Oh I hear you. It's a serious pet peeve of mine.
I have a 2014 Kia Forte 5, with the navigation system. They farm out the updates to it to MnSoft, who charge around CAD$300 plus tax for a single update (it's at least $50 for the 16GB SD card the update comes on!) and there are typically two updates a year, so you're looking at CAD$600 plus tax *a year* to keep totally updated. I've contacted Kia Canada and they don't care, they say, it's a third party and there is nothing they can do. Well, more like they don't want to do anything.
I've pointed out that a TomTom Go 600 is about $300, and it comes with lifetime maps, ok limited to four updates per year, but that is far far better than the built in solution.
When it comes to Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, the 2014 - 2016 models are Gen 3.0 cars and too old to have their system updated for it. Only the 2017+ cars will get it. Well, they *might*. In the US, it's a free update via the myUVO site, but in Canada, unless it's changed, Kia does not have a solution. Apparently people have been told by Kia customer care people that they'll need to purchase the update from MnSoft as Canada does not have UVO! I've also heard people with cars that are advertised as supporting Android Auto (2017 Sportage I think), being told it's a paid update, when the Kia website makes no indication of this, in fact, it indicates if you have the correct spec / level / trim of car, then it's included.
What really irks is they won a JD power award and pride themselves on saying they are all about the customer, when in this case it proves that is simply not the case.
They could resolve the price of Nav updates by taking MnSoft to task over it, but they seem to care not one jot about it.
I have considered reaching out to automotive media outlets to see if they have any interest in a story about this, as it seems customer are getting the rough end of the deal when it comes to navigation updates.
I'm pretty sure I was turning on the TV, expecting to watch The Adventure Game, but all I saw was the footage of Challenger. At first I did not comprehend what I was seeing, and then it sunk in.
Ripped (pun possibly intended) from The Lurkers Guide to Babylon 5, you stated, about Jack the Ripper: "Actually, yes, I do have a pet theory about who the Ripper was, but I'm so embarrassed over the west end/east end typo in one of our episodes that I don't know if I'll ever have enough courage to broach it to anyone."
They probably won't, too much work involved to look at all existing apps to see if they contain such functionality. If you're submitting a new app then they'll look at that. They *might* if you don't make any changes to the rejected app, send you a note that they are pulling your live app unless you make the changes, if indeed you do need to do anything, it could be something that is changed on dropbox's end which you don't need to change your code to do anything with.
If you live outside the United States, contact your State Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs or similar branch of government. Tell them you oppose SOPA and PIPA, and want the internet to remain open and free.
The decision for a global blackout was made in view of concerns about similar legislation in other nations.
Sorry, I'm in pain, I'm laughing far, far too hard. Bell doing something positive for consumers, oh stop, please, it hurts!
About the only nice thing Bell would do for customers is to provide lube to ease the penetration they usually inflict on users.
My name is William Lynch, CEO of Barnes & Noble, and I'm writing to you today on
behalf of the entire B&N team to make you aware of important information regarding your Borders account.
First of all let me say Barnes & Noble uniquely appreciates the importance bookstores play within local communities, and we're very sorry your Borders store closed.
As part of Borders ceasing operations, we acquired some of its assets including Borders brand trademarks and their customer list. The subject matter of your DVD and other video purchases will be part of the transferred information. The federal bankruptcy court approved this sale on September 26, 2011.
Our intent in buying the Borders customer list is simply to try and earn your business. The majority of our stores are within close proximity to former Borders store locations, and for those that aren't, we offer our award- winning NOOK digital reading devices that provide a bookstore in your pocket. We are readers like you, and hope that through our stores, NOOK devices, and our bn.com online bookstore we can win your trust and provide you with a place to read and shop.
It's important for you to understand however you have the absolute right to opt-out of having your customer data transferred to Barnes & Noble. If you would like to opt-out, we will ensure all your data we receive from Borders is disposed of in a secure and confidential manner. Please visit www.bn.com/borders before October 15, 2011 to do so.
