Friday, May 13, 2011

the world from space at night

the world from space at night. Streetlights on Earth at night
  • Streetlights on Earth at night



  • PhantomPumpkin
    Apr 27, 10:49 AM
    Apple identified it? No. Check your history. It was brought TO Apple's attention over a year ago.

    It was again brought TO Apple's attention via various reports and articles.

    THEN Apple looked into the matter.

    I commend Apple for taking action (now).

    But let's not rewrite history, shall we?

    You're just misinterpreting what I was saying. They identified it as a potential issue, instead of saying "there's nothing wrong, we're not going to do a darned thing." I wasn't saying the brought it up to the media's attention on their own.

    Nitpicking, is well, nitpicky?





    the world from space at night. See this night photo from the
  • See this night photo from the



  • janstett
    Sep 16, 10:10 AM
    Any description of the history of NT that doesn't say "Mica" and "Prism" is missing some major details ;) !


    Well, come on! I wrote a synopsis that was already too lengthy. I felt it sufficient to say that Dave Cutler's life at DEC gave him OS Guru status and left it at that. I didn't mention Gordon Letwin either. On either point it's rather like mentioning Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike in a history of OSX -- technically accurate but of marginal relevance.





    the world from space at night. from space at night.
  • from space at night.



  • greenstork
    Jul 31, 12:01 PM
    Multimedia, Snowy and Grokgod,

    Thanks for the continued thoughts. A store manager said she would be flexible with the 14 day return date, as lnog as I understand that I would pay the restock fee of 10%. What that means to me is I will hold on to this machine until the WWDC and if new model is announced I will return and repurchase, eating the restock fee.( Kind of a pay for usage plan I look at it as.) If no new enhancements are announced with the iMac i guess I will keep mine.

    However, there is the thought as one of you have brought up to just reetuen and wait until Sept. when it may be more likely to arrive. A slippery slop0e I know but I am leaning mroe toward a return and repurchase, as a sort of insruance policy of sorts.

    I know I can't have my cake and eat it...., but I was looking for insight into how likely an improvement in the iMac is this August.

    Thanks again!

    Merk850

    That's an accommodating manager that you found. The lesson learned here I suppose, and it's been said time and time again, is never buy a new computer before a major Mac conference (Macworld SF & Paris, and WWDC).





    the world from space at night. Source: The Contaminated
  • Source: The Contaminated



  • buffalo
    Aug 11, 11:11 AM
    Is it possible for Apple to release a phone sold in their stores that would work on all networks? Or have several versions of the phone that will work for Verizon, Cingular...





    the world from space at night. Cities From Space (Night View)
  • Cities From Space (Night View)



  • macpross
    Aug 6, 11:28 PM
    Great joke, thanks very much...in the same line as Tiger Computer Dealers, right?

    We already have a Mac Pro line of products, we are also the owners of AppleLocks, and MacMice. The Tiger thing was silly.





    the world from space at night. world space night sky picture
  • world space night sky picture



  • psionic001
    Nov 28, 07:50 PM
    Actually, they do. They also got paid on every blank tape sold when cassettes were big. I think it is crazy for everyone to think that the music industry is greedy when it getting squeezed out of all of their revenue streams. So, Apple makes hundreds of millions off of their back on the itunes site, and a billion off of iPod sales, and they cannot share in the wealth?

    It doesn't cost the consumer any more, why wouldn't you want the people who actually make the music you are listening to get compensated?

    This debate is stale. People want something for nothing.


    Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
    That's it!.... I'm not buying any more tapes...

    Actually I think two things should happen:
    1) Universal should pay an anual feel to be on ITS.
    2) Universal should pay a further industry fee to Apple (or DAP manufacturers) to go towards DRM R&D.





    the world from space at night. The British Isles at night.
  • The British Isles at night.



  • ImNoSuperMan
    Aug 12, 04:29 AM
    I don't believe the rumor - Steve wouldn't blab, he just wouldn't.

    We only have a month to wait, though. :)

    Exactly the same reaction I had when I first read the rumor. It just doesnt sound like the Steve we know.

