The one that's used to make record of all meetings for the internal news site?
A photo on a "strategical meeting" where no graphs or slides are being shown is not a strategic threat. However, I sound recording device is always a threat, and I'm pretty sure that at least one would be active at that time - you can bet your arse I would do it if a colleague of mine were fired that way for a probable grievance.
In some countries, being firing someone this way is the best way to get a good indemnification for moral damages.
Not all corporate meetings; In fact generally very few are meant for the "corporate newsletter" Strategy meetings in particular, are generally on a "need to know" basis.
What happened when European men and women landed upon the shores of the glorious New World? Why, they had children.
Who did these children grow up to become? THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
What would happen to the first children on Mars? They would become THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF MARTIAN AMERICA!
It's not an equivalent situation. Conditions in the early American colonies were harsh because the colonists weren't prepared for the transition and unused to the climate which led to a 50 percent mortality rate in the first year. However as settlements stabilised, the environment soon became as habitable as the one they left.
Mars isn't like that. It hasn't got an atmosphere worth a dam, and you're going to have the option of striking out and staking your acre of land as you're not going to be able to grow anything just by relying on what "nature" provides. It will remain just as hostile an environment 200 years from now as it is today. Given the living conditions that are going to be available, you pretty much have to be willing to consign yourself to an effective prison for the rest of your life. Granted that there are people who are so disfunctional with their present lives that they will sign up. But are those the kind of people you want to start a colony around?
I am not trying to imply that Snowden is an attention seeker
But you know damn well that he is.
He damm well better be. What's the point in exposing secret bugging on the planet if you're not going to bring it to everyone's attention? Because attention is the kryptonite to people who'd rather remain in shadow.
He kept it. He personally, did not invade Czechoslovakia.a A bunch of his armies got lost though. And before they knew it, they had conquered a country.
You should realize that the USA nowadays is just acting like any other terrorist group and who is gonna believe a terrorist group?
Terrorist groups are generally defined by those hardly in sympathy to their cause.
Before Palestine was liberated. Future Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin was tossing bombs at the British who owned it. I'm pretty sure the English Lords and Ladies of the late 1770's classified the troops led by George Washington as "unshod, uneducated, group of ruffians". (the 18th century buzzwords for terrorist).
> terrorists act the way they do not because they are crazy and evil, but because they believe they
> have legitimate grievances and that their cause is worth fighting for.
Some people who are described as terrorists do. Some don't. The people behind 9/11 came from a backwards culture AND were muslim. I think it's safe to say that they do have a cause, but that they were also crazy. It's an indication of how normal it's treated to follow any religion that picking any one religion appears odd. Religion will not be around forever, and people will look back and laugh at us for thinking we're advanced because we can attach jet engines to metal boxes and fly a short way to the moon, but all the time pretend some guy in the sky invented everything in the face of absolutely no evidence this is the case other than that every other fucker also believes it.
Religion will go away at around the same time the sex drive does. It's built into our genes to believe passionately and loudly about something. I've seen Trek and Unix fanboys lay into their favored causes with all the enthusiasm of a religious fanatic. The main difference between them and suicide terrorists? They haven't been put in a position of having lost so much, that the promised Heaven or Afterlife starts looking real good compared to continuing in this one. Very few Americans have any idea how much our policies have impacted the middle east. For every American that was killed in our Arabian wars, hundreds perhaps thousands of the natives were killed and injured and many others made homeless. Having lost so much, with no real hope of fighting militarily against an American juggernaut, suicide missions look as good to as they would to a Rambo under similar situations. Unlike Rambo though, these folks have the unfortunate problem of being real people.
No, sorry it's not open. It uses encryption and the only reason why some of the features work on Linux or elsewhere is because the crypto key was found in a firmware update. That is why when some IOS updates have come out Shairport etc. has gotten broken on Linux, Apple changed the keys. Once the new keys are figured out support resumes.
"Originally only implemented in Apple's software and devices, Apple has licensed the audio-streaming portion of the AirPlay protocol stack as a third-party software component technology to manufacturer partners for them to use in their products in order to be compatible with Apple's iDevices."
There is aboslutely nothing stopping anyone from licensing software to enable this capability. A third party developer could license this for software. Hardware developers can license this to enable it on their devices.
"Ever since Apple launched AirTunes in 2004 (later renamed AirPlay) they have remained unchallenged in the Wi-Fi music streaming market. With various manufacturers releasing AirPlay-only Wi-Fi speakers, Android and other non-Apple device users have been left out in the cold.
