It's not so much their mice as it is their keyboards. The DiNovo keyboards are beautiful devices with great feeling keys. The problem is, without drivers, you cannot program the keyboard and you CAN'T use the mouse that comes with it at all. They don't "just work". If Logitech would come up with an update to Logitech Control Center for OS X that would allow the OS to properly address their devices, Mac owners would pay their premium ($200) for the outstanding product that it is.
Instead, Logitech is ignoring this market entirely and alienating a lot of current customers by neglecting legitimate tech support issues on products they CLAIM to support. Stop into Logitech's own discussion forums and see for yourself how the majority of the Mac customers seem to feel about the level of service they're getting.
You have an MX700, right? That is the only mouse Logitech has released in a pig's age that actually came with OS X drivers. None of Logitech's current offerings have been blessed in a like manner. I am still waiting--actually, I have long given up waiting--for drivers to their diNovo products. I guess they just don't want the business. Apple probably figures they might as well scoop up that market share since Logitech clearly sees no value in it.
On the other hand, Kensington has supported the Mac since the beginning and they produce great products. I will never buy another Logitech product again, but I have become a big Kensington supporter.
There was only one Hitler. Yes, he served as a very bad example to the world. But the fact is Bush is NOTHING like Hitler. Newt Gingrich is nothing like Hitler. Rush Limbaugh is nothing like Hitler. Liberals who like to throw accusations/comparisons around flippantly that "$conservative_name is like Hitler" are being intellectually shallow and are exposing themselves as such. Then again, I suppose they are providing the rest of us with a service, in that respect.
Anyone who employs a comparison of their contrapuntist to Hitler has lost the argument. If you have a better argument to make, please make it. Talking about Hitler is as off-topic as you can get.
If Apple has so little influence in the PC world, why do other PC manufacturers constantly imitate or out-and-out rip off Apple's products?
To wit:
Mouse/menu/iconic operating system.
3.5" floppy disks.
Desktop publishing.
Active matrix LCD.
Laptop product design (keyboard up near the screen).
Laptop trackpads.
Firewire.
Probably a few dozen other things I'm not even aware of.
Apple is a major trendsetter in the industry and everyone seems to know that. I would say companies making their ubiquitous PC knockoffs running MS Windows would be more deserving to be called "a drop of water in the pond."
> I seem to remember a little thing called the 3 1/2 inch floppy diskette. I bet you think Sony really dropped the ball when they created that train wreck of a format.
And the computer on which this format made its debut was the Macintosh. (Everybody remember those lovable 5.25" floppies?)
I seem to remember USB already being established in the PC universe when the iMac first came out. As I recall, Jobs incorporated USB because he wanted all the same cool devices available for the PC to also be usable on the Mac (with the suitable application of proper drivers, which cost little to produce). I could be wrong, but that is how I remember it.
I do know that Macs were the first computers to ship with FIrewire, as this was a technology developed by Apple.
There's nothing to stop you from just sending the band a check. Go download all you want from p2p, then write a check for whatever you think it's worth--better yet, a money order.. those are anonymous--and just send it to them. That would make the RIAA (and the government) blow a gasket, if everybody just did that and ignored both of them. Of course finding an address for them might take a little Googling, but it can be dome.
Well I don't know what your experience is, and I have no intention of arguing with it, but I have seen WA literature to the effect of, if you get "too much" pleasure out of your job, you are addicted and have to "control" it. I have seen happy, very productive people, who happened to also be Al-Anon addicts, get sucked into the "workaholism" BS and start to question almost everything about themselves, to the point of quitting (her) job, depression and a lack of desire to even get out of bed.
Those 12-step programs have done a lot of people a lot of good, but they can be insidious. (Link is a bit of a rant, but a good deal of what's said is indeed true.
My god! You hit on it without even realizing. WORD ADDICTION! I use words all the TIME! I'm using them right now!! I've got to stop.. augh! I did it again! Okay okay, I'm stopping now. Really. Come on Ike, STOP!!
Actually now that I think of it, there are 12-steppers out there who believe in such a thing as "workaholism". They think it is a bona fide addiction problem. If you like your job too much, that's apparently bad for you. Horrors.. productive, happy people contributing positively to society are.. are.. ENJOYING it!! Somebody get this person some marijuana and a scented candle, stat!
I think you're much better off just growing a backbone and quitting ($ADDICTION_NAME) than going to a 12-step program and being brainwashed. Those things are scary. In fact some people give up their addiction to (whatever) and grow to be addicted to the 12-step program, thinking it's better for them somehow. I'm not sure which is worse, a substance abuse problem or being mentally reprogrammed.
I disagree with the premise until the next major leap forward in broadband speeds. I'm sorry, but it's been years since DSL and cable internet started becoming commonplace in homes and offices. There have been advances in wireless networking, but for the most part the speed of the internet has stayed relatively constant. And at these speeds, full length feature films are still too large to be more convenient than just popping a DVD in and pressing play.
Wake me up when Abilene starts becoming the new standard.. then I might be convinced.
I don't get it either. Society is very selective about which activities are considered okay and which ones are not. (cf. alcohol consumption, smoking, WWF, video games)
That is so wrong. (Getting fired for being photographed drinking a competitor's product.)
It is NOT, however, illegal. This guy's employer can fire him for whatever he wants. I think the employer is wrong in this case, but that doesn't mean this poor guy's rights were somehow violated. People get fired from jobs for wrong reasons all the freakin time.
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It's not so much their mice as it is their keyboards. The DiNovo keyboards are beautiful devices with great feeling keys. The problem is, without drivers, you cannot program the keyboard and you CAN'T use the mouse that comes with it at all. They don't "just work". If Logitech would come up with an update to Logitech Control Center for OS X that would allow the OS to properly address their devices, Mac owners would pay their premium ($200) for the outstanding product that it is.
