How does it give PEOPLE a less-infinitesmal voice, when the percentage of responses that are generated automatically by hackers will far outnumber real people?
I can think of about 10 ways to stop 'hacking' on any useful scale off the top of my head right now.
You do realize that in the real world people aren't scared of 'hackers' cause they really can't do anything 99.999% of the time, right? A DDoS isn't a hack and does little to no actual damage, it certainly could effect a vote other than to prevent it from finishing on time.
Do you think banks are loosing money hand of fist from ATM machines? If not, then why do you have such a hard time thinking something can be secured?
Yes, but that doesn't mean the elected official has to vote based on the words coming out of those peoples mouths.
There is a different between what people ACTUALLY want and what they THINK they want.
For reference, see California. They have direct voting. You vote directly on the issues, sans representative. What happened? Well they voted themselves tax break after tax break... and added government service after government service to the system (along with associated costs) and then would do things like 'schools must do al sorts of new things they've never funded before but can't get any more money for it'... so you ended up with schools that in order to stay legal stopped busing kids too school so they could by computers to put in class rooms with no children... since the bus never brought them in.
The only difference between what Google did and what every other PC in existence does with a WiFi radio in it is store it somewhere other than memory.
Just like it isn't wiretapping to record someone having a conversation standing on the street, I fail to see how its wiretapping to intercept an unencrypted BROADCAST signal.
Am I violating wiretapping laws because I use an antenna to pick up ATSC broadcasts? Not really much different other than the TV station is smart enough to realize broadcast intentionally and nobody has bothered to tell most ignorant home users what WiFi actually does or how it works (i.e. the signal doesn't stop at some imaginary boundary or at the walls of your house.
The fact that it keeps coming up with politicians shows we need to stop electing 90 year old lawyers who don't have the slightest idea what they're talking about.
Yea, the entire legal system of both America and New Zealand can be ignored because of a brilliant plan come up with a couple of slashdotters to use laws against the law makers... because they never saw that coming!
Does that mean 'something I won't be able to buy anytime soon' as well? Lets face it, the Raspberry Pi will be cool when I can actually buy one without waiting 3 to 6 months without any indication of when I'm going to get it. I've lost interest in these ultracheap ARM systems that never seem to actually exist. Just keep putzing along with ATmega's, they're wimpy but at least I can buy them.
And what EXACTLY does the video REALLY do to you when people see it?
Nothing.
So people know? They might call you names? Chances are you already know they are homophobic and it already bothers you just as much anyway.
Should this happen to me, would it suck? Yep. Might cost me a job, perhaps a few 'friends' who were so much friends, and probably listening to some asshole comments for a couple of weeks until everyone found something new to talk about, but in the end, it really wouldn't do jack shit to anyone.
You're just being irrationally and coddling this sort of bullshit just breeds more irrational behavior like yours.
What actually happens is the US says "You are not welcome here Assange, you have no diplomatic immunity, if you come here we will prosecute you"
You see immunity is a political curtesy thats granted to people who behave well. The host country can pretty much revoke that grant and throw you out immediately and tell you if you come back we'll hang you and from a political treaty/international law perspective, we can hang the fucker on sight without any thought if he comes back on US soil.
Its not unethical in the least, you just want to make it out bad as you don't like it.
As a developer and architect of a rather large scale system that deals with something not entirely different than iCloud, its rather nice to have total control over the clients that connect to you and its REALLY nice if you can turn those clients off instantly if they stop playing by the rules.
You can of course, not use the Apple store and do what ever the fuck you want. I suppose you bitch at walmart for not buying your shitty product as well?
I'm running OSX server right this instant and X11 still seems to work just fine on their latest OS. You can go buy OSX server on the app store right this instant just like everyone else. Guess what, its pretty much the same as previous versions!
Perhaps you need to get a clue before you start spewing shit out of your mouth?
The fact that we're even having to have this discussion is an indication our police forces need to be replaced. Any enforcement agent destroying evidence should be consider guilt of pretty much anything the own of the recording device wants to charge them with, regardless of actual guilt.
You only destroy evidence when you've broken the law yourself or are covering up for someone else.
