Pointing out that MS doesn't have a history of complying with standards or using Microsoft's own requirements for Office Communications Server 2007 (look them up if you don't beleive me)?
Considering just how much existing VoIP crap (including Microsoft's) runs over SIP, has anyone considered that it's possible that Skype simply decided to kill off the third party hack and focus on building native SIP connectivity?
Because MS have such a long history of complying with standards.
This seems unlikely, MS's office communications server is not compatible with any other kind of server. Heavily integrated into the Windows Server System (Exch, Scarepoint, MSSQL, IIS). It may support SIP, but when I tested it (Jan 2010) support was very superficial, if you tried to use SIP you'd lose most functionality in OCS which requires a dual core server, 8 GB of RAM and 10 K RPM disks in RAID 0 for some strange reason.
In comparison, Asterisk runs in a VM with 1 vCPU and 512 MB RAM serving SIP to 20 clients.
Do you honestly expect me to buy the notion that MS is opening Skype's protocols rather then trying to integrate them into MS Live?
For real? Asterisk is extremely pervasive from what I've seen. The only place it's NOT pervasive is among hobbyists who a) have no need for a PBX type system and b) have no idea how to get it to interface with anything interesting.
Hint: google voice uses asterisk.
Asterisk is often used as a replacement for expensive vendor PABX's in small businesses that can afford a full time sysadmin. When 20 user key systems can cost upwards of $7K with no support, free* seems cheap.
There's even a drop in replacement with a usable GUI for people with little knowledge of Linux/CLI (Asterisk Now IIRC).
* free isn't free, but a sysadmin's time is cheaper then a Siemens consultant.
While it is Windows only, it is solid, offers Android support and just... works. If you're Apple, you're gonna be an Fanboi anyway and use iTunes. If you're on Linux, you'll use some crappy software.
If you've got half a brain, you'd just buy a device with MSC support and copy media over to it as it the device was a flash disk. MSC Just Works(TM) with OSX, Linux and Windows without the need for additional software.
The feeling of superiority comes from buying something that can do 10 times what an Ipod could for half the price... and that feeling is quite justified.
Now, according to the "yelling fire in a theater" crowd,
This phrase was invented before the age of fire alarms, even speakers and moving pictures. The theatre they refer to is a live theatre (plays, as in Shakespeare) and back then, the only fire alarm was a guy yelling "fire".
The point of the phrase is to demonstrate that free speech does not exist to protect deliberately fraudulent statements.
The modern equivalent of "yelling fire in a crowded theatre" is pulling the fire alarm when there is no fire.
we should have all gone off and stampeded each other to get out of the building. You know what happened? We all peacefully stood up, proceeded to the exits and went outside
Now do you honestly beleive that.
Really?
Have you never seen the pandemonium when someone pulled the fire alarm at school?
Most people cannot organise themselves, let alone manage to organise themselves into a group with no structure. This is why in Australia it is mandatory for all buildings to have a trained fire warden in each company (training is provided by the fire dept, a 1 day course) and a floor warden on each floor to make sure everyone can evacuate in a safe manner, also to check that no-one has been left behind (passed out, frightened etc...).
I know a lot of/.er's tend not to go outside much, but seriously, thinking people can organise an evacuation on their own is delusional.
For the GGP,
It is illegal to remove the brakes from your car.
By doing so, you make your vehicle unroadworthy, then trying to drive that on the road is illegal. The same would apply to this.
Back to reality, the thing that needs to be locked at is the ramifications of being 1km over the speed 500 metres before the accident. Insurance companies being the scum of the earth that they are, will be looking to exclude payment for the slightest infraction or demanding contributory payment well beyond reasonable levels.
This simply indicates that insurance companies need to be bought under control.
In some places it is not illegal to travel over the speed limit if overtaking or a dangerous situation requires it. Obviously, if you're consistently 20 KM's over the speed limit you are speeding but a speed logging device can be used to establish that you were only speeding to get around another vehicle (by demonstrating that you were over the limit for less then 1 minute).
Frankly, I'd consider an accurate speed logger a godsend if it shuts up the "Speed cameras are just a revenue raiser" crowd. These people annoy the hell out of me because speed camera's can be avoided by simply driving at or under the speed limit. A speed logger we can finally debunk that theory. If it were true, GPS devices would have already have been used to log speeds whilst driving under the speed limit, this would have proven that speed cameras were simply placed to get cash rather then to enforce the speed limit.
