That's what you get from their commercials? That's what they "tell" you? Maybe you should look into getting your hearing checke. I've never heard that before. I've heard bad music, but the lyrics never talked about "healthy" or "nutritious" anything. Where did you see this ad campaign? I'd love to see it.
How about not putting your interpretation of the ad before the ad itself...
Unless you are providing medical advice from a "Doctor" there is no requirement that you claim that the actor is not who they purport to be. MS did, however, make the claim on the web page that this "ad" was an unsolicited piece of mail. They blatently lied about their source. This isn't a situation where they didn't reveal that this was an employee, they denied it in the ad. This is not a simple case of making claims about their product that are untrue, which in fact riddled this entire ad, this is a situation where they said that the person that they got this from DIDN'T work for them and that had no affiliation to them. Maybe you might think about actually reading the damn thing before you make ignorant comments about it. On top of all of that, you don't appear bothered by misleading advertising, maybe you should...
Can somebody please explain to me how running a search on Google through IE6 is faster than running a search on Google through Navigator, much less ANY browser on the market? What the hell is wrong with MS? How can you take them seriously when this is the level that their marketing department is at? Come on.
According to the "person" that wrote the article you should just get the Professional version of Windows XP even though "she" says that her laptop came with the Home version of XP pre-installed. "My recommendation is to go straight to Windows XP Professional; the extra features for mobile users are worth it." How would she know when she has never used it? It's not as if she upgraded to Professional when her laptop came with the Home version. She didn't spend the extra money so why should you?
Poor excuse for an attempt to steal more ideas from Apple. This time though, they're stealing marketing concepts rather than stealing GUI concepts.
No, it isn't and no they wouldn't. You've read way too much into this load of crap. The article makes complaints based upon the "tweakability" of the old version, OS 9.
This has nothing to do with Linux, so quit trying to make it into a Linux thing. The tweaks that they are talking about are with the GUI anyhow. Since there's no Aqua on Linux, your point is moot, I get the car.
This has got to be the most ignorant one yet. Really, do you think that the "tweakability" of the interface is what draws us zealots to the Macintosh? Not even close. So, get over yourself here. This has got to be the silliest argument yet.
Consoles have generally gotten games long before PCs not the other way around.
Tht thing is that now the console games that are being released are nearly as good as their PC counterparts. So, why wouldn't you get it for your console so that you can sit four people on the couch to play together. The PC gamer needs to see something completly revolutionary to differentiate between the consoles and their own machines.
This is a nice idea. The only problem is that the users of Linux 'LOVE' their OS. I've never met anybody that 'LOVES' much less 'LIKES' Windows in any of it's forms. That's one big hurdle to overcome Monkey Boy!
Do a DOS attack on someone on a shared Cable Modem without affecting everybody else that is on that network? Is this even possible? They cannot affect/disrupt anybody else aside from the person that they are after.
Another little point. How can they determine what is copyrighted material and what isn't? Is there some secret "copyright-bit" that is now encoded in music files that will allow the "INDUSTRY" determine which files it is after?
I get the impression that Berman has no clue about what he is proposing here. Anybody else get that feeling?
I do it to you, but you cannot do it to me.
This whole concept is ridiculous. How do they know the difference between copyrighted and uncopyrighted material? Where is the control of these companies? Essentially, this bill allows the industry to disrupt any p2p networks in whatever way they choose. This is insane! Anybody out there for this lunacy?
This may have everything to do with why Real Networks still haven't ported their software to OS X. Aside from the attempts to run Quicktime files in their Flash software.
Nobody "forced" you to do anything. Your v4 keys aren't worthless if you stayed with v4 of Quicktime under OS9. Why do you seem to believe that considerable upgrades to software should be free? Your QtPro v4 under OS9 works just fine if you didn't upgrade to v5 for OS9. What exactly are you complaining about? Because you don't really make any sense. Unless your point is that you feel that you somehow deserve free upgrades to existing software. Sort of like demanding a 2003 BMW for free to replace your 2002 BMW because you already paid for it once. If you're going to complain why not make a valid complaint, at least.
