My only recent experience with Apple (a second generation ipod shuffle) was that the hardware was incredibly cheap (I don't mean the price, it was a gift, I mean it was a piece of shit that shorted out after 3 hours).
Dead On Arrival, can and shall happen with all manufacturers. One of the fastest ways of getting a replacement.
Make it anecdotal... I still recommend Apple to those who have no clue. Better for them. I personally am disappointed of the quality Apple delivers, especially on hardware. (Logic board was the culprit and Apple wouldn't accept it because I was 2 weeks after their extended warranty). I always heard that Apple hardware (NOT TRUE) would live twice as long as PC hardware . I have no problem with Apple.... Just don't think it's the pinnacle of innovation. It's not. If Windows machines last longer than Apple machines, even with their reputation, you've got a problem.... Yes, anecdotal... I know... I recommend Apple, not because of quality because they won't call me... And usually, they'll throw away the machine after 2 years... just like a Windows machine.... Except I didn't get to clean viruses..
Every level-2 agent was inofficially allowed to extend the Apple-warranty (in absolute cooperation with the Authorised Dealer/Reseller) with approx. 2 weeks without Customer Relations needing to be contacted (even after those 2 weeks CR is still able to stretch the warranty). Back in my days that was, at least (disclaiming everything at this moment for the current situation ymmv). There were some reasons for agents NOT to apply for the extended-warranty-option. And those reasons had nothing to do with the hardware. Or software.
You're assuming they know that the person who purchased OS X is running it on a valid piece of Mac hardware. That is where it would get ugly. These OSX86's look like standard hardware when you profile them in System Profile. Apple could waste a lot of time and resources troubleshooting 3rd party hardware without even knowing they were troubleshooting a hackintosh. Especially if they don't inventory all of the hardware, or the hardware matches an actual Mac for the key components.
One the first thing an Apple employee registers is: The Serial-number. All serial-numbers are matched with a database that tells the employee what macintosh is on the other side with the customer. Psystar can't circumvent that.
I know replying to oneself is really tacking, but I just wanted to comment that something has gone terribly awry in my life if I am 38 years old, just came home from work where I was building a quantum computer, still ride a bike, checked slashdot.org first thing, and replied on how to get Linux running on a 16 year old laptop. All this on a *friday* night. I think a there should be a little "game over" sign appearing before my eyes.
In a related note, over the past couple of weeks I have been porting Colossal Cave Adventure to Google Wave. Send a ping to colossal-wave@appspot.com to play:-)
Brilliant! You, Sir, just ruined my weekend, for I will have to play this! Thank you!!
"I'm surprised no one has written a small flash or java applet for downloading torrents. This way, they could use the power of bit torrent with the ease of a web browser for distribution."
How's that different from the usual infection vectors on Windows?
User downloads program from shady site. Executes it and agress to the UAC prompt. Bam. All done.
Both Photoshop as iWorks are downloadable from the company sites, as time-limited demo. But you're right: the user has to have a minimum amount of stupidity, a usual infection vector.
The system is designed intentionally to write data once and NEVER allow it to be modified, so it can not be corrupted or tainted after submitted into evidence. So BOTH sides of the case could know for sure that the data is the same from when it was checked into evidence till the end of time.
So yes, they can't do anything about it, and that is EXACTLY how they requested that it work in the first place.
You mean: only to be modified/copied by the manufacturer, without the customer ever knowing if and what happened? Yes they requested it, but that doesn't make it Good, Practical or even Legal.
We're not discussing the specs of the system, we're discussing the sanity of the buyers.
That's all: it's a black box situation, the police have no control over the data, maintenance is done purely by the manufacturer and tampering will be punished. Somehow somewhen in the past (at least for a decade) the decision was made to purchase (probably read "lease") this Israelian device. And de peaple pay dearly.
Russia has conducted shorter simulations in the past and has seen firsthand the issues that arise, including sexual harassment. In an eight-month IMBP simulation in 2000, a Russian man twice tried to kiss a Canadian female researcher after two other Russians had gotten into a bloody brawl.
The group of 6 people better include more then one female, otherwise they will have at least one if not 3+ dead when they come back. If it's a group of 6 men, odds are still someone will not make it out alive.
But some people in prison aren't there because they're very nice guys. No they still don't deserve it, but in some cases the rest of the world doesn't care about not so very nice guys.
Well, we have the subject of this article, Grand Central Dispatch. We also have Darwin & XNU, their version of the Mach kernel. There is also Bonjour, their version of zeroconf, and their streaming server (Quicktime Streaming Server). They also purchased the source to gimp-print (now called Gutenprint) so they no longer have any obligation to keep it open source, but they do, and they keep releasing the source. How much more do you need?
