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But then there are graphing calculator apps like... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-graphing-calculator/id378009553?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/graphing-calculator-hd/id374274107?mt=8 and Mathlab's pretty good, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.mathlab.android&hl=en So I guess, iPad and android tablets do more than a graphing calculator. Did Phil Nicols get '''something''' from TI to say that a computer is less educational than a calculator?

But then there are graphing calculator apps like... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-graphing-calculator/id378009553?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/graphing-calculator-hd/id374274107?mt=8 and Mathlab's pretty good, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.mathlab.android&hl=en So I guess, iPad and android tablets do more than a graphing calculator. Did Phil Nicols get '''something''' from TI to say that a computer is less educational than a calculator?

What's hellish? With a bluetooth keyboard and Python for iOS learning to program is quite easy.

"On March 17, 2003, Lord Goldsmith, Attorney General of the UK, set out his government's legal justification for an invasion of Iraq. He said that Security Council resolution 678 authorised force against Iraq, which was suspended but not terminated by resolution 687, which imposed continuing obligations on Iraq to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction. A material breach of resolution 687 would revive the authority to use force under resolution 678. In resolution 1441 the Security Council determined that Iraq was in material breach of resolution 687 because it had not fully carried out its obligations to disarm. Although resolution 1441 had given Iraq a final chance to comply, UK Attorney General Goldsmith wrote "it is plain that Iraq has failed so to comply"."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#Legal_justification

I for one do not trust our governments to tell me the truth, or engage in wars unless necessary anymore.

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Clearly you did just as much trivial research as the "journalist" who wrote the article: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/basic!/id362411238?mt=8

You can't make a BASIC interpreter App and get it listed on the Apple store, for folks to download.

Shhhh! Don't tell these guys because they don't know that-- they went ahead and wrote a BASIC interpreter for iPad in 2010 and it's now up to version 3.5.

There are also Ruby and Python interpreters available too and Pythonista is also a fully featured development environment.

rob.

You can't make a BASIC interpreter App and get it listed on the Apple store, for folks to download.

Shhhh! Don't tell these guys because they don't know that-- they went ahead and wrote a BASIC interpreter for iPad in 2010 and it's now up to version 3.5.

There are also Ruby and Python interpreters available too and Pythonista is also a fully featured development environment.

rob.

You can't make a BASIC interpreter App and get it listed on the Apple store, for folks to download.

Shhhh! Don't tell these guys because they don't know that-- they went ahead and wrote a BASIC interpreter for iPad in 2010 and it's now up to version 3.5.

There are also Ruby and Python interpreters available too and Pythonista is also a fully featured development environment.

rob.

Any app that provides programmability is not allowed....

Incorrect:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hewlett-packard-15c-scientific/id503720774?mt=8

They're going to be re-selling used Apple stuff...Jobs would have hated that.

They've been selling refurbs on the Apple store for years.....
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals

Throw them away? - they don't want people buying "old" iThingies, do they, that reduces the market for new ones. How green is that.

Apple has been selling refurbs for years. I first bought a refurb 60GB iPod in 2006.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals

From what I can tell, this sounds like it's just an expansion of the Apple Recycling Program to allow iPhones to be traded in at retail locations, so I'm guessing they'll process them how they have since they started the program up a number of years ago: give you a gift card for the fair market value of the product and then recycle it if they can't refurbish/reuse it. Those links provide information and details that you're looking for, but to provide a quick quote from their pages:

When you recycle with Apple, your used equipment is disassembled, and key components that can be reused are removed. Glass and metal can be reprocessed for use in new products. A majority of the plastics can be pelletized into a raw secondary material. With materials reprocessing and component reuse, Apple often achieves a 90 percent recovery rate by weight of the original product.

So yeah, that's all stuff that they've been doing for a long time, and information on it is readily available.

Really, the only thing new here is that you can do this in-store now. Previously, Apple would ship a prepaid box to you and you'd ship them back your iPhone. iPods were the only devices that could be traded in at Apple retail locations for credit towards the purchase of a new device. Now iPhones can be as well, it seems. Kinda non-news, if you ask me, since this is a program that's been around for years, but for some reason it's making the rounds on all the Mac news sites. Must be a slow news day.

