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Seems to work for me, Tony. In any case, Apple can't be expected to keep up with the various bugs and hacks in other company's sites and server software - if that's what it is. Safari certainly isn't puritanical about standards, unless a site tells it it's serving XHTML Strict or whatever.

For some reason it's working today (it was the business section that was playing up). Very odd.

NVIDIA.... how can a CUDA kernel work with an if-statement which every thread passes, yet fail when that (utterly redundant) test is removed?

Steve, because he just doesn't get it. Apple's bad QC is to blame for the long lines at the "genius bar" , not the consumer.

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/08/06/1733253/Apple-Working-On-Tech-To-Detect-Purchasers-Abuse

Baha:

Respectfully, I hang out with my kids at the local Apple Store pretty much whenever my wife gets an itch to go to the mall. There are some really dumb people that obviously do not understand that iPods dropped out of moving vehicles and into toilets are not going to be replaced for free. If they can create some sort of "black box" that will record the last few seconds of "functionality" before the demise of said object then more power to 'em... (And if they can recover the video and accelerometer data from flash and upload to the a "Darwin Awards" type site that might make for some really fun bench talk!)

Some people do abuse the fuck out their equipment. We see some remarkably banged up equipment come in here. Dents every, mangled ports, cracked screens, Liquid damage, run over by trucks.

I think much of it is people that want to cheat, lie, steal. Period.

I had the DVD drive in my MacBook Pro replaced under warranty back in November... one day before the warranty expired.

Now it's doing the same thing again. It won't read DVDs consistently. It took a couple of tries to get it to read the Leopard install DVD on Saturday night when I replaced the HD. Now I'm trying to install Windows via Boot Camp and I'm getting nowhere. I had an install DVD that I burned on another computer and it just wouldn't read it. So I burned another copy on this machine and it was able to read that from within OSX but when I started the Boot Camp assistant to begin installation, it rebooted the computer and then spit the DVD out after a minute or so of spinning up and down.

So now I'm not sure what to do. Can I install Windows to my Boot Camp partition from an external drive?

I've had success booting Leopard from a USB thumb drive for my Dell mini 9, you could try that route: http://dancameron.org/general/creating-os-x-leopard-install-usb-drive

I think I'm just going to buy a new SuperDrive for this thing and replace it again myself. This time I'm going to use the Matsushita model since, apparently, the LG model that's in my machine right now is a piece of shit and can be expected to fail within two years (or sooner since this is my second failed LG drive in 20 months).

I think manufacturers should be required to publish the numbers for failed components and consumers should be able to get repairs outside of warranty if the failure rate exceeds a certain limit.

In the eu consumer protection laws basically require manufacturers to give a two year warrantly although not all of them do. But even after two years, if the device you bought should be expected to live past that the maker has to repair or replace the defective goods. As a consumer you should be able to expect a device to work for a reasonable time, that's the rule.

My drive has been replaced once as well. And it's failing again. And it's the LG.

To Adobe for having the worst fucking installer in history.

Not as bad as the FileMaker installer where you practically download the whole program again just to get a small update.

I dunno, I'd put up with that as long as I knew I wasn't going to have trouble. Though I just installed CS4 and it seemed improved. My main problem is with the results of the installer. God, what bloatware. I skipped installing a gig's worth of Acrobat this time.

yeah, what happened, adobe, maaaan? you used to be cool.

ddt

At least with Filemaker's product, it's pretty easy for you to manage a network install or deployment. The way the Adobe installer works makes it very difficult to install over the network. They aren't even smart enough to use a DL DVD so you actually need to change DVDs in the middle of installation in order to complete. And why do you still need to shut down Safari AND Firefox in order to install ANYTHING from Adobe.

Yes Network install is a pita with Adobe. As for the Safari/FF shutdown it is because it wants to install Acrobat plugins for both.

I know why it wants me to shutdown Safari and Firefox, but those plug-ins can be installed safely while either are running. Of course we need to restart the browser to get updated versions to work, but that should be an option. It is especially frustrating when it requires you to close the browser even if the plug-in is already present...

oh don't get me started!

I even started a Flickr group for such ridicule (not that I've recruited or tried to grow it...)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/887244@N23/pool/

Not many posts -- I got too busy to do more, but, Adobe definitely makes an appearance. I even put a screenshot of the quitting browsers bs.