What are you talking about? I just scrolled through the scribd link you presented and it's plain-as-day that the majority of pictures are doctored. Page36:the ipad is photographed at an angle to make it match the Galaxy's aspect ratio. Ditto on page 39.
I use Macs but the OP is making a valid post. OSX aside, in terms of hardware you pay much more for less when you get a Mac. No eSATA and no USB3? For the premium you pay for a Mac those should be expected. Sure, Thunderbolt can replace those technologies, but it will be years until TB becomes a ubiquitous connection so until then you will be stuck with slow USB2, unless you want to buy overpriced Apple peripherals from the Apple store.
I'm simply getting sick of paying the 40% mac-tax on slightly-better-than-average hardware just for the privilege of using OSX.
3) You pay $60/month for a 10Mbps connection with a 40GB limit, but can only get 10Mbps at 2-4am in the morning because of Bell's throttling. Other times,because the CRTC has artificially eliminated any competition, Bell has no incentive to upgrade their fiber, so because of high network usage you get an unstable connection that goes 3-5Mbps, or even slower during peak times. Europe and Asia continue to enjoy 20,50, 100Mbps or higher speeds. Bell explains they can't offer those speeds because of Canada's low population density, even in large urban areas like Toronto or Vancouver.
It's deceiving to the point of almost lying. No, it really isn't. Only the anti-Mac fascists would say that about that statement. Do you complain as much as the 'Intel-inside' sticker? How many millions of ppl have been fooled into thinking that one sticker makes the system better? Or how about all those 'lowest TCO compared to Linux' studies that MS payed for ten years ago.
No other industry would be able to get away with such "facts". Every industry from cars to diapers is full of these "facts"! Here's some: -Every car manufacturer proclaims that every one of their cars is "best in it's class", but they never say what the class is, or the study was paid for they the company. -Cereal that are advertised as 'Natural', which can mean anything. -Or how about 'Fat-free" foods? Nowhere on the container will it say that the calories are still the same as the regular stuff because they replace the fat with sugar. -Stores that have 0% financing, but they don't tell you up front that there is a $129 'Administrative fee'
This is the same problem with iPhoto. What kind of software hides the fact that it's decided to take over file management? Whose idea was this?
I find that most Apple software acts quite nanny-like, and it usually a step down from OSX quality. Instead of using iPhoto why don't u switch to Picasa-it doesn't mess with your photos by moving them around to god knows where, and it beats iBloato..I man iPhoto...in all areas.
If it is urgent there is no Voice support, If it's urgent then use your telephone! Or Windows Messenger. Or how about email?
I rather enjoy Skype the way it is right now. Cisco is going to destroy Skype intentionally or accidentally by doing one of two things: 1) Add Skype's technology into their products, stick a "Powered by Skype" sticker on the box, and kill off any consumer-level access Skype as we enjoy it now. Looking back at Cisco's purchases in the last decade and you'll see this is very likely. 2) As an attempt to make Skype profitable, they'll quadruple the prices and charge for the ones that are currently free. Coming soon:unused Skype credits that expire in 30 days.
Obviously you were not old enough to remember the release, so do some digging and check the archive sections in major newspapers. Some have the actual headline story from that day, as well as pics of the line ups that put today's Apple fanbois to shame, that is unless Microsoft and its trolled have "fixed" written history everywhere.
I would just like to say that I welcome both options
Like as if you're going to get both options. Why would amazon give up the advertising revenue when they can charge the full price for the book AND still throw in adverts for revenue?
The "Support" in Tech Support began to die out in the mid to late 90's when company's bean counters realized that providing in-house phone support was more expensive than outsourcing it to call centers. Instead of having people who specialized in the company's products taking calls, the same person who answered calls for a farm machinery company, hardware store chain, and five different ISPs during his shift would now take your support call for your fancy state of the art 19" flatscreen CRT monitor(hey, it's the 90's remember?).
Very soon after that the call-center bean-counters decided that calls don't need to be answered as soon as it come in, for a caller will accept sitting in a queue for a short period of time. Thus the call center would need a few less ppl to answer the phones during each shift for as soon as the employee finished a call he can immediately pick up the next one.
