That, OR they might want to start coming up with some new ideas.

Well Apple takes on average about two-three years to deliver products that create entire markets.

So they are about due, and Cook said there were some surprises coming in the fall.

But it's absurd for you to mention Jobs in this context, products take many years to complete. It will be at least two more years before we see products that never had input from Jobs, including this one.

It's also kind of funny how Apple "needs" to come up with new ideas, when no other company seems to have the same need... or at least no-one ever says they do.

Also, I don't know how much of a profit they make on a Kindle fire.

It's not so much that they make money on the Fire. It's that once you have one:

1) You are renting movies and watching video from the Fire, all from Amazon.

2) You are buying and using Kindle books.

3) You also are buying apps from the Amazon app store.

4) Presumably you will make use of the Prime membership and order more physical goods from Amazon (I have Prime and it's very true that it has that effect).

Yep, there doesn't appear to be an Android app for amazon prime.

Welcome to what happens when the company that controls your content stream also provides hardware.

There's no other Android client because Amazon would much, much rather you buy a Kindle Fire to watch Amazon Prime with.

I've been wondering how much longer there will be an iOS version... but at the moment the desire to gain viewers overrides the desire to force hardware sales.

There is no way that you can safely check whether a discarded rucksack contains a bomb or not

Why would I care if it's safe? I'm also not checking it, I'm moving it somewhere it will do less damage. You can run and hide if you like, I'm going to help people if possible even if it's slightly risky to myself. If someone just dropped a bomb you have a minute to re-locate the device before it goes off, so while YOU went to go find the police BOOM fifteen people died. I just saved them.

All you can do is try to get people out of the way and call the police.

And cause a panic over something that is 99% not going to be a bomb. I hope you enjoy a good trampling!

I've said it before, in the US you're not used to terrorism

No we aren't, what we have going for us is the motivation to act for the greater good rather than saving our own skin or causing needless panic, and the willingness to take calculated risks. Basically, we can think and act in the face of potential crisis as individuals, instead of having to run to mommy. And that, incidentally, is why there are so few attacks on America compared to other places in the world. We aren't used to it because we can hand;e it better and are more likely to stop it before it happens.

react hysterically when it's too late.

You are the one claiming you would cry out to all around you to run because there might be a bomb,

Meanwhile in Boston Americans ran towards the fire to help. Where was the hysteria? The only people I saw going into hysterics were news reporters.

I know it used to be called Light Peak, but I'm pretty sure Thunderbolt is an Intel standard, and not exclusive - there are PC's that support this as well.

Reality does seem like left wing propaganda to some people.

And yet others cannot see a forest for the trees.

Why would he suddenly start seeing something that was not there? If he was prone to imagining such things, why did he not see it earlier?

Often the simplest explanation is the truest one. Do you find it so absurd that a mostly left-leaning writing staff would start to produce plot lines that were in leaning with their own ideological preferences?

What is far more telling I think, is that you can detect nothing...

I don't know if you can even get a thunderbolt fiber cable yet.

I was not totally sure about that either, I thought perhaps some of the first cables were but I don't know specifically. It could be that's just the intent but it may never happen due to cost. Or perhaps the newer faster thunderbolt standard will make dual cables more useful to get the maximum bandwidth.

That's already been done in some Thunderbolt cables I think, though most of them right now are all copper... but the original idea was a fiber cable plus copper for power.

Even "House of Cards" was first pitched to HBO, Showtime, and AMC. If no one else was even willing to produce a pilot, you can bet they're pretty godawful.

"House of Cards" was pretty good though, leaving some room for the possibility that grabbing network leftovers may be feasible.

You had me at Jar-Jarmy.

Considering that was the last word of his post I'd say that was a close thing.

The answer to that is simple.

Yes it is, but it is not the answer you gave. If Apple cared about pushing out BSD and Linux, wouldn't they put more than a token effort into OS X server? Apple doesn't need to push Linux of the desktop, because the desktop has become irrelevant.

No, the simple answer is that even if you could just use all the GCC code you liked any way you wanted, the way GCC is built does not lend itself to being part of other tools. As in, it's not so easy to just parse some arbitrary code and get a sense of where the tokens are at.

In reality the "huge savings" came about in writing a whole new compiler chain from scratch, which was easier overall than trying to get GCC parsing integrated into anything else!

The side benefit going forward is a WAY better compiler design that can integrate new ideas very quickly, and as I said be used as part of many different tools.

In reality if I saw you go off without it I'd try to bring it to you, if you then sprinted I would ditch it in the spot with the fewest people possible.

If it's just sitting there and you left why did you expect it would be there still when you returned?

Also of course given how much you swear I wouldn't feel too badly about stealing from you. I could always tell you where I placed it when you returned.

If you really think you've spotted a bomb, it's probably best to say something like "omg I've spotted a bomb"

And if you smell smoke in a theater do you also yell out OMG FIRE! before you check to see if someone is smoking?

Your way creates a lot of pointless chaos for something that is probably not an issue.

"Hardware Freedom" day is a great idea, to teach people all over how to free devices they have they may think are not free.

And the place I would naturally go to see interesting reports of what people are doing is Slashdot.

But after a whole day only 15 replies? Is this saying something about Slashdot, or about the userbase? There were a lot of comments in articles covering topics like CLANG, so it doesn't seem like there are a lot less people on Slashdot today - just few interested in hardware at all...

For anyone throwing up hands because they think all devices today are closed off and hacking is impossible, read the book "Hacking the XBox" if you can. It gives a lot of great insight into how people still can analyze even modern apparently closed devices, and approaches to modern reverse engineering.