My out of warranty iMac G5 burnt into flames last week. Needed a new PSU, logic board and case. £520 to repair, lucky Apple decided to pay for the repair in full.
Bring back the cube form-factor, with full sized hard drive, GPU and a spare PCI Express socket.
You mean, anyone could view the file listing of http://www.macrumorslive.com/admin/, where anyone could open the.passwd file with unencrypted passwords.
If the microwave was only 5 years old and it broke down, you are covered in England and Wales by consumer protection laws if it less than six years old and it break down. Just as long as you can prove it was not accidental damage, your covered for a free repair.:)
Just something for the UK readers here. Covers anything electronic.
I live near Birmingham in the UK, area of 3 million in population, some can't get broadband in the middle of this urban conurbation as the copper lines are so bad, yet 3G and HSDPA is everywhere. So, does sound right.
That is quick. I'm synced at 4Mb to BT Internet via ADSL, I can only get 40kB/s via BitTorrent in the day, evening more like 2-4kB/s.
My ping to google.com is just under a second at night, some packets may fail, and forget Youtube or iPlayer past 5pm, they just wont play without pausing every 3 seconds.
I have tested other houses with ADSL, the all experience the same.
BT deny any form of throttling, yet if I download at any time of day via FTP I get ~450kB/s, it is morning now and with HTTP I can get 300kB/s, in the evening more like 50-80kB/s. Crazy, seems BT throttle port 80.
Also, why are they bothering with Acid 3? CSS3 is not yet finalised and is in working draft. Webkit (same as Chrome) uses quirks mode to do some of the tests, which is not standard compliant. Gecko used in Firefox came at the wrong time for Acid 3, their release cycle ended just as Acid 3 came out.
There is also a horrid bug with benchmarking Webkit's JS engine and V8, the timers report times as zero seconds if they are small numbers such as 20ms. This really screws up the figures.
Yes, it was on Dragons Den. None of the dragons invested as the water quality was awful and the guys were a bunch of hard selling vacuum cleaner door to door canvassing salesmen.
You beat me to it. I did a lot of this using Max MSP in my first year of my under-grad degree. We had to make acousmatic music with a synth made in Max and had to be performed by the machine, not by a human.
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My out of warranty iMac G5 burnt into flames last week. Needed a new PSU, logic board and case. £520 to repair, lucky Apple decided to pay for the repair in full.
Bring back the cube form-factor, with full sized hard drive, GPU and a spare PCI Express socket.
You mean, anyone could view the file listing of http://www.macrumorslive.com/admin/, where anyone could open the .passwd file with unencrypted passwords.
I have just had a look, and it will cost 20 pence to upgrade each song to DRM free and better quality of the Plus store. Good one Apple!
Strange. Footballers Wives was a Sky production and Skins was Channel 4 production here in the UK, not BBC's.
Unsure about Hex, thought that was an American program.
I should proof read too, my grammar and spelling is awful today.
If the microwave was only 5 years old and it broke down, you are covered in England and Wales by consumer protection laws if it less than six years old and it break down. Just as long as you can prove it was not accidental damage, your covered for a free repair. :)
Just something for the UK readers here. Covers anything electronic.
That why they are coined as:
MBE - My Bloody Effort
OBE - Others Bloody Effort
Just how do you quantify "doubts"? LOL
One person had a doubt, then a second, therefore it multiplied by a factor of two.
Wow Slashdot, your news is years old. Windows was rolled out a couple of years ago.
Nothing to see here, move along. BSOD, bang!
It's a program for children too, how hard is it to follow?
Nahh, this is better.
I live near Birmingham in the UK, area of 3 million in population, some can't get broadband in the middle of this urban conurbation as the copper lines are so bad, yet 3G and HSDPA is everywhere. So, does sound right.
When you use the same IP for HTTP and FTP, you get a huge difference in speed. Explain why?
That is quick. I'm synced at 4Mb to BT Internet via ADSL, I can only get 40kB/s via BitTorrent in the day, evening more like 2-4kB/s.
My ping to google.com is just under a second at night, some packets may fail, and forget Youtube or iPlayer past 5pm, they just wont play without pausing every 3 seconds.
I have tested other houses with ADSL, the all experience the same.
BT deny any form of throttling, yet if I download at any time of day via FTP I get ~450kB/s, it is morning now and with HTTP I can get 300kB/s, in the evening more like 50-80kB/s. Crazy, seems BT throttle port 80.
Also, why are they bothering with Acid 3? CSS3 is not yet finalised and is in working draft. Webkit (same as Chrome) uses quirks mode to do some of the tests, which is not standard compliant. Gecko used in Firefox came at the wrong time for Acid 3, their release cycle ended just as Acid 3 came out.
There is also a horrid bug with benchmarking Webkit's JS engine and V8, the timers report times as zero seconds if they are small numbers such as 20ms. This really screws up the figures.
Yes, it was on Dragons Den. None of the dragons invested as the water quality was awful and the guys were a bunch of hard selling vacuum cleaner door to door canvassing salesmen.
You beat me to it. I did a lot of this using Max MSP in my first year of my under-grad degree. We had to make acousmatic music with a synth made in Max and had to be performed by the machine, not by a human.
Wow, are /. comments becoming like icanhas, digg or something.
You do know the likes of the CIA, DoD etc. can make a gigapixel photo from an original photo of just a few pixels, right?
You see it in all the movies.
MIT have experience with balloons from experimenting with them in the 1950/60's.
Reminds me of Walter Lewin.
What I thought. My last university spent £2m getting one of the campus buildings into Second Life.
So 0 times 1 is $0.01, times 500 is $5, ergo there is a 500x markup.
Zero times one is zero. Therefore, times 500 is zero.
Stop being bitter and pulling numbers out of your ass.
This is Slashdot, you must be new here.
Apple computers have had it for ages too. Take the older MacBook Pro machines with 8600M GT, it has HDCP support.
What is new?
If it helps, the older MacBook Pro machines with the NVIDIA 8600M GT has HDCP support.
The first Psystar machines did have a modified version of Mac OS X, for the record.