Finally they imposed 5-minute talk times, 90 seconds for post-call wrap up, and instituted bonuses for the people who took the most calls per day, had the lowest talk-times, fewest call-backs, whereas the few remaining employees who still cared about 'customer care' or 'customer support' soon abandoned that industry.
I've seen more shit web design in plain old HTML than everything else combined.
I dunno. I think today's shit designed flash pages with a long-loading shit flash introduction, shit-flash dropdown menu's, and numerous shit flash ads plastered on every page on the site is worse than anything that can be designed in html.
About 8 years ago Flash was used sparingly and was kinda cool, but today almost every site uses flash just for the sake of using it, not because they need it for anything that plain old HTML cannot do.
I am so sick of hearing this typical comment from lazy people who are more than happy to spread their asscheeks and let Rogers and Bell frack them up the butt into the depths of their bowels instead of even considering an alternative. Does Bell get all the money you would pay for an account from a reseller? NO! So I would think that everyone that hates Bell or Rogers would be more than happy to drop them and switch to an ISP where a good chunk of your monthly bill goes into non-big-business pockets. But alas, it's always easier to sit, do nothing, and complain instead of taking action.
I live in a city with a population of less than 1M and we have at least half a dozen choices for DSL. If you don't want to switch from crappy rogers, or from bell to a reseller where only a portion goes to Bell instead of everything then that's your choice, not Rogers', not Bell's, so shut up and deal with your decision, or lack of.
There are some areas where Bell or Rogers are the only choice for hi-speed; if you are in that situation then I feel your pain and your complaints are then justified.
Do you only have four apps or what? Every app you open is added to the tray and you have to scroll/slide it to view them all. I don't know what the limit is, but I have 11 in there just from this morning, and they include the apps that no one would ever find a need to multitask such as Settings and iPod. WTF? Apps that I'd like to run in the background like streaming apps wont because the OS doesn't multitask, but instead Apple made the apps responsible to implement it.
Apple's implementation of multitasking is horrible and a joke. If windows mobile, blackberry, or Android came up with such a pathetic solution they would be dragged across the coals, but when Apple does it people herald it as a breakthrough. There was better multitasking on computers in the 80's.
Oh dear, OS X 10.0 was at least usable, and it replaced an aging OS that needed replacing. KDE 4.0 was unusable, unstable, immature, and about as configurable as my alarm clock, and replaced a simple and better desktop that did not need any replacement.
You know, the nuclear industry has only themselves to blame for the public's mistrust. For half a century the industry has followed a policy of cover-up, denial, talking down to the public, and an unbelievably condescending attitude that nothing can ever go wrong. Essentially they practice "security by obscurity", but we know how effective that is in other industries.
I'm a proponent of nuclear NRG, but they need to clean house, get rid of the bozos running the show, and become more forthcoming with information to earn back more of the public's trust.
I love many Apple products, but I wish Apple would finally give up their conviction that a mouse has to have no buttons, throw in the towel, and make some nice mice that are usable and actually ergonomic.
The Mighty Mouse drove me nuts; far too often when I wanted a left click I got a right click, and vice-versa. Now there is the Tragic..err...Magic Mouse looks purdy but is about as ergonomic as a deck of cards. So unless you have the hands of a 13 year old or enjoy making eagle claws with your right hand all day just to perform an action like button-side button-scroll wheel, the Magic mouse is horrible. It's a step forward in tech but goes back 15 years in usefulness:a perfect example of form over functionality.
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What are you talking about? I just scrolled through the scribd link you presented and it's plain-as-day that the majority of pictures are doctored. Page36:the ipad is photographed at an angle to make it match the Galaxy's aspect ratio. Ditto on page 39.
I use Macs but the OP is making a valid post. OSX aside, in terms of hardware you pay much more for less when you get a Mac. No eSATA and no USB3? For the premium you pay for a Mac those should be expected. Sure, Thunderbolt can replace those technologies, but it will be years until TB becomes a ubiquitous connection so until then you will be stuck with slow USB2, unless you want to buy overpriced Apple peripherals from the Apple store.
