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1) AppleWorks 6 - which while mostly replaced by iWork, is still in use by quite a few people. iWork has yet to implement a database module.

2) compiled AppleScript scripts - a certain number of those were compiled, and generated PPC binaries, and not UB. beware.

If you have a site triggering a false positive, maybe you need to go back and look at your content, where it originates from and how.

From what I've read, and experienced with Flash on the OS X desktop, the issue was caused by Flash beating up hard on the CPU (and thereby causing a battery drain). The last thing Apple wants is to list a battery life in the specs, and then watch some Flash based game decimate it.

An 'upgrade' feature that has been promised, but will not be available on the day the Xoom ships.

Power utilities already do this (to a certain extent). No typical power utility has the manpower to respond to a major event, so they all have mutual aid agreements (to help one another).

As you say, RAID (specifically RAID level 1) is redundancy.

Time Machine is a form of generational/chronological backup.

Apple has stated that Time Machine is not archival. I wonder is this new patent is referring to an extension of TM, to the cloud, to provide something as close to archival as can be achieved.

Try thinking of it like this ...

Every life has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Some lives are very short, a few are very long, and most somewhere in the middle of the curve (something the insurance companies call the actuarial).

Everyone wants to live as long as possible, but how you get from beginning to end varies widely. What works for me, may not work for you. Trying to impress one social groups idea of 'proper lifestyle' is what causes most of the problems in America (possibly elsewhere) today.

There are times, when a little bit of the problem, is a better cure than all the societal enforced behavioral change. For the most part, we really are smart people.

> Apple has partnered with a few retail chains such as Best Buy and Walmart, but those stores always seem to get a small number of units in stock. Hiner rationalizes that the true purpose of these partnerships is probably to help spread the marketing message, not so much to sell iPads.

The display unit at WalMart is behind plexiglass. If you want to touch it, someone with a key has to open the cover. I'm glad to see current Apple products at WalMart, but the actual sales experience is significantly less than going to an Apple store, or to BB.

IMHO, the real secret behind the iPad's price is supply chain management and very astute inventory control. Idle inventory can really wreck your bottom line.

> Hell, under Obamacare anyone who hires a kid to mow their lawn and pays them $400 over the course of a year has to file a 1099 on them!

Under the new health care legislation ? No. What you are describing has been an IRS requirement for many years. One that was mostly ignored. The congress wants to close the loophole (but the way they wrote it is rather brain damaged).

> It would be unprecedented, as far as I know, for a company to be liable for taxes on the employee's on-paper-only gains, occurring some arbitrary time later at option-exercise.

The questions is ... would the same taxation be applicable in the reverse direction ? Say SF taxed you on big paper gains last year, your startup crashed and burned this year. Can you get a big refund ?

If not, then it would suggest a new avenue for arbitrage: trading stock in dead startups merely to offset gains in still functioning entities.

It would solve the problem of people using an MBA, complaining about the lack of ports.

> Sony is also 130% the size of Apple in terms of revenue, 180% the size of Apple in terms of assets and 340% the size of Apple in terms of employees headcount.

Which suggests that Sony makes ~39% of the revenue per employee that Apple does.

> Part of the problem is that there is an internal inconsistency in play. You can subscribe to the Wall Street Journal Web edition and use that on Safari on your iPad just fine. Why should the WSJ app that gives you access to that same content be any different?

The WSJ is the producer of the original content. The music subscription services are but another remora in the food chain. Were they the original producer of content, this would be an entirely different discussion.

> It's just worse because they're a security company and they happened to piss off Anonymous.

It's just worse because HBGary isn't eating their own dog food. Think about that.

> My company makes all of its money from subscription services that we sell directly to customers.

Then don't sell on the iOS stores. Simple solution. Unless you now want to complain about all the 70% revenue that you will be missing.

I'm going to say yes. (because I sell on GC, like GC, but note their lack of ability to reach a living person there)

Apple owns a very fertile piece of soil. You can grow 10x the crop there that you can grown any where else. Where do you want to farm your crop ?

Interesting premise ...

Many years ago, back when I was working my way thru high school, my father was a shop manager at a manufacturing plant. One of the perks he had, was deciding what went in the drink cooler. He swore (all day and half the night) that the small bottles of Coke (8 oz or 6 oz) had a better flavor than the larger bottles of Coke did (which were either 12 oz or 16 oz). So, he made sure that there were always 2 rows stocked with the small bottles.

This is from the days when all the bottles were returnable.

> Echoing my post in another thread, Apple received $150 million in financing from Microsoft back in 1997 in exchange for including IE on the Mac (among other partnership goodies).

