$40 a month for 3GB...i often go over up to about 5GB without really meaning to with playing online PS3 Games, they work mostly ok on dialup speeds, about 5KB per second it gets throttled back to down from over 200KB per second. Still painful to use the regular internet, and things like Youtube just get cut off. I like Podcasts too, a 50MB podcast like Leo Laportes ones is just painful on dialup speeds.
on Telecom here in NZ, I cant get off this plan either, so upsetting. I often try and restrain myself, but it always goes over, I get to about 5GB a month from playing ps3 online a little bit as well as OS updates all the time, its a real pain, some months Apple will have 500MB+ of updates etc. My friend bought a brand new iMac, turned it on and needed a few GB of updates for it,....he had a 1GB a month plan....when we go over our cap, it drops to "64k" speed, from 200KB+ downloads per second to about 5KB per second max.....how could anyone be expected to download "2GB" of data on that? And you cant pause it either, it has to be running constantly....
They offered unlimited plans for only 10 dollars more than what Im paying now! They got snapped up so quick and their networks got overloaded, it was all over the news here, downloads down to 1KB per second, it could take minutes to get into your email etc! So all the ones who had it got to keep it, and they stopped offering it. $40 a month for 3GB, it was $50 for unlimited remember, now its about $100+ for about 150GB a month on their best plan, something like a dollar a GB. Its bullshit.
another good one below is "I knew Microsoft SAM was just a cover!" ha, as in Surface to Air Missile and MS Sam which was some kids program kinda thing "making computers fun!"
Its bullshit isnt it? And you hear Americans whine about everything, The rest of the world generally pays much more for petrol than America, but when it goes up a cent over there, christ, the whole world hears them scream! It's all over the covers of every magazine, on tv, "you're being ripped off and its all those greedy terrorists making money off us", and then stories about Hydrogen cars etc etc....
You have some great points, as a Mac user you make me sad when you tell it like it is:(
I mentioned my Switcher friend here in NZ, he wanted to replace his $1500 computer which had to be sold (long story) a month or so old, to get the comparable iMac was.....$3000 NZD including a 3 year warranty and Office for Mac, and it didnt have a TV tuner card like the media centre did. I really felt bad for him.
In Europe (UK at least) Apple computers are taxed more, I've heard the stories of people flying to america to buy their Macs there, even with the plane tickets it still works out less than buying at a local shop! WTF?
Im a big Mac guy, but even I felt bad for my friend who wanted to switch, he wanted to rebuy his computer again (long story), his $1500 NZD PC (some media centre thing with tv tuner card etc) was roughly equal in specs to the $3000 NZD iMac he ended up getting, once the warranty on the Mac was brought up to 3 years as well as rebuying Office for Mac. It was painful, and he misses the TV Tuner, ones I've seen that plug in cost HUNDREDS! Ouch.
Maybe in America, but I think in many parts of the world, Macs are very sadly more expensive than PCs. I compare my Macs to computers a friend has built for himself, and theres a big difference in price. I would still take the Mac for design and OSX, but they are not cheap here in New Zealand:)
I listen to Leo Laporte, The Tech Guy podcast while I work, the amount of people who have problems updating XP to service pack 2 and 3 is nuts, it seems to me , a mac user, that it causes problems for everyone who has it. And then, you can uninstall it (thats if the computer boots), BUT then you are left open to all the holes! Internet banking etc, I wouldnt feel safe doing it without being updated!
Not being a fanboi for Apple, but you cant be serious calling XP rock solid!
Have you ever visited New Zealand? Just making it clear, its not like New Zealand is some tiny island that you can see the other end of:) Mountains? Not really where people actually live, that would be like saying all America is desert (las vegas etc). We are actually a first world nation in New Zealand, not some mythical backwards rock before the icebergs:)
I've never driven in Germany, as a young person myself, I would hate the idea of the autobahn, borrowing my parents car and being pressured into taking it to the limit etc. Yet europe has stict safety standards, I'm sure something would be worked out if these restrictive keys took off. I dont see any reason why the parents wouldnt let a child have the "full" key if they trusted them enough to drive the family BMW at 300Kph.
