Those reports are wrong. I've been running a combination of push and pull on various accounts (checks every 15 minutes on the non-pull accounts), and it gets me well over 6 hours.
I'm not going to bother quoting your reply, because now you're just being hostile.
As for problems not being on my personal machine, when I say "I've never seen it" it really means that on the thousands of Macs I've worked on over the years, I've never seen one exhibit that behavior. I fix Macs for a living.
As for iPhoto uploads, if you don't like doing it the Macintosh way, in 10.5 there is now a way of accessing the iPhoto library directly from the standard file open dialog in Safari. In the left pane of the standard file dialog in Safari, turn the triangle beside Media down, and you'll see Photos. You have direct access to your iPhoto library, browse to what you want to upload. That said, I'd rather drag from iPhoto to Safari, one handed, while using a MacBook, lying on a couch. I don't consider the trackpad I'm using to be an impediment.
As for the rest of it, since you bring up money, you've reminded me that I don't invoice anyone for posting to slashdot. So, if you'd like to pay me to help you troubleshoot the rest of your issues, I'll even give you a discount and only charge you $100 per hour.
So you've uploaded a picture that's being managed by iPhoto to a neutral site like photobucket before? Because for me, that has on occasion been so unusable that I had to upload the photos straight from the external drive. Sorry, iPhoto is completely unintuitive, and it's been really flaky before with letting me edit and use a photo I brought over from photobooth.
Sure. Just drag the photo from the iPhoto window to wherever you want it, including the upload dialog for a website. It just works, and if you think about it, it's VERY intuitive if you're not trying to do things the hard way. I can't address your flakiness from photobooth, I've never seen that fail to work perfectly.
Mail: So do you like how it darkens the background of the the subject lines in the view that lists all of your emails? Because it sure did that for me and Help was no help.
What are you talking about? I've never see it do that unless you've got a rule set to change the background color of a message - and you'd have to do that intentionally.
Do you think it's acceptable for a Rules window in Mail to be uncloseable? In my case, it spilled over onto the dock so I couldn't click cancel to get out. NO, COMMAND-W DID NOT WORK, THANKS FOR ASKING, not that that would be acceptable anyway.
Try command-period to cancel, or return to accept. Or hiding the dock. Yes, it's a bug. No, it shouldn't do that. I've written it up and submitted it to Apple - I hadn't seen it before today.
Do you think it's acceptable practice to make it look like my emails to others have photos embedded in the text, when in reality, the photos will only show up to them as separate attachments?
Yes. Those photos will show up as inline images on any mail reader that displays inline images.
Do you think it's acceptable to immediately and meticulously hide the actual email address I'm sending to and replace it with the person's name? (Yes, Having to double click on it is a big issue when all you have is a trackpad to move the pointer around with.)
That's actually a nice feature. It lets you know that person is in your address book. And you don't have to double click to edit the address, just click the triangle that appears to the right of the name. It's not a problem, it's the correct behavior.
Do you think it's acceptable that iTunes can't do something basic like play podcasts in chronological order automatically and starting from the first one you haven't listened to?
If you think it's a problem, write it up as a bug. I'm fine with it, I rarely listen to hours of podcasts all at once.
Or that you need good reflexes to stop it from deleting your library when you plug into a new computer unless you have good reflexes?
It doesn't do that. It asks if you want to replace the library.
Acrobat isn't an Apple program. Apple doesn't ship it.
No, but it damn well ships Safari. You know, the web browser that I'm supposed to access online pdf's with? And I know Apple is perfectly capable of implementing the PDF standard. So, to the extent that it makes "you must download Adobe to view this online pdf" the default option, yes it is fair game.
I'm calling bullshit on this one. I happened to have a clean install of 10.5.4 sitting here on a customer's machine. Safari doesn't say a thing about Acrobat. It displays the PDF, just like it's loading a web page. Acrobat is not installed on, and has never touched, that machine. It's not an Apple bug, it must be an Adobe bug.
Furthermore, on Windows, when Acrobat wants to update, I get precisely one warning -- when it starts. But on Safari (that's an Apple program, btw), I get the warning every 5 seconds, unless I have good enough reflexes to catch it in the one-second interval
iPhoto bites? could have fooled me. I've used it to sell Macs before, and I use it for managing my photos. I've sold Aperture to pro photographers, they love it, but it's more than I need.