Not true. AirPlay (as well as AirPrint) is an open standard. I've a couple of Android applications which transmit to my AppleTV without a problem. It's really the unwillingness of the hardware developers and/or Google to make use of that standard, being the only reason they can't make use of AirPlay.
At least when you are paying for a car (that you bought with a loan), you are generally free to mess with it however you wish. Want to repaint it, or rip out the back seats for more trunk space, or fiddle with the engine? Go right ahead. Same with your house: the bank doesn't get a say in what home modifications you make. You're responsible for paying off the loan, but not for using your (not-fully-paid-for) property according to the mandates of bank management. Not so with software you "own" under a restrictive license or "cloud-based" system.
Take out the seat belts, air bags, remove the headlights, or various other things that are required to make the vehicle street legal, you have problems.
There was a quantifiable difference in the ways the US and the USSR treated their citizens. And while that gap may be narrowing the fact that we are reading about this in the newspapers and debating this is a good thing. I remember a saying that was said during the aftermath of WWII - "If you want to know what atrocities the Russians committed, look in the graves. If you want to know what atrocities the Nazis committed, look at the receipts. If you want to know what atrocities the Americans committed, look in the newspapers."
Let's hope that always stays true.
Or in the history books... such as the deathsongs of various Amerind tribes, or the tales of American slavery. In the modern day, you look for unmarked graves in places like Romania, where we export the torture that we can't do legally on U.S. soil, Guantano Bay, where hundreds are still being held without trial. all of the nations where we backed any bloodthirsty dictator who promised to carry the flag of Anti-Communism, from the Shah of Iran, to Pol Pot. Atrocity is a pretty popular American export.
The Soviets collapsed because of lack of technolgy -- repeat 1989 today and the Soviet Union would be alive and well -- It is what Putin hopes to re-instate. Woz is correct in his analysis.
You're wrong, and Woz is wrong as well. The Soviets collapsed because America forced them into an arms race they couldn't pay for (which almost broke the United States as well), that, and the expense of maintaining an imperial empire as far away as Cuba. To develop technology, you need a rich economy to support it, one that could pay for luxuries such as Bell Labs, Sillicon Valley, Xerox Parc. The Soviet Union in contrary to what Marx would have predicted evolved from what was a poor if large nation, that only got poorer due to war, and the money being spent on future wars that never occured.
No, you're paying for exactly what's being sold to you. Apple has made no commitment and is not obligated to give you one ounce of support for you to monkey with the hardware to jimmy some other operating system on it.
There are security issues on Android phones. There are especially security issues involved when you sell an old Android phone as it's not that easy to securely purge every bit of data you might have put on there as you can with an iPhone. Phone malware does exist for both platforms, and given that smartphones these days are as much computers as computers were a couple of years ago, then yes you CAN get virii and malware infecting your phones.
You own the physical device. You don't own the software. You don't own the rights to monkey with the software. In a similar vein, Apple is not under any obligation to make life easier for you to monkey with their software. The exploits that make jailbreaking easier make for a less secure phone. And phone security is a good deal of what iPhone users are buying into and is a growing concern the more of their lives people place on this (and other smartphones as well.)
If I own the physical device, then I can use it as I please. The point of custom ROMs is that I don't have to "monkey" with the software because I won't be using the software.
But this discussion is why I stopped buying Apple products. I'm not the only one. The number of new customers to Apple has flattened and mostly they're selling iPhones to people who are replacing old iPhones. There are people moving from iOS to Android and fewer moving back the other way. Apple's attitude is a big reason.
While you may feel bold and confident in your belief, it's far more likely that the reason is that there are some good low-priced alternatives out there, and 98+ percent of the people buying Android devices not only will not root them, but don't and won't give a fig about doing so.
Your argument makes as much sense as someone buying a Mac to do nothing but run Windows software on it.
It's their OS and their device, aren't hey entitled to it?
It's their device until I buy it.
I guess owning something doesn't mean being able to use it the way you want.
Apple doesn't give a good goddamn about stolen phones. That's not why they're implementing this new lockdown. In fact, they probably like stolen phones because that means they can sell new ones to the original suckers. This is about making sure that not one thing happens with that device where Apple doesn't get a little ka-ching! somewhere along the line.
