The first three use a PowerPC G4. The next three use either Intel Core Solo or Core Duo, which are 32 bit processors and therefore only upgradeable up to 10.6.8. You are clearly not talking about these, and you specifically mention that it was a Core 2 Duo.
Starting from the Mac mini "Core 2 Duo" 2.0 (Early 2009) (P7350), all the Mac Minis are upgradable all the way up to El Capitan. So you didn't have one of those.
That leaves us with only two possibilities: the Mac mini "Core 2 Duo" 1.83 (T5600) and the Mac mini "Core 2 Duo" 2.0 (T7200). And indeed those two computers are upgradable to 10.7.5. You just need to read the fine print under the asterisk:
*This system can run the last version of OS X 10.7 "Lion" if upgraded to at least 2 GB of RAM.
So there you have it. You just needed to add a little more RAM and everything would have worked. I agree that you were mis-informed by ignorant Apple Support people, but the essence of what the company told you is still true.
(That, or you are mixing up the Core Duo and the Core 2 Duo processors.)
Car analogy: If I build a car that uses your transmission and your steering wheel, I haven't built my car on top of yours.
It's more like you built a car that uses our chassis, our motor, our transmission, our fuel injection system, and our braking system. You added your own internal space, complete with spiffy modern seats, dashboard, and a very cool navigation system. You also changed any internal and external cosmetic element of he car. The steering wheel is actually yours also.
So your car is clearly not our car. But you have indeed built your car on top of ours.
Now I'm advising everyone who really wants Windows 10 to either wait a year as usual until it becomes usable, or get a Mac, install VMWare, and set up a Windows image.
To be fair, they could also install VMWare on their current Windows 7 (or 8?) machine and set up the Windows 10 VM in it.
In 2014, the net income of the fund was $6.8 billion dollars and the dividend doled out $1,884 to 640,000 citizens, despite a decline in oil revenues that year.
Cute. The 640,000 citizens received in total $1.2 billion dollars.
If this had happened in Texas (another state that produces a lot of oil, though in general doesn't have all the natural resources Alaska has), those $1.2 billion would amount to... less than $45 for each of it's 27 million inhabitants.
This isn't really new. There is for example Future Foot, which is available for purchase now, although it is still quite expensive. It supposedly travels up to 7 to 12 mph (depending on your weight and the terrain), and its range is 10 to 12 miles on a full charge. Supposedly. I haven't tried it, but there are plenty of videos of it on YouTube.
Just a question: Why do you need a GPS to drive to a pool to which you have driven several times before?
I agree that there are several scenarios where people would want to have their GPS on for several hours a day, but that doesn't seem to be one of them. (And in fact, any scenario in which you are driving your car for several hours is better served by a car charger for your phone, regardless of the phone's brand).
Doesn't work. Now you are dealing with two devices and a cable. Too cumbersome on a trail.
Some power packs connect directly to the phone, no need for a cable. Some are integrated to a case, so in practice it's like a single device. (Yes, I know your friend doesn't like the extra thickness, but this is something that he would use in those rare occasions when he really needs the extra power, like when goes on a long hiking trip with his son.)
Personally I spend a lot of time sitting at the side of a swimming pool these days for swim meets and I don't want to deal with two devices there either.
And yet you are willing to carry around "in your pocket" "as many rechargeable batteries as you need". Carrying and dealing with removable batteries is just as cumbersome as carrying and dealing with directly-connected power packs.
Second: there's no "automatic" value inherent in the metric system. It's a SHIT TON easier to use with computers and calculators, certainly, as it's all decimal. But otherwise its less wieldy in daily use as 10 doesn't divide neatly by 3 or 4.
I don't understand why supporters of the imperial system use this argument when it rarely holds for them. Yes, 12 inches in a foot and 5280 feet in a mile have that property. But 1760 yards in a mile doesn't, and neither does the 8 little divisions in an inch on a ruler (yeah, I know they are called eight-of-an-inch).
It doesn't hold for weights: 16 oz in a pound, 14 pounds in a stone, 32,000 pounds in a short (US) ton. None of those are divisible by 3.
