Reviews so in depth your mind explodes!

Ok, so maybe not explodes, but certainly well informed. They go into more detail about electronics than any other review site I have come across. Their reviews are generally as un-biased as they come too.

1. It is still not the $400 - $600 he is claiming.

2. He said soldered on, which is untrue. Replacement drives will be available during the lifecycle of the machine (iFixit have even said they are planning to release a replacement). If you needed more storage now then you should buy it with more storage. Simple.

3. Great, so the retina model has the screen size you want, discrete graphics like you want, the processors you want, a better screen, faster memory, faster storage. It is called trade offs. If you really can't bring yourself to getting a better machine because you want upgrade the ram after purchase then get a refurb or one from all the stores who still have stock.

The problem is that you guys are acting like you have no options. You do. Life is a constant tradeoff. Pros vs Cons. You can buy a reinta and enjoy all its advantages and deal with the lack of ram upgrades, you can buy a 13inch MacBook Pro and deal with no 15inch screen. You can buy a refurb, buy a stock item from a retailer. Upgrade your current machines further (since that is what you are crying out to do). Or buy another machine.

1. The Apple upgrade to 16gb cost me $320NZD ($260 USD) on my rMBP.
2. The hard drive is not soldered on.
3. You can still get the old style MBP from Apple so what the fuck are you bitching about right now?

On a side note, people on slashdot think they are the norm. You're not.

It is very responsive and very quick both loading applications and content within. Safari is quicker to load and browse pages and very responsive.

I loaded iOS 7 on my mates iPhone 4 and it added half a second to load any apps and transition. It was painful. The only upside was, once again, inside Safari loading pages was quicker.

iOS 7 seems no slower on my iPad Mini either.

And on my portable I want battery life and responsiveness for the app I am ACTUALLY using.

Mavericks is a great upgrade for your machine.
http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/advanced-technologies.html

Mavericks has an app nap feature that automatically slows apps down that are completely hidden and a Safari Power Saver feature.

Overall your machine will hopefully use LESS resources than it currently does with better performance for those apps your actually using (i.e. in the foreground).

At the moment in NZ we have complacency amongst the population. Most kiwis oppose it, but accept it as they have bought into the "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" ideology. The only conceivable reason to believe this and spread this nonsense is confirmation bias. They believe it and spread it because it confirms the political bias they have.

Those who come up with the "if you have nothing to hide" bullshit are enablers through excuse. The human right to privacy has precedent in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

But this is much bigger than our right to privacy. It is the slow erosion of our basic human rights until we get to the point where we have no rights left. People need to stop making excuses for this erosion and stop being enablers of these changers through their misguided politically biased discourse. We need to put politics aside and discuss these issues in an apolitical (absence of political bias) manner.

"Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is a myth that is built on false assumptions.

There are too many questions to be answered. What about continuity of oversight:
The data collected will outlive the people who voted for it, the people who drafted the bill, the people in charge of the GCSB at the time of inception and the corporates who support it. Even if we could assume that right now, the govt. and corps. have our absolute wellbeing at heart and their minds are devoid of corrupt thoughts of misuse, there is little guarantee that these values will be shared by their successors in the years to come.

What about data control? Those who share the "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" mentality think their information is being stored in some secure government department under lock and key. Well, your data is being shared amongst the international spy partners. This information will also be available to other organisations such as the police. Once this data has left the GCSB data centres they no longer have control of it. So your information could be constanty changing hands and could eventually become public and available to the private sector. Sooner or later your personal data will leak.

In a perfect world we would think that our spy agencies will only have our best interests at heart, will not abuse their power and privileges. We would think the data systems will be 100% accurate and reliable, that information is used in accordance with the original consent purpose. That all procedural processes will be followed and that ethics will always be at the forefront when deciding when to use this data.

Any person can look back and see that this perfect state can never be achieved.

I repeat, we need to put politics aside and discuss these issues in an apolitical (absence of political bias) manner.
We need to have those from all corners of this country reviewing the legislative changes and the existing legislation and work out the best way our national security can be preserved with the least intrusion into out private lives.

IBM were the contractor for New Zealand's largest IT cock up INSIS (Integrated National Crime Information System, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INCIS) which was a total flop and cost $110,000,000.

Funny thing is though, we didn't learn from our own mistakes and hired an Australian company called Talent2 for our Education Payroll. It has been a runaway failure (with more new bugs being found than being fixed over any given time period).

The charger is a mini linux machine what needs to use an apple developer account to dynamically add the devices UDID to the developer portal.
It then signs the malicious app and installs it.
It takes advantage of ad-hoc distribution and would require a new Apple developer account every 100 devices.

The only real mastery of this hack is that it can be concealed to look like a charger due to the small footprint of the linux PC. Otherwise, I could do the same thing with physical access to the phone.

Still, a fun wee hack and novel approach.

Except that all testing thus far shows this to not be true, including the discovery of the benchmark booster....

Correlation != causation.
Otherwise, since throughout the day Thursday I had ZERO password reset attempts on my Apple ID we must assume that the data was not taken or was taken and not partially encrypted.

Obviously both arguments are silly.

(PS, like you I have written apps for other companies but have not published any under my own name).

^ this, I would mod that up if I had some mod points.

Ocarina of Time is what really drew me in to the series. I played the top down versions but Ocarina of time gave the franchise some depth (in more ways than one!). Twilight princess was great and I am finally getting some time to try Skyward Sword. I bought a Wii U the other week in anticipation of a new Zelda, Super Smash Bro, Paper Mario and MarioKart!

You account details have been hacked.....click this link to reset your password.
Seems legit!

Apple's point is that their installed base (no matter what size or market share it is) has very little fragmentation allowing those who develop for the platform to target only the newest iOS. For developers this is a big deal.

Getting market share because you re selling junk like this the Samsung Pocket that still comes with Android 2.3 is not helping out anybody. The security implications of running this older OS is also an issue.

I am not advocating one side or the other. I am saying the OP countered the point Apple were making with a somewhat irrelevant argument.

I agree with the previous poster, you are a moron!

Coding is bloody easy once you learn the fundamentals. Teaching them the concepts of sequencing, conditional branching, looping and procedural abstraction is far more important than introducing them to some obscure nix based text editor. They will be very unlikely to ever need to use vi in their lifetime.

All you are trying to do is show them something so foreign and unintuitive that has nothing to do with programming that it pumps up your nerd ego to show them how brainy you are. In reality, your an egotistical wanker and the wrong person to be introducing people to programming.