A paid 'upgrade' of $129 is just buying the damn thing all over again, like we did with Jaguar.
I'm not saying don't pay Jobs and crew for their work. But if you want users to follow the 'upgrade path' (and they do), then cut us a little slack -- that's all people are asking. Give us a discounted upgrade fee. $50 would be sweet. $79 would be decent. $85-90, you're pushing it, but it's in the bounds of feasibility.
If Jobs doesn't, he can't really then turn around and be puzzled as to why sales flag.
It's a good point that he runs the site with no advertising revenue. Of course, aside from buying the book, there's ways you can help him to keep doing that: personal check,
PayPal,
Amazon, or
Kagi.
I disagree with the suggestion that "questioning" is a legitimate synonym for "disbeliving." In any case, no such implication was intended: I meant questioned, and that is all I meant.
I misspoke.
XBattery is shareware with a $15 registration fee. (It is, I think, one of those rare shareware programs that is worth what its author is asking for.)
X-Charge is freeware, but is not as fully featured as XBattery.
The bash script spoken of in an earlier comment on this topic produces charge and capacity results in microamperes per hour (mAh). (The script's own creator did not know what units the numbers produced.)
This entry in their Knowledge Base gives you the initial capacity of each of Apple's batteries, out of the box, in amperes per hour. Given that information, you can determine what percentage of its original capacity your current battery has.
Also, XBattery allows you to track your battery's capacity over time, as well as a great deal of other battery-related information, in a nice GUI wrapper. It is freeware.
For what it's worth, my own results from the bash script are:
A fresh battery for my 14.1" iBook would hold a charge of 3.9 Ah, and thus my 3.544 Ah battery still has 91% of its original capacity.
Like an earlier poster, I am able to turn down the brightness on my screen to one notch away from darkness, turn off my AirPort card, and in doing so extend my battery life up to five hours or more. It's not the way I normally wish to work, but it's good to know. I had no idea that the screen's brightness level affected battery life so much.
"To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil."
It's remarkable how John Ashcroft is the karmic successor to Joseph McCarthy; we're in a modern-day Red Scare, but with a very sympathetic administration and a apathetic public. The potential for (further) permanent damage to Americans' civil liberties is very real and very frightening.
We all know that television pundits aren't going to be able to help themselves from making the inevitable comparison (even though the linked petition was actually a joke by a Slashdot member).
But this trailer has some phrases in it that make me wonder if someone in New Line's marketing department is trying to be a little coy about that comparison. "They were unarmed; they had no warning" was the first line that caught my ear. Then, upon replaying it, I caught:
"I will not risk open war."
"Open war is upon you, whether you would risk it or not."
"This is but a taste of the terror that Saruman will unleash."
"It is an army bred for a single purpose -- to destroy the world of men."
"By order of the king, this city must empty."
I admit, this post is more along the lines of those old "Top 10 Sexually Tilted Lines" for the Star Wars trilogy, in that I am purposefully reading something into lines in a way that they were not meant for. But, still, a bit "huh"-provoking, I suppose.
Sure. Best thing to do would be to submit some sort of question to Slashdot that contains a link to your band's website, and be sure to couch it in enough relevancy that it'll get chosen as a story.
I'm sorry, but I'm a bit confused. How is this a problem? People who are buying a new computer presumably have OS 9 pre-installed; everyone else coming to Jaguar will have an OS 9 CD in some form or another, whether it's their original system CD, or the one that was bundled with OS 10.0.x, or the one that was bundled with 10.1.x. If I'm mistaken, please enlighten me (and I don't mean that sarcastically, but honestly).
No, as long as you purchase 10.2 before October 31, it will only cost you $19.95. Look at their page describing the Mac OS X Up-To-Date program. If you are willing to delay your purchase by perhaps one to two months (i.e. September or October), they will probably begin shipping it with 10.2 preloaded.
From MacMinute: "Overwhelming demand caused Amazon.com to retract its $50 rebate for Mac OS X 10.2. Amazon.com caught the attention of the Mac community earlier this week when it rolled out the exclusive rebate, but pulled it yesterday afternoon without notice. 'Customer response exceeded our wildest expectations so we're not continuing the rebate at this time,' Ling Hong, an Amazon.com spokesperson told MacMinute. 'But obviously all the pre-orders that we received during the time that the rebate offer was posted on our site will be honored.' Hong said all orders place up until 7:00 pm PDT yesterday will be eligible."
Slashdot Mirror
... how many of those were advance Advance sales? ;-)
If this is humor, I definitely don't understand it.
Has anyone actually looked at what the business is that he's now in?
> "Defibworld is an authorized provider
> specializing in state of the art new and
> pre-owned AED's and Defibrillators at
> the lowest prices!"
Just what I want some hospital to be shocking my heart with: a "pre-owned" defibrillator purchased "at the lowest price"!
This does not crash Internet Explorer for Mac OS X.
A paid 'upgrade' of $129 is just buying the damn thing all over again, like we did with Jaguar.
I'm not saying don't pay Jobs and crew for their work. But if you want users to follow the 'upgrade path' (and they do), then cut us a little slack -- that's all people are asking. Give us a discounted upgrade fee. $50 would be sweet. $79 would be decent. $85-90, you're pushing it, but it's in the bounds of feasibility.
