Isn't this the archetypal difference between Apple and Microsoft? One's designed by an egomaniac design genius perfectionist, and the other's designed by the committee that brought you the camel. MS has gotten so big that a) many of the people it hires are bright and looking for the big payoff, and b) after all these years, there are so many power centers that one good idea gets buried by the people who didn't have it.
You know, you're going to have to explain the high consumer satisfaction with Apple Care and support. There are stories galore of people at the Apple Store cutting people breaks, and I don't think that would be any different. If somebody comes in saying the drive just failed, then a big temperature peak, or a large liquid spill would make it clear they're lying. They applied for a patent. In all of this, nobody's admitting that the sensor will prove that the customer is telling the truth as often as it shows they're lying. Somebody says that something broke for no reason they could imagine. No, it didn't get hot. No, I didn't drop it. No, it didn't get wet.
The "genius" takes the Mac to the back room, reads the sensor, and it backs up the story. Replacement or repair are signed off on very quickly.
And it's been my experience that, more often than most places, Apple stores cut you breaks, or give you the benefit of the doubt.
That's nonsense. A Mac comes with the Terminal, you can run all kinds of languages on it, and they give you, for free, tons of programming tools. What percent of people learn languages? Probably about the same number as with Windows: not many. Of course, you have to be a bit of a programmer just to run Linux. Have you seen Applescript? Do you know you can actually write simple apps with it? Do you know about Automator?
My point is, a Mac is a real computer. It happens to be well-designed, and all of a piece, hardware and software. And the idea is that granny can figure out how to send an e-mail with only a few pointers. Lots of things can be run very easily and instinctively, and then, if you want to invest the effort, you can control much more of your experience with scripting and coding.
Of course, there are many points in Windows where you can't figure out what to do next, and the instructions seem written by a committee composed of a PR guy, a nerd, and the people who designed the registry. But there are some, especially on Slashdot, who think that weird, quirky interfaces with options you set seven levels of tabs deep make something "a real computer." I think it makes it a real pain.
"Barack, just apologize to Sgt. James Crowley and be done with it. You've already apologized to everybody else."
When will Crowley apologize for lying on his police report? He's the one who furthered the idea that the 911 call mentioned "two black men," not the caller.
He also insisted that Gates come out of his house after he had already established his right to be in that house for one reason: to lure him out on the porch where he could be arrested for disorderly conduct. That's why the charges were dropped, because they were BS.
Gates would have been wiser not to have gotten lippy with the cop, but the cop was no angel either.
But of course, an Apple-hater luvs whatever cops do.
Actually, it's a rag that was bought out by Rupert, and is disgracing itself with its partisanship and tabloid tactics every day. The Times as it used to be is dead.
This was nothing but a settlement. If they want to publicize the thing, they can go to court. If they want some money/iPod in compensation, then it's standard that the payee asks the complainant to stifle it. If the Apple lawyers wrote the agreement any other way, they'd be guilty of malpractice. Oh, but here (and in Rupert's Times), it's evil Apple arbitrarily clamping down on free speech.
Have you ever been in an Apple Store? I've seen them replace it. Can't vouch for what happens if you bought it from AT&T -- they may make you wait -- but in the U.S., with a phone bought from Apple, any Apple store will change out a malfunctioning phone right on the spot.
Like the iPhone, don't like it, whatever. At least tell the truth about it.
In fact, they're allowing you to switch the phones affected. Go to the Genius Bar. There's a reason why Apple has such high positives for customer support.
About three months after I got my iPhone 3G, I started having overheating problems and the battery was giving out after five or six hours. The software update took part of it. The other part was that I stupidly named my ad hoc wifi network at home the same as my network at work. Duh. The name was recognized, but the MAC address was different, so the phone had kept on hammering on that address over and over without success. I turned off wifi, temporarily, and my battery life was back to normal. Then I figured out my stupid mistake with the wifi, wiped out and redid the network connections, and then I had network access AND normal battery life.
As far as I can tell from my friends, the overheating may be a flaw in some units, or the product of silly mistakes like mine. Of course, the unquestionably ethical, non-tabloid Fleet Street bull**** Telegraph wouldn't sensationalize anything. Would they?
But, if you set it on fire, it will melt! How about that, Apple???? What a worthless piece of... What's that? Any heat that destroys an iPhone will also destroy any other electronic device? Oh, come on, you Apple fanboys! Linux devices are free, and not subject to the 2nd law of thermodynamics! Get with it!
