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It always amuses me when I see Apple talk about the enterprise space because they have done such a shit job supporting OS-X for the enterprise for so long. You can make it work, of course, and there are plenty of 3rd party tools, many very expensive, to help but it is all your own doing. Apple themselves seem to view each device as an island, property of a single consumer to be used as a toy and thrown away when the next shiny toy comes along.

Then explain, for example, THIS and THIS (the latter having existed for well over a decade, and which can not only be used to admin however many Macs you can throw at it; but also Windows and Linux systems). Oh, and the Administraton Console for ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) costs a whopping $69. The Client-side is free. Hardly "expensive".

So, the only reason your think there isn't any "corporate" support for Apple systems/devices is because you haven't bothered to look for the two minutes it took to find them.

It always amuses me when I see Apple talk about the enterprise space because they have done such a shit job supporting OS-X for the enterprise for so long. You can make it work, of course, and there are plenty of 3rd party tools, many very expensive, to help but it is all your own doing. Apple themselves seem to view each device as an island, property of a single consumer to be used as a toy and thrown away when the next shiny toy comes along.

Then explain, for example, THIS and THIS (the latter having existed for well over a decade, and which can not only be used to admin however many Macs you can throw at it; but also Windows and Linux systems). Oh, and the Administraton Console for ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) costs a whopping $69. The Client-side is free. Hardly "expensive".

So, the only reason your think there isn't any "corporate" support for Apple systems/devices is because you haven't bothered to look for the two minutes it took to find them.

When a group of 2 desktop engineers can manage 1000+ Apple computers (update and tweak trivial things, install and manage packages, patches, new software, functionality, manage encryption and removable drive access, tweaks etc) around the world from their desk, Apple will take over in the enterprise. Until then, it will be people using their Apple with Citrix or some other method to access a corporate virtual desktop or a sandboxed app delivery system remotely running.

You're in luck! That day is Today! (or actually, about a decade or so ago).

ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) is a SPECTACULAR way to manage a group of Macs. I think it actually started more as a way to monitor/manage classrooms-full of Macs (in fact, they used to have a view (maybe still do) in the ARD Management Console that shows a real-time view of however-many Macs you want at a time, and you can "zoom in" on one to do stuff/chat with its User. Think the old-skool "Language Labs", where the teacher could monitor/talk with each student directly over their headsets); but, over the years, ARD has grown into a full-fledged remote management and deployment system that the Windows and Linux admins should be so lucky as to have at their disposal.

Take a few minutes and really explore all the tabs on the above-linked Page. I think you will agree that this is a very robust and well-thought out management system. BTW, the ARD Client is free, and the Management Console is only $60, IIRC (in previous years, it was more like $299, which still isn't bad for a management system targeted at business/education).

And combined with technologies such as NetBoot, I can't see why the IT world in general is so Mac-hostile. ARD is a sysadmin's Dream!

Oh wait! It's called "Protecting the Computer Priesthood". Which is the same reason that IT guys generally LOVE Linux.

The sysadmins I know who administer cisco shops hate 'em because of limited to no technical/administrative documentation for the OS. This makes it difficult to integrate them into enterprise environments. This comes from apple's walled garden ignorance standpoint, where the answer is to buy into more of their ecosystem so it 'just works.' Corporates are not going to do this.

Obviously an anecdote, as I assume your statement is.

Your "sysadmins" need to learn to read. I found this "front door" Business/Educational Deployment Support page in two minutes of searching on Apple's website, with no idea where to start looking.

And having tried to find (most times without success) ANY information in the morass that is Microsoft's "technical documentation", and the NON-EXISTENT Linux Technical Documentation (man pages don't count, and BTW, OS X has them, too), I MUCH prefer Apple's "Library-like" approach. Most of the time, I can find the answer to a technical question about OS X or iOS within about 5 minutes or less. Sure, there are exceptions where I have to cast out to the interwebs; but as I said, most of the time I can go to either support.apple.com or developer.apple.com and get a clear, cogent and on-point answer within a few minutes.

In stark contrast to Apple, in the Microsoft world (where I have to work as an a Windows Application Developer), I dread it every single time I have to TRY to find something in their shitty excuse for documentation. Most of the time, all you get is articles that refer to other articles that refer to other articles that end up in a dead fucking link! I can count on one hand the number of times in over 30 years that I have encountered a dead link on Apple's support site (even when they switched over from the old tn-based support system a number of years ago).

There is only one source you can trust for technology. That source is Apple.
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I don't know about that. A couple of back-of-the-envelope computations make me think that 10 years is not a long enough timeframe to make such a camera anywhere near common. Consider, for instance, the 3 ton weight. Suppose that technology develops such that an equivalent sensor halves in weight every year. Ten years then represents halving the weight 10 times, giving a weight of approximately 6 lbs. That definitely isn't iPhone weight, and comes from a pretty optimistic assumption about how quickly the technology will develop. The computation, for completeness: (3 tons) / 2^10) ~= 5.9 lbs

Or we could look at pixel counts. The summary claims that the camera will capture 3.2 gigapixel images. Apple claims that the iPhone 6 has a 8 mega pixel camera. So the telescope camera will capture 400 times as much data. Assuming that the iPhone camera doubles its pixel count every year, it would take almost 9 years to get to 3.2 gigapixels. Even if we assume that the iPhone is used to take panoramas, where a panorama can have up to about 2^3 the pixel count of a non-panorama (again, see Apple's claims), this represents 6 years of doubling every year, which is, again, pretty optimistic.