In the US it is difficult to point to an organization that is illegal to belong to
Al Queda, the Taliban.
You don't even need to be in the US or a US citizen fro the US to punish you without due process or a fair trial for being a member of these organisations.
It is pretty different. The suit alleges that Cisco was actively complicit in the persecution of the Falun Gong. It wasn't like the Chinese gov't bought a bunch of their product made for general use and Cisco had no idea what it was going to be used for.
Given the fact that Cisco consulted the Chinese government on this, the correct analogy is, suing a gun manufacturer that not only sold a gun to a known mass murderer but also found a crowded shopping centre, stored, maintained and loaded the weapon for him.
I know these guys are rich, but this seems crazy. They are using their own private vehicles.
They are using aircraft and fall under the laws governing their use.
Every flight I get on as a passenger has to follow the same rules, when I get on TG220, a flight plan has been filed tracking that flights movement. If I take out a Cessna, the same thing happens.
This is important because runway time is a limited resource and they need to plan your arrival in with other arriving flights. It's not like a garage where you can just rock up and get a place, with airports its as if that garage had a drive way that could only accommodate 3 or 4 cars per minute. If you don't schedule, you'll have cars backed up around the corner. Having spent 15 minutes sitting on the taxiway at BKK or KUL on more then one occasion has given me an appreciation of this.
Tried it, it's rubbish. The problem is that while left-white viewing angle is very wide, generally up-down viewing angle is just awful.
Depends on the monitor you get, of course. IPS panels tend to have pretty good viewing angles, though of course you also get extra latency (I've heard) and higher cost. For me it was worth it.
I've compared IPS and TN screens for GIS analysts, whilst IPS is better for ordinary use TN is just fine. Most people wont get the benefits from IPS.
Why in the world anyone would choose a 1920x1080 monitor over 1920x1200 is beyond me. I can't wait until the day those bastard TV "monitors" die.
They wont die, unfortunately.
1920x1080 is the new 1280x1024.
But higher resolution monitors will become more common and cheaper. 1080 will always be cheaper but 1600x900 and 2560x1600 will reduce to a price point of a few hundred dollars like 1680x1050 did a few years back when 1280x1024 monitors became $100 a piece. The more technology changes, the more the market stays the same.
My understanding of Root on Android (BTW, I've rooted every Android phone I've had) is that user intervention is required when a program asks for root privileges (I.E. you have to tap "accept").
Not knowing how Google intends to detect rooted phones, I'd say logically, the easiest workaround is to tap "deny" when asked for super user access.
In the case of third party DRM requirements, Google tends to do the minimum amount possible to get it working, then not worry about people that get around it.
Not that this matters to me, I live in Oz and regional restrictions will ensure that I wont get this service until 2034 and a US$2.99 movie will cost A$3450.00.
Mac users less computer savvy? Not really I've seen a lot of IT- and multimedia-pros using them.
Yes, Mac uses are significantly less savvy.
The only IT "pro's" I've seen with Macs are PHB's who don't have a clue about computers and the odd programmer who bought the marketing (ergo, didn't have a clue about computers).
As a network engineer, a Mac is a giant "stay away from me" sign as Mac's are marketed towards people who don't understand, nor want to understand how their computers work and this marketing has been quite successful in enticing people who aren't computer savvy.
If it is only for the largest planes, then it isn't all that helpful for a lot of travellers (myself included). Many people find the vast majority of their air travel is on small jets or turboprops
Depends on how you define "small jet". In Australia I hardly ever get on a prop driven plane. Most 1-2 hour hops are covered by B717, B737, A320 or ERJ jets. Between major cities you either get on a B737 NG (-700 or higher) or a widebody twinjet (A330, B777) when there are enough passengers. Out of all of those planes, only the B717 might be classified as a small plane, small planes were the F50 and BAe 146/Avro RJ (using seat count as a metric, small = less than 100 seats).
Some airlines have seat back entertainment systems in B737's although most have a shared TV. Such a system may actually be useful for smaller aircraft which don't have the seat back entertainment system. In fact, given the congestion a wireless network like this is going to encounter it may only be useful on narrow body (under 200 seat) planes.
Funny you should say that: USB ports were dead in the water for a while - these funny oblong sockets showed up on PC motherboards but Windows didn't support them, PCs still had RS232 and Centronics ports, scanners still came with SCSI cards and so nobody used USB much.
