I don't think I'll install the RC or the retail product. My Windows 7 partition appears corrupted, and it won't boot.
Did you file a bug? What the heck did you expect from a beta product. For all we know, this corrupt filesystem bug you encountered is the reason for Microsoft's clean-install statement. Perhaps every previous Windows 7 install has a corrupted partition. You could of been famous.
Couldn't they theoretically swim along the surface and avoid the sound altogether?
Have you ever seen a Dolphin? They aren't boats. The ability to keep their ears above water for an extended period of time would consume a lot of energy if they could even do it. Also, why is it that the dolphins have to change their million years of instincts and evolution so that we can search and destroy enemy ships. On that note, when was the last time we actually had to destroy a submarine?
The document linked on the Bahamas stranding says that source levels were 223 - 235 dB and levels were less than 180 dB at 300 m horizontally and 200 m
180 db is still extremely strong. Now, compound that with the fact that the Submarines are moving, pinging and that Dolphins are curious anmials and like to follow ships... and I think you will find that the chances for Dolphins being near one of these ships greatly increased.
Also, I understand the need to defend the human race, military and blowing stuff up, but ask any blind person how much noise pollution hurts and then comment again.
If another country (or terrorist) wanted to seriously hurt the US, they'd just have to target a broad swath of these offshore windmills. A pretty easy target I'd think?
This is a pretty weak argument when you consider that we have the Coast Guard, the largest Navy in the world, and the most advanced monitoring of our coasts. Not to mention the sheer size of the United States and the fact that these windmills could be deployed on two different oceans. We are not talking 100 Windmills here. Also, I am sure the military will find a way to make these Windmills useful to our national defense. I doubt missiles, but those poor whales are probably gonna have more sonar pollution.
Did anyone else notice Tata Motor's other models. They are all fricking rip-offs of other manufacturers cars. They all look like Toyotas. It seems like a copy-me company got too good at manufacturing and decided to do something innovative.
Except we know the value of the software, Apple sells it seperately for $130
No, that is the market value that Apple thinks is fair. Honestly, Apple machines could be double the price they are now and I would still buy one. Value is very subjective. A 500 Dollar Dell is garbage to me.
Does anyone else see the entire corporate structure in America as being nothing more than a patent standoff? It is basically the whole "Mutually Assured Destruction" with small companies being the equivalent of 3rd world countries. This is pretty unsettling that the only retort to a patent lawsuit is to fire off a counter from your own portfolio.
I am pretty sure that your signature is an after-the-fact paper trail. Meaning that if you complained you didn't purchase something then they have your signature to analyze. I always find it funny watching old people sign those electronic signature pads. They do it so careful thinking that if they don't, the transaction won't complete.
Exactly. The poster would be outsourced. Josh would be left as the head of research or something. Regardless... this whole topic is moot because now it is nothing but the anti-Joshs posting against the Joshs. Unfortunately their are a lot more of anti-Josh.
and it takes several times as long to sleep/unsleep as a netbook running a stripped OS?
I don't know when the last time I noticed an Apple computer sleep/unsleep. You close the lid, it is off. You open it, the computer is back to normal before you have the lid fully up.
which is more than I can say for many other operating system vendors
Are you serious about this statement. Microsoft is only focusing on security because of all the bad PR it has gotten in losing the virus war. Meanwhile, I can still install an older RedHat version without it being exploited 5 minutes after install.
While people on here might disagree because of being partial to one OS over another... Solaris is mighty ahead of the curve when it comes to security and have done a lot more than Microsoft on the security front IMHO
given how beefy computers are going to be by the time IE9 comes out
Moore's Law be damned. People have been using this excuse for years to write bloated, crappy software. How about for once we don't try to predict the future. Instead, lets write the code for todays hardware. People seem to forget that we have sold way more computers than people in the world... no reason to replace them all to run IE9.
You didn't mention what the problem was. (just curious).
Lil late, but basically the computer monitor would blank and the computer acted like it was a zombie or something. I figured over-heating... bad fan....
After opening the beast up(aluminum foil and all), I didn't see anything wrong. Fans worked, temperature was great... ran for a day and then it had the problem(this was with the motherboard sitting on a table. This seemed to kill my theory. So, I looked harder for a bad capacitor or something. I had just fixed an older CRT eMac with bad caps in it so it was fresh on my mind. Nothing, but while searching I noticed a small gap between the power supply and power distributor connectors. I pushed those together and the problem was never seen again.
