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Playing a game leads to "I'm gonna program my own game" about as often as driving a car leads to "vehicular homicide."

You assert that it does. I disagree with your assertion but am willing to evaluate evidence that you present.

As far as "upgrading" a tablet? Buy a $30 bluetooth keyboard, and you've got yourself a netbook.

I run IDLE, a Python programming environment, on my Dell Inspiron mini 1012 netbook. Does the iPad have an app for that?

Google is your friend, but the short answer is it does have Python. Also, Lua, but not Ruby, not Haskell, not Perl but a CPAN reference is there. A little more digging... it can do Javascript and Processing, and a game maker based on Lua again.

You assert that it does. I disagree with your assertion but am willing to evaluate evidence that you present.

Self-evident:
How many millions of copies of games are sold around the world? Limit it to PC games, if you wish. Now, how many game developers are there?

How many millions of cars are on the roads all over the world? Limit to private passenger vehicles, if you wish. Now, how many people are victims of vehicular homicide?

If you'd like to share details about the existence of millions of hidden game developers who have never written a game or produced a game, or a pandemic of vehicular homicides, I'm perfectly happy to entertain your evidence.

I run IDLE, a Python programming environment, on my Dell Inspiron mini 1012 netbook. Does the iPad have an app for that?

Well, yes. If you want a more general text editor similar to TextMate or Notepad++, there's also Textastic. Hell, you can even run vim on your iPad, if you really like vi.

Why is it that the real ignorant twits are the ones who shitting the loudest opinions all over this thread?

As far as "upgrading" a tablet? Buy a $30 bluetooth keyboard, and you've got yourself a netbook.

I run IDLE, a Python programming environment, on my Dell Inspiron mini 1012 netbook. Does the iPad have an app for that?

You didn't read a word of the GP, did you?

If you did, how many percent of the total number of computer users would ever program Python? How many percent of the netbook users? How many percent of the tablet-only users?

But if you want to know, yes, you can program and run Python on a iPad.

IANAL, but I just skimmed through the iTunes Store Terms and Conditions, searching for the word "license", and I can't find a single instance of the word being used in relation to music files. It's only used in relation to content that publishers (or reviewers) post to the iTunes Store (i.e. you grant them a license to post your review or publish your music), as well as in relation to apps both for Mac and iOS (which work in the manner you were talking about, but that was never in question).

Similarly, Amazon's Conditions of Use don't mention a license in relation to anything other than Amazon Services, and I think I'm justified in saying that downloading an mp3 file is not considered part of their Amazon Services, since their services are all continual, ongoing services with cloud-based or web-based components, rather than one-time transactions.

So, if the two biggest digital music sellers aren't distributing their files under license, who exactly are you talking about that's doing it? Or am I just looking in the wrong legal documents (which is, admittedly, quite possible)?

Tel my how I can write an app on the iPad, and then share it with whomever I want. How do I just send it to my friend across the table?

Enterprise Provisioning.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/FA_Wireless_Enterprise_App_Distribution/Introduction/Introduction.html

Yeah, I know, you have to pay up a few hundred to Apple. But it let's you distribute apps among your friends/colleagues with no device registration simply by sending a link to your app (or attachment) to iOS devices. It's not meant for public distribution, but I use it for private apps all the time, and it totally bypasses the app store review process (which is an intended consequence.)

Dearest HBO, I'd like to buy Game Of Thrones but you leave no option open to me as an Australian.

You could buy the Blu-Ray and import a US Blu-Ray player. (given they're like $50, I'm sure you can probably even find them in Asia). Also assuming that they're region-locked.

You could buy the DVDs and use a region free DVD player. Something I'm told a lot of Aussies have already.

Amazon will ship you the Blu-Rays and DVDs. The player you'll have to come up with yourself, but I'm sure you can either find one or import it from North America easily.

Hell... Game of Thrones Season 1, Season 2, and Season 3. On itunes. Downloadable now.

Those are the easist options and available now, legally. No torrents required.

Dearest HBO, I'd like to buy Game Of Thrones but you leave no option open to me as an Australian.

