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The compatibility matrix on this page suggests you are full of shit concerning AD2P. Every IOS product listed except the original iPhone has AD2P.

You're a mucking foron.

OS X is based on UNIX. If you want to go full scale old style commandline UNIX, just open up Terminal and do all your work there. I do.

You can even download the opensource freebsd based kernel here: http://opensource.apple.com/

Cool, where can I download the source and compile my own build without the spying/advertising?

You just use the provided Apple OS builds since they don't spy or provide advertising details, if you've switched that option off in settings.

Surely someone as technically "knowledgeable" as yourself can find a settings switch?

Or you hook into the OS services and block anything you like.

the core OS is open source and can be operated without any link to Apple/iTunes/App Store etc, right?

Yes

you are in an arms race with Apple who keep trying to disable the exploits

Not really, they only disable remote exploits. Tethered jailbreaks they do not care about because they draw ideas (and sometimes hire people) from the jailbreak community.

Again, none of that is an issue... if you are actually a technical user who wants low level access.

That was just an example for Slashdot using completely made up temperature numbers. If the boot of an Aussiewagon can climb to 70C, then select the fasteners to pop at 80C. Or instead of temperature, have them pop with non-toxic common solvents, like fresh water to release the circuit boards, salt water to release stainless steel, and vinegar to release the ABS plastics. Or maybe have the rivets contain an antifreeze that would expand and burst the connectors if it's frozen below -40C. You could have a ring with a pull-tab that would yank out the disassembling connectors in the proper order. You could even bind the product with nichrome wire, and have a series of electrical connection points that would melt fusible key fasteners in the proper order. There are dozens of ways this could be done electrically, mechanically, or using temperatures or chemicals. Using varying melting temperatures of thermoplastics would be nice because they would keep the process simple (plastic rivets are really cheap, and it would require almost no technology to slowly roast a product over heat to reclaim the materials), but other methods might work as well.

The product could also simply be labeled: "Store the device where the temperature is between -20 and 45 C (-4 to 113 F). Don’t leave the device in your car, because temperatures in parked cars can exceed this range." That seems to work well enough for Apple, as that's exactly the line from their support page on the subject: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT2101 In other words, if you cooked it it's your problem.

I'd like a keyboard printed hash # (alt-3, replaced on keyboard with £) but both UK Apple keyboards in front of me have () [] {} ?

http://www.apple.com/keyboard/

There was a time in April 2010 when Apple changed the App Store Review Guidelines to ban all languages other than Objective-C and C++ as an effort to keep Adobe from offering AIR, its tool to package Flash applications as iPhone apps. When this policy was in effect, MonoTouch would have been banned, and the developers of Unity 3D were even porting the library to allow writing a game in Objective-C. Such a game would share no code with the same game for other platforms, making it yet another DRY violation induced by a platform gatekeeper. Apple reversed this policy two months later after it became clear that this banned the use of Lua for game logic and dropped all language restrictions the following September.

2004: 42lbs

You are confused.

30" 2560x1600 LCD displays were released in 2004.

You're in luck. The mac mini has two memory slots and can use up to 16 GB.

This is not what Apple does. Safari has an option in the main preferences pane to enable "Show Develop menu in menu bar". For the past several years, Safari's developer tools have been the most advanced. Other browsers, especially Chrome, have mimicked their GUI and toolset albeit as a dumbed-down implementation.

Have you ever tried multitouch on a 1.5" device?
Much less touch?

Touch, yes, on the iPod Nano 6th gen, and it's surprisingly good. You can get watch straps for these little square nanos.

Wow. Ironically Apple could have manufactured themselves under Steve Jobs regime but instead chose through cost saving go elsewhere(Samsung).

Manufactured what? Chips? Apple never did that, and I'm not sure it would have made sense for them to own Their Very Own Foundry. LCD panels? See previous comment. Systems? Samsung doesn't do that for Apple, an assortment of companies, most but not all Chinese/Taiwanese, do so (although that page claims some company named "Apple" also assembles Macs in Cork, so they're probably Irish :-)).