My guess, since the connector itself was mounted North/South in the iMac. Gravity or vibrations eventually caused enough separation that electrical shorts were possible when the components heated up. The electrical short represented itself in the monitor.
The iMac is not meant to be open
ain't that the truth. My mother's machine had problems with randomly turning off. It was out of warranty and I figured a bad fan or something. The machine, was not friendly to open. I probably spent 3-4 hours taking the thing apart. Putting it back together was a lot easier. I had 2 screws leftover which is kinda bad considering I only pulled about 10 screws out:-S Oh well, it works and mom is happy.
How do you really beat the locations of the Regent Street store in London, or the 5th Ave New York?
Those are flagship stores, goto the not so flagship Apple Stores and lots of them are on second/third floors and are not massive, but despite that... they are always full.
Yes... Apple has had lot of success with its retail stores, but it already had the reputation and recognition to drive people to the stores.
For Microsoft, I fear that they are going to be just like the Sony stores.... Better Location than the Apple store, but considerable less people in the store.
It could easily have been a glitch that didn't require direct human intervention.
No, it could not have been. 30 seconds is advertisement which is served by a rather isolated ad system. Local Ad systems are pre-loaded with files and schedules ahead of time. Most operators have entire departments that support local advertisement since advertisement pays the bills. Simply put, someone loaded a file into the local ad system that was porn. I place my bets on a laid off employee with intimate knowledge of how this system work.
Why embed the text in a flash object? code... I would of given this a shot if I could of relied on some normalized text, but no... that would make sense. Sense and gov't obviously don't belong in the same room. Yea... I am a little disappointed.
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I don't think I'll install the RC or the retail product. My Windows 7 partition appears corrupted, and it won't boot.
Did you file a bug? What the heck did you expect from a beta product. For all we know, this corrupt filesystem bug you encountered is the reason for Microsoft's clean-install statement. Perhaps every previous Windows 7 install has a corrupted partition. You could of been famous.
Couldn't they theoretically swim along the surface and avoid the sound altogether?
Have you ever seen a Dolphin? They aren't boats. The ability to keep their ears above water for an extended period of time would consume a lot of energy if they could even do it. Also, why is it that the dolphins have to change their million years of instincts and evolution so that we can search and destroy enemy ships. On that note, when was the last time we actually had to destroy a submarine?
The document linked on the Bahamas stranding says that source levels were 223 - 235 dB and levels were less than 180 dB at 300 m horizontally and 200 m
180 db is still extremely strong. Now, compound that with the fact that the Submarines are moving, pinging and that Dolphins are curious anmials and like to follow ships... and I think you will find that the chances for Dolphins being near one of these ships greatly increased.
Also, I understand the need to defend the human race, military and blowing stuff up, but ask any blind person how much noise pollution hurts and then comment again.
If another country (or terrorist) wanted to seriously hurt the US, they'd just have to target a broad swath of these offshore windmills. A pretty easy target I'd think?
This is a pretty weak argument when you consider that we have the Coast Guard, the largest Navy in the world, and the most advanced monitoring of our coasts. Not to mention the sheer size of the United States and the fact that these windmills could be deployed on two different oceans. We are not talking 100 Windmills here. Also, I am sure the military will find a way to make these Windmills useful to our national defense. I doubt missiles, but those poor whales are probably gonna have more sonar pollution.
They also decided to release an OSX version again and while I was taking a shower, it fed and took my dog for a walk.
Sun currently sells a AMD based server with 512G of ram.
I think the point is that this is advertised as a Desktop, but I agree... !news... just crappy desktop vendors catching up.
Did anyone else notice Tata Motor's other models. They are all fricking rip-offs of other manufacturers cars. They all look like Toyotas. It seems like a copy-me company got too good at manufacturing and decided to do something innovative.
You don't have a middle click
Wrong.
Except we know the value of the software, Apple sells it seperately for $130
No, that is the market value that Apple thinks is fair. Honestly, Apple machines could be double the price they are now and I would still buy one. Value is very subjective. A 500 Dollar Dell is garbage to me.