Mail has a few stability issues that Apple needs to fix. But overall, I like it better than anything else out there, including my old favorite Eudora. (ok, some days I still use pine. and I like pine. but pine isn't very good at dealing with the majority of email I get these days. stop sending HTML email, people. It's just wrong.)
And iTunes? I used it before it was iTunes, back when it was SoundJam. I liked it then, I still like it now. It doesn't deal as well as I'd like with a few things (my music is on my Mac OS X Server box, and I use the same library in 3 places. It's harder than it should be to manage that) but overall it's a great program, and it's better than anything else I've seen.
Acrobat isn't an Apple program. Apple doesn't ship it. You have to download and install something that doesn't work as well as what comes from Apple. Don't do that.
You call the Democrats a "party of death" when it's the Republicans who promote murder by the state, and unprovoked attacks against sovereign nations resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands? That's laughably stupid. And when you're trying to compare it to the removal of a woman's right to choose not to have a baby? No, the Republicans are the party of death, not the Democrats.
Again, the opt-out is horrifically unfair if it doesn't also remove political contributions from businesses. It sounds good on a certain level, but in reality it would result in the destruction of the rights of workers to unionize if the unions are not allowed to lobby to keep (and hopefully expand) the right to collectively bargain.
Unions are the only thing an individual worker has to attempt to negotiate a fair contract with a large corporation. They make political contributions because businesses make political contributions to anti-worker politicians.
A law removing political contributions from unions is incredibly unfair unless it is accompanied by a law prohibiting contributions from corporations and stockholders.
You seem to think these are bad things. They aren't.
The union has successfully done its job in this company. It exists to get the best possible deal for the workers.
Should the quota on EPROM programming be increased? Possibly. But the other contract provisions are there to protect the workers, and actually are good for the company.
Job division is something that has been negotiated by the union, and the company agreed to it. It's a good thing in the interest of safety and worker protection from exploitation.
I would just about guarantee that all of those restrictions are in place because in the past the company (or another company like it) was having unqualified people doing things that weren't part of their job descriptions and were likely unsafe. Sure, flipping a switch sounds like a simple thing, but I bet you're not talking about a light switch, but a switch that either controls a large piece of machinery, or controls a large amperage circuit. I've never heard of a union contract that would not allow anyone in a company to turn on the light in his office. And when you mention turning on the water, you're not talking about a bathroom faucet either.
The box story is nice, but suppose the box wasn't empty. Suppose it weighed 90 pounds, and the engineer lifted it and hurt his back because he wasn't properly trained in lifting. Then the company's insurance refused to pay because of the lack of proper training. The company is potentially out hundreds of thousands of dollars, because of an injury to an employee that could have been avoided if a worker properly trained in box moving had done the job.
These things aren't fubaring the company, these things are actually making it less likely that a company will have an expensive accident.
And even the cart is an issue. You knew (or at least should have known or been able to find out) where the cart needed to be after moving the box for the engineer. He had a reason to be in the building where you took the box, and was likely not going on to the cart's final destination.
You're going to talk about the armor on a hummer? It doesn't have great armor because IT ISN'T SUPPOSED TO! It's a replacement for the Jeep, not an armored personnel carrier. Now, whether the Jeep should have been replaced is another argument entirely (hint: it shouldn't have) but as an argument about military funding you've picked a piss-poor one.
And yes, the military is overfunded. That budget should be slashed to probably less than 10% of what it was under Clinton.
And perhaps the Clinton administration should have cut the Army off as the Constitution requires. Then Shrubbie wouldn't have been able to fight this stupid war.
I've ridden a motorcycle in Phoenix in the summer. It doesn't mean I'm going to turn off the AC in the car.
(And I learned pretty quickly that wet denim is WAY better than leathers in the desert. It might not be quite as much protection against road rash, but it's less dangerous than heatstroke.)
Depending on how long you're stuck in that traffic in the heat, it could be hazardous to your heath, even deadly.
