I thought this was disappointing, and I just told Apple so. Here is how you can too.
Call 1 800 275 2273
Select nothing. Wait until the voice prompts, and then select 0 or say operator.
Tell the operator you want to leave feedback. If you want, you can even give them your name and phone number, which creates a ticket that the PR people are forced to deal with.
simple yet effective, especially if lots of people do it.
I just updated, and opened Safari and noticed that I had a new bookmark in my bookmark bar;.Mac
I don't use.Mac, and did not know that not having it bookmarked was a bug.
This reminds me of my other Safari pet peeve. When I type a URL into the address bar, Safari "helpfully" tries to fill in my URL with sites that I don't even have bookmarked and have never visited as I type. How much do you think those companies paid for that placement?
In this surprisingly accessible book, British geneticist Wells sets out to answer long-standing anthropological questions of where humans came from, how we migrated and when we arrived in such places as Europe and North America. To trace the migration of human beings from our earliest homes in Africa to the farthest reaches of the globe, Wells calls on recent DNA research for support. Clues in the blood of present groups such as eastern Russia's Chukchi, as well as the biological remnants of long-extinct human clans, allow Wells to follow the Y chromosome as a relatively unaltered marker of human heritage. Eventually, working backward through time, he finds that the earliest common "ingredient" in males' genetic soup was found in a man Wells calls the "Eurasian Adam," who lived in Africa between 31,000 and 79,000 years ago. Each subsequent population, isolated from its fellows, gained new genetic markers, creating a map in time and space. Wells writes that the first modern humans "left Africa only 2,000 generations ago" and quickly fanned out across Asia, into Europe, and across the then-extant land bridge into the Americas. Using the same markers, he debunks the notion that Neanderthals were our ancestors, finds odd links between faraway peoples, and-most startlingly-discovers that all Native Americans can be traced to a group of perhaps a dozen people. By explaining his terminology and methods throughout the book, instead of in a chunk, Wells makes following the branches of the human tree seem easy. 44 color photos, 54 halftones and 3 maps.
gnothi seauton (Greek): Know thyself. (A precept inscribed in gold letters over the portico of the temple at Delphi. Its authorship has been ascribed to Pythagoras, to several of the wise men of Greece, and to Phemonoe, a mythical Greek poetess. According to Juvenal, this precept descended from heaven.
That list just saved me $100+. I'm on 10.3.8, and I didn't see anything on that list that I personally thought would improve my life much. I should send you $10 as a thank you! (but I won't)
While you are at it, what was Voom? There is no article to read (NFA?) and saying it "had 3 times as many HiDef channels as the next competitor" does not say what it was.
I'd have to say that the internet for me is, like you say, an absolutely necessary part of my work life without which I come to a standstill, and ALSO a disorder. For me I think of it as "Message retrieval disorder" the constant need to be checking email, voice mail, snail mail (I had that one long before I had email, I used to go check the mail box on Sunday, just in case...) It really is a compulsion, but unless my connection goes down or I try to go on (gasp) a vacation, it isn't a big enough problem to worry about.
They would have been useful if they weren't 12 years to late. The problem is that during the boom.com got all of the attention and all of the advertising money. If they had had a few hundred TLD's from the beginning, (.doctor,.car,.tourists,.hobby,.etc...) then people would be used to the idea. As it is, I bet a lot of people try to type www.blue.aero.com because.com is so drummed into their heads.
Richard Dawkins has some fascinating things to say on this subject, especially his musings on things that have evolved only once (or never). I highly recommend his books. See a quote below.
"How about things that have evolved only once, or not at all? The wheel, with a true, freely rotating bearing, seems to have evolved only once, in bacteria, before being finally invented in human technology... I put the challenge to my Oxford colleague the entomologist and naturalist George McGavin, and he came up with a nice list, but still a short one compared with the list of things that have evolved many times. Bombardier beetles of the genus Brachinus are unique in Dr McGavin's experience in mixing chemicals to make an explosion. The ingredients are made and held in separate (obviously!) glands. When danger threatens, they are squirted into a chamber near the rear end of the beetle, where they explode, forcing noxious (caustic and boiling-hot) liquid out through a directed nozzle at the enemy..."
