The Apple Store has been replaced with Apple's usual "We'll be right back" sticky note... that's usually a good sign that we'll be seeing some new products today...
Apple has indeed sold some truly awful power adapters. My own first-gen iBook G3 went through 3 Apple puck-shaped adapters that all had problems with fraying and shorting. To Apple's credit, the 2nd replacement was sent out-of-warranty after I griped and complained a bit with Apple tech support. After that one died, I bought a plain-looking BTI replacement adapter which served me perfectly from 2002 to 2006, and as far as I know the iBook's current owner is still using it. My iBook G4 has not had any problems yet, although I've tried to minimize stress on the adapter by buying a 2nd adapter that I use whenver I take the computer out my home, and having the Apple-supplied one always live at my home computer desk. I would recommend all Apple laptop owners invest in a 3rd-party second power adapter even if they've had no problems. Believe me, from personal experience, the last thing you want it to suddenly have an adapter die on you and finish a major school or work assignment with the brightness turned way down, praying that your charge will hold out long enough to get the thing edited and printed out.
To be fair, I know that Apple themselves probably didn't have anything to do with the design of these adapters; they just wrote up the power requirements and farmed it out to a 3rd party. But still, 3 power adapters in 3 years was a pretty major annoyance... I'm glad that Apple seems to be going with better suppliers now.
Some enterprising geek showed some impressive technical skills and ingenuity and put together a fun little hack that's cool, but not really useful. What's with all these posts talking about how this is overbranding on steroids, how stupid the idea is, and how no one is going to want to use it. I don't think the guy who made this is trying to become a millionaire off his idea, I think he just had a funny idea and decided to see if he could pull it off. People should be:
A.) Laughing a bit.
B.) Congratulating his cleverness.
It just seems like the amount of general negativity just keeps rising in the world.
I think that comment is terribly unfair. Say what you will of Microsoft business practices, etc, but Bill Gates is the biggest philanthropist of all time. No one is forcing him to give away his billions, he's already got all the fame and recognition he could possibly have. Why don't you take a look at someone like the Walton family, the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune. Put together, Sam Walton's heirs are worth MORE than Gates, yet they've given very tiny amounts of their fortunes toward charitable causes. Gates deserves nothing but the deepest respect for doing the right thing with his money.
I was just looking for a second laptop for my car. You _cannot_ get a new laptop for $400. Where is this myth coming from? I hear numbers like this thrown around all the time, and it just ain't so.
Our FOUR chief weapons are computer manufacturing, software creation, the consumer electronics industry, and a near fanatical devotion to the Pope!
Evvvvvverbody expects the Apple Inquisition!
You do realize that this "slippery slope" rhetoric has been used to protest... everything? Society is all about reasonable restrictions on what you can do, pal. You can't own an aircraft carrier, you can't shout "FIRE!" in a crowded building, and you shouldn't be able to blantantly copy music that you didn't pay for. DRM keeps people honest, just like the occasional speeding ticket helps to make safer drivers. You can try to justify stealing music by talking about the eeeeeeevil record companies 'til you're blue in the face, but you're still stealing. If you think that accepting DRM now is a slippery slope towards losing all control over our digital information, then how about the opposite? Maybe rejecting even the slightest restriction will lead to a slippery slope where I start claiming that "even _Hardware_ wants to be free!" and I walk into your house and take your computer. Ridiculous? Of course... but not more ridiculous than what you're claiming.
Let's see, we've got the Iraq War, the Plame affair, the destruction of American credibility abroad, the promotion of a black-and-white, moralistic crusade against science, oil drilling in our nature preserves, and attempts to replace the text of the Bill of Rights with the phrase, "NO HOMER-SEXSHULS ALLOWED!"...And we're wasting time arguing about whether a comment about a music player was a joke or not.
Al-Qaeda goes through #2s faster than the Enterprise went through red-shirted ensigns, apparently:
Nov. 16, 2001 -- Air strikes in Afghanistan may have killed Mohammed Atef, the No. 2 man in the Al Qaeda terrorist network, Pentagon officials said today.
