And of course, you used your iPrecognition to know that your Mac wasn't unusable, but just required these things, when you saw the results of the upgrade, right?
It's worth noting that Apple's Software Update always asks for user confirmation before installing anything. This is substantively different from Microsoft's strategy of installing any and all updates without asking until the user uses the control panel to change the policy.
Excuse me, is what? Vista and XP will, upon install, pop up a dialog asking if you want to automatically download and install updates, automatically download and prompt for installation, notify download availability, or "do nothing". It certainly is not even remotely close to "automatically install any and all updates until you find a control panel and say otherwise".
I know, that's why my Vista 64 SP1 machine that is on 24/7, and in use a good 8+ hours a day, if not more, since I work from home, doing not much more than browsing the web and email, certainly nothing complex like compiling code in Eclipse, managing huge photo albums in Lightroom or editing in Photoshop with third party fiilters, using a myriad of accessories like Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, graphics tablets, color calibrators, wirelessly connected printers, with my account having Local and Domain admin privileges, is such a damn mess that it needs rebooting, or crashes, at least twice a day.
Oh wait, it hasn't in months.
Anecdotes do not data make, but lets not go assuming you have some culprit to blame.
It's not that uncommon at all, by my experience. Rather aggravating for those who haven't learned to keep the home partition (data) and the binaries/other_OS_files completely seperate through partitions or even other harddrives.
Vista will re-install just fine with an existing installation. It'll even happily and silently move your old Users and Programs directories to Users.old and Programs.old respectively.
And you'll know to find out that you need to connect an external display, keyboard, mouse, how exactly? Remember, you can't use your computer at the moment...
The day Apple announces a date for their iTunes authentication server to go down, I'll burn some CDs.
The problem is, most Apple announcements are The Steve on a stage saying, "One more thing. And blah blah, RIGHT NOW". I can picture the big screen, someone standing at a rack, flicking a power switch, "One more thing, the authentication server is down, RIGHT NOW!":)
So of course, then, Disney movies are DRM-free, right? They don't use copy protection and encryption on their DVDs. Nor did Pixar prior to their acquisition by Disney, nor any Lucasfilm release?
Oh wait. Of course, this is The Steve, so saying one thing, doing another, doesn't negate the free pass given by The Apple Legion for, well, pretty much anything.
Typical procedure in Australia was that the fine went to the reg'd owner, who could either then pay or submit an affidavit saying "X was driving". You can't just say "Someone else was driving". You can get access to the photos used, but they absolutely can and will pull your license and registration until there's some form of 'retribution'.
If you never owned them, how was the car's registered owner/address that of your auction house?
Or if you mean that the tickets came from the employees of the auction house not giving a shit about what they did with the car between arrival and auction, remind me never to buy from there. "Here's your new car, with a surprise you'll get when you go to get new plates from the unpaid fines we racked up on the car. Maybe if you're lucky you'll live in a state like Oregon which will cancel your license if you haven't paid the fine within 6 months!"
But a laptop is a standardized piece of equipment, and if you don't like it you can return it (up to 90 days later at some stores)
Only by the good graces of the store. You can certainly return it if it is faulty, but not because you "don't like it", or "changed your mind". Why should the same not be the case for software?
Well, gee, if that school had no debt, hey, no problem. It's not like any other school in the district is going without, right? That'd never happen, right?
I'll grant you that, it's a fair call. That being said, the phrase I heard was a while ago, which would make it more feasible (maybe 6 months, not sure?), or, for the same reason, may have been 3 weeks. Either way, it substantially negates the validity of the quote at this point in time, I shall admit, but Apple is nonetheless, well behind the 8 ball.
If anyone else had had all of it in one place and implemented it properly they would be where Apple is you idiot.
You mean selling a third the smartphones Nokia^H^H^H^H^H Apple is? Cool!
Let's see, Nokia N95, out in March 07, versus iPhone v1, released June 07. N95? Missing touch screen, missing hi-res display. iPhone? Missing: 3G (added a year later). Still missing: real GPS, MMS, 5mp camera, optical zoom for same, video calling, integrated VoIP, PTT, TV Out, stereo Bluetooth audio, hardware OpenGL 3D acceleration. You mean all these kind of things?
And it's always just so cute to see iPhone users raving about their accelerometers (funny, the N95 has that), Bluetooth 2.0 (same), and things like that.
When Apple launched the iPhone two years ago, they announced that their goal was to ship 10 million iPhones by year end. Frankly, no one had any clue how many or how few would sell. It was just a guess on the part of Apple management (really!). And somehow, they hit the number and blew past Microsoft smartphones, Nokia and blackberry.
Pardon? They did what? From TFA:
Nokia, meanwhile, maintained its number 1 spot with 42.4% in market share. iPhone market share jumped up to 12.9% during the third quarter of 2008
Yeah, I guess they really, uhhh, blew past Nokia, selling one iPhone for, uhhh, ummmm, every 3.3 Nokia smartphones being sold.
My God. How fucking horrible are -any- of these solutions?!? This one, a local one, whatever. They're all fucking horrible! All because The Steve says cut-n-paste is not for a touch screen phone. Ye gods. But apparently this is acceptable to the RDF'ed masses. I've read countless blog posts justifying the 'no cut and paste' as being a good idea, anything to require no admission of the fact that it's an ugly stupid and inexcusable UI flaw.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. The "best" Telstra can do is 8mbps download speed over cable, unless you're in, ooh, any capital city, where you get 30mbps download, shaped at 25GB if you go over it for $89. Most plans? There's a 200mb plan, a 400mb plan (obviously aimed at email users), a 12gig (no excess) plan, a 25gig (no excess) plan. Not sure how that works out to be "most plans". That's just a little bit different to 3mbps, 10gb, $125, wouldn't you agree?
