This is a LOT more than just "click-it or ticket" laws. This is "Everyone is guilty until proven innocent, and if you refuse to cooperate then you get a needle in your arm...by force".
Especially so consistently. Most every major product that Steve Jobs has had a hand in has been wildly successful for Apple: iPod, iTunes, OS X, Intel Macs, iPhone, iPad.
The only thing I can think of (off the top of my head) that hasn't been wildly successful is the Apple TV. I do own an Apple TV, and it is a great product. I suspect it's just ahead of it's time. I am sure there are other not-so-hot products out there, but there are more hits than misses for Steve Jobs.
There are already a few "office" equivalents in the App store...one of them written by Apple called iWork... You can buy the individual apps for $10 each. There are also a couple of 3rd party equivalents.
If MS decided to write an office varient for iPad, they could certainly put it in the App Store.
Same for Photoshop. There is already a version of Photoshop in the app store. It really only supports very very basic photo manipulation and isn't the full photoshop suite, but there is nothing about photoshop itself that would prevent it's inclusion in the App Store if Adobe decided to put it there.
damages in court cases aren't considered income according to IRS standards.
"Income" according to the IRS is defined as: Wages, salaries, tips, etc...taxable interest, dividends, certain types of state and local tax credits and refunds, alimony, business income (or loss, capital gain (or loss), other gains (or losses) from the sale of assets, taxable amount of IRA distributions, taxable pension and annuity payments, rental real estate, royalties, partnerships, S corporations, trusts, farm income, unemployment compensation, taxable amount of social security payments, and misc. income (prizes, awards, lottery winnings, gambling winnings, etc.)
Which makes sense. If someone wrecked your car, you sued the driver of the other car, and their insurance company cut you a check for the damages, would you expect to pay income tax on your car repair bill?
Another problem with Windows licensing is eventually Microsoft will pull the plug on client access licenses for your installed version, which means that you will be forced in to an OS upgrade if the current OS would otherwise be perfectly adequate for your purposes.
Microsoft CALs are able to be downgraded to all previous versions of the same product for the equivalent CAL. For example, you can use Windows Server 2008 CALs for Windows Server 2003, you can use Exchange Server 2010 CALs for Exchange Server 2003, etc. You just can't use previous version CALs for future versions...i.e. you can't use Server 2003 CALs for Server 2008.
This is slightly off topic, but since someone brought freeNAS up, I figured it was as good a place as any to ask this:
Can freeNAS be clustered? In my organization, i'm looking at getting a fully redundant iSCSI backend network for server storage.
What i'd like to do:
Get two FreeNAS servers and cluster them...each one mirrors the other so that if one has a hardware failure the other can step in, automatically, with very minimal (if any) downtime (seconds, maybe a few minutes). I'd then have that FreeNAS cluster be an iSCSI target for windows servers (SMB hosts and windows clusters).
A quick 5-10 minutes of googling didn't reveal the answer to me. My next step was to build the FreeNAS cluster and test it for myself, but if Slashdot has the answer, then that's even easier.
I know openfiler has clustering built in, but (as far as i'm aware) it doesn't support iSCSI persistent reservations, which is a requirement for Windows Server clusters.
It has been run through the legal department. Whenever we get a phone number, we always ask if it's okay to leave messages at that number. It won't leave a message otherwise.
Also, we NEVER mention anyone's name or any personally identifiable information about someone. Just that "This is a reminder phone call for an appointment at with Dr. . To confirm this call..."
Asterisk has AGI. Think CGI, but through asterisk instead. You can hook asterisk in to PHP, Perl, Python, etc. You can use your scripts to create your own voice menus, and program your own functionality.
It's fairly simple. I setup asterisk at my company, which is a fairly large health clinic. I wrote a script (executed by cron) that connects to our practice management software, pulls down a list of appointments for the next day, and makes an automated phone call to each patient reminding them of the appointment. It's fairly sophisticated: It detects answering machines and will wait until the "beep" before it leaves a message, tells the patient the date, time and the name of the clinician that they are seeing and asks them to "press 1 to confirm" or they can "press 2 to speak with a receptionist". It also manages the outbound bandwidth, it never has more than 5 calls going simultaneously. It will also try busy numbers and no answers 3 times, waiting 5 minutes between each try.
