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  • valdore
    Jan 25, 06:45 PM
    Apple's stock (APPL in NYSE) has plummeted $68 in the last 30 days (from $198 to $130 or 35%) does anyone know what has caused this? Curious...

    -Hart


    The ticker is AAPL, and it's traded on Nasdaq, not NYSE.





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  • mattcube64
    Jan 30, 06:09 PM
    DUDE! Was that online or in store? I will go buy one today if they have them at my store. Been wanting a tv as well. Do you like it? Is 40" good for gaming and hooking a laptop up to?

    My local Walmart supercenter (1 of 3 here in Columbia, MO) was "spring cleaning" for lack of a better word, their TV selection. Almost all of last year's models were discounted by ~20% or so.

    However, I can't help but think this TV was a mis-mark, as it rang up at $478 and had to get a manager's approval (both times).

    Certainly worth looking, though.

    40" is a great size, imo. Because, it *can* be used just about anywhere in the home, for any particular use. Sure, I'd love bigger; but since I don't even know where I'll be living in six months (I'm about to graduate college), it just doesn't make sense to go bigger.

    For ~$300, it's damn nice, and much better than the Insignia and Dynex 32" TVs you typically buy at that price. It lacks a lot of inputs (has just one of each type), and it's only 60hz (even though that doesn't really bother me at all). But I really like it so far... sound is good, picture is great, blacks are deep and rich, and the backlight is nice and even.





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  • Surely
    Jan 28, 12:55 PM
    Drink lots and lots of water

    I already do.... it's my beverage of choice throughout the day.:)

    I'm only adding 5 g of creatine (1 teaspoon) to the drink.....





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  • mmmcheese
    Oct 23, 01:56 PM
    UNLESS BILL SENDS THE BOYS ROUND THIS ISN'T GOING TO CHANGE PIRATES.

    (Me included)

    Big impact on buisness applications though.

    Buy him out boys!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54LcZbig8fY



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  • MacRumors
    Dec 1, 01:56 PM
    http://www.macrumors.com/images/macrumorsthreadlogo.gif (http://www.macrumors.com)

    Last month's Month of Kernel Bugs (http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/) (MOKB) has concluded, and a total of 10 Mac OS X vulnerabilities has been found. The vulnerabilities were wide-ranging, from a wireless driver exploit (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/11/20061102085906.shtml) to a system call (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/11/20061111185646.shtml), multiple disk image vulnerabilities (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/11/20061121195941.shtml), and most recently an AppleTalk vulnerability (among others). Apple patched the first wireless driver exploit (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/11/20061128162852.shtml) along with other unrelated vulnerabilities this week, however all remaining MOKB vulnerabilities remain un-patched.

    Interview
    MOKB organizer "LMH" spoke to MacRumors about the project. According to LMH, most of the project's time was spent on Linux and the Mac OS, both of which were described as "not hard" to break.

    The Linux kernel takes little time to break. I'm more familiar with the code and thus it also takes less time to isolate issues. OS X kernel (XNU) takes less time but depending on the area you're checking, debugging and isolation may require a bit more time (if you take into account that AppleTalk source code is almost unreadable and totally deprecated) [...] I didn't have much time left for working on Microsoft Windows but I've received the most helpful feedback from the MSRC people on potentially interesting stuff to check. Not a huge reference of internal code nor NDA covered documents, but at least enough to start with.

    In LMH's point of view, the state of Mac OS X security is not great.

    From the technical perspective, OS X security is rather poor, at least when it comes to kernel-land code. This isn't a sign of negligence of Apple, but obviously when you take code from many different places and stick it together, it's prone to problems. Not just new ones but also old issues that 'went under the radar'. [...] (ed note: now comparing MS to Apple) I can say that Microsoft has a more thorough auditing process and investment when it comes to kernel code than Apple. They also have the advantage of having such code being produced within the company. Mac OS X kernel, for example, depends heavily on FreeBSD development. A security flaw in the FreeBSD kernel will likely affect OS X and probably other BSD "flavours"

    However, just because LMH is a bit critical of Mac OS X's security, don't call him an Apple-hater.

    Taking security arguments apart, I have to say that Mac OS X is a pretty well integrated system. It's tightly packaged [...] and nice looking. I'm an OS X user myself and I certainly feel like Apple has invested long time on tweaking the little details. Now they just have to invest a little more on security matters, but not hiring a 'turnover security firm' to do the consulting that leaves the job half done. That's what failed, IMHO.

    First Adware for Mac OS X?
    In related news, F-Secure claims to have received what is possibly the first ever proof-of-concept Adware program for Mac OS X (http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-112006.html#00001030). The program, dubbed iAdware, will launch Safari to specified web pages when the user used any number of applications, and installation of the adware did not require admin privileges.

    [ Digg This (http://digg.com/apple/Month_of_Kernel_Bugs_Unveils_10_Mac_OS_X_Vulnerabilities) ]





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  • ready2switch
    Oct 24, 08:19 AM
    I leave the house to drive to work and I miss all the excitement! Grats to all those who are getting new MBPs today! *jealous* :D

    Edit: I just got a chance to look at the upgrades and I'm very excited. For a similar spec in the 17", the C2D is $400 cheaper than its Yonah counterpart would have been. Makes me wish I didn't have to wait until the spring to buy!

    17" Spec:

    2GB RAM
    100GB @ 7200

    Yonah: $3099
    C2D: $2699

    :D



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  • Platform
    Oct 24, 09:06 AM
    Does anyone know if they are available from today in the retail stores?