I've done a little bit of playing around with GPU encoding myself and its not real hard to turn out something faster than your CPU on the GPU with identical quality. Getting varied quality from different cards means you're doing something VERY wrong.
Location accuracy isn't good enough just to make a voice call and hope for the best without further communication. A case like this was recently documented by the Seattle authorities, where the location was off by four blocks, and the disabled victim was only saved by the fact that the parents were able to call 9-1-1 and give the precise location.
Then you guys need some infrastructure upgrades. About 4 months back I had to make a 911 call after an autoaccident, they told me the street address of where I was at. So in my particular case you're talking of an accuracy of a few hundred feet at worst.
Hearing/Speaking impaired individuals already have MULTIPLE methods for dealing with that very issue in telecommunications that are FAR better suited to their use than texting alone could possibly be.
All this will result in is people dieing because some fuckwad couldn't be bothered to actually call 911 and some texting error results in a 'kekekeke too late, Joe's dead'
Oddly enough, they shouldn't care because hell has frozen over and Microsoft is using Linux.
You do realize this isn't the first time MS has deployed Linux boxes, RIGHT? And its not like there are no Linux based companies with Windows boxes for some tasks.
They should care because Microsoft is taking steps to centralise what was a peer-to-peer telephony system. By adding supernodes that they control, they are positioning Skype to transition to a system where everybody's data goes through Microsoft servers rather than direct person to person.
They're happy to have us discussing Linux because the privacy implications are what they don't want us talking about.
Supernodes facilitate the setup of communications between peers so they can talk directly too each other, INSTEAD of going through someone elses servers. Your communications do not go through supernodes, they just help poke holes in firewalls/NATs
You completely fail to understand what these boxes do. If MS wanted to accomplish what you say, they'd take supernodes away completely as that would take away the ability to do direct communications. Deploying 10k new nodes pretty much proves the exact opposite of your silly little theory since these boxes only exist to function exactly opposite of your silly little theory.
Linux users idea of better is 'visual vomit of of a theme with 0 consistency and interface commands entirely different than everyone else 'because''.
Of course you also act like 8 monitors is unique to Linux in this post. I'd like to remind you that other OSes were doing it first, and even Windows has no problem with 8. So why don't you go back in your basement and try again.
If by cherry picking you mean prioritizing and optimizing the things that people are most likely to search for over junk that very few people care about... then yes, Siri is all about cherry picking, and that is EXACTLY why its so well liked.
Siri is all about responding in a human manner as if you're speaking to a person. A person (and Siri due to its VI programming) will consider the whole question and context rather than picking up on key words. Siri's developers/Apple developers saw someone search for 'show me flights over head" and said, hmm, lets make it able to handle that question and give them person what they want.
Thats why it only works for a few languages currently because they've only collected the cultural clues for a few places, what works in America doesn't work in England in many cases, and it can be hard for humans to pick up on various slang terms or word usage oddities that occur in various different countries that speak the same language.
This is not really any different than how the human mind works. Once it figures out a short cut to a quicker resolution or that a semi-hardcoded answer works often enough, it rewires itself to work that way. You don't analyze EVERY TIME you go to google if you should be using Google, bing, yahoo or something else, you just automatically go to Google (or whatever your preferred is) and only if that fails will you bother to analyze the situation and determine an alternate path.
The workers that rewire the neurons of Siri's brain are Apple employees rather than chemicals in the body, but the outcome is the same.
Sigh, it doesn't require you to 'logon with your windows live id'. Thats an ignorant statement in the first place. This has not a damn thing to do with the marketing department and everything to do with usability, which I realize is something slashdot users completely fail to grasp as important.
Windows 8, much like Windows XP with the right patches, Windows Vista and Windows 7, is happy to tie your Microsoft Live account to your windows login so that live authentication happens automatically when you login to you PC for services that use Live. All it the 'tied together' part is that apps running on your desktop session are allowed to access your encrypted private storage object for your MS live authentication data.
Mac OS X also has done this for some time, its under the mobile me pref. Its why you can have all your mobile me/iclound services work automatically when you login.
