Yes I do. Now this will be the last response I'll give to someone that has chosen the name "macs4all" when talking about the inherent weakness of proprietary systems.
This is not Apple's fault. This is congress's fault. Period.
Vote accordingly.
Exactly.
And keep in mind that EVERY ONE of those Tax Loopholes was HAND-CRAFTED to benefit some sycophant Congresscritter's personal Master. And guess what? I would be willing to bet that Apple's "name" is not tattooed on even ONE of those sycophant's backsides.
Apple's just following the rules as written, like every other multinational corporation. They have absolutely NO legal, moral, nor fiduciary duty to pay one more dime in taxes than they have to.
Just like you and me. The only difference is, most of us don't have sycophantic Congresscritters to hand-craft exceptions into the Tax Code for us...
To be fair your nick is essentially "shill for apple". You shouldn't be surprised if people assume that anything you say is a bit biased.
So sez the ANONYMOUS COWARD. Boy, count me IMPRESSED!
No, you INTERPRET my nick that way.
I meant it as more of a "wish" (as in "I'd like to be able to wave a magic wand and give everyone a Mac") than a "shill" (as in "In my eyes, Apple can do no wrong, and I will defend them to the death, even if I don't believe what I am saying.")
See the difference? Of course you don't; or, more correctly, won't admit it; because you will pretend that there IS no difference.
Am I biased? Of course. Just like the Freetards that overrun Slashdot, and claim that F/OSS is ALWAYS the ONLY way, and that Apple's motives are ALWAYS bad.
I offered it as my personal experience. I've had one for ~6 months now. 12 million of us bought into the dream. In my case my wife bought into it for my bday.
But I'll probably throw $400 down on the next Watch hoping the dream will get better.
I'd chat more but my notification reminder to charge my watch just popped up.
Since you were disappointed in Watch 1.0, wouldn't it be more prudent to go try one out and do some online research, first?
Unless $400 is just a trifle to you; then by all means, go for it!;-)
Is it just me, or does it seem like barely a week goes by that there isn't yet ANOTHER vulnerability affecting Android?
Seriously, why is that? What happened to the oft-touted Open Source advantage of "many eyes"?
I am honestly NOT Trolling here; but it does seem that most, if not all, of these vulnerabilities should be long-since discovered (and hopefully eradicated), rather than the steady drip, drip, drip of "another longstanding vulnerability discovered" many months or even years after the fact.
I run "Classic Discussion System (D1)" and I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Is that something you see on a particular device or browser or is it a problem with the new "Interactive Discussion System (D2)"?
A lot of the settings appear to be frozen as changes don't save.
I don't know what you mean about "Classic Discussion System" vs "Interactive Discussion System". I understand the words; but don't know how to tell which one I am using. If it helps, it is the Discussion System that LOOKS like Slashdot has looked for basically ever.
It happens on my work Win 7 laptop running Chrome, and on my iPad running Mobile Safari. That's the only two things I browse Slashdot with. And it just started doing this about 2 weeks ago.
My comments Post just fine; I just have to ignore the "Working..." Spinny thing. It goes away if I use the Browser's "Back" button and then "Forward"; but MY POST DOESN'T SHOW UP until I leave/. COMPLETELY and come back.
For a "geek" site, Slashdot has some of the LAMEST web coders in the known universe. Seriously. I HATE phpBB with a purple passion; but even IT has a "styled" editing system (I am SO sick of typing HTML Tags just to have a damned Blank Line between Paragraphs, or a FUCKING ITALICIZED WORD, that I could SCREAM), and a way to "re-edit" Posted comments. It isn't a damned LEGAL CONTRACT, FFS. Let us EDIT THAT TYPO AFTER POSTING!!!!
You could even have apps on the phone that used both displays at once. This way the only thing the watch is responsible for is running the display not executing the app.
I agree. And what do you wanna bet that they designed it that way at first? Then they decided they would get laughed out of town if all they released was a remote Bluetooth Display for your iPhone, so they had to try to make it run Apps, while striking a balance between usable battery life and performance, with the watch doing as much "autonomously" as it could.
