First of all you were in tourist central, not to mention a major business district. So your little survey was most likely of tourists, businessmen, rich older women and kids going to the Disney store. You were 60 blocks away from the Apple store....
you know what, nevermind, I just want to wash your dumb ass post from my brain.
Steve Jobs is apparently back at the helm of the long-beleagered computer maker...
Come on, it's one this for an individual to not be aware of this and submit the story, but for/. to actually post it? WTF? Where the F have you been the last month?
Big Wheels ruled. You can get moved pretty fast on them, yank the brake and spin out. The kid gets some exercise, spends some time outside, and even the wee ones can use them.
Gets a little tough when the plastic front wheel gets bald and your driveway has an incline, but nothing a running start can't get you past.
Could you name 3 more past-their-prime bands? REM and U2 were great bands back in the day, but come on....I don't see much coming from their support of electronic distribution.
People are FAR more excited about getting a black iPod than in getting an iPod preloaded with U2 songs. How do you get the songs off of there anyway? doesn't iTunes overwrite an iPod which is newly linked to it?
Jog dials are the ones on VCR's and the like that only turn up to a 1/4 turn in either direction to control the fast forward and rewind and then snap back into place.
Perhaps I am wrong, but in my world i never think of a jog wheel spinning all the way around, just back and forth. So I would have to say, "No, I do not remember when they called scroll wheels, jog wheels."
How many times are you going to repeat the same request for a feature that is virtually useless to all but a few thousand (maybe a few hundred) iPod users, those being iPod DJs?
Granted I have only caught 2 times within this thread so far, but I'd wager that these are not your first posts on the subject.
the 1st gen iMacs you had to undo several screws on the bottom, unplug the monitor cable, and slide the entire logic board out of the machine to access the RAM. The CRT stayed in place, not sure what that post was talking about. It was a bit of a bitch, but after you do a few, it only takes a couple minutes to add RAM. The little trap door was added with the DV models, I believe.
why not have Frodo ride on an eagle to Mount Doom and throw the ring in the fires? would have saved a lot of time and lives. Of course Gandalf might still be grey then.
Obviously this would kill the book, but I'm just asking, is there any explanation for why this wasn't done? If Frodo can handle the ring for months on end, then surely he could do so for however long the flight to Mt Doom would be. I'm perfectly happy putting this thought out of my head and just enjoying the story, but I still wonder.
short of your 2nd and 3rd generation dreams coming true, why wouldn't you just want an FM transmitter to play directly to the radio, instead of WiFi to the Airport Express, and then to the receiver? Seems like a useless step to me
"And 'nick' as slang for stealing is also common in Australia - but then we probably got it from the 'motherland' as well."
It's probably the reason a lot of your ancestors were sent there from the Motherland to begin with as well.:-P
And no, I am not looking for a history lesson here, "Well actually, only the very worst criminals were sent to Aus...." I'm just kidding around
first of all I have used several platforms for years, with Mac being my preferred platform going back to the mid to late 80's. And if asking that people post coherent sentences which actually make sense is anal retentive then I'm guilty as charged. I'm not talking about the odd typo, or slip in grammar. Your posts on this topic have been consistently nonsensical and rather pathetic for someone who supposedly attends a well respected school.
So, it turn out that it is I that would welcome you into the Apple world, and not the other way around, and with your inability to understand the importance or proper writing and conveyance of thoughts, I certainly never want to be lumped into a group with you called "Apple users".
The bottom line is your post made no sense, little boy.
in addition to your horrific spelling and grammar, your last few sentences completely contradict each other. In one sentence you say you "would rather that alot of windows xp users not 'switch' because i like being the outnumbered and decenting." Once I finished deciphering that sentence, I'm hit with "however i would like to see apple continue to grow and gain more acceptance"
and this is given a 5, Insightful? wtf?
that actually want this number? Yeah, I want to pay thousands of dollars so I can have the #1 Drunk Dial number and get hundreds of calls from dumbasses who think they have an original idea in calling the number from an 80's song. It'd be funny for about a day and then I'd rip the phone out of the wall.
If only there were a way to send a shock through the lines to the slapass on the other end., then I could see the value of this.
I have installed it on 3 machines, and everything seems to work fine with one exception. Every time I install it and reboot, there it is in the Software Update list again. I even tried installing it a 2nd time on one machine, sure enough it was there again after reboot.
Big Ben, Parliament, kids
On some of the older models, you had to hold the button down for 15-30 seconds for it to work. But like he said, only press it once.
And i know you said that you verified the incoming voltage, so my only other trouble shooting suggestion would be to try it at a friend's house or at work.
