a) The troops were not delayed, do some reading up on the matter. They were not scheduled to arrive until later in the week, but favorable conditions allowed them to arrive ahead of time.
b) he did not declare the war over, he declared an end to "major combat operations" and there is a difference. The end of major combat operations means most of the planes and big ships are going home and the primary actions of the military are now defensive as opposed to offensive. Soldiers have been dying over there since the end of GW I, but you don't see people crying over them do you?
You know, not to nitpick, but that "Top Gun stunt" was nothing more than following regs. You get into the cockpit of that plane, you are going to wear a flight suit. Period.
Stuff that you could listen to on a regular basis with a dicernable melody and harmonies. With lyrics that one can actualy understand and that you could possibly hum to yourself.
You can turn off volume checking in the preferences. This is designed so that iTunes can equalize (somewhat) the playback volume across your MP3s, because I'm sure you've noticed not all CDs are recorded at the same volume.
Second, you know you can actualy play your library, and you don't need to create a play list right?
There isn't a single computer company in the world that will cover unauthorized user upgrades to a computer under their waranty. All waranties cover ORIGINAL manufacturer's equipment and any subsequent AUTHORIZED upgrades and repairs.
BSODs are normally reserved for catastrophic failures (like the boot partition being damaged or broken RAM returning random information) and usually occur for good reason.
Damn, who would have thought canceling a CD burn was a catastrophic failure.
No, I'm not likely to buy a computer from Apple. If Apple didn't try to "link" its consumer products to its computers, I would already own a product from Apple.
The iPod is NOT LINKED TO APPLE HARDWARE.
Why don't you own one?
Again, what a ridiculous way to see the world.
Not really, Apple is an established company with a consumer base. All of their products are going to cater first towards their existing customers and then towards potential customers. Just like IBM caters it's products to IBM users, and Dell caters it's products to Dell users.
People like me certainly have been afterthoughts to Apple, and that's why we aren't Apple customers.
And now that Apple has produced a product for you, you haven't bought it because......
That's how it works; a company has to come up with the product first, then they get the customers
They do have a product. And they have also given you an idea of what you can expect in the future from said product. You haven't bought it, despite Apple having made it. Why should Apple listen to you about how to conduct their business. They gave you what you wanted, and then you changed the rules.
You're exactly like the people that said that they would buy music if it was sold online at a cheap price and if you could mix and match the songs, and then refuse to use iTMS because it has non-invasive DRM. You don't want a solution, you just want to bitch.
The only thing difficult to figre out is the off switch, everything else makes perfect sense. Yes, toggles do offer the variable speed and volume control, however, a togle is still limited to a maximum speed where as the scroll wheel is only limited by the user's ability to move quickly and by the processor on the iPod
Nope, I own a nice two button scroll mouse that I use with my mac when I need or want to, however, I am also quite proficient at using only one button and the keyboard as well. Likewise, I can also do many tasks with just the keyboard alone. So no, it isn't because I don't know how to use a multibutton mouse.
Money talks and bullshit walks. "Soon" doesn't mean jack
no but "End of the year" means end of the year. You're just looking for an excuse not to buy the iPod. You have yet to explain what prevents you from buying the iPod now to suit your current needs and using it with the PC services and the mac service at the end of the year.
I have to admit, I've never understood the idea of having "loyalty" to a company. Sounds like a way of talking yourself into otherwise bad purchasing decisions.
Loyalty to a company, the idea that you are willing to stick with a company even through bad decisions because you like their products. See ford and chevy owners, see Dell fanboys. A company with a loyal customer base is a company that has a much greater ability to experiment with new ideas. They know that they will not loose most of their customer base if they screw up once, and as such they can take risks (see Newton, G4 Cube, etc). Companies with loyal customers can often give those customers benefits that they would otherwise not give (see frequent flyer miles, return customer rebates, and products before anyone else gets them)
The only customers Apple "abandoned" are the ones like me, who like Apple's personal music products but don't want their computers
The PC version of the iPod was out roughly 2 or 3 months after the mac version. Since then, you have never had to buy a mac or the OS to use an iPod. To use iTunes, yes, but iTunes is software. You could still buy and use an iPod today and it would work happily with everything else, but you want more. You want them to make their software for you too. And you want it yesterday. Well sorry, but the world doesn't work like that.
