“Apple’s iSight has quietly been missing from action these last few weeks as dealer stock has dried up with no further units are expected until September. Reliable sources indicate that ‘iSight 2’ is in production, but internal documents provided to Think Secret indicate that the camera’s feature set remains unchanged,” Ryan Katz reports for ThinkSecret.com.
According to ThinkSecret, the new iSight model simply contains updated mounting hardware to attach magnetically to Apple’s new displays and there are some reports of customers already receiving the new iSight models.
Full article here.
Aluminum is magnetic, its not ferro-magnetic, but it is para-magnetic, look it up.
hehe, magnets.
I heard of a funny case years ago (friend of a friend story this) – these guys kept sending out floppy discs with software on them, and this one guy kept complaining they weren’t working… so they sent more, and more… until finally they figured he was pinning them onto his computer case with a magnet!!
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=aluminum
hondo, what was the point of ending your response to jadis by calling him/her a jack ass? Was that really necessary?
MDN wrote: According to ThinkSecret, the new iSight model simply contains updated mounting hardware to attach magnetically to Apple’s new displays
According to that Magnetic Personality box on Apple’s Cinema Displays page:
To attach your iSight to the new displays, Apple now offers a magnetic mounting solution. This stand is available in new iSight boxes this summer
Wow, ThinkSecret really deserves credit such such a clever observation.
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My mac’s spellchecker says ALUMINIUM is wrong and ALUMINUM is right, so
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No. The Mac’s US English says Aluminium is wrong. The UK English one says Aluminum is wrong.
I think It’s pretty much just the US (& Canada) that use Aluminum. Both are right, it’s just that Aluminium is MORE right
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http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
Doesn’t really bother me either way.
http://homepage.mac.com/hywel.thomas/images/aluminium.tiff
Just like theatre instead of theater.
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So, do you pronounce it “al-u-min-e-um” over there, or “a-lum-in-um”? The same goes for “la-bor-a-tree” instead of “lab-ra-tory”? Heh, heh.
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The one that bothers me the most that people use is “alot”. “A lot” is two words, folks, not one.
Ah, the joys of language!
By the way, nice ass shots on that Hydroderm add! “Good Bye Cellulite!” Woo-hoo!
We use aluminium in Canada. Colour too.
whosthejkass,
yes it was necessary you idiot. a ridiculous statement deserves a response like that. too bad you’re too dense to figure that out.
You really don’t have a clue, hondo. And I can say that without any name calling, which is an ability that apparently eludes you and your bitter hostility.
americans is funny.
“americaniums” are even funnier!
Hey, Dog… At this time of the evening in Americania, that’s funny.
Have you ever had a relative, especially at a party, that thought he knew everything? He was the one that was outspoken about everything and not shy at broadcasting his opinion. He was also the one that often started conversations with “Ya know what’s wrong with you is that you need to….” But, being that we’re all related to him and stuck with this jerk for a while, we all politely nod and agree when he is around. But once he is gone, everyone else laughs at him for being such an ignorant fool that might learn something if he just would keep his big mouth (and attitude) shut for a few moments to listen to others.
This is Uncle Sam, and this is how the rest of the world views the USA. The Americans are totally clueless as to how ridiculous they sound to the rest of the world. FACT!
Americans are so incredibly self-centered, drowning in their own ego, that they don’t have a clue as to what is happening in the world around them, the opinions of other world citizens, and as such Americans think that the world revolves around them.
NOT!!
Get with the rest of the world or go find your own planet to destroy, and LEAVE OURS THE FUCK ALONE!!
I guess I digressed a bit from the “aluminium” topic, eh?
whostheahole,
you’re the one who doesn’t have a clue. nice statement about the US and slavery. really intelligent. get a grip you freak. thank god for the good old USA to straighten things out while the rest of the world (that’s right gay boy – ari) fks everything up. you morons make zero sense. US will wipe out fanatics every time they come after us. you pussies will sit back while the fanatics rape, torture, rob, and kill you. you’re so freaking lucky the US exists. up yours foreign commies, queers!