Long story short: yes, technology marches forward, but this is likely to be a pretty impressive instrument even 10-15 years in the future.

A lot of cities are already doing this...minus the barcode complication. For instance, I'm near Houston, and they have the Houston 311 app that uses your GPS and the photos you provide, along with whatever problem you're reporting.

Access to the filesystem, yes. OpenVPN - no.

I use this on my iPad quite frequently to access systems in our AWS VPC.

It's still around: http://www.opensource.apple.co...

Not sure this is a right comment, but with all the hype over open source exploits, people still are convinced Windows and Apple are "secure" and yet they pretty much monitor every thing you do, and store that information.

Windows, yes. Apple, no.

Unlike Microsoft, Apple makes its money off hardware, and thus has absolutely no incentive to sell your soul to The Man.

Apple has also figured out that some Users care about Privacy, and that that may eventually lead to more sales of their Hardware; so, in essence, Apple has discovered that it can actually Market PRIVACY, and so it does. A little too quietly for my taste; but the signs are there, spelled out in explicit detail if you know where to look And you will notice a refreshing lack of "weasel words", such as "for various purposes"...

Also, despite the noise propagated here, Apple actually has a very longstanding distaste for government in general, and I have been watching and using Apple for more than enough decades to know that cooperating with the Gummint would be corporate anathema to them.

And even when Apple does design something like "Spotlight Suggestions" that sends your Spotlight Searches to Apple, so that they can provide internet-based search results alongside local search results, they provide a clear, GUI-available method to completely disable the feature.

The proof in the pudding comes from the fact that you don't see any long lists for OS X of hard-coded IP destinations being published in similar articles to this one, or anyone reporting that, despite turning off everything that can be turned-off, OS X acts like a data-thief, like Windows has obviously turned into. So, in other words, please don't simply lump Apple and Microsoft together as "Teh Evilz"; because that simply isn't the case.

Not sure this is a right comment, but with all the hype over open source exploits, people still are convinced Windows and Apple are "secure" and yet they pretty much monitor every thing you do, and store that information.

Windows, yes. Apple, no.

Unlike Microsoft, Apple makes its money off hardware, and thus has absolutely no incentive to sell your soul to The Man.

Apple has also figured out that some Users care about Privacy, and that that may eventually lead to more sales of their Hardware; so, in essence, Apple has discovered that it can actually Market PRIVACY, and so it does. A little too quietly for my taste; but the signs are there, spelled out in explicit detail if you know where to look And you will notice a refreshing lack of "weasel words", such as "for various purposes"...

Also, despite the noise propagated here, Apple actually has a very longstanding distaste for government in general, and I have been watching and using Apple for more than enough decades to know that cooperating with the Gummint would be corporate anathema to them.

And even when Apple does design something like "Spotlight Suggestions" that sends your Spotlight Searches to Apple, so that they can provide internet-based search results alongside local search results, they provide a clear, GUI-available method to completely disable the feature.

The proof in the pudding comes from the fact that you don't see any long lists for OS X of hard-coded IP destinations being published in similar articles to this one, or anyone reporting that, despite turning off everything that can be turned-off, OS X acts like a data-thief, like Windows has obviously turned into. So, in other words, please don't simply lump Apple and Microsoft together as "Teh Evilz"; because that simply isn't the case.

Oh, I'm sure that's part of it, but certainly not the entire story. You should skim over iOS's security whitepaper sometime if you don't believe there's a hell of a lot of security features built into the hardware and software at a *very* deep level. It's actually quite impressive. Keep in mind that the ability to root your phone doesn't necessarily invalidate all the other protections provided for the average user.

To start with, consider the notion of selective application permissions with user consent, compared to the "give this application all access to all resources" model with the PC. Applications are isolated from each other, which gives less flexibility, but also helps to prevent a rogue app from spreading itself everywhere on the system. The system is hardware-encrypted by default until you turn the device on (using a secure boot chain) and unlock it, meaning you can't simply pry the device apart and read the flash memory. And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head.

You mean like the numerous apps and websites dedicated to notifying drivers of where speedtraps are currently located, which are perfectly legal and are even advertised on public TV?

https://www.fartkontrol.nu/

http://www.trafikalarm.dk/traf...

https://itunes.apple.com/dk/ap...

And I can go on.

I use a Dell Latitude 7440 and absolutely love it. i7, 16GB RAM, 256 SSD, 14" 1080p, backlit keyboard, great battery life with Win 7. There's no way I would pay double for a Mac with similar specs.

You're right - there's no way you'd pay double for a Mac with similar specs. Let's compare the baseline models, for example - even though the Mac has twice the RAM and twice the SSD space, as well as a faster processor. Oh, and by the way it appears the 7440 has a low-end 1366x768 display, not 1080P like you stated...

