I was pretty disappointed to find out they strip midi files from incoming emails. Making it impossible to send yourself free ringtones.. It's even worse that certain polyphonic phones can't receive SMS messages with midi files either. I had to resort to a motorola phone programmer and USB cable. It's unfortunate, alot of people would never go that route to get a dollar ringtone into their phone.
how do you figure that the guy making the decision to outsource is going to decide to eliminate his/her own job? I'm 100 percent with on you ship the exec jobs overseas.
Well, I've bought the upgrades. One thing that's a little different. There is alot of new software out there (games come to mind) that won't work unless you have like 10.2.8 or something, some even 10.3.
I think my point is that for at least 5-6 years game designers and other software companies made sure their software worked on windows 95. What my gripe is, is that there are apparently things missing from each osx (vertex shaders for ati cards) that are missing that get added in a later release.
It seems you need to buy the last release of osx in order to run some new software you may buy, which just seems kind of nuts. In addition, when was the last 10.1 security update?
Just like you could cover the song and it wouldn't be illegal. The difference is you are taking someone else's performance and using it verbatim, versus playing it yourself.
I'm suprised no one has said it though.. It's mainly because the first versions were so slow that the later ones were natural evolutions. In othere words, there was no where to go but up.
My complaint was easy to track because the company had no complaints against it before I did. It took them a month or so, but they did finally update their site that someone had notified them of a problem.
I agree with you, when I filed my complaint with the BBB, I mailed the state attorney generals office. Funny thing is, the retailer I had a problem with received notice on both complaints the same day. He was *very* eager to resolve it.
The whole point of the BBB any way is to give buyers an opportunity to see what kind of company they are about to do business with.. I hardly think this will make much difference with a complaint against apple.
I beg to differ about video and audio encoding. I won't bother wasting time repeating apple's benchmarks in this where it was almost twice as fast as the fastest xeon's encoding a DV stream to MPEG2. I have experienced it myself first hand. The Dual G5 can encode full DV to VBR mpeg2 faster than real time. In contrast, my older G4 took about 3-4x real time.
First, the process is NOT tedious, at least in North Carolina. You fill out a form online, and mail it in. Also, our BBB shows how many complaints the company has had total, how many resolved, and how many unresolved. That tends to show people what type of business is being run. For example, our local Compusa has over 1000 complaints. 'Bout 1/2 of those are actually resolved.
I know this because I had to file a complaint against a local company. They were pretty upset to have any mark on the BBB site.
and it's best to fight fire with fire. File a complaint with the FCC. I had to do this over the reliability with my bellsouth connection. They advertise "always-on" but my connection dropped 10-15 a day.
when you file a complaint like that, you should get someone from the office of the president of that company. It should put them right in their place.
I have nothing but sympathy for what you are saying. My wife and I have made a moral decision to not have children until we could be in a financial position to afford them. The long work day/2 parents working bit doesn't hold water with me. They should have thought about that before children. I'm straying from the point...
if you can't provide morale direction for your children, you had no business having them.
I think it's bigger than that. I'm guessing, imagine having the storage size of a tape, and being able to find data without waiting 5 minutes for it to rewind or fast foward.
in all fairness, your minidisc player a) doesn't power a harddrive, flash memory, an LCD, backlight, and the electronics that go with it. It's clearly a more complicated piece of machinery. b) hold an entire music collection.
If apple is guilty of anything it's making the battery not easy to replace. You know, when you buy the thing there's no easy battery door, and you know batteries don't last forever.
Apple designed this exactly the way they wanted it. So they would be doing the replacements on the batteries and profiting.
although the battery is covered the length of the warranty. In all fairness I think this is overblown. I have the older 20 gig model and found it rather simple to replace the battery. The hardest part is getting the back case off, but it'd be nearly impossible to break the thing swapping the battery when the case is already off. (as these guys said they did)
I think the big issue here is that apple has met demand and lowered prices on alot of it's hardware. In change, they've started charging for software that they hadn't in the past. I think it's upsetting the core audience into believing they are getting bled. To a certain extent, I feel that way. It ends up being that you don't really *need* to buy any of this stuff.
Verizon offers low bandwidth (14.4) service for free. (just ticks away from your plan's minutes). It's suprisingly fast for websites although you don't want to download anything.
Apple seems to always put itself in the position of making it's customers very unhappy. If they send you back another ipod and say something fails on it (hdrive or anything else) they have opened themselves up to big problems. Who is to say that the ipod you sent in would have failed in the same manor. These ipods aren't coming back with a warranty on anything. I think that this is a bad way for apple to handle this. I can't understand why they don't have this kind of thing happen out of the genius bar. Opening the ipod is trivial, and replacing the battery is equally trivial.
I have a 200 gig hdrive in a granite digital firewire enclosure that saw no problems being used in panther. I'm not sure what happened to the other user, but I can confirm it did not happen with me.
The only annoying bug I've noticed is that network locations are not saving wireless HEX keys. It's a pain to type the 20 some characters over.
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yeah, but redhat es 3 crashes 4 minutes into the install, every time.
what if you want to listen to music at night?
i think I goofed the post, forgive if a dup. Here we use "India Brazil and Mexico"
I honestly don't like either candidate, but I have to say.. those who like Bush the least are the loudest.
I have the v60s and they do. Might vary from phone to phone or region to region.