And here's a "big ole" iPod Classic.
Dimensions:
10.5 mm X 61.8 mm X 103.5 mm (0.41" X 2.4" X 4.1")
Weight:.140 kg (4.9 ounces)
Thanks for making me laugh by using KG there, guess you are American eh, hehe, 140KG is more than what even quite fat people weigh:)
Not being a grammar nazi, its just a funny mistake for a metric user to find, reminds me of The Simpsons , a 1000Gram weight drops onto Homer in Mr Burns office,
"Mr. Burns: [inspecting the weight] Hmm, sounded large when I ordered it. [sighs] I can't make hide nor hair of these metric booby traps"
well ok, but surely the american poor need american money spent on them more than the "poor brown skinned people on the other side of the world" need your bombs?
Thanks for your reply.
Ill repost from part of my post above
"I like violent video games but am against all this kinda development in real life.
Now, I live in Liberal NZ, where parents are not actually allowed to smack their children on the bottom when they do something wrong, thats child abuse here! We cant have guns for self defense etc etc. Just a few weeks ago a police officer planting a tracking device onto a car outside a suspected drug house was chased down and shot to death by a high powered air rifle. The police backup, one of the few police groups allowed to carry guns, were too far away to save him.
However, with all the problems in the world, why is America spending huge money on becoming star wars? Its crazy. Why not use that money to feed your own poor? To protect your own tax payers from Hurricanes, from banks going kaput etc etc. Instead, now 100 million dollar fighter jets get lasers to zap people with. Some terrible things will happen with these weapons."
still with me? Great:) When they said that the US is a warmonger, can you think of another country that jumps into other peoples problems? On the other side of the world? That has the fanciest fighter jets, attack helicopters, tanks, bombs, guns.....in the world?
Also, the US never seems to work with the UN, the EU etc etc. Its like theres America, "The Bad Guys" and the rest of the world. I just wish we could all get along:)
have a great day, thank you for reading my post.
I like violent video games but am against all this kinda development in real life.
Now, I live in Liberal NZ, where parents are not actually allowed to smack their children on the bottom when they do something wrong, thats child abuse here! We cant have guns for self defense etc etc. Just a few weeks ago a police officer planting a tracking device onto a car outside a suspected drug house was chased down and shot to death by a high powered air rifle. The police backup, one of the few police groups allowed to carry guns, were too far away to save him.
However, with all the problems in the world, why is America spending huge money on becoming star wars? Its crazy. Why not use that money to feed your own poor? To protect your own tax payers from Hurricanes, from banks going kaput etc etc. Instead, now 100 million dollar fighter jets get lasers to zap people with. Some terrible things will happen with these weapons.
Its a terrible thing that you guys have that whole contract thing. Here in New Zealand we get encouraged to use a plan, but out of all the cellphones around, I would think that more would be on prepaid (thats what the rest of the world calls when you put buy a $20 or whatever top up card, it has grey stuff on the back you scratch off to reveal a code that you txt to your provider, giving you $20 on your phone).
Teenagers almost all are on Prepaid. Txting it HUGE in New Zealand, we have two real cell providers, laugh if you will, one CDMA and one GSM. Ive always liked the GSM one more. The CDMA provider Telecom is a monopoly who own all the phone lines in NZ, they offer 500 TXT messages for 10 dollars a month, it used to be unlimited but people "overused it" they said, one guy sent 27K messages in a month the news report mentioned.
Telecom are shutting their CDMA network down to make a GSM network, maybe they will be able to run the iPhone then.
I bought my original iPhone for $790 NZ, thats $540 of your US money according to google. I put my sim in and it just worked, my sim was already on prepaid, I put 20 dollars or so on and that will last me a couple months since it costs 20 cents for each txt I dont use my phone much:) It was incredible having an iPhone before it was in my country, I got lots of attention from the ladies.
