I have to admit being rather disappointed with XFCE, mostly around the standard desktop tools. I especially missed Nautilus. I ended up back to G3 running in fallback mode and have been really happy with that.

The resolution of the iPad screen is listed http://www.apple.com/au/ipad/specs/ for any prosepctive buyer that cares to look. I don't understand your point. People are told the resolution. The actual pixel resolution is just not used as a term to market the product is all. Using technical specifications to market a product is not very common anymore, except for some specialty products, such as a car may be marketed by the amount of hp or kW the engine produces. But the general population dont choose a car based on its engine power and probably don't even care. Most astute buyers are more than capable of bypasssing the marketing terminolgy of any product they buy and select based on technical specifications that meet their needs.

<quote><p> I'd imagine <i>old</i> Motorolas were made here, though. Anyone know?</p>

Depends on how old you mean. I think in the 80's they were made in their malaysia plant.

I was also trying to think of what year this was or what model of apple computer it was that you could not install a third party hard drive? Unless my defintion and their definition of install is differnt?
Will somebody enlighten me?

And now.... It's not just you. Thank you for that.

Yes it is speculation, hence the use of the word "seems". However the article begins with a "... developers True Knowledge received a call last week from Apple representative Richard Chipman letting them know that Evi's days in the App Store were numbered because the company felt it violated rule 8.3 in its developer guidelines." This implies that the people at True Knowledge believed that their app was being pulled. And that the implication is clear that this was at the the request of Chipman from Apple. And later we discover that Apple are working with True Knowledge to remove similarities, I don't think it is unreasonable, assuming statements form True Knowledge are accurate and that "sources familar with the matter" are also accurate that to consider Apple may have changed their mind is a reasonable inference.

I would like to point out this article http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/27/2828283/sources-apple-not-pulling-evi-app-working-with-developers-to-avoid which among other things states that "... the app remains in the App Store, and according to sources familiar with the matter, Apple is attempting to work with the developers on bumping out those similarities, rather than just pulling the product." Anyway it seems that Apple may have reconsidered their position on this, which is probably a good thing for the small guys.

Haha yeah I remember back in the day when all you could do was speak into a phone.

Me either, but the first product that Woz and Jobs made and sold was a telephone system hacking device. So from this we can see that sometimes other things can evolve from hacking at other peoples work.

Haha, this reminds me of what I said when I first saw VisiCalc. I think Siri is cool, it is in the realms of the Star Trek Enterprise computer where they interfaced using voice. Siri obviously has a way to go, but i think it is still Beta, unless I am wrong.

Same here

I think we should bring this into the 21st century and change it to "fight pew pew with pew pew"

And I can's stand people who do not know the difference between an acronym and an initialism. FTL is an initialism. :P

In my opinion this all about managing the perception on whether or not a particular piece of software is a required component for any particular os distribution and whether the distro managers have the right to decide what they include and what they don't for any reason.

I am reminded of incident recently where to set up a particular development environment on my fedora desktop box required the use of apache as a reverse proxy, which only required very simple configuration of the httpd.conf file. Assisting someone setup their Ubuntu desktop box not only required installing apache and configuration, but also adding the required apache modules, not overly difficult, but annoying me none the less. It was my perception that the Ubuntu desktop provided an inferior solution than Fedora, but to the many Ubuntu fans that I work with, this was a non issue, because it was still possible to add the webserver and required modules. "And who needs a webserver on a desktop anyway"

I was unconvinced until recently I needed to install nmap on my mac os x box, and I realise that its all a matter of perspective and what is important to me and what i am prepared to accept in an os distribution of what and what not should be included.

I see the the inclusion or exclusion of sqlninja the same way, totally abstract from the deciding reasonings of the os distributor. It really does not matter if its included by default or easily obtainable in a package, it is still possible to do, so therefore not important, it is just someone else's opinion on what should and should not be rightfully included.

Interesting.

I find some things easier to get things done on OS X than I do on Linux, but maybe its just the distro i use (fc13 atm). I find that i am supporting other devs using an Ubuntu distro and I understand its just my unfamiliarity with the location of conf and the differing mindset of the package maintainers but I find I detest configuring and using an Ubuntu box over an FC box.

Funnily enough the devs using os x never seem to need help.

My point is that all OS'es and various distro's have their strengths and weaknesses, for a user, no mater their technical aptitude, its all about familiarity of the tools they are using and their ability and willingness to adapt to the new situation, software or operating environment.

I have found stuff that just works under windows that has been a *real* bitch to get going on my fc box.