I'm really happy right now: I'm only 56 rep away from 2k, I just asked my first question on EL&U that wasn't closed, and I just got my first Nice Question badge. W00t!
@TimothyMuellerHarder Nice. I've got a ways to go for 2K, but at the moment I'm more interested in creating a handful more posts to get 2 votes each :-) My daughter would love a new iPod :-D
I'm also interested in this promo to understand how something like this might work over at money SE, if we ever get out of beta that is!
I don't think we'll be giving away money, though :-) Perhaps some books, tax software, .. dunno. Anyway I think the promo here has been mostly successful.
According to Apple's website, the 13" MacBook Air and all of the MacBook Pros have 7 hours of battery life. This means that there are seven laptops for you to choose from: Four 13" computers, two 15", and one 17". The possibility of getting more than 7 hours exists, because this number is determi...
@daviesgeek Three, but one of them hasn't been on the site since August (disputes with Jeff, Jeff actually insulted him to his face) and the other two have an 80/20% split between flags that they handle.
There have been countless times where I'll be editing HTML on a Mac, then I'll upload a file to my server through FTP, and I'll navigate to the website in Safari. One thing that I didn't like was that Safari had already cached the webpage (the old version), so it would display the old version. I ...
@IanC I believe you just made it to Level 3! Congrats!
@DanielL @MrDaniel needs at least 11 upvotes while I need 23. So, if anybody likes both answers, please vote up the question, then my answer, then go to your wife/girlfriend and tell her you love her, then go and upvote MrDaniels question. :) (and let's not forget that there are even more question further down...)
I'll definitely follow the discussion and try to participate (I want participate more in meta in general). It just takes me a lot of effort to express my thoughts in long english paragraphs :)
@MathiasBynens: Ehehe. Thanks, I guess Diago wrote that in a hurry. :)
I've hardly used the Mac App Store. So does Diago mean that even if I copy the executable, it just won't run on another machine unless I actually log-in to the App Store?
Yes - unibody design offers more strength at the same weight.
The idea of unibody design is not very new and not limited to manufacturing processes of the modern industry.
E.g. you can find unibody-like designs in furniture quite often. An example is crafting a chair out of once piece of food -...
It's a shame that I'm not quoting any sources. But I wrote this all off my own knowledge...
I've already made some research, but not on Apple's website. There seems to be little documentations or definitions on 'unibody' design - probably because the whole process is even more complicated and diversified.
I don't think those will. I thought the URL was unique to you (i.e. it contains identifying information that says *you* shared it) so if you and i both share a question it can distinguish between clicks that came from the URL I shared and clicks that came from the URL your shared.
The twitter account woudl have its own unique identifier.
I've seen this question on meta but it seems old (2009) and does not answer my curiosity. That question refers to Jon Skeets reputation tracker which does not seem to work now.
My question. I downvoted some posts. About 3 hours later I took it back. I know that a downvote cost one point. I thoug...
Completed, all question downvotes now are "free" for the downvoter.
We did not perform a global recalc.
If you would like your old question downvotes to be free, perform a self-recalc at: http://stackoverflow.com/reputation
We will be monitoring voting patterns over the next few weeks and eva...
The iPad does many things very well. Its amazing display, battery life, and surprisingly good speaker make it very fun and easy to use. It has quickly become my favorite device for having fun, relaxing, and using with other people. I prefer the iPad over my iPhone and Mac for casual web browsing, viewing videos and photos, reading books and magazines, playing causal games, reading news and articles, and participating in social media. These are the things that the iPad really excels at. It does them better, or just as well and more conveniently, than any other device. …
is there a way to turn off the password requirement when downloading free content from the appstore?
I just find it slightly annoying when other app marketplaces don't have that compulsory requirement
did not google, thanks for doing it for me while I type my password
@daviesgeek Oh, and I just hit the quadruple digits in reputation, too. I'll see what I can do to help getting you to Level 2.
Why didn't I get this privilege yet? "1000 - Show total up and down vote counts." Does it take a while for it to give it to you? All the other privileges seemed to be instant.
I am looking for iOS apps for the Stack Exchange network that support the iPad. This is very similar to this question, but the difference is that I'm looking for apps that run on the iPad (not in 2x mode). What different apps exist for browsing the Stack Exchange network on the iPad?
I just found out that Siri can do complex calendar schedules, such as scheduling something for every three days. The calendar app has a very limited interface for complex scheduling, so I'm wondering what other calendar scheduling I can do with Siri that I can't do with the regular calendar inte...
@MathiasBynens Nor should it behave any different to how it always did, just because there's a contest on, it's probably just a habit to click the twitter icon to share tho, and they should likely remove the personalised link, but linking to the Q is fine I say.
@stuffe Of course there’s nothing wrong with linking to questions. It’s the personalized link that makes it unfair to other users who haven’t completed their share goals yet.
