The type of media used does not make for better graphics. Blu-Ray could be Sony's next BetaMax. Nintendo? Man, they better start performing seeing as how 1/4 profits are down 80%.
I concur, Scooby Doo (http://imdb.com/title/tt0267913/)--the 2002 Live action debacle-- was so bad not only did I want my money back for the rental, I kinda felt like someone ought to have paid me for the 2 hours of my LIFE I can never have back. The characters were bad, the story awful, but the pinacle event making it the WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME is when the bad guy turns out to not be just as you suspect, which is, of course not hard to guess, but is really Scrappy Dooinside the bad guy. Yeah, Scrappy Doo, the worst thing to ever happen to Scooby Doo historically.
Truly, an awful experience which should not be repeated by anyone. Please do not subject your children, or even your mortal enemies to this drivel.
I think Apple is upset because they are very vigilant about QUALITY. They take a lot of time and care in creating and marketing and designing their products, and their products work seamlessly together: the controlling the whole widget thing works well for them. When you get a craptacular product like Real. . . well, that degrades the whole overall iPod experience, and it ceases to be about the 1 cent per song profit they make at the iTMS and more about the overall joy of the iPod users. . . those who are using their 'Pods with Real are having less fun than those with the Apple-branded package, because it is outside the Apple sphere of influence. (and it sucks IMHO) And they tell their friends and sisters and soon, fewer 'Pods are sold . . . and then, the Dark Side gains strength.
I agree with the assertation that this test, and the "phishing" emails themselves are not targets at nerds and tech-savvy creatures like you and me. . . they are directed at my poor mom who I constantly have to remind time and again that "no, eBay, paypal, and their ilk will NOT want your password, no matter how many different emails they send you." when I get a message forwarded now from her saying "do you think this is really from CitiBank? I don't HAVE a CitBank account, but they say it has been comprimised and my identity might be stolen" at least I know she is *starting* to get it and at least ASK me. Not that she bridges the gap to conclude that A. she doesn't have an account to be comprimised and 2. her Identity is more likely TO BE STOLEN in the very near future if she responds to this tripe.
These things scare me for that reason. I feel like I am smart enough to know who I have an account with and who I don't. . .
Apple's Phone support for consumer products is OK. They have their scripts they have to follow and having supported 150 laptops in a corp. environment I had to wrestle with them on more than one occasion trying to convince the schmo on the other end that I could NOT click on the such-and-such because my LCD really WAS dead. . .
That said, their Xserve support is outstanding. I have owned 2 Xserves and an Xserve RAID and have gotten more than my money's worth with the AppleCare contracts from those high-end boxes. The techs TRUST you have done your due dilligence, that you are not a moron and know what they are talking about. They are not outsourced script-reading tech-support-monkeys and am I truly indebted to them for assistance on several occasions. It's nice to have "peers" answer the calls who know and use your same products, who understand you have a SERVER which can't just be restarted randomly in the middle of the day willy-nilly and actually resolve your issues post-haste.
Thanks Apple.
I just quit my job friday because I had a similar situation where I had a boss who expected 24/7 access to me, expected me to have and provide my own broadband and cellphone, who expected me to work nights and weekends whenever needed. Yes, it was flexible, SOMETIMES, but mostly, the more I gave, the more they expected, until I was exhausted, and couldn't give anymore. The company kept growing, and they continued to expect me to support more than 100 users, and 7 servers myself, and gave my 4 weeks of vacation time I could never take. I walked away to a new job with far less responsiblity, 40% less pay but fixed hours, no pager, no cellphone, and no remote access and support. My husband (I think that is who that man is, I hardly recognize him!) is pretty happy about it. And it's not about the money. I want my life back.
I am salaried, I get paid the same if I work 35 hours or 100. My job has a "policy" to give 1 day of comp time for every 4 full 8-hour days of extra work, but I can hardly use the 25 or so vacation and whatnot days they give me anyway, so it's a joke.
I didn't mind it a few years ago, but there is a diminishing return in appreciation at my company, and my life is changing, so it's not really something I can keep doing or want to, honestly. Not when I have been doing it for near on 5 years and for marginally the same pay!
I am in the field too and have done the same thing. After 4.5 years of 60-80 hour weeks and losing my vacation time because I just couldn't take it (I would take a day off and they would call me at home all day anyway, so it hardly seemed worth it) I decided that I had to pull the plug. Now I am married (3 weeks yesterday) and I am there at 8:30, leave at 5, and if work piles up, there is no one to blame but the management, who dim-whittedly decided that 1 IT-support person was enough to support 110 users.
I have looked into leaving, but it's still a tough market and the only leads I have gotten come up with less cash and poorer benefits than I have now, which is 30% less than I should be making for what I do. So for now, I make the best of the bad situation, until I truly can't take it from the poor management anymore, and decide that I will go work in retail or something so I don't have to think about my job beyond the clock.