Now thousands of patents are on various hardware components by various Korean and Chinese companies....with Apple having relatively few design & interface patents,

Just out of curiosity, has anybody trawled through various patent databases to get numbers on that? Apple has a number of patents (at least in a quick US Patent Office search, looking for "Apple" in the assignee name and "Cupertino" in the assignee city, the number is 6581), and pulling out the hardware patents might be a bit of work. The same applies to the Korean and Chinese/Taiwanese companies, but you then have to pull out the relevant hardware patents; for example, U.S. Patent 8,471,469, assigned to Samsung, is probably not particularly relevant unless we start putting plasma displays into laptops, tablets, or smartphones.

At least Dell finally got to say I told you so.

No, not yet. Maybe at some time he'll be able to say that, although it'll be interesting to see where Dell Computer is at that point.

You mean like this? http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/05/programming-language-for-kids-banned-from-apple-app-store118

Ok lets see what a kid wanting to program on iOS needs to do.

1) Needs a relatively expensive Mac to even start. What chance is there that parents are going to buy one(if they don't have one) just because little Jimmy may want to dip their feet in programming, which may finally end up in nothing? Pretty close to zero. The cheapest Mac starts at $599 for a weak device on which Xcode lags.
2) Needs an Apple developer ID for which they need to be atleast 13 years ago and $99/yr subscription to test apps on their iOS device. Fat chance that many parents are going to get those for a kid who are known to get bored pretty quick.

You've gotten your steps wrong

Here's what a kid wanting to program on iOS needs to do:

1) Download codea on their iPad for ten bucks
2) write a program in LUA
3) run the program on their iPad
4) repeat as desired

http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/codify/id439571171?ls=1&mt=8

Easy peasy.

What's even better is that if they make something they is worthwhile then they can sign up to be an apple iOS developer and release their program on the App Store. Or they can just share their code for others to download and use.

TFA talks about software and resources. But beyond that, and the copious amount of educational software available on the App Store, there's Apple's interactive textbooks technology and content. The iPad is the best platform for education content these days.

http://www.apple.com/education/ipad/

If iPhone used USB, then you wouldn't need one of these.

Learn to read. He said 'violent or adult oriented' ... Half of his supposition would be games like Resident Evil, which runs on X-Box, PS3 and more...

https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/resident-evil-4-lite/id349456923?mt=8

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/ipod_accessories/apple_tv

I cannot understand why year after year we have to bring this topic up... Gentlemen! Why can't you do your research and believe that Darwin is not based / founded on FreeBSD. Most of the Darwin / Mac OS X source code is from 386-BSD and not from the FreeBSD. Darwin Is a fork from 4.4 BSD fork 386-BSD fork made for NextStep. It's true it was updated with some of the components from the FreeBSD userland, but that is pretty minor.

So the page right on Apple's site, where it states:

Darwin 1.4.1 is the UNIX-based, open-source foundation of Mac OS X. It is based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0 technologies and provides...

is incorrect then?

Just in case anyone is interested, this is the Apple thread discussing LED eye strain

If you want to use IEEE1394, you need to pay... Apple.

That was true ... in 1998. Yes, we said it was stupid at $1/port and then stupid when they went with a flat fee. Eventually they got that. By time they bought Zayante for the PHY's this had all blown over.

https://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/agreements/firewire.html

Waiting for the inevitable mod-down by Apple fanboys who dont like the truth.

You can't just be wrong and them blame fanbois for calling you out on it.

If you're trying to call a USB ethernet adapter a dongle, then OK. In that case, the Ativ has 3 ethernet ports - one with the included dongle and 2 additional via USB. If you want to include a USB hub "dongle" it can have many more.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC704ZM/A/apple-usb-ethernet-adapter

Are we really going to start calling every USB device a dongle?

I wrote about actual physical ports included with each machine. I did not include adapters because that's a ridiculous argument. Both systems can be extended with adapters - Ativ requires fewer adapters to achieve what has come to be accepted as standard functionality (multiple monitor support and wired ethernet).

Apple not allowing the what now? http://extensions.apple.com/

with Apple refusing to allow addons in their Webkit

WTF?