I'm sorry that you have to wait 9 whole months to get some software so that you can finaly justify purchasing an MP3 player.
Really though it boils down to this. You have never bought a product from Apple. Being a windows user, you are likely to not buy a product from Apple. Untill you become an Apple customer, you are an afterthought. Just like I'm sure dell never even thought of making a mac compatible MP3 player.
Ummm, are you on crack or someting? Apple's service isn't available on the PC, that's the whole f*cking problem
But we know it will be very soon. And in the mean time there are services already availible on the PC which allow one to download legal music. So again, what is keeping you from buying the iPod now, and using it with the service when it is availible?
Let's see, there are about ten times as many PC users? Heck, if Apple isn't interested in market share, why not release it on BeOS first? I think there's still 20 or 30 people running that OS.
So Apple abondonning it's customers to serve a community that has no interest or loyalty to Apple is a good business practice? Under that logic, Red Hat should release it's software binaries for other linux distributions and for windows before their own software because the numbers are greater.
Apple certainly doesn't seem interested in being anything other than a niche player
No, not at all. Announcing at the release of the mac version of the product that a PC version is soon comming is showing no interest in other markets whatsoever.
Consider though, there are plenty of very small things in windows that take one extra step to do that you don't have to do in a mac. Those extra steps add up over time, so while an individual task like writing a paper may not be any faster, the inbetween steps are.
If one reads the instructions, holding the pause button will turn the iPod off. Also, leaving it paused or stopped for 3 minutes will turn the iPod off.
The back button would be the one that looks like a back arrow. Unless you mean moving backwards through the menus, in which case you would hit the menu button.
Scrolling was done with a wheel because that can also double as a volume control and so that you can have a relative scrolling speed as opposed to a single speed.
What prevents you from buying an iPod and using it with Dell's service AND with Apple's service?
Answer: Nothing
Question: Given that Apple is a compny whihc produces (amzingly enough) Apple Computers, where is the logic in them catering first to PC users and then to Mac users? Apple will always have it's loyal customers, but what loyalty do PC people give Apple?
But you can release a computer to put it on another computer. The 3 computer limit is simultanious play ability. You can actualy have the file on as many computers as you want, you just have to authenticate every time you use one other thant the 3 currently authenticated computers.
Erm, short of putting the files on a file sharing network or playing them on a player that doesn't support AAC, you can do everything you listed with the Apple tunes in their defualt format. Likewise, I'm quite sure someone is already working on a program that strips the protection from the AAC file to make it a non protected AAC file, and then you can do whatever you want with it.
Slashdot Mirror
a) The troops were not delayed, do some reading up on the matter. They were not scheduled to arrive until later in the week, but favorable conditions allowed them to arrive ahead of time.
b) he did not declare the war over, he declared an end to "major combat operations" and there is a difference. The end of major combat operations means most of the planes and big ships are going home and the primary actions of the military are now defensive as opposed to offensive. Soldiers have been dying over there since the end of GW I, but you don't see people crying over them do you?
You know, not to nitpick, but that "Top Gun stunt" was nothing more than following regs. You get into the cockpit of that plane, you are going to wear a flight suit. Period.
Can you really name an original story from the last 50 years or so?
Stuff that you could listen to on a regular basis with a dicernable melody and harmonies. With lyrics that one can actualy understand and that you could possibly hum to yourself.
OS X would quit the program and you would get an error similar to this:
"The application [CD Burner] has quit unexpectedly. No other processes were affected"
At worst, the program would lock up and you'd see the spinning wheel of doom, solved by force quiting the application.
That's what I would expect windows to do as well, not BSOD.
Hardware and software costs in upgrades are two seperate issues. Keep them that way. You're also dreaming if you think MS updates don't break apps.
