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Not via USB, and it'll have to be an MP4 I believe, but over wifi you could use this :
Air sharing

Anyway, I don't dispute that if you want to use an iPhone or iPad (which I don't personally, but plenty of people do) then you'll need either a Windows machine or a Mac or that airsharing thingy. Or neither of course, if you just want to use the thing as a mobile device without moving files around, which is also perfectly fine for lots of people.

I'm on a Macbook right now and the touchpad sucks.

Then you just plain don't like touchpads; because Apple is nearly universally-recognized as having the best Trackpad, by a very large margin.

So, you can do one of two things:

1. Get an external mouse. Done.

2. Use the most-excellent Keyboard Shortcuts built into OS X (and then you don't even have to remove your fingers from the keyboard!). Look at this list, and this list. If you can't find sufficient abilities in those two lists, you are truly unique in your text-manipulation requirements.

I'm on a Macbook right now and the touchpad sucks.

Then you just plain don't like touchpads; because Apple is nearly universally-recognized as having the best Trackpad, by a very large margin.

So, you can do one of two things:

1. Get an external mouse. Done.

2. Use the most-excellent Keyboard Shortcuts built into OS X (and then you don't even have to remove your fingers from the keyboard!). Look at this list, and this list. If you can't find sufficient abilities in those two lists, you are truly unique in your text-manipulation requirements.

Here is something that is going to make you feel even more stupid than you already are.

Apple Mac OS X flat style ripoff comparison

I don't know where you got that BOGUS screenshot; but OS X looks NOTHING like that picture. Here is the current version of OS X, "Yosemite" (10.10) and the soon-to-be-released "El Capitan" (10.11).

Although it is certainly "flatter" than it used to be, as you can plainly see, it looks NOTHING like those horrid, fugly, trumped-up pictures you linked. In fact, if you scroll down on the "Yosemite" Page I linked to the point where it says "More elegant, from A to Z", you will see how the Finder window ALLEGEDGLY depicted in the ALLEGED 10.10 Screenshot you linked REALLY looks.

Liar.

Now who's feeling stupid?

Here is something that is going to make you feel even more stupid than you already are.

Apple Mac OS X flat style ripoff comparison

I don't know where you got that BOGUS screenshot; but OS X looks NOTHING like that picture. Here is the current version of OS X, "Yosemite" (10.10) and the soon-to-be-released "El Capitan" (10.11).

Although it is certainly "flatter" than it used to be, as you can plainly see, it looks NOTHING like those horrid, fugly, trumped-up pictures you linked. In fact, if you scroll down on the "Yosemite" Page I linked to the point where it says "More elegant, from A to Z", you will see how the Finder window ALLEGEDGLY depicted in the ALLEGED 10.10 Screenshot you linked REALLY looks.

Liar.

Now who's feeling stupid?

Wrong! fucktard.

No, not wrong. Ctrl+F7 does not work on the login screen --- at least in Snow Leopard which is what I am using --- because I can't get the focus back to the login window after dismissing the dialog about not finding the bluetooth mouse. Why are you getting so angry about it?

As I am sure you don't know, because you are an arrogant little ignorant fucktard hater, is that OSX has ALWAYS supported a pretty large array of built-in Keyboard commands

So this must be why they call it the "cult of mac", apparently having difficulty using Apple products makes you "an arrogant little ignorant fucktard hater". You are a truly disgusting person.

I don't know OSX and have no opinion on the matter, but Ctrl-F7 before tab can navigate between input fields seems weird. Why not have those commonly used keyboard shortcuts 'just work' without particular difficulty.

Ctrl-F7 ("Full Keyboard Access") is part of the "Accessibility" Features in OS X. Normally, you can just TAB between Text Input Fields in Dialogs in OS X; but Ctrl-F7 enables a BUNCH (more) Keyboard Commands in OS X that can be used for UI Navigation, and was mentioned in an internet posting I found regarding how to navigate the OS X Login screen without requiring a Mouse.

OSX lacks even simple things like the ability to log in to a machine without a mouse. There is no way to tab into the password field at the OSX login screen,

Wrong! fucktard.

There are actually TWO ways to do this: If the Mac is set to show a list of Users at startup, then pressing the first letter of you Username and Press Return (Enter). This will put you into the Password field, where you can enter your Password.

