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Re: Best version of MS Office? - 2 days ago
Quotemacphanatic LibreOffice for free? Also opens/edits Visio and Publisher documents which M$ refuses to bring to the Mac. Whoa... If I had known it opened Visio and Publisher I would have kept an OpenOffice/LibreOffice incarnation around on my hdd.by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Fascist Sympathizer Breaking News: It's over for Obozo - 5 days ago
clip clop clip clop clip clop...by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: New Mac Pro Arrival Date - 6 days ago
QuoteMGS_forgot_password QuoteDrew What about new monitors? Same time as new Mac Pro? Good point, we're gonna need shiny black monitors to match. No, no, no... it's going to be a fully immersive wraparound display, like in Minority Report... g=by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Skeumorphism poll and opinions - 7 days ago
One comment I have with the anti-skeumorphism / flat trend: removing the obvious shiny rounded buttons will present a cognitive challenge for the very young - you know, that target market that heretofore has done so well on iOS because it's visually OBVIOUS where to put your fingers. Going from the rounded buttons to skinny text won't help the little kids or the illiterate. Hopefully that becomesby gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: What do you get when you cross R2-D2 and Darth Vader? - 8 days ago
Why bother using desktop ram? I'd rather this thing used laptop RAM... and double the number of slots. Cheaper and MORE RAM. Maybe a little slower per chip, but it'd be a lot less expensive overall. Mind you, the ctube 2.0 will likely make "less expensive" seem like a laughable idea. Hackintosh is the future, apparently. g=by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: ISO; compact, powerful Shop-Vac type vacuum - 8 days ago
Is that another use case for the new Mac Pro? Does it have that Dyson technology?by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: WWDC 2013 - 8 days ago
Oh ess ex... mav err icks... I think they want us to stop calling it the former entirely... since it sounds like it's going to be a shadow of its former self. iOS all the time, baby. The writing is on the wall. g=by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Apple to stream WWDC Keynote live to AppleTV users - 8 days ago
Too bad the AppleTV I have access to is connected to a network that doesn't have the bandwidth... g=by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: WWDC Keynote Roll Call and prediction thread - 8 days ago
Yes, this is going to be all about iOS... and not much that any long-time Mac or iPhone users will like... "Flat UI" and perhaps some additional enterprise manageability on devices but that will likely be tied into OS X Server... I'm going to shoot for the hills and say Apple finally allows OS X (Server) to be virtualized on non-Apple hardware. This would get them back into the enteby gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Let's turn the NSA big data snooping to our advantage! - 9 days ago
I'd like notification of a) Gang members b) Public officials taking bribes c) Insider trading d) Neighbors who make more money than me trying to take advantage of me e) Always-on tracking of the 1%. Want to know where to go to eat when I'm hungry!by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: dollarshaveclub.com commercial - 9 days ago
Man, I hate shaving and have tried just about everything. I've even thought about buying one of those $500 home laser depiliator kits. My thick facial hair can exhaust all but the toughest multi-blade disposables in just 3 shaves. I generally use an electric razor these days but unless I do it EVERY day like clockwork I end up spending a lot more time catching up. DE razors are intriguing... I diby gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Evidently, we CAN have 100% Security... - 9 days ago
QuoteI encountered the nothing-to-hide argument so frequently... Isn't it really just about a bunch of nose-pickers afraid of the truth of their habit being found out? Well, that, and Godwin's Law.by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: 1997 Hollywood version of NSA - 9 days ago
Prophetic, almost like the screenwriters had seen the script before. But gas at $2.50! Wow. That would be cheap these days!by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: New Star Wars Lego Ewok Village announced - 10 days ago
I actually think that looks pretty cool. At least, it's a way to get all the key SW characters in one set.by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Aquarium’s new critter packs a pulverizing punch - 10 days ago
Wow... clearly you all are deluded and just can't see - these "Mantis Shrimp" are in fact the advance strike force of the alien invasion.by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Student Loan Rates Doubling... Get Off MY LAWN ! - 11 days ago
Quotecbelt3 The rate is going from 3.4% to 6.8%. My student loans were at 15%. Hell, my first mortgage was at 11 %, and I felt damn lucky. So I'm guessing that mortgage occurred sometime between 1979 and 1986? Prime rates in that same time went between 9% and 20% and back down to around 8%... I'm not sure of what student loan programs were back in that time, but I think part of your perceptiby gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Komen canceling half of its 3-day races - 12 days ago