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The type of media used does not make for better graphics. Blu-Ray could be Sony's next BetaMax. Nintendo? Man, they better start performing seeing as how 1/4 profits are down 80%.
I concur, Scooby Doo (http://imdb.com/title/tt0267913/)--the 2002 Live action debacle-- was so bad not only did I want my money back for the rental, I kinda felt like someone ought to have paid me for the 2 hours of my LIFE I can never have back. The characters were bad, the story awful, but the pinacle event making it the WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME is when the bad guy turns out to not be just as you suspect, which is, of course not hard to guess, but is really Scrappy Doo inside the bad guy. Yeah, Scrappy Doo, the worst thing to ever happen to Scooby Doo historically. Truly, an awful experience which should not be repeated by anyone. Please do not subject your children, or even your mortal enemies to this drivel.
I think Apple is upset because they are very vigilant about QUALITY. They take a lot of time and care in creating and marketing and designing their products, and their products work seamlessly together: the controlling the whole widget thing works well for them. When you get a craptacular product like Real. . . well, that degrades the whole overall iPod experience, and it ceases to be about the 1 cent per song profit they make at the iTMS and more about the overall joy of the iPod users. . . those who are using their 'Pods with Real are having less fun than those with the Apple-branded package, because it is outside the Apple sphere of influence. (and it sucks IMHO) And they tell their friends and sisters and soon, fewer 'Pods are sold . . . and then, the Dark Side gains strength.
And I just finally got the hang of spelling and typing "Rendezvous" Figures.
I agree with the assertation that this test, and the "phishing" emails themselves are not targets at nerds and tech-savvy creatures like you and me. . . they are directed at my poor mom who I constantly have to remind time and again that "no, eBay, paypal, and their ilk will NOT want your password, no matter how many different emails they send you." when I get a message forwarded now from her saying "do you think this is really from CitiBank? I don't HAVE a CitBank account, but they say it has been comprimised and my identity might be stolen" at least I know she is *starting* to get it and at least ASK me. Not that she bridges the gap to conclude that A. she doesn't have an account to be comprimised and 2. her Identity is more likely TO BE STOLEN in the very near future if she responds to this tripe. These things scare me for that reason. I feel like I am smart enough to know who I have an account with and who I don't. . .
Apple's Phone support for consumer products is OK. They have their scripts they have to follow and having supported 150 laptops in a corp. environment I had to wrestle with them on more than one occasion trying to convince the schmo on the other end that I could NOT click on the such-and-such because my LCD really WAS dead. . . That said, their Xserve support is outstanding. I have owned 2 Xserves and an Xserve RAID and have gotten more than my money's worth with the AppleCare contracts from those high-end boxes. The techs TRUST you have done your due dilligence, that you are not a moron and know what they are talking about. They are not outsourced script-reading tech-support-monkeys and am I truly indebted to them for assistance on several occasions. It's nice to have "peers" answer the calls who know and use your same products, who understand you have a SERVER which can't just be restarted randomly in the middle of the day willy-nilly and actually resolve your issues post-haste. Thanks Apple.
I just quit my job friday because I had a similar situation where I had a boss who expected 24/7 access to me, expected me to have and provide my own broadband and cellphone, who expected me to work nights and weekends whenever needed. Yes, it was flexible, SOMETIMES, but mostly, the more I gave, the more they expected, until I was exhausted, and couldn't give anymore. The company kept growing, and they continued to expect me to support more than 100 users, and 7 servers myself, and gave my 4 weeks of vacation time I could never take. I walked away to a new job with far less responsiblity, 40% less pay but fixed hours, no pager, no cellphone, and no remote access and support. My husband (I think that is who that man is, I hardly recognize him!) is pretty happy about it. And it's not about the money. I want my life back.
I am salaried, I get paid the same if I work 35 hours or 100. My job has a "policy" to give 1 day of comp time for every 4 full 8-hour days of extra work, but I can hardly use the 25 or so vacation and whatnot days they give me anyway, so it's a joke. I didn't mind it a few years ago, but there is a diminishing return in appreciation at my company, and my life is changing, so it's not really something I can keep doing or want to, honestly. Not when I have been doing it for near on 5 years and for marginally the same pay!
I am in the field too and have done the same thing. After 4.5 years of 60-80 hour weeks and losing my vacation time because I just couldn't take it (I would take a day off and they would call me at home all day anyway, so it hardly seemed worth it) I decided that I had to pull the plug. Now I am married (3 weeks yesterday) and I am there at 8:30, leave at 5, and if work piles up, there is no one to blame but the management, who dim-whittedly decided that 1 IT-support person was enough to support 110 users. I have looked into leaving, but it's still a tough market and the only leads I have gotten come up with less cash and poorer benefits than I have now, which is 30% less than I should be making for what I do. So for now, I make the best of the bad situation, until I truly can't take it from the poor management anymore, and decide that I will go work in retail or something so I don't have to think about my job beyond the clock.