From what I can tell, this sounds like it's just an expansion of the Apple Recycling Program to allow iPhones to be traded in at retail locations, so I'm guessing they'll process them how they have since they started the program up a number of years ago: give you a gift card for the fair market value of the product and then recycle it if they can't refurbish/reuse it. Those links provide information and details that you're looking for, but to provide a quick quote from their pages:

When you recycle with Apple, your used equipment is disassembled, and key components that can be reused are removed. Glass and metal can be reprocessed for use in new products. A majority of the plastics can be pelletized into a raw secondary material. With materials reprocessing and component reuse, Apple often achieves a 90 percent recovery rate by weight of the original product.

So yeah, that's all stuff that they've been doing for a long time, and information on it is readily available.

Really, the only thing new here is that you can do this in-store now. Previously, Apple would ship a prepaid box to you and you'd ship them back your iPhone. iPods were the only devices that could be traded in at Apple retail locations for credit towards the purchase of a new device. Now iPhones can be as well, it seems. Kinda non-news, if you ask me, since this is a program that's been around for years, but for some reason it's making the rounds on all the Mac news sites. Must be a slow news day.

You've never seen the refurbished link on their site?

If you haven't, here's where they sell refurbished equipment, and, yes, selling refurbished Macs, at least, predated Jobs's death.

Look at their aquisitions:

Sendia (April 2006)[8] – now Force.com Mobile
Kieden (August 2006)[9] – now Salesforce for Google AdWords
Kenlet (January 2007) – original product CrispyNews used at Salesforce IdeaExchange[10] and Dell IdeaStorm[11] – now relaunched as Salesforce Ideas
Koral (March 2007) – now Salesforce Content
Instranet (August 2008) – now re-branded to Salesforce Knowledge
GroupSwim (December 2009) – now part of Salesforce Chatter
Informavores (December 2009)[12] – now re-branded to Visual Workflow
Jigsaw Data Corp. (April 2010),[13] – now known as Data.com
Sitemasher (June 2010) – now known as Site.com
Navajo Security (August 2011)[14]
Activa Live Chat (September 2010) – now known as Salesforce Live Agent[15]
Heroku (December 2010)[16]
Etacts (December 2010)[17]
Dimdim (January 2011)[18]
Manymoon (February 2011) – now known as Do.com[3]
Radian6 (March 2011)[19]
Assistly (September 21, 2011) – now known as Desk.com[20]
Model Metrics (November 2011)[21]
Rypple (December 2011)[22] – now known as Work.com
Stypi (May 2012)[23]
Buddy Media (May 2012) for US$689 million[24][25]
ChoicePass (June 2012)[26]
Thinkfuse (June 2012)[27]
BlueTail (July 2012) – now part of Data.com[28]
GoInstant (July 2012) for US$70 million [29]
clipboard.com (May 2013) for US$12 million [30]
ExactTarget (announced June 4, 2013) for US$2.5 billion[31]
EdgeSpring (June 7, 2013)[32]
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce.com#Acquisitions

I can see why they need to 'reduce overlapping roles'!

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There is a major OS upgrade for iOS coming out then too. http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/
Those iCloud features are probably important as well as other ties to the desktop.

Here's my summary of TFA:

1. Developer previews of Mavericks are available for developers to look at

2. Each DP is more stable than the previous one.

3. It feels faster than 10.8

4. < List of Mavericks features that is less comprehensive and detailed than this list >

Mavericks is a great upgrade for your machine.
http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/advanced-technologies.html

Mavericks has an app nap feature that automatically slows apps down that are completely hidden and a Safari Power Saver feature.

Overall your machine will hopefully use LESS resources than it currently does with better performance for those apps your actually using (i.e. in the foreground).