Actually, Windows has supported USB since Windows 95 via third party drivers.
Windows natively supported USB drivers in Windows 98 (not MSC though) and MSC (Mass Storage Class) in Windows 2000.
USB connections were never dead, the industry swapped from a number of different ports (RS 232, LPT) over a long period of time, I remember buying a printer in 1998 that was both USB and LPT.
Hint: the first wave of mass-market USB peripherals all tended to have translucent blue plastic cases reminiscent of the original "Bondai Blue" iMac...
Funny, I have plenty of USB dongles from 1999 that weren't blue, in fact quite a few USB devices from the 90's didn't support Mac's at all.
I know it's a popular delusion from Apple fanatics that Apple made USB popular, they didn't. USB didn't become really popular until Windows XP was on enough computers to make USB peripherals and drives cost effective to make. This is why the top selling keyboards and mice in 2003 still used PS2 connectors. Same with USB drives, they didn't become popular until Windows supported them.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to research this, but I'm sure someone said the same thing in the early days of USB.
We'll see if "rumors of its death are premature". I am just happy we are moving towards a faster local I/O standard and applaud Apple for having the guts to champion the technology it thinks is best.
The funny thing is, USB replaced about six ports (PS2, RS232, LPT and others) whilst Thunderbolt does half of what USB does. The USB flash drive killed the floppy drive.
USB was cheap, simple and ubiquitous, it's also got a massive head start with the first USB ports appearing on PC's in 1996.
We'll see how far this technology goes. Intel developed this for LightPeak which is Optical (which competes with well established Fibre Channel in reality) but Thunderbolt is copper, that eliminates most of the advantages over USB and does nothing to combat the ubiquity of USB. So we'll see how far Thunderbolt actually gets.
Just another case of Apple trying to be innovating by ignoring how real people use their computers.
Redundant and unnecessary technology is expensive and uncommon a couple months after release. News at 11.
There, fixed that for you.
USB is ubiquitous and and backwards compatible. We already have a successor to copper based USB, it's called Fibre Channel.
Just like Firewire, no-one is really going to use this new interface, except that it will simply not become common on new boards/laptops.
Even eSATA didn't get far because it required new cables and new ports whilst almost all mobo and disk caddy manufacturers support it no-one uses it because of this. I've had eSATA boards for six years (first in 2005). The fact remains everyone's current gear runs on USB, everyone's old laptops have USB ports, everyone recognises USB. End of story.
Why is it that atheists on the internet spend so much more time talking about god on the internet than people of faith
They don't. Try spending time with actual Christians, it's about all they discuss. You may not know it but there is a very large community of online nuns and priests that discuss primarily, matters of theology, at least in the Church of England.
As an atheist, I wish them well.
What you have here is bias, bias without fact being used to back up an ill thought out point.
I don't know about you but I'm a little sick and tired of all of the anonymous "buttsecks" trolls on here. It seems to me that these PC using trolls seem obsessed with it.
Here we have the part that demonstrates you are well and truely detached from reality.
You attempt to vilify them using a negative connotation (anal intercourse) then you tie them to the object that you feel most threatened by (wintel based PC's).
In extreme irony, you are the very object you deride. You are using an irrational hate to justify your point, this is evident by the fact that you must use insults rather then logic to get your point across. You also use thought terminating cliche's to prevent readers from questioning your point. By doing so, you've helped prove the case against you, a neutral observer must accept that "PC's are bad" which is the exact tactic of certain evangelical preists "Sin is bad"
Grow up already for crying out loud.
You need to do this.
So does the person who modded you up.
Believe me as an atheist who knows enough theists to have insights into their community. Oh, we are both also rational enough to respect each others positions on the subject of God.
Because sometimes once a religion reaches critical mass in an area, nonbelievers are forcibly converted, either to the religion or to fine ash as they are burned at the stake. That's pretty strong selection pressure right there.
Just a minor point of contention, whilst there's plenty of examples of forced conversion, there are just as many of religions getting along. Eastern religions tend to be quite tolerant of other faiths, for the most part but even Buddhism gets co-opted by bad leaders (the Military Junta of Burma is using Buddhist Fervour against the Muslim hill tribes for example).