You could buy the Blu-Ray and import a US Blu-Ray player. (given they're like $50, I'm sure you can probably even find them in Asia). Also assuming that they're region-locked.

You could buy the DVDs and use a region free DVD player. Something I'm told a lot of Aussies have already.

Amazon will ship you the Blu-Rays and DVDs. The player you'll have to come up with yourself, but I'm sure you can either find one or import it from North America easily.

Hell... Game of Thrones Season 1, Season 2, and Season 3. On itunes. Downloadable now.

Those are the easist options and available now, legally. No torrents required.

Dearest HBO, I'd like to buy Game Of Thrones but you leave no option open to me as an Australian.

You could buy the Blu-Ray and import a US Blu-Ray player. (given they're like $50, I'm sure you can probably even find them in Asia). Also assuming that they're region-locked.

You could buy the DVDs and use a region free DVD player. Something I'm told a lot of Aussies have already.

Amazon will ship you the Blu-Rays and DVDs. The player you'll have to come up with yourself, but I'm sure you can either find one or import it from North America easily.

Hell... Game of Thrones Season 1, Season 2, and Season 3. On itunes. Downloadable now.

Those are the easist options and available now, legally. No torrents required.

My mobile devices have actually contributed to my creativity. I'm a writer, and I've come to depend on my mobile devices quite a lot to, well, write. From my first palm Zire to my current Motorola Flipout, I've depended on my mobile devices to write and edit my various stories. The internet connected devices have also been tremendously handy to do quick research on the various subjects relevant to my writing. In each of the boredom cases listed in the article, I'm much more likely to be continuing whatever current story I'm working on or doing research directly related to it. Before my mobile devices, I had to use a notebook if I wanted to get some writing done away from the computer. Obviously, that was quite a lot less convenient than a handy gizmo that fits comfortably in my pocket and is easier to read than the nigh-indecipherable scribble of my handwriting. So you'll see me standing in line between the guy texting his girlfriend and the girl giggling at the latest grumpy cat picture while I'm actually doing something worthwhile, and creative.

If you're curious, my first completed, published novel, which was written entirely on mobile devices, is available here:
Amazon Trade Paperback (Createspace pays me better, but it's still Amazon),
Lulu epub, Kindle, Nook, and iBooks.
It's also free in its entirety on wattpad. I've actually gotten sales from people who started reading it here.

There's an app for that

iThingies have had hardware encryption for years. That's why a device erase is so quick - it only needs to erase the master key and everything else is toast. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4175 and http://images.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_May12.pdf (page 7 onwards)

iThingies have had hardware encryption for years. That's why a device erase is so quick - it only needs to erase the master key and everything else is toast. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4175 and http://images.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_May12.pdf (page 7 onwards)

Yeah, they DEFINITELY don't want you to be aware of free software, which is why the horribly obfuscated URL apple.com/opensource lists several hundred projects they are using, as well as links (and fully browsable source!) to anything they have modified. In fact, it's probably the simplest, most well-organized, and most public list of open source projects of any large company I have seen.

http://www.apple.com/opensource/

If you choose an iPhone, you're knowingly going with a locked-down platform that explicitly forbids hobbyist accessories: "I want to develop an MFi accessory for personal use. Can I join the MFi Program? No."

The submitter, on the other hand, specifically stated "I don't care what phone platform."

The OSX crash screen is sneaky: "Your need to restart your computer". I haven't used Macs almost at all, and when I was playing with Hackintosh, I thought it was some routine restart related to configuring the system or installing updates. It's so friendly that you don't necessarily even know there is a complete system crash behind.

It's called OS X, and it's a lot like Linux. Except you're probably not going to hose your system as easily. It also makes backups and recovery a total cinch.

Of course, I guess that, in between making silly mistakes to trash your system, tweaking your window manager makes you feel like a "hacker."

