because being able to view and modify the source code when I should be creating the products that I'm supposed ot be paid to create is going to put food on my table.
Hmmm, damn I could have sworn the PowerMac we just bought is working absolutely fine with our nice Sony CRT and our NEC LCD monitor, both of which use standard VGA connections.
And I could swear that the D-Link wireless card I have works very nicely in my Powerbook.
Freedom from what? Seriously, it seems to me like a lot of Linux users (myself included) are the types of people whom, you can cut the shakles off of them and open the doors, but they aren't going to leave the prison.
There really isn't a lot of tangible bennefit for me or a lot of other users to use linux.
Correction then. Apple supported quicktime only runs on windows and mac. And since Apple sells the experience as part of the deal, they aren't going to use someone elses attempt.
It's well worth it. In my years of owning Apple products, I have bought Apple Care for all but 1 of the machines. It used ot be if you were nice to the Tech people, you could get repairs pretty easy, even out of waranty. Now though, they do check to make sure you're in waranty, but if you are, getting repairs really couldn't be easier. Call them up, explain the problem politely, co-operate with trouble shooting, and then get it fixed.
The only major repair I ever needed was a logic board replacement 3 years after I bought a computer (just before Apple care was set to expire) other than that, all my other repairs have been minor problems.
I swear, the only thing that I can think of to explain these issues people have with Apple support is that they go in acting like an asswipe. I have dealt with Apple Care on numerous occasions from 1996 to now, for various reasons, be it personal or work related and I have only once encountered a person whom I felt was unhelpful, and the situation was remedied by hanging up and calling again. If you are polite with tech support and explain and cooperate with them, they have always been more than helpful in repairing and replacing parts.
A great example is I had an old clamshell iBook which was dropped and the latch which closed the CD-ROM door had broken. I called Apple, and technicaly speaking, drop damage is not covered by waranty, but when I explained what had happened, they gladly offered to repari the drive, and sent me an overnight box. 4 days later I got the iBook back with a new CD-ROM drive, and a note saying they had noticed some cracks starting in the front svreen bezel and had replaced that too. Free of charge.
And I'm not the only one, I know plenty of people that have never had a bad experience with Apple tech support, and I know others that could only tell you of one instance. I am led to believe that people are just stupid about what they're doing and they act like assholes to tech support.
I've always been confused by that part. So does it basicaly say that If a court says you don't have to comply with this license, you still have to comply with this license? That doesn't make sense.
Hmmm, somehow I doubt Kazza has a dedicated server to give me my music as fast as my computer and the internet will let me, a guarantee of the quality of the file I'm getting or is a legal way for me to own the music. Likewise when i get the file off Kazza I have to hope that the person who ripped it has the intelligence to point and click (because a lot of people apparently don't). And of course, I also have to hope the file is properly labled, as apparently there are people out there that think Pat Benatar is Miriah Carey. And out of curiosity, what prevents me from buying the CD without the compression after I buy it from iTunes? Though why would I do that. If I wanted the music uncompressed, I would have bought it in the first place, and then if I wanted a portable version, I would have ripped it myself.
If china didn't have a plan for invading the US and Korea didn't have a plan for using it's nukes and russia didn't have a plan for nuclear tests, I'd say someone in their government is asleep at the wheel.
So if you buy something with a battery, expect that you will get a finite life about it, and think about how or where you will get a replacement before you buy the product.
They are focusing on the overlap between computers and the consumer products, but here's a hint:
being able to control all parts on a basic level makes it easier to integrate.
Why do you think that OS X and mac systems work so flawlessly? Because Apple controlls the hardware and the software. That isnt' to say that others can't play, but they have basic control, which allows for a common system across all units.
The same applies to overlaping computers and consumer products. You need to be able to control both to give the best experience possible. You don't have to lock anyone out, but you do have to have control over your own implimentations.
Of course they also recovered from nearly filing chapter 11 and being a debt to turning a substancial profit in less than a year, improved price and performance, made USB into a real consumer product, created the first home user accesable UNIX based OS, helped advance countless technologies, fully complied to standards to the point of it being considered a security flaw (see the DHCP hole), increased all printer and network support (in fact, I don't recall them ever losing it), generated a real and succesful music service, built their own web browser that in it's first official release beat IE and many other browsers, established and implimented a working zero-conf system, introduced some of the best software in the creative industries, turned sucessful quarters during the tech market crash when all other companies were losing money, introduced one of the best selling and best designed portable music players and otherwise revolutionized and changed the computing industry for years to come.
Ok, you're problem is, you're reading the tech support forums to find out how many people are affected by problems. That's like going to a doctors office to see how many people are sick. Of course everyone or mostly everyone at the tech forum is having a problem, but that doesn't mean that it's wide spread at alll. I know half a dozen mac users, no including myself, that have not once had any problems with their computer worse than the power adapter shorting. I read some of the posts in those tech forums and wonder to myself if these people chuck their computers against the wall to boot it up in the morning.
I realize that, the reply was to someone who said that the reason they won't use Open Firmware is because not everyone uses a mac. My point was whether it's a mac or not has nothing to do with useing Open Firmware.
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because being able to view and modify the source code when I should be creating the products that I'm supposed ot be paid to create is going to put food on my table.
$130 per computer, or a single $130 cost depending on your morals. Or a $200 cost for 5 computers.
Hmmm, damn I could have sworn the PowerMac we just bought is working absolutely fine with our nice Sony CRT and our NEC LCD monitor, both of which use standard VGA connections.
And I could swear that the D-Link wireless card I have works very nicely in my Powerbook.
I must just be dreaming though.
And if you don't distribute proprietary software, it's not forcing anything on you either.