Should you choose not to opt-out by October 15, 2011, be assured your information will be covered under the Barnes & Noble privacy policy, which can be accessed at www.bn.com/privacy. B&N will maintain any of your data according to this policy and our strict privacy standards.
At Barnes & Noble we share your love of books — whatever shape they take. We also take our responsibility to service communities by providing a local bookstore very seriously. In the coming weeks, assuming you don't opt-out, you'll be hearing from us with some offers to encourage you to shop our stores and try our NOOK products. We hope you'll give us a chance to be your bookstore.
I have a Garmin GPSmap 76CSx, purchased it a year or so to aid with sailing as I liked the blue chat maps. It's a great device, waterproof, mapping is good, ease of use is good. I also use it on land as well.
I've also got an iPhone 3GS and the GPS is pretty good, but if you don't have internet access then lookups on things are not going to work, and with a dedicated GPS that has the mapset installed on it, that's not a real big problem - of course items not being totally up to date could be an issue.
If Garmin decided to have an iPhone viewer and enabled me to use my existing maps then I would seriously consider ditching my 76CSx. Of course a waterproof case for the iPhone would be required as well, but that is probably available.
I am going to look at Navionics as I believe they do have an iPhone viewer app, and they also do marine mapping, so perhaps switching to a different map provider may be an option to go totally iPhone.
One wonders if they'll have hand gestures in the next revision. The "Find Porn" one could simply be the use of the "wanker" hand gesture, which is most appropriate.:D
Don't forget... Don't move your offices to from Ireland to another country whose taxation rate is low/none-existent to save yourself money. Unless of course the savings made by doing this are going to all those poor, starving types you always wail on about. The day you give up all your money, property and worldly belongings and donate the proceeds to these starving masses, and then you live in a box on a street, better still, sod off over to africa to live, is the day I'll pay strict attention to the cause.
I do find it very amusing that the US is having a hard time with Canada's policy. I'm a british citizen and have been based in our Canadian office for the past four years, and prior to that I worked in our UK office. I have had to make various business trips to both our US and Canadian offices, plus I've made various visits from Canada back to the UK for personal vistits. I've never had a problem with Canadian immigration, when I turned up wishing to obtain a work permit it was dealt with at the airport in a swift and pleasant manner.
The same cannot be said for trying to do business in the US. I think that in the seven years I've been travelling to the US on business I've had three polite and pleasant encounters with border services. The rest of the time I'm made to feel as though I should get down on my knees and praise the US for being so kind as to let me enter to do business. I'm required to provide a letter from the company stating where I am going and why. I've also been asked to provide purchase orders when I am going to visit a client to give a pre-sales demonstration of our software. I am polite and courtious and never point out this is a somewhat odd requirement, as I do not wish to anger the oh-so-powerfull border agent and cause him to refuse me entry for some reason.
The flipside is that whenever I enter Canada, be it from the UK, or the US, I have never had any problems whatsoever, even before getting a work permit and thus being an ordinary business traveller. It's for the reasons mentioned above that I find going to the US a bit of a chore.
My point? It seems that the US has gone absolutley security paranoid, and they appear to have adopted the "guilty until proven innocent" attitude. If you want "in" to the best country in the world, well, boy, you're going to have prove why we should let you in to our great land (here's a clue chaps, it's not that great!:-D). They think it's fine to belittle people at the border, but god forbid if any other country decides it wants to instigate higher security measures which would impact the fine good american citizens entering another country, especially one sharing the same continent as them.
Time for them to taste their own bitter pill? I think so.
Pretty sure the article I read on BBC News said that they had filed against allofmp3.com and alltunes.com. would have been most amusing if they'd just gone after allofmp3.com and forgot about alltunes.
