You don;t seem to understand that "best" in this context doesn't refer to a literal superlative material, but to the best material currently available from a glass manufacturer at the time the product was made.
Why would you assume they were bashing Apple instead of Corning though? That makes no sense.
Ah yes, that well known Corning-hate on slashdot, with the frequent trope of being excited to upgrade your corning product on a short, repeating cycle like sheep.
I hardly think the original coward's target was non-obvious.
Every time I've seen someone with broken screen, it was an iPhone. It's about time Apple did this, but then they do profit by making phones that need repairs/ replacing.
About time Apple did what? Made their phones deliberately out of the best material available at the time and now out of a subsequently even better material made by a third party supplier that they don't control?
What did you think they are "about timing"? Making new phones out of a material that has only just been announced?
Isn't the temperature a result of high pressure? As in, if you jam enough atoms into a space eventually they have less room to move and get colder? I'm sort of basing this off observation of my air compressor relief valve and not science. Air duster canisters can generate frost. That kind of thing.
So pressurizing a bunch of hydrogen would mean if it ruptures and someone touches the canister, instant frostbite.
What about the "destroying everything it touches" part?
ps: I am a different AC than OP.
The Ideal Gas Law determines what happens to a gas under pressure: PV = nRT
Pressure is proportional to volume, so if you compress a gas it shrinks in volume until eventually it liquefies - but the point at which it does depends on the phase diagram for that particular gas. The properties change depending on the molecules.
If you release pressure quickly then it expands very rapidly and cools down. This is a function of thermodynamics. Similarly, if you compress a gas it will heat up for the same reason. This is common to all gases. Jamming the molecules in ever tighter will increase the temperature. Your air compressor heats up when it is compressing air because of this. When you let the pressure out, the temperature of the air drops rapidly.
Where things like hydrogen are special is that you can't liquefy them by simply pressurising it. You need to cool it down too - the triple point of hydrogen is about 22 K and the critical point is about 32 K - hydrogen simply can not be a liquid at any pressure unless the temperature is between these two values (22 K is -251 C or -420 F - cryogenically cold temperatures).
Any gas under pressure is a hazard - cylinders of nitrogen are pressurised to 300 bar and if one of those ruptures you're in a world of hurt, despite the fact that nitrogen itself is inert, but we routinely handle high pressure gasses in industrial and commercial environments. You take more precautions with a hydrogen cylinder (or any cylinder of flammable gas), but the handling procedures for flammables overlap a lot with the non-flammables like nitrogen and argon.
It's the same as reducing charging speed with non-Apple iPhone cables. The only reason is to make you buy expensive Apple parts.
Ah, yes, that pesky problem with conforming to the USB specification for safety reasons.
If you know your charger, cable and device have been tested to be safe to pull multiple amps then the device will do so (but be technically out of spec).
Charger reporting as a standard USB port? Drop back to the published spec for maximum current draw.
Sorry, you were in the middle of an Apple bash, I didn't mean to interrupt. Carry on.
Let's also ignore the fact that adding driver signing to the kernel is not somehow "solely to stop third party SSDs".
No, you couldn't, since they are Apple's drivers not yours. Apple's driver takes over handling of external drives, but it refuses to TRIM them. Previously, people worked around that by patching the driver, but signing prevents that.
Right, but drive vendors could sign a driver and supply it with the hardware, they just choose not to do so because the vast majority of bare SSDs are sold for Windows boxes where Microsoft's driver is not picky about TRIM support.
He's probably talking about the time where Obama was effectively forced to extend those ludicrous Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, that cost the US economy trillions of dollars, or the time he actually put the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars on the books for the first time.
In the UK, cars are taxed on the amount of CO2 emissions generated.
Why not just tax petrol? Petrol burned is directly proportional to the amount of CO2 actually (not theoretically) emitted. This band system for efficiency is unnecessarily complicated.
Petrol is taxed, and taxed very, very heavily (the price at the pump in the UK is about 75% tax). CO2 emissions are also taxed. Driving is expensive in the UK, but it does wholly pay for the upkeep of our roads.
A utility for getting all my photos out of iPhoto, and all my data out of Time Machine?
You mean something that reads the HFS+ filesystem?
Time Machine backups are copies of your files. If you have software that can read your original files then that very same software can also open the copy of the file that Time Machine made. You do not need Time Machine's interface to read these files.