After it finishes the calls, it e-mails the log of what happened to one of our receptionists who handles the exceptions...no answers, busy, disconnected numbers, etc. It also keeps a verbose record of exactly what happened throughout each call... time it dialed, when it was answered, if it left a message, what the user did, etc. Finally, it has a "do not call list" that the system won't call a patient if they've asked not to receive them.
Overall, it's pretty limitless. If you have some API for your garage door, thermostat, etc. that you can interface with PHP, Perl, Python or a number of other languages, then you're good to go.
At the company I work at, we get a lot of Grants & Contracts. Those grants and contracts will pay for all sorts of labor with no problem, but any equipment we have to pay for out of our own profit margin. Therefor, we tend to focus on the reverse: Put people to work and pay as little as we can for equipment. This means that if we can save any money in expenses, even at a cost of labor... as long as that extra labor cost isn't extreme, then we pay for the labor getting the equipment for cheap.
We get some very powerful machines for about $500 in equipment costs. We probably spend another hundred or two in assembly and support labor. But the assembly and support labor is money we'd be spending anyway.
I see where you're going: Load up Rush Limbaugh in to Glen Beck's huge mouth. The pressure from all the hot air being unable to escape will build up. Very quickly that hot air will blast Rush Limbaugh in to space to impact the asteroid. This collision will be enough to deflect the asteroid back out towards space.
Agreed. $4600 will pay for the salary, benefits, and expenses of one tester for maybe 1/2 a month...salary, rent, equipment, insurance, taxes, benefits, etc...Labor isn't cheap.
One tester for 1/2 a month might get your app tested on two platform variants, depending on how complex (or not) your app is. There are now 100 platform variants... so getting enough testers, equipment, etc. for all variants of android can cost $230,000.
That is, of course, if you are paying testers directly. If you do a public beta, you can get testing done for less money, but it's still expensive and time consuming.
Congratulations. You got exactly what you wanted. They are going back to the old design of the shuffle: clip on device with a 4 way nav and a center button. They are then adding to that, the voice-over ability, so you can have multiple playlists, etc.
You can get a "multi-pass" to both the daily show and/or the colbert report from iTunes. It's $9.99 (for either show) and you get the most recently aired episode, plus the next 15 episodes when they are made available. It's one month's worth of full production, a total of 16 episodes, for $10. This comes out to $0.63 per episode. And I get to keep the ones I want forever and ever.
I do agree though... $0.99 for a rental of a TV show is bull. It should be more like $0.50.
I actually do believe that aliens (intelligent life on other planets) must exist out there somewhere. The universe is just TOO big for there not to be:
The low end of the estimate for the number of stars in the observable universe on wikipedia is 3 x 10 ^ 22
If just one out of a million of those stars had planets, you'd have 3 x 10 ^ 16 planets with stars
If just one out of a million of those stars with planets had life you'd have about 30 billion planets with life.
and if just one out of a million of those planets with life had intelligent life you'd have roughly 30,000 alien civilizations out there.
I also feel that my numbers are VERY conservative. The actual number is probably closer to 30 million-30 billion...but I am just guessing:-D
Of course, all that life out there is sooooo far away that we would never have any hope of having any real contact with them. That whole speed of light thing...
Non-religious and strict Atheists tend to have a strong aversion to anything that exists on "faith" and denies reason in strict scientific terms. These are the kinds of people that absolutely won't believe in the medicinal properties of herbs (really, how do you think medicine got invented? We noticed X + Y vegetable cures chronic pain, and 2000 years later some scientist isolated chemicals that he packaged into a pill as a pain killer...), won't believe that meditation helps reduce stress (non-scientific bullshit, you could just sleep...), etc; anything that doesn't sound like it came out of a lab coat is obvious bullshit.