    The new MacBook Pros are available from the online Apple Store. The new MacBook Pros will ship next week.

    That was in the story :confused:





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  • AlmostThere
    Jul 24, 03:22 PM
    Bah, these things are rubbish. The scroll wheel clogs up with dirt, just as scroll ball mice did in days gone by - except there is no user access to clean it thoroughly. Apple need to re-think the design on this one before updating it.



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  • Chupa Chupa
    Apr 11, 01:23 PM
    What time is the new FCP being shown? Will there be a live or after event stream? I was able to use the current version in a school class two years ago and I'm interested to see how it's going to change... Can't afford it today, but someday I'd like to replace iMovie with it.

    I have a feeling the next version of FCP will be more affordable, something a bit more expensive than FCE is. And then Apple will K.O. FCE.

    Haven't heard of any official live streams but maybe a rouge one will pop up on Justin.tv or ustream or wait for something official on Apple's site.





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  • Sounds Good
    Apr 21, 02:27 PM
    Likely the Sandy Bridge. Editing uses CPU power.
    Thanks.



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  • cosmokanga2
    Apr 13, 03:44 PM
    http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5227/5614995836_34cb024583_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefanctf/5614995836/)

    An airliner departs from Vancouver International Airport.





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  • Don Kosak
    Nov 10, 04:56 PM
    What's with all the developers that won't do Universal Apps?

    If you're supporting both platforms anyway, it's actually far less code, and less testing to just do a Universal App. (I know, I've done two of them so far.)



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  • johnnymg
    Apr 22, 04:17 PM
    If true, there are going to be HUGE lines for this.





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  • Queso
    Aug 2, 09:22 AM
    The design, print, packaging, promo, photographic and fashion industry is overwhelmingly Mac-based.
    Can I add film, television production and public relations/advertising to that list?



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  • LittleCanonKid
    Apr 9, 02:02 PM
    http://i697.photobucket.com/albums/vv334/lock222/IMG11238_cropped_resized.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/modestconfidence/)





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  • Legion93
    May 1, 10:32 PM
    Do we know where Chuck Norris was last week?

    He travelled back in time.



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  • Balin64
    Mar 31, 01:33 PM
    That wood look needs to go. iBooks in iOS is hideous. I am disappointed that it's making it in to OS X.





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  • twoodcc
    Oct 28, 05:30 PM
    Congrats whiterabbit on your first bigadv unit. Team outlook looks better, yet we are not out of the woods yet.

    i think we've come a long way. and if whiterabbit does bigadv units on this i7 also, then we'll really be looking good





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  • balamw
    Oct 23, 09:46 PM
    I guess that means you can't legally run XP on a Core Duo or Core2 Duo system...
    Even for XP Home multi-core processors are considered one processor. It's the number of chips that counts. All started when Intel started Hyperthreading P4 CPUs (i.e. presenting them as 2 CPUs).

    B





    lilo777
    Apr 23, 04:33 PM
    Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8H7 Safari/6533.18.5)



    Seriously? An apple rumors forum is no place fo a shareholder? That's absurd.

    "As you can see 260K people bought HTC Thunderbolt since Verizon started selling them (about a month). This translates to about 3 million phones annually. Clearly the demand is there. Also, you keep forgetting that other phones have swappable batteries."

    If you want to play numbers, the iPhone on Verizon (same carrier as thunderbolt) sold 2.2 million in two months, compared to a quarter million in one month for tbolt. Saying that equals 3million annually 1) makes it compete better with the iPhone over two months on a single carrier and 2) assumes that the numbers remain constant. Being that people are figuring out that the battery life is dreadful (and you forget that the majority of the market doesn't want to swap batteries like it's 1999) and that android phones have a short cycle of being the hottest new thing, I don't think there's a basis to assume consistent sales in line with their opening month. Numbers can say anything when there's no common sense behind it.

    I mentioned these numbers to prove totally different point namely that there are plenty of people who want LTE. Also, HTC probably has ten or so smartphone models. If all of them were as successful as Thunderbolt HTC would already be ahead of Apple :D





    redAPPLE
    Jul 25, 08:41 AM
    It's about time. But I've had a wireless mouse/keyboard set when I got my iMac G5 Rev. A back in the day, and I quickly got rid of it. I was sick and tired of changing the damn batteries every few weeks. I never mouse or type away from my desk, so I had no use for it, and I'd rather have the ugly wires than deal with the annoyance of buying/changing batteries often. Now, if they were rechargeable (in a dock, I don't want to have to take them out and put them in a seperate charger), I could see using them.

    apple could use firewire cables (like the iPods) to recharge wireless keyboards and mice.

    long live firewire.





    Rot'nApple
    Apr 23, 10:13 PM
    C'mon Apple, show T-Mobile some love'n...

    Maybe I'll buy my first ever iPhone!... But not in too much of a rush... Just purchased a MBA this past November, my first ever laptop... before that the 3G 64GB iPad 1 in June... and just got my iMac repaired to the tune of $200 bucks... so I can wait for either T-Mo to get their version of the iPhone or the merger with ATT to gain access, while I pay off my Apple debt and saving some dinero for some more Apple goodies! :apple::cool:





    NATO
    Apr 12, 09:43 AM
    TheRegister seems to reckon it's not due until 2012:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/12/iphone_delay/





    yg17
    Apr 29, 03:22 PM
    You like lossy compression? How 1990's of you.

    iTunes is lossy too :rolleyes:

    Edit: And glad to see someone downrated me for stating a fact. Real mature.