The iPod Express worked great. Sure, sometimes they had to be rebooted (they refused to connect to the server), but most of the time it was painless. I had one Amex and one United Airlines Master Card not work, but everything else went through quickly.
If the card didn't work, all we do is run you over to an empty register, so you don't wait any additional time (well sure, whatever it takes you to walk 10 steps).
If we mistype the email, you can come back with your CC to a normal cashier and we can look up your receipt and reprint it. I always made sure to spell it out (and show) the email to the customer before leaving.
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As per the comments on the genius bar, just go to apple.com/retail, look up your store, and make an appointment in the morning. That way you can come in later that day and not have to wait (do the waiting at home).
If you're a business type and really need fast repairs and want to make appointments up to one week in advance, ProCare is not that expensive.
You're missing an important point. Sure the re-order makes more sense chronologically, but the order in which the characters are introduced is very important.
If you read it in the original order (The Lion... etc. first). Then throughout the whole book there's this sense of wonder when they talk about Aslan. In fact, during the whole beginning of the book there's a built up anticipation for this character.
If you read it in the "new" order, then you already know everything about Aslan.
It really makes sense from a story-telling perspective to read it as it was originally published. As there are a lot of assumptions made in this order to further the story.
> They simply can't take you to court over it if you manage to.
Actually thanks the DMCA they can. All they have to do is put some really simple "copy protection" (doesn't even have to pretend to work). And as long as you circumvent it, DING! DMCA on you. So when they sue you you wouldn't be liable for making copies for yourself, but you are liable for breaking the encryption and having the tools to do so (both illegal).
To make the finder have a default window type this is what you do. Close all Finder windows (make sure there are none minimized to the dock), set the window exactly as you want it (column view, size, etc.) and close it. That's it. New windows will open this way from now on. Enjoy.
You can still be a kind, generous, altruistic and forgiving person and not have faith, but because you believe it's an appropriate way to behave and has net benefits (in that it can be beneficial to you, and to society as a whole because it encourages reciprocal behaviour, as indeed it does).
Is there any evidence that points towards the benefits? Anecdotes don't count. See? you have faith. You have faith that goodness brings more goodness, that kindness makes the world a better place. Don't let yourself be put off by the religious spouting on "the one true faith". Having faith is being hopeful, for a better future, for a better world, yadda yadda tree hugging hippie stuff.
After reading through the thread I've noticed lots of people having this misconception. The whole front of the nano is one solid piece of polycarbonate. There is not a separate section covering the screen. Basically figure a square slab with a round hole on it for the click wheel to poke through.
In that interview recently with Ive he basically talked about the difference in the roughness of the screen versus the wheel, so it was a deliberate decision to make it this way. I guess the best way apple can fix it is by coating it with something more scratch resistant.
Most people I meet every day buying iPods are PC users. At least half of the people I talk to every day are buying their first mac. Coincidence? Sure why not.
--this post not endorsed by any company, since I'm not an official spokesperson it only contains personal opinion and speculation.
Now what with more and more (top end) car manufacturers building Bluetooth into their cars for Hands-Free Mobile use, using the Stereo, why not have a "bTrip" (er - "iTooth"?) that connects automatically to the car Stereo as well. That'd sure be neat!
On my current project I combine floating, absolute positioning and just about every other CSS technique in the book, and out of 1800+ lines of CSS across the entire site, just 13 are to cater for IE's brokenness.
I don't know what version of IE you're using, but I find constant problems with IE. No support for fixed elements, no support for transparent pings (alpha loader hack), flawed box model, etc. etc.
One problem I still haven't found a solution for is how to center an image, with unknown size (dinamically generated), vertically.
Exactly. You have never been there, you have no idea. Yes I am from there, yes I'm from a "privileged" class (about lower-middle class in the US).
There is _zero_ evidence that the US had anything to do with the failed coup.
You're so completely off the rocker on "diving the oil wealth among the European-descended upper classes" that you really have _no_ clue what you're talking about. The government has always been corrupt, has always stolen from the people. Chavez is just more blatant about it and does it in the name of the poor (while he lives like a king).
The re-election was a scam. We managed to get over 4 million votes in order to go for re-election, yet somehow the results of the actual election were _backwards_, with only about 2 million people voting against him. The re-election signatures were properly validated. The election process was done with electronic voting machines, with no paper trails, and for some reason *hint hint* the machines had two way communications.
Why do you have to talk nonsense about what you don't know about? Me and my family have worked _hard_ to get where we are. My father started as a bank teller and made it to a manager position. I started working when I was 15, went to a public university (yes there are public universities that work relatively well, Chavez has actually hindered this as much as he could).