As for the prices being bull, they're all listed right there on that same site that's linked at the beginning.
Can you get it for less now? Sure. And I can get OS X for $50 now.
In regards to iTunes:
You can turn off volume checking in the preferences. This is designed so that iTunes can equalize (somewhat) the playback volume across your MP3s, because I'm sure you've noticed not all CDs are recorded at the same volume.
Second, you know you can actualy play your library, and you don't need to create a play list right?
Yes, we do bitch about microsoft, and with reason, observe:
f tw are.html
Boy, I'm sure glad you do your research before posting:
http://simplest-shop.com/Macintosh--1-229660-so
Let's see
X.1 Sept 28, 2001
X.2 Aug 23, 2002
That puts 11 months between those two releases
And assuming the earliest release of X.3 in sept, that would be 13 months from the last release. And 16 months in december.
By contrast:
Windows 2000 , Feb 17 2000
Windows ME released Sept 14 2000
That would be 7 months
Windows XP Oct 25 2001
That would be 13 months
And lets compare prices:
Mac OS X $130 always (full version)
Windows 2000 $320
Windows ME $110 (upgrade) or $210 (full)
XP Home $100 (upgrade) $200 (full)
XP Pro $200 (upgrade) $300 (full)
So from OS X.0 to X.3
March 2001 to (assumed) Sept 2003 (31 Months)
You've spent $390
From Windows 2000 to Windows XP (19 Months)
Feb 2000 to Oct 2001
You spend at minimum $530 and at most $830
There isn't a single computer company in the world that will cover unauthorized user upgrades to a computer under their waranty. All waranties cover ORIGINAL manufacturer's equipment and any subsequent AUTHORIZED upgrades and repairs.
You sir, are a Troll
BSODs are normally reserved for catastrophic failures (like the boot partition being damaged or broken RAM returning random information) and usually occur for good reason.
Damn, who would have thought canceling a CD burn was a catastrophic failure.
No, I'm not likely to buy a computer from Apple. If Apple didn't try to "link" its consumer products to its computers, I would already own a product from Apple.
The iPod is NOT LINKED TO APPLE HARDWARE.
Why don't you own one?
Again, what a ridiculous way to see the world.
Not really, Apple is an established company with a consumer base. All of their products are going to cater first towards their existing customers and then towards potential customers. Just like IBM caters it's products to IBM users, and Dell caters it's products to Dell users.
People like me certainly have been afterthoughts to Apple, and that's why we aren't Apple customers.
And now that Apple has produced a product for you, you haven't bought it because......
That's how it works; a company has to come up with the product first, then they get the customers
They do have a product. And they have also given you an idea of what you can expect in the future from said product. You haven't bought it, despite Apple having made it. Why should Apple listen to you about how to conduct their business. They gave you what you wanted, and then you changed the rules.
You're exactly like the people that said that they would buy music if it was sold online at a cheap price and if you could mix and match the songs, and then refuse to use iTMS because it has non-invasive DRM. You don't want a solution, you just want to bitch.
The only thing difficult to figre out is the off switch, everything else makes perfect sense. Yes, toggles do offer the variable speed and volume control, however, a togle is still limited to a maximum speed where as the scroll wheel is only limited by the user's ability to move quickly and by the processor on the iPod
Nope, I own a nice two button scroll mouse that I use with my mac when I need or want to, however, I am also quite proficient at using only one button and the keyboard as well. Likewise, I can also do many tasks with just the keyboard alone. So no, it isn't because I don't know how to use a multibutton mouse.
Money talks and bullshit walks. "Soon" doesn't mean jack
no but "End of the year" means end of the year. You're just looking for an excuse not to buy the iPod. You have yet to explain what prevents you from buying the iPod now to suit your current needs and using it with the PC services and the mac service at the end of the year.
I have to admit, I've never understood the idea of having "loyalty" to a company. Sounds like a way of talking yourself into otherwise bad purchasing decisions.