I would be frustrated as hell if that happened to me. Almost as pissed off as I am about my Win2K notebook being unable to boot (hive file) after running a windows update. Just another reason why I love my G4 & jagwiiire
I have an iRock, which works pretty well, but sucks down the batteries, and I liked the look of the iTrip as well as it's ability to tune any station.
In reality, the iTrip rarely works, and having the radio stations on my iPod ends up sucking as I like to have my song list on random, so now I have 50 or more songs that periodically play a few beeps.
Overall, the iRock works far better, and is worth having to replace the batteries every 15-20 hours or use rechargeables.
what you are saying is that you know better than all of the engineers at Apple? Don't get me wrong, I think it sucks when something gets released that is not working properly. And if you want to write me off as some Mac-zealot, I couldn't care less. But the reality is that the people producing these products are individuals just like you and me, and I would like to think that they have some kind of pride in their work, not to mention the skills necessary to get the job in the first place, that would make them want to do the best job that they can.
Sorry I can't be as cynical about this as you are. I know damn well that Apple is a corporation that is there to make money, not worry about me. But I am looking at it, however naively, at an individual level, and trying to put myself in the employees shoes, where I have been. Sometimes your company doesn't give you the time or perhaps the resources to do things that you know need to be done. I was simply responding to someone who was talking like they know so much more than the engineers at Apple. whatever.
I think I hear your mom calling down to you in the basement. Breakfast is ready. She made waffles.
I may not be the smartest man, but to make a statement along the lines of "Apple didn't understand the concept of permissions" seems a tad simplified, arrogant, and wrong. I have to believe that they had a very good grasp of what they were doing, but perhaps ran into problems in the implementation.
Not trying to be a dick, but I think you have to believe that the engineers working on OS X understand the concept of permissions, even if they ran into a problem with them. I am sure they are under tremendous pressure to get things out the door.
That said, the problem you mentioned was a huge one, and I look forward to the continued improvement of OS X, client and server, even as I pray for a new hardware architecture based on the "G5" or whatever.
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What the fuck was the point of your post?
First of all you were in tourist central, not to mention a major business district. So your little survey was most likely of tourists, businessmen, rich older women and kids going to the Disney store. You were 60 blocks away from the Apple store....
you know what, nevermind, I just want to wash your dumb ass post from my brain.
Steve Jobs is apparently back at the helm of the long-beleagered computer maker...
/. to actually post it? WTF? Where the F have you been the last month?
Come on, it's one this for an individual to not be aware of this and submit the story, but for
Big Wheels ruled. You can get moved pretty fast on them, yank the brake and spin out. The kid gets some exercise, spends some time outside, and even the wee ones can use them.
Gets a little tough when the plastic front wheel gets bald and your driveway has an incline, but nothing a running start can't get you past.
I appreciate the info, but once I do that and then try and use one of the other views, I get a solid square rectangle.
Makes it kind of hard for me to do my calculations needed to work on my cold fusion basement project.
Could you name 3 more past-their-prime bands? REM and U2 were great bands back in the day, but come on....I don't see much coming from their support of electronic distribution.
People are FAR more excited about getting a black iPod than in getting an iPod preloaded with U2 songs. How do you get the songs off of there anyway? doesn't iTunes overwrite an iPod which is newly linked to it?
I throw them out if they don't play nice
Have you ever had to replace the RAM on an 8500? you have to take the whole thing apart to get to the RAM slots. F'n sucks
Jog dials are the ones on VCR's and the like that only turn up to a 1/4 turn in either direction to control the fast forward and rewind and then snap back into place.
Perhaps I am wrong, but in my world i never think of a jog wheel spinning all the way around, just back and forth. So I would have to say, "No, I do not remember when they called scroll wheels, jog wheels."
How many times are you going to repeat the same request for a feature that is virtually useless to all but a few thousand (maybe a few hundred) iPod users, those being iPod DJs?
Granted I have only caught 2 times within this thread so far, but I'd wager that these are not your first posts on the subject.
the 1st gen iMacs you had to undo several screws on the bottom, unplug the monitor cable, and slide the entire logic board out of the machine to access the RAM. The CRT stayed in place, not sure what that post was talking about. It was a bit of a bitch, but after you do a few, it only takes a couple minutes to add RAM. The little trap door was added with the DV models, I believe.
1000KB=1MB, not Mb Bytes and bits are different units, slapass
I was hoping someone would have an informed explanation, and not just a "just because" answer.
Thanks.
still doesn't answer the question about anything in the books that would prevent the use of the eagles to begin with.
why not have Frodo ride on an eagle to Mount Doom and throw the ring in the fires? would have saved a lot of time and lives. Of course Gandalf might still be grey then.
