Human activity is an imperfect and shitty philosophy exchange, we spend our entire lives trying to convince each other of things, do not worry about having grown tired of trying to affect other peoples viewpoints. As a teacher you maybe obliged to yet weary, and yet we do not have the resources to afford to be able to avoid ignorance, as the eventual price is too high ? ask the intellectual at the scaffold I guess? Global exploitative capitalism has hidden under liberalistic culture, which has subconsciously reigned for a longtime, its inevitable the pendulum will swing about, truths I perceive … but the majority of people do not … which I wait for others to perceive rather than force on them :
all religion is divisive potentially war manufacturing childish fiction, many liberals do not like to face that one, americas “policing the world” hidden empire ambitions wreak of ego, vanity and are unaffordable, bemoan eisenhowers foresight to call the military industrial complex as americas greatest threat. A one world no borders enforced multiculturalist capitalist free market agenda, has the greatest potential to destroy quiet civility everywhere and lead to an as yet unimagined feudal capitalist totalitarianism. In which ignorant wealth throttles humanitys potential for its own ends. The discrepancy in size between americas military budget and the rest of its budgetary choices science etc can never be explained away, and as we see it has inevitable consequences.

1: when you manually drag data to a time capsule, time capsule cannot show you the size of any folder and its contents. whether in list view or using get info ?

apples forums have the usual moronic reply with some wankknuckle fanboy who claimed he answered and closed the post, by trying to claim folders take up 0 space on a time capsule which is why time capsule doesnt show the size of them ? well not if they contain stuff they dont ? and even an empty folder on a hard drive will take up a small amount of HD space, christ why do apple desire to propogate moronic no scientific rubbish information so they dont have to answer for a weakness in their design

2: over wifi they’re pretty much useless, too slow to backup the volume of data their volume size represents. even when hooked up directly, as nas backup whether by ethernet or wifi their probably bottom of the wrung on transfer speeds.

3: time machine only uses an exclude list for what to backup so by default backs up everything, and does not offer the opposite control ie an include list, meaning it backs your entire system and every associated system change. wasteful of space.

4: the volume imaging format it uses for time machine backups, doesnt seem very wise or accessible to the average user.

5: no control over time based archiving of data. ie how far back the changes go and their copies go, its all too automatic.

6: no scheduling of when backups occurr or at what frequency ?

ok this is general feedback to the osx development team.
as a mac person who has been using macs ever since an apple IIe , I think you need to understand that I consider lion and mountain to be a terrible upgrade : snow leopard irritated me but at least in functioned reasonably well.

the reasons :

I support about 50 machines currently the majority still pre intel cpu i series ie core series intel and most of my clients as users of mobileme felt obliged to upgrade to lion from snow leopard to continue using syncing in icloud.
of the machines I upgraded recently 3 intel core 2 duo based 24″ imacs with 4gb of ram all have become highly unstable erratic and have needed several clean reinstalls and are still highly unreliable doggishly slow and crashing. when the machines were perfectly fine under snow leopard ? one has now effectively become useless.

The quality of lion (im too burnt by lion to consider upgrading to mountain lion) whilst running on core 2 duo machines is unacceptable, I have so many issues i can barely keep track of them all. my support calls have multiplied by a factor of 5 since lion, not what i wanted form it. I hope in your testing you did many upgrade installs on core 2 duo based machines As i cant beleive the number of problems im having.

MAIL >

Mac os X mail has become unworkable, I suggest Mail needs a complete re-write from the ground up, and that mail should not be creating so many files in the way that it stores emails, for instance I have a macbook air whose mail folder is 30gb in size, I doubt the user has more than 5000 emails yet somehow when finder is slowly backing up his mail folder to a time capsule it claims its copying over 300,000 files, one can also see in mails operation all the endless tiny reads and writes it does to the disk anytime anything is done, this is inefficent, I suggest that you store an email as a single file and not as mutliple on the disk or maybe even entire threads as a single file, maybe linking attachments externally, whichever way mail seems incapable of handling the volume of email the averagee business user is now generating, just like how iphoto got rewritten to handle allot more images without bogging down, make it so mail can handle 10 email accounts 5 exchange/imap and 5 pop accounts and 100,000 emails in total in realtime then it would be upto the toughest users workload, as currently mail seems to crumble at 10,000 emails.

