The last few Windows apps I've downloaded from there came with their own "INSTALL TOOLBAR FOO" now in the installer. PDFCreator is one example.

This is why we're headed towards managed computing and app stores. The game is just too dirty. Joe User has no idea whats going on. His computer has a dozen toolbars and all he's done is follow his geeky friend's advice to install stuff like PDFCreator or other GPL products. I'd rather just be microbilled 20 cents or whatever they make per install. Shame no one has properly cracked the microbilling nut.

The Acer Iconia is $399. 10 inch, dual core, fast, Honeycomb, etc. Ipad2 starts at $499. Sure, that's only a $100 difference, but that's a real difference to a lot of people.

We're probably going to see a $350-$299 Honeycomb dualcore tablets by Xmas, which will be on par with the current ipad2 and be behind the rumored ipad3. I think $299 is the magic price point where Joe Casual will blow some cash on one. That's my own personal price point and consider $299 for a Honeycomb table to be a reasonable purchase to replace my current ebook reader.

Err, engineers aren't 2nd class citizens. The problem is that software engineers/coders still are.

I feel you're overthinking this.

Existing WAPs. I'm assuming you have admin access to them. If they're connected to telephone wire that means the hotel has its own DSL network (search for the DSLAM) or some prorietary data over phone solution (weird little dongles on each end). No need to replace these things. 90% of the work is already done.

Find the DSLAM or whatever router is currently serving the WAPs. Pull you comcast line to there. If the router or switch is aged, consider replacing them.

Verification, for small businesses I prefer to just give out a WPA key that changes monthly (teach staff how to change them). Ideally, you can have a radius system but that will require API access to their guest management software to pull values like last name, room number, etc. That might be overkill though.

Since Google decided to delay releasing Honeycomb's source because they didnt want more half-cooked tablets on the market, suddenly the loud-mouth brigade is trying to paint them in a bad light. Google exerting a little control on the wild-west world of tablets and its own phoneOS is a good thing. Heaven forbid AOpen or some other shit shop wait a few weeks for google to iron out the bugs, have them verify their hardware can run Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich and make them sign a contract that they will updates the OS to the newest versions for a period of 18 months. The de facto world of release garbage and buggy phones, never supplying updates and hurting Android's reputation is no longer welcome, and I'm glad.

Already do this with KMS and MAK keys. KMS keys talk to a local license server. I think these articles are just written in a way to scare people and sell ad impressions. In the end, we're probably just seeing a different kind of volume key for corporate and maybe more hoops for residential users. "ZOMG DOWNLOAD AN IMAGE EVERY BOOT FROM MS" is kiddie bullshit.

>Not that I think it'll impact Apple's bottom line in any way. ha.

Half of Apple's income is from the iPhone. The Galaxy S phone is arguably cutting into the iPhone marketshare, as its one of the better Android phones out there and is a little cheaper and can be had on multiple carriers. I have a Vibrant on T-mobile and its a really neat piece of technology, so I can see why Apple is afraid of it.

Apple's take, imho, is that they'red damned if they don't do a patent attack and damned if they do, so why not? They don't give two shits about upsetting their loudmouth superfans nor about setting off a patent war that could potentially cripple the industry. They just need to worry about next quarters earning report.

I suspect these desperate measures are signs that Apple's massive growth is beginning to stagnate. Everyone who wants an iPhone probably has one and if Android continues to move in, then you won't have the growth you had in the past.

Begun, this patent war has.

I'm going to start using his name for boneheaded changes done for "me too" reasons and decision by committee.

"Man, T-Mobile really Dotzler'd their unlimited plan."

Moz devs: "No, no. We need an add-on that shows the version number. Someone will write it."

User: "What version of FF is that add-on compatible with?"

Moz devs: "Yeah about that....fuck you."

That's the problem here. Firefox's ever changing APIs which are always breaking add-ons. The Chrome add-on API is much more limited and as such doesn't need to change as frequently or as drastically. How Firefox thinks they're going to succeed by becoming a crappier version of Chrome is beyond me.

Bullshit. I get linkedin's own spam not just invites. They are just a bad company, stop defending them. Thanks.

I deleted my account months ago yet I still get emails and 'friend' requests from them. They are somehow worse than Facebook. I am not at all surprised by this move. They are incredibly user hostile.

>Slide 34 -- UAC can be and frequently is turned off by stupid people, even some software vendors demand that it be disabled due to "incompatibilities". Escalation dialogs in Mac OS can't be.

Frequent? The only time I've seen it off or recommended it off is with the computer "enthusiast" crowd who hate anything different or security related and tell each other they're better off without it, circa the release of Vista.

Jane User has no idea how to shut it off and Jane WorkerBee doesn't have admin rights to shut it off anyway.

Microsoft contributes to Samba and sees it as a necessary product. For mindlessly evil patent abuse, please visit your local Apple store, thanks.