Unfortunately even on Macs you should probably stick with the OS version from a year or 2 years ago if you want decent support for hardware. Drivers for current OSes come out months after an OS is released and what you require is consistent performance and reliability. Linux support & drivers are pretty nonexistent if you look at major hardware manufacturers, it still is a OSX vs Windows. Generic USB drivers are pretty useless in many cases when you want to fully exploit hardware, for example, the Roland TR-8 has 14 different audio outputs, the System-1 can be changed using plugin with Plug-out, these are all features you can only access with the proper drivers and software combination. Even on a purely hardware level, finding the proper USB hub is a pain, you need very specific hub that will not slow down all connected devices to USB 1.1 speed. The quality and reliability in USB 3.0 hubs is pretty nonexistent too, again no point in having the greatest and latest if all your synths still run USB 2.0 and 1.1
The modern studio is a tightly coupled hardware, software, drivers, plugins, control surfaces all talking to each others. Always select reliability above anything else, you don't want dropped audio, you want low latency and high bitrate. If you go 100% software then everything i have said can be ignored, but if you want to hook up MIDI, hardware synths or modules, audio interface, USB interfaces then you have been warned.
H1B visas rules should first apply to CEOs then downward to that organization. No company really needs an expensive CEO, they cost a lot and no large company has ever closed when their CEO died in a car crash, so they are expendable. Get a new CEO at a fraction of the cost and benefits, that's even better shareholder value.
I use the Smartthings hub paired with mostly third party devices: Belkin WeMo wall switch to control light fixtures for which you cannot use things like Philips Hue Philips Hue in lamps without wall switches (now with a "cheaper" white bulb) Aeon Multisensor, Smartthings 1st and 2nd gen motion sensors, Ecolink PIR motion sensors to detect intruders and turn on/off all the lights Fortrezz Leak Sensor to detect flooding Smartthings Power Switch (for lights and general control) and Aeon Labs zwave switch (for A/C unit) Sonos (pricy but adds a human voice to alerting) Fortrezz Alarm (for intruders and the flashing light to get attention) Dropcams (for video feeds or taking pictures based on events) Smartthings contact switch (to detect intrusion, door knocks and mail delivery) Netatmo (both in and out) temperature, humidity, air quality to calibrate a central heating system Nest Protect for smoke and CO alarm (the only one not yet supported officially by Smartthings, but support is coming)
Grand total: about 1500$ in the last year for about 30 devices, no recurring costs. It could have been a bit cheaper and simpler but it's relatively cheap to get a Gates Mansion level of automation. It is so reliable that whenever a light does not switch on (maybe once a week) that my GF will notice it right away.
I think the person asking the question wasn't looking at Macs due to a cost issue, not necessarily because of iOS
Actually he was not ruling out Macs, nor Windows "I have no preference between open- and closed-source software as an end-user; I just care about the quality of the product."
also "I'm more than willing to do, but I'm not so sure I want Windows 8 and I'm just not sure I can afford to go with a Mac on top of the $600 for Finale."
From what i have just checked you can get a refurbished Macbook Air for 849$ in Canada, add 200$ for Logic and while this is not a bargain laptop it is a decent price for the most portable DAW. He can also get a used Macbook Air or Pro for a lot less.
In music production the laptop is probably not the most expensive equipment: synths, mics, mixers, audio interfaces can all go from a few hundreds to a few grands when you add them all together to get a basic setup.
Yes Gearslutz.com is the place to go, many great discussions. Also on the topic, be afraid of the latest and greatest version of any OS, Windows 8.x, OSX 10.9.x as the music companies that produce the DAWs as well as hardware audio interfaces tend to support these versions after a while. I guess they must work hard on debugging their product compared to say game companies which tend to release ASAP then just keep patching them as bugs creep along. A DAW is not a game after all and you probably don't want to rerecord your last day because of a software crash/bug/glitch.
With OSX stick with 10.8.x, with Windows stick with Win7. On the hardware front prefer SSD over HDD if you plan to do a lot of tracks and/or use libraries of samples. Plus invest in RAM, swapping is your enemy to low latency oh and all the crapware and background tasks too. If you want to do music, make it a dedicated music computer.
When you start working in the DAW, just unplug the network because you don't want Symantec updating its definitions or any background process happening when you record that once in a lifetime track.
Read reviews and make note of the hardware setup of the reviewer, prefer tried and tested and supported over latest and greatest but buggy. Try demo versions of the DAW you plan to purchase and make sure you get the concept, each one has a learning curve and some are quite daunting.
