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No. It's just the latest version of a proprietary OS released in 1984. It's only Unix when it's time to engage in marketing

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/08/mac-os-x-leopard-receives-unix-03-certification.ars

I've a bridge for sale you might be interested in. It might be free of fees now like Android was before everyone came knocking with their big patent portfolio's. And of course Google refuse to indemnify, so they get all of the upside and none of the risk.

They have recently declined to pledge that they won't sue over standards essential patents like H.264, instead of demanding 2.5% of proceeds of devices(ad revenues in this case). Apple and Microsoft have pledged this.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/regulators-to-google-you-can-buy-motorola-but-we-still-dont-trust-you.ars

Interesting to see Google becoming the patent trolls over H.264 that it previously warned others over and recommended WebM.

microUSB is so widely used now i would consider it a standard...

Actually, microusb is a standard in the EU to cut down on electronic waste.

Even Apple is grudgingly complying with a dock-microusb adapter:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/10/apples-iphone-micro-usb-adapter-complies-with-eu-charger-standards.ars

First, Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, Cablevision, and Time Warner Cable have already signed on to the program.

Second, Comcast is a cable/internet company while Sprint, VirginMobile and Cingular are cell phone companies (with a data plan), so they're not exactly equivalent (and yes, Verizon and AT&T are both).

Third, it doesn't have to be a monopoly to be illegal. A group of companies that dominate a market is called a oligopoly. And when they all agree to manipulate prices, restrict supply or implement other restrictions on the market it's called collusion and it's just as illegal as if one company does it.

Other articles have reported that Google built a primary treatment plant to supply the data center as well. For example: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/google-flushes-heat-from-data-center-with-toilet-water.ars

I can't imagine Apple itself just stole that IP.

Indeed, it seems to be too blatant an abuse for Apple to do. Then again, considering some of the rank amatuer moves done by big music, I can't say that I would be totally stunned if it were indeed that blatant a move on Apples part.

softpedia.com

arstechnica.com

redsauce.com

Really? I must have missed the repeal of the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Not a repeal, but a sound gutting:

• ARS
• Reuters
• NYT

Move to an top level encrypted torrent programs. That includes secure torrent files (if they do not exist, go out and invent them!). It might not be possible to hide your IP. But it is possible to encrypt the torrent and other p2p traffic with an high level encryption. If the current RSA-4096 bit encryption is not good enough. Go and invent an better one.

The pure greed of MPAA and RIAA is an shame to the creative industry. As in the end most artist do get little for the work while the companies them self make all the profit. In fact, MPAA has never made so good profits. Yet they claim piracy is damaging them. But that claim is not supported by any evidence and is therefor an lie.

On MPAA profits for 2011, http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/piracy-once-again-fails-to-get-in-way-of-record-box-office.ars
Even RIAA admits that P2P is not only to blame for drop in cd-sales, http://www.zeropaid.com/news/91984/riaa-admits-p2p-not-solely-to-blame-for-decreased-music-sales/

However, the limitation could be the delay/lock after some unsuccessful tries

That's exactly what happened:

Technicians apparently mis-entered the pattern enough times to lock the phone, which could only be unlocked using the phone owner's Google account credentials.

The issue is that you don't even need to enter the swipe pattern. All you need to do is use the developer tools to rip the data straight off the phone over a USB connection. Now, maybe he has some kind of encryption software which unlocks with the swipe code, I dunno. But I doubt it... more than likely somebody does not want to wait for the FBI computer forensics lab to get at the system, and since it's possibly tied to the user's google account they're hoping for an easy unlock.

But this is a very amateur approach. They're lucky the guy wasn't using a Blackberry... too many tries would have factory wiped the phone. Pimps and Dealers listen up... use a blackberry and the FBI will happily destroy all the evidence for you!

The link doesn't seem to work but the article is here

Technicians apparently mis-entered the pattern enough times to lock the phone, which could only be unlocked using the phone owner's Google account credentials.

Why they were even bothering with the unlock screen rather than just slurping up all the data on the phone with a UFED is beyond me.

