I was hoping it would be Domestic Shorthair

Good question. Who cares?

Probably that 25% of humanity whose drinking water comes from glacial runoff, and they neighbours who will be the ones that get invaded as billions of people start to head to where there is still water to drink. Then add in all the people already living in marginal areas prone to drought, or flooding, or both. Then these are the people who's insurance premiums will cost more than their houses did as storms get stronger and hit more often, and as sea levels rise. Just to name a few. Indeed not caring at all is symptomatic of a genuine moral failure.

I was wondering that too. What's the app called? Is it too much to ask for a link to the App store from the original story? Vapourware perhaps?

Rather than spending valuable developer resources on a lame red-queen issue like this, I'd advocate that the Skype people devote some resources to making a Mac version of Skype that doesn't totally blow goats. The new Skype for Mac is the only version of any piece of software that I have actively gone and downgraded back to an older version, and now, if I want to upgrade my Mac to Lion I need to 'upgrade' to the new, horrible version of Skype for Mac.

Now Google Talk handles calls to phones, and G+ allows multi-user hangouts I find I have less and less use for Skype thank heavens.

Please Skype people, I want a buddy list where I can actually list my contacts and see their names —is that too much to ask?
I want to be able to screen share part of my screen again, like I used to be able to.

Fixing those two things would make me come back to Skype.

We always seem have have millions of spare rubber bands in our house so, for my home office cabling needs, I affix ethernet and phone cables to the tops of the legs of my desk to prevent my kicking them by accident, using rubber bands.

Now rubber bands don't actually last that long, a few months at most, before they dry out and snap. When they snap I tend to pull everything out of my office, vacuum and mop the floors, scrub the desk down and generally file all my shit. Then I go down to the kitchen and grab another 8 or so rubber bands and set everything up again. This both works well to keep cables off the floor and provides a handy timer to remind me to tidy up my office. And best of all those rubber bands are free.

Given the astounding rises in overall productivity since the 1970s, matched against the relative stagnation of wages over the same period, it's a fair question. Here in Australia we have close to 95% employment, and, quite frankly, you can't tell me that 95% of people of working age are actually able to do their jobs. Keeping in mind Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crud) surely the ideal level of employment for any economy is around 10%, with the remaining 90% just keeping the hell out of the way. Productivity would rise, and in combination with further automation we ought to start respecting those with genuine leisure time rather than demonising them as dole-bludgers or whatever. The issue then becomes how does 10% of the working population afford to pay for the leisure time of the other 90%. Given that the 10% is much more productive without that irritating 90% to mess things up all the time, the idea has merit I feel. If the Government could pay most people to keep well away from serious work, and the remaining 10% strive to push automation to its limits, we'd be approaching the sort of post-scarcity utopia as satirised so well by the likes of Iain M Banks.

Given the astounding rises in overall productivity since the 1970s, matched against the relative stagnation of wages over the same period, it's a fair question. Here in Australia we have close to 95% employment, and, quite frankly, you can't tell me that 95% of people of working age are actually able to do their jobs. Keeping in mind Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crud) surely the ideal level of employment for any economy is around 10%, with the remaining 90% just keeping the hell out of the way. Productivity would rise, and in combination with further automation we ought to start respecting those with genuine leisure time rather than demonising them as dole-bludgers or whatever. The issue then becomes how does 10% of the working population afford to pay for the leisure time of the other 90%. Given that the 10% is much more productive without that irritating 90% to mess things up all the time, the idea has merit I feel. If the Government could pay most people to keep well away from serious work, and the remaining 10% strive to push automation to its limits, we'd be approaching the sort of post-scarcity utopia as satirised so well by the likes of Iain M Banks.

Well because it's stupid, complex and, quite frankly, all Apple need to do is say "And today we'd like to show you the iPhone 5" at an event and brazillions of people will watch it via Quicktime and go buy one. Apple is the most recognised brand on Earth now and they simply don't need to indulge such ridiculous theatrics. Anyone not living under a rock knows there's a new iPhone coming.

seriously, you think Apple would need to go through such ridiculous theatrics to promote the iPhone 5? My tin foil hat awaits you on the grassy knoll, just behind WTC7

i was wondering about that.

I have 4 macs here at home and was not looking forward to having to grab 16Gb of data (okay it's still not that much I agree but here in Australia we have download caps and that would use up a signifiant chunk of most people's cap).

So if I copy the app file to my other macs I assume I can just run that on each one and voila. Or does the app store tag each machine especially?