Freedom from what? Seriously, it seems to me like a lot of Linux users (myself included) are the types of people whom, you can cut the shakles off of them and open the doors, but they aren't going to leave the prison.
There really isn't a lot of tangible bennefit for me or a lot of other users to use linux.
iBook
TiBook
iMac
eMac
Well then you better start buying cause you can replace the battery yourself for US $50
f anything I'm more likely to purchases something open source,
Do you really think apple would open the source for QT and iTunes?
Correction then. Apple supported quicktime only runs on windows and mac. And since Apple sells the experience as part of the deal, they aren't going to use someone elses attempt.
It's well worth it. In my years of owning Apple products, I have bought Apple Care for all but 1 of the machines. It used ot be if you were nice to the Tech people, you could get repairs pretty easy, even out of waranty. Now though, they do check to make sure you're in waranty, but if you are, getting repairs really couldn't be easier. Call them up, explain the problem politely, co-operate with trouble shooting, and then get it fixed.
The only major repair I ever needed was a logic board replacement 3 years after I bought a computer (just before Apple care was set to expire) other than that, all my other repairs have been minor problems.
I swear, the only thing that I can think of to explain these issues people have with Apple support is that they go in acting like an asswipe. I have dealt with Apple Care on numerous occasions from 1996 to now, for various reasons, be it personal or work related and I have only once encountered a person whom I felt was unhelpful, and the situation was remedied by hanging up and calling again. If you are polite with tech support and explain and cooperate with them, they have always been more than helpful in repairing and replacing parts.
A great example is I had an old clamshell iBook which was dropped and the latch which closed the CD-ROM door had broken. I called Apple, and technicaly speaking, drop damage is not covered by waranty, but when I explained what had happened, they gladly offered to repari the drive, and sent me an overnight box. 4 days later I got the iBook back with a new CD-ROM drive, and a note saying they had noticed some cracks starting in the front svreen bezel and had replaced that too. Free of charge.
And I'm not the only one, I know plenty of people that have never had a bad experience with Apple tech support, and I know others that could only tell you of one instance. I am led to believe that people are just stupid about what they're doing and they act like assholes to tech support.
I've always been confused by that part. So does it basicaly say that If a court says you don't have to comply with this license, you still have to comply with this license? That doesn't make sense.
Hmmm, somehow I doubt Kazza has a dedicated server to give me my music as fast as my computer and the internet will let me, a guarantee of the quality of the file I'm getting or is a legal way for me to own the music. Likewise when i get the file off Kazza I have to hope that the person who ripped it has the intelligence to point and click (because a lot of people apparently don't). And of course, I also have to hope the file is properly labled, as apparently there are people out there that think Pat Benatar is Miriah Carey. And out of curiosity, what prevents me from buying the CD without the compression after I buy it from iTunes? Though why would I do that. If I wanted the music uncompressed, I would have bought it in the first place, and then if I wanted a portable version, I would have ripped it myself.
They aready filed suit against the producers of the Sopranos for degrading the dignity of italian americans.
If china didn't have a plan for invading the US and Korea didn't have a plan for using it's nukes and russia didn't have a plan for nuclear tests, I'd say someone in their government is asleep at the wheel.
Maybe you couldn't find a Zen because they weren't selling well so the store only ordered a small limited stock?
I need one. My home directory consists of over 3 gigs of files. Backup is as simple as throwing a DVD into the burner and burning it all.
So if you buy something with a battery, expect that you will get a finite life about it, and think about how or where you will get a replacement before you buy the product.
a) it isn't your street
b) knowing how to race does not mean you know how to drive
c) you kill a cop, and you won't be driving again
d) you kill a kid and you wont be driving again
e) the kids are stupid
f) you're worse
I don't suppose it could have been removed because it could be construed as any of the following:
an advertisement
speculation on future decisions
not directly related to a technical support issue
After all, what did the Ars article say that hasn't been discussed as nauseum in any of the numerous discussions on it in the forum already?
They are focusing on the overlap between computers and the consumer products, but here's a hint:
being able to control all parts on a basic level makes it easier to integrate.
Why do you think that OS X and mac systems work so flawlessly? Because Apple controlls the hardware and the software. That isnt' to say that others can't play, but they have basic control, which allows for a common system across all units.
The same applies to overlaping computers and consumer products. You need to be able to control both to give the best experience possible. You don't have to lock anyone out, but you do have to have control over your own implimentations.
Of course they also recovered from nearly filing chapter 11 and being a debt to turning a substancial profit in less than a year, improved price and performance, made USB into a real consumer product, created the first home user accesable UNIX based OS, helped advance countless technologies, fully complied to standards to the point of it being considered a security flaw (see the DHCP hole), increased all printer and network support (in fact, I don't recall them ever losing it), generated a real and succesful music service, built their own web browser that in it's first official release beat IE and many other browsers, established and implimented a working zero-conf system, introduced some of the best software in the creative industries, turned sucessful quarters during the tech market crash when all other companies were losing money, introduced one of the best selling and best designed portable music players and otherwise revolutionized and changed the computing industry for years to come.
Ok, you're problem is, you're reading the tech support forums to find out how many people are affected by problems. That's like going to a doctors office to see how many people are sick. Of course everyone or mostly everyone at the tech forum is having a problem, but that doesn't mean that it's wide spread at alll. I know half a dozen mac users, no including myself, that have not once had any problems with their computer worse than the power adapter shorting. I read some of the posts in those tech forums and wonder to myself if these people chuck their computers against the wall to boot it up in the morning.
I havent use'd an ipod
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I realize that, the reply was to someone who said that the reason they won't use Open Firmware is because not everyone uses a mac. My point was whether it's a mac or not has nothing to do with useing Open Firmware.