You should really read the full article. I know a whole 5 pages wahhh, but seriously it is well written and a very scary tale of someone being railroaded by the legal system. It was only through the charity of some celebrities and twitterers that he was able to appeal and get it overturned. Most of us would just be screwed and have to live with it. In the end he still had to go through losing his job and the ordeal of being a convicted criminal. Sad.
Fact: Most Mac users are at this point still running Snow Leopard.
Fact: Snow Leopard can only run Java 6 and Apple has stopped releasing security updates for it and the OS in general.
Fact: Most Mac users are SOL.
Sorry to be a bit trollish here but Apple, you know the richest company in history with money to burn, refuses to spend money to support an OS that is only 3 years old and that pisses me off.
Although MS is certainly working on a replacement what's the rush? Both the Xbox and PS3 still have plenty of engaging games that look awesome your typical 42" TV. Add to that all the online services like Netflix etc that they have been adding and what exactly are you missing out on? Spending money on new system that does what? Better graphics? Graphics don't make the game.
This longer period between new systems may frustrate graphic whores, not saying you are one, but it has lead to a stable console platform that gamers have gotten a lot of value out of. That's not such a bad thing especially when you look at all of the great games that continue to come out. Anyway that's my 2cents.
"IF I got my "benefits" as salary, I could be much more efficient in my health care dollars than Insurance."
Good idea.... until you get into a car accident or slip and fall and break your hip and have chronic long term pain. Or have some other serious medical condition and it drains your life savings within months. I'm sure some Americans could make that work but not most.
Fact: Most Americans are terrible at saving money, even ignoring the fact that salaries have been stagnating and our current situation makes saving difficult. If they enable "save and pay your own way" for everyone we'd all be doomed. The only solution is stop this partial Universal Healthcare crap and go Full Universal and abolish the current private Insurance system.
50 years from now they'll be looking back and wondering what the hell we were thinking allowing private insurance to screw us so badly for so very long.
It's $10/month per 1TB which imho is pretty fair. Maybe not doable if you have 1,000 1TB tapes like someone else posted but for most other businesses that's not bad.
"If people can't get their dev environment running, they won't dev apps"
Why wouldn't they be able to get their dev environment running? I understand what you are trying to say but realistically Apple does supply Xcode and any other tools needed to make apps on it's platform. If you don't like it Apple will just tell you to piss off like they do on everything else. It's not fair but then again Apple has never been about fair.
When you A) have the best healthcare in the world B) have the healthcare companies/insurance sleazebags in your pocket and C) are able to trick people into voting against their own self interests why would you give a shit about the struggling masses without adequate Healthcare? Hence Mitch Fuckface McDickhead McConnell's amendment to a cybersecurity bill.
I love their solution. Instead of Easily fixing the problem, which btw is definitely possible, they tell you to upgrade to Windows 8 and Metro as an alternative. Um ok...
MS can blow me if they think that's somehow an acceptable alternative.They must really be desperate to get people to buy into Metro if they are pulling stunts like this.
How about because we understand exactly what they are trying to do and exactly why they are doing it, but still honestly believe it is a TERRIBLE interface for desktops and laptops?
But at least they are supporting linux with it vs not. The bottom line is when your trying to use Linux as your desktop OS and need to Skype with someone they don't want to hear "Just download X client and we'll use that instead of Skype". Maybe the people forcing you to run Skype to communicate with them should care about open standards but like most people they probably just want to use something that's familiar and easy to use.
Still the f'ed up ui that ONLY works on on tablets, right? Pass. Its going to be an absolute nightmare for all of these poor people who order their Dell's and go "What the fuck is this shit? How do I navigate this thing?"
RIP Windows 7 the last sane MS Desktop OS RIP Snow Leopard the lasr sane Mac OS
Compared with Verizon's new bend you over and screw you dry plans, there are a ton of prepaid wireless company's that offer what Verizon is offering at half the price PLUS double the data. Boost, Virgin Mobile, just to name a few.
Their pricing may go up depending on their relationships with Verizon but they will all now clearly represent a better value than Verizon especially when you consider phone costs.
"Picasa Web Albums offers 1 GB of free storage for photos and videos"
"Photos up to 800 x 800 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won't count towards your free storage."
So maybe videos are fine but it looks like Picasa Web Albums is pretty much worthless for Photo storage.
Btw I haven't used it yet, but when I signed up for Live Drive they gave me 25GB free. I personally think 5B is a joke for company like Google. I was expecting something like 50GB per user Free and then plans for 100GB and up.
On the one hand I think parents should police what their kids are doing. But is it required for them to play every game themselves and make sure it isn't one can easily charge you money? Answer that for yourself but don't be too knee-jerk about how nobody wants to take responsibility for themselves anymore.
On the other hand I hate these "bait"/"Freeium" apps that have taken over. They are a blight on the gaming world imho. Some people like getting something for free. I'd rather pay a little and know thats the final amount and get a finished game. The whole sell a partial game/buy DLC to finish it is crap.