I checked and it was applied by VeriSign from Switzerland. And they say, and I quote, in their application "We anticipate that the availability of the DEVANAGARI_TRANSLITERATION_OF_.COM will greatly increase the appeal and value of internationalized addresses in India. Expanding the accessibility and functionality of these domain names to users worldwide is the primary benefit of all internationalized transliterations of .com." I am ROFL, at their lack of how Indians think and work. This falls along the line of the one guys iPhone app, in app store. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tamil-clock/id300552568?mt=8 He does have other regional clock apps also. These people have no clue about the life styles and choices of the people in those regions. Only Indians know why a tamil/hindi/sanskrit clock will never sell and why an hindi .com transliterated domain name will never fly. I will keep checking if any one ever gets a hindi .com and if any of the big names like suleka, sify and others ever care.

Apple does not sell you the phones if you don't sign the contract,

Many companies wanted to start selling the iPhone, but were not allowed because they did not have any contract.

OTOH you can easily buy unlocked phones with or without contract.
iPhone 5 64GB for 900EUR or 919 at the apple store. The difference is that it can not be used on CDMA networks or on LTE networks in _other_ countries.
They even tell you when non-locked is the best option here (in Dutch)

And you can buy ANY phone unlocked without contract, You just go into the store and buy the phone. Put in any sim card that fits from any country and you are done.

You might be onto something here - and this is why Apple have their Mastered for iTunes program - where instead of getting your masters, decimating them and dithering them down to 44.1/16, you can either supply Apple with high-res masters (and they will re-convert them for you if their mastering process changes, or if they up the quality again on the iTMS) or you can use the same tools that Apple uses to directly convert your high-res audio to AAC 256.
When you use the tools Apple provides, they take the high res audio and convert it to 32-bit floating point, apply a "mastering quality" sample rate conversion (and, yes, it is a very high quality SRC - refer to the afconvert examples at the SRC Comparisons page) and then make the AAC from this. They also have a plugin for the workflow where you can get a preview of how the audio sounds when converted to AAC, so you can preview the tracks and adjust it to get the best out of the AAC after it's converted.

If I look back at all the albums I have purchased or listened to (in whatever format), the one thing that stands out to me personally is that I have found less than 10% of them to be "recorded with care". And I'm not even being picky! Across the board, I can say that recording quality sucks when it comes to rock (which is what I listen to most often) - and I mean all kinds of rock.

If Neil Young's initiative (and even his Pono device) and Dave Grohl's initiatives are successful in improving the audio quality of music in general, I strongly suspect it will be because recording quality will be done with greater care, not because they decided to use a fancier digital format or use higher number of bits and samples to store their music. While everything becomes a factor by the time the music reaches your ears (heck, by the time it is processed by your brain, you even have to factor in psychoacoustics and gear bias and the "burn-in" syndrome) - the recording quality in general needs to improve (except for the jazz and classical pieces that audiophiles love to love, and are hence recorded with care), and this improvement will arguably make the biggest difference in audio quality.

Yes, this is it in a nutshell. What goes into mixing and mastering an album has far more effect on the final result than whether it's played back as a 96 kHz 24 bit file, or compressed down to a 256 kbs AAC (or, around 4 Mbs compared with 0.25 Mbs).

Whilst the data rate is sixteen times as much for the high resolution audio, there is nowhere near 15/16ths of the sound lost - and even on good quality hifi equipment, I'd challenge anyone to successfully pick the difference in a proper blind test.

What's more, there are now things like Mastered for iTunes which gives a lossy AAC the potential to sound better than redbook CD audio as the AAC files are created directly from the high res masters with, among other things, better floating point conversions and a very high quality sample rate conversion (and, yes, I have verified the quality of apple's "bats" sample rate converter in afconvert)

See the next-to-last answer in the FAQ here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5570

If you've reset your password or changed your security questions, they make you wait first. This prevents somebody from stealing your account, changing the password, and then turning on two-factor authentication preventing you from ever getting it back. As they also note in that article, if you use two-factor authentication, they become unable to reset your password. If you ever lose two of the three things needed to log in (your password, your verified device(s), and your recovery key), then you cannot make any changes to your account. (And if you lose all three, you can't even log in from an already-trusted device.)

