Apple does not sell servers. The X-serve was discontinued last year, I think.
They still have the Mac Mini server for SOHO use. They are out of the enterprise server market, although there's a rumor they are planning a rack mountable version of the Mac Pro. But then there are always Apple rumors.
Meh. This isn't news. The app is available on some third party app markets (read: not google's market) which are used on the other side of the planet. There was a time when a malicious text message could damage or brick an iphone.
There was a proof of concept that could execute arbitrary code on iphone by sending about 500 SMS and which worked about 20% of the time, as explained by the hacker here. Of course serious bugs aren't really news on either platform. There was a time when Android would execute all text typed into the phone as root, then there was the Android bug that sent your messages to random contacts or the one where an SMS corrupts Androids SQLite database. People in glass houses should throw stones you know.
That's one ugly watch, but it's really hard to find a nice looking digital watch even for men IMHO. Nixon makes some attractive watches and so do Diesel. They tend to skew to style over features though, "back to basics" is the thing now in digital watches.
I like the stubble thing, nice and easy just zip over it with the razor from time to time to keep it "presentable". The only problem is the fine line between manly stubble and 80's George Michael.
I think the hypothetical pedo will take advantage of the child he has access to be it yours, your cousin's or some other unfortunate. This argument is akin to telling women they shouldn't wear skirts because it could "provoke" men.
About 260,000 children are abducted every year in the United States of America. Of these child abduction only about 115 result in very serious consequences, like injury or death.
So how many of those were abducted after online stalking ? You're obviously not much bothered by this yourself since there's personal information and pictures all over your blog (liked from your profile page) and I read you're posting pictures of the kids to Facebook as well.
We had a child taken, fortunately we got her back right fast without harm.
That's rough, glad everything worked out OK.
>> Fuck - - Off.
You've got a quick temper for someone who's "a good shot with a vareity (sic) of firearms."
It can happen, it probably has happened somewhere, it's just extremely unlikely. Probably on the order of getting stuck by lightning and not worth risking your sanity by fretting over it. I'm as afraid for my kids as the next guy but you can't let those fears become irrational and paralyze you.
People aren't snowflakes, and that's why it's entirely probable. Who's to say that snatching off the street wasn't the result of research? You can't prove it wasn't.
- Dan.
You really are paranoid. (paraoia: suspicion and mistrust of people or their actions without evidence or justification)
Because your little snowflakes are so special someone's going to stalk you on online, go sleuthing until they track you down and then create an elaborate scheme to kidnap them ? Unless your last name is Rockefeller or Hilton, I doubt that scenario is plausible. Criminals are lazy buggers and opportunists, they'll just grab a kid off the street.
The fact they were able to pull that off shows just how broken the U.S. patent system really is, but Apple is happy to ride that broken system into more cash.
Show me one corporation that isn't. The solution isn't to appeal to a (non existent) corporate responsibility but to fix the broken government regulation that caused this situation in the first place.
Why are these products a staple within their respect markets? Its because they are advertised as such. People might like the fact that they are shiny. The fact that the UI remains consistent across product lines is nice too. The fact remains, if iProduct wasnt marketed so well it would be just another plain box on the retail shelf.
That's simply not true. There's very little iPhone/iPad advertising here in Belgium, certainly much less than from their competitors, and yet they sell like hotcakes. This was even true with the original iPhone which wasn't advertised at all here because it wasn't sold here officially, yet people were importing (and jailbreaking/unlocking) them in droves creating a whole internet grey market. You could show your iPhone in person to people who had no clue who Apple even are and they all immediately wanted one. It was a game changer and people recognized it when they saw it.
I've never met an Apple critic (or any PC user) who was that anywhere near that obsessive in their dislike of Apple or their love of their PC.
You must be new here;-) Seriously, offering a different point of view that is perceived to be pro-Apple (whatever the hell that means) will get you modded down, insulted and/or shouted down more often than not. One charming example :
"I do NOT understand you! Have you just entered some manic religious-fervour-induced naked dance around a pentagram shape made from your Apple products? I give up, you are a technology moron. Stick to being an art student or a quantity surveyor or whatever other job you do that requires zero technical knowledge because you are clearly very good at it."