I am curious about suing a company that is not within your own country and the laws of the other country differing from your own making something in their country legal, which is not legal in your country.
hmm, maybe I imagined it! However, this page does have a form where you could put in a request about not being able to find your purchased music. The downside is that the policy on downloaded content does mention it can only be downloaded once and you should back things up, which isn't overly helpful.
Not strictly true. iTunes 7 willallow you to transfer iTMS songs on your iPod to another computer, have a look here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTune sMac/7.0/en/2586x.html
I'm also sure that it is possible to get Apple to let you download your purchased tracks again. I think you're limited to doing it once a year or some other very infrequent period. I'm trying to find the support doc that details this, as I have read it in the past.
Oh the irony! I know that I'd not be here today because the drugs I take were more than likely tested on animals. As stated above, the head of PETA would probably not be here, but it's perfectly fine for them to be a hypocrite isn't it. Yeah, testing cosmetics on animals isn't on and that I disagree with, but I'd not attempt to murder someone or their co-workers because of it. As for pharmacutical testing, well, as said, I'd not be here, so the majority of it is fine with me. Why don't these people offer themselves in place of the animals if they care so much about their welfare?
Now for the somewhat fancifal side of things. Anyone remember the start of the film 28 Days Later? Yup, you got it, these "activists" decide to release the poor animals being experimented on, oh what a shame, they are infected with Rage, which then spreads to the activits when they are bitting by the animals and thus the plague is unleashed unto the world all under the assumption the activists were helping the animals, well thanks buddy, you just screwed us all.
Could this happen, well, it's possible. Whose to say some pharmacutical company isn't being paid to create a nice new bio-weapon at their labs, and of course the little activists probably would not know this and unleash god knows what on us.
Alas I didn't have anyone at WWDC this year so I don't have a copy of the DVD with 10.5 on it yet, though it'll probably show up in the next ADC mailing. It's a pity that Apple could not get it up on the ADC download servers at the same time it was released to the devs that were at WWDC.
At the top of page 3, in a big blue box is a rather clear warning:
Warning:
Boot Camp Beta is preview software licensed for use on a trial basis for a
limited time. Do not use Boot Camp Beta in a commercial operating environment or
with important data. You should back up all of your data before installing this
software and regularly back up data while using the software. Your rights to use Boot
Camp Beta are subject to acceptance of the terms of the software license agreement
that accompanies the software.
Unless I'm blind that does indeed mention backing up. OK, maybe it should be on the main page. However, If you don't read the setup guide then you're a tad foolish, moreso if the software isn't a release version. I read the setup guide, and I'd consider myself a fairly advanced user. The main reason was that my machine is partitioned and I wanted to see if BC would work in this environment, alas it does not.
Wonders will never cease to amaze me.
I've had a similar "discussion" on the parallels forum. People installed the beta of Parallels Workstation, and found it caused disk corruption. This was limited to a very small percentage of the user base. This is not desriable behaviour, but the software is beta, what do you expect? They were arguing that it should be more stable if it's a beta, and I parried back saying:
I think we have differing viewpoints on the classification of "beta".
To me it means pre-release, test software, not verified for use on mission critical machines. It has undergone some testing, but not extensive in-depth testing. There may be minor issues, there may be major issues. It's released to allow it to be tested in a wider field than would be possible in-house.
One of the Parallels team agreed that I'd put it rather well.
I think my comment holds water here too. Apple said Boot Camp was beta, and to me *any* software marked as beta should be treated with caution. If you don't take precautions and you get caught out, you have no-one but yourself to blame. Don't try and pressure Apple to fix the problem, and don't act like a spoilt brat, threatening never to use it again, or no doubt in some extreme cases, stating you'll never use a mac again unless they fix it.
The reference to Google and thier use of Beta as a marketing tool is quite possibly what has skewed the majority view of what beta should be, and that is worrying and wrong. It does not help other developers out there either as people will expect, as has become wildy apparent in both cases mentioned herin, that beta will be akin to release candidate software but with a few minor caveats, and not, as it should be, quite possibly, many minor and a few major issues/bugs/undocumented features.