That being said, Apple Fanboydom is a very intolerant religion. Try suggesting that an Acer Iconia tablet is just as good as an Ipad (not better, but merely just as good).
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Pointing out that MS doesn't have a history of complying with standards or using Microsoft's own requirements for Office Communications Server 2007 (look them up if you don't beleive me)?
Considering just how much existing VoIP crap (including Microsoft's) runs over SIP, has anyone considered that it's possible that Skype simply decided to kill off the third party hack and focus on building native SIP connectivity?
Because MS have such a long history of complying with standards.
This seems unlikely, MS's office communications server is not compatible with any other kind of server. Heavily integrated into the Windows Server System (Exch, Scarepoint, MSSQL, IIS). It may support SIP, but when I tested it (Jan 2010) support was very superficial, if you tried to use SIP you'd lose most functionality in OCS which requires a dual core server, 8 GB of RAM and 10 K RPM disks in RAID 0 for some strange reason.
In comparison, Asterisk runs in a VM with 1 vCPU and 512 MB RAM serving SIP to 20 clients.
Do you honestly expect me to buy the notion that MS is opening Skype's protocols rather then trying to integrate them into MS Live?
For real? Asterisk is extremely pervasive from what I've seen. The only place it's NOT pervasive is among hobbyists who a) have no need for a PBX type system and b) have no idea how to get it to interface with anything interesting.
Hint: google voice uses asterisk.
Asterisk is often used as a replacement for expensive vendor PABX's in small businesses that can afford a full time sysadmin. When 20 user key systems can cost upwards of $7K with no support, free* seems cheap.
There's even a drop in replacement with a usable GUI for people with little knowledge of Linux/CLI (Asterisk Now IIRC).
* free isn't free, but a sysadmin's time is cheaper then a Siemens consultant.
Alternatives?
Google Voice :)
There, fixed that for you .
GV is already integrated into Asterisk.
I know people seem to like to bash Apple for DRM
And wrongly so since the music bought from iTunes hasn't had DRM in for more than 2 years now.
But on everything else, DRM in spades.
Apple fans tend to use that as misdirection to hide the fact that DRM is still at the centre of Itunes and iDevices.
While it is Windows only, it is solid, offers Android support and just ... works. If you're Apple, you're gonna be an Fanboi anyway and use iTunes. If you're on Linux, you'll use some crappy software.
If you've got half a brain, you'd just buy a device with MSC support and copy media over to it as it the device was a flash disk. MSC Just Works(TM) with OSX, Linux and Windows without the need for additional software.
The feeling of superiority comes from buying something that can do 10 times what an Ipod could for half the price... and that feeling is quite justified.
Who do you think is a majority shareholder in Disney, one of the most aggressive parties pushing for more DRM and more lopsided copyright laws.
Apple are armpit deep in the content industry, they just want you to delude yourself that they are working in your interests instead of theirs.
This phrase was invented before the age of fire alarms, even speakers and moving pictures. The theatre they refer to is a live theatre (plays, as in Shakespeare) and back then, the only fire alarm was a guy yelling "fire".
The point of the phrase is to demonstrate that free speech does not exist to protect deliberately fraudulent statements.
The modern equivalent of "yelling fire in a crowded theatre" is pulling the fire alarm when there is no fire.
Now do you honestly beleive that.
/.er's tend not to go outside much, but seriously, thinking people can organise an evacuation on their own is delusional.
Really?
Have you never seen the pandemonium when someone pulled the fire alarm at school?
Most people cannot organise themselves, let alone manage to organise themselves into a group with no structure. This is why in Australia it is mandatory for all buildings to have a trained fire warden in each company (training is provided by the fire dept, a 1 day course) and a floor warden on each floor to make sure everyone can evacuate in a safe manner, also to check that no-one has been left behind (passed out, frightened etc...).
I know a lot of
It is illegal to remove the brakes from your car.
By doing so, you make your vehicle unroadworthy, then trying to drive that on the road is illegal. The same would apply to this.
This simply indicates that insurance companies need to be bought under control.
In some places it is not illegal to travel over the speed limit if overtaking or a dangerous situation requires it. Obviously, if you're consistently 20 KM's over the speed limit you are speeding but a speed logging device can be used to establish that you were only speeding to get around another vehicle (by demonstrating that you were over the limit for less then 1 minute).