It mostly doesn't hold for volumes: 4 quarts or 8 pints or 16 cups in a US gallon. 16 tablespoons in a cup. None of them are divisible by 3. Only when you introduce the teaspoon you get divisibility by 3.
And the other unit of volume used frequently, the cubic foot, doesn't play nicely with anyone, unlike the liter which is 1000 cm^3. So a 1 mL = 1 cm^3, 1 microLiter = 1 mm^3, 1000 liters = 1 m^3. (By the way, for water the most important substance for us, those volumes correspond to 1 kg, 1 g, 1 mg, and 1 metric ton respectively, showing the beauty of the metric system.)
I'll resist this with every ounce of my being. I'll resist this with every gram of my being. ----- So, you're even less willing to accept whatever "this" is. Gram wins.
I won't give an inch on this issue. I won't give a centimeter on this issue. (FTFY) ----- Again, you're even less willing to cede any terrain on "this issue". Centimeter wins.
They came at us with a shit ton of rockets and mortars! They came at us with a shit ton of rockets and mortars! ----- Metric ton. Equal to 1000 kilograms.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. An gram of prevention is worth a kilo of cure. ----- Since gram < ounce and kilo > pound, again the saying gains strength in metric.
I will also continue to argue that, while the imperial system seems great for those who grew up with it, it's actually not as good for most things in day-to-day life when you look closer.
For example, measuring things in Fahrenheit seems to make sense, but the Celsius scale is just as good for measuring weather, as well as other practical applications. In Celsius, 0-100 degrees is exactly the range of temperatures in which water is liquid at normal pressure, which has all kinds of important applications both in your kitchen, and outside of it. And I know, it's not the range of comfortable temperature: that would be 0C to 30C (32 to 86 F); anything outside of that range is very uncomfortable although people frequently have no other option but to put up with it. In Fahrenheit, the range of liquid water translates into 32 to 212. That seems stupid and arbitrary by comparison. Also, if you measure only in 1 degree increments, Celsius degrees are equally good, since even supporters of the Fahrenheit scales acknowledge that they can't tell the difference between 69 degrees and 70 degrees anyway, and that's because humidity has a huge effect on our perception of temperature.
But similarly, the length of feet and yards are pretty irrelevant for measuring spaces. Being an average-sized Caucasian man, my foot is barely 10.5 inches long, for example. If I want to measure the size of a room, I can put one foot in front of the other and walk, counting my footstep, have an totally unacceptable error of 14%: I said the room was 16 ft long, and it's actually 14 ft. In the end, I have made a pretty bad approximation. And if I'm a woman, child, or even man of almost all other races, that error becomes much, much larger. Measuring a person's height in feet also gives a range with pretty useless resolution if you round: "she was between 5 and 6 feet, your Honor" (she's actually 5' 6"). With decimeters, a perfectly valid metric unit, the range of 5 to 7 feet becomes 15 to 21 giving you better resolution. Now the woman measures between 16 and 17 decimeters or, for you, 5' 3" and 5' 7", a much better approximation. (And converting back and forth between decimeters and meters or centimeters is beyond trivial).
I know some people won't quite get my point, or they'll say, "But imperial is so much easier because I don't need to learn it!" Really though, imperial only seems easier because you have not been exposed to it in everyday life. If you had been exposed to both as I have you would realize how ridiculous that is. On a day to day level, the perceived advantages of imperial are just a matter of familiarity, and being able to do the math in your head even for trivial things becomes a pleasure that can only be enjoyed if the math is simple.
Holy crap the video is impressive. It clearly parses phrased and dependent logical statements like " what is the population of the capitol of the country in which the space needle is located. "
It can also tell the difference between Capitol and capital, which is something many Slashdotters can't do.
You are right in that xylitol is extremely toxic to dogs, but the dosage you mention is way off. In this study, for example, they gave 1 or 4 grams of xylitol per kg of weight to 12 adult Pekingese dogs. Since adult Pekingeses weight around 4.5 kg, that means that six of the dogs in the study received around 18 grams of xylitol. (Six other dogs received the lower dose, and six more were controls who received distilled water; the abstract is misleading as it suggests that all 18 dogs received xylitol).
All of the dogs who got xylitol showed significant effects, in several cases very severe. But... none of them died.