"From January 2008 to September 2010, Elop worked for Microsoft as the head of the Business Division, responsible for the Microsoft Office and Microsoft Dynamics line of products, and as a member of the company's senior leadership team. It was during this time that Microsoft's Business Division released Office 2010.
In September 2010, it was announced that Elop would take Nokia's CEO position, replacing Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, and becoming the first non-Finnish director in Nokia's history. On March 11, 2011 Nokia announced that it had paid Elop a $6 million signing bonus, “compensation for lost income from his prior employer," on top of his $1.4 million annual salary."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop

I think he will do just fine leading Microsoft!

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Apple (R) is registered by a certain company. It doesn't stop other things from being named "apple".

I find their tools much more fun to use anyway. https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/mac/index.action If you have never given xcode a try give it a spin.

Fact is: iPhone sales are growing. iPhone share of the phone market is growing. Mac share of the computer market is growing.

If you write *FACT* at the front you back it up with figures. iPhone share at the market is the lowest in years http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24257413 Last three quarters 21%,17%,13%. The mac sales are down -22% -2% -7% YonY over the last 3 quarters. Figures from Apples own published results http://investor.apple.com/results.cfm

I think the word you were looking for is Fiction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiction

Just like has happened over and over and over again, as soon as the next president gets into office the funding will be cut and the program cancelled. The Moon missions were a fluke of timing and circumstances, and nothing so grand is likely to be repeated anytime soon. Space is now becoming the playground of capitalism rather than the purvey of the government, and I think NASA is going to become an obscure part of the space race within a few decades.

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In a way I think us CS/Engineering types are particularly poorly equipped to understand complex system problems like biology and climate since we're used to being given a complex system and having it based on a simple elegant design, and when we want to perform an experiment it's trivial to tweak and repeat it through every variation we can imagine.

I'll agree to a point - certainly there's an assumption, particularly in the AI community, that you can build intelligence out of dumb parts, and model neurons like petri nets or simple gates - that's just hubris talking. Great set of lectures on that: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/cognitive-ubiquity-evolution/id464839816

That being said, I'm not just talking about discrete simulations (as Wolfram has made particularly interesting finds in cellular automata), I'm talking about real world root cause failures in complex, integrated, man/logic/machine settings (which, do include a biological component of sorts). You cannot hope to find the truth in an analysis of a real-world system (again, not just some pre-programmed simulation, real computers doing real work with real people), without falsifiability.

The one thing that evolution would predict for hunger is that it wouldn't have a simple solution, it would be a complex one with many different inputs and factors, that's one of the reasons it's hard to manipulate.

Certainly hunger would be a complex one, but even in a complex system, you have first, second, third, etc order effects. Furthermore, as you noted, biology generally leads to extremely robust systems, and a system that ignored muscle starvation due to visual stimulation is distinctly *not* robust. The muscle cells can be considered as intelligent actors, just as intelligent as any bit of brain tissue, and they simply cannot be considered a lower order term.

And so in the end, I think you're making the same mistake you're pointing out here - you're treating a large, complex system, as dictated to by a single organ as a first order effect (i.e., it's all in your brain). In fact, biology is *filled* with intelligence, even down to the cellular level, and a robust system simply wouldn't make "tastiness" it's primary directive - that's not robust by any means. It *is* rational to think that cellular intelligence would be concerned with things like protecting from toxic levels of glucose in tissues and the blood stream, and sufficient energy to survive, and the complex failure of the system to maintain a healthy weight (in order to survive in the short term), is quite neatly explained by the insulin and differential insulin resistance mechanism as a *first order* term.

No it isn't open source. They haven't released their code in a long long time.

10.8.4 is the latest and is available: http://opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1084/

Note you should expect a few months delay between release of a new version of MacOS X and release of the open source components on this site, but up until now they have always delivered.

They released sources of components(not even sure if all), but there you can't find the kernel. At least I didn't see it...

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf

You're welcome! :)

So that high starch high sugar culture was actually lean off eating a lot of fructose so there goes another mechanism.

I think the question is "what is different from honey than other sources of fructose, like fruit juices without the pulp" - and again, your "high starch high sugar" culture was really a "low glycemic, high fructose culture", so again, the model fits.