However, the limitation could be the delay/lock after some unsuccessful tries

That's exactly what happened

I keep my iOS devices set to wipe after 10 fails just in case I lose them. Doesn't Android have that option? Surely it must.
I'm not kidding myself that it's an industry grade wipe that will stand up to forensics, but between that and remote wipe option it makes me feel a little better about only having 4 to 8 numbers between a lock screen and most of my data.

Agents conducted surveillance on Dears and found that he was using a mobile phone to allegedly communicate with prostitutes and other associates. Dears had denied to his parole officer that he owned a mobile phone, and in January the parole officer went to Dears's apartment and seized the phone.

And he is an Asshole since he was CONVICTED of various crimes including human trafficking. "one minor female testified how Dears had recruited her out of a homeless shelter.... Dears found out the woman had spoken to a man who wanted to help her get off the streets. So Dears "beat her up in the back seat of his Cadillac and then forced her to get into the car's trunk, she testified. While in the trunk, she was driven from East Main Street in El Cajon to Hotel Circle in Mission Valley" http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/fbi-stumped-by-pimps-androids-pattern-lock-serves-warrant-on-google.ars

So yah he's an asshole

However, the limitation could be the delay/lock after some unsuccessful tries

That's exactly what happened:

Technicians apparently mis-entered the pattern enough times to lock the phone, which could only be unlocked using the phone owner's Google account credentials.

Which Google also almost certainly doesn't have.

What Google might be able to tell them is how to root the phone, or how to take the phone apart and read the contents of the flash directly. AFAIK, you have to use a password/passphrase, not a pattern, if you want to use whole-device encryption, so the flash should be unencrypted.

However, the limitation could be the delay/lock after some unsuccessful tries

That's exactly what happened:

Technicians apparently mis-entered the pattern enough times to lock the phone, which could only be unlocked using the phone owner's Google account credentials.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/fbi-stumped-by-pimps-androids-pattern-lock-serves-warrant-on-google.ars

The one thing I found amusing about the whole thing is that PhD supposedly stood for "Pimpin' Hoes Daily". Then I read this:

Her $500 a night went straight to Dears, though, who "took care of her" in his own special way. As San Diego's Union Tribune reported, Dears found out the woman had spoken to a man who wanted to help her get off the streets. So Dears "beat her up in the back seat of his Cadillac and then forced her to get into the car's trunk, she testified. While in the trunk, she was driven from East Main Street in El Cajon to Hotel Circle in Mission Valley, she testified."

Major league asshole. I hope he gets the book thrown at him.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/stop-innovating-please-kaleidescape-loses-dvd-ripping-case.ars

Who else remembers the issues http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/04/bush-lost-e-mails.ars when the Bush's administration replaced the system, Lotus Notes, that the Clinton administration had been running with MS Outlook and Exchange. Then conveniently couldn't recover/find email messages. To give them their due, the Government Records Act does put some strong requirements on any email system being used. Its just that Exchange wasn't up to the task.

Okay, I just did some rough calculations on the support for HTML5 video codecs by browsers (source), weighted by browser market share (source via), including both desktop and mobile browsers. What I got was:
Theora: 41%
WebM: 37%
H.264: 41%
None: 40%
These numbers add up to more than 100% because some browsers support more than one codec. Looking at single codec support I get:
WebM and not H.264: 17%
H.264 and not WebM: 21%
What it amounts to is that FF + Opera(Desktop) have close to the same market share as IE9 + Safari (OSX & iOS), so they just about cancel each other out. IE9 market share is growing slowly (thanks to not supporting win XP), so there's still a couple of years for WebM to gain traction before declaring H.264 a sure winner for HTML5 video.

Nick Denton is an idiot. He runs Gawker Media, which is itself a joke of a syndication network. He hires wannabe journalists and gives them bags of cash to bribe industry insiders into leaking stories so he can put them on his blogs. Of course the comments sections on Gawker Media sites are stupid. He also dismisses the politically charged and logically sound comments on Jezebel, which I wouldn't call the epitome of intelligent discourse on the internet, but it's definitely heads and shoulders above anything else hosted by Gawker.

Look at the comments on this Ars Technica piece: all topical and useful. Look at this comment thread (particularly this one! one of the most helpful comments I've ever read) about someone learning how to program in Perl.