The poor guy's full name is Felipe de Jesús Pérez García, which is usually shortened to Felipe Pérez. TFS butchered both by calling him Felipe del Jesús Peréz García and Felipe García.
There are three errors in TFS's version. First: Felipe de Jesús means Philip of Jesus. The incorrect version, Felipe del Jesús means Philip of the Jesus and sounds even more absurd in Spanish than it does in English.
Second: It's not Peréz, it's Pérez. That means that the main emphasis is on the first syllable, not on the last one (regardless of how Perez Hilton pronounces his made-up name). Again, in Spanish the wrong version sounds... horribly wrong.
Finally: The complete surname of the guy is Pérez García. He got Pérez from his dad, just like people usually do in English, and he passed it to his own kids. García is his mother's maiden name. If you are going to contract the name, you drop the maternal surname, never the paternal one.
Okay, but as you well said Judge James Rodney Gilstrap serves at the Marshall division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. But TFA clearly states, the case took place at the Tyler division, which is served by District Judges Leonard Davis and Michael H. Schneider, Sr., both of whom, along with Chief Judge Ron Clark were appointed by George H. W. Bush (not that who appointed a judge at that level has as much significance as it does for Supreme Court Justices).
Here's an idea - how about you do some, I dunno, decent research, before you spout veiled partisan politics.
The built-in versioning that the AC is referring to was detailed by John Siracusa in his Lion review. You can see that it is a close cousin of Time Machine interface-wise, so it is easy to mix them up.
I'll agree with you that anyway it is not the solution the poster is looking for anyway, for a number of reasons.
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the OS in question was 10.6.8, and the version they sold me to "fix" it was 10.7, just one version later.
Wait, there's something I don't get. This is the list of all Mac Mini models.
The first three use a PowerPC G4. The next three use either Intel Core Solo or Core Duo, which are 32 bit processors and therefore only upgradeable up to 10.6.8. You are clearly not talking about these, and you specifically mention that it was a Core 2 Duo.
Starting from the Mac mini "Core 2 Duo" 2.0 (Early 2009) (P7350), all the Mac Minis are upgradable all the way up to El Capitan. So you didn't have one of those.
That leaves us with only two possibilities: the Mac mini "Core 2 Duo" 1.83 (T5600) and the Mac mini "Core 2 Duo" 2.0 (T7200). And indeed those two computers are upgradable to 10.7.5. You just need to read the fine print under the asterisk:
*This system can run the last version of OS X 10.7 "Lion" if upgraded to at least 2 GB of RAM.
So there you have it. You just needed to add a little more RAM and everything would have worked. I agree that you were mis-informed by ignorant Apple Support people, but the essence of what the company told you is still true.
(That, or you are mixing up the Core Duo and the Core 2 Duo processors.)
Car analogy: If I build a car that uses your transmission and your steering wheel, I haven't built my car on top of yours.
It's more like you built a car that uses our chassis, our motor, our transmission, our fuel injection system, and our braking system. You added your own internal space, complete with spiffy modern seats, dashboard, and a very cool navigation system. You also changed any internal and external cosmetic element of he car. The steering wheel is actually yours also.
So your car is clearly not our car. But you have indeed built your car on top of ours.
Now I'm advising everyone who really wants Windows 10 to either wait a year as usual until it becomes usable, or get a Mac, install VMWare, and set up a Windows image.
To be fair, they could also install VMWare on their current Windows 7 (or 8?) machine and set up the Windows 10 VM in it.
Affected models include the Xiaomi MI3, [...] ITOUCH, NoName S806i, SESONN N9500, [...]
Wait... there's a cellphone brand in China called NoName? And there's a phone called the ITOUCH?
This is all messed up...
Cute. The 640,000 citizens received in total $1.2 billion dollars.
If this had happened in Texas (another state that produces a lot of oil, though in general doesn't have all the natural resources Alaska has), those $1.2 billion would amount to... less than $45 for each of it's 27 million inhabitants.
Now it doesn't look as cool, does it?
No longer being part of Dice means Slashdot will stop posting dupes!
Just kidding! That will never change!