Ahem.

"This report documents the environmental impact of our facilities and our efforts to reduce their impact. In particular, this report documents: â How we generate and use energy across our worldwide facilities including our corporate offices, data centers, and retail stores by highlighting our fiscal 2012 accomplishments"

Ahem? Ahem yourself. The quote being discussed, and the 75% claim is:

And for all of Apple’s corporate facilities worldwide, we’re at 75 percent, and we expect that number to grow as the amount of renewable energy available to us increases.

Now see page 10 of the report linked above. Notice how retail stores is a separate category than corporate offices.

Bottom line: No, the 75% does not include stores.

Really though, what do they mean? I did not see where they define what they consider renewable.

Apple's definition of renewable is Solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal

And for all of Apple's corporate facilities worldwide, we're at 75 percent

So their office buildings? What about the factories where all their products are made? You know... where probobly 99.9% of the power they use is consumed?

My fireplace is now powered by 100% renewable resources! I challenge the rest of the world to meet my same goals!

If you care to actually read up http://www.apple.com/environment/our-footprint/

Don't blame Apple for the submitter's terrible headline. What Apple actually claims is on their website, and they have a clear breakdown of what they view their footprint to be is here:
http://www.apple.com/environment/our-footprint/

(Broken down b/c nobody actually RTFA)
61% Manufacturing
5% Transportation
30% Product Use
2% Recycling
2% Facilities

Did they indeed ignore it? I was assuming manufacturing is part of their power needs. Do you have a link showing it's excluded?

Sure: the one from the article.

And for all of Appleâ(TM)s corporate facilities worldwide, weâ(TM)re at 75 percent

The 75% figure doesn't include manufacturing, or Apple stores, or energy costs used shipping iDevices from China. It only refers to "corporate facilities," whatever that means.

It's fairly clear that it doesn't include manufacturing - which is contracted out anyway, remember, so it's not like Apple owns any factories - and it doesn't include retail. And since we're only talking buildings, it clearly doesn't cover energy spent shipping from China, let alone to Apple stores.

Along these lines, make the program available in an App Store. This makes it easier for paying customers. It's tiring when I want to buy a program to have to do some background research on payment processors to see if a developer chose one that is trustworthy. But Apple already has my credit info, buying is easy and safe.

Along these lines, do NOT waste your time on ANY of Apple's services. If you want DRM services like so, go Steam. It now has a section for software. Also is the greatest service for what ya need that you will EVER meet.

There's a Mac App Store: http://www.apple.com/au/osx/apps/app-store.html
There's the iOS App Store - available from iTunes and on iOS devices
There's the Windows Store: http://windows.microsoft.com/is-is/windows-8/apps
There's Google Play: http://www.android.com/apps/

They all handle DRM for you in a relatively unobtrusive way, plus they handle payment processing and distribution. The end user doesn't need to worry about you going out of business, your authentication servers going down, your serial numbers not working etc or dealing with another payment processor.

The advantage of something like the Mac App Store is that if I buy apps on here, Apple keep my purchase history. When I get a new machine, I sign in to the App Store and download all my apps from one place, and don't need to keep track of serial numbers or activation keys or anything like that.

This leaves you to handle doing the coding and the promotion of the app. Yes, you give up a cut of 30% or so, but if that's a big problem for you, put your price up slightly to take this into account. Or, give up the 30% cut knowing you don't need to handle any payment processing, hosting downloads, going over your bandwidth cap on your hosting plan because your app became popular, DRM, activation, providing lost serial numbers to users etc...

You are wrong. From the itunes agreement: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, Apple and its licensors reserve the right to change, suspend, remove, or disable access to any iTunes Products, content, or other materials comprising a part of the iTunes Service at any time without notice. In no event will Apple be liable for making these changes. Apple may also impose limits on the use of or access to certain features or portions of the iTunes Service, in any case and without notice or liability.

I'm sure google has a similar clause.

I never said these app stores weren't convenient. Your anecdote doesn't address my point either.

