That was cool. It was eerie too, cuz a lot of the flashes of scenes made me think specifically of several of the really good batman "zero hour" and "how batman became batman" comics that got me back into the dark knight series. The kid falling into the cave, seeing something in the dark (which, if I remember correctly, should be a honking huge ass albino female bat), the traveling the world bit (young bruce wayne spent a lot of time becoming a man of the world, searching for martial arts teachers to hone his skills as a first rate unarmed warrior). The series also spent a lot of time looking deeply into the dark waters of bruce wayne's psyche and detailing his madness (yes, kids, batman is insane. He's a vigilante killer who is driven by the images seeing his parents murdered. His only redeeming factor is that he struggles on a daily basis to fight the darkness within his fractured psyche to be a good person and benificial to society as his daylight persona, aka bruce wayne, philanthropist billionaire). This should actually be good, just because it has a great (ever seen Equilibrium) physical stunt fight actor, Christian Bale.
Re-read my comment.
If they were using something with a simple mbox store, they could easily just parse it through a date filter and dump the older than 90 day stuff to tape. If the creation date is older than 90 days, off load to tape and delete original. End of story. Sure, means they can't go through stuff older than 90 days, but if they need it, restore from tape. Geez.
to dump it off to tape and then just store the tapes instead of just deleting it. Though they are probably running an Exchange server so offloading data stores wouldn't be the easiest thing to do. If they were using something with a simple mbox store, they could easily just parse it through a date filter and dump the older than 90 day stuff to tape. At least then it could be retrieved at a later date.
Oh, wait, let me guess, they aren't using tape backups...
Some solar energy uses do not require light. At least not visible light. Infrared or ultra-violet (really just different states of energy) are still coming through quite strong and can be used by certain types of photo-voltaic cells. Just not the el-cheapo ones you find at Radar Hut.
The main worry of privacy advocates is anonymity, plain and simple. You can set up sensors all you want, they don't have any way of identifying me as me. If I don't want you knowing I'm somewhere, a sensor is just going to tell you that a man sized creature passed by this location at this time. Great, could have been a grizzly for all you know. That's plenty private. Now if you were to put a camera in that sensor pod, and have it snap a photo of the passing object, not only would it help you identify me, it could also be used as evidence of my being at a certain place at a certain time. The law of privacy is kind of like the law of uncertainty. I'd like to be an electron to the government and everyone else out there. Until you bump into me, you'll never know exactly where I am.
Call Apple Corporate. Ask to speak to a customer care specialist. Explain to them the basics of your problem. Before you call, collect all the "evidence" you can. I don't mean finger prints and dumb stuff like that. I mean, names, case numbers, repair dates. Make sure you have that in order and the first thing you are going to want to do is walk through the details of each and every repair.
Now here's the kicker. Also find a copy of the Applecare Agreement and have that with you. Find as many relavent terms and phrases in that document as you can. Example; "repaired or replaced", and "under contract", etc, etc. Also try and think back to all the dealings you've had with the customer reps you were dealing with. Yes, it's pedantic, but being civil and having common courtesy and letting them be the unruly ones can win a lot of times, especially with the customer care specialists, because they've only got one job, and that's to diffuse pissed off customers. If you make it easy on them, they'll probably give you things, like spare batteries (though that's a rarity).
Oh, and also send of a polite letter to sjobs@apple.com. He doesn't read them, but someone does, so get in line. Your patience may be rewarding. But if your all in a fit and pulling your hair out, feel free to suck on a egg.
What, are you crazy? I would so much rather run this than just about any Linux distro out there. Mainly because I can guarantee my vendor is available on the phone when I need them to troubleshoot any of the funky ass things servers tend to do.
And no, you can't come to my site or have a look at my logs because it's secure, just tell me what error code -16246 means in your software, ok, thanks, bye.
Ok, this issue has peaked my interest, so I'll throw my contention in the ring.
The original 500mhz iBook (meaning the first generation models) had defects. Those defects were found through a program that Apple entered into with a certain highly contentious school system in central Virginia (Henrico county for those of you not aware of that). In the first 3 months of handing these rugged, compact notebook computers to a bunch of high school kids, Apple got to see what kinds of abuse these machines could handle.