apples builtin applications and uninstalling and reinstalling them.

return to an age when all apps including apple apps can be uninstalled and reinstalled including all their subsiduary system files, and all their permissions corrected both user and system if need upon reinstall from a simple installer, uninstalling and reinstalling safari now appears to involve reinstalling the entire os ? not good for example I spent 2 hours trying to repair a safari install that wouldnt launch, on one machine, from a support perspective you cant justify spending such time on one os installed app otherwise it effectively means the app has now cost lots of money, this was caused by the fact that safari can no longer be removed ? and its cancer seems to have spread deeply into the OS as well, why did you leap on the attack microsoft over the os embedded browser war when you yourselves now appear to be doing the same ? the only way i could refresh the safari install was to reinstall the entire os ! this is rubbish and you know it. sorting a broken app issue should be as simple as uninstall app which also removes its system related bits then reinstall fresh app, in this case safari in total this process should take 5 minutes tops ? what is difficult to understand in this model ? its the only one that can work from a paid support perspective ? imagine your os from the perspective that all the support work is paid for at a certain rate per hour and that all fixes need to be fast and efficient. for instance another problem a mail backup to a time capsule directly connected to a macbook air with an 128gb SSD drive > total copy time for a 30gb email folder ?> 13 hours ?

storage in computers is the greatest slow down im finding at the moment you need to make a 10 fold increase in speed of storage used in all macs all mechanical drives as standard need to be partial ssd backed 7200rpm drives at least, just like momentus XT’s etc and then have an additional dedicated SSD boot drive as standard, and make this internal storage externally accessible and replaceable, you make my life as a tech support 4 x time harder than it needs to be.

Permissions and collaborative work between more than one user :
collaborative work on os x is weak, because permissions in osx are a nightmare, posix and acl permissions as used in os x are not functioning well and umasks arent either.

re-examine which of the core parts of os x needs re-writing as performance is currently weak.

It’s looking like some bits of osx arent being touched for fear of screwing them up, as in the person who wrote the code is long gone. maybe start the process of writing a new operating system from scratch not based on osx ? go back and have a look at the genius of mac os 7 , 8 , 9 which seemed far superior in many respects full gui control of the OS extensions etc, as soon as stuff goes pear shape in osx it seems terminal is the only solution ? this is a failing of GUI design.

remember you can consider every extra additional unecessary click made by a user may end up being be multiplied by every user, all of a sudden theirs trillions of clicks of worth of decision time is being unecessarily spent every year by bad design.

Give me control of these design decisions and I can make a difference. I better stop here I could give a thirty thousand word lecture on all the things that aggravate me about os x and macs in general, if you ever need consultancy as to all the stuff your getting wrong email me, pay my flight and ill come and sort you all out.

dear sitecom

This wireless adapter which I paid extra for, because of its multi os compatibility windows / os x etc has just suddenly died, now it is not recognised whichever machine I plug it into. I now discover your cunning clause to knacker me on the warranty front to claim that if i didn’t register within 3 weeks of purchase (which I cant remember whether i did register or not , and certainly cant find my registration code if i did, I used the form for lost registration code and put in two likely email addresses but no email has been received even though the form claims to have sent emails etc ? so I appear to be unable to use the 10 year warranty ? well in that case i wish to utilise my consumer rights in terms of warranty, theres no way this product should have died within this timeframe especially considering the premium I paid at the time compared to purchasing a cheaper USB stick, for extra compatibility and warranty. Where can I send the stick to, so you can asses it from a functioning perspective as no light comes on and it is not recognised in any form any longer whichever machine I plug it into, it was operating fine on a windows xp machine and then just suddenly stopped being recognised hardware wise whichever machine it is plugged into, I have downloaded and installed latest drivers etc, I note that the installer on the mac side fails to successfully install the drivers under snow leopard, but whichever machine i plug it into it is as dead as a doornail now, which it wasn’t before. it is being plugged directly into the port of a machine not being of a keyboard or hub or anything underpowered, so that is not the issue.

looking forward to your response.

a customer

Obama (jewish lobby got you in its pocket) really you just lost it right there. siding with the bully you armed and paid for. I can see know way forward for the palestinians except to outbreed the Isreali’s in a single Isreal jewish controlled state or to be stuck in an unending war, palestinians need to renounce violence ? usa can never talk on that front. your asking the palestinians to rollover and take it up the arse, and become an opressed population in a greater Isreali state.