This isn't really new. There is for example Future Foot, which is available for purchase now, although it is still quite expensive. It supposedly travels up to 7 to 12 mph (depending on your weight and the terrain), and its range is 10 to 12 miles on a full charge. Supposedly. I haven't tried it, but there are plenty of videos of it on YouTube.
They threw up? I thought it just meant that they let the cup slip from their hands and the expensive juice literally got spilled (on the sidewalk).
But yeah, it's lame either way.
It's Pluto!
Just a question: Why do you need a GPS to drive to a pool to which you have driven several times before?
I agree that there are several scenarios where people would want to have their GPS on for several hours a day, but that doesn't seem to be one of them. (And in fact, any scenario in which you are driving your car for several hours is better served by a car charger for your phone, regardless of the phone's brand).
Doesn't work. Now you are dealing with two devices and a cable. Too cumbersome on a trail.
Some power packs connect directly to the phone, no need for a cable. Some are integrated to a case, so in practice it's like a single device. (Yes, I know your friend doesn't like the extra thickness, but this is something that he would use in those rare occasions when he really needs the extra power, like when goes on a long hiking trip with his son.)
Personally I spend a lot of time sitting at the side of a swimming pool these days for swim meets and I don't want to deal with two devices there either.
And yet you are willing to carry around "in your pocket" "as many rechargeable batteries as you need". Carrying and dealing with removable batteries is just as cumbersome as carrying and dealing with directly-connected power packs.
Wait... it really was a dream?
DAMMIT!!
Fucking Solitaire?
That sounds like and intriguing game!
By the time the submission got published here the competition was already over. A South Korean team won.
Second: there's no "automatic" value inherent in the metric system. It's a SHIT TON easier to use with computers and calculators, certainly, as it's all decimal. But otherwise its less wieldy in daily use as 10 doesn't divide neatly by 3 or 4.
I don't understand why supporters of the imperial system use this argument when it rarely holds for them. Yes, 12 inches in a foot and 5280 feet in a mile have that property. But 1760 yards in a mile doesn't, and neither does the 8 little divisions in an inch on a ruler (yeah, I know they are called eight-of-an-inch).
It doesn't hold for weights: 16 oz in a pound, 14 pounds in a stone, 32,000 pounds in a short (US) ton. None of those are divisible by 3.
It mostly doesn't hold for volumes: 4 quarts or 8 pints or 16 cups in a US gallon. 16 tablespoons in a cup. None of them are divisible by 3. Only when you introduce the teaspoon you get divisibility by 3.
And the other unit of volume used frequently, the cubic foot, doesn't play nicely with anyone, unlike the liter which is 1000 cm^3. So a 1 mL = 1 cm^3, 1 microLiter = 1 mm^3, 1000 liters = 1 m^3. (By the way, for water the most important substance for us, those volumes correspond to 1 kg, 1 g, 1 mg, and 1 metric ton respectively, showing the beauty of the metric system.)
I'll resist this with every ounce of my being.
I'll resist this with every gram of my being.
----- So, you're even less willing to accept whatever "this" is. Gram wins.
I won't give an inch on this issue.
I won't give a centimeter on this issue. (FTFY)
----- Again, you're even less willing to cede any terrain on "this issue". Centimeter wins.
They came at us with a shit ton of rockets and mortars!
They came at us with a shit ton of rockets and mortars!
----- Metric ton. Equal to 1000 kilograms.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
An gram of prevention is worth a kilo of cure.
----- Since gram < ounce and kilo > pound, again the saying gains strength in metric.
I will also continue to argue that, while the imperial system seems great for those who grew up with it, it's actually not as good for most things in day-to-day life when you look closer.
For example, measuring things in Fahrenheit seems to make sense, but the Celsius scale is just as good for measuring weather, as well as other practical applications. In Celsius, 0-100 degrees is exactly the range of temperatures in which water is liquid at normal pressure, which has all kinds of important applications both in your kitchen, and outside of it. And I know, it's not the range of comfortable temperature: that would be 0C to 30C (32 to 86 F); anything outside of that range is very uncomfortable although people frequently have no other option but to put up with it. In Fahrenheit, the range of liquid water translates into 32 to 212. That seems stupid and arbitrary by comparison. Also, if you measure only in 1 degree increments, Celsius degrees are equally good, since even supporters of the Fahrenheit scales acknowledge that they can't tell the difference between 69 degrees and 70 degrees anyway, and that's because humidity has a huge effect on our perception of temperature.