I agree, they could go closed/proprietary like Opera, yet they choose to keep things open and improve on them. They're in it for the money, like a lot of companies, and if that means cooperating with OpenSource Software, so be it. It's a bit of a win/win situation. It's just that their business-model does not allow to go fully free and open, bit of a shame, but oh well, one can't have ones cake and eat it.
Disclaimer: former Apple employee, now in education and liking all things open and free, but still without losing touch with reality.
When is the last time that Apple released an entirely new project? For example Sun released ZFS under the CDDL.
Why reinvent the wheel? They adopt it, improve it and release the improvements. At least they add. They deliver. When is the last time Stallman released an entirely new project? Or finished one? "Although nearly all components have been completed long ago and have been in production use for a decade or more, its official kernel, GNU Hurd, is incomplete and not all GNU components work with it." from the reliable-as-ever Wikipedia. Apple is not Stallman. They do not serve the same market. Apple is in hardware/software/platform, Stallman is in philosophy. Fair enough, einen Unterschied muß es geben.
Lobbyists are not allowed to give any significant amount of money to politicians in Soviet Canuckistan. Bribes "political contributions" are limited to a few thousand dollars and are stringently regulated.
And no lobbyist has ever broken that rule, or circumvented it?/innocent
I'm happy to live in a country where you can actually expect the police to work for you, not against you.
So you live in Belgium or the Netherlands, I see? Yes, I see your point, but it won't be long before the police get only outside for the ticket-issuing-quotas. The rest can be done by Their Website.
Giving it to the person complaining just seems wrong, and makes the US legal system look like a joke. They should get whatever expenses they incurred * 2. The rest goes to a charity that will help many people, not just one.
It would make the accuser look less greedy too.
Yes, to be honest: it looks like a joke. And other countries, sadly enough, seem to adopt it.
It creates positions, "job" implies doing structural investment-returning activities. I absolutely wouldn't mind doing unpaid overtime for a GOOD manager, but I'd despise it for a bad one.
Sony goofed, oh, people love to call names and all, but Nintendo recently did EXACTLY the same. It has everything to do with cost cutting and pressuring developers to push new features while cutting testers because it don't accomplish anyway.
And then you get a bug that slips through you can't just patch in the next version and it all falls apart.
And we are ALL part of it.
We go for cheap. The PS3 sold 1 million extra units when it dropped price. We want our airplane tickets as cheap as possible, so we happily accept that the runways are to short if things go wrong and don't even have a runoff area as long as F1 cars get. That is because we value F1 drivers, not ourselves.
For people who are so confused about the high costs of repairs and spair parts btw. I will tell you that there are TWO kind of products out there:
The VERY cheap to produce and VERY expensively sold, the frames of glasses. They costs pennies to produce but sell for a hundred or more. So, I have personally ripped them apart, to get a spare screw to ship to a customer. it is CHEAPER to tear one apart then keep all the bits in supply.
Then there is the very expensive to produce and cheaply sold. Things like laptops. it costs a fortune to replace an LCD because ALL the costs savings that mass production brought to the laptop are lost in stocking and shipping a single part that a fraction of customers will need AND because it is so expensive, even fewer will buy.
The 360 has an insanely high failure rate, Wii and PS3 have been bricked. PSP had pixel problems. The results of bad engineering trying to cut costs until stuff just falls apart.
The sad thing is that there is almost no alternative. The consoles are all owned by companies who have long since given up on producing a quality product.
That's what I nowadays think: that part of the testing which should happen in the final production phase, is skipped and left to the customers. If 95% would've happened to have passed that test at the factory, then without that testing the units would've shipped and 5% replaced after testing by the customer (a tad more because 5% of the replaced units wouldn't function, had to be replaced et cetera, you get my point). If the replacement-costs are less than the testing-costs, there's profit. And most of the time, the customer _wants_ that product so will be annoyed by the initial bad product, but delighted (cough) by the gracious and swift product replacement.
Note: replacement-costs are costs of Customer Service and Shipping, the costs of the defective units would've occurred in the factory as well and can be left out of the equation.
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I was so happy when I finally quit a few years ago
You didn't quit, you probably paused. (smoker since my 14 th, umptieth time pauser, this hopefully pausing till endoflife)
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My only recent experience with Apple (a second generation ipod shuffle) was that the hardware was incredibly cheap (I don't mean the price, it was a gift, I mean it was a piece of shit that shorted out after 3 hours).
Dead On Arrival, can and shall happen with all manufacturers. One of the fastest ways of getting a replacement.