If you use Time Machine on a network drive then there's an additional step of mounting the disk image it creates, which is left as an exercise to the reader.
I'll pick one you missed off: life experience. Although from your comments so far, it seems you believe that all you do at work is make money, get a big office and get a title. I can see why, given your limited experience with this, that you might think it is a "new fangled" idea.
No. This is what I hate about these iMacs. And especially more since this high-res display. You get a good, expensive display, which you could easily keep for 10-15 years, but are forced to throw it away when you want to upgrade the computer, after say 2-8 years. A Mac mini duck-taped on the back of a monitor takes about the same space anyways.
Are you sure about that? The current generation of iMacs can act as a standard monitor when connected to another machine. Up until a few weeks ago, I was using one that had a failed hard drive in it as a monitor for a desktop PC via a simple mini Displayport to Displayport cable connected to the PC's graphics card.
Probably not at this time - the display sharing feature has been dropped from the spec sheet, probably because the new iMac only has Thunderbolt 2 and thus doesn't quite have the bandwidth to drive a 5k display over that interface.
I think it will probably return when this model hits revision 2 and gains Thunderbolt 3 running the new display port spec that has adequate bandwidth to run a display of that resolution.
I believe this is also why we haven't seen an update to the standalone thunderbolt display yet - Apple will want it to retain the Thunderbolt connectivity and there's no specification available right now to run such a large panel over that interface (or any external interface I believe) without doing things like multiplexing two TB2 busses together.
Those wanting to use this thing as a monitor are going to be out of luck until TB3 arrives I fear.
There is a good possibility that the new iMacs can also be used as a monitor as well.
It's not even "your card never leaves your device" - your card number isn't stored on the phone in the first place. Your signing key is made using your card number, but after that the phone doesn't store the card info, just the key generated from your card and your device's ID.
They absolutely did, and they talked about it specifically when Apple Pay was announced during the iPhone 6 keynote.
The design of the system is that your credit card number is hashed together with the unique device ID of your phone to create a signing key (the card number itself is then never stored anywhere). You then activate apple pay with your bank so they have a way to verify your purchases. When you then use your device to buy something a transaction-specific token is generated from your signing key that is passed to your bank, who then verify it, and send back a yay/nay to the vendor. The bank then debits the money. Each transaction you make generates a new token that is passed via the vendor to your bank.
The key things that Apple pointed out were that a) Apple doesn't know what you bought or how much it was, b) the vendor you are buying from doesn't know what your credit card number is and c) your credit card number is not stored on your phone. If you lose your phone you can log into iCloud and invalidate the signing key.
If you want to hear that from the horse's mouth, Tim Cook spent several minutes on it during the iPhone 6 keynote.
Who said anything about wealth? I'm sure wealth might play some part of it - being more financially secure is certainly a benefit, but it's not the only reason people wait until later in life to have children.
And if you think that building a better career so you can have more wealth and give your child more opportunities is worth the tradeoff, you probably don't really understand how much of parenting is about stuff other than dollars, anyway.
Holy strawman batman! It's a reading of over 500 mega-bendy-straws!
Yes, and some people might believe the opposite - that they're more productive in their prime childbearing years working at a company rather than raising a child, but would like the opportunity to put off parenthood until later in life.
Now they have the *option* of doing so without having to pay out of pocket.
They had literally exactly the same opportunity before, but they had to pay for it themselves. Now it's an optional perk.
Call me old fashioned, but I believe the comments in this article are a hilarious storm in a tea cup.
I wonder if the spin would have been different if it were Google and Canonical announcing this? Nah, surely not. Slashdot isn't partisan in the slightest.
I also hear that buggy whip manufacturers have a vested interest in making sure the next generation of buggy whips are made exclusively out of genuine horse hair.
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Yeah, "best" materials which is why the iPhone 6+ can't withstand anywhere near the same level of stress as a Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
You don;t seem to understand that "best" in this context doesn't refer to a literal superlative material, but to the best material currently available from a glass manufacturer at the time the product was made.
Why would you assume they were bashing Apple instead of Corning though? That makes no sense.
Ah yes, that well known Corning-hate on slashdot, with the frequent trope of being excited to upgrade your corning product on a short, repeating cycle like sheep.
I hardly think the original coward's target was non-obvious.
Defensive, defensive, defensive. Why would you be so protective of some corporation? Do you work for Apple or are you a stockholder?
