Saturday 21 May 2011

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  • jjhny
    Mar 23, 05:07 PM
    Sorry man, but if it saves 1 life from drunk driving...it's the right thing to do.

    I was waiting for the "if it saves one life argument" - that spurious argument is why we are losing all individual freedoms in the US and the world.

    Approximately 42,000 people dies in car accidents a year. If you outlaw cars you will save 42,000 lives. Isn't that worth it? Not just 1 - 42,000!

    In fact, we could make society like a prison, and then we will all be safe.

    Although in prisons, which has guards and fences, murders still occur, drugs get in, etc. The whole safety argument is a false argument. I feel we have made a wrong turn in this culture and by people thinking we can legislate a perfect world, we are, in fact, making a living hell.





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  • bdj21ya
    Oct 12, 01:09 PM
    That post isn't even worth the time to flame...

    Some people seem to be making a half-hearted effort at it, but you're right.





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  • iMikeT
    Sep 9, 02:53 AM
    I wonder how the 24" iMac equiped with a 2.33ghz Core 2 Duo would fare in that benchmark.





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  • dwman
    Mar 29, 11:17 AM
    Here were their illuminating predictions in Jan 2010. :rolleyes:

    http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS22176610

    Key findings from a new IDC market outlook include the following:





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  • dbit
    Aug 28, 06:55 PM
    If the Core 2 Duo hits tomorrow I'm buying!

    Does anybody have a link to a site that can help me set it up to run windows and os x as optimized as possible? Somebody sent me a link to some mac rumors guides, but nothing that really contained info about setting up the os such as proper partitioning, etc. I heard recently some information about not using the admin account as your primary, etc. I need more tips like this.

    I don't mind if it takes me a week to set the thing up, I just want it set up for the longest future possible.

    Any info is appreciated!





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  • aafuss1
    Aug 31, 10:30 PM
    Different regions, different distributors and laws.
    Examples:
    Lost-7 in Australia
    Invader ZIM-Nickelodeon UK, in the UK, Nickelodeon Australia (XYZ Networks/Nickelodeon Australia own it here)





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  • MacRumors
    Apr 4, 11:39 AM
    http://www.macrumors.com/images/macrumorsthreadlogo.gif (http://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/04/attempted-apple-store-holdup-goes-bad-suspect-killed/)


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    Apple's Otay Ranch retail store

    San Diego 6 reports (http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/story/Suspect-Killed-Two-Arrested-in-Apple-Store-Hold/4tTtOBhLMEW7QTRlIW-9CA.cspx) that an attempted holdup at Apple's Otay Ranch retail store (http://www.apple.com/retail/otayranch/) in Chula Vista, California went sour this morning, with one of the robbers reportedly having been shot and killed by a mall security guard.A security guard caught the suspects smashing the glass front doors of the Apple Store at the mall before the mall opened for the day.

    The guard reportedly shot a male suspect in the head. NBC San Diego reports (http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Shooting-Reported-at-Otay-Ranch-Town-Center-119181734.html) that two other suspects, one of whom had also been shot, have been arrested. The incident happened shortly before 7:00 AM this morning, before the store had opened for business.

    Article Link: Attempted Apple Store Holdup Goes Bad: Suspect Killed (http://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/04/attempted-apple-store-holdup-goes-bad-suspect-killed/)





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  • Multimedia
    Sep 9, 01:56 PM
    Yeah it is interesting but in the context of a desktop machine you are not getting a lot for the wait. A new front side bus and a Merom to go with it. AND 64 Bit support which can be very important for some.

    I guess what I'[m saying is that if you are willing to wait for this upgrade then you really don't need a new computer even with this rather significant update to the iMac. Maybe that is where our paths diverge as I see this as a significant upgrade. Sure it is a stop gap measure for 64 bit support but it does offer significant performance advantages and should adapt well to Apples move to 64 bit.

