The problem with your statement is that they do want you to know and they do flag your 32 bit apps. It's all laid out nice and neat in the system information in a handy, alphabetized table.
- hold down alt and click on the apple menu - select System Information - under the software category on the left hand side select "Applications" - sort the table on the "64-bit" column
There you go. I've removed something that really frustrates you. Feel better now?
Someone's got a formula one car and they're testing it by driving it down a runway and you're jumping up and down saying "How the fuck can you call that a formula one car when you're not racing it in a formula one event?!?"
Easy.. it's the rocket they're building to go to mars. It's not an alpha centauri rocket.. it's a mars rocket. And in order to test it out they will do short flights with it.
So.. they're doing short flights with a mars rocket.
Simple.
Was the Lunar module not a lunar module when it was just sent up to orbit the earth in Apollo 5?
Was the descent stage of the LM not a descent stage because it stayed in lunar orbit during Apollo 8?
I disagree completely. In a year of using the slider volume I've never had such a slip. The slider is big enough (around 2.5" wide) and responsive enough to be incredibly precise and easy to control. It's far better interaction than the old method for me. Day and night.
BUT.. this is the beauty of the touch bar. if someone doesn't want it that way and they prefer the old method then they can configure the touch bar accordingly. Heck.. if someone never uses the keyboard for adjusting volume at all then they can get rid of the volume controls altogether.
it takes multiple presses now to get the same thing done, such as volume up and down.
you need to change the setup on your touch bar.
I've got mine set up to allow single-touch adjustments of volume and screen brightness. You just touch and hold the button and then drag to adjust. Couldn't be simpler.
There's room for 4 static buttons on the right side of the touchbar that don't change regardless of app focus (unless you bring up the old-style function keys with "fn"). No matter the app that has focus, those four buttons will stay there. For me I've got:
brightness adjust (single button, hold and drag for up and down) volume adjust (single button, hold and drag for up and down) mute volume (single tap) lock screen
But you've got many other options to suit your specific needs.
So, on balance, this is better (for me, anyways) than the old style keys:
1) the functions I use most (the four I put in the static part of the control strip above) are always active and always in the same place. 2) I need to interact *less* to adjust screen volume and brightness since the old-style keys couldn't do the hold-and-drag adjustments that touchbar can do 3) I can control which apps get full access to old-style function keys. With the old style function keys I needed to set *every* app to have full access to function keys and then hold "fn" to adjust volume, brightness, etc. Now I can set only Vim and Terminal and a couple other apps to have direct access to the function keys (without holding fn) and every other app gets the control strip. The old way is all-or-nothing. Now I get per-application control.
Hopefully when I update my laptop in 4 or 5 years they'll have put haptic feedback into the touch bar which is the thing I feel is the most lacking. I do also wish they'd have an external keyboard with the touchbar so I can get the same functionality on my workstation.
I didn't buy my SE because it was cheaper. And I don't much care for having the latest SoC or camera. I just want a somewhat current phone with a 4" screen. I had a 6 for a year before I got my SE. I hated the screen size. I love that I can use my SE comfortably with one hand. My phone has at least another year in it. Probably 2. But once mine gives up the ghost I *really* hope there's a 4" phone to fill the gap.
I have a mouse that I use extremely rarely. It's just not USB-c. So I plug it into the hub. The few times I need the mouse line up nearly perfectly with the times I need more ports for other devices. For those that need it more frequently there are either wireless mice (which I hate, personally) or you can just get a small USB-C adapter that you can leave on the mouse so you don't lose it. They're something like $4 each.
I don't think I'm very forgiving at all. I expect quite alot out of my keyboards and I try lots of them. Prior to this keyboard the best ones for me were the older MBP keyboards (and the equivalent wired keyboard). Once I started working with this one it's so much better it's like night and day. The low key travel is amazing. I've (so far) not had a single problem with any key. The only other keyboard I consider as good as these are the old Model M buckling spring keys.. but ain't nobody gonna fit those in a laptop.
The touchbar is pretty amazing too. Previously, in order to use Vim properly I had to map the function keys to be always "F1...F12". So no matter what program I was using I had them mapped that way which meant using the "fn" key to access media and screen controls.
Now I can have the touch bar mapped to function keys *only* when I'm using terminal and Vim (the only applications I used that need "real" function keys) and every other application has their own settings. Controlling brightness and volume and locking the screen are simpler and some programs (like my remote desktop/vnc client) make very good use of the remappable area in the middle of the touch bar. It's better in nearly every way for me. If they put haptic feedback in there it will be perfect.
