You might only be the fake Tim Cook, but you shouldn't do his dirty work, anyway. They do indeed show the ugly notch like they are proud of it, but they don't show and instead talk down the black rim. Useless screen area, you say? Like the iPhone X has plenty of? The X has less usable screen real estate than the iPhone 8+, don't forget that. Developers can't use the topmost and downmost sections, and those rounded corners are giving everyone headaches, but go on and keep talking out of your ass...;-)
I am not an iOS App developer; so I don't have to worry about "forgetting" that. IOS Devs. Do.
And besides, From what I have heard, there is an iOS API call that returns the usable RECTANGULAR screen area for Apps, that takes into account the notch and corner radii for the iPhone X, and the onscreen Home button if the user so chooses to display same.
So what are you whining about? Would you rather have to maintain those Viewport dimensions in each and every App?
To me, this kind of bitching about Apple designing a product with a different screen aspect ratio and/or different screen dimensions, simply Seems like nothing more than some iOS Devs. Are getting pretty spoiled.
Win2K is still running on some high-value targets, especially industrial control systems, but new exploits aren't the only ones to worry about, just because a system is old doesn't mean that people delete the old exploits.
Good points all!
I stand corrected. Thanks for the edjumications!!!
That's one of the reasons I never keep an address book nor store passwords for anything. That's what my personal User-Friendly Liveware is for!
I don't think I can answer that question without violating an NDA.
Nice dodge.
And it's pretty clear that no one wants to target people with devices that are old enough to be unsupported on iOS; because they are usually the "poor" ones, anyway, LOL!
Same reason there probably aren't a whole lot of new exploits being written for Windows 2000 or XP these days.
There are only two hardware features I'm looking for in a phone:
1. No more than 4" tall HD screen (at least 1920x1080). 2. Removable 6000 mAh battery (hint: make the damn phone thicker).
The first one to make a phone with both features (* with the "latest version of the OS") gets my business.
It's not so much a matter of "Thicker", but rather HEAVIER. You are talking about a battery that would be more than twice as heavy as the ones currently in the iPhone X, for example. You'd think that doesn't matter; but it does. When you hold the phone for any appreciable length of time, the extra grams start to quickly translate into hand-cramps and feelings of "I just want to put this thing DOWN!"
Additionally, you'll have to subtract the thick black rim around the screen from the 'full screen experience'. Who do they think they are fooling?
The real question is: Why do you think they are TRYING to "fool" ANYBODY?
Heck, their official position on these attributes is "own them". Watch their TV ads. They make a BIG deal out of showing the "Notch", and don't do any stupid, useless tricks like Samsung does with their "wraparound" screen (talk about useless screen area!)
I can't even begin to describe how utterly retarded the iPhone X is screen wise. It is just about the most useless "innovation" I've ever seen (but I'm sure it took them a lot of courage to come up with that shit). Unless you're willing to write your GUI to target four separate screen layouts (because the notch changes orientation as you flip the device around), you're basically stuck shifting your widgets out of the way so that the wonky screen shape doesn't mess up your application UI.
Furthermore, you can't get rid of the status widgets at the top of the screen and the "home button" line at the bottom, which are displayed by the system over top of your GUI. Again, this means that you need to push stuff out of the way so things don't collide. iOS 11 even has an API for telling you what the "safe areas" of the screen are when displaying content, which pretty much turn the iPhone X into a rectangular display by telling your code to avoid the rounded edges and notch.
All this basically means that there are no "full screen" applications. Yeah, applications can color the unusable areas of the screen with whatever color scheme the rest of your app uses, but that space isn't actually usable for anything useful. It's literally just wasted space and pixels, because computers have never been designed to handle non-rectangular screens and never will be.
But whatever, I'm glad they found a way to make their special snowflake devices even more special and unique. Someone should strap a few magnets to Jobs and position a large coil of wire over his grave. It'd be a clean renewable source of energy, and I'm sure the power output will only continue to rise as Apple comes up with new and innovative ways to fuck up mobile computing (and/or computing in general).
1. No one forced you to create iOS apps. The App Store will get along just fine without your creations.
2. At least Apple provided you with an API that can assist the iOS Dev. to plan their screen layout to stay within a device's "safe" areas. Or would you prefer to maintain a list of those areas in your application, and update it everytime (a) new iPhone model(s) come out?
