Highly unreliable? I think not. I have had 4 MacBooks since they started the magnetic power adapter and have not had any reliability issues. I have also never had any metal fragments stuck to the connector. Maybe we shouldn't keep metal shards on your desk? Your first point and the last half of point 2 does have merit, however.
Apple and others will continue to try for broad patents like this for the forseable future in order to protect themselves from crazy lawsuits made by others who have broad patents. Vicious cycle...
You know Foxconn makes parts for virtually all major computer companies, right? It's almost impossible to avoid. That doesn't make poor treatment of empoyess acceptable, but singleing out Apple is a little silly.
The authorship link doesn't work for me so it may answer this, but...what's to stop me from "borrowing" someone's author tag and bumping up my site on the search results?
You can search for applicable files and just delete them, too. But that also requires opening up Activity Monitor and finding related processes to shut down first, as well as, checking startup items for anything fishy.
I can confirm that in the last week I have helped 3 people with Mac malware. I haven't even met anyone with Mac malware installed until last week. I didn;t see naything incredibly harmful, but it pretended to be an anti-virus software and repeatedly opened up various porn sites in Safari without user interaction.
"it is difficult to understand how they came up in $1.5 million in costs" If you read the article..."Prosecutors had sought the money from Terry Childs, a former Department of Technology network engineer, to repay The City for its efforts in trying to regain control over the FiberWAN network and later test it for vulnerabilities."
Because it wasn't in their contract with the big 5 to be able to do so. (If you read the summary you would have been able to at least infer that much.) Any changes to the contract require concessions. It's give and take. I would bet they have been after this for a while but the big 5 were too greedy.
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Yes, there are a few rich Russians in the US, too.
Highly unreliable? I think not. I have had 4 MacBooks since they started the magnetic power adapter and have not had any reliability issues. I have also never had any metal fragments stuck to the connector. Maybe we shouldn't keep metal shards on your desk? Your first point and the last half of point 2 does have merit, however.
Apple and others will continue to try for broad patents like this for the forseable future in order to protect themselves from crazy lawsuits made by others who have broad patents. Vicious cycle...
I use owncloud. It it certainly not as robust as DropBox, but it works for my needs. It also has a plugin system for functionality expansion.
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You know Foxconn makes parts for virtually all major computer companies, right? It's almost impossible to avoid. That doesn't make poor treatment of empoyess acceptable, but singleing out Apple is a little silly.
So it's Verizon's job to advertise for MS? I think not.
Parent=better sumary. Thank you.
The authorship link doesn't work for me so it may answer this, but...what's to stop me from "borrowing" someone's author tag and bumping up my site on the search results?
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I am very intrigued by it, as well. It will be interesting to compare this to Mac OS X Lion.
I think that's supposed to be a selling point--that traditional applications work just like people are used to.
I helped a few people get rid of it (very easy to do).
Me too, but my receipt is chiseled on a stone tablet.
Your definition of open and competitive must be different than mine,
You're saying analogies are like women?
May a tiny bit of a troll. But yes, that was my point.
Wait, /. is supposed to think that there are no "digital property". Or is that only for other people? I'm confused.
You can search for applicable files and just delete them, too. But that also requires opening up Activity Monitor and finding related processes to shut down first, as well as, checking startup items for anything fishy.
Symantec AV easily removed it.
I can confirm that in the last week I have helped 3 people with Mac malware. I haven't even met anyone with Mac malware installed until last week. I didn;t see naything incredibly harmful, but it pretended to be an anti-virus software and repeatedly opened up various porn sites in Safari without user interaction.
"it is difficult to understand how they came up in $1.5 million in costs" If you read the article..."Prosecutors had sought the money from Terry Childs, a former Department of Technology network engineer, to repay The City for its efforts in trying to regain control over the FiberWAN network and later test it for vulnerabilities."
The REAL John Locke would not approve of this.
I'm not sure why this has taken Apple so long.
Because it wasn't in their contract with the big 5 to be able to do so. (If you read the summary you would have been able to at least infer that much.) Any changes to the contract require concessions. It's give and take. I would bet they have been after this for a while but the big 5 were too greedy.
That's how I backed up all my floppy disks, too!