And if anyone thinks I'm exaggerating about Apple fanatics (and I mean the real hardcore guys), check out the documentary MacHeads. It is at times cute and humorous, and at other times downright disturbing.
You can find nutbags anywhere. Give me a camera crew and a couple of weeks I'll turn up the equivalent Windows or Linux users.
How's that abuse ? The newspapers could choose to go web-app instead, which exactly what some have done. It also seems like the whole thing was more like a (very public) negotiation since Apple has since relented on some points.
Pft, the tablet market is small. It's a toy. And maybe useful for delivery drivers. Watch it fade away again. Smart phones, that's where it's at, and no one is going to win that game, it'll just be divided up amongst the players.
Actually Apple seems to betting on a multi device future where people use smartphones, tablets and computers depending on what they're trying to do and where they are with those devices being kept in sync over the cloud.
They haven't actually threatened developers, true. But they did ban the use of toolchains designed for writing cross-platform apps.
For a developer without much in the way of resources it amounts to the same thing: "You can develop for our platform, or you can develop for theirs, take your pick"
Small correction: you can get the SDK for free and develop that way (if you just want to learn or something), the $99 are to deploy to actual devices. But yeah, that policy sucks.
Facetime can switch between the front and rear camera. So I assume he asks his mother to point the rear camera at the screen, she would still be able to see him on the screen while holding the phone in this way.
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Apple does not sell servers. The X-serve was discontinued last year, I think.
They still have the Mac Mini server for SOHO use. They are out of the enterprise server market, although there's a rumor they are planning a rack mountable version of the Mac Pro. But then there are always Apple rumors.
I'm pretty sure that was just marketing speak for "Now Sun is dead and Oracle doesn't care about OpenOffice we have no further need for Symphony."
You might want to check out "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" tv-series produces by Raimi. Roman sex and violence starring Lacy Lawless.
Meh. This isn't news. The app is available on some third party app markets (read: not google's market) which are used on the other side of the planet. There was a time when a malicious text message could damage or brick an iphone.
There was a proof of concept that could execute arbitrary code on iphone by sending about 500 SMS and which worked about 20% of the time, as explained by the hacker here. Of course serious bugs aren't really news on either platform. There was a time when Android would execute all text typed into the phone as root, then there was the Android bug that sent your messages to random contacts or the one where an SMS corrupts Androids SQLite database. People in glass houses should throw stones you know.
Cue confused rude boys in 3...2...1... ...
Let's hope this satellite will pick it up, pick it up, pick it up
That's one ugly watch, but it's really hard to find a nice looking digital watch even for men IMHO. Nixon makes some attractive watches and so do Diesel. They tend to skew to style over features though, "back to basics" is the thing now in digital watches.
I like the stubble thing, nice and easy just zip over it with the razor from time to time to keep it "presentable". The only problem is the fine line between manly stubble and 80's George Michael.
Yeah beards are for real manly men. Just keep your bear repellant handy.
I think the hypothetical pedo will take advantage of the child he has access to be it yours, your cousin's or some other unfortunate. This argument is akin to telling women they shouldn't wear skirts because it could "provoke" men.
About 260,000 children are abducted every year in the United States of America. Of these child abduction only about 115 result in very serious consequences, like injury or death.
So how many of those were abducted after online stalking ? You're obviously not much bothered by this yourself since there's personal information and pictures all over your blog (liked from your profile page) and I read you're posting pictures of the kids to Facebook as well.
We had a child taken, fortunately we got her back right fast without harm.
That's rough, glad everything worked out OK.
>> Fuck - - Off.
You've got a quick temper for someone who's "a good shot with a vareity (sic) of firearms."
It can happen, it probably has happened somewhere, it's just extremely unlikely. Probably on the order of getting stuck by lightning and not worth risking your sanity by fretting over it. I'm as afraid for my kids as the next guy but you can't let those fears become irrational and paralyze you.