The first issue was the CD-ROM drive tray. People who did read the directions, or who were overly impatient, had a tendancy to rip the CD tray out of the machine. The next thing they saw was a design flaw with the screen latch that held the lid closed. It was too thin and was breaking off. For both of these major issues, they repaired every single one of those machines that failed (which, suprisingly, was not all 12,000 that had been deployed, only about 1 in 10 machines actually failed due to these flaws).
This logic board issue appears to be a longer term issue. But, given the number of complaints (1200 registered on one website, and in reality, maybe 75% of those are legitimate complaints of failure, seeing as many of the complaints are actually Apple haters making rude comments) I don't see an issue. How many actual logic board failures are there? In total? And how many iBooks have been sold? So what percentage of iBooks have actually failed? Does this percentage actually qualify as an inherent design flaw, or is it a matter that these people (and statisticly, there is no way of avoiding this circumstance) are the unlucky few that got either truly defective machines, or have unknowingly abused their machines to the point of failure or even repeated failure?
An example of unknowingly causing failure. Shutting down their machines everyday or power cycling their machines at least twice per day of usage. Hate to break it to you folks, but this kind of usage inherently causes excess strain on your computers components. If you you think about it, every time you power cycle your machine, you are forcibly starting and stopping electrical spikes through your boards. While sleeping the machine does similar things, the machine never truly achieves a state of no charge, so the components are not being slammed by electrons repeatedly. Ok, someone is going to try and slam me for stating that one, but I'm trying to point out the simple fact that if you keep flipping a switch, it's eventually going to break. These computers are silicon, metal and plastic. All 3 of those materials wear out over time and use. Heavy extended use will increase the change of breakage.
Next issue. Enviornment. Apple doesn't know what type of enviornment these complaints are stemming from. Do you work in a heavy industrialized city? Do you carry your iBook everywhere with you? Are you popping it in a Kensington bag and thinking that you can swing it around and bounce it off the walls because it's in a padded sleave? Are you avoiding flexing the casing? Are you torquing the lid everytime you open it, causing the plastic of the lid hinges to grind against each other? Are you constantly taking your iBook out at Starbucks and putting it down on a table that someone just spilled their Caramel Frappacino on?
These are but a few of the things I can think of to shorten the lifespan and usability of an iBook, let alone a Powerbook. These are not hardened laptops. You don't see U.S. Marine commanders lugging an iBook into a warzone. No, they carry a $15,000 486 in a case truly engineered to be dropped, shaken, hit, submerged , microwaved (or even actually nuked) and still function. So don't think you can be taking your iBook to the pool and wonder why you smell ozone when some kid slogs half the pool on your expensive laptop.
Ok, now to counter balance my vehement dislike of this subject, and those at the center of it (the complainers, not Apple), I will address Apple's a
So very, very wrong that I cannot begin to fathom just how craptastically crappy this crap is.
Imagine. Using a popular culture movie to debase your competition and promote your crappy vaporware. Where do I sign up for this crap? I want off your lists. All of them. And your parent company lists too. No, don't try and sell me your product by linking it to a popular movie reference, please. Let it stand on it's own merit. Oh, you say it's all smoke and mirrors and you don't have the features I want? Too bad, no money for you, bye now.
Everyone who is bitching is not a good and proper student of the art of the Eastern parable. This whole series is a live action adaptation of an Anime on the scale of Akira. The only failure is that it is not as condensed as the Anime version. If you are a real fan, you've probably read the actual Manga of Akira (all 38 of them, well 38 that I know of, I kind of haven't had time to look for a few years). It was an epic tale. It had grandeous spiritual and pseudo-religious overtones. It had amazing, long and drawn out action. The Matrix is just like this, only the story is original (well, as original as the Wachowski brothers could make it) and the themes and effects are all exactly what you want to see in a live action adaptation. Over the top, huge, unreal action that smacks you around and gives you shell-shock. You know, post traumatic stress syndrome. This is not your story. You are the audience, you don't get to decide where the story goes. Get a clue.
Yes, the Wachowski Brothers lost a lot of control towards the end. I have a feeling the ending was a little bit too geared towards the testing audience rather than what the original plot and story line called for. Anyway. Sucks to be the exec who pulled that crock of shit.
