When it comes to the Jaz products, I guess I've been lucky; I never had any of the carts fail. The worst I can say about Jaz is that it was expensive as anything and today has almost no eBay value at all given the low cost of writable CD and DVD products. (Yes, I realize this could have happened with any product or technology, but it's still irritating as anything.)
What really burned me was the way I was treated when I called Iomega with regards to a dead FireWire adapter that clipped onto the back of a first generation 250MB Zip drive. I sought replacement or repair but was curtly told, "Buy another one." So much for the warranty, which had about three weeks remaining.
Given how everything of theirs I own has lost so much of its value, along with the lousy treatment I received from their support staff, it's been an easy decision to make: I'll never, ever purchase an Iomega product again.
Not a Mac XL exactly, but a Lisa. I was still an Atari 800 guy at the time; the local Apple dealer where I got my Atari game titles (!) let me play with their display unit.
Not to take anything away from the Matias keyboard, but the current Apple keyboard is entirely satisfactory. Besides having a decent feel (the keys have a nice detent that provides tactile feedback), it's easy to clean on the top, and doesn't collect hair or other debris below its circuit board. Costs about half what the Matias keyboard costs, as well. No, you can't adjust the tilt as you could with the Extended Keyboard and the Extended Keyboard II, but I never used that facility anyway.
On one hand, having used every Mac keyboard dating back to that of the original Mac 128k, I feel I should know. But on the other hand, having endured six years of some of the worst Apple keyboard designs ever (beginning with the original iMac), perhaps anything is an improvement.
"To do anything remotely useful you need to know a milion secret key combos. Mac users are one damn secret handshake society.
Funny, but I can't recall ever using an easter egg to get anything useful done. So much for the "secret handshake society."
Pull down any Mac OS X menu and you'll see exactly what those "secret key combos" are--right next to menu items describing what they do.
Were you talking about additional keys, such as shift and option? Click a menu title and observe what happens when you press those keys: The dynamic nature of Mac OS X menus shows you exactly what those addtional modifiers will give you.
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I have the answer. It's in the title of a song from Hotlegs (the group who would later become 10cc, in case you ever heard of them):
You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think Of It.
Step 2 comes from industry journalists, I promise you, not the 'people' as a whole. (Anyone else who derides Apple has simply been reading too much John Dvorak.) The reason they're journalists is that their own originality and inventiveness is in their ass; otherwise, they might be sharing in the role that Apple plays every day.
Step 3 comes from those who actually buy the technology (and who apparently don't read or care about what industry journalists have to say).
If this suit succeeds, then one of the staple items of spam content potentially disappears.
On the other hand, one million (according to the article) dumbasses are rewarded for their bad judgement. It's likely they'll continue to think there's nothing at all wrong from purchasing junk from a spammer--if not penis pills, then something else just as shady.
"We tried to show them how cool things were, without them having enough foundation to understand it."
That's the fundamental problem, all right.
When Apple developed the Lisa and Macintosh, the people there understood that the user experience was based on metaphors for real-life objects, and built on top of real-life experience. They weren't saying, "Isn't this cool?" (even though it was). They were attempting to present a new tool, "wheels for the mind," they called it at one point.
When I got my dad an iMac some years back, I didn't waste time explaining how much memory or disk space he had to work with, or how far the Mac OS had evolved at the time, or any of the lore behind it. He wanted e-mail and web surfing--those was the only things he really cared about. I showed him how to do those things, and only a minimum of the basic extra things he had to know about the computer, and he's been happy with it the five years he's had it.
I think my success had to do with showing him how to do things with his computer based on things he already knew how to do, like using snailmail and locating information at a public library. The occasional question he's had has been easy to answer.
"To this day, whenever you launch it, it bugs you about "making it the default application" while ignoring your request to not display the message again."
This doesn't sound like a consipiracy. It sounds more like a corrupt preference file.
While the default application preference (in this case, the web browser) is stored in what we used to call Internet Config (part of the OS), the option whether or not to display the dialog box is very likely held in IE's preferences file.
Trash the preferences file and let IE build another one. No more dialog, I predict. I've never experienced the problem you describe.
As a Mac user, I've found that HP supports the platform only when it's convenient for them to do so. As a result, I've avoided buying any HP product for at least the past ten years. These latest comments from Ms. Fiorina mean I'll boycott HP for probably another ten years.
I learned from the coverage surrounding HP's acquisition of Compaq a few years back that the shareholders effectively had no say in the matter. It had all been fixed--the merger took place anyway. Boycotting them is probably the most that anyone can do. It's the only thing a greedy bitch like Fiorina would ever understand.
...the thing to ponder is: Could it have been? I don't think so. Apple has already made its deal with Pepsi, but McDonald's has never served Pepsi products. (Not that I know of, anyway.) Perhaps that dynamic had something to do with it, given that it's McDonalds that is doing the denying.
As Apple uses iTunes to drive the sales of iPods, I'd guess Roxio will be using Napster to drive the sale of its Toast product for Macintosh, or its Easy CD & DVD Creator product for PCs.