I think you always feel anger, making stuff up before you hear the facts. The hospital, with Jobs' approval -- just the same way that HIPAA laws would require that you give approval for your health records to be released -- has said that he went to the top of their list because he was their sickest patient. And then he got the transplant. I'm just hoping that he's redesigned the endocrinology specialty. The iLiver?
I know it's fashionable here to claim that anything that Apple does has an ulterior motive, and maybe it does. But putting Flash on a Mobile device seems problematic.
But there are lots of streaming apps available for the iPhone, video and audio. There's TV.com, run by CBS, which gives you full episodes of CBS programs, and Star Wars episdoes, too. There's Ustream, and many others.
They use progressive download of H.264, and TV.com actually streams on 3G, though at lesser quality.
I don't mind streaming anything, as long as it works. For years, I pestered MSNBC to stream something other than Windows video. Even after the Flip4Mac tools, there was nothing happening. Now, I presume, it's Flash or Silverlight. But it won't work with the iPhone. CNN does.
We need the full weight of the law to come down on these creeps. How is this any better than a pickpocket, or a den of thieves? Answer, not at all. I understand that we like the freedom of the internet. But making a bot of somebody's computer is akin to rape. Stealing 10,000 credit cards warrants a life sentence, and governments must fund efforts to detect and arrest the people responsible. Plus, our banks and stores and so on must get smarter security.
It's an interesting, but small, constituency. Savvy enough to use bittorrent, but too stupid to have read about this when it happened, and not smart enough to have installed the iServices trojan remover that was out within days.
Not as many people as those who leave unpatched Windows machines open to the Internet every day.
Hey, the Apple portion of/. has long ago ceased being anything constructive or interesting. The majority of commenters are just Linux fanboys, anyway. They hate us because we're beautiful.
The 17" was made for production professionals, thus the "Pro" after the name. Editing dailies on set? Use that. Recording tracks for the next album? Use a Mac 17". Edit photos in Photoshop before going to the blind to catch some more wildlife photos? Use the Mac. Got more money than you need? Use that 17".
An out-of-work actress who gets approached by Microsoft to buy any screen with a nominal 17" screen, though the maximum resolution is the same as many smaller machines? Get an HP. Then collect your royalties and buy a Mac.
The price that Apple paid for becoming popular, offering.99 a track music, was first copy protection, insisted on by the labels. Then, the music industry insisted on variable pricing. Apple refused, and worse, went public in calling for DRM-free music. In retribution, Amazon and other sellers got DRM-free music, and cheaply. The intent was to injure Apple. It didn't, really, but finally, Apple uncled and gave up on variable pricing.
Now the Apple hate boys blame Apple for that, while the labels disappear. Look around on Amazon. They've changed their pricing to conform. It's not exact, but it closely follows the same pattern. So, while you're all righteous about Apple charging more, ask what the labels are doing, and why Amazon is getting some tracks for less than Apple has to pay. Why would that be?
I've reached a conclusion about the majority of posters here. You know how to run a linux box, you know how to write some kind of code, no doubt, but generally speaking you're just as stupid as the rest of the world. You can't read, you don't have much insight into the world, and you're just as likely to fall for a silly British tabloid -- their serious press is better than ours, but their tabloids are even worse and more degraded -- and you're just as likely to spout the politics of 9-year-olds as any shmuck on the loading dock.
What a crock. But you're reciting the "story line" perfectly. The fact is, the iPod was requested. The gifts are never that over-the-top. It's odd. In the story itself you can see the big, greasy fingerprints of the Telegraph, and British tabloids in general: tasteless American offends the monarchy! Michelle Obama touches royalty! But American "conservatives" have adopted this royalist lie because it suits them. They're desperate for any crap to throw against the wall against Obama.
No, it's not. "Made for X" means they paid a licensing fee to be shown the technology, and then sell it in Apple stores. In return, it will work with the iPod or iPhone that you have. I have used a pair of headphones -- I hate all earbuds -- that I bought in 1999. It has a 3.5mm jack. I guess it wouldn't work with this shuffle, which I won't buy because I don't need it. A lot of people have bought the shuffle. They may or may not buy this one. If what's important to you is important to them, it won't sell well. Want to bet?
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Actually, since the optical data connection has zero RF interference, you could put the power right next to the optical, on copper. Zero problem.