The second method involves pressing Ctrl-F7, which puts OS X into "full keyboard access" mode (it's a toggle). Then you can use TAB to move between Input fields and other UI elements.

As I am sure you don't know, because you are an arrogant little ignorant fucktard hater, is that OSX has ALWAYS supported a pretty large array of built-in Keyboard commands; and not only that, unlike Windows (I don't know about Linux), you can actually DEFINE Keyboard shortcuts that are Application-Specific, or even System-Wide (see link on the Article I linked-to).

So, I guess the "Apple Way" is really more like "Whatever way you want", eh?

OSX lacks even simple things like the ability to log in to a machine without a mouse. There is no way to tab into the password field at the OSX login screen,

Wrong! fucktard.

There are actually TWO ways to do this: If the Mac is set to show a list of Users at startup, then pressing the first letter of you Username and Press Return (Enter). This will put you into the Password field, where you can enter your Password.

The second method involves pressing Ctrl-F7, which puts OS X into "full keyboard access" mode (it's a toggle). Then you can use TAB to move between Input fields and other UI elements.

As I am sure you don't know, because you are an arrogant little ignorant fucktard hater, is that OSX has ALWAYS supported a pretty large array of built-in Keyboard commands; and not only that, unlike Windows (I don't know about Linux), you can actually DEFINE Keyboard shortcuts that are Application-Specific, or even System-Wide (see link on the Article I linked-to).

So, I guess the "Apple Way" is really more like "Whatever way you want", eh?

Welcome addition. Who knows, probably Win20 would finally allow users to configure system keyboard shortcuts. Then it would be almost at parity with Linux of 15 years ago.

And OS X of 15 years ago, too. Here's the Standard Shortcuts (pretty amazing for a GUI-centric OS, eh?), and how you can define Per-Application and System-Wide Shortcuts.

This is something that OS X has supported since (I think 10.0.0), and which I miss from time-to-time with Windows.

It's just not as developed as the Linux solutions have been for as long as I can remember - key combos to switch desktop, to switch desktop but drag the current window with your viewpoint, to place a window on all desktops, etc. I'll be interested to see what the Windows 10 implementation is like, but Windows 10 will likely remain just my "gaming" OS with my real work done on Linux.

Seriously, have you ever taken a look at OS X "Spaces" (Multiple Desktops) feature (actually, the video is from OS X 10.9, nearly 2 years ago), and it's improved multi-monitor support? (as seen in OS X 10.9 as well)

I honestly think, from a usability standpoint, it beats the pants off of Windows or even the Linux solutions.

Having taken a look at the screenshots, I can't help but think of words like "garish", "cartoonish" and "Oh, dear, it looks like Rainbow Brite puked all over the screen".

I like to call it the "Fisher Price: My First Computer" syndrome. It's a pandemic on mobile devices, and has recently jumped the species barrier to desktops. Symptoms include:

- Completely flat and simple user-interface made from a small color palette
- Simple shapes comprised of 90-degree angles
- Uninspired colors and themes made up of primary colors so as not to distract from learning exercises
- Huge buttons and other user-interface targets, designed to make it easy to use by those with undeveloped eye-hand coordination
- Utter lack of gradients, transparency, translucency, or any other hints as to Z-order, which are confusing to children that haven't developed spacial awareness
- No way to perform complex actions (even if necessary) to prevent accidentally making the computing toy inoperable

Additional symptoms can be found in this article, but if you encounter any of the above I strongly suggest you discontinue use of the affected product, and find a replacement not yet affected by this crippling illness.

Lets see...don't care as I'm not a programmer,don't care as I'm not a programmer,Ninite has LO...yeah why don't you try a little harder to just list "shit nobody but Linux users gives two shits about" huh? Maybe you should add GIMP and those googly eyes or the rotating cube desktop crap?

NEWS FLASH less than 1% of the planet is fricking programmers, hence why Linux user base is so low its listed as "other". If this really bugs you so much may I suggest you try thinking different? And to suggest Windows should come with a fricking IDE and compiler...BWA HA HA HA, why should MSFT load up the OS with crap that won't be used just to please the 1% of the world that is programmers? Get your boss to spend a buck or quit whining and find a better boss, LOL!

"Teaching" as we know it is going to be replaced. We will always have teachers and people that foster learning but it will not be done as it is done now. K-12 virtual schools have taken off in Michigan. They have all online and 'hybrid' programs as well.