With a single tiny, light hub (https://satechi.net/products/satechi-aluminum-multi-port-adapter-4k) I can get any port I can possibly want and I only need to have them attached in the 5% of the time I actually use/need them. The rest of the time it sits in my backpack. There are even smaller, cheaper ones if you don't need Ethernet.. but I do, sadly.
Now if someone would just make a damned USB-C, wired, 3-button mouse the world would be a wonderful place.
I'm sure some people don't like the machine for a variety of reasons. You can't please everyone. But for my money and my work this is just about the perfect machine.
Apart from the 2015 MacBook Pro, it's the only laptop with a decent keyboard and enough ports for real-world use.
I couldn't disagree more. I've been using the latest 13" MBP since early last year. I'm a software developer. I'm *constantly* typing on it (5-6 hours a day) and I love it. I'd like a few minor changes (mainly haptic feedback from the otherwise excellent touchbar) but overall it's my favorite keyboard.
Ports-wise I have no problem either. 95% of the time I use it with just the power plugged in. But when i need other stuff plugged in I have a really nice satechi hub that covers it all (HDMI, ethernet, USB-A, SD car). Easy peasy.
For my real-world use I haven't found a better laptop than the one I'm currently typing on.
My wife has the 12" MB and she loves it too (weight and size are much more important to her than processing power). She types alot as well and has no complaints about the keyboard and rarely (if ever) plugs anything but the power plug in. And she's got a similar (but even smaller) hub to mine for other situations.
These machines certainly aren't for everyone. But both of us are professionals doing professional work with them. Sadly they're both much more money than the Air so hopefully Apple finds something to fill that price gap if they do discontinue the Air.
Paper books aren't definitively better, not by a long shot.
When I want to read paper books on my 1 month vacation to a remote island in the south pacific I have to lug them around with me. They take up space and add weight even when I'm done with them.
With digital books I can bring my entire library with me on my iPad and read whatever and whenever I want. And if I manage to find good Wifi somewhere I can even buy more books.
I've done trips both ways (lugging paper books around and downloading a ton of reading material to my iPad) and the latter is infinitely more preferable.
Aside from some special books I like to keep in my collection, I've transferred my entire library to digital and I couldn't be happier. I think the big "a ha" moment came for me shortly after I bought a kindle a decade ago. I ended up getting stuck in an airport overnight after a missed connection. Everything was closed. I was able to buy a book right on the spot to read while I waited for the first flight of the morning.
With rare exceptions I haven't bought a paper book since.
Why would you expect him to be able to read it on any device he chooses? He paid for a license to read it on particular devices. If one wants more then one needs to pay more.
Besides.. the fact that he can't read it on his iPad is a school problem, not a person who sold him the book problem.
You can have one group of scrutineers (that's what we call the candidates' reps who validate the ballots) and deputy returning officers (the people who run the polling station and actually count the votes) for each race. As each ballot is counted for a particular race or question you mark the ballot as counted and pass it down the line to the next group.
Once a ballot has been exhaustively counted you put it in an envelope which is sealed and passed up the chain.
Alternately the ballot could be perforated so that you tear off the piece that corresponds to each race after counting and before passing the remainder of the ballot down the line. That way the ballots from each race are isolated from each other so that validation and recounts can be handled race by race without interference from or interaction with each other.
There's always a way and regardless of any added difficulty (though I don't see how this can add any since presumably each race has its own funding and thus can pay for the staffers to manage it) it's sitll incredibly secure and accurate. Not perfect, of course. But I can't fathom a world where an electronic system is more secure.
Just because my needs are for a small screen phone I don't want to be punished by having last years technology in my new phone
Oh I don't disagree with you at all.
But sadly the phone market for flagship phones seems to have left the 4" form factor behind. So if it's a choice between getting the latest tech but no 4" screen or a slightly less functional phone with the 4" screen then I would choose the latter every day of the week.
I don't really have any complaints about any of the newer ( > 6) designs. It's all about the size of the screen for me. If I can't use it one handed then I'm not much interested. The rounded edges and camera bump don't bother me at all. The one complaint I had about the 6 I had was that the finish seemed slipperier than the 5s/SE finish. Not sure if that's the rounded corners or the choice in aluminum finish, though.
The move to glass backs doesn't bother me much either but I gather that the whole reason for it is for wireless charging which I also couldn't care less about. It would be interesting for them to experiment with some high end coatings on a plastic base for the back but I suspect that what you win in reduced shattering you lose in increased scratching.