Isn't this the archetypal difference between Apple and Microsoft? One's designed by an egomaniac design genius perfectionist, and the other's designed by the committee that brought you the camel. MS has gotten so big that a) many of the people it hires are bright and looking for the big payoff, and b) after all these years, there are so many power centers that one good idea gets buried by the people who didn't have it.
There's something fishy about that story. Either the UK managers are incompetent, or the story isn't telling the whole truth.
You know, you're going to have to explain the high consumer satisfaction with Apple Care and support. There are stories galore of people at the Apple Store cutting people breaks, and I don't think that would be any different. If somebody comes in saying the drive just failed, then a big temperature peak, or a large liquid spill would make it clear they're lying. They applied for a patent. In all of this, nobody's admitting that the sensor will prove that the customer is telling the truth as often as it shows they're lying. Somebody says that something broke for no reason they could imagine. No, it didn't get hot. No, I didn't drop it. No, it didn't get wet.
The "genius" takes the Mac to the back room, reads the sensor, and it backs up the story. Replacement or repair are signed off on very quickly.
And it's been my experience that, more often than most places, Apple stores cut you breaks, or give you the benefit of the doubt.
That's nonsense. A Mac comes with the Terminal, you can run all kinds of languages on it, and they give you, for free, tons of programming tools. What percent of people learn languages? Probably about the same number as with Windows: not many. Of course, you have to be a bit of a programmer just to run Linux. Have you seen Applescript? Do you know you can actually write simple apps with it? Do you know about Automator?
My point is, a Mac is a real computer. It happens to be well-designed, and all of a piece, hardware and software. And the idea is that granny can figure out how to send an e-mail with only a few pointers. Lots of things can be run very easily and instinctively, and then, if you want to invest the effort, you can control much more of your experience with scripting and coding.
Of course, there are many points in Windows where you can't figure out what to do next, and the instructions seem written by a committee composed of a PR guy, a nerd, and the people who designed the registry. But there are some, especially on Slashdot, who think that weird, quirky interfaces with options you set seven levels of tabs deep make something "a real computer." I think it makes it a real pain.
"Barack, just apologize to Sgt. James Crowley and be done with it. You've already apologized to everybody else."
When will Crowley apologize for lying on his police report? He's the one who furthered the idea that the 911 call mentioned "two black men," not the caller.
He also insisted that Gates come out of his house after he had already established his right to be in that house for one reason: to lure him out on the porch where he could be arrested for disorderly conduct. That's why the charges were dropped, because they were BS.
Gates would have been wiser not to have gotten lippy with the cop, but the cop was no angel either.
But of course, an Apple-hater luvs whatever cops do.
Actually, it's a rag that was bought out by Rupert, and is disgracing itself with its partisanship and tabloid tactics every day. The Times as it used to be is dead.
This was nothing but a settlement. If they want to publicize the thing, they can go to court. If they want some money/iPod in compensation, then it's standard that the payee asks the complainant to stifle it. If the Apple lawyers wrote the agreement any other way, they'd be guilty of malpractice. Oh, but here (and in Rupert's Times), it's evil Apple arbitrarily clamping down on free speech.
Have you ever been in an Apple Store? I've seen them replace it. Can't vouch for what happens if you bought it from AT&T -- they may make you wait -- but in the U.S., with a phone bought from Apple, any Apple store will change out a malfunctioning phone right on the spot.
Like the iPhone, don't like it, whatever. At least tell the truth about it.
In fact, they're allowing you to switch the phones affected. Go to the Genius Bar. There's a reason why Apple has such high positives for customer support.
About three months after I got my iPhone 3G, I started having overheating problems and the battery was giving out after five or six hours. The software update took part of it. The other part was that I stupidly named my ad hoc wifi network at home the same as my network at work. Duh. The name was recognized, but the MAC address was different, so the phone had kept on hammering on that address over and over without success. I turned off wifi, temporarily, and my battery life was back to normal. Then I figured out my stupid mistake with the wifi, wiped out and redid the network connections, and then I had network access AND normal battery life.
As far as I can tell from my friends, the overheating may be a flaw in some units, or the product of silly mistakes like mine. Of course, the unquestionably ethical, non-tabloid Fleet Street bull**** Telegraph wouldn't sensationalize anything. Would they?
But, if you set it on fire, it will melt! How about that, Apple???? What a worthless piece of... What's that? Any heat that destroys an iPhone will also destroy any other electronic device? Oh, come on, you Apple fanboys! Linux devices are free, and not subject to the 2nd law of thermodynamics! Get with it!
