Who wants their incoming call to sound like they are playing a gameboy?
Amusingly enough, my current ringtone is the background music for Level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros.
And yeah, I like custom ringtones -- when a phone rings in a noisy place, I can immediately tell if it's my phone or someone else's by the ringtone alone.
Swear to Primus, I was at Disneyland (CA) just yesterday, and my son wanted one ride on "Pirates" before we left for the night. So since I was already dog-tired and wanted to go home, the boat goes and gets stalled at the foot of the final lift before the ride ends. Probably took us 20 minutes to get out of there.
I think if I had to listen to "A Pirate's Life For Me" -- along with the animatronic pirates grunting as they hauled that treasure chest -- for another ten minutes, I would have personally hunted down all of the ride operators involved in that fiasco...
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...industrial design should not be done by amateurs.
Like others have said, a Mac and a.mac account will do everything you want, and more. One-click publishing of photos, idiot-proof web blogging, plus the benefits of using a Mac over a Wintel PC.:-)
The upfront costs are higher, but think of that as the time you save not having to walk them through the steps every few weeks.
What is an effective way to promote the use of elseOS, when "Everyone else is using Windows" ?
I've always preferred shamelessly mocking them every time a headline-grabbing virus or worm or spyware makes the news. "Gee, your network got taken down by SoBig? Too bad; my computer's been running for eight months straight, no firewall, no antivirus stuff, and I've never had any problems..."
"It sounds to me like these guys put far more effort on trying to cleverly denegrate Microsoft than objectively evaluating the products they are supposed to be promoting."
AtAT is not a news site any more than "Inside Edition" is a "real" news show. We make "Dawson's Creek" look like "60 Minutes." We engage in rampant guesswork, wild speculation, and pure fabrication for the entertainment of our viewers. Sure, everything here is "inspired by actual events," but so was "Amityville II: The Possession." So lighten up.
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"My guess is that NPR has been looking to take a piece out of Fox news ever since they got understandably bitchslapped for a biased interview with Fox heavyweight Bill O'Reilly."
You're kidding, right? O'Reilly got caught in his own bullstuff, couldn't weasel his way out, and then hung up in disgust (typical behavior for most bullies, really). The only person who thinks Bill O'Reilly was unfairly pounced upon is Bill O'Reilly, a guy who repeatedly yells at his "guests" to shut up on the air...
Well, Colin Powell sure as heck didn't get in front of the United Nations and talked for an hour about the poor repressed Iraqi people. He was talking about mobile chemical trailers (false), 500,000 tons of anthrax (false), Iraqi-made remote-controlled bioweapon-spraying drones (false), and a secretly-renewed WMD program (false false false).
The ability of Bush apologists to forget something that happened just six months ago amazes me.
There's no such thing as a "liberal media" in America today, aside from a few weekly alternative newspapers in the major cities. All of the mainstream media outlets are owned by rich conservatives and large corporations, whose primary rule of reporting is "get it out there fast, regardless of the facts."
Anyone remember the "Al Gore claims he invented the internet" bit? Gore never said that, but the Republicans said he did, and the media ran with it. How about Clinton's staff thrashing the White House when they left in 2001? Never happened, according to a 14-month Congressional investigation, but all the media outlets reported it as true. Meanwhile, Bush and Cheney lie daily about Iraq, and their tax cuts, and their corporate croneyism, and none of the networks call them up to it (they don't dare, because pissing off Bush et al means no more access to the White House in the future).
It's to the Republicans' advantage to repeat the lie that the media has a liberal bias, because that gives them free rein to throw out all sorts of bullshit, and dismiss their critics as part of the Liberal Media Conspiracy. Folks who follow the news from a wide variety of sources (not just American) realize how bogus this claim is, while clueless folks just repeat the mantra before going back to watching Bill O'Reilly.
If you think there's a liberal media bias, just say "baaa!"
Call it what you want, OS X 10.3, OS X 2004, OS X SP2, OS XII... it's still making your users pay $120 each year.
Unless Steve Jobs breaks into your home, holds a gun to your head, and demand you to buy MacOS X 10.3 or else, it's stupid to say Apple is "making" users do anything.
If you checked his bibliography, you'll see that David Pogue has also written several books for Windows, such as The Missing Manual series for Windows XP and Windows Me.
Pogue might enjoy Macs, but he's hardly a Microsoft-bashing zealot.
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Who wants their incoming call to sound like they are playing a gameboy?
Amusingly enough, my current ringtone is the background music for Level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros.
And yeah, I like custom ringtones -- when a phone rings in a noisy place, I can immediately tell if it's my phone or someone else's by the ringtone alone.
Swear to Primus, I was at Disneyland (CA) just yesterday, and my son wanted one ride on "Pirates" before we left for the night. So since I was already dog-tired and wanted to go home, the boat goes and gets stalled at the foot of the final lift before the ride ends. Probably took us 20 minutes to get out of there.
