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Who has the patent on hyperlinks? I s'pose I should be worried about getting sued for using them.... Quote: While hyperlinking among webpages is an intrinsic feature of the web,... Making hot links out of phone numbers and addresses? Same t…
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googling for lion launch......
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Quote: Originally Posted by cvaldes1831 Buy an iPad, this $50 keyboard, and only use Safari. Done. What you'd get is a laptop that falls apart into 2 pieces....needs the keyboard to be turned on and off separately, charged separately, and d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Buy any Mac laptop. Wait for Lion. Then only ever boot into Safari-Only mode. There's your precious (read: worthless) browser-only computer. Most of the time that's all I use -- Firefox on my 2008 MB…
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My prognostication: Apple will unveil a completely new device -- the guts of an iPad with a keyboard and no touch-screen. Meaning: an Apple version of the Chromebook. This will become the Macbook Air. The iCloud is now in place for them to do …
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do, or do not....there is no try.....
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips Wow, Google with design flare! What a change. I guess everything do comes back to Apple in the end. Wrong. It means that good design does actually exist outside of Apple. If you can't see that...…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cloudgazer You misunderstand, App was generic, there's no dispute, but App Store wasn't. Combining two generic words doesn't produce a generic word - cheesecake and factory are both generic, but 'Cheesecake Factory' i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cloudgazer Unfortunately for Apple the term genericized at lightning speed,... The term 'app' wasn't coined by Apple. It was in use before Apple. Apple did make it popular with the popularity of iOS devices, but t…
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Would Apple need to file with the FCC if there was no inherent difference between this version of Airport Extreme and the previous one? I doubt it. There must be something more substantially changed than Apple is letting on. Looking forward to a …
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greed gotta love it....
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I was hoping that the Time Capsule would become more NAS-like. I'd like something that could run my Logitech Squeezebox jukebox software. Imagine that a Time Capsule ran iOS and you could control Apps on it via an iPad. Plus having it be the iPad…
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On the one hand, it'd be very easy to upgrade to Lion via the App Store, so delaying hardware doesn't make sense in that regard. On the other hand, Apple may want you to have your new machine with 'the whole new experience' -- so that you're not …
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Ethics is different in China. Think about the copying of software that we call 'piracy', but many over there feel is just fine. It's interesting to watch these things play out on the global stage. Does 'The West' have a right to impose its valu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ Apple should reorganize it's entire laptop line. Dump the white plastic macbook, get rid of it completely. And then Apple should merge the Macbook pro line with the Macbook Air line. Steve Jobs has already sta…
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I, too, have been waiting for this refresh to buy a top-end Air to replace my 2008 MBP.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Bear Not directly, but we do use petroleum for moving coal to power plants. Actually, there's a diesel-powered electrical power plant in my town. But it's small, and usually kicks in only on summer days when peak…
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The book will never come out. The world ends in 2012 according to the Aztec calendar!
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Quote: Originally Posted by mrstep As an aside, the English translations of those stories (Struwwelpeter) really do miss the beauty of the original German. The English totally misses the mark on how the cats are warning the girl not to play with …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism One day computers will evolve past spelling, grammar and punctuation check to actually have fact check at which point Windows will collapse in on itself. But then your posts would also disintegrate....