I identify myself as what you call a "Non-religious strict athiest" and I don't agree with your statement here.
I do believe that herbs can provide limited healing powers, in the same way that other over-the-counter and prescription drugs can. As you said, herbs are where almost all drugs have their origins from. I, for one, find a hot cup of decaf tea to be very relaxing. What I don't believe in is snake-oil, miracle cures, and their like...
It has also been proven that meditation can help with stress. The act of meditation causes your brain to release endorphins that cause your body to change. Meditation can also be healing in that the reduced stress levels help to boost your immune system.
As an athiest, I do believe in spiritualism. Spiritualism in the sense that you can train your mind to have positive effects on your body, and train your mind to help achieve clarity of perception and understanding of your life, body and it's surroundings.
As an athiest, I do NOT believe in a god(s), an afterlife, ghosts, or anything super natural. This includes: Faith healers, heaven/hell, vampires/werewolves, prayer, divine intervention, creationism, etc.
Where have you been? ALL music on the iTunes music store is DRM free. Been that way for almost 18 months now. You can take a song purchased on iTunes and move it to just about any portable media player you'd like.
This is true. And it's actually a battery saving technique. The phone will attempt to transmit and make a connection with the weakest possible transmission power possible. If that fails, then it kicks up the power and tries again.
In the well covered areas, it doesn't take a lot of power to hit a cell phone tower. So the amount of power needed to stay in contact is minimal. In a weak signal area, it takes more power to maintain that contact, which is why the battery drains faster. Also, in weak signal areas, the signal tends to be lost completely often. When that happens, the phone will wake up and start searching for a new tower using the previously described ramp-up method. It will keep attempting that every minute or so until it finds a tower.
probably has something to do with differing attitudes of best buy "customer service" and Apple's "Customer Service".
With Apple, they don't care if you caused the problem. They will attempt to help you with it. If it's something that can be fixed without any hardware replacements, then they won't even charge you anything... regardless of whether you're the problem or not. If it is something that does require a hardware replacement, they will 9 times out of 10 give the customer the benefit of the doubt and repair the affected hardware free of charge... often times if you aren't even in your warranty.
Time for my anecdotal evidence:
1) I had a classic iPod... at one point the click wheel started to become warped. It was raised up ever so slightly at the N, S, E, and W points and pushed down ever so slightly at the corners. I took it to the apple store, he asked if I knew what happened, and I honestly didn't. I told him I suspected it was because I left it in my car 24/7 (hot summer sun, cold winter nights, etc.). He said it wasn't a problem and replaced it.
2) The built-in keyboard and mouse on a Macbook Pro that I care for would randomly stop responding. Software was still responsive, I would continue to receive emails, IMs, and I could plug in an external keyboard and mouse and continue to work. So it was clearly a hardware problem. To fix it, all I had to do was reboot. Problem was, it happened EXTREMELY infrequently (like once every 3-4 days). Unless I happened to get extremely lucky I wasn't going to be able to reproduce it. I made an appointment anyway, I told him what was happening, what my own diagnosis was (faulty keyboard or connector)...Of course I wasn't able to get it to reproduce the issue. He said it could possibly be caused by the OS however, when I expressed a dislike in having to redo all my OS and settings, he said it wasn't a problem.. he replaced the entire keyboard and trackpad assembly. Problem went away for several months. Started happening again. Different Apple tech guy, same story... brought it in, told him the problem, couldn't reproduce, said it could possibly be the OS but he fixed it anyway. Over a year later (i'm using the same OS install) and I haven't had the problem again. If this were best buy they would have required me to reinstall the OS to prove it wasn't a software problem, assuming they even believed me to begin with about my VERY intermittent keyboard/trackpad problem.
3) A different MacBook Pro that I care for had a battery that started to bulge one day. The machine was well out of warranty and it was probably the original battery that came with the machine. Made an appointment and showed them the battery. They looked up the s/n of the machine and found it was over a year out of warranty. They decided to replace it anyway.