None of this is required to use your PC, but it IS required to access things online which you need to authenticate to access. How else do you expect Windows to automatically log you into your email, automatically send you new apps for your store account purchased elsewhere, automount your skydrive and do syncronization of various things that go along with it like bookmarks and such and all the other little features of online services that are included.
Rather than assuming that Microsoft did something stupid, you should probably try starting with some facts as there is simply no way to design around this other than to prompt for a password continually, which is obnoxious and results in people doing things to make passwords effectively useless.
Security is far more than just locking down a box with a strong password, the weakest link is ALWAYS THE HUMAN. Social engineering is by far the most important aspect of security, but way to act like you can tell MS how to do it.
You can also... just NOT TELL IT TO REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORD like you would in ANY app on ANY OS.
You're ranting and raving about marketing departments doing things they didn't, I guess I'm going to have to rant and rave about silly little fangirls who are too arrogant to get the facts straight when they bash MS.
Seriously? Harvard is calling out others? This from a school with several professors who sell their own books that are required and no substitutes are allowed... the books are good only for the one class, are different ever year so they can't be sold and so the professor can sell you a new copy, of course the argument is always some bullshit about how they have to change it to prevent cheating... which only happens because they reuse the same content year after year and then pretend they spend countless hours coming up with new ideas.
Its good to call out rip offs, but no one is going to give two shits about what Harvard says as they doing the exact same thing every day.
The fact that the bus uses multi LED cluster means that they are crap by default.
Actually, smaller chips tend to be less expensive, more reliable and more energy efficient, given the exact same design as a larger chip, but thanks for pretending theres only one facet to deciding what kind of silicon to use. In every way except raw size, smaller chips are better, all things being equal, but you're not being equal you're trying to compare a high quality component to a low quality one and throw in a couple jabs about clusters while you're at it to show us that your way is far superior.
Yes, bad manufactures use multiple smaller chips since they can't make one large good one, but that doesn't actually make using a larger one better. If both diie are of equal quality, and there isn't a size constraint (i.e. it MUST fit into a tiny space), 2 is always better than one. Do you know what redundancy is? Do you know how much better it is to be in a room at night with half a light versus no light?
LED arrays are really engineering common sense to any reputable engineer. You can be all proud of your massive hot chip that'll burn for 20 years, but I'd rather have 5 at that quality level at a reduced size/service level with the same overall output so that when one of them goes out, I'll still have 4 good ones, where as you'll have no good ones. And whats better, assuming our devices are made in the same planet with the same tech, any one of mine are probably going to last twice as long as yours anyway since they aren't being stressed nearly as hard.
You're argument is that clusters are bad because they are manufactured by crappy companies and large single die lights are good because only companies that are good can produce them. Thats a pretty fucking stupid statement from an engineer.
So while you are correct that it is more difficult to produce a single larger die, you have pretty much entirely failed to understand that from an engineering perspective unless your only goal is absolutely brightness in the smallest possible package, which is not something that any consumer is concerned with when trying to replace a 60w incandescent. Its not like you can't fit a cluster of 50 or so into the space a normal bulb takes.
I'd say you're a pretty shitty engineer based on your statements. You may be great and discovering or improving the tech you're working on, but you clearly don't get what you're trying to accomplish at all. Great your LED die is fucking AWESOME, too bad the electronics themselves are still being overdriven ridiculously and will burn out next year.
You're the type of engineer that thinks powering a cell phone with a quad CPU, 64 core xeon box is good engineering because its moerar faster, ignoring the fact that its battery is dead before it POSTs.
Are you sure you're not a sales person rather than an engineer? I mean have you taken any actual engineering? I can't understand how you can sit here and compare the two. Its like you're comparing McDonalds to someones personal chef that only cooks one meal a day. Sure, its a really good meal, but it costs enough to pay for a month of McDonalds and when you take all the sides into account, its actually less healthy. And tomorrow, no one will give a fuck what they ate the day before.
Finally, don't give me this 20 year shit until you see one in the real world for 20 years. You can't emulate aging no matter how much external stressors you simulate.
