Re: FWIW: Listverse's "9 Signs that Apple is being run by Supervillains" - Today

Apple is the new Microsoft, apparently.

Re: OT: Towel Day is May 25th! - Today

Gene, you are one hoopy frood. “This must be Thursday... I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”

Re: It's pronounced JIF, says GIF creator - Today

QuoteDRR Quotevision63 You should pronounce it the way the person that creates it wants you to pronounce it. I find it annoying to pronounce Antawn Jamison's name "Antwan." But that's how he wants us to pronounce it. It's his name and it would be disrespectful to not comply. That's absurd. What if he decided he wanted GIF to be pronounced "c*ckwhore." You'd follow that becau

Re: It's pronounced JIF, says GIF creator - Yesterday

he can try to get people to say it the wrong way (his way), but he's losing that battle. and will continue to lose. how many people call an Apatosaurus a Brontosaurus incorrectly? think they'll change?

Re: 14-year-old girl shreds Van Halen 'Eruption' solo... - Yesterday

Judas Priest SHREDS!

Re: MBP replacement parts? - Yesterday

try: or used is cheap, new is expensive

Re: $600k to $1m for a school shelter? - Yesterday

Quotefreeradical School buses don't have seat belts because the cost per life saved is too high. not really - how many children die per year on the school bus? bet it's less than in the bathtub at home. (i'm just guessing)

Re: I- I'm actually an atheist - Yesterday

As a very powerful spirit being, Satan can control the wind from time to time: "And The Lord said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only upon himself do not put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of The Lord ... Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house; and behold, a great wind came acr

Re: OT: Dame Helen Mirren grants terminally ill boy's wish to meet the "Queen of England" - Yesterday

did a quick google image search on Age of Consent - boy, does she APPEAR all right!

Re: CarTalk: Just dropped $1,900 in repairs on an 11 year old car. - Yesterday

A/C work is time consuming; which is why we didn't get it done on our 97 Jeep, and traded it in instead. the Jeep had over 223K on it as well as being a gas guzzler.

Re: new Xbox One liveblog at ars - Yesterday

ha!

Re: The Made in USA Mac will be from Texas - Yesterday

Quotemattkime Is texas part of the USA? for now it is.

Re: Daves' here - Yesterday

my local venue June 1 – Musikfest Cafe – Bethlehem, PA

Re: Always out of space on my Core 2 Duo Macbook Air - Yesterday

what year/model? 2010 2011

Re: It's pronounced JIF, says GIF creator - Yesterday

pronounce the word ghoti. ;) Hide spoiler see reader comments here:

Re: CarTalk: Just dropped $1,900 in repairs on an 11 year old car. - Yesterday

glad to hear it's a manual, cbelt - makes a lot of difference! you guys should see our 1977 Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL... :)

Re: Any point in jailbreaking original iPhone/iPhone 3G? - Yesterday

QuoteFritz I used info from here. I did it a couple of years ago and just sold it for $125. YMMD. got a non-Windows link to a 3G? :D

Re: Another Study: Save your life: Eat tomatoes and mozzarella - Yesterday

QuoteNewtonMP2100 what about the pesticides on the tomatoes and the growth hormone in the mozzarella......???? buy local from growers you trust, whenever possible.

Re: CarTalk: Just dropped $1,900 in repairs on an 11 year old car. - Yesterday

you think the transmission is good for 5 more years with that mileage, cbelt?

Re: Another Study: Save your life: Eat tomatoes and mozzarella - Yesterday

LOVE arugula! and all greens, really.

Re: Idle Question: Run Snow Leopard as Virtual Machine? - Yesterday

i saved the 'broken' disk image that allows standard SL install. it's called VMware-Fusion-4.1.0-529802-light.dmg dated Nov 21, 2011

Re: Installing MS Office 2011 on an iMac with no Optical Drive... - 2 days ago

i think MS removed the downloadable demo. you can't get office from them without creating an account and logging into it with the license code.

Re: It's pronounced JIF, says GIF creator - 2 days ago

Re: Installing MS Office 2011 on an iMac with no Optical Drive... - 2 days ago

you can make a DMG from the older imac, then copy it to the new iMac.

Re: Police state ugliness in DC - 2 days ago

that's called civil disobedience. they can arrest her; they don't need to TASER her. what if you were peacefully protesting, samintx? would you expect to be tasered, which can (and does) KILL PEOPLE?

Re: new Xbox One liveblog at ars - 2 days ago

here's a Wired article (already) on the X1

Re: My MacPro is getting flaky - 2 days ago

boot from an external to rule out OS / boot drive.

Re: Police state ugliness in DC - 2 days ago

if Rosa Parks were protesting her civil rights on a bus today, she'd be tasered for sure. sad, isn't it? :soapbox: I pledge defiance to the flag of the United Snakes of Captivity [ ... ] One nation, under God--or else! One nation, under psychopath Pentagon gangsters, whose idea of democracy is concentration camps for the people who go and use the drugs that the government supplie

Re: new Xbox One liveblog at ars - 2 days ago

none of the sports features appeal to me at all. as a gaming/media center, though, it seems pretty nice. most likely cheaper than a Mac Mini, plays more games, plays Blu-Ray movies, easy to control with voice or gestures.

Re: new Xbox One liveblog at ars - 2 days ago

talking about HALO now. Bungie... Mac... now Xbox/Microsoft. Spielberg & a live action TV show?