On the other other hand I have little sympathy for Apple as they are absurdly lawsuit happy, plus they love to step on the little guy which I've never been a fan of.
Snow Leopard will go down in history as the last great Apple OS. Everything after it is complete crap from a design standpoint. They are absolutely ruining what imho was the best designed OS from a GUI standpoint. What they are doing is just as bad as Microsoft's shitty metro UI for Windows 8. I guess I'm running Snow Leopard until my computer dies. Then I don't know what I'll do. I suppose Windows 7 on a "ultrabook". At least that will be supported for many years to come.
DOS was an OS nobody could love from a UI standpoint. Now we are diving into the deep end going the other way and making everything as close to an iPad as possible. I suppose 10 years from now when the dust settles we will be fine and all wonder what the fuss was about, but this changeover absolutely sucks ass.
Hope they go tits up and close every single Best Buy store out there. That way maybe, we can start seeing some competition out there again. Best Buy set the standard for poor customer service and bred a culture of ignoring the customer and giving false information in order to lead the customer into buying things like $100 hdmi cables and extended services contracts. They may not have been the first company to do all of this but they certainly perfected it and made shopping for computers and electronics a fucking horror show. My wife and father in law still won't step foot in a best buy with me after the experiences they have had there. So again let me call out. Burn motherfucker Burn.
Boy can I relate. I'll just say ditto for 15yrs and I hope to someday come out the other side like you did. I'm glad things have gotten better and your off the shitty meds.
There's no reason to believe that. In fact all public evidence on Jobs thought process for Charitable giving say otherwise.
Jobs was a vicious, mean bastard, who treated pretty much everyone in his life like crap. He just happened to make great tech products. Btw I happen to own several of these products. Although now that I know as much as I do about him I guess I have to think about what that means.
There was some speculation that before he died he might have been giving anonymously. I call bullshit until proven otherwise. Based on how he treated his fellow human beings throughout his ENTIRE life AND how he treated his own children/family I have every reason to think he didn't give any of his $8Billion to charity.
And if that's the case I hope he's in his own special hell. You don't get to amass that much wealth, not give back and help when you really could have, and then get rewarded on the other side. That just can't be how it works, at least I hope not...
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Thanks for the link I'll check it out.
You should really read the full article. I know a whole 5 pages wahhh, but seriously it is well written and a very scary tale of someone being railroaded by the legal system. It was only through the charity of some celebrities and twitterers that he was able to appeal and get it overturned. Most of us would just be screwed and have to live with it. In the end he still had to go through losing his job and the ordeal of being a convicted criminal. Sad.
Fact: Most Mac users are at this point still running Snow Leopard.
Fact: Snow Leopard can only run Java 6 and Apple has stopped releasing security updates for it and the OS in general.
Fact: Most Mac users are SOL.
Sorry to be a bit trollish here but Apple, you know the richest company in history with money to burn, refuses to spend money to support an OS that is only 3 years old and that pisses me off.
"a tri-core that nobody can program for"
Since when can nobody program for the Xbox 360?
Although MS is certainly working on a replacement what's the rush? Both the Xbox and PS3 still have plenty of engaging games that look awesome your typical 42" TV. Add to that all the online services like Netflix etc that they have been adding and what exactly are you missing out on? Spending money on new system that does what? Better graphics? Graphics don't make the game.
This longer period between new systems may frustrate graphic whores, not saying you are one, but it has lead to a stable console platform that gamers have gotten a lot of value out of. That's not such a bad thing especially when you look at all of the great games that continue to come out. Anyway that's my 2cents.
"IF I got my "benefits" as salary, I could be much more efficient in my health care dollars than Insurance."
Good idea.... until you get into a car accident or slip and fall and break your hip and have chronic long term pain. Or have some other serious medical condition and it drains your life savings within months. I'm sure some Americans could make that work but not most.
Fact: Most Americans are terrible at saving money, even ignoring the fact that salaries have been stagnating and our current situation makes saving difficult. If they enable "save and pay your own way" for everyone we'd all be doomed. The only solution is stop this partial Universal Healthcare crap and go Full Universal and abolish the current private Insurance system.
50 years from now they'll be looking back and wondering what the hell we were thinking allowing private insurance to screw us so badly for so very long.
It's $10/month per 1TB which imho is pretty fair. Maybe not doable if you have 1,000 1TB tapes like someone else posted but for most other businesses that's not bad.
"If people can't get their dev environment running, they won't dev apps"
Why wouldn't they be able to get their dev environment running? I understand what you are trying to say but realistically Apple does supply Xcode and any other tools needed to make apps on it's platform. If you don't like it Apple will just tell you to piss off like they do on everything else. It's not fair but then again Apple has never been about fair.
Or their children who were born with birth defects...
When you A) have the best healthcare in the world B) have the healthcare companies/insurance sleazebags in your pocket and C) are able to trick people into voting against their own self interests why would you give a shit about the struggling masses without adequate Healthcare? Hence Mitch Fuckface McDickhead McConnell's amendment to a cybersecurity bill.
I love their solution. Instead of Easily fixing the problem, which btw is definitely possible, they tell you to upgrade to Windows 8 and Metro as an alternative. Um ok...