In TFA, Denton says:

Give other commenters more power to "up-vote" or "down-vote" posts? "We don't really believe in the democratic process of decision-making when it comes to discussion," Denton said.

What a prick. Of course he doesn't believe in the democratic power of anything, because he's authoritarian, narrow-minded, grossly incompetent as a "journalist"—and deplorable as an editor, too—and all Gawker media sites (I'd entertain a counterargument defending Jezebel) operate on one rule: feed the trolls. Not all the examples of good comments I gave above have user-moderation systems in place, but the ones that don't just have good content that attracts good readers. Nick wouldn't know anything about that.

According to you, anyone who calls out Apple on ethics is confused.

sounds like 1080p might not necessarily be all that - or it's not a gaurantee

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/03/new-itunes-1080p-looks-good-through-better-h264-compression.ars

The reason that the 1080p versions of the iTunes Store videos can be a good deal better without doubling the file size—or worse—can be found in the tech specs of the new AppleTV and the new iPad. The AppleTV now supports H.264 compression for 1920x1080 resolution video at 30 frames per second using High or Main Profile up to level 4.0, the iPad and the iPhone 4S the same up to level 4.1. The profile indicates what kind of decompression algorithms the H.264 decoder has on board—the "High" profile obviously has some tricks up its sleeve that the "Main" or "Baseline" profiles known to previous devices don't support. The level value indicates how many blocks or bits per second a device can handle.

here's what they're talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H264#Levels

I don't think TV shows are the best thing to use, however.. i figure those were kind of crap to begin with. they should have done a comparison with a recently released movie

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-consumer-preview-call-common-sense-142476

Also, try to spend a few minutes learning shortcuts etc. before dissing the experience. It's not a SP for Windows 7, it's a new OS.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/02/getting-starte...

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/03/windows-8-tricks-tips-and-s...

And it will enable many devices like these that don't exist now:

Idea Pad Yoga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2R9y9ZvkA&hd=1

Samsung x86 Tablet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-K1ELv6DE&hd=1

Try doing that with an iPad.(There are iPad-like ARM Windows 8 tablets too that won't run x86 apps but which will have Office).

83inch displays: http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/29/2833173/windows-8-82-inch-...

All these form factors tied in the with the vast Win32 ecosystem(except ARM tablets) and a single Touch-first Metro ecosystem.

It's interesting how the comments on Apple/iPad/Post-PC articles, financials of Apple/Dell/HP etc. state that "MS is dying in the Post-PC" era, but now when they come out with a solution to make a OS run on different form factors and to have tablets that are not just consumption devices, the comments on here are skewed towards "Why change something that works?". If PCs are really dying, why not attempt to fix that instead of standing by with their head in the sand(like RIMM)?

There will always be people unhappy with anything you build or change. They should just go with their vision of what they think is right and that's what they did. They envision that with Windows 8, most new monitors will be touch enabled because of the demand so that for some functions(like clicking on links), people can use touch.

You may disagree with the vision, but you can't disagree that there is a method behind the madness.

Damn recoiledsnake you have some sick l33t first posting skillz..three minutes from time TFA was posted to RTFA, write all that preparing all of those hyperlinks. An Impressive feat to say the least.

Troll for the fp? WTF Slashdot, someone actually makes a comment that is different from the 100 +5 insightful comments saying the UI sucks and you want to cover that up so no one sees it?

Remember this post from back then?

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/draconian-drm-revealed-in-windows-7

A choice comment.

A DRM ban clause should be added as a constitut (Score:4, Insightful)
by hairyfeet (841228) Friend on Tuesday February 17 2009, @12:54AM (#26882807) Journal

I been saying it and saying it that the DRM in Win7 hadn't been turned on and that is why they are getting good performance out of it now. Vista Beta 1 ran great for me too, but that was the pre DRM version. All of this DRM crap has to monitor you to keep "criminals" like the owner of the PC from doing as they like 24/7/365. All of that monitoring takes up CPU and RAM that could have been used for your stuff.

