Feeling Stupid

Is anyone else wondering if Apple is offering any kind of trade-in specials for those who have the older version of the iPhone? One feels a little stupid having spent over $400 on a phone only to find out that less than six months later they have a phone that is being promoted as twice as good, twice as fast, for half the price. While I understand that technology advances, this is rather insulting - generally a newer model of an item would be priced higher in conjunction with the additional features. It also makes me seriously question whether my wish to buy a Apple computer is a sensible one; will I pay thousands for a computer now and find that, a few months down the road, you're selling a better model for less?

The new 3g phone is obviously being subsidized by AT&T (like most other cell phones). The plans are more expensive for the 3g. If you do the math, the first two years' cost of the new phone more expensive than the old one (at $400 + lower plan cost). You can argue that you're getting more with 3g ... but the fact is that it's still more expensive.
As for the technology ... welcome to cell phones. There will always be a new model that is faster, better ... and less expensive than the last one. It's like PCs back in the late 80s early 90s. The fact that the new one IS more expensive is actually odd if you look at palm/razr/etc by comparison.

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Re: Starting out, feel stupid.... :o(

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> Lia,
>
> No need to feel stupid. Everyone can only start from
where he or she is.
> All
> you need to do is figure out your next step, which I
think would be to
> read the
> F1 help files. If you (like me) get frustrated rooting
around electronic
> help
> files, you might want to pick up a copy of The Missing
Manual series at
> your
> local bookstore for the Dreamweaver version you have. (I
presume it's
> DW8.)
>
> Having said that, you might also want to learn about
writing HTML and CSS
> code. Those are the basics. Once you understand them, DW
will not feel
> like
> such a challenge.
>
> Personal story to inspsire you: A number of years ago
when my company
> wanted
> to launch a website and design/maintain it ourselves, we
first contracted
> a web
> host. That company recommended a couple of programs for
us to use, one of
> which
> was DW. (At that point in time, it was version 2.) Our
contact cautioned
> that
> DW had a higher learning curve, but was better than the
others. As it was
> the
> only one of the recommendations compatible with the Macs
in the office, we
> had
> to go with it. I found it intuitive and easier to pick
up than I'd been
> led to
> believe. I don't know your level of experience, but with
a little
> determination
> and perseverence, I'm sure you'll figure it all out.
>
> Chris
>

Hang in there. I was a total novice (still am) as of August,
and I've since learned enough to publish my own website. The
biggest help I afforded myself was to sign up for a few night
classes at the local community college. Once I broke throught the
barrier, I was off and running.
Two books that helped immensely:
Dreamweaver 8 Revealed, by Bishop
Dreamweaver 8 Visual Quickstart Guide, by
Negrino/Smith

I feel stupid and frustrated

I have no idea what I did. Things were going fine and now I cannot get the email to work on my blackberry torch. I even went to the AT& T store for them to help. An email was sent that instructed me on how to change my password. It said that my user name was my email address but when I put that in as a user name, I keep getting a message saying that is incorrect as it is an internet name. I really wish there were a LIVE person that could help me.

lovingunity wrote:
Re: I feel stupid and frustrated I feel like I'm new at this technology and
I have no idea what I did. Congratulations breaking things means you are learning! (not valid it you are a diamond cutter! Things were going fine and now I cannot get the email to work on my blackberry torch. I even went to the AT& T store for them to help. An email was sent that instructed me on how to change my password. It said that my user name was my email address but when I put that in as a user name, I keep getting a message saying that is incorrect as it is an internet name. I really wish there were a LIVE person that could help me.
Hello and welcome to the forums!
I am a real live person (well my wife does have doubts.) Let's see what we can do.
Is this an AT&T email address? Can you login via PC to the AT&T website where you get your email and is it valid? ? Did you delete the aborted setup on the Blackberry device? Unlike hand grenades and nuclear weapons you get another chance at this.
Let me know if the links below describe your situation.
Thanks,
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I feel stupid asking this but.....

Hi
feel real stupid asking these questions but here goes: -
What is the 'Option' key on the keybord?
If i want use a hash character how do i do that?
when i sign in on my mac i have to type in my password but if i type it wrong it takes me to a windows equivalent of 'DOS' mode why does it do this and how can i stop it?