When my daughter (age 1.5) had trouble breathing, we had to take her to the hospital. They gave her some vaporized steroid that relieved the symptoms, and in the morning sent us home with our own vaporizer, and a prescription or two. They did NOTHING to CURE her, just medicine to relieve they symptoms. We didn't like the idea of spraying steroids in our daughters face every time she started to relapse, (and relapse she did) and we sure didn't want to go back for another night in the hospital.
It turns out that homeopaths were the ones who could and did offer her remedies that cured her, stopped the labored breathing without drugs, and it never went back again. Was it a placebo on a 1 and a half year old? I sure don't care! I just wanted her to get better, and she did.
I've got a question I've been dying to ask, and since the subject is up, I think this is my opportunity.
What is leeching in a BT network? (Yes, that is a real and sincere question.) I thought that with BT you had to upload the file you were downloading, so how can you leech? I'm not saying you can't, but I would love to hear what it means.
A bunch of friends of mine live in a VERY small town called North Fork. It's in the mountains of Central California near Yosemite National Park. (zip code 93643) The town has zero cell phone reception. I mean even right down town, there is NOTHING None of the companies cover it. I've always thought that this was because the town has such a large American Indian population, and the big companies don't give a shit.
Now what if all of the companies got calls from their/. customers asking for coverage there. Yes this is a CALL TO ACTION. If you are in the USA, grab your cell (do it now before you forget), dial customer service (free call), and ask them to start covering North Fork, CA. The people there thank you.
I'd never want to trade how we pay for phones here in the USA for the European model. Last time I was in London, it cost 7 cents a minute to call the US, but something like a buck a minute to call a friend on his British cell phone 4 miles away from us. Not only was it expensive, but I just could not get used to paying to make a call to a cell phone.
And lets not even get started on how much my Dutch friend paid for really shitty dial up internet service! A European might complain about our cell coverage (and rightly so really) but at least we can use a land line. What alternative do you have when the internet service blows? None!
"Just a FYI Apple, no matter how cheap something is it is NEVER as cheap as free. Free will always win out."
I think that statement is pretty ignorant. If I have to spend hours wading around the internet looking for files that may or may not be in a format I can use and may or may not get corrupt, AND I may or may not get sued for $5.000 for doing it, then free is pretty expensive.
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Call 1 800 275 2273
Select nothing. Wait until the voice prompts, and then select 0 or say operator.
Tell the operator you want to leave feedback. If you want, you can even give them your name and phone number, which creates a ticket that the PR people are forced to deal with.
simple yet effective, especially if lots of people do it.
I think I have never used MSN search in my life. I suppose other people do, but how many? Anybody know MSN search share percentages?
On one hand, I see that you have made a good point. On the other, I bet you are not a parent.
I don't use .Mac, and did not know that not having it bookmarked was a bug.
This reminds me of my other Safari pet peeve. When I type a URL into the address bar, Safari "helpfully" tries to fill in my URL with sites that I don't even have bookmarked and have never visited as I type. How much do you think those companies paid for that placement?
From Publishers Weekly:
In this surprisingly accessible book, British geneticist Wells sets out to answer long-standing anthropological questions of where humans came from, how we migrated and when we arrived in such places as Europe and North America. To trace the migration of human beings from our earliest homes in Africa to the farthest reaches of the globe, Wells calls on recent DNA research for support. Clues in the blood of present groups such as eastern Russia's Chukchi, as well as the biological remnants of long-extinct human clans, allow Wells to follow the Y chromosome as a relatively unaltered marker of human heritage. Eventually, working backward through time, he finds that the earliest common "ingredient" in males' genetic soup was found in a man Wells calls the "Eurasian Adam," who lived in Africa between 31,000 and 79,000 years ago. Each subsequent population, isolated from its fellows, gained new genetic markers, creating a map in time and space. Wells writes that the first modern humans "left Africa only 2,000 generations ago" and quickly fanned out across Asia, into Europe, and across the then-extant land bridge into the Americas. Using the same markers, he debunks the notion that Neanderthals were our ancestors, finds odd links between faraway peoples, and-most startlingly-discovers that all Native Americans can be traced to a group of perhaps a dozen people. By explaining his terminology and methods throughout the book, instead of in a chunk, Wells makes following the branches of the human tree seem easy. 44 color photos, 54 halftones and 3 maps.
