Water still boils in Alabama though, right? With enough energy you can drive water into humid air - the trick is reducing the amount you need, so with a combination of chemical desiccants and some way to re concentrate them via heat, you can make an effective AC unit. My initial brainstorming idea would be to lower the pressure in the evaporation section, but that obviously carries an energy cost too.
If you boil a salt solution, you are going to push water out of it (and thus re concentrate it) regardless of how humid it is. I assume pans of water on your stove still boil where you live? It will require more energy though.
From my understanding here, it's a two step process - chemically dehydrating the air, then boiling/heating the resulting diluted salt solution to drive off some of the water.
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The iPad will get the iOS4 upgrade later this year. The development of the iPhone OS was running in parallel for the two platforms, and will now be rolled together when both are up to date with the iOS 4 upgrade. Presumably it's not quite ready on the iPad yet.
It's not just CPU and RAM either - the versions prior to the 3GS don't have a magnetic compass, for example, and they have less accurate accelerometers I believe. The 3GS and above also have video recording and a better camera with adjustable focus and a bigger sensor.
Fragmentation is not mentioned as a downside that only Android suffers from - just a point that needs to be considered by any platform that uses more than 1 physical hardware configuration.
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Yes, it's a shame the iPhone is going the way of "jack of all trades, master of none".
As long as they don't try to emulate the shit brown interface of Ubuntu we'll be fine.
(disclaimer, I run Ubuntu, even with the *ahem* "earthy" interface).
Ah yes, but the reason that this story exists is because someone wrote an earlier story about how one, obscure application was rejected, including some serious troll editorial about how "this is what happens when corporations become publishers".
I can only say that not all Apple users are the same, just as not all OSS-exclusive users are the same.
A lot of attention is paid to the iOS devices (and much of that hype is coming from the media, not Apple users themselves, but they do also sell tinker-able devices with a decent Unix OS, with open formats, protocols and open source (in some areas).
However, when you mention stuff like that, it gets twisted around and made to look like Apple are just taking from the OSS community and profiting on the backs of hardworking OSS volunteers while twiddling their Machiavellian evil moustache, instead of being another large corporation that also contributes to open source. Somehow when Apple does something like fork KHTML and produces Webkit, that's "Apple taking OSS and profiting, they didn't need any help!".
It's a bit of a perplexing situation, since so many apple stories get posted here - not all of them fawning - many of them are extremely critical and downright factually inaccurate, but these ones also gain Apple flak just by existing on the site "wtf, another apple story! no one cares! Apple sucks!"
If we continue the slightly strained analogy, it's not that Apple users are baffled at why others don't want to live there - they're just happy they have found a place that works for them, is enjoyable and looks nice. They are bemused by all the people who live across the street in houses they built themselves, who nevertheless are not happy with just keeping to themselves but feel it necessary to come over and shout and belittle the apple users because they don't want to live *their* way.
It cuts both ways, you know.
As ever, the reality is somewhere in the middle. I'm a happy Mac user with an iPhone, an iMac and several other Macs, one of which runs Ubuntu. Sometimes I like living in the house that I can fiddle with as much as I like, although there's something wrong with the controller for the AC - it only has three settings - off, medium and full power. It used to be much smoother, but I guess in the act of building the new house, the blueprints for the AC were lost and they had to reverse engineer it to sort of work ok.
It already is, and the iPhone can already view it. The app was a new thing that just made it easier for people with iPhones and iPads to view he content that they already had access to.
As usual, this is a lot of fanfare on slashdot about Apple "censoring" this content, which can be accessed by anyone with an iPhone and an internet connection, just like they always could.
3 year contract? Jeez, the salesman saw you coming.
Here the minimum contract term for an iPhone is 18 months, and on O2 the early termination fee is £20 if you are upgrading to a new contract on their network (with a different phone).
That's a non sequitur. Just because grocers have to consider floor space does not mean they don't also get to consider products that they carry based on other criteria such as those presented here by Apple.
I don;t necessarily agree with the decision (should never have been rejected in the first place) but you can't say the analogy is bad just because physical stores also need to consider floor space and stock counts.
Of course, you can read the comic on the iPhone and iPad using the built in web browser and just going to the site.
Apple choosing not to carry the content in their store (their freedom) does not inhibit your freedom to view the content on the device. It's just less convenient than having it in app form.
Why use the app? You can view the comic from the site on the iPhone and iPad regardless of the status of the app. The app just makes it more convenient.
It seems the only really quiet ones are the iMacs - when you go smaller and bigger the noise goes up.
I used to look after a row of Powermac G5's that would site nice and quietly most of the time until you sent a compressor job to them and it sounded like we had a hairstyling salon in the corner of the office. Those things *roared* when they were working in unison.