    But who cares. I just want the iPhone to be launched asap. I really hope it`s unlocked GSM phone so that I can use it in my country. It`ll really suck if it`s USA only.





    the world from space at night. Images - The Aftermath of
  • Images - The Aftermath of



  • iJohnHenry
    Mar 5, 07:35 PM
    That's (sadly) believable. See, now you're talking. I knew you didn't always pop round just to throw a cheeky non sequitur into the works. ;)

    Yes, but actual critical thinking is no where near as much fun. :p





    the world from space at night. Yuri#39;s Night takes place each
  • Yuri#39;s Night takes place each



  • zacman
    Apr 6, 04:11 PM
    That didn't actually happen.

    Yeah, like the "bogus numbers" that indicated that back in Q2(?)/2010 Android outsold iOS in the US. Steve is it you? :D





    the world from space at night. the world from space at night.
  • the world from space at night.



  • dethmaShine
    Apr 20, 09:12 AM
    Sure manufacturers always have a couple of design laying arund just in case.

    Reality of course is samsung had bene designing that for quit some time as were others .

    Nice how you ignore LG completly. How could they have copied (what apple is now sueing samsung over) when they showed there phone before apple? Or did apple copy from prada, following your logique they did.

    Seriously the iPhone looks like Prada? I'd got to be blind to not notice that.

    The only similarity is the rounded corners and even the rounded corners look very different.

    What exactly is similar if I may know?





    the world from space at night. its appearance toward the
  • its appearance toward the



  • NickPill
    Aug 7, 10:55 PM
    Hi, this is just a question to the developers. Did you already get 10.5? I have the ADC Select membership but can�t find 10.5 in the download section. Please send me an email where I can find it. Thank you!





    the world from space at night. The Space Needle
  • The Space Needle



  • Gatesbasher
    Apr 6, 04:18 PM
    Link? Wasn't there the whole story a month or two ago that the actual number of Galaxy Tabs delivered to customers was much less than had been reported. How can this cause a 30% reduction in market share when the HIGH number of Galaxy Tabs was < 10% the number of iPads?

    B

    He's still using that 2,000,000 Tabs "shipped", adding it to iPads sold in the same period, and finding the Tab's number is 30% of the total. Very..."smooth", could I say?





    the world from space at night. Here are the Americas at night
  • Here are the Americas at night



  • toddybody
    Apr 6, 11:40 AM
    what do you think Games on a Mac are? Jeeze dude, thats why I own a gaming PC. You couldnt dream of playing the majority of current titles at max settings on a mac...they need to start giving them real GPU's





    the world from space at night. the world from space at night.
  • the world from space at night.



  • afrowq
    Apr 6, 09:53 AM
    Impossible.

    Apple's no longer supposed to care about their Pro software.

    This will never happen.

    A lot of pros have already left Mac, but I have been holding out. However, this is the last straw. If the new FCP disappoints I will be jumping ship, buying a high-end PC and switching to Avid or Premiere. I just can't stand the frustrations anymore of watching every consumer itoy get upgraded, and then the Pro stuff getting shafted.

    The time is now. The new FCP had better have something equivalent to Mercury Playback, optimization for RED footage, different HD codecs, real-time playback, 64 bit, multi-core usage, etc. If it's a dumbed-down consumer product I will be absolutely livid.





    the world from space at night. space
  • space



  • the vj
    Apr 6, 02:53 PM
    I remember when I was a kid and I asked my father for a toy and he came with a different one... I was the saddest kid on earth.

    I believe that who ever asked for an iPad and got a Motorola would feel the same.

    (Dad, I love you)





    the world from space at night. You can see night across the
  • You can see night across the



  • gregor.hoch
    Apr 6, 11:21 AM
    I'm pretty sure you are aware that Apple would use LV CPU in 13", not ULV. That bumps us to 2.3GHz plus Turbo. You have said this yourself too and I already covered the reason in my other post.

    This is just a MR article and surprisingly, they don't have much idea about the TDPs. Hopefully they will correct their article so people won't live in confusion.

    Hellhammer, can I ask you something about this? There are SB LV and now SB ULV. Both are for laptops and the Macbook Pro 13 has SB LV, right? Or does the Pro has something else? What is the performance difference between an equally clocked ULV and LV?