Along these lines, make the program available in an App Store. This makes it easier for paying customers. It's tiring when I want to buy a program to have to do some background research on payment processors to see if a developer chose one that is trustworthy. But Apple already has my credit info, buying is easy and safe.

But do graphics developers, of the sort who would be interested in a productivity tool, use the iPad as a development platform?

Along these lines, make the program available in an App Store. This makes it easier for paying customers. It's tiring when I want to buy a program to have to do some background research on payment processors to see if a developer chose one that is trustworthy. But Apple already has my credit info, buying is easy and safe.

This vulnerability is in a TON of software. Python 2.X (which most people are still using) doesn't even allow you to verify the CN without adding a bunch of code to make it happen yourself. http://bugs.python.org/issue1589 [python.org] Most APIs allow you to do it both ways, but I think it is time that they stop making it optional. If you want to use SSL, use it properly otherwise it isn't worth wasting your time with it.

No, that's a very different vulnerability. What you're talking about would allow any valid certificate for site A to pose as site B, which means that there is almost no security, but if you can determine whose valid cert is being used, you are likely to have at least some idea who was responsible for it. There's at least a partial audit trail, in other words.

This vulnerability, by contrast, is that any self-signed certificate for site A can pose as site A. The common name must match, but everything else can be complete garbage, including the signature on the cert. This means that there is exactly zero security and zero audit trail.

This is the sort of security I'd expect from someone who knew nothing at all about SSL, and who just thought it was a magic box that made things secure.... :-/ Unfortunately, this class of mistake is painfully common, particularly in the mobile app space. Anyone who is considering overriding SSL chain validation really needs to read the following articles:

• Overriding Chain Validation on iOS
• Overriding Chain Validation on Android

Given how many news reports we see about this sort of thing, I think it is clear that Android needs to do a better job of messaging the importance of doing SSL chain validation right. IMO, it's telling that Android's networking training area does not appear to even mention the need for security anywhere, as far as I could tell. In fact, I'm really not finding any big-picture documentation for Android networking at all. It reminds me of learning POSIX networking by reading the UNIX Socket FAQ. And this is why we keep seeing these sorts of news reports. Just saying.

here's an old paper describing octuple precision on the PowerPC G4

Many problems in number theory and the computational and physical sciences, espe- cially in recent times, require more floating point precision than is commonly available in fundamental computer hardware. For example, the new science of “experimental mathematics,” whereby algebraic truths are foreshadowed, even discovered numerically, requires much more than single (32-bit) or double (64-bit) precision.

That paper references Bailey's 2000 paper on Quad double algorithms, which alludes to "pure mathematics, study of mathematical constants, cryptography, and computational geometry

Probably sold to someone else on the refurbish store: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac

In 2013 he does not have a microwave anymore? Seriously?

He updated the post to say that he still has a microwave, but it's now built into the wall.

And no router, hub or any other network connection anywhere? Not in either image?

Well, in the text, he says he used to have a DSL modem, but now he doesn't. That's because he replaced the horrible AT&T service and the expensive Comcast service with a nice Webpass account, that the apartment building's owner had to install. And he stopped paying for cable TV, so that's a major lifestyle change.

More amusingly, he replaced the unreliable Netgear crap with an Apple router, not in the picture.

Here's a dose of reality: Nearly no-one even knows what [wardriving] is.

People don't know wardriving by the name wardriving, but they would probably understand "having the ability to take notes about a Wi-Fi hotspot that your device discovers".

And there's no restriction on short term video rental. And it is in fact available.

When did Apple change IAP to allow subscriptions shorter than 30 days?

You didn't understand the outdated app guidelines list you read.

I want to start understanding. What updated app guidelines should I be looking at instead? I tried clicking through the link found on this page, but it asked me to "Sign in with your Apple ID".

There is an pseudo-app for photo's: Nudifier
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nudifier/id554023264?mt=8

Someone just needs to take it to the next step. :-)

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2186

Microsoft supported Windows 2000 up until 2010. A 10 year support life cycle. The LONGEST Apple has EVER officially supported a release of OS-X was 4 years, and it's generally 3 or less (n-2).