Snow Leopard Server is really no different than any previous incarnation for most people functionally. If you are using the GUI... which is all they scaled back... then you weren't exactly doing anything complicated in the first place. Anyone who actually bothers to utilize OSX server to its fullest is going to be editing config files because the GUI just doesn't give you all the options anyway.
So for most people, the current setup works JUST FINE because the people using the GUI don't need much and everyone else uses the command line.
You're just stuck in a position now where you can no longer claim to be a cyrus and postfix admin because the OSX GUI doesn't do the work for you anymore and you want to pretend that its because they took away functionality.
I'm also OK with a 'simple' interface if you leave some functionality behind the scenes - dropdown menus (so 20th Century) or just a CLI - whatever. But something for those who walk upright all of the time.
This is the most awesome part of your post... You don't even know that all the software with OSX server is just standard free software with typical text files for config that you can edit on the command line and an Apple GUI to go with it. What you're asking for... they've done since OSX was first released. Its Postfix, OpenLDAP, Cyrus, previously Samba... ALL standard builds more or less. I have no problem editing imap.conf, smb.conf, main.cf or whatever and using kill -HUP to pickup changes. I use OSX server to legally run OSX vm's, but I think paying for OSX server is really silly unless you want to do some really basic stuff, which it does perfectly. Its not mean to be your enterprise wide deployment OS for all server infrastructure. OSX servers are fine for Mom's Sandwhich shop and render farm clusters that must run OSX software, nothing else.
Final Cut X is making its way back to functional, they did push it out too soon by far I agree. People bitching about Aperture just make me giggle, when you start acting like they've 'regressed' it, you just sound like a moron.
You really have shown yourself to be bitching about products that I doubt you even use.
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How does it give PEOPLE a less-infinitesmal voice, when the percentage of responses that are generated automatically by hackers will far outnumber real people?
I can think of about 10 ways to stop 'hacking' on any useful scale off the top of my head right now.
You do realize that in the real world people aren't scared of 'hackers' cause they really can't do anything 99.999% of the time, right? A DDoS isn't a hack and does little to no actual damage, it certainly could effect a vote other than to prevent it from finishing on time.
Do you think banks are loosing money hand of fist from ATM machines? If not, then why do you have such a hard time thinking something can be secured?
Yes, but that doesn't mean the elected official has to vote based on the words coming out of those peoples mouths.
There is a different between what people ACTUALLY want and what they THINK they want.
For reference, see California. They have direct voting. You vote directly on the issues, sans representative. What happened? Well they voted themselves tax break after tax break ... and added government service after government service to the system (along with associated costs) and then would do things like 'schools must do al sorts of new things they've never funded before but can't get any more money for it' ... so you ended up with schools that in order to stay legal stopped busing kids too school so they could by computers to put in class rooms with no children ... since the bus never brought them in.
No, Dr Drew actually exists.
The only difference between what Google did and what every other PC in existence does with a WiFi radio in it is store it somewhere other than memory.
Just like it isn't wiretapping to record someone having a conversation standing on the street, I fail to see how its wiretapping to intercept an unencrypted BROADCAST signal.
Am I violating wiretapping laws because I use an antenna to pick up ATSC broadcasts? Not really much different other than the TV station is smart enough to realize broadcast intentionally and nobody has bothered to tell most ignorant home users what WiFi actually does or how it works (i.e. the signal doesn't stop at some imaginary boundary or at the walls of your house.
The fact that it keeps coming up with politicians shows we need to stop electing 90 year old lawyers who don't have the slightest idea what they're talking about.
Yea, the entire legal system of both America and New Zealand can be ignored because of a brilliant plan come up with a couple of slashdotters to use laws against the law makers ... because they never saw that coming!
Which year? He's been deported from half a dozen countries for breaking laws.
Are we supposed to be impressed that you figured out how to pirate music. It was impressive doing it in 95, now you're just a tool.
Does that mean 'something I won't be able to buy anytime soon' as well? Lets face it, the Raspberry Pi will be cool when I can actually buy one without waiting 3 to 6 months without any indication of when I'm going to get it. I've lost interest in these ultracheap ARM systems that never seem to actually exist. Just keep putzing along with ATmega's, they're wimpy but at least I can buy them.