Actually, based on my hazy recollection, someone at Apple had discovered an IP violation by MSFT (something to do with QuickTime code having leaked over to MSFT). Apple at that time was in pretty dire shape. Steve basically called up (Bill or Ballmer, not sure which) and said here's the deal..., after which it was decided that rather than protracted litigation, Apple would take a $150M investment from MSFT, and would issue a special class of stock, which could be convertible to regular stock at a later date. I do believe there was some kind of agreement to include MSIE, and/or that MSFT would make Office for the Mac a guaranteed product for a certain period of time.

From what I read, no one lost money on the deal. The cash investment helped Apple survive the rough patch, MSFT sold off their investment at a later date, Office moved on to be a solid product on the Mac, etc.

I do not believe that MSFT would have done any of this without a little persuasive arm twisting.

> But it'd really suck to be the last generation before some significant increase in lifespan (say, up to 200) is reached.

If you read the Mars trilogy, the subject of excessive long life spans is discussed (at least from a sci-fi fictional perspective). The characters do indeed live out lives that exceed 200 years.

One of the questions that then arises is: can the human brain (or as being hypothesized here, a synthetic brain) be able to handle 200 years worth of memories ?

I can remember a couple of things from when I was 3. I am now over 50. As the years pass, some of those older memories become slightly fuzzy. I do wonder about the capacity to deal with 200 years worth.

> I've been wondering if Microsoft's stock price is low due to the perception that they aren't sexy.

Stock prices are (usually) set based on two factors: The current earnings/revenue situation and future expectations.

MSFT and APPL both have similar current earnings. Future expectations may be an entirely different matter.

If twitter is being touted as a $10B corp, then someone must have some expectations of increased future value.

> They charge 100 yen for doing a book conversion. That's only about $1.25 US. I would kill for a service like this.

Are they physically scanning every book presented, or is each scanning service building a library (by scanning each title only once) ? If they are doing the latter, I can see how they can pull it off at that price.

You could certainly bust the internet into a lot of small unconnected subnets, simply by telling all the backbone providers to disconnect peering. I would expect that .mil and continuity of government circuits would be tagged as exempt, and would continue to work.

I dunno what happens if your provider happens to be someone like Hughes or DirectPC. That's one heck of a large subnet.

> doesn't consider himself too high to do the grunt work too

go read 'Up the Organization' by Robert Towsend (written many years ago when he was the CEO of Avis Rent-a-car). Everyone at Avis (janitor, receptionist, CEO, all the way down the line) was required to work 1 or 2 days a year at the counter, renting cars. Helped everyone what business they were in, and why they had a job.

Perhaps the time has arrived to dust off the old operating manuals for the CCC and the WPA. For those who don't recognize the acronyms, those were 2 of the major 'New Deal' programs during the 1930's era Great Depression. They were intended to get people back to work, and to try to restart the economy.

The general objective was to renew/refresh our public infrastructure (via WPA) and to reforest-ate clear cut areas and improve problematic drainage (via CCC). Both programs were accused of being socialist (and perhaps they were).

This is some truth to this. FB is a walled, semi-curated, subset of the internet. It has inertia and, for all those who don't want the general hassles associated with the internet at large, may be a perfect 5-minute solution.

The local red-neck bar has a FB page. Think about that.

The local small town county newspaper used a similar process up until about 4 years ago. They had long since tossed the paper tape equipment, and bought a couple of Macs around 1990 with a laser printer. The column strips were set in MS Word, printed on standard paper, then cut and pasted onto large markup boards using the same wax machine shown in those pictures. The boards were then carried 12 miles down to the next town where there was a press (similar to the Goss Community shown in the pics) and the paper was printed every Wednesday morning.

Now, they have Adobe InDesign, and they can produce a full color front and back page. The PDF is transmitted via the internet to a larger press plant a hundred miles away, and the papers are ready for pickup 18 hours later.

A serious improvement. Best looking local county paper in the area.

> When this feature was first added to photoshop

Do you know what release that was ? Perhaps this cranky old copy of PS-5 I use is free of that enhancement.

so who owns 42.42.42.42 ? (which is the obvious candidate for the root DNS server)

> the heavy user is operating in an ambiguous zone where continued use of the service at the advertised price is at the whim of the provider

That suggests an interesting business model where: we sell everyone on 'Unlimited', then we wait to see who is the most egregious customer, and drop off the ones on the top of the pyramid (and keep the revenue positive customers).

Reminds me of how the cellular operators used to be towards roaming: sure, you can roam, just don't do it so much that we cancel your contract.