+1 for stating the win-win scenario.
Make sure the new job offer is firm and then explain to your co-workers / friends what the situation is, while offering yourself up on a consultant basis as a way out for them.
I know nothing about batteries, but I do know that the current MacBook Pro & Air ship with a Li-ion that lasts 1000 charge cycles. That's a full 3x longer than my last generation MBP's battery lasted.
If you read the article you would understand that they are suing because Motorola is trying to extort Apple for more money than they normally license these patents that are part of F/RAND.
In the case of Samsung, they are being sued because they are a bunch of copy cats. You can't argue that they have blatantly ripped off Apple in every way possible, right down to the boxes their devices are packaged and sold in. Just look at this.
So how would you monitor your network to see if someone is brute forcing their way in?
The options on a lot of these consumer grade wireless base stations are fairly limited, but there must be some reasonable way to monitor for brute force attacks.
How about everything 1000 and under gets iOS and everything 1001 and over gets OSX? Seems to be the recipe that's working so far, why would they change it?
Apple never competed in the low end of the market. They have never had a $500 laptop - instead they gave us a a $500 tablet, and guess what? It does everything the person shopping for the $500 laptop wants, and it does it better than the $500 laptop ever did.
It's not practical to expect people to remember a different password for every website. I would rather trust my Mac's keychain and have completely different 18 character passwords for every website, then trust the websites to keep my short 8 character password that I use on every website safe.
I love StarCraft 2, however it is extremely stressful to play. Sometimes I just want to chill, so I bring up the teamliquid.net stream list and watch my favorite players instead. Note that this is different than spectating a match as an observer/referee because you are essentially looking over the players shoulder and aren't privy to what his opponent is doing.
That being said, watching live cast games from the observer point of view (such as the recent TSL3) is a lot of fun as well. It really amazes me how much production value these tournaments have.
I keep hearing everyone throw out there that iOS locks you in, but I am failing to see how this is true. All of the content on my iPhone (besides the apps) will work on any device because they're JPGs, MP3s, M4As, etc. Apps aren't portable on any platform (besides Java, and I'm sorry, but there is no such thing as a good cross platform Java app).
I have an AirPort Extreme wifi router which has a featured called Guest Network. Basically it broadcasts two networks, one that is private and password protected and another separate one that is public and open. It makes it really nice because my home network is protected but I don't have to hand out my password to visitors who want to use their phone or laptop at my house.
I believe the setup wizard guides you towards configuring your network this way so I would bet that most AirPort Extreme owners will have it setup that way.
How is this going to beat more open platforms like Amazon or (I assume) Google
You do realize that there are 59% more iOS devices than there are Android devices, don't you? And that this would likely also work with iTunes on the desktop which has a gigantic install base...
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+1 for not blinding bashing Apple or Microsoft which seems to be the norm around here.
+1 for stating the win-win scenario. Make sure the new job offer is firm and then explain to your co-workers / friends what the situation is, while offering yourself up on a consultant basis as a way out for them.
Because those were so well designed and so functional that they sold by the tens of millions, right?
How do you Samsung / Android apologists argue with this, this and this?
If that's not blatant copying*, I don't know what is.
*disclaimer, I work for a large industrial manufacturing company that has had our products copied and ripped off by Samsung.
I know nothing about batteries, but I do know that the current MacBook Pro & Air ship with a Li-ion that lasts 1000 charge cycles. That's a full 3x longer than my last generation MBP's battery lasted.
If you read the article you would understand that they are suing because Motorola is trying to extort Apple for more money than they normally license these patents that are part of F/RAND.
In the case of Samsung, they are being sued because they are a bunch of copy cats. You can't argue that they have blatantly ripped off Apple in every way possible, right down to the boxes their devices are packaged and sold in. Just look at this.
I would say it's working out pretty god damned well, actually. Apple is making 66% of the mobile phone profits.
Get your head out of the sand. Anyone who actually things that this was good for Google is a fool. They were forced into this against their will.
Pretty good actually. It's the software and general user experience that sets these devices apart.
I know, Apple is suing Samsung over the Galaxy Tab - but you can't tell me that Apple is fearing Android in the tablet space.
They do deserve it. The iOS ecosystem is incredibly useful and well done, and that's saying nothing of the hardware quality.
I also have an Airport Extreme. How do we script it?
So how would you monitor your network to see if someone is brute forcing their way in? The options on a lot of these consumer grade wireless base stations are fairly limited, but there must be some reasonable way to monitor for brute force attacks.
A few weeks ago apple's PE was lower than it was in October 2008 after the market crashed. I'm not sure I understand your logic.
They already tax fuel, why isn't that enough?
Why would they raise the price of iOS devices?
How about everything 1000 and under gets iOS and everything 1001 and over gets OSX? Seems to be the recipe that's working so far, why would they change it?
Apple never competed in the low end of the market. They have never had a $500 laptop - instead they gave us a a $500 tablet, and guess what? It does everything the person shopping for the $500 laptop wants, and it does it better than the $500 laptop ever did.
It's not practical to expect people to remember a different password for every website. I would rather trust my Mac's keychain and have completely different 18 character passwords for every website, then trust the websites to keep my short 8 character password that I use on every website safe.
RTFM
I love StarCraft 2, however it is extremely stressful to play. Sometimes I just want to chill, so I bring up the teamliquid.net stream list and watch my favorite players instead. Note that this is different than spectating a match as an observer/referee because you are essentially looking over the players shoulder and aren't privy to what his opponent is doing.
That being said, watching live cast games from the observer point of view (such as the recent TSL3) is a lot of fun as well. It really amazes me how much production value these tournaments have.
Locked into what, exactly?
I keep hearing everyone throw out there that iOS locks you in, but I am failing to see how this is true. All of the content on my iPhone (besides the apps) will work on any device because they're JPGs, MP3s, M4As, etc. Apps aren't portable on any platform (besides Java, and I'm sorry, but there is no such thing as a good cross platform Java app).
I have an AirPort Extreme wifi router which has a featured called Guest Network. Basically it broadcasts two networks, one that is private and password protected and another separate one that is public and open. It makes it really nice because my home network is protected but I don't have to hand out my password to visitors who want to use their phone or laptop at my house. I believe the setup wizard guides you towards configuring your network this way so I would bet that most AirPort Extreme owners will have it setup that way.
You do realize that there are 59% more iOS devices than there are Android devices, don't you? And that this would likely also work with iTunes on the desktop which has a gigantic install base...
If it is real, how could it "lose"?
And it never gets old!
Seriously. What's to stop sony from planting evidence?
"succeed" is kind of an understatement.
When was the last time that anyone made money by betting against Steve Jobs?