And what EXACTLY does the video REALLY do to you when people see it?
Nothing.
So people know? They might call you names? Chances are you already know they are homophobic and it already bothers you just as much anyway.
Should this happen to me, would it suck? Yep. Might cost me a job, perhaps a few 'friends' who were so much friends, and probably listening to some asshole comments for a couple of weeks until everyone found something new to talk about, but in the end, it really wouldn't do jack shit to anyone.
You're just being irrationally and coddling this sort of bullshit just breeds more irrational behavior like yours.
What actually happens is the US says "You are not welcome here Assange, you have no diplomatic immunity, if you come here we will prosecute you"
You see immunity is a political curtesy thats granted to people who behave well. The host country can pretty much revoke that grant and throw you out immediately and tell you if you come back we'll hang you and from a political treaty/international law perspective, we can hang the fucker on sight without any thought if he comes back on US soil.
Its not unethical in the least, you just want to make it out bad as you don't like it.
As a developer and architect of a rather large scale system that deals with something not entirely different than iCloud, its rather nice to have total control over the clients that connect to you and its REALLY nice if you can turn those clients off instantly if they stop playing by the rules.
You can of course, not use the Apple store and do what ever the fuck you want. I suppose you bitch at walmart for not buying your shitty product as well?
I'm running OSX server right this instant and X11 still seems to work just fine on their latest OS. You can go buy OSX server on the app store right this instant just like everyone else. Guess what, its pretty much the same as previous versions!
Perhaps you need to get a clue before you start spewing shit out of your mouth?
Film the Police. (sorry any NWA fans).
Film F-Film Fi-film the police.
Film'um
heh, classic
Which is already pretty illegal everywhere.
The fact that we're even having to have this discussion is an indication our police forces need to be replaced. Any enforcement agent destroying evidence should be consider guilt of pretty much anything the own of the recording device wants to charge them with, regardless of actual guilt.
You only destroy evidence when you've broken the law yourself or are covering up for someone else.
These are Macs. OSX will come with drivers for the one or two ethernet dongles for Thunderbolt in firmware like they do for onboard controllers now.
Mac Netboot will still happen the exact same way, hold down the N or ALT key a boot!
Remove dongle when done if the user doesn't need it. Next.
that Cyberlink's software is pretty damn shitty.
I've done a little bit of playing around with GPU encoding myself and its not real hard to turn out something faster than your CPU on the GPU with identical quality. Getting varied quality from different cards means you're doing something VERY wrong.
Location accuracy isn't good enough just to make a voice call and hope for the best without further communication. A case like this was recently documented by the Seattle authorities, where the location was off by four blocks, and the disabled victim was only saved by the fact that the parents were able to call 9-1-1 and give the precise location.
Then you guys need some infrastructure upgrades. About 4 months back I had to make a 911 call after an autoaccident, they told me the street address of where I was at. So in my particular case you're talking of an accuracy of a few hundred feet at worst.
Because its stupid in multiple ways.
Hearing/Speaking impaired individuals already have MULTIPLE methods for dealing with that very issue in telecommunications that are FAR better suited to their use than texting alone could possibly be.
All this will result in is people dieing because some fuckwad couldn't be bothered to actually call 911 and some texting error results in a 'kekekeke too late, Joe's dead'
Oddly enough, they shouldn't care because hell has frozen over and Microsoft is using Linux.
You do realize this isn't the first time MS has deployed Linux boxes, RIGHT? And its not like there are no Linux based companies with Windows boxes for some tasks.
They should care because Microsoft is taking steps to centralise what was a peer-to-peer telephony system. By adding supernodes that they control, they are positioning Skype to transition to a system where everybody's data goes through Microsoft servers rather than direct person to person.
They're happy to have us discussing Linux because the privacy implications are what they don't want us talking about.
