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  • #31
    Originally posted by Wiglaf
    $130 isn't that much money.
    Have you ever been a college student?

    That is all I am going to say to this dingbat.
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    • #32
      The new article link is here.
      cIV list: cheats
      Now watch this drive!

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Asher

        Huh? They didn't have to upgrade.
        There were a lot of fixes that you could only get by upgrading to XP.
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        • #34
          Originally posted by chegitz guevara
          There were a lot of fixes that you could only get by upgrading to XP.
          Name some.
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          • #35
            I wonder why Cloud9 hasn't posted here yet, he's obviously around.
            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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            • #36
              Originally posted by Asher
              Name some.
              I can't. I'm just regurgitating what I read in some PC magazine.
              Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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              • #37
                1. not making the thing crash so damn much. quite a free fix from winme.

                that's the only one i can think of.
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                • #38
                  Originally posted by Fez

                  Have you ever been a college student?

                  That is all I am going to say to this dingbat.
                  Anyone who has a job and a computer can wipe his ass with $130 bills any day of the week. Wake up guys. And if you can't, you aren't serious about computers enough to make a serious investment and therefore should play on a playstation instead or something.

                  Don't forget, Panther will offer a return far greater than that of, say, a $20000 car for many users.

                  Note that no one has yet defined the exact flaws in Panther or its predessor or anything. All I've heard is vague.

                  I might go use the john now. Don't all start a complaint thread for the poor toliet paper.

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                  • #39
                    On the other hand, upgrading to Panther could toast a lot of data. Another prime example of Apple's stellar beta testing.



                    Panther glitch erases some hard drives
                    Last modified: October 30, 2003, 4:23 PM PST
                    By Ina Fried
                    Staff Writer, CNET News.com


                    A problem is causing some of those who install the new version of Mac OS X to lose the data that's stored on their external hard drives.

                    Apple Computer said the glitch is limited to external hard drives that use a high-speed FireWire connection and a particular chipset Oxford Semiconductor manufactures. The company encouraged those who have a drive that uses the chip to disconnect their drives from Macs that are being upgraded to Mac OS X version 10.3, or Panther.

                    "Apple has identified an issue with external FireWire hard drives using the Oxford 922 bridge chipset with firmware version 1.02 that can result in the loss of data stored on the disk drive," the company said in a statement provided to CNET News.com. "Apple is working with Oxford Semiconductor and affected drive manufacturers to resolve this issue, which resides in the Oxford 922 chipset."

                    An Oxford Semiconductor representative declined to comment.

                    Apple recommended that customers do not use drives that have the Oxford chip in question. "To stop using the drive, you should unmount or eject the disk drive before doing anything else," the company said.

                    Among the drives that are affected are the d2 series of FireWire 800 drives from LaCie. The company said the affected products have serial numbers less than "1339xxxxx" or "0339xxxxx". The drives shipped between April and the end of September.

                    "LaCie has been actively investigating these reports to identify the cause of the problems and to provide our customers with a solution," the company said in a statement.

                    LaCie added that it was able to test beta versions of Panther and did not experience the problem.

                    Panther, the latest version of Mac OS X, went on sale Friday. The new operating system adds more than 150 new features, including improvements on its Finder and mail programs, among other enhancements.
                    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                    Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                    • #40
                      Tsk. Don't they even have a serious testing period before shipping their product? Will they charge for version 10.3a which will correct the glitch?
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                      • #41
                        you aren't serious about computers enough to make a serious investment and therefore should play on a playstation instead or something.
                        Not even Agathon is this over the edge.
                        This statement implies that someone gets a computer soley for gaming purposes. And while that may be true for some people...I highly doubt any of them decided to get a Mac That's one of the things the mac people have espousing for years, how they aren't some gaming console and that you "Buy a PC for games, and buy a Mac for business".
                        Your statement also implies that the patch is gaming-related. So unless this is true, I advise you drop the propaganda line.

                        Anyone who has a job and a computer can wipe his ass with $130 bills any day of the week.
                        I wonder how old you are. One might think your in that phase of "prosperity" where you don't really have any financial obligations to speak of and you are making a "normal" income for your family (or lack thereof)...However, I can assure you soon that will all disappear.
                        My situation? My entire family is on medications. They cost roughly $15-50 (The insurance decided they didnt want to pay as much, so...) each.
                        I have a 5 person family (with 2 pets ) and the household income is roughly $30,000. We have many more expenses than you'll probably ever know.
                        So $130 is quite a bit to a family like us. But I suppose we are not the ones that Apple is targeting. I for one would never pay the prices they ask for such low-quality products, and then have to pay for the patch.
                        I'd much rather get a PC that does more for less.

                        Tsk. Don't they even have a serious testing period before shipping their product? Will they charge for version 10.3a which will correct the glitch?
                        Hey, but only people who aren't serious about computers don't pay for the patch. They go play a playstation instead
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                        • #42
                          Anyone who has a job and a computer can wipe his ass with $130 bills any day of the week. Wake up guys. And if you can't, you aren't serious about computers enough to make a serious investment and therefore should play on a playstation instead or something.


                          i would say that i grok computers.

                          well, i thought that $130 was a lot of money that we don't all have, but i guess i was wrong about that. thanks, wiggy, for wigging out and showing me the error of my assumptions.

                          ===

                          Note that no one has yet defined the exact flaws in Panther or its predessor or anything. All I've heard is vague.


                          check the apple boards. if you have an apple account, that is. i do, since i d/led darwin x86 a while back.
                          you'll see this firewire 800 mess isn't just illusory.
                          Last edited by Q Classic; November 2, 2003, 12:00.
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                          • #43
                            Apple Will Fix Security Flaws in Jaguar

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                            All this for nothing!
                            HAVE A DAY.
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                            • #44
                              Glad I just now noticed this link. Looks like the people over at Cnet are just as excited about bashing Macs as Asher, eh?

                              And everybody, college students get X.3 for ~$70, not ~$130.

                              Apple is very kind to students and anybody else involved with education.
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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by FlameFlash Apple is very kind to students and anybody else involved with education.
                                So is Microsoft, though.

                                /me waves around his free copy of Visual Studio .NET he got from the school

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