The current 'logic board' revision on the new x86 based mac laptops is either revision D or E.
What about the random shut down problem? Or the strange noises some units make? Or the extreme high temps that required a firmware revision? Or the excess heat sink compound that was installed? Or the plastic strip that was left on some units?
Blaming the builder that apple outsourced to doesn't work. Apple charges more and says they have a higher quality product but it doesn't show in the current line.
If the new Macs "just works out of the box" why have their been so many recalls and service advisories on them? They have already had 4 or 5 different mother board / "logic board" revisions on just one model of laptop so far.
Lots of lead was used to make a lot of paint and pipes for 100's of years before we realized how bad it was - something being in use for a long time doesn't necessarily mean it is safe.
Twelve days ago, at a town meeting in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) accused Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) of obstructing his porkbuster-database bill with an anonymous hold.
That's according to an Aug. 18 article in the Fort Smith (Ark.) Times Record:
One of the senators most criticized for his personal projects, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has a hold of his own on Coburn's bill to make public the spending patterns of the government. Called the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, the legislation calls for the creation of a database open to the public where citizens can track government spending.
"He's the only senator blocking it," Coburn said of Stevens.
Coburn's office was not available for comment this evening.
The article has gone largely unnoticed in recent days, as hundreds of bloggers and blog-readers (at TPMm and elsewhere) have called Senate offices in an effort to determine who placed the "secret" hold on Coburn's bill. The piece does not turn up in a Nexis search, although it is in Google.
Stevens has been the odds-on favorite since the hunt for the Holder Who Dare Not Speak His Name began.
But did he really do it? Well, he had a motive: As the paper and others have noted, Stevens and Coburn have clashed before -- in particular over Stevens' now-legendary "bridge to nowhere." Coburn attempted (and failed) to block the $233 million boondoggle. And revenge certainly fits the senior Alaskan's m.o. "Stevens can play rough," the Seattle Times noted in June. "Despite denials from his staff, he retaliates - and doesn't mind waiting years to do so."
Stevens' office has so far refused to comment on the hold. Ninety-five other senators have confirmed they were not responsible.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the solution to the Middle East crisis is to destroy Israel. In a speech during an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders, Ahmadinejad also called for an immediate halt to fighting in Lebanon between Israel and the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah.
"Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented," he said.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smiles during a meeting with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, unseen, in Tehran, in this Tuesday, June 27, 2006 file photo. Ahmadinejad on Tuesday rejected a U.N. Security Council resolution that would give his nation until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment. Instead, Ahmadinejad insisted Tehran would pursue its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, FILE) Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smiles during a meeting with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, unseen, in Tehran, in this Tuesday, June 27, 2006 file photo. Ahmadinejad on Tuesday rejected a U.N. Security Council resolution that would give his nation until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment. Instead, Ahmadinejad insisted Tehran would pursue its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, FILE) (Hasan Sarbakhshian - AP)
Ahmadinejad, who has drawn international condemnation with previous calls for Israel to be wiped off the map, said the Middle East would be better off "without the existence of the Zionist regime."
Israel "is an illegitimate regime, there is no legal basis for its existence," he said
Her death sentence was imposed for "crimes against chastity".
The state-run newspaper accused her of adultery and described her as 22 years old.
But she was not married - and she was just 16.
Sharia Law
In terms of the number of people executed by the state in 2004, Iran is estimated to be second only to China.
In the year of Atefah's death, at least 159 people were executed in accordance with the Islamic law of the country, based on the Sharia code.
Since the revolution, Sharia law has been Iran's highest legal authority.
Alongside murder and drug smuggling, sex outside marriage is also a capital crime.
As a signatory of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, Iran has promised not to execute anyone under the age of 18.
But the clerical courts do not answer to parliament. They abide by their religious supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, making it virtually impossible for human rights campaigners to call them to account.
Code of behaviour
At the time of Atefah's execution in Neka, journalist Asieh Amini heard rumours the girl was just 16 years old and so began to ask questions.
Crane for hanging in silhouette To teach others a lesson, Atefah's execution was held in public
"When I met with the family," says Asieh, "they showed me a copy of her birth certificate, and a copy of her death certificate. Both of them show she was born in 1988. This gave me legitimate grounds to investigate the case."
So why was such a young girl executed? And how could she have been accused of adultery when she was not even married?
Disturbed by the death of her mother when she was only four or five years old, and her distraught father's subsequent drug addiction, Atefah had a difficult childhood.
She was also left to care for her elderly grandparents, but they are said to have shown her no affection.
In a town like Neka, heavily under the control of religious authorities, Atefah - often seen wandering around on her own - was conspicuous.
