where do you live that you get 1GB/month of traffic? i mean, that seems pretty absurd to me. most (modern) countries i've lived in at higher limits, or no limits at all.. 2.5c/meg at uni? what do you pay tuition for?
this is like... going back to being a 3-liner on a BBS. you'd think we've progressed from those days....
im actually facing the same situation right now..... im moving out of the country on november 3rd (western australia, and then off to Florence Italy) and i dont want people accessing my private data when i come back to visit family and stuff either. So I just got a 1TB drive, im currently encrypting it with TrueCrypt using the Hidden Volume encyption scheme thingy (technical term), and then dumping my data into it... im buying a new laptop (lets go apple.. dont let me down on the 14th!) and it'll just have a clean install of OS 10 on it.
the point isn't whats on my drive, the point is my privacy.
the only thing that could make me want an ebook reader would be if it was made from paper, and the story was printed in ink. unless of course it made a difference in the environment..
So having this gap in the market for corporate mac support really opens up the possibilities for businesses to spring up and take advantage of these needs. Apple authorizes repair shops so they can repair systems under applecare... one problem is that a lot of things aren't supported under applecare and applecare is only valid for 3 years after the purchase date.
All it would take is a shop to stock up on parts, offer extended care, data recovery and on-site services. In Manhattan there are a couple of shops that offer some of this, but they are mostly targetting users who don't want to ship their machine to apple or need a quick answer for unsupported systems (TekServe and others), but I don't feel that they are taking advantage of the corporate market.
I, being one of two apple users in my department, have realized that although apple has added the capability to join a windows domain, the SSO support is lacking and there are a couple of shortcomings in their implementation. Running a mac in a windows environment isn't quite as seemless in some critical places (SSO, as I said, but also browsing the network, connecting to sharepoint and if the network is flakey or goes down, logging back into the machine can take a long time if the machine has trouble communicating with the directory server). OSX also offers no default lock-screen option like windows does... Although you can have it "show login window" from the fast users witching menu, activating that with the keyboard requires 3rd party add-ons. I use Quicksilver's FastLogout option. you can't stock up on parts and use them as you will. Apple charges a core fee for the parts. (ie, if tekserve stocks a logic board for a quad core mac pro, tekserve effectively is purchasing a logic board out of pocket, only to get a return when the failed part is returned) so you'd be looking at a multi-million dollar stock, and you better HOPE that you could use the parts. otherwise you eat it. not to mention, the core costs are inflated beyond belief, specifically to combat this idea. (the logic board alone for a macbook pro costs about 200 dollars less than a new macbook pro, as of the last time i checked a few months ago) LCD panels are 1000+. even something like an 80 gig SATA 2.5" goes for 2-3 times retail.
i used to work there(tekserve) as a both (hardware) service technician, as well as on-site consulting through them, its not as simple as that.
Apple also has a bit of a stranglehold on Corporate relations. They are known to interfere with corporate relations on sales, service is no different (ie, if company A decides to purchase form company B, and have product drop shipped from Apple to company A, Apple will call them up midst transaction, and say "hey, we can give you these for cheaper"..... and unfortunately, Apple's margins are so unbearably low, its not realistic or feasible to counter offer.
what do you expect? its the hardware at fault, not just the software. the wing is nothing more than a glorified MDA (that they released 2-3 years ago) same CPU, same RAM, same display, different keyboard/housing. they install a full, bloated WM6 install with all the applications running on the desktop.
i have an MDA (overclocked to a whopping 273MHz) running WM6 that runs perfectly fine, and fast enough for daily use.
its like a bad review of Vista.........running on a Pentium Pro 200 box. duh.
iPhone's are expected to be the new hotness in summer months, and will potentially carry them in to fall/winter.. then right as the new fiscal year begins, another product launch of a (highly?) anticipated product hits the shelves.. new OS, and more than likely new machines (speed bumps, or a new line, im guessing a 10-12" macbook, flash based, etc. etc., im sure you've seen the rumor sites) which will then be the healthy spike for the beginning of the year. if you drop it all in june, whats to look foward to? a 2.2GHz macbook?
i got rid of my D50 and went bck to the D100. yeah yeah, people say its an older sensor, etc. etc., which is true....but the fact i had to page through 3 pages of menus just to change from matrix to center weighted metering really started getting on my nerves.
as for the D70/s, the D70s is the same as the D70, but with a larger display. the differences with the canon i am not/too/ sure, because i shoot nikon and haven't owned a canon.. a good friend of mine shoots canon, and i know they are quality cameras.... but the 20d is in the end a consumer level camera.. the 30d is an upgrade to that (its a really nice camera, my friend sold his 5D and uses the 30d now because of vignetting issues w/ the full frame sensor)
the D50 is *terrific* image quality, very sharp, great colors, but functionally i had issues with it. (no vertical release grip for example) and the lack of a light on the D50 was also a let down. now the D200 is nice, but for that money, i'd MUCH quicker get the new D80, and a decent lens, or an SB-800 or something. two command dials, also important, especially for those of us who dont use the pre-set shooting modes.
