The troll response aside, if you have a 5-button mouse, and you can plug it in the Mac (i.e. it is USB), it will work. MacOS X accepts practically all mice, out of the box without installing drivers. Plug it in, it works.
But, and there's a big one, you will find out that Mac is designed around one button. This means that you'll use the other (the right) button much less than you would in a windows system.
I read an article once where one of the film / media attaches at Apple spoke about Apples in films. She said that Apple doesn't buy into films with their products, but do lend out equipment for free. Apple is popular in the film industry for a good reason; they look fantastic. Much the same reason as some actors I guess.
Besides that; it seems that MacOS X is pretty much alone in being displayed when the actors interact with computers. If they access some Intel box, the interface is usually a mockup. If they interact with an Apple, the mockup ratio seems to be less. The large icons look great on film and TV, the desktop is uncluttered and the CinemaDisplays are stunning. Last time I saw an MacOS X screen on film was as late as yesterday on DVD, "The Stepfor Wives". Nicole Kidman accessed the net to find some info on a PB 17", and it struck me how natural it seemed compared to the usual mockup picure, since she actually used Safari to browse. Probably from a local file though...:)
Well, I don't know about the ther players but the iPod has an excellent record when it comes to toughness. People may complain about the battery and......well all they complain about is the battery, but the harddrive is not failure prone. Folks with iPods have been jogging with them since gen. 1, and I have yet to see someone complain about a HDD failure due to jogging. My active family uses their minis to jog, inside moist jackets, and it still keeps ticking. The iPod is one tough player.
While this may be true, they do have 90+ % of the OS market. Wich in order confirms my theory that 95% of the people on the surface of the planet are idiots.:)
I had the opposite experience today. I installed an ADSL moden + router + two wireless cards in two Dells. After two hours it STILL wouldn't work as planned with WPA. I felt like I was a being from space, trying to use 30th centtury tools and know-how to fix mud huts on the Congo river in the year 890 AD.
The complexity of windows is baffeling. I was amazed that something that works so easely on Mac could be so incredibly complicated on another platform. The nearest thing I had to WiFi network problems befor was my GFs iBook that had to enter a WPA-PSK password on every boot, but it was solved after some consulting on the Apple site forum.
I sweated, wept and toiled and yet I had to leave the installation half finished because I only had two hours available. Depressed and alone i reached out to grab the Old Friend that never disappoints, Jack Daniels. Suddenly, a light came on in the corner. It was my alu PowerBook, that woke up upon registering that my Bluetooth cellphone was nearby. As it changed the "away" message in Aduim to At home and available, and automatically synced the phone with adressbook, I realized. I don't need booze to drown my Windows memories. I only need the comforting white light of an Apple.
Ok, so it wasn't that bad. But the installation didn't work as planned and I have to go back tomoroow and that sucks.
Here in norway, practically all CCs have picture ID on them. It is funny to shop in e.g. Spain, where everybody automatically gives ther EU ID along with the credit card. I always give just the CC, and they look at me like I am retarded. Then they ask for ID and I tell them to 'flip the card over' (To the signature side, where they really should have a look anyway) and lo anf behold. A cute little picture of me along with a laser-engraved signature, hologram, ID verification code, CCV, name ans account #. They gett baffled.
Once, while my GF was shopping for shoes, I gave the woman behind the counter my CC. She asked for ID, I told her to flip it over. She did, and still asked for ID......but since these cards are valid ID alnog with drivers license and passport in Norway, I didn't have any on me. It was a 500 purchase and I didn't have enough cash. Furthermore, she absolutely refused to contact her boss, so I just stepped around her and grabbed hold of the boss. She instantly understood that this was a valid ID and yelled at the clerk to get some clue...
Well, how about this? Being an ex-member of Mensa (And no, you don't get kicked out), I can Verify all the claims.