3. You are right that NO OS really wants to do bit/blt-ing to a non-rectangular screen area. So why are you whining? Everyone wants their mobile devices to have rounded corners for ergonomic and aesthetic reasons. And every manufacturer wants to fill those areas with lit-up pixels, even if they can't be filled with a Developer's content. And really, tell me what you would stick in that miniscule corner-radius that you are oh, so put-upon by not being able to draw into?
4. You're that lazy-ass Developer that makes horrible little Apps that obnoxiously won't obey the Device Orientation, aren't you?
If you have an iOS device, you probably get 5 years and then the locked bootloader means that it will never be able to run an OS without known vulnerabilities
And yet, when was the last time you heard of an actual, exploited iOS vulnerability? Five years ago? Seven? iOS only goes back Ten years; so...?
I have never run anti-anything on my Macs, and have never suffered an infection. Not once.
How do you know? You're like someone who says he has never been tested for AIDS so he doesn't have AIDS.
Odds are that for years you've been part of multiple spam or DDOS botnets. That's people like you who make those botnets possible.
Highly unlikely. While I don't run any anti-malware detection, per se, I do use Little Snitch. It will report on any new/unapproved transmissions. Hard to be part of a botnet without sending out anything.
Plus, I'm not sure that I have ever heard of a Mac botnet. Actually, in researching whether or not that statement was defensible, I did come across a single mention of a Reddit-based Mac botnet that infected some 600k Macs. But that was in 2012, and I don.'t see any other later mentions.
They aren't. The best guess I've seen is that the product can only handle SHA-1 certificates, and the company is unwilling or unable to obtain a replacement SHA-1 that will be trusted by the cert store.
It's likely a proprietary encryption algorithm, not something industry-standard like SHA-1.
Actual ROM is very rare and OTP (one time programmable) tends to be very small and for specialized functions.
Flash is cheap and stable enough that it tends to be used even if there is no plan to re-write it ever.
However, in such a case the firmware may have no functions to erase and re-write (including being laid out in such a way that it always has at least a stub that can complete an interrupted update rather than bricking).
OTP is not all that rare. And on extremely high-volume products, ROM is still a "Thing".
BTW, just because a microcontroller is Flash-based; doesn't mean the device itself has the ability to (re)program it. They can't assume that everyone has a JTAG programmer at their disposal, and even if the device itself can (re)program its own Flash, there has to be code to support the flashing, and SPACE to store a downloaded "Update" while the device continues to function and (re)program.
Considering the longstanding bugs in my Harmony Remote, I would say that self-programming was not a design consideration.
Regardless of the scary stories you read here on slashdot, the simple fact is Mac malware just isn't an issue. Windows malware is a daily occurrence.
Having used Macs continuously since 1984, and Windows continuously since 1989, I can verify that Parent speaks the truth.
I have never run anti-anything on my Macs, and have never suffered an infection. Not once.
But I have had to clean up both my and friends' Windows machines (sometimes with great difficulty) multiple times, DESPITE all of them running at least one A/V suite, if not multiple ones.
2001 called, they want their illusion of Mac being free from viruses and ransomware back.
A popular video conversion app for Mac has suffered a malware infection on one of its mirror servers. If you downloaded HandBrake between 10:30 a.m. EDT on May 2, 2017 and 7:00 p.m. EDT on May 6, 2017, you should follow these instructions to check your Mac for a new variant of the malware OSX.PROTON.
There are certainly exceptions, but having torn down my fair share of laptops I would say this covers the majority
Before about 2005 I would agree; after that, more and more Windows laptops are adopting Apple's "tub" design; so messing up the keyboard means pretty much GUTTING the laptop to get to it.
YSN that if you buy a Windows laptop you won't have to pay $400 for an entire bottom deck when one key on your keyboard fails. You just pull the keyboard out and put in a new keyboard.
While I agree that is the one thing that sucks about the "Unibody" Mac laptops, I have a Samsung RV511 laptop at work that is EXACTLY the same way. I spilled some coffee into it, and after checking out the "how to" videos for fixing/replacing the keyboard on YouTube (which essentially are the same as with the Mac Unibody laptops), I decided that life was too short to have to disassemble my Samsung laptop down the last screw for something like that, and now carry around an external keyboard for the Samsung.
the primary reason he wants Windows instead of a MacBook is gaming.
