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  1. Re:$40 on Apple Pulls Out of India · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And even "American-standard" cost-of-living is drug down by the lower wage base. I remember seeing luxury condos in the Greenbelt being priced in the low-$30s. In any US market, the same unit would have gone for 10x that.

  2. Re:I don't like Ipods on How iPods Took Over the World · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Something is wrong with your friend's Nano or they have crazy usage patterns. I can easily get 15 hours out of my 5th gen iPod.

  3. Re:He is not that crazy on Apple to 'Switch' to Windows? · · Score: 1

    Since the software is bundled with hardware, and they only sell updates for the OS, not clean installs, OS X drains a lot of money from the company without much in the way of tangible revenue.

    What? Apple sells Mac OS X and Mac OS X server as full retail products. The only current, paid-for OS upgrade that I know of is a licensing upgrade from the 10 user version of server to the unlimited user version of server.

  4. Re:mean cases for Xerox or Scotch was successful? on Apple Antitrust Case Gets Green Light · · Score: 1

    I don't think Scotch was ever a company - pretty sure it's always been a brand of 3M.

  5. This was on this week's Science Friday on Soil Bacteria Show High Resistance to Antibiotics · · Score: 1

    Ira Flatow (yes, of Newton's Apple fame) covered this on the latest edition of Science Friday. They have the segment available as an MP3. (The whole weekly show is also available as a podcast at feed://www.sciencefriday.com/audio/scifriaudio.xml if you're interested)

  6. Re:Missed Connections and Cancelled Flights on Coffin Hotels Opening Near You · · Score: 1

    Not that it matters now, but you should/could have probably flown standby to Minneapolis and then pick-up an easy connection to Cedar Rapids. FYI.

  7. Re:iPod? on Coffin Hotels Opening Near You · · Score: 1

    All iPods with a dock connector can charge via FireWire or USB2. The iPod Video and Nano will charge via Firewire, but can only be synched via USB.

  8. Re:get used to it on Google Striking Fear into the Corporate Masses · · Score: 1

    You don't even need to send a MMS of the barcode - just process it onboard the cell and send just the code number. Or, for existing phones w/o cameras or the inability to run user apps, key-in the human readable and send it off.

  9. Re:Bandwidth on Can iTunes Resurrect Old Time TV? · · Score: 0

    Just because an image appears grey does not mean it is composed of only grey colors. Think warm grey vs. cool grey.

  10. Re:Choose a better game? on LGP Opens Beta Test for X2 · · Score: 1

    I can't speak for the Windows version, but the MacOS X version of X2 uses OpenGL.

  11. Re:The Karma beats that! on A Review of the iPod nano · · Score: 1

    Are those preset into the device? Because each of those examples is trivially easy to do with Smart Playlists in iTunes.

  12. Re:Best. (Apple) Keyboard. EVER! on 10 Technologies MIA · · Score: 1

    This was linked up-thread, but I thought I'd repost the link here as I use one of these: Mattias TactilePro

  13. Missing some Esko products on 29 Vector Drawing Programs · · Score: 1

    Artios and PackEge Both are pretty niche, basically only used for packaging cad and related prepress. But vector nonetheless.

  14. Re:Prior Art: ligatures on Microsoft Frowned at for Smiley Patent · · Score: 1

    'To', where the 'o' is moved closer to the 'T', isn't a ligature --- it's a kerned pair. A ligature is one more joined letter combination (e.g. fi, fl, Th, tt, ffl, etc.) to prevent collision of the characters.

  15. Re:M$, Apple, Linux. on Safari And KHTML May Never Meet · · Score: 1

    I really don't have a horse in this race, but Safari does have a JavaScript console in its debug menu. % defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu

  16. Re:it's nice... on Mac mini's New Friend · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Mini is 6.5 x 6.5 x 2 -- I used to work on a Titanium PowerBook G4 with ports that were more out of reach than those on a Mini.

  17. Re:Opening video mirror on Mac OS X Tiger Accidentally Shipped Early · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually the first of the setup screens comes up when the startup video cuts to black, letting the music play you in to the setup process.

  18. Re:Price on Run Two 30" Apple Cinema Displays on a PC · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't think your solution will work --- AppleCare transfers with sale of equipment, meaning you'd lose the 'halo' protection afforded by listing the display with the Mini(s).

  19. Re:I found this out... on iTunes DRM Hole Closed · · Score: 1

    You don't need to re-purchase the tracks, just authorize your friend's iBook and burn the files you already have.

  20. Re:The real reasons for the differences ... on Reuters On Telephone Cultures · · Score: 1

    Partly socialized telephone system? Until the breakup, ATT was a de facto nationalized telephone system.

  21. Re:Sucks on Apple Updates iPod · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lack of an AC adapter is not such a big deal: iPods charge over Firewire or USB2 at the same rate they do from an AC adapter. I bought my 3G iPod the day they were released, and have only used the AC adapter once or twice. I don't think you'll be missing it much.

  22. Re:Two-finger scrolling? on Two-Finger Scrolling For Older Mac Laptops · · Score: 1

    RTFA: "In addition to scrolling, the driver also turns left clicks into right clicks whenever two fingers are on the trackpad. This works with the trackpad button as well as with click-and-drag movement."

  23. Re:Why iPod anyway? on iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus · · Score: 2, Informative

    To match the capacity of an iPod, you'd need to buy 20, 1GB cards. That's about $1500 for media alone.

  24. Re:Giant thinks I'm a Dutch foreign exchange stude on Safeway Club Card Leads to Bogus Arson Arrest · · Score: 1

    Soem day INS is going to show up at your door, looking to arrest 'Ronald' for overstaying his student visa --- all based on gorcery purchases.

  25. Re:Great iPod Shuffle Review... on Inside the iPod, Past and Present · · Score: 1

    Audio books from Audible.com