Each company still has the right to call it whatever they want. The standards committee has decided that the official name of the technology will be Firewire from now on.
Guess you missed the Firewire2 train, eh? USB 2.0 will never compare. Firewire2 does 800 MBps while USB 2.0 theoretically tops out at 480, most reports claim it peaks at 250. Also, USB can't carry a charge to power the hardware either while Firewire can and does. So, keep hoping that you have a clue, maybe you should try to read a book once in a while, it might help.
This is old news. Sure it's finally been confirmed, but people were noticing this stuff as far back as February 8. Here is the mention from Feb 8 that started the articles that didn't show up until Feb 16 here and here's the old Wired article. So, if you missed it up until the final episode, it's because you weren't paying attention. In other words, yes, this is OLD NEWS.
Actually, Take2 announced that GTA3 will NEVER be released to the X-Box. They have scrapped the whole X-Box port.
"Hirai added that "Grand Theft Auto 3," the top-selling video game for the past few months, will remain exclusive to the PS2, with publisher Take-Two canceling previous plans to bring the game to the Xbox."
Here's a link to the article on CNet.
No they're not. It's an excuse. If their code were "secure" then they shouldn't have any troubles with hackers. Oh, that's right, this is Microsoft, bugs are their business.
So why are you complaining? You can get them from the Apple stores that are "closish" to you. This is not evidence that supports the story, by the way. This shows us nothing about how many each of these places has gotten in stock or how many they have sold. So, the NOONE is wrong, since you say that they four Apple stores have them. Is there something wrong with buying at a local Apple retail outlet? Also, how does this all work regionally? Is it something that they are seeing in CA, I assume you are in CA due to the idea that you have four stores in your area? The store near here doesn't have any in stock either. So, until we actually see some hard numbers this is still all speculation.
Sorry about the misunderstanding. I thought that you were referring to the Apple carriers rather than the Apple specialists. My bad.
To be honest Apple really needs to improve on the information that they provide to their service reps on the phone, too. I've dealt with them on many occasions over the years and they have actually gotten a bit worse, in my opinion.
I did have an occasion when they had a local guy come out to the house and swap out a motherboard in my B&W G3. That's the best experience that I've had with them.
I totally hear you and agree with you. I can't understand why they would have a parts issue, but that does bring to mind an old story that I had heard. I had heard something about how that led to problems with people having machines that they did not actually manufacture. This supposedly had something to do with why the clones went away too.
You seem to miss the idea that they guarantee their services by using their own service centers the same way that they are fixing the retail sales of their equipment. By using their own people that they train and monitor, they give the best possible experience.
Who would you rather have do your work? Choice A: An Apple certified tech that does maybe one for every thousand jobs on a Macintosh. Choice B: An Apple certified technician that does work on only Macs. Most people that own a Macintosh should choose Choice B. This is because there are some subtle differences between the PCs and the Macs. When you go into diagnostics within the OS, you need to know your way around. So, the choices coming out of this are straightforward. Do you want someone that will get your product returned to you as quickly as possible because they do the repair quickly and correctly the first time or do you want somebody that will take longer, due to lack of exposure rather than overall knowledge, and might miss the problem entirely? Again, the first is the better option.
Apple users get helped by this, they do not get hurt by this.
The fact that there are NO verifiable sources offered. The whole situation has been getting blown out of proportion by CNET. Their articles lately have had a major MS lean to them. I want to know who these analysts are that are never reprimanded for misinterpreting the facts and tehn reporting their bad findings to the public. They "speculate" that there is an LCD shortage and that is why Apple isn't shipping as they were expected to ship. Didn't Apple buy an enormous number of LCDs near the end of last year? Why have these analysts forgotten that? I would like to see some hard numbers rather than all this wild speculation and rumor-mongering that CNET has been doing lately. Anybody else notice that they took all the QT related streams down? How about the complete dropping of Macintosh related software from their DOWNLOAD.com? CNET isn't worth getting worked up over anymore.
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That's what you get from their commercials? That's what they "tell" you? Maybe you should look into getting your hearing checke. I've never heard that before. I've heard bad music, but the lyrics never talked about "healthy" or "nutritious" anything. Where did you see this ad campaign? I'd love to see it. How about not putting your interpretation of the ad before the ad itself...
