Hell Has Frozen Over!!!!
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Wandering Sagebrush
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Wow, I would never have thought this would happen. If you haven't tried one, get the Bluetooth Apple mouse, too. I just got one with my new MacBook, and they are fantastic!
Perhaps, just perhaps, it's because we are running out of rocks.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/geolog ... cks,17341/
http://www.theonion.com/articles/geolog ... cks,17341/
RJD Wannabe
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Welcome aboard, you will never turn back.
Are you kidding me?? You DO know that there is nothing minimalist about being a Mac-head? Well, you will be able to do without 27 layers of firewalls, all kinds of security and virus software, and weekly operating system "patches". 
I can see that Halcyon is going to need some solar panels to keep that cool machine charged up... 'cause they are SO easy and pleasant that you'll want to be on it all the time.
What's next - indoor plumbing and a big screen TV with a satellite dish? :wink
Welcome to the party!
Best wishes,
Jim
I can see that Halcyon is going to need some solar panels to keep that cool machine charged up... 'cause they are SO easy and pleasant that you'll want to be on it all the time.What's next - indoor plumbing and a big screen TV with a satellite dish? :wink
Welcome to the party!
Best wishes,
Jim
Captains Cat
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dotnmarty":1ou4qmai said:
Maybe there's no Mac in that box but just a box of rocks.... :roll:
El and Bill have not posted lately, maybe they can't get it to work. :shock:
Charlie
Pat Anderson
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Yeah, right, Charlie. :lol:
Their son Scott has been chirping at them for years to get a Mac, and of course I chimed in whenever I saw them waiting 20 minutes for their old Windoze laptop to boot. When that one died and they went out and got another Windoze laptop (a Dell) I gave up pretty much. I said "Geez, that guy is STUBBORN!"
Then they got the iPhone, and I am guessing that experience led to the Macbook Pro. Looks to me like they are leaving the Evil Empire in Redmond behind for good, and as all of us who have seen The Light know, once you leave, you never look back. The Dell got the inevitable "Blue Screen of Death" and the rest is about to become history.
I need to move from this 4 year old Macbook with OS X 10.4 (Tiger) to a new Macbook Pro with whatever the OS X version is now (10.6, Snow Leopard?). But damn, Apple is so proud of these machines, I need to save up, and this one STILL works 1000% better than a Windoze machine.
Their son Scott has been chirping at them for years to get a Mac, and of course I chimed in whenever I saw them waiting 20 minutes for their old Windoze laptop to boot. When that one died and they went out and got another Windoze laptop (a Dell) I gave up pretty much. I said "Geez, that guy is STUBBORN!"
Then they got the iPhone, and I am guessing that experience led to the Macbook Pro. Looks to me like they are leaving the Evil Empire in Redmond behind for good, and as all of us who have seen The Light know, once you leave, you never look back. The Dell got the inevitable "Blue Screen of Death" and the rest is about to become history.
I need to move from this 4 year old Macbook with OS X 10.4 (Tiger) to a new Macbook Pro with whatever the OS X version is now (10.6, Snow Leopard?). But damn, Apple is so proud of these machines, I need to save up, and this one STILL works 1000% better than a Windoze machine.
Captains Cat":1sezvnf7 said:
El and Bill
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On another thread on the Brat site this morning there are some great morphed photos of C-Dories in huge seas. Pat - you did a great job morphing the lead photo on this thread.
But the rumors of Mac-dom and shortage of rocks is setting off panic on Wall Street - see what you started Pat? Look at the selloff in the markets? Here's this mornings news:
As wildfires continue sweeping the financial markets, analysts and legislators agree on the need to sift through the ashes of earlier Mac morphs to learn what went wrong with the regulators (TyBoo - DaNag - where are you?) and how to prevent future disasters.
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Computer Affairs had scheduled a hearing yesterday to discuss the recent failures and the role regulators played in them. The hearing was postponed because of new developments in the financial crisis (such as oil spills, EuroZone Bank Collapse), but senators are expected to return to this serious topic of morphing Mac photos.
Now, as to the shortage of rocks - this article was 'leaked' from the secret files of the USGeological Survey and is causing additional panic on Wall Street.
It has been revealed, on the latest TV news, that federal geologists have secretly collateralized rock obligations (CROs). These inane financial instruments are a type of structured granite-backed security (GBS) whose value and payments are derived from a portfolio of fixed-income underlying basalts.
CRO securities are split into different risk classes, or trenches, whereby "senior" trenches (those that are Precambrian) are considered the safest securities. Interest and principal payments are made in order of seniority, so that junior trenches (post-dinosaur [post Cretaceous]) offer higher coupon payments (and interest rates) or lower prices to compensate for additional de-fault (San Andreas) risk (measured in Richter Units (RU).
Now, we're sure that's as clear as the evening financial news. Bottom line:
!!!!! SELL ALL ROCKS !!!!!
(El says that because she has already sold short on all her collaterized collections).
Thanks, Pat.
But the rumors of Mac-dom and shortage of rocks is setting off panic on Wall Street - see what you started Pat? Look at the selloff in the markets? Here's this mornings news:
As wildfires continue sweeping the financial markets, analysts and legislators agree on the need to sift through the ashes of earlier Mac morphs to learn what went wrong with the regulators (TyBoo - DaNag - where are you?) and how to prevent future disasters.
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Computer Affairs had scheduled a hearing yesterday to discuss the recent failures and the role regulators played in them. The hearing was postponed because of new developments in the financial crisis (such as oil spills, EuroZone Bank Collapse), but senators are expected to return to this serious topic of morphing Mac photos.
Now, as to the shortage of rocks - this article was 'leaked' from the secret files of the USGeological Survey and is causing additional panic on Wall Street.
