Sorry iTunes was a separate purchase, (then SoundJam MP).

Nah I mean these games require internet access and a form of verification to run, if the company decides to kill a game, they just don't run the server any more that lets you play.

I'm sure the black hats aren't interested in something that has such a low reward to effort ratio. There are far easier ways to write a virus that will still do what you want.

The flaw with that argument is that Obama was pointing out that without the benefits that Americans receive from paying taxes, none of the businesses would be as successful as they are and many of them simply wouldn't exist.

According to best buy's sales and returns records the consumers who bought samsung tablets are that dumb.

Or any company that isn't the absolute richest. As they would be the ones who could absorb the costs of R&D while everyone else would fold because all their ideas would cost them a tonne and make them shit all because they are copied immediately.

He's clearly ok with that, but be sure to put your name on it. Then he'll have to write a better article.

And see I don't agree, because the last time this happened Apple was completely prevented from innovating because they were just struggling to remain in the market at all. All the innovations the author lists can be traced back to the purchase of NEXT not some sort of inspiration to innovate right away so they could…

You could have asked Microsoft the same thing back in the day. You know, when they ripped off the GUI from the Mac and almost put Apple out of business, completely preventing Apple from innovating while they tried to stay in business long enough to get Jobs back. And those innovations the author mentions? Those came…

Um the last time this happened Apple almost went out of business.

This one is completely impractical it is essentially a non-starter.

Yeah "the cloud" is distributed across many points geographically, which is why you hear about Apple building all these massive data centers. (And Google already has a freaking tonne of massive data centers).

Dropbox has in the past encountered errors where the database told the local daemon to delete the local files for an update, but there was no update so no files were pulled down. So backup the local drive as well. Because even data on your drive isn't safe.

You think that companies can't prevent you from playing games for which you have the physical media? Really? EA and Ubisoft(sp?) would like a word with you.

I did it for you.

Gadgets? Really? You do know that isn't an industry term in the programming field.

I'll expand on what rlm1023 said: Any competent hacker will take a copy of the "encrypted" passwords from the website (this step is usually pretty easy). Then they will start generating common passwords and trying different methods of encrypting them until they get some matches. Once they know the correct method of…

Nada, I have backups. As any capable techie would. I'm SHOCKED that the woz didn't, but you know what? He will now.

I'm Canadian, we like waiting line line or "queuing".

See I see bigotry primarily being intolerance toward any group based on some characteristic of that group that is out of their control, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. And while the definition of bigotry is broader: "a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices;…