If you didn't get Applecare, your warranty is only 1 year. It is two years in Europe.
Even if you're still in warranty, if Apple deems the issue is caused by the user, you're *still* out of pocket. And which vendor actually does that? Apple certainly not.
You're paying out of pocket unless Apple has a specific program that address that particular issue out of warranty. No, Apple usually fixes stuff for free, regardless how old your device is.
I'm an Apple customer since 1992.
all because they designed the keyboard very badly. Yes, I hear that the keyboard is very bad. I tried one last year in a shop. Don't feel any difference to my 2014 Mac Book Air or to my 2008 Mac Book Pro.
If you get the parts yourself you will probably be cheaper. YAS!
But you have to assemble it. And get a license to run it on the streets.
Not aimed at you, but honestly: if it is not your hobby to "search the internet", "buy the cheapest", and "craft it yourself"... why would anyone who has a real life bother to get the cheapest most powerful PC imaginable by doing it himself?
Sure I can craft myself a nice PC... but it is no worth my time. I earn in an hour more than wasting that hour would safe me. And frankly: I rather spent that hour reading a book and simply pay the money instead of googeling for cheap materials and crafting my own machine. But who am I... typing this on an an overpricesunderperforming Mac Book Air 2014... strange: the performance for having Facebook open in one window and typing slashdot comment in the other is good enough. Ooooops, wait, spinnball, an email just arrived...
When there is a freak cloudy but humid day people still want to run their air-conditioners. And why would you want to run an AC then? Sorry, that is beyond me.
In the short term more solar would make electricity more expensive Considering that solar power is the cheapest power on earth, that comment is pretty retarded.
The proper spelling is Ju Jutsu;D But I'm glad that I have not to handle 8 year old trans gender friends of my kids.
Not that I'm "transgenderphobe" but I think I would have trouble to talk about issues like that.
Interesting would be to know why your kids friends is "felling" "transgender" at such a young age. A huge percentage are people who got born as hermaphrodites and by pressure of doctors or stupid decision of parents got forced a gender on them.
By what metric? the "I like to make up things metric?" By the metric of reduction by percent. You go from 100% to 40%... that is a reduction by 60%... plain and simple.
Global warming is a true problem Germany needs to treat it that way instead of pretending they are. As we are the world leader in treating that problem, you addressing the wrong ones.
Hell in the U.S. half our population doesn't even believe in global warming and we are doing a much better job of emissions reduction than you. No you don't. You did in the last 3 years. And we do since 30 years. The total amount of CO2 we did not produce is probably 50 times higher than your reduction in recent years.
There is no program in the US reducing heating costs for houses by financing or supporting or subsidicing insulation...
In Germany it is law that you have to insulate your house to cut down heating costs, in CO2, by a factor of ten or more.
If you think winter temperatures are up by 20C, I'd like to know where you get that data from. By living there? Hello? Actually the peak up is 50C from -30C to +23C.
Anthropogenic warming is caused by solar forcing You seem to mix up what the terms "anthropogenic" and "solar" mean..
which is weakest in whatever hemisphere is currently experiencing winter. If your "solar" would be true, it would nevertheless be nonsense as it is completely unrelated to the hemisphere... idiot.
The idea here is that the airport would (as I suspect they already do, esp. for an international flight,) operate on GMT/Z. No, they operate on local time. What else would they do?
People simply underestimate how complicated it is in real life to work in your head in a different time zone.
The idea of what I was writing was that to freak out and demand they delay a minor change like this to the status quo, just because they didn't give very much lead-time, seems overblown and almost hysterical, hence the sarcastic "OH, the HUMANITY". For power companies such a "change of change" is a nightmare. Unscheduled even more so.
The fact that it is so poorly engineered that a fragment of dust requires a several hundred dollar repair is just icing on the cake. It does not take a several 100 dollar repair. It is repaired for free
I basically never use/used an external keyboard on my Mac laptops. Albeit my newest one is a MacBook Air from 2014...
I tried to use my old Mac SE keyboard with an Adapter to convert ADB to USB under windows 98, was kind of fun, but failed regularly for no apparent reason and you needed to reinstall the drivers.
Apple is in fact less popular in Europe and people tend to keep devices longer. That is total bollocks.
Ever ride a train? In the restaurant wagon?
90% of the laptops and "pads" there are Apple.
Some countries have up to 50% Apple market share, as e.g. France.
The only french guys I know having a PC, have a Mac, too!
I live in Thailand, when I'm not working... go into a air coned coffee shop, what do you see on the tables: Macs... iPads... sometimes an Android Pad. Most definitely you only see a windows laptop once a day or even less often. And the price difference here between an MacBook Ai versus a cheap Chinese "laptop" is a factor of 4 or 5... not just $200.