Mark my words, what we are seeing here is the tiniest tip of the turd iceberg that is Win7, AKA Vista the second edition. It will go down in flames as folks find out it is a big pile of stink just like Vista. That is why just yesterday I had a customer literally throw money at me saying "make this %^&^&$ POS Vista go away! I don't want to see this thing again until XP is on it!". So mark my words, Linux guys. Be getting your A games ready. Be doing everything you can to fix the little irritants like Winprinters because when Vista7 goes down in flames you are going to have a LOT of POed folks looking for a new direction. And Apple is just too damned expensive for John Q. Average. So this is your shot, make it count. I doubt seriously after Win7 goes down in flames that Ballmer will have a job and the next guy they bring in will probably be one of the MS Office guys and he will go back to dull and boring business OSes(Oh,Lord,please let it be so!) so you guys probably won't get a third at bat.

      I for one would like some healthy competition to make the marketplace more fair so don't miss your shot,make it count. Because a moron as stupid as Ballmer only comes around once in a lifetime and you don't want to miss it.

Now those are troll articles and comments. Even Ars noticed http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/oh-the-humanity-windows-7s-draconian-drm.ars

Slashdot has turned into a circlejerk and nothing more

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-consumer-preview-call-common-sense-142476

Also, try to spend a few minutes learning shortcuts etc. before dissing the experience. It's not a SP for Windows 7, it's a new OS.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/02/getting-starte...

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/03/windows-8-tricks-tips-and-s...

And it will enable many devices like these that don't exist now:

Idea Pad Yoga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2R9y9ZvkA&hd=1

Samsung x86 Tablet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-K1ELv6DE&hd=1

Try doing that with an iPad.(There are iPad-like ARM Windows 8 tablets too that won't run x86 apps but which will have Office).

83inch displays: http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/29/2833173/windows-8-82-inch-...

All these form factors tied in the with the vast Win32 ecosystem(except ARM tablets) and a single Touch-first Metro ecosystem.

It's interesting how the comments on Apple/iPad/Post-PC articles, financials of Apple/Dell/HP etc. state that "MS is dying in the Post-PC" era, but now when they come out with a solution to make a OS run on different form factors and to have tablets that are not just consumption devices, the comments on here are skewed towards "Why change something that works?". If PCs are really dying, why not attempt to fix that instead of standing by with their head in the sand(like RIMM)?

There will always be people unhappy with anything you build or change. They should just go with their vision of what they think is right and that's what they did. They envision that with Windows 8, most new monitors will be touch enabled because of the demand so that for some functions(like clicking on links), people can use touch.

You may disagree with the vision, but you can't disagree that there is a method behind the madness.

Nope, we know that WP8 will be based on the W8 ARM kernel and will run Metro apps, see here.

The Model M keyboard is dishwasher safe for the top rack. You have to disassemble it to dry though, or use the vacuum process. Rinse agents are OK.

You link to the PR statement issued a week after independent researchers caused a bit of a stir by releasing a tool to read back the tracking data from your iDevice.

"Transparency" is what you admit to before you are caught, not what you say afterwards...

GUIs left people free to run whatever apps they want. That has nothing to do with curated computing:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/05/curated-computing-whats-next-for-devices-in-a-post-ipad-world.ars

While sympathetic to the fact that Sabu's children may have influenced his decision, he didn't understand how Sabu could have put his family at risk in the first place. "Why would you get involved with something like this if you had kids that relied on you?" he asked. "If I had kids I would get a 'responsible' job/hobby."

It appears that his children and their future were used against him to coerce him into snitching on LulzSec.

It appears that Sabu's children were an exploited liability. Would you risk your loved ones for your ideals? Or is your answer still simply and obviously "fuck snitches"?

And since you're quoting imaginary Disney characters, I'll remind you <Scarface spoiler alert> of the scene in Scarface where they're going to blow up a car of a politician's family in order to stop legislation but at the last moment Scarface realizes there are children in the vehicle and instead shoots the bomber in the face? Yeah, Scarface is a traitor at that point but ... you know ... he's a conflicted man with an internal conflict between morals and money. Sabu could have very much so been in a similar position.

Please note, this Sabu character appears to be an unsavory character with delusions of grandeur who maybe should have his children taken away from him anyway but ... well ... that doesn't mean the situation is completely black and white.

Only according to Apple apologists, fanbois, and spin doctors.

Well given that i am none of those that disproves your theory...