looks like we're pretty much on the same page about the D50.
relatively high end? the only "high end" cameras in that least is the D70s and the 30D.....both of which are lower-end/midrange/prosumer DSLRs.
all this list shows a scale of how cheap cameras were, and became.. Rebel XT (cheap, and a piece of shit) D50 (cheap, largely better than the Rebel XT tho) 350D (another digital rebel.. around 500 bucks) the 20D is nice, now we're going up in cost..
D70 is decent, but also around 500 bucks for the body.. D70s around 700 for a body..30D is great.. beautiful camera, for around 1200 bucks (body) and finally the digital rebel, also cheap.
this just shows that people ran out to buy cheap DSLRs to join the crowd.. doesn't prove anything valuable to me.
i agree, this is "news"? my credit union offers ATMs that do this same sort of thing (exception of the paypal sending, at least that i know of) for years. at their ATM, i could take out 12.76 if i wanted to.. then feed a check into the reader, which would then scan the document, you confirm the amount and voila.
Tekserve/NYC did this 3-4 weeks ago, you get a paper receipt, and the only info they ask for is minimum needed for a return incase you lose the receipt.
"Though I must admit, the laptop was far larger than anything Apple currently makes."
Apple wont sacrifice design for innovation.. its got to be a mix of both. sure they could make a 3 foot wide, 6" thick powerbook w/ a G5 and a big cooling system in it.. but why?
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not to split hairs and all...but Avenue B is Alphabet city, not the East Village.
fair well Palm Pre, we hardly knew ye.
im moving from the us (NYC) to Australia (Perth) in a week and a half. im *terrified* of the internet connection there.
i fear im going to have to just spend like 200/month on a decent connection
are the other people there also limiting their usage?
where do you live that you get 1GB/month of traffic? i mean, that seems pretty absurd to me. most (modern) countries i've lived in at higher limits, or no limits at all.. 2.5c/meg at uni? what do you pay tuition for?
this is like... going back to being a 3-liner on a BBS. you'd think we've progressed from those days....
yup. and also why im leaving.
and its not coming soon enough.
got the visa.
im actually facing the same situation right now..... im moving out of the country on november 3rd (western australia, and then off to Florence Italy) and i dont want people accessing my private data when i come back to visit family and stuff either. So I just got a 1TB drive, im currently encrypting it with TrueCrypt using the Hidden Volume encyption scheme thingy (technical term), and then dumping my data into it... im buying a new laptop (lets go apple.. dont let me down on the 14th!) and it'll just have a clean install of OS 10 on it.
the point isn't whats on my drive, the point is my privacy.
the only thing that could make me want an ebook reader would be if it was made from paper, and the story was printed in ink.
unless of course it made a difference in the environment..
All it would take is a shop to stock up on parts, offer extended care, data recovery and on-site services. In Manhattan there are a couple of shops that offer some of this, but they are mostly targetting users who don't want to ship their machine to apple or need a quick answer for unsupported systems (TekServe and others), but I don't feel that they are taking advantage of the corporate market.
I, being one of two apple users in my department, have realized that although apple has added the capability to join a windows domain, the SSO support is lacking and there are a couple of shortcomings in their implementation. Running a mac in a windows environment isn't quite as seemless in some critical places (SSO, as I said, but also browsing the network, connecting to sharepoint and if the network is flakey or goes down, logging back into the machine can take a long time if the machine has trouble communicating with the directory server). OSX also offers no default lock-screen option like windows does... Although you can have it "show login window" from the fast users witching menu, activating that with the keyboard requires 3rd party add-ons. I use Quicksilver's FastLogout option. you can't stock up on parts and use them as you will. Apple charges a core fee for the parts. (ie, if tekserve stocks a logic board for a quad core mac pro, tekserve effectively is purchasing a logic board out of pocket, only to get a return when the failed part is returned) so you'd be looking at a multi-million dollar stock, and you better HOPE that you could use the parts. otherwise you eat it. not to mention, the core costs are inflated beyond belief, specifically to combat this idea. (the logic board alone for a macbook pro costs about 200 dollars less than a new macbook pro, as of the last time i checked a few months ago) LCD panels are 1000+. even something like an 80 gig SATA 2.5" goes for 2-3 times retail.
i used to work there(tekserve) as a both (hardware) service technician, as well as on-site consulting through them, its not as simple as that.
