Now I feel you are willfully being ignorant. I said nothing about central network storage and already gave good reasons why isolation on a phone is awkward.
So your comment regarding "one library they can all share" doesn't imply centralized media storage (and serving)?
If I want several music players, the only way for me to load one library that they can all share is for me to use itunes. So yes, I am forced to use iTunes. Otherwise I must use some flaky little embedded webserver so I can upload my library individually to each app one by one with some little crappy webconsole.
These are hoops I don't want to jump through. My android phone works like a flash drive, which is what makes sense for a portable storage device.
What does your phone have to do with centralized media storage? Do you plan on using your phone as a Plex Server, FFS?!?
If you want that sort of thing, get any one of a zillion NASes, and set it up to be a media server you can access over your LAN and the interwebs via Plex, VLC, iOS "Music", etc.
But now that I've shown that you have several alternatives to using iTunes for managing the music in an iPhone, you move the goalposts yet again.
I'm on to your game. If you want to trade security of your personal information for the ability to mount your phone as a USB flash drive, then fine. We won't miss you. And the Chinese/Russian/NSA hackers will be overjoyed...
Maybe they have something else in the pipeline. Or maybe they don't care about losing market-share in the laptop area...
Maybe they see the difference between the current MacBook Air and MacBook minor. When the new MacBook was introduced it did seem to move towards the Air concept.
Your snarky misuse of product names has left your comment completely incomprehensible. MacBook minor == MacBook Pro? MacBook == MacBook? Or what?
Or what? Its a typo, left out a word: "Maybe they see the difference between the current MacBook Air and MacBook as minor.":-)
LOL, ok, you got me! But it really was incomprehensible!
I don't think that, other than the thinness, which many laptops were pushing ever toward, that the MacBook Pro was pushing toward "Air-ness".
The MacBook Pro ("MBP") really does have a tremendous amount of I/O expandability. As I said, more than any other current laptop. And I/O that is as "future proof" as it gets at this point in time. In 5 years, when almost everything you buy will be USB-C/Thunderbolt (now that Intel has stopped getting in their own way on that interface), those "essential" USB-A connectors will start looking as useful as a built-in MODEM and Parallel ports.
Yes, Apple chose maximum display-driving capability over raw GPU speed with the AMD GPUs; but, for their target market, the ability to drive 4 4K, or 2 5k external displays (PLUS the internal display) makes more sense. And now that macOS is officially supporting eGPUS, and TB3 provides a fade data pipe, that design decision is becoming a non-issue for those who desire a little more graphics horsepower.
As far as the non-user--replaceable SSD, most, if not all, "real pros" routinely work with files that are already too large to be stored effectively on any laptop available INTERNAL SSD; so again, the inclusion of blazing-fast USB 3.1 and TB3 means that huge external storage pools with FAST, infinitely-expandable external storage for those gigantic files.
As far as the 16 GB RAM limit, that really is only a problem for those wanting to run more than one simultaneous VM instance. Unfortunately, that limitation is mostly Intel's fault, and hopefully will go away with the next generation of their CPUs.
You outright LIED to your friend, you stupid, uninformed FUCK. You need to aplolgize to him IMMEDIATELY, and tell him you are a stupid, bigoted fucker.
How does Apple "lock you into their ecosystem" any more than Android locks you into their ecosystem?
By making iTunes the only legitimate way to interact with the phone.
1. It doesn't keep you from having another music player. Plus There are other applications that you can use to load music onto an iOS device. Here's a few free (and non-free) alternatives. Do try to keep up, Hater:
BTW, that search took zero time on Google. So you are either stupid beyond belief, or actively using willful blindness as an excuse for your bigotry. Take your pick.
2. Other than doing certain very limited operations, such as encypted backups, you don't have to use it for anything. I have never hooked my iPhone up to iTunes, for example. And with iCloud Backup for iOS, you can even forego that functionality (and get automatic backups, too!).
But, as I have said, I haven't ever hooked my iPhone 6 Plus up to iTunes for ANYTHING; but the pricing of iCloud backup has me pretty interested, and can even be shared among your family.