You install Windows in the VM on a Linux host, not the other way around.
How efficiently do games that tax the GPU work in a virtual machine nowadays?
Why suffer the few percent penalty for virtualization. BootCamp gives you true, dual-boot operation. No virtualization penalties; just two computers in one!
The thermals are terrible. FTFY. I had a brief fling with Mac Pro desktops from 2005 - 2009ish. First one happily cooked its "good" video card twice before I ended up downgrading it to the "bad" one. Admittedly I stupidly tried to push 3D with it. If I'd stuck to 2D applications, it would have been OK, if a bit slow for the time. Both Mac Pro desktops I bought are still in service more than a decade later, though, both running as Linux servers. They installed multiprocessor xeons in those things, and they're still actually pretty fantastic for general purpose computing (Despite Apple's attempts to intentionally cripple the hardware.)
The 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pros have (finally) solved the longstanding Thermal problems. In test after test, none of the reviewers could get those two generations of MBPs to throttle AT ALL, let alone "Thermal Shutdown".
So, BootCamp MAY be a viable option, since it is really and truly "Bare Metal" speed. And then his son will have the best of both worlds.
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You might only be the fake Tim Cook, but you shouldn't do his dirty work, anyway. They do indeed show the ugly notch like they are proud of it, but they don't show and instead talk down the black rim. Useless screen area, you say? Like the iPhone X has plenty of? The X has less usable screen real estate than the iPhone 8+, don't forget that. Developers can't use the topmost and downmost sections, and those rounded corners are giving everyone headaches, but go on and keep talking out of your ass... ;-)
I am not an iOS App developer; so I don't have to worry about "forgetting" that. IOS Devs. Do.
And besides, From what I have heard, there is an iOS API call that returns the usable RECTANGULAR screen area for Apps, that takes into account the notch and corner radii for the iPhone X, and the onscreen Home button if the user so chooses to display same.
So what are you whining about? Would you rather have to maintain those Viewport dimensions in each and every App?
To me, this kind of bitching about Apple designing a product with a different screen aspect ratio and/or different screen dimensions, simply Seems like nothing more than some iOS Devs. Are getting pretty spoiled.
Win2K is still running on some high-value targets, especially industrial control systems, but new exploits aren't the only ones to worry about, just because a system is old doesn't mean that people delete the old exploits.
Good points all!
I stand corrected. Thanks for the edjumications!!!
That's one of the reasons I never keep an address book nor store passwords for anything. That's what my personal User-Friendly Liveware is for!
Met many a great person over on MSLangs, and the Crafts forums
Was a Section Leader on a few forms, but was never a "wizop"
Man, that was my first exposure to C-Serve, too!
I still have my Model 100, athough by now the NiCd batteries are probably long-toast...
I don't think I can answer that question without violating an NDA.
Nice dodge.
And it's pretty clear that no one wants to target people with devices that are old enough to be unsupported on iOS; because they are usually the "poor" ones, anyway, LOL!
Same reason there probably aren't a whole lot of new exploits being written for Windows 2000 or XP these days.
Dear Apple, Google, and Samsung,
There are only two hardware features I'm looking for in a phone:
1. No more than 4" tall HD screen (at least 1920x1080).
2. Removable 6000 mAh battery (hint: make the damn phone thicker).
The first one to make a phone with both features (* with the "latest version of the OS") gets my business.
It's not so much a matter of "Thicker", but rather HEAVIER. You are talking about a battery that would be more than twice as heavy as the ones currently in the iPhone X, for example. You'd think that doesn't matter; but it does. When you hold the phone for any appreciable length of time, the extra grams start to quickly translate into hand-cramps and feelings of "I just want to put this thing DOWN!"
Additionally, you'll have to subtract the thick black rim around the screen from the 'full screen experience'. Who do they think they are fooling?
The real question is: Why do you think they are TRYING to "fool" ANYBODY?
Heck, their official position on these attributes is "own them". Watch their TV ads. They make a BIG deal out of showing the "Notch", and don't do any stupid, useless tricks like Samsung does with their "wraparound" screen (talk about useless screen area!)
https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2017/supporting-iphone-x/
I can't even begin to describe how utterly retarded the iPhone X is screen wise. It is just about the most useless "innovation" I've ever seen (but I'm sure it took them a lot of courage to come up with that shit). Unless you're willing to write your GUI to target four separate screen layouts (because the notch changes orientation as you flip the device around), you're basically stuck shifting your widgets out of the way so that the wonky screen shape doesn't mess up your application UI.
