I live in the bay area. Let's assume for the sake of argument that the employee quoted is single. That means he's in a higher tax bracket. Earning $160k/yr as a single male, he's losing approximately 48% of his check to taxes, medicare, social security, etc. Then he's probably paying another $400 month for his mandatory insurance. So, 160000 * 0.52 = 83,000 / 12 = ~$7K/month. 3K has just been taken away. That's 40% of his salary *just* for rent. $160k here is not living large,

It was Budweiser. I wouldn't call that beer.

These installs are also signed by Apple, as opposed to the nightlies. What that means for the end user is that things that they expect to work, like iCloud syncing for example, will continue to work while using the technology preview. They would not work if running the nightlies. Updates to the technology preview will also come every 2 weeks via the App Store, so the user doesn't have to remember to download new technology preview builds.

So have you actually taken the time to report these inaccuracies and errors to Apple -- using the not so hard to find Report A Problem button *right in the maps app* --or do you just vent your spleen on technology sites about how shitty Apple Maps are, complete with relevant examples?

If you can take this amount of time to document and bitch, surely you took the 10 seconds to tap the Report A Problem button? I can assure you that someone inside Apple does read those reports.

Actually, I work at one of the largest ISPs in America with over 10000 employees and there are a LOT more Macs on desktops than you would think. You will still see an occasional Windows desktop, but they are actually in the minority here.

I'm not sure this is the case. I've used and contributed to a lot of open source software. For the most part, they have been very functional and have done the job well. I am not unhappy with how they worked. But, let's be honest here. The UI sucked. Sucked badly. I have yet to see any OSS that has a usable UI. That's fine for me, I'm an engineer. I can cope with arcane settings and the need to do some things through the command line. Engineers, by and large, cannot develop something that looks good, only something that performs well. For the non-engineering world, they are an unusable mess. This is the second biggest reason why OSS hasn't become the desktop replacement many hoped it would be.

I've been able to build some surprisingly sophisticated and full-featured web applications using Python wrapped inside CherryPy and sending the output through Django. Really amazing how much you can do with this, with the added benefit of portability if you ever want or need to move it across platforms.

If portability isn't an issue, by using Python's ctypes you can call almost any back-end Linux, Windows or Mac OS X library for the ability to do almost anything you want.

A simple iRule in an F5 LTM will allow you to manage a metric shitload of unique domains and services, on multiple servers, behind a single IPv4 address and TCP port. They've been doing this for years. I've personally set this up for several companies whose domain names might surprise you. :-)

It wasn't very difficult for me to open Safari, download Firefox, open the disk image and drag Firefox to my Applications folder. Firefox even popped up a modal dialog box on first launch asking if I wanted to make it the default browser.

Have you looked at techBASIC from Byteworks? It's a great, easy to use BASIC that runs directly on the iPhone and iPad to let you write programs on it.

I'm also an "old expensive" computer professional. It recently took me a total of 18 hours from the time I put my resume online to my first job offer, and 4 days to have 6 offers and to have accepted a new position.

The longest it's ever taken me to find a new position once I've started looking in earnest is 2 weeks. The shortest is 36 hours. Recruiters see my resume and my phone gets 100's of calls a day.

There is definitely a shortage of experienced talent in the marketplace here (Washington, DC).

It sounds like RealBasic might be a fit for what you're looking for. Have you tried them? http://www.realbasic.com/

Um, no. Apple doesn't charge anything for an iOS update. Not $5. Not $1. Not $0.001. Nada. I don't know who told you that you have to pay for an iOS upgrade, but as long as you have a supported model of iPhone, it's free.

You work at NatGeo too I guess.

Sorry, but there was a stretch of several months this year where there were no security updates released for CentOS 5.x while they worked on 5.6 and 6.0.

https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=29685&forum=53