Wrong, your words "suing over use of patents isn't 'patent trolling', so Apple isn't a patent troll" qualify you nicely under both "apologist" and "spin doctor". Never mind the blatant logical fallacy.

Here are some links.

Message to Apple astrofurfers: the world will stop calling your company a dispicable troll when it stops being one. Trolling Slashdot just makes you appear more dispicable.

People only use the term "patent troll" in this context because they don't know what it means.

And you think you do? Here is a well reasoned discussion of the term. Apple would certainly qualify, even without stooping to this.

We were pretty sure that there was a problem with metal objects taped to the inside or outside of people's bodies when Adam Savage walked through with two 12" razor blades. This story just provides an explanation of why the scanners don't work.

Bad wiring and re-transmits don't result in latency at the network/transport layer. Tools such as pings and traceroute don't retransmit when a packet is lost. It either completes the round trip, and latency is calculated, or it's lost and a timeout is reported. The only place in a typical network that would be an exception is on a wireless network. 802.11 and cellular packet networks will provide some measure of guaranteed transmission at layer 2, and will retransmit layer 2 packets without requiring action by the session layer above.

If you are seeing high latency on a wireless connection, connect via ethernet to see if the latency is a result of retransmissions in your own wireless. I've seen latencies as as 3 or 4 SECONDS on my WiFi at home as a result of bad drivers, interference, etc.

Otherwise, latency is likely the result of network buffering, and over-buffering resulting in buffer bloat buffer bloat

Perhaps GP was referring to this cap Sprint instituted around October or November of 2011 on tablets, hot spots, and tethered mobile phones. Still unlimited data for untethered phones (I think).

From the announcement on Sprint's website:

Data usage limits when using 3G/4G Mobile broadband devices

If you have a mobile broadband device such as a tablet, netbook, notebook, USB card, connection card or Mobile Hotspot device, effective beginning with your next bill following notification, your on-network monthly data allowance will no longer include unlimited 4G.

First Ars http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/01/fare-well-kuuuuuuuccccchhheeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaa.ars

Now /.

Nice to see long time "friends" moving up in the world.

Sadly, our tests of these pseudo-scientific medical practices has shown them to come up short:

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/04/sham_acupuncture_is_better_than_true_acu.php

This is partially my point, though. This article says "sham" acupuncture is equivalent or better than the real thing, but leaves out that both are better than the usual treatment:

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2007/09/acupuncture-may-be-more-effective-for-back-pain-treatment-than-conventional-medicine.ars

So yeah, all of the magic behind acupuncture and placement points and whatever other junk may not be true, but that doesn't change that there's something about the process of acupuncture that seems to help. So there's no need to throw it out. It really does help, and science should work to figure out why so we can make it better, not throw it away because it doesn't work exactly like practitioners think it does.

These "pseudo science" articles indicate that pseudo science works better than science seems to indicate.
Plecebo works better than the real thing (warning :vulgar language)

Accupunture works, doesn't matter where

Accupunture works

These "pseudo science" articles indicate that pseudo science works better than science seems to indicate.
Plecebo works better than the real thing (warning :vulgar language)

Accupunture works, doesn't matter where

Accupunture works

The Forbes article is hardly any longer than this summary. It also does not substantiate the claim of patent troll for either MS or Apple (as mentioned ad nauseum by other posters).

Pretty sad attempt to generate some discussion. At least provide some substance.

FYI: MS no longer holds any of that initial 150 million investment; http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/05/apples-stock-rise-could-have-meant-5-billion-for-microsoft.ars

GPL is a horrible piece of sh*t.

It's fine as long as you don't need to use that software commercially. But in the commercial world you need to be able to edit the source code of the software to make any use of it. GPL does the exact opposite of what it pretends to promise: it restricts you from editing the source code, because you become liable to all sorts of legal responsibilities if you do so. Not understanding these caveats in supposedly "free" software can be very costly, when you implement a large application that relies on a slightly modified version of a GPL source code, and after two months of development realise that you have painted yourself into a corner and made yourself into a copyright criminal – just because you naïvely thought "free software" was actually "free".