How does Apple "lock you into their ecosystem" any more than Android locks you into their ecosystem?
By making iTunes the only legitimate way to interact with the phone.
1. It doesn't keep you from having another music player. Plus There are other applications that you can use to load music onto an iOS device. Here's a few free (and non-free) alternatives. Do try to keep up, Hater:
BTW, that search took zero time on Google. So you are either stupid beyond belief, or actively using willful blindness as an excuse for your bigotry. Take your pick.
2. Other than doing certain very limited operations, such as encypted backups, you don't have to use it for anything. I have never hooked my iPhone up to iTunes, for example. And with iCloud Backup for iOS, you can even forego that functionality (and get automatic backups, too!).
But, as I have said, I haven't ever hooked my iPhone 6 Plus up to iTunes for ANYTHING; but the pricing of iCloud backup has me pretty interested, and can even be shared among your family.
Apple forces me to buy an Android phone by being the only competitor and deciding to lock me into their ecosystem if I use them. Not to mention I still haven't forgiven them for not simply allowing me to access a common filesystem.
IOS 11 has a Filesystem browser as an included App. Do try to keep up, Hater.
How does Apple "lock you into their ecosystem" any more than Android locks you into their ecosystem? You can't run iOS Apps on an Android phone any more (or any less) than you can run Android Apps on an iOS phone?
Plus, ever since iOS 8 (which debuted over 3 years ago) Apple has officially allowed "sideloading" of Apps from ANY source on iOS devices. In fact, there is both a thriving community of Maintainers of Open Source Apps Apps, as well as several sites that have many closed-source ".ipa" files that can be readily installed on any iOS device run ing iOS 8 or above, using the Freeware Cydia Impactor (available for macOS,Windows, and Linux), no "Jailbreaking" required. And absolutely no App Store involvement whatsoever.
Time to admit that the entire Android ecosystem and App Store model is a raging dumpster fire, and it's millions of users are unwittingly being burned to death every single day.
Whine all you want about iOS' "Walled Garden" (which has been demonstrably untrue since iOS 8 allowed "sideloading" of Apps), but there is something fundamentally broken with the whole OS, that it allows this shitstorm on an almost daily basis for years on end.
If Google wanted to stop this, they could. But they obviously couldn't give less of a shit about their millions of victims, er, users, if they tried.
Yes, it's oriented toward "playing around" (hence the name), and oriented towards kids (is that a bad thing?); but it looks like it nicely dovetails (no pun on the Swift logo) into XCode Development (which you can be cynical about; but not THAT cynical).
All in all, it seems like a great way to teach kids (and not-so-kids) coding, with some instant gratification that sure beats my first BASIC program!
Logic is math. You're good at one part of math, so I wonder why you're not good at other parts. Bad teaching? Lack of applications? Nobody told you that logic is math, so it didn't register as something you can't do until you were already doing it?
Logic is math only for very limited values of "math".;-)
My parents got divorced at a crucial time for learning basic math skills, and I ended up going to a bunch of different schools and never quite caught back up in the math department. Plus, I had an algebra 1 teacher who was so smart he just couldn't fathom how it wasn't just "obvious" to everyone, so he was no good at breaking things down in a way that made sense to me.
My IQ was around 142 last I heard; so it's not like I'm exactly an imbecile; but IMHO, "math" is what a calculator does.
Odd, since I taught myself trigonometry out of a Radio Shack electronics book...
Wow, you're making a false dichotomy here. Question is, if ppl had to choose between an iPhone WITH a replaceable battery, and an iPhone WITHOUT an replaceable battery, which one would they prefer?
My guess is they'd choose a serviceable device.
Also a removable battery doesn't "add" anything to the cost of the device, really. It's mostly seen on lower-end devices, so heh, it's a really funny argument you're making.
Also also, waterproof is a very different use case. I don't regularly sail or work near bodies of water. Most people don't, either.
Cheers, idiot!
So, you never approach ANY type of water with your phone in your pocket?