Unless you are providing medical advice from a "Doctor" there is no requirement that you claim that the actor is not who they purport to be. MS did, however, make the claim on the web page that this "ad" was an unsolicited piece of mail. They blatently lied about their source. This isn't a situation where they didn't reveal that this was an employee, they denied it in the ad. This is not a simple case of making claims about their product that are untrue, which in fact riddled this entire ad, this is a situation where they said that the person that they got this from DIDN'T work for them and that had no affiliation to them. Maybe you might think about actually reading the damn thing before you make ignorant comments about it. On top of all of that, you don't appear bothered by misleading advertising, maybe you should...
What the hell language is he speaking?
Can somebody please explain to me how running a search on Google through IE6 is faster than running a search on Google through Navigator, much less ANY browser on the market? What the hell is wrong with MS? How can you take them seriously when this is the level that their marketing department is at? Come on.
According to the "person" that wrote the article you should just get the Professional version of Windows XP even though "she" says that her laptop came with the Home version of XP pre-installed. "My recommendation is to go straight to Windows XP Professional; the extra features for mobile users are worth it." How would she know when she has never used it? It's not as if she upgraded to Professional when her laptop came with the Home version. She didn't spend the extra money so why should you?
Poor excuse for an attempt to steal more ideas from Apple. This time though, they're stealing marketing concepts rather than stealing GUI concepts.
Actually, the Altivec unit will handle 8, 16, 32, 64, 128bit data. You need to do some brushing up on your attacks.
No, it isn't and no they wouldn't. You've read way too much into this load of crap. The article makes complaints based upon the "tweakability" of the old version, OS 9. This has nothing to do with Linux, so quit trying to make it into a Linux thing. The tweaks that they are talking about are with the GUI anyhow. Since there's no Aqua on Linux, your point is moot, I get the car.
This has got to be the most ignorant one yet. Really, do you think that the "tweakability" of the interface is what draws us zealots to the Macintosh? Not even close. So, get over yourself here. This has got to be the silliest argument yet.
Consoles have generally gotten games long before PCs not the other way around. Tht thing is that now the console games that are being released are nearly as good as their PC counterparts. So, why wouldn't you get it for your console so that you can sit four people on the couch to play together. The PC gamer needs to see something completly revolutionary to differentiate between the consoles and their own machines.
This is a nice idea. The only problem is that the users of Linux 'LOVE' their OS. I've never met anybody that 'LOVES' much less 'LIKES' Windows in any of it's forms. That's one big hurdle to overcome Monkey Boy!
Do a DOS attack on someone on a shared Cable Modem without affecting everybody else that is on that network? Is this even possible? They cannot affect/disrupt anybody else aside from the person that they are after.
Another little point. How can they determine what is copyrighted material and what isn't? Is there some secret "copyright-bit" that is now encoded in music files that will allow the "INDUSTRY" determine which files it is after?
I get the impression that Berman has no clue about what he is proposing here. Anybody else get that feeling?
I do it to you, but you cannot do it to me. This whole concept is ridiculous. How do they know the difference between copyrighted and uncopyrighted material? Where is the control of these companies? Essentially, this bill allows the industry to disrupt any p2p networks in whatever way they choose. This is insane! Anybody out there for this lunacy?
This may have everything to do with why Real Networks still haven't ported their software to OS X. Aside from the attempts to run Quicktime files in their Flash software.
Nobody "forced" you to do anything. Your v4 keys aren't worthless if you stayed with v4 of Quicktime under OS9. Why do you seem to believe that considerable upgrades to software should be free? Your QtPro v4 under OS9 works just fine if you didn't upgrade to v5 for OS9. What exactly are you complaining about? Because you don't really make any sense. Unless your point is that you feel that you somehow deserve free upgrades to existing software. Sort of like demanding a 2003 BMW for free to replace your 2002 BMW because you already paid for it once. If you're going to complain why not make a valid complaint, at least.
Each company still has the right to call it whatever they want. The standards committee has decided that the official name of the technology will be Firewire from now on.