Apple has taken cell phones and tablets and turned them into slot machines. And Apple is the "house".
You own the physical device. You don't own the software. You don't own the rights to monkey with the software. In a similar vein, Apple is not under any obligation to make life easier for you to monkey with their software. The exploits that make jailbreaking easier make for a less secure phone. And phone security is a good deal of what iPhone users are buying into and is a growing concern the more of their lives people place on this (and other smartphones as well.)
The 8600 was a design relic of of the Sculley years. It was one of a bunch of beige pro-level Macs that were being slaughtered by the Mac clones put out by Power Computing et. al. You really aren't seeing the Jobs era of design until the IMac and the Blue and White G3 era.
If you really want to see politics as sport... come to New Jersey. We've got your corruption, we've got your mudracking, we've got your mudslinging. It's a complete package of dysfunctional government from the local level all the way up to Trenton.
Taxation certainly is theft at gunpoint - but it may provide some social good that exceeds the harm of theft at gunpoint.
Two words that must be curse words to Libertarians are the term "social contract". What you see as theft, I see as part of the contract individuals make up to live within society. Which means you exchange certain obligations for the right to dwell, live, and work within the bounds of a society. No matter where you go, you're going to live within the bounds of a society. The rights you have as an individual are defined by that social contract. The difference between a nation/tribe ruled by men as opposed to laws will define not only the contract, but how it's enforced upon both sides.
An example from today: I walked into a sub shop, handed somebody a piece of paper with the magic words "Five Dollars" on it, and demanded that person make me a sub. That person did some work and handed me my sandwich in exchange for my piece of paper. I got the $5 not from working, but from capital gains, in other words the fruits of someone else's labor. And the guy who made the sub is getting paid $8 an hour, and took about 5 minutes to make my sub, so he only got $0.67 for his labor, and the sub itself is only worth about $1 in materials and about $1 worth of shop upkeep, so his boss got $2.33 for someone else's labor.
Did you really demand? (Not that I would be surprised, a lot of Americans seem to think that service personnel exists to be treated like shit.) Or did you like most people, enter willingly into a transaction where you exchanged currency backed by faith in the stability of the United States government, which you presumably accepted in turn for labor you performed, in exchange for the product of his labor and materials, hopefully a transaction which was entered into with some basic level of civil courtesy and decorum.
What you are saying is that the government has the authority to force, at gunpoint, how you should think about things like race relations. BTW, your analogy with the gay/lesbian persecution is a bad one as it is commonly being used as a "protected minority". What would be a better analogy is somebody from a non-protect sub-group like a Justin Bieber fan being fired because they happen to wear a T-shirt with his picture on it before they changed into their work uniform. Or a Star Trek fan being fired by a boss who hates that TV series and movies.
That's a crappy analogy. Here's basically what it comes down to. Nature abhors a power vacuum... and so do people in general. You have a choice, you either have government which answers to a code of laws, or you have your local warlord whose guns and knives are what YOU answer to. Unless you live in a (diety of your choice) forsaken corner of the most inhospitable part of the planet, it's always been one or the other. Libertarians NEVER EVER answer this basic fact of human history. You will either have rule of law or rule of the gun/sword/.
You can buy plenty of third party options for firewire storage, as well as Thunderbolt. and USB3.
In fact you can have a single Thunderbolt box that will have tons of I/O on it. So it's not going to be the "rats nest" for most people.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
An 8600? your standard for Macs is something from the pre-Jobs Stone Age? Get a Mac from this century and try again. I'll just consider this a flamebait post.
The iCloud keychain really needs to be cross platform. Any tool like this really does.
Since I doubt that's going to happen, I can suggest Dashlane for those who want that sort of thing now. It's Windows/Mac/IOS/Android compatible. although if you want device syncage, you'll have to buy a subscription.
iCloud Keychain needed to happen. Didn't MobileMe subscribers have that functionality in the past? In any case it is most welcome news.
iCloud iWork sounds interesting... but what's really missing from iWork is document sharing along the lines of Dropbox or Google Drive, at least if it's supposed to be more than just a toy. I suppose that could be part of the updates, but I didn't see anything along those lines mentioned in Engadget's live blog. Even for home use, though - I occasionally want to share documents with my wife. The current "email it to her" solution is straight out of 1995...
What MobileMe had, this new Keychain is that on steroids. If you want something to compare it to, think Dashlane, which I installed after seeing David Pogue's gushing review of it on the NYTimes.