(http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2001/n11162001 _200111168.html)
March 18, 2004 - Pakistani officials believe they have the No. 2 man in al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, cornered. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2004/n03182004_ 2004031811.html
September 28, 2005 - Gen. Richard Myers, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at the Pentagon that the U.S. military considered Abu Azzam the "No. 2 Al Qaeda operative in Iraq, next to Zarqawi." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9518556/site/newsweek/ from/RL.5/
Spreading this information to would-be terrorists could be _THE_ key to defeating terrorism globally. "If I work hard for the cause... I may get promoted... if I get promoted enough, I might be second only to bin Laden himself... wait a minute..."
Regarding your problem with gapless playback... this is more of a workaround than a solution, but if you highlight multiple tracks on a CD in iTunes and then go to Advanced->Join Tracks, you can then import the selected tracks as a single, seamless file. (I did this for some of my progressive rock.)
"Apple is evil because they gave someone a large, valuable gift that they're going to have to pay taxes on." Why don't you take five minutes away from your anti-Apple crusade to go string up Alex Trebek... think of ALL THE TAXES people have been forced to pay because of winning on Jeopardy!
How ridiculous.
I wish I had my copy with me so that I could give a more exact quote, but I remember reading in "Apple Confidential" that as early as 1985 Steve Jobs was pushing for the Macintosh packaged in laptop form, which I believe he referred to as "BookMac." Steve has always been a fan of short, simple product names. Judging from the pattern set by new-Jobs-era product launches, the new pro-level desktop will probably be just "Mac," or possibly "Mac Core Duo."
"MacMac"... honestly.
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Around campus (MSU), I sing along with my iPod no matter what comes up on shuffle. That includes "Sleigh Ride" by the Ronettes, in September.
The Apple Store has been replaced with Apple's usual "We'll be right back" sticky note... that's usually a good sign that we'll be seeing some new products today...
I'll go for it, but only if we get to shorten it to a pronouneable acronym, "ROOP," which rhymes with "coupe."
Apple has indeed sold some truly awful power adapters. My own first-gen iBook G3 went through 3 Apple puck-shaped adapters that all had problems with fraying and shorting. To Apple's credit, the 2nd replacement was sent out-of-warranty after I griped and complained a bit with Apple tech support. After that one died, I bought a plain-looking BTI replacement adapter which served me perfectly from 2002 to 2006, and as far as I know the iBook's current owner is still using it. My iBook G4 has not had any problems yet, although I've tried to minimize stress on the adapter by buying a 2nd adapter that I use whenver I take the computer out my home, and having the Apple-supplied one always live at my home computer desk. I would recommend all Apple laptop owners invest in a 3rd-party second power adapter even if they've had no problems. Believe me, from personal experience, the last thing you want it to suddenly have an adapter die on you and finish a major school or work assignment with the brightness turned way down, praying that your charge will hold out long enough to get the thing edited and printed out. To be fair, I know that Apple themselves probably didn't have anything to do with the design of these adapters; they just wrote up the power requirements and farmed it out to a 3rd party. But still, 3 power adapters in 3 years was a pretty major annoyance... I'm glad that Apple seems to be going with better suppliers now.
Some enterprising geek showed some impressive technical skills and ingenuity and put together a fun little hack that's cool, but not really useful. What's with all these posts talking about how this is overbranding on steroids, how stupid the idea is, and how no one is going to want to use it. I don't think the guy who made this is trying to become a millionaire off his idea, I think he just had a funny idea and decided to see if he could pull it off. People should be: A.) Laughing a bit. B.) Congratulating his cleverness. It just seems like the amount of general negativity just keeps rising in the world.
Hey, did you just imply that a US Government agency didn't do something because it would have violated the sovereignity of another nation?
