Not only that, but holy crap, if you call their customer support to troubleshoot their Pop3 email service, all the CSRs have is a book that explains how to do it on Outlook.
I called them when Thunderbird stopped fetching email and the rep said: "OK open outlook and go to "tools".
I replied "I'm not using outlook, I have Thunderbird"
She: "Oh, you need outlook to get e-mail"
I: "No I don't, just tell me what the address of your POP3 server is."
She: "No sir, I'm sorry but in my book it says outlook is required".
I: " Well, I'm using a Mac computer and there is no Outlook for Mac"
She: "OH! (very proud of "solving" my problem) Well, you need to be transferred to our Mac support dept!" CLICK
I was taught the imperial system in grade school. Then in High School (Early 90's) the metric conversion was in full swing, however other than Liquid measure (liters et al) I cannot "eyeball" any metric measurement. I can tell you my Blackberry is 3 inches wide, but to know in cm I'd either have to measure with a cm based ruler or use a converting formula (or most likely, my computer). I wish that the US had gone metric in the 70's like they tried to, so I wouldn't measure everything in a system as outdated as ours.
It's a whole nuther thing here if you could care less. It makes me nauseous at how this nukeular power supposably is illiterate for all intensive purposes. I hate it, irregardless.
When Jobs was ousted in the 80s, he had a board composed of venture capitalists and bankers. They brought in John Sculley because that's what they thought a successful company needed, a run-of-the-mill, interchangeable CEO from the corporate world's revolving door.
Now the story is entirely different. Apple dominates one market (music players), and is rising like a rocket in another (smartphones). Jobs has had a decade to reinvent the company, and thanks to the nature of the industry now, his board is full of people who understand it. Not to mention that Jobs has been confronted by his own mortality for a number of years now and must have spent many nights considering who will lead Apple when he is gone.
This isn't a guarantee of success, but anybody can agree that Apple without Steve Jobs now would be nothing like Apple without Steve Jobs in 1990.
Aww fond memories there. I remember back in 93 watching that movie with a few friends in a crowded theater and I believe it went down like this:
Lex:It's a UNIX system! I know this!
Me: NO ITS NOT!
Usher: Please leave.
I had some problems with 8.04 (the usual, wifi) but 8.10 has really seemed to iron out a lot of the kinks. I am new to linux but I got Ibex running on my Macbook Pro on the first try. Another hour in the CLI (apt-get & fine tuning my synaptics touchpad mostly) and it works as well as OS X on the other partition.
However I have seen some great looking systems running Slack, Redhat, Suse, even DamnSmall. Its all about if the distro works for you. In my case, Ubuntu works like a charm and fits me perfectly.
Outlawing the Special Theory of General Relativity because it opened the way to making a Nuclear Bomb would be like outlawing steel because it can be made into guns and swords.
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Not only that, but holy crap, if you call their customer support to troubleshoot their Pop3 email service, all the CSRs have is a book that explains how to do it on Outlook.
I called them when Thunderbird stopped fetching email and the rep said: "OK open outlook and go to "tools".
I replied "I'm not using outlook, I have Thunderbird"
She: "Oh, you need outlook to get e-mail"
I: "No I don't, just tell me what the address of your POP3 server is."
She: "No sir, I'm sorry but in my book it says outlook is required".
I: " Well, I'm using a Mac computer and there is no Outlook for Mac"
She: "OH! (very proud of "solving" my problem) Well, you need to be transferred to our Mac support dept!"
CLICK
Computer illiterate CSRs make me stabby.
GAppleSoft!
and from seeing quite a few shops in your time?
Now I've heard everything.
Its a *feature*, not a bug.
What about the Mole People?
Am I the only person who still reads WWF as World Wrestling Federation?
Wasn't that the plot of Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six"?
or
I made. In public, once.
Great.Now-because-of-the-diet-coke-you-made-me-spray-on-my-keyboard,the-spacebar-doesn't-work.Thanks-a-lot-pal!
Somewhere in there there's a joke about chairs being used as Anti-Aircraft Artillery, but I can't find it.
Naw, they probably just bought it at the same place I bought my Submarine fire control system, Radio Shack.
Shouldn't it be called Microsoft Porthole?
*rimshot*
I was taught the imperial system in grade school. Then in High School (Early 90's) the metric conversion was in full swing, however other than Liquid measure (liters et al) I cannot "eyeball" any metric measurement. I can tell you my Blackberry is 3 inches wide, but to know in cm I'd either have to measure with a cm based ruler or use a converting formula (or most likely, my computer). I wish that the US had gone metric in the 70's like they tried to, so I wouldn't measure everything in a system as outdated as ours.
It's a whole nuther thing here if you could care less. It makes me nauseous at how this nukeular power supposably is illiterate for all intensive purposes. I hate it, irregardless.
__________
__________
Now my head hurts.
Simply not true.
When Jobs was ousted in the 80s, he had a board composed of venture capitalists and bankers. They brought in John Sculley because that's what they thought a successful company needed, a run-of-the-mill, interchangeable CEO from the corporate world's revolving door.
Now the story is entirely different. Apple dominates one market (music players), and is rising like a rocket in another (smartphones). Jobs has had a decade to reinvent the company, and thanks to the nature of the industry now, his board is full of people who understand it. Not to mention that Jobs has been confronted by his own mortality for a number of years now and must have spent many nights considering who will lead Apple when he is gone.
This isn't a guarantee of success, but anybody can agree that Apple without Steve Jobs now would be nothing like Apple without Steve Jobs in 1990.
Crime 2.0 ?
Well I stand corrected. Of course, I was 13 at the time and my Unix experience was limited to the CLI. ... still is matter of fact.
Aww fond memories there. I remember back in 93 watching that movie with a few friends in a crowded theater and I believe it went down like this:
Lex:It's a UNIX system! I know this!
Me: NO ITS NOT!
Usher: Please leave.
BEAR@WILDERNESS:-$ EatSalmon
permission denied. Are you Root?
BEAR@WILDERNESS:-$ sudo EatSalmon
password for BEAR:*******
Generating Salmon..... [83%]
I had some problems with 8.04 (the usual, wifi) but 8.10 has really seemed to iron out a lot of the kinks. I am new to linux but I got Ibex running on my Macbook Pro on the first try. Another hour in the CLI (apt-get & fine tuning my synaptics touchpad mostly) and it works as well as OS X on the other partition.
However I have seen some great looking systems running Slack, Redhat, Suse, even DamnSmall. Its all about if the distro works for you. In my case, Ubuntu works like a charm and fits me perfectly.
Nah, the community saves all of its elitism for Ubuntu users now.
I am some sort of an elitist you insensitive clod!
Outlawing the Special Theory of General Relativity because it opened the way to making a Nuclear Bomb would be like outlawing steel because it can be made into guns and swords.
2% here we come!