WebKit is open source and LGPL/BSD licensed, and non-Apple entities, including and especially Google, have been contributing to it for the better part of a decade.

Or perhaps you're talking about Safari, which does allow extensions?

And what does any of this have to do with storing client-side data?

Where did I hear that before

You can see that, prior to 2001, I had a .sig line that read: "Good source code is compilable documentation." (See the bottom of the post where the person used my quote as his .sig), so it seem that when you say " You think that code is there to do stuff. It's not. It's there to tell what it does." I have you beat by more than 15 years ;-)

Your problem is that you see a mutual exclusion where there is none. Good software is there tho do stuff and tell you what it does. You are also missing a lot of other things it should tell you, like why it does something a certain way, and why you shouldn't change something that looks "funky" for example.

Good luck learning to write software!

http://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/

Two weeks ago, when technology companies were accused of indiscriminately sharing customer data with government agencies, Apple issued a clear response: We first heard of the government’s “Prism” program when news organizations asked us about it on June 6. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer content must get a court order.

Like several other companies, we have asked the U.S. government for permission to report how many requests we receive related to national security and how we handle them. We have been authorized to share some of that data, and we are providing it here in the interest of transparency.

From December 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013, Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data. Between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in those requests, which came from federal, state and local authorities and included both criminal investigations and national security matters. The most common form of request comes from police investigating robberies and other crimes, searching for missing children, trying to locate a patient with Alzheimer’s disease, or hoping to prevent a suicide.

Regardless of the circumstances, our Legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities. In fact, from time to time when we see inconsistencies or inaccuracies in a request, we will refuse to fulfill it.

Apple has always placed a priority on protecting our customers’ personal data, and we don’t collect or maintain a mountain of personal details about our customers in the first place. There are certain categories of information which we do not provide to law enforcement or any other group because we choose not to retain it.

For example, conversations which take place over iMessage and FaceTime are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them. Apple cannot decrypt that data. Similarly, we do not store data related to customers’ location, Map searches or Siri requests in any identifiable form.

We will continue to work hard to strike the right balance between fulfilling our legal responsibilities and protecting our customers’ privacy as they expect and deserve.

I have no idea if the numbers you are quoting are accurate, but I'm confused by your mixture of different units.

Trying to compare similar units:

Wireless: 2 MB/s to 108 MB/s is an increase by a factor of 54.

LAN: 10 Mb/s (1.25 MB/s, disregarding whatever the framing overhead is) to 1000 Mb (presumably per second, 125 MB/s) is an increase by a factor of 100.

but you're wrong. Wireless is currently at 1300 Mbps with 802.11ac. That gives it a significant edge, and in 1997 wireless 802.11 was 2 Mbit/s, now 802.11ac wireless is 1300 Mbit/s, 650 times faster in only 16 years, much faster then ethernet which reached 10 Mbit/s in the 80s and while 100 Gbit ethernet exists it is not for consumers, consumer grade is still stuck at 1 Gbps, slower than modern wireless.

And it will be 'the future' for the next 20. Wired will always be faster and more reliable. Physics just isn't on your side. Just think, Wireless has come from 2MB/s to 108MB/s in the last 10 years... Soon it will be 1GB/s But in the same period Copper has come from 10Mb/s to 1,000Mb on the LAN and from 1200 bps to 24,000,000 bps in telco. T1, T3, ISDN still have a place for the next couple of years in regional and remote. Copper (ADSL etc.) still has a life of at least 10 years in regional and remote.

Physics might not be on my side, but money is on my side, and when it comes down to it people just want fast and cheap and we're quickly getting to the "good enough" speeds with wireless and wireless is MUCH cheaper than running wires underground or through walls.

Just look at how many new devices don't even offer a physical connection. iPhones, iPads, Tablets, etc etc etc, no wires. How long before desktops don't have ethernet ports? 5 years? Face it, wires are over. Sure they'll exist because they're already there, but they're not going to keep shelling out big dollars to run new wires when wireless is "good enough"

New apple airport extreme offers 1300 Mbps using 802.11ac for $200. Imagine what they'll have by 2020?