Actually for some great synths look no further than the iPad: Nave, the Yamaha Synth & Pad, Korg iMS-20, iPolysix, iElectribe, Arturia iSEM, iMini and many others. The best with this is that you can drive it using a combo of an ipad USB interface with a Roland UM-ONE (MIDI) interface, this way you can use any synth with a MIDI out to drive the iPad, or if you prefer you can drive it with a MIDI sequencer or a DAW.
You then simply record the audio back into your DAW. It may be not the simplest of setups, but the great music companies of the MIDI era (think 80s, 90s) are creating/recreating many synths on the iPad these days and they sound great (some purists will say they don't but then again, you can't buy any hardware synth for a mere 5-10$ nor can you get decent sound fonts/samples for such a low price).
To be honest i do have some vintage gear: D110, K4r, AX73, D550 and some Proteus' but the iPad is great to try some ideas and if you like the sound, then record it in your DAW!
The sound is the point, how it was created is pointless (but the road to its creation can be fun and rewarding too, but that's another topic).
I'd have him sit in front of a Windows machine and tell him: check what's running on that remote server at startup which is not a service and let him demonstrate how he'd use regedit for that.
I'd have him write a GPO that assigns specific computers to a WSUS server with dynamic groups.
Make him read a powershell script and tell you what each line does and for bonus points find the errors placed in the script.
With the new EULA they will probably introduce a Google Citizenship somewhere in there. This way you could simply sign in to Google+ at the various borders to prove your identity and the border patrol would in return Google your browsing history to see if you pose any threat to national security.
As for Google Bucks well they already have the Google shares which you can buy for their weight in gold and some more.
I personally am using a DLink DGL-4300 for Internet routing and the fifth gen Airport Express as an AP, this way I get both more network options on the Wan side AND great Wifi perfs. The DGL-4300 is pretty much impossible to find these day so go with an OpenWRT based router for your routing and use the Airport Extreme 5th Gen in bridge mode (they really improved the power and stability in the 5th gen), plus you get the added benefit of positioning the AP higher (on top of a wooden shelf or on the wall) for increased range.
I live in a downtown area and my neighbours have about 70+ wifi routers I can see (which also interfere), the 2.4 Ghz band is pretty useless nowadays, there is always a clown configuring his 2.4 Ghz on channels like 7, 3 or 9, the 802-11N 5 Ghz range is much less populated and highly recommended in an apartment configuration. Do a proper wifi inventory of your neighbour's use of channels and try to use those which cause less interference, and if all your devices support N just turn off the 2.4 Ghz antenna.
Actually a lot of countries did put out Einstein stamps, even the US did at least twice according to my quick Cyber Googling, 8 and 15 cents. Mickey Mouse probably has more lobbying clout in Washington nowadays, it's either this or somebody has a cyber string theory agenda.
Bookmarks ? Seriously, is anyone still using bookmarks ? Pardon my tone but after a quick survey of my fellow workers the only bookmarks we have are the one that come by default. Search history is a far more reliable source when paired with auto complete.
Attack toolkits are about as old as viruses, the MtE (Mutation Engine) was released in 1991. Before that all you needed was debug, edlin and a copy of Ralph Brown's book, oh and Elk Cloner was on Apple II in 1981. Make that 30 years for other 'personal computers'.
Well I can tell you from experience no amount of change documentation and preparation can help a Sysadmin doing work after hours (meaning after a full day of work and then some) not to make some stupid mistake like popping the wrong drive out, overworked anyone ?
I've had some worse experience where on IBM ServeRAID controlers when you put in a replacement drive while the array is in 'degraded' mode some awful engineer at IBM decided that if the new drive were to fail while rebuilding the array to a consistent state that they should fail the whole array instead of just warning that the rebuild failed and asking for another replacement (a good one, yeah it seems they sometime ship failed drives as replacement, another IBM genius I would guess). Now everytime I replace drives on IBM servers i'm allways anticipating server rebuilds, but that never gets to the managers or else like it was said earlier in the thread they would have me do this 'maintenance' on christmas eve or some other crazy maintenance window.
BTW: For consistency's sake you can actually boot a floppy to reenable a 'failed' IBM harddrive and set its status to ONL(ine) although this is hardly documented anywhere and thus save yourself from a complete bare metal disaster recovery on IBM servers.