But similarly, the length of feet and yards are pretty irrelevant for measuring spaces. Being an average-sized Caucasian man, my foot is barely 10.5 inches long, for example. If I want to measure the size of a room, I can put one foot in front of the other and walk, counting my footstep, have an totally unacceptable error of 14%: I said the room was 16 ft long, and it's actually 14 ft. In the end, I have made a pretty bad approximation. And if I'm a woman, child, or even man of almost all other races, that error becomes much, much larger. Measuring a person's height in feet also gives a range with pretty useless resolution if you round: "she was between 5 and 6 feet, your Honor" (she's actually 5' 6"). With decimeters, a perfectly valid metric unit, the range of 5 to 7 feet becomes 15 to 21 giving you better resolution. Now the woman measures between 16 and 17 decimeters or, for you, 5' 3" and 5' 7", a much better approximation. (And converting back and forth between decimeters and meters or centimeters is beyond trivial).
I know some people won't quite get my point, or they'll say, "But imperial is so much easier because I don't need to learn it!" Really though, imperial only seems easier because you have not been exposed to it in everyday life. If you had been exposed to both as I have you would realize how ridiculous that is. On a day to day level, the perceived advantages of imperial are just a matter of familiarity, and being able to do the math in your head even for trivial things becomes a pleasure that can only be enjoyed if the math is simple.
Holy crap the video is impressive. It clearly parses phrased and dependent logical statements like " what is the population of the capitol of the country in which the space needle is located. "
It can also tell the difference between Capitol and capital, which is something many Slashdotters can't do.
Why was that comment modded "Funny"? It clearly should have been modded "Informative" or maybe "Insightful".
More or less.
The swift runtime is a static library (written in C++11)
I had absolutely no idea that the Swift runtime was written in C++11. Can someone please provide a link to this, since the parent is an AC?
You are right in that xylitol is extremely toxic to dogs, but the dosage you mention is way off. In this study, for example, they gave 1 or 4 grams of xylitol per kg of weight to 12 adult Pekingese dogs. Since adult Pekingeses weight around 4.5 kg, that means that six of the dogs in the study received around 18 grams of xylitol. (Six other dogs received the lower dose, and six more were controls who received distilled water; the abstract is misleading as it suggests that all 18 dogs received xylitol).
All of the dogs who got xylitol showed significant effects, in several cases very severe. But... none of them died.
The poor guy's full name is Felipe de Jesús Pérez García, which is usually shortened to Felipe Pérez. TFS butchered both by calling him Felipe del Jesús Peréz García and Felipe García.
There are three errors in TFS's version. First: Felipe de Jesús means Philip of Jesus. The incorrect version, Felipe del Jesús means Philip of the Jesus and sounds even more absurd in Spanish than it does in English.
Second: It's not Peréz, it's Pérez. That means that the main emphasis is on the first syllable, not on the last one (regardless of how Perez Hilton pronounces his made-up name). Again, in Spanish the wrong version sounds... horribly wrong.
Finally: The complete surname of the guy is Pérez García. He got Pérez from his dad, just like people usually do in English, and he passed it to his own kids. García is his mother's maiden name. If you are going to contract the name, you drop the maternal surname, never the paternal one.
Okay, but as you well said Judge James Rodney Gilstrap serves at the Marshall division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. But TFA clearly states, the case took place at the Tyler division, which is served by District Judges Leonard Davis and Michael H. Schneider, Sr., both of whom, along with Chief Judge Ron Clark were appointed by George H. W. Bush (not that who appointed a judge at that level has as much significance as it does for Supreme Court Justices).
Here's an idea - how about you do some, I dunno, decent research, before you spout veiled partisan politics.
The built-in versioning that the AC is referring to was detailed by John Siracusa in his Lion review. You can see that it is a close cousin of Time Machine interface-wise, so it is easy to mix them up.
I'll agree with you that anyway it is not the solution the poster is looking for anyway, for a number of reasons.