Obviously this would kill the book, but I'm just asking, is there any explanation for why this wasn't done? If Frodo can handle the ring for months on end, then surely he could do so for however long the flight to Mt Doom would be. I'm perfectly happy putting this thought out of my head and just enjoying the story, but I still wonder.
short of your 2nd and 3rd generation dreams coming true, why wouldn't you just want an FM transmitter to play directly to the radio, instead of WiFi to the Airport Express, and then to the receiver? Seems like a useless step to me
"And 'nick' as slang for stealing is also common in Australia - but then we probably got it from the 'motherland' as well." It's probably the reason a lot of your ancestors were sent there from the Motherland to begin with as well. :-P
And no, I am not looking for a history lesson here, "Well actually, only the very worst criminals were sent to Aus...." I'm just kidding around
you should have had the pleasure of administrating Quickmail LAN. Pro was a downright delight after that POS, and that is saying something.
On a side note, I still preferred supporting QM Pro over Notes on OS X.
first of all I have used several platforms for years, with Mac being my preferred platform going back to the mid to late 80's. And if asking that people post coherent sentences which actually make sense is anal retentive then I'm guilty as charged. I'm not talking about the odd typo, or slip in grammar. Your posts on this topic have been consistently nonsensical and rather pathetic for someone who supposedly attends a well respected school. So, it turn out that it is I that would welcome you into the Apple world, and not the other way around, and with your inability to understand the importance or proper writing and conveyance of thoughts, I certainly never want to be lumped into a group with you called "Apple users". The bottom line is your post made no sense, little boy.
in addition to your horrific spelling and grammar, your last few sentences completely contradict each other. In one sentence you say you "would rather that alot of windows xp users not 'switch' because i like being the outnumbered and decenting." Once I finished deciphering that sentence, I'm hit with "however i would like to see apple continue to grow and gain more acceptance" and this is given a 5, Insightful? wtf?
that actually want this number? Yeah, I want to pay thousands of dollars so I can have the #1 Drunk Dial number and get hundreds of calls from dumbasses who think they have an original idea in calling the number from an 80's song. It'd be funny for about a day and then I'd rip the phone out of the wall. If only there were a way to send a shock through the lines to the slapass on the other end., then I could see the value of this.
I have installed it on 3 machines, and everything seems to work fine with one exception. Every time I install it and reboot, there it is in the Software Update list again. I even tried installing it a 2nd time on one machine, sure enough it was there again after reboot. Big Ben, Parliament, kids
On some of the older models, you had to hold the button down for 15-30 seconds for it to work. But like he said, only press it once.
And i know you said that you verified the incoming voltage, so my only other trouble shooting suggestion would be to try it at a friend's house or at work.
I would be frustrated as hell if that happened to me. Almost as pissed off as I am about my Win2K notebook being unable to boot (hive file) after running a windows update. Just another reason why I love my G4 & jagwiiire
I have an iRock, which works pretty well, but sucks down the batteries, and I liked the look of the iTrip as well as it's ability to tune any station.
In reality, the iTrip rarely works, and having the radio stations on my iPod ends up sucking as I like to have my song list on random, so now I have 50 or more songs that periodically play a few beeps.
Overall, the iRock works far better, and is worth having to replace the batteries every 15-20 hours or use rechargeables.
what you are saying is that you know better than all of the engineers at Apple? Don't get me wrong, I think it sucks when something gets released that is not working properly. And if you want to write me off as some Mac-zealot, I couldn't care less. But the reality is that the people producing these products are individuals just like you and me, and I would like to think that they have some kind of pride in their work, not to mention the skills necessary to get the job in the first place, that would make them want to do the best job that they can.
Sorry I can't be as cynical about this as you are. I know damn well that Apple is a corporation that is there to make money, not worry about me. But I am looking at it, however naively, at an individual level, and trying to put myself in the employees shoes, where I have been. Sometimes your company doesn't give you the time or perhaps the resources to do things that you know need to be done. I was simply responding to someone who was talking like they know so much more than the engineers at Apple. whatever.
I think I hear your mom calling down to you in the basement. Breakfast is ready. She made waffles.
I may not be the smartest man, but to make a statement along the lines of "Apple didn't understand the concept of permissions" seems a tad simplified, arrogant, and wrong. I have to believe that they had a very good grasp of what they were doing, but perhaps ran into problems in the implementation. Not trying to be a dick, but I think you have to believe that the engineers working on OS X understand the concept of permissions, even if they ran into a problem with them. I am sure they are under tremendous pressure to get things out the door. That said, the problem you mentioned was a huge one, and I look forward to the continued improvement of OS X, client and server, even as I pray for a new hardware architecture based on the "G5" or whatever.