If Jobs doesn't, he can't really then turn around and be puzzled as to why sales flag.
Please explain. I'm curious.
It's a good point that he runs the site with no advertising revenue. Of course, aside from buying the book, there's ways you can help him to keep doing that: personal check, PayPal, Amazon, or Kagi.
I disagree with the suggestion that "questioning" is a legitimate synonym for "disbeliving." In any case, no such implication was intended: I meant questioned, and that is all I meant.
His authenticity has been questioned, however (via Boing Boing).
X-Charge is freeware, but is not as fully featured as XBattery.
The bash script spoken of in an earlier comment on this topic produces charge and capacity results in microamperes per hour (mAh). (The script's own creator did not know what units the numbers produced.)
This entry in their Knowledge Base gives you the initial capacity of each of Apple's batteries, out of the box, in amperes per hour. Given that information, you can determine what percentage of its original capacity your current battery has.
Also, XBattery allows you to track your battery's capacity over time, as well as a great deal of other battery-related information, in a nice GUI wrapper. It is freeware.
For what it's worth, my own results from the bash script are:
voltage=16666 flags=5/0x005 amperage=1200 capacity=3544 current=3538 [99.8%]
A fresh battery for my 14.1" iBook would hold a charge of 3.9 Ah, and thus my 3.544 Ah battery still has 91% of its original capacity.
Like an earlier poster, I am able to turn down the brightness on my screen to one notch away from darkness, turn off my AirPort card, and in doing so extend my battery life up to five hours or more. It's not the way I normally wish to work, but it's good to know. I had no idea that the screen's brightness level affected battery life so much.
If you want to watch the "Switch" commercial, you may run into the usual "you don't have a Windows Media Player plug-in" problem.
/ 20 03/ss030225q_165_0.asf
This can be gotten around by putting
mms://stream.techtv.com/windows/thescreensavers
into the "Open URL" feature in your copy of Windows Media Player.
It's remarkable how John Ashcroft is the karmic successor to Joseph McCarthy; we're in a modern-day Red Scare, but with a very sympathetic administration and a apathetic public. The potential for (further) permanent damage to Americans' civil liberties is very real and very frightening.
Am I exaggerating? Well, can you tell them apart?
FWIW, link to ACLU coverage and a Google News search.
Make sure your staff don't share any similarities with this help desk.
Yeah. Because taking your vote lightly led to such a GREAT president last election ...
As you might guess from my handle, I'm a Chicagoan.
An identification card is required when one sells a used compact disc or DVD. This makes a small amount of sense as a theft prevention method.
It is not when making a purchase.
If I only had my moderation points ... :-)
+1 Funny
What, Steve Jobs isn't a Pepsi man? ;-)
But this trailer has some phrases in it that make me wonder if someone in New Line's marketing department is trying to be a little coy about that comparison. "They were unarmed; they had no warning" was the first line that caught my ear. Then, upon replaying it, I caught:
- "I will not risk open war."
- "Open war is upon you, whether you would risk it or not."
- "This is but a taste of the terror that Saruman will unleash."
- "It is an army bred for a single purpose -- to destroy the world of men."
- "By order of the king, this city must empty."
I admit, this post is more along the lines of those old "Top 10 Sexually Tilted Lines" for the Star Wars trilogy, in that I am purposefully reading something into lines in a way that they were not meant for. But, still, a bit "huh"-provoking, I suppose.P.S. Gollum looks like Nobby. Or vice-versa.
Sure. Best thing to do would be to submit some sort of question to Slashdot that contains a link to your band's website, and be sure to couch it in enough relevancy that it'll get chosen as a story.
...
Wait a minute
I'm sorry, but I'm a bit confused. How is this a problem? People who are buying a new computer presumably have OS 9 pre-installed; everyone else coming to Jaguar will have an OS 9 CD in some form or another, whether it's their original system CD, or the one that was bundled with OS 10.0.x, or the one that was bundled with 10.1.x. If I'm mistaken, please enlighten me (and I don't mean that sarcastically, but honestly).
YES, the "School of Changes" rebate form still exists on Amazon.
NO, the rebate form no longer has "Mac OS 10.2: Jaguar" listed on it.
No, as long as you purchase 10.2 before October 31, it will only cost you $19.95. Look at their page describing the Mac OS X Up-To-Date program. If you are willing to delay your purchase by perhaps one to two months (i.e. September or October), they will probably begin shipping it with 10.2 preloaded.
From MacMinute: "Overwhelming demand caused Amazon.com to retract its $50 rebate for Mac OS X 10.2. Amazon.com caught the attention of the Mac community earlier this week when it rolled out the exclusive rebate, but pulled it yesterday afternoon without notice. 'Customer response exceeded our wildest expectations so we're not continuing the rebate at this time,' Ling Hong, an Amazon.com spokesperson told MacMinute. 'But obviously all the pre-orders that we received during the time that the rebate offer was posted on our site will be honored.' Hong said all orders place up until 7:00 pm PDT yesterday will be eligible."
And now the rebate mysteriously disappears! Whadda?