Actually, the problem is that people today have too much respect for police officers. The vast majority of cops are people who were the bullies in high school, haven't been to college, have very little knowledge of what the law is, and who think that putting on a badge entitles them to respect.
It doesn't.
Police need to be supervised far more closely, and need to have real consequences for abuse. In essence, if they want respect, they need to be respectable.
And yes, there are good cops out there. The other 99% of cops are giving them a bad name.
But this is more like planting a mango tree, posting a sign, and then selling the tree - but insisting that the "Don't pick the mango fruit" sign is still valid.
The iMac is marketed as a home computer, and I do actually try to suggest the Mac Pro with Cinema Display for graphic design professionals. But as with anything, it comes down to budget, and many companies simply do not have the budget for the pro model.
And the iMac IS a great machine for professionals in other areas than graphic design. I'll happily sell one to an accountant, or a lawyer, or a doctor. And if a graphic designer is aware of the limitations, it's not a bad machine there either - if you're not doing print work, the color accuracy isn't so critical that it matters. The end user won't be seeing it on a Cinema Display anyway.
Now, if you're going to be doing video rendering, get the Mac Pro.
But saying that no professional would use an iMac is completely untrue.
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10 years ago? I had a cell phone.
I have no idea how the rest of you did it. :)
Hmmm... Now that I think about it, I've had the same cell phone number for 20 years now...
Those reports are wrong. I've been running a combination of push and pull on various accounts (checks every 15 minutes on the non-pull accounts), and it gets me well over 6 hours.
Don't forget that Apple can't reject any apps on a jailbroken iPhone.
And you don't have to distribute apps through the App Store either. Cydia works really well.
I don't think I would like my iPhone anywhere close to as well if I hadn't jailbroken it.
I've never used a JebusPhone, so I wouldn't know.
But the iPhone does everything any other device does, and doesn't cost that much. It costs less than most Palms or windoze mobile turds.
Yes, that's pretty much it.
I thought I would hate the iPhone, I only got one to be able to better support my customers, who were buying them like crazy.
I love it. Of course, I jailbroke it within half an hour of getting it, and it tethers and runs Netatalk - but it really is as good as the hype.
No, it's not "quite as bad".
It's worse. With those old ones, it's far, far worse.
Even if it's not a M$ bug this time, what kind of idiot runs a critical system on ANYTHING from M$?
Doing it on a stock exchange, while not the same risk to life obviously, is like putting windoze on a control system running a heart-lung machine.
Not even Linux is up to that. You certainly don't run it on the bug-fest that comes out of Micro$oft.
I'm not going to bother quoting your reply, because now you're just being hostile.
As for problems not being on my personal machine, when I say "I've never seen it" it really means that on the thousands of Macs I've worked on over the years, I've never seen one exhibit that behavior. I fix Macs for a living.
As for iPhoto uploads, if you don't like doing it the Macintosh way, in 10.5 there is now a way of accessing the iPhoto library directly from the standard file open dialog in Safari. In the left pane of the standard file dialog in Safari, turn the triangle beside Media down, and you'll see Photos. You have direct access to your iPhoto library, browse to what you want to upload. That said, I'd rather drag from iPhoto to Safari, one handed, while using a MacBook, lying on a couch. I don't consider the trackpad I'm using to be an impediment.
As for the rest of it, since you bring up money, you've reminded me that I don't invoice anyone for posting to slashdot. So, if you'd like to pay me to help you troubleshoot the rest of your issues, I'll even give you a discount and only charge you $100 per hour.
So you've uploaded a picture that's being managed by iPhoto to a neutral site like photobucket before? Because for me, that has on occasion been so unusable that I had to upload the photos straight from the external drive. Sorry, iPhoto is completely unintuitive, and it's been really flaky before with letting me edit and use a photo I brought over from photobooth.
Sure. Just drag the photo from the iPhoto window to wherever you want it, including the upload dialog for a website. It just works, and if you think about it, it's VERY intuitive if you're not trying to do things the hard way. I can't address your flakiness from photobooth, I've never seen that fail to work perfectly.
Mail: So do you like how it darkens the background of the the subject lines in the view that lists all of your emails? Because it sure did that for me and Help was no help.
What are you talking about? I've never see it do that unless you've got a rule set to change the background color of a message - and you'd have to do that intentionally.