Furthermore, you can't get rid of the status widgets at the top of the screen and the "home button" line at the bottom, which are displayed by the system over top of your GUI. Again, this means that you need to push stuff out of the way so things don't collide. iOS 11 even has an API for telling you what the "safe areas" of the screen are when displaying content, which pretty much turn the iPhone X into a rectangular display by telling your code to avoid the rounded edges and notch.
All this basically means that there are no "full screen" applications. Yeah, applications can color the unusable areas of the screen with whatever color scheme the rest of your app uses, but that space isn't actually usable for anything useful. It's literally just wasted space and pixels, because computers have never been designed to handle non-rectangular screens and never will be.
But whatever, I'm glad they found a way to make their special snowflake devices even more special and unique. Someone should strap a few magnets to Jobs and position a large coil of wire over his grave. It'd be a clean renewable source of energy, and I'm sure the power output will only continue to rise as Apple comes up with new and innovative ways to fuck up mobile computing (and/or computing in general).
1. No one forced you to create iOS apps. The App Store will get along just fine without your creations.
2. At least Apple provided you with an API that can assist the iOS Dev. to plan their screen layout to stay within a device's "safe" areas. Or would you prefer to maintain a list of those areas in your application, and update it everytime (a) new iPhone model(s) come out?
3. You are right that NO OS really wants to do bit/blt-ing to a non-rectangular screen area. So why are you whining? Everyone wants their mobile devices to have rounded corners for ergonomic and aesthetic reasons. And every manufacturer wants to fill those areas with lit-up pixels, even if they can't be filled with a Developer's content. And really, tell me what you would stick in that miniscule corner-radius that you are oh, so put-upon by not being able to draw into?
4. You're that lazy-ass Developer that makes horrible little Apps that obnoxiously won't obey the Device Orientation, aren't you?
Can phones be made to be easily reduced to components and recycled? What if congress mandated standards? Republicans would shit money blood?
Well, for its part, Apple claims to have recycling down to a "science" for iPhones:
http://www.businessinsider.com...
If you have an iOS device, you probably get 5 years and then the locked bootloader means that it will never be able to run an OS without known vulnerabilities
And yet, when was the last time you heard of an actual, exploited iOS vulnerability? Five years ago? Seven? iOS only goes back Ten years; so...?
It defaults you to use 6-digit and doesn't make the UI to decline obvious, but if you are persistent you can make it accept a 4-digit passcode.
I'd say it's pretty damned obvious how to select what type of passcode/passphrase you want:
https://www.imore.com/how-to-s...
I have never run anti-anything on my Macs, and have never suffered an infection. Not once.
How do you know? You're like someone who says he has never been tested for AIDS so he doesn't have AIDS.
Odds are that for years you've been part of multiple spam or DDOS botnets. That's people like you who make those botnets possible.
Highly unlikely. While I don't run any anti-malware detection, per se, I do use Little Snitch. It will report on any new/unapproved transmissions. Hard to be part of a botnet without sending out anything.
Plus, I'm not sure that I have ever heard of a Mac botnet. Actually, in researching whether or not that statement was defensible, I did come across a single mention of a Reddit-based Mac botnet that infected some 600k Macs. But that was in 2012, and I don.'t see any other later mentions.
Dont be silly.
Polite Linux users abound. Most of them have been setup by their linux sysadmin
now Polite Linux Sysadmin
is just ludicrous.
Touché!
They aren't. The best guess I've seen is that the product can only handle SHA-1 certificates, and the company is unwilling or unable to obtain a replacement SHA-1 that will be trusted by the cert store.
It's likely a proprietary encryption algorithm, not something industry-standard like SHA-1.
And therein may lie the rub.
Actual ROM is very rare and OTP (one time programmable) tends to be very small and for specialized functions.
Flash is cheap and stable enough that it tends to be used even if there is no plan to re-write it ever.
However, in such a case the firmware may have no functions to erase and re-write (including being laid out in such a way that it always has at least a stub that can complete an interrupted update rather than bricking).
