The seven hour workweek with twelve hour days was pretty much invented for the industrial revolution. In the old days you worked where you lived, ate when you wanted, and so forth.
Serfs actually spent a lot less time working than modern office drones. They were usually allowed to govern themselves to a large extent (these councils still exist in England).
Maybe you should check out professor of history / Monty Python Terry Jones' Medieval Lives series for a better look at how our stereotypes about serfs are totally, totally wrong.
The XPS is a big, thick, ugly, hunk of plastic shit. It's a fucking Dell man.
Yes, you can get a thicker, plastic Dell for less than a Macbook Pro. This has always been true. If you start looking at the thinner, lighter laptops that are made of real metal, the ones that are actually crafted to compete with Apple's laptops instead of with the generic Winblowz hunks of creaking shit out there, they cost the same or more than the Apples. If you add in the cost of Windows Ultimate (IE something with almost all the functionality of OS X instead of a neutered starter OS with training wheels) you will exceed the Apple option in cost.
DRM is not the huge problem you make it out to be. Many developers like DRM, and with TPM or equivalent chips making their way into more and more platforms a truly unbreakable DRM scheme is well on its way to fruition.
This is a good thing. People who wish to publish applications without the risk of piracy will make more money, and offer more software. Free operating systems will be free to ignore the cryptographic modules.
Besides, do you really need to take part in DRM laden entertainment? Do you own a DVD player or a game console? Then you are pro-DRM, and part of the problem too.
Perhaps you only read paper books, and don't watch movies, and don't use Netflix, and so forth, and live a truly DRM-free lifestyle. I seriously doubt it, though. My guess is that you feel entitled to circumvent DRM in order to enjoy the content in a manner of your choosing. Even if you rip a DVD, you still bought it (or borrowed it from somebody who did) and are therefore part of the problem.
What is stopping me from compiling Free software on my Mac?
Nothing. Pretty much everything you can compile and run on Linux I can run on OS X. I also have the benefit of using high quality commercial software, which by and large is absent on the Free OS platforms.
There are tons of proof of concept trojans for OS X, and several vulnerabilities (say in Apache) that would affect any other OS as well, but there are no viruses that are in the wold for OS X.
There are a few trojans out there but they take advantage of the user's trusting nature.
PWN2OWN is hardly an accurate measure of Apple's reliability and security. Take an unpatched 10.7 install and throw it on a non-NAT connection to the internet, alongside an unpatched Windows 7 machine, and see how long each one takes to be infected. That's a useful metric.
I think you messed up. It's the morons who buy PCs that run Windows that are responsible for all the botnets and other huge security problems out there.
Merely running Windows, or one of the unlicensed UNIX clones like Linux makes you an evil moron.
You seriously need to look into the definition of equivocation. If this person is telling the truth, his answer is still equivocal.
Clearly their lack of authorization has little to do with what actually goes on once they ship those phones to the carrier. Carriers often install their own software onto the phone.
Perhaps he knows that RIM doesn't install the software, and the carriers do not do it, but a third party that handles installing phone rom images that are tailored to specific carriers do install Carrier IQ - therefore he can't say no unequivocally, because the third party is installing Carrier IQ after the phones leave the manufacturing facility, but before the carriers get the phones.
You see their statement can be viewed as an innocent yet overly-complicated answer to the question, or it can be viewed as a vehicle for deception.
No, OS X doesn't have viruses. There were some proof of concept Trojans that haven't worked in a while, but nothing that you can get just by browsing the web or inserting a CD like in the Windows world.
The Trojans that OS X does have were all made as proof of concepts and have no infection vector. They are of academic curiosity.
No your entire post is bullshit of the rankest kind.
Merely participating in the voting process you are handing over legitimacy to an illegitimate system. There is literally no point in voting when there are only two official parties, and they are both essentially the same with the exception of having a few different corporate sponsors.
Ah the old trickle down democracy theory. It hasn't worked and I don't think it will. Still it's another excuse to keep our factories over there and our fingers crossed over here, right?
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They really need to get better psychological operations managers. The ones we have now are pretty pathetic.
The seven hour workweek with twelve hour days was pretty much invented for the industrial revolution. In the old days you worked where you lived, ate when you wanted, and so forth.
Serfs actually spent a lot less time working than modern office drones. They were usually allowed to govern themselves to a large extent (these councils still exist in England).
Maybe you should check out professor of history / Monty Python Terry Jones' Medieval Lives series for a better look at how our stereotypes about serfs are totally, totally wrong.
The XPS is a big, thick, ugly, hunk of plastic shit. It's a fucking Dell man.
