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Quote: Originally Posted by ianmac47 The people of Cupertino should be ashamed of their elected officials. Unfortunately, that's what local politics is like. People stick their necks out and run for office, some out of honest desire to improve…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Over time, we'll see if an installation like solar will pay off for a company the size of Apple. Homeowners are getting some pretty big tax breaks for something that otherwise wouldn't break even for them for …
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Quote: Originally Posted by paxman I wonder what the Apple building would have looked like had Apple been able to buy that little residential area. I wonder if there's a precedent for something like this where Apple offers to rent each unit as…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Building that use solar around the world don't house nearly as many people as this one will, and don't use nearly as much power. Solar is very inefficient, and terribly expensive at this time. It's also unreli…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lowededwookie Because solar is still extremely inefficient. There is more power from a gas turbine than could be made with a massive array of solar panels which is actually an environmental nightmare when you're talkin…
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I wish I could recount some of the stories I heard about the custom architecture of the NeXT campus back in the day, but I don't have time right now. One aspect of all that glass that I'm not fond of is the heat load from the sun. If not done pro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by a_greer OSX Server is a toy, Windows server is an enterprise class tool. I think the mainframe boys would take issue with your assessment. (And what's with the chest-beating? Was this an issue in the article that…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Apple using the Mac App Store as the primary distribution for Lion and Lion Server doesn't mean they won't offer a DVD version, too. I'm sure that Lion (client) will be available on DVD; some people are st…
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I have a SL server with sensitive data that does not connect to the Internet (it runs internally on a private 10.0.0.x network). I installed it from DVD and download updates on a different machine and transfer them over on a portable drive. I'm hopi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss Head gaskets. +++ (And while it's in the shop, have them lubricate the muffler bearing.)
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Odd that they would announce this a week before the keynote. How will they introduce an update for the Mac (from '09), or is that still not in the cards?
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Quote: Originally Posted by John.B Bookmarked. When the new MBA is released in the next several weeks, it'll be fun to come back and see how completely full of crap this "anonymous source" was. You might wish to actually read the article.
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Quote: ...a new Thunderbolt-equipped MacBook Air powered by an A5 processor. I think that right there is enough to discredit the rumor. Thunderbolt is welded to Intel's x86 chipset.
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Imagine traveling to another country, buying a little card that has not a plastic card you have to break out of a larger plastic card, find a paperclip or remove your battery to input a new SIM, but instead a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM I see, so it is tighter, but Apple's are already generally carrier locked anyway, wherever they can do that, so really, it's a bit more of the same. Outside the US, unlocked iPhones are not uncommon. In those…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PXT If the change is just to make devices a bit thinner, then it's a horrible idea. You clearly don't design portable devices for a living. Think of what Apple (and everyone else) has to go through to design and man…
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Quote: Originally Posted by marokero While I'm all in favor of lessening carrier control over the devices we use, or how we use them, I don't like this anorexic drive to make devices so thin. The current iPod Touch is already thin enough imo, thi…
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Quote: Micro-SIM cards were first adopted by Apple last year in the first-generation iPad. Lest anyone think that Micro-SIM cards are some sort of Apple-only proprietary format, it was originally conceived in 1998 and was standardized in 2003 by…
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Two details come to mind: 1) The white iPhone supposedly had problems with light leaks. Perhaps by physically separating the flash unit it cannot spill sideways into the lens (possibly by glowing into the white plastic which then might affect the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacRR I was with my cousin and sister at 111 minnna and Frank showed up. since we were deep into libations at this point we decided to take Frank with us into a cab to the fairmont hotel bar and get him drunk. he is on…