I'll have to watch out for that.
Thanks.
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§ ita § - Jul 18, 2011 10:38:18 am PDT #17201 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommyrot - Jul 20, 2011 8:14:41 am PDT #17202 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So, anyone installed Lion yet? I'm curious how the update process works in practice.
eta: I'm pro'lly gonna wait a bit. Certainly I gotta wait until I get a bigger HD to install Lion on my MacBook Pro.
Vonnie K - Jul 20, 2011 8:31:09 am PDT #17203 of 25501
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Quick question about digital optical cable, or toslink. I got one so that I can have a TV-out --> AV receiver-in connection and get surround sounds when I play media on USB drive connected to my HDTV. The cable doesn't snap on, like I would expect from the usual cables. It's got protrusions that ensure it only goes in one direction, but it feels like it goes in sort of... part-way only. Is that supposed to be like that? I'm getting surround sounds OK, but the connection seems tenuous and insecure, like it'd come off if anything gets jarred.
Tom Scola - Jul 20, 2011 8:49:55 am PDT #17204 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Lion doesn't have Front Row any more. I have to think about the Mac Mini attached to my TV. Either I'm going to have to keep it on Snow Leopard, or get an AppleTV and use the Mini as a headless backend.
tommyrot - Jul 20, 2011 9:19:44 am PDT #17205 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
IOAppleN, Visit to a fake Apple store in China
Jessica found three fake Apple stores in China and took photos. It's not clear whether the products were genuine or knockoffs.
They looked like Apple products. It looked like an Apple store. It had the classic Apple store winding staircase and weird upstairs sitting area. The employees were even wearing those blue t-shirts with the chunky Apple name tags around their necks... But some things were just not right: the stairs were poorly made. The walls hadn’t been painted properly.
Apple never writes “Apple Store” on it’s signs – it just puts up the glowing, iconic fruit.
Jessica - Jul 20, 2011 9:30:02 am PDT #17206 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Lion doesn't have Front Row any more. I have to think about the Mac Mini attached to my TV.
Huh, me too. Though I use Boxee or Hulu Plus more often than Front Row.
Tom Scola - Jul 20, 2011 11:14:45 am PDT #17207 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Or I could just live without Front Row, and use iTunes in full-screen mode (and DVD player; if it's still there).
Jon B. - Jul 20, 2011 11:39:17 am PDT #17208 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Apple never writes “Apple Store” on it’s signs – it just puts up the glowing, iconic fruit.
But do they know the difference between its and it's?
tommyrot - Jul 20, 2011 11:43:53 am PDT #17209 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
But do they know the difference between its and it's?
Yeah, I was wondering that.
Or maybe the whole thing is a lost cause, and soon everyone will use "it's" as a possessive pronoun.
quester - Jul 20, 2011 12:48:47 pm PDT #17210 of 25501
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Mac and DSL question: I had a bunch of trouble with my own DSL in my apartment. The signal kept dropping and only came back sporatically. I called the ISP several times and had technicians come out at least 3 times. Finally, I got a new modem from them and that has mostly fixed the problem, though I still get the occasional, brief drop-off.
So, this week I'm living at my sister's because she and spouse are out of town and the cats need feeding, and she has air-conditioning where I do not.
Now, I'm having the same problem with her DSL as I was having with mine! I keeps dropping and won't reset for hours.
I've observed that if I am trying to stream some video and trying to play Quench (curse the game!) it will drop more often than when I'm doing neither. Am I asking too much from the DSL? Or, is there something about my computer that is causing the problem?
I have a MacbookPro running OS 10.5.8. Could a software update have caused the ongoing problem?
If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. Thanks!