New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

is the google authenticator similar in concept to app-specific passwords?

how does it work? like once you've enabled it, google stores a set of random passwords that it knows ur app can generate... is that it?

it generates them based on some sort of salting algorithm that uses a unique ID number for your account and the current time as seeds i think. so the password changes once every 30 seconds or so. all my nasa employee friends had the keychain version of this back in the day.

sick

i downloaded it just so that i can finally have an excuse to use my phone as a qr reader

last-gen 15" MBP Retina - 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD

i went for 256gb too and i regret it, hoping they'll figure out an upgrade scheme someday

it's not that i mind thunderbolt speed for itunes and aperture, it's lugging around another piece of tech that kills me

i wasn't aware that there were multiple gens of the 15" retina

iirc the storage on a retina IS removeable, its just that its proprietary so the only 3rd party solutions that exist (e.g. owc) are really expensive

how does it work? like once you've enabled it, google stores a set of random passwords that it knows ur app can generate... is that it?

There's a unique key set-up when you first enable two-step authentication and then a hash string is created with that key + the current time (which updates every 30 seconds). The six-digit key is derived from that hash string. It's an open standard that Google is building upon - there are other sites which can use the app for authentication, but given recent events I'd be cautious about getting involved with that.

Still feel a little secret-agentish whenever I have to use the app.

http://branch.com/b/apple-to-begin-iphone-production-this-quarter

by the way, the new version of the podcasts app is pretty good. wonder if the look & feel of ios 7 will be similar to it

i hate it

why does it show old already-listened-to-not-even-on-my-iphone-anymore podcasts as "numbered" and unlistened-to???

+1

also when u swipe up and it shows the old timey tape reel. i get mad

reel mad?

that doesnt exist anymore iirc

oh word? nice.

yeah they got rid of it w/ the revision

so be grateful

wonder if the look & feel of ios 7 will be similar to it

if those awful apple pundits are to be believed, ios7 will look like Letterpress and Clear

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/04/04/steve-jobs-requirements-for-fit-and-finish-leading-to-massive-cost-overruns-for-apples-new-campus/

lol. this feels like a tower of babel or something. rip apple.

tbf, $2bn is the change under Apple's couch cushions

they've got more money than God - why not? :P

No business wants to go over budget $2Bn on anything, particularly if they are publicly traded

if i were steve jobs i would have requested that the walls be clear and clear pipes put in them through which the extracted blood of chinese factory workers would course

forwarding those quality standards to my architect friend, I can picture the giant grin across his face right now

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2f/Burj_Khalifa_building.jpg/250px-Burj_Khalifa_building.jpg

He estimated the total cost for the project to be about US$1.5 billion.

us$1.5bn total v us$2bn overrun

i visted the cube in new york last year. i am moving in soon.

i don't give a shit if this thing costs more money than is currently in circulation. mint some more bitcoins.

cube looks interesting until you go in there and it's like every other apple store xp

if anyone visits it before me make sure to bring me home an apricot plz.

they should put a race track inside

with horses

whenever you ship something you get to have a race.

eh, burj khalifa was built in a place with much lower labor costs, among other things. it's 3.3 million sq ft and the new apple campus is 2.8 million sq ft, with the apple campus costs including more internal finishing, I would think -- I doubt the khalifa costs includes tenants finishing their leased/owned space

"much lower labor costs" = indentured servants/slaves iirc

my friend's response was "we're lucky if we can hit a 1/2 inch... 1/4 is usually what's specified. "

so, steve jobs

does anyone know anything about this? iPad apps S/D - might as well get this started

Anybody use CrossOver to run MS Office programs? I don't want to have to buy Windows & use Parallels or Boot Camp just to use Excel and Word.

Why not just get the Mac versions? Or use NeoOffice/OpenOffice?

I bought Mac versions but I hated them. I want to stick with Office b/c I'm taking a certification class.

i used to use crossover office -- it was kind of impressive but it was never going to be as good as running it in a VM.

What were the drawbacks?

I should probably just buy a license for Windows and run Parallels or some other VM (not Bootcamp b/c I will happily suffer the performance hit if I don't have to re-boot to switch OS).

aren't the Mac versions pretty close to the og?

well it was a while ago but i remember it being a little clunky to install, and not surviving an os upgrade (and so i never ran it again). i dont remember a lot of details but the general impression i got was "this is kind of neat"
nowadays i actually run crossover office from the company's linux server over X, which is also clunky, but i never have to worry about maintaining it, etc...
if the newer versions of office still run on xp, i'd recommend installing and running on that (license might be cheaper too)
re: mac versions of office -- they've been typically pretty bad but maybe the newer ones are better?

Office for Mac isn't terrible, but its differences from Windows version slow me way down, and I don't use it Office on my laptop enough to get super comfortable with it.

Word for Mac is the single most infuriating bit of software I've ever used. I could list a hundred reasons why it sucks.

is there a way to use a mac as a home server to several different monitors/keyboards/mice in different rooms, like just using them as terminals to the single mac?

yeah, Mac OS X has built-in Screen Sharing / VNC, you should be able to use a generic VNC client I think?