Your locked plan situation really sucks, in NZ you can get the iPhone 3G legally, it costs about 980 NZD, google says thats $663 USD.
I do agree that DRM equals bad and that Apple shouldnt be so bossy about what gets on the iPhone etc, but some of your comment is awfully weird.
You say that if you dont like what you get at one american store that you can go elsewhere, but if you have an iPhone you are stuck with it? Isnt that like buying a desk from Store A and then not liking the accessories they have to put on it? But you cant find any nice stuff from Stores B and C either, they are all too big to fit on the Desk from Store A? Is it Store A's fault?
Sorry for the funky attempt at a metaphor, but if you dont like the iPhone you could always get one of the other hundred phones on the market. So many whiners about Apple stuff, you see them going on about "I wont buy a Mac until they make it 50 dollars cheaper and give it a Blu Ray Drive", even if Apple did that they would soon find something else to complain about.
Im not an Apple Fanboy, even though I love my 12 inch Powerbook more than life itself. I do hope that they let more stuff onto the iPhone. I just wish it was perfect, hardware wise it certainly must be close! Theres no other phone I would have.
heavens, you say I havnt used Windows much when you have never touched OSX? OSX is like Windows compared to the DOS of prior Mac OS versions!
I used Windows until about 2 years ago, when I had saved the money to buy my beautiful 12 inch Powerbook.
So in XP whats the command for Expose? that displays all open programs/windows in a bunch of different ways, it takes you to the desktop view etc etc.
If Vista added similar features, it took them bloody long enough.
Theres not many things that Windows does better than OSX. Try OSX sometime, If you are American you probably have an Apple Store to visit, Id like to go to america just to visit one:P
Guess Mac users download their copies of Photoshop:)
Dont take me as a arrogant Mac user, but have you looked in many design outfits? Its always been a Mac domain. If you think that Windows and OSX are equal in time it takes to get things done, then you havnt used the Mac much:) OSX has plenty more key shortcuts etc to move about, desktop view, switch programs, tabs etc.
Not saying you are wrong, dont want to start a fight, just saying that I think you would find the Mac to be faster as it uses less steps etc.
I think you have a good post, but would just like to say that the Im A Mac ads arnt really about putting windows down that much, you see in a lot that the Mac and the PC are friends, one of the ones Im thinking of is about the Mac being an iMac etc and needing one glossy white box for shipping compared to some cheap brand PC needing a bunch of brown boxes.
Mac is like "are you coming"? and PC says something like "no, parts of me are over there, plus I need to spend some time deleting the trial software applications that come with me" etc, Mac then says "Oh, well Ill just wait for you over here, I'll shoot a movie and make a dvd for you while I wait" or something like that.
Most of its genuine surprise from Mac that the PC cannot do what he takes for granted. "what, you have to restart now?" "whats a virus?" etc.
I really hope Microsoft can think of some positive ads, about something unique that windows computers come with. How about advertising Paint? Macs dont come with any kind of drawing tool, which is good enough to resize images etc. I miss that since I switched:)
thats the first one of those russian reversals that has made me laugh in a long time:) thankyou! It just goes to show what a heap of crap Vista is, oh god, why wont MS just die? Their best work was Windows 95 really, those were there best days surely, when they took over the market and seemed new and innovative.
Just asking, I mean I bought a jailbroken iPhone before they came to my country, so I can understand, sort of, but then its not like you have to pay money to get the iPod working (250 NZ dollars our money a month! wtf! for refference a big meal at mcdonalds etc would cost a little under 10 dollars).
Ive heard that people use Rockbox because it lets the iPod play more formats?
cant believe you didnt get the joke:) If you read things aloud, it makes it easier to understand at times, getting the emphasis on certain words right etc. Such as "honour" above.
Hey, China made my 12 inch Powerbook, which I love so much, I give it a hug each time I put it in and out of its bag, which I do a total of 4 times a day:)
Im from New Zealand, you should understand that we had a thing called the "Fart Tax", we are very progressive about global warming etc, our government actually tries to make the world a better place, shocking eh? I dont quite believe all our fuss is going to make such a difference but at least we get to say we are first in the world to do yet another thing.