It's a club for people who are really, really good at the tests (I faked it, they are trivial to study for) but not really that good at talking to others. So, when they meet, at least they can talk about the tests. All in all, it is really boring. I just signed up with a friend to prove that the tests are easy to beat. Using a fake name, even.
But if the members of Mensa like it, hey, more power to them!
Almost like on M*A*S*H, wherre Hawkeye et al ran out of sedatives and painkillers, and the supply lines were cut off. They made placebo pills and gave to the patients, only Hawkeye, Hot Lips and a couple more knew that they were placebos. The placebos worked. Supposedly, something similar happened in a norwegian UN M*A*S*H unit during the Korean war.
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It is not quite like that either. The rumour sites are not sued initially, they are subpeonaed in a lawsuit against John Doe who have leaked info to the rumour sites. Apple don't care that much about rumour sites, when they stick to rumours. when they publish trade secrets that are a violation of an NDA, things change. Have a look at the court documents here.
As for the free speech issue, it doesn't come into play in this case since there has been committed a crime against the uniform trade secrets act.
But can't journalists protect their sources even if a crime has been committed, to reveal the greater truth? Why, yes. Yes they can. But as the judge has ruled (And he is smart. He doesn't even bother with the "are bloggers journalists" issue), when the news have no actual news value to the public the journalistic shield doesn't apply. And as he said, not everything the public is interrested in is of public interest. Furthermore, ThinkSecret has made a trade with the leaker, thereby violating the UTSA.
This is a bad, bad, bad case for the EFF to get involved in. Even though I don't like Microsoft, I would have the exact same opinion if they were in Apples spot. If ThinkSecret wins, NDAs are worthless, trust and honor are out the window for an employer and new draconian security measures have to be set in place. After all, you can just dump the NDA and leak everything to a journalist and it's OK, right?
Remember, this isn't about a toxic spill, insider trading, employee abuse. Apple has done nothing (at least in this case, there are probably valid EFF cases against Apple) that should be revealed under journalist shield acts.
Now, I work as a journalist myself and I would never, ever, publishe these news in my paper. Why? because in my opinion: they have no news value, they could do damage to the company without doing any greater good, they were illegally obtained and there will be hell to pay. However, if the news was that and this is jut an example) Jobs routinely beats his employees to make them work faster, THAT would be news worth breaking NDAs and risking it for.
The crapiness of Dell is very, very known. When you buy a Dell, it's like you buy in the 99 cent store. You go for the cheap crap. I bought a Latitude from a frind who got it from his workplace. He's a Dell fan (yes, they do exist), and even he admitted it wass SO crappy, I got TWO Latitudes for the price of one, one of them being the "spare parts computer". The spare parts Latitude gave a LOT of parts to the one in use, as they gradually failed over time:Screen lock hinge (this broke 1 week into the ownership, Dell had a policy of sending out new ones in metal insttead of plastic), harddrive, upper body plastic shell, keyboard, lower body plastic shell, RAM, battery (I had four!) and CD drive were he parts that went from the spare parts Latitude to the in-use Latitude in a period of one year.
Now I own a PowerBook. It's not perfect, but it is a hell of a lot better.
Small Apple resellers do more than enugh to cripple themselves. Exhibit A: The Office Line store in Norway. Expensive. Long lines to talk to someone. Clueless clerks. Yells at you for bringing returns to them. Bitches about Apple being evil and drivinb them bankrupt. Yet they still exist. One store, has been in business for 10+ years.
Exhibit B: Eplehuset (The Apple house in Norwegian) in Norway. Same prices as Apple store on the net, no online sales though. Snappy crew that attends to your need. Clerks eager to discuss Apple trivia and specs with you. Helps you even handle AppleStore returns. Has been in buisness for two years, opened their second store a short time ago. Plans to expand even more.
Small time Apple resellers are strange. They tend to look upon themselves as special and exclusive when they really aren't. Then they get as cranky as a toddler without a bottle when they have to wait for the latest iPod mini and scream OMFG!!!! APPLE IS D'NKING THE HATORADE ON US!, while ignoring that the mini has a 6 week waiting period even on Apple's own net store.