I think if I had to listen to "A Pirate's Life For Me" -- along with the animatronic pirates grunting as they hauled that treasure chest -- for another ten minutes, I would have personally hunted down all of the ride operators involved in that fiasco...
...industrial design should not be done by amateurs.
Like others have said, a Mac and a .mac account will do everything you want, and more. One-click publishing of photos, idiot-proof web blogging, plus the benefits of using a Mac over a Wintel PC. :-)
The upfront costs are higher, but think of that as the time you save not having to walk them through the steps every few weeks.
What is an effective way to promote the use of elseOS, when "Everyone else is using Windows" ?
I've always preferred shamelessly mocking them every time a headline-grabbing virus or worm or spyware makes the news. "Gee, your network got taken down by SoBig? Too bad; my computer's been running for eight months straight, no firewall, no antivirus stuff, and I've never had any problems..."
"It sounds to me like these guys put far more effort on trying to cleverly denegrate Microsoft than objectively evaluating the products they are supposed to be promoting."
To quote from the disclaimer on every page at As The Apple Turns:
Or, in other words, it's a joke, idiot!
The point I meant to make was that Apple selected a format that has next to no industry support outside of Apple.
I think you meant to say, "The point I meant to make was that Apple selected a format that is not under Microsoft's control."
You can always express your displeasure with one of these.
"My guess is that NPR has been looking to take a piece out of Fox news ever since they got understandably bitchslapped for a biased interview with Fox heavyweight Bill O'Reilly."
You're kidding, right? O'Reilly got caught in his own bullstuff, couldn't weasel his way out, and then hung up in disgust (typical behavior for most bullies, really). The only person who thinks Bill O'Reilly was unfairly pounced upon is Bill O'Reilly, a guy who repeatedly yells at his "guests" to shut up on the air...
What makes you think that Fox News doesn't already know their viewers are morons? That's their key demographic group!
Well, Colin Powell sure as heck didn't get in front of the United Nations and talked for an hour about the poor repressed Iraqi people. He was talking about mobile chemical trailers (false), 500,000 tons of anthrax (false), Iraqi-made remote-controlled bioweapon-spraying drones (false), and a secretly-renewed WMD program (false false false).
The ability of Bush apologists to forget something that happened just six months ago amazes me.
There's no such thing as a "liberal media" in America today, aside from a few weekly alternative newspapers in the major cities. All of the mainstream media outlets are owned by rich conservatives and large corporations, whose primary rule of reporting is "get it out there fast, regardless of the facts."
Anyone remember the "Al Gore claims he invented the internet" bit? Gore never said that, but the Republicans said he did, and the media ran with it. How about Clinton's staff thrashing the White House when they left in 2001? Never happened, according to a 14-month Congressional investigation, but all the media outlets reported it as true. Meanwhile, Bush and Cheney lie daily about Iraq, and their tax cuts, and their corporate croneyism, and none of the networks call them up to it (they don't dare, because pissing off Bush et al means no more access to the White House in the future).
It's to the Republicans' advantage to repeat the lie that the media has a liberal bias, because that gives them free rein to throw out all sorts of bullshit, and dismiss their critics as part of the Liberal Media Conspiracy. Folks who follow the news from a wide variety of sources (not just American) realize how bogus this claim is, while clueless folks just repeat the mantra before going back to watching Bill O'Reilly.
If you think there's a liberal media bias, just say "baaa!"
So, when's Apple gonna feature Varadarajan in a "Switcher" commercial?
I should have actually been more clear. It's my understanding that iTunes only supports their proprietary mpeg-4 codec (AAC?).
And you're still wrong.
Putz!
Didin't he also write some "Dummies" books on opera? Does that mean he can't review the next Eminem album either?
Then don't use Filevault, and grab your own data encryption scheme. I'm sure PGP is available for MacOS X.
Call it what you want, OS X 10.3, OS X 2004, OS X SP2, OS XII... it's still making your users pay $120 each year.
Unless Steve Jobs breaks into your home, holds a gun to your head, and demand you to buy MacOS X 10.3 or else, it's stupid to say Apple is "making" users do anything.
If you checked his bibliography, you'll see that David Pogue has also written several books for Windows, such as The Missing Manual series for Windows XP and Windows Me.
Pogue might enjoy Macs, but he's hardly a Microsoft-bashing zealot.
Well, http://www.itunes.com/ works now.
You don't know Steve Jobs' Indominable Will(tm) very well, do you?
I think it's time for you to upgrade your MP3 player -- to one that supports MP3s and AACs. ;-)
It's even earlier than that -- Apple licensed One-Click from Amazon for the rollout of the online Apple Store.
Isn't Linux using that already? ;-)
Why are we gloating over the problems of buymusic.com?
Because, as nerds, we want the original and well-designed service (Apple Music Store) to thrive, instead of the half-assed ripoff (BuyMusic).
...and use a Mac!