I thought the same thing, but the adhesive strips took me about an hour to deal with (had to break out the hair dryer and do lots of awkward maneuvering). Apple could have made it a lot easier to replace them. Frankly while most./ readers could do it, most people could not.
There are many things I would try to repair on my car, but many more I would not. I would suspect that most people fall into a similar mindset.
Do I blame the manufacturer because I can't easily replace the transmission in my car? No.
Well, in something as miniaturized as a smartphone, simple things like conventional fasteners and battery compartments accessible from the outside become major design roadblocks, and so the vast majority of OEMs of these devices have tried to strike a reasonable (there's that word again!) balance between "repairability" and "Functionality/Desirability" to the average consumer in their target markets.
For example, on the iPhone, Apple COULD have molded the battery into the back-cover itself, or used any number of adhesives that NOTHING could have gotten-past; but they didn't. In fact, they have even made it EASIER over time to replace the batteries in those units, switching from fairly permanent glue to using "releasable" adhesive strips.
Engineering is ALWAYS a product of an array of compromises. If you feel squeamish about pulling your phone apart and wrestling a bit with the battery to get it out of the case, then there are a number of OEM and third-party places you can take it, to have that done for you at a quite-reasonable (there's that word again) cost.
Or you can just continue to whine that the transmission in your car doesn't have snap-clips to remove it without having to get under the car and turn a wrench.
I don't care what someone sells when the question is what programming language is easy to learn.
He might be someone to listen to when it comes to the question which programming language sells well, but aside of that, what's his expertise when it comes to programming?
Glad you asked!
Not only does he have an Engineering Degree; but he actually DOES know how to code, at least somewhat:
I'll simply plug my USB-A flash drive into the only USB-C port of a MacBook and... oh wait, it's being used to charge the computer.
That's alright, I bought a brand new USB-C flash drive for my MacBook, so I'll simply plug it into the only USB-C port of a MacBook and... oh wait, it's being used to charge the computer.
So, people are supposed to be impressed by an ultra-thin laptop which requires them to bring adapters and a freakin' USB HUB to do anything?
Look, I really won't try to defend the MacBook (non-pro)'s inclusion of only ONE USB-C port. IMHO, that IS stupid.
The ONLY way it makes sense is that you certainly CAN unplug your charger from the port for a couple of minutes under almost any circumstances to get something onto/off of a Flash Drive, or do a wired backup/restore of an iPhone/iPad/iPod. So, from that standpoint, it is no worse than the original Google Pixel laptop, which also only had one USB-C port for everything.
But as far as the MacBook Pro 2016/2017, that argument simply doesn't hold water.
Why would you argue that? Do you deny that the most popular music on the planet is targeted for the mentally impaired? The most popular fashion accessories?
Making a lot of money means the vendor is smart, not that the customers are smart (in fact, it typically suggests they aren't).
Where is that correlation coming from, and does it smell up there?
Some of the apathy toward fixing encoding is a legacy of vandals abusing Unicode control characters to mess with the layout and abusing foreign language characters to post obscene glyph art. If Unicode support matters to you, you could always use SoylentNews instead.
I really don't care about the Unicode stuff. I'm a USian, and we don' need no steenking Unicode just to talk.
But it's the hundred other things that no other comment system seems to suffer from that annoy me.
And, oh yes, the complete lack of a rich text editor. The fact that I have to use ignorant HTML tags JUST to bold or italicize something is beyond ridiculous. This is not an HTML coding test; it's a damned comment system! And it's damned inconvenient when typing on anything but a full-blown desktop keyboard!
Guess what the best selling beer in the world is? Budweiser.
Obviously, it's the best beer, then.
Maybe not the best (which is most assuredly a SUBJECTIVE quality); but I would hardly call Anheiser Busch (or whatever the name of the German brewery it is that bought them a few years back) a "Toymaker brewery, that only makes beers for the mentally impaired."
I would doubt that the sub 100 IQ'ed control half the world's wealth, by definition. Trump notwithstanding, LOL!