Make it anecdotal... I still recommend Apple to those who have no clue. Better for them. I personally am disappointed of the quality Apple delivers, especially on hardware. (Logic board was the culprit and Apple wouldn't accept it because I was 2 weeks after their extended warranty). I always heard that Apple hardware (NOT TRUE) would live twice as long as PC hardware . I have no problem with Apple.... Just don't think it's the pinnacle of innovation. It's not. If Windows machines last longer than Apple machines, even with their reputation, you've got a problem.... Yes, anecdotal... I know... I recommend Apple, not because of quality because they won't call me... And usually, they'll throw away the machine after 2 years... just like a Windows machine.... Except I didn't get to clean viruses..
Every level-2 agent was inofficially allowed to extend the Apple-warranty (in absolute cooperation with the Authorised Dealer/Reseller) with approx. 2 weeks without Customer Relations needing to be contacted (even after those 2 weeks CR is still able to stretch the warranty). Back in my days that was, at least (disclaiming everything at this moment for the current situation ymmv). There were some reasons for agents NOT to apply for the extended-warranty-option. And those reasons had nothing to do with the hardware. Or software.
You're assuming they know that the person who purchased OS X is running it on a valid piece of Mac hardware. That is where it would get ugly. These OSX86's look like standard hardware when you profile them in System Profile. Apple could waste a lot of time and resources troubleshooting 3rd party hardware without even knowing they were troubleshooting a hackintosh. Especially if they don't inventory all of the hardware, or the hardware matches an actual Mac for the key components.
One the first thing an Apple employee registers is: The Serial-number. All serial-numbers are matched with a database that tells the employee what macintosh is on the other side with the customer. Psystar can't circumvent that.
I know replying to oneself is really tacking, but I just wanted to comment that something has gone terribly awry in my life if I am 38 years old, just came home from work where I was building a quantum computer, still ride a bike, checked slashdot.org first thing, and replied on how to get Linux running on a 16 year old laptop. All this on a *friday* night. I think a there should be a little "game over" sign appearing before my eyes.
-ashamed
"game over"?
Level 1 finished, you mean?
In a related note, over the past couple of weeks I have been porting Colossal Cave Adventure to Google Wave. Send a ping to colossal-wave@appspot.com to play :-)
Brilliant! You, Sir, just ruined my weekend, for I will have to play this! Thank you!!
"I'm surprised no one has written a small flash or java applet for downloading torrents. This way, they could use the power of bit torrent with the ease of a web browser for distribution."
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_CD_and_DVD_Project#The_Experimental_BitLet_Client
Furthermore: Opera supports BitTorrent (not really brilliant but it works).
Well, you cán keep animals, just eat them :)
How's that different from the usual infection vectors on Windows?
User downloads program from shady site. Executes it and agress to the UAC prompt. Bam. All done.
Both Photoshop as iWorks are downloadable from the company sites, as time-limited demo. But you're right: the user has to have a minimum amount of stupidity, a usual infection vector.
That is indeed the actual point in this case.
The system is designed intentionally to write data once and NEVER allow it to be modified, so it can not be corrupted or tainted after submitted into evidence. So BOTH sides of the case could know for sure that the data is the same from when it was checked into evidence till the end of time.
So yes, they can't do anything about it, and that is EXACTLY how they requested that it work in the first place.
You mean: only to be modified/copied by the manufacturer, without the customer ever knowing if and what happened? Yes they requested it, but that doesn't make it Good, Practical or even Legal.
We're not discussing the specs of the system, we're discussing the sanity of the buyers.
That's all: it's a black box situation, the police have no control over the data, maintenance is done purely by the manufacturer and tampering will be punished. Somehow somewhen in the past (at least for a decade) the decision was made to purchase (probably read "lease") this Israelian device. And de peaple pay dearly.
Russia has conducted shorter simulations in the past and has seen firsthand the issues that arise, including sexual harassment. In an eight-month IMBP simulation in 2000, a Russian man twice tried to kiss a Canadian female researcher after two other Russians had gotten into a bloody brawl.
IIRC one time they tried this, there wás a female on board, and it caused problems. But last time it consisted of 6 males, http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE52U4PT20090331 . And I would not bet on having females in this crew either.
Prison rape isn't funny.
But some people in prison aren't there because they're very nice guys. No they still don't deserve it, but in some cases the rest of the world doesn't care about not so very nice guys.
And all that time I thought people were going for a funny picture, silly me!
Well, we have the subject of this article, Grand Central Dispatch. We also have Darwin & XNU, their version of the Mach kernel. There is also Bonjour, their version of zeroconf, and their streaming server (Quicktime Streaming Server). They also purchased the source to gimp-print (now called Gutenprint) so they no longer have any obligation to keep it open source, but they do, and they keep releasing the source. How much more do you need?
