Friday, May 20, 2011

Oysters And Pearls

Oysters And Pearls. Pearl on its Host Oyster
  • Pearl on its Host Oyster



  • damienvfx
    Sep 12, 05:18 PM
    Kind of a huge gap, don'cha think? For an extra $100 I can nearly TRIPLE the capacity? Why would I even consider a 30 GB model?

    I imagine the 80 is about the same size. I'd go with the 30 if I was in the market for a regular iPod. Honsestly though, I can't stand feeling the hard drive move in my hand with the regular iPods.





    Oysters And Pearls. pearl oysters (Pinctada),
  • pearl oysters (Pinctada),



  • BRLawyer
    Oct 12, 06:02 PM
    This site is so wierd - 10 people actually clicked on the negative rating to this story like there is anything negative about it.

    Actually there is...the RED iPod is FUGLY...sorry about that.





    Oysters And Pearls. Oysters with pearls,
  • Oysters with pearls,



  • ejb190
    Oct 27, 08:42 AM
    ....it's a computer, what are you going to make it out of? oak leaves and wood?
    Ummm...
    How about this one (http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/12/russian-wooden-pc-bigger-than-a-breadbox/)
    Or this one (http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/03/suissa-computers-offers-up-custom-wooden-pcs/)
    :D

    I have no problem with Greenpeace being at the show as long as they back up their findings with facts and conduct themselves in a civil manner. If Microsoft stepped out of line at the show, I would expect them to be kicked out of the show as well.





    Oysters And Pearls. inside oysters#39; body.
  • inside oysters#39; body.



  • HecubusPro
    Aug 28, 06:08 PM
    Quote:
    "Originally Posted by X5-452
    So, uh.... PowerBook G5's tomorrow?"







    Ha, it makes me laugh still, 'cause it annoys other people..! :p

    You certainly know how to make friends, sir.





    Oysters And Pearls. What variety of pearl oyster
  • What variety of pearl oyster



  • viperguy
    Sep 1, 08:56 AM
    aaaaa gimme my core2duo macbook :)
    I'm not buying the ordinary coreduo because I heard that it has a lot of bugs that intel will only fix on the new processor.
    And I can wait, so if it doesn't come this month, I don't care waiting another one, who knows even a year :)





    Oysters And Pearls. Oysters with pearls,
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  • OllyW
    Apr 14, 12:41 PM
    Mac's all have normal firewire ports.

    What about the MacBook and MacBook Air?





    Oysters And Pearls. “Sabayon” of Pearl Tapioca with Island Creek Oysters and Sterling White Sturgeon Caviar
  • “Sabayon” of Pearl Tapioca with Island Creek Oysters and Sterling White Sturgeon Caviar



  • patseguin
    Sep 12, 02:22 PM
    Disappointment...What can I say!! May be I was expecting too much :(

    Yeah, I wanted to see the phone that was rumored (phone, iPod, remote control, etc.).





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  • Oysters and Pearls



  • iMeowbot
    Aug 29, 01:05 AM
    if apple wants to stay competivie, they need to release updates tomorrow.. not wait for paris but tomorrow. Plus i can order a new iMac this week and still get my free ipod nano :D
    I'll note that the Dell notebook isn't shipping until 14 September (6th for the low end), and the desktop version shows a ship date in November. Apple have plenty of time.

    i don't know, but i am not sure about this Intel thing yet!:mad:
    If you really had your heart set on the PowerBook G5 form factor, the Tadpole Bullfrogs (http://www.tadpole.com/products/notebooks.asp) come pretty close. SPARC is fairly unusual, the other kids on the street probably won't have them.





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  • munkery
    Mar 19, 04:35 PM
    A few examples: Look up Leap-A and Inqtana-A on OSX (very real OSX worms), MusMinim-A (recent trojan).

    Leap-a required authentication to infect and spread via iChat given that iChat is owned by System but is only run with user privileges. It did NOT achieve privilege escalation via exploitation.

    Inqtana-a was a proof of concept that could only modify the user level of the system because didn't achieve privilege escalation via exploitation. Malware can NOT install rootkits or keyloggers that can hook into apps owned by System (such as Safari, Mail, & etc) with only user level access.

    MusMinim-a is also a beta proof of concept based of a legitimate piece of software ported from Windows (http://www.darkcomet-rat.com/). It requires authentication to install given that it does NOT achieve privilege escalation via exploitation.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware#Threats (List of Malware threats on Linux; why not pretend they don't even exist?)