Actually I am surprised they are not banning use of microwave ovens before they ban Wifi. The signal strength of the average microwave oven is usually stronger than most access point even with the 'shielding' they have.
40$ per Gigabyte is not that bad if you don't have to pay to acquire 15K RPM SAN drives which can easily run into 2500$ for a 600 GB drive with dual path fibre channel. Fibre channel HBA will run into the 1000$ a piece (twice for redundancy) plus all the SAN switches needed to connect your SAN to your server, again very expensive costs to front for an IT dept. Oh and you get to pay also for nice 24/7 maintenance contracts plus all that support staff with their big salaries because no janitor can build a SAN infrastructure after all, and if he can he will charge you big bucks anyway.
You can't expect 24/7 99.99% reliability out of consumer hardware, and as for the commenter that said that for 300 000$ he'd buy 100 servers that he would host at 100 different sites and replicate all that data, hum well good luck with that and that thing won't get implemented before a year of running around the country and bandwidth costs will probably double the operating budget.
Good and efficient IT operations are like race car teams, they cost a lot, can do trivial operations in seconds and can plan for the worst and still come out ahead. Other cheap solutions ? Go the Google way and let the advertisement pay for it all, other than that put everything on your cheap 1TB pc hard drive and hope it never fails or gets flooded, or stolen, after all how long does it take a human to fill 1TB of actual work data on average ? Multiply that by the hourly costs of such employees and soon you'll discover that HR costs are much higher than typical IT costs.
Wow you are the lucky one, I got a 3G with a 3 year contract (the only option in Canada besides importing a 1000$ unlocked phone) and so I had to skip the 3GS.
As far as the iPad go it's fast but then again it's not running iOS4, the day of that upgrade i'll be reading the Apple forums BEFORE i push that ''upgrade'' button.
If Hell had such ''upgrade'' buttons I suspect they would be far more enjoyable than the iOS4 3G experience. My iPhone 3G has been Vistaized and there is no way of going back.
Oh and yeah i'm typing this on a Macbook, but i picked because it was the less overpriced mac availlable out there, pop in a decent HDD and upgrade the ram and you now have a computer that is decent and you have spare parts too in the process.
I think I mean Apple was downright flawless in the execution of all of its fanbase that were upgrading their iPhone 3G to iOS4, their forums are full of nice fanboyism like: 'It took me 4 1/2 hours to backup 14 GIGs of data on my iPhone... I say stop using floppies!'
or also
'I'm stuck in an infinite restore loop in order to recover all my data... I say who cares about history anyway? Start anew, wipe everything clean, it's going to be marginally faster, not really ? Ah well, too bad so sad, you should have sticked with the previous OS version.'
'I want to downgrade to OS 3.x... I say look to the future, we just released a brand new iPhone 4 that will make your 3G phone look like it's crawling out of the pleistocene.
'I'm stuck in a 3 years contract with 24 months to go, no upgrade option other than paying Apple 500$ over product cost and a 3G phone that is useless... I say it's a free market out there but thanks to the walled garden you have imprisoned yourself into by buying apps and music there is no way in hell you can get out of it without loosing it all.
Force you to wait for several hours while iTunes displays that it is backing up your data even though it won't be able to restore anything later (also named the/dev/null clause).
Wipe all your precious photos (the memory clause)
Not give a d*mn about 3G iPhones users because they were too cheap to buy a 3GS the day it came out (the Scrooge clause)
Not allow you to restore settings per application because that would be way too useful (the early upgrader clause)
When legitimate American companies deny with IP blocking access to Canadians what other solutions are there ? I can buy CDs from Amazon yet MP3 have been blocked from downloading some weeks after the service was introduced after I had already bought several hard to find albums. Many American companies will go as far as saying they don't ship 'overseas' when blocking Canada, which is funny considering Hawaii or Alaska is further away than 90% of the Canadian population
Actually an early information about security patches from Microsoft looks like that:
Product Affected: all versions of windows Risk: Remote code execution Rating: Critical Reboot required: You betcha
Description: This vulnerability is even more serious than the previous 10 000 other Critical software updates, if 0 were the highest priority on a scale 1 to 10, this one would rate -10 000, see that's like super duper uber hyper critical times 3.
