I'd hate to say it, but this is not new for Apple. They've been doing this to their own users since at least back in the 90's (when I first jumped into using computers and my friends had Macs). This tendency also extends to their iPhone line, as well (anything before the 3GS has pretty much been dropped).
I just bought my 15" MBP in November, and I know I've got about 3-4 years before it gets dropped as well. Luckily, I'm using mine mostly for Bootcamp/Windows 7. Noone should invest in an Apple device unless they've accepted that it will get dropped within a few cycles.
So which aside from the free AV apps you've mentioned, what other apps would you consider good? I'm currently using Kazpersky, which seems to do a good job, but I really wouldn't know better. I've stopped trusting the free stuff ever since AVG started to bloat.
Maybe, from a developer's stand-point, they would assume that if Apple's guidelines allow it (and got past their approval), that Apple has somehow made it acceptable from a higher level?
If it's then acceptable, what would make them think that what they're doing is wrong?
How about those peeps who use their iPads as cameras? That just kills me every time I see them. It's ridiculous!
ONe thing I've been wondering is what are the 4 hardware (home, menu, back and search) buttons used for once the OS goes ICS? Do they become shortcuts or go useless?
2 protestors + 30 (or 40) journalists = Something wrong about this scenario.
1) Turn on your consumable media player.
2) Select Artist >> Michael Jackson >> "Man in the Mirror"
3) Press play.
4) Feel guilty.
5) Think about all the poor saps who had to suffer for your pleasure of listening to this.
6) * Repeat.
2) Select Artist >> Michael Jackson >> "Man in the Mirror"
3) Press play.
4) Feel guilty.
5) Think about all the poor saps who had to suffer for your pleasure of listening to this.
6) * Repeat.
OF COURSE, Pasadena is the center of the universe. It's where the Rose Bowl parade happens. duh.
1st Question: This guy has the source code, basically the key to a Security company's security and he only asked for $50k? With all the risk involved, why only ask for enough to survive for a year (or two?) It's like those caper movies where they're like, " We have put together a team of super awesome specialists that the world has ever seen, and we're going to break into the federal reserves. We have 6 people on our team and we should all be able to walk away with a $100,000." WTF?!? Go for broke, if you're going to do it at all! If you get caught for $50k, will another million really make a difference?
2nd Question: Why didn't Symantec pay up and laugh it off Austin Powers style?
I would think that it's a lot less about whether they have back-ups or not and more about their client confidentiality getting exposed. Liability-wise, this could/probably will open themselves up to serious lawsuits against them for breach of confidentiality agreements. Their reputation is so shot at this point, they will more than likely never recover from this.
But then that's what makes The Onion so funny. Many of their stories are way out there (love the one about the Make-A-Wish Foundation going bankrupt on wishes!), but some of them are *just* outside of the realm of possibility enough to freak people out.
Sure, there may be a great number of duplicates, but maybe it evens out when you introduce a friend of a friend who has a VERY large number of friends? I know many peeps who have 500+ friends.
I understand the whole mentality of doing messed up things in a spectacular way to get everyone to pay attention to certain issues that are happening but it just seems like they would do WAY more harm if they were a little more subtle.
If you were the webmaster of the BPD website and something this obvious happened, your first instinct would be to take it down, reupload a back up. Your attention to fix the problem is immediately noticed, and therefore the fix time is quicker. Wouldn't it be worse if, instead they messed up all the contact phone numbers on the site or swiped out the body text with messed up stuff, or changed all the URL links to porn or Anonymous messages?
How can this be bad? Blockbuster had policies like this and modified the movies they stocked and look where they are at now!
He never said, "Everybody blindly loves Apple".
Here's a fun one:
Seriously, they successfully splice goat and spider DNA, and that's the best they could do? I want to see an eight-legged goat.
I think that may be an Apple patent.
I have that one Dream Machine with the big-ass green numbers (with the CD player). It's awesome. It's amazing how hard it is to find a really good alarm clock these days. It took me months of researching, reading reviews, trying different brands/models (I actually paid for and tried out about a dozen clocks), and ultimately found the Dream Machine as the best one around. This was my criteria:
1) Numbers had to be large enough to see across my bedroom effortlessly ( 25 feet ).
2) Needs to be able to set more than one alarm.
3) Setting the time buttons need to be a able to fast-forward through numbers by holding down (as well as going forward and backward).
4) Numbers are perfectly visible when sunlight shines onto it's face (you'd be surprised how many aren't).
5) Set specific/random music as the alarm.
6) Has a back-up battery.
Believe it or not, the Dream Machine was the only one that met all of this criteria! Well, actually there was this other cheaper brand name that came close (but again, the face of the clock was unreadable in sunlight), but it literally died after about 2 hours of being plugged in.
If the Dream Machine had a way to input even a thumb drive full of MP3's, I would have made love to it.
I understand that most people don't give two shits about a damned alarm clock, but I was single back then (and hence had the time for shit like this), and it really annoyed me that I would always find something retarded about every clock I've bought in the past.
Not "Clones". "Tributes"