I've been booting my Linux boxes from my XServe RAID for months now. It's just a fibre array. And the XRAID Admin program is a straight Java applications so you can run it on any platform that supports Sun Java 1.4.1.
Go figure.
It's not rocket science. These devices have been engineered using standards of the industry.
um, if the internet were to go away tonight, all my clients would be dead in the water. They all have telecommuters and colocated servers situated all over the world. They do secure business transactions over the internet day in and day out, moving _very_ large sums of money so the janitors and the parking attendants and the CEO's and the secretaries get paid. You take out the internet and you don't get paid. Thanks for playing.
This guy really need to do some freakin research before opening his mouth.
Directly from the article: "Ninety-nine percent of the traffic is pure HTTP (Hypertext Transport Protocol), and so it handles it the way it should."
Say that again? 99% of traffic on the internet is HTTP? Um. _NO_!
let's do a little packet scan of the traffic on my ISP's network, shall we?
Hmmm, there's about, oh say, 40% SMTP, 10% DNS lookups alone. Wait, here's some p2p packets floating in a big cloud all over the place. Hmm, what's this? Oh, that's those damn Exchange servers being bothersome with their damn polling.
Oh, and look at all the zombies. Geez, if I get one more subseven attack, I'm going to have to get a larger disk just for my firewall logs. Echo packets, ftp transfers, POP, IMAP, LDAP lookups, VPN tunnels. Yeah, that 99% HTTP traffic sure sounds like a well thought out statement.
Get off those links. Some of us actually listen to this on a regular basis (or rather, all day at work) and it helps us be more productive. Give me back my noise please. I can't get anything done without it...
These are the same numbers that have been up on Apple's G5 site for how long now? Since June or something? What are you people? Blind? Or just lazy. Wake me up when you get with the present. People have been arguing the validity and what not of these SPEC scores represent for months now.
They usually will get you about $15,000 per nut. Then go get a G5 with a Cinema Display and save up the rest of the money for the next gen of powerbook.
Feel free to express your opinions about Sun, SGI, or any other System V Unix. Wait, let's throw in BeOS, OS/2, OS/2 Warp, xBSD, or GNU HURD. Oh, wait, you've never used those platforms? Oh, well I guess you are an expert then.
As for those that have used the current Mac platform and like to spew vitriol for it, whooptie freakin doo, you are apparently clueless enough not to be able to learn something _different_. It's called adapting, humans are supposed to be one of the best of breed in that realm, but it's not happening for you. I guess Darwin didn't think about you with his theory of evolution. Oh, wait, he did, it's called WEAK!
Yes, Apple has issues. The OS has some things that work really well, others that need work. I can say the same thing for Solaris, Windows, HURD, xBSD, and most definitely Linux. Got any other nuggets of wisdom to drop on us?
Crigley is meerly making a statement about things that he notices. He notices that there are companies using Macs successfully and asks the question, "Why can't other companies do the same and be successful? Maybe because they don't want to be."
You know why Apple has such poor support, or fewer applications, or any of the things that Windows or other platforms has that Apple does not? Because of a smaller user base, smaller funding, and smaller demand. It's that simple. If they had even double the userbase, they'd have twice as many applications, twice as many features, and maybe even quadruple the support options. The reason they suck is that they _are_ small. Deal with it. Sun, in all it's glory, is small. Everything is small compared to Microsoft. Linux is tiny. HURD doesn't even show up on the map.
Feel free to correct me with conjecture and commentary about how you _know_ Windows is better because the majority uses it. The majority thought the world was flat in 1400. Does that mean the majority was right? Oh. Sorry, you didn't pay attention in geography because you were too busy being cool. Well, in that case, feel free to walk off the edge of the world...
Slashdot Mirror
The question is, what wavelength do we look for? Blue? Red? Violet? Ultra-violet? Maybe Infra-red? Or another sub-visual spectrum?
That was cool. It was eerie too, cuz a lot of the flashes of scenes made me think specifically of several of the really good batman "zero hour" and "how batman became batman" comics that got me back into the dark knight series.
The kid falling into the cave, seeing something in the dark (which, if I remember correctly, should be a honking huge ass albino female bat), the traveling the world bit (young bruce wayne spent a lot of time becoming a man of the world, searching for martial arts teachers to hone his skills as a first rate unarmed warrior).
