and could receive push email instead of pulling it with the Sidekicks. Also, this'd let the buiding's Emergency Operations Center send one email to a group and notify all of them of an evauaction drill or an emergency.
The tmail.net account that comes with a Sidekick is push email, just like the Blackberry.
Face it. These people (a lot of them) buying the new HP book are buying it because everyone says they have to and to get a preview of the next movie.
Why would people be buying the fifth book in the series when there's only been two movies? At the rate they've been going, Order Of The Phoenix won't be made into a movie for another two years.
If people were buying a book just to "get a preview", they'd go out and buy Prisoner of Azkaban.
The Hulk has less media hype? Turn on the TV, watch some commercials. Tell me how many ads you see relating to products or programming tying in with Order of the Phoenix versus how many ads tie in with The Hulk.
The guy may, or may not be a troll. However, the sheer amount hate mail, and the level of it, was stunning. What kind of people write stuff like that? Very few of them even attempted to address the guys points, and those that did made a hash job of it (nobody uses int math? wtf?)
Did you notice how almost all of the hatemail was addressing him in the third person?
He went onto a discussion board somewhere about the post (probably MacNN, probably one of the worst reputation Mac websites in terms of brainpower) and just cherry picked the comments he could take apart easily.
It's not like he actually *got* that hatemail. He didn't even post an email address with the article.
Isn't it funny how you can bend things to make you look favorable - just like Apple may have done?
Cornell University has used Pine for its "Traveler's Mail" for years. When the University wanted to move to a web-based semi-secure alternative, petitions were quickly passed around to keep the pine option alive.
It's quick, it's easy, and it's powerful. What more could you want?
I think it's worth noting that all the major Mac websites had this up as well yesterday, and a *lot* of people who had preorders were steaming on the message boards I've seen.
This is the exact sort of propaganda Microsoft needs to promote to keep there O/S "ahead" of the game. That is, until the public finds out exactly how full of it they are:)
I'm curious - why aren't any of the big-name Linux companies (Red Hat, I'm looking in your direction) spreading their own version of FUD back at Microsoft?
Think of it like this: Some small company is looking to network their machines. They've heard of NT, they've heard of Red Hat, but they don't really know the difference other than who's made which. Now, anyone can just go to M$'s site and find that document and say "Gee, Linux has got some problems...hmm, I wonder what they'll say is wrong with NT." Now, I just went to Red Hat's site, and I didn't find a damn thing about why Linux is better than NT. So why, faced with 5 "facts" as to what's wrong with Linux, vs. apparently nothing wrong with NT, would some new purchaser go with Linux?
I don't like M$'s lies any more than the rest of you, but I think we need to keep in mind that if you don't counter the FUD with something (and something very public and noticeable), then the public isn't going to "find out exactly how full of it they are."
-Apple killed the clone-builders because they weren't drawing new customers, they were sucking the return customers away from Apple, which is a Bad Thing for Apple business-wise.
-BeOS runs on non-G3/G4 PowerMacs. Why the LinuxPPC group can figure out how to get a different OS running on the chip and somehow Be can't is a little odd, wouldn't you say?
(This was posted to comp.sys.mac.games.action; this particular snippet from Mac Gamer's Ledge)
"I think that someone should be responsible for bugs. The thing is, we can't make the programmers eat bugs, because programmers are pretty high up on the totem pole, and we don't want to alienate them. And I can't ask my boss, Andrew, to eat the bugs, because he is my boss."
"That's why I am making the wager."
"Shipping a product without bugs is a goal that I think we can achieve. We have done that before with some of our games. Shipping every product between now and next July without bugs is going to be the challenge."
"I wonder what Apple was thinking when it said "Yum."?"
Ooh, an AC flame. Let me repost what the original poster said with a little bold face this time.
If customer loyalty had a direct effect on profits, Apple would have gone out of business long ago.
The original article, and indeed, your post, quite clearly say that Mac users WERE loyal - so how would Apple have gone out of business long ago with this huge loyalty (which, IIRC, was over 80%)?
As for the zealot crack - I wasn't aware that asking a simple question about what a poster actually meant made me a zealot. Oh well.
I don't think I am a Mac hater. I am just incredibly frustrated with a company that had one of the most loyal group of users ever and proceeded, again and again, to push that loyalty to the absolute limit.
If customer loyalty had a direct effect on profits, Apple would have gone out of business long ago.
I'm confused. They had one of the most loyal groups of users, yet if profits and loyalty were directly related, they would've gone out of business years ago?
The people who run the Hitbox counter take all the information they get from people hitting that, calculate it daily, and publish it as is. Very useful service, even if it's only 30,000,000 hits a day.
When was the last time the Government had to pass an amendment to add a tax?
And where in the United State Constitution does it say that passing a tax is not legal? I couldn't find anything, but I did find this bit...Article 1, Section 8 - Powers Of Congress
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States."
I don't like the concept of a web tax either, but hey, we could always sell things through telnet.:)
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According to Apple, up to three computers (at one time) can be authorized to play purchased AAC's.
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and could receive push email instead of pulling it with the Sidekicks. Also, this'd let the buiding's Emergency Operations Center send one email to a group and notify all of them of an evauaction drill or an emergency.
The tmail.net account that comes with a Sidekick is push email, just like the Blackberry.
While I agree with your counter-argument, there's one slight problem.
Flickr is owned by Yahoo.
You can search by artist, song title, or album title at the iTunes Link Maker
Yeah, I hate faulty reasoning too. Such as:
Face it. These people (a lot of them) buying the new HP book are buying it because everyone says they have to and to get a preview of the next movie.
