I don't think i single apple fan thinks apple is perfect, but it's the zeal in which people will bash apple essentially for the heck of it that gets to us.
their is a fundamental truth that ram go's bad, lcd's/batterys can have manufacturing defects and plastic scratches. the sooner people accept that as fact.
apple is by far not the second coming but it's better than the competition in allot of areas, if people stopped bashing them on things they cant control i wouldn't mind, legitimate criticism i have no problem with, but even the highest quality manufacturers have flaws in their products and if apple has sold a million ipod nano's in a few weeks then even if.1% of nano's have a flaw then thats 1000 angry customers saying the product is fatally flawed.
give a mac to a average joe and a wintel pc to another and any linux distro you care to choose to a third compare the problems each joe gets it's astounding, linux is too damn confusing windows just collapses into chaos and mac os x just trundles on.
now you may say everyone is not an average joe and we can deal with windows/linux's problems but frankly I don't want to, i use my windows/linux pc for games and cisco labs only nothing elce. I have better things to do with my time like refresh slashdot like a freak and get first posts.
if you need windows as you just play games or run a windows app whoopty do go use it, or if your a speed rendering/hosting/servering freak run linux i'm not suggesting you shouldn't, but for 90% of people Mac OS X is the perfect platform.
damn, i probably just proved your point but i'll post it anyway.....
see how no one is going to care about this, but when it happens to apple it's on ever news site and used as flame ammo by every apple hater, just the same as the ipod flaws that are shared by almost every player.
this is not about music videos, seriously who cares about music videos they are just eye candy when your watching MTV or whatever.
this is about full length films and apple wont come out with a video ipod untill two things happen, 1) they have a viable design, current players do not, it needs to have a good UI aka a scroll wheel and it needs a big enough screen, that or a regular ipod with video out and that can connect to an airport express to stream video like recent rumors have suggested, i wish i could play a dvd through my airport express, it would rule my world i could use my media g4 cube for something more usefull than a gloryed dvd/divx player.
the cpu in the xbox is not a G5, it's completely difference the only similarity ends at 64-bit and ppc it's out of order and rather different in allot of other ways,
personally i'm going to get an xbox 360 either when they have a price drop or halo 3 comes out (i dont think it's particularly expensive i'm just cheap and launch titles dont look too good)
>_>, you and your smutty mind, I'm 17 (my birthday yesterday:D) and in education do i get odd jobs in school holidays covering for people and doing free lance stuff, hence the plural.
It's about as innovative as a keyboard that has no letters, so that you can switch between standard and dvorak layouts.
yeah it is, take a look at this http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/
throw out the pc and buy a mac maybe but throw out the pc and buy annother cheap POS pc thats just stupidity.
if you go out and buy a car and acid rain eats all the paint off and your car falls apart do you go and buy the exact same one? hell no you go buy an acid rain proof car.
Joss Wheadon is my master now....
but seriously, this IS going to be the next star wars, i aim to see it at least 4 times in the cinema, joss needs the series screened in the uk, not to many people know about it and the dvd set is non existent in retail i had to buy it from ebay, after i borrowed a box from a friend and was blow away by it. Fox is now my mortal enemy.
slightly OT but over here we just got stargate atlantis and i'm like WTF is with this the acting is all over the place.
"Windows runs a hell of a lot better in 128MB than does Linux kernel 2.6 + X.org + (GNOME || KDE)."
that is a blatent lie, i have run OS X and various distros of linux on my ibook when i only had 128MB ram and it was not too bad, however i boot windows XP on my freinds PC and it crawls it takes about 15 seconds to boot IE (albeit to download firefox with)
i'd rather train monkeys to do my work for me than run windows XP on 128MB ram.
"Instead of giving excuses on why you shouldn't replace something or why you won't do something for them think next time about putting your brain to work. ask "How can I fix this persons problem". then go do it.