The series also spent a lot of time looking deeply into the dark waters of bruce wayne's psyche and detailing his madness (yes, kids, batman is insane. He's a vigilante killer who is driven by the images seeing his parents murdered. His only redeeming factor is that he struggles on a daily basis to fight the darkness within his fractured psyche to be a good person and benificial to society as his daylight persona, aka bruce wayne, philanthropist billionaire).
This should actually be good, just because it has a great (ever seen Equilibrium) physical stunt fight actor, Christian Bale.
Don't wake the sleeper!!! Narglotep!!! Narglotep!!!!
Re-read my comment.
If they were using something with a simple mbox store, they could easily just parse it through a date filter and dump the older than 90 day stuff to tape.
If the creation date is older than 90 days, off load to tape and delete original. End of story.
Sure, means they can't go through stuff older than 90 days, but if they need it, restore from tape. Geez.
to dump it off to tape and then just store the tapes instead of just deleting it. Though they are probably running an Exchange server so offloading data stores wouldn't be the easiest thing to do. If they were using something with a simple mbox store, they could easily just parse it through a date filter and dump the older than 90 day stuff to tape. At least then it could be retrieved at a later date.
Oh, wait, let me guess, they aren't using tape backups...
Some solar energy uses do not require light. At least not visible light. Infrared or ultra-violet (really just different states of energy) are still coming through quite strong and can be used by certain types of photo-voltaic cells. Just not the el-cheapo ones you find at Radar Hut.
The main worry of privacy advocates is anonymity, plain and simple. You can set up sensors all you want, they don't have any way of identifying me as me. If I don't want you knowing I'm somewhere, a sensor is just going to tell you that a man sized creature passed by this location at this time. Great, could have been a grizzly for all you know. That's plenty private. Now if you were to put a camera in that sensor pod, and have it snap a photo of the passing object, not only would it help you identify me, it could also be used as evidence of my being at a certain place at a certain time. The law of privacy is kind of like the law of uncertainty. I'd like to be an electron to the government and everyone else out there. Until you bump into me, you'll never know exactly where I am.
Ok, so how many people are writing e-mails now to the company trying to find out how to get into the purchasing chain?
Two dollar!!!
Two dollar!!!
Two dollar!!!
Yes, I saw that episode of Futurama as well, and yes, it was an amazingly funny running gag that had an excellent punchline at the end of the episode.
Now stop trying to be cute by confusing the uninitiated masses who don't know the educational value of cartoons.
so it'll getted modded to -1. But here goes.
Call Apple Corporate. Ask to speak to a customer care specialist. Explain to them the basics of your problem. Before you call, collect all the "evidence" you can. I don't mean finger prints and dumb stuff like that. I mean, names, case numbers, repair dates. Make sure you have that in order and the first thing you are going to want to do is walk through the details of each and every repair.
Now here's the kicker. Also find a copy of the Applecare Agreement and have that with you. Find as many relavent terms and phrases in that document as you can. Example; "repaired or replaced", and "under contract", etc, etc. Also try and think back to all the dealings you've had with the customer reps you were dealing with. Yes, it's pedantic, but being civil and having common courtesy and letting them be the unruly ones can win a lot of times, especially with the customer care specialists, because they've only got one job, and that's to diffuse pissed off customers. If you make it easy on them, they'll probably give you things, like spare batteries (though that's a rarity).
Oh, and also send of a polite letter to sjobs@apple.com. He doesn't read them, but someone does, so get in line. Your patience may be rewarding. But if your all in a fit and pulling your hair out, feel free to suck on a egg.
What, are you crazy?
I would so much rather run this than just about any Linux distro out there. Mainly because I can guarantee my vendor is available on the phone when I need them to troubleshoot any of the funky ass things servers tend to do.
And no, you can't come to my site or have a look at my logs because it's secure, just tell me what error code -16246 means in your software, ok, thanks, bye.
Ok, this issue has peaked my interest, so I'll throw my contention in the ring.
The original 500mhz iBook (meaning the first generation models) had defects. Those defects were found through a program that Apple entered into with a certain highly contentious school system in central Virginia (Henrico county for those of you not aware of that). In the first 3 months of handing these rugged, compact notebook computers to a bunch of high school kids, Apple got to see what kinds of abuse these machines could handle.
