Because all generic low-end PCs cost roughly the same amount of money, and if Office Depot is closer to my house, on the way home, has a hot clerk, is next to my favorite bar, etc. etc., why NOT shop there?
Here we have another stupid story about how some rogue retailer is employing some strong-handed, unfair tactic to separate you from your hard earned cash. Bitching and moaning about Office Depot does nothing about this situation because....wait for it....ALL RETAIL STORE DO THIS.
Seriously, when are these targeted crusades against (fill-in-the-blank-large-box-store) going to end? Criticize the system, but quit pretending Office Depot are the bad guys. The real answer is to NOT shop there if it pisses you off. Better yet, you can always, you know, say "no thanks" when they run through their spiel.
Have any of the editors who thought this story was a good idea stopped and thought to themselves: "how is using a script to ask customers to buy an extended warranty any different than asking customers if they'd like fries with that, or if they'd like to supersize their coke?"
As if the "hit" Fox show Lie to Me weren't bad enough fiction, we're hit with this silly story. Lie detector tests are not always accurate and use much more elaborate measurements of the human body. What's next, the government is going to bring in Phil Helmuth to start reading criminals' tells?
I hate it when people say this. You obviously are leaving out a huge part of any research: discussion of the findings. You don't prove or disprove anything with the numbers. You use the numbers from your research COMBINED with existing literature and then hold a discussion of the findings. Numbers on their own mean nothing, but in proper research you give those number relevance by applying the appropriate context in which to understand what the numbers mean. What you MEAN to say is that PEOPLE can make the numbers say anything they want, because the numbers themselves don't prove anything.
IE sluggishness is so bad, that even though we aren't allowed to have any other browser on our computers, I use Firefox. That's right, IE is so bad, I risk disciplinary action to avoid having to use IE. The best part about the "You will use IE7 or higher only" mantra of our idiot IT department is that our time card website doesn't work with anything beyond IE6, so we all have to run a stupid little script that fools IE7 into thinking it is IE6.
I forgot to mention that FrontRow in OSX would work nicely if it supported avi, since most every tv show I've ever downloaded is an.avi file. Adding another step of conversion to.mov or something that Front Row will play makes it a deal-breaker for me.
I have a program called "Media Server" by Twonky. The PSP3 "sees" all the media on my Mac(s), it just won't play them. I have the usual run of media stuff; aac, mp3, avi, mov--none of it plays on the PS3. I think it's a PS3 issue and not a Mac one, but who knows. If it takes more than 10 minutes to setup and configure, it isn't worth my time.
I was just stating that my definition of ignorant is "does not know" and not, "you are stupid and don't like to think", as the response to my post. I thought the word "just" qualified my statement, but I guess not.
I have a PS3. I can't get streaming video to work. Also, I'm dubious of the sound quality I'll get with a torrent downloaded.AVI/.mov/.whatever file. I've yet to get one that has surround sound encoded, but maybe I'm doing it wrong. The closest I've come to Internet-to-TV is simply hooking my Macbook up to the TV and to the stereo, but that's not a very elegant solution (and before anyone suggests it, Apple TV is only 720p, right?) I'm open to easy, free solutions that incorporate my existing PS3 and Mac OSX setup.
What's wrong with good ole c:? Whenever any computer geek reads it, any computer geek knows exactly what the other computer geek is talking about.
FTFY. Just sayin', most novice users don't know what c: means. That's the same thing as "My Computer" right? So it's c:my computer? I bought a new hard drive at Best Buy and those lovely boys at the geek squad installed it for me. Why isn't it on my c:mycomputer drive? What do you mean F: drive? What happened to my C:? It's now F: I'm confused...and old...and typical.
What you are describing sounds like typically confusing Microsoft OS features that most normal users will never use due to them being overly complex. I guess I'll have to see it, because I have no idea what you just described looks like or even how it is invoked.
I hate Microsoft OSes (every flavor), but I don't agree with everything in your list:
* DOS era drive letters for volumes?
* The perfectly wrong choice of \ vs / for path names?
* The Win 3 era maximize button on windows?
* Files that can't be move when they are open by another application?
DOS era drive letters are stupid. They were stupid in 1990 because the other company allowed for clicking on the drive and renaming it. They are even more stupid for still being here. At least Microsoft could have argued something about technical complexity in 1990, but what's the excuse now?
why would \ be superior or inferior to/, especially if you had never used UNIX before?