    I do know that with Core 2 Intel has the potential for significant upside on clock rates. It looks like we could see both a core race and a clock rate race again.

    What I'm wondering is where the optimal number of cores is for the average desktop user. I know that dual has some pretty amazing results on the desktop so how far do we go for core wise. 4, 8, 12 or more? Especially on i86, it is to bad the PPC guys never got their acts together.

    DaveWell I am 100% certian four is not enough. But I have read there may be diminishing returns beyond 16 perhaps even beyond 8 - I have no idea. But Clovertown can't come soon enough for me. Would be great if the speed will rise rapidly as well next year. Hope you're right. With both up a lot, what I am doing could be done in a few minutes insead of hours. That's my dream.





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  • Shenaniganz08
    Mar 23, 07:12 PM
    If you're sober enough to have presence of mind to check an app for a sobriety checkpoint, you're probably sober enough to drive.

    umm no





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  • sushi
    Sep 20, 03:24 AM
    I would be exstatic to get a 720p movie, and like you, I would certainly have no problem waiting the time it would take to download it. I just want HD downloadable content from iTMS, which is why the iTV has me so excited. I may hold off on getting that HD-DVD player until I learn more about it.
    And the download, would be platform independent with regards to BluRay or HD-DVD. Cool.





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  • citizenzen
    Apr 10, 11:04 AM
    Sounds like a pretty convincing reason to move to Sweden if you are an American.

    Canada is sounding awfully good to me right now.





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  • LegendKillerUK
    Apr 25, 01:16 PM
    Hilarious to all those people who jumped on the THUNDERBOLT bandwagon. No thunderbolt devices yet and they have the hideous old case design.

    :rolleyes:

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  • spicyapple
    Sep 10, 06:36 AM
    The Woodcrest MacPro will suddenly feel very old if Apple manage to put Cloverton in MacPro early next year.
    It appears I will be living in a cardboard box under a bridge sooner than I expected. :) All these juicy new Apples will put me in the poor house!





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  • myca
    May 3, 11:54 AM
    Surely I'm not the only one who's noticed that the i7 is slower than the i5, and that the Radeon HD 6970M is slower than the 6750M.

    Whaaaaa? :confused:

    Hold up
    6750M (http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6750M.43958.0.html)

    6970M (http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6970M.43077.0.html)

    Similar clock speeds, the 6970 has twice the amount of pipelines.

    Also from what I've seen in the store the highest clocked i5 is 3.1, and the i7 is 3.4.

    I'm really tempted, but these iMacs need to keep target display mode so I can feed my PC rig in there, otherwise my desk just doesn't have the space for a second display (could always get the 21.5 inch and a second 1080 display I guess).





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  • roland.g
    Sep 13, 11:48 PM
    the iPhone will be cool.
    But until then this is the best slider phone.
    Nokia 8801

    http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=57461





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  • amin
    Oct 12, 05:45 PM
    I predict that Oprah will gift one to each member of her audience.





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  • Erasmus
    Sep 12, 06:14 AM
    http://www.pcisig.com/specifications/pciexpress/logo.gif

    PCI Express, not Extreme.

    Note that there's a multiplier as well - a PCIe x16 slot is twice as fast as a PCIe x8 slot, and 16 times faster than a PCIe x1 slot.

    http://www.pcisig.com/home

    Hmmm... OK, My bad.
    Two 16- lane PCI Express slots.

    Basically take Mac Pro and cut it in half, metaphorically of course.

    So, Multimedia, my Cube really has a spot for a fan?
    Who would have thought it? Not me, that's for sure.
    Seems to me most of the groundwork's already done. All Apple have to do is take the old cube, and integrate the ease of expandability of the existing Mac Pro, add the missing fan, and some other fans inside, and we suddenly have a computer that is able to cool some seriously hot hardware, and will cause a small thermonuclear explosion if you ever put a book over its top vent.

