robertwalter

redefiler said:

Seriously?

When your boss has to tell you to stop arguing over team politics at work,
that's a clear sign that your team politics are complete immature bullshit.

Obama was an inexperienced, petty, self-aggrandizing clown, now there's just a different one.
Grow the fuck up, America.

I think you might have a misperception or bias as to both the issue being addressed and Tim's objective in writing this letter.  

I suspect it requires a minimum threshold of empathy and emotional intelligence be exceeded to recognize either of those or even the point I am making here. 

ATT store manager:  "We've got nothing known-good to give, and don't know when we will."

Me:  Sure you do; the replacements are called iPhones!

Typical approach of a banking cartel:
- speak of vibrant competition while actually preserving status quo or consolidating;
- reap profits;
- fund politicians;
- receive desired legislation and political support;
- raise barriers to entry for potential new competitors;
- privatize profits while protecting for socialized risk;
- avoid innovation and customer oriented investment (unless it dramatically decreases operating expenses);
- if you do innovate, take off the shelf systems that you can control (vendor must always be subordinate);
- if a new entrant appears boycott;
- if new entrant's efforts gain traction, raise regulatory challenges;
- if regulatory system doesn't belong to your lobbying organization, begin negotiations to work with vendor with hope that regulatory threats, or homegrown alternatives will be enough to tame demands of vendor. 

If if the system isn't corrupt, then for the banking cartel to get in bed with a strong competitor, it takes customers switching loyalties to get things moving, and something like the Kubler Ross stages of grieving to get through. 

Not very impressive commercials. 

GeorgeBMac said:

DAalseth said:

Jobs was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the fall of 2003. In an extreme example of Jobs' stubborn nature, he first fought his disease with alternative medicine, as well as a special diet.

And if he hadn't done that, he might be here still. Get yourself checked for cancer. If the find it do EXACTLY what your doctor says. Radiation, Surgery, Chemo, Immunotherapy, whatever. \Don't let the scam artists on the web fool you. Fighting cancer is the hardest thing you'll ever have to do. But there is a way to beat it. And that is NOT with diet, meditation, acupuncture or any of that other BS.

Actually, it's your own body that is the primary defense against cancer.  Not the doctors.   That's why the doctor's are using immuno-therapies more and more.   But, in the case of Pancreatic cancer, the prognosis is bad either way.

If you have cancer, it kinda proves that your body has failed at that primary task and swift proven outside intervention is necessary. 

Jobs degraded, shortened, complicated and ultimately ended his life by being arrogant enough to think he was a better doctor than the top medicine he could afford. 

Mr Lewis sounds like one of those dolt Project leaders that will push through in a bad idea to maintain his empire even though better concepts With fewer problems and better overall performance and compatibility are further advanced and are close at hand. 

Drains batteries?  Of course not. 

This is not the first time Apple Corporate Security has a questionable news report. Wouldn’t be bad for A C S personnel, practices and contractors to get a bit of management review love.

ZooMigo said:

This should serve as a good reminder. If you have not yet enabled two-factor authentication, do it now. Last week I received messages of two attempts to log into my icloud account. Wasn't me.

Warning to those w/o 2FA enabled.

I received two different forms of a purported Apple message ("somebody tried to log in" and "we locked your account") last week (one in junk folder the other in inbox). Since I've had 2FA turned on since day 1, I knew these were likely phishing attempts. I checked the sender's domain and it was not apple.com. 

I forward all good spoof mails to:
spam@uce.gov ,
phishing-report@us-cert.gov ,
as well as my email provider (you can google yours.). If the mail involves Apple I add 
reportphishing@apple.com .

Trailer is good.  Looking forward to this film.  Think my Canadian cousins will hate it tho. (She and her husband literally got their first iPhones this year.)

Same could be said for the follow on variants of both the Apple ][ and the Mac. 

I love Woz but don’t really care when he holds forth on such things because most of his opinions today are nonsense. He’s a good hearted historical figure who’s grown largely irrelevant.