Ok, so what does the US military do. Do they have a special license, or do they just not worry about it? (Maybe this is why so many guys are getting killed in Iraq: incompatibility between Windows and Macs.)
PS You slipped that "glass elevators" right in under our noses!
PPS I didn't read all of the posts (I get tired of the fighting and name calling) so I'm not sure if the stuff about Windows was a joke or true. I do wonder what software is being used to control the store's infrastructure, including the elevator. At some point Mac/Windows compatibility has to rear it's ugly head, even if more and more it's a Unix world.
Very likely a custom operating system not related in anyway to windows or MacOSX.
Very likely a custom operating system not related in anyway to windows or MacOSX.
It doesn't even have to have an operating system as typical person might think of it. It doesn't appear to be anything that requires anything more complex than a simple microcontroller, though it should be with additional circuits to ensure fault tolerance. A conventional operating system as we know it could be considered detrimental due to the complexity.
I wish I had been in that elevator with those high school girls!... Damned! Of course then someone would've taken a picture of the ensuing orgy, and it would've been posted on the NET (see the article in this weeks Village Voice on the case of public sex in a dorm room at Univ of Pa, which was recorded and became a big campus scandal)......
Yeah some high skool girls got trapped in a glass elevator and we all start thinking of a nice public orgy
Why did the police do this? Surely the Apple Store has a 24-hour service contract with Otis. Even if the contract covers only normal business hours, paying for an elevator mechanic to come in is less expensive than the damage the police likely caused getting the people out.
ESU is on-duty 24/7 and a squad truck was probably not too far away, making them the faster option than waiting for some mechanic to lazily get out of bed, shower, and saunter on over to the store. The customers were in there for 45 minutes as it was, it's not fair to expect them to have waited longer for some Otis person to show up. Secondly, these weren't just regular police officers, these are trained professionals (hence the designation "Emergency Services Unit"). Many of these guys probably possess more mechanical skills than any given run-of-the-mill elevator mechanic.
No, I said "anyone who isn't disabled" - so IMNSHO you need to work on your reading comprehension - and I'm SOOOO sorry for forgetting to include people with infants in strollers in my disclaimer.
The fact that you want to impose your "value system" on others is wrong. Plain and simple.
damnit steve, cant you do anything right? first killing the newton, then that stupid flower power imac, then killing ipod mini, then selling pixar, now this?!
ESU is on-duty 24/7 and a squad truck was probably not too far away, making them the faster option than waiting for some mechanic to lazily get out of bed, shower, and saunter on over to the store. The customers were in there for 45 minutes as it was, it's not fair to expect them to have waited longer for some Otis person to show up. Secondly, these weren't just regular police officers, these are trained professionals (hence the designation "Emergency Services Unit"). Many of these guys probably possess more mechanical skills than any given run-of-the-mill elevator mechanic.
Emergency Services Unit is pretty vague. Is it medical emergency? Fire? Sorry, it's throwing me for a loop, it's hard for me to think of mechanical and electrical skills as being on the list of emergency personell. I'm not saying it isn't possible that they are crack commando team of trained mechanics though.
damnit steve, cant you do anything right? first killing the newton, then that stupid flower power imac, then killing ipod mini, then selling pixar, now this?! some CEOs.
offTopic:
We'll see how Cars goes. It'll be 99% Pixar 1% Disney
Yeah iPod mini kept and updated with Flash 1/2/4GB would have been cool.
The iPod mini is still the iPod with the best and most durable casing ever..!!
Too bad mine died (can use as backup but battery is dead)
Emergency Services Unit is pretty vague. Is it medical emergency? Fire? Sorry, it's throwing me for a loop, it's hard for me to think of mechanical and electrical skills as being on the list of emergency personell. I'm not saying it isn't possible that they are crack commando team of trained mechanics though.
Why wouldn't a vertical city like NYC have a crack SWAT elevator rescue team that knows how to bleed down a hydraulic cylinder????
Why wouldn't a vertical city like NYC have a crack SWAT elevator rescue team that knows how to bleed down a hydraulic cylinder????
No need for that. iSteve is assembling a 24/7 crack team of Elevator Geniuses to never let this happen again, or if it does, be sorted out within 5 minutes max. He's also converting the elevator to be run off 3 iMac Intels on Mac OS 10.4.6 hooked up to xServe RAIDs. Steve is spending $1 million out of his own pocket to make sure the elevator never gets stuck again. Ever.
"Ride easy. This elevator is running Mac OS X and operated by iMacs. It never crashes or gets stuck. Too bad we can't say the same thing about Windows PCs."
BELOW THAT
"This elevator is run by Mac OS X. 99.99999999999999% uptime. Wouldn't you like your business IT operations to be the same?"
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Originally posted by Ptrash
Ok, so what does the US military do. Do they have a special license, or do they just not worry about it? (Maybe this is why so many guys are getting killed in Iraq: incompatibility between Windows and Macs.)
PS You slipped that "glass elevators" right in under our noses!
PPS I didn't read all of the posts (I get tired of the fighting and name calling) so I'm not sure if the stuff about Windows was a joke or true. I do wonder what software is being used to control the store's infrastructure, including the elevator. At some point Mac/Windows compatibility has to rear it's ugly head, even if more and more it's a Unix world.
Very likely a custom operating system not related in anyway to windows or MacOSX.
Originally posted by Ptrash
Maybe this is why so many guys are getting killed in Iraq: incompatibility between Windows and Macs.