The Windows maximize button is probably the only feature I wish OSX had. Well that, and cut and paste to move a file from one directory to another.
Couldn't agree more about the inability to move a file that is open. Frequently more irritating is the inability to rename an open document from the desktop. Why should I have to close a document to rename it? I could "save as" but then I have two files and have to delete one.
The things I complain about in general with Microsoft is because there is nothing technically keeping Microsoft from changing it--they simply chose not to-- whether it be for "bottom-line" reasons or whether they just have bad design taste.
The differences between Windows 7 and Windows Vista are greater than the difference between OS X 10.4 and 10.6.
As in the differences between "probably won't suck" (Win7) compared to "sucks alot" (WinVista) are greater than "pretty good"(X.4) to "probably pretty good" (X.6)?
Each new release of OS X might, at best, be compared to a service pack.
That's Microsoft FUD and pure BS. It's the same as saying that Linux kernel 2.6 is a service pack to 2.4. There are a lot of differences between the several versions including but not limited to the kernel.
Even more, we should punish Apple for having a streamlined development process that allows for rapid development through a tightly-integrated, reusable code-base and processes? Call me crazy, but that's why OSX upgrades feel like much more than a Microsoft Service Pack.
Service packs are filled with behind-the-scenes system tweaks that are generally not noticed by the end-user. Apple upgrades are filled with features, software, and UI tweaks, that improve the end-user's experience. An OSX user can tell you what is new in the new version, where as I couldn't name one feature by name in XP sp2. All we know is you need to download it and install it, for whatever reason.
What really confused me is sometime about three years ago the default behavior for iTunes went from "manage my library myself" to "keep iTunes folder organized". I recently spent an entire weekend trying to eradicate about 2000 duplicate songs on my system. But yeah, "keep iTunes folder organized is a much better default" than not.
I have that option as well. Unfortunately I still end up with three or four copies of the same South Park episode when I do that and have to spend 10 minutes deleting duplicates for every one show I get. When I called customer support, they told me that "first run" means it will record the show the first time it runs on that channel on any given day. I don't believe them, I just think their software sucks and they don't want to tell people that, so they make up their own logic. First run on this channel, any day, anytime means the first time that episode runs, it is recorded, and not recorded again on subsequent runs...seems like a no brainer, unless you are Time Warner. In the case of South Park, their episodes run first on Thursday (new), then on Saturday, Sunday and Monday as reruns. It gets even worse if you want to record the new episode for this week and any reruns that also run on Comedy Central during the week.
Ok, I'm calm. I've read, reread and rereread, and still have no idea what your reply means.
Staying home on a Friday night is probably more indicative of having a REAL life than it is being a nerd. To the contrary; those of us who watch BSG on Friday nights, after having fed our families and fulfilled our societal obligations for the week, probably have MORE of a life than those looking to spend mommy and daddy's tuition money at the bar trying to get laid.
Well I'm not so harsh. Some people are ignorant because they just don't know. Now if you present them with new information and they refuse to consider it, then yes, they are ignoramuses.
That would mean Sony, year 2020, is Philip Morris, 1990, since the Walkman came out in the 1980s. I love Apple, but quit giving them credit for something they didn't do (making kids deaf since 1980, Sony INC.)
I hate to break it to you--somethings just ARE better than other things--subjectivity be damned. A finely crafted ale is better than a mass-produced Budweiser; clean water sources are better than malaria infested water sources; free societies are better than totalitarian ones, etc. etc.
if you grow up listening to nothing but crap (low audio quality or low quality music ON low quality audio), then that is all you know, and generally will pick it over something that quality-wise is superior.
But when you are like me, raised in a rich music family and study music for 20 years, when you voice your very informed opinion about the caliber of music, you are labeled "elitist". I hate that. Moreover, having a rich musical background makes one inherently more qualified to evaluate the "quality" of music, since such a person is less susceptible to bias of only knowing one sort of quality by which to make judgment.
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Because all generic low-end PCs cost roughly the same amount of money, and if Office Depot is closer to my house, on the way home, has a hot clerk, is next to my favorite bar, etc. etc., why NOT shop there?