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The one that's used to make record of all meetings for the internal news site?
A photo on a "strategical meeting" where no graphs or slides are being shown is not a strategic threat. However, I sound recording device is always a threat, and I'm pretty sure that at least one would be active at that time - you can bet your arse I would do it if a colleague of mine were fired that way for a probable grievance.
In some countries, being firing someone this way is the best way to get a good indemnification for moral damages.
Not all corporate meetings; In fact generally very few are meant for the "corporate newsletter" Strategy meetings in particular, are generally on a "need to know" basis.
What happened when European men and women landed upon the shores of the glorious New World? Why, they had children.
Who did these children grow up to become? THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
What would happen to the first children on Mars? They would become THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF MARTIAN AMERICA!
It's not an equivalent situation. Conditions in the early American colonies were harsh because the colonists weren't prepared for the transition and unused to the climate which led to a 50 percent mortality rate in the first year. However as settlements stabilised, the environment soon became as habitable as the one they left. Mars isn't like that. It hasn't got an atmosphere worth a dam, and you're going to have the option of striking out and staking your acre of land as you're not going to be able to grow anything just by relying on what "nature" provides. It will remain just as hostile an environment 200 years from now as it is today. Given the living conditions that are going to be available, you pretty much have to be willing to consign yourself to an effective prison for the rest of your life. Granted that there are people who are so disfunctional with their present lives that they will sign up. But are those the kind of people you want to start a colony around?
I am not trying to imply that Snowden is an attention seeker
But you know damn well that he is.
He damm well better be. What's the point in exposing secret bugging on the planet if you're not going to bring it to everyone's attention? Because attention is the kryptonite to people who'd rather remain in shadow.
He kept it. He personally, did not invade Czechoslovakia.a A bunch of his armies got lost though. And before they knew it, they had conquered a country.
You should realize that the USA nowadays is just acting like any other terrorist group and who is gonna believe a terrorist group?
Terrorist groups are generally defined by those hardly in sympathy to their cause. Before Palestine was liberated. Future Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin was tossing bombs at the British who owned it. I'm pretty sure the English Lords and Ladies of the late 1770's classified the troops led by George Washington as "unshod, uneducated, group of ruffians". (the 18th century buzzwords for terrorist).
> terrorists act the way they do not because they are crazy and evil, but because they believe they > have legitimate grievances and that their cause is worth fighting for.
Some people who are described as terrorists do. Some don't. The people behind 9/11 came from a backwards culture AND were muslim. I think it's safe to say that they do have a cause, but that they were also crazy. It's an indication of how normal it's treated to follow any religion that picking any one religion appears odd. Religion will not be around forever, and people will look back and laugh at us for thinking we're advanced because we can attach jet engines to metal boxes and fly a short way to the moon, but all the time pretend some guy in the sky invented everything in the face of absolutely no evidence this is the case other than that every other fucker also believes it.
Religion will go away at around the same time the sex drive does. It's built into our genes to believe passionately and loudly about something. I've seen Trek and Unix fanboys lay into their favored causes with all the enthusiasm of a religious fanatic. The main difference between them and suicide terrorists? They haven't been put in a position of having lost so much, that the promised Heaven or Afterlife starts looking real good compared to continuing in this one. Very few Americans have any idea how much our policies have impacted the middle east. For every American that was killed in our Arabian wars, hundreds perhaps thousands of the natives were killed and injured and many others made homeless. Having lost so much, with no real hope of fighting militarily against an American juggernaut, suicide missions look as good to as they would to a Rambo under similar situations. Unlike Rambo though, these folks have the unfortunate problem of being real people.
This brings up a curious point.
How many people here that are complaining about the government's actions voted for President Obama? How many voted for him twice?
Of those who voted for him, especially in 2012, how do you like what he's doing to your rights under the Constitution?
Our choice was between Bad and Worse.
Those Romanians who are holding him for us.... What were they thinking?!!
No, sorry it's not open. It uses encryption and the only reason why some of the features work on Linux or elsewhere is because the crypto key was found in a firmware update. That is why when some IOS updates have come out Shairport etc. has gotten broken on Linux, Apple changed the keys. Once the new keys are figured out support resumes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPlay
From that same article you quoted.
"Originally only implemented in Apple's software and devices, Apple has licensed the audio-streaming portion of the AirPlay protocol stack as a third-party software component technology to manufacturer partners for them to use in their products in order to be compatible with Apple's iDevices."