Hi Again Mr Lenz!
You will find information about all of the keys here Apple Human Interface Guidelines: The Keyboard.
The Option/alt key is located between the Command⌘ and Control keys.
To type a # character, press the Shift + 3 keys. If it's a European keyboard, press the Option + 3 keys.
I'm not sure about the wrong password behavior. If you enter the correct password, does it login OK?
ali b

Feeling stupid and need a tip

I am looking for a hero, I have all my footage and
imported it into a swf as FLV and nothing, i get the black box but
it does not play? not native on my machine nor when i upload it
even though the path is correct, can any one help, i followed the
help files but no joy, please, please, please sinkling fast here.
Thanks in advance

OK now i feel real stupid, OK in my fla i went import video,
Selected FLV already uploaded and put in the root, placed the flv
on to the swf no problem, i published the movie and uploaded it.
put my url in to IE, the swf plays lovely but no FLV as before.
went back and followed instructions to the letter and again nothing
either local or online. Am i missing something, almost bold, sorry
to be a pain.

I cannot get my phone to ring! It will vibrate when settings are set to 'vibrate on silent' but can't find ou why it is silent. Checked all settings, but no go. Call are bring received but SILENT. Feel stupid but very frustrating. Anyone help please!

Suddenly my-phone will NOT ring! I have been through all the settings but am unable to see anything wrong.
IT is working perfectly well otherwise. It will vibrate if I change the setting to VIBRATE ON SILENT, but how
have I made it Silent please.
very frustrating I'm sure it is something simple- BUT WHAT!
help please

Don't feel silly! Lots of people miss that.

Feeling stupid, but how to make UILabel autoresize??

Hi,
sorry for such a stupid question, but sick of fighting XCode on every corner..
Anyway, is there a way to make UILabel autoresize both in length and height?
No matter what I do I can't make it to work. Problem is that I load text from database and I don't know how long the text is going to be.
After fighting 2 days implementing UIScrollView I finally made it, now this..
Please help.

hmm, looks like autosizing is broken? No matter what I do in autosining tab on inspector (red moving square shows correctly how it should resize), but nothing happens in runtime?
Can't believe such a simple thing is not working? I hope I'm simply missing something obvious.

HT201272 Can somebody tell me why there is no "purchase" button on my screen? I pull up my wish list- and am ready to purchase- but cannot find the button. I feel stupid- but it's just nowhere to be found on my screen. Please help.

Can somebody please tell me why there is no "purchase" button on my screen? I go to my WISH LIST and am ready to purchase but I cannot find the button. I feel ridiculous. Please help.

There used to a 'buy all' button on the wish list screen but for some reason that has been removed from the current version of iTunes, you can only buy items individually by clicking on their prices (not the downward pointing arrow next to the price).

Feel stupid, but can't drag n drop to reorganize tracks on zen mi

I upload a ton of stuff to my micro, but now i have duplicate "folders" for some artists and I want to put all the same artist's tracks into one folder. Can't figure out how to do it's Mostly use micro explorer, and you'd think i could drag and drop, but it won't (big circle with slash mark). So i try media source and it won't unless i create a new playlist. so - how can i move stuff around on the micro so it's organized the way i want?
thanks for some help.......the manual blows.

Using the v2 firmware and WMP I believe you can use folders, although I've not upgraded so I don't know how this works. You certainly can't view the folders on the player itself.
As the original poster mentions MediaSource though they must be using a v firmware. Chances are the artists have slightly different names e.g. a capital letter on some, and not on others. It's a case of making sure they all have *exactly* the same data.

I Feel Stupid Asking This... (Network Question)

Hey guys,
I have a Airport Base Station that provides my house with internet access and I love the thing! It is located in my office.
However, I have a security system that I can get online remotely that I wish to put online but I don't want to run a wire from my wall to the ABS in my office.
I DO have a Airport Express Base Station that is laying around. I know that the port on the Express is for an incoming internet signal. Is there anyway to plug my security system into the Express and have it transmit the signal to my ABS for use on the net?
Thanks for your time!
Doc

Thanks for clarifying which version of AX you have. With the earlier 802.11b/g version, the only option to enable its Ethernet port is to reconfigure both AirPorts into a static Wireless Distribution Systems WDS, with this AX configured as the remote base station in this WDS.
Although this will enable the AX's Ethernet port and provide your security device with network/Internet access, a WDS comes with a severe bandwidth penalty for your wireless network. Instead, you may want to consider either getting a update 802.11n version of the AX or another manufacturer's Wireless Ethernet bridge product.

I feel stupid just asking this, but...

