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Re: Apple's relationship with the press, customers, and dealers - 4 years ago

I saw both those commercials over the weekend while watching football. I found them both pretty amusing.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago

Regarding Joe the Plumber, I wonder what percentage of two-person plumbing shops clear $250k for the owner. Probably a tiny fraction.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago

If we're safe, the terrorists will have won.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago

The weirdest moment of the second debate was when McCain said: "Now, how -- what's -- what's the best way of fixing it? Nuclear power. Sen. Obama says that it has to be safe or disposable or something like that." He said it with such distain that I burst out laughing. Obama wants nuclear power to be safe? What a wanker! And stan, you watched that four times? You need to get out more!

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago

At this point, if I had to choose between a third Bush/Cheney term or a McCain/Palin term, I'd take Bush/Cheney, no question.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago

The 2004 election was very different from this one. Courtesy the Princeton Election Consortium, here's the polling data from 2004, expressed in expected electoral votes for Kerry: Here's the same for this year for Obama: Kerry was behind from late August onward; Obama has basically been ahead the whole time.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Travel Channel: Where are you going today? - 4 years ago

We'd like to do some ziplining/kayaking. (My wife won't do open ocean kayaking, but I don't think that will be a problem.) Is that something we should book in advance?

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Travel Channel: Where are you going today? - 4 years ago

We're already booked, thanks. I take it you had a good time?

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago

What Bill said.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago

stan, you realize that McCain has given up on Michigan, right? I think it's gonna get very ugly for McCain before this thing is over. As for the debate, Bible Spice about met my expectations. She came across as extremely scripted, but not completely witless. But she also came across as snide and condescending, and she way, way, way overplayed the "Ah shucks" stuff. She's no Reagan, not by a long

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago

I expect Bible Spice (h/t to John Cole for that) to exceed expectations in her debate, and for McCain to get a small bump in the polls as a result. She can't possibly do as poorly as she did with Couric, can she? I don't expect her to fall on her sword, either. If she had that much self-awareness, she never would have accepted the nomination in the first place.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: What sells computers most? - 4 years ago

Anyone here played spore? What's the verdict?

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Travel Channel: Where are you going today? - 4 years ago

Mad, where did you stay? (I realize you're not back yet!) I'll be in Kauai (first visit) in December.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago

This has to be one of the worst answers I've ever seen given by a politician. Can anyone explain what she's saying to me? It seems like Palin is stringing together a bunch of different talking points on different subjects. My favorite part is when she looks down at her notes and then says "Oh, it's got to be all about job creation too!" But I'm still not sure what the bailout plan has to do with

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago

Obama himself did; you can watch it here.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: That Darn Microsoft! - 4 years ago

Oh, man, this Microsoft print ad is just begging for a mac-pc parody from Apple. I can just see John Hodgman breaking down walls with a reciprocating saw in hand.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Granberry's Parlor - 4 years ago

BTW, McCain's statement (which he has made several times) that Alaska produces 20% of the US's energy supply is wrong. As far as I can tell, Alaska produces about 3% (mostly in the form of oil) of the energy that the US consumes. I think that what he is trying to say (or maybe, to be less charitable, lying about) is that about 20% of the oil produced in the US comes from Alaska. That's about 8% o

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Digital Lifestyle - 4 years ago

I'd reset it once, and that didn't help, so I did it again, still no love. Roger, are you talking about clicking the "Restore" button in iTunes?

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Digital Lifestyle - 4 years ago

Does anyone else find that podcast syncing is broken in the more recent iTunes? No matter what setting I use (all unplayed, all new, most recent new, least recent new), iTunes syncs all podcasts to my iPod (30 GB classic iPod). Anyone else see anything like this?

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: MacOS X a dog or just in need of a good bitch slap? - 4 years ago

Did some googling. Turns out it's a networking thing. I was able to make it go away by removing/readding and/or inactivating/reactivating airport and bluetooth networking in the network control panel.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Digital Lifestyle - 4 years ago

Tritto. The iPod Touch is an interesting device, but it's $100 to expensive.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: MacOS X a dog or just in need of a good bitch slap? - 4 years ago

Not to my knowledge. SystemUIServer sounds like a system process, and it's got a pretty low process number.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: MacOS X a dog or just in need of a good bitch slap? - 4 years ago

So I had cause to open up console.app and under "All Messages" I see the following being written every 5 seconds: 9/9/08 10:36:32 AM SystemUIServer[143] Error: ACInterfaceGetPower() called with invalid interface Any clues?

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Sporkers Helping Sporkers - 4 years ago

Nope, in fact the first thing I did was install Leopard, (erase and install). I first noticed the problem when running system update and it claimed it wasn't connected to the internet. I've since installed Office 2008, that's the only thing other than Leopard on the machine. I had it sitting on my desk, idling. Then I put it to sleep. When I woke it, ethernet was dead again. Maybe if I can find

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Sporkers Helping Sporkers - 4 years ago

It dropped off ethernet again after sitting for a while. I could see en1 (which is the ethernet port, airport is en0) via ifconfig. The network control panel claimed the cable was not connected. Playing with the settings in the advanced pane didn't seem to do anything, nor did turning off IPv6. Rebooting fixed it, for now anyway. Other suggestions?

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Sporkers Helping Sporkers - 4 years ago

Any suggestions on troubleshooting the ethernet port on a MacBook Pro? I recently inherited said machine, and it occasionally has trouble connecting. Once ethernet didn't even show up under "About this Mac." Another time it just thought the cable wasn't connected (despite using multiple cables and multiple network jacks). It's still under AppleCare, so that's not an issue, but I'd like to better

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Presidential Politics - 4 years ago

Palin's got a lot of political problems: She's a former member of the fringe Alaska Independence Party. She was one of the founding directors of a 527 group for Ted Stevens. She hired Stevens' former chief-of-staff to work as a lobbyist while she was mayor of Wasilla. He's the one who brought in $27 million in pork to her little town while she was mayor. Contrary to what she said when she was

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: Funny, Interesting and Useless links - 4 years ago

Oh, that's lighthouse candy! Had to look at the label to figure that out.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: PHP and Unixy stuff... - 4 years ago

I have a colleague who runs a server that I can use as a testbed, and he runs sqlserver. Myself, I don't care.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central

Re: PHP and Unixy stuff... - 4 years ago

I think I'll be using Filemaker to access the database from my end once I have everything set up. But the university server that this will be running on only supports asp.net and classic asp, and sqlserver, mysql, and oracle as databases. So my choices are a bit limited.

by Dr. Strangelove - Spork Central