There were quite a few apps that were caught collecting UDIDs, if I remember correctly. It's not actually all that far-fetched to believe that somebody, in order to gain some "street cred" actually obtained it in this manner, then released it saying it had come from the FBI to undeservingly inflate their reputation.
there has to be some other reason they're pushing for this law (perhaps just general harassment of gun owners?).
The underlying motivation is to make it difficult for firearm manufacturers to comply with differing laws all over the place. They need to make one model gun for California, one for New York, one for Massachusetts, and so on... Eventually those makers will just decide to stop selling in that state. This will likely trigger a spike in the price of firearms, so that only the wealthy can afford firearms. This is the intent, but likely all it will do is expand the scope of illegal gun trading in the state, congrats california! Swap one problem for a much worse problem, a bigger black market for firearms.
No growth over 12 years while your direct competitors have soared is terrible. You can't blame events that happened to everyone in the field. By not growing, Microsoft is losing. By only copying products and ideas rather than self-innovate they are just doing enough not to drop dead in their tracks. I'm not a fan of their products precisely for this reason. They're knock-offs when I can pay the same or less and get apple or google devices. Forever catching up is not a business strategy, it's a death-by-10,000 cuts strategy.
Names are generally applied to products... rarely having anything directly to do with the product itself. The philosophy behind doing that is up for debate, but unrelated here. I'm more curious as to why having Apple's logo on a stove would do anything to increase sales of that stove. It's definitely not an iPhone, or made by Apple. Are they actually fooling people into thinking it's an Apple product or better yet, an actual iPhone? Surely not..
Management will always disapprove of solitude and independent employees because they can't take credit for the work completed and justify making higher salaries than those who actually spawn the good ideas and do great work.
I carry my iPad with me everywhere for business and for entertainment, not to mention browsing Slashdot. I also game more than I care to admit. I've played many a tablet games, and to be honest.. it's NOT a gaming platform, at least not in the current form.
If they could use a controller, absolutely. But multi-touch gaming is just not convenient. A few games can pull it off and last the test of time, but nothing that's in the market that GameStop caters to. The controller is a MUST and it may make the machine a killer device, a portable console that doesn't suck.
Same reason some people call it "Macoss Ecks". What boggles me is that you could be a Slashdot reader, and get an OS's name wrong after it's been out a decade.
Apple has had tools to do this for free on the mac for old.img floppy files since the mid 90s at least. It just wasn't included in the base OS with the advent of checksum-enhanced dmgs till OS X. Your credit to Linux is a little mistaken.
Can you clarify the connection here? It seems you are just relating 2 things (one full of bias and one that is absolutely false) that have nothing to do with each other, attempting to make a biased statement. If fox news is hiring, you might want to apply. Apple "gets a pass on DRM" because they did it in a manner which didn't inconvenience a statistically significant number of users, all while fighting to remove DRM. I go and buy a copy of Office at best buy and I can only use it on one system, must repurchase it for every machine I own. Now say I purchase iWork, not endorsing the suite (it's just ok), off the app store. Buy once and I can run on all my machines. Seems fair to me. Certainly it's difficult to pirate it, but that's exactly the point. Anyone who's paying for the product sees a more open system.
But you still bought one, knowing full well that it was locked down beyond your comfort level. Why? I'm totally for the iPhone ecosystem, and also pro-jailbreaking for knowledgeable users. But the fact is that 90% of iPhone users NEED the walled garden approach to keep their phones from being the disaster their pcs are. You can say "but they just need to learn!!". They don't want to, if the last 15 years of rampant malware has taunt us anything on pcs. They don't give a crap. They bought the device to be a phone and run some popular apps from the app store and access Facebook. The last thing we need are cellphone botnets making ATT even slower.
If you can't find a purpose for an Internet device that runs for days without needing to see a wall outlet, is incredibly portable, and can do most things that your average laptop can do, then you don't need one at all. On the other hand, I recently pulled mine out on a camping trip to repair an email server for a client over VNC that was 400 miles away. Made some money and had a great week camping! Really, as a VNC terminal, it has paid itself off. Your purposes may vary, but versatility and portability is king.
