That wouldn't be covered either. Smoking is just one way out of many to wreck your computer and not get coverage. Spilling coffee into it has the same effect.
Wrong, pal. I work as an Apple tech at an authorized repair shop. Apple has Service Provider Support within their system (hence, techie tech support) that lets you ask administrative questions about numerous things, warranty coverage issues included.
Take your ignorant assumptions and blow them out your ass.
Having worked on many Macs that were owned by smokers, I'll bet that this particular one was clogged to hell with ash and nicotine stains. Seriously. I've had some iMacs from smokers that smelled nasty, but were still relatively clean inside. Then I've seen iMacs that were utterly DISGUSTING on the inside. Every inch clogged with ash, the whole thing stained...ugh. We had to take it out back with an air compressor. No warranty on that one. I specifically asked Apple's techie tech support about that one (SPS) and asked if EXCESSIVE buildup of cigarette residue was cause for a warranty violation. They said yes and that if that thing had come into a repair depot, they'd have refused to work on it.
Bottom line: I seriously doubt this thing just smelled a bit like cigarettes. It was probably revolting, yellowed, and filled with ash.
I think even those who thought Psystar was awesome would be saying, "I told you so." Christ, the writing was on the wall from the beginning. Apple can spend more on hordes of lawyers than Psystar can gross in a year. They were dead meat from the get-go.
Several things didn't need to be open sourced, such as WebObjects and GCD. Quit your crying. FOSS zealots love to whine about Apple only doing what's required, but they fail to realize that it's a symbiotic relationship. Apple can use existing code to fit their needs, and in return, the open source community gets all of the improvements made by professional coders. It's a win/win, but the mini-Stallmans will never see it that way.
I'm sure it will come to Linux in some shape. You might not see it bundled and it may never work with every distro, but not everyone in the Linux community is as much a fanatic as RMS.
My iPhone has a link to Wikipedia anywhere I can get a signal, which is almost anywhere. What a pointless device this is.
Hell, you could just webvacuum Wikipedia onto a laptop, tablet, netbook, etc.
He speaks the truth. I won a case of diet Rockstar energy drinks at a college event. 24 of the little 8oz cans. That shit tasted like carbonated cough syrup, but goddammit, it was free, so I had to fucking drink it. It took a while, though.
Apple is notoriously anal about their products, sometimes to the point of being utter dicks. This is no secret. Also, citation needed on all those years of stonewalling. Darwin has been available practically since it went public. I don't recall any multiyear period of refusal to provide source code. Enlighten me.
And what would require them to do so? If you have a device and you want iTunes sync, write your own software and read the XML file. Yes, there IS playlist support. You could display someone's iTunes library just as it is in iTunes. No problem. Palm could have EASILY done this.
THIS THIS THIS X 1000!!! Palm is flat-out stupid in this. This whole fight could have easily been avoided (and their customers saved from having to wait if they updated iTunes), but they decided to take the retard route.
The USB spec also has a high degree of interoperability standards built in.
Funny, the USB-IF chose to ignore those standards (the ones that THEY set) as well! They backed Apple. Whoops. I guess they should have come to you when they interpreted their own rules.
As for the rest of your tripe, it all hinges on the same grotesquely malformed logic that has dominated all of your posts in here. You whine about Apple fanboys, but you're a shining example of how the anti-Apple crowd can be just as monstrously ignorant and dimwitted as the Apple fanboys.
Allowing you to purchase in the store, but preventing you from syncing the music or playing it on your choice of devices is an attempt to use their dominant market position in one industry to achieve dominance in another industry.
WRONG! Music purchased in the iTunes Store (within the last few months, anyway, the non-DRM'ed stuff) is playable on any device that supports AAC and can be put into any music player that supports it! Did you forget that in your argument?
Maybe you should try thinking this stuff through before spouting off your ridiculous kneejerk bullshit.
Holy hell, what a colossal load of idiotic, ignorant bullshit. So Apple hasn't given their changes in the code back to the community? Webkit is their fork of KHTML. Notice Google Chrome? Gee, where did that come from? Oh yeah, Webkit. Anyone can build their own Webkit browser if they want. It's probably the best browser code out there right now.
How about WebObjects? Apple open sourced that one all by themselves, no pressure, no legal issues, no incentive. They just gave that one away.
The publicly funded BSD OS has a license that SPECIFICALLY ALLOWS FOR THEM TO TAKE IT PRIVATE. Quit your whining. Apple adhered to the license and did WHAT THE LICENSE WAS DESIGNED TO ALLOW. Seriously, stop crying over it.
Why exactly should they have paid staff to specifically contribute to open source? Wait, their staff already does this as they give code back in accordance with licenses! Maybe you don't realize that Apple is a business. They are there to make money, like any other business. Ergo, what purpose does it serve to have someone specifically working on code designed for other people to use and not Apple?
Yes, they do have patents and lawyers, a bloody necessity for a company their size. Take a few business courses, kiddo.
Seriously, crawl out of Richard Stallman's beard sometime and see the business world for what it is, not what you so wistfully wish it would be.
Or you could stop being an ignorant chucklefuck. iTunes maintains an XML file of it's library data. It's a trivial matter for another app to read this and reconstruct said library itself.
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That wouldn't be covered either. Smoking is just one way out of many to wreck your computer and not get coverage. Spilling coffee into it has the same effect.
Wrong, pal. I work as an Apple tech at an authorized repair shop. Apple has Service Provider Support within their system (hence, techie tech support) that lets you ask administrative questions about numerous things, warranty coverage issues included.
Take your ignorant assumptions and blow them out your ass.