Supernodes facilitate the setup of communications between peers so they can talk directly too each other, INSTEAD of going through someone elses servers. Your communications do not go through supernodes, they just help poke holes in firewalls/NATs
You completely fail to understand what these boxes do. If MS wanted to accomplish what you say, they'd take supernodes away completely as that would take away the ability to do direct communications. Deploying 10k new nodes pretty much proves the exact opposite of your silly little theory since these boxes only exist to function exactly opposite of your silly little theory.
Linux users idea of better is 'visual vomit of of a theme with 0 consistency and interface commands entirely different than everyone else 'because''.
Of course you also act like 8 monitors is unique to Linux in this post. I'd like to remind you that other OSes were doing it first, and even Windows has no problem with 8. So why don't you go back in your basement and try again.
If by cherry picking you mean prioritizing and optimizing the things that people are most likely to search for over junk that very few people care about ... then yes, Siri is all about cherry picking, and that is EXACTLY why its so well liked.
Siri is all about responding in a human manner as if you're speaking to a person. A person (and Siri due to its VI programming) will consider the whole question and context rather than picking up on key words. Siri's developers/Apple developers saw someone search for 'show me flights over head" and said, hmm, lets make it able to handle that question and give them person what they want.
Thats why it only works for a few languages currently because they've only collected the cultural clues for a few places, what works in America doesn't work in England in many cases, and it can be hard for humans to pick up on various slang terms or word usage oddities that occur in various different countries that speak the same language.
This is not really any different than how the human mind works. Once it figures out a short cut to a quicker resolution or that a semi-hardcoded answer works often enough, it rewires itself to work that way. You don't analyze EVERY TIME you go to google if you should be using Google, bing, yahoo or something else, you just automatically go to Google (or whatever your preferred is) and only if that fails will you bother to analyze the situation and determine an alternate path.
The workers that rewire the neurons of Siri's brain are Apple employees rather than chemicals in the body, but the outcome is the same.
Sigh, it doesn't require you to 'logon with your windows live id'. Thats an ignorant statement in the first place. This has not a damn thing to do with the marketing department and everything to do with usability, which I realize is something slashdot users completely fail to grasp as important.
Windows 8, much like Windows XP with the right patches, Windows Vista and Windows 7, is happy to tie your Microsoft Live account to your windows login so that live authentication happens automatically when you login to you PC for services that use Live. All it the 'tied together' part is that apps running on your desktop session are allowed to access your encrypted private storage object for your MS live authentication data.
Mac OS X also has done this for some time, its under the mobile me pref. Its why you can have all your mobile me/iclound services work automatically when you login.
None of this is required to use your PC, but it IS required to access things online which you need to authenticate to access. How else do you expect Windows to automatically log you into your email, automatically send you new apps for your store account purchased elsewhere, automount your skydrive and do syncronization of various things that go along with it like bookmarks and such and all the other little features of online services that are included.
Rather than assuming that Microsoft did something stupid, you should probably try starting with some facts as there is simply no way to design around this other than to prompt for a password continually, which is obnoxious and results in people doing things to make passwords effectively useless.
Security is far more than just locking down a box with a strong password, the weakest link is ALWAYS THE HUMAN. Social engineering is by far the most important aspect of security, but way to act like you can tell MS how to do it.
You can also ... just NOT TELL IT TO REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORD like you would in ANY app on ANY OS.
You're ranting and raving about marketing departments doing things they didn't, I guess I'm going to have to rant and rave about silly little fangirls who are too arrogant to get the facts straight when they bash MS.
Seriously? Harvard is calling out others? This from a school with several professors who sell their own books that are required and no substitutes are allowed ... the books are good only for the one class, are different ever year so they can't be sold and so the professor can sell you a new copy, of course the argument is always some bullshit about how they have to change it to prevent cheating ... which only happens because they reuse the same content year after year and then pretend they spend countless hours coming up with new ideas.
Its good to call out rip offs, but no one is going to give two shits about what Harvard says as they doing the exact same thing every day.
The fact that the bus uses multi LED cluster means that they are crap by default.
Actually, smaller chips tend to be less expensive, more reliable and more energy efficient, given the exact same design as a larger chip, but thanks for pretending theres only one facet to deciding what kind of silicon to use. In every way except raw size, smaller chips are better, all things being equal, but you're not being equal you're trying to compare a high quality component to a low quality one and throw in a couple jabs about clusters while you're at it to show us that your way is far superior.