Do you think it's acceptable for a Rules window in Mail to be uncloseable? In my case, it spilled over onto the dock so I couldn't click cancel to get out. NO, COMMAND-W DID NOT WORK, THANKS FOR ASKING, not that that would be acceptable anyway.
Try command-period to cancel, or return to accept. Or hiding the dock. Yes, it's a bug. No, it shouldn't do that. I've written it up and submitted it to Apple - I hadn't seen it before today.
Do you think it's acceptable practice to make it look like my emails to others have photos embedded in the text, when in reality, the photos will only show up to them as separate attachments?
Yes. Those photos will show up as inline images on any mail reader that displays inline images.
Do you think it's acceptable to immediately and meticulously hide the actual email address I'm sending to and replace it with the person's name? (Yes, Having to double click on it is a big issue when all you have is a trackpad to move the pointer around with.)
That's actually a nice feature. It lets you know that person is in your address book. And you don't have to double click to edit the address, just click the triangle that appears to the right of the name. It's not a problem, it's the correct behavior.
Do you think it's acceptable that iTunes can't do something basic like play podcasts in chronological order automatically and starting from the first one you haven't listened to?
If you think it's a problem, write it up as a bug. I'm fine with it, I rarely listen to hours of podcasts all at once.
Or that you need good reflexes to stop it from deleting your library when you plug into a new computer unless you have good reflexes?
It doesn't do that. It asks if you want to replace the library.
Acrobat isn't an Apple program. Apple doesn't ship it.
No, but it damn well ships Safari. You know, the web browser that I'm supposed to access online pdf's with? And I know Apple is perfectly capable of implementing the PDF standard. So, to the extent that it makes "you must download Adobe to view this online pdf" the default option, yes it is fair game.
I'm calling bullshit on this one. I happened to have a clean install of 10.5.4 sitting here on a customer's machine. Safari doesn't say a thing about Acrobat. It displays the PDF, just like it's loading a web page. Acrobat is not installed on, and has never touched, that machine. It's not an Apple bug, it must be an Adobe bug.
Furthermore, on Windows, when Acrobat wants to update, I get precisely one warning -- when it starts. But on Safari (that's an Apple program, btw), I get the warning every 5 seconds, unless I have good enough reflexes to catch it in the one-second interval
But it's as funny in the ruining as in the telling. :)
iPhoto bites? could have fooled me. I've used it to sell Macs before, and I use it for managing my photos. I've sold Aperture to pro photographers, they love it, but it's more than I need.
Mail has a few stability issues that Apple needs to fix. But overall, I like it better than anything else out there, including my old favorite Eudora. (ok, some days I still use pine. and I like pine. but pine isn't very good at dealing with the majority of email I get these days. stop sending HTML email, people. It's just wrong.)
And iTunes? I used it before it was iTunes, back when it was SoundJam. I liked it then, I still like it now. It doesn't deal as well as I'd like with a few things (my music is on my Mac OS X Server box, and I use the same library in 3 places. It's harder than it should be to manage that) but overall it's a great program, and it's better than anything else I've seen.
Acrobat isn't an Apple program. Apple doesn't ship it. You have to download and install something that doesn't work as well as what comes from Apple. Don't do that.
Settings -> Keyboard -> Enable Caps Lock
set it to on, and double tapping the shift will set caps lock.
You call the Democrats a "party of death" when it's the Republicans who promote murder by the state, and unprovoked attacks against sovereign nations resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands? That's laughably stupid. And when you're trying to compare it to the removal of a woman's right to choose not to have a baby? No, the Republicans are the party of death, not the Democrats.
Again, the opt-out is horrifically unfair if it doesn't also remove political contributions from businesses. It sounds good on a certain level, but in reality it would result in the destruction of the rights of workers to unionize if the unions are not allowed to lobby to keep (and hopefully expand) the right to collectively bargain.
And how much is the Chamber of Commerce paying you?
Unions are the only thing an individual worker has to attempt to negotiate a fair contract with a large corporation. They make political contributions because businesses make political contributions to anti-worker politicians.
A law removing political contributions from unions is incredibly unfair unless it is accompanied by a law prohibiting contributions from corporations and stockholders.