It was just a matter of time before she came to the attention of the "moral police", a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, whose job it is to enforce the Islamic code of behaviour on Iran's streets.
Secret relationship
Being stopped or arrested by the moral police is a fact of life for many Iranian teenagers.
Previously arrested for attending a party and being alone in a car with a boy, Atefah received her first sentence for "crimes against chastity" when she was just 13.
Although the exact nature of the crime is unknown, she spent a short time in prison and received 100 lashes.
Atefah was soon caught in a downward spiral of arrest and abuse
When she returned to her home town, she told those close to her that lashes were not the only things she had to endure in prison. She described abuse by the moral police guards.
Soon after her release, Atefah became involved in an abusive relationship with a man three times her age.
Former revolutionary guard, 51-year-old Ali Darabi - a married man with children - raped her several times.
She kept the relationship a secret from both her family and the authorities.
Atefah was soon caught in a downward spiral of arrest and abuse.
Local petition
Circumstances surrounding Atefah's fourth and final arrest were unusual.
The moral police said the locals had submitted a petition, describing her as a "source of immorality" and a "terrible influence on local schoolgirls".
But there were no signatures on the petition - only those of the arresting guards.
Men's word is accepted much more clearly and much more easily than women Mohammad Hoshi, Iranian lawyer and exile
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This is from the 512MB model/dev/sdb1:
Timing cached reads: 2324 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1161.93 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 76 MB in 3.01 seconds = 25.26 MB/sec
But he doesn't buy carbon credits to offset the energy his investments use. 50,000,000 + in google stock and not a penny to offset the CO2 produced to power his partial ownership of Google.
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The current 'logic board' revision on the new x86 based mac laptops is either revision D or E.
What about the random shut down problem? Or the strange noises some units make? Or the extreme high temps that required a firmware revision? Or the excess heat sink compound that was installed? Or the plastic strip that was left on some units?
Blaming the builder that apple outsourced to doesn't work. Apple charges more and says they have a higher quality product but it doesn't show in the current line.
If the new Macs "just works out of the box" why have their been so many recalls and service advisories on them? They have already had 4 or 5 different mother board / "logic board" revisions on just one model of laptop so far.
Apples build quality isn't what it used to be.
I have just canceled my account and have netflix to let them know why.
Lots of lead was used to make a lot of paint and pipes for 100's of years before we realized how bad it was - something being in use for a long time doesn't necessarily mean it is safe.
No I do not. If the don't add it soon I may just do it myself.
You mean like the way that the Gnome project thinks the ability to have seperate wall papers on each virtual desktop is a "bad thing"?
Drives me nuts. But you can change Firefox 2.0 back to the older behavior I did so in beta 1 but don't remember how to do so. Google should help.
Not every one has millions in awards/grants to live off of like RMS does.
Of course that over looks one tiny little problem.
OSX 10.5 WON'T SHIP THIS YEAR and isn't a product a normal person can buy right now.
Twelve days ago, at a town meeting in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) accused Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) of obstructing his porkbuster-database bill with an anonymous hold.
That's according to an Aug. 18 article in the Fort Smith (Ark.) Times Record:
One of the senators most criticized for his personal projects, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has a hold of his own on Coburn's bill to make public the spending patterns of the government. Called the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, the legislation calls for the creation of a database open to the public where citizens can track government spending.
"He's the only senator blocking it," Coburn said of Stevens.
Coburn's office was not available for comment this evening.
The article has gone largely unnoticed in recent days, as hundreds of bloggers and blog-readers (at TPMm and elsewhere) have called Senate offices in an effort to determine who placed the "secret" hold on Coburn's bill. The piece does not turn up in a Nexis search, although it is in Google.
Stevens has been the odds-on favorite since the hunt for the Holder Who Dare Not Speak His Name began.
But did he really do it? Well, he had a motive: As the paper and others have noted, Stevens and Coburn have clashed before -- in particular over Stevens' now-legendary "bridge to nowhere." Coburn attempted (and failed) to block the $233 million boondoggle. And revenge certainly fits the senior Alaskan's m.o. "Stevens can play rough," the Seattle Times noted in June. "Despite denials from his staff, he retaliates - and doesn't mind waiting years to do so."
Stevens' office has so far refused to comment on the hold. Ninety-five other senators have confirmed they were not responsible.
Has anyone checked to see if any sharks and/or snakes are missing?
Found it.
Under Optional Service Charge - Touch Call 1.50 per month.
Verizon charges extra.
For 6000 US they got their company a lost of free press.
This ad buy had a very large ROI
Another quote people should read.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the solution to the Middle East crisis is to destroy Israel. In a speech during an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders, Ahmadinejad also called for an immediate halt to fighting in Lebanon between Israel and the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah.
"Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented," he said.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smiles during a meeting with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, unseen, in Tehran, in this Tuesday, June 27, 2006 file photo. Ahmadinejad on Tuesday rejected a U.N. Security Council resolution that would give his nation until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment. Instead, Ahmadinejad insisted Tehran would pursue its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, FILE)
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smiles during a meeting with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, unseen, in Tehran, in this Tuesday, June 27, 2006 file photo. Ahmadinejad on Tuesday rejected a U.N. Security Council resolution that would give his nation until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment. Instead, Ahmadinejad insisted Tehran would pursue its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, FILE) (Hasan Sarbakhshian - AP)
Ahmadinejad, who has drawn international condemnation with previous calls for Israel to be wiped off the map, said the Middle East would be better off "without the existence of the Zionist regime."
Israel "is an illegitimate regime, there is no legal basis for its existence," he said
You mean like this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5217424.stm
On 15 August, 2004, Atefah Sahaaleh was hanged in a public square in the Iranian city of Neka.
Her death sentence was imposed for "crimes against chastity".
The state-run newspaper accused her of adultery and described her as 22 years old.
But she was not married - and she was just 16.
Sharia Law
In terms of the number of people executed by the state in 2004, Iran is estimated to be second only to China.
In the year of Atefah's death, at least 159 people were executed in accordance with the Islamic law of the country, based on the Sharia code.
Since the revolution, Sharia law has been Iran's highest legal authority.
Alongside murder and drug smuggling, sex outside marriage is also a capital crime.
As a signatory of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, Iran has promised not to execute anyone under the age of 18.
But the clerical courts do not answer to parliament. They abide by their religious supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, making it virtually impossible for human rights campaigners to call them to account.
Code of behaviour
At the time of Atefah's execution in Neka, journalist Asieh Amini heard rumours the girl was just 16 years old and so began to ask questions.
Crane for hanging in silhouette
To teach others a lesson, Atefah's execution was held in public
"When I met with the family," says Asieh, "they showed me a copy of her birth certificate, and a copy of her death certificate. Both of them show she was born in 1988. This gave me legitimate grounds to investigate the case."
So why was such a young girl executed? And how could she have been accused of adultery when she was not even married?
Disturbed by the death of her mother when she was only four or five years old, and her distraught father's subsequent drug addiction, Atefah had a difficult childhood.
She was also left to care for her elderly grandparents, but they are said to have shown her no affection.
In a town like Neka, heavily under the control of religious authorities, Atefah - often seen wandering around on her own - was conspicuous.
It was just a matter of time before she came to the attention of the "moral police", a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, whose job it is to enforce the Islamic code of behaviour on Iran's streets.
Secret relationship
Being stopped or arrested by the moral police is a fact of life for many Iranian teenagers.
Previously arrested for attending a party and being alone in a car with a boy, Atefah received her first sentence for "crimes against chastity" when she was just 13.
Although the exact nature of the crime is unknown, she spent a short time in prison and received 100 lashes.
Atefah was soon caught in a downward spiral of arrest and abuse
When she returned to her home town, she told those close to her that lashes were not the only things she had to endure in prison. She described abuse by the moral police guards.
Soon after her release, Atefah became involved in an abusive relationship with a man three times her age.
Former revolutionary guard, 51-year-old Ali Darabi - a married man with children - raped her several times.
She kept the relationship a secret from both her family and the authorities.
Atefah was soon caught in a downward spiral of arrest and abuse.
Local petition
Circumstances surrounding Atefah's fourth and final arrest were unusual.
The moral police said the locals had submitted a petition, describing her as a "source of immorality" and a "terrible influence on local schoolgirls".
But there were no signatures on the petition - only those of the arresting guards.
Men's word is accepted much more clearly and much more easily than women
Mohammad Hoshi,
Iranian lawyer and exile
Three days after her arrest,
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Kill the damn things before they escape, learn to talk, and start asking us if "we are having a case of the Mondays"
NO GOOD CAN COME OF THIS
Doesn't the fact that you point out she is female disprove your entire point?
You must be new here.
Why doesn't your product work under Linux or OSX? By work I mean support all features supported on XP.
That method has issues as well.
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Yes it is.
Why don't you buy all they have and sell them on an aution site? They go for between 75 - 125 per copy.
Can you recommend a good linux based program that I can use for such testing?
This is from the 512MB model /dev/sdb1:
Timing cached reads: 2324 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1161.93 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 76 MB in 3.01 seconds = 25.26 MB/sec
Fast little thing
Ask for other benchmarks and I will run them.
But he doesn't buy carbon credits to offset the energy his investments use. 50,000,000 + in google stock and not a penny to offset the CO2 produced to power his partial ownership of Google.