Please stop it... you have no possible clue what's going on in the country. You don't live there, you've possibly never even been there once.
What you talk about the elections is completely wrong. The armed forces did not recognize him, in fact many of the high ranking military officials marched in civil disobedience (desacato?) against him.
You don't live there. He was not democratically elected, the vote to oust him was rigged. The country is not peaceful, it hasn't been ever since we decided he needed to go. It's a sad thing to say, but sometimes I wonder if it would be better if someone powerful wanted him dead.
I am also Venezuelan. Those sites that Artemis3 links to are highly biased. The offer from Chavez is nothing more than political buffoonery. Chavez has consistenly played the "protector of the people" card, and this is just more of that.
I'm amazed that someone that actually posts on slashdot (which means he's in a very select few considering the situation of the country), can be part of this machinery.
Please don't "liberate" us. But do understand that Chavez is a miserable liar, who has ties to Fidel Castro and has been properly coached by the former.
Sure, Chavez has done what no other president has done, actually pretend to care for the poorest, offering several programs. However these programs never work as well as he professes on his TV shows (yes he has a TV show called "hello president").
While he has repeatedly posed himself as the protector of the disadvantaged, Chavez has spent ridiculous amounts of money on himself, his trips around the world, personal cheffs, clothes, etc. You can only imagine how the president of one of the richest oil producing countries in the world lives. For those of you who don't know, all oil in the country belongs to the government (supposedly for the people).
Following your reasoning... omg I'd want a Mac-babe. She'd be super hot, but not nearly as pneumatic as the cheaper (and uglier) common bots.
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That's asinine. People make mistakes, by your standard, the only "Christian" would be the Pope and clergy (but then again, they probably masturbated when boys, so not even them).
Besides, you have to wonder the real motivations behind celibacy and waiting. In the timeline that we're talking about, contraceptives are a fairly new phenomenon. Before there were real consequences to having premarital sex. The consequences could be very bad for yourself, the other person involved and any children that would result from the union. This without going into STDs.
However, contraceptives are not foolproof or 100% effective, so they cannot be advocated as a get out of jail free card; because even if you follow the directions you could still end up in trouble.
Anyway, this is going to lead to a whole abortion thing, and it would be much better to not get into it.
Stop spreading FUD. The SF Public Library keeps several of the reference books in the back, those are just the ones they don't lend out. In my case most of the ones I've taken out from there have been illustration/painting books (some oversized and quite nice).
They neither record your details nor do they care, usually it's some 20 somethings manning the desk.
After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. "That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will," he said. "We won't do anything to preclude that."
If people start buying macs to run windows this is _great_ for apple. These would be customers that would have not purchased apple hardware otherwise, in other words a new market for them.
So what if people don't use OS X, apple makes money off their hardware, not their software (at least at this moment in time).
I agree with the second part of your comment: that if hardware becomes unprofitable they could switch quickly to a software based one.
However, I disagree with the first part of your comment.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that it is great for marketing. "3.6Ghz Intel Inside" compares much more favorable to other computers in the store to the average consumer. Plus "intel inside" will make them feel all warm and fuzzy.
The problem comes with benchmarks. You can now benchmark on similar hardware: say Photoshop running on Windows versus on Mac OS X. This could be good for mac because of windows bloat, or it could be bad because of the inefficiency of the Mach/BSD kernel in Mac OS X.
I expect to see some heavy optimization going on so that the results are either competitive or better.
They'll probably change things enough so it breaks on patches.
Also I can imagine there would be difficulty involved in doing it legit (notice I don't say legal) you'd have to get the kernel, buy the OS separately and do the integration yourself. Only a few very nerdy people would bother to do that, I don't think it'll hurt their bread and butter (graphics, home and school users).
The alternative would be to get a hacked together one from a warez site, but these people wouldn't of been costumers to begin with. In the end apple will probably treat it like the DRM, not try to outsmart them, just outpace them.
OK, so i really like the new nifty TFT monitor (the 17inch is a TFT, the 15" and 22" are LCDs). But how do you connect it?
All these new monitors come with their DVI connector, there is an adapter for the earlier ADC connector, but I don't see any others.
So in my case, i have an early AGP G4, which came with a VGA connector. Therefore I can't get any of apple's flat panel displays.
I'm assuming that making an adapter that took from the power outlet for the monitor, USB port, and a digital out from a Radeon card wouldn't be too hard to make. But I can't find one either.
Oh, also can't insall one of the Nvidia cards since it requires AGP 4X.
So, do I need a new computer to use all this? I don't think this is the best way of doing this...