As a high performing student I would have watched Kahn Academy until I couldn't keep my eye lids up. The times I did have a question it could have been answered clearly and easily by someone in a video.

You're going to have super star teachers on youtube or other learning channel answering high level questions. (Like how Stack Exchange works). For those people that need hands on learning (which is a small subset of everyone) they will get hands on learning in person.

Why does a tiny small school in the middle of nowhere need both a French AND Spanish teacher when you could have someone in Spain and France teaching them through Youtube and interacting through Skype. Look at how Duolingo[0] has taken off. That's something that can be introduced to a 3 year old and they will intuitively pick up without fighting 13 years of trying to 'unlearn' some things in English.

Teaching as we know it is going to be automated away by technology. Code Academy taught me python syntax in an afternoon. It's clear and straight forward enough that I'm trying to get my wife to learn coding.

I would have spent every waking hour doing Code Academy in one window with Kahn Academy in the other if I had those tools available to me in high school. Instead I got stuck in some math classes with people that didn't care or distracted the teacher from actually teaching. In that scenario I would have benefited from where technology is taking teaching. So will a lot of other students.

Teachers are already experimenting with Fliped classrooms where students watch the lecture as 'homework' and the homework is done in class when the teacher is available. There's no reason the 'interacting with a teacher' part can't be done online. [Some rural schools are rolling out alternatives to 'snow days' where the students still learn at home](http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/02/02/382701005/for-some-schools-learning-doesnt-stop-on-snow-days)

There was a story that I can't find now about a teacher that had students write the book for the next semester. Take a classroom of 8th graders and have them make a LaTeX/Wiki page for each chapter they learn about. Make it the final class project and have different groups take a different chapter. The next semester improve on it. After a year or two you'll have a very well written and vetted wikibook on a class.

Why do teacher spend so much of their time on lesson plans? That's something that should have a good central Git repository. If you have a different style of teaching fork the project and make your own. Let teachers merge revisions back. You should have a good set of lesson plans, books, etc all. End the big book cartel and just start publishing LaTeX books for K-12.

I sit at home 400 miles away from my boss. I use my webcam for meetings. I push and pull git repos over VPN. There's no reason learning can't be facilitated in the same way. The best part about it is I can work it into my schedule. Some days I'm up at 4 am coding and feeding the kid. When the kid goes down for a nap, so do I. Then I'll work until midnight with dinner, TV and time with the wife intermixed. Apple has "At Home Advisors" so that people can get tech support from an American working at home. My company has moved almost all IT support to people working from home. Parents don't have to choose between raising a family and working.

With online courses my kids will learn the same way I work. If we want to go on vacation for a month in Germany all we need is internet access and both him and I can get our work/school work done and then eat dinner at a delicatessen, talk Ger

Not yet. "Later this year" (source), Apple plans to release the Swift programming language under an open source license. It'll probably take some time after that for someone to port it to GNUstep.

The fact that this is just happening now illustrates the fact that the app store model just doesn't work to bring you reasonable content. A walled garden is always still a walled garden.

That doesn't even begin to make sense.

I'm pretty sure that Collabra, not Apple, decided when to submit LibreOffice to the Mac App Store.

So, how does that make a "Walled Garden" argument?

And besides, the Mac App Store (in stark contrast to the iOS App Store) is not, repeat not a "Walled Garden". it is simply a place to purchase (or in the case of Free software, simply download) OS X Applications that you can be reasonably sure are free from malware, and which comply with certain "best practices" (sandboxing, etc.).

The term "Walled Garden" simply doesn't apply to the Mac App Store.

Just did this. My first 3 links are this

NSTableView Class Reference - Apple Developer
Understanding Table Views - Apple Developer
Swift NSTableView Sample Code - Knowledge Stack

Just did this. My first 3 links are this

NSTableView Class Reference - Apple Developer
Understanding Table Views - Apple Developer
Swift NSTableView Sample Code - Knowledge Stack

This just proves that some people don't just want an iPhone... they want everybody around them to know that they have an iPhone.

No, it proves that apple wont allow anyone to use their brand or trademarks without adhering to their rules: one of which is "Thou shalt not cover our logo"

So if a phone case manufacturer wants to make a case that claims to be for the iphone6, then they have to play by apples rules. You'll probably notice its very difficult to sell phone cases if you're not allowed to say which phone they are for...