Why do I not use windows as my primary OS? well, the main reason is that I work for a macintosh software developer, so it makes sense to use macintosh. The sales and admin are all run on Windows, as are the servers. but the dev and support stations are all mac.
As we all know, using protection is a good thing:D
Seriously though, if you want to lock things down a little more than the built in "limitations" feature of OS X, how about using Hi Resolution's MacPrefect product.
Hmm, well I recall hearing about this about 2 years ago in the UK. Does bring a new ultra stealthy way of catching speeders, just what is NOT needed, driver education is the best policy there.
However, the monitoring of weather conditions is rather good. I recall seing developent studs that would show different colors for different weather conditions, very good idea.
This is one of the things I dislike about driving in North America, a lack of "cats eyes" I know some roads do have them, but not all, and they should, especiallythe concrete multi-lane highways, when it's raining hard you cannot see the lane dividing lines in daylight, let alone at night, and these things would make that a bit safer.
Echoing what others have said. You get what you pay for. If I download something via Limewire or Aquisistion then I am fully prepared for it to death my machine.
I can partially understand the "A public beta by MS" thing, as yeah, if there was a public beta then it would get onto P2P, however, having said that, if I saw it on P2P, my next step would be the MS site to see if it's on there, if so, then try downloading it from there, makes more sense to use the official source.
One word that springs to mind is BACKUP! If he had a backup then so what if/Users/~ was trashed, just restore it, bingo!
User education, that's the key, alas, there will always be those who just won't or can't "get it", thus leading to these situations.
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Oh I hear you. It's a serious pet peeve of mine. I have a 2014 Kia Forte 5, with the navigation system. They farm out the updates to it to MnSoft, who charge around CAD$300 plus tax for a single update (it's at least $50 for the 16GB SD card the update comes on!) and there are typically two updates a year, so you're looking at CAD$600 plus tax *a year* to keep totally updated. I've contacted Kia Canada and they don't care, they say, it's a third party and there is nothing they can do. Well, more like they don't want to do anything. I've pointed out that a TomTom Go 600 is about $300, and it comes with lifetime maps, ok limited to four updates per year, but that is far far better than the built in solution. When it comes to Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, the 2014 - 2016 models are Gen 3.0 cars and too old to have their system updated for it. Only the 2017+ cars will get it. Well, they *might*. In the US, it's a free update via the myUVO site, but in Canada, unless it's changed, Kia does not have a solution. Apparently people have been told by Kia customer care people that they'll need to purchase the update from MnSoft as Canada does not have UVO! I've also heard people with cars that are advertised as supporting Android Auto (2017 Sportage I think), being told it's a paid update, when the Kia website makes no indication of this, in fact, it indicates if you have the correct spec / level / trim of car, then it's included. What really irks is they won a JD power award and pride themselves on saying they are all about the customer, when in this case it proves that is simply not the case. They could resolve the price of Nav updates by taking MnSoft to task over it, but they seem to care not one jot about it. I have considered reaching out to automotive media outlets to see if they have any interest in a story about this, as it seems customer are getting the rough end of the deal when it comes to navigation updates.
I'm pretty sure I was turning on the TV, expecting to watch The Adventure Game, but all I saw was the footage of Challenger. At first I did not comprehend what I was seeing, and then it sunk in.
Ripped (pun possibly intended) from The Lurkers Guide to Babylon 5, you stated, about Jack the Ripper:
"Actually, yes, I do have a pet theory about who the Ripper was, but I'm so embarrassed over the west end/east end typo in one of our episodes that I don't know if I'll ever have enough courage to broach it to anyone."
Do you have the courage to broach the theory now?
...try popping over to Kobo and have a look at the new Kobo Writing Life side of things which allows for self publishing.