I think you always feel anger, making stuff up before you hear the facts. The hospital, with Jobs' approval -- just the same way that HIPAA laws would require that you give approval for your health records to be released -- has said that he went to the top of their list because he was their sickest patient. And then he got the transplant. I'm just hoping that he's redesigned the endocrinology specialty. The iLiver?
Except, you know what? Maybe the WSJ is talking through its Rupert Murdoch-owned hat.
I know it's fashionable here to claim that anything that Apple does has an ulterior motive, and maybe it does. But putting Flash on a Mobile device seems problematic.
But there are lots of streaming apps available for the iPhone, video and audio. There's TV.com, run by CBS, which gives you full episodes of CBS programs, and Star Wars episdoes, too. There's Ustream, and many others.
They use progressive download of H.264, and TV.com actually streams on 3G, though at lesser quality.
I don't mind streaming anything, as long as it works. For years, I pestered MSNBC to stream something other than Windows video. Even after the Flip4Mac tools, there was nothing happening. Now, I presume, it's Flash or Silverlight. But it won't work with the iPhone. CNN does.
We need the full weight of the law to come down on these creeps. How is this any better than a pickpocket, or a den of thieves? Answer, not at all. I understand that we like the freedom of the internet. But making a bot of somebody's computer is akin to rape. Stealing 10,000 credit cards warrants a life sentence, and governments must fund efforts to detect and arrest the people responsible. Plus, our banks and stores and so on must get smarter security.
It's an interesting, but small, constituency. Savvy enough to use bittorrent, but too stupid to have read about this when it happened, and not smart enough to have installed the iServices trojan remover that was out within days.
Not as many people as those who leave unpatched Windows machines open to the Internet every day.
Hey, the Apple portion of /. has long ago ceased being anything constructive or interesting. The majority of commenters are just Linux fanboys, anyway. They hate us because we're beautiful.
The 17" was made for production professionals, thus the "Pro" after the name. Editing dailies on set? Use that. Recording tracks for the next album? Use a Mac 17". Edit photos in Photoshop before going to the blind to catch some more wildlife photos? Use the Mac. Got more money than you need? Use that 17".
An out-of-work actress who gets approached by Microsoft to buy any screen with a nominal 17" screen, though the maximum resolution is the same as many smaller machines? Get an HP. Then collect your royalties and buy a Mac.
The price that Apple paid for becoming popular, offering .99 a track music, was first copy protection, insisted on by the labels. Then, the music industry insisted on variable pricing. Apple refused, and worse, went public in calling for DRM-free music. In retribution, Amazon and other sellers got DRM-free music, and cheaply. The intent was to injure Apple. It didn't, really, but finally, Apple uncled and gave up on variable pricing.
Now the Apple hate boys blame Apple for that, while the labels disappear. Look around on Amazon. They've changed their pricing to conform. It's not exact, but it closely follows the same pattern. So, while you're all righteous about Apple charging more, ask what the labels are doing, and why Amazon is getting some tracks for less than Apple has to pay. Why would that be?
And much in evidence here on slashdot.
I've reached a conclusion about the majority of posters here. You know how to run a linux box, you know how to write some kind of code, no doubt, but generally speaking you're just as stupid as the rest of the world. You can't read, you don't have much insight into the world, and you're just as likely to fall for a silly British tabloid -- their serious press is better than ours, but their tabloids are even worse and more degraded -- and you're just as likely to spout the politics of 9-year-olds as any shmuck on the loading dock.
Granny asked for the iPod.
What a crock. But you're reciting the "story line" perfectly. The fact is, the iPod was requested. The gifts are never that over-the-top. It's odd. In the story itself you can see the big, greasy fingerprints of the Telegraph, and British tabloids in general: tasteless American offends the monarchy! Michelle Obama touches royalty! But American "conservatives" have adopted this royalist lie because it suits them. They're desperate for any crap to throw against the wall against Obama.
No, it's not. "Made for X" means they paid a licensing fee to be shown the technology, and then sell it in Apple stores. In return, it will work with the iPod or iPhone that you have. I have used a pair of headphones -- I hate all earbuds -- that I bought in 1999. It has a 3.5mm jack. I guess it wouldn't work with this shuffle, which I won't buy because I don't need it. A lot of people have bought the shuffle. They may or may not buy this one. If what's important to you is important to them, it won't sell well. Want to bet?