Simply Unacceptable

Simply unacceptable Apple!

Virginia Tech

Probably bought the lot.

Higher demand?

Higher demand doesn't delay the first shipments. it just takes longer to get through them all.

8 weeks

I had to go with a G5 tower with OS X server because my Apple dealer told me that the waiting time for a xserve was 8 weeks.

Just wondering if the plant capacity in this case is 3 units x day.

This is frustrating.

apple @#$)#@%

So, they announce something, offer it for sale, then wait for it?!!!!!!!!! same thing with ipod mini, APPle Please DO NOT talk about something you dont have. this is lying,,,,,

RIPE

Apple is just RIPE to piss off a lot of customers with delays

typical

this is normal for this company. No suprises here.

Anti-astroturfing

Microsoft, and well as a few other companies, have been caught astroturfing in the past. The term refers to an artifical effort to create the impression of "grass-roots" support. Generally, it means hiring people to post positive comments on message boards.

What is the oppositve of astro-turfing? That is, hiring people to post negative comments about competitors products, on message boards. Because honestly I can think of no other reason why Mac-centric boards would have so many anti-Apple posts.

Let's call it "asshat-trolling".

-njfuzzy

Re: typical

I wonder if the people that complain about shipment delays are the same people that complain when Apple takes too long to announce a new product?

re: RIPE

What is up with the idiots that keep posting this c***?

Is it some sort of retarded inside joke about Apples also being a fruit or something?

I mean, wow, you are so witty. What a pathetic and useless life you must have, living in your parent's basement and trolling through Mac websites. Get a girlfriend or something... and if you already have one go pay more attention to her or your best friend will.

Jeez.

"So, they announce something, offer it for sale, then wait for it?!!!!!!!!! same thing with ipod mini, APPle Please DO NOT talk about something you dont have. this is lying,,,,,"

Do you know how to punctuate or capitalize? Apple isn't even selling these to you. Your average 11 year old doesn't have the money to spell on an Xserve G5 anyhow. We're about to purchase ten of these, and I'm willing to wait a bit longer as long as they're getting bugs out. Our Xserve G4's run strong.

well, some have shipped

unless VT 'sold' the entire batch of g5's and hasn't delivered them yet.

RIPE.

.... has absolutely nothing to do with Apple's name being a fruit.


And you, my friend, are just RIPE to get a life if you are really this worked up over the use of the word "ripe" in the comments section of a Macintosh news site.

Did it ever occur to you that maybe the ones who don't take this so seriously are the ones who have a life, and that it's people like you who need to turn the mirror on themselves?

For the record - I'm a full time designer with my own place and a girlfriend. And, yeah, I post RIPE stuff too.

re: RIPE

"Did it ever occur to you that maybe the ones who don't take this so seriously are the ones who have a life."

I'm not the guy you are responding to, but I'll comment on it anyway.
People who are up at 2a.m. posting RIPE comment, or click on every new discussion just to enter RIPE, Does not have life. It's none productive, and meaningless. I'm annoyed when go to read a discussion and see RIPE all over the place. Pretty I'll just read the stories only and skip the comments. I'll just leave the kids by themself to pick their noses.

Re: Jeez

"So, they announce something, offer it for sale, then wait for it?!!!!!!!!! same thing with ipod mini, APPle Please DO NOT talk about something you dont have. this is lying,,,,,"

What do you mean, like the iPod mini. The iPod mini shipped on time, and in relatively good quantities.

Just great!

This just blows. G5 Xserve is delayed, and we still haven't heard about the scheduled upgrades for the G5 tower. That'll probably be delayed when its announced too!

Re: RIPE.

"People who are up at 2a.m. posting RIPE comment, or click on every new discussion just to enter RIPE, Does not have life."

Is that a causal relationship? Is having a life and making RIPE posts at an early hour mutually exclusive? Would you mind defining "have a life" for me? See, I'm having a really tough time seeing the life I lead as not existing, so I'm just wondering how exactly you're going to go about invalidating it.

What's more likely? That you know enough about a person based on their action on a Mac board, or that you're just being presumptuous and voicing annoyance in a tremendously cliched way? Come on -- everyone who has ever wanted to insult someone online has gone back to the "you don't have a life" argument. Surely you can do better...

Junk posts

Junk posts for everyone! Enjoy!
MacNN is the best because people post all kinds of stuff here.

causality

causality has nothing to do with it. basically the argument here is that anyone who posts a RIPE comment is pre-metaphasic...meaning that their belief system is intertwined with the relevant ripe vs. non ripe factions. Dismiss this as jibberish if you will...and you will but don't link causality with concepts such as ripe. It just doesn't make any sense.

re:

"That you know enough about a person"....in a word, yes. There are no indentifing marks in this forum, other than the individual comments. so your identity is your comment, and that comment says to me "i'm bored and i want to s**** with people". It's a behavior known in forums and chat rooms known as trolling. You say useless garbage for no other purpose than to see you words posted and to get people pissed off at you, because you think it's fun.

i click on the comments feature because i hope that people have questions or further information on the topic, not to see someone doing the equivalent of ascii art. You want to do this c***, do us all a favor, go back to the aol chat rooms where this is expected.

re:

I can't speak for any of the other RIPE posters, but whenever I make one, I actually make a comment on whatever is going on. So no, it's not just c***. There's a comment on the subject at hand, and I use the RIPE thing as a humorous means of bringing it across.

With that said, you give me a good idea. I think RIPE should start being used as a tool to piss off uptight people like yourself who take the comments section on the board too seriously.

Plus, you act like RIPE thing is the worst thing to ever happen to this news section. There have been much worse trends in speech on here... why don't you save your anger for the next racist or PC or First Post troll. Those people really add nothing...

MacNN Sucks

It's being run by sophomoric buffoons. The comments have never been regulated and never will be. Their quality is worsening. It's time I stopped coming here for news. MacMinute.com will do just fine, thank you.

re: re

"There have been much worse trends in speech on here..."

You rarely ever see "First Post" anymore. And there weren't 5-10 "All your bases are belong to us" comments per story. You would think when someone beat you to the RIPE comment, you'd figure your chance of adding humor with a RIPE comment would decreased quite a bit.

RIPE....

...rules.

What is up with the ripeness that keep posting this ripeness?

Is it some sort of retarded inside ripeness about Apples also being a fruit or something?

I mean, wow, you are so ripe. What a ripe and useful life you must have, living in your ripe basement and trolling through Mac websites. Get a ripe girlfriend or something... and if you already have one go pay more ripe attention to her or your best friend will.

re

"Plus, you act like RIPE thing is the worst thing to ever happen to this news"

it is. there are 5 actual comments on this thread. the rest of them are idiot comments and comments about those idiotic comments. as for worse trends, well, if you like following trends, fine, be a sheep. i don't follow trends and i have no respect for people who blindly do.

The rumor is that on the 23rd there is a chance for g5 upgrades. i'm wondering if apple will do the right thing and keep the desktops and the xserves current with each other.

RIPE robotos

Why would anyone want to waste their time and bandwidth writing RIPE messages? If you analyze the linguistic parameters of these messages, you must come to the conclusion that they are actually sent by autoresponders. Or some other brainless form of life.

Or it's an acronym: Really Inane Provocative Excrement.

I've just gotta say...

this track is just RIPE to be a 10-15 minute live jam.

Hehhhee

All your RIPE are belong to us!

re RIPE posts

please keep 'em coming!

we like RIPE

the more the better

don't let anyone else say otherwise

RIPE

G5 Xserves are just RIPE for delays for at least 10-15 days.

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More RIPE

MacNN servers are just RIPE for a 10-15 load average