I'm trying to write a class to extend PrintStream, but no matter what I do my constructor is flagged with the error:
Cannot resolve symbol
Symbol: Constructor PrintStream ()
Location: class java.io.PrintStream
Here's the code:
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
public class OutWriter extends PrintStream {
    public static OutWriter writer = new OutWriter();
    private OutWriter() {
        System.setOut(this); //Redirect System.out
    public static OutWriter getInstance() {
        return writer;
    public void print(String text) {
        //Redirect to JTextPane
}I'm completely confused. Is PrintStream extendable? I'm certain this error is incredibly simple, but I don't see what I'm missing. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

It gives me the same error. Here's some updated code:
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
public class OutWriter extends PrintStream {
    public static OutWriter writer = new OutWriter(new ByteArrayOutputStream());
    private OutWriter(OutputStream out) {
        System.setOut(this); //Redirect System.out
    public static OutWriter getInstance() {
        return writer;
    public void print(String text) {
        //Redirect to JTextPane
}Do I need to override all of the constructors? I've never had this problem with extending a class before. Very strange...

I feel stupid for asking this, but-

I've made a very simple workflow with Automator that opens up multiple documents (in this case, VectorWorks CAD files) and prints them as PDFs. The problem, if it can be called that, is that I end up having to press the return key three times for each document: Once to confirm that I want to print it, once to confirm the PDF's name and location, and once to save the CAD file before it's closed. The default settings for each prompt are always correct.
I can't work out how to tell Automator to press return for me. Is the answer likely to be staring me in the face, or do I need to import either an action or an AppleScript from elsewhere? I know nothing about AppleScripts; if I needed to write something like this, assuming it's possible, would it be easy?
Thanks in advance to anyone who'll shed some light on this for me. It would be nice to be able to do something else instead of being a yes-man for Automator.
PowerBook G4 (12-inch) Mac OS X (10.3.9) 256 MB RAM, 867 MHz

Memento Mori,
Know need to apologize as you won't find that capability in Automator yet. You have already guessed the work around which is to use AppleScript.
I am not sure whether VectorWorks CAD has an AppleScript dictionary but even if it doesn't it should be possible. If you prefer an Automator workflow then a "Run AppleScript" action could be created such as below.
As I don't have access to VectorWorks CAD I am guessing on the name of the application and whether a delay of 2 seconds between each sending of return is enough on your machine. You need to copy this text to a "Run AppleScript" action in Automator. Note that you must replace all of the text and not just that labelled (* Your script goes here *).
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">on run {input, parameters}
tell application "System Events"
tell process "VectorWorks CAD"
set frontmost to true
keystroke return
delay 2
keystroke return
delay 2
keystroke return
delay 2
return input
end run</pre>

I feel stupid asking this but here goes...

I upgraded to the new Numbers and when you save your spreadsheet and say your cursor is on row 500 column 10 and next time you open that spreadsheet how do you get back to that position without scrolling or paging down a million times? In an Excel spreadsheet it remembers the last spot you were in, does Numbers have a way to remember the last spot?
In the previous version of Numbers I could just tap the down arrow and it would jump to the saved spot, but that doesn't work in the new version, it just stays at the top of the spreadsheet.
Thank you for your help.
Matt

I do not see a way (natively) to deal with this. You can post a comment to Apple using the menu item "Number > Provide Number Feedback"
As a follow on (work around) you could add a small table that you leave near the area of interest, then you can select that table to "jump" to that spot using the sheet menu:
In this example "Table 2" was my marker table

Feel stupid asking this but I've lost something

I cannot find the structure view, nothing visibly happens when I select view structure - I think I may have undocked it - but now I can't seem to locate it again. Help!

found it - floating, non-modal

Need newest version of pages for my iMac. When trying to download latest version the message said I needed OSX 10.9? Where do I get this? I really feel stupid when I can't download a program!

I just worked on a Pages document on my iPad. I wanted to finish it on my iMac (OSX 10.7.5). I emailed the iPad Pages document to get it on my iMac. I then tryed to open the Pages document on my iMac. The message said I needed a newer version of Pages for the iMac. I then went to the Apple store to upgrade Pages for the iMac. When I tried to download the new version, I received a message that Pages couldn't be installed unless I upgraded to OSX 10.9? What the He.. is going on?

be very careful about getting the iWork "updates." This forum is FULL of complaints about it.
Mavericks seems good, though.
If you try Pages 5 and dislike it, Pages 4.3 will still be located in an iWork Folder within your Applications Folder.

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