Dell Latitude E7440 w/ 2.0GHz i5 processor, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 14" screen - $1202.55 (after $687 "instant savings")
Retina MacBook Pro w/ 2.7GHz i5 processor, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 13" screen - $1299.00

Bumping the MacBook Pro up to 3.1GHz i7, 16GB RAM raises the price to $1799. Unfortunately the Dell page doesn't seem to let me configure the E7440 with options you've listed, so I can't give you their quoted price for the upgrade - but I doubt they're selling it for $400 less than the barebones version, which would have to be the case for your statement to be true.

I did find one on Amazon that was spec'ed more like what you say - except it still has that 1366x768 display, and doesn't have a backlit keyboard. Even that is selling for $1500.

People buy apples because so many PC laptops and desktops suck. Take a walk to any Best Buy, Wal Mart, or even Microsoft Store and you will see stacks of cheap, plastic underpowered suckage. Apple has an incentive for their machines to run their OS well or they won't sell. PC manufacturers have the luxury of getting to sell junk to people who don't know any better. To Microsoft's credit, Windows 10 seems to work pretty well on underpowered PC's, but at the cost of substantial privacy issues.

There are some good PC laptops out there. I really like the new Dell XPS 13, for example. But pound for pound, it costs about the same as a comparable Mac, particularly if you go with an SSD, which is standard on all Macs (e.g., Dell XPS 13 with 256 GB SSD and 8GB RAM and Windows Home is $1599; a 13-inch Macbook Pro with similar specs comes in at $1499).

But as some other poster already said, the reputation of PC's generally stinks because the quality, and after-market support, is so spotty. A lot of people are posting that ThinkPads kick ass (and I can attest that they used to be awesome), but I've seen just as many people post ThinkPads have gone steadily downhill since Lenovo took over. Right now, the XPS 13 is the only laptop I have confidence recommending to people. And PC desktops? Roll you own, lest that retail box come with a two-year-old Celeron and a 90 Watt power supply.

PC laptops are nearly always labeled with easy-to-identify model numbers that you can search for on Google or eBay. Apple makes it very difficult for the average buyer to identify which year a Macbook was built, so the neophyte buyer just sees "Macbook" and assumes it's reasonably current. My cousin almost got suckered by this into buying a Core 2 Duo Macbook during the Sandy Bridge days (just before Ivy Bridge's release). His school store was selling it at a "massive" $200 discount. An appropriate discount would've been $400-$500.

To figure out exactly what model Macbook you're getting, you need the serial number.

Apple usually drops support for hardware after a few years (currently 6 years). If you look at the current OSX system requirements it says it only supports 2009 macs and above https://support.apple.com/en-u...

On the flip side Windows 10 will install on much older machines, and in some cases will run faster on a Mac then OSX http://www.theinquirer.net/inq...

Slap in a 1tb SSD and it really makes a difference I run 2 VM's daily on 16gb on a late 2011 MBP and the SSD make it faster than any brand new dell I have seen come in the office.

Try spending a quarter as much on the dell next time you compare.

Hmm. 1tb SSD going on newegg today for $477. Quarter of that is ~$120. What would $120 buy to dramatically speed up an office-grade dell?

I think the point is swapping out a spinning hard drive with an SSD is the single best way to show dramatic improvement to your rig, and SSD's are cheaper and more reliable than ever (plus, that whole TRIM thing with macs is now solved). OTOH, spinning drives and 4GB RAM are still the standard on all the cheap new dells for sale out there. Once you deck out a dell with similar features to a mac, the prices become pretty comparable (e.g., Dell XPS 13 with 256 GB SSD and 8GB RAM and Windows Home is $1599, whereas a 13-inch Macbook Pro with similar specs comes in at $1499). The rule applies: fast, reliable, cheap (choose two).

Actually, Apple does have the settings. In OS X, since 10.10, it has been due to Spotlight doing online queries. In iTunes, for many years, it has been due to their suggestions system and retrieving additional data about your music.

It is, as the article suggests, the price of convenience. It would be nice though if you had the option to turn off those conveniences if you don't want them.

There is a Vas Deferens between what Spotlight (for "Spotlight Suggestions") and iTunes does and what Windows 10 is doing. For one thing, Apple is straightforward about what is, and what is not, sent to Apple and/or Microsoft from Spotlight. And more importantly, Apple has a nice, simple GUI way to disable "Spotlight Suggestions".

As far as iTunes goes, if you are referring to the "Genius" feature, unless you turn on iTunes Match, you can disable the Genius feature (which I think is now called "Share details about your library with Apple"). If you are referring to retrieving CD Song Names and other info from the internet, you can disable that, too. Both are available as simple GUI checkboxes in iTunes' Preferences, along with the SWITCHABLE "Share details about your library with Apple", "Limit Ad Tracking", "Automatically download album artwork", "Always check for available downloads", "Sync playback information across devices", "Sync podcase subscriptions and settings", and "check for new software updates automatically".

So, compare that with what TFA says about Windows 10 still leaking data no-matter-what, and I think that any sensible person will agree that there is virtually no comparison between the two "mindsets".

Where can I download the iOS source code? Oh wait you can't. But you can download the Android source code [android.com]

So, can you really expect to compile that and end up with something that you can load into your phone (and have it work?). No. No more than you can download Darwin and expect it to be a fully-functional iOS build.