If you think Trump and/or his supporters are idiots you're delusional. He won with an Army of nerds shilling for him for free because he represented their interests for a change and in addition he himself has an IQ no less than 4 s.d. above average. But hey, whatever helps you stop crying and go to sleep at night; personally I look forward to another 7 years of you idiots buttraging all over the place.
I KNEW any mention of President Dumpster would derail the conversation.
Xcode does not run on an iPad, a pre-2010 Mac, or a non-Apple PC. Using Xcode as your defense means an iPad is a general-purpose computer if and only if it is associated with a sufficiently recent Mac.
I notice you CONVEEEENIENTLY ignored my mention of Swift Playgrounds, which DOES run on an iPad.
You know what's the definition of "mentally impaired"?
Calling the most successful company of ANY type on the planet a "Toymaker for the mentally impaired".
Actually, I'll have you know the average IQ is 100. You could cater to nothing but the mentally impaired and control half the world's wealth by definition.
I would doubt that the sub 100 IQ'ed control half the world's wealth, by definition. Trump notwithstanding, LOL!
The target audience is adults who never learned to type and still can't read above a 4th grade level. The fact it happens to also alienate the well-educated is actually part of the design. This will work very well, unfortunately.
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Now I feel you are willfully being ignorant. I said nothing about central network storage and already gave good reasons why isolation on a phone is awkward.
So your comment regarding "one library they can all share" doesn't imply centralized media storage (and serving)?
Ok, then what DID you mean?
If I want several music players, the only way for me to load one library that they can all share is for me to use itunes. So yes, I am forced to use iTunes. Otherwise I must use some flaky little embedded webserver so I can upload my library individually to each app one by one with some little crappy webconsole.
These are hoops I don't want to jump through. My android phone works like a flash drive, which is what makes sense for a portable storage device.
What does your phone have to do with centralized media storage? Do you plan on using your phone as a Plex Server, FFS?!?
If you want that sort of thing, get any one of a zillion NASes, and set it up to be a media server you can access over your LAN and the interwebs via Plex, VLC, iOS "Music", etc.
But now that I've shown that you have several alternatives to using iTunes for managing the music in an iPhone, you move the goalposts yet again.
I'm on to your game. If you want to trade security of your personal information for the ability to mount your phone as a USB flash drive, then fine. We won't miss you. And the Chinese/Russian/NSA hackers will be overjoyed...
Maybe they have something else in the pipeline. Or maybe they don't care about losing market-share in the laptop area ...
Maybe they see the difference between the current MacBook Air and MacBook minor. When the new MacBook was introduced it did seem to move towards the Air concept.
Your snarky misuse of product names has left your comment completely incomprehensible. MacBook minor == MacBook Pro? MacBook == MacBook? Or what?
Or what? Its a typo, left out a word: "Maybe they see the difference between the current MacBook Air and MacBook as minor." :-)
LOL, ok, you got me! But it really was incomprehensible!
I don't think that, other than the thinness, which many laptops were pushing ever toward, that the MacBook Pro was pushing toward "Air-ness".
The MacBook Pro ("MBP") really does have a tremendous amount of I/O expandability. As I said, more than any other current laptop. And I/O that is as "future proof" as it gets at this point in time. In 5 years, when almost everything you buy will be USB-C/Thunderbolt (now that Intel has stopped getting in their own way on that interface), those "essential" USB-A connectors will start looking as useful as a built-in MODEM and Parallel ports.
Yes, Apple chose maximum display-driving capability over raw GPU speed with the AMD GPUs; but, for their target market, the ability to drive 4 4K, or 2 5k external displays (PLUS the internal display) makes more sense. And now that macOS is officially supporting eGPUS, and TB3 provides a fade data pipe, that design decision is becoming a non-issue for those who desire a little more graphics horsepower.
As far as the non-user--replaceable SSD, most, if not all, "real pros" routinely work with files that are already too large to be stored effectively on any laptop available INTERNAL SSD; so again, the inclusion of blazing-fast USB 3.1 and TB3 means that huge external storage pools with FAST, infinitely-expandable external storage for those gigantic files.