You will find you have a customer returning next time."
i'm sorry if i'm not able to bring a burnt out part from thew dead but sometimes you have to request apple replace the part no way around it, for most problems i fix it myself, even if it's a small hardware problem like an ibooks hinge making the screen cut out when you open and close it which can be easily fixed by relaying the cable in the grove in the correct way, also i have noticed that even what may look like a major hardware problem can be fixed by opening it up and screwing in loose screws, i have never seen an ibook/powerbook without a couple of screws not put in properly.
what i hate is support techs that give you the run around when you know exactly what the problem is and have told them the evidence of that problem, eg:
me: hi i have an ibook with a dead logic board here it experiences video artifacts and sometimes dose not boot, i belive it is covered under the extended logic board program, i have run all diagnostics and the logic board is bad
tech dude: ok, i'm going to have to charge you £45 to give you technical support
me: no i dont want support i know exactly what the problem is i need you to pick up this ibook which is clearly under the logic board replacement program.
tech dude: err, ok. i'll have to have you confirm it is the issue that is covered by the program.
me: i have removed all non essential hardware and booted off a different drive and the problem persists, i have also rest the pram and tryed with a known good stick of ram.
tech dude: ok, can you reboot your ibook and hold down the command option P and R keys.
me: i just told you i already reset the pram, it had no effect to the problem
tech dude: i need you to perform what i told you before i can escalate the problem
me: but i already did, i just told you
tech dude: oh
me: can you please schedule a pick up?
tech dude: i need you to remove all third party ram and external devices.
me: as i said before i already did that and the problem persists, i'm an apple certified technician i know how to identify an issue
tech dude: ok, i'll schedule a pickup
they just follow monolithic flow charts, they need different charts for people of different ability.
being an apple certified technician when i call applecare or dell support for a friend to get them to send a replacement part or have them fix a hardware issue that i cant do without buying parts when it's under warranty i dont want them to treat me like an average joe idiot especially when i'm probably more qualified than they are and just want the thing sent off, the same applies to if my friends mother calls them and they should not jargon them to death, support techs need to tune to the ability of the caller and treat them as such.
this is a fake, other than the fact that the pentium M is COMPLETElY incompatible with the cubes motherboard, i know someone who knows the person that runs this site and it's fake u-power probably dose not even exist (impossible to find on google)
i'll probably hack a P-M motherboard with a yonah in my cube when the x86 version of OS X comes out and hack that into running on it.
i have dropped my ipod down the stairs a few times, only a few dents in the back show it.
i have never had it skip on me and it's light enough to carry anywhere, i dont see the appeal of flash players
no way in hell, it's probably miss interpreted apple uses intel chips in the xserver RAID at the moment it's probably something to do with that ot pure BS, to switch to x86 would be the stupidest move ever the architecture is on it's last legs it's done well to get as far as it has, macs are not expencive because of the hardware, the motherboard are made by asus and foxconn the HD's by maxtor/seagate the graphics card by ATI/nvidia the only thing that is different is the cpu and the case and the cpu is not slower or more expensive than intel chips, it's the case that costs more, the most expensive part int he emac is the case
but as the name suggest mach go's at the speed of sound, therefor it owns you supremely according to the/. poster logic:D-\:D-/:D-\:D-/:D-\:D-/:D-\:D-/:D-\:D-//me dances on the linux kernel
i apologize for a "counterstrike story" but it's OT
so i was playing CS, on aztec and i had the bomb the game started and my dad brought me up a pizza style garlic bread type thing and some pineapple juice, now i'm hiding behind a crate while my team kills the other team off and i have the fatal decision eat the garlic bread and drink the juice or run and plant the bomb, the first option was the one i chose, so i couched down and started eating my bread which had allot of drippy garlic stuff, so i had bread in one hand and juice in the other and a CT came snuck up to me really slowly and stood on the crate i was hiding beside, I heard something so with my juice hand pushed my mouse towards the crate saw him had the shit scared out of me and threw my juice in t he air all over my keyboard and dropped my garlic bread upside down on my keyboard dripping garlic stuff all over it but i managed to press the left mouse button and blow the head off the slightly surprised CT, i then planted the bomb won and spent three house cleaning every key on my keyboard:(.