Yes you can. I downloaded the song E.V.A. by Jean Jacques-Perrey at audiolunchbox.com since I couldn't find it at my store or iTunes music store. Also, it put a nail in thecoffin to the "iPod can only play Music Store songs" retarded argument of a colleauge.
I saw this on BoingBoing just a minute ago nd looked at the purdy pictures. I have now concluded that the pictures will do, Star Wars is dead to me and I won't see the move until i surfaces on TV in some years. I was at the grand opening of Star Wars I when they arranged a special screening in the 5000-people Spektrum arena (With awful, horrible bad sound and twice the price of a cinema with THX) and I won't pay a dime more to this crappy excuse for a sci-fi movie series. Which is sad, since I have so fond memories of SW 4 to 6.
You (or I for that matter) don't think like the stock market. Remember the launch of the Mac mini? And iPod shuffle? The rumour sites got leaked info from Apple insiders and hit the nail on the head with the info on MM and IS. Thus the presentation held by Jobs in San Fransisco was characterised as "only meeting expectations" by a lot of people and the stock SANK by 4%. You and I know this is insane, as the shuffle sells like hotcakes and the mini is what the industry has wanted for years. But, like a leaked beta hitting the press, this leads to negative press for Apple and may risk the stock price. I know that a beta is by definition not perfect, but dumber people don't. And they tend to write about it. Just look at all the inane chatter about Longhorn.
I have read the interview, and I have a bad feeling about this guy. He claims that he was unaware of any uploading in BitTorrent, how can you be unaware of it? The whole systems is based upon the fact that as soon as you download, you become an uploader! FTA: "I made the foolish assumption that since I wasn't a developer, and I had a copy that it would be ok if I shared it with 5 or 6 fellow mac fanatics."
Well, if you grasp the concept of illegal software distribution (and I'm not agreeing to the concept, just retelling it as it actually is), he has just admitted the "crime". You are dealing with the law and a private company eager to protect its secrets. I suggest you buy a cluestick and hit yourself over the head with it until you realise it is illegal.
Now, unless he pleads insanity; not understanding what you are doing when you are doing a crime is no an excuse. If I spit chewing gum on the streets of Singapore do you think they'll be lenient on me just because I didn't know it was a crime? Nope.
When I went to law school (relax, I'm not a lawyer) a professor had a saying about my Scandinavian country: "People here seem to think they are born with an insurance for screw-ups. As soon as they do something stupid, they expect sympathy and help from the government." The same can be applied to Desicanuk, you screwed up, broke a contract and actually did a crime. Now fess up and be a man.
FTA: "When I signed up for the free ADC account, I didn't read the agreement. I suppose a lot of us don't read word for word every thing you agree to." Yeah, well you should have. It is retarded to sign something without reading and understanding it. EULAs, which I hate with a passion, are a slightly different thing, but the contract with ADC is something you really should read. An unread contract will almost always bite you in the ass, tell it to my GF who signed a contract with a private school and now has paid thousands of dollars because she signed up for the military while having committed to the contract.
Well, I watch TV (and then only DVDs or downloaded episodes of Enterprise that don't air here) like two hours a week. So the TV will last me 10 000 weeks? Sounds good...:)
But for a more average family, let's say the TV is on for four hours every single day of the year:
(20 000 / 4) / 365 = 13,6 years. Should last a while...
They agree to follow my advice. I tell them that I will help them, but they have to follow my advice, without complaints and do some minor adjustments to their behaviour that will in the end help them.
First out was my mom. The replaced her win95 PC with an iBook on my advice. Tech support calls from her went from 3 a week to 6 pr YEAR. Lately she has called, the ISP randomly resets the cable modem for some reason and she has to reboot it. It's OK.