I'm simply getting sick of paying the 40% mac-tax on slightly-better-than-average hardware just for the privilege of using OSX.
3) You pay $60/month for a 10Mbps connection with a 40GB limit, but can only get 10Mbps at 2-4am in the morning because of Bell's throttling. Other times,because the CRTC has artificially eliminated any competition, Bell has no incentive to upgrade their fiber, so because of high network usage you get an unstable connection that goes 3-5Mbps, or even slower during peak times. Europe and Asia continue to enjoy 20,50, 100Mbps or higher speeds. Bell explains they can't offer those speeds because of Canada's low population density, even in large urban areas like Toronto or Vancouver.
I guess Facebook needs to hire another 500 engineers.
I wish facebook would consider just switching all traffic to https.
Because typing in the "s" would confuse the majority of the userbase.
Greaaaattt. Might as well get prepared now...
NEO SHOT FIRST! (in the lobby scene!)
What feature in Gmail would require persistent cookies?
It's deceiving to the point of almost lying.
No, it really isn't. Only the anti-Mac fascists would say that about that statement. Do you complain as much as the 'Intel-inside' sticker? How many millions of ppl have been fooled into thinking that one sticker makes the system better? Or how about all those 'lowest TCO compared to Linux' studies that MS payed for ten years ago.
No other industry would be able to get away with such "facts".
Every industry from cars to diapers is full of these "facts"! Here's some:
-Every car manufacturer proclaims that every one of their cars is "best in it's class", but they never say what the class is, or the study was paid for they the company.
-Cereal that are advertised as 'Natural', which can mean anything.
-Or how about 'Fat-free" foods? Nowhere on the container will it say that the calories are still the same as the regular stuff because they replace the fat with sugar.
-Stores that have 0% financing, but they don't tell you up front that there is a $129 'Administrative fee'
This is the same problem with iPhoto. What kind of software hides the fact that it's decided to take over file management? Whose idea was this?
I find that most Apple software acts quite nanny-like, and it usually a step down from OSX quality.
Instead of using iPhoto why don't u switch to Picasa-it doesn't mess with your photos by moving them around to god knows where, and it beats iBloato..I man iPhoto...in all areas.
If it is urgent there is no Voice support,
If it's urgent then use your telephone! Or Windows Messenger. Or how about email?
I rather enjoy Skype the way it is right now. Cisco is going to destroy Skype intentionally or accidentally by doing one of two things:
1) Add Skype's technology into their products, stick a "Powered by Skype" sticker on the box, and kill off any consumer-level access Skype as we enjoy it now. Looking back at Cisco's purchases in the last decade and you'll see this is very likely.
2) As an attempt to make Skype profitable, they'll quadruple the prices and charge for the ones that are currently free. Coming soon:unused Skype credits that expire in 30 days.
Han was a rogue, not a white knight.
He was also scruffy-looking and a laser-brain. Everyone knows that a character with those qualities always shoots first and asks questions later.
It was available in retail stores Aug 1995.
Obviously you were not old enough to remember the release, so do some digging and check the archive sections in major newspapers. Some have the actual headline story from that day, as well as pics of the line ups that put today's Apple fanbois to shame, that is unless Microsoft and its trolled have "fixed" written history everywhere.
I would just like to say that I welcome both
options
Like as if you're going to get both options. Why would amazon give up the advertising revenue when they can charge the full price for the book AND still throw in adverts for revenue?
The "Support" in Tech Support began to die out in the mid to late 90's when company's bean counters realized that providing in-house phone support was more expensive than outsourcing it to call centers. Instead of having people who specialized in the company's products taking calls, the same person who answered calls for a farm machinery company, hardware store chain, and five different ISPs during his shift would now take your support call for your fancy state of the art 19" flatscreen CRT monitor(hey, it's the 90's remember?).
