This is nothing like System Restore. Please read about it before commenting. This is a versioning system for your whole computer or probably for specific folders you want it to watch. You can save over your file by accident and use TimeMachine to get the old version back. Can't do that with SystemRestore. SystemRestore only works for system updates and program installations, not all your documents. Also if you delete a file and later decide you want it back you can do this with TimeMachine. Can't do that with System Restore. It's also not like shadow copy or the Backup utility in WinXP because it works with different versions of specific files and you can choose to recover only a single file instead of restoring the whole thing. Plus you can easily preview the backed up file before restoring it.
Maybe you should actually LOOK AROUND and do some research on the subject before spouting off that. iMacs are socketed as are the G5 towers. The laptops and mini are not but everything else is.
It's so easy to install new RAM on the MacBook anyways, why would you ever pay Apple to do it for you? You can do it yourself in 5 minutes thanks to the design of the MacBook.
Of course those websites and reports make it seem like it's worse than it really is. With the internet and people posting their rants to numerous websites, things like that get blown up making it seem like it's a huge problem when really it's not. Apple solves any problems with their products and people get their problems fixed usually for free in most cases.
Not phoning home, just checks your widgets to see if their authentic. Phoning home implies that they send some personal data about you however 10.4.7's dashboardadvisoryd doesn't do this. It's similar to checking for updates to a program. Program downloads version number, checks version of program agains this number, notifies user if newer version is available. I don't see any problems with this at all. No information about your computer is being sent.
The movies would no doubt be in H.264 NOT MPEG-2 as a DVD is so you're not going to be downloading 8GB for a movie. It'll probably be less than 1GB if they keep it at the same quality as DVDs.
How many times do you even burn 7 CDs from the same playlist? Even if you do it's easy to get around, just add one more song to it and it's a different playlist so you can burn it 7 more times. It's not so hard so quit acting like it is.
I'd welcome a replacement for Shake especiallly if it's going to be as cheap. The interface in Shake is so un Mac like which I know is because it's a port, but it's really a strange interface. The compositing using the noodles is pretty cool and not hard to learn.
It's also a P4 compared to a Core Duo. The iMac will smoke that machine for most things. Is it any wonder why Dell's financial situation is so much worse off than Apple when they sell these super cheap generic PCs?
Of course this is why many cable/dsl ISPs are throttling BT or implementing caps on their "unlimited" service. They want to look good saying they are unlimited but in actuality they don't really want to be unlimited. Some people using 200GB a month up and down are costing the ISP more money than the average email user/surfer.
It works because you only have to snipe for a value $1 typically above the max bid that's already there. So the person can get it for $1 more than what you're willing to pay. Say they put in a max bid $1 more than what you are willing to bid early on and let the proxy thing do it's work. Well instantly the proxy will be up to your own max bid even when the auction is not close to over. You might get outbid by $1 and decide you can up your bid by $5 to try and win it. Then the other person has likely bid more than that. What will happen is you will increase your bid causing someone else to increase theirs which eventually ends up that the winner pays more. If you sniped at the last minute you're most likely going to pay less money since the person your are outbidding won't have a chance to beat the sniper by $1. Hopefully that makes some sense heh.
Yeah it was on Daily Planet last week but may have been on before that. The Professor Mike Bartlett who was interviewed on the show is bald under his hard hat:D and he's about one of the most "to the book" guys I've ever seen.
Exactly. The students doing the experiment are Civil Engineering students. I go to UWO, and all they're trying to do is to see how they can make the building stand up to the wind better. Such things like cross braces in the walls may help and better anchoring of the floors above to the ones below. They expect that the top floor will tear off at least once. The house is being built by students at Fanshawe College.
Actually I think that's pretty damn good for a first generation device. The 1x CD burners were only doing less than 1MB per second from what I remember, so this is quite a lot faster.
The Mac version of MSN Messenger is a complete joke. Basic IMs, file sharing, and emoticons. That's about it. No voice or video chat or any new features that have come out in MSN Messenger for Windows in about the last 2 years.
Someone could download the DVD restore image off a bittorrent site, burn it, rip out the kernel, install their hacked kernel, install on non Apple machine. I'm sure that OS X Retail will be soon including an intel build as well.
What's stopping people from downloading the kernel source and replacing the stock kernel from OS X x86 to make it run on non Apple machines? That's probably what will happen if they release the source code and that's not going to be good for Apple.
It's to protect against fraud. They make a 2 cent deposit into your bank account and it shows up with a unique ID on your statement. You put in that number to verify you are who you say you are.
I'm glad that they're so dumb. You get to find out what's really happening. Too bad they didn't do the same thing with the WTC and Pentagon investigations.
