Posts by Player_16

@ TeeCee

My Gawd!!

I knew MS was bad at power management but this is ridiculous! I've always feared at trying to put my machine at work to standby or sleep or hibernate or power down. I think under Vista (home) there are 6 different ways.

Macs: Restart, Sleep, Cancel, Shut down.

There is a stand-by then sleep -like when you walk away and forget- that's low power and sleep is even lower. When I've had enough, without quitting, I push a button on the back (or wipe my hand across the Cube) and walk away, 2 seconds, Sleep. Tap the keys, 4 seconds, awake full power. Continue.

Laptops: just close the lid; sleep. Open lid, full power.

Boot Camp: Vista -it is wise that nothing is running. I push a button on the back, wait to make sure -because sometimes, it needs a cuddle- and when the screen goes black, you walk away: hibernate; that's about 20 seconds. Tap the keys, about 6 seconds, awake full power. Then you have to go back into your program(s) and that takes some time.

MS (and the companies that work under that umbrella) haven't a concept of being power conservative for the typical individual or work-place user: You either leave it on and wait for the queer episodes the next morning knowing that it may have loaded something without you knowing... or take your chances.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555569/en-us

@Hud Dunlap

For starters, remove the anti-virus software. That's the biggest piece of crap that's making it unusable.... Uhh, you are talking about that Mac aren't you?

At lease there's not a booby prize like last year: Fujitsu U810 loaded with Vista.

They hammered away at the Sony - that would be a double score, but opted for the $5000. Oh well, $5k would go to buying a nice laptop.

@Andy Hards

'They probably believe that the recent fires were a biblical event designed to kill off the ungodly.'

http://www.smh.com.au/national/pastors-abortion-dream-inflames-bushfire-tragedy-20090210-832f.html

You must've had a spiritual calling. Only the Victorian Christian leader Danny Nalliah says:

'“INCENDIARY” abortion law reforms last year that made Victoria “the baby-killing state” are responsible for the devastating bushfires,'

They come in thick and fast:

'God’s protection has been taken off the state, and Satan is having a go at the nation.'

My head hurts.

Sit it next to a...

...smartphone; you know the ones.

(...let me just whip mine out here...!)

@Neil

Is there something you trying to say? I don't understand.

Well, here in Australia...

...the economy must be booooming! Just recently we had 15 known attacks during the 3 month slump; one in Sydney Harbour where a Navy Seal lost a hand.

I think that bloke needs to get out (of the USA) more. It's winter time over there.

Here's your wet-suit.

MY NEW PHONE'S BEEN STOLEN!!

It was just given to me!!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/18/telstra_theft/

http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/thievery-at-mwc-telstra-execs-htc-with-winmo-6-5-stolen/

OH SHIT!!

@ Dan

The answer is yes.

VMware is ideal for the machine. Buy it through the net; it'll cost less. You'll be right. Anyway, get her a cheap mouse.

@Angry Clown

Why are you Angry? You should be Embarrassed. You just gave *nix a bad rap - somewhat.

I like muzak.

The reason? I HATE POP MUSIC!! (full stop)

When you're not allowed to wear earphones at your desk and you're forced to listen to top 40 shlock.

When you go to a hardware store and listen to really bad '70's crud.

When you go to a drinking establishment and listen to (and sometimes see) jukebox hits.

Australia - When you venture to a large department store and they play it safe and pipe the latest hits through the air due to the government establishing a law that forbids playing dead composers and individually owned music due to copyright restrictions and to avoid a hefty fine so the shop has to air its own 'radio station' (Kmart radio) complete with DJ, news, sport, etc.

The joy at hearing pop music cooly preformed differently just to fire up the synapses of memory. Some was reproduced really quick to the point that after about 2 weeks a song that made the top 10 was (suddenly) muzak! At lease it was in the back ground and not rotated every 2 hours! You hear it once and that was it. Gone. You may not hear it like that again. Maybe slightly different. I like a well preformed cover; even in a pub. To me Muzak was like grabbing your crouch in front of anyone that thought they knew music. The ultimate insult.

Screw the lot of you that don't understand and prefer corporate pop music that's brain dead and has absolutely no soul!.

'Aw mate, that's a hit!'

UUUG!! You're 45! That's a 30 year-old song! Not again!

Apple controls the software.

