Bahoot? Kersplat!

I stopped getting insurance for phones when my wife lost her phone and the insurance wanted a police report. I'm not calling the damned police to waste their time because my wife left her phone somewhere. (Besides, we later found the phone.)

I recall hearing that at one point there were stickers in very very fine print at the bottom of the urinals and bowls at Moscone Center that read, "Please wash hands after retrieving cell phone from toilet!"

Can any of you old time attendees confirm?

Hm, I'm sure I was there during the years in question but... well, Alan, I don't usually look that closely into the urinals and toilet bowls to see if there is fine print. Maybe that's just me.

ddt

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Hm, I'm sure I was there during the years in question but... well, Alan, I don't usually look that closely into the urinals and toilet bowls to see if there is fine print. Maybe that's just me.

ddt

I never took you for that kind of guy either. But I've always wondered what kind of guy put them there. And I can't decide whether it's malicious humor or just funny as hell.

That sucks Cloudscout. At least it wasn't an airplane toilet. We all know what happens then… 

Baha?

http://readthefuckinghig.tumblr.com/

I like it...

It's great!

What a couple of mac days.

My iMac 27" 2.8ghz i7 (late 2009) was in the shop because of a cloudy display for over a week. Eventually a tech let slip that there were problems with a cable, as in, they botched it. Yesterday they asked if I would like a new one! Sure, I said, but then they said it would take ten days… Not acceptable.

Instead, I wound up getting a quad core 2.8 Xeon. The computer was essentially free, although the display is not. For some reason the display seems much nicer than the one on the iMac. Perhaps the brightness is up too high or something. :p

It's nice enough of them to give me a new Mac, although there are certainly some costs. Still, I never liked the slowness or disk churn of the iMac and I suspect the Mac Pro will be much better at this. Plus, having extra drives inside is just dandy. More expense (but welcome): getting a 240gb SSD drive from OWC for it, as well as Sonnet 4+1 port USB card. No more hubs. Yay. Oh, and a Blu Ray card. Yay. Upgrading to the video card when it comes into the store.

So I'm rejoining the tower world. My last one was a PowerPC G5.

All that is good news. I'm an extra $2k in the hole, but I have a pimped machine that I think will be much nicer and is a year newer.

Any must haves from the Mac Pro crowd?

Baha,

Are you working with the glossy displays? All of the Photoshop/InDesign folks I have been working with absolutely hate them. I have one client where the woman working on their catalog brings her own display.

I gave up that battle a while back. I know, I've felt that way before. Whatevers. Is easy enough to get used to it.

No sweat off my back. It means there is a spare 27" display I can use on my MacBook

whoa… slippin… 

Oops.

Steve just missed seeing one of his nemeses fall.

No more mobile Flash.

Big news, actually. I'm glad that Adobe finally faced the obvious.

I am very happy today...

You know, having not kept up with Flash, I would like to ask why was it such a hog in modern (post-Macromedia) incarnations? After all, it would run on 386 PCs, I think, and browsers alone probably have access to more processing power than that.

ddt

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You know, having not kept up with Flash, I would like to ask why was it such a hog in modern (post-Macromedia) incarnations? After all, it would run on 386 PCs, I think, and browsers alone probably have access to more processing power than that

Well, in my experience, Flash was always easily able to keep up, and comfortably crush whatever new processors Intel, AMD, IBM or Motorola were able to throw at it.

Heh. True. But why? How?

ddt

Flash didn't used to play video for a start.

For me, that was where the rot set in...