Well, the thing is that to get great anime, you have to have seen fansubbs, either by VHS or by downloading the movies to your computer. Any person who is wiling to spend time collecting tapes, or on the computer downloading, irc chatting, encoding, decoding, divx, rm, virtualdub, etc.; to watch a movie on their computer, is a person that probably belongs on Slashdot!
It means you understand convergence to the computer, or maybe the other way around to appliances? probably in the middle... Or could be considered a 'techi', cause he'll do it because he _can_.
Or maybe anime is just great...
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The iPod Express worked great. Sure, sometimes they had to be rebooted (they refused to connect to the server), but most of the time it was painless. I had one Amex and one United Airlines Master Card not work, but everything else went through quickly.
If the card didn't work, all we do is run you over to an empty register, so you don't wait any additional time (well sure, whatever it takes you to walk 10 steps).
If we mistype the email, you can come back with your CC to a normal cashier and we can look up your receipt and reprint it. I always made sure to spell it out (and show) the email to the customer before leaving.
---
As per the comments on the genius bar, just go to apple.com/retail, look up your store, and make an appointment in the morning. That way you can come in later that day and not have to wait (do the waiting at home).
If you're a business type and really need fast repairs and want to make appointments up to one week in advance, ProCare is not that expensive.
You're missing an important point. Sure the re-order makes more sense chronologically, but the order in which the characters are introduced is very important.
If you read it in the original order (The Lion... etc. first). Then throughout the whole book there's this sense of wonder when they talk about Aslan. In fact, during the whole beginning of the book there's a built up anticipation for this character.
If you read it in the "new" order, then you already know everything about Aslan.
It really makes sense from a story-telling perspective to read it as it was originally published. As there are a lot of assumptions made in this order to further the story.
My 2 cents.
-c
> They simply can't take you to court over it if you manage to.
Actually thanks the DMCA they can. All they have to do is put some really simple "copy protection" (doesn't even have to pretend to work). And as long as you circumvent it, DING! DMCA on you. So when they sue you you wouldn't be liable for making copies for yourself, but you are liable for breaking the encryption and having the tools to do so (both illegal).
-v
To make the finder have a default window type this is what you do. Close all Finder windows (make sure there are none minimized to the dock), set the window exactly as you want it (column view, size, etc.) and close it. That's it. New windows will open this way from now on. Enjoy.
-c
After reading through the thread I've noticed lots of people having this misconception. The whole front of the nano is one solid piece of polycarbonate. There is not a separate section covering the screen. Basically figure a square slab with a round hole on it for the click wheel to poke through.
In that interview recently with Ive he basically talked about the difference in the roughness of the screen versus the wheel, so it was a deliberate decision to make it this way. I guess the best way apple can fix it is by coating it with something more scratch resistant.
The entire front plate of the nano is one solid piece of hard plastic (or acrylic). Meaning the same material that covers the screen covers the front.
Most people I meet every day buying iPods are PC users. At least half of the people I talk to every day are buying their first mac. Coincidence? Sure why not.
--this post not endorsed by any company, since I'm not an official spokesperson it only contains personal opinion and speculation.
It will not sync over FireWire, but will charge.
Exactly. You have never been there, you have no idea. Yes I am from there, yes I'm from a "privileged" class (about lower-middle class in the US).
There is _zero_ evidence that the US had anything to do with the failed coup.
You're so completely off the rocker on "diving the oil wealth among the European-descended upper classes" that you really have _no_ clue what you're talking about. The government has always been corrupt, has always stolen from the people. Chavez is just more blatant about it and does it in the name of the poor (while he lives like a king).
The re-election was a scam. We managed to get over 4 million votes in order to go for re-election, yet somehow the results of the actual election were _backwards_, with only about 2 million people voting against him. The re-election signatures were properly validated. The election process was done with electronic voting machines, with no paper trails, and for some reason *hint hint* the machines had two way communications.
Why do you have to talk nonsense about what you don't know about? Me and my family have worked _hard_ to get where we are. My father started as a bank teller and made it to a manager position. I started working when I was 15, went to a public university (yes there are public universities that work relatively well, Chavez has actually hindered this as much as he could).
Inform yourself, go to the source, go down there.
Please stop it... you have no possible clue what's going on in the country. You don't live there, you've possibly never even been there once.
What you talk about the elections is completely wrong. The armed forces did not recognize him, in fact many of the high ranking military officials marched in civil disobedience (desacato?) against him.
You don't live there. He was not democratically elected, the vote to oust him was rigged. The country is not peaceful, it hasn't been ever since we decided he needed to go. It's a sad thing to say, but sometimes I wonder if it would be better if someone powerful wanted him dead.
I am also Venezuelan. Those sites that Artemis3 links to are highly biased. The offer from Chavez is nothing more than political buffoonery. Chavez has consistenly played the "protector of the people" card, and this is just more of that.