But actually, you can download some parts of iOS, just like you can download some parts of Android.

https://www.apple.com/diversit...

OpenGL provides a cross-platform solution on non-Microsoft platforms. Wake me up when I can run DirectX on OSX, Android, or iOS.

DirectX may not be platform agnostic but don't pretend OpenGL is that much better. Apple's support for OpenGL in OSX is pathetic, the latest supported version is the ancient 4.1 spec from 5 years ago. And with them now doing their proprietary vendor-specific Metal API it is even less likely Apple will catch up to the rest of the world with their OpenGL implementation.

Then of course the OpenGL that does run on Windows, OSX and Linux is not the same as the one that runs on Android and iOS either. The latter platforms run the ES variant so the idea that it is a genuine cross-platform solution is pretty disingenuous when you consider reality.

The best cross-platform solution at the moment for most cases is OpenGL ES 2.0 (and soon 3.0) with Google ANGLE to target DirectX platforms. That only leaves OSX out in the cold.

I know that it's all the rage to crap on Apple, but compare this "approach" to security vs Apple's approach ...

https://www.apple.com/business...

Apple isn't perfect by any means but at least they put the time and energy into actually trying to do the right things. They make mistakes - like everyone else - but at least there's some forethought.

"If they believe in inclusion," said Lee, "they have to release the data so the public knows that they are being transparent and that they are committed to doing the right thing."

Tim Cook should call up Rep. Lee, and say, "Apple isn't 'transparent', but we are 'committed to doing the right thing.' Let's work together on hiring black Americans." He should direct her to https://jobs.apple.com/us/search. He should invite her to direct black job seekers to Apple jobs. He can say, "So far, we haven't been able to fill these jobs. If you send us qualified job applicants, that would be great. That would help us, as well as helping the job-seekers."

If Apple hires black people this way, then they aren't discriminating against non-black people. They're just hiring the best candidate for the job.

If not many black Americans are qualified for Apple jobs, then I think Rep. Lee would get better results by pushing technical education of black Americans.

Nobody forgot this shit. If it was better now, I would say it is. It's not.

Linux is the natural flight to quality and BSD is awesome as well. Windows is death knell.

I won't argue ONE BIT (haha) about EVERYTHING you say about the Windows Registry (and trying to troubleshoot Windows problems). Been there, done that. Printed my OWN T-Shirt. Multiple times. I hate, hate HATE the Windows Registry. Even though I haven't personally been hosed by it for a long time. It still scares me every time I type "Regedit", even if it's just to look at something.

And I really don't have an opinion on systemd, because I don't run Linux. However, I would really like to know if you have an opinion on OS X's Open-Sourced launchd; which is somewhat similar in purpose and scope to systemd (but I think came before systemd). Apple has literally millions of copies of launchd in the field, and has been using it since OS X 10.4 (Tiger), which was launched (no pun) a decade ago. And I haven't heard any real horror stories about it. And I see that FreeBSD has adopted it as well. And launchd has normal, ordinary Logs...

If you run windows... you can still use the airplay feature, but only within itunes... which means you can play video/music/photo slides onto apple tv....

Information here: https://support.apple.com/en-u...

So the Apple way is the true Unix way? Baby Jeebus, take me now...

Well...

Since OS X is a Certified UNIX (and has been since OS X 10.5 (Leopard)), I would say that, unlike ANY Linux Distro, yes, yes it is.

Oh, no one knows either way about Android M support right now. I've seen lots of speculation and people talking about device strings but none of it seems concrete to me. I just meant that so far my Nexus 4 is on the same version of Android as my Nexus 6, and with some luck it will continue to be supported through M. (It's already long past Google's 18-month or so support window)

Whoa, Nelly!!!!

So, even the vaunted support for the Nexus brand is only "Guaranteed" for a year and a half?!?

FFS, Apple is still supporting (even up through the current version, iOS 9) my iPad 2, which was first sold on March 11, 2011, over FOUR years ago (a millenia in mobile-device-years). Apple has even released versions of iOS specifically targeted at improving performance on the iPad 2.

Similarly, Apple also still supports (even up through the current version, iOS 9) my iPhone 4s, which was released on October 4, 2013, the day before Jobs' death. In fact, I often thought that the real, "secret" reason behind the model name "4s" was "for Steve", "3GS", etc. notwithstanding.

And I believe there was even a relatively-recent "Security Update" for the iPhone 3GS, which was introduced on June 8, 2009. Support ended for the 3GS on or around September 12, 2012.

As far as standalone Security Updates, in May, 2011, Apple patched versions of iOS back to iOS 3.0 with their iOS Update 5. Quite frankly, I don't understand that Security Update, especially considering there is an Apple document dated April, 2015 that talks about it.

Oh, no one knows either way about Android M support right now. I've seen lots of speculation and people talking about device strings but none of it seems concrete to me. I just meant that so far my Nexus 4 is on the same version of Android as my Nexus 6, and with some luck it will continue to be supported through M. (It's already long past Google's 18-month or so support window)

Whoa, Nelly!!!!

So, even the vaunted support for the Nexus brand is only "Guaranteed" for a year and a half?!?