Loyalty to a company, the idea that you are willing to stick with a company even through bad decisions because you like their products. See ford and chevy owners, see Dell fanboys. A company with a loyal customer base is a company that has a much greater ability to experiment with new ideas. They know that they will not loose most of their customer base if they screw up once, and as such they can take risks (see Newton, G4 Cube, etc). Companies with loyal customers can often give those customers benefits that they would otherwise not give (see frequent flyer miles, return customer rebates, and products before anyone else gets them)
The only customers Apple "abandoned" are the ones like me, who like Apple's personal music products but don't want their computers
The PC version of the iPod was out roughly 2 or 3 months after the mac version. Since then, you have never had to buy a mac or the OS to use an iPod. To use iTunes, yes, but iTunes is software. You could still buy and use an iPod today and it would work happily with everything else, but you want more. You want them to make their software for you too. And you want it yesterday. Well sorry, but the world doesn't work like that.
I'm sorry that you have to wait 9 whole months to get some software so that you can finaly justify purchasing an MP3 player.
Really though it boils down to this. You have never bought a product from Apple. Being a windows user, you are likely to not buy a product from Apple. Untill you become an Apple customer, you are an afterthought. Just like I'm sure dell never even thought of making a mac compatible MP3 player.
Ummm, are you on crack or someting? Apple's service isn't available on the PC, that's the whole f*cking problem
But we know it will be very soon. And in the mean time there are services already availible on the PC which allow one to download legal music. So again, what is keeping you from buying the iPod now, and using it with the service when it is availible?
Let's see, there are about ten times as many PC users? Heck, if Apple isn't interested in market share, why not release it on BeOS first? I think there's still 20 or 30 people running that OS.
So Apple abondonning it's customers to serve a community that has no interest or loyalty to Apple is a good business practice? Under that logic, Red Hat should release it's software binaries for other linux distributions and for windows before their own software because the numbers are greater.
Apple certainly doesn't seem interested in being anything other than a niche player
No, not at all. Announcing at the release of the mac version of the product that a PC version is soon comming is showing no interest in other markets whatsoever.
Consider though, there are plenty of very small things in windows that take one extra step to do that you don't have to do in a mac. Those extra steps add up over time, so while an individual task like writing a paper may not be any faster, the inbetween steps are.
Try creating a new folder on the desktop. And do it with the left button.
It's called customer loyalty. You loose a lot of customers when you ignore them.
Why would Apple turn it's back on it's customers to serve people who have no loyalty to Apple?
Any key press will turn the iPod on.
If one reads the instructions, holding the pause button will turn the iPod off. Also, leaving it paused or stopped for 3 minutes will turn the iPod off.
The back button would be the one that looks like a back arrow. Unless you mean moving backwards through the menus, in which case you would hit the menu button.
Scrolling was done with a wheel because that can also double as a volume control and so that you can have a relative scrolling speed as opposed to a single speed.
a) Apple invented firewire first, not sony. Likewise, Apple has had support for firewire since 95. It just never kicked off until recently.
b) You couldn't figure out how to operate an iPod? Which was the confusing part? The scroll wheel or the play, stop forward and backward buttons?
Question:
What prevents you from buying an iPod and using it with Dell's service AND with Apple's service?
Answer: Nothing
Question: Given that Apple is a compny whihc produces (amzingly enough) Apple Computers, where is the logic in them catering first to PC users and then to Mac users? Apple will always have it's loyal customers, but what loyalty do PC people give Apple?
Answer: None
Thankfuly Apple users can spell
But you can release a computer to put it on another computer. The 3 computer limit is simultanious play ability. You can actualy have the file on as many computers as you want, you just have to authenticate every time you use one other thant the 3 currently authenticated computers.
Erm, short of putting the files on a file sharing network or playing them on a player that doesn't support AAC, you can do everything you listed with the Apple tunes in their defualt format. Likewise, I'm quite sure someone is already working on a program that strips the protection from the AAC file to make it a non protected AAC file, and then you can do whatever you want with it.