Yes, bad manufactures use multiple smaller chips since they can't make one large good one, but that doesn't actually make using a larger one better. If both diie are of equal quality, and there isn't a size constraint (i.e. it MUST fit into a tiny space), 2 is always better than one. Do you know what redundancy is? Do you know how much better it is to be in a room at night with half a light versus no light?
LED arrays are really engineering common sense to any reputable engineer. You can be all proud of your massive hot chip that'll burn for 20 years, but I'd rather have 5 at that quality level at a reduced size/service level with the same overall output so that when one of them goes out, I'll still have 4 good ones, where as you'll have no good ones. And whats better, assuming our devices are made in the same planet with the same tech, any one of mine are probably going to last twice as long as yours anyway since they aren't being stressed nearly as hard.
You're argument is that clusters are bad because they are manufactured by crappy companies and large single die lights are good because only companies that are good can produce them. Thats a pretty fucking stupid statement from an engineer.
So while you are correct that it is more difficult to produce a single larger die, you have pretty much entirely failed to understand that from an engineering perspective unless your only goal is absolutely brightness in the smallest possible package, which is not something that any consumer is concerned with when trying to replace a 60w incandescent. Its not like you can't fit a cluster of 50 or so into the space a normal bulb takes.
I'd say you're a pretty shitty engineer based on your statements. You may be great and discovering or improving the tech you're working on, but you clearly don't get what you're trying to accomplish at all. Great your LED die is fucking AWESOME, too bad the electronics themselves are still being overdriven ridiculously and will burn out next year.
You're the type of engineer that thinks powering a cell phone with a quad CPU, 64 core xeon box is good engineering because its moerar faster, ignoring the fact that its battery is dead before it POSTs.
Are you sure you're not a sales person rather than an engineer? I mean have you taken any actual engineering? I can't understand how you can sit here and compare the two. Its like you're comparing McDonalds to someones personal chef that only cooks one meal a day. Sure, its a really good meal, but it costs enough to pay for a month of McDonalds and when you take all the sides into account, its actually less healthy. And tomorrow, no one will give a fuck what they ate the day before.
Finally, don't give me this 20 year shit until you see one in the real world for 20 years. You can't emulate aging no matter how much external stressors you simulate.
Snow Leopard Server is really no different than any previous incarnation for most people functionally. If you are using the GUI ... which is all they scaled back ... then you weren't exactly doing anything complicated in the first place. Anyone who actually bothers to utilize OSX server to its fullest is going to be editing config files because the GUI just doesn't give you all the options anyway.
So for most people, the current setup works JUST FINE because the people using the GUI don't need much and everyone else uses the command line.
You're just stuck in a position now where you can no longer claim to be a cyrus and postfix admin because the OSX GUI doesn't do the work for you anymore and you want to pretend that its because they took away functionality.
I'm also OK with a 'simple' interface if you leave some functionality behind the scenes - dropdown menus (so 20th Century) or just a CLI - whatever. But something for those who walk upright all of the time.
This is the most awesome part of your post ... You don't even know that all the software with OSX server is just standard free software with typical text files for config that you can edit on the command line and an Apple GUI to go with it. What you're asking for ... they've done since OSX was first released. Its Postfix, OpenLDAP, Cyrus, previously Samba ... ALL standard builds more or less. I have no problem editing imap.conf, smb.conf, main.cf or whatever and using kill -HUP to pickup changes. I use OSX server to legally run OSX vm's, but I think paying for OSX server is really silly unless you want to do some really basic stuff, which it does perfectly. Its not mean to be your enterprise wide deployment OS for all server infrastructure. OSX servers are fine for Mom's Sandwhich shop and render farm clusters that must run OSX software, nothing else.
Final Cut X is making its way back to functional, they did push it out too soon by far I agree. People bitching about Aperture just make me giggle, when you start acting like they've 'regressed' it, you just sound like a moron.
You really have shown yourself to be bitching about products that I doubt you even use.