Except they were also eating a lot of berries, starchy tubors, and fruit.

I find it hard to believe they were actually low glycemic. And the other culture eating white sugar sweetened beverages along with fruits. The model doesn't fit.

When faced with a complex system like biology starting from the ground up is going backwards.

So we start with God, and work backwards from there? Watch this series, especially lecture 2 regarding cells: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/cognitive-ubiquity-evolution/id464839816

Sorry, not bothering. And I have no idea what you're talking about with the god thing.

You start by observing the system, seeing how it responds to various stimuli, and then you start working out how the low level mechanisms work in that system.

You don't start with a low level mechanism (like insulin), decide the role it must play, they build up your understanding around it then start making excuses when things don't apply.

You're creating a caricature of my position. Insulin is the mechanism for fat accumulation. Differential insulin resistance is the mechanism for insulin causing obesity, gluttony and sloth. I'm open to the question "where does differential insulin resistance come from?"

It's not a caricature, you're convinced insulin resistance is the driver of obesity and if something like sugar or starch isn't correlated with obesity you add a new qualifier so you can still blame insulin resistance.

I simply can't disagree more. An observational study shows you nothing - you've got to approach it with clear, falsifiable, foundational mechanisms to determine causality.

And I think maybe that's your essential beef - you're angry with Taubes because he's approached the problem from one direction, and you're *positive* that it must be approached from the other.

You can disagree but you'll be wrong.

You naturally want to understand the foundational mechanisms as well as you can, but if you want to understand the system you have to actually study the system, otherwise you'll never understand how that mechanism works in that system.

And it has nothing to do with my beef with Taubes, I only realized he was making this mistake recently. My actual beef is he's ignored decades of very high quality research and knowledge in favour of a pet theory they already studied, and soundly discarded. And he's done it using some very dodgy methods, both intellectually, and in presenting his data.

There's a reason the nutrition community thinks he's a crank, it's because he fits the definition.

So that high starch high sugar culture was actually lean off eating a lot of fructose so there goes another mechanism.

I think the question is "what is different from honey than other sources of fructose, like fruit juices without the pulp" - and again, your "high starch high sugar" culture was really a "low glycemic, high fructose culture", so again, the model fits.

When faced with a complex system like biology starting from the ground up is going backwards.

So we start with God, and work backwards from there? Watch this series, especially lecture 2 regarding cells: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/cognitive-ubiquity-evolution/id464839816

That's the fundamental problem with your position, insulin is basically the one mechanism you know, so everything basically happens as a result of insulin.

You're creating a caricature of my position. Insulin is the mechanism for fat accumulation. Differential insulin resistance is the mechanism for insulin causing obesity, gluttony and sloth. I'm open to the question "where does differential insulin resistance come from?"

Given a complex system with multiple confounders you need to approach it observationally.

I simply can't disagree more. An observational study shows you nothing - you've got to approach it with clear, falsifiable, foundational mechanisms to determine causality.

And I think maybe that's your essential beef - you're angry with Taubes because he's approached the problem from one direction, and you're *positive* that it must be approached from the other.

"There are two main methods for determining voluntary consent: "opt in" (only those who have given explicit consent are donors) and "opt out" (anyone who has not refused is a donor). Opt-out legislative systems dramatically increase effective rates of consent for donation. For example, Germany, which uses an opt-in system, has an organ donation consent rate of 12% among its population, while Austria, a country with a very similar culture and economic development, but which uses an opt-out system, has a consent rate of 99.98%."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation

How is an opt-out system for prisoners any different from the general populace?

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No it isn't open source. They haven't released their code in a long long time.

10.8.4 is the latest and is available: http://opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1084/

Note you should expect a few months delay between release of a new version of MacOS X and release of the open source components on this site, but up until now they have always delivered.

MacOS X's core OS is open source. You can download the kernel and recompile it and swap yours in if you want to, and all the standard user space stuff is basically FreeBSD.

Also, it is a certified UNIX 03 operating system, so it is more "UNIX" than Linux, which is what I assume you're comparing it to.

