Just out of curiosity, where do you see this? For full disclose, I enjoy the works of plenty of artists, actors, and musicians whose personal views I find abhorrent. I enjoy Card's books (Enchantment is one of my favorite novels), and I'll leave it at that.

It's been quite some time since I've read many of Card's books, but if I recall the extended Ender universe has non-evil and non-stereotypical gay characters. The Earthfall books had at least one gay character who was good. One of the characters in that series (a scientist) even explained that homosexuality had to do with conditions in the womb and wasn't a choice (it's been a long time since I've read this, so I could be slightly off).

I've never read it, but Card's book Songmaster apparently deals with homosexuality to a large extent. I remember a friend of mine called it the "gayest" book he had ever read (she meant that in a positive way).

Where do you see Card's negativity towards homosexuality?

So basically, what you're saying is--you don't like change. You're a conservative :)

I do, incidentally, feel that 10.4 was the pinnacle of OSX GUI. We still have one PPC 10.4 (dual 1.25ghz G4--tells you how old the machine is!) running 24/7 for a server app that has some PPC-only extensions -- so no rosetta. I VNCed in the other day and it has such a pleasant appearance compared to flat monochrome grey crap in post-Lion OSX.

It seems you're really arguing that some of the releases had some deprecations that you didn't like (nothing you listed affected our company at all--I applauded deprecation of AppleTalk!) and some that effected a relatively small number of users (I'd never heard of anything you mentioned). Every Apple point release I've ever used has had some bugs--hardly unique to post-Tiger.

I would argue that OSX 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2 were effectively betas that lacked critical features and were not usable in production environments. 10.3 is the first version I felt comfortable rolling out to our users in even a trial basis. By your standards, 10.3 was the pinnacle of OSX?

I disagree!

I don't disagree at all with the main thrust of your post, but in nitpicking pedantic mode, I do disagree about versions of OSX.

Tiger -- OSX 10.4 -- was released in 2005 and was a great update. Two of the biggest features were Spotlight (an every day usage feature) and I believe the Dashboard.

Leopard -- 10.5 -- was another good release. In addition to full x86 support, Leopard added Time Machine, Spaces (virtual desktops), Boot Camp, etc.

Snow Leopard -- 10.6 -- 2009. my favorite release. SL was largely a refinement release with a new rewritten Finder and general speed increases. I still run 10.6 ln my laptop and many users (myself included) would argue it was the best OSX release.

Lion -- 10.7 -- no idea what is supposed to be new or good in Lion. Resize windows from any border is the only thing I can think of. I use it at work on an old macpro and hate it compared to SL.

Mountain Lion -- 10.8 -- Again, really not sure what improvements there are supposed to be. I would say a better release than LIon, with some real interface improvements (to expose/mission control) but still crap compared to SL.

So in short, I don't think it is at all fair to say that all releases since Tiger have been crap. Maybe you meant Lion, in which case I 100% agree!

I see others questioning your statement, so I thought I'd add in. I thought season 4 was great. I thought seasons 1+5 were the weakest. I can barely watch season 1...

I love the plot, the writing, and the universe, and consider myself a fan, but there are some times--and certain actors--where the acting just kills me.

Londo+G'kar? Awesome.

Sinclair...? *wince*

Talk about the missing the point. Good for you, you don't like Christians and think they're ignorant and mean--fine, I don't care at all about that. I don't think they like you very much either. The point is--who gives a crap about such semantics? Are you going to get worked up and in a pedantic lather over ever slight you can possibly imagine? Over every allusion that doesn't pass your muster? Are you to be the culture police, who judges over all acceptable and unacceptable references?

You seem to really enjoy talking about others' insecurities, and yet it seems pretty apparent to everyone reading your comments just where the real wellspring of insecurity lies.

I bet you're awesome at dinner parties.

He was an excellent salesman, certainly fallible, and with a well-earned reputation for his RDF. However, he did a damn good job of knowing what people did want!

So if you're saying Jobs had a bad sense of taste, yours--by comparison--is better? Why should we believe you? The corpus of Jobs' legacy is in front of us.

You're being hysterical.

For at least two thousand years of European history until the late nineteenth century hysteria referred to a medical condition thought to be particular to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus (from the Greek "hystera" = uterus)

OR ARE YOU??

I agreed with your statement.

I really think the onus is on you for this point. I think you will struggle to find iPhone users who are not aware of the App Store and what it entails. Furthermore, most users just really don't care. At all. If they did, Apple wouldn't keep selling so many phones and have such a high retention rate amongst customers. Check out the retention rates if you don't believe me. They're easy to find.

No, your confusion arises from the fact that most people don't care about the restrictions. You're again being hysterically disingenuous. Even jailbreakers are a TINY minority of iOS users.

Privacy-wise, exactly what issue are you complaining about?

You, of course, are bright, savvy, and an extra special snowflake.

Are you joking now? Your "sarcasm" was painfully obvious. It was the inanity behind the point you were trying to make that I am commenting on.

LOL, the few, the proud--N900 fanboys. Great slapdown :)

Allow me to introduce you to evasi0n, the subject of this (RTF)Article.

http://evasi0n.com/

I think you will be pleased!

I have owned an iPhone 3GS and currently an iPhone5. I have jailbroken both of them. I was very happy when evasi0n was released, and immediately downloaded biteSMS and several other great Cydia apps.

Everyone who buys an iPhone knows exactly what they are getting in to. Nobody is conned or tricked or forced to buy an iPhone.

Apple has every right to patch security holes in their OS and software. Even as a jailbreaker, I expect nothing less. Should Apple have left a PDF rendering buffer exploit that allowed the easiest jailbreak in history (jailbreakme.com) open just so people could jailbreak? Obviously not. That's an easy example, but just which security holes should Apple leave open for jailbreakers?

I wish Apple would allow easy legitimate rooting. But, they don't. I made the choice that I still like the iOS world and hardware. I might feel differently in 2 years, but that's where I am now. Furthermore, Apple does give you some pretty granular control over tracking, ads, location services, etc. You're really getting offtrack on to tangential issues what that tack.

No need for the disingenuous hysterics about "morally inferior" people, etc. One can imagine that you would be complaining if Apple was NOT patching security holes... Keep it straight--attack the walled garden and Apple's choice to lockdown directly. Don't coat it in a guise of outrage over bug patching.