Rather incompatibility between brain size of white house warlords and task complexity
Originally posted by rinnin
J.D.: {watching] What are you doing?
Janitor: I'm fixing the [elevator].
J.D.: Maybe there's a penny stuck in there.
Janitor: Did you stick a penny in there?
J.D.: No, I was just trying to make conversation.
Janitor: {pointing at JD with screwdriver} If I find a penny in there... I'm taking you down.
Scrubs, 2001.
Great show...but he was fixing a plain old door, not an elevator.
Originally posted by wnurse
Very likely a custom operating system not related in anyway to windows or MacOSX.
It doesn't even have to have an operating system as typical person might think of it. It doesn't appear to be anything that requires anything more complex than a simple microcontroller, though it should be with additional circuits to ensure fault tolerance. A conventional operating system as we know it could be considered detrimental due to the complexity.
I wish I had been in that elevator with those high school girls!... Damned! Of course then someone would've taken a picture of the ensuing orgy, and it would've been posted on the NET (see the article in this weeks Village Voice on the case of public sex in a dorm room at Univ of Pa, which was recorded and became a big campus scandal)......
Yeah some high skool girls got trapped in a glass elevator and we all start thinking of a nice public orgy
At least I know I'm not alone in thinking this
Originally posted by Kolchak
Why did the police do this? Surely the Apple Store has a 24-hour service contract with Otis. Even if the contract covers only normal business hours, paying for an elevator mechanic to come in is less expensive than the damage the police likely caused getting the people out.
ESU is on-duty 24/7 and a squad truck was probably not too far away, making them the faster option than waiting for some mechanic to lazily get out of bed, shower, and saunter on over to the store. The customers were in there for 45 minutes as it was, it's not fair to expect them to have waited longer for some Otis person to show up. Secondly, these weren't just regular police officers, these are trained professionals (hence the designation "Emergency Services Unit"). Many of these guys probably possess more mechanical skills than any given run-of-the-mill elevator mechanic.
Perhaps it just wasn't a Great glass elevator...
Originally posted by FormerLurker
No, I said "anyone who isn't disabled" - so IMNSHO you need to work on your reading comprehension - and I'm SOOOO sorry for forgetting to include people with infants in strollers in my disclaimer.
The fact that you want to impose your "value system" on others is wrong. Plain and simple.
66 comments on people in a glass elevator, and not one Willy Wonka/Charlie/Roald Dahl reference -- for shame :-<
Perhaps it just wasn't a Great glass elevator...
Old skool, bra. Maybe if there was a super magic glass elevator in Harry Potter, then that would be hella cool.
For the record, I have read a little Roald Dahl when I was 10 or 12 or so and only have watched the Harry Potter movies.
Originally posted by fahlman
The fact that you want to impose your "value system" on others is wrong. Plain and simple.
The irony in that comment is priceless.
Originally posted by Hiro
The irony in that comment is priceless.
Indeed - "plain and simple."
some CEOs.
Originally posted by AppleRISC
ESU is on-duty 24/7 and a squad truck was probably not too far away, making them the faster option than waiting for some mechanic to lazily get out of bed, shower, and saunter on over to the store. The customers were in there for 45 minutes as it was, it's not fair to expect them to have waited longer for some Otis person to show up. Secondly, these weren't just regular police officers, these are trained professionals (hence the designation "Emergency Services Unit"). Many of these guys probably possess more mechanical skills than any given run-of-the-mill elevator mechanic.
Emergency Services Unit is pretty vague. Is it medical emergency? Fire? Sorry, it's throwing me for a loop, it's hard for me to think of mechanical and electrical skills as being on the list of emergency personell. I'm not saying it isn't possible that they are crack commando team of trained mechanics though.
damnit steve, cant you do anything right? first killing the newton, then that stupid flower power imac, then killing ipod mini, then selling pixar, now this?!
offTopic:
We'll see how Cars goes. It'll be 99% Pixar 1% Disney
Yeah iPod mini kept and updated with Flash 1/2/4GB would have been cool.
The iPod mini is still the iPod with the best and most durable casing ever..!!
Too bad mine died (can use as backup but battery is dead)
just as the warranty expired.
Originally posted by JeffDM
Emergency Services Unit is pretty vague. Is it medical emergency? Fire? Sorry, it's throwing me for a loop, it's hard for me to think of mechanical and electrical skills as being on the list of emergency personell. I'm not saying it isn't possible that they are crack commando team of trained mechanics though.
Why wouldn't a vertical city like NYC have a crack SWAT elevator rescue team that knows how to bleed down a hydraulic cylinder????
Originally posted by DeaPeaJay
uhh.. riding the glass elevator is simply more fun.
Hope they didn't have any stones to throw.
Why wouldn't a vertical city like NYC have a crack SWAT elevator rescue team that knows how to bleed down a hydraulic cylinder????
No need for that. iSteve is assembling a 24/7 crack team of Elevator Geniuses to never let this happen again, or if it does, be sorted out within 5 minutes max. He's also converting the elevator to be run off 3 iMac Intels on Mac OS 10.4.6 hooked up to xServe RAIDs. Steve is spending $1 million out of his own pocket to make sure the elevator never gets stuck again. Ever.
"Ride easy. This elevator is running Mac OS X and operated by iMacs. It never crashes or gets stuck. Too bad we can't say the same thing about Windows PCs."
BELOW THAT
"This elevator is run by Mac OS X. 99.99999999999999% uptime. Wouldn't you like your business IT operations to be the same?"