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They annoyed me this time.. I had 8 songs in my basket and i'm unable to purchase them - I can understand with an online store that delays something for at least 24 hours... but for an instant content delivery system it's rather annoying as a customer.

i say ban them from life

nothin' but the chair for these practical jokers.

I am really surprised someone didn't get hurt?... Could you imagine some of the pissed off people.

I agree.

How is this going to work for Verizon users im on 4.3.7 if im not mistaken...

edit scratch that its 4.2.7 and i just went into settings and it says carrier settings update if i click not now or update now will it do it Over the Air?

Wow, my dream home is bigger than that. :) :)

Of course, I have no money to build my dream home. So maybe Steve can give me some since he's not spending a lot of this home. :)


I wonder if he will have a glass spiral staircase?

Only looks like a single story to me.

I thought this was the new iPhone HD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nDd7A4BAYc

Now if that's fake, they did a damn good job. (and have a ton of time on their hands)


On a related note, does anyone know how to embed a YT video in a post?

Bit too in your face and unrefined for me, the fat chrome sides make it look pretty odd! I do love the alu design far more than the plastic one though!

Agreed. I feel like Wordpad, with the ability to open .doc and .docx files, would suffice.

And have Graphpad, a basic spreadsheet app, with the ability to open .xls and .xlsx for excel. :)

For my work I need word and office, so replacements are not feasible. We use custom plug-ins that obviously will only work in an office app and nothing else.

I'm a little behind the curve as I'm running MS office 2007 on my windows partition and I've had little need to upgrade to 2010. That's why I'm a little out of the loop regarding ads in office.

I really hope LTE is on all handsets going forward whether fully deployed or not. It will be deployed. While I am wishing for unicorns here, I also wish both AT&T and Verizon would let the other carriers customers roam on their LTE network, possibly for a monthly fee or a bucket of GB fee. Let's pay them what they are due, but let's have consumer convenience as the primary goal for a change.

BTW the reason the rumor is wrong is it says LTE only. In reality it will be data only, no voice specific transceiver. All ops will be by IP including VoIP for voice. It will still be able to drop from 4G to 3G level service to assure access.

Rocketman

WTF is so great about 'gestures'? There's nothing quite so miserable as barely bumping the fraking trackpad while typing and causing the text cursor to go flying off somewhere else or any other way of accidentally activating some of these gestures (the more you have the more likely you'll accidentally activate them at some point unintentionally). And while Apple trackpads feel better than many out there, nothing beats a mouse for certain operations, IMO. I'd take a mouse any day over a trackpad. Old fashioned? That's like saying a '65 Mustang with a 4-speed on the floor is old fashioned next to a modern Mitsubishi Lancer with paddle shifters. I'll take the Mustang ANY DAY over that.

Here is why gestures are great and will win out over mouse and keyboard use for almost all uses: they are a direct action and not an indirect action. We are born with an innate sense of using our fingers to manipulate objects. We have to learn the abstraction concept of a mouse and keyboard, items that come between us and our end product (we put up with it because it is effective and productive for certain purposes, but it's a learned behavior and not innate).

90% of what we use a mouse for can be better done with gestures. Those uses will absolutely dominate over the next decade, leaving mouse usage for specialized applications only. You cannot bet against anything that works with human ability instead of something that creates an extra abstracted metaphor ("see this device? It controls the pointer on the screen. As you move that device, the pointer will move accordingly") for human ability.

All you have to do is see how someone reacts once they get used to gestures and then face a system that does not support them. They get frustrated that they have to insert an extra layer of manipulation when all they want to do is point directly with their fingers.

Apple web site also reporting It's Showtime...

http://phobos.apple.com/showtime/showtime.html

Good luck getting it back.

I've realised most thieves steal near where they live, as it's where they hang out and see opportunities. (no they've never heard of not ******** in their own nest)

I had my bike (only a month old) stolen last week from my front yard (it was heavily locked and bolted to the wall. They cut through the wall bolts with croppers). I assumed it was gone, until I bumped into a teacher who lives on my road.

She said it was possibly a group of rude boys who live at the end of my road - she said the police had visited her school to talk to them three times in one week.

I had a quick peek in their backyard, and I can see what LOOKS like the back wheel of my bike behind a wall. :mad:

Hmm. Not worth contacting police, I have no proof it's my bike (brought it cash at a market, no receipt, stallholder brought it at a police auction).

I don't fancy going in either, I'm 32 with a daughter and I don't want to get stabbed over a crummy bike. :(

I can only imagine you're feeling the same way. (You have more proof, but police still won't act.)

Now you see, OP is a true Apple diehard fan. FYI, Apple didn't and doesn't invent anything new. What they have in their devices is exactly what other devices have and had in them for a while. All Apple does is redesigns as they see it, but YOU pay the premium for that.

Is Macbook pro amazing? Yes
Will I swap my MCPro for anything else? No
Did I pay a hefty premium for it? Hell yes
Can I get the same thing from Dell or Toshiba for less? Absolutely YES

Apple products look unique from the outside, but in reality they are the same devices others have but in different packages.

no, I wouldn't prefer osx media player, i'm not saying that I would prefer anything different, imedia would make more sense, but there's no way apple would change the name of there most well known software.

Yes, and you don't have to look too far to find examples of that ;)

...well in that case it sure puts a new perspective on presidential elections w/ mass hysteria.

Sorry, but Apple released Aperture BEFORE Adobe did the same with its app...so it's easier to have a clone of Apple's app, not the opposite...:rolleyes:

Right, a product in development since 2002 (http://photoshopnews.com/2006/01/09/the-shadowlandlightroom-development-story/) was a copy of a product released in 2005 :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I am a reward zone member, the receipt said I paid $530.00 cash.

Haha. Congrats then. :) It looks like you won the lottery at BestBuy! :D

http://gifjes.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/hahaha.gif

and the way you express yourself practically shows me why people 'diss' all your gadgets.

you Americans have some ridiculous proverbs/figure of speeches that no other Anglophones around the world can even attempt to understand.

And the English language's inception was here in England so why do Americans spell rumours 'rumors'? And there are an abundance of similar examples.

i just called Northpark (dallas) apple store and they said no other discounts can be included...they ever said governemnt could not be combined...

sorry guys

There is the objective and the subjective. Objectively, one might say - hey, W8 is stable, and functional, etc...

Subjectively, people like what they like...