But they can reject the app. If you're listing a "free" app that doesn't do anything (without a separate paid subscription) you will be rejected for having a useless app.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/netflix/id363590051?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hulu-plus/id376510438?mt=8

But they can reject the app. If you're listing a "free" app that doesn't do anything (without a separate paid subscription) you will be rejected for having a useless app.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/netflix/id363590051?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hulu-plus/id376510438?mt=8

I've wanted the ability to tell my iPhone to forget old networks

The iPhone can forget old networks or did you mean something else? To my knowledge it has always had this capability.

that 6 months applies only in some countries and it's about you having received the thing as broken.

why use some obscure german article for trying to explain an eu wide issue? so that apple would seem less full of shit trying to convince people that their mandatory warranty was just 6 months to sell them more? hell, why not just link to apple who explains that the warranty is two years in eu: http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/ - and you need to contact the seller to claim it which is normal(and in many cases it's apple themselves).

http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/ecc/consumer_topics/buying_goods_services_en.htm

now if you want to buy insurance on your product that's another thing, but applecare doesn't provide that much of an useful insurance(or cheap insurance).

The EU doesn't have a two year warranty. I was going to explain it, but Udo Schmitz did a much better job if you look a bit further down.

ok and this is how apple explains it. EU-wide Consumer Laws: Claim period: 2 years (minimum) from date of delivery, 5 years in Scotland and 6 years in the rest of the UK.

http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/

He doesn't explain it too well, actually. don't eat so much apple pie.

I buy a product inside eu then someone is going to cover for the two years warranty - the consumer on these issues should always be able take the issue with the entity that sold the product to them. that's just logical and covers cases where the manufacturer has no presence inside our country, so I take it back to the compu-parts-are-us who sold it to me and they either fix it or give me a new one. for two years.

some companies provide their own systems(like koss) where you can go to just any random place that handles them. but of course the shops shove the issue on the importer if they aren't the importer themselves and those importers shove the issue of who covers the bill to the manufacturer unless it's some noname chinese they don't have an on-going relationship with.

(though phones tend to go around here to a single company for warranty issues, no matter where you buy them..).

http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/ecc/consumer_topics/buying_goods_services_en.htm

The 2-year guarantee
If a product turns out to be faulty or not as advertised (‘non-conformity’), you have a 2-year guarantee, which means the seller must repair or replace it free of charge.
The 2-year guarantee is an EU-wide minimum, and the laws in some EU countries may offer you longer limitation periods.

some countries have limits on how quickly you must ask for the replacement, though those are few afaik and even then it doesn't really remove the 2 year guarantee after 6 months.

and of course some people argue that warranty is different than guarantee but guarantee is one better.. now applecare does form some sort of insurance afaik and that's a wholly different thing(however what's the point of having multiple insurances on the same item, provided that you have other insurance?).

By coincidence, I happened to notice this on their UK site, yesterday evening:

"Claim period

2 years (minimum) from date of delivery, 5 years in Scotland and 6 years in the rest of the UK"

http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/

So if they are not glued then why are they not offering battery replacement?

They offer battery replacement

I don't see where I blamed tablets --- actually asked for a list of suggestions... I've not had much luck searching. Moreover...

Okay, I give up. What was the search term which brought that to the top?

The first result I get for ``tinker on an iPad'' is to:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tinker-bell-great-fairy-rescue/id441924310?mt=8

which kind of proves my point. (second hit is for a fingerpainting app, third is for a game --- and not even one as cool as Rocky's Boots or The Incredible Machine or The Widget Workshop). How does one successfully search for creativity apps on tablets while filtering out media like the Disney app above?

I can boycott Disney, but unless I happen to know that Touchstone or ABC are a part of Disney, I may still be giving them my business.

There's an app for that

Changing the drive? Unclear this is a user operation

Changing everything seems to be a user operation, it's as easy to get in this new box as the old

External drives? External graphics?

Thunderbolt? Which even allows for external GPU expansion...

3 display max it would seem

It's not three displays, it's up to three *4K" displays (4096 x 2160). Where you really driving six displays of that resolution before? You could drive more displays with lower resolution.