Just to provide a link to make life easy (source is available up to 10.8.4 and includes BSD licensed stuff. Code for the UI level is not provided.):

http://opensource.apple.com/

and some documentation to backup what you are saying:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/OSX_Technology_Overview/SystemTechnology/SystemTechnology.html

With regards to Darwin, there are two related sites:
  - http://darwinbuild.macosforge.org/
  - http://www.puredarwin.org/

MacOS X's core OS is open source. You can download the kernel and recompile it and swap yours in if you want to, and all the standard user space stuff is basically FreeBSD.

Also, it is a certified UNIX 03 operating system, so it is more "UNIX" than Linux, which is what I assume you're comparing it to.

Just to provide a link to make life easy (source is available up to 10.8.4 and includes BSD licensed stuff. Code for the UI level is not provided.):

http://opensource.apple.com/

and some documentation to backup what you are saying:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/OSX_Technology_Overview/SystemTechnology/SystemTechnology.html

With regards to Darwin, there are two related sites:
  - http://darwinbuild.macosforge.org/
  - http://www.puredarwin.org/

It's "OS X" not "OS-X". It's also not a "variant". It is Unix.

a highly-modified closed-source BSD kernel is only reminiscent of unix.

For a closed source BSD kernel, it's remarkably easy to download from Apple's web site.
http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-2050.7.9/

Either that, or you'd be wrong.... But no. That's totally crazy!

The real reason for those guidelines is so that people can be certain your App Store software is 100% proprietary.

If they cared about viruses and privacy and safety and all that, then Facebook wouldn't have been approved.

"For a man whose singular vision alienated many – a point illustrated by Kutcher's straight-talking, temper-riddled reading of Jobs – those closest to him are barely given time to voice their concerns, let along develop as characters. Jobs's Apple co-founder, self-taught software whizz Steve "Woz" Wozniak (Josh Gad), already a vocal critic of the film, is presented as a mere backdrop. We learn little about Woz: where he came from, how he met Jobs, or what happened after he quit Apple, dissatisfied with the direction in which the company was heading."
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/28/sundance-festival-jobs-first-look-review

Heres a link to info about the film itself: Jobs (film).

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If it was under warranty you could have them do the work for free.

"the AppleCare Protection Plan for notebook computers does not cover batteries that have failed or are exhibiting diminished capacity except when the failure or diminished capacity is the result of a manufacturing defect" (source).

Apple recommends cycling the battery on their laptops occasionally. Apple Laptop Usage Recomendations.

I didn't know this and I almost always have my 15" MacBook Pro plugged in. Earlier this summer, on one of the rare occasions that I was using it unplugged, I noticed that on a full charge I had 15 minutes of battery life. I checked the battery stats, and it was reporting 9% health with only 23 cycles. Took the laptop into an Apple store to have them replace the battery. They did that and asked if I left it plugged in all the time. When I said yes, they told me to not do that. Unplug it and let it run down below 50% at least once a week.

Or are you calling my friend a liar?

Wow, overreact much? Not very Canadian of you :-)

I also live in Canada & I just went through this for my son's iPod....

Here is Apple's battery replacement policy from the Canadian portion of their website:
http://www.apple.com/ca/batteries/replacements.html
It indicates $99 + $10.77 shipping

However, the Canadian battery service site here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=servicefaq&geo=Canada&product=ipad
(Click Battery Replacement on the left, then "How much does iPad Battery Replacement Service cost?")
indicates $109 + $10.77 shipping, so it looks like prices are in flux a bit right now.

I am not calling your friend a liar, I am saying she is mistaken. She should be able to replace the battery for at most $120, and sell the iPad on Kijiji for a profit....

Hope the above helps!

Or are you calling my friend a liar?

Wow, overreact much? Not very Canadian of you :-)

I also live in Canada & I just went through this for my son's iPod....

Here is Apple's battery replacement policy from the Canadian portion of their website:
http://www.apple.com/ca/batteries/replacements.html
It indicates $99 + $10.77 shipping

However, the Canadian battery service site here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=servicefaq&geo=Canada&product=ipad
(Click Battery Replacement on the left, then "How much does iPad Battery Replacement Service cost?")
indicates $109 + $10.77 shipping, so it looks like prices are in flux a bit right now.

