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  1. Airplane mode? on Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI Dongle Secretly Packed With ARM, Airplay · · Score: 1

    What happens if you just turn on airplane mode on the phone and try to use the adapter? If it's really creating an ad-hoc network to do this, the output shouldn't work. Disappointing to hear about the quality of the image, regardless of how it gets there. Apple, you can and have done better.

  2. Re:An 'on/off' switch would be nice. on Larger iPod Touch In Apple's Future? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Press the power button on the top, it should go right to sleep. You don't really power it down much, but if you needed to then hold that button down for about 10 seconds, it'll ask you to confirm and then actually shut off. There is a built-in speaker, but it has a low max volume and is basically not useful for much besides hearing alarms. Watching movies or listening to music through it is painful.

  3. Re:No firewire on the MacBook (non-Pro) on Apple Announces New MacBook, Pro, Air · · Score: 1

    The Air does not have USB target disk mode. You're confusing it with Remote Disc. You can verify this by either (a) holding down "T" at startup (which it will ignore), or (2) going to the Startup Disk prefpane and seeing that the option to restart in TDM is gone.

  4. Re:13" MP on Apple Announces New MacBook, Pro, Air · · Score: 1

    References please? Because I can't find any. I can find this: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6021206&tstart=0 And I'm curious how you would cable it, you'd certainly need a nonstandard USB cable with two upstream connectors.

  5. Re:Dozois's "Year's Best Science Fiction" on Decent Book Clubs for Sci-Fi Fans? · · Score: 1

    Second this. These are some of my favorite books.

  6. Re:Coldfusion Anyone? on Half a Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection · · Score: 2, Informative

    ColdFusion is most certainly vulnerable to SQL injection if you are not religiously using the CFQUERYPARAM tag inside your queries. Of course the database being queried needs to support multiple SQL statements in a single query (MySQL does, Access does not, can't speak for any others). http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/cfqueryparam.html

  7. Re:Music on How Do You Maintain Your Work Focus? · · Score: 1

    Philip Glass works best for me, my favorites are the scores for the Qatsi trilogy. Usually no words, if there is singing it's usually nonintrusive chanting or choir-type stuff. The music has sort of a progressive/evolutionary feel about it that makes me feel like accomplishing something. When I get bored, I can watch the accompanying video images and seeing all the people hard at work (in some scenes) also motivates me.

  8. Re:Never going to happen on Is Simplified Spelling Worth Reform? · · Score: 1

    You don't think the invention of audio recording will have any influence on pronunciation in the future? In the past pronunciation drifted slowly over centuries in part because there were no reference sounds available to compare your own speech to. Going forward that's no longer true.

    Another issue is globalization. Historically languages changed as a result of war, population movement, and other factors. Today that's less likely to be the case, and going forward (as all our societies merge, for better or worse, into one world-spanning culture) there won't be any 'foreign' languages left to borrow from. We'll all end up speaking a creole language of English, Chinese, Japanese, German, French, etc. at least as a second if not primary language.

    I haven't seen anyone mention Steven Pinker's book "The Language Instinct" in this discussion. It's pretty relevant and worth the read. (ISBN: 0060976519)

  9. Re:Want to share updates on Will OSX Build In Torrenting? · · Score: 3, Informative

    This works fine for multiple updates, just select them all and then "download and install".

    Copy all the updates to the second Mac and launch them all at once, the Installer will run the installs back-to-back and doesn't (usually) get hung up when one requires a restart, it just starts the next one anyway. Sometimes also there are dependencies and a particular package won't install the first time, just restart and run that one again and it should work fine.

    You do have to restart manually when they're done, the installer does not restart the Mac for you.