I think people need to give more credit to the little guys at Apple that have made and designed the many products that have made apple a success. While Steve led the group, and deserves much credit for his ability to see success in nonexistent or potential markets, Apple as a team made the products work. Tim Cook is likely underrated by the community but, honestly, if Steve didn't think he wasn't a great leader for the company, I doubt he'd be the one handing the reigns over.
I just realized that's the WebMail interface that OS X Lion Server uses! I'm much happier with it over the old squirrelmail.
Overall, for this user I might just reccomend OS X Server on a Mac Mini or something of the sort. Once the bugs are worked out in the current version.
This is the type of thinking in the GPL community that keeps MS and Apple far above Linux in real usage. If you want great products that are reliably maintained and advanced, people need to be able to make a living off of it. Free stuff is great and free as in speech software is good, though often lacking.
I'm not going to starve while the big names in OSS support and licensing profit from my contributions. So I'll develop for a closed platform where I have the potential to keep my kids fed and invest in their college. And the community isn't openly hostile to the idea of me being successful. I just might want to get a new house some day, god forbid! A lot of people think this way and don't say it out loud cause they don't want to piss off the slashdot crowd, but it's true and the people crafting the GPL need to remember these people.
Not to mention how much you save in licensing costs! If you've ever looked into licensing prices for windows servers, a few user licenses cost more than a Mac Mini with unlimited clients.
a mini/mac pro as a fileserver for a small business might not be bonkers, but beyond SOHO use, why would anyone bother with a mac server?
OTA iOS device management? Golden-triangle support for mac management in an enterprise? Wiki Server?
But you do realize your saying "but beyond it's primary purpose, why would anyone want it?". SOHO is currently their target market for the mini server. It really makes for an awesome server for somebody like me who's self employed and using it for web, email/webmail, calendar, address book, VPN hosting. Setting all this up requires little knowledge of anything underneath the GUI, but a knowledge of DNS is fairly helpful. And most sysadmins, whether they like macs or not, could have one up and running most all services in less than pizza delivery time.
IT consultants are expensive, so getting something a child could manage has serious financial rewards for a tiny business.
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Hasn't this already been well known or quite some time?
There were quite a few apps that were caught collecting UDIDs, if I remember correctly. It's not actually all that far-fetched to believe that somebody, in order to gain some "street cred" actually obtained it in this manner, then released it saying it had come from the FBI to undeservingly inflate their reputation.
there has to be some other reason they're pushing for this law (perhaps just general harassment of gun owners?).
The underlying motivation is to make it difficult for firearm manufacturers to comply with differing laws all over the place. They need to make one model gun for California, one for New York, one for Massachusetts, and so on... Eventually those makers will just decide to stop selling in that state. This will likely trigger a spike in the price of firearms, so that only the wealthy can afford firearms. This is the intent, but likely all it will do is expand the scope of illegal gun trading in the state, congrats california! Swap one problem for a much worse problem, a bigger black market for firearms.
Where does it say "the right to bear arms in a way that can't be traced"?
The constitution doesn't say a lot of things, that does not mean that there is free reign to do such things.
Can you provide a metric by which Balmer shows success?
No growth over 12 years while your direct competitors have soared is terrible. You can't blame events that happened to everyone in the field. By not growing, Microsoft is losing. By only copying products and ideas rather than self-innovate they are just doing enough not to drop dead in their tracks. I'm not a fan of their products precisely for this reason. They're knock-offs when I can pay the same or less and get apple or google devices. Forever catching up is not a business strategy, it's a death-by-10,000 cuts strategy.
I think that's what we use to charge the iPad.
Names are generally applied to products... rarely having anything directly to do with the product itself. The philosophy behind doing that is up for debate, but unrelated here. I'm more curious as to why having Apple's logo on a stove would do anything to increase sales of that stove. It's definitely not an iPhone, or made by Apple. Are they actually fooling people into thinking it's an Apple product or better yet, an actual iPhone? Surely not..
Did it really work to increase sales of a gas stove? Would sticking an apple logo on something just automatically increase sales in China?
Management will always disapprove of solitude and independent employees because they can't take credit for the work completed and justify making higher salaries than those who actually spawn the good ideas and do great work.
So IE it is?
If they could use a controller, absolutely. But multi-touch gaming is just not convenient. A few games can pull it off and last the test of time, but nothing that's in the market that GameStop caters to. The controller is a MUST and it may make the machine a killer device, a portable console that doesn't suck.
