Does anybody remember mp3.com's initial launch in the late 90s? It was essentially a "cloud music" service over a decade ahead of its time. You didn't actually upload mp3s, but it would scan the CD in your CD-Rom drive, presumably do something like match the CDDB info, then those mp3s would be in your account, freely downloadable from any internet-connected computer. People would share music collections by using each others' passwords and downloading all the mp3s in each others' accounts, it was a cool time on the internet frontier! Short lived though.. I seem to remember them getting a cease-and-desist not 6 weeks after I started using it, and soon afterward they reinvented themselves into an early incarnation of whatever they are right now.
It finally crapped out for good, and while the warranty still has a few months left, I had to pop the shell to swap hard drives (long story) and I figure that f***s the warranty.
That only f***s the warranty IF it can be determined that this action resulted in whatever warranty repair you want service for. While you might get a run-around about the non-spec hard drive in your machine(I got a run-around about some self-installed RAM when I brought in my iBook for an optical drive issue) they can't legally deny you warranty service based on it. I'd take it in for warranty repair, even if it means having to go into belligerent-customer-mode at the genius bar. Good luck!
Pardon me if I don't hold my breath waiting for the overthrowing of human nature.
Looking back at our social evolution how many characteristics that might once have been considered "human nature" are now considered barbaric? How much of this human nature is influenced by our surroundings?
There are plenty like myself and grandparent who naturally recognise that a better life for everybody is more important than "more possessions for myself", even here in america where the exact opposite mindset is so ingrained into academia, government, and society that people such as yourself are able to percieve it as human nature.
you know those things you see at the library and in administrative offices that make computer screens unreadable by anybody who isn't directly in front of them? Somebody should make a license plate equivalent.
Why all the aggression, sparky? It tends to negate any points you might have made in your post. I'd love to discuss this with you, but not until you settle down.
Absolutely ridiculous, as if the only variable in a hamster's rationale is depression.. who's to say that the hamsters don't stop strugging because they realise that they're floating? This "test" and it's results could just as easily(and just as ridiculously) be used to "illustrate" hamster intelligence.
Still, I can't help but chuckle at the thought of credential-touting scientists dropping hamsters into buckets of water and then analysing them on an emotional level...let's think about how that will be reflected upon in future history books.
I never realized how truly brilliant the single-button trackpad was until I was asked to troubleshoot on somebody's Windows notebook the other day at a coffee shop..I was kind of annoyed that Windows didn't support ctrl-click.
That tells me that this project is doomed right now. The supposed recipients of these computers don't want something to tinker with, but a computer they can actually USE to COMMUNICATE and learn stuff that has nothing whatsoever to do with computers as such.
I don't think the desire for tinkerability is on behalf of the recipients of said laptops, but on the part of the designers of and programmers for them. I highly doubt there will be much tinkerability with the end product as these are unique and essentnially limited devices, built to serve some very specific purposes(to deliver information over a unique network infrastructure, for one). Stock OS X is not ideal for this task as OS X cannot be tinkered with to suit the functionality of these devices. At least, that's how I understand it..
fwiw
I'll concede that perhaps the ", period." may have been too strong of a wording, but I stand behind my assertation that Apple is neither a "software company" nor a "platform provider" in that producing software or an OS for hardware other than their own would completely undermine their business model. Apple's hardware-centricity is the reason OSX users are faced with so few of the troubleshooting scenarios that their Windows using counterparts encounter on an almost daily basis. Apple hardware and software are irrevocably interdependant..together they produce a rock solid computing platform.. either one on it's own, however, would be nothing spectacular.
First glance you may say, good for apple, they still get the money. However, what that starts to do is move mindshare for apple to a premium hardware supplier, not a platform supplier.
But apple is a premium hardware supplier, not a platform supplier. OS X, in essence, is their loss leader that sells their premium hardware. Apple is a hardware company, period..whatever sells their hardware is good for the company, and good for OS X.