I'm amazed that someone that actually posts on slashdot (which means he's in a very select few considering the situation of the country), can be part of this machinery.
Please don't "liberate" us. But do understand that Chavez is a miserable liar, who has ties to Fidel Castro and has been properly coached by the former.
Sure, Chavez has done what no other president has done, actually pretend to care for the poorest, offering several programs. However these programs never work as well as he professes on his TV shows (yes he has a TV show called "hello president").
While he has repeatedly posed himself as the protector of the disadvantaged, Chavez has spent ridiculous amounts of money on himself, his trips around the world, personal cheffs, clothes, etc. You can only imagine how the president of one of the richest oil producing countries in the world lives. For those of you who don't know, all oil in the country belongs to the government (supposedly for the people).
Why would cleaning up the environment produce mass unemployment? Where have I heard something similar... oh:
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
Haven't you thought that the conservation and best use of our materials could actually bring new markets and jobs?
Following your reasoning... omg I'd want a Mac-babe. She'd be super hot, but not nearly as pneumatic as the cheaper (and uglier) common bots.
That's asinine. People make mistakes, by your standard, the only "Christian" would be the Pope and clergy (but then again, they probably masturbated when boys, so not even them).
Besides, you have to wonder the real motivations behind celibacy and waiting. In the timeline that we're talking about, contraceptives are a fairly new phenomenon. Before there were real consequences to having premarital sex. The consequences could be very bad for yourself, the other person involved and any children that would result from the union. This without going into STDs.
However, contraceptives are not foolproof or 100% effective, so they cannot be advocated as a get out of jail free card; because even if you follow the directions you could still end up in trouble.
Anyway, this is going to lead to a whole abortion thing, and it would be much better to not get into it.
-c
Stop spreading FUD. The SF Public Library keeps several of the reference books in the back, those are just the ones they don't lend out. In my case most of the ones I've taken out from there have been illustration/painting books (some oversized and quite nice).
They neither record your details nor do they care, usually it's some 20 somethings manning the desk.
You're missing something very basic:
If people start buying macs to run windows this is _great_ for apple. These would be customers that would have not purchased apple hardware otherwise, in other words a new market for them.
So what if people don't use OS X, apple makes money off their hardware, not their software (at least at this moment in time).
c
I agree with the second part of your comment: that if hardware becomes unprofitable they could switch quickly to a software based one.
However, I disagree with the first part of your comment.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that it is great for marketing. "3.6Ghz Intel Inside" compares much more favorable to other computers in the store to the average consumer. Plus "intel inside" will make them feel all warm and fuzzy.
The problem comes with benchmarks. You can now benchmark on similar hardware: say Photoshop running on Windows versus on Mac OS X. This could be good for mac because of windows bloat, or it could be bad because of the inefficiency of the Mach/BSD kernel in Mac OS X.
I expect to see some heavy optimization going on so that the results are either competitive or better.
-C
They'll probably change things enough so it breaks on patches.
Also I can imagine there would be difficulty involved in doing it legit (notice I don't say legal) you'd have to get the kernel, buy the OS separately and do the integration yourself. Only a few very nerdy people would bother to do that, I don't think it'll hurt their bread and butter (graphics, home and school users).
The alternative would be to get a hacked together one from a warez site, but these people wouldn't of been costumers to begin with. In the end apple will probably treat it like the DRM, not try to outsmart them, just outpace them.
-C
I know I am.
OK, so i really like the new nifty TFT monitor (the 17inch is a TFT, the 15" and 22" are LCDs). But how do you connect it? All these new monitors come with their DVI connector, there is an adapter for the earlier ADC connector, but I don't see any others. So in my case, i have an early AGP G4, which came with a VGA connector. Therefore I can't get any of apple's flat panel displays. I'm assuming that making an adapter that took from the power outlet for the monitor, USB port, and a digital out from a Radeon card wouldn't be too hard to make. But I can't find one either. Oh, also can't insall one of the Nvidia cards since it requires AGP 4X. So, do I need a new computer to use all this? I don't think this is the best way of doing this...
Well, the thing is that to get great anime, you have to have seen fansubbs, either by VHS or by downloading the movies to your computer. Any person who is wiling to spend time collecting tapes, or on the computer downloading, irc chatting, encoding, decoding, divx, rm, virtualdub, etc.; to watch a movie on their computer, is a person that probably belongs on Slashdot!
It means you understand convergence to the computer, or maybe the other way around to appliances? probably in the middle... Or could be considered a 'techi', cause he'll do it because he _can_.
Or maybe anime is just great...
confuzzled
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