Bullshit

Sure can.. Been on the App Store since June of 2012.

As long as there are secret government orders that companies are forced to comply with, you can never trust them.

You are absolutely correct, and especially correct in the context where the company has the power to decrypt the user's data. However, if the user's data cannot be decrypted by the company, then all it can provide is the encrypted gobbeldygook.

It isn't clear to me that Apple's system is perfect: https://www.apple.com/privacy/... It looks like the messages are encrypted in transit and Apple cannot read that data, but it also sounds like decrypted messages are backed up to its iCloud service, in which case the transit encryption is totally defeated. A lot of the stuff in that link is marketing bullshit, but the line I've bolded should be clearer. It seems pretty obvious that Apple could be required to turn over decrypted data (such as backed up messages) stored on their servers, and they should come right out an say that because a lot of people won't understand that:

So unlike other companies' messaging services, Apple doesn't scan your communications, and we wouldn't be able to comply with a wiretap order even if we wanted to. While we do back up iMessage and SMS messages for your convenience using iCloud Backup, you can turn it off whenever you want. And we don't store FaceTime calls on any servers.

What is the default? Anything that stores or transmits plaintext in a manner accessible by a third party should be opt IN, not opt out, because most people won't understand the implications but fall for the marketing hype about security.

Starting with the iPhone 5, the iPhone actually has 3 built-in microphones. They are used to improve intelligibility during phone calls, but unfortunately on iOS an app can't record from multiple microphones directly (i.e. by getting 2- or 3-channel PCM sample data). I'm not sure how this is for Android phones. (Disclaimer: I'm the developer of the Sleep Cycle Sonalarm Clock app that I've referenced in the post.)

I've read on a German website about the UW prototype that it requires a smartphone that can record from two microphones at the same time, so this probably solves the directional discrimination. The UW prototype uses 18-20 kHz which most adults can't hear. I know the iPhone's frequency range and it goes right up to 20 kHz for both playback and recording (disclaimer: I'm the developer of the Sonalarm app that I've referenced in the post and my app uses the 18.5 - 20 kHz range, IIRC).

Yes, I would rather you complain about those. They sound legitimate.

If I were making a language, I would strongly consider making whitespace work the way Python does (to enforce readable indenting standards), with the addition that mixing tabs and spaces is a syntax error, so you don't get those literally invisible bugs. I might even consider having both curly braces and meaningful whitespace: the level of indentation would act as a checksum on the correct number of open curly braces.

This is because bad indenting (aka bad use of whitespace) is also a common source of hard-to-find bugs. The famous "goto fail" bug is an example of a bug that is fairly common, and is actually resolved by meaningful whitespace. I imagine it was probably introduced from a merge conflict resolution, and then overlooked because it doesn't jump out at you unless you're looking for it. And also because the indentation in that file is a mess that only looks right if you set tabs to equal exactly four spaces, eliminating the one legitimate minor advantage of tabs over spaces. I mean, look at this: http://opensource.apple.com/so...

I'd also genuinely like to learn more about how anonymous functions are crippled by whitespace.

Adblocking is coming to the iPhone with iOS 9

The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iPhones and iPads.

With the roll-out of iOS 9, Apple is giving app developers an easy way to create mobile ad blockers for Safari on iPhones and iPads. The new "Content Blocking" feature allows developers to pass a JSON file with a set of rules for images, popups, cookies, resources and other elements in Safari.

Sources like The Next Web point out that such a feature would allow ad blocking and privacy apps "to exist on iOS for the first time since launch".

On the other hand the Marketing Land warns that this move "could chip away at Google's and other ad networks' mobile ad revenue from iOS devices", NiemanLab calls it "a blow for mobile advertising" and Cult of Mac asks if that is a good thing and proposes as an answer:

Is that a good thing? Well, maybe for the average user, for a period of time. But when you block ads on the web, you prevent content providers from earning any revenue from them. If we all did that, our favorite sites would have to find other sources of revenue, or stop supplying content altogether.

I have no idea why, in a technical and privacy oriented forum as ours, the focus of the accepted submission was not on the fact that this is an "Adblocker app enabler" move instead of a "Google killer move".

