New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

oh I guess not

oh, I doubt it

pretty sure vmware fusion is their most atypical product and most of their customers are enterprise businesses who have negotiated contracts and spend most of their time downloading software and fiddling with license management on the website

lol that is exactly my day job experience with them so I should have known better, really

their products do work really well tho

true, that

/restarts a couple virtual machines

but anyway, buying wholesale into the Apple Store philosophy is buying wholesale into a capricious monopoly that will fuck you over as long as it thinks it can extract money from you, in a myriad of obnoxious and counter-intuitive ways

that type of one-stop consolidation may be okay on a platform like your phone, where most of the information is either ephemeral or backed up elsewhere, but it's a horrible idea for your computer unless you are super paranoid about security, otherwise you run the risk of this:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/

aside from suspicion of the algorithms, this is why I don't do iCloud and I don't do iTunes Match and I don't use Find My Phone/Find My Computer, and if I did I'd definitely not use the same Apple ID to connect all of these things together

I've already bought wholesale into the capricious monopoly btw

find my iphone is pretty key, I use it about twice a week to make my phone beep a lot in my house

wish that Apple did two-factor auth, although it'd probably be hilariously implemented with an iPhone app

in 15 years of owning a cell phone, I've had my phone stolen once and actually lost a phone once; every other time I've misplaced it, I've called it and discovered it buzzing underneath a piece of paper next to our land line

I've had a cell phone about the same amount of time, never lost or had one stolen, but misplace the fucker all the time. Best part of the Find my iPhone thing: makes noise much longer than calling it would, as it never goes to voicemail. Also, no land line, and calling the fucker via google voice is irritating

I don't think I've actively used a land line in my residence regularly since college when pizza delivery places wouldn't accept orders via cell phone (oh man, try explaining that one to kids). Haven't actually had a land line at all since 2003.

all of our utilities are tied to our land line (including, ironically, the cable company that keeps offering us phone service) and have been since we moved in together in '99, so getting rid of it would be a massive PITA

sure

http://s3-media1.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/HjftFkbTCXh1Y6EbAb7Skw/l.jpg

I have used find my phone on a handful of occasions that would've been dire otherwise (misplacing the thing ~somewhere~ in the hospital)

(not in ppl btw)

aw

srsly tho

when i was on my internal med rotation, it came out that all of the male students had, at one point, lost (and subsequently retrieved) their phones in the same place: the one decent bathroom for pooping on the floor. and all of us had left it in the exact same place, on top of the toilet paper dispenser.

oh god

i've made a terrible mistake

the one time I've ever lost a phone was a month ago when I left it in a wheelchair when leaving hospital, and it was great to be able to figure out that's what happened when we realised in the middle of the night using find my phone. (It was less great when it got switched off at 8am and we assumed someone had nicked it, but it turned out just to be the security guard conserving my battery.)

hahahaha

50% of the time, I find my phone on some clothes I left on the floor of the bathroom, right under the toilet paper dispenser

the one decent bathroom for pooping on the floor

gosh.

I think what this comes down to is we all are looking at our phones while sitting on the toilet, set it down when we're pulling up our pants, and forget the damn thing

basically

this is why my favorite restroom at work has the toilet paper dispenser on the left side: I'm right-handed, and will not set my phone on it

I lost mine in a snowbank when it fell out of my coat pocket getting out of the car

my old Treo was stolen out of my jacket pocket at a church by someone leaving an AA meeting

http://i.imgur.com/MA7Pk.gif

as soon as DJP reminded me he's a software development professional I lost 100% of any reason to ever want to talk about software distribution

I just can't talk about stuff like that to someone else who's in the same gig makes me feel ill. We can talk about anything else, though

hahaha hi-five

seriously!

I met up with a friend/coworker and some of his friends for a brewery tap room visit and dinner the other night. Dudes were talking about which new phone they liked, I realized they were software dev bros, and I think I talked to someone's wife about how whole-house humidifiers don't work well and how cheese is good or something

what do you guys think of a phone like this?
http://www.turquoisebranding.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/biopink12.jpg

i want my cronenphone dammit

I do not want a glowing dildo phone

now, glowing dildo text message device, maybe

my 15" rmbp, not going to lie though, wish it had an ODD

skeuomorphic design gone wild

when i was on my internal med rotation, it came out that all of the male students had, at one point, lost (and subsequently retrieved) their phones in the same place: the one decent bathroom for pooping on the floor. and all of us had left it in the exact same place, on top of the toilet paper dispenser.

― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Friday, November 2, 2012 2:31 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i almost did this TODAY

poop on the floor?

my people

haha wait i didnt realize oh shiiii

trip to the apple store happening tonight -- not gonna buy anything but checking out the ipad mini is a must

My coworker who buys a lot of apple gear came by with a mini today. They're small, pocketable for him since he's a bigger dude, and totally usable at that resolution/size

whenever possible I still purchase physical media when buying music, because it is much more likely that my hard drive will die (in fact, it's a certainty; the question is "when" and it's a fact of life of all mechanical devices) than it is that my house will burn down.

apologies if already addressed (i will probably never catch up on this thread) but ~backups~

^^^ yeah and optical discs aren't particularly archival

I have a Stora NAS for backups, which has hard drives in it and will one day die. I could back up to DVDs so I could have a giant stack of them sitting around instead of a giant stack of CDs, which I already have anyway. It is not currently in my monthly budget to play for 100+ GB of remote backup storage that is growing constantly.

iirc DVD-R shelf life is not particularly predictable, somewhere like 5-10 years?

you could probably get some kind of RAID thingy that doesn't care if a few hard drives die

RAID thingamaijg

It is not currently in my monthly budget to play for 100+ GB of remote backup storage that is growing constantly.

Just be one of those ilxors who constantly complains about iPod classics not being updated and how you have to have your whole music collection on you at all times. Instant duplicate of your collection!

get a blu ray burner and do it on like 3 discs

services like carbonite or jungledisk are fairly affordable, if you're that paranoid