If you want to write free software for the benefit of the IT community and not a certain unemployed American self-righteous zealot, you should definitely release it into the public domain or – if you want attribution – use some easier and more relaxed license (both to understand and read) than any GNU license. GPL is anyway a dying ecosystem, because both Apple and Microsoft have banned it from their current and future distribution platforms. And no Slashdot, this is not because they are bad evil corporations that hate penguins and kittens, but because GPL is an ambiguous, incomprehensible myriad of rights and responsibilities that no sane company in the software distribution business would ever touch.

You do know how easy it is to lie with statistics don't you? Oh right scientists can do no wrong in your world view and we should dispense with reproducibility of their claims

You are aware that right now six different independent groups are analyzing the temperature records, using ground, ocean, balloon, and satellite measurements, and getting very consistent results?

You are aware that an independent analysis, "BEST" (by U.C. Berkeley), was set up (and funded by, among other things, many skeptics) with the explicit purpose of doing an independent analysis without the purported "biases" that critical claim other temperature groups had.
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/10/climate-skeptics-perform-independent-analysis-finally-convinced-earth-is-getting-warmer.ars

Here's a quote from leading skeptic Anthony Watts about that BEST study (March 2011):

“I’m prepared to accept whatever result they produce, even if it proves my premise wrong.the method isn’t the madness that we’ve seen from NOAA, NCDC, GISS, and CRU.That lack of strings attached to funding, plus the broad mix of people involved especially those who have previous experience in handling large data sets gives me greater confidence in the result being closer to a bona fide ground truth than anything we’ve seen yet. Dr. Fred Singer also gives a tentative endorsement of the methods.Climate related website owners, I give you carte blanche to repost this.

Guess what-- the results are still the same. The data showing the planet is warming is real.
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111020/full/news.2011.607.html

How much "reproducability of their claims" do you want?

Satellite measurements, ground station measurements,ocean measurements, balloon-sonde measurements, microwave measurements-- very different techniques, same answers.

Yes, here is a particularly interesting one (don't get distracted by the filename)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/if-you-pull-out-your.ars

Ars is covering it...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/illinois-judge-law-barring-recording-police-is-unconstitutional.ars ...with lots of nice links.

The law attempted to prevent audio or video recording anyone without their consent, not just police.

Of course - of course - it was abused by Illinois' finest, but that wasn't really who it was intended to protect.

"Chinese hackers: No site is safe - CNN"

"Chinese hacking worries Pentagon"

"Pentagon hacked, Chinese Army suspected"

"China denies hacking Pentagon computers"

PS3 Clusters were already covered here many years ago, where Sony donated PS3 consoles specifically for use as cluster nodes using OtherOS. It was cheap promotion for them, which most assuredly led to a few sales of multiple consoles to curious geeks. I don't know how many "a few sales" actually turned out to be, but I'd safely guesstimate 10,000 units at the least. Enough to spark class-action lawsuits that were clumsily thrown out of court, after which Sony updated its EULA to remove users' right to sue the company.

So yes, people wanted to use Linux on the PS3, which Sony initially embraced with open arms. Then they turned around and legally told all these users to fuck off and die. Perhaps I'm a bit too zen for the average sucker, but if the only way you (Sony) can stop people from suing you is by forcing them to digitally sign a contact with a covenant not to sue, I'd say you fail at business. It's kind of like when little kids say "I can hit you, but the rule is you can't hit me back"... those little fuckers need to be curb stomped, and so does Sony.

Apple is becoming more and more enterprise friendly ... not because of iShinyness but because of stupid mistakes by MS ... Balmer.

Metro is pretty bad in the developer preview. Consumer preview shows more attention to mouse detail as the desktop mode is enchanged for keyboard and mouse, and MS being retarded enough to disable AD integration in Windows 8 on arms. This and porting Office to the IPAD is another big mistake. Take away those reasons and why bother with Windows tablets and phones?

Corporate America in the next 5 years will open their eyes and realize they do not need Windows anymore as the shiny Apple logos replace tablets and phones and MS dependency is broken. Looks like the MS monopoly is broken. However, I do not know if I like this new Apple one any better.

I mean does Balmer really think we use WIndows because it is just a great product that we seek it or because we have files in Office and need IT to manage our devices for us?