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I don't have time to refute all of your claims, but:

>>> 1. iCloud. Have Windows Live ID and Live Mesh integration in windows for nearly 3 years now. Works across mobile devices already.

It works across mobile devices, poorly. I think iCloud is a much better user experience, and has better app support even being the newer product.

>>> 2. Messages. Windows Live Messenger has social integration already which is on par with this.

Windows Live Messenger is not on par with this. iMessage will work across many platforms. Using Messenges you can chat with someone who thinks you are texting them.

The list goes on... The point is, yes, Calendar applications have been around for a while. Reminder apps have too. All of these things are offered in lots of ways on lots of platforms. What Apple is succeeding at doing (albeit slowly) is simplifying and improving software offerings in all of these existing domains.
Austin, Texas has the same situation. Great talent with less competition.

I enjoyed the comparison. I love London.
I noticed on my old MacBook there was a considerable delay relaunching apps, but with my new one, between more RAM and the SSD it's pretty instantaneous, as is the restart itself. I was always careful about quitting apps to free up RAM on the old machine though, but just relaunching Chrome and bringing all my tabs back up was enough to do the same thing.
So you think your demands are protecting your rights, and you think you're hurting the industry that goes against them. We've established that. But these rights haven't actually been established as 'rights' - which might need to change - which makes them just consumer demands on your part. It seems to me as though we've reached the point where piracy makes them make more repressive DRM, which makes more people pirate, which gives them more legal ammo to make more repressive DRM and lobby for laws, etc. and so on to infinity or until the laws change. You can see why I don't choose to be a part of this cycle.

Besides, the reason artists sign contracts is the same reason game developers go work for companies like Ubisoft who then make their games use repressive DRM that they completely disagree with - that is the industry we have, and they'd rather be a part of it, making money and exercising their talents, than standing on the outside struggling to get by while they rage against the machine. It's not their fault the current institution is set up the way it is.

Also, I'm pretty sure if Honda sold a car that only worked on Route 66, people would just not buy it, but I feel the comparison doesn't completely do it all justice because we've long argued that physical goods are not equivalent to digital media, otherwise piracy would be stealing instead of... well, piracy.
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iPod Touch updates have been free for a while now, I think.
It uses Yahoo, Bing, and a number of other sources (but not google). See http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s... :)
That doesn't seem very special or unique to me though. In almost all settings where some in-memory data is pushed on the network stack, you can expect stuff to be network bound.
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You have to remember, Windows Live Essentials (what they call it) doesn't come standard with windows. You need to download it. That said, Apple has long been aiming at standard users and not power users. Apple knows that everything that power users need power users will make themselves or they will find.

i/OS/X is geared toward the average consumer. ie. someone who knows nothing about how it works and probably won't find a feature if it isn't on the desktop.

Don't confuse "features" with selling points.
I remember going on the internet my senior year in high school 95. It took forever to load AOL. Then you had to listen to all the screeching to get to my favorite search engine "Web Crawler" LOL. Then it would take 5 minutes to get a picture to load on the screen. I remember people saying someday you will be able to get videos and stuff. LOL. It seemed impossible and there were a lot of people saying it would be impossible because you could never fit that much info over the network. Guess they were wrong.
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The cynical answer is because once you install an app they can

* Push ads to you even when you're not viewing their content
* Read your address book

I hate it too. I also hate sites that ask me to install their app every time I visit. No, I don't want the IMDB app nor do I want the Rottentomatoes app, etc etc..

Unfortunately the majority seem to love it :-(
I actually think that the distros should be more aggressive about this, and do what OSX seems to be doing: Don't allow unsigned packages to be installed without a flipped switch. Why? Because anyone who can't figure out how to flip that switch shouldn't be installing unsigned binaries, in my opinion.

In regards to OSX, the argument seems to be that this is a step towards not even having the switch there, and yes, they may be headed that way which is unfortunate. I think that's a mistake that would end up biting them if they tried it, but maybe I'm naive. I still think being more aggressive in only allowing signed binaries by default is a good approach, even for open source systems.
Wait... why wouldn't you release it to the world?
I think you need to do a bit more research. I haven't used Live in a while so I'll only answer some of your points:

2. Messages integrates with iMessage which allows any iOS device (over 100mil) and now any Mac to message each other free. WLM is IM. There is a subtle but important difference I think.

4. I agree, OneNote is fantastic. But the Apple Notes app is not designed to complete with OneNote.

5. Don't put the system tray forward as a positive thing. System tray is terrible.
8. A better comparison would be Xbox Live (which is better than Game Center).

