And, I only look at the speedometer when the radar detector comes on, or I see a cop nearby.
You do realize that by then, it's too late?
There are better ways to not get caught - 90% of it is watching what cars are doing ahead of you (which you should anyway, of course).
If his judgement is so good about the mobile phone industry, how did he take the undisputed industry leader and run it off the road?
Perhaps he thinks the new models are missing the navigation wheel and the color screen is distracting.
Exactly this. This person has largely run the company into the ground. If he's sold off his stock - and his influence on the Board... well, as a stockholder I'm celebrating.
(As were many others. Stock closed up 7% today on the news.)
I laughed when I read the summary.
Then I read it again and realized it wasn't a joke.
WTF... who the hell thinks this kind of crap up?
apparently because there are not enough apps there for Vertu's rich customers.
This was nowhere in the article, so I have to assume that the summary writer hasn't used a Windows Phone. Windows Phones don't need access to a bazillion apps, usually, because the phones do so much more out of the box than the other two big competitors. But, all of the major apps are certainly available. I guess if you need 500 different fart apps, then the Windows Phone may not be for you. I only counted about 30 in the Windows Phone app store.
Wait - are you a WP defender or a BlackBerry defender?!
I get so confused anymore...
I've disputed several inaccuracies on my credit report, and had most of them removed without further fight.
I'm not saying 60 minutes is full of shit, but
60 minutes is in the business of selling scare stories. A little bit of cherry picking goes a long way.
This provoked some shock and incredulity from others
Mostly, it seemed to provoke yawns and "meh" and "oh yeah, me too". Why is this news here?
Did you actually read the summary?
The problem here isn't termination - the problem is that he has a paid-for smartphone, and in order to connect it to AT&T's network he's being required to pay a data fee every month - even though he doesn't need or want a data plan. Other providers have told him the same thing would happen if he connected to their networks.
+1 for creativity.
-1 for having to work so hard to set it up.
I make this point... if you are so goddamn special with your 10 year degree, come on down and prove it face to face in the jungle, I have already proven it in your steel and concrete world. I guarantee I would win this contest.
Says the anonymous coward - thus offering no evidence that you've proven it in the first place.
There will always be work that a human can do more economically than a machine.
On the other hand, you likely can't argue that there will always be more of those jobs than there are humans to fill them.
Those jobs are becoming more scarce. The number of humans who need such jobs are becoming more numerous.
Why would this make us more obese, this won't make more fat food then we already have, just a new way of doing it. It will just put a few low paid cooks out of a job and leaves one job for some guy that fixes the machine.
No, this was just an opportunity for the author to jump on the American self-hate that's in vogue right now.
I know those boards are small and tasty and all, but... did nobody tell you that you're not supposed to eat them?
If you know they're tasty, I daresay you are hardly in a position to give such advice.
It sounds like they have a small problem on their hands!
I'll bet you're real fun at parties.
When does slashdot run ads for crack cocaine?
My god man - how can you say that so callously? I just ordered my twenty-seventh Raspberry Pi board - this month!
Insensitive clod.
On the other hand, at least users get access to the same information that advertisers have had...
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.
