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well i think i finally got my home built system running at 4.0 ghz. it has been a long journey, to say the least. but it's folding away a bigadv unit and 2 GPUs. hopefully this will last all week since i'll be away

... teach our kids why rome fell ...

You mean because they passed laws against homosexuality?

While I find that a little simplistic, if you really want to run with that theory that's your choice.


Homosexuality in ancient Rome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome)

Homosexuality in ancient Rome features dispassionately in many literary works, poems, graffiti and in comments, for example, on the sexual predilections of single emperors: Edward Gibbon famously observed that "of the first fifteen emperors Claudius was the only one whose taste in love was entirely correct". Surviving graphic representations are, on the other hand, rarer in ancient Rome than in classical Greece. Attitudes toward homosexuality changed over time ranging from the matter-of-fact acceptance of Republican Rome and the pagan Empire to rising condemnation, exampled by the Athenian Sextus Empiricus, who asserted that άρρενομιζία was outlawed in Rome— and in Athens, too!— and Cyprian.

The term homosexuality is anachronistic for the ancient world, since there is no single word in either Latin or ancient Greek with the same meaning as the modern concept of homosexuality, nor was there any sense that a man was defined by his gender choices in love-making; "in the ancient world so few people cared to categorize their contemporaries on the basis of the gender to which they were erotically attracted that no dichotomy to express this distinction was in common use", James Boswell has noted.

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Later Empire

The rise of statutes legislating against homosexuality begins during the social crisis of the 3rd century, when a series of laws were promulgated regulating various aspects of homosexual relations, from the statutory rape of minors to gay marriages. By the sixth century homosexual relations were expressly prohibited for the first time, as Procopius notes.


On a related note, a search of the string "homo" in the article The Decline of Rome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_rome) comes up with zero results.

You gotta do better than that bassfingers. :rolleyes:

So, let me see...for those of us NOT living in the US, what do we have?

Movie Store - NOT available (downloading movies is not my cup of tea anyway);

Streaming device for movies bought in the iTMS - NOT available as well

New Nanos with SAME capacity?? - No, thanks...

I was going to receive a (female) friend tonight, but she postponed for tomorrow...so this means I will have instead a big "yawning" session tonight at Apple news/rumor sites, with few things applicable to people outside of the US...move along, citizens... :(

I had already posted this on my blog a couple of months back:

Analysis of the pros and cons of Blue-ray vs HD-DVD reveals that Blue-Ray disks have higher capacity (about 50GB), are more expensive, and blue-ray players can burn disks. On the other hand HD-DVD is comparitively cheaper, little less capacity (about 40GB), but cannot be burnt by commercial players.

Hence, I belive that the cheaper HD-DVD disks would be used instead of the traditional DVDs for distributing movies, games, music and other such applications. Whereas the Blue-Ray disks would be used majorly for storing data off a computer in a home or office setting. So, in the future laptops would come equipped with Blue-Ray drives and home theater systems would come equipped with HD-DVD players.

Their store, their rules I guess.

Exactly. That's the good and bad part. I love Apple products, but I hate blatant hypocrisy when I see it. This is certainly one of those cases.

If the garage is detached, what does he do when it's raining?

You know, like, use an umbrella, or, like, run.

So why not just use an external HD?
The price. Why burn your library to CDs, you could just use a flash drive. It's the same thing.

In the future, maybe in 5-10 years, I think maybe people will have their entire collections in full-blown 1080p HD. I mean, look at PAL/NTSC. The resolution sucks. HDTV is just worth it.

I just opened iTunes and it ask me if I wanted to update...
to what version ???

so guys,

does anyone think that the discounts will be able to be used in conjunction with educational discounts? if so that'd be great...if not...then i guess you still save an additional 50 bucks? that'd be ok!

tell me what you think about hte question?

Good ideas never die, they just get pulled from OS releases.

http://www.macrumors.com/2003/10/08/pulled-panther-feature-home-on-ipod/

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Indeed, not bashing MS, but they completely over promised "longhorn" and under-delivered when Vista was released. I think they learned their lesson and provide features that can actually be added in the time frame.

With the latest two releases (SL & Lion) apple isn't really promising too many features so it would be very disappointing to get one pulled.

As for the list, it looks very encouraging and exciting. win8 is still a ways off, but I hope to get a beta when its available.

Did anybody see an ATT cell tower on his property so SJ can use his iPhone with enough signal strength?

The windows joke was a good one!

DigiTimes' track record is amazingly bad. You'd think they'd be right more often just by guessing.

Frag that, I think they do just guess at random.:p

still 700:1 contrast ratio

In the context that manufacturers state such figures, this is meaningless. All it really boils down to is how white their whites are so they can claim a high contrast ratio, even though in the real world it means sod all.

Now what would really get me interested is a flat screen that displays truly black blacks.

The chances of Gizmodo being invited back to CES as press are remote to say the least. Thats a LOT of lost page impressions next year.

Heads will roll.

I really can't see Apple removing the usage for 'pro' users. They're just making it more welcoming for the millions who are now in the Apple ecosystem through iOS devices.

My understanding is that unlike Windows, Apple offers one (or two if server edition) version of the OS, be the most experienced pro or the new comer you use the same system.

I would expect Apple to make the Mac OS to be far more like iOS in that you do what you see, so the new comer isn't faced with libraries etc; however, somewhere in the system there will be options to view and access the deeper lying elements of the OS that the average user won't need to ever see.

I love the idea of a non-spoiling keynote-experience.

BUT

As I can recall, just after the keynote is posted online, there seem to be that much people viewing it that it just becomes worthless to watch. Such as: image hickups, buffering-probs, vid/sound synchronization-probs...

That is if you even can connect to the stream! Most of the times, the feed just wasn't accessible!

Don't you guys have that problem over there in the States? Maybe it is because I'm in the EU? It really sucks, I guarantee..

As I said in another thread, it's very possible Apple has built an AMD machine sometime in the past, but it will never reach production unless Intel ****s up...

i5 27" and i love it. Replaced my 24"

They are currently sorted into the four categories first, and then alphabetically in those categories. It seems Lion is throwing everything together and doing away with categories

I can go to View --> Organize Alphabetically on my SL MBA. Same result. All icons, no categories.

I've never seen this before, but it's not new to this Lion build.

Keynote Stream Available Live On Cnn Pipeline.

not free?

I don't understand people who think the next iPhone should be called 4S (and some think 4GS, wth?)

I think the reason why Apple called the current generation iPhone 4 because it's the 4th iPhone. Just because they tacked on an 'S' at the end of 3G doesn't mean the next should be 4S.

And even if they DID call it the 4S, the iPhone after that would be iPhone 6, not 5...

Don't you agree?

Google, Microsoft and Bush are Devils!

So original.....

For someone seeking our help, you sure are quick to dismiss it. Again, everyone in this thread has been trying to help you. A little cooperation on your part would be appreciated.

Help us help you. If we have questions, it's because we don't quite understand what you are seeking help on.

+1 I'm all for it!

teach our kids why rome fell etc.