9. Airplay mirroring allows you to mirror the entire screen not just video. You can do games, apps etc.

You don't have to pay 99GBP to write iOS/Mac apps. It's 59GBP for a developer membership. And the IDE Xcode is 100% free to anyone. Visual Studio is not free. It's several thousand dollars. Visual Studio Express is free.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/en_US/list/size....
Static linking is permissible with LGPL but not GPL.

The point about linking is that the viral part of the GPL kicks in with regards to the distribution of executables ("the licensee must provide the recipients with a complete source code in one of the following methods, when distributing the program in object code"). If code is dynamically discovered at runtime, then this viral aspect does not apply.

This issue is old, regarded by Eben Moglen as a loophole, and I expected GPL3 to address it. I think it has not.
1) you think you are different than a consumer how?

Anybody reading this page is likely to be told they aren't a "consumer." I was having that problem with Ubuntu Linux, for goodness' sake, though in Linux they call it a "Real Person(tm)" instead of a consumer. As in, "Of course XYZ doesn't work out of the box if you run an alternative window manager, because a Real Person doesn't run alternative window managers, and Ubuntu is for Real People."

Based on that, I think it's a valid concern that in focusing on "consumers" or "normal people" or however you want to put it, Apple might fail to take care of the artists, designers, and musicians who have historically been a strong part of its user base. One consistent goal for the Mac has been to be a computer for people who don't want to learn how to use their computer. That could be interpreted to exclude designers, artists, musicians, and so on, because they use very sophisticated software tools with steep learning curves. It would be very easy to lose sight of the distinction between people who enjoy having a sophisticated understanding of their computer (nerrrrds! not a high value or high prestige market) and people who have to use sophisticated software to get their work done (artists, designers, directors, musicians -- a high prestige, trendsetting market.)
According to Gruber, signing apps will be free.

http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion

"It’s a system whereby developers can sign up for free-of-charge Apple developer IDs which they can then use to cryptographically sign their applications."
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These guys are badasses and the product works great. Learned ~100 Mandarin characters with very little effort and the product gets iterated on very quickly (their support team really listens to customer feedback). Congrats on the funding!
My first inclination was Qualcomm. They have a pretty heavy share of the CDMA market, and are sporting some funky user portals that make heavy use of Java.
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Whats the difference?
Exactly. Apple isn't trying to replace OSX with iOS. If anything, they want the two to talk to each other better. And, perhaps OSX could benefit from some of what they've learned developing UIs for the iPad.
It really depends on your environment and the complexity of the rendering tied to your collection. For example, on a fast desktop-class system with a collection that renders one element with 1 property, you can probably have hundreds (or maybe even thousands) of items in the collection before you start to notice slowdowns when the collections update. Working on lower-end and mobile platforms, those numbers change. Similarly, if you rendering is complex, it will take more time as well. All that said, there's really no "magic number"

There are definite workarounds such as setting up paging--but the simple approach of using Ember.js bindings to bind a collection to a template will fall to pieces as that collection grows.
Is it possible for any distributed human-meaningful name to be allodial? You're always at the mercy of a network of nodes to agree that you hold a name, and probably have to incentivize them even. A non-human-meaningful public-key based name would be allodial (even if you're relying on others to distribute that fact). The latter system could certainly replace many uses of DNS, but doesn't solve the introduction problem (granted, introductions could be needed a lot less, ie Jotform forms would still be working, as they wouldn't require a reintroduction to 'jotform.com' for every visit)

(You're right in that I was incorrectly implying a domain name would be property owned by the registrant. But it certainly could be considered property that the registrant is currently in possession of)
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Airplay mirroring. Woo yay etc. Windows media player (!) does this with my Sony Bravia with no complaints.

Cool story bro, mind sharing how you can use WMP to mirror your whole display? You know, for things like presentations, VLC, games?
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The iTunes Store only supports 720p right now anyway, so in the Apple ecosystem it doesn't make sense to worry about 1080p. I imagine this will change soon though. (A5 based AppleTV + iTunes Store upgrades)
To be clear, these are instances of domains specifically being moved to GoDaddy.

When I have spot-checked lists of seized domains in other cases, domains registered with GoDaddy were serving the ICE seizure page while domains with other registrars were simply down.
He's referring to the fact you have to pay $99.00 to distribute your apps on the App Store.

