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If that is the case, you guys must be *********g miserable.

Why?

Believe or not, iTunes is *not*the secret of happiness - it does not make or break a country.

:-\

How do you feel about being tracked and information stored without your knowledge? Oh wait, it's ok, Uncle Stevie knows what's best.

Why would I really care, either way? What am I doing (or what's anyone doing) that is really *that* interesting to "big brother"? As long as no one messes with my credit (note: *all* of your creditors can access your credit record at any time, as well as bill collectors) it makes no difference.

Of course, if you just murdered someone or knocked off a bank, you might have cause for concern.

My iPhone is tracking me all the time and *possibly* sending that data back to Apple (except it isn't, see below.) Ok. SO WHAT?? Hey Apple, have fun tracking me doing the groceries and visiting grandma. Look, I'm heading to the dry cleaners! OMG! Really folks, as long as no one is recording you while you're taking a dump, your life won't change in any meaningful way.

Here's the reality of this non-issue:

Apple is not actually collecting this data, and this hidden file is neither new nor secret.

Sorry.

Jobs in 2008 is that what i am hearing. YAY president Jobs.

Ha ha, well he's already got the Mac crowd. Advertise he's CEO of Pixar and you've got a good portion of the parental/Disney crowd too. :D

*cough*

1. It's GigaOM.
2. I suggest that more people read GigaOM. Om Malik is great.

I'm going to start a TV channel that only shows commercials.

They already have it and it's actually quite popular. :D

Jetson, I'm glad I'm taking your word, as someone who doesn't even own a 5G iPod, over my own, someone who sees 50-60 iPods a day. I couldn't possibly know better.

The fact remains: The acrylic used on the 5G is the same as the 4G.

Can anyone confirm if the stupid Help menu font spacing bug is still present?

whoops, I forgot america is slowly turning into france

I mean ... Yay for gay people are special and the best :D

We must be if we can bring down entire cultures and empires. :rolleyes:

Do you hear yourself?

Last year the store was updated long after midnight.

I don't see how the writing on the iPhone is crooked or whatever, maybe I'm blind. The photo looks real. But I hope it's not, and if it is real, I hope that's just a prototype, because I don't like the square shape and the angular edges on the back.

1. Was the iPhone the first smart phone = No
2. Is the iPhone best smart phone = yes and no, depends on what you like and your needs.
3. Did it change the cell phone industry = Yes, are the experts agree. Apple simply did what they always have done. They improve on a product that has already been established in most cases.

The Apple ecosystem is no more open or closed then any other system, Apple, Android, Rim, Windows etc.

If I want to do certain things with an iPhone I have to jailbreak it, same with Android it's just called rooting.

end of story, move on

"Thanks" might work in a pure support form. But for news discussion, it makes little sense.

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Perhaps a "Relevant" button then.

I guess leaving it as a +1 button is pretty much the same thing without using a word.

*shrug*

I just think it may be more troublesome than helpful to have a -1 button. If someone disagrees with a post, they usually respond with an argument. If they agree, unless they have something to add, hitting the +1 button would work, and it would clear up the "Agreed" and "+1" posts.

When will this hacking nerd do something REALLY positive and productive to the world?

Last time I heard, his occupation was to break into companies' IPR without any legal permission to do so...not commendable, to say the least.

Right, there are only billions of people who can watch DVD's on computers of their choice now because of his efforts who couldn't before, spawning all kinds of video editing, DVR, and high-quality conversion systems that couldn't have existed without his work.

He defeated a system designed to take away fair use rights from the citizenry and hasn't done anything productive? OK, if you don't care about your rights maybe you have a point.

well it's not looking very good. it should have posted a bigadv unit by now. and my number of gpu units are looking lower - which means that something crashed. man it only had 12 hours left on the bigadv unit when i left, and now nothing. it was folding way at around 34:30 per frame inside a VM.

Bummer :( that's aggravating...

Before you pick a phone, pick a network.

This was the funniest part of the fine print. Too bad for Verizon that the customers they lost to AT&T didn't pick the network over the phone. Instead of fine print, they should make that their slogan. Too bad it won't matter. iPhone trumps call quality.

I wonder what the hold up is with releasing this update? :o

Yeah man, I've been waiting too! I think I've checked software update more in the last 3 days than I have in the last year.

I wonder if 10.4.8 is required? There was a separate thread about 10.4.8 being close to done. As I understand it, the RAW conversion stuff is built into the OS, so I wonder if there's a co-dependency between the two updates.

Anyway, I'm hoping "this week" means tomorrow, not Sunday.

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Dude. I haven't once mentioned a ban.

These days I'd be satisfied with a hint of awareness.

Fair enough. It took your statement as referring to bans.

Frankly awareness, or more specifically education, is the only solution. Gun owners need more education, particularly those who arm themselves for home defense or concealed carry. If citizens are expected to demonstrate proficiency in driving a car before being allowed on the road - and further proficiency for special kinds of driving (such as racing licenses, commercial licenses, limousine drivers, police driving training etc etc), then gun owners should get considerably more training in self-defense with firearms. Most hunters agree that mandatory hunter-safety classes are a good idea. If that is the case, self-defense training is even more necessary.

Furthermore, the public at large needs to be more educated about laws, regulations and firearms themselves. Fear of firearms can be healthy. Willfull ignorance towards them, not so much.

"Unnamed company"


We all know who that is....Real.

Or microsoft

I have every one of those boxes! :)

Respectfully, I think you're missing the point. In its totality, installing an app is more like:

1) Google or otherwise search for an app. Make sure its the Mac version, compatible with your OS version, processor, etc. There probably won't be any reviews, more like select quotes from people who liked it.
2) IF you trust that website, fill out your credit card information, PayPal account, etc.
3) Download it and do the process you described for installing.
4) If you need to re-install the app, buy a new computer, etc. hope that the company allows you to re-download it.
5) If you have a good/bad experience, good luck reviewing it or rating it.

I'm a pretty tech-savvy guy and I still appreciate the ease of the Mac App Store.


Yet, inexplicably, we made due without a walled garden for decades.

1) Wow, you will have to do some research. There might even be some reading involved. Also, since OS 10.6.6 + is the only OS that will run the store, its pretty easy to ensure compatibility.

2) Most apps I use are free (not stolen), so payment does not factor in unless I doneate via PayPal. Also, since Apple is taking a pretty large slice of the revenue, at some point this will have to be passed on to the consumers

3) A file on a thumb drive is easier to pass along than download a file from the internet via the Mac App store.

4) Or you could store the file on your hard drive or a NAS, or a cheap external drive. Noting says you have to re-download it.

5) So I guess that sites like MacUpdate are not useful? There are plenty of review sites for OS X apps.

Its not a bad concept - if its voluntary. However, to make it a rule to compete in the Design Award is lame. As others have said, it should be renamed the MacStore App Award to reflect the narrowing of the field they are doing by only allowing App Store devs to compete.

What additional value does this provide?