They probably won't, too much work involved to look at all existing apps to see if they contain such functionality. If you're submitting a new app then they'll look at that. They *might* if you don't make any changes to the rejected app, send you a note that they are pulling your live app unless you make the changes, if indeed you do need to do anything, it could be something that is changed on dropbox's end which you don't need to change your code to do anything with.
What OS and Safari version? I tried OS X 10.6.8 and Safari Version 5.1.2 (6534.52.7) and it worked quite happily.
This is from the wikipedia page on SOPA:
If you're not in the US:
If you live outside the United States, contact your State Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs or similar branch of government. Tell them you oppose SOPA and PIPA, and want the internet to remain open and free.
The decision for a global blackout was made in view of concerns about similar legislation in other nations.
Sorry, I'm in pain, I'm laughing far, far too hard. Bell doing something positive for consumers, oh stop, please, it hurts! About the only nice thing Bell would do for customers is to provide lube to ease the penetration they usually inflict on users.
The URL you want is: http://www.bn.com/borders which redirects to: http://ebm.cheetahmail.com/r/regf2?a=0&aid=266639891&n=100
Full text of the aforementioned email from B&N below.
Dear Borders Customer,
My name is William Lynch, CEO of Barnes & Noble, and I'm writing to you today on behalf of the entire B&N team to make you aware of important information regarding your Borders account.
First of all let me say Barnes & Noble uniquely appreciates the importance bookstores play within local communities, and we're very sorry your Borders store closed.
As part of Borders ceasing operations, we acquired some of its assets including Borders brand trademarks and their customer list. The subject matter of your DVD and other video purchases will be part of the transferred information. The federal bankruptcy court approved this sale on September 26, 2011.
Our intent in buying the Borders customer list is simply to try and earn your business. The majority of our stores are within close proximity to former Borders store locations, and for those that aren't, we offer our award- winning NOOK digital reading devices that provide a bookstore in your pocket. We are readers like you, and hope that through our stores, NOOK devices, and our bn.com online bookstore we can win your trust and provide you with a place to read and shop.
It's important for you to understand however you have the absolute right to opt-out of having your customer data transferred to Barnes & Noble. If you would like to opt-out, we will ensure all your data we receive from Borders is disposed of in a secure and confidential manner. Please visit www.bn.com/borders before October 15, 2011 to do so.
Should you choose not to opt-out by October 15, 2011, be assured your information will be covered under the Barnes & Noble privacy policy, which can be accessed at www.bn.com/privacy. B&N will maintain any of your data according to this policy and our strict privacy standards.
At Barnes & Noble we share your love of books — whatever shape they take. We also take our responsibility to service communities by providing a local bookstore very seriously. In the coming weeks, assuming you don't opt-out, you'll be hearing from us with some offers to encourage you to shop our stores and try our NOOK products. We hope you'll give us a chance to be your bookstore.
I have a Garmin GPSmap 76CSx, purchased it a year or so to aid with sailing as I liked the blue chat maps. It's a great device, waterproof, mapping is good, ease of use is good. I also use it on land as well.
I've also got an iPhone 3GS and the GPS is pretty good, but if you don't have internet access then lookups on things are not going to work, and with a dedicated GPS that has the mapset installed on it, that's not a real big problem - of course items not being totally up to date could be an issue.
If Garmin decided to have an iPhone viewer and enabled me to use my existing maps then I would seriously consider ditching my 76CSx. Of course a waterproof case for the iPhone would be required as well, but that is probably available.
I am going to look at Navionics as I believe they do have an iPhone viewer app, and they also do marine mapping, so perhaps switching to a different map provider may be an option to go totally iPhone.
One wonders if they'll have hand gestures in the next revision. The "Find Porn" one could simply be the use of the "wanker" hand gesture, which is most appropriate. :D
"...stroke the epeen"? Is that similar to spanking the monkey?