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Unfortunately even on Macs you should probably stick with the OS version from a year or 2 years ago if you want decent support for hardware. Drivers for current OSes come out months after an OS is released and what you require is consistent performance and reliability. Linux support & drivers are pretty nonexistent if you look at major hardware manufacturers, it still is a OSX vs Windows. Generic USB drivers are pretty useless in many cases when you want to fully exploit hardware, for example, the Roland TR-8 has 14 different audio outputs, the System-1 can be changed using plugin with Plug-out, these are all features you can only access with the proper drivers and software combination. Even on a purely hardware level, finding the proper USB hub is a pain, you need very specific hub that will not slow down all connected devices to USB 1.1 speed. The quality and reliability in USB 3.0 hubs is pretty nonexistent too, again no point in having the greatest and latest if all your synths still run USB 2.0 and 1.1
The modern studio is a tightly coupled hardware, software, drivers, plugins, control surfaces all talking to each others. Always select reliability above anything else, you don't want dropped audio, you want low latency and high bitrate. If you go 100% software then everything i have said can be ignored, but if you want to hook up MIDI, hardware synths or modules, audio interface, USB interfaces then you have been warned.
Of GURPS Cyberpunk or an updated version?
2nd question:
What is Lloyd B. up to ?
PS: If you're not sure about the financing of such a project, use crowfunding, i'd be in for sure.
H1B visas rules should first apply to CEOs then downward to that organization. No company really needs an expensive CEO, they cost a lot and no large company has ever closed when their CEO died in a car crash, so they are expendable. Get a new CEO at a fraction of the cost and benefits, that's even better shareholder value.
I use the Smartthings hub paired with mostly third party devices:
Belkin WeMo wall switch to control light fixtures for which you cannot use things like Philips Hue
Philips Hue in lamps without wall switches (now with a "cheaper" white bulb)
Aeon Multisensor, Smartthings 1st and 2nd gen motion sensors, Ecolink PIR motion sensors to detect intruders and turn on/off all the lights
Fortrezz Leak Sensor to detect flooding
Smartthings Power Switch (for lights and general control) and Aeon Labs zwave switch (for A/C unit)
Sonos (pricy but adds a human voice to alerting)
Fortrezz Alarm (for intruders and the flashing light to get attention)
Dropcams (for video feeds or taking pictures based on events)
Smartthings contact switch (to detect intrusion, door knocks and mail delivery)
Netatmo (both in and out) temperature, humidity, air quality to calibrate a central heating system
Nest Protect for smoke and CO alarm (the only one not yet supported officially by Smartthings, but support is coming)
Grand total: about 1500$ in the last year for about 30 devices, no recurring costs. It could have been a bit cheaper and simpler but it's relatively cheap to get a Gates Mansion level of automation. It is so reliable that whenever a light does not switch on (maybe once a week) that my GF will notice it right away.
I think the person asking the question wasn't looking at Macs due to a cost issue, not necessarily because of iOS
Actually he was not ruling out Macs, nor Windows "I have no preference between open- and closed-source software as an end-user; I just care about the quality of the product."
also "I'm more than willing to do, but I'm not so sure I want Windows 8 and I'm just not sure I can afford to go with a Mac on top of the $600 for Finale."
From what i have just checked you can get a refurbished Macbook Air for 849$ in Canada, add 200$ for Logic and while this is not a bargain laptop it is a decent price for the most portable DAW. He can also get a used Macbook Air or Pro for a lot less.
In music production the laptop is probably not the most expensive equipment: synths, mics, mixers, audio interfaces can all go from a few hundreds to a few grands when you add them all together to get a basic setup.
Yes Gearslutz.com is the place to go, many great discussions. Also on the topic, be afraid of the latest and greatest version of any OS, Windows 8.x, OSX 10.9.x as the music companies that produce the DAWs as well as hardware audio interfaces tend to support these versions after a while. I guess they must work hard on debugging their product compared to say game companies which tend to release ASAP then just keep patching them as bugs creep along. A DAW is not a game after all and you probably don't want to rerecord your last day because of a software crash/bug/glitch.
With OSX stick with 10.8.x, with Windows stick with Win7. On the hardware front prefer SSD over HDD if you plan to do a lot of tracks and/or use libraries of samples. Plus invest in RAM, swapping is your enemy to low latency oh and all the crapware and background tasks too. If you want to do music, make it a dedicated music computer.
When you start working in the DAW, just unplug the network because you don't want Symantec updating its definitions or any background process happening when you record that once in a lifetime track.
Read reviews and make note of the hardware setup of the reviewer, prefer tried and tested and supported over latest and greatest but buggy. Try demo versions of the DAW you plan to purchase and make sure you get the concept, each one has a learning curve and some are quite daunting.