It's a very tough set of engineering constraints. Not surprised they didn't get it completely right the first time...
Don't knock it before you get used to it. Obivously there is the privacy intrusion etc, and I resisted for a while but now prefer windows 10 over windows 7. Probably my favorite upgrade is the way it handles remote desktop sessions (I do a lot of them for work), especially the window auto-scaling feature.
Hmm. Windows Remote Desktop Client for OS X does that, too.
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They could remove it from the iTunes database without actually deleting the files. That would have been a more responsible thing to do.
Maybe. But I think that, no matter what they did, it would surprise/tick-off SOMEbody.
Yes I do. Now this will be the last response I'll give to someone that has chosen the name "macs4all" when talking about the inherent weakness of proprietary systems.
Promise?
This is a complex proprietary system, so it's already less secure than mature industry standards.
Oh, you mean like those "Mature industry standards" ssl and ssh?
Are you saying Apple's programmers are now able to create a computer program as complex as an operating system with no bugs and no flaws whatsoever?
Are Apple's programmers aliens from another planet with superior intelligence? Is this why Apple's new HQ looks like a "spaceship"?
Shhh! Don't tell anyone...
user should learn to configure his stuff before setting a torch to his local content
No, Apple should learn to not set a torch to content on user's machine
While I agree, I also understand that most people would whine even louder about DUPLICATES in their iTunes Library caused by the iTunes Match.
Backups, Dude. Backups.
Especially since Time Machine makes backing-up absolutely brain-dead simple.
Bingo. Apple expects a big return on all that lobbying money they've been spending in DC.
Actually, especially considering their net worth, Apple doesn't really give all that much to lobbyists.
they all get caught up in the political gridlock
No, you meant to say "They all get caught up in campaign financing"
Vote for Bernie!!!
This is not Apple's fault. This is congress's fault. Period.
Vote accordingly.
Exactly.
And keep in mind that EVERY ONE of those Tax Loopholes was HAND-CRAFTED to benefit some sycophant Congresscritter's personal Master. And guess what? I would be willing to bet that Apple's "name" is not tattooed on even ONE of those sycophant's backsides.
Apple's just following the rules as written, like every other multinational corporation. They have absolutely NO legal, moral, nor fiduciary duty to pay one more dime in taxes than they have to.
Just like you and me. The only difference is, most of us don't have sycophantic Congresscritters to hand-craft exceptions into the Tax Code for us...
I think this just make TheGratefulNet's point ever stronger: you can't trust cops but you can't trust judges even more.
Yeah, it's pretty bad when the "Checks and Balances" themselves need "Checks and Balances"...
... it is only supposed to be used in the most serious cases such as terrorism....
A law enforcement official once told me that he will use any and all tools that are available to him, regardless of their intended usage.
. So stories like this no longer surprise me.
Aren't we all glad they haven't been given nuclear weapons... yet?
To be fair your nick is essentially "shill for apple". You shouldn't be surprised if people assume that anything you say is a bit biased.
So sez the ANONYMOUS COWARD. Boy, count me IMPRESSED!
;-)
No, you INTERPRET my nick that way.
I meant it as more of a "wish" (as in "I'd like to be able to wave a magic wand and give everyone a Mac") than a "shill" (as in "In my eyes, Apple can do no wrong, and I will defend them to the death, even if I don't believe what I am saying.")
See the difference? Of course you don't; or, more correctly, won't admit it; because you will pretend that there IS no difference.
Am I biased? Of course. Just like the Freetards that overrun Slashdot, and claim that F/OSS is ALWAYS the ONLY way, and that Apple's motives are ALWAYS bad.
Now, isn't that where we came in?
search the concept of 'if it walks like a duck...'
funny that a person with a handle 'macs4all' would AT ALL want to white knight apple. nothing strange about that at all. LOL
Ooo looky; an ad hominem attack! How terribly original...
More like: The last bastion of the "factless"...
I offered it as my personal experience. I've had one for ~6 months now. 12 million of us bought into the dream. In my case my wife bought into it for my bday.
But I'll probably throw $400 down on the next Watch hoping the dream will get better.