Don't forget... Don't move your offices to from Ireland to another country whose taxation rate is low/none-existent to save yourself money. Unless of course the savings made by doing this are going to all those poor, starving types you always wail on about. The day you give up all your money, property and worldly belongings and donate the proceeds to these starving masses, and then you live in a box on a street, better still, sod off over to africa to live, is the day I'll pay strict attention to the cause.
I do find it very amusing that the US is having a hard time with Canada's policy. I'm a british citizen and have been based in our Canadian office for the past four years, and prior to that I worked in our UK office. I have had to make various business trips to both our US and Canadian offices, plus I've made various visits from Canada back to the UK for personal vistits. I've never had a problem with Canadian immigration, when I turned up wishing to obtain a work permit it was dealt with at the airport in a swift and pleasant manner. The same cannot be said for trying to do business in the US. I think that in the seven years I've been travelling to the US on business I've had three polite and pleasant encounters with border services. The rest of the time I'm made to feel as though I should get down on my knees and praise the US for being so kind as to let me enter to do business. I'm required to provide a letter from the company stating where I am going and why. I've also been asked to provide purchase orders when I am going to visit a client to give a pre-sales demonstration of our software. I am polite and courtious and never point out this is a somewhat odd requirement, as I do not wish to anger the oh-so-powerfull border agent and cause him to refuse me entry for some reason. The flipside is that whenever I enter Canada, be it from the UK, or the US, I have never had any problems whatsoever, even before getting a work permit and thus being an ordinary business traveller. It's for the reasons mentioned above that I find going to the US a bit of a chore. My point? It seems that the US has gone absolutley security paranoid, and they appear to have adopted the "guilty until proven innocent" attitude. If you want "in" to the best country in the world, well, boy, you're going to have prove why we should let you in to our great land (here's a clue chaps, it's not that great! :-D). They think it's fine to belittle people at the border, but god forbid if any other country decides it wants to instigate higher security measures which would impact the fine good american citizens entering another country, especially one sharing the same continent as them.
Time for them to taste their own bitter pill? I think so.
Pretty sure the article I read on BBC News said that they had filed against allofmp3.com and alltunes.com. would have been most amusing if they'd just gone after allofmp3.com and forgot about alltunes. I am curious about suing a company that is not within your own country and the laws of the other country differing from your own making something in their country legal, which is not legal in your country.
hmm, maybe I imagined it! However, this page does have a form where you could put in a request about not being able to find your purchased music. The downside is that the policy on downloaded content does mention it can only be downloaded once and you should back things up, which isn't overly helpful.
Not strictly true. iTunes 7 willallow you to transfer iTMS songs on your iPod to another computer, have a look here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTune sMac/7.0/en/2586x.html
I'm also sure that it is possible to get Apple to let you download your purchased tracks again. I think you're limited to doing it once a year or some other very infrequent period. I'm trying to find the support doc that details this, as I have read it in the past.
Oh the irony! I know that I'd not be here today because the drugs I take were more than likely tested on animals. As stated above, the head of PETA would probably not be here, but it's perfectly fine for them to be a hypocrite isn't it. Yeah, testing cosmetics on animals isn't on and that I disagree with, but I'd not attempt to murder someone or their co-workers because of it. As for pharmacutical testing, well, as said, I'd not be here, so the majority of it is fine with me. Why don't these people offer themselves in place of the animals if they care so much about their welfare? Now for the somewhat fancifal side of things. Anyone remember the start of the film 28 Days Later? Yup, you got it, these "activists" decide to release the poor animals being experimented on, oh what a shame, they are infected with Rage, which then spreads to the activits when they are bitting by the animals and thus the plague is unleashed unto the world all under the assumption the activists were helping the animals, well thanks buddy, you just screwed us all. Could this happen, well, it's possible. Whose to say some pharmacutical company isn't being paid to create a nice new bio-weapon at their labs, and of course the little activists probably would not know this and unleash god knows what on us.