The only non Apple product that has some traction are obviously Android devices and surprisingly MS Surface pads (forgot the name).
Anything that operates internationally or trans-nationally should just be running off GMT/ZULU time anyway, so it shouldn't adversely impact that. So you want people who fly once in their lifetime to know that the plane at their airport is nodeparting 13:00 local time but at 13:00 ZULU? And you exoect them to calculate the correct time themselves?
The problem is that solar storms can "compress" the magnetic field of the earth.
If the storm suddenly loses power, the magnetic field springs back into its old shape instantly. That causes millsios of ampere induction current into powerlines and communication lines.
So, yes, "children" have the right to be informed about sex, contraception etc. Both according to "Charter of Human Rights" and "The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU"
Do you see very many 14 year old children vote for MPs of the EU parliament? No, the voting age for the EU is surprisingly 16. And for most national institutions 18. And what exactly has the voting age to do with sexual freedom?
The time change is done to keep sunrise around the same time (by the clock). That is bollocks. First of all you can read up why DST was introduced... and it has nothing to do with farmers. Secondly, if you looked at a globe and made your mind up, you would grasp what bollocks you just wrote.
The UK have DST, yes. But that is not GMT. GMT is fixed... like UTC. Read a book about it, it is to complicated to explain the difference between GMT and UTC in a/. post.
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If you didn't get Applecare, your warranty is only 1 year.
It is two years in Europe.
Even if you're still in warranty, if Apple deems the issue is caused by the user, you're *still* out of pocket. And which vendor actually does that? Apple certainly not.
You're paying out of pocket unless Apple has a specific program that address that particular issue out of warranty.
No, Apple usually fixes stuff for free, regardless how old your device is.
I'm an Apple customer since 1992.
all because they designed the keyboard very badly.
Yes, I hear that the keyboard is very bad. I tried one last year in a shop. Don't feel any difference to my 2014 Mac Book Air or to my 2008 Mac Book Pro.
The point is *need*.
So, no I never *need* that.
And all devices that have a USB port also have a WLAN card, so: I open my own network and transfer anything I need via ftp etc.
Oh! I want to make a car analogy!!!!
If you get the parts yourself you will probably be cheaper.
YAS!
But you have to assemble it. And get a license to run it on the streets.
Not aimed at you, but honestly: if it is not your hobby to "search the internet", "buy the cheapest", and "craft it yourself" ... why would anyone who has a real life bother to get the cheapest most powerful PC imaginable by doing it himself?
Sure I can craft myself a nice PC ... but it is no worth my time. I earn in an hour more than wasting that hour would safe me. And frankly: I rather spent that hour reading a book and simply pay the money instead of googeling for cheap materials and crafting my own machine. But who am I ... typing this on an an overprices underperforming Mac Book Air 2014 ... strange: the performance for having Facebook open in one window and typing slashdot comment in the other is good enough. Ooooops, wait, spinnball, an email just arrived ...
Yes, you are an idiot.
If you purchase a product and it suddenly stops working: the vendor pays the repair bill.
No idea why you think otherwise.
And if there would be a bill: how the funk do you come to the idea that fixing a keyboard in a $1000 laptop costs several $100???
When there is a freak cloudy but humid day people still want to run their air-conditioners.
And why would you want to run an AC then? Sorry, that is beyond me.
2/3 of the energy to be base-load (i.e. on-demand).
Base load is not on demand.
Perhaps you want to look up what base load is.
Idiot!
The credit card company demands a fee.
Not the business or the government agency you are dealing with.
That begs the question: how dumb are you?
In the short term more solar would make electricity more expensive
Considering that solar power is the cheapest power on earth, that comment is pretty retarded.
The proper spelling is Ju Jutsu ;D
But I'm glad that I have not to handle 8 year old trans gender friends of my kids.
Not that I'm "transgenderphobe" but I think I would have trouble to talk about issues like that.
Interesting would be to know why your kids friends is "felling" "transgender" at such a young age. A huge percentage are people who got born as hermaphrodites and by pressure of doctors or stupid decision of parents got forced a gender on them.
By what metric? the "I like to make up things metric?" ... that is a reduction by 60% ... plain and simple.
By the metric of reduction by percent.
You go from 100% to 40%
Global warming is a true problem Germany needs to treat it that way instead of pretending they are.
As we are the world leader in treating that problem, you addressing the wrong ones.
Hell in the U.S. half our population doesn't even believe in global warming and we are doing a much better job of emissions reduction than you.