What I really want is continued updates of the SE line. I don't care much for the latest hardware in a phone. A yearly update to the SE line with the previous (or even two previous) year's SoC and specs would be fine by me.
I've got a 2 year old SE on iOS 11 right now and it's wonderful. The perfect phone for me. I had a 6 once upon a time but I didn't like the larger screen.
Hopefully they keep going with the 4" form factor.
iOS since at least version 4 and possibly earlier has allowed 6 digit code and even an alphanumeric passcodes. Only recently (with the addition of TouchID) have the phones *defaulted* to 6 digit passcodes.. but 4 digit hasn't been the only option for more than 7 years.
There are function keys in the touchbar, just not physical ones.
On an app by app basis you can decide what the layout is. In Vim and terminal I get a standard "esc, F1-F12" row without having to hit any modifiers. They're just not physical keys. If I want access to volume and brightness and such then I just press the "fn" key and the layout changes until I let go.
For me I only ever use esc, F1 and F2. I never have a problem hitting escape reliably. If I had to guess, I'd say less than 5% of the time do F1 and F2 trip me up and I use them very rarely -- I have them mapped to moving back and forth in the name completion list.
This is one of those things that I think seems like a huge disruption but turns out not to be. On balance the touchbar gives me a better user experience. On older keyboards I needed to map the function keys to always be F1-F12 and if I wanted to control volume, etc I had to hold "fn". So I had they keys permanently mapped so that they would work properly in Vim.
Now I can map them app by app. I get what I want in Vim (permanent function keys) and everywhere else I have easy to access system and media functionality. Honestly, if the escape key was moved a bit to the left and there was taptic feedback I wouldn't have anything to complain about at all.
And the improvements to the keyboard itself (I absolutely love the keyswitches) make it all worth it anyways.
Slashdot Mirror
The problem with your statement is that they do want you to know and they do flag your 32 bit apps. It's all laid out nice and neat in the system information in a handy, alphabetized table.
- hold down alt and click on the apple menu
- select System Information
- under the software category on the left hand side select "Applications"
- sort the table on the "64-bit" column
There you go. I've removed something that really frustrates you. Feel better now?
You've got it backwards
Someone's got a formula one car and they're testing it by driving it down a runway and you're jumping up and down saying "How the fuck can you call that a formula one car when you're not racing it in a formula one event?!?"
Easy.. it's the rocket they're building to go to mars. It's not an alpha centauri rocket.. it's a mars rocket. And in order to test it out they will do short flights with it.
So.. they're doing short flights with a mars rocket.
Simple.
Was the Lunar module not a lunar module when it was just sent up to orbit the earth in Apollo 5?
Was the descent stage of the LM not a descent stage because it stayed in lunar orbit during Apollo 8?
I disagree completely. In a year of using the slider volume I've never had such a slip. The slider is big enough (around 2.5" wide) and responsive enough to be incredibly precise and easy to control. It's far better interaction than the old method for me. Day and night.
BUT.. this is the beauty of the touch bar. if someone doesn't want it that way and they prefer the old method then they can configure the touch bar accordingly. Heck.. if someone never uses the keyboard for adjusting volume at all then they can get rid of the volume controls altogether.
it takes multiple presses now to get the same thing done, such as volume up and down.
you need to change the setup on your touch bar.
I've got mine set up to allow single-touch adjustments of volume and screen brightness. You just touch and hold the button and then drag to adjust. Couldn't be simpler.
There's room for 4 static buttons on the right side of the touchbar that don't change regardless of app focus (unless you bring up the old-style function keys with "fn"). No matter the app that has focus, those four buttons will stay there. For me I've got:
brightness adjust (single button, hold and drag for up and down)
volume adjust (single button, hold and drag for up and down)
mute volume (single tap)
lock screen
But you've got many other options to suit your specific needs.
So, on balance, this is better (for me, anyways) than the old style keys:
1) the functions I use most (the four I put in the static part of the control strip above) are always active and always in the same place.
2) I need to interact *less* to adjust screen volume and brightness since the old-style keys couldn't do the hold-and-drag adjustments that touchbar can do
3) I can control which apps get full access to old-style function keys. With the old style function keys I needed to set *every* app to have full access to function keys and then hold "fn" to adjust volume, brightness, etc. Now I can set only Vim and Terminal and a couple other apps to have direct access to the function keys (without holding fn) and every other app gets the control strip. The old way is all-or-nothing. Now I get per-application control.