I'm setting up a new iMac (aluminium, 21.5") next to my main workhorse (white 20" C2D) and I'm not sure I'm fully sold on the new design. It's been working pretty hard importing approximately 14,000 photos into iPhoto and churning away with the facial recognition and the thing feels like a heat lamp. You can really feel it when you turn your head. The white one is obviously all polycarbonate so the case itself does not radiate heat - it is all purely internal heatsink and airflow. I am considering a 27" but I'm not sure I want a facial tan.
He should have done indeed. The iMac has the same dual purpose connectors (but separate in/out) and I use them to feed an external DAC that serves as a source selector as well. Works wonderfully.
I had a lemon of a MacBook. I took it to Apple and said "it's borked". They gave me the option of a brand new one or replacing the logic board in the currently faulty one after running the hardware test CD on it (which I had already done, they were just confirming). That's not really "dickering around".
They did mess me around a little with a Powermac G5 once, which was having some issues with GigE - port worked fine at 100 speed, and worked fine with some GigE switches but not others, so they offered a logic board swap in the end or a free GigE card instead since we didn't want to have to take the machine in. I haven't seen it in a couple of years, but I assume it is soldiering on with that PCI card instead of the built in port. Not the ideal solution, but it did work.
In my experience they are pretty good to deal with - no worse than any other warranty service for sure.
Applecare is *one year* from the date of purchase, extendable to 3 years for a fee.
Also, the bottom of the case comes right off and there's the RAM, right there. Apple even shows you some pictures of it and a little animation of the twist to get the bottom panel off.
You can also buy wired keyboard and mouse if you like; Apple sells both wired and wireless keyboards on the store, and wired and wireless mice. Or you can use any USB keyboard and mouse you like. I actually use a Microsoft mouse with my Mac.
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Is that with the default Gnome setup? I wanted to try KDE 4 on my powerbook, but it does not support PPC processors.
I suppose you can make Gnome look nice, but from my initial impressions as an unfamiliar user, KDE just... looks nicer by default.
So you shape this thing into something that funnels the water away from the solution you are trying to remove it from.
Water still boils in Alabama though, right? With enough energy you can drive water into humid air - the trick is reducing the amount you need, so with a combination of chemical desiccants and some way to re concentrate them via heat, you can make an effective AC unit. My initial brainstorming idea would be to lower the pressure in the evaporation section, but that obviously carries an energy cost too.
If you boil a salt solution, you are going to push water out of it (and thus re concentrate it) regardless of how humid it is. I assume pans of water on your stove still boil where you live? It will require more energy though.
From my understanding here, it's a two step process - chemically dehydrating the air, then boiling/heating the resulting diluted salt solution to drive off some of the water.
The iPad will get the iOS4 upgrade later this year. The development of the iPhone OS was running in parallel for the two platforms, and will now be rolled together when both are up to date with the iOS 4 upgrade. Presumably it's not quite ready on the iPad yet.
Yes it does. And that has never been a secret.
It's not just CPU and RAM either - the versions prior to the 3GS don't have a magnetic compass, for example, and they have less accurate accelerometers I believe. The 3GS and above also have video recording and a better camera with adjustable focus and a bigger sensor.
Fragmentation is not mentioned as a downside that only Android suffers from - just a point that needs to be considered by any platform that uses more than 1 physical hardware configuration.
Yes, it's a shame the iPhone is going the way of "jack of all trades, master of none".
As long as they don't try to emulate the shit brown interface of Ubuntu we'll be fine.
(disclaimer, I run Ubuntu, even with the *ahem* "earthy" interface).
No, you really won't - there are just as many +5 "Apple are worse than WW2 dictators" (read about 5 messages upwards in this very thread).
The moderation system really doesn't hide that.
Bullshit. There is no way to upgrade the OS over the air. You *must* sync it to update the OS.
Thus, the rest of your post is highly questionable given that glaring lie.
Ah yes, but the reason that this story exists is because someone wrote an earlier story about how one, obscure application was rejected, including some serious troll editorial about how "this is what happens when corporations become publishers".
I can only say that not all Apple users are the same, just as not all OSS-exclusive users are the same.
A lot of attention is paid to the iOS devices (and much of that hype is coming from the media, not Apple users themselves, but they do also sell tinker-able devices with a decent Unix OS, with open formats, protocols and open source (in some areas).
However, when you mention stuff like that, it gets twisted around and made to look like Apple are just taking from the OSS community and profiting on the backs of hardworking OSS volunteers while twiddling their Machiavellian evil moustache, instead of being another large corporation that also contributes to open source. Somehow when Apple does something like fork KHTML and produces Webkit, that's "Apple taking OSS and profiting, they didn't need any help!".
It's a bit of a perplexing situation, since so many apple stories get posted here - not all of them fawning - many of them are extremely critical and downright factually inaccurate, but these ones also gain Apple flak just by existing on the site "wtf, another apple story! no one cares! Apple sucks!"
