Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

That's pretty much true of iMacs as well.

ETA: Laptops break faster not because their parts are cheaper, but because they're subject to a lot more abuse in everyday use. How often does your desktop get banged?*





*Systems ready. Commence firing at will.

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

Fair point, but the iMacs get the stuff they overstocked for the $3,200 17" MBP, while the minis have typically been $800 MacBooks run through a different assembly line at FoxxConn. I bought a mini last Fall; maybe the just-released version has gone more upmarket.

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

"they're"

I assume you misplaced the asterisk.

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

Yes. The unhappy employees that built your mini are, um, no longer with the company.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Generally, Americans still purchase that by the ounce, or smaller. Not so much by the kilo.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I've bought weed by the gram and by the ounce. I'm flexible like that.

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

Did you change my quoted post to remove all evidence?? You might need to join a support group for people who mix up There, Their and They're. Bet you can find one on facebook.

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

Speaking of Apple and unhappy employees, I just did a facetime call with an Apple employee (they have a dedicated line for people who just want to try it out). This guy was in a good mood at 5:00 on a Friday. He's surely been sitting there all day having the same mind-numbing conversation and looking at the ugly mugs of the people too excited to wait until one of their friends gets an iphone. Gotta hand it to the guy. Plus, I wonder how many times people expose themselves to him.

All that said, facetime is intuitive, well-laid out, has good picture quality and is just plain fucking cool. And it's free.

Gimme some more Apple Kool Aid.

TM

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

Yes. Thank you for your support.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

As you are unaware, you are delusional. There is not a state in this great union where running three miles at a 9.5-10 minute paces in your twenties is considered "in top shape." I will not stand idly by while you talk about this country this way. Not on the eve of the most important soccer game we have played since the last one.

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

You can left and right click the new mouses, or use your old mouse, or stick your wee dick on the control key.

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

This is my IT group when they see a mac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y15NnGZIBuM

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

"Icky, stop"
"Stop, Icky"
"Stop, Icky"
"Will you stop Icky?"
"I'm afraid"
"I'm afraid, Icky"

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

When I bought an Apple 15 months ago I could not find a driver for our HP 4-in-1 and haven't been able to use it since. But that's a small cost -- I love the thing.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Look. your state/city clearly clearly is in top shape. They live for recreational "opportunities" in NY people are in top shape but most of us are desk paper pushers who see the inside of a gym and I don't see where 1/2 hour is not respectable a time. 45 mins is slow I admit but I was just pleased I didn't walk it. next year I'll do better you and 'trane run and actually train. it's not the same. at least I incentivized to not sit on the couch. damn.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I am not surprised you missed my point. I think it is great that you ran a 5K. I don't care if it took you an hour. Getting out and running a 5K is, for many, simply not possible. There are many for whom getting out and walking a 5K is impossible. I hope you decide you want to improve your time and figure out how to do it. But to delude yourself into thinking that 10 minute miles in a 3 mile race is top shape when top marathoners can more than double that speed for 26.2 is delusional. It has nothing to do with Minnesota. Look at 5K results from anywhere in this land (is my land), and maybe you will stop shitting on this great country of ours with your defecatory suggestion that half hour 5Ks is the best our beautiful United States can muster. We are faster than you think, and your inability to believe that is an insult to me and my nation.

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

That was 2:30 of my life I'll never get back again. Cocksucker.

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

I even found the driver for our old Dell branded printer/fax/scanner when I switched over (it is cross-listed as an HP if I recall correctly). Of course that thing is B&W which is basically useless for design purposes. So now I have a hi res scanner and separate color printer. I can print to all 3 from the MacBook Pro.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

not to be a timmy, but to use the top marathoners is just not fair.

cf Thurgreed and i actually are both decent basketball players, yet neither of us could do anything on a court full of NBA benchwarmers.

instead, consider, when I met the woman who became my wife, she smoked a pack a day. she started to "jog", and in her first race she shuffled along for 5K. she threw up (true story) as she crossed the finish line at 33 minutes. Later she got to be in "top shape" but there you go.

I'm not sure what a 15 minute mile running looks like, but I do agree with you that doing it is better than not doing it.

Ireland
 

I'm planning a trip to Ireland. Anyone have recommendations?

ETA: (Hi, Hank!)

Re: Ireland
 

Yes.

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

Yet it was better spent than 1/18th of a morning waddling down some streets thinking you are "racing," admiring the "fast" people you know, and secretly fingering yourself as you recall your romantic liaison with Thurgreed.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Please stop. It is simply untrue that someone in "top shape" in their 20s can't finish 3 miles in under half an hour. It is NOT FAST. That's a 10-minute mile. That's NOT FAST. It's not laughable, maybe, but it's NOT FAST. Unless black is white, and night is day, it's NOT FAST.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

translation: I lost either my job or my man.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

A little late to this particular party, but this call of Donovan's goal is pretty awesome.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I think Cantor was in tune with vuvuzelas.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

She did succeed in getting everyone to pay attention and respond to her again, so in that sense she is the big big winner.

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

Citrix runs on Mac and you don't have to have Windows loaded on your machine for all of the Windows apps on Citrix to work (this may go without saying to people more technically savvy than I, but I am saying it anyway), although of course you can't work on Windows offline, and I find that my Mac quits out of Citrix much more quickly than my PC ever did. .

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

Well at my firm, we are in the technological stage of figuring out that when the sticks are sharp, they kill the mammoths better.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Yeah but that so called corporate challenge is a shit show where you spend 10 minutes waiting to get moving. Admittedly though, 3 miles in 30 minutes is old folks territory. I'm near 50, a hundred pounds overweight and only run 2x a week and that's about what I do

3 miles in 20 minutes is not.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I've watched matches on Univision to listen to Cantor. I don't speak Spanish, but he is always so darn excited for both teams to score, it's great stuff.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

"let me give you some advice......no, I have no advice for you." Helen to Joy in Life During Wartime- Sequel to Happiness

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

A 10K in 45 minutes is a lot more impressive. That's pretty fast. You won't win the race, but it's a decent time.

(This has probably been rehashed ad nauseum by now, but I'm just catching up.)

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

so she's faster than we thought but also dumber?

Re: Should I deepen my relationship with the Cult of Jobs?
 

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

What is this "job" of which you speak?

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

yellow cards impact a player not the team, correct? why wouldn't we sub out the guy with the early yellow berfore he gets another?

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

And also because he contributed nothing except setting up Ghana's goal.

remember
 

defense wins championships.

Re: remember
 

If you get chances you have to finish. Ghana didn't take many shots but they made two of them count.