Like Bill Gates said some time ago: 'You need software to run a computer' (or something to that effect - not confusing desktop). If Apple looses, Apple just rewrite OS X app files and cancel out Psystar machines: like when iPhones are jail-broken, Apple rewrites code which causes all those phones to reset or brick. To say the lease, those Psystar machines will only be able to run OS X 10.5.6 or less. This isn't MicroSoft you know.

Also Apple acquired PA Semi chip maker and they cold just say: 'Make us a chip to keep those pesky clones off our tail will ya'. What's Psystar going to do then, complain to the courts about Apple being anti-competitive with 'their' software? Apple's not committed to Pystar like MS being committed to all-those-other-manufactures-around-the-globe. Pystar NEEDS Apple.

Pystar should just load Linux or an option to run any other Unix software on their machines. There's PLENTY of those folks out there just itching to get started on something cheap and different instead of just riding the coattails of Apple and MS trying to make a quick buck... that shit ain't happenin'.

@ Daniel B:

About 4 times a year, someone tries to sue Apple over their batteries but...

http://hardware.silicon.com/storage/0,39024649,39130934,00.htm

Will he be using his Segway?

OK, I had to say it. And you know they could probably ask that other Steve (monkey boy). I understand that he's really good on his feet.

Cube

I'll still hang on to my Cube with CRT. Bought it 2nd hand. Sort of trying to find a Airport card for it (they're going for upwards of $80+ here in Australia). Looks good with my iSub. Still turns heads all the while it sits next to my latest iMac. I use the Cube as a storage/reference machine via Firewire.

Quiet.

@ mac tactics - I think you may need to wake up to yourself. intel shit is here to stay. Just run BootCamp and be done with it.

@Brent Gardner

Yes that is a rather unimaginative title, like...

Homeland Security.

(That sounds like some 3rd party rent-a-pig agency that trolls around to your business late at night with nothing more than a torch and a 2-way radio and a stack of cards to push trough the front door.)

cyber czar.

(I keep imagining some bloke in some heavily brassed and tassels-on-the shoulders wearing some shiny silver pointy helmet in chaps looking like General Patton standing in front of some symbol with that 'Mussolini' look.)

I too won't be watching it on the web.

I'll use that old-fashioned tried-n-true medium...

... television.

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And He's 22 !!

What does (or did) he do for a living? Obvious he did not go to uni. He lived off air from his family and now he has no friends (they probably sponged off him and now word's out that he's truly a fuk-wit).

Hey, where's my wallet? It had $419 exactly in it!

Off with their COMPUTERS...!

...I mean HEADS !!

@ Iam Me

You da MAN!!

You saved me on excessive typing.

How to claim a loophole.

iPod - Computer Storage Device for work

Trouser press - Large press needed for gowns and 'Business (parliament) wear'

Marble-floor - Part of wear-and tear at the coal face that is needed

Dyson vacuum cleaner - Up-keep for carpeted floor (see Marble floor above)

Combination: TV, stand and television insurance for £814.98 'to accompany' the Sony LCD telly and surround-sound system for work and transport: cannot function on its own. Needed for group-presentations on location

£1,000 television - out on assignment (see 'Combination' above)

I'm going to claim a % of my iPhone as a work expense for engineering purposes: calculator, maps, needed inbuilt programs (App Store).

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Aww! There's a wrinkle. I better claim that iron as a uniform-up-keep tool expense to get that out and take it to the dry cleaners- and save the receipts as a work-uniform expense.

WOW!!

Sounds like something you'd do in AutoCAD. That's a lot of hoops to jump thru.

V 1.0

You should remember, this is the first version. The reconditioned first or next version will have all the bugs ironed out -thanks to those that bought into the first version. If I do decide to get a new laptop to run Autodesk inventor and overweight, bloated AutoCAD, I'll get a reconditioned MBP -hey I'm cheap and ...thanks for testing!

@Alastair

I too must agree with Alastair. It looks like something Autodesk or MS Office designed; shit everywhere! Mouse heavy.

Bill: 'It looks great! ...`especially for an open-'sauce' which I actually disapprove of.'

Do the Crackberries and other smart phones...

...have similar apps like these? You never hear about them. Why not? Aren't those phones just as easy and fun to muck around with?

@@the replies to Daniel B

If it says Mac, it is Mac !!