I have no personal experience with Best Buy and their computer return/exchange/repair procedures. However, I have read about them on the internet and the general idea I got is that "the customer is always wrong. We won't pay for anything until it can be proven that the problem is with the hardware. If there are other possible causes for your symptoms that aren't hardware related, then it's up to you to rule them out. Even if it can be determined that it's a hardware problem that's our responsibility then it will take 6-8 weeks for the computer to be shipped off to a 'repair facility'. Once at this facility, another technician will look at the problem with the same skepticism that we did, they will not read the case notes that we didn't bother being thorough on (even if we typed them up at all), determine that your problem might be caused by software, wipe your machine and reload it factory, and finally send it back to you without testing to see if the problem still exists."
Basically, Apple believes in investing in customer service and satisfaction. Best Buy does not.
Agreed. Flash player on windows doesn't have this problem, but Adobe seems to have actually cared about creating a good windows flash player.
Flash Player on OSX is a resource hog. Adobe just isn't devoting the resources to it to make it work well on OSX. Steve Jobs wasn't kidding when he said that the majority of browser crashes on OSX come from flash. Anytime i've ever experienced safari crashing, it's because of flash.
Now, if the people at Adobe pulled their thumbs out of their asses and got to work on creating a small, lightweight, and resource efficient flash player for OSX, then Steve might reconsider. Until they do, then i'm glad that it's not on my iPhone.
It does have "tabbed" browsing, in that you can have multiple browsing sessions going at the same time. However, they don't waste valuable screen real estate with a tab bar. In the regular tool bar there is a button that lets you switch between open browsing sessions. You can switch back and forth. Quite quickly.
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This is a LOT more than just "click-it or ticket" laws. This is "Everyone is guilty until proven innocent, and if you refuse to cooperate then you get a needle in your arm...by force".
Especially so consistently. Most every major product that Steve Jobs has had a hand in has been wildly successful for Apple: iPod, iTunes, OS X, Intel Macs, iPhone, iPad.
The only thing I can think of (off the top of my head) that hasn't been wildly successful is the Apple TV. I do own an Apple TV, and it is a great product. I suspect it's just ahead of it's time. I am sure there are other not-so-hot products out there, but there are more hits than misses for Steve Jobs.
There are already a few "office" equivalents in the App store...one of them written by Apple called iWork... You can buy the individual apps for $10 each. There are also a couple of 3rd party equivalents.
If MS decided to write an office varient for iPad, they could certainly put it in the App Store.
Same for Photoshop. There is already a version of Photoshop in the app store. It really only supports very very basic photo manipulation and isn't the full photoshop suite, but there is nothing about photoshop itself that would prevent it's inclusion in the App Store if Adobe decided to put it there.
damages in court cases aren't considered income according to IRS standards.
"Income" according to the IRS is defined as: Wages, salaries, tips, etc...taxable interest, dividends, certain types of state and local tax credits and refunds, alimony, business income (or loss, capital gain (or loss), other gains (or losses) from the sale of assets, taxable amount of IRA distributions, taxable pension and annuity payments, rental real estate, royalties, partnerships, S corporations, trusts, farm income, unemployment compensation, taxable amount of social security payments, and misc. income (prizes, awards, lottery winnings, gambling winnings, etc.)
Which makes sense. If someone wrecked your car, you sued the driver of the other car, and their insurance company cut you a check for the damages, would you expect to pay income tax on your car repair bill?
Another problem with Windows licensing is eventually Microsoft will pull the plug on client access licenses for your installed version, which means that you will be forced in to an OS upgrade if the current OS would otherwise be perfectly adequate for your purposes.
Microsoft CALs are able to be downgraded to all previous versions of the same product for the equivalent CAL. For example, you can use Windows Server 2008 CALs for Windows Server 2003, you can use Exchange Server 2010 CALs for Exchange Server 2003, etc. You just can't use previous version CALs for future versions...i.e. you can't use Server 2003 CALs for Server 2008.
