You can't get into legal trouble for certain things that other countries would kill you for, but many American citizens are more close minded than the citizens of other countries, therefore instead of being killed by the police for something you get killed by your neighbor.
America is more open than a lot of other countries but it's still not the most open/'free' place in the world, then again nothing can beat the freedom of an uninhabited island.
Except, not only does it authorize all users on that machine but if you happen to have more than 4 computers that you all use, you can go through the tedious trouble of deauthorizing your computers when you're done using them (it's a selection in one of the menus).
Bullet proof vest on the head? Also at point blank a bulletproof vest won't do much to keep the officer from being unable to fight back even if it would have otherwise saved his life (close range shots can still break through).
As for backup, that won't do much good if the thief might change it into a hostage situation.
Either way it's a stupid idea to take that many risks just to get a petty thief.
That would also make the already high price go up even more, just to make the mugger's life slightly more difficult (you still lose the iPod which has a hackable security system).
But most muggers won't think of that at first, also if they sell it to someone that person will most likely never think of that unless they know it's stolen and not sold used by the original owner over ebay.
Exactly. Now you could also have a voice equivalent of the 'next' button for T9. If you said 'dot' multiple times or 'slash' in some questionable area, the browser will ask you which is correct. Or if it takes you to the wrong site you can say, "No, try again." And it tries another possible combination.
Not exactly simple, but more fool-resistant. There's even the possibility of having the computer ask you to spell out the address if it's not sure. The worst thing about voice recognition of today is that a lot of the programs 'assume' or 'try their best' rather than ask the user for confirmation. If I say "open file" I'd rather be asked to repeat my command 5 times (having the program tell me what it heard) rather than interpret it as "delete file".
Just pay attention to human to human conversation, humans don't interpret things perfectly either, the difference is people tend to say "huh?", "Your computer what?". I bet if I said go to slash-dot-dot-org to someone who has never been here (but at the very least knows correct url format), they'd ask me "two dots?" or somehow tell me that they need clarification.
My Samsung VGA-1000 does voice recognition. I can tell it to dial a specific number (by saying the number or the name of the person in the address book) or command it to open up one of the tools (like calendar). It also has a training option in the setting, however the voice recognition cannot be used with the web browser unfortunately.
Apple (MacOS X makers) can't have a monopoly on Apple Hardware because they're both made by the same company. That's like me saying Samsung has a monopoly on samsung cell-phones because they make the OS that runs on it. Would you want to buy an OS-less cell-phone? I doubt anybody want's to buy an OS-less Mac unless they were planning to install Linux on it in the first place.
The car is ugly, but some of the ideas that went into it are pretty cool (removable seat pads, auto adjusting seats). However, not being able to access the engine without special tools (even if it's "low maintainence") is possibly a bigger offense than the look.
Was that suppose to be funny or were you just demonstrating your ability to write sentences that can mean anything. I'm sure non-mac users won't be happy to find out you're calling them all gay.
emacs and vi save in formats that any respectable text editor can open, unlike Windows Media which is limited only to Windows Media Player and reverse engineered player codecs.
You still have to juggle the number of burns/transfers/etc. It's too much work for anybody who is not a masochist. So far I haven't seen any headlines similar to, "Apple kicks Rio to curb after Rio proposes working together to add fair play DRM to their media player lineup."
And there's still burn to CD->re-rip as Mp3 (as well as other methods) if you're that intent on playing your music on a non-Apple/HP media player.
Or perhaps the OS is free with a Mac, then you're getting an extra OS just for the heck of it which you can easily install Linux over if you wanted to.
How many times must people say this, you can easily convert from AAC, AAC is not Apple owned and is an MPEG standard (any company could add AAC to their player if they care to). iTunes music store is the most stress-free and has the best selection of music, therefore the "lock-in" you experience is what you trade in for not wanting to kick someone in the groin for the inconsistent licensing agreements.
It's completely moronic when people blame a company that's doing something that other companies never tried (a better codec, less restricting DRM, seamless integration) all while people are rooting against them. If you're going to blame someone, blame the other companies for not supporting AAC in their players, Apple is already working on Windows Media for iPod.
The G3 Dual USB iBooks were no doubt had some huge faults in the logic board design (which usually causes the video failure). However my experiences with Apple's support were exactly like your IBM support, you should have said you wanted it sent in to Apple directly rather than deal with stores. Unless going there isn't out of your way, insist that it be shipped to their debugging center.
I'm surprised that you had to pay for the battery, Apple replaced my power adapter after I tripped on it and yanked the wire out of the plug. I'd think something like that would be pretty obvious when it was sent in (Apple Care Protection Plan). It sometimes has to do with whatever tech person you get on the phone (or how you talk to them), one of the ones I've delt with simply said they were going to have it brought in after I described the problem. Another technician seemed to be amused by what was blatantly my fault but decided to have it exchanged anyway (adapter).
But I really wish Apple would design their more recent products so that these kinds of things don't happen in the first place. My old 1994 Mac still works great, but these past 2 years churned out computers (iBook mainly) that should be recalled to replace the logic boards with a different revision.
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Disturbing because we all know that all humans are good and incapable of evil, right?
You can't get into legal trouble for certain things that other countries would kill you for, but many American citizens are more close minded than the citizens of other countries, therefore instead of being killed by the police for something you get killed by your neighbor.
America is more open than a lot of other countries but it's still not the most open/'free' place in the world, then again nothing can beat the freedom of an uninhabited island.