Actually for some great synths look no further than the iPad: Nave, the Yamaha Synth & Pad, Korg iMS-20, iPolysix, iElectribe, Arturia iSEM, iMini and many others. The best with this is that you can drive it using a combo of an ipad USB interface with a Roland UM-ONE (MIDI) interface, this way you can use any synth with a MIDI out to drive the iPad, or if you prefer you can drive it with a MIDI sequencer or a DAW.
You then simply record the audio back into your DAW. It may be not the simplest of setups, but the great music companies of the MIDI era (think 80s, 90s) are creating/recreating many synths on the iPad these days and they sound great (some purists will say they don't but then again, you can't buy any hardware synth for a mere 5-10$ nor can you get decent sound fonts/samples for such a low price).
To be honest i do have some vintage gear: D110, K4r, AX73, D550 and some Proteus' but the iPad is great to try some ideas and if you like the sound, then record it in your DAW!
The sound is the point, how it was created is pointless (but the road to its creation can be fun and rewarding too, but that's another topic).
I'd have him sit in front of a Windows machine and tell him: check what's running on that remote server at startup which is not a service and let him demonstrate how he'd use regedit for that.
I'd have him write a GPO that assigns specific computers to a WSUS server with dynamic groups.
Make him read a powershell script and tell you what each line does and for bonus points find the errors placed in the script.
With the new EULA they will probably introduce a Google Citizenship somewhere in there. This way you could simply sign in to Google+ at the various borders to prove your identity and the border patrol would in return Google your browsing history to see if you pose any threat to national security.
As for Google Bucks well they already have the Google shares which you can buy for their weight in gold and some more.
I personally am using a DLink DGL-4300 for Internet routing and the fifth gen Airport Express as an AP, this way I get both more network options on the Wan side AND great Wifi perfs. The DGL-4300 is pretty much impossible to find these day so go with an OpenWRT based router for your routing and use the Airport Extreme 5th Gen in bridge mode (they really improved the power and stability in the 5th gen), plus you get the added benefit of positioning the AP higher (on top of a wooden shelf or on the wall) for increased range.
I live in a downtown area and my neighbours have about 70+ wifi routers I can see (which also interfere), the 2.4 Ghz band is pretty useless nowadays, there is always a clown configuring his 2.4 Ghz on channels like 7, 3 or 9, the 802-11N 5 Ghz range is much less populated and highly recommended in an apartment configuration. Do a proper wifi inventory of your neighbour's use of channels and try to use those which cause less interference, and if all your devices support N just turn off the 2.4 Ghz antenna.
Actually a lot of countries did put out Einstein stamps, even the US did at least twice according to my quick Cyber Googling, 8 and 15 cents. Mickey Mouse probably has more lobbying clout in Washington nowadays, it's either this or somebody has a cyber string theory agenda.
Bookmarks ? Seriously, is anyone still using bookmarks ? Pardon my tone but after a quick survey of my fellow workers the only bookmarks we have are the one that come by default. Search history is a far more reliable source when paired with auto complete.
Attack toolkits are about as old as viruses, the MtE (Mutation Engine) was released in 1991. Before that all you needed was debug, edlin and a copy of Ralph Brown's book, oh and Elk Cloner was on Apple II in 1981. Make that 30 years for other 'personal computers'.
Man this is going Viriial, its like viriises have taken over /.
Well I can tell you from experience no amount of change documentation and preparation can help a Sysadmin doing work after hours (meaning after a full day of work and then some) not to make some stupid mistake like popping the wrong drive out, overworked anyone ?
I've had some worse experience where on IBM ServeRAID controlers when you put in a replacement drive while the array is in 'degraded' mode some awful engineer at IBM decided that if the new drive were to fail while rebuilding the array to a consistent state that they should fail the whole array instead of just warning that the rebuild failed and asking for another replacement (a good one, yeah it seems they sometime ship failed drives as replacement, another IBM genius I would guess). Now everytime I replace drives on IBM servers i'm allways anticipating server rebuilds, but that never gets to the managers or else like it was said earlier in the thread they would have me do this 'maintenance' on christmas eve or some other crazy maintenance window.
BTW: For consistency's sake you can actually boot a floppy to reenable a 'failed' IBM harddrive and set its status to ONL(ine) although this is hardly documented anywhere and thus save yourself from a complete bare metal disaster recovery on IBM servers.
Have you tried not looking directly at the sun ? Also I sincerely hope you are not using a microwave for popcorn if you are electro sensitive...