I went to a meetup meeting once, and I was the only one to show up. What a drag. I never botherd again.
Definition of: gnothi seauton
gnothi seauton (Greek): Know thyself. (A precept inscribed in gold letters over the portico of the temple at Delphi. Its authorship has been ascribed to Pythagoras, to several of the wise men of Greece, and to Phemonoe, a mythical Greek poetess. According to Juvenal, this precept descended from heaven.
That list just saved me $100+. I'm on 10.3.8, and I didn't see anything on that list that I personally thought would improve my life much. I should send you $10 as a thank you! (but I won't)
Thanks for fixing my link. I had a brain fart and forgot how to do it properly.
DBS stands for what?
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/mar/HQ_04093_ subvocal_speech.html
Are they using different methods? If they are (no time to RTHA) that would be cool, as it might double the chances of a working system.
While you are at it, what was Voom? There is no article to read (NFA?) and saying it "had 3 times as many HiDef channels as the next competitor" does not say what it was.
I'd have to say that the internet for me is, like you say, an absolutely necessary part of my work life without which I come to a standstill, and ALSO a disorder. For me I think of it as "Message retrieval disorder" the constant need to be checking email, voice mail, snail mail (I had that one long before I had email, I used to go check the mail box on Sunday, just in case...) It really is a compulsion, but unless my connection goes down or I try to go on (gasp) a vacation, it isn't a big enough problem to worry about.
They would have been useful if they weren't 12 years to late. The problem is that during the boom .com got all of the attention and all of the advertising money. If they had had a few hundred TLD's from the beginning, (.doctor, .car, .tourists, .hobby, .etc...) then people would be used to the idea. As it is, I bet a lot of people try to type www.blue.aero.com because .com is so drummed into their heads.
"How about things that have evolved only once, or not at all? The wheel, with a true, freely rotating bearing, seems to have evolved only once, in bacteria, before being finally invented in human technology... I put the challenge to my Oxford colleague the entomologist and naturalist George McGavin, and he came up with a nice list, but still a short one compared with the list of things that have evolved many times. Bombardier beetles of the genus Brachinus are unique in Dr McGavin's experience in mixing chemicals to make an explosion. The ingredients are made and held in separate (obviously!) glands. When danger threatens, they are squirted into a chamber near the rear end of the beetle, where they explode, forcing noxious (caustic and boiling-hot) liquid out through a directed nozzle at the enemy..."
I was going to be the first post, but I could not get it in on time.
Am I the only one who thinks that #11 The Wow signal is pretty lame in comparison to all of the others on the list?
It turns out that homeopaths were the ones who could and did offer her remedies that cured her, stopped the labored breathing without drugs, and it never went back again. Was it a placebo on a 1 and a half year old? I sure don't care! I just wanted her to get better, and she did.
What is a crisco party?
What is leeching in a BT network? (Yes, that is a real and sincere question.) I thought that with BT you had to upload the file you were downloading, so how can you leech? I'm not saying you can't, but I would love to hear what it means.
no I got a free cell phone with a contract.
Plus, how can you say that the prices are similar? I didn't HAVE a European cell phone, and I still paid thru the nose, just to call someone who did!
Now what if all of the companies got calls from their /. customers asking for coverage there. Yes this is a CALL TO ACTION. If you are in the USA, grab your cell (do it now before you forget), dial customer service (free call), and ask them to start covering North Fork, CA. The people there thank you.
And lets not even get started on how much my Dutch friend paid for really shitty dial up internet service! A European might complain about our cell coverage (and rightly so really) but at least we can use a land line. What alternative do you have when the internet service blows? None!
I just deleted the sports section and it felt GOOD.
I think that statement is pretty ignorant. If I have to spend hours wading around the internet looking for files that may or may not be in a format I can use and may or may not get corrupt, AND I may or may not get sued for $5.000 for doing it, then free is pretty expensive.
$.05 sounds really good compared to that.