The IDE's on both OS's are irrelevant arguments. There are free versions of Visual Studio as well that work just as nice as the Professional editions. Those editions are for corporate enterprise architect roles etc.
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This post reads a little like saying about the iPhone release "my phone already can make calls, run apps, I can type notes and e-mails, add to my calendar, check the weather, etc."

It totally misses the point.
No, like read the article and get the point he's trying to make instead of insisting that he's judging one tool against another.
I think it would probably be worth something, not sure about $100. But I see the biggest problem is trust. I would be afraid you would send me the top 3-12 instead of the top 1-10 that you found.
Check out Michael Wolfe's answer.
Command line for Apple registered developers only is more likely.
Totally agree; I went to Microsoft and joined the VB.NET team in no small part because he worked there.

(Didn't work out so well: he left a couple of months later, and that job turned into a nightmare for other reasons.)
Why is it that a consumer product can not also be a workhorse?

I have been running Lion and do not feel that it makes my computer less of a workhorse. I dont think that ML will make it less of a workhorse. I see this update as adding a bunch of stuff, some of which will be useful to developers, and not removing anything that made me fall in love with my Mac as a dev platform.
OneNote only comes with Microsoft Office. Which you can also purchase for Mac. Xcode is free. A developer code signing certificate costs money whether you buy it through Apple or Verisign. Want to release trusted apps on Windows that don't throw up scary looking security warnings to your users that download them? Guess you'll need to pay $299 a year to Verisign or some other CA for that privilege.

Gatekeeper is actually a cool feature because now any developer will be able to release signed applications without going through the app store approval process. If they do nasty things, their certificate gets revoked. You get the benefits to the user of running signed/trusted code, and the benefits to the developer of deploying for free, without app store approval.
Does anyone else see Notes as an Evernote killer?
I believe Microsoft doesn't add this by default, because otherwise it would get into trouble with cartel authorities.
Just like meatspace states use child pornography to justify Internet monitoring and control, Apple will use malware to justify locking down software. Not distributing software via the App Store will now remove a segment of Apple's user base from a software vendor's market so vendors will likely do whatever they can to get in the App Store. Apple now gets the ability to censor software on their non-iOS hardware.
Mail, Safari, iCal, accessibility, the Stocks / Weather dashboard widgets, Photo Booth, iWork, GarageBand, Airport Utility... Hell, iCloud had its roots in Mac.com.
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I don't think it matters how often you do !g, you're still going through ddg, which suggests ddg has a better relationship with you than google.

In facilitating your use of google for your specific searches, which you apparently can determine the likelihood of beforehand, ddg gets more of your searches for everything else. This is definitely a win for you and ddg, perhaps even for google if it increases your dependence on queries in general.

Also, I don't think ddg is trying to replace google. From your numbers, ddg is getting ~ 30% of your queries without having to implement deep search.

ddg doesn't log ip addresses/track you, so they could only probabilistically identify cases where people think ddg would do better but then fall back to google, but it will likely get harder and more computationally intense as they grow.
Kindacritical.
I think the issue you will face is agreeing on whether or not you have sent "quality" names.

I wouldn't pay for a service which is based on a flat fee unless there was some quality guarantee.
Don't fall into the trap of comparing Apple's feature list with that of other vendors. Apple makes these lists of new features to compare one version of OS X to the last, but they don't make those grids full of green check marks and red X's to compare their products to competitors'.

There's a reason for that. New features might provide a reason to buy a $29 OS X upgrade, but they don't represent the reason people choose Mac over Windows. I choose Mac over Windows because the entire user experience is friendlier, more polished, and better integrated. It's the details of how the features are implemented and the way they work together that make for a superior product.
Wow. There are over 224,000 domains that are linked to spam-and-abuse.com

http://www.dailychanges.com/spam-and-abuse.com/
I'm a bit of an evangelical when it comes to static code analysis like this. I insist your code should work to a spec-- not necessarily Crockford's JSLint spec, but a spec, which is why I really like JSHint.

But I find I can't really convince anyone of it being useful, I remember being in an interview for a startup I read about on here and started talking about this as a tool I use (they asked "What tools do you use"). They basically brushed it off as "yeah, I don't think this is super useful, we probably have bigger problems than a missing semicolon".

As I understand it, general perception of people seems to be it's a tool for finding missing semicolons. I don't know how to give this a decent elevator pitch so other people can see the light.
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I'm still on 10.5.8 too, I want to upgrade but I really don't see any reason why I should.
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I know it's not a popular opinion, but yet again I feel like Apple has decided to simply keep status quo with Mac OS X, which is very much the same Mac OS X we got from about 10.3 onwards (Panther, wasn't it)?