Why would people be buying the fifth book in the series when there's only been two movies? At the rate they've been going, Order Of The Phoenix won't be made into a movie for another two years.
If people were buying a book just to "get a preview", they'd go out and buy Prisoner of Azkaban.
The Hulk has less media hype? Turn on the TV, watch some commercials. Tell me how many ads you see relating to products or programming tying in with Order of the Phoenix versus how many ads tie in with The Hulk.
The guy may, or may not be a troll. However, the sheer amount hate mail, and the level of it, was stunning. What kind of people write stuff like that? Very few of them even attempted to address the guys points, and those that did made a hash job of it (nobody uses int math? wtf?)
Did you notice how almost all of the hatemail was addressing him in the third person?
He went onto a discussion board somewhere about the post (probably MacNN, probably one of the worst reputation Mac websites in terms of brainpower) and just cherry picked the comments he could take apart easily.
It's not like he actually *got* that hatemail. He didn't even post an email address with the article.
Isn't it funny how you can bend things to make you look favorable - just like Apple may have done?
The disadvantages of Safari over Chimera: no tabs; don't like the bookmarks UI much, not as configurable, and I like having a status bar.
Have you looked under the View menu? Or hit Command-\ ?
The status bar is there, it's just hidden at first.
However, I haven't used a Cube yet, so for all I know it might melt within half an hour. :-)
:)
After having my Cube on roughly 24/7 for the past 2 months, I can safely say that this does not happen.
Tenon Intersystems recently released a public beta of Xtools, which is indeed a Darwin X Server.
Check it out.
And as was proven back upon its release, IE 5 for the Macintosh renders it flawlessly.
If only the PC version was as good as the Mac one...
That should be "and will remain as Chairman", since it doesn't make much sense if he's stepping down from President to STAY as President.
Me, I fear this whole "Chief Software Architect" junk - I don't see what good can come of it.
Cornell University has used Pine for its "Traveler's Mail" for years. When the University wanted to move to a web-based semi-secure alternative, petitions were quickly passed around to keep the pine option alive.
It's quick, it's easy, and it's powerful. What more could you want?
I think it's worth noting that all the major Mac websites had this up as well yesterday, and a *lot* of people who had preorders were steaming on the message boards I've seen.
I'm curious - why aren't any of the big-name Linux companies (Red Hat, I'm looking in your direction) spreading their own version of FUD back at Microsoft?
Think of it like this: Some small company is looking to network their machines. They've heard of NT, they've heard of Red Hat, but they don't really know the difference other than who's made which. Now, anyone can just go to M$'s site and find that document and say "Gee, Linux has got some problems...hmm, I wonder what they'll say is wrong with NT." Now, I just went to Red Hat's site, and I didn't find a damn thing about why Linux is better than NT. So why, faced with 5 "facts" as to what's wrong with Linux, vs. apparently nothing wrong with NT, would some new purchaser go with Linux?
I don't like M$'s lies any more than the rest of you, but I think we need to keep in mind that if you don't counter the FUD with something (and something very public and noticeable), then the public isn't going to "find out exactly how full of it they are."
Just two points which have been made before:
-Apple killed the clone-builders because they weren't drawing new customers, they were sucking the return customers away from Apple, which is a Bad Thing for Apple business-wise.
-BeOS runs on non-G3/G4 PowerMacs. Why the LinuxPPC group can figure out how to get a different OS running on the chip and somehow Be can't is a little odd, wouldn't you say?
Can you tell me where to get them, and exactly what flavor they are?
(This was posted to comp.sys.mac.games.action; this particular snippet from Mac Gamer's Ledge)
"I think that someone should be responsible for bugs. The thing is, we can't make the programmers eat bugs, because programmers are pretty high up on the totem pole, and we don't want to alienate them. And I can't ask my boss, Andrew, to eat the bugs, because he is my boss."
"That's why I am making the wager."
"Shipping a product without bugs is a goal that I think we can achieve. We have done that before with some of our games. Shipping every product between now and next July without bugs is going to be the challenge."
"I wonder what Apple was thinking when it said "Yum."?"
If customer loyalty had a direct effect on profits, Apple would have gone out of business long ago.
The original article, and indeed, your post, quite clearly say that Mac users WERE loyal - so how would Apple have gone out of business long ago with this huge loyalty (which, IIRC, was over 80%)?
As for the zealot crack - I wasn't aware that asking a simple question about what a poster actually meant made me a zealot. Oh well.
Nitpicking their layout isn't really a convincing argument as to what, if anything, was wrong with the article.
If customer loyalty had a direct effect on profits, Apple would have gone out of business long ago.
I'm confused. They had one of the most loyal groups of users, yet if profits and loyalty were directly related, they would've gone out of business years ago?
Since when does Gates, or Microsoft for that matter, have a say in what Apple does?
And before you even consider their $150 million investment - it's non-voting stock.
...or we could just wait and see what Apple really does before jumping to conclusions, since no one at Apple has made any statements about this yet.
The people who run the Hitbox counter take all the information they get from people hitting that, calculate it daily, and publish it as is. Very useful service, even if it's only 30,000,000 hits a day.
Try it out, it's http://www.statmarket.com.
When was the last time the Government had to pass an amendment to add a tax?
:)
And where in the United State Constitution does it say that passing a tax is not legal? I couldn't find anything, but I did find this bit...Article 1, Section 8 - Powers Of Congress
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States."
I don't like the concept of a web tax either, but hey, we could always sell things through telnet.
I think there was something in their list about banning message boards - TalkCity was on there.
If TalkCity, Geocities, Yahoo Mail, and stock quote sites are all on the "bad" list, I think it'd be a safe assumption that Slashdot would be too.