FFS, Apple is still supporting (even up through the current version, iOS 9) my iPad 2, which was first sold on March 11, 2011, over FOUR years ago (a millenia in mobile-device-years). Apple has even released versions of iOS specifically targeted at improving performance on the iPad 2.

Similarly, Apple also still supports (even up through the current version, iOS 9) my iPhone 4s, which was released on October 4, 2013, the day before Jobs' death. In fact, I often thought that the real, "secret" reason behind the model name "4s" was "for Steve", "3GS", etc. notwithstanding.

And I believe there was even a relatively-recent "Security Update" for the iPhone 3GS, which was introduced on June 8, 2009. Support ended for the 3GS on or around September 12, 2012.

As far as standalone Security Updates, in May, 2011, Apple patched versions of iOS back to iOS 3.0 with their iOS Update 5. Quite frankly, I don't understand that Security Update, especially considering there is an Apple document dated April, 2015 that talks about it.

There really aren't any NFC capable stores anywhere, and the only one I know of requires you to show a physical ID, which defeats the purpose, as it's less hassle using a card.

IMO, the marketing for NFC was completely botched. There are so many people that keep hearing "convenience" being associated with it, and anyone with half a brain can tell that is bullshit. I have to get my phone out, unlock it (hopefully nfc doesn't bypass that), possibly enable nfc (it chews battery and is a possible security risk to keep on 100% of the time), swipe it, probably click something on my phone then, then lock my phone again and put it back. Versus a magswipe credit card, where I take it out (possible out of the card slot in my phone wallet, or out of my wallet, or just out of my pocket), swipe, sign, put it away. The magswipe is also lighter, replaceable, and very cheap.

IE. the NFC conversation should avoid the "convenience" topic, not make it the focus (unless they're trying to kill it).

NFC has some very very very strong benefits over magstripe. Some implementations are better than others, and there are some trade offs (ex. apple pay versus the way google wallet did it versus chip-and-pin versus chip-and-signature). Finding out how these are implemented is difficult** and confusing. It should be the front and center selling point.

Examples of the "convenient/easy" push:

https://www.google.com/wallet/ : "An easier way to pay. Google Wallet makes it easy to pay - in stores, online or to anyone in the US with a Gmail address. It works with any debit or credit card, on every mobile carrier".

http://www.apple.com/apple-pay... : "Your wallet. Without the wallet. Paying in stores or within apps has never been easier. Gone are the days of searching for your wallet. The wasted moments finding the right card."

Come the fuck on. I've never had a problem finding my credit cards, and those "wasted moments" are less time than it takes me to unlock my phone. Even if the phone was faster somehow, it's just a minute amount of time that it's not the thing I need to be faster. It takes far longer for them to run the number (do the transaction). At restaurants (my most frequent use), I get a check and have plenty of time to ready my card before the waiter comes back, and then plenty more time before it's run. Finding my card is not the problem.

** yes, you can find the info, and a lmgtfy.com link won't suprise me, but it's not obvious or clear and no one is making it readily apparent when marketing their digital wallets. They just keep saying they are so convenient and easy.

Where is the support for Apple PPC products? Nonexistent? oh yeah, they really keep things up to date! No worries!

The simple fact is, Apple expects every single one of their plebs to buy the latest hardware every few years. Fucking hell, their whole business model depends on it.

Um, Apple made the switch to Intel in 2006, NINE YEARS AGO. The switch was announced on June 6, 2005.

I happen to have a G5 1.8 Dualie that I purchased new in April 2005, about 2 mos. before the announcement of the Intel Switch (Grrr!). When they switched, the current version of OS X (which was available for both PPC and Intel in separate versions) was 10.4 (Tiger). My G5 still works fine on 10.5 Leopard (which was released on 10/26/2007 as a Universal Binary). They issued periodic Updates for the Applications and OS 10.5 up through the launch of 10.7 Lion on 7/20/2011, and even issued a few critical Security Updates after that.

As far as Application Development, for example, the first Intel-Only version of Logic Pro, 9.1 was released on 1/12/2010. The previous version, Logic Pro 9.0, announced on 7/23/2009, was a Universal Binary. The last version of iTunes to support PPC (and Intel) was 10.6.3 (released sometime in 2011, I think). I can't find an exact release date for the next version of iTunes (the first version to be Intel-Only), but it appears to be sometime in 2012. Et cetera.

Apple stopped providing automatic downloads for Updates through their Software Update service for MacOS 9 (Classic) and OS X versions 10.0 through 10.3 (and related Applications) on 7/31/2012, although they are still available through Apple's "Downloads" Page. I presume that Updates for OS X versions 10.4 and up, including the PPC versions (and related Applications) are still available automatically through Software Update.

So, we can legitimately call it from 2005 to 2012 (there was a Security Update to iTunes 10.6.3 on 6/12/2012, which appears to be the latest PPC-based Security Update to any Apple Software) before Apple actually dropped all development for, and support of, PPC Macs. SEVEN YEARS is pretty damned good, IMHO.

So, IOW, it seems like Apple "Expects" you to buy new Hardware about every SEVEN years. Yeah, that's really "pushy" in the Computer universe. Yeah, right.

Not everybody can afford Apple's enormous price premium (yes just look at the huge profit margin).

IPhone 6 Plus 64 GB Unlocked, no SIM, direct from Apple: $US849. One Year Apple Warranty.