Guess you missed the Firewire2 train, eh? USB 2.0 will never compare. Firewire2 does 800 MBps while USB 2.0 theoretically tops out at 480, most reports claim it peaks at 250. Also, USB can't carry a charge to power the hardware either while Firewire can and does. So, keep hoping that you have a clue, maybe you should try to read a book once in a while, it might help.
Federation... association... who cares if it wasn't funny to begin with.
This is old news. Sure it's finally been confirmed, but people were noticing this stuff as far back as February 8. Here is the mention from Feb 8 that started the articles that didn't show up until Feb 16 here and here's the old Wired article. So, if you missed it up until the final episode, it's because you weren't paying attention. In other words, yes, this is OLD NEWS.
Actually, Take2 announced that GTA3 will NEVER be released to the X-Box. They have scrapped the whole X-Box port. "Hirai added that "Grand Theft Auto 3," the top-selling video game for the past few months, will remain exclusive to the PS2, with publisher Take-Two canceling previous plans to bring the game to the Xbox." Here's a link to the article on CNet.
No they're not. It's an excuse. If their code were "secure" then they shouldn't have any troubles with hackers. Oh, that's right, this is Microsoft, bugs are their business.
Don't you mean, WITHOUT the WB cast?
So why are you complaining? You can get them from the Apple stores that are "closish" to you. This is not evidence that supports the story, by the way. This shows us nothing about how many each of these places has gotten in stock or how many they have sold. So, the NOONE is wrong, since you say that they four Apple stores have them. Is there something wrong with buying at a local Apple retail outlet? Also, how does this all work regionally? Is it something that they are seeing in CA, I assume you are in CA due to the idea that you have four stores in your area? The store near here doesn't have any in stock either. So, until we actually see some hard numbers this is still all speculation.
Sorry about the misunderstanding. I thought that you were referring to the Apple carriers rather than the Apple specialists. My bad.
To be honest Apple really needs to improve on the information that they provide to their service reps on the phone, too. I've dealt with them on many occasions over the years and they have actually gotten a bit worse, in my opinion.
I did have an occasion when they had a local guy come out to the house and swap out a motherboard in my B&W G3. That's the best experience that I've had with them.
I totally hear you and agree with you. I can't understand why they would have a parts issue, but that does bring to mind an old story that I had heard. I had heard something about how that led to problems with people having machines that they did not actually manufacture. This supposedly had something to do with why the clones went away too.
You seem to miss the idea that they guarantee their services by using their own service centers the same way that they are fixing the retail sales of their equipment. By using their own people that they train and monitor, they give the best possible experience.
Who would you rather have do your work? Choice A: An Apple certified tech that does maybe one for every thousand jobs on a Macintosh. Choice B: An Apple certified technician that does work on only Macs. Most people that own a Macintosh should choose Choice B. This is because there are some subtle differences between the PCs and the Macs. When you go into diagnostics within the OS, you need to know your way around. So, the choices coming out of this are straightforward. Do you want someone that will get your product returned to you as quickly as possible because they do the repair quickly and correctly the first time or do you want somebody that will take longer, due to lack of exposure rather than overall knowledge, and might miss the problem entirely? Again, the first is the better option.
Apple users get helped by this, they do not get hurt by this.
The fact that there are NO verifiable sources offered. The whole situation has been getting blown out of proportion by CNET. Their articles lately have had a major MS lean to them. I want to know who these analysts are that are never reprimanded for misinterpreting the facts and tehn reporting their bad findings to the public. They "speculate" that there is an LCD shortage and that is why Apple isn't shipping as they were expected to ship. Didn't Apple buy an enormous number of LCDs near the end of last year? Why have these analysts forgotten that? I would like to see some hard numbers rather than all this wild speculation and rumor-mongering that CNET has been doing lately. Anybody else notice that they took all the QT related streams down? How about the complete dropping of Macintosh related software from their DOWNLOAD.com? CNET isn't worth getting worked up over anymore.
Wow, all this intellect and it can spell too. Amazing. I love how you can actually hold up your end of the argument. Quite a moron, really.