This is slightly off topic, but since someone brought freeNAS up, I figured it was as good a place as any to ask this:
Can freeNAS be clustered? In my organization, i'm looking at getting a fully redundant iSCSI backend network for server storage.
What i'd like to do:
Get two FreeNAS servers and cluster them...each one mirrors the other so that if one has a hardware failure the other can step in, automatically, with very minimal (if any) downtime (seconds, maybe a few minutes).
I'd then have that FreeNAS cluster be an iSCSI target for windows servers (SMB hosts and windows clusters).
A quick 5-10 minutes of googling didn't reveal the answer to me. My next step was to build the FreeNAS cluster and test it for myself, but if Slashdot has the answer, then that's even easier.
I know openfiler has clustering built in, but (as far as i'm aware) it doesn't support iSCSI persistent reservations, which is a requirement for Windows Server clusters.
It has been run through the legal department. Whenever we get a phone number, we always ask if it's okay to leave messages at that number. It won't leave a message otherwise.
Also, we NEVER mention anyone's name or any personally identifiable information about someone. Just that "This is a reminder phone call for an appointment at with Dr. . To confirm this call..."
Asterisk has AGI. Think CGI, but through asterisk instead. You can hook asterisk in to PHP, Perl, Python, etc. You can use your scripts to create your own voice menus, and program your own functionality.
It's fairly simple. I setup asterisk at my company, which is a fairly large health clinic. I wrote a script (executed by cron) that connects to our practice management software, pulls down a list of appointments for the next day, and makes an automated phone call to each patient reminding them of the appointment. It's fairly sophisticated: It detects answering machines and will wait until the "beep" before it leaves a message, tells the patient the date, time and the name of the clinician that they are seeing and asks them to "press 1 to confirm" or they can "press 2 to speak with a receptionist". It also manages the outbound bandwidth, it never has more than 5 calls going simultaneously. It will also try busy numbers and no answers 3 times, waiting 5 minutes between each try.
After it finishes the calls, it e-mails the log of what happened to one of our receptionists who handles the exceptions...no answers, busy, disconnected numbers, etc. It also keeps a verbose record of exactly what happened throughout each call... time it dialed, when it was answered, if it left a message, what the user did, etc. Finally, it has a "do not call list" that the system won't call a patient if they've asked not to receive them.
Overall, it's pretty limitless. If you have some API for your garage door, thermostat, etc. that you can interface with PHP, Perl, Python or a number of other languages, then you're good to go.
At the company I work at, we get a lot of Grants & Contracts. Those grants and contracts will pay for all sorts of labor with no problem, but any equipment we have to pay for out of our own profit margin. Therefor, we tend to focus on the reverse: Put people to work and pay as little as we can for equipment. This means that if we can save any money in expenses, even at a cost of labor... as long as that extra labor cost isn't extreme, then we pay for the labor getting the equipment for cheap.
We get some very powerful machines for about $500 in equipment costs. We probably spend another hundred or two in assembly and support labor. But the assembly and support labor is money we'd be spending anyway.
I see where you're going: Load up Rush Limbaugh in to Glen Beck's huge mouth. The pressure from all the hot air being unable to escape will build up. Very quickly that hot air will blast Rush Limbaugh in to space to impact the asteroid. This collision will be enough to deflect the asteroid back out towards space.
Agreed. $4600 will pay for the salary, benefits, and expenses of one tester for maybe 1/2 a month...salary, rent, equipment, insurance, taxes, benefits, etc...Labor isn't cheap.
One tester for 1/2 a month might get your app tested on two platform variants, depending on how complex (or not) your app is. There are now 100 platform variants... so getting enough testers, equipment, etc. for all variants of android can cost $230,000.
That is, of course, if you are paying testers directly. If you do a public beta, you can get testing done for less money, but it's still expensive and time consuming.
Novell could bid, and then since that money would be then sent (via the bankruptcy court) to SCO's creditors, they would just get some of it back.
