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sikkinixx - The DS is region free yea. And CD-Wow.com is your cheap DS game friend ;) I mean 20 quid for Pokemon Diamond :eek:

Originally posted by howard
oh yeah i definitely can relate

however theres one key stage at the very beginning. ignorance. pc users blab about how much better they are when they havn't even used a mac. i definitely did that a lot before i switched

-howard

Actually, I believe that psychologists would classify that as smack-in-the-middle of denial. The denial that one's current choices may not be correct.

The denial stage can be further broken up.

Denial 1: Inured/Habituated- blind belief in one's own convictions doesn't even consider that there may be other perspectives.
Denial 2: Protectionism - acknowledges there are other perpectives, but actively shuns them; still believes that one own convictions are the correct course of action.
Denial 3: Reactionism - beleives that others questioning ones convictions are attacking.

Inspired by your avatar?

Thanks for the replies people.

I have to disagree with the price. Here in Australia the 32gb iPhone retails for $999AU. You can check the Apple Australia site for that.

So $650AU is a good price, here.

Secondly, I'm still not sure. Why would he accept to meet my friend as an option? If he truly wanted to scam me he would have brushed the idea off straight away and said no, just send it back. But he didn't?

Also my friend would be going with her boyfriend and he doesn't know it's a girl so those factors make his reply irrelevant.

I do also know his identity. If it went bad, I could likely charge him with fraud or take some other legal matter surely.

The problem with my friend is both her and this sellers communication suck. If they failed to meet on the day, then it would waste a lot of time.

9to5Mac picked up the story. That's awesome! http://9to5mac.com/node/16891

9to5Mac picked up the story. That's awesome! http://9to5mac.com/node/16891

My little 1gb shuffle works great as a key and as a place for music. I store my important documents, my software keys, a copy of my encryption/decryption software for my keys, and I still have room for music and audio books.

Well they eventually went on sale at midday in NZ (finally).

I ended up queuing up outside Vodafone in St Lukes Westfield Mall. I was the first in the line that began at around 11am with another guy (don't know the name sorry). Ended up being about 30-50 people by midday.

Got myself a nice 32GB on contract.

I use my iPhone way more than my iPad.

lol, good thing you sold it, but he paid high for a used shuffle. 99$ seems like a great price shipped but I hate the fact that the shuffle shuffles!

Originally posted by Geert
yesterday while browsing the forums I got kicked out.

Arn, am I a registered user?
'cause during MW forums were only for registered users and I could not get on.

I couldn't get on during MW either, I know I don't have the most posts around here, but I'm around a lot and I though a few hundred would make me a registered user?;)

Oh, well, probably just overload.

Are you running the cuda wrapper for Linux?

Not sure, I'm trying to do this (http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net-folding-home-team/436453-how-gpu2-folding-linux.html). I keep running into problems. I've gotten so far on another machine and can't get any farther :mad:

Ok, now that I have spent most of today trying in vain to get that machine to work with gpu2, googling " cuda wrapper" results in stuff I haven't seen so, I guess I will try again tomorrow in that direction :confused:

We are now back within about 40k of team Lithuania, keep those peddles turnin' (http://www.vuw.ac.nz/scps-demos/demos/Circuits_and_Electromagnetism/BicycleGenerator/BicycleGenerator.htm)

Oh, I got the core i7 started with bigadv it seems to be running at about 58 min/frame which would put it at 4.17 days.

When I built my music video collection for my car mac mini I just searched youtube for music videos with the best audio and downloaded them.

I've been trying to split them up, so there's not just a solid front page of "ween" or "kenny chesney" or "the dixie chicks" or whatever - trying to get kind-of a cross-section of music at a time. And the way I see it, you should suggest the best song or two off an album, and if you want the whole album suggested, do that in the comments section of the first track you recommend. That way it's like a lead-in for people who like similar music and want to know more about this particular band.

I've been trying to remember to go back, but sometime I forget... :) I'll try and make a sweep over them again before too long. :D

Well I'll be darned....

When Arn e-mailed me a couple months ago (and I was insanely busy and had very little time to post), I had no idea what was going on to prompt him to e-mail me to come back to MR.

I posted a few times on the Nov 5th rumor thread, and sadly found myself frustrated with the folks there. I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but compared to what I remember from over a year ago, the proportion of folks who were irritating (i.e., "trolls" to use our lingo) was way too high. I got frustrated and stopped posting...especially because I realized that all my posts were taking me way off topic replying to the trolls!

So then I just came here tonight, checking out what was new, etc...and I find this forum -- a hangout for those of us who were around long ago. Too cool!

Great idea, Arn. Now if we could just boost the membership in here back up. I'd enjoy that a lot. Truthfully, I find myself reading MacNN a lot, but the discussions are far less spirited there.

Let's rev this place up!

Originally posted by solvs
You know if there is a price change with-in a certain time period, you can be refunded the difference right? I though ti was 10 days, but I could be wrong.

Don't know if you're beyond the statute of limitations though.

You are right. Apple's policy is to refund the difference between what you paid and the new price if it's purchased within 10 days of the price change.

Alia

Another vote for FontExplorer X. I've been using it for years and it works like a charm. (I do follow Suitcase's recommended organization of fonts.)

How long do you think it will take to have to knowledge to actually write my own App. That would be App Store quality ?

Depends on what the App is supposed to do. ;)

There are plenty of apps in the store that could be written by someone with no knowledge in ~6 weeks on their own, but there are also many that are much larger.

You will get a better appreciation of this as you make it through the books you have on hand.

Skip "Become and Xcoder" it's too outdated to be useful .

From Apress Learn Objective-C on the Mac (http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Objective-C-Mac-Scott-Knaster/dp/1430218150/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304255800&sr=1-1) gets far better reviews than "Objective C for Absolute Beginners"

"Beginning iPhone 4 Development" also gets good reviews, but may require some previous knowledge, and "Mac Programming for Absolute Beginners" is so new it does not yet have any reviews on Amazon.

I would suggest Kochan's "Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (2nd Edition) (http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-2-0-Stephen-Kochan/dp/0321566157/)" as an alternative place to start. It is the "standard" book for learning Objective-C 2.0 and as such many folks are familiar with its content.

You need to do what keeps you engaged. If that means working on iOS apps on the hardware, do that, if you learn better by developing a fundamental base, you will generally spend a lot of time on console (text I/O) stuff that will help you develop the underlying knowledge you need.

B

Damn, what a sad way to go.

Anyone remember this one? I always wondered if anyone had one and what the gaming experience was like? I don't know if it ever made it into production... anyone actually own one here?

Hard to tell, but looks like a spec of dust under the screen to me.

Not possible because the MBA has no cover over the panel?

I have the same, but haven't had a chance to take mine in! 13" Ultimate with a stuck pixel. It was very saddening to find it - although actually it makes no difference to using it...

Guess I should update my 1.0 version.

Crucial (http://www.crucial.com/mac/index.aspx) is an excellent memory supplier. +HOF :)

Have you tried something as simple as using GIFs or PNG files? I don't like JPGs for the web for reasons like this. As said above though, you need to get rid of the images and pick up some CSS skills (even if it's just some basics, to fill the large colour areas) Dreamweaver will do all the hardwork for you, this will also have a positive impact on the performance of your site.