The funny thing is that Apple doesn't play that much (it does a little with iAds) in the ad game... but among the big tech companies, they are by far the most profitable.

If the ad wars get too hot and heavy, with every new desktop computer winding up like a Bonzi-Buddy Windows ME box, there may just be a mass exodus to Macs. People in the past paid big bucks for an entry level desktop computer, and if driven to, they might do the same now, leaving the only people on the ad platforms the people who don't have the cash to buy stuff.

What "big bucks?" You're just feeding into the "Apple Tax" myth.

Assuming you have a reasonable monitor and USB keyboard/mouse kicking around, you can get an entry-level Mac mini for $500. The slashdotters will whine about 5400 RPM drive this, and "only" Dual-Core that; but as an Entry-Level computer, it is plenty powerful enough.

And even if you have to purchase a monitor, keyboard and mouse, you only have to add about $125 to get both of those from third-party vendors. So, for $625, you have a nice little Mac desktop.

And if you want to pop for more memory (which I might, although my 2013 MBP seems to get along just fine in Mavericks with "only" 4GB and a 5400RPM drive. I have even done live simultaneous 16 track recordings in Logic Pro with that configuration), then the cost would be a relatively paltry $200 more, and that buys you twice the RAM (8GB vs. 4), nearly twice the CPU speed (2.6GHz v. 1.4), and double the HD (1TB vs. 500GB). That's a lot of "upgrade" for $200. And of course, there are even more BTO refinements available, too.

And at the end of it, you'll have a computer that is pretty damned fast (for an entry-level system), deadly silent, so small it almost qualifies as a portable, and which runs the world's most elegant OS (the window-management alone is so great that it isn't funny), and which, if you want, can easily run nearly any other OS, too, should the need or desire arise.

Yes, I know that you can build up an Intel cue-type system; but then, that doesn't solve the real issue: Windows.

And I'm not going to get into the whole "Hackintosh" situation; because, at the core, that involves stealing OS X.

Would you like to upgrade to Quicktime pro with that?

Yeah, sure, we know you just dropped 4500 on a shiny workstation; but c'mon, QuickTime pro, man!

That's what, $30, one time, to offset the cost of some CODECS? But yeah, I never liked that, either. Fortunately, Apple isn't really serious about it, and so it is very easy to find "Pro" keys that Apple never seems to blacklist.

And does QuickTime X even do that anymore? Nope. So for the vast majority of casual users, it's a non-issue. The forced adverts thing is looking to be something that could possibly affect all Windows 10 users. BIG difference!

But the QuickTime -> QuickTime X transition was one of the most badly-bungled things that Apple has ever done, IMHO.

But that still doesn't hold a candle to force-feeding adverts to your Desktop directly ! No way, no how is that equivalent.

Placing the ads on our machines directly is a bullshit move. How about we protect our fucking privacy by not having this shit on our machines in the first place.

I agree! Here's how to start.

And what exactly is faster? They don't say

Actually, yes they do. In the keynote and on their web page. http://www.apple.com/osx/elcap...

"Companies open source code only when they feel that they cannot make money from the code itself."

This is a lie. There are lots of reasons code is open sourced.

Sometimes it's to help standardize communications
ex: BSD licensed TCP/IP stack which was borrowed and adapted for many OSes including windows
ex: webkit released by Apple which was later used by Chrome et al.

This time, it's likely to encourage developers to learn Swift which although may be used to write code for other platforms will most likely encourage more devs to write code specifically for Apple while also helping Apple improve Swift as it evolves. This means more software will likely be written for Apple than would not be if they didn't open source it. It's a win for them financially in the long run.

As for the open source business model, who gives a crap? Who said that open source had to be a business model? Apple is primarily a hardware company. They sell devices at a premium and generally provide the software free or dirt cheap. Much of the base of their systems is open source. OS X is based on Darwin. It uses the CUPS printer system, too. Apple has open sourced a LOT of its internal software and used a lot of open source code as the basis for its products. They even brag about it:
https://www.apple.com/opensour...

  Do you think Apple software developers aren't paid for their work? How are they devalued or diminished as Apple open sources their work? I'm fairly certain they're still on the payroll even decades after their work was released to open source. Darwin went open source 15 years ago. Apple made money by giving away source code (like webkit - it helped standardize the web beyond IE and mozilla to make Safari a stronger IE replacement and OS X a stronger alternative to Windows.)