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Does anybody remember mp3.com's initial launch in the late 90s? It was essentially a "cloud music" service over a decade ahead of its time. You didn't actually upload mp3s, but it would scan the CD in your CD-Rom drive, presumably do something like match the CDDB info, then those mp3s would be in your account, freely downloadable from any internet-connected computer. People would share music collections by using each others' passwords and downloading all the mp3s in each others' accounts, it was a cool time on the internet frontier! Short lived though.. I seem to remember them getting a cease-and-desist not 6 weeks after I started using it, and soon afterward they reinvented themselves into an early incarnation of whatever they are right now.
OS X is for the practical inside of me. OS X is for the artist inside of me. OS X is for the lazy inside of me.
OS X is for the gay inside of you.
Apple's thumbing their nose at classic Mac users is disgusting, insulting, sickening.
Why?
It finally crapped out for good, and while the warranty still has a few months left, I had to pop the shell to swap hard drives (long story) and I figure that f***s the warranty.
That only f***s the warranty IF it can be determined that this action resulted in whatever warranty repair you want service for. While you might get a run-around about the non-spec hard drive in your machine(I got a run-around about some self-installed RAM when I brought in my iBook for an optical drive issue) they can't legally deny you warranty service based on it. I'd take it in for warranty repair, even if it means having to go into belligerent-customer-mode at the genius bar. Good luck!
"Then the company is trying to expand by putting this into other vehicles like humvees and helicopters. (why in a helicopter?)"
American military choppers don't exactly have a reputation for staying in the air...
Pardon me if I don't hold my breath waiting for the overthrowing of human nature. Looking back at our social evolution how many characteristics that might once have been considered "human nature" are now considered barbaric? How much of this human nature is influenced by our surroundings? There are plenty like myself and grandparent who naturally recognise that a better life for everybody is more important than "more possessions for myself", even here in america where the exact opposite mindset is so ingrained into academia, government, and society that people such as yourself are able to percieve it as human nature.
No, it's just me, America. (How y'all doin?)
you know those things you see at the library and in administrative offices that make computer screens unreadable by anybody who isn't directly in front of them? Somebody should make a license plate equivalent.
Why all the aggression, sparky? It tends to negate any points you might have made in your post. I'd love to discuss this with you, but not until you settle down.
Absolutely ridiculous, as if the only variable in a hamster's rationale is depression.. who's to say that the hamsters don't stop strugging because they realise that they're floating? This "test" and it's results could just as easily(and just as ridiculously) be used to "illustrate" hamster intelligence. Still, I can't help but chuckle at the thought of credential-touting scientists dropping hamsters into buckets of water and then analysing them on an emotional level...let's think about how that will be reflected upon in future history books.
I never realized how truly brilliant the single-button trackpad was until I was asked to troubleshoot on somebody's Windows notebook the other day at a coffee shop..I was kind of annoyed that Windows didn't support ctrl-click.
That tells me that this project is doomed right now. The supposed recipients of these computers don't want something to tinker with, but a computer they can actually USE to COMMUNICATE and learn stuff that has nothing whatsoever to do with computers as such. I don't think the desire for tinkerability is on behalf of the recipients of said laptops, but on the part of the designers of and programmers for them. I highly doubt there will be much tinkerability with the end product as these are unique and essentnially limited devices, built to serve some very specific purposes(to deliver information over a unique network infrastructure, for one). Stock OS X is not ideal for this task as OS X cannot be tinkered with to suit the functionality of these devices. At least, that's how I understand it.. fwiw
I'll concede that perhaps the ", period." may have been too strong of a wording, but I stand behind my assertation that Apple is neither a "software company" nor a "platform provider" in that producing software or an OS for hardware other than their own would completely undermine their business model. Apple's hardware-centricity is the reason OSX users are faced with so few of the troubleshooting scenarios that their Windows using counterparts encounter on an almost daily basis. Apple hardware and software are irrevocably interdependant..together they produce a rock solid computing platform.. either one on it's own, however, would be nothing spectacular.
First glance you may say, good for apple, they still get the money. However, what that starts to do is move mindshare for apple to a premium hardware supplier, not a platform supplier.
But apple is a premium hardware supplier, not a platform supplier. OS X, in essence, is their loss leader that sells their premium hardware. Apple is a hardware company, period..whatever sells their hardware is good for the company, and good for OS X.