Please point out what they've "taken away" in OS X Yosemite besides a graphical style that you like.
We'll all wait for your response.
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The issue I have with Windows 8, and OS X.10 is the fact that they are trying to make the OS into the next tablet/mobile OS.
No, they aren't. At least, not Apple.
They are making your Mac work with your iDevice more seamlessly. There's a pretty big distinction there.
Anyone claiming this is akin to Windows 7 -> Windows 8 isn't paying attention. For one, Apple has never (and still doesn't) ship a touchscreen Mac, so it would be quite ridiculous to put a touch-centric UI on OS X. OS X is still clearly ruled by the mouse / trackpad and keyboard, and will be for the foreseeable future for one very good reason - OS X is where the content for iOS is made, and iOS is where the content made on OS X is consumed.
That is the business model for Apple, and very close to what Google is doing too if you haven't noticed. They haven't exactly been whipping people to get Android onto laptops - that's what ChromeOS is for.
Apple did not strip the major sematics of the UI that their users have enjoyed for 14 years for something that makes absolutely no sense on the hardware you've loaded it on, in the name of "one common [shitty] experience."
Apple has not completely hidden settings and configuration options - they are all still where you expect them to be. In fact, they moved some that were completely in your face for no reason into System Preferences where they should have been 10 years ago (I'm looking at you, Dock Settings).
Apple still gives you a fully functional terminal with real shell options and built-in standard scripting languages. Perl, Ruby, Python, and Bash are all there ready to go. You can even paste into the terminal without touching the mouse!
This is nothing like Windows 8. This is actually better than what came before.
What possible motivation would he have for perpetrating a hoax by switching shit out? Eventually, his bullshit will be discovered and his ass is done in physics, and he'd be sued into oblivion by any investors.
I don't want to install FaceBook Messenger because it is change for the sake of change, and is worse than what they had before. Now there are two apps that give you a jarring user experience as you get ripped from one to the other, rather than having it integrated like it should be.
Net effect: I no longer use Facebook for messaging, and neither does anyone else I know, Good job on that one.
Meanwhile, companies that are selling and installing solar are getting to utility-scale production. SolarCity should pass 1GW of installed capacity this year, and is accelerating.
Nobody wants to sell a group like ISIS a nuke, because it could just as easily be used on the seller.
Should ISIS ever be accepted as an actual government, they will be seen as a pariah who will make North Korea, Myanmar, and Iran look like a good cooperative players on the world stage.
the US kept developing larger and larger nuclear weapons throughout the 50s
What's funny, is that at some point someone sat down and did a little math, and realized that there is a vast scale of diminishing returns when scaling up anything that explodes. So the modern nuclear arsenal from every nation that has these weapons is made up of significantly smaller yield weapons than were tested and deployed in the 1950s.
The bulk of the US arsenal are "dial-a-yield" devices that top out around 450kt, because they are easier to lift and guide where you want them. Or, and you can fit multiple of them on the same rocket you used to have one big ass 5Mt warhead on. Missile crews at Vandenburg AFB aren't simply trying to put one of these things inside a neighborhood - they aren't happy unless their test "warhead" can actually hit an oil drum with a target painted on it from 9,000 miles away. It's not good enough to just put a hot one into a city - they want to put it exactly above some munitions storage facility, or an air field, or a naval base. And they drill on it.
The stores are changing out the PIN pads because if they don't have equipment that can read "chip and PIN" cards next year, the liability for payment card fraud shifts to them instead of the banks.
If you're already replacing the equipment to deal with the new version of the payment cards, might as well add the NFC module necessary to support RFID cards and Google Wallet / Apple Pay at the same time - the major expense isn't with the equipment, it's to get the technician out there to actually do the install.
It will be interesting to see if even Apple is able to change user habits. Visa and Mastercard might have signed on, but that's not important. Retailer support is the critical factor.
You clearly don't know the first thing about accepting credit and debit cards. Without the payment networks, NOTHING happens at point-of-sale.
Retail lives and dies by the Payment Card Industry standards and audits. Without Visa / MC / Discover / Amex, you are a cash-only business. Period.
You always see the button side of the phone. The camera is on the opposite side. 1mm is likely to be obscured simply by the positioning in the photo.
If they cared so much about it to doctor the photos in a completely obvious way, why wouldn't they just make the case 1mm thicker instead of risking the lawsuits?
Drivers? The only drivers you'll ever need are graphics drivers, and that's only if you're a gamer; otherwise the default video drivers work just fine.
Horseshit.
6 year old Dell desktop hardware, and Windows didn't have an audio driver that would drive the headphone jack. Had to get a reference driver from Realtek and deploy it to hundreds of machines so that our IP telephone project wasn't derailed by a completely shit default driver that absolutely DID NOT "work just fine."
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Please point out what they've "taken away" in OS X Yosemite besides a graphical style that you like.
We'll all wait for your response.
The issue I have with Windows 8, and OS X.10 is the fact that they are trying to make the OS into the next tablet/mobile OS.
No, they aren't. At least, not Apple.
They are making your Mac work with your iDevice more seamlessly. There's a pretty big distinction there.
Anyone claiming this is akin to Windows 7 -> Windows 8 isn't paying attention. For one, Apple has never (and still doesn't) ship a touchscreen Mac, so it would be quite ridiculous to put a touch-centric UI on OS X. OS X is still clearly ruled by the mouse / trackpad and keyboard, and will be for the foreseeable future for one very good reason - OS X is where the content for iOS is made, and iOS is where the content made on OS X is consumed.