Apple also has a bit of a stranglehold on Corporate relations. They are known to interfere with corporate relations on sales, service is no different (ie, if company A decides to purchase form company B, and have product drop shipped from Apple to company A, Apple will call them up midst transaction, and say "hey, we can give you these for cheaper"..... and unfortunately, Apple's margins are so unbearably low, its not realistic or feasible to counter offer.
was this advertised on /.? i'd have liked to have gone... or were we afraid of the "slashdot effect" and having a mob of /.'ers to raid fordham?
world peace set back at LEAST 10 years because of this. good going, guys.
yup. totally agree.
and whats worse, is forbes actually cites a fucking TUAW rumor for their source. Cant get much more unreliable than that. thanks guys.
me? im going to wait until new things stop being invented before i buy.
"We can ask the staff to be less friendly and visible or the reverse."
/be/ less friendly and visible?
is it possible for restaurant staff in the Netherlands to
i mean, they aren't really known for their hospitality.. i was there a week ago, speaking from experience..
mobile home directory between os x server and client automagically syncs the machine for you, in the background
i dont get it, it was being projected down? look at his hands during the drawing demo.....
so they are using a projector? i dont understand how that is like the microsoft thing
http://stream.ifixit.com/
they did it some time yesterday, about an hour after it came out i think.
and by the looks of it, they didn't destroy it.
yeah, uhh..since when did size determine if something is a planet?
what do you expect? its the hardware at fault, not just the software. the wing is nothing more than a glorified MDA (that they released 2-3 years ago)
same CPU, same RAM, same display, different keyboard/housing.
they install a full, bloated WM6 install with all the applications running on the desktop.
i have an MDA (overclocked to a whopping 273MHz) running WM6 that runs perfectly fine, and fast enough for daily use.
its like a bad review of Vista.........running on a Pentium Pro 200 box. duh.
Apple's fiscal year starts in october..
iPhone's are expected to be the new hotness in summer months, and will potentially carry them in to fall/winter..
then right as the new fiscal year begins, another product launch of a (highly?) anticipated product hits the shelves.. new OS, and more than likely new machines (speed bumps, or a new line, im guessing a 10-12" macbook, flash based, etc. etc., im sure you've seen the rumor sites) which will then be the healthy spike for the beginning of the year. if you drop it all in june, whats to look foward to? a 2.2GHz macbook?
thats what i think the real reason is.
i got rid of my D50 and went bck to the D100. yeah yeah, people say its an older sensor, etc. etc., which is true....but the fact i had to page through 3 pages of menus just to change from matrix to center weighted metering really started getting on my nerves.
/too/ sure, because i shoot nikon and haven't owned a canon.. a good friend of mine shoots canon, and i know they are quality cameras.... but the 20d is in the end a consumer level camera.. the 30d is an upgrade to that (its a really nice camera, my friend sold his 5D and uses the 30d now because of vignetting issues w/ the full frame sensor)
as for the D70/s, the D70s is the same as the D70, but with a larger display.
the differences with the canon i am not
the D50 is *terrific* image quality, very sharp, great colors, but functionally i had issues with it. (no vertical release grip for example) and the lack of a light on the D50 was also a let down. now the D200 is nice, but for that money, i'd MUCH quicker get the new D80, and a decent lens, or an SB-800 or something. two command dials, also important, especially for those of us who dont use the pre-set shooting modes.
looks like we're pretty much on the same page about the D50.
relatively high end? the only "high end" cameras in that least is the D70s and the 30D.....both of which are lower-end/midrange/prosumer DSLRs.
all this list shows a scale of how cheap cameras were, and became.. Rebel XT (cheap, and a piece of shit) D50 (cheap, largely better than the Rebel XT tho) 350D (another digital rebel.. around 500 bucks) the 20D is nice, now we're going up in cost..
D70 is decent, but also around 500 bucks for the body.. D70s around 700 for a body..30D is great.. beautiful camera, for around 1200 bucks (body) and finally the digital rebel, also cheap.
this just shows that people ran out to buy cheap DSLRs to join the crowd.. doesn't prove anything valuable to me.
i agree, this is "news"? my credit union offers ATMs that do this same sort of thing (exception of the paypal sending, at least that i know of) for years.
at their ATM, i could take out 12.76 if i wanted to.. then feed a check into the reader, which would then scan the document, you confirm the amount and voila.
meatheads read slashdot now?
what the hell?
hey dude, wanna play some football, or go kill some things later?
Tekserve/NYC did this 3-4 weeks ago, you get a paper receipt, and the only info they ask for is minimum needed for a return incase you lose the receipt.
little late apple
"Though I must admit, the laptop was far larger than anything Apple currently makes."
Apple wont sacrifice design for innovation.. its got to be a mix of both. sure they could make a 3 foot wide, 6" thick powerbook w/ a G5 and a big cooling system in it.. but why?