Agreed, I'm inclined to go with "oops, hadn;t thought of that" on behalf of the person (Lauren?) that does the clicking tho. I'm not concerned even with it left in tho, this contest is heading to vote counts, not share counts.
That user has 17 shares already. Call it 16 without this one, likely yo get the 4 required regardless of help
@daviesgeek The purpose of voting is, to a large extent, to make certain comments unnecessary. We don't say "I like this"; we upvote. Similarly, we don't say "This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful"; we downvote.
Now if you were asking for feature comparisons, or what people recommend, or something else along those lines, that would be another story, and if you were asking for a Mac app, that would be another story, but asking about the existence of a non-jailbroken iOS app related to a keyword that is guaranteed to be in the app description is trivial to solve -- either it's in the app store or it isn't.
This can only be answered with conjecture really, but I would say that as most people are right handed, and therefore hold their phone in their right hand, then it is simply far easier to rotate 90 degrees the the left into Landscape (and indeed back again) that to do it the other way around with...
we need moar questions that allow for video demonstrations!
Anyone have a moment to weigh in on something Mac related over on the Ubuntu meta? - meta.askubuntu.com/questions/2867/… ecome-a-mac-question (I will be very grateful if someone with recent Mac experience could weigh in. :P)
When I start up my MacBook Air, it makes a loud startup sound unless I muted the computer prior to shutting down last time.
However, I cannot guarantee that I had muted the computer last time before shut down because I share this Air with others.
How do I start up my Mac silently?
Basically, for any of those scenarios, switch the word "mac" for another brand, and it still fits. If the user is using Ubuntu, it's ontopic, regardless of their hardware choice
On-Topic
Is the problem directly related to the Ubuntu OS? Does an answer require tweaking in Ubuntu only?
Off-Topic
Is the problem directly related to the Mac OS? Does an answer require tweaking in Mac OSX only?
Using these requirements I'd answer your points like this...
"I'm using HFS...
Yeah, but it only really works with Windows, as such.
It's 2 things, a boot loader configuration tool to allow adding a windows partition to the EFI boot options, and a full set of Windows drivers for your mac hardware within windows.
It's not like Grub, it's very very specific and tailored, and it's not the actual boot loader, just the tool to insert the partition into the boot loader (EFI firmware) lists
Here's a simple migration test. Would is still be considered on-topic if there was no other specific Mac related site to migrate to. Just because there is a Mac site, doesn't mean we need (or want) to have all Mac questions. If the migration results in a stranded question that is never answere...
Couldn't resist. It's another 101 points to my 10k mod tools ;)
I got throttled (for 9 hours) so I haven't had time to further debug/refine my program, but I did develop a script that would use the SE API to find out what the total of the highest scoring 35 non-closed posts for the people in level 3
I wish editing could count for the contest. Because honestly, I could probably just smoke all of you guys in terms of edits. Answers and questions? No way. :P
@stuffe Interesting. For the Ubuntu contest, we decided that it didn't matter - that those who cared would go find it anyway, and those who didn't wouldn't care.
on top of this contest works been insane this week.
yea, it's been at 15 hour day already for me and itll quite possibly be >24 hours when the dust has settled on this project. so i'm probably done. i am where i am in the standings now.
upside: i'm almost at 10k.
you have all impressed me with your knowledge this week, that's for sure. you made me want to be a better answer-er. :)
@jrg Yah, my Dad bought it for his iPod touch. I personally don't like it, since it makes it really big, like the size of an iPhone. That being said, I love the protection it offers
Yup, Jorge makes the same types of edits I got reprimanded for....Sorta...
You are 2K+ though, which is (from my point of view) a license to edit as you see fit. However, I will say that I'm A. rebellious when it comes to things like that, and B. very unorthodox when it comes to SE stuff in general. :)
Yes - unibody design offers more strength at the same weight.
The idea of unibody design is not very new and not limited to manufacturing processes of the modern industry.
E.g. you can find unibody-like designs in furniture quite often. An example is crafting a chair out of once piece of food -...
Completed, all question downvotes now are "free" for the downvoter.
We did not perform a global recalc.
If you would like your old question downvotes to be free, perform a self-recalc at: http://stackoverflow.com/reputation
We will be monitoring voting patterns over the next few weeks and eva...
is there a way to turn off the password requirement when downloading free content from the appstore?
I just find it slightly annoying when other app marketplaces don't have that compulsory requirement
did not google, thanks for doing it for me while I type my password
I am looking for iOS apps for the Stack Exchange network that support the iPad. This is very similar to this question, but the difference is that I'm looking for apps that run on the iPad (not in 2x mode). What different apps exist for browsing the Stack Exchange network on the iPad?
When I start up my MacBook Air, it makes a loud startup sound unless I muted the computer prior to shutting down last time.
However, I cannot guarantee that I had muted the computer last time before shut down because I share this Air with others.
How do I start up my Mac silently?