That is the business model for Apple, and very close to what Google is doing too if you haven't noticed. They haven't exactly been whipping people to get Android onto laptops - that's what ChromeOS is for.
You're wrong.
Apple did not strip the major sematics of the UI that their users have enjoyed for 14 years for something that makes absolutely no sense on the hardware you've loaded it on, in the name of "one common [shitty] experience."
Apple has not completely hidden settings and configuration options - they are all still where you expect them to be. In fact, they moved some that were completely in your face for no reason into System Preferences where they should have been 10 years ago (I'm looking at you, Dock Settings).
Apple still gives you a fully functional terminal with real shell options and built-in standard scripting languages. Perl, Ruby, Python, and Bash are all there ready to go. You can even paste into the terminal without touching the mouse!
This is nothing like Windows 8. This is actually better than what came before.
You're welcome: http://www.motorolasolutions.c...
Runs Windows Mobile though, so it's useless.
Wait... I can't use Netscape Communicator anymore?
FOR SHAME.
What possible motivation would he have for perpetrating a hoax by switching shit out? Eventually, his bullshit will be discovered and his ass is done in physics, and he'd be sued into oblivion by any investors.
I don't want to install FaceBook Messenger because it is change for the sake of change, and is worse than what they had before. Now there are two apps that give you a jarring user experience as you get ripped from one to the other, rather than having it integrated like it should be.
Net effect: I no longer use Facebook for messaging, and neither does anyone else I know, Good job on that one.
So don't buy that phone, or don't use Verizon as your carrier.
There are already solutions to that problem without Google exerting legally questionable pressure on OEMs.
So a abusing their position in the market is fine, because you happen to like their products.
How very Slashdot of you.
Meanwhile, companies that are selling and installing solar are getting to utility-scale production. SolarCity should pass 1GW of installed capacity this year, and is accelerating.
Yeah, because three years of software improvements and UX design couldn't possibly change a reviewer's ability to get used to a larger screen.
I'd bet they say the same stuff about the Galaxy S5 as well.
Better duck!
Nobody wants to sell a group like ISIS a nuke, because it could just as easily be used on the seller.
Should ISIS ever be accepted as an actual government, they will be seen as a pariah who will make North Korea, Myanmar, and Iran look like a good cooperative players on the world stage.
the US kept developing larger and larger nuclear weapons throughout the 50s
What's funny, is that at some point someone sat down and did a little math, and realized that there is a vast scale of diminishing returns when scaling up anything that explodes. So the modern nuclear arsenal from every nation that has these weapons is made up of significantly smaller yield weapons than were tested and deployed in the 1950s.
The bulk of the US arsenal are "dial-a-yield" devices that top out around 450kt, because they are easier to lift and guide where you want them. Or, and you can fit multiple of them on the same rocket you used to have one big ass 5Mt warhead on. Missile crews at Vandenburg AFB aren't simply trying to put one of these things inside a neighborhood - they aren't happy unless their test "warhead" can actually hit an oil drum with a target painted on it from 9,000 miles away. It's not good enough to just put a hot one into a city - they want to put it exactly above some munitions storage facility, or an air field, or a naval base. And they drill on it.
Expect a knock on your door from some friendly US Government employees in 3... 2... 1...
News flash: there is a lot of land between the coasts of North America, and it's priced vastly cheaper than most of the coastal states.
There's also a lot of people between the coasts that enjoy not having the ridiculous cost of living you see in the Northeast, and California.
Oh, so just like the Touch ID, which is getting an API in iOS 8.
It's almost like people around here are looking for any reason to bash Apple whatsoever...
They don't have to interoperate, they just need to co-exist. Much like Visa and MasterCard.
Competition is a good thing.
The stores are changing out the PIN pads because if they don't have equipment that can read "chip and PIN" cards next year, the liability for payment card fraud shifts to them instead of the banks.
If you're already replacing the equipment to deal with the new version of the payment cards, might as well add the NFC module necessary to support RFID cards and Google Wallet / Apple Pay at the same time - the major expense isn't with the equipment, it's to get the technician out there to actually do the install.
Every photo on that link that even would remotely have aspect on the camera, shows the "bulge".
And we're talking about 0.8mm here, which is absolutely retarded anyway.
It will be interesting to see if even Apple is able to change user habits. Visa and Mastercard might have signed on, but that's not important. Retailer support is the critical factor.
You clearly don't know the first thing about accepting credit and debit cards. Without the payment networks, NOTHING happens at point-of-sale.
Retail lives and dies by the Payment Card Industry standards and audits. Without Visa / MC / Discover / Amex, you are a cash-only business. Period.
Yeah, because the puck mouse was such a great design, which Jobs was all over back in the day.
The man was hardly infallible.
You always see the button side of the phone. The camera is on the opposite side. 1mm is likely to be obscured simply by the positioning in the photo.
If they cared so much about it to doctor the photos in a completely obvious way, why wouldn't they just make the case 1mm thicker instead of risking the lawsuits?
This whole article is troll bait.
ignore half a billion relatively satisfied Windows 7 users
So, exactly what Microsoft did when they released Windows 8 / 8.1 / 8.1 "Spring Update" ?
Drivers? The only drivers you'll ever need are graphics drivers, and that's only if you're a gamer; otherwise the default video drivers work just fine.
Horseshit.
6 year old Dell desktop hardware, and Windows didn't have an audio driver that would drive the headphone jack. Had to get a reference driver from Realtek and deploy it to hundreds of machines so that our IP telephone project wasn't derailed by a completely shit default driver that absolutely DID NOT "work just fine."