Second was my GF. She wanted a portable to do school work and internet connectivity. So I said to her"Honey, I love you. But I'll be damned if I have to support that XP Dell you're looking at. If you buy it, you won't get and advice from me". She bought an iBook, support issues for 1 year 3 months: One. IPhoto screwed up and I had to reimport the pictures for her. She does call me when MSN is down though, like right now for example.
Third was a company of a friend. They asked me what computers they should buy to replace a broken win2000 box. They type, email and surf. Nothing more. I adviced them to buy eMac for the office and a Dell linux server for the backend. After calling Dell, they ended up buying a Dell front end system close in price to the iMac, with a CRT (!). It was infected with a virus within the day and they called me. Answer: "No, you didn't follow my advice, I don't offer support". Simple as that. Now they're up shit creek and Dell simply states that viruses (or the spyware they got in between) isn't part of their support plan.
My time is valuable to me, so I don't let others treat it like it is worthless.
He was waiting in line to grab his lunch and noticed that people kept cutting in front of him in line.
Yeah, welll you should see the Windows GUI team and the Mac Business Unit. Whenever the Mac BU fets praise for inventing things and concepts that surface in Office for Windows two years later, the Windows GUI team BEATS UP the Mac team and STEAL their lunch money.
Don't even get started on the Unix services team and the Patent Lawyer team...
He couldn't figure out what the heck was going on until he realized the people cutting in front were all from the music division.
Now, in other workplaces where you have some friendly competition this could be a common scene. But I suspect that in a friendly workplace, they would joke about it in a way that he'd understand that it was just a tounge-in-cheek joke and not any malice behind it.
If, and only if, this is something that happens in the Microsoft cafeteria, it is not a place I'd work. I rather prefer the "Oh, you're using the iPod! Yeah that's a kickass product. You know, we have to build something even better and cooler and push those smug Apple guys off the throne. So long, enjoy your iPod while I sneak in front of you as a punshment for using it *snicker*"-approach.
Honestly, I don't know if current PowerBooks can do that, but my current IBM T30 can't.
Yes they can. Someone on/. told a funny story about sitting on a plane and switching the battery in sleep mode. The guy in the next seat saw that and thought it was cool so he'd tried it on his IBM. An IBM that didn't support such things. And lost all his work.
Wow... I had the same experience in a place I worked. I was servicing an AST (God, i HATE and LOATHE AST and Acer) computer that got wierd General protection failures. When the machine was on for a while, it would fail. But no matter what component I tested, they all worked perfectly. Video card, memory, motherboard, RAM, network card, powersupply, audio card, CPU, all were in perfect working order. They just wouldn't work together.
So I explained the problemto my boss and he pondered about it for a sec before turning the computer off and WHAMMO! hitting it on the top just above the PCI card rack. "Now, turn it on and it will be OK" he said. Sure enough, the computer booted and remained OK. Problem? The AST case was so poorly designed, the heat from the CPU and harddrives would bent the motherboard downwards, thus unseating the main bus connector of the horizontally installed PCI cards. A whack to the top of the box shoved the connector in its right place for a couple of months more
May be this. Apple clearly sees the mouse as an obstacle only neccesary at the moment, not in the future. By forcing the one-button mouse agenda, they make it easier to accentuate the GUI via keyboard (now) or voice (in the future). Smaller and smaller devices are coming, and they won't have the luxury of having any mouse buttons.
The link goes to a vision of how humans interact with computers in uh......2011, I guess since the actor refers to 2006 as 5 years ago. I see some of the elements in MacOS like iChat AV system wide document search (in Tiger). Actually, the screen itself could be viable as electronic ink in 2011 so the video is very much spot on for the future.
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The troll response aside, if you have a 5-button mouse, and you can plug it in the Mac (i.e. it is USB), it will work. MacOS X accepts practically all mice, out of the box without installing drivers. Plug it in, it works.
But, and there's a big one, you will find out that Mac is designed around one button. This means that you'll use the other (the right) button much less than you would in a windows system.
