My contacts with Apple support over the last 10+ years have been 99% excellent.
In fact, yesterday I called Apple because the cord on my iPod remote had started to tear near the plug. I honestly thought they would just tell me tough luck because it was mostly a cosmetic issue.
The tech said they would be glad to send me a new one and it would arrive in 3-5 days. It arrived at my house no more than 18 HOURS later! Granted, some of that has to do with proximity (California->Oregon), but they sent it Airborne, when I would have been happy to get it in a week with ground shipping.
I read posts about bad Apple service occasionally, but all I can say is that it probably just really bad luck or the caller was a royal pain in the arse to the rep on the phone.
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I know this doesn't really address the problem of bandwidth, but we already have advertising legal models for printed material, why not apply some of this to email?
For instance, in the case of newspaper or magazines, an advertisement must clearly be identifiable as an ad, otherwise the ad must contain a very visable "This is a Paid Advertisement".
So, I figure spam is trying very hard to be indistinguishable from regualar email or email sent from a legitamate company with which you do business. Let's just make a law that says that any email that is an advertisement must contain ADVERTISEMENT in the subject and body.
Sure, they can break this rule pretty easily, but this will allow the user and or government to identify which emails are not following the rule and find them.
This also gives the user and software developer and easy route to dispose of spam. If you don't want it, just filter for the word ADVERTISEMENT and push it to an ads folder or the trash.
Sure, there are still issues with this, but its a start.
You can use iMovie to convert your AAC's to WAV files. Then you won't waste the blank CD. I've done it just to see how it works. It would come in handy for putting your mp3s on mp3 CDs or another non-apple player. I'm sure there will be a converter that does this automagically before long. It would be dumb ot share these files I would imagine, because you are going from lossy to lossy, but for everyday personal listening, there are plenty of ways to convert the protected AACs (for the time being)
The update states:
Bluetooth Setup Assistant now works with certain Microsoft keyboards and mouse devices
Does that mean we can use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard now? As far as I know, this was not supported before.
1) Opera is out playing on the playground and bragging about how fast he is.
2) A new kid shows up and is actually fast.
3) Opera yells some obsenities.
4) Opera takes his ball and goes home.
Kind of a testament to how good Safari is. Do you think Opera would be making this stink if Safari was no good?
It's like saying, "the Mac browser market was pretty easy to compete in because all of the browser were mediocre, but now Safari raises the bar and we don't feel like jumping"
I know there are some definate advantages to being backed by Apple, but I still think no one would be complaining (except Apple fanatics) if Safari were just another average browser.
QoS (Quality of Service) settings on your router might be the easiest method. I've never used it, but I know my LinkSys allows you to set priorities (High, Low) for either a specific LAN port, or a particular protocol. Assuming you know what program she is using, say LimeWire, you can also set a specific port (23, etc) to a low priority. I'd be interested to see what effect this has.
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My contacts with Apple support over the last 10+ years have been 99% excellent.
In fact, yesterday I called Apple because the cord on my iPod remote had started to tear near the plug. I honestly thought they would just tell me tough luck because it was mostly a cosmetic issue.
The tech said they would be glad to send me a new one and it would arrive in 3-5 days. It arrived at my house no more than 18 HOURS later! Granted, some of that has to do with proximity (California->Oregon), but they sent it Airborne, when I would have been happy to get it in a week with ground shipping.
I read posts about bad Apple service occasionally, but all I can say is that it probably just really bad luck or the caller was a royal pain in the arse to the rep on the phone.
I know this doesn't really address the problem of bandwidth, but we already have advertising legal models for printed material, why not apply some of this to email?
For instance, in the case of newspaper or magazines, an advertisement must clearly be identifiable as an ad, otherwise the ad must contain a very visable "This is a Paid Advertisement".
So, I figure spam is trying very hard to be indistinguishable from regualar email or email sent from a legitamate company with which you do business. Let's just make a law that says that any email that is an advertisement must contain ADVERTISEMENT in the subject and body.
Sure, they can break this rule pretty easily, but this will allow the user and or government to identify which emails are not following the rule and find them.
This also gives the user and software developer and easy route to dispose of spam. If you don't want it, just filter for the word ADVERTISEMENT and push it to an ads folder or the trash.
Sure, there are still issues with this, but its a start.
I had this exact problem, but I haven't seen it since I did the 10.2.5 or 10.2.6 update. Have you updated your system version?
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You can use iMovie to convert your AAC's to WAV files. Then you won't waste the blank CD. I've done it just to see how it works. It would come in handy for putting your mp3s on mp3 CDs or another non-apple player. I'm sure there will be a converter that does this automagically before long. It would be dumb ot share these files I would imagine, because you are going from lossy to lossy, but for everyday personal listening, there are plenty of ways to convert the protected AACs (for the time being)
The update states: Bluetooth Setup Assistant now works with certain Microsoft keyboards and mouse devices Does that mean we can use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard now? As far as I know, this was not supported before.
If you buy a yogurt parfait, will they offer to clean all of the grease off of your laptop?
1) Opera is out playing on the playground and bragging about how fast he is. 2) A new kid shows up and is actually fast. 3) Opera yells some obsenities. 4) Opera takes his ball and goes home. Kind of a testament to how good Safari is. Do you think Opera would be making this stink if Safari was no good? It's like saying, "the Mac browser market was pretty easy to compete in because all of the browser were mediocre, but now Safari raises the bar and we don't feel like jumping" I know there are some definate advantages to being backed by Apple, but I still think no one would be complaining (except Apple fanatics) if Safari were just another average browser.
QoS (Quality of Service) settings on your router might be the easiest method. I've never used it, but I know my LinkSys allows you to set priorities (High, Low) for either a specific LAN port, or a particular protocol. Assuming you know what program she is using, say LimeWire, you can also set a specific port (23, etc) to a low priority. I'd be interested to see what effect this has.