It has been revealed, on the latest TV news, that federal geologists have secretly collateralized rock obligations (CROs). These inane financial instruments are a type of structured granite-backed security (GBS) whose value and payments are derived from a portfolio of fixed-income underlying basalts.
CRO securities are split into different risk classes, or trenches, whereby "senior" trenches (those that are Precambrian) are considered the safest securities. Interest and principal payments are made in order of seniority, so that junior trenches (post-dinosaur [post Cretaceous]) offer higher coupon payments (and interest rates) or lower prices to compensate for additional de-fault (San Andreas) risk (measured in Richter Units (RU).
Now, we're sure that's as clear as the evening financial news. Bottom line:
!!!!! SELL ALL ROCKS !!!!!
(El says that because she has already sold short on all her collaterized collections).
Thanks, Pat.
Captains Cat
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El and Bill
Congratulations:
Couple of win to mac conversion tips:
If you can't figure out how to do it - you are looking too hard.
Perhaps we should confuse them with our List of Favorite Applications:
Neo-office is free - openoffice conversion - does most office type files.
Evernote - great application on the IPhone and Mac / Win - and Cloud - paid version $45 year keeps all the notes on the IPhone and does OCR on photos [converting pictures to text] etc.
SplashID - encrypted wallet for all those numbers and passwords on Iphone and Mac and win
Have fun
Jim
Congratulations:
Couple of win to mac conversion tips:
If you can't figure out how to do it - you are looking too hard.
Perhaps we should confuse them with our List of Favorite Applications:
Neo-office is free - openoffice conversion - does most office type files.
Evernote - great application on the IPhone and Mac / Win - and Cloud - paid version $45 year keeps all the notes on the IPhone and does OCR on photos [converting pictures to text] etc.
SplashID - encrypted wallet for all those numbers and passwords on Iphone and Mac and win
Have fun
Jim
Here is a great place for those switching from Windoze to Mac.
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/
No question too simple. All question have been or will be answered.
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/
No question too simple. All question have been or will be answered.
El and Bill
New member
No question too simple - Hmmm - What about the posted question, "What made me (or should I say Pat?) do it?"
Whew - look at the market today - when El saw it was down 1,000 she 'closed' all her 'short' rocks - now, for those interested in the rock mart, she's long on all those pets and pebbles. She got a great discount on Charlie's Pet - she likes the yellow color and the eyes you guys painted on, Charley. For only twice what you got when you sold, she'll sell it back to you. And that's a better deal than you'll get from 'Gold-man Sacks'
Whew - look at the market today - when El saw it was down 1,000 she 'closed' all her 'short' rocks - now, for those interested in the rock mart, she's long on all those pets and pebbles. She got a great discount on Charlie's Pet - she likes the yellow color and the eyes you guys painted on, Charley. For only twice what you got when you sold, she'll sell it back to you. And that's a better deal than you'll get from 'Gold-man Sacks'
Pat Anderson
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Exactly.
The list of free apps included in OS X is pretty extensive and pretty good.
And for the list of downloadable free (or inexpensive) apps:
NeoOffice at the top of course.
Gimp would be at the top too (photo editing, and no, I did not use it or anything else to morph the lead photo!).
Mediafork to convert movies to mp4s. You can get an amazing number of mp4s on a 250 gb external hard drive. Also MacTheRipper, DVDImager, and DVD2One (last one inexpensive but not free). But then we like movies, no comment on legal aspects of this.
Himmelbar app launcher is really convenient.
I would think Bill would want KompoZer for maintaining Halcyon Days - a sort of free DreamWeaver clone.
ecto is awesome for blogging, write off-line and hit the "Publish" button.
iStumbler is a great WiFi sniffer. Before tethering the BlackBerry, I used it at many anchorages to find an open access point, was going to get a directional Wifi antenna but no longer necessary.
OpenXML Converter for those impolite people who send out .docx files that 90% of the rest of the world can't open.
Cyberduck off course if you use FTP at all.
A few more $$$ but probably Parallels and a fresh copy of W7 (there, I have said it - hey, I own Coastal Explorer, what can I say?). Bill - with Parallels you can, if you are a real masochist, run pretty much any and all of the Windoze programs you cherish.
The list goes on and on...
The list of free apps included in OS X is pretty extensive and pretty good.
And for the list of downloadable free (or inexpensive) apps:
NeoOffice at the top of course.
Gimp would be at the top too (photo editing, and no, I did not use it or anything else to morph the lead photo!).
Mediafork to convert movies to mp4s. You can get an amazing number of mp4s on a 250 gb external hard drive. Also MacTheRipper, DVDImager, and DVD2One (last one inexpensive but not free). But then we like movies, no comment on legal aspects of this.
Himmelbar app launcher is really convenient.
I would think Bill would want KompoZer for maintaining Halcyon Days - a sort of free DreamWeaver clone.
ecto is awesome for blogging, write off-line and hit the "Publish" button.
iStumbler is a great WiFi sniffer. Before tethering the BlackBerry, I used it at many anchorages to find an open access point, was going to get a directional Wifi antenna but no longer necessary.
OpenXML Converter for those impolite people who send out .docx files that 90% of the rest of the world can't open.
Cyberduck off course if you use FTP at all.
A few more $$$ but probably Parallels and a fresh copy of W7 (there, I have said it - hey, I own Coastal Explorer, what can I say?). Bill - with Parallels you can, if you are a real masochist, run pretty much any and all of the Windoze programs you cherish.
The list goes on and on...
jstates":2uiv55zi said:
Pat Anderson
New member
And I forgot the ones that you would want on any platform:
Firefox
Thunderbird
Skype
Firefox
Thunderbird
Skype
Captains Cat
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El and Bill":1ws89i37 said:
She can't have my pet Bill, he's like the son I never had.... :roll:
Charlie