Posts by popnfresh

Quote: Originally Posted by pondosinatra Er.....have you looked at Lion? Err.. ya. Lion has a Finder. iOS doesn't. Lion lets you purchase, download and install software from anywhere. iOS doesn't. Lion lets you print to virtually any...

Huge amounts of storage are so cheap and portable these days, why would I want to keep my music collection in the "cloud" where I would need a broadband internet connection just to listen to it? My music collection is happy...

Quote: Originally Posted by mstone And if they choose to unionize what would be their bargaining power? If let's say all retail employees for major department stores belonged to the same union, they might have some leverage since if one...

Quote: Originally Posted by dziggyii Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no law saying you have to work there. Just quit if you don't like the working conditions!! There's also no law that says they can't form a union if they choose...

Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism USB3.0 is an open standard whilst Thunderbolt is proprietary? Good one¡ Yes, it is, thank you. USB 3.0 was developed by the The USB 3.0 Promoter Group, an industry consortium, as an open...

Thundercrap will die a slow and painful death when people realize that the choice of peripherals for it is severely limited. USB 3.0 will win, because it's backwards compatible with all of their other USB peripherals. Even their mice. It...

Quote: Originally Posted by iVlad Same thing happened when Apple introduced Firewire 400, then 800. No PC company wanted to support it. But then people started buying things like iPods and portable hard-drives and those companies didn't...

Apple made a huge mistake by not embracing USB 3.0 from day one. No one else supports Thundercrap. Yet another proprietary standard that will bite Apple in the ass one day.

All through the 80's and most of the 90's Apple loved to put proprietary hardware into their computers. Eventually, this design philosophy wound up biting them in the ass because their systems were too closed. With the advent of the...

I used to work for Monster Cable, and I can assure you that their products are overpriced, shoddily made crap. They give Monster employees a 70% discount off retail for their own use, and they STILL make a profit. Stores love selling...