Yes, this occurred to me as well, and so I began scouring all the posts here and could not find an example to illustrate it going the other way. Perhaps folks that had it go the other way would not be inspire to post here? Dunno.
Seems they're doing pretty well on the whole, as far as customer service, though.
I managed to drop my 4 month old iBook 700 (with the nice IBM "Sahara" G3) onto a tile floor which cracked the lid casing and opened the main case a bit. Took it to the Apple store and they gave me a fix cost and send it off. Told me it would be back in 5 days.
Two days later I got a call saying it was back and ready to pick up. They had to replace part of the case but also replaced the motherboard, which knocked up the cost of repair. The fellow at the Apple Store noted that a call was not put thru to me to ask my "ok" on that (since it was more than we orig. asked) and crossed off the additional charge, without me even raising the issue.
Better than that, perhaps, is what happened a month or two earlier. I had bought a Dual G4 800 right when it came out, summer of '01 and got it with a combo drive (DVD player / CD-RW). It had trouble reading some discs on occasion, so I put off getting it serviced. Almost a year later I was 2 weeks out from warranty expiration so I took it in to Apple Store, showed them the prob and they said they'd get it replaced. Machine was serviced on sight and ready the next day...and indeed a working drive had been swapped in...
A working SuperDrive.
...perhaps I should've pointed it out like a truly honest lad, but instead I just bought a pack of DVD-R's and had some fun at home.
I love Apple. I will never willingly stray. Never.
It's made in a plant in Nagasaki, according to the PDF. So...is one of its features to assist its main user by fostering the growth of a third arm or perhaps a second head?
I suppose this re-entry disaster could actually be described as a Thermal Curtain Failure, when you think about it.
At least none of the astronauts were forced to be "friends forever" with an annoying, spherical robot or to have to endure the mutterings of that whiny little bastard kid. (Well, I suppose he turned out ok, growing up to become the Emperor of Rome and all...)
LORD - Dont you people see what's happening here?!
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I don't know about you, but when I see a robot latched onto one of humanity's tome's of knowledge, poring over it at 1000 pages / minute puffing and aiming its high resolution CCD, I see what is clearly the first step in the rise of machines which will lead to the utter anhialation of humankind!!! We can't just feed them our knowledge!!
Development? I still need a Unix machine for that.
What???
As you've said, it _is_ a UNIX machine and you've got access to all of the best *NIX dev tools PLUS apple's incredible Cocoa dev framework and associated tools. Get on board w/ the OS X Dev Tools!
AmigaOne, looks great and AmigaOS 4 is really gonna rock. It's not dead, simply rebuilding it's strength.
Right. And what headline apps are in the works for it right now? Photoshop, Office, Netscape, etc? What is AmigaOne going to give me that I can't get on a cheap PC or a Mac with OS X can't surpass? (And note that a 700MHz G3 iBook (using the fast, 512K L2 cached IBM Sahara) with 12" screen, fast video, FW, USB, Eth, modem, OS X costs $999 before you pull out the Mac price tag card.)
What's with these Amiga people? The machine died in 1990. Let it rest. No one wants yet another failed resurection of this machine. I don't understand why every few years a bunch of wackos from Europe decide to form yet another Amiga company and then waste several years of their life on their way to failing.
Ahmen, brother.
I purchased the first Amiga 1000 sold in Virginia, back in October 1985. I loved it. Since, I've owned two Amiga 2000's, an Amiga 500, two Amiga 1200's, and another Amiga 1000. I've got two Amiga's right now, setup that I play with every few days. Good fun - mostly about nostalgia.
But for the love of god -- let this ended platform rest. It's one thing to grab up a mint condition A2000 on eBay and deck it out a bit with some pocket change, and get excited in the doing...but to ride the train as far as grabbing one of these "modern" iterations of Amiga hardware that has little to do with what the Amiga was -- it seems completely wasteful.
Dunno - maybe I take things for granted since I'm running few modern Macs and have had transparent OpenGL windows as part of the OS for a while now.
I am running a dual G4 800 w/ OS X 10.2.5. I am running the movie at 1280 width (the 95MB hires version) and it's using about 1/2 of my combined CPU power. Surfing, etc. does not touch the framerate or induce skipped frames.
"Little people" (let's be politically correct, why don't we we) are subject to the same tax trails and tribulations as the rest of us. No more -- no less. Let's not act as though they are any less human.
We have perhaps forgotten the thousands of details needed to go exactly right in order for people not to die. Moreover, travelling and re-entry at 13,000 miles an hour is downright scary.
Exactly.