You seem to think these are bad things. They aren't.
The union has successfully done its job in this company. It exists to get the best possible deal for the workers.
Should the quota on EPROM programming be increased? Possibly. But the other contract provisions are there to protect the workers, and actually are good for the company.
Job division is something that has been negotiated by the union, and the company agreed to it. It's a good thing in the interest of safety and worker protection from exploitation.
I would just about guarantee that all of those restrictions are in place because in the past the company (or another company like it) was having unqualified people doing things that weren't part of their job descriptions and were likely unsafe. Sure, flipping a switch sounds like a simple thing, but I bet you're not talking about a light switch, but a switch that either controls a large piece of machinery, or controls a large amperage circuit. I've never heard of a union contract that would not allow anyone in a company to turn on the light in his office. And when you mention turning on the water, you're not talking about a bathroom faucet either.
The box story is nice, but suppose the box wasn't empty. Suppose it weighed 90 pounds, and the engineer lifted it and hurt his back because he wasn't properly trained in lifting. Then the company's insurance refused to pay because of the lack of proper training. The company is potentially out hundreds of thousands of dollars, because of an injury to an employee that could have been avoided if a worker properly trained in box moving had done the job.
These things aren't fubaring the company, these things are actually making it less likely that a company will have an expensive accident.
And even the cart is an issue. You knew (or at least should have known or been able to find out) where the cart needed to be after moving the box for the engineer. He had a reason to be in the building where you took the box, and was likely not going on to the cart's final destination.
You're going to talk about the armor on a hummer? It doesn't have great armor because IT ISN'T SUPPOSED TO! It's a replacement for the Jeep, not an armored personnel carrier. Now, whether the Jeep should have been replaced is another argument entirely (hint: it shouldn't have) but as an argument about military funding you've picked a piss-poor one.
And yes, the military is overfunded. That budget should be slashed to probably less than 10% of what it was under Clinton.
And perhaps the Clinton administration should have cut the Army off as the Constitution requires. Then Shrubbie wouldn't have been able to fight this stupid war.
Grossly underfunded? You must be joking. He grossly OVERfunded it.
And right now, it could take a 3/4 hit and still be grossly overfunded. It's time to shut down the insane military spending in this country.
No. Neocons have been confusing the issue by calling themselves "pro-life" when what they really are is anti-choice.
If you're against abortion, don't have one. Butt out of everybody else's choice.
I've ridden a motorcycle in Phoenix in the summer. It doesn't mean I'm going to turn off the AC in the car.
(And I learned pretty quickly that wet denim is WAY better than leathers in the desert. It might not be quite as much protection against road rash, but it's less dangerous than heatstroke.)
Depending on how long you're stuck in that traffic in the heat, it could be hazardous to your heath, even deadly.
Actually, the problem is that people today have too much respect for police officers. The vast majority of cops are people who were the bullies in high school, haven't been to college, have very little knowledge of what the law is, and who think that putting on a badge entitles them to respect.
It doesn't.
Police need to be supervised far more closely, and need to have real consequences for abuse. In essence, if they want respect, they need to be respectable.
And yes, there are good cops out there. The other 99% of cops are giving them a bad name.
You've got a G5?
Use the optical ports. No, the internal amp isn't amazing. It's good enough. The optical ports will bypass it for you.
Well, I back up everybody's local drives.
But the backup script specifically excludes music.
But this is more like planting a mango tree, posting a sign, and then selling the tree - but insisting that the "Don't pick the mango fruit" sign is still valid.
That's actually inaccurate.
The iMac is marketed as a home computer, and I do actually try to suggest the Mac Pro with Cinema Display for graphic design professionals. But as with anything, it comes down to budget, and many companies simply do not have the budget for the pro model.
And the iMac IS a great machine for professionals in other areas than graphic design. I'll happily sell one to an accountant, or a lawyer, or a doctor. And if a graphic designer is aware of the limitations, it's not a bad machine there either - if you're not doing print work, the color accuracy isn't so critical that it matters. The end user won't be seeing it on a Cinema Display anyway.
Now, if you're going to be doing video rendering, get the Mac Pro.
But saying that no professional would use an iMac is completely untrue.