Alas I didn't have anyone at WWDC this year so I don't have a copy of the DVD with 10.5 on it yet, though it'll probably show up in the next ADC mailing. It's a pity that Apple could not get it up on the ADC download servers at the same time it was released to the devs that were at WWDC.
At the top of page 3, in a big blue box is a rather clear warning:
Warning: Boot Camp Beta is preview software licensed for use on a trial basis for a limited time. Do not use Boot Camp Beta in a commercial operating environment or with important data. You should back up all of your data before installing this software and regularly back up data while using the software. Your rights to use Boot Camp Beta are subject to acceptance of the terms of the software license agreement that accompanies the software.
Unless I'm blind that does indeed mention backing up. OK, maybe it should be on the main page. However, If you don't read the setup guide then you're a tad foolish, moreso if the software isn't a release version. I read the setup guide, and I'd consider myself a fairly advanced user. The main reason was that my machine is partitioned and I wanted to see if BC would work in this environment, alas it does not.
Wonders will never cease to amaze me. I've had a similar "discussion" on the parallels forum. People installed the beta of Parallels Workstation, and found it caused disk corruption. This was limited to a very small percentage of the user base. This is not desriable behaviour, but the software is beta, what do you expect? They were arguing that it should be more stable if it's a beta, and I parried back saying: I think we have differing viewpoints on the classification of "beta". To me it means pre-release, test software, not verified for use on mission critical machines. It has undergone some testing, but not extensive in-depth testing. There may be minor issues, there may be major issues. It's released to allow it to be tested in a wider field than would be possible in-house. One of the Parallels team agreed that I'd put it rather well. I think my comment holds water here too. Apple said Boot Camp was beta, and to me *any* software marked as beta should be treated with caution. If you don't take precautions and you get caught out, you have no-one but yourself to blame. Don't try and pressure Apple to fix the problem, and don't act like a spoilt brat, threatening never to use it again, or no doubt in some extreme cases, stating you'll never use a mac again unless they fix it. The reference to Google and thier use of Beta as a marketing tool is quite possibly what has skewed the majority view of what beta should be, and that is worrying and wrong. It does not help other developers out there either as people will expect, as has become wildy apparent in both cases mentioned herin, that beta will be akin to release candidate software but with a few minor caveats, and not, as it should be, quite possibly, many minor and a few major issues/bugs/undocumented features.
Why do I not use windows as my primary OS? well, the main reason is that I work for a macintosh software developer, so it makes sense to use macintosh. The sales and admin are all run on Windows, as are the servers. but the dev and support stations are all mac.
As we all know, using protection is a good thing :D
Seriously though, if you want to lock things down a little more than the built in "limitations" feature of OS X, how about using Hi Resolution's MacPrefect product.
Hmm, well I recall hearing about this about 2 years ago in the UK. Does bring a new ultra stealthy way of catching speeders, just what is NOT needed, driver education is the best policy there. However, the monitoring of weather conditions is rather good. I recall seing developent studs that would show different colors for different weather conditions, very good idea. This is one of the things I dislike about driving in North America, a lack of "cats eyes" I know some roads do have them, but not all, and they should, especiallythe concrete multi-lane highways, when it's raining hard you cannot see the lane dividing lines in daylight, let alone at night, and these things would make that a bit safer.
Echoing what others have said. You get what you pay for. If I download something via Limewire or Aquisistion then I am fully prepared for it to death my machine. I can partially understand the "A public beta by MS" thing, as yeah, if there was a public beta then it would get onto P2P, however, having said that, if I saw it on P2P, my next step would be the MS site to see if it's on there, if so, then try downloading it from there, makes more sense to use the official source. One word that springs to mind is BACKUP! If he had a backup then so what if /Users/~ was trashed, just restore it, bingo!
User education, that's the key, alas, there will always be those who just won't or can't "get it", thus leading to these situations.