I am not calling your friend a liar, I am saying she is mistaken. She should be able to replace the battery for at most $120, and sell the iPad on Kijiji for a profit....

Hope the above helps!

Yes, I know that ARM based architectures are smaller and drains the battery less than any x86/x64 based one. But if the high resolution touch display was a such significant factor in battery life, then it would also be a significant factor for the iPad.

You just contradicted yourself. Battery life isn't either affected by CPU or display; both affect it. If an Air has both a power hungry processor and a power hungry display, both will drain the battery faster. Well Apple can't just switch the Air to an ARM processor; it wouldn't be a OS X laptop. Maybe in the future power from Intel will be much less. But not today.

As someone who does a lot of work with non-text graphics, I would gladly sacrifice some battery for a higher resolution display, as long as I can still get 4 or more hours which is the sweet spot for me to be without a charger.

Er? It's called a Retina Display MacBook Pro. It lasts 7 hours.

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This is nothing new, except for the specific technologies involved. Stores have been doing similar things for as long as they have existed. For example, years ago Walmart was identifying what demographics specific customers belonged to based on the way they walked on the store cameras, and Target was doing it based on their purchasing habits.

You simply cannot avoid being tracked in our modern world, and you have to go to a lot of effort to even minimize it. For the longest time I did not have a Facebook account, until I realized that Facebook already has a large entry in the database for me based on other people tagging my name and email and following me around with their huge tracking network embedded in half of all websites.

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Ok I actually tried to read the article and those links don't work. A low day for Slashdot editors.

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The description doesn't really say much, does it support posting? And if so, how?

They are both just companies doing the same stuff that companies normally do. None of it so far has really affected the consumers much. Neither of them is getting one up on the other either, so in the end they are just wasting their money. If people are unhappy with the way that corps work, we should be rallying to change the laws regulating them rather than wasting our energy debating the relative merits of common place aggressive troll lawsuits.

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Am I the only one who finds this truly frightning; that the photocopier has a bug in a sub system that is basically reading the content of the documents being photocopied? I didn't even know photocopiers did this normally. This is another prime example of how organizations like the NSA can theoretically get their fingers into cracks we didn't even know existed. I would never have thought that something I photocopy could be intercepted, but apparently it can. The bug part of this issue is just a small thing relative to the larger issue, IMHO!

By the way, I read in another comment about the new slashdot ipad app. I'm posting this comment from it. What a breath of fresh air compared to the slashdot mobile site!

That only works so long as you stay inside the walled garden and only do the things that Apple wants you to do. The moment you add one home movie into the mix it becomes a total mess.

Huh? I can add a home movie to an iOS device quite literally by drag and drop. Move it to that device in iTunes, done.

I can even edit home movies to a limited extent using Apple's formats: http://www.apple.com/apps/imovie/

Recent reports have suggested that some counterfeit and third party adapters may not be designed properly and could result in safety issues. While not all third party adapters have an issue, we are announcing a USB Power Adapter Takeback Program to enable customers to acquire properly designed adapters.

Apple does not acknowledge whether the charger in the death was counterfeit or third party or original.

The compact size of the Apple charger do cause some concerns. The distance between the USB connector and the transformer and buffer capacitor is very small. I wouldn't rule out that this wasn't caused by an original charger yet.

Er? Electricity flows through metal wires. Since metal is contacted to metal on the connector, it doesn't really matter distance does it?

Seriously? Do you also fault them for, without any cost to you at all, arranging to ship your old PC or phone directly from your front door to them so that they can recycle it for you and give you credit you can use towards future purchases? Because that is some seriously evil stuff they're doing, obviously. What greedy bastards they are!

*sigh*

Criticize them for the things that deserve criticism. Offering people a discount to possibly save lives while also currying good will when they're in a position where they don't have to do anything at all is not one of those times.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/freefall!/id416974946?ls=1&mt=8 perhaps??