Anywho, cows etc BURP the gas, not fart it, they burp a heck of a lot, thats how they emit the gas.
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$40 a month for 3GB...i often go over up to about 5GB without really meaning to with playing online PS3 Games, they work mostly ok on dialup speeds, about 5KB per second it gets throttled back to down from over 200KB per second. Still painful to use the regular internet, and things like Youtube just get cut off. I like Podcasts too, a 50MB podcast like Leo Laportes ones is just painful on dialup speeds.
They offered unlimited plans for only 10 dollars more than what Im paying now! They got snapped up so quick and their networks got overloaded, it was all over the news here, downloads down to 1KB per second, it could take minutes to get into your email etc! So all the ones who had it got to keep it, and they stopped offering it. $40 a month for 3GB, it was $50 for unlimited remember, now its about $100+ for about 150GB a month on their best plan, something like a dollar a GB. Its bullshit.
another good one below is "I knew Microsoft SAM was just a cover!" ha, as in Surface to Air Missile and MS Sam which was some kids program kinda thing "making computers fun!"
great post :)
you beat me to it, great post :)
I wish I lived in america, sometimes :)
I mentioned my Switcher friend here in NZ, he wanted to replace his $1500 computer which had to be sold (long story) a month or so old, to get the comparable iMac was.....$3000 NZD including a 3 year warranty and Office for Mac, and it didnt have a TV tuner card like the media centre did. I really felt bad for him.
Im a big Mac guy, but even I felt bad for my friend who wanted to switch, he wanted to rebuy his computer again (long story), his $1500 NZD PC (some media centre thing with tv tuner card etc) was roughly equal in specs to the $3000 NZD iMac he ended up getting, once the warranty on the Mac was brought up to 3 years as well as rebuying Office for Mac. It was painful, and he misses the TV Tuner, ones I've seen that plug in cost HUNDREDS! Ouch.
Maybe in America, but I think in many parts of the world, Macs are very sadly more expensive than PCs. I compare my Macs to computers a friend has built for himself, and theres a big difference in price. I would still take the Mac for design and OSX, but they are not cheap here in New Zealand :)
Not being a fanboi for Apple, but you cant be serious calling XP rock solid!
I've never driven in Germany, as a young person myself, I would hate the idea of the autobahn, borrowing my parents car and being pressured into taking it to the limit etc. Yet europe has stict safety standards, I'm sure something would be worked out if these restrictive keys took off. I dont see any reason why the parents wouldnt let a child have the "full" key if they trusted them enough to drive the family BMW at 300Kph.
And here's a "big ole" iPod Classic. Dimensions: 10.5 mm X 61.8 mm X 103.5 mm (0.41" X 2.4" X 4.1") Weight: .140 kg (4.9 ounces)
Thanks for making me laugh by using KG there, guess you are American eh, hehe, 140KG is more than what even quite fat people weigh :)
Not being a grammar nazi, its just a funny mistake for a metric user to find, reminds me of The Simpsons , a 1000Gram weight drops onto Homer in Mr Burns office,
"Mr. Burns: [inspecting the weight] Hmm, sounded large when I ordered it. [sighs] I can't make hide nor hair of these metric booby traps"
well ok, but surely the american poor need american money spent on them more than the "poor brown skinned people on the other side of the world" need your bombs? Thanks for your reply.
Also, the US never seems to work with the UN, the EU etc etc. Its like theres America, "The Bad Guys" and the rest of the world. I just wish we could all get along :)
have a great day, thank you for reading my post.
Now, I live in Liberal NZ, where parents are not actually allowed to smack their children on the bottom when they do something wrong, thats child abuse here! We cant have guns for self defense etc etc. Just a few weeks ago a police officer planting a tracking device onto a car outside a suspected drug house was chased down and shot to death by a high powered air rifle. The police backup, one of the few police groups allowed to carry guns, were too far away to save him.