The first issue was the CD-ROM drive tray. People who did read the directions, or who were overly impatient, had a tendancy to rip the CD tray out of the machine. The next thing they saw was a design flaw with the screen latch that held the lid closed. It was too thin and was breaking off. For both of these major issues, they repaired every single one of those machines that failed (which, suprisingly, was not all 12,000 that had been deployed, only about 1 in 10 machines actually failed due to these flaws).
This logic board issue appears to be a longer term issue. But, given the number of complaints (1200 registered on one website, and in reality, maybe 75% of those are legitimate complaints of failure, seeing as many of the complaints are actually Apple haters making rude comments) I don't see an issue. How many actual logic board failures are there? In total? And how many iBooks have been sold? So what percentage of iBooks have actually failed? Does this percentage actually qualify as an inherent design flaw, or is it a matter that these people (and statisticly, there is no way of avoiding this circumstance) are the unlucky few that got either truly defective machines, or have unknowingly abused their machines to the point of failure or even repeated failure?
An example of unknowingly causing failure. Shutting down their machines everyday or power cycling their machines at least twice per day of usage. Hate to break it to you folks, but this kind of usage inherently causes excess strain on your computers components. If you you think about it, every time you power cycle your machine, you are forcibly starting and stopping electrical spikes through your boards. While sleeping the machine does similar things, the machine never truly achieves a state of no charge, so the components are not being slammed by electrons repeatedly. Ok, someone is going to try and slam me for stating that one, but I'm trying to point out the simple fact that if you keep flipping a switch, it's eventually going to break. These computers are silicon, metal and plastic. All 3 of those materials wear out over time and use. Heavy extended use will increase the change of breakage.
Next issue. Enviornment. Apple doesn't know what type of enviornment these complaints are stemming from. Do you work in a heavy industrialized city? Do you carry your iBook everywhere with you? Are you popping it in a Kensington bag and thinking that you can swing it around and bounce it off the walls because it's in a padded sleave? Are you avoiding flexing the casing? Are you torquing the lid everytime you open it, causing the plastic of the lid hinges to grind against each other? Are you constantly taking your iBook out at Starbucks and putting it down on a table that someone just spilled their Caramel Frappacino on?
These are but a few of the things I can think of to shorten the lifespan and usability of an iBook, let alone a Powerbook. These are not hardened laptops. You don't see U.S. Marine commanders lugging an iBook into a warzone. No, they carry a $15,000 486 in a case truly engineered to be dropped, shaken, hit, submerged , microwaved (or even actually nuked) and still function. So don't think you can be taking your iBook to the pool and wonder why you smell ozone when some kid slogs half the pool on your expensive laptop.
Ok, now to counter balance my vehement dislike of this subject, and those at the center of it (the complainers, not Apple), I will address Apple's a
and shit.
Um. So?
Henrico County, Virginia, USA. Been there, done that. Hope you have a nice raincoat, you're going to get drenched..
Now that is just wrong.
Wrong I tell you.
So very, very wrong that I cannot begin to fathom just how craptastically crappy this crap is.
Imagine. Using a popular culture movie to debase your competition and promote your crappy vaporware. Where do I sign up for this crap? I want off your lists. All of them. And your parent company lists too. No, don't try and sell me your product by linking it to a popular movie reference, please. Let it stand on it's own merit. Oh, you say it's all smoke and mirrors and you don't have the features I want? Too bad, no money for you, bye now.
Grrr.
Everyone who is bitching is not a good and proper student of the art of the Eastern parable. This whole series is a live action adaptation of an Anime on the scale of Akira. The only failure is that it is not as condensed as the Anime version. If you are a real fan, you've probably read the actual Manga of Akira (all 38 of them, well 38 that I know of, I kind of haven't had time to look for a few years). It was an epic tale. It had grandeous spiritual and pseudo-religious overtones. It had amazing, long and drawn out action. The Matrix is just like this, only the story is original (well, as original as the Wachowski brothers could make it) and the themes and effects are all exactly what you want to see in a live action adaptation. Over the top, huge, unreal action that smacks you around and gives you shell-shock. You know, post traumatic stress syndrome. This is not your story. You are the audience, you don't get to decide where the story goes. Get a clue.
