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While I don't put any stock in panspermia, I find it interesting that when the theory is presented, it only seems to travel to Earth, and never from it. It seems to me that it would be more likely that panspermia FROM Earth to Mars would be the more likely scenario if such a thing was possible, and then life on Mars would have existed for a short while in an inhospitable environment.

Serious question. What would be the scientific benefit coming from discovering that there might have been life on Mars at some point?

If I had mod points? -1, Redundant. ;-)

Just ask Neil deGrasse Tyson!

I'm really interested in this as well. Hoping for some complete home automation system (lights, thermostat, security, etc.) that can be controlled from my phone that WON'T break the bank.

I upgraded one of my computers to Yosemite from Mavericks, which broke compatibility for Numbers spreadsheets. Yosemite uses iCloud Drive, which wasn't supported by the previous version of Numbers. So that meant that I could no longer share iWork docs between my iPhone & my iMac or MacBook Pro, since iCloud Drive requires iOS 8, which doesn't support the iPhone 4. Of course, I wasn't aware that would happen, otherwise I might not have taken the plunge. There were a few other reasons I upgraded as well, but iTunes family sharing is the only other one I can think of at the moment.

<sarcasm>Then how else is Apple supposed to make perfectly good hardware obsolete?</sarcasm>

If not for iOS 8, I'd still have my iPhone 4 instead of my new iPhone 6 Plus. While I'm pleased with the upgrade, I'm not necessarily pleased with having to upgrade. I know it was my choice, but you get too many incompatibilities if stick with the older stuff, so you end up being forced to upgrade if you want all of your hardware to work together.

That's very odd. I have a 1st gen iPod Touch (over 7 years old now), and it syncs beautifully. How old are the devices you're trying to sync?

I can give you two examples from just the past day that I've had to deal with. Apple has constantly made iTunes less functional with each new release. If you want to create a new playlist, you first have to switch over to playlists from "My Music" and then view by song if you want to see your list of songs. They are listed by album by default, so you need to make 2 additional steps to find songs you'd like to add. Not a huge deal, but still less functional than it used to be. The second, and more annoying change is to mail. I used to be able to click on an e-mail message and then click on the header to sort by sender, and the message would still be highlighted, and all messages from the sender would be sorted by date. Now if I do that, my mail gets sorted by sender, BUT the mail I highlighted is no longer selected, and I have to scroll down to find it. I have thousands of messages in my inbox, so this is a major pain in the neck. I can't imagine why they would remove this functionality, but it's just another instance of Apple's software getting worse instead of better.

Unless of course, your family wants to watch something on Netflix on Christmas day, but can't because using Netflix on your PS3 inexplicably requires you to be signed into PSN.

Last night, I tried to add a code on their website for my 1 year PSN membership renewal.The card says you can add the number on a PS3, PS4 or PC. When I entered it on my MacBook Pro, I got an error saying "You can't add this card on a PC." It took about 15 minutes for the PlayStation store to load on my PS3, and then I was able to add the code. It makes no sense that I couldn't add the card from the web page though, since it said specifically that I should be able to on the card. Whatever.

I was more disappointed that I could't access Netflix or YouTube from my PS3 without PSN access though, which seems ridiculous. Thankfully, we also have an Apple TV, which DOESN'T require that you be signed into iTunes to access other apps.

I stopped being a purist about such things long ago. I found it helped me to enjoy movies as their own story, loosely based on the book. I started watching GoT and made the conscious decision to stay one book behind the series, which has made a huge difference. I find I'm able to enjoy the show and appreciate the additional details and plot point differences in the books.

Same with comic book movies. Of course, comics have so many different origin story lines, it might be easier. When it comes to Star Wars however, I am an original trilogy theatrical release purist. Han shot first!

Yes, but the system is opt-in, not opt-out. I always wait for a few days before updating, just to see if there are any problems reported. This helped me to miss out on some doozies. Thankfully, I saw the report on the latest Microsoft update before running it on my work machine.