I feel like I should call the Waaambulance because you feel like you deserve higher pay because a company chose not to exploit your work for the maximum dollar value and pass some of that along to you.

As for the quality of code in closed vs open source and the responsiveness of the dev teams -- that varies from project to project and company to company anyway. It varies too wildly to even make a generalization. I've seen some crap code from major vendors and I've seen support discontinued unceremoniously as well.

Funny how after all that fear-mongering it ended up being Apple who is dominating personal computing with drab gray/black/white computers, tablets and phones where everybody has the same in a 1984-style.

The 1980's and 1990's were dominated by PCs that came in one color and one color only: beige. If you don't like the current monochromatic regime, visit an Apple Store to see the new color scheme of gold, silver and space gray.

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios9-... Compatibility at the bottom.

Frankly, I can't get how so many people still want to pay so much for an OS, when you can just download one for free...

Yosemite is free. Always has been. El Capitan is almost certain to be free, as well.

Honest question. I want to know.

Because I run Linux on VMs when I'm trying to do platform-specific work (and, as a core developer for a library with rather a lot of platform-dependent - and platform-OS-version-dependent - code implementing those attempting-to-be-mostly-platform-independent APIs, there's a fair bit of that involved).

As a result, I want to spend as little time as possible dicking with the OS, leaving as much time as possible to actually adding new capabilities and fixing bugs. Ubuntu seems to do a good job of that; if you have another distribution to recommend for this, please do. Note that, whilst I haven't yet had to do any kernel work (other people fixed the kernel issues before I got around to building a kernel with my changes), I'd like a distribution where the process of building and installing a new kernel is as simple a process as possible. Fedora fails here. (In the OS on which I last did kernel work, it's pretty much

make; mv /mach_kernel /mach_kernel.save; cp mach_kernel /; reboot

and it was, as I remember, similarly simple in the previous UN*X on which I did kernel work.)

FTFS: "prices for consumers have dropped to an average of $91.55 for a 128GB SSD and $164.34 for a 256GB SSD"

Perhaps I'm missing something, but why would an additional 256 GB flash cost $300 and an additional 768 GB cost $800 when you buy a 15" MacBook Pro? Or perhaps there's a boardroom in Cupertino where they're laughing and shoveling money the whole day :D

All the other cloud products Apple has work in exactly the same way as their competitors do: you upload unencrypted documents to Apple, who then store and process them for you.

Incorrect.

Data uploaded to iCloud is end-to-end encrypted, and Apple does NOT have the key, and if they are not lying, nor do they have a backdoor: They key (no pun) is that the iCloud Keychain is also encrypted, and Apple does NOT have the key. See here. After examining the Table, skip down to where it talks about the "iCloud Keychain".

Also, there is this stated policy, which seems pretty strong to me. Notice it emphasises that Apple has no backdoors in its encyption.

And for Macs, there is FileVault2, for which Apple also does not have they keys.

I'd say that Apple really is serious about protecting your privacy, even from Apple itself, let alone the gummint.

All the other cloud products Apple has work in exactly the same way as their competitors do: you upload unencrypted documents to Apple, who then store and process them for you.

Incorrect.

Data uploaded to iCloud is end-to-end encrypted, and Apple does NOT have the key, and if they are not lying, nor do they have a backdoor: They key (no pun) is that the iCloud Keychain is also encrypted, and Apple does NOT have the key. See here. After examining the Table, skip down to where it talks about the "iCloud Keychain".

Also, there is this stated policy, which seems pretty strong to me. Notice it emphasises that Apple has no backdoors in its encyption.

And for Macs, there is FileVault2, for which Apple also does not have they keys.

I'd say that Apple really is serious about protecting your privacy, even from Apple itself, let alone the gummint.

The cost of implementing all of the power management for the optional 100W facilities will be non-trivial. Substantially more than barrel jack expecting a voltage a bit higher than the laptop's battery voltage. Posh laptops may support what you suggest but I doubt it will be a universal feature.

I'm confused, are you meaning that creating the power supply would be difficult or the internals of the laptop would be difficult? Because both of those exist already (granted, not necessarily at 100W), as evidence by a few different products. It took a while for USB 3 to come to budget oriented devices as well.

