...these "site developers". Are they in the room with us now? O.o

PDF! It was designed to look and print the same way on all platforms. Why are people posting and sending stuff in editable formats if it is not meant to be edited?

IANAL, but a lawyer told me stuff like this isn't legal in Norway. Can't find a translation for the legal term. Something like "clausulation", maybe. It's illegal here. You can't implicitly sign an agreement by using a product. Forcing you to sign something in order to use a product you've bought, after you've bought it – also no bueno.

Should have gone with Big Blue for facilitating genocide.

Don't think article 5 applies at sea, actually.

I believe the play (musical?) where Eliza Doolittle is a character is called "My Fair Lady", which is based on the ancient play "Pygmalion" - where a guy fell in love with a statue; which then came to life.

Around 2008-2014, Macs and MacOS was far superior to anything else. You paid a high price, but you got a lot more than just the hardware.. 2014 I think, is when I got the warning not to use cron, as it would be removed from future OS X releases. I thought, "yeah... rid apple of it's Unix certification - that'll get you where you're going". Since then, they've doubled the number of employees. Every year since, the number of "wtf-moments" have pretty much doubled. In the year 2025, I doubt the average Apple employee know what Unix is, or have used terminal for anything but assisted troubleshooting.

Paper...paper...paper.... I've worked from home since november. I'm close to crying from relief after I managed to get away from that loony bin. I've had an excuse to force others to use Sharepoint and Excel as well. Though I fear it will be back to paper again if the pandemic ends to soon. Computers are not trusted, because nobody understands the trading and accounting system. There's no manual. nobody ever had a course, and it's bug ridden and difficult to use on top of that. So, for every task, every interface there's a whole ecosystem of printouts, binders, scribbling on the printouts, entering the squiggles beck into the computer, scribbling a new reference numbers and moving to different binders. This is not just my company - this is 80% of the entire f***ing industry. So, those suffering when forced to work at home in my company are those printing everything at home...missing their precious paper at work, unable to find it on the computer... These people sit with a bloody calculator and enter the result into excel.. Also, I don't have an absolute arsehole yelling at me for shit he does not even understand. He writes incomprehensible grunting emails though.

Milton Friedman believed in it. Pretty far from a socialist I'd say,.

Agreed. Plug the ***t in and it works. sed awk grep sort uniq etc- all there. Btw: Drag-Drop file transfers are slow. cp from terminal - full speed.

Yeh seven years ago maybe, when I left Linux for the Mac. Still UNIX, but with an actual, usable desktop GUI as well as terminal. When I got into Linux in the mid 90's, it seemed the sky was the limit - and the bazaar would beat the cathedral at anything. But X11, Gnome and KDE just got worse. I realized that I was spending twice as much time getting stuff working as I did actually using it. I'm still enthusiastic, and think Linux and BSD are great, but I've put them where they belong: on headless or virtualized servers. It seems to me that what the bazaar lacks and the cathedral has is a vision about what it is all going to be in the end (opblig xkcd: http://xkcd.com/927/ ) Now: I'm not buying any more games on Steam. I'm using the app store exclusively (unless it's Elite IV). Disclaimer: 4th Cognac.

There is no such thing as *getting rid of religion*. People who want to believe *religiously* in things, with or without proof will do so no matter what. Whether it's UFO's, environmental disaster de jour, or buzzword de jour....

The ars technica article tells a bit more: "[]the company expects to spend $10 billion starting in fiscal year 2013 and continuing for three years, "with the primary objective of neutralizing the impact of dilution from future employee equity grants and employee stock purchase programs." I don't know much about finances, but I know what happened to HP. Swapping a portion of the current shareholders against Apples own employees may help prevent a disaster like that for Apple.

I agree. Considering how easy it is to jailbreak ios devices and the original Apple TV, it seems obvious that that Apple puts little effort into blocking hacks that require physical access to the device. Obviously, with the film and music industry on board, they can't make an open device. But with this "cat and mouse" game, the mouse will never win, and any attempt the cat makes to win (completely lock down the device) is doomed to fail. Look at xbox, ps3 and WII. It's better to be the cat in a cat-and-mouse game than the hangman in a hangman game.

Fanboys aren't fanboys because they choose some computer or some car or whatever and automatically join the tribe. They become fanboys because they get defencive about the choice they've made when morons who like to feel superior ridicule and belittle both them and whatever [insert computer, car, music, country etc here] they have/use/live in.