Any testoronely loaded young man can sadly fall into the brotherhood of soldierdom, only a few young men have the strength to refuse to submit their will to the group mentality of idiocy and hypocracy.

my comment

mesmerising tripe, how come every girl hipster in london is portrayed as some mixed-culture, cut from a chiat day inspired, apple store employment profile, tatooed profligate sexy wastrel, vice – uk isnt usa. who was desperate to to be fingerbanged but wasn’t, rebelling against one “square” stricter ethnic parents desires for conformity “sweets bad for you & waste of money” etc, classic evidence as to why not to restrict your kids too much, otherwise they become distorted in one direction or another.

to be honest too much is predictable about life, youth culture being a case in point, and the inevitable fashion yummy mummy turning respectable but still hangs with the youth middle years hipster which will pupate from this girl, it started with the corruptive 60’s and seems unending, why on earth did i watch this might be the question ? just to reaffirm my own prejudices as to what is going on in this collapsing culture called london, Vice keep up the good work, BAH humbug – rant over.

btw the words “we made him do it” and then “what a dickhead” shows a fascinating disconnection with reality, group politics and ones own responsibility in such a situation.

things are never what we perceive them to be – from our perspective

re barclays new chairman

“Sir David is a senior advisor to the American bank Morgan Stanley, having previously been chairman of Morgan Stanley International. Before that he was an executive director of the Bank of England and deputy chairman of Lloyds bank.

He will become a non-executive director of Barclays on 1 September and take up his role as chairman from 1 November. ”
750,000 for no less than 4 days a week ?

so lets clear this up hes another insider whose worked at most of some of the most dubious organisations who are mired in a much shit as all the others ? its seems impossible to find someone to lead a bank who is not a selfish crook ?

and this peice from the economywatch website

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A little-known company backed by Goldman, JP Morgan Chase and about a dozen other banks (morgan stanley involved) had created an index that enabled market players to bet on whether Greece and other European nations would go bust.

Last September, the company, the Markit Group of London, introduced the iTraxx SovX Western Europe index, which is based on such swaps …

The Markit index is made up of the 15 most heavily traded credit-default swaps in Europe and covers other troubled economies like Portugal and Spain.

And as worries about those countries’ debts moved markets around the world in February, trading in the index exploded.

In February, demand for such index contracts hit $109.3 billion, up from $52.9 billion in January.

Markit collects a flat fee by licensing brokers to trade the index.

Trading in Markit’s sovereign credit derivative index … helped to drive up the cost of insuring Greek debt, and, in turn, what Athens must pay to borrow money.

The cost of insuring $10 million of Greek bonds, for instance, rose to more than $400,000 in February, up from $282,000 in early January.

On several days in late January and early February, as demand for swaps protection soared, investors in Greek bonds fled the market, raising doubts about whether Greece could find buyers for coming bond offerings …

and this passage from bloomberg written by Matthew Leising

Markit Credit-Swap Services Said to Be Part of Antitrust Probe
By Matthew Leising – August 3, 2009 00:00 EDT

The offices of Markit Group Ltd.

Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) — Markit Group Ltd., the data provider majority-owned by Wall Street’s largest banks, is under Justice Department scrutiny for potential anticompetitive practices ranging from requiring customers to buy bundled services to restricting which trades can be cleared in the $26 trillion credit-default swap market.

Markit told a swaps clearinghouse customer to purchase a pricing service as a condition for granting use of its benchmark indexes, said a person with knowledge of the transactions. Markit permitted use of its indexes by another clearinghouse only if every swap guaranteed by the company included a dealer, such as one of its owners, said other people familiar with those negotiations.

“That’s a legitimate area of inquiry,” said Evan Stewart, a partner at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP in New York who has practiced antitrust law for more than 30 years and isn’t involved in the case. “If you want to get into the market with Markit with access to real-time prices, this is where you have to play,” he said. “You don’t have a supermarket of other choices.”

The Justice Department said July 15 it was investigating users of credit-default swaps as U.S. lawmakers seek to regulate the $592 trillion over-the-counter derivatives market, which helped worsen the biggest financial calamity since the Great Depression. Trading in OTC contracts provides as much as 40 percent of profits for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, according to research firm CreditSights Inc.