However, with all the problems in the world, why is America spending huge money on becoming star wars? Its crazy. Why not use that money to feed your own poor? To protect your own tax payers from Hurricanes, from banks going kaput etc etc. Instead, now 100 million dollar fighter jets get lasers to zap people with. Some terrible things will happen with these weapons.
Telecom are shutting their CDMA network down to make a GSM network, maybe they will be able to run the iPhone then.
I bought my original iPhone for $790 NZ, thats $540 of your US money according to google. I put my sim in and it just worked, my sim was already on prepaid, I put 20 dollars or so on and that will last me a couple months since it costs 20 cents for each txt I dont use my phone much :) It was incredible having an iPhone before it was in my country, I got lots of attention from the ladies.
Your locked plan situation really sucks, in NZ you can get the iPhone 3G legally, it costs about 980 NZD, google says thats $663 USD.
You say that if you dont like what you get at one american store that you can go elsewhere, but if you have an iPhone you are stuck with it? Isnt that like buying a desk from Store A and then not liking the accessories they have to put on it? But you cant find any nice stuff from Stores B and C either, they are all too big to fit on the Desk from Store A? Is it Store A's fault?
Sorry for the funky attempt at a metaphor, but if you dont like the iPhone you could always get one of the other hundred phones on the market. So many whiners about Apple stuff, you see them going on about "I wont buy a Mac until they make it 50 dollars cheaper and give it a Blu Ray Drive", even if Apple did that they would soon find something else to complain about.
Im not an Apple Fanboy, even though I love my 12 inch Powerbook more than life itself. I do hope that they let more stuff onto the iPhone. I just wish it was perfect, hardware wise it certainly must be close! Theres no other phone I would have.
I used Windows until about 2 years ago, when I had saved the money to buy my beautiful 12 inch Powerbook.
So in XP whats the command for Expose? that displays all open programs/windows in a bunch of different ways, it takes you to the desktop view etc etc.
If Vista added similar features, it took them bloody long enough.
Theres not many things that Windows does better than OSX. Try OSX sometime, If you are American you probably have an Apple Store to visit, Id like to go to america just to visit one :P
Thank you for your reply though.
Dont take me as a arrogant Mac user, but have you looked in many design outfits? Its always been a Mac domain. If you think that Windows and OSX are equal in time it takes to get things done, then you havnt used the Mac much :) OSX has plenty more key shortcuts etc to move about, desktop view, switch programs, tabs etc.
Not saying you are wrong, dont want to start a fight, just saying that I think you would find the Mac to be faster as it uses less steps etc.
Have a great day.
Mac is like "are you coming"? and PC says something like "no, parts of me are over there, plus I need to spend some time deleting the trial software applications that come with me" etc, Mac then says "Oh, well Ill just wait for you over here, I'll shoot a movie and make a dvd for you while I wait" or something like that.
Most of its genuine surprise from Mac that the PC cannot do what he takes for granted. "what, you have to restart now?" "whats a virus?" etc.
I really hope Microsoft can think of some positive ads, about something unique that windows computers come with. How about advertising Paint? Macs dont come with any kind of drawing tool, which is good enough to resize images etc. I miss that since I switched :)
I'm (in american) 6'4 feet and 170 pounds, its not hard to stay in shape. I ride a exercycle while using Wikipedia etc :)
thats the first one of those russian reversals that has made me laugh in a long time :) thankyou! It just goes to show what a heap of crap Vista is, oh god, why wont MS just die? Their best work was Windows 95 really, those were there best days surely, when they took over the market and seemed new and innovative.
Ive heard that people use Rockbox because it lets the iPod play more formats?
I do agree with you about the space walk comment, really, if that is what it is, then its more of a vacuum test.
Hey, China made my 12 inch Powerbook, which I love so much, I give it a hug each time I put it in and out of its bag, which I do a total of 4 times a day :)
Anywho, cows etc BURP the gas, not fart it, they burp a heck of a lot, thats how they emit the gas.