Hopefully when I update my laptop in 4 or 5 years they'll have put haptic feedback into the touch bar which is the thing I feel is the most lacking. I do also wish they'd have an external keyboard with the touchbar so I can get the same functionality on my workstation.
I didn't buy my SE because it was cheaper. And I don't much care for having the latest SoC or camera. I just want a somewhat current phone with a 4" screen. I had a 6 for a year before I got my SE. I hated the screen size. I love that I can use my SE comfortably with one hand. My phone has at least another year in it. Probably 2. But once mine gives up the ghost I *really* hope there's a 4" phone to fill the gap.
I have a mouse that I use extremely rarely. It's just not USB-c. So I plug it into the hub. The few times I need the mouse line up nearly perfectly with the times I need more ports for other devices. For those that need it more frequently there are either wireless mice (which I hate, personally) or you can just get a small USB-C adapter that you can leave on the mouse so you don't lose it. They're something like $4 each.
I don't think I'm very forgiving at all. I expect quite alot out of my keyboards and I try lots of them. Prior to this keyboard the best ones for me were the older MBP keyboards (and the equivalent wired keyboard). Once I started working with this one it's so much better it's like night and day. The low key travel is amazing. I've (so far) not had a single problem with any key. The only other keyboard I consider as good as these are the old Model M buckling spring keys.. but ain't nobody gonna fit those in a laptop.
The touchbar is pretty amazing too. Previously, in order to use Vim properly I had to map the function keys to be always "F1...F12". So no matter what program I was using I had them mapped that way which meant using the "fn" key to access media and screen controls.
Now I can have the touch bar mapped to function keys *only* when I'm using terminal and Vim (the only applications I used that need "real" function keys) and every other application has their own settings. Controlling brightness and volume and locking the screen are simpler and some programs (like my remote desktop/vnc client) make very good use of the remappable area in the middle of the touch bar. It's better in nearly every way for me. If they put haptic feedback in there it will be perfect.
With a single tiny, light hub (https://satechi.net/products/satechi-aluminum-multi-port-adapter-4k) I can get any port I can possibly want and I only need to have them attached in the 5% of the time I actually use/need them. The rest of the time it sits in my backpack. There are even smaller, cheaper ones if you don't need Ethernet.. but I do, sadly.
Now if someone would just make a damned USB-C, wired, 3-button mouse the world would be a wonderful place.
I'm sure some people don't like the machine for a variety of reasons. You can't please everyone. But for my money and my work this is just about the perfect machine.
I've been just fine with my local display. The 13" MBP I have has 4 ports and can drive 2 external 4K displays as well as the internal display.
I couldn't disagree more. I've been using the latest 13" MBP since early last year. I'm a software developer. I'm *constantly* typing on it (5-6 hours a day) and I love it. I'd like a few minor changes (mainly haptic feedback from the otherwise excellent touchbar) but overall it's my favorite keyboard.
Ports-wise I have no problem either. 95% of the time I use it with just the power plugged in. But when i need other stuff plugged in I have a really nice satechi hub that covers it all (HDMI, ethernet, USB-A, SD car). Easy peasy.
For my real-world use I haven't found a better laptop than the one I'm currently typing on.
My wife has the 12" MB and she loves it too (weight and size are much more important to her than processing power). She types alot as well and has no complaints about the keyboard and rarely (if ever) plugs anything but the power plug in. And she's got a similar (but even smaller) hub to mine for other situations.
These machines certainly aren't for everyone. But both of us are professionals doing professional work with them. Sadly they're both much more money than the Air so hopefully Apple finds something to fill that price gap if they do discontinue the Air.
It's not Apple charging this recurring fee.. it's BMW. No other car maker (that I know of) does this or intends to.
Bingo!
It's not about the specific law being broken. I'm talking about this particular guy's response to this issue, as raised by his child, of all people.
How the hell did you get that from what I wrote?!
Rosa Parks this dad ain't
Sure.. overturn the law. But that's not what the dad was doing. He was just violating copyright and whining when his son (correctly) called him on it.
Paper books aren't definitively better, not by a long shot.
When I want to read paper books on my 1 month vacation to a remote island in the south pacific I have to lug them around with me. They take up space and add weight even when I'm done with them.
With digital books I can bring my entire library with me on my iPad and read whatever and whenever I want. And if I manage to find good Wifi somewhere I can even buy more books.
I've done trips both ways (lugging paper books around and downloading a ton of reading material to my iPad) and the latter is infinitely more preferable.