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This is nothing like System Restore. Please read about it before commenting. This is a versioning system for your whole computer or probably for specific folders you want it to watch. You can save over your file by accident and use TimeMachine to get the old version back. Can't do that with SystemRestore. SystemRestore only works for system updates and program installations, not all your documents. Also if you delete a file and later decide you want it back you can do this with TimeMachine. Can't do that with System Restore. It's also not like shadow copy or the Backup utility in WinXP because it works with different versions of specific files and you can choose to recover only a single file instead of restoring the whole thing. Plus you can easily preview the backed up file before restoring it.
Maybe you should actually LOOK AROUND and do some research on the subject before spouting off that. iMacs are socketed as are the G5 towers. The laptops and mini are not but everything else is.
It's so easy to install new RAM on the MacBook anyways, why would you ever pay Apple to do it for you? You can do it yourself in 5 minutes thanks to the design of the MacBook.
Of course those websites and reports make it seem like it's worse than it really is. With the internet and people posting their rants to numerous websites, things like that get blown up making it seem like it's a huge problem when really it's not. Apple solves any problems with their products and people get their problems fixed usually for free in most cases.
Not phoning home, just checks your widgets to see if their authentic. Phoning home implies that they send some personal data about you however 10.4.7's dashboardadvisoryd doesn't do this. It's similar to checking for updates to a program. Program downloads version number, checks version of program agains this number, notifies user if newer version is available. I don't see any problems with this at all. No information about your computer is being sent.
So what, they're not going to. If you think they're just going to make it so you can only burn 1 CD for example you don't really know Apple.
The movies would no doubt be in H.264 NOT MPEG-2 as a DVD is so you're not going to be downloading 8GB for a movie. It'll probably be less than 1GB if they keep it at the same quality as DVDs.
How many times do you even burn 7 CDs from the same playlist? Even if you do it's easy to get around, just add one more song to it and it's a different playlist so you can burn it 7 more times. It's not so hard so quit acting like it is.
I'd welcome a replacement for Shake especiallly if it's going to be as cheap. The interface in Shake is so un Mac like which I know is because it's a port, but it's really a strange interface. The compositing using the noodles is pretty cool and not hard to learn.
It's also a P4 compared to a Core Duo. The iMac will smoke that machine for most things. Is it any wonder why Dell's financial situation is so much worse off than Apple when they sell these super cheap generic PCs?
Of course this is why many cable/dsl ISPs are throttling BT or implementing caps on their "unlimited" service. They want to look good saying they are unlimited but in actuality they don't really want to be unlimited. Some people using 200GB a month up and down are costing the ISP more money than the average email user/surfer.
It works because you only have to snipe for a value $1 typically above the max bid that's already there. So the person can get it for $1 more than what you're willing to pay. Say they put in a max bid $1 more than what you are willing to bid early on and let the proxy thing do it's work. Well instantly the proxy will be up to your own max bid even when the auction is not close to over. You might get outbid by $1 and decide you can up your bid by $5 to try and win it. Then the other person has likely bid more than that. What will happen is you will increase your bid causing someone else to increase theirs which eventually ends up that the winner pays more. If you sniped at the last minute you're most likely going to pay less money since the person your are outbidding won't have a chance to beat the sniper by $1. Hopefully that makes some sense heh.
Yeah it was on Daily Planet last week but may have been on before that. The Professor Mike Bartlett who was interviewed on the show is bald under his hard hat :D and he's about one of the most "to the book" guys I've ever seen.
Exactly. The students doing the experiment are Civil Engineering students. I go to UWO, and all they're trying to do is to see how they can make the building stand up to the wind better. Such things like cross braces in the walls may help and better anchoring of the floors above to the ones below. They expect that the top floor will tear off at least once. The house is being built by students at Fanshawe College.
And why is that exactly? "able to burn up to 50 discs in one session" so you can burn all the disks at once using that device the OP was discussing.
Actually I think that's pretty damn good for a first generation device. The 1x CD burners were only doing less than 1MB per second from what I remember, so this is quite a lot faster.
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The Mac version of MSN Messenger is a complete joke. Basic IMs, file sharing, and emoticons. That's about it. No voice or video chat or any new features that have come out in MSN Messenger for Windows in about the last 2 years.
That doesn't count. So it's free NOW, but it wasn't free before and it's still not "free" since Skype/AOL has to pay for it themselves anyways.
Someone could download the DVD restore image off a bittorrent site, burn it, rip out the kernel, install their hacked kernel, install on non Apple machine. I'm sure that OS X Retail will be soon including an intel build as well.
What's stopping people from downloading the kernel source and replacing the stock kernel from OS X x86 to make it run on non Apple machines? That's probably what will happen if they release the source code and that's not going to be good for Apple.
How the hell do you even open it if you need Vista to see it? Download Vista, install it and THEN read the manual? Ass backwards as always.
It's to protect against fraud. They make a 2 cent deposit into your bank account and it shows up with a unique ID on your statement. You put in that number to verify you are who you say you are.
No, don't reply with facts because his whole argument is now false! :)
I'm glad that they're so dumb. You get to find out what's really happening. Too bad they didn't do the same thing with the WTC and Pentagon investigations.