MS can blow me if they think that's somehow an acceptable alternative.They must really be desperate to get people to buy into Metro if they are pulling stunts like this.
How about because we understand exactly what they are trying to do and exactly why they are doing it, but still honestly believe it is a TERRIBLE interface for desktops and laptops?
But at least they are supporting linux with it vs not. The bottom line is when your trying to use Linux as your desktop OS and need to Skype with someone they don't want to hear "Just download X client and we'll use that instead of Skype". Maybe the people forcing you to run Skype to communicate with them should care about open standards but like most people they probably just want to use something that's familiar and easy to use.
Still the f'ed up ui that ONLY works on on tablets, right? Pass. Its going to be an absolute nightmare for all of these poor people who order their Dell's and go "What the fuck is this shit? How do I navigate this thing?"
RIP Windows 7 the last sane MS Desktop OS
RIP Snow Leopard the lasr sane Mac OS
Compared with Verizon's new bend you over and screw you dry plans, there are a ton of prepaid wireless company's that offer what Verizon is offering at half the price PLUS double the data. Boost, Virgin Mobile, just to name a few.
Their pricing may go up depending on their relationships with Verizon but they will all now clearly represent a better value than Verizon especially when you consider phone costs.
Fuck you, and Fuck you again. You greedy scumbags. Prices should be going down and caps should be going up. Not the other way around. Fuck you.
"Apple is preparing a Retina Display for the new MacBook Pro. If they keep the price point to $999"
A) the cheapest Macbook Pro is currectly $1200, and now they are going to be adding a super advanced low produce screen that no other manu is using.
B) expect the Retina Macbooks to be in the $2000-2500 range.
Don't assume everyone knows what "LHC" stands for.
Sorry meant to say Skydrive.
Are you a paying client or something?
Per http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1224181&topic=1689654&ctx=topic
"Picasa Web Albums offers 1 GB of free storage for photos and videos"
"Photos up to 800 x 800 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won't count towards your free storage."
So maybe videos are fine but it looks like Picasa Web Albums is pretty much worthless for Photo storage.
Btw I haven't used it yet, but when I signed up for Live Drive they gave me 25GB free. I personally think 5B is a joke for company like Google. I was expecting something like 50GB per user Free and then plans for 100GB and up.
On the one hand I think parents should police what their kids are doing. But is it required for them to play every game themselves and make sure it isn't one can easily charge you money? Answer that for yourself but don't be too knee-jerk about how nobody wants to take responsibility for themselves anymore.
On the other hand I hate these "bait"/"Freeium" apps that have taken over. They are a blight on the gaming world imho. Some people like getting something for free. I'd rather pay a little and know thats the final amount and get a finished game. The whole sell a partial game/buy DLC to finish it is crap.
On the other other hand I have little sympathy for Apple as they are absurdly lawsuit happy, plus they love to step on the little guy which I've never been a fan of.
Snow Leopard will go down in history as the last great Apple OS. Everything after it is complete crap from a design standpoint. They are absolutely ruining what imho was the best designed OS from a GUI standpoint. What they are doing is just as bad as Microsoft's shitty metro UI for Windows 8. I guess I'm running Snow Leopard until my computer dies. Then I don't know what I'll do. I suppose Windows 7 on a "ultrabook". At least that will be supported for many years to come.
DOS was an OS nobody could love from a UI standpoint. Now we are diving into the deep end going the other way and making everything as close to an iPad as possible. I suppose 10 years from now when the dust settles we will be fine and all wonder what the fuss was about, but this changeover absolutely sucks ass.
Hope they go tits up and close every single Best Buy store out there. That way maybe, we can start seeing some competition out there again. Best Buy set the standard for poor customer service and bred a culture of ignoring the customer and giving false information in order to lead the customer into buying things like $100 hdmi cables and extended services contracts. They may not have been the first company to do all of this but they certainly perfected it and made shopping for computers and electronics a fucking horror show. My wife and father in law still won't step foot in a best buy with me after the experiences they have had there. So again let me call out. Burn motherfucker Burn.
Gee wonder why you posted as a coward? Coward. Oh and this is modded up because...
Boy can I relate. I'll just say ditto for 15yrs and I hope to someday come out the other side like you did. I'm glad things have gotten better and your off the shitty meds.
There's no reason to believe that. In fact all public evidence on Jobs thought process for Charitable giving say otherwise.
Jobs was a vicious, mean bastard, who treated pretty much everyone in his life like crap. He just happened to make great tech products. Btw I happen to own several of these products. Although now that I know as much as I do about him I guess I have to think about what that means.
There was some speculation that before he died he might have been giving anonymously. I call bullshit until proven otherwise. Based on how he treated his fellow human beings throughout his ENTIRE life AND how he treated his own children/family I have every reason to think he didn't give any of his $8Billion to charity.
And if that's the case I hope he's in his own special hell. You don't get to amass that much wealth, not give back and help when you really could have, and then get rewarded on the other side. That just can't be how it works, at least I hope not...