I’m confident that in approximately 15 minutes this article will be in the inboxes of every resident of the free world and maybe even a few people in France. Chris Thomas, Air Force Pilot: I would like to add my two cents about my John Kerry experience. During my career as an Air Force pilot, I spent two years flying a small twin engine prop plane around the Pacific from my base in Okinawa, Japan. On one trip we had to fly Senator Kerry, his congressional aide, and a Navy Captain (Vietnam, A-4 fighter pilot) who was also in Kerry’s party to various locations in Vietnam and Cambodia as part of the MIA/POW talks. When I met him, he was wearing a shirt with a picture of his sailboat on it. I told him I had a 27′ sailboat in Okinawa, he remarked “Oh I never sail on anything less than 135 feet.” Thanks, Senator, “I feel even better about the meager salary I get paid for flying you around the Pacific.” When we first flew him into Phnom Penh, he went to the back of the airplane and grabbed the pizza that was put aside for the crew and passed it around to his staff. He was never offered any pizza because they were supposed to have lunch with the Cambodian government when we landed. The pizza was the crew’s only meal for that day and he ate it. Then when we picked him up in Cambodia, he was an hour late getting to the airport. Because fuel was an issue, we could not start the engines and therefore the air conditioning until he arrived. Phnom Penh at that time was over 100 degrees with 95% humidity and we were basically sitting in a greenhouse behind the cockpit windows. When he finally did arrive, we were wringing out our clothes from the perspiration. He walks out of the air conditioned car, into the airplane and asks us “Could you guys get the air-conditioning running, I’m a little warm?” The other pilot had to physically restrain me from going back there and picking a fight. Then we took him into Noi Bai airfield in Hanoi. After we picked him up the next day (he stayed the night in Vietnam, we stayed in Bangkok) we taxied out, ran up the engines for take off and noticed that our prop rpm was vibrating all over the place.
We taxied off to the side to look at it, but there was a good possibility that there was an engine malfunction and the engine may fail if we took off with it. Well, Mr. Senator sticks his head up in the cockpit and says “This plane WILL take off, I have a press conference in Bangkok in three hours!” (Maybe this is an indication of how he will run the FAA). American service members lives be damned, we had our Senatorial orders. We ran the engines again, and did not have the problem, so we took off and made it back. During the flight, he told everyone how he had taken a Cessna (a small General aviation plane)up with a fighter pilot, and the fighter pilot remarked that Kerry was one of the best pilots he had ever seen. I don’t know about other pilots out there,but it’s hard to imagine a little, single-engine prop plane pilot being able to show the “right stuff.” After Kerry left the plane, the Navy Captain came up to us, apologized and said basically that “he knows Kerry is a jerk” and that we should be glad we don’t have to deal with him every day. Your choice folks. Elections in November. You want a mega-millionaire ego-maniac it’s-all-about-me crew-eating-pizza-ite like Kerry or maybe a Green Party candidate like Ralph Nader? Or, God forbid, maybe even re-elect George Bush, a nice God fearing Christian bent on protecting us from terrorist attacks on US soil?
The real story: Although we all agree that the ant was the responsible one and the grasshopper is the fool, don’t forget that another vote for Bush is a vote for the grasshopper.
Oh, and that as the ant watches the grasshopper starve and says he should have voted republican, he is the one awoke in the middle of the night to a gun to the head from the grasshopper who thinks it is the only option he has left…
hondo, you’re so clueless you think I’m the person who posted the comments you’re so violently reacting to. If you want to label someone at least attach it to the person it’s really intended for.
gearhead,
you are a clueless idiot!
Very interesting….. and a bit scary
At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinborough) had this to say about “The Fall of The Athenian Republic” some 2,000 years prior.
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From Bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”
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Professor Joseph Olson of HamlineUniversitySchoolof Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the most recent Presidential election:
Population of counties won by:
Gore = 127 million
Bush = 143 million
Square miles of land won by:
Gore = 580,000
Bush = 2,2427,000
States won by:
Gore = 19
Bush = 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore = 13.2
Bush = 2.1
Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore’s territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare…”
Olson believes the U.S.is now somewhere between the “complacency and “apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy; with some 40 percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake in this Election Year and that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
Who ever thought that a rumor about the iSight could set off such a political whirlwind, lol
JOHN Kerry finally defined his position on the war in Iraq � or his latest one, anyway.
It took a direct challenge from President Bush, who asked if Kerry would still have voted to authorize the use of force against Saddam Hussein if he knew that no weapons of mass destruction would be found. Kerry’s reply: “Yes, I would have voted for the authority. I believe it was the right authority for a president to have.”
Even at that, Kerry could be parsing words here: Stressing his support for “the authority” echoes his bizarre earlier distinction (which he made after Howard Dean’s campaign started taking off) that he’d only voted to “threaten the use of force,” not actually to use it.
Still, Kerry’s answer likely will raise some eyebrows among people who believed the Democratic nominee when he agreed that he was one of the “anti-war candidates” � someone who is “unhappy with this war [and] the way it’s been fought,” someone who charged that Bush “misled every one of us” with his “rush to war.”
Of course, Kerry has been all over the political map when it comes to ousting Saddam. He certainly showed no hesitation when Bill Clinton was the president threatening to use force in Iraq. (Back then, Kerry even endorsed unilateral action against this “grave threat to the well-being of our nation.”)
But his latest statement raises an important question: If ousting Saddam now was justified, even if we knew in advance that there were apparently no WMDs, why did Kerry so vehemently oppose moving against Saddam after he invaded Kuwait and was a much greater military threat?
Back in 1991, John Kerry was a leader of the movement to keep America from fighting in the Persian Gulf � at one point begging the first President Bush to send someone to Baghdad for a “face-to-face meeting” with the Iraqi despot.
And Kerry’s rhetoric in throughout that debate was one long Vietnam flashback.