Does anyone else see the entire corporate structure in America as being nothing more than a patent standoff? It is basically the whole "Mutually Assured Destruction" with small companies being the equivalent of 3rd world countries. This is pretty unsettling that the only retort to a patent lawsuit is to fire off a counter from your own portfolio.
I am pretty sure that your signature is an after-the-fact paper trail. Meaning that if you complained you didn't purchase something then they have your signature to analyze. I always find it funny watching old people sign those electronic signature pads. They do it so careful thinking that if they don't, the transaction won't complete.
Yes. Evolution can be observed to follow patterns not requiring intelligent design
`I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
OTH, this poster will never be a better coder.
Exactly. The poster would be outsourced. Josh would be left as the head of research or something. Regardless... this whole topic is moot because now it is nothing but the anti-Joshs posting against the Joshs. Unfortunately their are a lot more of anti-Josh.
and it takes several times as long to sleep/unsleep as a netbook running a stripped OS?
I don't know when the last time I noticed an Apple computer sleep/unsleep. You close the lid, it is off. You open it, the computer is back to normal before you have the lid fully up.
which is more than I can say for many other operating system vendors
Are you serious about this statement. Microsoft is only focusing on security because of all the bad PR it has gotten in losing the virus war. Meanwhile, I can still install an older RedHat version without it being exploited 5 minutes after install.
While people on here might disagree because of being partial to one OS over another... Solaris is mighty ahead of the curve when it comes to security and have done a lot more than Microsoft on the security front IMHO
given how beefy computers are going to be by the time IE9 comes out
Moore's Law be damned. People have been using this excuse for years to write bloated, crappy software. How about for once we don't try to predict the future. Instead, lets write the code for todays hardware. People seem to forget that we have sold way more computers than people in the world... no reason to replace them all to run IE9.
You didn't mention what the problem was. (just curious).
Lil late, but basically the computer monitor would blank and the computer acted like it was a zombie or something. I figured over-heating... bad fan....
After opening the beast up(aluminum foil and all), I didn't see anything wrong. Fans worked, temperature was great... ran for a day and then it had the problem(this was with the motherboard sitting on a table. This seemed to kill my theory. So, I looked harder for a bad capacitor or something. I had just fixed an older CRT eMac with bad caps in it so it was fresh on my mind. Nothing, but while searching I noticed a small gap between the power supply and power distributor connectors. I pushed those together and the problem was never seen again.
My guess, since the connector itself was mounted North/South in the iMac. Gravity or vibrations eventually caused enough separation that electrical shorts were possible when the components heated up. The electrical short represented itself in the monitor.
Karma be damned! That was hella lame. I want my 12 seconds back.
Not sure what you are trying to say. Nobody here has an anti-Microsoft agenda.
The iMac is not meant to be open
ain't that the truth. My mother's machine had problems with randomly turning off. It was out of warranty and I figured a bad fan or something. The machine, was not friendly to open. I probably spent 3-4 hours taking the thing apart. Putting it back together was a lot easier. I had 2 screws leftover which is kinda bad considering I only pulled about 10 screws out:-S Oh well, it works and mom is happy.
How do you really beat the locations of the Regent Street store in London, or the 5th Ave New York?
Those are flagship stores, goto the not so flagship Apple Stores and lots of them are on second/third floors and are not massive, but despite that... they are always full.
Yes... Apple has had lot of success with its retail stores, but it already had the reputation and recognition to drive people to the stores.
For Microsoft, I fear that they are going to be just like the Sony stores.... Better Location than the Apple store, but considerable less people in the store.
It could easily have been a glitch that didn't require direct human intervention.
No, it could not have been. 30 seconds is advertisement which is served by a rather isolated ad system. Local Ad systems are pre-loaded with files and schedules ahead of time. Most operators have entire departments that support local advertisement since advertisement pays the bills. Simply put, someone loaded a file into the local ad system that was porn. I place my bets on a laid off employee with intimate knowledge of how this system work.
Sites that code cluelessly and need javascript and flash to display a simple list will die first
Die is such a powerful word. Whatever happened to just saying that they will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Why embed the text in a flash object? code... I would of given this a shot if I could of relied on some normalized text, but no... that would make sense. Sense and gov't obviously don't belong in the same room. Yea... I am a little disappointed.