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I don't think i single apple fan thinks apple is perfect, but it's the zeal in which people will bash apple essentially for the heck of it that gets to us. their is a fundamental truth that ram go's bad, lcd's/batterys can have manufacturing defects and plastic scratches. the sooner people accept that as fact. apple is by far not the second coming but it's better than the competition in allot of areas, if people stopped bashing them on things they cant control i wouldn't mind, legitimate criticism i have no problem with, but even the highest quality manufacturers have flaws in their products and if apple has sold a million ipod nano's in a few weeks then even if .1% of nano's have a flaw then thats 1000 angry customers saying the product is fatally flawed.
give a mac to a average joe and a wintel pc to another and any linux distro you care to choose to a third compare the problems each joe gets it's astounding, linux is too damn confusing windows just collapses into chaos and mac os x just trundles on.
now you may say everyone is not an average joe and we can deal with windows/linux's problems but frankly I don't want to, i use my windows/linux pc for games and cisco labs only nothing elce. I have better things to do with my time like refresh slashdot like a freak and get first posts.
if you need windows as you just play games or run a windows app whoopty do go use it, or if your a speed rendering/hosting/servering freak run linux i'm not suggesting you shouldn't, but for 90% of people Mac OS X is the perfect platform.
damn, i probably just proved your point but i'll post it anyway.....
I apologize in advance to any spelling nazi who is going to point out obvious flaws, damn you first post rush, damn you to hell.
see how no one is going to care about this, but when it happens to apple it's on ever news site and used as flame ammo by every apple hater, just the same as the ipod flaws that are shared by almost every player.
this is not about music videos, seriously who cares about music videos they are just eye candy when your watching MTV or whatever. this is about full length films and apple wont come out with a video ipod untill two things happen, 1) they have a viable design, current players do not, it needs to have a good UI aka a scroll wheel and it needs a big enough screen, that or a regular ipod with video out and that can connect to an airport express to stream video like recent rumors have suggested, i wish i could play a dvd through my airport express, it would rule my world i could use my media g4 cube for something more usefull than a gloryed dvd/divx player.
it's that deep seated love of canadians owning America at something that does it
i guess we'll have to hope for a 32 pipe nvidia crushing r580 once the r500 for the 360 is all done and they can get back to work on nvidia ownage.
who analy raped netscape when i wasent looking? seriously i used it in 1997 and it was good but every new version just seems more bloated and slow
the cpu in the xbox is not a G5, it's completely difference the only similarity ends at 64-bit and ppc it's out of order and rather different in allot of other ways, personally i'm going to get an xbox 360 either when they have a price drop or halo 3 comes out (i dont think it's particularly expensive i'm just cheap and launch titles dont look too good)
>_>, you and your smutty mind, I'm 17 (my birthday yesterday :D) and in education do i get odd jobs in school holidays covering for people and doing free lance stuff, hence the plural.
i hold CCNA, IT essentials 2 am an apple certified technician, and i dont know jack, gets me jobs though.
It's about as innovative as a keyboard that has no letters, so that you can switch between standard and dvorak layouts. yeah it is, take a look at this http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/
throw out the pc and buy a mac maybe but throw out the pc and buy annother cheap POS pc thats just stupidity. if you go out and buy a car and acid rain eats all the paint off and your car falls apart do you go and buy the exact same one? hell no you go buy an acid rain proof car.
Joss Wheadon is my master now.... but seriously, this IS going to be the next star wars, i aim to see it at least 4 times in the cinema, joss needs the series screened in the uk, not to many people know about it and the dvd set is non existent in retail i had to buy it from ebay, after i borrowed a box from a friend and was blow away by it. Fox is now my mortal enemy. slightly OT but over here we just got stargate atlantis and i'm like WTF is with this the acting is all over the place.
"Windows runs a hell of a lot better in 128MB than does Linux kernel 2.6 + X.org + (GNOME || KDE)." that is a blatent lie, i have run OS X and various distros of linux on my ibook when i only had 128MB ram and it was not too bad, however i boot windows XP on my freinds PC and it crawls it takes about 15 seconds to boot IE (albeit to download firefox with) i'd rather train monkeys to do my work for me than run windows XP on 128MB ram.