Samsung Galaxy S6 64 GB Unlocked, "International Version", listed on Amazon: US$815. And this nice disclaimer:"This cell phone may not include a US warranty as some manufacturers do not honor warranties for international version phones. Please contact the seller for specific warranty information."

So, I'm a bit baffled; where's all that "enormous price premium"?

that will still give me access to all the shows I like

* Mr. Robot - $24.99
* The Americans - $34.99
* Silicon Valley - $24.99
* Veep - $24.99
* Halt and Catch Fire - $24.99

For about the price of a month's worth of cable you could have all the shows you're interested in and save the other 11 months for something else. I did this years ago, picked up an AppleTV - works great for streaming Netflix and my purchased DVD / Blu-Rays I've been ripping into my iTunes Library - and now just get season's passes for the shows I watch. For local events I put a DB8e on my roof, though if you live in an apartment you could mount it to a weighted pole on your balcony or window.

All in, between my Netflix subscription, Crunchyroll (I really love Anime), DramaFever (I really love Korean dramas), and my iTunes seasons passes I spent around $300 annually on my entertainment - when you consider I used to spend almost $1,500 on cable its amazing how much money I saved. I also have more free time, less of it spent channel surfing looking for stuff to watch, and I never have to watch commercials unless I'm watching OTA, which is why I picked up a DVR+.

Unless you're big on sports, and the AppleTV has been getting all the big ones lately (Hockey, Football, whatever - I don't watch sports), or your shows aren't available digitally there really isn't much reason to get cable / satellite anymore. I've been cable free for nearly 4 years now and I can honestly say that I don't miss it.

Note: While I'm Canadian, I'm assuming you're an American and have used the iTunes prices from the US store

that will still give me access to all the shows I like

* Mr. Robot - $24.99
* The Americans - $34.99
* Silicon Valley - $24.99
* Veep - $24.99
* Halt and Catch Fire - $24.99

For about the price of a month's worth of cable you could have all the shows you're interested in and save the other 11 months for something else. I did this years ago, picked up an AppleTV - works great for streaming Netflix and my purchased DVD / Blu-Rays I've been ripping into my iTunes Library - and now just get season's passes for the shows I watch. For local events I put a DB8e on my roof, though if you live in an apartment you could mount it to a weighted pole on your balcony or window.

All in, between my Netflix subscription, Crunchyroll (I really love Anime), DramaFever (I really love Korean dramas), and my iTunes seasons passes I spent around $300 annually on my entertainment - when you consider I used to spend almost $1,500 on cable its amazing how much money I saved. I also have more free time, less of it spent channel surfing looking for stuff to watch, and I never have to watch commercials unless I'm watching OTA, which is why I picked up a DVR+.

Unless you're big on sports, and the AppleTV has been getting all the big ones lately (Hockey, Football, whatever - I don't watch sports), or your shows aren't available digitally there really isn't much reason to get cable / satellite anymore. I've been cable free for nearly 4 years now and I can honestly say that I don't miss it.

Note: While I'm Canadian, I'm assuming you're an American and have used the iTunes prices from the US store

that will still give me access to all the shows I like

* Mr. Robot - $24.99
* The Americans - $34.99
* Silicon Valley - $24.99
* Veep - $24.99
* Halt and Catch Fire - $24.99

For about the price of a month's worth of cable you could have all the shows you're interested in and save the other 11 months for something else. I did this years ago, picked up an AppleTV - works great for streaming Netflix and my purchased DVD / Blu-Rays I've been ripping into my iTunes Library - and now just get season's passes for the shows I watch. For local events I put a DB8e on my roof, though if you live in an apartment you could mount it to a weighted pole on your balcony or window.

All in, between my Netflix subscription, Crunchyroll (I really love Anime), DramaFever (I really love Korean dramas), and my iTunes seasons passes I spent around $300 annually on my entertainment - when you consider I used to spend almost $1,500 on cable its amazing how much money I saved. I also have more free time, less of it spent channel surfing looking for stuff to watch, and I never have to watch commercials unless I'm watching OTA, which is why I picked up a DVR+.

Unless you're big on sports, and the AppleTV has been getting all the big ones lately (Hockey, Football, whatever - I don't watch sports), or your shows aren't available digitally there really isn't much reason to get cable / satellite anymore. I've been cable free for nearly 4 years now and I can honestly say that I don't miss it.

Note: While I'm Canadian, I'm assuming you're an American and have used the iTunes prices from the US store

that will still give me access to all the shows I like

* Mr. Robot - $24.99
* The Americans - $34.99
* Silicon Valley - $24.99
* Veep - $24.99
* Halt and Catch Fire - $24.99

For about the price of a month's worth of cable you could have all the shows you're interested in and save the other 11 months for something else. I did this years ago, picked up an AppleTV - works great for streaming Netflix and my purchased DVD / Blu-Rays I've been ripping into my iTunes Library - and now just get season's passes for the shows I watch. For local events I put a DB8e on my roof, though if you live in an apartment you could mount it to a weighted pole on your balcony or window.