People aren't snowflakes, and that's why it's entirely probable. Who's to say that snatching off the street wasn't the result of research? You can't prove it wasn't.
- Dan.
You really are paranoid. (paraoia: suspicion and mistrust of people or their actions without evidence or justification)
Because your little snowflakes are so special someone's going to stalk you on online, go sleuthing until they track you down and then create an elaborate scheme to kidnap them ? Unless your last name is Rockefeller or Hilton, I doubt that scenario is plausible. Criminals are lazy buggers and opportunists, they'll just grab a kid off the street.
Would you want someone openly vocal about how they broke the law when they were younger teaching your kids?
Yes because the alternative is a hypocrite and I don't want those anywhere near my kids. Unless their crime was diddling kids I don't care.
"No true Scotsman" logical fallacy.
It's just your regular mission creep. They'll keep expanding as long as people let them as bureaucracies are wont to do.
The fact they were able to pull that off shows just how broken the U.S. patent system really is, but Apple is happy to ride that broken system into more cash.
Show me one corporation that isn't. The solution isn't to appeal to a (non existent) corporate responsibility but to fix the broken government regulation that caused this situation in the first place.
Why are these products a staple within their respect markets? Its because they are advertised as such. People might like the fact that they are shiny. The fact that the UI remains consistent across product lines is nice too. The fact remains, if iProduct wasnt marketed so well it would be just another plain box on the retail shelf.
That's simply not true. There's very little iPhone/iPad advertising here in Belgium, certainly much less than from their competitors, and yet they sell like hotcakes. This was even true with the original iPhone which wasn't advertised at all here because it wasn't sold here officially, yet people were importing (and jailbreaking/unlocking) them in droves creating a whole internet grey market. You could show your iPhone in person to people who had no clue who Apple even are and they all immediately wanted one. It was a game changer and people recognized it when they saw it.
I've never met an Apple critic (or any PC user) who was that anywhere near that obsessive in their dislike of Apple or their love of their PC.
You must be new here ;-) Seriously, offering a different point of view that is perceived to be pro-Apple (whatever the hell that means) will get you modded down, insulted and/or shouted down more often than not. One charming example :
"I do NOT understand you! Have you just entered some manic religious-fervour-induced naked dance around a pentagram shape made from your Apple products?
I give up, you are a technology moron. Stick to being an art student or a quantity surveyor or whatever other job you do that requires zero technical knowledge because you are clearly very good at it."
And if anyone thinks I'm exaggerating about Apple fanatics (and I mean the real hardcore guys), check out the documentary MacHeads. It is at times cute and humorous, and at other times downright disturbing.
You can find nutbags anywhere. Give me a camera crew and a couple of weeks I'll turn up the equivalent Windows or Linux users.
How's that abuse ? The newspapers could choose to go web-app instead, which exactly what some have done. It also seems like the whole thing was more like a (very public) negotiation since Apple has since relented on some points.
Pft, the tablet market is small. It's a toy. And maybe useful for delivery drivers. Watch it fade away again. Smart phones, that's where it's at, and no one is going to win that game, it'll just be divided up amongst the players.
Actually Apple seems to betting on a multi device future where people use smartphones, tablets and computers depending on what they're trying to do and where they are with those devices being kept in sync over the cloud.
They haven't actually threatened developers, true. But they did ban the use of toolchains designed for writing cross-platform apps.
For a developer without much in the way of resources it amounts to the same thing: "You can develop for our platform, or you can develop for theirs, take your pick"
They've since lifted that restriction.
Small correction: you can get the SDK for free and develop that way (if you just want to learn or something), the $99 are to deploy to actual devices. But yeah, that policy sucks.
Facetime can switch between the front and rear camera. So I assume he asks his mother to point the rear camera at the screen, she would still be able to see him on the screen while holding the phone in this way.
It's more like having to buy an extra device to access the onboard computer diagnostics in your car. Which they actually do.