Comments on: TiPb on NPR, OMG http://www.imore.com/2009/06/19/tipb-npr-omg/ More of everything iPhone and iPad Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:08:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris http://www.imore.com/2009/06/19/tipb-npr-omg/comment-page-1/#comment-56763 Chris Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:15:00 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=9409#comment-56763 <p>Strictly speaking, Marketplace is on American Public Media, not NPR. (Most public radio stations feature programming from both NPR and APM.) So TiPb was on APM, not NPR.</p> Strictly speaking, Marketplace is on American Public Media, not NPR. (Most public radio stations feature programming from both NPR and APM.) So TiPb was on APM, not NPR.

]]> By: Dionte http://www.imore.com/2009/06/19/tipb-npr-omg/comment-page-1/#comment-56722 Dionte Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:23:49 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=9409#comment-56722 <p>I try to watch digital channels but they are extremely choppy so I just watch my movies, I could always go through the 8 seasons of charmed again for the 12th time</p> I try to watch digital channels but they are extremely choppy so I just watch my movies, I could always go through the 8 seasons of charmed again for the 12th time

]]> By: Mike http://www.imore.com/2009/06/19/tipb-npr-omg/comment-page-1/#comment-56714 Mike Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:46:11 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=9409#comment-56714 <p>I was a captive employee once. I hated the fact that I had to come in to keep the servers running for the CEO. Did that for 20 years. Cold winter nights, having had the flu, wife 9 months pregnant, kids sick and puking... they didnt care. They wanted their servers running and their job-stream uninterrupted so the CEO could keep padding his wallet. Good for him. I really dont blame him, but I am not the type to be micro-managed by "pigeon-type" middle managers with bad breath swinging by my cubicle every 30 minutes, making a heck of a lot of noise and crapping all over my desk - then leaving again. Just like pigeons.</p> <p>So I quit, went into business for my self. Now, if I wanted to I could qualify for a McDonalds franchise. Sometimes not knowing where you're next meal is coming from is more motivating than fearing the big bad unemployment stats and being told what to do by people with 1/2 the education and stinky breath. :-)</p> I was a captive employee once. I hated the fact that I had to come in to keep the servers running for the CEO. Did that for 20 years. Cold winter nights, having had the flu, wife 9 months pregnant, kids sick and puking… they didnt care. They wanted their servers running and their job-stream uninterrupted so the CEO could keep padding his wallet. Good for him. I really dont blame him, but I am not the type to be micro-managed by “pigeon-type” middle managers with bad breath swinging by my cubicle every 30 minutes, making a heck of a lot of noise and crapping all over my desk – then leaving again. Just like pigeons.

So I quit, went into business for my self. Now, if I wanted to I could qualify for a McDonalds franchise. Sometimes not knowing where you’re next meal is coming from is more motivating than fearing the big bad unemployment stats and being told what to do by people with 1/2 the education and stinky breath. :-)

]]> By: lungho http://www.imore.com/2009/06/19/tipb-npr-omg/comment-page-1/#comment-56711 lungho Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:38:34 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=9409#comment-56711 <p>I suppose you can take that attitude if you work at McDonalds. But if you are in a position where you are responsible for servers staying, you understand why you have to be on call. And you also understand that if the servers go down, so does the company which means no more paychecks. </p> <p>Now you have to find another job in an economy where unemployment is in the double digits and you don't know where you next meal is coming from. Suddenly, being on call isn't that bad after all.</p> I suppose you can take that attitude if you work at McDonalds. But if you are in a position where you are responsible for servers staying, you understand why you have to be on call. And you also understand that if the servers go down, so does the company which means no more paychecks.

Now you have to find another job in an economy where unemployment is in the double digits and you don’t know where you next meal is coming from. Suddenly, being on call isn’t that bad after all.

]]> By: Mike http://www.imore.com/2009/06/19/tipb-npr-omg/comment-page-1/#comment-56708 Mike Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:30:30 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=9409#comment-56708 <p>"Employers want to be able to reach their employees at will." Uhhhhh not this employee. They can eat static if they call me after 5pm or before 8am. Not unless they pay me. I am not an ER doctor, so dont treat me like one unless you want to pay me like one. To get harassed after hours by my employer is NOT why I have a smartphone. People need to wake up.</p> “Employers want to be able to reach their employees at will.” Uhhhhh not this employee. They can eat static if they call me after 5pm or before 8am. Not unless they pay me. I am not an ER doctor, so dont treat me like one unless you want to pay me like one. To get harassed after hours by my employer is NOT why I have a smartphone. People need to wake up.

]]> By: lungho http://www.imore.com/2009/06/19/tipb-npr-omg/comment-page-1/#comment-56705 lungho Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:24:22 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=9409#comment-56705 <p>Cable? What's that? I haven't had cable in 5 years...I refuse to pay $99+ a month for 100 channels of reality programming. I'm doing just fine w/ a DTV convert box and 8 crystal clear channels.</p> <p>But the only way I'll give up my iPhone 3G is when you pry it out of my dead cold hand.</p> Cable? What’s that? I haven’t had cable in 5 years…I refuse to pay $99+ a month for 100 channels of reality programming. I’m doing just fine w/ a DTV convert box and 8 crystal clear channels.

But the only way I’ll give up my iPhone 3G is when you pry it out of my dead cold hand.

]]> By: Dionte http://www.imore.com/2009/06/19/tipb-npr-omg/comment-page-1/#comment-56698 Dionte Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:05:28 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=9409#comment-56698 <p>I just cut my cable off a fee days ago my iPhone would go last of the non necessities</p> I just cut my cable off a fee days ago my iPhone would go last of the non necessities

]]> By: paul http://www.imore.com/2009/06/19/tipb-npr-omg/comment-page-1/#comment-56694 paul Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:51:02 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=9409#comment-56694 <p>I too can not live without my iPhone!</p> I too can not live without my iPhone!

]]> By: Chris T http://www.imore.com/2009/06/19/tipb-npr-omg/comment-page-1/#comment-56681 Chris T Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:52:49 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=9409#comment-56681 <p>Good job BOSS. way to go!!!</p> Good job BOSS. way to go!!!

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