Basically it seems like you didn't bother to even read the specs for even a moment.

mba $999: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_air
sucks to be proven wrong!

and moved from functional design

Not sure if you read about the new design, but the shape is very functional. You might want to read up on the concept of the thermal core and the fan on top. The RAM is also much easier to replace than your typical desktop PC. You just slide off the outer cover and it's right there. I really think you don't know what you're talking about, I assume because you haven't read anything about the actual design of the Mac Pro. You just saw a picture and made a bunch of assumptions.

http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

I can absolutly recommend NewsBlur!!

http://www.newsblur.com/

It's better than GoogleReader and is OpenSource. You've 3 options:
- use the free account (up to 64 sites)
- pay 24$/year for unlimited sites + extra features (fair price if you ask me)
- geek option: set it up yourself (you have all features in that way) -> https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur.git

Plus, it comes with free iOS and Android-Apps.

I've set it up myself last week and said goodbye to google reader.

OS X Mountain Lion is £14 ($20). And it is dirt cheap since Snow Leopard, when it was US$30. http://www.apple.com/uk/osx/

Except for Xsan, which Apple built for exactly that purpose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xsan

http://help.apple.com/advancedserveradmin/mac/10.8/#apd77AAA155-4BEF-43E3-9F82-5E565CFBDE84

The hardware is typically Promise VTrac these days:
http://www.promise.com/storage/raid_category.aspx?region=en-global&m=192&rsn=40&statistic=Mac

It wasn't just Safari either. I found it even more interesting that applications in general would be paused if "App Nap" determined they were not active/seen/playing.

RAID is dead Thunderbolt reigns supreme. You heard it here first folks.

In other news, various pieces of hardware simultaneously vanished from the earth as, given that "RAID is dead" and that "Thunderbolt reigns supreme", it was logically impossible for a Thunderbolt-attached RAID device to exist.

and who knows what sort of pressure the government was leveraging on these companies to get them on board.

"Nice business you have there selling to defense/intelligence/etc. government customers. Shame if something happened to it...."

According to Apple's website:

Not only does it feature a state-of-the-art AMD FirePro workstation-class GPU with up to 6GB of dedicated VRAM — it features two of them.

If Apple's (rather painfully self-satisfied) slideshow thing is anything to go by, there isn't a single standardized part in the entire computer, with the exception of the RAM, and possibly the CPU, depending on whether they went socketed or BGA.

The two GPU cards are probably PCIe electrically; but the shape certainly isn't compatible, the CPU card is its own animal(one that packs a whole four RAM slots, that's Serious Workstation material right there...), and PCIe-attached SSDs in the mini-PCIe form factor are relatively odd ducks(most that are that size and shape are mSATA, and PCIe direct-attached cards are usually rectangular PCIe 8x cards.

Dell is doing the PCIe SSD thing in their PowerEdge servers as ExpressFlash instead of using SAS SSDs. Maybe similar tech? Dell had them running at Enterprise Forum, clocking a million and a half IOPS across four of them (4k 100% read obviously)

http://www.dell.com/Learn/us/en/04/campaigns/poweredge-express-flash?c=us&l=en&s=bsd

Lots of threads on the internet like this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2172049?start=0&tstart=0

Which says:

Finder is slow at listing the directory content of the shares The problem only occurs in Apple Finder. When I do "ls" from Terminal the directory listing displays in the same moment I hit enter.

so either the Finder is assuming some file system operations are always going to be fast when they're not fast over SMB, or smbfs needs to figure out how to make whatever the Finder's doing faster, or some combination of the two. I could certainly imagine the first of those being true (the stuff above UNIX has been known to implicitly assume that file system operations are cheap, when they might not be cheap for remote file systems).

Lots of threads on the internet like this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2172049?start=0&tstart=0

Very few successful solutions. And for those suggesting the use of a Terminal, even that is slower than Windows Explorer if I'm browsing a Windows share in another office.

Everything is lame if you can't read: "Access your network over three-stream 802.11ac Wi-Fi for the latest in high-speed wireless connectivity. ", source: http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/