I think it is very tragic, the loss of the shuttle crew, but people really should not react to it as though there is some expected guarantee of a crew's safe return home. Sure, safety is one of the #1 concerns and considerations in the space program, but we are trying to "boldly go where no man/one has gone before." Space has risks and there are unknown variables. Should we turn away from space travel / research because of these risks? Is that what the crew, who you can be sure were well aware of said risks, would have wanted?
MS cut them a large check long ago (97 or so), but has not given them $$ for years. Apple has been doing rather well and has enough cash to run for 5-6 years without further profits. MS's help to Apple is in the form of the existence of Office X and IE for the Mac. But that's it.
Well, he deserves an exhorbitant salary. That's what Apple gets for effectively pushing him out in the early-mid 80's. It took the company that he created after leaving Apple, NeXT, to return and take over Apple in '97 to save their ass. Had this not happened, Apple would not be here today.
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Seems they're doing pretty well on the whole, as far as customer service, though.
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Two days later I got a call saying it was back and ready to pick up. They had to replace part of the case but also replaced the motherboard, which knocked up the cost of repair. The fellow at the Apple Store noted that a call was not put thru to me to ask my "ok" on that (since it was more than we orig. asked) and crossed off the additional charge, without me even raising the issue.
Better than that, perhaps, is what happened a month or two earlier. I had bought a Dual G4 800 right when it came out, summer of '01 and got it with a combo drive (DVD player / CD-RW). It had trouble reading some discs on occasion, so I put off getting it serviced. Almost a year later I was 2 weeks out from warranty expiration so I took it in to Apple Store, showed them the prob and they said they'd get it replaced. Machine was serviced on sight and ready the next day...and indeed a working drive had been swapped in...
A working SuperDrive.
...perhaps I should've pointed it out like a truly honest lad, but instead I just bought a pack of DVD-R's and had some fun at home.
I love Apple. I will never willingly stray. Never.
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At least none of the astronauts were forced to be "friends forever" with an annoying, spherical robot or to have to endure the mutterings of that whiny little bastard kid. (Well, I suppose he turned out ok, growing up to become the Emperor of Rome and all...)
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(fat lady, singing)
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For the love of GOD, someone check this!!
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What???
As you've said, it _is_ a UNIX machine and you've got access to all of the best *NIX dev tools PLUS apple's incredible Cocoa dev framework and associated tools. Get on board w/ the OS X Dev Tools!
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You drink black blood, you no wake up either!!
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It's all about retro Apple II for that "feelin'".
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No, but I've tried it with a blacklight on, wearing my man-thong, and with a hard-boiled duck egg in my mouth. Insanity.
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Let Apple lead the way.
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Right. And what headline apps are in the works for it right now? Photoshop, Office, Netscape, etc? What is AmigaOne going to give me that I can't get on a cheap PC or a Mac with OS X can't surpass? (And note that a 700MHz G3 iBook (using the fast, 512K L2 cached IBM Sahara) with 12" screen, fast video, FW, USB, Eth, modem, OS X costs $999 before you pull out the Mac price tag card.)
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Ahmen, brother.
I purchased the first Amiga 1000 sold in Virginia, back in October 1985. I loved it. Since, I've owned two Amiga 2000's, an Amiga 500, two Amiga 1200's, and another Amiga 1000. I've got two Amiga's right now, setup that I play with every few days. Good fun - mostly about nostalgia.
But for the love of god -- let this ended platform rest. It's one thing to grab up a mint condition A2000 on eBay and deck it out a bit with some pocket change, and get excited in the doing...but to ride the train as far as grabbing one of these "modern" iterations of Amiga hardware that has little to do with what the Amiga was -- it seems completely wasteful.
Dunno - maybe I take things for granted since I'm running few modern Macs and have had transparent OpenGL windows as part of the OS for a while now.
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Cake.
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"Little people" (let's be politically correct, why don't we we) are subject to the same tax trails and tribulations as the rest of us. No more -- no less. Let's not act as though they are any less human.
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----> http://www.engrish.com -- to die for!!!
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Moreover, travelling and re-entry at 13,000 miles an hour is downright scary.
Exactly.
I think it is very tragic, the loss of the shuttle crew, but people really should not react to it as though there is some expected guarantee of a crew's safe return home. Sure, safety is one of the #1 concerns and considerations in the space program, but we are trying to "boldly go where no man/one has gone before." Space has risks and there are unknown variables. Should we turn away from space travel / research because of these risks? Is that what the crew, who you can be sure were well aware of said risks, would have wanted?
I think not.
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I feel sure that something is going to happen.
Something wonderful.
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Velgarcarb, man!!!
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That's my NeXT poster. Can also be seen here.
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