Same reason some people call it "Macoss Ecks". What boggles me is that you could be a Slashdot reader, and get an OS's name wrong after it's been out a decade.
Apple has had tools to do this for free on the mac for old .img floppy files since the mid 90s at least. It just wasn't included in the base OS with the advent of checksum-enhanced dmgs till OS X. Your credit to Linux is a little mistaken.
Can you clarify the connection here? It seems you are just relating 2 things (one full of bias and one that is absolutely false) that have nothing to do with each other, attempting to make a biased statement. If fox news is hiring, you might want to apply. Apple "gets a pass on DRM" because they did it in a manner which didn't inconvenience a statistically significant number of users, all while fighting to remove DRM. I go and buy a copy of Office at best buy and I can only use it on one system, must repurchase it for every machine I own. Now say I purchase iWork, not endorsing the suite (it's just ok), off the app store. Buy once and I can run on all my machines. Seems fair to me. Certainly it's difficult to pirate it, but that's exactly the point. Anyone who's paying for the product sees a more open system.
Terrible analogies run rampant!
But you still bought one, knowing full well that it was locked down beyond your comfort level. Why? I'm totally for the iPhone ecosystem, and also pro-jailbreaking for knowledgeable users. But the fact is that 90% of iPhone users NEED the walled garden approach to keep their phones from being the disaster their pcs are. You can say "but they just need to learn!!". They don't want to, if the last 15 years of rampant malware has taunt us anything on pcs. They don't give a crap. They bought the device to be a phone and run some popular apps from the app store and access Facebook. The last thing we need are cellphone botnets making ATT even slower.
If you can't find a purpose for an Internet device that runs for days without needing to see a wall outlet, is incredibly portable, and can do most things that your average laptop can do, then you don't need one at all. On the other hand, I recently pulled mine out on a camping trip to repair an email server for a client over VNC that was 400 miles away. Made some money and had a great week camping! Really, as a VNC terminal, it has paid itself off. Your purposes may vary, but versatility and portability is king.
I think people need to give more credit to the little guys at Apple that have made and designed the many products that have made apple a success. While Steve led the group, and deserves much credit for his ability to see success in nonexistent or potential markets, Apple as a team made the products work. Tim Cook is likely underrated by the community but, honestly, if Steve didn't think he wasn't a great leader for the company, I doubt he'd be the one handing the reigns over.
I just realized that's the WebMail interface that OS X Lion Server uses! I'm much happier with it over the old squirrelmail. Overall, for this user I might just reccomend OS X Server on a Mac Mini or something of the sort. Once the bugs are worked out in the current version.
Citation? Holy crap just go to microsoft.com. Not like they hide CAL prices. It's painful to look at and you call us fanbois
This is the type of thinking in the GPL community that keeps MS and Apple far above Linux in real usage. If you want great products that are reliably maintained and advanced, people need to be able to make a living off of it. Free stuff is great and free as in speech software is good, though often lacking. I'm not going to starve while the big names in OSS support and licensing profit from my contributions. So I'll develop for a closed platform where I have the potential to keep my kids fed and invest in their college. And the community isn't openly hostile to the idea of me being successful. I just might want to get a new house some day, god forbid! A lot of people think this way and don't say it out loud cause they don't want to piss off the slashdot crowd, but it's true and the people crafting the GPL need to remember these people.
Not to mention how much you save in licensing costs! If you've ever looked into licensing prices for windows servers, a few user licenses cost more than a Mac Mini with unlimited clients.
a mini/mac pro as a fileserver for a small business might not be bonkers, but beyond SOHO use, why would anyone bother with a mac server? OTA iOS device management? Golden-triangle support for mac management in an enterprise? Wiki Server? But you do realize your saying "but beyond it's primary purpose, why would anyone want it?". SOHO is currently their target market for the mini server. It really makes for an awesome server for somebody like me who's self employed and using it for web, email/webmail, calendar, address book, VPN hosting. Setting all this up requires little knowledge of anything underneath the GUI, but a knowledge of DNS is fairly helpful. And most sysadmins, whether they like macs or not, could have one up and running most all services in less than pizza delivery time. IT consultants are expensive, so getting something a child could manage has serious financial rewards for a tiny business.
And the rest of the world has stuff that actually works.