T-Mobile HANDS DOWN has the best customer service of any cell provider. I've called them once for a problem and two times for questions and once to activate a feature on my phone and every time I was connected to an American. That alone makes it a winner for me because every time I call sprint now they are connecting me with someone who does not understand basic American slang or informal speech and all they do is tell me what they CAN'T do for me.
That's NUTS. T-Mobile's prepay is 10 a minute and there's no such thing as roaming. So far, T-Mobile is the cheapest pre-pay I have found, although when I used to use it (before I had a plan with Sprint) you could not use data.
I am an author and most of my publishers like manuscripts delivered in Word formats
Interesting because when I emailed several different publishers (Amazon, AuthorHouse, iUniverse and even HarperCollins to get something more "professional") they all required PDF.
Outside of Acrobat Pro, I don't know of any application that uses PDF as its native file format and PDF is pretty damn serious as far as businesses are concerned. Of course with the addition of PDF printing in Mac OS X I have seen a lot more PDFs on the web.
Be went belly-up in direct relation to Jean-Louis Gassee. He came from Apple and had the concept that an operating system had to be tied directly to a hardware manufacturer. His fault.
So you have one cable company that offers internet, phone and video and one DSL company that offers internet, phone and video. That right there, son, is competition. If you don't like terrestrial offerings there's always satellite. People need to stop bitching about monopolies all the time. BE A BETTER CONSUMER. I haven't used an RBOC in over 5 years.
Let me start with I hate Starbucks. They have predatory practises that I have seen first hand in my community. However, from everything I have read about Starbucks and everything I have heard about them from the people who have worked there, Starbucks is not like other big corporations. They have a very "employee-centric" approach".
VMWare has ZERO grasp of the Mac market. Their application is a mess and scatters files all over the drive. I used the free beta of VMWare for like, 2 days before I decided to buy Parallels.
There's also guest tools for Solaris, OS/2 Warp 4 and eComstation as well as several others. Don't believe the hype on 3D for Parallels, though. I have it on authority that it only supports open GL 3D and the Direct X accelleration does not support Vista.
The iPod is an ecosystem. It is not just some random hardware slapped together. It is also iTunes, which being free requires a little bit of extra price tacked onto the iPod to "pay" for it. Because it HAS all those accessories, it's also a lot of R&D and testing to see what would be a good idea to add to the hardware to make it better/more functional, like Nike+iPod. There's a REASON it only works with the Nano even though it uses the iPod dock connector.
For someone talking about naivete, you really don't understand much about building a brand, you seem to be stuck on a product. There's a difference.
Exactly what is "serious" on a phone? I love my Motorola Q. It has a GREAT phone function, something RIM has NEVER understood, it has VERY good web access (I have EVDO through Sprint) with Pocket IE and EXCELLENT web access with Opera, VERY good email with Pocket Outlook and decent multimedia with Media Player. All this for $100.
Except today you also need the web and email, which Windows Mobile does excellent and Palm feels like it's bolted on with duct tape. This comes from a die-hard Mac user.
I sure hope it doesnt look and feel like current Palm OS. Current Palm OS looks and feels like Classic Mac OS in an age of Mac OS X. It's clunky, has inconsistencies where SOME apps are in colour and SOME apps are in B&W, some PARTS of apps are in colour, some B&W, and there's no multitasking. Current Palm OS is a MESS. I like the interface being simple and pen-driven but they need a makeover. Hopefully they will go the OS X route and Garnet apps will run in a compatibility environment.
I personally think people believe because it's one cord, as opposed to 3, it's simpler. Even with DVI you have two audio cables unless you are using TOS, which I myself have never seen a TV with TOS on it although I am sure they exist. What I want to know is whatever happened to using FireWire for AV?
but as I understand it the physics engine was pretty advanced.
Bungie has a history in physics engine focus. Marathon was the first FPS to actually HAVE a physics engine and it was pretty damn advanced. Marathon editors let you tweak your own physics. So actually, for Bungie, the physics engine was not so great coming from what they'd done before.
Apple has always created Mac-oriented devices to fill the hole in the market until other manufacturers finally realise that Mac users are brand loyal and will continue to buy your line of products and update/upgrade them regularly if you support the platform. As it stands, there are to my knowledge no phone manufacturers that actually have software for Macs (Palm excluded because it's a PDA first).
Apple has manufactured still and web cameras, printers, scanners, modems, NICs, displays, etc.
When's the next cool thing gonna happen? Because it's been 5 years now waiting for the next cool thing. I'm not sure about you but I think that clearly falls out of the "fad" realm.
H&M requires management to pass a credit check. What exactly is passing is never disclosed, they use a company called Sterling. H&M in the US has had a terrible track record with everything but sales. Massive turnover in both management and full/part time employees, an unheard of shrink of about 22% company-wide in the US (retail clothing shrink is typically 12%). All this run by people who pass a credit check. They've resorted to importing Swedish management to try and clean up the mess the Americans with good credit are causing.
Oh, and btw, they've had major theft issues because they keep several thousand dollars in their office safes. So, the only managers that have stolen from H&M are those with good credit.
That's what I use, but increasingly if you want an easy and elegant solution to any computer problem you have to be using Mac OS to get it. Of course, it's $100 a year for.Mac but you get multi Mac syncing, an email address, a website blah blah.
But to the point, Backup lets you create plans based on what to back up, where to back it up to and how often. Then it pops up a window when automatic backups are going to start telling you that one is going to begin and do you want to cancel. I think it's great and 9/10 of the time I never have to think about it.