    Thanks!





    the world from space at night. the world at night.
  • the world at night.



  • Alag28
    Aug 27, 01:03 AM
    so lemee guess these new lappies are gonna start at 1999$??





    the world from space at night. The Night Lights of Europe
  • The Night Lights of Europe



  • Huntn
    Aug 16, 10:20 AM
    As I am newly familiar with Need For Sped: Shift. How would you guys compare the two games?

    I don't know if it is my imagination but some of the racing demos I've tried, the cars seem to skid out of control relatively easily. I'm wondering if this is a characteristic of "realsim" in a racing game?





    the world from space at night. the world from space at night.
  • the world from space at night.



  • Dr.Gargoyle
    Aug 12, 06:05 AM
    Ah but Finland is a tiny social democrat country that's home to some of the world's largest mobile companies. They like to give a bit back to their home communities.
    We have the same cell phone system in Sweden, Denmark, Norway as in Finland. I am almost certain that Iceland has the same system too.





    hunkaburningluv
    Mar 23, 06:09 AM
    Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

    Competition is good.

    Make a case for your argument.

    Well, you only need to look at what happened with the gameboy to see that competition is good.

    After seeing off the game gear and lynx, the gameboy stagnated for almost a decade. How long did it take before there was a colour version? Years, yet we've seen some great revisions since the PSP was announced.





    Reach
    Sep 19, 08:04 AM
    Its all pointless as the same people will start up again with the next technology advances as soon as the Macbook range is updated with Merom.
    Don't you get that it's special with a Rev.B, at least that's how I view a Merom version, of Macbook Pro.
    When using machines for professional reasons it's no good jumping on the first machines, and seeing what happened I'm glad I didn't buy the first Macbook Pro's. And there are a lot of people that have thought this way I believe, so this is a special update that a lot of professional users have been waiting for. By all means, they may have fixed the current Macbook Pro's a long time ago, but when I'm finally going to upgrade form my Powerbook G4 now, I'd be stupid to buy something that would be old in 1 week.
    And now I won't be bitching about anything in 2-3 years time, as I got what I need when I buy a Merom Macbook Pro. I've had Macs for 16 years now, and never been nagging on an update like I am now, so it's not all the same every time something new comes. At least not for a lot of us.





    rt_brained
    Aug 11, 07:55 PM
    Is Europe not a way bigger mobile phone market than the US anyway. I don't see why any technology company would alienate a huge sector of its market in this way. It will definitely be released in Europe too.

    It will not be a flip phone, or a slide phone or any of those stupid ass gimmicky phones you use over there. It will be just a nano derivative I would say. It will be GSM, it will be quad band.
    And coin-operated.





    JM-Prod
    Apr 10, 08:17 AM
    Faster horses.

    Hmm, you want a faster horse or did you think my comments were screaming for them?

    If my expectation are met, it would be a revolution in editing.

    The second since introducing digital non-linear editing in the late 80's.

    Not faster horses.





    MrCrowbar
    Aug 27, 10:03 AM
    This is what we NEED:

    1. Computer with no fan. Quiet. Silent. CRITICAL.

    2. Modular computer to add a gorgeous Apple Cinema Display.

    3. At lesat two FireWire 800 ports.

    Then all the rest (power, etc).

    1. My iMac Core Duo 17" was very quiet. Never heard the fans except using photoshop under rosetta, playing 3D games under XP and during the hardware test. Those fans are powerful when required, make noise like a big hair dryer and you think the computer's gonna lift off and fly away. But on normal use all you hear is the hard drive. I had a desk that happened to resonnate at the frequency of the hard drive which was horrible, but when put on the corner of the desk it was fine. You could crack it open and replace the noisy Maxtor drive with a Seagate Barracuda if you want the absolute silent computer.

    2. I hooked up a 20" Dell Screen to the iMac. Worked nicely. the iMac supports up to 23" in dual screen mode.

    3. Only has a Firewire 400 Port. You won't get dual 800 on iMac... get a Mac Pro. You could put it in another room, make a hole in the wall for the screen cable and firewire cables and use wireless keyboards and mouses. ;)



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