Frankly, I'd consider an accurate speed logger a godsend if it shuts up the "Speed cameras are just a revenue raiser" crowd. These people annoy the hell out of me because speed camera's can be avoided by simply driving at or under the speed limit. A speed logger we can finally debunk that theory. If it were true, GPS devices would have already have been used to log speeds whilst driving under the speed limit, this would have proven that speed cameras were simply placed to get cash rather then to enforce the speed limit.
Al Queda, the Taliban.
You don't even need to be in the US or a US citizen fro the US to punish you without due process or a fair trial for being a member of these organisations.
It is pretty different. The suit alleges that Cisco was actively complicit in the persecution of the Falun Gong. It wasn't like the Chinese gov't bought a bunch of their product made for general use and Cisco had no idea what it was going to be used for.
Given the fact that Cisco consulted the Chinese government on this, the correct analogy is, suing a gun manufacturer that not only sold a gun to a known mass murderer but also found a crowded shopping centre, stored, maintained and loaded the weapon for him.
I know these guys are rich, but this seems crazy. They are using their own private vehicles.
They are using aircraft and fall under the laws governing their use.
Every flight I get on as a passenger has to follow the same rules, when I get on TG220, a flight plan has been filed tracking that flights movement. If I take out a Cessna, the same thing happens.
This is important because runway time is a limited resource and they need to plan your arrival in with other arriving flights. It's not like a garage where you can just rock up and get a place, with airports its as if that garage had a drive way that could only accommodate 3 or 4 cars per minute. If you don't schedule, you'll have cars backed up around the corner. Having spent 15 minutes sitting on the taxiway at BKK or KUL on more then one occasion has given me an appreciation of this.
Tried it, it's rubbish. The problem is that while left-white viewing angle is very wide, generally up-down viewing angle is just awful.
Depends on the monitor you get, of course. IPS panels tend to have pretty good viewing angles, though of course you also get extra latency (I've heard) and higher cost. For me it was worth it.
I've compared IPS and TN screens for GIS analysts, whilst IPS is better for ordinary use TN is just fine. Most people wont get the benefits from IPS.
Why in the world anyone would choose a 1920x1080 monitor over 1920x1200 is beyond me. I can't wait until the day those bastard TV "monitors" die.
They wont die, unfortunately.
1920x1080 is the new 1280x1024.
But higher resolution monitors will become more common and cheaper. 1080 will always be cheaper but 1600x900 and 2560x1600 will reduce to a price point of a few hundred dollars like 1680x1050 did a few years back when 1280x1024 monitors became $100 a piece. The more technology changes, the more the market stays the same.
Why would the OS respond to such a request?
Because it is asked.
My understanding of Root on Android (BTW, I've rooted every Android phone I've had) is that user intervention is required when a program asks for root privileges (I.E. you have to tap "accept").
Not knowing how Google intends to detect rooted phones, I'd say logically, the easiest workaround is to tap "deny" when asked for super user access.
In the case of third party DRM requirements, Google tends to do the minimum amount possible to get it working, then not worry about people that get around it.
Not that this matters to me, I live in Oz and regional restrictions will ensure that I wont get this service until 2034 and a US$2.99 movie will cost A$3450.00.
Yes, Mac uses are significantly less savvy.
The only IT "pro's" I've seen with Macs are PHB's who don't have a clue about computers and the odd programmer who bought the marketing (ergo, didn't have a clue about computers).
As a network engineer, a Mac is a giant "stay away from me" sign as Mac's are marketed towards people who don't understand, nor want to understand how their computers work and this marketing has been quite successful in enticing people who aren't computer savvy.
If it is only for the largest planes, then it isn't all that helpful for a lot of travellers (myself included). Many people find the vast majority of their air travel is on small jets or turboprops
Depends on how you define "small jet". In Australia I hardly ever get on a prop driven plane. Most 1-2 hour hops are covered by B717, B737, A320 or ERJ jets. Between major cities you either get on a B737 NG (-700 or higher) or a widebody twinjet (A330, B777) when there are enough passengers. Out of all of those planes, only the B717 might be classified as a small plane, small planes were the F50 and BAe 146/Avro RJ (using seat count as a metric, small = less than 100 seats).
Some airlines have seat back entertainment systems in B737's although most have a shared TV. Such a system may actually be useful for smaller aircraft which don't have the seat back entertainment system. In fact, given the congestion a wireless network like this is going to encounter it may only be useful on narrow body (under 200 seat) planes.