Having worked on many Macs that were owned by smokers, I'll bet that this particular one was clogged to hell with ash and nicotine stains. Seriously. I've had some iMacs from smokers that smelled nasty, but were still relatively clean inside. Then I've seen iMacs that were utterly DISGUSTING on the inside. Every inch clogged with ash, the whole thing stained...ugh. We had to take it out back with an air compressor. No warranty on that one. I specifically asked Apple's techie tech support about that one (SPS) and asked if EXCESSIVE buildup of cigarette residue was cause for a warranty violation. They said yes and that if that thing had come into a repair depot, they'd have refused to work on it.
Bottom line: I seriously doubt this thing just smelled a bit like cigarettes. It was probably revolting, yellowed, and filled with ash.
I think even those who thought Psystar was awesome would be saying, "I told you so." Christ, the writing was on the wall from the beginning. Apple can spend more on hordes of lawyers than Psystar can gross in a year. They were dead meat from the get-go.
Hey, the little guy isn't always the good guy and the big guy isn't always the bad guy.
So someone forgot to edit the usual template for benchmarks. But go ahead and attack an editing error rather than their methodology, AC.
No, the Mini power adapter puts out a max of 110w. Under load, the Mini actually draws a lot less:
http://www.applesource.com.au/mac/soa/Apple-Mac-Mini-2009-/0,2000070803,339295252,00.htm
Just under 30w under load. Might be a bit higher if you have a DVD in there. It draws a lot less juice than the adapter provides.
It may not be that easy, but OS X Server is infinitely easier to manage than Win 2k3 ever was, that's for damned sure.
Same here. My loans are in the 5-6% interest range. The rate just dropped a few months ago.
Um, the 3GS does video and all iPhones have had copy/paste for a while now.
Um, KHTML was not in wide use, at least nowhere even remotely close to Webkit today. Konqueror had diddly squat for marketshare.
Because professional coders are the only people who contribute to open source, right?
Several things didn't need to be open sourced, such as WebObjects and GCD. Quit your crying. FOSS zealots love to whine about Apple only doing what's required, but they fail to realize that it's a symbiotic relationship. Apple can use existing code to fit their needs, and in return, the open source community gets all of the improvements made by professional coders. It's a win/win, but the mini-Stallmans will never see it that way.
I'm sure it will come to Linux in some shape. You might not see it bundled and it may never work with every distro, but not everyone in the Linux community is as much a fanatic as RMS.
My iPhone has a link to Wikipedia anywhere I can get a signal, which is almost anywhere. What a pointless device this is. Hell, you could just webvacuum Wikipedia onto a laptop, tablet, netbook, etc.
Do they bark?
He speaks the truth. I won a case of diet Rockstar energy drinks at a college event. 24 of the little 8oz cans. That shit tasted like carbonated cough syrup, but goddammit, it was free, so I had to fucking drink it. It took a while, though.
Supercollider? I just met her!
Apple is notoriously anal about their products, sometimes to the point of being utter dicks. This is no secret. Also, citation needed on all those years of stonewalling. Darwin has been available practically since it went public. I don't recall any multiyear period of refusal to provide source code. Enlighten me.
And what would require them to do so? If you have a device and you want iTunes sync, write your own software and read the XML file. Yes, there IS playlist support. You could display someone's iTunes library just as it is in iTunes. No problem. Palm could have EASILY done this.
THIS THIS THIS X 1000!!! Palm is flat-out stupid in this. This whole fight could have easily been avoided (and their customers saved from having to wait if they updated iTunes), but they decided to take the retard route.
The USB spec also has a high degree of interoperability standards built in.
Funny, the USB-IF chose to ignore those standards (the ones that THEY set) as well! They backed Apple. Whoops. I guess they should have come to you when they interpreted their own rules.
As for the rest of your tripe, it all hinges on the same grotesquely malformed logic that has dominated all of your posts in here. You whine about Apple fanboys, but you're a shining example of how the anti-Apple crowd can be just as monstrously ignorant and dimwitted as the Apple fanboys.
Allowing you to purchase in the store, but preventing you from syncing the music or playing it on your choice of devices is an attempt to use their dominant market position in one industry to achieve dominance in another industry.
WRONG! Music purchased in the iTunes Store (within the last few months, anyway, the non-DRM'ed stuff) is playable on any device that supports AAC and can be put into any music player that supports it! Did you forget that in your argument?
Maybe you should try thinking this stuff through before spouting off your ridiculous kneejerk bullshit.
Holy hell, what a colossal load of idiotic, ignorant bullshit. So Apple hasn't given their changes in the code back to the community? Webkit is their fork of KHTML. Notice Google Chrome? Gee, where did that come from? Oh yeah, Webkit. Anyone can build their own Webkit browser if they want. It's probably the best browser code out there right now.
How about WebObjects? Apple open sourced that one all by themselves, no pressure, no legal issues, no incentive. They just gave that one away.
The publicly funded BSD OS has a license that SPECIFICALLY ALLOWS FOR THEM TO TAKE IT PRIVATE. Quit your whining. Apple adhered to the license and did WHAT THE LICENSE WAS DESIGNED TO ALLOW. Seriously, stop crying over it.
Why exactly should they have paid staff to specifically contribute to open source? Wait, their staff already does this as they give code back in accordance with licenses! Maybe you don't realize that Apple is a business. They are there to make money, like any other business. Ergo, what purpose does it serve to have someone specifically working on code designed for other people to use and not Apple?
Yes, they do have patents and lawyers, a bloody necessity for a company their size. Take a few business courses, kiddo.
Seriously, crawl out of Richard Stallman's beard sometime and see the business world for what it is, not what you so wistfully wish it would be.
Or you could stop being an ignorant chucklefuck. iTunes maintains an XML file of it's library data. It's a trivial matter for another app to read this and reconstruct said library itself.