    You do realize most of those are proof-of-concepts generated through research. Most were never present in the wild and did NOT achieve privilege escalation via exploitation. Two that were in the wild are Bliss (1997 - ineffective as did not include privilege escalation) and Stoag (1996). https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Linuxvirus

    It sounds good at first except for one giant pothole of a flaw. I mean why do things that are difficult to trace when you can just set up a sign on a server somewhere that says "Here's my bank account! Come and arrest me!" (i.e. the money is being redirected...follow the money trail!) :rolleyes:

    You do realize that the redirection of ad revenue is one of the primary means of profit generation of what has been referred to as the most advanced Windows rootkit. BTW, some variants achieve privilege escalation via exploitation (see the second link).

    http://www.brighthub.com/internet/google/articles/66090.aspx
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/16/tdl_rootkit_does_64_bit_windows/

    Trojans are particularly a problem since a lot of programs ask for root password permission to be installed (including Apple software).

    Untrue. Mac apps rarely ask for authentication to install if you install the app in the appropriate folder for the user account type.





    Oysters And Pearls. How Are Pearls Made In Oysters
  • How Are Pearls Made In Oysters



  • psxndc
    Sep 5, 02:18 PM
    I don't usually speculate, but I find it interesting "Showtime" is capitalized. Could the downloads be part of some partnership with the cable channel? Just wild speculation on my part.

    -p-





    Oysters And Pearls. pearl inside the oyster.
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  • antbikerjl
    Apr 30, 01:58 PM
    If you look closely though, Microsoft made LESS in revenue ($16billion to Apple's 20billion) but almost equally matches Apple in profit (5.3 billion to Apple's ~6billion). All things equal, Microsoft is still a better company in terms of profitability range due to their significant lower revenue but a close call on profit standards.





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  • oyster pearls kids girls



  • kresh
    Sep 19, 03:58 PM
    It clearly states Dolby Surround and Dolby Pro Logic Systems. This is from the VHS days. DVDs support Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS. This is plain nuts. Not only are you getting slightly inferior picture, the sound is ancient. Dolby Surround is nowhere as good as Dolby Digital. Here is a simple explanation.

    Dolby Surround uses two tracks of audio to encode 4 tracks. The two additional tracks are for the center channel and a single rear channel. The single rear channel is not full spectrum (20Hz - 20kHz), but rather something very narrow.

    For comparison, if you have a good surround sound system (I am not talking about the $200 Home Theatre in a box system, but a system that cost at least $1000), play a DVD that has both Dolby Surround and Dolby Digital. Play with the Dolby Surround track first and then play with the Dolby Digital track next. Huge difference. I am disappointed. Surely, there is a way they could embed discrete surround with AAC.

    The specs for Dolby Digital is as follows: 5 tracks of discrete digital sound full spectrum 20Hz-20kHz. One channel for LFE (low frequency extension) - topping out at about 120Hz. That is why you have 5.1.

    Dolby Digital is lossy compression though but still you have 5.1 channels. DTS is another lossy compression format but has a higher bit rate and sounds better than Dolby Digital. DTS typically have about 760kbps while Dolby Digital is about 448kbps.

    HD-DVD and Bluray Disk support Dolby TrueHD that supports 8 channels of lossless sound upto 18Mbps. Cool. Well, we are way off from there.

    I don't think Apple is aiming for the uber-geek with $25k worth of home entertainment equipment. IMHO, they will never be able to compete in that market.

    I think they are reaching for the average joe blow that has a servicable $400 TV that he bought at Wal-mart, and maybe, just maybe, has a stereo hooked up to it. The average Joe doesn't care, and can't tell, that it's Dolby Surround and not Dolby Digital.





    Oysters And Pearls. Oysters and Pearls
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  • jonnyb
    Apr 20, 09:57 AM
    When did 'reached out' become a better phrase to use than simply 'contacted'?





    Oysters And Pearls. Album: Oysters And Pearls
  • Album: Oysters And Pearls



  • kettle
    Oct 28, 03:19 AM
    Thats the difference between the US and UK, we dont have your gun culture:mad:

    That's so patronising. Are you saying that Britain has never had a gun culture or just you narrow experience of the world leads you to believe this to be the case? Either way, you seem to have missed the not so gradual slide of Great Britain into a cowering corner of the United States of Europe.

    There are two ways of law. Do what you like until a so called democracy decides what is against the law - or - Everything is against the law until a so called democracy decides what isn't illegal.

    The UK used to have the former (something to do with the magna carte:rolleyes:) and now we are headed in the other direction where small groups of noisy fascists (of all political persuasion) seem to think it's ok to bypass our once great legal and government system and force changes with who shouts loudest television media.

