If you have proof of purchase you should have no issues getting the activation lock removed by Apple Support. It’s mentioned in the official documentation and I’ve used it successfully.
I can't really tell whether you're being sincere, but you are still way out of line. You've been using emotionally charged language from the start, perhaps you should consider your motivations for engaging in this thread.
And yet, I've seen it crash systems as late as RHEL6u2. It certainly made me very cautious about using it on production systems, which was sort of the whole point.
The account submitting this story was created six days ago, and this is their only activity on HN so far. The credentials mentioned are old and the data in the claimed dump is from 2009. So far this seem highly implausible.
An interesting tidbit; the list is compiled by Greg Ercolano, author of the render queue software Rush[1], for which he received an Academy Award in 2011[2].
It's a great piece of software for the VFX/post-production industry, and he's by far the best software vendor I've
ever worked with.
Something similar happened at a company I work for; the account of the CEO suddenly becomes "temporarily unavailable".
I take their word for it and 12 hours pass and the account is still inaccessible. We're a paying customer, so I open up a ticket and it is eventually passed on to the "technical team".
I give them a call but they cannot offer any additional details nor any timeframe whatsoever when this will be resolved. Another 20 hours pass and my requests for any update go unanswered. Finally, after a total of 48 hours the account is available again. Still no update from Google.
Having been completely cut off for two working days, the CEO is now (correctly) questioning their use of Google Apps so I update my original ticket requesting any additional information they have that could assist me in justifying staying with the service. They tell me this will be forthcoming.
A week passes, no update. I reiterate my request and 10 hours later I'm told that the cause was a "server issue"...
Yes, you're likely thinking about the Aspera range of file transfer software which is quite popular within the film industry.
It's actually quite elegant; a control connection over SSH plus a custom UDP protocol (FASP) for data. It does work as advertised and has some nice features that are handy in production, but licensing is very expensive ($20K for point-to-point at 1gb/s).
Ultimately, for me, this is about creating a reasonable user experience for the majority of users.
While it's easy to forget this when spending a lot of time in forums such as HN, _we_ are not that majority. This constant expectation that platforms used everyday by millions of people should be tailored to us is untenable.
He's referring to the bus speed of SATA 3 as an upper bound -- but like you mentioned, if you throw RAID and such into the mix, I'm not so sure either that it's a very useful number.
The major film studios, faced with a related problem a long time ago, opted for a method called YCM separation, where they separate the image into yellow, cyan and magenta and record it onto very stable black and white polyester film stock. Properly stored, this supposedly has a lifetime of 500 years or more.
A modern laser film recorder is capable of a resolution of 4096x3112 and 10 bits per pixel, so that's about 16MB of data per 35mm frame with black and white film.
I would say that there's no such delay on the iPhone, either on the new model or earlier. Feedback to touch is instant, and dragging exhibits exactly the behavior you describe.