I'd chat more but my notification reminder to charge my watch just popped up.
Since you were disappointed in Watch 1.0, wouldn't it be more prudent to go try one out and do some online research, first?
;-)
Unless $400 is just a trifle to you; then by all means, go for it!
for the end user, apple was doing the right thing. but not for the right reasons, mind you.
That is TOTAL conjecture on your part; you have absolutely no way to determine what Apple's "motivation" was.
You just ASSUME it is self-serving and evil. Do you have PROOF?
Is it just me, or does it seem like barely a week goes by that there isn't yet ANOTHER vulnerability affecting Android?
Seriously, why is that? What happened to the oft-touted Open Source advantage of "many eyes"?
I am honestly NOT Trolling here; but it does seem that most, if not all, of these vulnerabilities should be long-since discovered (and hopefully eradicated), rather than the steady drip, drip, drip of "another longstanding vulnerability discovered" many months or even years after the fact.
Unless you're trying to be 'punny' it is spelled "googolplex"
Actually, I wasn't.
I knew that, but forgot at that moment, sorry!
I run "Classic Discussion System (D1)" and I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Is that something you see on a particular device or browser or is it a problem with the new "Interactive Discussion System (D2)"?
A lot of the settings appear to be frozen as changes don't save.
I don't know what you mean about "Classic Discussion System" vs "Interactive Discussion System". I understand the words; but don't know how to tell which one I am using. If it helps, it is the Discussion System that LOOKS like Slashdot has looked for basically ever.
/. COMPLETELY and come back.
It happens on my work Win 7 laptop running Chrome, and on my iPad running Mobile Safari. That's the only two things I browse Slashdot with. And it just started doing this about 2 weeks ago.
My comments Post just fine; I just have to ignore the "Working..." Spinny thing. It goes away if I use the Browser's "Back" button and then "Forward"; but MY POST DOESN'T SHOW UP until I leave
For a "geek" site, Slashdot has some of the LAMEST web coders in the known universe. Seriously. I HATE phpBB with a purple passion; but even IT has a "styled" editing system (I am SO sick of typing HTML Tags just to have a damned Blank Line between Paragraphs, or a FUCKING ITALICIZED WORD, that I could SCREAM), and a way to "re-edit" Posted comments. It isn't a damned LEGAL CONTRACT, FFS. Let us EDIT THAT TYPO AFTER POSTING!!!!
But I digress...
Apple used to be about user experience first, features second. Amazing how Cook managed to derail all that in such a short time.
Not Cook. The Engineering Department. Cook just isn't self-confident enough to trust when to put his foot down.
Jobs if nothing else was brutal on "Scope Creep". He simply did NOT allow it to happen.
So now, without his reigns, the Engineers are releasing DECADES of pent-up ideas, both good and bad, that didn't pass His Steveness' steely glare.
You could even have apps on the phone that used both displays at once. This way the only thing the watch is responsible for is running the display not executing the app.
I agree. And what do you wanna bet that they designed it that way at first? Then they decided they would get laughed out of town if all they released was a remote Bluetooth Display for your iPhone, so they had to try to make it run Apps, while striking a balance between usable battery life and performance, with the watch doing as much "autonomously" as it could.
It's a very tough set of engineering constraints. Not surprised they didn't get it completely right the first time...
It isn't a watch and apps are a failure. All for $400. Look at the competition in the $400 range. I'm not sold on this experiment.
11,999,999 other owners would tend to negate your hyperbole.
Always an Apple apologist in the house.
Have to, to counter the googleplex of Apple haters in the house.
I think the point may be its a bad watch. And a bad phone.
Spoken like a true Hater. Mentions a phone when we were discussing a watch.
Don't knock it before you get used to it. Obivously there is the privacy intrusion etc, and I resisted for a while but now prefer windows 10 over windows 7. Probably my favorite upgrade is the way it handles remote desktop sessions (I do a lot of them for work), especially the window auto-scaling feature.
Hmm. Windows Remote Desktop Client for OS X does that, too.
Jus' Sayin'...
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I'd be happy if they'd just fix the FOREVER spinny-thing when you Post.