    BTW, what's the difference between 'gun culture' & the 'right to bare arms'

    To me it's that same dynamic that allows Greenpeace to fake and replace information with their own doctored information and spin.

    I'm sick of the way people think it's ok to 'skip around' the few basic but important rules that once held us altogether. It's not enough to be doing it in the name of a so called 'good cause'.





    Oysters And Pearls. quot;OYSTERS AND PEARLSquot;
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  • BackInTheSaddle
    Oct 28, 08:57 AM
    The problem with Greenpeace is that they can't get over themselves. It doesn't matter to these self-important selfish ideologues if they are right or wrong; as long as they are advocating a particular position, they feel justified to take any action (legal or illegal) to support that position. Also, they don't care if they interfere with the rights of other exhibitors, companies who paid quite a bit of money to participate in the Expo to meet with customers.

    I'm glad that Greenpeace was ejected from the Expo--it is exactly what should have happened, as it should to any rube or hooligan who can't follow the rules.





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  • quot;Oysters and pearlsquot;,quot;Sabayonquot;



  • BenRoethig
    Aug 28, 12:29 PM
    Yeah, we all knew this was coming. It will be interesting to see how quickly Apple responds to its competition and follows suit. Hopefully very soon, I'm eager to see what exactly Apple does, i.e. only updates the MBPs, updates the whole MacBook line, updates the Mini as well... :cool:

    Oh, and how about some Conroe iMacs? ;) :D

    I think there's a better chance of Merom iMacs. We're talking about a system in which they underclock a mobility Radeon x1600 to make it quieter. Conroe makes sense in a regular desktop, but I don�t see it happening with the iMac.





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  • ShiftyGray
    Apr 20, 10:29 AM
    I don't care about this at all.

    What could they possibly do with the information, who would want to know, who would have access to it, and why would I mind?





    Oysters And Pearls. Wish-Pearl, Pearls In Oysters
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  • manu chao
    Apr 20, 11:41 AM
    every single time you do anything on the internet or cell phone, some device somewhere is keeping a log of it.
    And simply forcing all instances that keep logs of personal data to delete them after a short period would solve this.
    How hard is it to periodically delete old log files? It works fine for system.log, no reason this cannot also be made to work for other types of log files.





    Oysters And Pearls. oyster pearls in cans,
  • oyster pearls in cans,



  • iMacZealot
    Sep 14, 08:30 AM
    Hey, across the pond, Nokia's putting in 3.2 MP's in some models with a Carl Zeiss.

    But I doubt we'd be seeing an iPhone here.

    Wait a minute! It the event is Sept. 24 here, wouldn't it be Sept. 25 in London? Is it a relay there?





    Dunepilot
    Oct 27, 09:01 AM
    I didn't even know there was an Expo on!

    Anyway, before anyone even considers their opinion on the work of Greenpeace, they should read The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg (http://www.lomborg.com/).





    fall3n
    Aug 28, 05:21 PM
    What about the Robson flash technology. That sounds like the greatest thing since a laptop with a palmrest on the bottom and an "upside down" logo.

    of course that would be useful and by all means wait another year if you must, but personally i'd rather just buy now and then upgrade later as if it's really that amazing then the sockets are still compatable and an easy upgrade.





    guet
    Nov 13, 05:26 PM
    They are licensed for use on a mac, not for distribution to a client machine be it an iphone, Blackberry or Android.

    Please give us a link to the license specific to those images from that API, and point out where it states they are licensed only for use on a Mac. You can't because there isn't one. It's a grey area, however what RA were doing is not unexpected, and indeed, it's exactly what the remote app does from Apple.

    Quite apart from that, it's pointless to argue over trivial licensing issues. Apple can probably get away with this in a strict legal sense; I'm sure they have some get-out clause saying they can reject any app they please for any reason. No one needs to play the apologist for Apple - if they want to play hardball, they will, and the only thing developers and users can do about it is publicise their complaint and move to other platforms.

    The argument is not over whether they *can* do this and get away with it, it's whether they should. If they continue to make life incredibly difficult for developers, large potential partners will start to look elsewhere, and with them the users will follow. They've already lost Google due to their foolish intransigence, and will see less innovation in their maps app as a result.





    Coolerking
    Sep 8, 09:14 AM
    Hell no, Leopard will run on G4s, G5s, Core Duos, Core 2 Duos, maybe even the old G3s but we'll have to wait and see on that one.

    Thanks. Judging by what some people have said it sounded like you needed Core 2 Duo to run Leopard.





    fetchmebeers
    Sep 12, 03:00 PM
    Off Apple's website that he pointed you to:
    Playback time (30GB model)



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