Strange vertical stripes

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Hi everyone,

So I've been following this thread for a looong time now hoping that by the time I can no longer postpone my buying a new MBPro the problem would be fixed. Bummer.
And it seems something new is around the corner, perhaps one month or so, but I can't wait.

Now going back to the problem, my attention was drawn by this (^^) solution. Maybe the stripes show up only on solid color background. Huh..I doubt it, but umm...has anyone else tried switching to a picture bckgr with some luck ?

Thanks.

Changing the background does not stop the problem. While a background that is very dark will hide the problem, the problem is with the backlighting. For example, it is very difficult to see the problem with the Apple aurora/space picture because the entire bottom of the picture is black anyway.

However, you can still see that the backlights are alternating on and off if you have the dock showing. it just isn't quite as obvious. Some background pictures show the problem better than others. It's as simple as that.

I just noticed this thread went from 50,000+ views to 1,900 views.

Does this thread have only 1,916 views?

Did anyone reset the view count?

Didn't it have 50,000 views?

To answer your questions:

* Yes, it magically has about 2000 views now.

* Yes, seems like it.

* Yes, it did, once.

Sad day for me.

Anyone know of any posts out there that has more than 50,000 views? Does the forum have a limit of 50,000 views and the count gets reset when it goes 50,000 + 1? Does anyone on here actually believe that moderators would keep the thread open but reduce the views on it, rather than just make the thread disappear like Hoffa?

No

Not that I know of.

No, I cannot believe it.....seems like......what's the word again.....????????

CENSORSHIP?

MANIPULATION?

I'm from the free world and this is all pretty amazing, I really for the life of me can't understand why this is happening.

Apple what is going on???????????

:-(((

3 of my posts regarding the view count have already been refused!

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. (Hanlon's Razor)

If the view count was really above 60,000, then my best guess would be a 16-bit integer overflow ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_overflow) that caused the views to wrap around to zero, as opposed to someone manually twiddling with the forum view count. (I mean, why bother?)

This thread is being locked, as it is becoming too long and some browsers are timing out before the thread loads. It is being continued in [Strange vertical stripes - Continued|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1627678].

Thank you,

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