The cost of implementing all of the power management for the optional 100W facilities will be non-trivial. Substantially more than barrel jack expecting a voltage a bit higher than the laptop's battery voltage. Posh laptops may support what you suggest but I doubt it will be a universal feature.

I'm confused, are you meaning that creating the power supply would be difficult or the internals of the laptop would be difficult? Because both of those exist already (granted, not necessarily at 100W), as evidence by a few different products. It took a while for USB 3 to come to budget oriented devices as well.

I grew up with UNIX, POSIX, SCO (long before Sun and Oracle), etc... I actually *like* Windows, I like Linux and even Unix too...

I have used Windows, through various jobs, since about 1989; so it is not through lack of experience that I revile Windows as much as I do.

And if you don't particularly like OS X's GUI, take a trip to the most-excellent Terminal app; where you will find your old POSIX friends there waiting, man pages outstretched, ready to do your bidding. You can even load an officially-sanctioned X11 up and use one of those god-forsaken Linux GUIs, like KDE, if you wish! ;-)

Give me a motherfucking break! By THOSE STANDARDS there hasn't been a Windows bug since the fricking Melissa worm...but the sane world doesn't go by "self replicating" as the standard for a bug, now do they?

MacDefender, MacGuardian,hell OSX even has the FBI bug so don't give us this "self replicating" bullshit, nobody cares whether the virus that steals their fucking ID or CC info is self replicating or not!

Hairyfeet: All I was trying to avoid by using the "Self-Replicating" criteria was the mention of Trojans, which any sane person would agree are a problem for any OS that allows users to install software (i.e., all OSes, including (but not limited to) OS X, Linux and Windows). At least OS X (and now Windows) makes it pretty hard to install stuff as root (Administrator in Windows); but I also understand that that is cold-comfort to the USER who has unwittingly installed malware under their own Account.

MacDefender, MacGuardian, FBI Bug, you name it, they are ALL Trojans. But even by those standards, Wikipedia only lists SEVEN OS X "malwares".

So, essentially, compared with Windows, and even Linux (which has a miniscule marketshare compared with OS X), Macs do not get viruses. Maybe Windows doesn't now, either. But nearly everyone on Slashdot agrees, Trojans aren't viruses, per se. And since OS X has a modicum of "AV" code and anti-malware measures built-in, the need to install cycle-stealing AV packages still seems very minimal.

Music apps pass the stream off to iOS to keep playing while they are suspended. iOS briefly wakes the app near the end of the stream in order to allow it to pass a new stream. iOS will wake an app using the GPS with location updates in order to allow the app to make notifications as required. VOIP and messaging apps are woken up when a message or call comes in. How all of this works is very well documented. Are you saying that what's described in Apple's own documentation is patently untrue?

Well, never mind the fact that he was talking about the origin of the term (well before Mac OS X), there is in fact a type code in Mac OS X. Although it's deprecated, it's part of HFS and won't go away unless Apple stops using the filesystem.

Given the number of complaints on the Apple forums and the fact that not only do I have it on my iPhone 6 but five friends that I know personally with iPhone's ranging from 4s up and running IOS 6,7 or 8 are all experiencing it I would have to say you are the exception rather than the rule.

I also have one friend who was brave enough to use the "Hairdryer heat trick" to get the wi-fi working on his 4s again after upgrading to IOS 7; if you've never heard of this the see this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and read the comments about how many people tried this and it worked. Please note that Apple has never really had much to say about this and disavows the heat trick; you can also see some discussion of it here https://discussions.apple.com/....

It'd be awesome if Apple got on board with USB-C.

Licensed application end user license agreement

Microsoft End User License Agreement

http://www.apple.com/productiv...

Not perfect, but definitely better than PPT.

A drunken beer shart is better than PPT.

http://www.apple.com/productiv...

Not perfect, but definitely better than PPT.

What exactly is stopping an app developer for using http or https as a custom scheme?

The fact that Safari has already grabbed it. Apple's Inter-App Communication page states: "The handlers for these schemes are fixed and cannot be changed. If your URL type includes a scheme that is identical to one defined by Apple, the Apple-provided app is launched instead of your app."

I'd also like to see an update to the iPod shuffle. A tiny e-ink indicator (bars, dots, whatever) to know the battery life in 20% increments.

Didn't they just update the shuffle with a OLED screen and a band?

http://apple.com/watch