I think that comment is terribly unfair. Say what you will of Microsoft business practices, etc, but Bill Gates is the biggest philanthropist of all time. No one is forcing him to give away his billions, he's already got all the fame and recognition he could possibly have. Why don't you take a look at someone like the Walton family, the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune. Put together, Sam Walton's heirs are worth MORE than Gates, yet they've given very tiny amounts of their fortunes toward charitable causes. Gates deserves nothing but the deepest respect for doing the right thing with his money.
I was just looking for a second laptop for my car. You _cannot_ get a new laptop for $400. Where is this myth coming from? I hear numbers like this thrown around all the time, and it just ain't so.
Wait a minute... we're allowed to _kiss_ girls?!
Our FOUR chief weapons are computer manufacturing, software creation, the consumer electronics industry, and a near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Evvvvvverbody expects the Apple Inquisition!
You do realize that this "slippery slope" rhetoric has been used to protest... everything? Society is all about reasonable restrictions on what you can do, pal. You can't own an aircraft carrier, you can't shout "FIRE!" in a crowded building, and you shouldn't be able to blantantly copy music that you didn't pay for. DRM keeps people honest, just like the occasional speeding ticket helps to make safer drivers. You can try to justify stealing music by talking about the eeeeeeevil record companies 'til you're blue in the face, but you're still stealing. If you think that accepting DRM now is a slippery slope towards losing all control over our digital information, then how about the opposite? Maybe rejecting even the slightest restriction will lead to a slippery slope where I start claiming that "even _Hardware_ wants to be free!" and I walk into your house and take your computer. Ridiculous? Of course... but not more ridiculous than what you're claiming.
And they were right.
Let's see, we've got the Iraq War, the Plame affair, the destruction of American credibility abroad, the promotion of a black-and-white, moralistic crusade against science, oil drilling in our nature preserves, and attempts to replace the text of the Bill of Rights with the phrase, "NO HOMER-SEXSHULS ALLOWED!" ...And we're wasting time arguing about whether a comment about a music player was a joke or not.
You've got it all wrong. Final Fantasy VI for Super Nintendo is what you're looking for.
Al-Qaeda goes through #2s faster than the Enterprise went through red-shirted ensigns, apparently:1 _200111168.html)
_ 2004031811.html
/ from/RL.5/
Nov. 16, 2001 -- Air strikes in Afghanistan may have killed Mohammed Atef, the No. 2 man in the Al Qaeda terrorist network, Pentagon officials said today.
(http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2001/n1116200
March 18, 2004 - Pakistani officials believe they have the No. 2 man in al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, cornered.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2004/n03182004
September 28, 2005 - Gen. Richard Myers, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at the Pentagon that the U.S. military considered Abu Azzam the "No. 2 Al Qaeda operative in Iraq, next to Zarqawi."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9518556/site/newsweek
Spreading this information to would-be terrorists could be _THE_ key to defeating terrorism globally. "If I work hard for the cause... I may get promoted... if I get promoted enough, I might be second only to bin Laden himself... wait a minute..."
Regarding your problem with gapless playback... this is more of a workaround than a solution, but if you highlight multiple tracks on a CD in iTunes and then go to Advanced->Join Tracks, you can then import the selected tracks as a single, seamless file. (I did this for some of my progressive rock.)
"Apple is evil because they gave someone a large, valuable gift that they're going to have to pay taxes on." Why don't you take five minutes away from your anti-Apple crusade to go string up Alex Trebek... think of ALL THE TAXES people have been forced to pay because of winning on Jeopardy! How ridiculous.
I wish I had my copy with me so that I could give a more exact quote, but I remember reading in "Apple Confidential" that as early as 1985 Steve Jobs was pushing for the Macintosh packaged in laptop form, which I believe he referred to as "BookMac." Steve has always been a fan of short, simple product names. Judging from the pattern set by new-Jobs-era product launches, the new pro-level desktop will probably be just "Mac," or possibly "Mac Core Duo." "MacMac"... honestly.
"PowerBook" predates Apple's switch from 68k to PowerPC processors.