Today I learned that people with opinions counter to anonymous cowards are Apple employees or stockholders of Apple. Man, there must be a lot of them!
Every time I've seen someone with broken screen, it was an iPhone. It's about time Apple did this, but then they do profit by making phones that need repairs/ replacing.
About time Apple did what? Made their phones deliberately out of the best material available at the time and now out of a subsequently even better material made by a third party supplier that they don't control?
What did you think they are "about timing"? Making new phones out of a material that has only just been announced?
I'm not following.
Getting a bit defensive, are we? Vested interest? Gorilla Glass is made by Corning not Apple, so I'm not sure what you're babbling about.
What do you mean? I was directly replying to a brave coward who went for a cheap apple bash.
Is replying to that comment with an opposing opinion "getting defensive"? Isn't this a discussion forum?
Oh, right. I understand.
Now I can upgrade to the next iPhone.
Then when they announce Gorilla Glass x+1 I can upgrade to the next iPhone!
and Repeat...
News just in! Products get better incrementally, somehow only controversial when Apple does it. Film at 11.
Maybe you used to, you can't now.
Yes you can.
http://support.apple.com/en-us...
Isn't the temperature a result of high pressure? As in, if you jam enough atoms into a space eventually they have less room to move and get colder? I'm sort of basing this off observation of my air compressor relief valve and not science. Air duster canisters can generate frost. That kind of thing.
So pressurizing a bunch of hydrogen would mean if it ruptures and someone touches the canister, instant frostbite.
What about the "destroying everything it touches" part?
ps: I am a different AC than OP.
The Ideal Gas Law determines what happens to a gas under pressure: PV = nRT
Pressure is proportional to volume, so if you compress a gas it shrinks in volume until eventually it liquefies - but the point at which it does depends on the phase diagram for that particular gas. The properties change depending on the molecules.
If you release pressure quickly then it expands very rapidly and cools down. This is a function of thermodynamics. Similarly, if you compress a gas it will heat up for the same reason. This is common to all gases. Jamming the molecules in ever tighter will increase the temperature. Your air compressor heats up when it is compressing air because of this. When you let the pressure out, the temperature of the air drops rapidly.
Where things like hydrogen are special is that you can't liquefy them by simply pressurising it. You need to cool it down too - the triple point of hydrogen is about 22 K and the critical point is about 32 K - hydrogen simply can not be a liquid at any pressure unless the temperature is between these two values (22 K is -251 C or -420 F - cryogenically cold temperatures).
Any gas under pressure is a hazard - cylinders of nitrogen are pressurised to 300 bar and if one of those ruptures you're in a world of hurt, despite the fact that nitrogen itself is inert, but we routinely handle high pressure gasses in industrial and commercial environments. You take more precautions with a hydrogen cylinder (or any cylinder of flammable gas), but the handling procedures for flammables overlap a lot with the non-flammables like nitrogen and argon.
Yes, but batteries aren't a cryogenic liquid that embrittles everything it touches. Ooops.
You think hydrogen stored for use in commercial fuel cell vehicles is stored cryogenically.
Cute.
I can see why you didn't log in.
How are they "locking them out" when they work (by your admission) but at normal USB current limits?
You have a funny definition of "lock out" - I guess it means "whatever supports my Apple bashing in whatever comment I am making".
It's the same as reducing charging speed with non-Apple iPhone cables. The only reason is to make you buy expensive Apple parts.
Ah, yes, that pesky problem with conforming to the USB specification for safety reasons.
If you know your charger, cable and device have been tested to be safe to pull multiple amps then the device will do so (but be technically out of spec).
Charger reporting as a standard USB port? Drop back to the published spec for maximum current draw.
Sorry, you were in the middle of an Apple bash, I didn't mean to interrupt. Carry on.
Let's also ignore the fact that adding driver signing to the kernel is not somehow "solely to stop third party SSDs".
No, you couldn't, since they are Apple's drivers not yours. Apple's driver takes over handling of external drives, but it refuses to TRIM them. Previously, people worked around that by patching the driver, but signing prevents that.
Right, but drive vendors could sign a driver and supply it with the hardware, they just choose not to do so because the vast majority of bare SSDs are sold for Windows boxes where Microsoft's driver is not picky about TRIM support.
He's probably talking about the time where Obama was effectively forced to extend those ludicrous Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, that cost the US economy trillions of dollars, or the time he actually put the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars on the books for the first time.