Yes, the Wachowski Brothers lost a lot of control towards the end. I have a feeling the ending was a little bit too geared towards the testing audience rather than what the original plot and story line called for. Anyway. Sucks to be the exec who pulled that crock of shit.
I've been booting my Linux boxes from my XServe RAID for months now. It's just a fibre array. And the XRAID Admin program is a straight Java applications so you can run it on any platform that supports Sun Java 1.4.1.
Go figure.
It's not rocket science. These devices have been engineered using standards of the industry.
Doh!
um, if the internet were to go away tonight, all my clients would be dead in the water. They all have telecommuters and colocated servers situated all over the world.
They do secure business transactions over the internet day in and day out, moving _very_ large sums of money so the janitors and the parking attendants and the CEO's and the secretaries get paid.
You take out the internet and you don't get paid. Thanks for playing.
This guy really need to do some freakin research before opening his mouth.
Directly from the article:
"Ninety-nine percent of the traffic is pure HTTP (Hypertext Transport Protocol), and so it handles it the way it should."
Say that again?
99% of traffic on the internet is HTTP?
Um.
_NO_!
let's do a little packet scan of the traffic on my ISP's network, shall we?
Hmmm, there's about, oh say, 40% SMTP, 10% DNS lookups alone. Wait, here's some p2p packets floating in a big cloud all over the place. Hmm, what's this? Oh, that's those damn Exchange servers being bothersome with their damn polling.
Oh, and look at all the zombies. Geez, if I get one more subseven attack, I'm going to have to get a larger disk just for my firewall logs. Echo packets, ftp transfers, POP, IMAP, LDAP lookups, VPN tunnels. Yeah, that 99% HTTP traffic sure sounds like a well thought out statement.
Get off those links. Some of us actually listen to this on a regular basis (or rather, all day at work) and it helps us be more productive. Give me back my noise please. I can't get anything done without it...
These are the same numbers that have been up on Apple's G5 site for how long now? Since June or something? What are you people? Blind? Or just lazy. Wake me up when you get with the present. People have been arguing the validity and what not of these SPEC scores represent for months now.
They usually will get you about $15,000 per nut.
Then go get a G5 with a Cinema Display and save up the rest of the money for the next gen of powerbook.
My thoughts on the subject of Beige.
To all those who denegrate Apple.
Feel free to express your opinions about Sun, SGI, or any other System V Unix. Wait, let's throw in BeOS, OS/2, OS/2 Warp, xBSD, or GNU HURD. Oh, wait, you've never used those platforms? Oh, well I guess you are an expert then.
As for those that have used the current Mac platform and like to spew vitriol for it, whooptie freakin doo, you are apparently clueless enough not to be able to learn something _different_. It's called adapting, humans are supposed to be one of the best of breed in that realm, but it's not happening for you. I guess Darwin didn't think about you with his theory of evolution. Oh, wait, he did, it's called WEAK!
Yes, Apple has issues. The OS has some things that work really well, others that need work. I can say the same thing for Solaris, Windows, HURD, xBSD, and most definitely Linux. Got any other nuggets of wisdom to drop on us?
Crigley is meerly making a statement about things that he notices. He notices that there are companies using Macs successfully and asks the question, "Why can't other companies do the same and be successful? Maybe because they don't want to be."
You know why Apple has such poor support, or fewer applications, or any of the things that Windows or other platforms has that Apple does not? Because of a smaller user base, smaller funding, and smaller demand. It's that simple. If they had even double the userbase, they'd have twice as many applications, twice as many features, and maybe even quadruple the support options. The reason they suck is that they _are_ small. Deal with it. Sun, in all it's glory, is small. Everything is small compared to Microsoft. Linux is tiny. HURD doesn't even show up on the map.
Feel free to correct me with conjecture and commentary about how you _know_ Windows is better because the majority uses it. The majority thought the world was flat in 1400. Does that mean the majority was right? Oh. Sorry, you didn't pay attention in geography because you were too busy being cool. Well, in that case, feel free to walk off the edge of the world...
The Sims.
The original one.
The original concept of the application was to design a layout design program. Yeah, it's "semi-3D" but you can view it from multiple perspectives.
so yeah.