score 1) 280
Ahh yes.. Telewriter-64! Remember that one?
Comment Re:I don't blame them (Score 2, Funny) 1078
Umm, genius, there are these things in laptops called fans... If you force air out of one orifice, physics dictate that you must have an intake, or else you have a perfect vacuum that would eventually crush the entire laptop.
So, given we can't violate physics, small particles of ash will eventually get sucked in where they get stuck.
Comment Re:What is the advantage... (Score 1) 550
That's what I was pondering... 99%+ of the heat energy on the Earth is from the sun... Now beam in more. Suuuuuuuper idea.
Comment Re:Worried about the results of your actions? (Score 1) 730
Exactly... No trust = suck it up and pay for the damn employee to watch the servers.
Submission + - AT&T Response to MMS and Tethering - iPhone
Seng writes: The day after the WWDC conference, and the amazing lack of basic MMS and tethering support from AT&T for the new iPhone 3.0, I emailed the President of AT&T wireless. After playing phone tag, Larry Ellis (sp?) called me, and I figured I'd get somewhere — after all, his title was Personal Assistant to the President. (I also had another side issue — I had bought by 3g literally 35 days prior to the price change and new hardware announcements for $199 — I wanted $100 back since it was so close to their 30-day return cutoff.)
I couldn't have been more wrong.
Not only did he blame Apple for everything not working right, but he couldn't/wouldn't make things right on the refund issue. On the MMS issue, he blamed the iPhone being "so different than regular cell phones" that it would take until at least late summer before they had their network "tweaked" to support the way Apple was doing MMS on the iPhone. Lack of tethering support was blamed on Apple as well since it was so different than other phones (riiight...)
As for getting a refund of part of my purchase price or a waiver to get the 3gs when it's out, he simply told me there was absolutely nothing he could do since Apple has them locked into such a strict agreement on pricing.
I can imagine the phone call to Apple discussing the same thing — It'd be all AT&T's fault!
I couldn't have been more wrong.
Not only did he blame Apple for everything not working right, but he couldn't/wouldn't make things right on the refund issue. On the MMS issue, he blamed the iPhone being "so different than regular cell phones" that it would take until at least late summer before they had their network "tweaked" to support the way Apple was doing MMS on the iPhone. Lack of tethering support was blamed on Apple as well since it was so different than other phones (riiight...)
As for getting a refund of part of my purchase price or a waiver to get the 3gs when it's out, he simply told me there was absolutely nothing he could do since Apple has them locked into such a strict agreement on pricing.
I can imagine the phone call to Apple discussing the same thing — It'd be all AT&T's fault!
Comment Re:Royal Navy anti slavery actions (Score 1) 649
Not to mention the fact that the Roman's practiced slavery all across Europe before any Africans ever were sold into bondage.
Let's kick it up a notch... Since I'm of German and English heritage, I demand reparations from Italy for what their conquerors did 2000+ years ago.
Comment Re:Re-education (Score 5, Informative) 1275
Well, Los Angeles turned a profit because they didn't undertake the massive new construction that most Olympic venues do. I think I read that there was basically two structures built for the Olympics. Everything else was done in pre-existing stadiums/facilities.