I read an article once where one of the film / media attaches at Apple spoke about Apples in films. She said that Apple doesn't buy into films with their products, but do lend out equipment for free. Apple is popular in the film industry for a good reason; they look fantastic. Much the same reason as some actors I guess.
:)
Besides that; it seems that MacOS X is pretty much alone in being displayed when the actors interact with computers. If they access some Intel box, the interface is usually a mockup. If they interact with an Apple, the mockup ratio seems to be less. The large icons look great on film and TV, the desktop is uncluttered and the CinemaDisplays are stunning. Last time I saw an MacOS X screen on film was as late as yesterday on DVD, "The Stepfor Wives". Nicole Kidman accessed the net to find some info on a PB 17", and it struck me how natural it seemed compared to the usual mockup picure, since she actually used Safari to browse. Probably from a local file though...
Well, I don't know about the ther players but the iPod has an excellent record when it comes to toughness. People may complain about the battery and... ...well all they complain about is the battery, but the harddrive is not failure prone. Folks with iPods have been jogging with them since gen. 1, and I have yet to see someone complain about a HDD failure due to jogging. My active family uses their minis to jog, inside moist jackets, and it still keeps ticking. The iPod is one tough player.
When did ANYONE with a clue listen to Microsoft?
:)
While this may be true, they do have 90+ % of the OS market. Wich in order confirms my theory that 95% of the people on the surface of the planet are idiots.
I had the opposite experience today. I installed an ADSL moden + router + two wireless cards in two Dells. After two hours it STILL wouldn't work as planned with WPA. I felt like I was a being from space, trying to use 30th centtury tools and know-how to fix mud huts on the Congo river in the year 890 AD.
The complexity of windows is baffeling. I was amazed that something that works so easely on Mac could be so incredibly complicated on another platform. The nearest thing I had to WiFi network problems befor was my GFs iBook that had to enter a WPA-PSK password on every boot, but it was solved after some consulting on the Apple site forum.
I sweated, wept and toiled and yet I had to leave the installation half finished because I only had two hours available. Depressed and alone i reached out to grab the Old Friend that never disappoints, Jack Daniels. Suddenly, a light came on in the corner. It was my alu PowerBook, that woke up upon registering that my Bluetooth cellphone was nearby. As it changed the "away" message in Aduim to At home and available, and automatically synced the phone with adressbook, I realized. I don't need booze to drown my Windows memories. I only need the comforting white light of an Apple.
Ok, so it wasn't that bad. But the installation didn't work as planned and I have to go back tomoroow and that sucks.
Here in norway, practically all CCs have picture ID on them. It is funny to shop in e.g. Spain, where everybody automatically gives ther EU ID along with the credit card. I always give just the CC, and they look at me like I am retarded. Then they ask for ID and I tell them to 'flip the card over' (To the signature side, where they really should have a look anyway) and lo anf behold. A cute little picture of me along with a laser-engraved signature, hologram, ID verification code, CCV, name ans account #. They gett baffled.
...but since these cards are valid ID alnog with drivers license and passport in Norway, I didn't have any on me. It was a 500 purchase and I didn't have enough cash. Furthermore, she absolutely refused to contact her boss, so I just stepped around her and grabbed hold of the boss. She instantly understood that this was a valid ID and yelled at the clerk to get some clue...
Once, while my GF was shopping for shoes, I gave the woman behind the counter my CC. She asked for ID, I told her to flip it over. She did, and still asked for ID...
Well, how about this? Being an ex-member of Mensa (And no, you don't get kicked out), I can Verify all the claims.
It's a club for people who are really, really good at the tests (I faked it, they are trivial to study for) but not really that good at talking to others. So, when they meet, at least they can talk about the tests. All in all, it is really boring. I just signed up with a friend to prove that the tests are easy to beat. Using a fake name, even.
But if the members of Mensa like it, hey, more power to them!