So I'm about to loose support for my Mac running 10.6? Why would Apple do that when they still offer 10.02 downloads? 10.2 was replaced with 10.3 almost 10 years ago. There goes your "4 years".

"Downloads" != "support". If, on a 10.2 machine, you fire up Software Update, as far as I know it'll inform you that there are no updates for your OS. If there's a security issue or serious bug in 10.2, you're stuck with it (unless it's in the open-source part and you can fix it yourself).

Below my desk is an MS Windows NT 4.0 Workstation PC I bought brand new in 1997. I was shocked in 2000 when I ran Windows Update and was told MS stopped releasing new updates for it. There were no more updates available. The last tyme I checked, maybe a couple of years ago, MS still offered update downloads, but they are all old updates. And as you say "Downloads" != "support".

Falcon

STARRS

Microsoft supported Windows 2000 up until 2010. A 10 year support life cycle. The LONGEST Apple has EVER officially supported a release of OS-X was 4 years, and it's generally 3 or less (n-2).

So I'm about to loose support for my Mac running 10.6? Why would Apple do that when they still offer 10.02 downloads? 10.2 was replaced with 10.3 almost 10 years ago. There goes your "4 years".

"Downloads" != "support". If, on a 10.2 machine, you fire up Software Update, as far as I know it'll inform you that there are no updates for your OS. If there's a security issue or serious bug in 10.2, you're stuck with it (unless it's in the open-source part and you can fix it yourself).

I guess the concept about intellectual equals is a bit difficult to grasp for you.

Anyway, the one who is using insults in every second paragraph obviously is not the superior one ;D

In fact you seem to be a racist, otherwise I can not explain your hate vesus germans.

Regarding the topic, I'm aware that I was wrong about the Apple Policy.

OTOH you claimed you would KNOW something about the Apple policy. However you only recitated third party web sites. In other words: you KNOW NOTHING about the topic itself, you only copy what you have heard.

Here it is anyway. Hopefully, this will put an end to this ridiculous "conversation": https://developer.apple.com/appstore/guidelines.html

This is like it is always with you :D

You did not read that web page, did you? If you had, you had noticed that Web-Kit is not mentioned on it ...

As my developer id is currently expired I can not dig deeper either :D

So go back to your ranting ... I wonder how old you are that you are so easy pissed and so unpolite.

Just looked at them and can't see any qualitative difference.

And what's your gripe about launcher pro? Yes, it's a class of applications that is absent on AppStore - you must use the Holy Home Screen as Jobs intended and like it, together with the Holy Mobile Safari and other unreplaceable Apple provided built-ins (unless you're a pagan jailbreaker, then you can have pretty nice alternatives on your iPhone, if you want to)

Microsoft supported Windows 2000 up until 2010. A 10 year support life cycle. The LONGEST Apple has EVER officially supported a release of OS-X was 4 years, and it's generally 3 or less (n-2).

So I'm about to loose support for my Mac running 10.6? Why would Apple do that when they still offer 10.02 downloads? 10.2 was replaced with 10.3 almost 10 years ago. There goes your "4 years".

Falcon

Classic Freetard trolling. How about some facts?

They got rid of spaces. You still have different virtual desktops, but I can no longer assign applications to always open in a particular one. They're also not always there, assigned in a configuration that was easy for me to remember, "from here, go to the desktop above to get to the browser, or the desktop to my right to get to xcode.

Yes, spaces are gone. Presumably few people used them. The few that did are obviously vocal, but there are software alternatives. But the actual question - how the hell is this "iOS-ification"?

Applications no longer quit, instead they keep running in the background, if you click the red button. You can command-q for now, but they still try to retain state. Which is insane.

Mac OS X has always done this. I appreciate that it's confusing for you that an application continues running just because its last window closed. It's actually the right answer though.

And God forbid the application keep state... I'm sorry how is this a bad thing? And again, how is this "iOS-ification"?