There is a USB port on the back of the device: http://images.apple.com/appletv/images/whatis_gallery_slide220100901.jpg
Looks like it might even be a comba e-sata/USB port. Hard to tell from the picture... but the icon next to it is clearly a USB port icon.
Congratulations. You got exactly what you wanted. They are going back to the old design of the shuffle: clip on device with a 4 way nav and a center button. They are then adding to that, the voice-over ability, so you can have multiple playlists, etc.
You can get a "multi-pass" to both the daily show and/or the colbert report from iTunes. It's $9.99 (for either show) and you get the most recently aired episode, plus the next 15 episodes when they are made available. It's one month's worth of full production, a total of 16 episodes, for $10. This comes out to $0.63 per episode. And I get to keep the ones I want forever and ever.
I do agree though... $0.99 for a rental of a TV show is bull. It should be more like $0.50.
I actually do believe that aliens (intelligent life on other planets) must exist out there somewhere. The universe is just TOO big for there not to be:
The low end of the estimate for the number of stars in the observable universe on wikipedia is 3 x 10 ^ 22
If just one out of a million of those stars had planets, you'd have 3 x 10 ^ 16 planets with stars
If just one out of a million of those stars with planets had life you'd have about 30 billion planets with life.
and if just one out of a million of those planets with life had intelligent life you'd have roughly 30,000 alien civilizations out there.
I also feel that my numbers are VERY conservative. The actual number is probably closer to 30 million-30 billion...but I am just guessing :-D
Of course, all that life out there is sooooo far away that we would never have any hope of having any real contact with them. That whole speed of light thing...
Non-religious and strict Atheists tend to have a strong aversion to anything that exists on "faith" and denies reason in strict scientific terms. These are the kinds of people that absolutely won't believe in the medicinal properties of herbs (really, how do you think medicine got invented? We noticed X + Y vegetable cures chronic pain, and 2000 years later some scientist isolated chemicals that he packaged into a pill as a pain killer...), won't believe that meditation helps reduce stress (non-scientific bullshit, you could just sleep...), etc; anything that doesn't sound like it came out of a lab coat is obvious bullshit.
I identify myself as what you call a "Non-religious strict athiest" and I don't agree with your statement here.
I do believe that herbs can provide limited healing powers, in the same way that other over-the-counter and prescription drugs can. As you said, herbs are where almost all drugs have their origins from. I, for one, find a hot cup of decaf tea to be very relaxing. What I don't believe in is snake-oil, miracle cures, and their like...
It has also been proven that meditation can help with stress. The act of meditation causes your brain to release endorphins that cause your body to change. Meditation can also be healing in that the reduced stress levels help to boost your immune system.
As an athiest, I do believe in spiritualism. Spiritualism in the sense that you can train your mind to have positive effects on your body, and train your mind to help achieve clarity of perception and understanding of your life, body and it's surroundings.
As an athiest, I do NOT believe in a god(s), an afterlife, ghosts, or anything super natural. This includes: Faith healers, heaven/hell, vampires/werewolves, prayer, divine intervention, creationism, etc.
... And any kid can go in to a walmart and buy a pre-paid master card to just buy it on the internet with anyway.
Where have you been? ALL music on the iTunes music store is DRM free. Been that way for almost 18 months now. You can take a song purchased on iTunes and move it to just about any portable media player you'd like.
This is true. And it's actually a battery saving technique. The phone will attempt to transmit and make a connection with the weakest possible transmission power possible. If that fails, then it kicks up the power and tries again.
In the well covered areas, it doesn't take a lot of power to hit a cell phone tower. So the amount of power needed to stay in contact is minimal. In a weak signal area, it takes more power to maintain that contact, which is why the battery drains faster. Also, in weak signal areas, the signal tends to be lost completely often. When that happens, the phone will wake up and start searching for a new tower using the previously described ramp-up method. It will keep attempting that every minute or so until it finds a tower.
I can... and for most geeks it wouldn't be pretty.
probably has something to do with differing attitudes of best buy "customer service" and Apple's "Customer Service".