As far as the 16 GB RAM limit, that really is only a problem for those wanting to run more than one simultaneous VM instance. Unfortunately, that limitation is mostly Intel's fault, and hopefully will go away with the next generation of their CPUs.
You outright LIED to your friend, you stupid, uninformed FUCK. You need to aplolgize to him IMMEDIATELY, and tell him you are a stupid, bigoted fucker.
How does Apple "lock you into their ecosystem" any more than Android locks you into their ecosystem?
By making iTunes the only legitimate way to interact with the phone.
1. It doesn't keep you from having another music player. Plus There are other applications that you can use to load music onto an iOS device. Here's a few free (and non-free) alternatives. Do try to keep up, Hater:
https://www.easeus.com/iphone-...
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how...
https://drfone.wondershare.com... ...and there are literally dozens more alternatives. So, next bullshit objection?
BTW, that search took zero time on Google. So you are either stupid beyond belief, or actively using willful blindness as an excuse for your bigotry. Take your pick.
2. Other than doing certain very limited operations, such as encypted backups, you don't have to use it for anything. I have never hooked my iPhone up to iTunes, for example. And with iCloud Backup for iOS, you can even forego that functionality (and get automatic backups, too!).
But, as I have said, I haven't ever hooked my iPhone 6 Plus up to iTunes for ANYTHING; but the pricing of iCloud backup has me pretty interested, and can even be shared among your family.
https://support.apple.com/en-u...
But as I said, please don't let any of this disturb your fantasy of unabashed Apple Hatred.
How does Apple "lock you into their ecosystem" any more than Android locks you into their ecosystem?
By making iTunes the only legitimate way to interact with the phone.
1. It doesn't keep you from having another music player. Plus There are other applications that you can use to load music onto an iOS device. Here's a few free (and non-free) alternatives. Do try to keep up, Hater:
https://www.easeus.com/iphone-...
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how...
https://drfone.wondershare.com... ...and there are literally dozens more alternatives. So, next bullshit objection?
BTW, that search took zero time on Google. So you are either stupid beyond belief, or actively using willful blindness as an excuse for your bigotry. Take your pick.
2. Other than doing certain very limited operations, such as encypted backups, you don't have to use it for anything. I have never hooked my iPhone up to iTunes, for example. And with iCloud Backup for iOS, you can even forego that functionality (and get automatic backups, too!).
But, as I have said, I haven't ever hooked my iPhone 6 Plus up to iTunes for ANYTHING; but the pricing of iCloud backup has me pretty interested, and can even be shared among your family.
https://support.apple.com/en-u...
But as I said, please don't let any of this disturb your fantasy of unabashed Apple Hatred.
Apple forces me to buy an Android phone by being the only competitor and deciding to lock me into their ecosystem if I use them. Not to mention I still haven't forgiven them for not simply allowing me to access a common filesystem.
IOS 11 has a Filesystem browser as an included App. Do try to keep up, Hater.
How does Apple "lock you into their ecosystem" any more than Android locks you into their ecosystem? You can't run iOS Apps on an Android phone any more (or any less) than you can run Android Apps on an iOS phone?
Plus, ever since iOS 8 (which debuted over 3 years ago) Apple has officially allowed "sideloading" of Apps from ANY source on iOS devices. In fact, there is both a thriving community of Maintainers of Open Source Apps Apps, as well as several sites that have many closed-source ".ipa" files that can be readily installed on any iOS device run ing iOS 8 or above, using the Freeware Cydia Impactor (available for macOS,Windows, and Linux), no "Jailbreaking" required. And absolutely no App Store involvement whatsoever.
Again, do try to keep up, Hater.
Time to admit that the entire Android ecosystem and App Store model is a raging dumpster fire, and it's millions of users are unwittingly being burned to death every single day.
Whine all you want about iOS' "Walled Garden" (which has been demonstrably untrue since iOS 8 allowed "sideloading" of Apps), but there is something fundamentally broken with the whole OS, that it allows this shitstorm on an almost daily basis for years on end.
