Posts by plovell

Quote: Originally Posted by bjbjohnson Who are these people that have like 1000 CDs to fill this thing up? My library has 1224 albums, at about 97GB. And that doesn't include a lot of classical I haven't had time to transfer yet.

I had one of the old ones and now have one of the new L-shaped ones with a new MBP. They've changed more than the shape of the connector (from T to L). The strain relief is a lot bigger. And also, with regard to the...

Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskater This looks like a Smartphone only survey. So companies like HP and Dell wouldn't be involved. If you read the article you'd see that it does cover desktops and laptops, as well as...

Hhmmm. I thought that Apple said that all updates for Tiger had stopped. Including security updates. Did I misunderstand that? And now there's a Safari update specifically for Tiger. Huh - what gives?

It always made sense to me that Apple would either provide its work (quite considerable) for the community to support, or arrange with Oracle. Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison are close friends, if the reports are accurate. It doesn't take...

No lockdown. App store is one channel, not the only channel. Realistically, do you expect folks with a $4000 Mac Pro to be limited to app store?? Or scientific researchers who use lots of open-source software?? No. The Mac is not...

It may that lack of license codes is a problem. Or it may not, depending upon the details of how Apple does this. Although the guidelines do not include it, Steve's slides clearly said that a purchase is valid for all the Macs a...

Will it sync a Kin too ??

Quote: Think about it, the largest beverage company in the world is Coke and what do they sell? Crap! Water with 11 spoonfuls of sugar in each 12 oz. can. Actually, there isn't any sugar in Coke. High-fructose-corn-syrup, but no...

Google didn't sell out to Verizon. They built Android and hoped that makers and carriers would do good things. Some did. Verizon didn't. Although I'd like Android to succeed as an OS, I fear that the Balkanization has killed it. All...