"Instead of giving excuses on why you shouldn't replace something or why you won't do something for them think next time about putting your brain to work. ask "How can I fix this persons problem". then go do it. You will find you have a customer returning next time." i'm sorry if i'm not able to bring a burnt out part from thew dead but sometimes you have to request apple replace the part no way around it, for most problems i fix it myself, even if it's a small hardware problem like an ibooks hinge making the screen cut out when you open and close it which can be easily fixed by relaying the cable in the grove in the correct way, also i have noticed that even what may look like a major hardware problem can be fixed by opening it up and screwing in loose screws, i have never seen an ibook/powerbook without a couple of screws not put in properly. what i hate is support techs that give you the run around when you know exactly what the problem is and have told them the evidence of that problem, eg: me: hi i have an ibook with a dead logic board here it experiences video artifacts and sometimes dose not boot, i belive it is covered under the extended logic board program, i have run all diagnostics and the logic board is bad tech dude: ok, i'm going to have to charge you £45 to give you technical support me: no i dont want support i know exactly what the problem is i need you to pick up this ibook which is clearly under the logic board replacement program. tech dude: err, ok. i'll have to have you confirm it is the issue that is covered by the program. me: i have removed all non essential hardware and booted off a different drive and the problem persists, i have also rest the pram and tryed with a known good stick of ram. tech dude: ok, can you reboot your ibook and hold down the command option P and R keys. me: i just told you i already reset the pram, it had no effect to the problem tech dude: i need you to perform what i told you before i can escalate the problem me: but i already did, i just told you tech dude: oh me: can you please schedule a pick up? tech dude: i need you to remove all third party ram and external devices. me: as i said before i already did that and the problem persists, i'm an apple certified technician i know how to identify an issue tech dude: ok, i'll schedule a pickup they just follow monolithic flow charts, they need different charts for people of different ability.
being an apple certified technician when i call applecare or dell support for a friend to get them to send a replacement part or have them fix a hardware issue that i cant do without buying parts when it's under warranty i dont want them to treat me like an average joe idiot especially when i'm probably more qualified than they are and just want the thing sent off, the same applies to if my friends mother calls them and they should not jargon them to death, support techs need to tune to the ability of the caller and treat them as such.
it'd be i dub thee sir jonathan ives he's the one that designed it, steve jobs just shouted at people to make it happen.
this is a fake, other than the fact that the pentium M is COMPLETElY incompatible with the cubes motherboard, i know someone who knows the person that runs this site and it's fake u-power probably dose not even exist (impossible to find on google) i'll probably hack a P-M motherboard with a yonah in my cube when the x86 version of OS X comes out and hack that into running on it.
i have dropped my ipod down the stairs a few times, only a few dents in the back show it. i have never had it skip on me and it's light enough to carry anywhere, i dont see the appeal of flash players
no way in hell, it's probably miss interpreted apple uses intel chips in the xserver RAID at the moment it's probably something to do with that ot pure BS, to switch to x86 would be the stupidest move ever the architecture is on it's last legs it's done well to get as far as it has, macs are not expencive because of the hardware, the motherboard are made by asus and foxconn the HD's by maxtor/seagate the graphics card by ATI/nvidia the only thing that is different is the cpu and the case and the cpu is not slower or more expensive than intel chips, it's the case that costs more, the most expensive part int he emac is the case
why not get the best of both worlds and use mac os x, it's as solid as any *nix and it has must have commercial apss natively.
star wars you not are in you yoda are not also
but as the name suggest mach go's at the speed of sound, therefor it owns you supremely according to the /. poster logic :D-\ :D-/ :D-\ :D-/ :D-\ :D-/ :D-\ :D-/ :D-\ :D-/ /me dances on the linux kernel
commence the dead horse beating. i start : mach owns.
i apologize for a "counterstrike story" but it's OT so i was playing CS, on aztec and i had the bomb the game started and my dad brought me up a pizza style garlic bread type thing and some pineapple juice, now i'm hiding behind a crate while my team kills the other team off and i have the fatal decision eat the garlic bread and drink the juice or run and plant the bomb, the first option was the one i chose, so i couched down and started eating my bread which had allot of drippy garlic stuff, so i had bread in one hand and juice in the other and a CT came snuck up to me really slowly and stood on the crate i was hiding beside, I heard something so with my juice hand pushed my mouse towards the crate saw him had the shit scared out of me and threw my juice in t he air all over my keyboard and dropped my garlic bread upside down on my keyboard dripping garlic stuff all over it but i managed to press the left mouse button and blow the head off the slightly surprised CT, i then planted the bomb won and spent three house cleaning every key on my keyboard :(.