I agree, they could go closed/proprietary like Opera, yet they choose to keep things open and improve on them. They're in it for the money, like a lot of companies, and if that means cooperating with OpenSource Software, so be it. It's a bit of a win/win situation. It's just that their business-model does not allow to go fully free and open, bit of a shame, but oh well, one can't have ones cake and eat it.
Disclaimer: former Apple employee, now in education and liking all things open and free, but still without losing touch with reality.
When is the last time that Apple released an entirely new project? For example Sun released ZFS under the CDDL.
Why reinvent the wheel? They adopt it, improve it and release the improvements. At least they add. They deliver. When is the last time Stallman released an entirely new project? Or finished one? "Although nearly all components have been completed long ago and have been in production use for a decade or more, its official kernel, GNU Hurd, is incomplete and not all GNU components work with it." from the reliable-as-ever Wikipedia. Apple is not Stallman. They do not serve the same market. Apple is in hardware/software/platform, Stallman is in philosophy. Fair enough, einen Unterschied muß es geben.
Lobbyists are not allowed to give any significant amount of money to politicians in Soviet Canuckistan. Bribes "political contributions" are limited to a few thousand dollars and are stringently regulated.
And no lobbyist has ever broken that rule, or circumvented it? /innocent
I'm happy to live in a country where you can actually expect the police to work for you, not against you.
So you live in Belgium or the Netherlands, I see? Yes, I see your point, but it won't be long before the police get only outside for the ticket-issuing-quotas. The rest can be done by Their Website.
Totally agreed.
Giving it to the person complaining just seems wrong, and makes the US legal system look like a joke. They should get whatever expenses they incurred * 2. The rest goes to a charity that will help many people, not just one.
It would make the accuser look less greedy too.
Yes, to be honest: it looks like a joke. And other countries, sadly enough, seem to adopt it.
Or show recent photos of McGyver *shudder* http://hollywoodroaster.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/macgyver.jpg
It creates jobs, doesn't it?
It creates positions, "job" implies doing structural investment-returning activities. I absolutely wouldn't mind doing unpaid overtime for a GOOD manager, but I'd despise it for a bad one.
Sony goofed, oh, people love to call names and all, but Nintendo recently did EXACTLY the same. It has everything to do with cost cutting and pressuring developers to push new features while cutting testers because it don't accomplish anyway.
And then you get a bug that slips through you can't just patch in the next version and it all falls apart.
And we are ALL part of it.
We go for cheap. The PS3 sold 1 million extra units when it dropped price. We want our airplane tickets as cheap as possible, so we happily accept that the runways are to short if things go wrong and don't even have a runoff area as long as F1 cars get. That is because we value F1 drivers, not ourselves.
For people who are so confused about the high costs of repairs and spair parts btw. I will tell you that there are TWO kind of products out there:
The VERY cheap to produce and VERY expensively sold, the frames of glasses. They costs pennies to produce but sell for a hundred or more. So, I have personally ripped them apart, to get a spare screw to ship to a customer. it is CHEAPER to tear one apart then keep all the bits in supply.
Then there is the very expensive to produce and cheaply sold. Things like laptops. it costs a fortune to replace an LCD because ALL the costs savings that mass production brought to the laptop are lost in stocking and shipping a single part that a fraction of customers will need AND because it is so expensive, even fewer will buy.
The 360 has an insanely high failure rate, Wii and PS3 have been bricked. PSP had pixel problems. The results of bad engineering trying to cut costs until stuff just falls apart.
The sad thing is that there is almost no alternative. The consoles are all owned by companies who have long since given up on producing a quality product.
That's what I nowadays think: that part of the testing which should happen in the final production phase, is skipped and left to the customers. If 95% would've happened to have passed that test at the factory, then without that testing the units would've shipped and 5% replaced after testing by the customer (a tad more because 5% of the replaced units wouldn't function, had to be replaced et cetera, you get my point). If the replacement-costs are less than the testing-costs, there's profit. And most of the time, the customer _wants_ that product so will be annoyed by the initial bad product, but delighted (cough) by the gracious and swift product replacement.
Note: replacement-costs are costs of Customer Service and Shipping, the costs of the defective units would've occurred in the factory as well and can be left out of the equation.
You didn't quit, you probably paused. (smoker since my 14 th, umptieth time pauser, this hopefully pausing till endoflife)
Ooooh nice sir, nice indeed! *takes off hat*
"There was an unknown error in the submission. " Perhaps because it's we're not USA'ian ;)