Here we have another stupid story about how some rogue retailer is employing some strong-handed, unfair tactic to separate you from your hard earned cash. Bitching and moaning about Office Depot does nothing about this situation because....wait for it....ALL RETAIL STORE DO THIS.
Seriously, when are these targeted crusades against (fill-in-the-blank-large-box-store) going to end? Criticize the system, but quit pretending Office Depot are the bad guys. The real answer is to NOT shop there if it pisses you off. Better yet, you can always, you know, say "no thanks" when they run through their spiel.
Have any of the editors who thought this story was a good idea stopped and thought to themselves: "how is using a script to ask customers to buy an extended warranty any different than asking customers if they'd like fries with that, or if they'd like to supersize their coke?"
I went to a Magic, the Gathering regional tournament. The place was packed with liars! Same goes for the local comic book store, evidently.
As if the "hit" Fox show Lie to Me weren't bad enough fiction, we're hit with this silly story. Lie detector tests are not always accurate and use much more elaborate measurements of the human body. What's next, the government is going to bring in Phil Helmuth to start reading criminals' tells?
I hate it when people say this. You obviously are leaving out a huge part of any research: discussion of the findings. You don't prove or disprove anything with the numbers. You use the numbers from your research COMBINED with existing literature and then hold a discussion of the findings. Numbers on their own mean nothing, but in proper research you give those number relevance by applying the appropriate context in which to understand what the numbers mean. What you MEAN to say is that PEOPLE can make the numbers say anything they want, because the numbers themselves don't prove anything.
IE sluggishness is so bad, that even though we aren't allowed to have any other browser on our computers, I use Firefox. That's right, IE is so bad, I risk disciplinary action to avoid having to use IE. The best part about the "You will use IE7 or higher only" mantra of our idiot IT department is that our time card website doesn't work with anything beyond IE6, so we all have to run a stupid little script that fools IE7 into thinking it is IE6.
I forgot to mention that FrontRow in OSX would work nicely if it supported avi, since most every tv show I've ever downloaded is an .avi file. Adding another step of conversion to .mov or something that Front Row will play makes it a deal-breaker for me.
I have a program called "Media Server" by Twonky. The PSP3 "sees" all the media on my Mac(s), it just won't play them. I have the usual run of media stuff; aac, mp3, avi, mov--none of it plays on the PS3. I think it's a PS3 issue and not a Mac one, but who knows. If it takes more than 10 minutes to setup and configure, it isn't worth my time.
I was just stating that my definition of ignorant is "does not know" and not, "you are stupid and don't like to think", as the response to my post. I thought the word "just" qualified my statement, but I guess not.
I have a PS3. I can't get streaming video to work. Also, I'm dubious of the sound quality I'll get with a torrent downloaded .AVI/.mov/.whatever file. I've yet to get one that has surround sound encoded, but maybe I'm doing it wrong. The closest I've come to Internet-to-TV is simply hooking my Macbook up to the TV and to the stereo, but that's not a very elegant solution (and before anyone suggests it, Apple TV is only 720p, right?) I'm open to easy, free solutions that incorporate my existing PS3 and Mac OSX setup.
Look, if it is crap, then it will continue to be crap.
I'm glad we agree. And thankfully you said the same thing I did in far fewer words.
What's wrong with good ole c:? Whenever any computer geek reads it, any computer geek knows exactly what the other computer geek is talking about.
FTFY. Just sayin', most novice users don't know what c: means. That's the same thing as "My Computer" right? So it's c:my computer? I bought a new hard drive at Best Buy and those lovely boys at the geek squad installed it for me. Why isn't it on my c:mycomputer drive? What do you mean F: drive? What happened to my C:? It's now F: I'm confused...and old...and typical.
What you are describing sounds like typically confusing Microsoft OS features that most normal users will never use due to them being overly complex. I guess I'll have to see it, because I have no idea what you just described looks like or even how it is invoked.
* DOS era drive letters for volumes?
* The perfectly wrong choice of \ vs / for path names?
* The Win 3 era maximize button on windows?
* Files that can't be move when they are open by another application?
DOS era drive letters are stupid. They were stupid in 1990 because the other company allowed for clicking on the drive and renaming it. They are even more stupid for still being here. At least Microsoft could have argued something about technical complexity in 1990, but what's the excuse now?
why would \ be superior or inferior to /, especially if you had never used UNIX before?