When I open up a new video in quicktime, why would I want the last video that I watched to pop up in a window beside it?

Because you didn't close it, and you're stuck in UI paradigms that should have died at least 10 years ago. That's why.

Applications are auto-saving on me. I don't mind that things auto-save into a backup file, for recovery purposes, but you should NOT overwrite the file I'm working on without my specifically clicking save. I know mac os x lets you get back to previous versions. That's cumbersome unless you're the one who chose to punctuate where each new version starts.

For every you there are a 1000 regular people who actually appreciate the computer working with them instead of against them.

If your workflow requires that you use the time you last saved your document as some sort of "milestone" to go back to, then you're either Doing It Wrong, or using the wrong software. Really.

Applications are trying to save to iCloud by default, instead of the local drive. I don't have a problem with iCloud, but it shouldn't be the default location.

Yes..... you press Save (the first time only) and it shows your iCloud folder, and you click on a local folder. I can see how that would destroy your day. Or if you really don't like iCloud - well you wouldn't sign up for it, and it wouldn't appear in the first place.

The launchpad displays applications in multiple screens and I gotta swipe right to see the other applications. That doesn't make any sense when you have a wheel mouse...I just want to scroll down. The applications folder still exists, so this one doesn't bother me as much, I can avoid using launchpad altogether.

You're right about Launchpad. I guess it has it's place for new users, or people migrating from iOS. Everyone else can completely ignore it. It's not like some other option was removed...

When the iPhone came out, I remember many people saying that apple fully intended to eventually make OS X as locked down as iOS, and a bunch of people dismissing that as conspiracy theories. They have, however, been slowly moving toward that. They released the Mac OS X app store, which isn't really a problem. But then they made it so that you can't install any application that doesn't come from the app store by default, until you go and change the settings to allow it. My prediction is that the next step is going to be making it a setting that you can't get to without going to the command-line, and then they'll just not give you the option, and people will have to jailbreak their macs.

Wrong. Try checking your facts, or maybe using a Mac before opening your mouth.

BTW, even if you choose "only app store and identified developers", opening any other app is a single right click away. Man, Apple sure did shaft users!

I give your troll 2/10 penguins.

Hm ... seems we are on quite different intellectual levels.

Oh, yes. We are in no way intellectual equals. I'm amazed that you are able to understand and admit to that.

So, when cnet.com and buzzfeed.com write something about Apple, it is right?

I understand that Germans are generally pretty stupid, but you take the cake! The parent's claim is common knowledge. It's been widely reported. The only one who disputes this claim is you. I presume it's all part of the effort you're making to remain as ignorant as possible. I posted several links to show that it's common knowledge, and thus easy to confirm the claim in seconds with a simple search!

IFF there is an Apple policy, the first thing I would expect is a statement from Apple.

If you weren't a total moron, you could find it.

You are still invited to bring up an Apple link to Apples documentation regarding this matter.

I doubt you'll even be able to understand it, as you apparently can't even manage to do a simple google search!

Here it is anyway. Hopefully, this will put an end to this ridiculous "conversation": https://developer.apple.com/appstore/guidelines.html

And those things have nothing to do with the rendering engine or JS engine.

Mozilla could absolutely provide something that could support those features on iOS.

BTW Safari does support extensions and has an adblocker and user script support available via 3rd party, as does Chrome. Clearly you haven't cred to look at options in 2-3 years, being smug and all.

http://safariadblock.com/

http://extensions.apple.com/

https://github.com/os0x/NinjaKit

Yep, they were sending login information over plain http.

The author of the original article was very careful with what he did and didn't say. He didn't say that Apple sent login information over plain http. And if you read the support document where Elie Bursztein gets his 15 seconds of Apple fame, you will see that Apple says the update now encrypts "active content". In short, login information was never sent over plain text.

They neglected to mention that they also read through Apple's iOS Human Interface Guidelines in detail.

No. http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macosx107.pdf: "The grants set forth in this License do not permit you to, and you agree not to, install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so."

In 10.4, on the other hand, it's not explicitly stated, only implied: "This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time."