Very soon after that the call-center bean-counters decided that calls don't need to be answered as soon as it come in, for a caller will accept sitting in a queue for a short period of time. Thus the call center would need a few less ppl to answer the phones during each shift for as soon as the employee finished a call he can immediately pick up the next one.
Finally they imposed 5-minute talk times, 90 seconds for post-call wrap up, and instituted bonuses for the people who took the most calls per day, had the lowest talk-times, fewest call-backs, whereas the few remaining employees who still cared about 'customer care' or 'customer support' soon abandoned that industry.
The end (of support)
George? Is that you??
For a second I thought it WAS Weird Al. Who better to combine monkeys and economics into one topic?
I've seen more shit web design in plain old HTML than everything else combined.
I dunno. I think today's shit designed flash pages with a long-loading shit flash introduction, shit-flash dropdown menu's, and numerous shit flash ads plastered on every page on the site is worse than anything that can be designed in html.
About 8 years ago Flash was used sparingly and was kinda cool, but today almost every site uses flash just for the sake of using it, not because they need it for anything that plain old HTML cannot do.
I am so sick of hearing this typical comment from lazy people who are more than happy to spread their asscheeks and let Rogers and Bell frack them up the butt into the depths of their bowels instead of even considering an alternative. Does Bell get all the money you would pay for an account from a reseller? NO! So I would think that everyone that hates Bell or Rogers would be more than happy to drop them and switch to an ISP where a good chunk of your monthly bill goes into non-big-business pockets. But alas, it's always easier to sit, do nothing, and complain instead of taking action.
I live in a city with a population of less than 1M and we have at least half a dozen choices for DSL. If you don't want to switch from crappy rogers, or from bell to a reseller where only a portion goes to Bell instead of everything then that's your choice, not Rogers', not Bell's, so shut up and deal with your decision, or lack of.
There are some areas where Bell or Rogers are the only choice for hi-speed; if you are in that situation then I feel your pain and your complaints are then justified.
Do you only have four apps or what? Every app you open is added to the tray and you have to scroll/slide it to view them all. I don't know what the limit is, but I have 11 in there just from this morning, and they include the apps that no one would ever find a need to multitask such as Settings and iPod. WTF? Apps that I'd like to run in the background like streaming apps wont because the OS doesn't multitask, but instead Apple made the apps responsible to implement it.
Apple's implementation of multitasking is horrible and a joke. If windows mobile, blackberry, or Android came up with such a pathetic solution they would be dragged across the coals, but when Apple does it people herald it as a breakthrough. There was better multitasking on computers in the 80's.
Then your friends are boring. I guess I just hang out with more interesting people.
If you really hung out with interesting people, then what the fxck are you doing spending so much time on twitter and facebook? Yeesh!
Oh dear, OS X 10.0 was at least usable, and it replaced an aging OS that needed replacing. KDE 4.0 was unusable, unstable, immature, and about as configurable as my alarm clock, and replaced a simple and better desktop that did not need any replacement.
I don't! Just how old are you, grandpa?
What you said!
You know, the nuclear industry has only themselves to blame for the public's mistrust. For half a century the industry has followed a policy of cover-up, denial, talking down to the public, and an unbelievably condescending attitude that nothing can ever go wrong. Essentially they practice "security by obscurity", but we know how effective that is in other industries.
I'm a proponent of nuclear NRG, but they need to clean house, get rid of the bozos running the show, and become more forthcoming with information to earn back more of the public's trust.
I love many Apple products, but I wish Apple would finally give up their conviction that a mouse has to have no buttons, throw in the towel, and make some nice mice that are usable and actually ergonomic.
The Mighty Mouse drove me nuts; far too often when I wanted a left click I got a right click, and vice-versa. Now there is the Tragic..err...Magic Mouse looks purdy but is about as ergonomic as a deck of cards. So unless you have the hands of a 13 year old or enjoy making eagle claws with your right hand all day just to perform an action like button-side button-scroll wheel, the Magic mouse is horrible. It's a step forward in tech but goes back 15 years in usefulness:a perfect example of form over functionality.
I misread the title as "Low-Cost Robotic Arm Stretches Faces." That really didn't sound like it would be very fun.