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The PDF export feature sounds great - but even something simpler like a CSV, JSON, heck even XML would give others a lot more freedom to handle the data however which they choose.

> Users who do "Ctrl-S" to do fast save are certainly a minority.

My first reaction: How else do you save?! You mean you actually take your hands off the keyboard, and click the floppy icon in a toolbar? Or even.. click on File > Save? Seriously?

I think this assumption as a very strong population bias.

With the people I work with.. it's all about keyboard shortcuts. If you don't know your basic keyboard shortcuts, you're too slow. But then again, I work around people with super customized Vim and EMacs configs and people who live in Photoshop/Illustrator all day. You just can't be productive in those environments without keyboard shortcuts.

For me, users who don't do "Ctrl-S" to save are certainly a minority.

It's about intent. If they can prove you manufactured data you fed to the dongle, then you're probably in for some trouble.

However, you can have a similar scenario where maybe I work at an office 5 minutes from home over the time I was carrying the dongle, I quit and go to a job 60 mins from home that crosses a few nasty neighborhoods, etc.

Is it my burden to report this to the insurance company so they can jack my rates because my risk rating surely went up?

Right now.. it likely isn't. I fear for the day when it is.

It's not just the visuals either - they have a bunch of the apps down really really well.

Finder, Calculator, Calendar, the top menu, etc. All really spot on.

I'm playing around in it still. Managed to find my way to the Terminal, and I'm poking around the filesystem.

It is Linux, and seems to be based on a stripped-down version of RedHat (going from some of the remnants of certain man pages).

The UI is a modified/themed KDE.

They did a really good job with the apps - for example, the calculator app is "Calculator.app", which is really a directory with a Contents/Resources, etc directories inside it; the same way OS X does it.

It's just good security practice.

Even if the code path is never intended to be executed, there are bugs in code that could lead to it.

Yes, it's a P2P protocol, but when you're managing a bunch of servers, you don't use it as such.

You set up one server in your environment (time.example.com) and have all your boxes sync to that.

Why would appserv.example.com EVER need to be able to accept NTP connections from anyone else?

There is still a lot of crypto out there that works off of using the current timestamp as a seed.

Being able to control he time could theoretically let you control any PRNGs that rely on it.

Group threads are done over MMS. They absolutely do exist out of iMessage.

It's called a "tracking number" for a reason.

IBM has its place, especially in the big enterprise. However, more and more I'm seeing that's not the case.

Working for a big insurance co., we're seeing a big shift toward a "devops-like culture", and a lot of the time that means less IBM.

IBM not only needs to refresh their offerings, they need to refresh their image. The common feeling around here is IBM products are slow, buggy, and pieced together quickly from a ton of other acquisitions who are then "IBM-ized" together.

They look beautiful on paper, in a way that speaks to both execs and real tech people alike. But once you build it out and start trying to support it...

The Python script is a bit unnecessary.

Go to System Preferences > Spotlight. Uncheck items you don't like to have searched and displayed for you.

Think about the user experience.

If switching, a user no longer has to wait on delivery of a small physical item from the new carrier. The user doesn't have to fiddle with a paperclip to pop out the SIM. (Average user could be scared to do so, or could scratch/bend the rather fragile SIM tray). It could all theoretically be done from a settings menu.

Now only if telecoms and cable companies would hop on the bandwagon :)

By his logic: Why would you want to tinker with something that's already perfect?

I think it's partially because of the negotiations with the Tolkein estate that the movies turned out as great as they were.

If no negotiations were needed, then anyone could have picked up and done a low-budget adaptation and called it a day.

But, because there were some rather expensive and difficult negotiations to settle, the amount of people able to do the movies was limited to those who would be able to spend the money to get the rights. And with that sort of investment, there's a big incentive to also invest heavily in the quality of the production to ensure a good return.

> Just let me spend small amounts so I don't become aware of my own habits.

ding ding ding

Amazon's mobile app does this excellently with the One-Click purchase.

And don't even get me started on Steam sales.

I dare not look at my spending history on either of those two.