Cox Orange
Feb 9, 02:04 PM
Hello,
on an art-television-channel I saw an article about a Finnish Science Fiction movie comedy.
the plot: 1945, the nazis send a rocket to the moon. On the dark side of the moon they built a colony and come back 2018 to capture the world.
Sounds like a b-movie/trash-movie, but I think it could be fun (and I like hilarious trash movies some time).
unfortunately the teaser does not rise a lot interest (my opinion), but there is a good critique article, unfortunately it is in german. Maybe you can find an article in finnish or english via google somewhere.
http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/kulturzeit/tips/151764/index.html
teaser: http://www.ironsky.net/
better teaser (English with german subtitle): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRZu-_0EHGI
It has an interesting financial aspect. One can lend his/her money and if the movie makes profit, you get your money back with a plus. (Very unsecure, but one fan said, he had a better feeling losing all his money on a film, instead of investing in a firm, that will close in the cause of the financial crisis. An idealistic approach for people loving strange things of movie art ;)
They have earned a third of the actual production costs it says in the article, till now. Movie will start in europe in 2012.
on an art-television-channel I saw an article about a Finnish Science Fiction movie comedy.
the plot: 1945, the nazis send a rocket to the moon. On the dark side of the moon they built a colony and come back 2018 to capture the world.
Sounds like a b-movie/trash-movie, but I think it could be fun (and I like hilarious trash movies some time).
unfortunately the teaser does not rise a lot interest (my opinion), but there is a good critique article, unfortunately it is in german. Maybe you can find an article in finnish or english via google somewhere.
http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/kulturzeit/tips/151764/index.html
teaser: http://www.ironsky.net/
better teaser (English with german subtitle): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRZu-_0EHGI
It has an interesting financial aspect. One can lend his/her money and if the movie makes profit, you get your money back with a plus. (Very unsecure, but one fan said, he had a better feeling losing all his money on a film, instead of investing in a firm, that will close in the cause of the financial crisis. An idealistic approach for people loving strange things of movie art ;)
They have earned a third of the actual production costs it says in the article, till now. Movie will start in europe in 2012.
AdeFowler
Apr 20, 04:14 PM
The Mac sales make me very happy ;)
mopppish
Dec 24, 03:27 PM
Question(s)-
My brand new 12" ibook G4 seems to make a lot of hard drive noise, even when I'm not doing anything. The noises sound pretty healthy- it's basically a constant, very soft whir (just the spinning, I'm sure) and an occasional clicking (not a "crap, I'm broken" clicking, but more like a "alright, let's kick these heads into place" clicking) every minute or so (sometimes longer).
I'm not trying to be goofy with my descriptions here, but after all I've read in these forums about clicking being bad, I wanted to mention that none of the noises mine are making sound deadly. Rather, I was thinking that maybe this is Spotlight's regularly scheduled indexing? If that's maybe what this is, does anyone know of a way to regulate Spotlight's indexing (make it less frequent or turn it off altogether unless you ask it to) in order to lessen hard drive access and in turn perhaps save battery life?
Any opinions that point to a faulty hard drive are also welcome, but I've had the ibook for a week now and have experienced no problems outside of both the hard drive and optical drive being noisier than I would have liked (seems like a common issue with these ibooks). The hard drive noises remind me of when my imac's hard drive kicks in from or settles down to a rest.
Thanks!
My brand new 12" ibook G4 seems to make a lot of hard drive noise, even when I'm not doing anything. The noises sound pretty healthy- it's basically a constant, very soft whir (just the spinning, I'm sure) and an occasional clicking (not a "crap, I'm broken" clicking, but more like a "alright, let's kick these heads into place" clicking) every minute or so (sometimes longer).
I'm not trying to be goofy with my descriptions here, but after all I've read in these forums about clicking being bad, I wanted to mention that none of the noises mine are making sound deadly. Rather, I was thinking that maybe this is Spotlight's regularly scheduled indexing? If that's maybe what this is, does anyone know of a way to regulate Spotlight's indexing (make it less frequent or turn it off altogether unless you ask it to) in order to lessen hard drive access and in turn perhaps save battery life?