All in, between my Netflix subscription, Crunchyroll (I really love Anime), DramaFever (I really love Korean dramas), and my iTunes seasons passes I spent around $300 annually on my entertainment - when you consider I used to spend almost $1,500 on cable its amazing how much money I saved. I also have more free time, less of it spent channel surfing looking for stuff to watch, and I never have to watch commercials unless I'm watching OTA, which is why I picked up a DVR+.

Unless you're big on sports, and the AppleTV has been getting all the big ones lately (Hockey, Football, whatever - I don't watch sports), or your shows aren't available digitally there really isn't much reason to get cable / satellite anymore. I've been cable free for nearly 4 years now and I can honestly say that I don't miss it.

Note: While I'm Canadian, I'm assuming you're an American and have used the iTunes prices from the US store

that will still give me access to all the shows I like

* Mr. Robot - $24.99
* The Americans - $34.99
* Silicon Valley - $24.99
* Veep - $24.99
* Halt and Catch Fire - $24.99

For about the price of a month's worth of cable you could have all the shows you're interested in and save the other 11 months for something else. I did this years ago, picked up an AppleTV - works great for streaming Netflix and my purchased DVD / Blu-Rays I've been ripping into my iTunes Library - and now just get season's passes for the shows I watch. For local events I put a DB8e on my roof, though if you live in an apartment you could mount it to a weighted pole on your balcony or window.

All in, between my Netflix subscription, Crunchyroll (I really love Anime), DramaFever (I really love Korean dramas), and my iTunes seasons passes I spent around $300 annually on my entertainment - when you consider I used to spend almost $1,500 on cable its amazing how much money I saved. I also have more free time, less of it spent channel surfing looking for stuff to watch, and I never have to watch commercials unless I'm watching OTA, which is why I picked up a DVR+.

Unless you're big on sports, and the AppleTV has been getting all the big ones lately (Hockey, Football, whatever - I don't watch sports), or your shows aren't available digitally there really isn't much reason to get cable / satellite anymore. I've been cable free for nearly 4 years now and I can honestly say that I don't miss it.

Note: While I'm Canadian, I'm assuming you're an American and have used the iTunes prices from the US store

even Apple has lots of faults, starting with keychords that would make an emacs user choke (e.g. the four-key chords for a screen snapshot), or the fact that in certain basic views in the Folder, it's impossible to create a new directory, you have to switch to another view for the 'New folder' button to appear.

But how many times do you actually do a Screenshot without then later editing it? Easier to launch Preview (or Grab), and do your ScreenCap from there. That way (at least with Preview) you can do annotation/manipulation of the image without having to save/paste your screenshot into another Application.

And if you know the most-excellent GROUP of Keyboard Shortcut(s) for Screen Capture (and, by the way, it's a THREE-key, not FOUR-key Shortcut), you should CERTAINLY know the Keyboard Shortcut for "New Folder" in Finder (Command-Shift-N).

I never thought I'd see the day when a Slashdotter complained about HAVING Keyboard Shortcuts. Is that the Four Horsemen I hear???

even Apple has lots of faults, starting with keychords that would make an emacs user choke (e.g. the four-key chords for a screen snapshot), or the fact that in certain basic views in the Folder, it's impossible to create a new directory, you have to switch to another view for the 'New folder' button to appear.

But how many times do you actually do a Screenshot without then later editing it? Easier to launch Preview (or Grab), and do your ScreenCap from there. That way (at least with Preview) you can do annotation/manipulation of the image without having to save/paste your screenshot into another Application.

And if you know the most-excellent GROUP of Keyboard Shortcut(s) for Screen Capture (and, by the way, it's a THREE-key, not FOUR-key Shortcut), you should CERTAINLY know the Keyboard Shortcut for "New Folder" in Finder (Command-Shift-N).

I never thought I'd see the day when a Slashdotter complained about HAVING Keyboard Shortcuts. Is that the Four Horsemen I hear???

Now they're currently trying to figure down how to get a live distro running that can mount Mac filesystems so they can fix that. It's kind of hilarious from my POV..

I thought Macs still supported target disk mode. So all you have to do is boot holding T while it's connected via Firewire or Thunderbolt to another Mac/PC and its internal drive shows up as a disk drive.

I guess if they want to waste a day using the wrong tools, they can go ahead.

They do. I thought it went away with FireWire; but it didn't. In fact, I think you can do it over WiFi, too, using AirDrop. That's exactly the way to do it. Just use another Mac.

newgrp doesn't exit it but executes a child shell which replaces the newgrp process. It's within shell that has access to file descriptor 3.

For why the file needs to have the same setuid is that is what the exploit takes advantage of, normally writing to a setuid file clears the setuid bit, but that doesn't happen if the writer is already root. Which means that using the exploit ( and some tricks to get out of append mode ) someone can turn a setuid file into any program that will run as root when it is launched.

Here's the list of supported Macs for the latest El Capitan Beta which goes back to some 2007 models: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/releasenotes/General/rn-osx-10.11/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016209

As for osx86, I'm running the latest El Capitan Beta just fine on my Main PC (2013ish hardware) and my old Dell Latitude E6420 (2011) without issues - the selected hardware is fully supported. If you want to have OS X run fine on your PC then pay attention to using hardware within the range of what has support, either from Apple or third parties, and you'd be able to run the OS without difficulties.

