Comment Re:taxes (Score 1) 776
Should they start taxing pedophilia then? They could rake it in!
... an innocent user in, say, Germany would loose his email...
So it would be in the wild?
That story took some real digging btw. For a minute I thought I had dreamed it up.
There is one thing Apple has that few other consumer level companies give, and that is service. Apple Numbers has glitches? Call Apple or hit a Genius bar, and it doesn't matter if it is the hardware, the app, or the OS, they will at least try to fix it. They may not be perfect, but this is better for the nontechnical home user than the usual "call the hardware/OS/app/software guy, don't bother us" that is common in the PC world.
If Microsoft decides that if something is wrong with your computer and it was not caused by their own software tough shit then this will be a failure. It would be even worse if anything goes wrong with your hardware you are told to "contact the manufacturer".
Microsoft has always been able to deflect some of the blame for their bad consumer perception by blaming third parties. It will be interesting to see how they deal with this when confronted by Joe Public with his malware infested or faulty memory machine.
*ducks*
From around 4th through 6th grade, my teachers told the class that we'd have to write all our papers in high school in cursive, so we might as well do it now. By 8th grade, they almost always mandated everything be typed, which continued through high school. Instead of lieing to us, could we have spent that time in earlier grades learning touch typing instead?
I doubt they lied to you and actually thought that everyone was going to be using cursive just as they did. I got doubly screwed growing up. In the 4th to 6th grade the small town school I went to couldn't decide what type of handwriting to teach us. Right in the middle of teaching us cursive they decided that was dead and everyone would be using italics. Sorry, that was the only link I could find to really describe it.
Needless to say I really got lost in the mix of all three writing styles. My handwriting to this day is awful. So instead I decided to learn typing on old mechanical typewriters the school had (early 80s). So I may not be able to handwrite anything legible but I just happened to teach myself a very valuable skill at exactly the right time. Should give my misguided teachers credit for indirectly pushing me on the right path.
This the the Mac Plus with the formula for Transparent Aluminum on it!
I bet it has enough power to control a nuclear wessel also!
E.g. the moment you click 'disassociate', the device actually becomes bricked until the device password is entered.
Not to be a pedantic dick but locked out is NOT bricked. People really need to stop using bricked just because they can't use a device. bricked means the device is worthless (at least it used to). Like if someone put a hammer to a kindle. That would brick it
Eureka! -- Archimedes
