...of these insipid "real work" claims about the requirement for a file browser to do said "work" is sounding more and more like the tech boors who pretended DOS was more efficient than the GUI, and that GUIs made computers "toys". It was ridiculous then, it's new counterpart is ridiculous now. Even moreso in the next few years.

Enough of this mindless twaddle. If you really believe this mindless tripe about "cool" outweighing usefulness you simply don't work with real people. If you do work with real people, it's practically guaranteed you are the insufferable tech snob of whatever group you belong to...

The US has created a system that is terrified that someone, somewhere, is not making money in perpetuity on property they did not create.

Who looks at a market where an incumbent is decimating the competition and thinks "this is the perfect point for us to throw our hat in the ring"? Android was supposed have buried the iPad by spring of this year. The Touchpad was evidence that Apple would soon be elevated to niche status. And yet here we are...

Or is this article entirely backwards from reality? There is something inverse about this idea about ideas.

Yeah, I was reading just the other day of that proprietary Apple plugin technology. I think it was called "HTML5" or something like that. You can't watch ads on your iPhone. Boo Fucking Hoo. Jobs is such a BASTARD!.

That would make sense if too many religionists weren't Hell bent on forcing religion back into aspects of culture we've been successfully removing religion from in the first place.

OTHER TIP: People who routinely attack others for not being free enough in their thinking are doing so because said others are not open to every retarded fuzzy minded piece of nonsense that comes down the pipe.

Overly snarky, mayhap, but I agree with the sentiment. Plenty of "just is" knowledge is upended when someone bothers to actually study said knowledge.

A real device is a physical entity. CGI movies are not real devices.

"although it won't look pretty or run as fast...". That's all, Folks!

The Bravery of Being Out of Range. Roger Waters called it 20 years ago.

Has anyone driven a truck thru these gaping holes? Anyone? Beuller? When OSX is suffering from a deluge of viruses from all these supposed gaping holes in it's Architecture, please come back and let us know. Because while every operating system has vulnerabilities, only Microsoft was kind enough to make those vulnerabilities accessible by system wide scripting mechanisms that allowed millions of computer users the world over be the subject of attacks from the hundreds of thousands of pieces of malware constantly fighting to infect Windows PCs. The count (for those who think a security vulnerability makes Apple's points about viruses invalid) is about one hundred thousand to 0. This is being very generous. So, yes, as a matter of fact, there are no viruses for Mac OS X. Not virtually none, not almost none. None.

Few thousand lives? Who cares? US roads (just US roads) kill almost 40 thousand people a year. 39800 in 2008 alone. Do you know how many Denver pantsbomber flights that is? 143. One hundred and forty three jets would have to be destroyed with all hands every year to equal the death toll on the US roads. Yet where is the panic, the regulations, the outraged calls for action? We are afraid of exactly the wrong things. Since 1999 there have been 6 attempted terrorist attacks concerning US or US bound aircraft with 4 successes. The number of people lost is completely irrelevant in light of the tens of thousands that die yearly in the mundane crap nobody seems to care about. The billions wasted on ever more ridiculous regulations screwing up the lives of air travelers amounts to exactly that: a waste.

Oh, drop dead. There is no White Creationist Knight riding in some day to evaporate the mountains of evidence that quite conclusively show that evolution is a fact. And if you really believe there is going to be an overturning of DNA as the inheritance mechanism allowing descent with modification, you will waste your life waiting for that day.