Quotebillb There are plenty of other avenues available to support cancer research without also supporting planned parenthood. Wasn't the clamor that Komen had long supported Planned Parenthood and they had a policy wonk who wanted to extricate the organization from that obligation at a time when Planned Parenthood had already been experiencing a lot of financial stress? This reminds me Iby gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: The Cicada Invasion of New York City Has Been Canceled - 13 days ago
Quotemattkime i think they just need more greenery than most of nyc can provide. That, the impact of climate change and all the seagulls everywhere now have likely limited their previous spawning and ongoing successful mating.by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Do newspapers not use editors anymore? Does no one at this paper see what is wrong with this? - 13 days ago
Quotecbelt3 Dead Tree Media is Dead. I want to disagree... but definitely dead tree media as a for profit entity is dead. I still hope that someone will invent a model of crowdsourced community journalism that still affirms the reporter's motto of "fact check everything." As a newspaper subscriber I think $500 a year is a worthwhile investment in knowing what is going on... I justby gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: [rant] [apple software] Messages grinds to halt if you hit tab - 15 days ago
I have Keyboard Shortcuts enabled for All Controls so when I hit tab it highlights the smiley dropdown and eats all the text I've entered... Shift tab gets me back to my message text field. Tabbing again would activate my search field and I can't say I've never needed to search messages in Messages! g=by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Cunning Michael Douglas suspects his cancer was from Likker.. um.. ing.. - 15 days ago
Is this why CZJ went to into rehab? Alternately, maybe he's announcing this as a warning to his fellow, erm, "drinking enthusiasts?" Just because a doctor says something is medically unlikely doesn't mean that there may not be a risk for some people... e.g. mastectomy is performed a LOT on younger women diagnosed with breast cancer even though there's no indicator that this affecby gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: RYF: Amazon has 60% on SSDs & flash memory - 15 days ago
And the nVidia controller is present on which systems? Certain Mac models? g=by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Remote Startup for VMware Host? - 15 days ago
Set in the BIOS to power on every day at a certain time of day before it is needed? So you can shut it down for a storm that passes through at night and know it will be on the next morning. Unfortunately I don't think there's an OS-level way to access and change the BIOS power settings. If I am mistaken, someone please correct me - I know it's one of the nice features of OS X and Apple hardby gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Yeah, that's right. They are much richer and you're still screwed. - 17 days ago
We've been over this before... -and off the cuff again- Top 1% of income earners in the early 80s made 8% of all income. (This was down from something like 15-16% in the 60s when more progressive taxation was put in place - the whole 90% "soak the rich" bracket I think.) Top 1% of income earners in early 00s made 16% of all the income. Top 1% of income earners today - 24%. Since the ecoby gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Skyscreamer ride in Texas - wow. - 18 days ago
The only Six Flags I've ever been to was "Six Flags Great America" - what's up with all these state-specific ones?by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Kindergarten Graduation Turns Bad - 8 Arrested - 18 days ago
Quotebazookaman Helen: I can't believe you don't want to go to your own son's graduation. Bob: It's not a graduation. He is moving from the 4th grade to the 5th grade. Helen: It's a ceremony! Bob: It's psychotic! They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional... Is this from the Incredibles?by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Apple Reuse & Recycle... my Gen 1 iPad is worth $126 ? - 18 days ago
This is so disappointing. My G4 mini and towers both are worth NOTHING. They won't even let me trade in my original iPod Touch.by gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: That's an Asteroid... and it's got a Moon ! - 18 days ago
Isn't the astronomer's definition of "moon" any body that is orbiting another body that is not a star? By that definition a pebble you launch from your kid's model rocket could be a moon temporarily if you could get it into high enough altitude and get it a few orbits... Also, I'll be more impressed when the get pictures of the moon coming back around the sunward side of that asteroby gabester - Tips and Deals
Re: Non partisan research org: Republicans lie three times more than Democrats. - 20 days ago
Quotecbelt3 QuoteCa Bob I suspect that there is a subset of Republicans that is linked to the hard right wing, and which treats some traits as being more important than being literally truthful, among which are group loyalty, a particular kind of religion, and an overly fearful approach to outsiders and to life itself. The evidence for these assertions can be found in their own words and the bookby gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Rudy enrolls his kid in school - 20 days ago
Quoteka jowct Or Slartibartfast. Jehosaphat!by gabester - Tips and Deals