Why not just tax petrol? Petrol burned is directly proportional to the amount of CO2 actually (not theoretically) emitted. This band system for efficiency is unnecessarily complicated.
Petrol is taxed, and taxed very, very heavily (the price at the pump in the UK is about 75% tax). CO2 emissions are also taxed. Driving is expensive in the UK, but it does wholly pay for the upkeep of our roads.
A utility for getting all my photos out of iPhoto, and all my data out of Time Machine?
You mean something that reads the HFS+ filesystem?
Time Machine backups are copies of your files. If you have software that can read your original files then that very same software can also open the copy of the file that Time Machine made. You do not need Time Machine's interface to read these files.
If you use Time Machine on a network drive then there's an additional step of mounting the disk image it creates, which is left as an exercise to the reader.
Today I learned that a month is 9 days.
You learn something new every day!
I'll pick one you missed off: life experience. Although from your comments so far, it seems you believe that all you do at work is make money, get a big office and get a title. I can see why, given your limited experience with this, that you might think it is a "new fangled" idea.
Yes, yes, we'll get off your lawn.
LGA 1150 Motherboard and LGA 1155 CPU.
Move along here, nothing to see here.
Are you sure about that? The current generation of iMacs can act as a standard monitor when connected to another machine. Up until a few weeks ago, I was using one that had a failed hard drive in it as a monitor for a desktop PC via a simple mini Displayport to Displayport cable connected to the PC's graphics card.
Probably not at this time - the display sharing feature has been dropped from the spec sheet, probably because the new iMac only has Thunderbolt 2 and thus doesn't quite have the bandwidth to drive a 5k display over that interface.
I think it will probably return when this model hits revision 2 and gains Thunderbolt 3 running the new display port spec that has adequate bandwidth to run a display of that resolution.
I believe this is also why we haven't seen an update to the standalone thunderbolt display yet - Apple will want it to retain the Thunderbolt connectivity and there's no specification available right now to run such a large panel over that interface (or any external interface I believe) without doing things like multiplexing two TB2 busses together.
Those wanting to use this thing as a monitor are going to be out of luck until TB3 arrives I fear.
There is a good possibility that the new iMacs can also be used as a monitor as well.
It's not even "your card never leaves your device" - your card number isn't stored on the phone in the first place. Your signing key is made using your card number, but after that the phone doesn't store the card info, just the key generated from your card and your device's ID.
They absolutely did, and they talked about it specifically when Apple Pay was announced during the iPhone 6 keynote.
The design of the system is that your credit card number is hashed together with the unique device ID of your phone to create a signing key (the card number itself is then never stored anywhere). You then activate apple pay with your bank so they have a way to verify your purchases. When you then use your device to buy something a transaction-specific token is generated from your signing key that is passed to your bank, who then verify it, and send back a yay/nay to the vendor. The bank then debits the money. Each transaction you make generates a new token that is passed via the vendor to your bank.
The key things that Apple pointed out were that a) Apple doesn't know what you bought or how much it was, b) the vendor you are buying from doesn't know what your credit card number is and c) your credit card number is not stored on your phone. If you lose your phone you can log into iCloud and invalidate the signing key.
If you want to hear that from the horse's mouth, Tim Cook spent several minutes on it during the iPhone 6 keynote.
Who said anything about wealth? I'm sure wealth might play some part of it - being more financially secure is certainly a benefit, but it's not the only reason people wait until later in life to have children.
And if you think that building a better career so you can have more wealth and give your child more opportunities is worth the tradeoff, you probably don't really understand how much of parenting is about stuff other than dollars, anyway.
Holy strawman batman! It's a reading of over 500 mega-bendy-straws!
Yes, and some people might believe the opposite - that they're more productive in their prime childbearing years working at a company rather than raising a child, but would like the opportunity to put off parenthood until later in life.
Now they have the *option* of doing so without having to pay out of pocket.
They had literally exactly the same opportunity before, but they had to pay for it themselves. Now it's an optional perk.
Call me old fashioned, but I believe the comments in this article are a hilarious storm in a tea cup.
I wonder if the spin would have been different if it were Google and Canonical announcing this? Nah, surely not. Slashdot isn't partisan in the slightest.
I also hear that buggy whip manufacturers have a vested interest in making sure the next generation of buggy whips are made exclusively out of genuine horse hair.
People with poor or no hearing use a notification LED to inform them of emails and text messages.