Instead, Logitech is ignoring this market entirely and alienating a lot of current customers by neglecting legitimate tech support issues on products they CLAIM to support. Stop into Logitech's own discussion forums and see for yourself how the majority of the Mac customers seem to feel about the level of service they're getting.
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"I suggest a new strategy, Artoo. Let the wookie win."
You have an MX700, right? That is the only mouse Logitech has released in a pig's age that actually came with OS X drivers. None of Logitech's current offerings have been blessed in a like manner. I am still waiting--actually, I have long given up waiting--for drivers to their diNovo products. I guess they just don't want the business. Apple probably figures they might as well scoop up that market share since Logitech clearly sees no value in it.
On the other hand, Kensington has supported the Mac since the beginning and they produce great products. I will never buy another Logitech product again, but I have become a big Kensington supporter.
There was only one Hitler. Yes, he served as a very bad example to the world. But the fact is Bush is NOTHING like Hitler. Newt Gingrich is nothing like Hitler. Rush Limbaugh is nothing like Hitler. Liberals who like to throw accusations/comparisons around flippantly that "$conservative_name is like Hitler" are being intellectually shallow and are exposing themselves as such. Then again, I suppose they are providing the rest of us with a service, in that respect.
Anyone who employs a comparison of their contrapuntist to Hitler has lost the argument. If you have a better argument to make, please make it. Talking about Hitler is as off-topic as you can get.
If Apple has so little influence in the PC world, why do other PC manufacturers constantly imitate or out-and-out rip off Apple's products?
To wit:
Apple is a major trendsetter in the industry and everyone seems to know that. I would say companies making their ubiquitous PC knockoffs running MS Windows would be more deserving to be called "a drop of water in the pond."
> I seem to remember a little thing called the 3 1/2 inch floppy diskette. I bet you think Sony really dropped the ball when they created that train wreck of a format.
And the computer on which this format made its debut was the Macintosh. (Everybody remember those lovable 5.25" floppies?)
I seem to remember USB already being established in the PC universe when the iMac first came out. As I recall, Jobs incorporated USB because he wanted all the same cool devices available for the PC to also be usable on the Mac (with the suitable application of proper drivers, which cost little to produce). I could be wrong, but that is how I remember it.
I do know that Macs were the first computers to ship with FIrewire, as this was a technology developed by Apple.
There's nothing to stop you from just sending the band a check. Go download all you want from p2p, then write a check for whatever you think it's worth--better yet, a money order .. those are anonymous--and just send it to them. That would make the RIAA (and the government) blow a gasket, if everybody just did that and ignored both of them. Of course finding an address for them might take a little Googling, but it can be dome.
Exactly so.
You're assuming that everyone addicted to alcohol is physically addicted to it, not just addicted to the behavior or the feeling of being inebriated.
I would say some alcoholics fit your description .. others however need to change their behavior, which is an exercise in decision and perserverence.
Well I don't know what your experience is, and I have no intention of arguing with it, but I have seen WA literature to the effect of, if you get "too much" pleasure out of your job, you are addicted and have to "control" it. I have seen happy, very productive people, who happened to also be Al-Anon addicts, get sucked into the "workaholism" BS and start to question almost everything about themselves, to the point of quitting (her) job, depression and a lack of desire to even get out of bed.
Those 12-step programs have done a lot of people a lot of good, but they can be insidious. (Link is a bit of a rant, but a good deal of what's said is indeed true.
My god! You hit on it without even realizing. WORD ADDICTION! I use words all the TIME! I'm using them right now!! I've got to stop .. augh! I did it again! Okay okay, I'm stopping now. Really. Come on Ike, STOP!!
Oh noooooo .. I'm addicted ...
Actually now that I think of it, there are 12-steppers out there who believe in such a thing as "workaholism". They think it is a bona fide addiction problem. If you like your job too much, that's apparently bad for you. Horrors .. productive, happy people contributing positively to society are .. are .. ENJOYING it!! Somebody get this person some marijuana and a scented candle, stat!
Agreed .. mod grandparent up please!
I think you're much better off just growing a backbone and quitting ($ADDICTION_NAME) than going to a 12-step program and being brainwashed. Those things are scary. In fact some people give up their addiction to (whatever) and grow to be addicted to the 12-step program, thinking it's better for them somehow. I'm not sure which is worse, a substance abuse problem or being mentally reprogrammed.
That's just my experience, ymmv ..
Not many posts here have caused me to cheer at the screen, but yours did. Very well said.
I disagree with the premise until the next major leap forward in broadband speeds. I'm sorry, but it's been years since DSL and cable internet started becoming commonplace in homes and offices. There have been advances in wireless networking, but for the most part the speed of the internet has stayed relatively constant. And at these speeds, full length feature films are still too large to be more convenient than just popping a DVD in and pressing play.
Wake me up when Abilene starts becoming the new standard .. then I might be convinced.
I don't get it either. Society is very selective about which activities are considered okay and which ones are not. (cf. alcohol consumption, smoking, WWF, video games)
Everyone who writes fiction about people, I would add to that list. Damn weak-personalitied losers, the lot of them.
Mod parent Informative.
There were a few hot babes in it, but they never dressed like Wilma Deering, so that wasn't good enough of a draw.
That is so wrong. (Getting fired for being photographed drinking a competitor's product.)
It is NOT, however, illegal. This guy's employer can fire him for whatever he wants. I think the employer is wrong in this case, but that doesn't mean this poor guy's rights were somehow violated. People get fired from jobs for wrong reasons all the freakin time.
Lie = perjury. Actionable offense if proven true.