The streaming will be from an on-board library, an important caveat not mentioned in the summary.
So basically it's going to be like the wired system in the seat back except slower and more unreliable.
Actually, Windows has supported USB since Windows 95 via third party drivers.
Windows natively supported USB drivers in Windows 98 (not MSC though) and MSC (Mass Storage Class) in Windows 2000.
USB connections were never dead, the industry swapped from a number of different ports (RS 232, LPT) over a long period of time, I remember buying a printer in 1998 that was both USB and LPT.
Funny, I have plenty of USB dongles from 1999 that weren't blue, in fact quite a few USB devices from the 90's didn't support Mac's at all.
I know it's a popular delusion from Apple fanatics that Apple made USB popular, they didn't. USB didn't become really popular until Windows XP was on enough computers to make USB peripherals and drives cost effective to make. This is why the top selling keyboards and mice in 2003 still used PS2 connectors. Same with USB drives, they didn't become popular until Windows supported them.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to research this, but I'm sure someone said the same thing in the early days of USB.
We'll see if "rumors of its death are premature". I am just happy we are moving towards a faster local I/O standard and applaud Apple for having the guts to champion the technology it thinks is best.
The funny thing is, USB replaced about six ports (PS2, RS232, LPT and others) whilst Thunderbolt does half of what USB does. The USB flash drive killed the floppy drive.
USB was cheap, simple and ubiquitous, it's also got a massive head start with the first USB ports appearing on PC's in 1996.
We'll see how far this technology goes. Intel developed this for LightPeak which is Optical (which competes with well established Fibre Channel in reality) but Thunderbolt is copper, that eliminates most of the advantages over USB and does nothing to combat the ubiquity of USB. So we'll see how far Thunderbolt actually gets.
Just another case of Apple trying to be innovating by ignoring how real people use their computers.
There, fixed that for you.
USB is ubiquitous and and backwards compatible. We already have a successor to copper based USB, it's called Fibre Channel.
Just like Firewire, no-one is really going to use this new interface, except that it will simply not become common on new boards/laptops.
Even eSATA didn't get far because it required new cables and new ports whilst almost all mobo and disk caddy manufacturers support it no-one uses it because of this. I've had eSATA boards for six years (first in 2005). The fact remains everyone's current gear runs on USB, everyone's old laptops have USB ports, everyone recognises USB. End of story.
I think you mean "implied", not "inferred".
Implied would have been better but inferred is also applicable.
They don't. Try spending time with actual Christians, it's about all they discuss. You may not know it but there is a very large community of online nuns and priests that discuss primarily, matters of theology, at least in the Church of England.
As an atheist, I wish them well.
What you have here is bias, bias without fact being used to back up an ill thought out point.
Here we have the part that demonstrates you are well and truely detached from reality.
You attempt to vilify them using a negative connotation (anal intercourse) then you tie them to the object that you feel most threatened by (wintel based PC's).
In extreme irony, you are the very object you deride. You are using an irrational hate to justify your point, this is evident by the fact that you must use insults rather then logic to get your point across. You also use thought terminating cliche's to prevent readers from questioning your point. By doing so, you've helped prove the case against you, a neutral observer must accept that "PC's are bad" which is the exact tactic of certain evangelical preists "Sin is bad"
You need to do this.
So does the person who modded you up.
Believe me as an atheist who knows enough theists to have insights into their community. Oh, we are both also rational enough to respect each others positions on the subject of God.
Your sig assumes an argument was made in the first place. "Apple sucks" isn't an argument, it's an opinion. They have nothing
Your argument assumes there was no reasoned argument put forth in the first place.
It is wrong and wrong 90% of the time. Therefore you have nothing.
Because sometimes once a religion reaches critical mass in an area, nonbelievers are forcibly converted, either to the religion or to fine ash as they are burned at the stake. That's pretty strong selection pressure right there.
Just a minor point of contention, whilst there's plenty of examples of forced conversion, there are just as many of religions getting along. Eastern religions tend to be quite tolerant of other faiths, for the most part but even Buddhism gets co-opted by bad leaders (the Military Junta of Burma is using Buddhist Fervour against the Muslim hill tribes for example).
That being said, Apple Fanboydom is a very intolerant religion. Try suggesting that an Acer Iconia tablet is just as good as an Ipad (not better, but merely just as good).