Wouldn't it be amusing if the current batch of private celebrity photos actually came from an "intelligence community" leak after a pile of Apple data was seized.
An interesting thing that Snowden has show us is that there is a vast sprawling web of people extending deep into private enterprise that have access to "secret" information. Imagine someone with a few of those photos, they can make serious dollars - it's not as if they are compromising their values of national security and they are already working for profit instead of duty.

When the $AU was higher the apple price was still significantly higher than the $US.

Doesn't matter since it's sadly nowhere near the truth, even though I'd like it to be and Apple are not the worst offender. Where did you get that incorrect figure from? I find it very annoying to be served a smug "correction" with such an obvious lie. You should be either very embarrassed to be fooled in such a way or ashamed of yourself for making up such an obvious lie.

No I was not thinking of that one. I wrote above: "A few years back it was shown in a Mac laptop review". The review in question was in a newspaper called "The Australian" and it was way back when the "titanium" Mac was released.

Apple's AU tax is 10%

Utterly wrong. The ACCC found differently recently - follow your own link and you'll most likely see Apple stuff too, it certainly got into the papers. I don't know what they can do about it other than warn consumers that they are being ripped off. Apple, among many others (MS, Adobe, AutoDesk etc) are taking advantage of the supply chain in regions with little competition by price gouging.

It seems to be an increasing trend on this site - smug "corrections" based on either misunderstanding of the post that a person is replying to or deliberate "reality distortion" by fans upset that the object of their veneration is being addressed in less than glowing terms.

I can believe that MS has 75% market share for x86 servers simply because you can replace a whole host of Windows servers with a single Linux box

Also each MS virtual machine is another server while in some cases even a multi-rack linux cluster is considered as one.

Especially since they actually had a decent *nix back in the day. If they'd based things on that instead of a bastard grandchild of CP/M and VMS after thalidomide then we'd have a lot less to complain about.

Matrox had one back then that was half decent but it got broken by later versions of MS Windows. Nvidia still has a multiple desktop thing packaged with Quatro cards which has gone in cycles from perfect to flaky and back again. The MS one was proof of concept and may have worked initially but it turned into a certain blue screen timebomb a while after it had become abandonware. There were various others that worked for a while but nothing you could use for the long term.
It's almost as if it was a purchase requirement for a sale and abandoned later, but I suspect it's more a series of projects that were not maintained.

Depends on the workflow. Having two separate things open at once is a fairly common thing.

I find it rather interesting Microsoft is /finally/ introducing native, proper, workspaces.

Apple did it so MS were sure to follow. Pity they didn't do it with Win95.

To use more memory. Admittedly you can solve that with the 64 bit XP if you have hardware it supports, or you can get server 2003 which is similar to XP, or you can roll back to Win2k to get away from the fucking stupid memory ceiling in XP if you have more than one core (I've still got a 6GB Win2k machine lurking in storage to run some legacy software every couple of years).
If you don't need more memory, as with a couple of receptionists computers in my workplace, XP does the job up to at least MS Office 2010.

Having different DPI settings on each monitor is nice

Cool, so now you can party like it's 1994!
Surely they had that stuff before - or maybe it was only in addon software from Matrox, Nvidia etc.

It's one of those things that I'm glad it's there, I wish I had time

You've got plenty of time to run something down with comments that were barely accurate way back when you had to install Slackware from floppy disks. Drivers come with linux instead of having to be downloaded like on MS.

True, but I see soviet style partisan propaganda the runs contrary to reality and indeed truth as being illegitimate unless it's being paid for as an advertisement.

If you think not, then cite specific examples of your claims.

Yet another example of a hardworking Comrade of The Party attacking it's opponents I see - YOU are the one that was making wild claims while I haven't written much other than calling you out on it.

WTF is it with you losers "charging at windmills". Solar is more mainstream than the politics you are pushing - and you know why - people are making money out of it without ripping others off. Please stop pushing your outdated authoritarian anti-capitalistic bullshit and your horror that people are free to buy panels and put them on their roofs.

No it was Apple, but Adobe is probably even worse.

Not a bad government - they did exactly what they were paid to do :(
One guess who owns AU foxtel, US fox news and is a big political donor.