Any opinions that point to a faulty hard drive are also welcome, but I've had the ibook for a week now and have experienced no problems outside of both the hard drive and optical drive being noisier than I would have liked (seems like a common issue with these ibooks). The hard drive noises remind me of when my imac's hard drive kicks in from or settles down to a rest.
Thanks!
jband
May 5, 08:21 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)
It's a mid 2010 MBP. I'm not sure what factors might be at play so I'll just list what I was doing before I tried turning it off. I turned the notebook on about 3 hours ago, the Internet works intermittently since my router is dying but while it was working I tried visiting macrumors. Halfway through loading the page the I lost Internet so I tried plugging it in directly to the modem and I realized the bar that contains the airport and battery was non responsive so I shut it down.
Right now, as it has been doing for the past hour, it is stuck at the blue shutdown screen. The little rotating loading thing is still rotating. Should I just wait for the battery to run out or what? Any help would be appreciated!
It's a mid 2010 MBP. I'm not sure what factors might be at play so I'll just list what I was doing before I tried turning it off. I turned the notebook on about 3 hours ago, the Internet works intermittently since my router is dying but while it was working I tried visiting macrumors. Halfway through loading the page the I lost Internet so I tried plugging it in directly to the modem and I realized the bar that contains the airport and battery was non responsive so I shut it down.
Right now, as it has been doing for the past hour, it is stuck at the blue shutdown screen. The little rotating loading thing is still rotating. Should I just wait for the battery to run out or what? Any help would be appreciated!
SkippyThorson
Mar 11, 12:49 PM
One of my many goals (that I'll probably never get the chance to finish) is to make an all-in-one console mod. All-in-one computers have gotten big, but the fact that gaming consoles have remained headless is interesting to me.
I've always thrown around the idea of an Xbox or the tray loading PS2 in a G4, but those probably aren't realistic. Jberg44 (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?u=368100) (Dremel Junkie (http://dremmeljunkie.blogspot.com/)) put the idea out there to use a GameCube.
My first reaction was to stick that in an Apple Cube to make an AppleGameCube. :cool:
Someone here once threw out the idea of an Xbox in an iMac G3. There's certainly a lot of space to work with.
Both machines mentioned are pretty cool, too!
I've always thrown around the idea of an Xbox or the tray loading PS2 in a G4, but those probably aren't realistic. Jberg44 (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?u=368100) (Dremel Junkie (http://dremmeljunkie.blogspot.com/)) put the idea out there to use a GameCube.
My first reaction was to stick that in an Apple Cube to make an AppleGameCube. :cool:
Someone here once threw out the idea of an Xbox in an iMac G3. There's certainly a lot of space to work with.
Both machines mentioned are pretty cool, too!
scotty96LSC
Nov 2, 05:57 AM
http://idisk.mac.com/txwhitehouse//Public/nov10.png
Link (http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/492861/)
Link (http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/492861/)
Sydde
Apr 6, 02:20 PM
Try %escape-coding your string (there is a method in NSString for doing this).
Golem
May 24, 08:30 PM
I played with this idea a year or two ago when an application came out that allowed you to add a peice of text as a contact. Plain text was easy just split it up and feed it in. But unfortunately in my original Ipod if you have any more than a page or two of text in a contact it scrolls really slowly... Slower than I can read. I then looked in to the documentation of formating text on a ipod with perhaps writing a converter from rtf as I had dozen or so ebooks in the format, Uggh!. In the end I decided haveing a ebook as 200 contacts and with a lot of work to get it formated on a tiny screen was way to hard and Took a laptop on holiday instead:)
Still have a couple of ebooks on my ipod and I still havent read 1 of them.