There is aboslutely nothing stopping anyone from licensing software to enable this capability. A third party developer could license this for software. Hardware developers can license this to enable it on their devices.
"Ever since Apple launched AirTunes in 2004 (later renamed AirPlay) they have remained unchallenged in the Wi-Fi music streaming market. With various manufacturers releasing AirPlay-only Wi-Fi speakers, Android and other non-Apple device users have been left out in the cold.
Not true. AirPlay (as well as AirPrint) is an open standard. I've a couple of Android applications which transmit to my AppleTV without a problem. It's really the unwillingness of the hardware developers and/or Google to make use of that standard, being the only reason they can't make use of AirPlay.
At least when you are paying for a car (that you bought with a loan), you are generally free to mess with it however you wish. Want to repaint it, or rip out the back seats for more trunk space, or fiddle with the engine? Go right ahead. Same with your house: the bank doesn't get a say in what home modifications you make. You're responsible for paying off the loan, but not for using your (not-fully-paid-for) property according to the mandates of bank management. Not so with software you "own" under a restrictive license or "cloud-based" system.
Take out the seat belts, air bags, remove the headlights, or various other things that are required to make the vehicle street legal, you have problems.
There was a quantifiable difference in the ways the US and the USSR treated their citizens. And while that gap may be narrowing the fact that we are reading about this in the newspapers and debating this is a good thing. I remember a saying that was said during the aftermath of WWII - "If you want to know what atrocities the Russians committed, look in the graves. If you want to know what atrocities the Nazis committed, look at the receipts. If you want to know what atrocities the Americans committed, look in the newspapers."
Let's hope that always stays true.
Or in the history books... such as the deathsongs of various Amerind tribes, or the tales of American slavery. In the modern day, you look for unmarked graves in places like Romania, where we export the torture that we can't do legally on U.S. soil, Guantano Bay, where hundreds are still being held without trial. all of the nations where we backed any bloodthirsty dictator who promised to carry the flag of Anti-Communism, from the Shah of Iran, to Pol Pot. Atrocity is a pretty popular American export.
The Soviets collapsed because of lack of technolgy -- repeat 1989 today and the Soviet Union would be alive and well -- It is what Putin hopes to re-instate. Woz is correct in his analysis.
You're wrong, and Woz is wrong as well. The Soviets collapsed because America forced them into an arms race they couldn't pay for (which almost broke the United States as well), that, and the expense of maintaining an imperial empire as far away as Cuba. To develop technology, you need a rich economy to support it, one that could pay for luxuries such as Bell Labs, Sillicon Valley, Xerox Parc. The Soviet Union in contrary to what Marx would have predicted evolved from what was a poor if large nation, that only got poorer due to war, and the money being spent on future wars that never occured.
No, you're paying for exactly what's being sold to you. Apple has made no commitment and is not obligated to give you one ounce of support for you to monkey with the hardware to jimmy some other operating system on it. There are security issues on Android phones. There are especially security issues involved when you sell an old Android phone as it's not that easy to securely purge every bit of data you might have put on there as you can with an iPhone. Phone malware does exist for both platforms, and given that smartphones these days are as much computers as computers were a couple of years ago, then yes you CAN get virii and malware infecting your phones.
If I own the physical device, then I can use it as I please. The point of custom ROMs is that I don't have to "monkey" with the software because I won't be using the software.
But this discussion is why I stopped buying Apple products. I'm not the only one. The number of new customers to Apple has flattened and mostly they're selling iPhones to people who are replacing old iPhones. There are people moving from iOS to Android and fewer moving back the other way. Apple's attitude is a big reason.
While you may feel bold and confident in your belief, it's far more likely that the reason is that there are some good low-priced alternatives out there, and 98+ percent of the people buying Android devices not only will not root them, but don't and won't give a fig about doing so. Your argument makes as much sense as someone buying a Mac to do nothing but run Windows software on it.
It's their device until I buy it.
I guess owning something doesn't mean being able to use it the way you want.
Apple doesn't give a good goddamn about stolen phones. That's not why they're implementing this new lockdown. In fact, they probably like stolen phones because that means they can sell new ones to the original suckers. This is about making sure that not one thing happens with that device where Apple doesn't get a little ka-ching! somewhere along the line.
Apple has taken cell phones and tablets and turned them into slot machines. And Apple is the "house".