If we continue the slightly strained analogy, it's not that Apple users are baffled at why others don't want to live there - they're just happy they have found a place that works for them, is enjoyable and looks nice. They are bemused by all the people who live across the street in houses they built themselves, who nevertheless are not happy with just keeping to themselves but feel it necessary to come over and shout and belittle the apple users because they don't want to live *their* way.
It cuts both ways, you know.
As ever, the reality is somewhere in the middle. I'm a happy Mac user with an iPhone, an iMac and several other Macs, one of which runs Ubuntu. Sometimes I like living in the house that I can fiddle with as much as I like, although there's something wrong with the controller for the AC - it only has three settings - off, medium and full power. It used to be much smoother, but I guess in the act of building the new house, the blueprints for the AC were lost and they had to reverse engineer it to sort of work ok.
It already is, and the iPhone can already view it. The app was a new thing that just made it easier for people with iPhones and iPads to view he content that they already had access to.
As usual, this is a lot of fanfare on slashdot about Apple "censoring" this content, which can be accessed by anyone with an iPhone and an internet connection, just like they always could.
3 year contract? Jeez, the salesman saw you coming.
Here the minimum contract term for an iPhone is 18 months, and on O2 the early termination fee is £20 if you are upgrading to a new contract on their network (with a different phone).
That's a non sequitur. Just because grocers have to consider floor space does not mean they don't also get to consider products that they carry based on other criteria such as those presented here by Apple.
I don;t necessarily agree with the decision (should never have been rejected in the first place) but you can't say the analogy is bad just because physical stores also need to consider floor space and stock counts.
So, go to the website and view the comic there. The iPhone can do it. The availability of the app on the store has no bearing on that at all.
Of course, you can read the comic on the iPhone and iPad using the built in web browser and just going to the site.
Apple choosing not to carry the content in their store (their freedom) does not inhibit your freedom to view the content on the device. It's just less convenient than having it in app form.
Why use the app? You can view the comic from the site on the iPhone and iPad regardless of the status of the app. The app just makes it more convenient.
No they did not - you can read it on the iPhone and iPad without buying the app. The app just makes it more convenient.
There is absolutely nothing stopping you from going to the website and viewing it that way, and I just checked my iPhone to be doubly sure it worked.
Apple did *not* prevent people from being able to view this content on their iPhone or iPad by initially refusing to carry the app on the store.
When England beat Germany, we can forgive the typo - 2001 should clearly be 2010 :P
Either way, as a Germany or an England supporter, that date and that score are well known.
I went forward in time to the final and took this photo:
http://images.teamtalk.com/08/01/800x600/England_v_Germany_51_scoreboard_626720.jpg
*ahem*
That is assuming you lucky bastards even make it to the final. ;P
It seems the only really quiet ones are the iMacs - when you go smaller and bigger the noise goes up.
I used to look after a row of Powermac G5's that would site nice and quietly most of the time until you sent a compressor job to them and it sounded like we had a hairstyling salon in the corner of the office. Those things *roared* when they were working in unison.
I'm setting up a new iMac (aluminium, 21.5") next to my main workhorse (white 20" C2D) and I'm not sure I'm fully sold on the new design. It's been working pretty hard importing approximately 14,000 photos into iPhoto and churning away with the facial recognition and the thing feels like a heat lamp. You can really feel it when you turn your head. The white one is obviously all polycarbonate so the case itself does not radiate heat - it is all purely internal heatsink and airflow. I am considering a 27" but I'm not sure I want a facial tan.
He should have done indeed. The iMac has the same dual purpose connectors (but separate in/out) and I use them to feed an external DAC that serves as a source selector as well. Works wonderfully.
It's just that combined with the rest of the disinformation in your post, it seemed like you were genuinely serious about the date.
I had a lemon of a MacBook. I took it to Apple and said "it's borked". They gave me the option of a brand new one or replacing the logic board in the currently faulty one after running the hardware test CD on it (which I had already done, they were just confirming). That's not really "dickering around".
They did mess me around a little with a Powermac G5 once, which was having some issues with GigE - port worked fine at 100 speed, and worked fine with some GigE switches but not others, so they offered a logic board swap in the end or a free GigE card instead since we didn't want to have to take the machine in. I haven't seen it in a couple of years, but I assume it is soldiering on with that PCI card instead of the built in port. Not the ideal solution, but it did work.
In my experience they are pretty good to deal with - no worse than any other warranty service for sure.
Applecare is *one year* from the date of purchase, extendable to 3 years for a fee.
Also, the bottom of the case comes right off and there's the RAM, right there. Apple even shows you some pictures of it and a little animation of the twist to get the bottom panel off.
You can also buy wired keyboard and mouse if you like; Apple sells both wired and wireless keyboards on the store, and wired and wireless mice. Or you can use any USB keyboard and mouse you like. I actually use a Microsoft mouse with my Mac.
What rock have you been living under?