Still have a couple of ebooks on my ipod and I still havent read 1 of them.
mrfoof82
May 6, 12:35 PM
iFixit indicates that the process for the 2011 is far less involved/obnoxious than previous models: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac-Intel-21-5-Inch-EMC-2428-Teardown/5485/1
aristo1000
Apr 19, 09:32 AM
@Kfred - I am not originally from the US, so my family is not there. Got a bunch of friends, but I'd rather pay than ask for a long term favor. True, iPad is just one device, but I can connect it to the TV. I tried SlingBox (I have both the Slingbox and the slingplayer device) and the quality is quite mediocre. I think the iPad solution may be the best.
Would love to run a test with someone.
Would love to run a test with someone.
dubbz
Sep 25, 03:45 PM
Well, if you don't want an Apple Display, but still want a pretty nice looking LCD, some people seem to be a bit ga-ga over the Dells. :)
ga-ga
*hugs screen*
ga-ga
*hugs screen*
Rytif
Mar 15, 11:55 AM
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6849/imageeffectsabovedroppe.png (http://img130.imageshack.us/i/imageeffectsabovedroppe.png/)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/04/Web_browser_usage_share.svg/630px-Web_browser_usage_share.svg.png
I think Linux might have a higher install base than Mac....
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/04/Web_browser_usage_share.svg/630px-Web_browser_usage_share.svg.png
I think Linux might have a higher install base than Mac....
AnewMac
Feb 10, 09:16 PM
The screen wheel protection has to count for something doesn't it. I kind of think they are kinda cool, someone please agree!!!
Fine Im outta here. :o
Fine Im outta here. :o
jtara
Apr 12, 02:22 PM
So, does anybody KNOW how they are doing this?
ftaok
Apr 22, 08:47 PM
Apple doesn't give a damn about the shareholders any more than they do about the customers, sorry.
What makes you say this? I'm curious about your take on Apple's motives.
Personally, I think that Apple goes above and beyond to please the shareholder. They may do it in a different way than other Fortune 500 companies (i.e. vertical integration, small portfolio of products, compete in focused markets), but you can't argue the results. Apple has been rewarding the shareholders for close to a decade now, with very few hiccups.
What makes you say this? I'm curious about your take on Apple's motives.
Personally, I think that Apple goes above and beyond to please the shareholder. They may do it in a different way than other Fortune 500 companies (i.e. vertical integration, small portfolio of products, compete in focused markets), but you can't argue the results. Apple has been rewarding the shareholders for close to a decade now, with very few hiccups.
nanofrog
Apr 24, 09:18 PM
I see you are back in full force. I have been avoiding the whole 6G thing since the performance of most multichannel cards with standard drives is fine. If you are running an array based on SSD drives then I can see the value at this time, but no mechanical drive is going to max out 3G (SATA II) at this time. BTW Nano, running an xserve now, made life so much easier. Have two Sans Digital SAS Chassis, 316X2, dual SAS connectors for 2400MB/S performance, and it has made dealing with raid simple. No more time out errors, no more hard drives dropping out, nothing. Not sure if plunking down $2500 per chassis is worth it but for me with no headaches it was.
Peace,
Noushy
The 6Gb/s cards are still faster than their previous 3Gb/s counterparts with the same disks (i.e. 1680 series vs. 1880 series running the same firmware revision, v1.49). Moving to 6.0Gb/s has both marketing as well as performance implications though (particularly in the enterprise market as SLC based SSD's fall in price and hopefully become more prevalent). I would expect mechanicals that run 6.0Gb/s controllers will run faster as well, even though they can't saturate the interface (native = no shifting backwards for compatibility). For a new storage solution, it would be best to go ahead and get the 6.0Gb/s compliant gear (allows for future growth by only dealing with drives and enclosures, assuming the port count isn't under-planned).
So if the existing equipment will be sufficient through it's planned lifespan, there's no need to rush out and buy 6Gb/s gear.