Yes, you can get a thicker, plastic Dell for less than a Macbook Pro. This has always been true. If you start looking at the thinner, lighter laptops that are made of real metal, the ones that are actually crafted to compete with Apple's laptops instead of with the generic Winblowz hunks of creaking shit out there, they cost the same or more than the Apples. If you add in the cost of Windows Ultimate (IE something with almost all the functionality of OS X instead of a neutered starter OS with training wheels) you will exceed the Apple option in cost.
I think this is the point. People don't buy Android phones - cell phone carriers do. They roll the phone into the cost of the plan.
About the only phones that people actually pay cash for, up front, before the plan is even activated, are iPhones.
2013? That's a long way off, and predictions like this always have a way of failing.
The problem is that there's really no money in Android tablets unless you're Google.
Walk the walk, homey. Quit using DRM laden products, or you are part of the problem.
You want to have your cake and eat it too.
DRM is not the huge problem you make it out to be. Many developers like DRM, and with TPM or equivalent chips making their way into more and more platforms a truly unbreakable DRM scheme is well on its way to fruition.
This is a good thing. People who wish to publish applications without the risk of piracy will make more money, and offer more software. Free operating systems will be free to ignore the cryptographic modules.
Besides, do you really need to take part in DRM laden entertainment? Do you own a DVD player or a game console? Then you are pro-DRM, and part of the problem too.
Perhaps you only read paper books, and don't watch movies, and don't use Netflix, and so forth, and live a truly DRM-free lifestyle. I seriously doubt it, though. My guess is that you feel entitled to circumvent DRM in order to enjoy the content in a manner of your choosing. Even if you rip a DVD, you still bought it (or borrowed it from somebody who did) and are therefore part of the problem.
What is stopping me from compiling Free software on my Mac?
Nothing. Pretty much everything you can compile and run on Linux I can run on OS X. I also have the benefit of using high quality commercial software, which by and large is absent on the Free OS platforms.
There are tons of proof of concept trojans for OS X, and several vulnerabilities (say in Apache) that would affect any other OS as well, but there are no viruses that are in the wold for OS X.
There are a few trojans out there but they take advantage of the user's trusting nature.
PWN2OWN is hardly an accurate measure of Apple's reliability and security. Take an unpatched 10.7 install and throw it on a non-NAT connection to the internet, alongside an unpatched Windows 7 machine, and see how long each one takes to be infected. That's a useful metric.
I think you messed up. It's the morons who buy PCs that run Windows that are responsible for all the botnets and other huge security problems out there.
Merely running Windows, or one of the unlicensed UNIX clones like Linux makes you an evil moron.
You have fallen into the trap of thinking that technological progress is automatically linked to quality of life.
You probably work longer hours, and have less say over your daily schedule than a medieval serf.
You seriously need to look into the definition of equivocation. If this person is telling the truth, his answer is still equivocal.
Clearly their lack of authorization has little to do with what actually goes on once they ship those phones to the carrier. Carriers often install their own software onto the phone.
Perhaps he knows that RIM doesn't install the software, and the carriers do not do it, but a third party that handles installing phone rom images that are tailored to specific carriers do install Carrier IQ - therefore he can't say no unequivocally, because the third party is installing Carrier IQ after the phones leave the manufacturing facility, but before the carriers get the phones.
You see their statement can be viewed as an innocent yet overly-complicated answer to the question, or it can be viewed as a vehicle for deception.
It's pretty clear that the phrase above is not an unequivocal no.
Equivocation is a neat trick and it seems to work much of the time. It clearly worked on you!
She packs heat, so I doubt it. But you could probably acquire some new holes in places you never knew you needed them.
Tizen sounds like a type of Chinese disposable diaper.
I love to fish, but you can get a 6 pack of good quality (not muddy like many streams) rainbow trout for 8 bucks.
They wake up every day and go to work at climatological prognostication centers all round the world.
No, OS X doesn't have viruses. There were some proof of concept Trojans that haven't worked in a while, but nothing that you can get just by browsing the web or inserting a CD like in the Windows world.
The Trojans that OS X does have were all made as proof of concepts and have no infection vector. They are of academic curiosity.
No your entire post is bullshit of the rankest kind.
Merely participating in the voting process you are handing over legitimacy to an illegitimate system. There is literally no point in voting when there are only two official parties, and they are both essentially the same with the exception of having a few different corporate sponsors.
Ah the old trickle down democracy theory. It hasn't worked and I don't think it will. Still it's another excuse to keep our factories over there and our fingers crossed over here, right?
Right?
That's not really what your link actually says.
Your karma will suffer too bitch.
Well, don't let the door hit you on your way out. Wikipedia and all the citations you want are THATAWAY.
Besides, I am not going to sit around doing shit just to impress you. I will come up with citations for $20 per.
Overclockers are up to 8.4 GHz now, with AMD chips.
Well he is lying.