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T-Mobile HANDS DOWN has the best customer service of any cell provider. I've called them once for a problem and two times for questions and once to activate a feature on my phone and every time I was connected to an American. That alone makes it a winner for me because every time I call sprint now they are connecting me with someone who does not understand basic American slang or informal speech and all they do is tell me what they CAN'T do for me.
That's NUTS. T-Mobile's prepay is 10 a minute and there's no such thing as roaming. So far, T-Mobile is the cheapest pre-pay I have found, although when I used to use it (before I had a plan with Sprint) you could not use data.
Interesting because when I emailed several different publishers (Amazon, AuthorHouse, iUniverse and even HarperCollins to get something more "professional") they all required PDF.
Outside of Acrobat Pro, I don't know of any application that uses PDF as its native file format and PDF is pretty damn serious as far as businesses are concerned. Of course with the addition of PDF printing in Mac OS X I have seen a lot more PDFs on the web.
That was back before Microsoft changed their screen rendering metrics to incorporate ClearType, IIRC.
Be went belly-up in direct relation to Jean-Louis Gassee. He came from Apple and had the concept that an operating system had to be tied directly to a hardware manufacturer. His fault.
So you have one cable company that offers internet, phone and video and one DSL company that offers internet, phone and video. That right there, son, is competition. If you don't like terrestrial offerings there's always satellite. People need to stop bitching about monopolies all the time. BE A BETTER CONSUMER. I haven't used an RBOC in over 5 years.
Let me start with I hate Starbucks. They have predatory practises that I have seen first hand in my community. However, from everything I have read about Starbucks and everything I have heard about them from the people who have worked there, Starbucks is not like other big corporations. They have a very "employee-centric" approach".
MAN you are self-sycophantic. you write the article post it to slashdot then troll the comments? Go mentally masturbate somewhere else.
VMWare has ZERO grasp of the Mac market. Their application is a mess and scatters files all over the drive. I used the free beta of VMWare for like, 2 days before I decided to buy Parallels.
There's also guest tools for Solaris, OS/2 Warp 4 and eComstation as well as several others. Don't believe the hype on 3D for Parallels, though. I have it on authority that it only supports open GL 3D and the Direct X accelleration does not support Vista.
The iPod is an ecosystem. It is not just some random hardware slapped together. It is also iTunes, which being free requires a little bit of extra price tacked onto the iPod to "pay" for it. Because it HAS all those accessories, it's also a lot of R&D and testing to see what would be a good idea to add to the hardware to make it better/more functional, like Nike+iPod. There's a REASON it only works with the Nano even though it uses the iPod dock connector.
For someone talking about naivete, you really don't understand much about building a brand, you seem to be stuck on a product. There's a difference.
Apple has had a sub-$100 iPod for what, 3 years now?
Exactly what is "serious" on a phone? I love my Motorola Q. It has a GREAT phone function, something RIM has NEVER understood, it has VERY good web access (I have EVDO through Sprint) with Pocket IE and EXCELLENT web access with Opera, VERY good email with Pocket Outlook and decent multimedia with Media Player. All this for $100.
Except today you also need the web and email, which Windows Mobile does excellent and Palm feels like it's bolted on with duct tape. This comes from a die-hard Mac user.
I sure hope it doesnt look and feel like current Palm OS. Current Palm OS looks and feels like Classic Mac OS in an age of Mac OS X. It's clunky, has inconsistencies where SOME apps are in colour and SOME apps are in B&W, some PARTS of apps are in colour, some B&W, and there's no multitasking. Current Palm OS is a MESS. I like the interface being simple and pen-driven but they need a makeover. Hopefully they will go the OS X route and Garnet apps will run in a compatibility environment.
All the reviews have stated they can't tell the difference between the 360 using Component and using HDMI.
I personally think people believe because it's one cord, as opposed to 3, it's simpler. Even with DVI you have two audio cables unless you are using TOS, which I myself have never seen a TV with TOS on it although I am sure they exist. What I want to know is whatever happened to using FireWire for AV?
Bungie has a history in physics engine focus. Marathon was the first FPS to actually HAVE a physics engine and it was pretty damn advanced. Marathon editors let you tweak your own physics. So actually, for Bungie, the physics engine was not so great coming from what they'd done before.
In the US, you'd have to change the way the FDA tests drugs, first. Also, if you don't release the formula, you can't patent it.
Apple has manufactured still and web cameras, printers, scanners, modems, NICs, displays, etc.
When's the next cool thing gonna happen? Because it's been 5 years now waiting for the next cool thing. I'm not sure about you but I think that clearly falls out of the "fad" realm.
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H&M requires management to pass a credit check. What exactly is passing is never disclosed, they use a company called Sterling. H&M in the US has had a terrible track record with everything but sales. Massive turnover in both management and full/part time employees, an unheard of shrink of about 22% company-wide in the US (retail clothing shrink is typically 12%). All this run by people who pass a credit check. They've resorted to importing Swedish management to try and clean up the mess the Americans with good credit are causing.
Oh, and btw, they've had major theft issues because they keep several thousand dollars in their office safes. So, the only managers that have stolen from H&M are those with good credit.
But to the point, Backup lets you create plans based on what to back up, where to back it up to and how often. Then it pops up a window when automatic backups are going to start telling you that one is going to begin and do you want to cancel. I think it's great and 9/10 of the time I never have to think about it.
How is this the first? Especially since you can use Wengo on Macs and Linux.