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Quote: Originally Posted by lilgto64 Hire him - make him sign an NDA and a non-compete - and sign over rights to any code he develops while employed - don;t let him develop anything for jail broken iOS while employed of course - then after he has…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Smiles77 This is odd, as it directly contradicts Apple's Lion preview page. From there: "Lion Server is now part of Mac OS X Lion. It?s easy to set up your Mac as a server and take advantage of the many services Lio…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Wow. You really don't think anyone but yourself deserves anything, do you? And you're a tosser for that non sequitur!
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Lion, though, I'd see $50-$80. Somewhere around there. Try $5-$29.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hal 9000 One thing that wouldn´t help Lion addoption is if Core Solo Macs and/or Core Duo Macs were not supported by Lion. There is a host of older iMacs and Mac Minis that should be supported. (hec even if its not …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ratsg If you aren't aware, there are quite a few boards and mailing list devoted to keeping older Apple equipment up and operational. Obviously, this is a minority and Apple doesn't make much money keeping older equip…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tomahawk Hmm, 30% doesn't sound so bad to me... Coming from the newspaper business I can think of the following expenses that are offset with the iPad. Printing Postage Packaging Retail markup We don't rea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Wenner believes it will take decades before magazines on tablet-style devices like the iPad will take off, noting that sales of physical CDs are still a popular form of music even as Apple's iTunes offers …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism There was a time when Macs had a lot less market and mindshare. It was hard to get developers to support the platform. Apple even partnered with MS to ensure the MS Office would still be created for the Mac. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism He's not against SSD NAND for data storage, states they have comparable shelf life as USB NAND but thinks it's bad to offer a restore disk with new Macs on a USB flash drive? He asked me a question about losi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism The whole purpose of iTunes, iLife, iWork et al. is to help support the Mac platform. I understand that. However the difference is the same as between "need" and "want." The Mac needs its OS. iLife and …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ratsg According to wikipedia, references state that USB flash drives have a life time similar to SSD drives. The thing to keep in mind is that nobody knows for sure how long any of these media will last, either flas…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I don't think they'd charge less than a single iWork app which is $20, but I suppose it's possible. iWork apps, unlike Mac OS, aren't subsidized by hardware. Apple really doesn't have a choice but to cont…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Checksums can only do so much? My assumption is that they're using checksums correctly. The examples you cite make me believe they aren't. No excuse for that, really, and their QA should have discovered …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I do think there is a chance they won't offer it as a DVD, though I'd heavily leaning toward a DVD option at an increased price point. I'm sure they'll offer shippable, physical media. Probably DVD. I'd …
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Quote: Originally Posted by lowededwookie I disagree with the "Bootdisk is a must" comments. Ditto. Quote: Originally Posted by lowededwookie The chances of corrupt downloads are there but I would hazard a guess are low. Actually, zer…
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Quote: Originally Posted by quamb Yep. I think an OS is really one of the only pieces of software where a physical copy is important. So hopefully it has some kind of install option to put it on a bootable USB stick... I agree i want a bootabl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gwydion What have to clean Google, or Bing, or Yahoo. All of three can be cheated by SEO techniques. You don't have to bother cleaning up Bing. When Google is cleaned up, Bing will follow automatically!
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Excerpt from Apple's letter: Quote: Through its threatened infringement claims against users of Apple?s licensed technology, Lodsys is invoking patent law to control the post-sale use of these licensed products and methods. Because Lodsys?s thre…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacRulez The suggestion that Apple runs around randomly signing license agreements without reading them isn't exactly flattering to them. Reading them is one thing. Interpreting them the same way as the author is a…