As per the equipment you used, the ease of use is why it costs so much (the software was already loaded, configured <save user settings>, and tested with the hardware) . I'd recommend keeping it until it no longer meets your needs (gets the job done and doesn't waste funds = keeps boss happy and your job secure :D). ;)
Peace,
Noushy
The 6Gb/s cards are still faster than their previous 3Gb/s counterparts with the same disks (i.e. 1680 series vs. 1880 series running the same firmware revision, v1.49). Moving to 6.0Gb/s has both marketing as well as performance implications though (particularly in the enterprise market as SLC based SSD's fall in price and hopefully become more prevalent). I would expect mechanicals that run 6.0Gb/s controllers will run faster as well, even though they can't saturate the interface (native = no shifting backwards for compatibility). For a new storage solution, it would be best to go ahead and get the 6.0Gb/s compliant gear (allows for future growth by only dealing with drives and enclosures, assuming the port count isn't under-planned).
So if the existing equipment will be sufficient through it's planned lifespan, there's no need to rush out and buy 6Gb/s gear.
As per the equipment you used, the ease of use is why it costs so much (the software was already loaded, configured <save user settings>, and tested with the hardware) . I'd recommend keeping it until it no longer meets your needs (gets the job done and doesn't waste funds = keeps boss happy and your job secure :D). ;)
bella92108
Apr 6, 11:08 PM
True, but the response from p0sixninja is legit. I don't think it'll be out anytime soon though.
It's always funny to see stuff like this. The same person says:
"I think it will be out soon"
"I don't think it will be out soon"
"There's no way to know when it'll be out"
So how do you say you think it will, won't, and don't know? I'd recommend that if you don't have an affirmative or a negative answer, don't speculate. It's very confusing for those new to jailbreaking to see people who have zero ties to the developers whatsoever chiming in saying they think there will be a short term or distant term release. If you don't have FIRST HAND knowledge, don't speculate without providing evidence of how you came to make such statement.
Signed,
The Anti-Crap-Rumor Police
It's always funny to see stuff like this. The same person says:
"I think it will be out soon"
"I don't think it will be out soon"
"There's no way to know when it'll be out"
So how do you say you think it will, won't, and don't know? I'd recommend that if you don't have an affirmative or a negative answer, don't speculate. It's very confusing for those new to jailbreaking to see people who have zero ties to the developers whatsoever chiming in saying they think there will be a short term or distant term release. If you don't have FIRST HAND knowledge, don't speculate without providing evidence of how you came to make such statement.
Signed,
The Anti-Crap-Rumor Police
Corrosive vinyl
Mar 30, 11:36 AM
but.. captain planet, he's a hero! gonna take pollution down to zero! :D
kuwisdelu
May 6, 10:44 PM
Above are two good options. My question is why you want to do it. Depending on that, it may be unnecessary or there may be a better way of doing what you want.
kuwisdelu
Apr 23, 12:06 AM
It's the select all that people forget.
yg17
Aug 7, 06:04 PM
Wasn't there a rumor going around a couple months back about M$ making VPC free? That would make sense now if they're going to discontinue it, and let us PPC users have it for free. Who wants to pay for a product that won't receive any updates?
spinedoc77
Apr 20, 10:34 AM
Thank you guys, I'm running to best buy on lunch and grabbing one. I have another question, I have my airport extreme set to only allow the specific MAC addresses of the devices I'm using. Would I be able to continue to use this feature with a switch?
Xander562
Oct 20, 08:16 PM
WOW!!!!!!!!1111111oneoneoneone
that's incredible! the best paper-add i've seen so far.
that's incredible! the best paper-add i've seen so far.
iBlue
Dec 19, 11:55 AM
Girls want guys with skills. :cool:
It's pretty much my best post ever.
:D indeed!
an animated go**se avatar, not before breakfast please. :p
<barfs>
It's pretty much my best post ever.
:D indeed!
an animated go**se avatar, not before breakfast please. :p
<barfs>