Sunday, 22 May 2011

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  • Corey Grandy
    Sep 13, 07:37 PM
    Sometimes. The little squirt just got home from the vet. I took him outside and he ran around a lot. So brought him back in and he went right over to the TV and pooped and peed. Ugh. 9/10 he is using the pads or outside but that 1/10 is making my house smell. Thank goodness for Resolve for Pets.

    I must say, I'm blessed with a really good little guy. He goes out of his way to get to the pad. I can't ask for better.




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  • caspersoong
    Apr 13, 05:00 AM
    As long as it isn't 2011.




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  • quigleybc
    Jul 28, 12:18 PM
    Now is really the time for Apple to go all out and move in on MS....

    If I were Steve, I would be cranking out products, and really pushing hard to get stuff like a full on Mac media center, next gen iPods, iPhones, iTablets ect. ect..

    Just because MS is kind of in limbo right now, not really doing anything big, Gates just stepped down...now is the time to really move in on their territory.

    Maybe that's exactly what they're doing, but it seems like the big product announcements have dropped off completley....the last big announcement was the Macbook, which was a no brainer...high fi ect....

    Hopefully they are all going mad scientist in the Apple labs cooking something really special up, and are just going to unload them all at once....we'll see...




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  • Buckeyes1995
    Apr 18, 06:57 AM
    You aren't the only person Apple sells computers to either. To a lot of people being able to at least play some games on the go is a selling point that must be met for a travel device.]

    I am exactly one of those people. I wanted a light laptop that I could game on occasionally while on travel. There is ZERO chance I would have bought an apple if it wasn't for the Air's portability and gaming potential. Hopefully I'll get many years use out of my 13" Ultimate.. but if Apple cripples the Air from a GPU perspective, I'll go back to Windows in a heartbeat on my next laptop purchase.

    Don't get me wrong, I love my air and am enjoying OSX.. but not enough to sacrifice my ability to game on it.



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  • Dr.Buzz
    Apr 25, 01:12 PM
    Wake me when iMacs have matte screens again.

    I used to be a fan of the glossy, but any more I get so irritated with it. I have a matte screen at work and I kept thinking, the colors and textures are so rich. Oh wait, its because I can actually see them. I may go Mac Pro for the Video card and 3rd party monitor option next time.




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  • (eciv)
    Apr 5, 08:15 PM
    http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5230/5594013398_365372cba1_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/57812430@N07/5594013398/)



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  • spydr
    Jun 6, 10:14 PM
    That's what you get for apple licensing the 'one click' patent. ;)




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  • rorschach
    Aug 16, 02:21 PM
    Dunno if this was posted, but Safari lets you resize text boxes within pages:

    http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/8060/picture28by6.th.png (http://img502.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture28by6.png)
    http://img272.imageshack.us/img272/6174/picture29ps1.th.png (http://img272.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture29ps1.png)



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  • spacepower7
    May 3, 12:22 AM
    Ok a couple of things

    Assume Apple and Amazon have the same deals with the record labels which is most likely the case.

    Let's rough estimate that for every $0.99 song sold by Apple or Amazon then 69 cents go to the label. Therefore Amazon does not lose money on the sale but maybe a tiny fraction of a cent on infrastructure and credit card processing.

    If Amazon sold the songs for $0.68 then that would be considered "dumping" by the FTC and WTO, and that is an illegal action, especially if it was intended to gain market share.

    Competition is good - and then results benefit the consumer.
    If Amazon has an incredible increase of market share by selling low, they either have to raise prices eventually or renege their contracts with the labels making music downloads cheaper. If they are successful at lowering prices then Apple will do the same, and we all benefit. ;)




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  • Bevz
    Dec 30, 06:21 AM
    And i felt guilty about the pizza i had on xmas eve! LOL

    Seriously though; "Daily Mail" and "Sunday Mirror"... Says everything you need to know!



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  • cleanup
    Sep 12, 09:19 PM
    And here my last purchase: Shaken green tea lemonade - I quit buying coffee from starbucks to reduce my sugar intake but I needed something to get from the coffee shop!

    I actually get a half-green, half-passion tea lemonade. Try it. It's good. :)

    Corey, that dog is adorable. What breed?




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  • Sequin
    Apr 22, 06:45 PM
    ****. You could snap that phone in half in a second.



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  • DaveGee
    Apr 12, 08:53 PM
    Could someone clarify this for me: Aren't hard drives too slow to make use of Thunderbolt anyway? In a typical USB 2.0 external hard drive, what is the bottleneck in speed: The speed at which the hard drive spins, or the USB 2.0 connection? If it's the USB, then why do people even care about the RPM of a drive? If it's the RPM, then isn't USB 2.0 fast enough to run a hard drive at its native speed?


    Let's look at it a different way...

    Almost every residential building in NYC has 1/4" to 1/2" (diameter) copper water pipes for their city water service... Even skyscrapers are mostly fitted with similar sized pipes for 99% of it's living spaces.. So, why is NYC paying billions of dollars to have a 24 feet diameter water pipe constructed to bring water down from the reservoirs or why build a 12+ lane super-highway when a car is only one lane in width?