No you don't. You did in the last 3 years. And we do since 30 years. The total amount of CO2 we did not produce is probably 50 times higher than your reduction in recent years.
There is no program in the US reducing heating costs for houses by financing or supporting or subsidicing insulation ...
In Germany it is law that you have to insulate your house to cut down heating costs, in CO2, by a factor of ten or more.
Go home idiot.
If you think winter temperatures are up by 20C, I'd like to know where you get that data from.
By living there? Hello? Actually the peak up is 50C from -30C to +23C.
Anthropogenic warming is caused by solar forcing ..
You seem to mix up what the terms "anthropogenic" and "solar" mean
which is weakest in whatever hemisphere is currently experiencing winter. ... idiot.
If your "solar" would be true, it would nevertheless be nonsense as it is completely unrelated to the hemisphere
The idea here is that the airport would (as I suspect they already do, esp. for an international flight,) operate on GMT/Z.
No, they operate on local time. What else would they do?
People simply underestimate how complicated it is in real life to work in your head in a different time zone.
The idea of what I was writing was that to freak out and demand they delay a minor change like this to the status quo, just because they didn't give very much lead-time, seems overblown and almost hysterical, hence the sarcastic "OH, the HUMANITY".
For power companies such a "change of change" is a nightmare. Unscheduled even more so.
The fact that it is so poorly engineered that a fragment of dust requires a several hundred dollar repair is just icing on the cake.
It does not take a several 100 dollar repair.
It is repaired for free
Idiot.
I basically never use/used an external keyboard on my Mac laptops. ...
Albeit my newest one is a MacBook Air from 2014
I tried to use my old Mac SE keyboard with an Adapter to convert ADB to USB under windows 98, was kind of fun, but failed regularly for no apparent reason and you needed to reinstall the drivers.
Perhaps I try it on my laptop soon.
BTW: does anyone have a MacBook Pro 17" for sale?
I never "needed" that.
Why would I?
An USB -> ethernet adaptor costs $10.
If you want the thunderbolt one, it costs about $30.
You could buy a used mac with build in ethernet.
But you can also simply stop complaining about a product you don't want to use.
Complaining about a mac while you are actually not using one makes you look rather idiotic.
It is like me complaining why all the gays have so sexy female friends.
What are you guys doing that requires regular use of dongles to get your jobs done?
Complaining about Apple, while never actually have used a Mac.
Wow, that was easy :D
Apple is in fact less popular in Europe and people tend to keep devices longer.
That is total bollocks.
Ever ride a train? In the restaurant wagon?
90% of the laptops and "pads" there are Apple.
Some countries have up to 50% Apple market share, as e.g. France.
The only french guys I know having a PC, have a Mac, too!
I live in Thailand, when I'm not working ... go into a air coned coffee shop, what do you see on the tables: Macs ... iPads ... sometimes an Android Pad. Most definitely you only see a windows laptop once a day or even less often. And the price difference here between an MacBook Ai versus a cheap Chinese "laptop" is a factor of 4 or 5 ... not just $200.
The only non Apple product that has some traction are obviously Android devices and surprisingly MS Surface pads (forgot the name).
Anything that operates internationally or trans-nationally should just be running off GMT/ZULU time anyway, so it shouldn't adversely impact that.
So you want people who fly once in their lifetime to know that the plane at their airport is nodeparting 13:00 local time but at 13:00 ZULU? And you exoect them to calculate the correct time themselves?
They are not exagerated.
The problem is that solar storms can "compress" the magnetic field of the earth.
If the storm suddenly loses power, the magnetic field springs back into its old shape instantly. That causes millsios of ampere induction current into powerlines and communication lines.
The topic is irrelevant. Children do not have any rights enumerated in the Charter of rights that overrule their parents raising them.
Yes, they have.
Law > power of parents.
Shown all the time when parents are found abusing their children.
The topic was about sex.
So, yes, "children" have the right to be informed about sex, contraception etc. Both according to "Charter of Human Rights" and "The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU"
Do you see very many 14 year old children vote for MPs of the EU parliament?
No, the voting age for the EU is surprisingly 16. And for most national institutions 18. And what exactly has the voting age to do with sexual freedom?
The time change is done to keep sunrise around the same time (by the clock). ... and it has nothing to do with farmers.
That is bollocks.
First of all you can read up why DST was introduced
Secondly, if you looked at a globe and made your mind up, you would grasp what bollocks you just wrote.
The UK have DST, yes. But that is not GMT. ... like UTC. Read a book about it, it is to complicated to explain the difference between GMT and UTC in a /. post.
GMT is fixed
Point is: you are wrong.
Neither Mac minis or any other Macs are in "Walled Gardens", you can install what ever you want.