You own the physical device. You don't own the software. You don't own the rights to monkey with the software. In a similar vein, Apple is not under any obligation to make life easier for you to monkey with their software. The exploits that make jailbreaking easier make for a less secure phone. And phone security is a good deal of what iPhone users are buying into and is a growing concern the more of their lives people place on this (and other smartphones as well.)
The 8600 was a design relic of of the Sculley years. It was one of a bunch of beige pro-level Macs that were being slaughtered by the Mac clones put out by Power Computing et. al. You really aren't seeing the Jobs era of design until the IMac and the Blue and White G3 era.
Politics is the unofficial state sport of NH .
If you really want to see politics as sport... come to New Jersey. We've got your corruption, we've got your mudracking, we've got your mudslinging. It's a complete package of dysfunctional government from the local level all the way up to Trenton.
Taxation certainly is theft at gunpoint - but it may provide some social good that exceeds the harm of theft at gunpoint.
Two words that must be curse words to Libertarians are the term "social contract". What you see as theft, I see as part of the contract individuals make up to live within society. Which means you exchange certain obligations for the right to dwell, live, and work within the bounds of a society. No matter where you go, you're going to live within the bounds of a society. The rights you have as an individual are defined by that social contract. The difference between a nation/tribe ruled by men as opposed to laws will define not only the contract, but how it's enforced upon both sides.
An example from today: I walked into a sub shop, handed somebody a piece of paper with the magic words "Five Dollars" on it, and demanded that person make me a sub. That person did some work and handed me my sandwich in exchange for my piece of paper. I got the $5 not from working, but from capital gains, in other words the fruits of someone else's labor. And the guy who made the sub is getting paid $8 an hour, and took about 5 minutes to make my sub, so he only got $0.67 for his labor, and the sub itself is only worth about $1 in materials and about $1 worth of shop upkeep, so his boss got $2.33 for someone else's labor.
Did you really demand? (Not that I would be surprised, a lot of Americans seem to think that service personnel exists to be treated like shit.) Or did you like most people, enter willingly into a transaction where you exchanged currency backed by faith in the stability of the United States government, which you presumably accepted in turn for labor you performed, in exchange for the product of his labor and materials, hopefully a transaction which was entered into with some basic level of civil courtesy and decorum.
What you are saying is that the government has the authority to force, at gunpoint, how you should think about things like race relations. BTW, your analogy with the gay/lesbian persecution is a bad one as it is commonly being used as a "protected minority". What would be a better analogy is somebody from a non-protect sub-group like a Justin Bieber fan being fired because they happen to wear a T-shirt with his picture on it before they changed into their work uniform. Or a Star Trek fan being fired by a boss who hates that TV series and movies.
That's a crappy analogy. Here's basically what it comes down to. Nature abhors a power vacuum... and so do people in general. You have a choice, you either have government which answers to a code of laws, or you have your local warlord whose guns and knives are what YOU answer to. Unless you live in a (diety of your choice) forsaken corner of the most inhospitable part of the planet, it's always been one or the other. Libertarians NEVER EVER answer this basic fact of human history. You will either have rule of law or rule of the gun/sword/.
You can buy plenty of third party options for firewire storage, as well as Thunderbolt. and USB3. In fact you can have a single Thunderbolt box that will have tons of I/O on it. So it's not going to be the "rats nest" for most people.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
An 8600? your standard for Macs is something from the pre-Jobs Stone Age? Get a Mac from this century and try again. I'll just consider this a flamebait post.
The iCloud keychain really needs to be cross platform. Any tool like this really does.
Since I doubt that's going to happen, I can suggest Dashlane for those who want that sort of thing now. It's Windows/Mac/IOS/Android compatible. although if you want device syncage, you'll have to buy a subscription.
iCloud Keychain needed to happen. Didn't MobileMe subscribers have that functionality in the past? In any case it is most welcome news.
iCloud iWork sounds interesting... but what's really missing from iWork is document sharing along the lines of Dropbox or Google Drive, at least if it's supposed to be more than just a toy. I suppose that could be part of the updates, but I didn't see anything along those lines mentioned in Engadget's live blog. Even for home use, though - I occasionally want to share documents with my wife. The current "email it to her" solution is straight out of 1995...
What MobileMe had, this new Keychain is that on steroids. If you want something to compare it to, think Dashlane, which I installed after seeing David Pogue's gushing review of it on the NYTimes.