Almost like on M*A*S*H, wherre Hawkeye et al ran out of sedatives and painkillers, and the supply lines were cut off. They made placebo pills and gave to the patients, only Hawkeye, Hot Lips and a couple more knew that they were placebos. The placebos worked. Supposedly, something similar happened in a norwegian UN M*A*S*H unit during the Korean war.
It is not quite like that either. The rumour sites are not sued initially, they are subpeonaed in a lawsuit against John Doe who have leaked info to the rumour sites. Apple don't care that much about rumour sites, when they stick to rumours. when they publish trade secrets that are a violation of an NDA, things change. Have a look at the court documents here.
As for the free speech issue, it doesn't come into play in this case since there has been committed a crime against the uniform trade secrets act.
But can't journalists protect their sources even if a crime has been committed, to reveal the greater truth? Why, yes. Yes they can. But as the judge has ruled (And he is smart. He doesn't even bother with the "are bloggers journalists" issue), when the news have no actual news value to the public the journalistic shield doesn't apply. And as he said, not everything the public is interrested in is of public interest. Furthermore, ThinkSecret has made a trade with the leaker, thereby violating the UTSA.
This is a bad, bad, bad case for the EFF to get involved in. Even though I don't like Microsoft, I would have the exact same opinion if they were in Apples spot. If ThinkSecret wins, NDAs are worthless, trust and honor are out the window for an employer and new draconian security measures have to be set in place. After all, you can just dump the NDA and leak everything to a journalist and it's OK, right?
Remember, this isn't about a toxic spill, insider trading, employee abuse. Apple has done nothing (at least in this case, there are probably valid EFF cases against Apple) that should be revealed under journalist shield acts.
Now, I work as a journalist myself and I would never, ever, publishe these news in my paper. Why? because in my opinion: they have no news value, they could do damage to the company without doing any greater good, they were illegally obtained and there will be hell to pay. However, if the news was that and this is jut an example) Jobs routinely beats his employees to make them work faster, THAT would be news worth breaking NDAs and risking it for.
The crapiness of Dell is very, very known. When you buy a Dell, it's like you buy in the 99 cent store. You go for the cheap crap.
I bought a Latitude from a frind who got it from his workplace. He's a Dell fan (yes, they do exist), and even he admitted it wass SO crappy, I got TWO Latitudes for the price of one, one of them being the "spare parts computer". The spare parts Latitude gave a LOT of parts to the one in use, as they gradually failed over time:Screen lock hinge (this broke 1 week into the ownership, Dell had a policy of sending out new ones in metal insttead of plastic), harddrive, upper body plastic shell, keyboard, lower body plastic shell, RAM, battery (I had four!) and CD drive were he parts that went from the spare parts Latitude to the in-use Latitude in a period of one year.
Now I own a PowerBook. It's not perfect, but it is a hell of a lot better.
Small Apple resellers do more than enugh to cripple themselves. Exhibit A: The Office Line store in Norway. Expensive. Long lines to talk to someone. Clueless clerks. Yells at you for bringing returns to them. Bitches about Apple being evil and drivinb them bankrupt. Yet they still exist. One store, has been in business for 10+ years.
Exhibit B: Eplehuset (The Apple house in Norwegian) in Norway. Same prices as Apple store on the net, no online sales though. Snappy crew that attends to your need. Clerks eager to discuss Apple trivia and specs with you. Helps you even handle AppleStore returns. Has been in buisness for two years, opened their second store a short time ago. Plans to expand even more.
Small time Apple resellers are strange. They tend to look upon themselves as special and exclusive when they really aren't. Then they get as cranky as a toddler without a bottle when they have to wait for the latest iPod mini and scream OMFG!!!! APPLE IS D'NKING THE HATORADE ON US!, while ignoring that the mini has a 6 week waiting period even on Apple's own net store.
Yes you can. I downloaded the song E.V.A. by Jean Jacques-Perrey at audiolunchbox.com since I couldn't find it at my store or iTunes music store. Also, it put a nail in thecoffin to the "iPod can only play Music Store songs" retarded argument of a colleauge.