    I have decided that I think it is highly unlikely that a kentsfield will find its way into an iMac, however I hope I am mistaken. Very much hoping the Mini Mac Pro is created.

    BTW, What is with all the Anti Mini Mac Pro hostility??? "I'm sorry, you can't have a Quad 2.67 Ghz CPU and a top of the line graphics card. I'm sure a Mac Mini will more than fulfil your needs, with its Dual 1.86 Ghz Yonah processor and Integrated Graphics. As long as you de-emphasize on productivity, you should find a Mac Mini is plenty fast enough. After all, Apple is perfect, and anything they don't offer should be wanted by you."





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  • bchreng
    May 1, 01:23 AM
    Curious that everyone is clamoring for a thunderbolt-enabled machine, but there isn't a single thunderbolt drive available on the market.

    I guess some people just need to feel like they have new stuff even if it's totally pointless.

    Some people - like me - may not own a mac desktop yet and would like to purchase one soon and intend on using it for quite a while. So while there may be no devices at the moment, there could very well be such a device released next year or the year after. When it is released we'll be glad that our iMacs have the port. It's not exactly like a pc where we can open up the case and add in the port later on.





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  • Igantius
    Apr 19, 07:24 AM
    Do any of these suits ever actually get resolved?

    It's going back over a decade, but eMachines had to stop selling its eOne after Apple won a legal battle over the physical similarity with the original iMac model. eMachines gave its product a different shape to the Apple 'teardrop', but it wasn't enough.

    There was another computer, the ePower that looked even more like an iMac (IIRC, it was even the same colour as Bondi Blue) - that one didn't get to the market because of an injunction by Apple.

    In at least one legal case over iMac 'influenced' PCs, the judge commented on the amount of marketing Apple had spent and which focussed on the physical look - so essentially was saying that other companies were trying to exploit that.





    Crawn2003
    Apr 25, 02:01 AM
    Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A293 Safari/6531.22.7)

    Wow, your mom willingly caused a wreck, sued the guy, and you are proud of it. Man, you and your family are just pathetic.:rolleyes:

    I really don't think it is necessary to call me or any member of my family "pathetic." There's nothing wrong with manipulating the system to your advantage, if you do it for a valid purpose (such as teaching a crappy driver a lesson).

    -Don

    Unless someone uses the system against you and to their advantage, then I bet you'd lose your cool and be crying foul.





    firsttube
    Sep 13, 10:03 PM
    Your first point is intriguing and has me thinking too, however your 2nd is not too far from being "Apple". Apple has used code names for years. It is a known fact and something that is well documented throughout the web at credible sites like folklore.org and the likes run by former Apple employees.

    Unless you were actually commenting on the "pre-announcement™" itself and not the codename

    Yeah, I think they want people to download content starting today knowing that they'll be able to watch it on their nice big flat screen tv in the living room soon.

    Steve jobs said "nice big flat screen tv" a lot during the itv intro, didn't he?





    fswmacguy
    Apr 4, 12:35 PM
    Not sure where you guys are getting your information.

    In Virginia, to posses an Armed Security Guard license, you must take a 40-hour (five-day) course.

    There's a place where I live that does the training. They use M4A1 rifles and M9 pistols in the course, which are both required for certification as an armed security guard.





    swissmann
    Apr 4, 12:23 PM
    How about the whole incident being avoided by people being honest and working for what you want. In this case no robbery, no need for a guard, no guns, no death. Ideally we shouldn't need locks on our doors or guards in the first place (unrealistic I know).

    I do think most people are good though. My local Apple store had a door lock malfunction one morning and a dozen people were inside roaming around looking at things before management came to open the store. Nothing was stolen.





    needthephone
    Sep 15, 05:57 PM
    Sounds good. I want this phone!

    To me its optics which are just as important as how many MP's. I have a 2MP Nokia 6280 which is OK but its let down by poor optics- For a camera I would rather a Nikon SLR any day



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