If I download music outside of authorized channels, no theft has been committed, yet a potential sale has been lost. And let's not cloud matters with the question of who gets paid. Someone gets paid. Sometimes it's Lars; sometimes it's the executives.
Given all this, if I download anyway, there's really only one way to explain my actions. Say it with me:
I. Don't. Care.
Entire essays have been written trying to get a handle on this conflict, and there are a few who could possibly write a book. But isn't this what it's really all about? In which case, all those essayists and book writers haven't even begun to address the underlying issues.
However, what these it alone has given me is a renewed appreciation for the compact disc. It's often possible to get a disc for the same amount of money as the m4p tracks of it.
Even when it's more expensive to get the disc, I still have something I can hold in my hand. Something I can see (even if cover and liner art will never be the same since the demise of the LP). The music doesn't come in a lossy format from the start. I can rip it into whatever format I want (copy protection schemes notwithstanding), and still have the original to fall back on.
Of course, none of this means anything to anyone who has that wacked sense of entitlement to music without paying for it...
What I got from among the many news reports I read was that, indeed, she got the maximum jail sentence. Her community service, the exact number of hours I forget, was of unusually large duration because of her apparent lack of remorse.
The most damning thing of all was that, after hitting the girls and arriving at school, she asked her boyfriend if he noticed anything amiss with her car. She knew perfectly well what she had done.
I live near the community named in the incident coverage to which your link points. It frightens me to think I may someday be sharing the roads again with that sociopathic little p****.
That aside, I think the judge would have given her even more time if the law had permitted it. Laws regarding vehicular manslaughter will evolve as the outrage mounts. So will those with regards to spam.
"The other kids are going to be wondering if they can get similar mileage out of acting stupid in front of a camera."
If so, I hope they choose carefully. What you say brings the MTV program "Jackass" to mind. Kids have been doing exactly as you say in response to that, and all they've got in return is being hurt or killed.
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Give them the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps they really were talking about our li'l amphibian buddies.
(In which case, perhaps I should write the PC Magazine staff and ask what sort of hallucinogens they're taking...)
I own both 250MB Zip and 1GB Jaz products.
When it comes to the Jaz products, I guess I've been lucky; I never had any of the carts fail. The worst I can say about Jaz is that it was expensive as anything and today has almost no eBay value at all given the low cost of writable CD and DVD products. (Yes, I realize this could have happened with any product or technology, but it's still irritating as anything.)
What really burned me was the way I was treated when I called Iomega with regards to a dead FireWire adapter that clipped onto the back of a first generation 250MB Zip drive. I sought replacement or repair but was curtly told, "Buy another one." So much for the warranty, which had about three weeks remaining.
Given how everything of theirs I own has lost so much of its value, along with the lousy treatment I received from their support staff, it's been an easy decision to make: I'll never, ever purchase an Iomega product again.
Just my two currency units...
Not a Mac XL exactly, but a Lisa. I was still an Atari 800 guy at the time; the local Apple dealer where I got my Atari game titles (!) let me play with their display unit.
Not to take anything away from the Matias keyboard, but the current Apple keyboard is entirely satisfactory. Besides having a decent feel (the keys have a nice detent that provides tactile feedback), it's easy to clean on the top, and doesn't collect hair or other debris below its circuit board. Costs about half what the Matias keyboard costs, as well. No, you can't adjust the tilt as you could with the Extended Keyboard and the Extended Keyboard II, but I never used that facility anyway.
On one hand, having used every Mac keyboard dating back to that of the original Mac 128k, I feel I should know. But on the other hand, having endured six years of some of the worst Apple keyboard designs ever (beginning with the original iMac), perhaps anything is an improvement.
My faith in human (read: political) nature has been restored!
"To do anything remotely useful you need to know a milion secret key combos. Mac users are one damn secret handshake society.
Funny, but I can't recall ever using an easter egg to get anything useful done. So much for the "secret handshake society."
Pull down any Mac OS X menu and you'll see exactly what those "secret key combos" are--right next to menu items describing what they do.
Were you talking about additional keys, such as shift and option? Click a menu title and observe what happens when you press those keys: The dynamic nature of Mac OS X menus shows you exactly what those addtional modifiers will give you.
I have the answer. It's in the title of a song from Hotlegs (the group who would later become 10cc, in case you ever heard of them):
You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think Of It.
Step 2 comes from industry journalists, I promise you, not the 'people' as a whole. (Anyone else who derides Apple has simply been reading too much John Dvorak.) The reason they're journalists is that their own originality and inventiveness is in their ass; otherwise, they might be sharing in the role that Apple plays every day.
Step 3 comes from those who actually buy the technology (and who apparently don't read or care about what industry journalists have to say).
If this suit succeeds, then one of the staple items of spam content potentially disappears.
On the other hand, one million (according to the article) dumbasses are rewarded for their bad judgement. It's likely they'll continue to think there's nothing at all wrong from purchasing junk from a spammer--if not penis pills, then something else just as shady.
"We tried to show them how cool things were, without them having enough foundation to understand it."