OTP is not all that rare. And on extremely high-volume products, ROM is still a "Thing".
BTW, just because a microcontroller is Flash-based; doesn't mean the device itself has the ability to (re)program it. They can't assume that everyone has a JTAG programmer at their disposal, and even if the device itself can (re)program its own Flash, there has to be code to support the flashing, and SPACE to store a downloaded "Update" while the device continues to function and (re)program.
Considering the longstanding bugs in my Harmony Remote, I would say that self-programming was not a design consideration.
Pandering to the exception.
WTF does that mean?
Regardless of the scary stories you read here on slashdot, the simple fact is Mac malware just isn't an issue. Windows malware is a daily occurrence.
Having used Macs continuously since 1984, and Windows continuously since 1989, I can verify that Parent speaks the truth.
I have never run anti-anything on my Macs, and have never suffered an infection. Not once.
But I have had to clean up both my and friends' Windows machines (sometimes with great difficulty) multiple times, DESPITE all of them running at least one A/V suite, if not multiple ones.
2001 called, they want their illusion of Mac being free from viruses and ransomware back.
A popular video conversion app for Mac has suffered a malware infection on one of its mirror servers. If you downloaded HandBrake between 10:30 a.m. EDT on May 2, 2017 and 7:00 p.m. EDT on May 6, 2017, you should follow these instructions to check your Mac for a new variant of the malware OSX.PROTON.
https://www.macobserver.com/ne...
Mac Users Hit by Rare Ransomware Attack, Spread via Transmission BitTorrent App
https://www.intego.com/mac-sec...
Patcher Ransomware Attacks macOS, Encrypts Files Permanently
https://www.intego.com/mac-sec...
etc.
Now, let's compare that list to Windows, shall we?
There are certainly exceptions, but having torn down my fair share of laptops I would say this covers the majority
Before about 2005 I would agree; after that, more and more Windows laptops are adopting Apple's "tub" design; so messing up the keyboard means pretty much GUTTING the laptop to get to it.
YSN that if you buy a Windows laptop you won't have to pay $400 for an entire bottom deck when one key on your keyboard fails. You just pull the keyboard out and put in a new keyboard.
While I agree that is the one thing that sucks about the "Unibody" Mac laptops, I have a Samsung RV511 laptop at work that is EXACTLY the same way. I spilled some coffee into it, and after checking out the "how to" videos for fixing/replacing the keyboard on YouTube (which essentially are the same as with the Mac Unibody laptops), I decided that life was too short to have to disassemble my Samsung laptop down the last screw for something like that, and now carry around an external keyboard for the Samsung.
the primary reason he wants Windows instead of a MacBook is gaming.
You install Windows in the VM on a Linux host, not the other way around.
How efficiently do games that tax the GPU work in a virtual machine nowadays?
Why suffer the few percent penalty for virtualization. BootCamp gives you true, dual-boot operation. No virtualization penalties; just two computers in one!
Frankly, I may be going back to Windows myself as a Mac guy of 5+ years.
I use both every single day, and I cannot understand that sentiment one bit.
Until you compare it to McOS.
After using both every single day, I can say without hesitation that you have no idea what you're talking about.
And it's "macOS", idiot.
Yep, if a person is not capable of handling more than one mouse button it is better to let others decide what real computer to buy.
1998 called, and wants its meme back.
Yeah, “saavy Mac user” is quite the oxymoron.
Really?
I think "Polite Linux User" is much more of an oxymoron.
The thermals are terrible. FTFY. I had a brief fling with Mac Pro desktops from 2005 - 2009ish. First one happily cooked its "good" video card twice before I ended up downgrading it to the "bad" one. Admittedly I stupidly tried to push 3D with it. If I'd stuck to 2D applications, it would have been OK, if a bit slow for the time. Both Mac Pro desktops I bought are still in service more than a decade later, though, both running as Linux servers. They installed multiprocessor xeons in those things, and they're still actually pretty fantastic for general purpose computing (Despite Apple's attempts to intentionally cripple the hardware.)
The 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pros have (finally) solved the longstanding Thermal problems. In test after test, none of the reviewers could get those two generations of MBPs to throttle AT ALL, let alone "Thermal Shutdown".
So, BootCamp MAY be a viable option, since it is really and truly "Bare Metal" speed. And then his son will have the best of both worlds.