At last count, (and this is a rough guess) it was 32... in total!! The biggest I think was the Quicktime virus. Talk about noise on the net when that was out. Yes OS X is a different beast from OS 9 and before but one thing is for certain; if you put a OS 10.5 person in front of a OS 5 machine, they would snort and in just a couple of minutes they would be fairly competent at knowing their way around the machine. Just the basics.

Put a Vista or XP person in front of Windows 3.1 ...

Let the fun begin!!

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Nice shirt but...

...they should have the option of ordering the print on the back.

Star date: 6311.22

This is about the star date of that Corvette (1963) the young captain Kirk was driving. So how was he able to gain access to a 400+ year-old car at his age?

I know my keys are in here somewhere?

Oh you probably came for this

Yep!!

My's the one with the hole in the pocket.

@Joerg

You're just a caveman aren't you; staring at the flames

@Alan

The reason developers are eager to produce bloat-ware and crap games for Wintels, is because there is a very common, well publicised, cheap and ordinary, device.

Where else are you going to find that many yoofs willing to wade looking inside a store for 2 hours just to get the latest game and software. Gullible and well off suckers are the right market to aim at if you want to make lots of money.

Linux might be great...

...but MY intelligence in better.

Denon speakers.

It looks OK. It has a nice set of speakers. No Firewire though. It looks like it comes with a power brick. I would not call it a 'rip-off design'; just progression in style. So you're going to say 'Hoblot self-winding watches are a rip-off from Rolex that also self-wind'. Apple jumps up-&-down about how everyone builds beige, square PC's. No sooner that someone comes out with something of a different shape and style, 'WA ,WA, WA ,WA, WA! They're copying Apple!'

Hey, made ya look didn't it.

Not entirely... if at all!

"And before any Mac users decide this is an issue they can safely ignore, remember this: While Microsoft's recommendation obviously is limited to Windows users, Dhanjani says the carpet bombing scenario can play out on OS X, too."

After downloading, it ask YOU if you want to open or load it. Being a Mac user, I'll safely ignore it - meaning read the little pop-up and reject it.

@zaax

Put a watermark M$ Windows symbol in their picture. And if they do walk in with their parents and are spotted, they are forced to wear a Windows sticker on their lapel... or a goofy hat.

@Si

Goddamn Steve Jobs!!

Australia! Australia! Australia!!!

I can hardly wait!! Soon, my entire country will be blocked out of a payment system. And THIS is what I will be looking forward to. I hope our new government is paying attention!

15th May? What did you do this month?

@Dex

Chocolate!? M&M !? Hey, I do believe Mars chocolates makes a brand of chocolate. Let me see... they've been around for years...! it's on the tip of my tongue... It melts in my mouth but not... Help me out here...

Mine's the one with the colorful round chocolate lollies in the pockets.

Australia! Australia! Australia!!!

I can hardly wait!! Soon, my entire country will be blocked out of a payment system. And THIS is what I will be looking forward to. I hope our new government is paying attention!

48 hours? What did you do this weekend?

I want to know...

...is there someone similar to 'Webster' on the MS Windows side that make similar derogatory comments when something somewhat 'sweet' comes out from them?

Re: Greg

Now tell me: why the HELL do you need GPS?

Let me guess, if they're 'illegal' in some form, the gov can just push a button? (POOF - That'll fix'em!)

@Asam

Now HE'S is what others call a 'Fanboi' -- a 'RDF Fanboi'! I just wish those 'others' quit painting me and other Apple owners with his overloaded brush of tar! I don't defend Apple unless there is something so bleeding obvious that even the M$ 'fanbois' chime in.

If this comes out...

...will it have regional accents -like English or Australian or South African accent? Is that too much to ask? I hate going into a toy (or any type of) shop and hearing that perfect, 'yanky' accent emanating from those thinks.

Like the wheels though.

Never take photos of light using a flash.

@Drew Cullen; You can inform Scott, even if it was flames, it's a light source.

I'm somewhat glad...

...you didn't say "Now that it has pulled 'santa off' its oral-sex-obsessive MSN bot,..."

That might not have went over too well.

Laughing AT the bank

Now what the hell does he need to do with all that money NOW!! Pay the phone bill? Buy a new suit? Pay a loan off? (I know I would but 500 shares would do me quite proud and would leave me with enough change to get me a new suit and a car... a nice car!)