I saw this on BoingBoing just a minute ago nd looked at the purdy pictures. I have now concluded that the pictures will do, Star Wars is dead to me and I won't see the move until i surfaces on TV in some years. I was at the grand opening of Star Wars I when they arranged a special screening in the 5000-people Spektrum arena (With awful, horrible bad sound and twice the price of a cinema with THX) and I won't pay a dime more to this crappy excuse for a sci-fi movie series. Which is sad, since I have so fond memories of SW 4 to 6.
You (or I for that matter) don't think like the stock market. Remember the launch of the Mac mini? And iPod shuffle? The rumour sites got leaked info from Apple insiders and hit the nail on the head with the info on MM and IS. Thus the presentation held by Jobs in San Fransisco was characterised as "only meeting expectations" by a lot of people and the stock SANK by 4%. You and I know this is insane, as the shuffle sells like hotcakes and the mini is what the industry has wanted for years. But, like a leaked beta hitting the press, this leads to negative press for Apple and may risk the stock price. I know that a beta is by definition not perfect, but dumber people don't. And they tend to write about it. Just look at all the inane chatter about Longhorn.
I have read the interview, and I have a bad feeling about this guy. He claims that he was unaware of any uploading in BitTorrent, how can you be unaware of it? The whole systems is based upon the fact that as soon as you download, you become an uploader! FTA: "I made the foolish assumption that since I wasn't a developer, and I had a copy that it would be ok if I shared it with 5 or 6 fellow mac fanatics."
Well, if you grasp the concept of illegal software distribution (and I'm not agreeing to the concept, just retelling it as it actually is), he has just admitted the "crime". You are dealing with the law and a private company eager to protect its secrets. I suggest you buy a cluestick and hit yourself over the head with it until you realise it is illegal.
Now, unless he pleads insanity; not understanding what you are doing when you are doing a crime is no an excuse. If I spit chewing gum on the streets of Singapore do you think they'll be lenient on me just because I didn't know it was a crime? Nope.
When I went to law school (relax, I'm not a lawyer) a professor had a saying about my Scandinavian country: "People here seem to think they are born with an insurance for screw-ups. As soon as they do something stupid, they expect sympathy and help from the government." The same can be applied to Desicanuk, you screwed up, broke a contract and actually did a crime. Now fess up and be a man.
FTA: "When I signed up for the free ADC account, I didn't read the agreement. I suppose a lot of us don't read word for word every thing you agree to." Yeah, well you should have. It is retarded to sign something without reading and understanding it. EULAs, which I hate with a passion, are a slightly different thing, but the contract with ADC is something you really should read. An unread contract will almost always bite you in the ass, tell it to my GF who signed a contract with a private school and now has paid thousands of dollars because she signed up for the military while having committed to the contract.
You live, you learn.
Try gifting them to your family, or your heirs.
I do that all the time. It's called to burn a CD! Sheesh! Give some credit where credit is due...
Well, I don't know what you feel, but Mail.app opens in 3 seconds on my G4 PB 15" vs. 10 seconds before the update. The rest feels the same.
a TV with a life of 20,000 hours.
:)
Well, I watch TV (and then only DVDs or downloaded episodes of Enterprise that don't air here) like two hours a week. So the TV will last me 10 000 weeks? Sounds good...
But for a more average family, let's say the TV is on for four hours every single day of the year:
(20 000 / 4) / 365 = 13,6 years. Should last a while...
They agree to follow my advice. I tell them that I will help them, but they have to follow my advice, without complaints and do some minor adjustments to their behaviour that will in the end help them.
First out was my mom. The replaced her win95 PC with an iBook on my advice. Tech support calls from her went from 3 a week to 6 pr YEAR. Lately she has called, the ISP randomly resets the cable modem for some reason and she has to reboot it. It's OK.