The Windows maximize button is probably the only feature I wish OSX had. Well that, and cut and paste to move a file from one directory to another.
Couldn't agree more about the inability to move a file that is open. Frequently more irritating is the inability to rename an open document from the desktop. Why should I have to close a document to rename it? I could "save as" but then I have two files and have to delete one.
The things I complain about in general with Microsoft is because there is nothing technically keeping Microsoft from changing it--they simply chose not to-- whether it be for "bottom-line" reasons or whether they just have bad design taste.
The differences between Windows 7 and Windows Vista are greater than the difference between OS X 10.4 and 10.6.
As in the differences between "probably won't suck" (Win7) compared to "sucks alot" (WinVista) are greater than "pretty good"(X.4) to "probably pretty good" (X.6)?
What's with people so excited about rewrites?
In the case of Microsoft, I get excited about rewrites in hopes that Windows might actually not suck.
Each new release of OS X might, at best, be compared to a service pack.
That's Microsoft FUD and pure BS. It's the same as saying that Linux kernel 2.6 is a service pack to 2.4. There are a lot of differences between the several versions including but not limited to the kernel.
Even more, we should punish Apple for having a streamlined development process that allows for rapid development through a tightly-integrated, reusable code-base and processes? Call me crazy, but that's why OSX upgrades feel like much more than a Microsoft Service Pack.
Service packs are filled with behind-the-scenes system tweaks that are generally not noticed by the end-user. Apple upgrades are filled with features, software, and UI tweaks, that improve the end-user's experience. An OSX user can tell you what is new in the new version, where as I couldn't name one feature by name in XP sp2. All we know is you need to download it and install it, for whatever reason.
What really confused me is sometime about three years ago the default behavior for iTunes went from "manage my library myself" to "keep iTunes folder organized". I recently spent an entire weekend trying to eradicate about 2000 duplicate songs on my system. But yeah, "keep iTunes folder organized is a much better default" than not.
I wish there were a -netbook filter on slashdot so I wouldn't have to weed through discussions about netbooks on every topic introduced.
I have that option as well. Unfortunately I still end up with three or four copies of the same South Park episode when I do that and have to spend 10 minutes deleting duplicates for every one show I get. When I called customer support, they told me that "first run" means it will record the show the first time it runs on that channel on any given day. I don't believe them, I just think their software sucks and they don't want to tell people that, so they make up their own logic. First run on this channel, any day, anytime means the first time that episode runs, it is recorded, and not recorded again on subsequent runs...seems like a no brainer, unless you are Time Warner. In the case of South Park, their episodes run first on Thursday (new), then on Saturday, Sunday and Monday as reruns. It gets even worse if you want to record the new episode for this week and any reruns that also run on Comedy Central during the week.
Ok, I'm calm. I've read, reread and rereread, and still have no idea what your reply means. Staying home on a Friday night is probably more indicative of having a REAL life than it is being a nerd. To the contrary; those of us who watch BSG on Friday nights, after having fed our families and fulfilled our societal obligations for the week, probably have MORE of a life than those looking to spend mommy and daddy's tuition money at the bar trying to get laid.
Well I'm not so harsh. Some people are ignorant because they just don't know. Now if you present them with new information and they refuse to consider it, then yes, they are ignoramuses.
That would mean Sony, year 2020, is Philip Morris, 1990, since the Walkman came out in the 1980s. I love Apple, but quit giving them credit for something they didn't do (making kids deaf since 1980, Sony INC.)
I hate to break it to you--somethings just ARE better than other things--subjectivity be damned. A finely crafted ale is better than a mass-produced Budweiser; clean water sources are better than malaria infested water sources; free societies are better than totalitarian ones, etc. etc.
if you grow up listening to nothing but crap (low audio quality or low quality music ON low quality audio), then that is all you know, and generally will pick it over something that quality-wise is superior.
But when you are like me, raised in a rich music family and study music for 20 years, when you voice your very informed opinion about the caliber of music, you are labeled "elitist". I hate that. Moreover, having a rich musical background makes one inherently more qualified to evaluate the "quality" of music, since such a person is less susceptible to bias of only knowing one sort of quality by which to make judgment.