Kinda like standing on the edge of a cliff... with a pretty good rope.
{I'm just envious 'cause I don't have an iphone)
Mal: And I never back down from a fight. Inara: Yes, you do! You do all the time!
'Shindig'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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Laga - Sep 12, 2008 10:03:45 am PDT #7643 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
amych - Sep 12, 2008 10:51:21 am PDT #7644 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
It's a pretty common feature on business smartphones, and one of the big reasons the first gen iPhone was slower than they hoped for business uptake was that it was too easy (at least from the CIO pov) to lose corporate-owned data on a lost or stolen phone. Not really designed for your personal convenience, or your drunk-dialing, but if Apple can spin it that way, they will...
DCJensen - Sep 12, 2008 1:44:49 pm PDT #7645 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
At least it's a choice, not a mandatory feature.
Customizing the default would be nice.
§ ita § - Sep 13, 2008 12:56:41 pm PDT #7646 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Anyone here have a Blu-Ray player? Any recommendations? I have a region-free DVD player--will I be able to still be region free with Blu-Ray? Or do I hang onto my current one too?
I'm in no rush to buy. Just starting the looking around process.
Kevin - Sep 13, 2008 1:46:35 pm PDT #7647 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Liese, install VMware Server (free) and XP.
The new iphone update has finally fixed crashing Safari and Apps for me. Phone runs quicker, too.
Liese S. - Sep 13, 2008 2:07:09 pm PDT #7648 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ah. I failed to give an update, eh? Turns out my griping at the universe was effective, because my vendor turned up a downloadable copy of the 2008 Quickbooks I needed for, like, two hours. I got in right before it sold out, and even managed to upgrade to the 3 license version for only $99. So I'm good (presumably, once I get the thing actually downloaded; I spent most of that day wrestling with antiquated fax equipment to get my registration reauthorized.) now and am very happy. Thanks for the advice, though.
sumi - Sep 13, 2008 5:30:50 pm PDT #7649 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
Isn't it supposedly better to buy some playstation thingy over a blu-ray player? (Being uninformed about game things I have no idea which one is the one you should get.) The reason has something to do with updates which the gaming thing does and the regular bluray player will not.
Jessica - Sep 14, 2008 4:25:19 am PDT #7650 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't know about regionality and Blu-Ray players, but the updated version of the Philips deck that a bunch of Buffistas have is very easy to make region-free, and upconverts to 1080p. (And reads PAL, NTSC, SECAM, Divx, etc out of the box. And is cheap as hell.)
I think it's this one, except that mine is silver, not black.
§ ita § - Sep 15, 2008 10:10:27 am PDT #7651 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But it doesn't say it plays Blu-Ray discs. Am I missing something?
Jessica - Sep 15, 2008 10:21:14 am PDT #7652 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh, no it doesn't. (Sorry, I was thinking if you had and HDTV and a DVD library, an upconverting DVD player would be cheaper and almost as useful as a Blu-Ray. But it wouldn't play Blu-Ray discs.)
And I really hope at some point the Blu-Ray consortium buys the right to the name HD-DVD, because I feel silly typing Blu-Ray over and over again.