Second was my GF. She wanted a portable to do school work and internet connectivity. So I said to her"Honey, I love you. But I'll be damned if I have to support that XP Dell you're looking at. If you buy it, you won't get and advice from me". She bought an iBook, support issues for 1 year 3 months: One. IPhoto screwed up and I had to reimport the pictures for her. She does call me when MSN is down though, like right now for example.
Third was a company of a friend. They asked me what computers they should buy to replace a broken win2000 box. They type, email and surf. Nothing more. I adviced them to buy eMac for the office and a Dell linux server for the backend. After calling Dell, they ended up buying a Dell front end system close in price to the iMac, with a CRT (!). It was infected with a virus within the day and they called me. Answer: "No, you didn't follow my advice, I don't offer support". Simple as that. Now they're up shit creek and Dell simply states that viruses (or the spyware they got in between) isn't part of their support plan.
My time is valuable to me, so I don't let others treat it like it is worthless.
He was waiting in line to grab his lunch and noticed that people kept cutting in front of him in line.
Yeah, welll you should see the Windows GUI team and the Mac Business Unit. Whenever the Mac BU fets praise for inventing things and concepts that surface in Office for Windows two years later, the Windows GUI team BEATS UP the Mac team and STEAL their lunch money.
Don't even get started on the Unix services team and the Patent Lawyer team...
He couldn't figure out what the heck was going on until he realized the people cutting in front were all from the music division.
Now, in other workplaces where you have some friendly competition this could be a common scene. But I suspect that in a friendly workplace, they would joke about it in a way that he'd understand that it was just a tounge-in-cheek joke and not any malice behind it.
If, and only if, this is something that happens in the Microsoft cafeteria, it is not a place I'd work. I rather prefer the "Oh, you're using the iPod! Yeah that's a kickass product. You know, we have to build something even better and cooler and push those smug Apple guys off the throne. So long, enjoy your iPod while I sneak in front of you as a punshment for using it *snicker*"-approach.
Come on! That's just unfair. ./lynx -source http://www.msn.com/ | wc -c ./lynx -source http://search.msn.com/ | wc -c ./lynx -source http://www.google.com/ | wc -c
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37951
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2907
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2611
There's no need to misinterpret the data, the result is better for Google anyway.
Honestly, I don't know if current PowerBooks can do that, but my current IBM T30 can't.
/. told a funny story about sitting on a plane and switching the battery in sleep mode. The guy in the next seat saw that and thought it was cool so he'd tried it on his IBM. An IBM that didn't support such things. And lost all his work.
Yes they can. Someone on
Wow... I had the same experience in a place I worked. I was servicing an AST (God, i HATE and LOATHE AST and Acer) computer that got wierd General protection failures. When the machine was on for a while, it would fail. But no matter what component I tested, they all worked perfectly. Video card, memory, motherboard, RAM, network card, powersupply, audio card, CPU, all were in perfect working order. They just wouldn't work together.
So I explained the problemto my boss and he pondered about it for a sec before turning the computer off and WHAMMO! hitting it on the top just above the PCI card rack. "Now, turn it on and it will be OK" he said. Sure enough, the computer booted and remained OK. Problem? The AST case was so poorly designed, the heat from the CPU and harddrives would bent the motherboard downwards, thus unseating the main bus connector of the horizontally installed PCI cards. A whack to the top of the box shoved the connector in its right place for a couple of months more
May be this. Apple clearly sees the mouse as an obstacle only neccesary at the moment, not in the future. By forcing the one-button mouse agenda, they make it easier to accentuate the GUI via keyboard (now) or voice (in the future). Smaller and smaller devices are coming, and they won't have the luxury of having any mouse buttons.
...2011, I guess since the actor refers to 2006 as 5 years ago. I see some of the elements in MacOS like iChat AV system wide document search (in Tiger). Actually, the screen itself could be viable as electronic ink in 2011 so the video is very much spot on for the future.
The link goes to a vision of how humans interact with computers in uh...