Fan death, that is really cool ! I'm a big fan of fan death !
Actually I am surprised they are not banning use of microwave ovens before they ban Wifi. The signal strength of the average microwave oven is usually stronger than most access point even with the 'shielding' they have.
40$ per Gigabyte is not that bad if you don't have to pay to acquire 15K RPM SAN drives which can easily run into 2500$ for a 600 GB drive with dual path fibre channel. Fibre channel HBA will run into the 1000$ a piece (twice for redundancy) plus all the SAN switches needed to connect your SAN to your server, again very expensive costs to front for an IT dept. Oh and you get to pay also for nice 24/7 maintenance contracts plus all that support staff with their big salaries because no janitor can build a SAN infrastructure after all, and if he can he will charge you big bucks anyway.
You can't expect 24/7 99.99% reliability out of consumer hardware, and as for the commenter that said that for 300 000$ he'd buy 100 servers that he would host at 100 different sites and replicate all that data, hum well good luck with that and that thing won't get implemented before a year of running around the country and bandwidth costs will probably double the operating budget.
Good and efficient IT operations are like race car teams, they cost a lot, can do trivial operations in seconds and can plan for the worst and still come out ahead. Other cheap solutions ? Go the Google way and let the advertisement pay for it all, other than that put everything on your cheap 1TB pc hard drive and hope it never fails or gets flooded, or stolen, after all how long does it take a human to fill 1TB of actual work data on average ? Multiply that by the hourly costs of such employees and soon you'll discover that HR costs are much higher than typical IT costs.
Wow you are the lucky one, I got a 3G with a 3 year contract (the only option in Canada besides importing a 1000$ unlocked phone) and so I had to skip the 3GS.
As far as the iPad go it's fast but then again it's not running iOS4, the day of that upgrade i'll be reading the Apple forums BEFORE i push that ''upgrade'' button.
If Hell had such ''upgrade'' buttons I suspect they would be far more enjoyable than the iOS4 3G experience. My iPhone 3G has been Vistaized and there is no way of going back.
Oh and yeah i'm typing this on a Macbook, but i picked because it was the less overpriced mac availlable out there, pop in a decent HDD and upgrade the ram and you now have a computer that is decent and you have spare parts too in the process.
I think I mean Apple was downright flawless in the execution of all of its fanbase that were upgrading their iPhone 3G to iOS4, their forums are full of nice fanboyism like: 'It took me 4 1/2 hours to backup 14 GIGs of data on my iPhone... I say stop using floppies!'
or also
'I'm stuck in an infinite restore loop in order to recover all my data... I say who cares about history anyway? Start anew, wipe everything clean, it's going to be marginally faster, not really ? Ah well, too bad so sad, you should have sticked with the previous OS version.'
'I want to downgrade to OS 3.x... I say look to the future, we just released a brand new iPhone 4 that will make your 3G phone look like it's crawling out of the pleistocene.
'I'm stuck in a 3 years contract with 24 months to go, no upgrade option other than paying Apple 500$ over product cost and a 3G phone that is useless... I say it's a free market out there but thanks to the walled garden you have imprisoned yourself into by buying apps and music there is no way in hell you can get out of it without loosing it all.
Think different, that's an order !
Actually they forgot to mention in the EULA:
For current users of iPhone 3G Apple may:
Force you to wait for several hours while iTunes displays that it is backing up your data even though it won't be able to restore anything later (also named the /dev/null clause).
Wipe all your precious photos (the memory clause)
Not give a d*mn about 3G iPhones users because they were too cheap to buy a 3GS the day it came out (the Scrooge clause)
Not allow you to restore settings per application because that would be way too useful (the early upgrader clause)
I would have named their service Google Wardriving which is pretty much what they are trying to patent.
When legitimate American companies deny with IP blocking access to Canadians what other solutions are there ? I can buy CDs from Amazon yet MP3 have been blocked from downloading some weeks after the service was introduced after I had already bought several hard to find albums. Many American companies will go as far as saying they don't ship 'overseas' when blocking Canada, which is funny considering Hawaii or Alaska is further away than 90% of the Canadian population
Actually an early information about security patches from Microsoft looks like that:
Product Affected: all versions of windows
Risk: Remote code execution
Rating: Critical
Reboot required: You betcha
Description: This vulnerability is even more serious than the previous 10 000 other Critical software updates, if 0 were the highest priority on a scale 1 to 10, this one would rate -10 000, see that's like super duper uber hyper critical times 3.