With Apple, they don't care if you caused the problem. They will attempt to help you with it. If it's something that can be fixed without any hardware replacements, then they won't even charge you anything... regardless of whether you're the problem or not. If it is something that does require a hardware replacement, they will 9 times out of 10 give the customer the benefit of the doubt and repair the affected hardware free of charge... often times if you aren't even in your warranty.
Time for my anecdotal evidence:
1) I had a classic iPod... at one point the click wheel started to become warped. It was raised up ever so slightly at the N, S, E, and W points and pushed down ever so slightly at the corners. I took it to the apple store, he asked if I knew what happened, and I honestly didn't. I told him I suspected it was because I left it in my car 24/7 (hot summer sun, cold winter nights, etc.). He said it wasn't a problem and replaced it.
2) The built-in keyboard and mouse on a Macbook Pro that I care for would randomly stop responding. Software was still responsive, I would continue to receive emails, IMs, and I could plug in an external keyboard and mouse and continue to work. So it was clearly a hardware problem. To fix it, all I had to do was reboot. Problem was, it happened EXTREMELY infrequently (like once every 3-4 days). Unless I happened to get extremely lucky I wasn't going to be able to reproduce it. I made an appointment anyway, I told him what was happening, what my own diagnosis was (faulty keyboard or connector)...Of course I wasn't able to get it to reproduce the issue. He said it could possibly be caused by the OS however, when I expressed a dislike in having to redo all my OS and settings, he said it wasn't a problem.. he replaced the entire keyboard and trackpad assembly. Problem went away for several months. Started happening again. Different Apple tech guy, same story... brought it in, told him the problem, couldn't reproduce, said it could possibly be the OS but he fixed it anyway. Over a year later (i'm using the same OS install) and I haven't had the problem again. If this were best buy they would have required me to reinstall the OS to prove it wasn't a software problem, assuming they even believed me to begin with about my VERY intermittent keyboard/trackpad problem.
3) A different MacBook Pro that I care for had a battery that started to bulge one day. The machine was well out of warranty and it was probably the original battery that came with the machine. Made an appointment and showed them the battery. They looked up the s/n of the machine and found it was over a year out of warranty. They decided to replace it anyway.
I have no personal experience with Best Buy and their computer return/exchange/repair procedures. However, I have read about them on the internet and the general idea I got is that "the customer is always wrong. We won't pay for anything until it can be proven that the problem is with the hardware. If there are other possible causes for your symptoms that aren't hardware related, then it's up to you to rule them out. Even if it can be determined that it's a hardware problem that's our responsibility then it will take 6-8 weeks for the computer to be shipped off to a 'repair facility'. Once at this facility, another technician will look at the problem with the same skepticism that we did, they will not read the case notes that we didn't bother being thorough on (even if we typed them up at all), determine that your problem might be caused by software, wipe your machine and reload it factory, and finally send it back to you without testing to see if the problem still exists."
Basically, Apple believes in investing in customer service and satisfaction. Best Buy does not.
Agreed. Flash player on windows doesn't have this problem, but Adobe seems to have actually cared about creating a good windows flash player.
Flash Player on OSX is a resource hog. Adobe just isn't devoting the resources to it to make it work well on OSX. Steve Jobs wasn't kidding when he said that the majority of browser crashes on OSX come from flash. Anytime i've ever experienced safari crashing, it's because of flash.
Now, if the people at Adobe pulled their thumbs out of their asses and got to work on creating a small, lightweight, and resource efficient flash player for OSX, then Steve might reconsider. Until they do, then i'm glad that it's not on my iPhone.
It does have "tabbed" browsing, in that you can have multiple browsing sessions going at the same time. However, they don't waste valuable screen real estate with a tab bar. In the regular tool bar there is a button that lets you switch between open browsing sessions. You can switch back and forth. Quite quickly.
They make dandy paper weights too. Both the iPhone and the Brick.
(Disclaimer: I do have an iPhone, and love it. It is truly exceptional at holding down those papers)