I was pretty disappointed to find out they strip midi files from incoming emails. Making it impossible to send yourself free ringtones.. It's even worse that certain polyphonic phones can't receive SMS messages with midi files either. I had to resort to a motorola phone programmer and USB cable. It's unfortunate, alot of people would never go that route to get a dollar ringtone into their phone.
but it's pretty ugly. Reminds me of those Kobe Bryant shoes that are supposed to look like an Audi TT. Like this here
how do you figure that the guy making the decision to outsource is going to decide to eliminate his/her own job? I'm 100 percent with on you ship the exec jobs overseas.
How do *we* the average person make that happen?
Well, I've bought the upgrades. One thing that's a little different. There is alot of new software out there (games come to mind) that won't work unless you have like 10.2.8 or something, some even 10.3.
I think my point is that for at least 5-6 years game designers and other software companies made sure their software worked on windows 95. What my gripe is, is that there are apparently things missing from each osx (vertex shaders for ati cards) that are missing that get added in a later release.
It seems you need to buy the last release of osx in order to run some new software you may buy, which just seems kind of nuts. In addition, when was the last 10.1 security update?
Just like you could cover the song and it wouldn't be illegal. The difference is you are taking someone else's performance and using it verbatim, versus playing it yourself.
I'm suprised no one has said it though.. It's mainly because the first versions were so slow that the later ones were natural evolutions. In othere words, there was no where to go but up.
in our data center, it seems every day someone is doing that (replacing failed cpu's and memory).. I am not sure it's about *reliability*
My complaint was easy to track because the company had no complaints against it before I did. It took them a month or so, but they did finally update their site that someone had notified them of a problem.
I agree with you, when I filed my complaint with the BBB, I mailed the state attorney generals office. Funny thing is, the retailer I had a problem with received notice on both complaints the same day. He was *very* eager to resolve it.
The whole point of the BBB any way is to give buyers an opportunity to see what kind of company they are about to do business with.. I hardly think this will make much difference with a complaint against apple.
I beg to differ about video and audio encoding. I won't bother wasting time repeating apple's benchmarks in this where it was almost twice as fast as the fastest xeon's encoding a DV stream to MPEG2. I have experienced it myself first hand. The Dual G5 can encode full DV to VBR mpeg2 faster than real time. In contrast, my older G4 took about 3-4x real time.
First, the process is NOT tedious, at least in North Carolina. You fill out a form online, and mail it in. Also, our BBB shows how many complaints the company has had total, how many resolved, and how many unresolved. That tends to show people what type of business is being run. For example, our local Compusa has over 1000 complaints. 'Bout 1/2 of those are actually resolved.
I know this because I had to file a complaint against a local company. They were pretty upset to have any mark on the BBB site.
and it's best to fight fire with fire. File a complaint with the FCC. I had to do this over the reliability with my bellsouth connection. They advertise "always-on" but my connection dropped 10-15 a day.
when you file a complaint like that, you should get someone from the office of the president of that company. It should put them right in their place.
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/complaints.html
I have nothing but sympathy for what you are saying. My wife and I have made a moral decision to not have children until we could be in a financial position to afford them. The long work day /2 parents working bit doesn't hold water with me. They should have thought about that before children. I'm straying from the point...
if you can't provide morale direction for your children, you had no business having them.
I think it's bigger than that. I'm guessing, imagine having the storage size of a tape, and being able to find data without waiting 5 minutes for it to rewind or fast foward.
in all fairness, your minidisc player a) doesn't power a harddrive, flash memory, an LCD, backlight, and the electronics that go with it. It's clearly a more complicated piece of machinery. b) hold an entire music collection.
If apple is guilty of anything it's making the battery not easy to replace. You know, when you buy the thing there's no easy battery door, and you know batteries don't last forever.
Apple designed this exactly the way they wanted it. So they would be doing the replacements on the batteries and profiting.
although the battery is covered the length of the warranty. In all fairness I think this is overblown. I have the older 20 gig model and found it rather simple to replace the battery. The hardest part is getting the back case off, but it'd be nearly impossible to break the thing swapping the battery when the case is already off. (as these guys said they did)
I think the big issue here is that apple has met demand and lowered prices on alot of it's hardware. In change, they've started charging for software that they hadn't in the past. I think it's upsetting the core audience into believing they are getting bled. To a certain extent, I feel that way. It ends up being that you don't really *need* to buy any of this stuff.
What's more interesting is that JFS for linux came from their windows version, not their AIX.
Verizon let's you do this for free.
Verizon offers low bandwidth (14.4) service for free. (just ticks away from your plan's minutes). It's suprisingly fast for websites although you don't want to download anything.
Apple seems to always put itself in the position of making it's customers very unhappy. If they send you back another ipod and say something fails on it (hdrive or anything else) they have opened themselves up to big problems. Who is to say that the ipod you sent in would have failed in the same manor. These ipods aren't coming back with a warranty on anything. I think that this is a bad way for apple to handle this. I can't understand why they don't have this kind of thing happen out of the genius bar. Opening the ipod is trivial, and replacing the battery is equally trivial.
I have a 200 gig hdrive in a granite digital firewire enclosure that saw no problems being used in panther. I'm not sure what happened to the other user, but I can confirm it did not happen with me.
The only annoying bug I've noticed is that network locations are not saving wireless HEX keys. It's a pain to type the 20 some characters over.