Think about how different Ubuntu is now since then. Windows 8 is a real risk-take from a company that does not take risks (whether they were forced to do so or not is another argument). Mac OS X is... Mac OS X again.

I've been using Mac OS X since 10.2, and I will get another Apple machine for my next one, but I really don't know why they bother putting anything out if they're just going to phone it in each time. Pretty much everything added to Lion I really don't care for, and what they did add was minimal anyway.

I wonder if they really have the vision and the tenacity to actually move things forward, or whether iOS and Mac OS X are going to remain the way they are until the company can't take it anymore. They need a software person like hardware needs Johnny Ive. Someone to put their foot down, say "we're doing this" and follow through.

The next 10 years of Mac OS X cannot be the same as the last 10 years, can it?
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Never giving the choice in the first place is stronger, not weaker, than giving it and then taking it away.
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What if you give us the phone number of the agent in question?

Personally I think you made a horribly stupid decision to use GoDaddy, but it is what it is. Sounds like you need to launch a PR campaign about this.

Tell your customers to call the agent in charge. Tell your users to call GoDaddy to complain.

Put up a web page with a running ticker of how many people are getting their service interrupted because of this. Tell the world who is sitting on their hands while your business collapses. Call news stations. Put up a youtube video. Shine a light on this, don't just sit there hoping for an agent to give a crap.

Make this shit a bigger deal that the government and GoDaddy have made it. GoDaddy doesn't give a shit about your domain or your business. Make them give a shit. The agent in question couldn't care less about your troubles, their full time work is about making someone (hopefully the right person) miserable. You are just one more such person in the big stack. Make that agent give a shit.
Geek loves to praise his tools and pulled assumptions over thin air for everything else.

vim/emacs are nice (I'm a vim user) but gosh... have you ever tried the latest JetBrains offering? PyCharm? RubyMine? the JS editor.

The only reason I'm using VIM is because I'm just that _weird_. My dream setup would be a 11"/13" laptop with nothing other than a console and a web browser. If IDEs can fit that screen (which they can't right now...) I would dump vim in an instant and never look back.
It gives me a motivational boost to know that such a simple thing that I (think I could) hack in less than a day (with all due respect and everything) can be ramen profitable, especially when it seem that more can be built from this.

Guess I'll be coding tonight...
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Mind you though, to spare some confusion, there is no OneNote for mac, even though mac has a special edition of Word that implements a few of the features of OneNote.
What is it you're wanting?
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The US courts do place weight on the "it's patenting a mathematical formula" argument. There's some nuance and murk, but an application will probably have to pass the "Machine or Transformation Test" to be patentable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-or-transformation_test

Essentially, software implementations of algorithms cannot generally be patented either because they are simply an expression of the algorithm in a particular language. The fact that this language can be interpreted by a particular hardware device does not change the situation. The hardware is a pre-existing piece of general-purpose commodity hardware that is easily interchangeable with any number of other pre-existing pieces of general-purpose commodity hardware, up to and including a human being equipped with a pen and paper, and therefore cannot really be claimed as part of the patent.

A physical device which implements the algorithm can, of course, be patented. And a hardware/software combination where the computer is an integral part of the mechanism (e.g., it cannot in principle be replicated by a human with a pen and paper) can also be patented, so Amazon's 'One-Click' patent is safe. However, simply tacking on the phrase, "Written in a programming language," does not take an unpatentable idea and make it patentable.
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> With Debian and Ubuntu, there is no difficulty installing arbitrary unsigned packages, putting your own binaries on and running them, etc.

Changing a single setting in the Preferences app (once!) is "difficult" now?
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The unicorns konami trigger that was featured in the video was introduced by my blog so it's a bit of an homage or something. Thxthx.
The ports of iWork and GarageBand felt like that to me. iOS changing from a web-driven OS into something that can be much better compared to a desktop machine.
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I already have Perian. It's not supported well imho. Just try to open a 8gb mkv and it broke QT.
What Apple has done is merge all addressed/phone numbers of an AppleID into one. If you send a message with Messages on you phone, your side of the conversation will appear in the thread on your phone/iPad/etc. They are one now.

So, people can iMessage you at any of the identifiers attached to you AppleID and it will be sent to all locations.
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It's a great article, and here's my take on it in response: http://howells.ws/posts/view/72/on-the-iosification-of-os-x-...
On at least one Android browser I've used, holding my finger on a link for a second or two pops up an option to open the link in a new window.
No, it's Intel only and requires Max OSX 10.7.3
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