Over RDP? Riiiight.

And? What happened next?

Mod parent up, AC is onto something!

What about people that don't have routers? They can be even easier to penetrate (lol) and "use".

I think it's somewhat an issue where people think "If I vote Libertarian, my vote will be wasted because no one else will.. So I'll just vote between the two dildos in the huge parties and hope for the best". Since everyone feels the same way, no one ever votes for the Green party except those who realise this can only be countered by actually voting.

Not to mention folks that never vote at all.

Also, they have pills to fix this now.

And the DRM, and the kill switches, and the FUD..

I really do not see how that MBP is worth $2800.

But patents are awesome! More fun to abuse than tor.

Just to clarify, I'm not anti-Apple; I'm anti-Jobs. His wishes to keep Apple extremely exclusive are what is killing the company. I have an iPhone. I don't see how anyone could use the device if it weren't jailbroken due to the number of things you can't do with it (On the iPhoneOS vs. Android issue: who gives a damn?) due to Apple's restrictiveness. You can't even sync an iPod Touch or iPhone using Linux anymore unless you jailbreak, SSH in, and change a config file to revert to an old DB version that doesn't have their hash check.

Back to the topic though, the iPhone would be awesome, and certainly less made fun of, if Apple would get off of their high horse about their products.. But the customer attitudes probably fuel this.

I was mostly referring to desktop or server hardware, but notebook-wise, it's still a huge rip-off. Here are two alternatives:

It's not 1/4th the price, but it is also not $2799; How about the Voodoo Envy? Or the Dell Studio ($799 CAD)?

If by "thin and cool", you mean "trendy fashion statement that runs OS X", then no, these machines are not for you.. I mean, they might run OS X. But if you meant a machine that has a favourable price per performance ratio, forget the MBP. It's just not worth it.
If you don't mind using a 15.4" LCD instead of 17", the Lenovo T61p is a nice machine (Oh, and it includes firewire!)

Obviously, out buying some Intel STDs.

Usually it's not so much the 'scraps' left behind by Apple as the groups that either dislike Apple, or have such a hardon for open-source software and standards that they won't succumb to it.

For instance, whenever asking someone why they have X brand audio device instead of Apple, the answer is "Apple is too expensive", "it doesn't play OGG", "Apple sucks".. Sure, Apple likes to maintain tight control on everything they sell. Sure, Apple likes profits, but who doesn't these days?

Once Apple realises that they can make even more money and have greater market share by reducing prices (maybe drop the price of every computer by $1000, and every audio device/phone by $200), then their marketing will be that much more effective. The problem with Apple vs. Microsoft is justifying spending $2000 on an OS. That's all you're doing. Any Apple machine can be found in Microsoft land with similar specs for 1/4th the cost.

The iPhone jailbreak process installs Cydia, which is a GUI frontend for aptitude, which was ported to the platform by Jay (Gordon) Freeman. Once Cydia's installed, you can install Terminal.app to have a command prompt and 'apt-get' to your heart's desire.

That's.. actually a decent thought. Use their own anatomy against them!

Canadian Bobcats are only slightly larger (1.25x) the size of a standard tomcat, and will not eat humans.. They do like rats, however.