Except, not only does it authorize all users on that machine but if you happen to have more than 4 computers that you all use, you can go through the tedious trouble of deauthorizing your computers when you're done using them (it's a selection in one of the menus).
Ah, I remember the days when people used the term "IBM Compatible" to describe what we now call PCs.
Bullet proof vest on the head? Also at point blank a bulletproof vest won't do much to keep the officer from being unable to fight back even if it would have otherwise saved his life (close range shots can still break through).
As for backup, that won't do much good if the thief might change it into a hostage situation.
Either way it's a stupid idea to take that many risks just to get a petty thief.
That would also make the already high price go up even more, just to make the mugger's life slightly more difficult (you still lose the iPod which has a hackable security system).
Change this to:
1) Send undercover officer wearing white headphones walking own the street
2) Crook approaches with gun, start pulling out gun where iPod is suppose to be.
3) Get shot.
"Though I'm sure there's a Soviet Russia post to be made out of this..."
In Soviet Russia, the iPod steals you!
In Soviet Russia, the music illegally downloads you!
But most muggers won't think of that at first, also if they sell it to someone that person will most likely never think of that unless they know it's stolen and not sold used by the original owner over ebay.
In soviet russia, dead horses beat you to death.
Exactly. Now you could also have a voice equivalent of the 'next' button for T9. If you said 'dot' multiple times or 'slash' in some questionable area, the browser will ask you which is correct. Or if it takes you to the wrong site you can say, "No, try again." And it tries another possible combination.
Not exactly simple, but more fool-resistant. There's even the possibility of having the computer ask you to spell out the address if it's not sure. The worst thing about voice recognition of today is that a lot of the programs 'assume' or 'try their best' rather than ask the user for confirmation. If I say "open file" I'd rather be asked to repeat my command 5 times (having the program tell me what it heard) rather than interpret it as "delete file".
Just pay attention to human to human conversation, humans don't interpret things perfectly either, the difference is people tend to say "huh?", "Your computer what?". I bet if I said go to slash-dot-dot-org to someone who has never been here (but at the very least knows correct url format), they'd ask me "two dots?" or somehow tell me that they need clarification.
My Samsung VGA-1000 does voice recognition. I can tell it to dial a specific number (by saying the number or the name of the person in the address book) or command it to open up one of the tools (like calendar). It also has a training option in the setting, however the voice recognition cannot be used with the web browser unfortunately.
Apple (MacOS X makers) can't have a monopoly on Apple Hardware because they're both made by the same company. That's like me saying Samsung has a monopoly on samsung cell-phones because they make the OS that runs on it. Would you want to buy an OS-less cell-phone? I doubt anybody want's to buy an OS-less Mac unless they were planning to install Linux on it in the first place.
The car is ugly, but some of the ideas that went into it are pretty cool (removable seat pads, auto adjusting seats). However, not being able to access the engine without special tools (even if it's "low maintainence") is possibly a bigger offense than the look.
Both of which are no longer under development for the mac.
As a name or as a part of an OS?
Was that suppose to be funny or were you just demonstrating your ability to write sentences that can mean anything. I'm sure non-mac users won't be happy to find out you're calling them all gay.
probably? Meaning you've never tried? If you can't you need to exercise more.
emacs and vi save in formats that any respectable text editor can open, unlike Windows Media which is limited only to Windows Media Player and reverse engineered player codecs.
You still have to juggle the number of burns/transfers/etc. It's too much work for anybody who is not a masochist. So far I haven't seen any headlines similar to, "Apple kicks Rio to curb after Rio proposes working together to add fair play DRM to their media player lineup."
And there's still burn to CD->re-rip as Mp3 (as well as other methods) if you're that intent on playing your music on a non-Apple/HP media player.
Or perhaps the OS is free with a Mac, then you're getting an extra OS just for the heck of it which you can easily install Linux over if you wanted to.
How many times must people say this, you can easily convert from AAC, AAC is not Apple owned and is an MPEG standard (any company could add AAC to their player if they care to). iTunes music store is the most stress-free and has the best selection of music, therefore the "lock-in" you experience is what you trade in for not wanting to kick someone in the groin for the inconsistent licensing agreements.
It's completely moronic when people blame a company that's doing something that other companies never tried (a better codec, less restricting DRM, seamless integration) all while people are rooting against them. If you're going to blame someone, blame the other companies for not supporting AAC in their players, Apple is already working on Windows Media for iPod.
The G3 Dual USB iBooks were no doubt had some huge faults in the logic board design (which usually causes the video failure). However my experiences with Apple's support were exactly like your IBM support, you should have said you wanted it sent in to Apple directly rather than deal with stores. Unless going there isn't out of your way, insist that it be shipped to their debugging center.
I'm surprised that you had to pay for the battery, Apple replaced my power adapter after I tripped on it and yanked the wire out of the plug. I'd think something like that would be pretty obvious when it was sent in (Apple Care Protection Plan). It sometimes has to do with whatever tech person you get on the phone (or how you talk to them), one of the ones I've delt with simply said they were going to have it brought in after I described the problem. Another technician seemed to be amused by what was blatantly my fault but decided to have it exchanged anyway (adapter).
But I really wish Apple would design their more recent products so that these kinds of things don't happen in the first place. My old 1994 Mac still works great, but these past 2 years churned out computers (iBook mainly) that should be recalled to replace the logic boards with a different revision.
How bout the "moronic/immature" category.
You should be hit with your own mac.