Aside from some special books I like to keep in my collection, I've transferred my entire library to digital and I couldn't be happier. I think the big "a ha" moment came for me shortly after I bought a kindle a decade ago. I ended up getting stuck in an airport overnight after a missed connection. Everything was closed. I was able to buy a book right on the spot to read while I waited for the first flight of the morning.
With rare exceptions I haven't bought a paper book since.
Why would you expect him to be able to read it on any device he chooses? He paid for a license to read it on particular devices. If one wants more then one needs to pay more.
Besides.. the fact that he can't read it on his iPad is a school problem, not a person who sold him the book problem.
You need to figure out why your son is a better person and more respectful of peoples' copyrights than you are.
Or.. as someone earlier posited: Maybe you should ask your son to explain copyrights to you.
There's always a way.
Off the top of my head:
You can have one group of scrutineers (that's what we call the candidates' reps who validate the ballots) and deputy returning officers (the people who run the polling station and actually count the votes) for each race. As each ballot is counted for a particular race or question you mark the ballot as counted and pass it down the line to the next group.
Once a ballot has been exhaustively counted you put it in an envelope which is sealed and passed up the chain.
Alternately the ballot could be perforated so that you tear off the piece that corresponds to each race after counting and before passing the remainder of the ballot down the line. That way the ballots from each race are isolated from each other so that validation and recounts can be handled race by race without interference from or interaction with each other.
There's always a way and regardless of any added difficulty (though I don't see how this can add any since presumably each race has its own funding and thus can pay for the staffers to manage it) it's sitll incredibly secure and accurate. Not perfect, of course. But I can't fathom a world where an electronic system is more secure.
Just because my needs are for a small screen phone I don't want to be punished by having last years technology in my new phone
Oh I don't disagree with you at all.
But sadly the phone market for flagship phones seems to have left the 4" form factor behind. So if it's a choice between getting the latest tech but no 4" screen or a slightly less functional phone with the 4" screen then I would choose the latter every day of the week.
I don't really have any complaints about any of the newer ( > 6) designs. It's all about the size of the screen for me. If I can't use it one handed then I'm not much interested. The rounded edges and camera bump don't bother me at all. The one complaint I had about the 6 I had was that the finish seemed slipperier than the 5s/SE finish. Not sure if that's the rounded corners or the choice in aluminum finish, though.
The move to glass backs doesn't bother me much either but I gather that the whole reason for it is for wireless charging which I also couldn't care less about. It would be interesting for them to experiment with some high end coatings on a plastic base for the back but I suspect that what you win in reduced shattering you lose in increased scratching.
What I really want is continued updates of the SE line. I don't care much for the latest hardware in a phone. A yearly update to the SE line with the previous (or even two previous) year's SoC and specs would be fine by me.
I've got a 2 year old SE on iOS 11 right now and it's wonderful. The perfect phone for me. I had a 6 once upon a time but I didn't like the larger screen.
Hopefully they keep going with the 4" form factor.
You can customize this.
When you're editing a new e-mail (the new email window has to have focus) go to View->Edit Toolbar and just drag the "send" icon off the toolbar.
You're quite behind the times.
iOS since at least version 4 and possibly earlier has allowed 6 digit code and even an alphanumeric passcodes. Only recently (with the addition of TouchID) have the phones *defaulted* to 6 digit passcodes.. but 4 digit hasn't been the only option for more than 7 years.
There are function keys in the touchbar, just not physical ones.
On an app by app basis you can decide what the layout is. In Vim and terminal I get a standard "esc, F1-F12" row without having to hit any modifiers. They're just not physical keys. If I want access to volume and brightness and such then I just press the "fn" key and the layout changes until I let go.
For me I only ever use esc, F1 and F2. I never have a problem hitting escape reliably. If I had to guess, I'd say less than 5% of the time do F1 and F2 trip me up and I use them very rarely -- I have them mapped to moving back and forth in the name completion list.
This is one of those things that I think seems like a huge disruption but turns out not to be. On balance the touchbar gives me a better user experience. On older keyboards I needed to map the function keys to always be F1-F12 and if I wanted to control volume, etc I had to hold "fn". So I had they keys permanently mapped so that they would work properly in Vim.
Now I can map them app by app. I get what I want in Vim (permanent function keys) and everywhere else I have easy to access system and media functionality. Honestly, if the escape key was moved a bit to the left and there was taptic feedback I wouldn't have anything to complain about at all.
And the improvements to the keyboard itself (I absolutely love the keyswitches) make it all worth it anyways.