If Google wanted to stop this, they could. But they obviously couldn't give less of a shit about their millions of victims, er, users, if they tried.
So you admit outright to having no point? Excellent concession.
Nice try.
I skipped Swift Playgrounds because I lack an informed opinion on it, because I haven't tried it, because I don't own an iPad.
Nice excuse.
Read:
https://developer.apple.com/sw...
Yes, it's oriented toward "playing around" (hence the name), and oriented towards kids (is that a bad thing?); but it looks like it nicely dovetails (no pun on the Swift logo) into XCode Development (which you can be cynical about; but not THAT cynical).
All in all, it seems like a great way to teach kids (and not-so-kids) coding, with some instant gratification that sure beats my first BASIC program!
Logic is math. You're good at one part of math, so I wonder why you're not good at other parts. Bad teaching? Lack of applications? Nobody told you that logic is math, so it didn't register as something you can't do until you were already doing it?
Logic is math only for very limited values of "math". ;-)
My parents got divorced at a crucial time for learning basic math skills, and I ended up going to a bunch of different schools and never quite caught back up in the math department. Plus, I had an algebra 1 teacher who was so smart he just couldn't fathom how it wasn't just "obvious" to everyone, so he was no good at breaking things down in a way that made sense to me.
My IQ was around 142 last I heard; so it's not like I'm exactly an imbecile; but IMHO, "math" is what a calculator does.
Odd, since I taught myself trigonometry out of a Radio Shack electronics book...
Wow, you're making a false dichotomy here. Question is, if ppl had to choose between an iPhone WITH a replaceable battery, and an iPhone WITHOUT an replaceable battery, which one would they prefer?
My guess is they'd choose a serviceable device.
Also a removable battery doesn't "add" anything to the cost of the device, really. It's mostly seen on lower-end devices, so heh, it's a really funny argument you're making.
Also also, waterproof is a very different use case. I don't regularly sail or work near bodies of water. Most people don't, either.
Cheers, idiot!
So, you never approach ANY type of water with your phone in your pocket?
If you say you don't, you're a bald-faced liar.
I thought the same thing, but the adhesive strips took me about an hour to deal with (had to break out the hair dryer and do lots of awkward maneuvering). Apple could have made it a lot easier to replace them. Frankly while most ./ readers could do it, most people could not.
There are many things I would try to repair on my car, but many more I would not. I would suspect that most people fall into a similar mindset.
Do I blame the manufacturer because I can't easily replace the transmission in my car? No.
Well, in something as miniaturized as a smartphone, simple things like conventional fasteners and battery compartments accessible from the outside become major design roadblocks, and so the vast majority of OEMs of these devices have tried to strike a reasonable (there's that word again!) balance between "repairability" and "Functionality/Desirability" to the average consumer in their target markets.
For example, on the iPhone, Apple COULD have molded the battery into the back-cover itself, or used any number of adhesives that NOTHING could have gotten-past; but they didn't. In fact, they have even made it EASIER over time to replace the batteries in those units, switching from fairly permanent glue to using "releasable" adhesive strips.
Engineering is ALWAYS a product of an array of compromises. If you feel squeamish about pulling your phone apart and wrestling a bit with the battery to get it out of the case, then there are a number of OEM and third-party places you can take it, to have that done for you at a quite-reasonable (there's that word again) cost.
Or you can just continue to whine that the transmission in your car doesn't have snap-clips to remove it without having to get under the car and turn a wrench.
And yes, it IS completely the same thing.
"No one "repairs" a battery"
Bullshit. I repair lead-acid car batteries all the time.
That explains a LOT about you.
What's "reasonable"?
I was coming here to ask "What's 'Difficult'?"
I don't care what someone sells when the question is what programming language is easy to learn.
He might be someone to listen to when it comes to the question which programming language sells well, but aside of that, what's his expertise when it comes to programming?
Glad you asked!
Not only does he have an Engineering Degree; but he actually DOES know how to code, at least somewhat:
https://www.macrumors.com/2018...
Yes of course, adapters!
