Don't tell complete strangers what arrangements you make to keep yourself secure. The more they know, the closer they are to getting past your defenses.

Does the new model A have the same USB trouble as the model B's. This problem with the unstable USB has affected both the keyboard and the USB attached network adapter. If they haven't fixed this problem, why are they ramping up Model A production?

I have to agree, this pretty much forces application vendors to do compatibility testing on a yearly basis. No doubt there is a developer program (paid) that gives developers early access to the updates. It is a merry-go-round, and I still don't miss it. This gives developers an even shorter window of opportunity to sell a specific version. If the developer sells through the Microsoft app store, it subjects developers to an annual ordeal getting their updates approved.

I have done a lot of software contract work, and have done what it takes to get the job done. I don't understand where a billion dollars went and no software. It may be time for some litigation. We want the money back.

I thought the universe was patented by root@univese.org.

If there were 193 vetoes, do you think we would ever get changed over to IPv6? Since gridlock is (IMHO) the natural state of the UN. I expect they would have sat on v4 until things fell apart.

As an Internet systems administrator, I am personally aware of the thousands of attacks per day on my systems from various places in China. If Huawei is so great, how come they tolerate and allow chinese hackers to attack our country on such a grand scale. There is of course the question of whether these attacks are sanctioned by the Communist Party. And I guess as well we should ask if we want to buy critical infrastructure components from a communist country. As far as the UnitedStates is concerned, I think we should by equipment made in the USA. And our neighbor to the north might want to consider that as well.. Chinese telecom equipment is in no way superior to our own, and perhaps only cheaper. But do we want to skimp on such important infrastructure?

I am with you, Mac Pro 8-cores, 16GB-ram 32TB of HD, 46" 1920x1200 HD flat panel. The workstation of our dreams. Too bad the MacPro2,1 will never run Mountain Lion due to 32-bit boot rom that cannot be upgraded.

"4G of memory just isn't enough anymore" I remember when Microsoft wanted us to move to Windows 3.1 (with enhanced mode), and 4M just wasn't enough any more. And at that time, 16MB of ram costed $1200. Now they have a thousand times more memory, and that isn't enough. Considering that Windows 3.1 had TCP/IP and OLE, I can't think of what Microsoft has added to the Windows functionality that was complicated enough to have eaten all that memory and still be hungry. Now I admit that loading hundreds of patches on top of XP does bloat it's software inventory, and maybe along the way, Microsoft could have recompiled those patches into the product and simplified the rube goldberg creation that is the highly patched XP of today. Considering the huge amount of XP that s still installed and running, I think Microsoft should have spawned a division to continue sustained engineering on it for another five years. In our current economic condition, we can hardly thank Microsoft for forcing another round of hardware and software upgrades.

Normally I would agree that they would do what serves them best. But then, why would they want to do business with a company that is smiling out of one side of it's mouth, and snarling out of the other. Maybe Apple should have considered the consequences before suing their panel supplier, and blocking their distribution, continents at a time. I doubt that Samsung will suffer appreciably the loss of Apple as a client, because there are most likely plenty of manufacturers standing in line for display panel allocations. Microsoft for instance.

Call me when it can take out the trash.

Farnell is not so great. They lost the first shipment to me and it took them 6 months to refund my money. Their business practices $#&%. I will never do business with them again.