Is Edge going to be portable to non Windows operating systems like GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS X, HP-UX, OpenServer X, Haiku OS, AIX, Android and Firefox OS?

You must feel so smart listing all those UNIX operating systems. You know so many!

Until those retards at Apple decided to remove the perfectly good working FTP implementation from the Finder.

Finder? D00d, that's a user-mode NFS server with an FTP client you've got there; the Finder just thinks it's a remote mount. (The UI stuff comes from a combination of the FTPFS plugin for the NetFS framework and NetAuthAgent/NetAuthSysAgent.)

And in what fashion was it "removed"? If I go to ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub in Safari on Yosemite, it still does the mount.

Is Edge going to be portable to non Windows operating systems like GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS X, HP-UX, OpenServer X, Haiku OS, AIX, Android and Firefox OS?

As a stay at home father I'm getting sick of the 77% number. It's bull shit and here's why....

A year ago I quit my job. I had been in industry for all of ~9 years. That means by this year I would have been in industry for 10 years. If I had been paid the exact same amount of money the entire time I would immediately be at making 90% of income as my peers. But start to weight my starting salary vs bonuses and raises and that number slips.

Additionally I'm 1 year removed from what has happened in industry. I've a 1 year gap on my resume (thankfully filled with GitHub commits). I've 1 year that I haven't been networking.

By this time next year that will be 2 years. Then 3. There are 3-4 women I went to university with that did the same thing. I was just in a position where my wife's job earned us more income and I wanted to stay at home and take care of the homefront, contribute to OSS, and raise our son.

This is a situation that everyone that becomes a parent and it's statistically the woman that makes the decision to stay home. Especially when you consider that STEM majors usually marry other STEM majors (at least all my friends did).

If you want to get women into industry you need to take an approach like IBM is doing: http://www.tonikal.com/ibm-hel... I showed that article to my wife and she said she would be pissed if she had to pump and dump for an entire week.

The internet and technology is another way to address this gap. You need to do exactly the opposite thing that Yahoo and Reddit did and let people work at home. There are still other Engineers that I went to school with that will be doing a finite element analysis on their laptop while breast feeding. For 90% of my job there was absolutely no reason to be at the office. Apple has launched their "Home Advisor" program where they're starting to insource all their call centers. Everyone I know of that talks to an Apple tech says they love it. Meanwhile I have to argue with someone in India any time I contact Comcast. (And not that there is a problem with someone in India, but there was a language barrier especially between "reccomends" and "requires" a professional install when getting my Cable Card)

My company before I left started doing the same with their IT support staff. You would call someone sitting at their home, and a lot of times they were women married to our engineers. They gave them a VOIP box, a head set and they sat at home and fielded IT questions.

Maybe of the DOWNLOADED music business; but certainly not of the sale of CD/DVD media (in which they simply don't get involved),

Uh...digital music sales beat CDs a long time ago. And Apple themselves says that they are the largest distributor of music in the US, including physical media distributors.

So, nice try.

Again, though, it is not illegal to have a monopoly. The issue is whether or not Apple is using it's monopoly in music distribution to hurt rivals in another market.

and he's full of shit.

it's just about pono, and you can buy his music in mp3.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/ar...

spotify on high quality is way, wayyyyy better than cassette or radio or 8 tracks. but he wants to sell pono-tech. I'm guessing he wants to sell a lossless streaming service.

if it's really just about the quality how come streaming service mp3 is unacceptable and "worse than 8 track" BUT itunes mp3 is acceptable?

I'm confused by this. It's very easy to remove a rescue email from your account, you can do it yourself. Here is an article that describes how: https://support.apple.com/en-u... Once you have removed that rescue email only the person with the password to the primary email address will be able to get in to reset the password. If you need to reset your security questions to access the section where that information is located you would have to call in to support and verify that you are the account holder.

The nicest thing I can say about FF is that it opened the floodgates, before Firefox/Phoenix/Mozilla Suite you had crappy IE, broken NS, and adware Opera.

Today there is Comodo Dragon (what I use, better security features and no phone home to Google) Chromium, SWIron, and Opera which my oldest boy swears is the greatest thing ever (hates the new version, went back to using presto) and on the gecko side there is PaleMoon (the other browser I use, I prefer the UI over IceDragon and it seems snappier), SeaMonkey, IceDragon, if you need really low resource there is always Kmeleon which runs really well even on a P3 running Win98SE and if you want to avoid BOTH the Chromium and Gecko engines you can go with QTWeb which is just what it says on the tin, a cross platform browser that uses Webkit and the QT framework...quite nice actually and of course Safari if you are into Apple.

I was using FF before it was called Firefox, and the Suite before that and....yeah, its just not very nice now. The UI feels like a bad Chrome ripoff and it still has "senior moments" where the entire UI can just "hang" for several seconds, which when you have 8 fricking cores and 16GB of RAM? is just inexcusable. I don't know what went wrong with Moz, but for the past few years they seem to have gone out of their way to just ruin the browser, do they no longer care? Has the UI team been taken over by Google? All I know is If I wanted Chrome I'd use Chrome and the current FF feels like a really bad Chrome knockoff, its the "Hipad" that looks kinda sorta like the real thing but once you use it? Yeah its just a knock off.