    B_A_N_D_W_I_D_T_H B_A_B_Y!!

    Usage of TB technology is not restricted to a single user (device) at a time... TB is very much like a the PCI bus found in modern PC's, cept it's all done on a much smaller interconnect... It's really very sweet you can literally have 3 or 4 monitors running off of it as well as accessing a very high speed NAS and reading from a bluray drive (not playing from it ... but thats not the fault of TB)... It can literally have EVERYTHING and ANYTHING plugged into it.... Well put it this way... if something can be engineered to operate in a PCI slot... It'll work just fine as a TB device.




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  • leekohler
    Apr 27, 12:51 PM
    Obviously taking everything out of context, when we are dealing with the bleeding obvious there is no reason not to suggest it. I watched the video before reading the comments, so your point has no substance.

    Are you a doctor? Were you there? No?

    Then you are speculating.



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  • 4look4rd
    Jun 6, 07:51 AM
    15 minutes?

    45 Seconds is all it took to get the facts...

    Google search: "android market return policy"

    First result: http://www.google.com/mobile/android/market-policies.html

    For those too lazy to click...

    "Returns: You have 24 hours from the time of purchase (not download) to return any applications purchased from Android Market for a full refund of any applicable fees."

    Summary: 24 Hours, not 15 minutes.

    This is such a great feature that would perhaps stimulate fair pricing and quality paid apps




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  • Schtumple
    Jun 6, 06:08 AM
    'Eleven-year-old "Accidentally" Downloads $1000 App' more like, the kid blatantly knew what he was doing, you can't accidentally buy something, he clicked 'buy', what was he expecting to happen...



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  • appleguy123
    Apr 28, 08:04 PM
    I'm not a she

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOLsgwlHyhE
    Maybe it's a reference to this?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOLsgwlHyhE




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  • Surely
    Jan 30, 02:12 AM
    I bought a round trip ticket for my mother to come out here for a two week visit. It was very spur of the moment, and I'm glad she agreed to it.

    http://www.boncherry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/20090421-virgin-america-airplane.jpg




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  • FireStar
    Nov 28, 11:06 AM
    Covers for all the Warriors books in my collection that have no cover ( lost 'em /: ). I dont know where to get just a cover, so eh.
    Warrior Cats?




    spicyapple
    Dec 1, 02:55 PM
    For the 5 years or so of owning a Mac, I have not come across any breach of security by attacks from viruses from the Internet. Some safe guards to use firewall with a router, limiting ports, and so forth are pretty basic. I've had good luck using a very strong password with a combination of alphanumeric characters and underscores. Although one time, I connected onto an outside network and when I went to browse inside my secret porn folder, I found a pic that wasn't mine. Someone must've copied it into my hidden folder and labeled it myfav.jpg. Very odd, but that was the only time its ever happened.

    Most of these Mac attacks seem to be more predominant with social engineering hacks and user error, than comprised code.




    Huntn
    Dec 29, 10:01 PM
    Anyone watch 1000 Ways To Die (http://www.spike.com/show/27237) on Spike? I can only take so much but it's good sometimes when I'm stuck in a hotel. Today a xtra large woman having sexual relations, while on top fainted and smothered her poor helpless partner who could not get out from under her.




    lifeofart
    Jul 12, 07:37 PM
    Your definition of a "professional" app seems mighty arbitrary, even to the extent of excluding most applications that exist. Specialized databases that are designed for a specific industry wouldn't meet your definition. Computer-Aided-Machining (CAM) software (which is only useful in one industry) wouldn't meet your definition. I could go on, but I think you get my point.

    No, I don't get your point. CAM software is used in a variety of industries. Auto companies, airline companies, boat industries, tools industries, machine shops, agricultural industries. But if the CAM software is a mature useful standard in those industries it is probably a very capable pro app. Like wise customized databases would not be a pro app in itself. The database program used is the pro app not the specific database.

    So now you're adding another level of definition to what it takes to be a "professional" app? Some percentage of people have to know about it? And where do you draw the line? Gee, I guess this means that any start-up company trying to produce a new professional application is doomed because how can they ever reach this percentage upon the release so their product can be considered "professional"?

    It is not another level of defiintion. Industry standard implies that most professionals use it, Doesn't it?

    Yes, it is very very difficult for a startup company to produce a competitive pro app in a mature industry. It takes several years for a product to mature and recieve user feedback and multiple modifications before I would classify it as "Pro". That is why these are difficult markets to crack.




    Don't panic
    Apr 27, 08:59 PM
    maybe i should just vote myself huh?

    you wouldn't be the first, nor the second, nor the third...
    never helped before.




    inkswamp
    Jul 21, 12:26 PM
    Neither did I, but more market share means more software developers and more apps. That's the only reason I care.

    I suppose there's some truth to that, but even when Apple was hitting its lowest points in terms of market share, there was no dearth of good apps. You may not be able to get some more esoteric stuff but that's not going to affect most people.



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