parttimer

About

Username
parttimer
Joined
Visits
0
Last Active
-
Roles
member
Badges
0
Posts
250

Comments

  • Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison There's nothing natural about pulling down to move content up. Except when that has been the norm for 30 years.
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Mystic I downloaded the free trial but deleted it during the install. It said 2500% complete and was still going! If they can't even get that right I don't want it on my machine. But Apple's 3 decades long failu…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by MikeBCanon That was my thought exactly. I have been needing a desktop machine, and I think it will come down to either me building a machine or simply getting the Mac Mini. I have to admit that I have never owned a M…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by MikeBCanon If i knew for sure that the Macbook Air would be powerful enough, I might be willing to go that route I doubt the MBA's 1.6GHz, 1.7GHz, or 1.8GHz CPU combined with the Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor is …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by StageHandRy I ended up getting it on Sunday. i have had a little bit of time to tinker with it, but am happy so far. I have a few days of this week and will probably spend some time setting up all my accounts and synci…
  • You ought to put that stuff in graphics! Well executed colorful line, pie, and bar charts and scatter diagrams, with clickable links to definitions and Quarterly statements and corporate press releases, etc., provide a wealth of perspective insig…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot "Good ol' red rust" is an example of oxidation, not osmosis... two VERY different things. Oxidation is a subgroup of osmosis processes. All oxidation is osmosis, while not all osmosis is oxydation…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin I'm not suggesting you can't trust them, just that you should trust no one when it comes to your desktop use. Keep important data offline and don't leave your ports and firewalls open - using software that hops …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by FitzGerald You must like chemistry a lot to go on and mention osmosis as a reason for my problem. Pity CDs aren't made from water yet... You seem to have a bit of a misconception there, Fitz...: FYI: osmosis doe…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin I don't think others are near $900. You 'think'? I know they are. RDP advertisers - other than Teamviewer – right here on AI. And no version 'free for personal use' like Teamviewer. If you will actually lo…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Then Microsoft. Then Exxon-Mobil. Then the US government. Then... No. Microsoft, Exxon-Mobil, and the US government haven't got a future. But Shenzen, Taiwan, South-Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, India…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me I cannot vouch for Parttimer's use of the term osmosis, but his explanation is largely correct. Commercial discs use a thin aluminum film into which the content is pressed as microscopic pits. The pits alter the…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Lmac12 But this latest incarnation of Apple policy is troubling to me. "Latest"? Steve Jobs has been steadily building up to the current situation since the introduction of OSX. OSX was the foundation for the curren…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by FitzGerald I just did some extra testing. Regular audio CDs work ok (both Original and copied). There are two kinds of CDs: the original, pressed ones that you buy including content retain their full data integrit…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin You often fail to include the last two words yet recommend it to everyone regardless of whether it's for personal or commercial use and paying nearly $900 to connect from an iPad to a home office is expensive. …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by The Third Man Ah, so American corporate law is in fact Nazi law, complete with secret proceedings, secret injunctions, and razzias. Bingo!
  • Quote: Originally Posted by FitzGerald Well unfortunately I don't think that's the case, because as I said I can view the files on my father's Windows 7 Compaq and I was even able to listen to some of the songs there (I didn't try them all obviou…
  • Burned CDs and DVDs start a process called osmosis from the minute they were burned. It gradually renders all data unreadable. You don't notice that in the first few years because the damage is still slight and correction algorythms in the reader so…
  • Sofar you guys don't sound over the moon about Mail in Lion...
  • Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Recently unsealed court documents in Apple's case against an "Apple Story" store in New York City reveal that the iPhone maker executed a warrant to seize counterfeit products being sold at the store. A…