That's the fundamental problem, all right.
When Apple developed the Lisa and Macintosh, the people there understood that the user experience was based on metaphors for real-life objects, and built on top of real-life experience. They weren't saying, "Isn't this cool?" (even though it was). They were attempting to present a new tool, "wheels for the mind," they called it at one point.
When I got my dad an iMac some years back, I didn't waste time explaining how much memory or disk space he had to work with, or how far the Mac OS had evolved at the time, or any of the lore behind it. He wanted e-mail and web surfing--those was the only things he really cared about. I showed him how to do those things, and only a minimum of the basic extra things he had to know about the computer, and he's been happy with it the five years he's had it.
I think my success had to do with showing him how to do things with his computer based on things he already knew how to do, like using snailmail and locating information at a public library. The occasional question he's had has been easy to answer.
"To this day, whenever you launch it, it bugs you about "making it the default application" while ignoring your request to not display the message again."
This doesn't sound like a consipiracy. It sounds more like a corrupt preference file.
While the default application preference (in this case, the web browser) is stored in what we used to call Internet Config (part of the OS), the option whether or not to display the dialog box is very likely held in IE's preferences file.
Trash the preferences file and let IE build another one. No more dialog, I predict. I've never experienced the problem you describe.
As a Mac user, I've found that HP supports the platform only when it's convenient for them to do so. As a result, I've avoided buying any HP product for at least the past ten years. These latest comments from Ms. Fiorina mean I'll boycott HP for probably another ten years.
I learned from the coverage surrounding HP's acquisition of Compaq a few years back that the shareholders effectively had no say in the matter. It had all been fixed--the merger took place anyway. Boycotting them is probably the most that anyone can do. It's the only thing a greedy bitch like Fiorina would ever understand.
"DVD-Jon Completely Clear"
Was I the only one whose first thought upon reading the headline was: "Wow. I didn't know he was a Scientologist."
...the thing to ponder is: Could it have been? I don't think so. Apple has already made its deal with Pepsi, but McDonald's has never served Pepsi products. (Not that I know of, anyway.) Perhaps that dynamic had something to do with it, given that it's McDonalds that is doing the denying.
Think I'll head over to my nearest IKEA store and toast these guys with a meatball. Here's to 'em!
As Apple uses iTunes to drive the sales of iPods, I'd guess Roxio will be using Napster to drive the sale of its Toast product for Macintosh, or its Easy CD & DVD Creator product for PCs.
If I download music outside of authorized channels, no theft has been committed, yet a potential sale has been lost. And let's not cloud matters with the question of who gets paid. Someone gets paid. Sometimes it's Lars; sometimes it's the executives.
Given all this, if I download anyway, there's really only one way to explain my actions. Say it with me:
I.
Don't.
Care.
Entire essays have been written trying to get a handle on this conflict, and there are a few who could possibly write a book. But isn't this what it's really all about? In which case, all those essayists and book writers haven't even begun to address the underlying issues.
"What kind of message does that send to the developers who work for Gates?"
Apparently nothing they don't already know, given Microsoft's dubious past achievements in security.
Not that I've actually used anything but iTunes.
However, what these it alone has given me is a renewed appreciation for the compact disc. It's often possible to get a disc for the same amount of money as the m4p tracks of it.
Even when it's more expensive to get the disc, I still have something I can hold in my hand. Something I can see (even if cover and liner art will never be the same since the demise of the LP). The music doesn't come in a lossy format from the start. I can rip it into whatever format I want (copy protection schemes notwithstanding), and still have the original to fall back on.
Of course, none of this means anything to anyone who has that wacked sense of entitlement to music without paying for it...
Hollings: "Me, me, me."
Smith, Hollings, Conyers: "Me too."
(BTW, I'm in Mountain View.)
What I got from among the many news reports I read was that, indeed, she got the maximum jail sentence. Her community service, the exact number of hours I forget, was of unusually large duration because of her apparent lack of remorse.
The most damning thing of all was that, after hitting the girls and arriving at school, she asked her boyfriend if he noticed anything amiss with her car. She knew perfectly well what she had done.
Some links: here, and here.
I live near the community named in the incident coverage to which your link points. It frightens me to think I may someday be sharing the roads again with that sociopathic little p****.
That aside, I think the judge would have given her even more time if the law had permitted it. Laws regarding vehicular manslaughter will evolve as the outrage mounts. So will those with regards to spam.
...maybe this guy could spill beer on The Roches' "Big Nuthin'." On second thought, that would probably be redundant.
"The other kids are going to be wondering if they can get similar mileage out of acting stupid in front of a camera."
If so, I hope they choose carefully. What you say brings the MTV program "Jackass" to mind. Kids have been doing exactly as you say in response to that, and all they've got in return is being hurt or killed.
"The EU on the other hand is doing the samen..."
No, that would be Hawaii.
I believe 6.0.3 was what you were grasping for.
Though System 6 progressed all the way to 6.0.7 before being dropped for System 7, 6.0.3 was the one almost everyone remembers (for good or bad).