However the GP was talking about wireless access via its 3G/3.5G HSDPA network, which is indeed capable of 7mbps currently and has been tested on their commercially deployed network at 21mbps.
COMCAST:
As far as I know they provide internet without the requirement for TV. The internet-only price is $60/month which is still high in my opinion but the speed is good (50 megabit/s)
Huhwot? Please point to a 50mbps Comcast plan. I have 8/1, with "powerburst" to 16/2, and that would appear to be the top tier.
You hang around, though, with people who don't slap you for thinking saying something is "epic fail" is somehow cool. I'm not sure their taste counts for much.
Although admittedly Nokia -does- need to improve it, its N series phones -DO- have an app store, too.
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And of course, you used your iPrecognition to know that your Mac wasn't unusable, but just required these things, when you saw the results of the upgrade, right?
Excuse me, is what? Vista and XP will, upon install, pop up a dialog asking if you want to automatically download and install updates, automatically download and prompt for installation, notify download availability, or "do nothing". It certainly is not even remotely close to "automatically install any and all updates until you find a control panel and say otherwise".
Oh wait, it hasn't in months.
Anecdotes do not data make, but lets not go assuming you have some culprit to blame.
Vista will re-install just fine with an existing installation. It'll even happily and silently move your old Users and Programs directories to Users.old and Programs.old respectively.
And you'll know to find out that you need to connect an external display, keyboard, mouse, how exactly? Remember, you can't use your computer at the moment ...
And a "bricked" router, etc, can usually be fixed if you have access to and know what to do with JTAG, yet we still call it "bricked". Go figure...
Right, and the fiber switches that they accessed? They were there for the taking, too, right?
The problem is, most Apple announcements are The Steve on a stage saying, "One more thing. And blah blah, RIGHT NOW". I can picture the big screen, someone standing at a rack, flicking a power switch, "One more thing, the authentication server is down, RIGHT NOW!" :)
Oh wait. Of course, this is The Steve, so saying one thing, doing another, doesn't negate the free pass given by The Apple Legion for, well, pretty much anything.
In the words of Wikipedia, [[cite]]. What bollocks. The RDF must be strong today. "Ohnoes, Apple! Such a unique company!
Typical procedure in Australia was that the fine went to the reg'd owner, who could either then pay or submit an affidavit saying "X was driving". You can't just say "Someone else was driving". You can get access to the photos used, but they absolutely can and will pull your license and registration until there's some form of 'retribution'.
Where do you live that rental car companies don't make a note of your license and ID before letting you take one of their cars?
Or if you mean that the tickets came from the employees of the auction house not giving a shit about what they did with the car between arrival and auction, remind me never to buy from there. "Here's your new car, with a surprise you'll get when you go to get new plates from the unpaid fines we racked up on the car. Maybe if you're lucky you'll live in a state like Oregon which will cancel your license if you haven't paid the fine within 6 months!"
Only by the good graces of the store. You can certainly return it if it is faulty, but not because you "don't like it", or "changed your mind". Why should the same not be the case for software?
Well, gee, if that school had no debt, hey, no problem. It's not like any other school in the district is going without, right? That'd never happen, right?
I'll grant you that, it's a fair call. That being said, the phrase I heard was a while ago, which would make it more feasible (maybe 6 months, not sure?), or, for the same reason, may have been 3 weeks. Either way, it substantially negates the validity of the quote at this point in time, I shall admit, but Apple is nonetheless, well behind the 8 ball.
Given that Nokia alone sells more phones every 3 days than there are iPhones in existence, quite feasibly so.
You mean selling a third the smartphones Nokia^H^H^H^H^H Apple is? Cool!
Let's see, Nokia N95, out in March 07, versus iPhone v1, released June 07. N95? Missing touch screen, missing hi-res display. iPhone? Missing: 3G (added a year later). Still missing: real GPS, MMS, 5mp camera, optical zoom for same, video calling, integrated VoIP, PTT, TV Out, stereo Bluetooth audio, hardware OpenGL 3D acceleration. You mean all these kind of things?
And it's always just so cute to see iPhone users raving about their accelerometers (funny, the N95 has that), Bluetooth 2.0 (same), and things like that.
Pardon? They did what? From TFA:
Yeah, I guess they really, uhhh, blew past Nokia, selling one iPhone for, uhhh, ummmm, every 3.3 Nokia smartphones being sold.
The RDF is strong in this one...
My God. How fucking horrible are -any- of these solutions?!? This one, a local one, whatever. They're all fucking horrible! All because The Steve says cut-n-paste is not for a touch screen phone. Ye gods. But apparently this is acceptable to the RDF'ed masses. I've read countless blog posts justifying the 'no cut and paste' as being a good idea, anything to require no admission of the fact that it's an ugly stupid and inexcusable UI flaw.
However the GP was talking about wireless access via its 3G/3.5G HSDPA network, which is indeed capable of 7mbps currently and has been tested on their commercially deployed network at 21mbps.
Huhwot? Please point to a 50mbps Comcast plan. I have 8/1, with "powerburst" to 16/2, and that would appear to be the top tier.
You hang around, though, with people who don't slap you for thinking saying something is "epic fail" is somehow cool. I'm not sure their taste counts for much.
Although admittedly Nokia -does- need to improve it, its N series phones -DO- have an app store, too.
1) Yes they should have a failover plan in place. 2) What obligation do they have to you? They provide a free service for your benefit. If your application can't handle issues with a third party API being non-responsive, that's your issue. Or, alternatively, please do point me to the SLA you have with USPS for API access.