I'll simply plug my USB-A flash drive into the only USB-C port of a MacBook and... oh wait, it's being used to charge the computer.
That's alright, I bought a brand new USB-C flash drive for my MacBook, so I'll simply plug it into the only USB-C port of a MacBook and... oh wait, it's being used to charge the computer.
So, people are supposed to be impressed by an ultra-thin laptop which requires them to bring adapters and a freakin' USB HUB to do anything?
Look, I really won't try to defend the MacBook (non-pro)'s inclusion of only ONE USB-C port. IMHO, that IS stupid.
The ONLY way it makes sense is that you certainly CAN unplug your charger from the port for a couple of minutes under almost any circumstances to get something onto/off of a Flash Drive, or do a wired backup/restore of an iPhone/iPad/iPod. So, from that standpoint, it is no worse than the original Google Pixel laptop, which also only had one USB-C port for everything.
But as far as the MacBook Pro 2016/2017, that argument simply doesn't hold water.
Why would you argue that? Do you deny that the most popular music on the planet is targeted for the mentally impaired? The most popular fashion accessories?
Making a lot of money means the vendor is smart, not that the customers are smart (in fact, it typically suggests they aren't).
Where is that correlation coming from, and does it smell up there?
Smart people buy things, too.
Some of the apathy toward fixing encoding is a legacy of vandals abusing Unicode control characters to mess with the layout and abusing foreign language characters to post obscene glyph art. If Unicode support matters to you, you could always use SoylentNews instead.
I really don't care about the Unicode stuff. I'm a USian, and we don' need no steenking Unicode just to talk.
But it's the hundred other things that no other comment system seems to suffer from that annoy me.
And, oh yes, the complete lack of a rich text editor. The fact that I have to use ignorant HTML tags JUST to bold or italicize something is beyond ridiculous. This is not an HTML coding test; it's a damned comment system! And it's damned inconvenient when typing on anything but a full-blown desktop keyboard!
Big Monsanto/Walmart/Verizon fan here, I see...
Entirely a different argument.
And for the record: No.
Guess what the best selling beer in the world is? Budweiser.
Obviously, it's the best beer, then.
Maybe not the best (which is most assuredly a SUBJECTIVE quality); but I would hardly call Anheiser Busch (or whatever the name of the German brewery it is that bought them a few years back) a "Toymaker brewery, that only makes beers for the mentally impaired."
THAT's the difference.
I would doubt that the sub 100 IQ'ed control half the world's wealth, by definition. Trump notwithstanding, LOL!
If you think Trump and/or his supporters are idiots you're delusional. He won with an Army of nerds shilling for him for free because he represented their interests for a change and in addition he himself has an IQ no less than 4 s.d. above average. But hey, whatever helps you stop crying and go to sleep at night; personally I look forward to another 7 years of you idiots buttraging all over the place.
I KNEW any mention of President Dumpster would derail the conversation.
Thanks for taking the bait, morons! LOLOLOL!!!
Xcode does not run on an iPad, a pre-2010 Mac, or a non-Apple PC. Using Xcode as your defense means an iPad is a general-purpose computer if and only if it is associated with a sufficiently recent Mac.
I notice you CONVEEEENIENTLY ignored my mention of Swift Playgrounds, which DOES run on an iPad.
You know what's the definition of "mentally impaired"?
Calling the most successful company of ANY type on the planet a "Toymaker for the mentally impaired".
Actually, I'll have you know the average IQ is 100. You could cater to nothing but the mentally impaired and control half the world's wealth by definition.
I would doubt that the sub 100 IQ'ed control half the world's wealth, by definition. Trump notwithstanding, LOL!
Sure, if the only measure of "successful" is has the biggest pile of rotting money.
I would say the most successful company was AT&T/Bell Labs. But you know they actually made shit.
C. Unix. Actual Telecommunication hardware.
Sounds like jealousy to me...
The target audience is adults who never learned to type and still can't read above a 4th grade level. The fact it happens to also alienate the well-educated is actually part of the design. This will work very well, unfortunately.
You're an idiot.