Agreed. Apple pay is ridiculously easy and convenient. Works every time and it couldn't be easier. What's more nobody can surf over my shoulder for my pin and the retailer never sees my cc number or even my name.
The retailers have shown time and time again that they are incapable (or unwilling) to secure CC data. Why give them yet another opportunity to cock things up?
He most certainly did *not* say that you should trust the mainstream media.
He said that's what happened in the past and that's what we trusted. There's no "should" or "this was correct" about it.
He's merely saying that there are many more people (hyperbolically "everyone") that are trying to influence your opinion. ie. it's coming at you from all sides. So take extra care and try to learn the accuracy of what you're being told.
December 13th: Apple released macOS 10.12.2 which contains the security update. At least for some hardware - like my MacBook Air.
Conclusion The solution Apple decided upon and rolled out is a complete one. At least to the extent that I have been able to confirm. It is no longer possible to access memory prior to macOS boot. The mac is now one of the most secure platforms with regards to this specific attack vector.
So, it seems that this door has been closed as of 10.12.2
Remains to be seen if those machines that don't support 10.12 Sierra will get patches for their latest supported macOS version, of course.
Yet, instead of making it clear what background processes are draining your battery, and why that's killing your estimated time remaining, Apple goes it's usual "form over function" route and just hides all those nasty details.
You'd be 100% right.. except for one nasty detail which makes you 0% right.
There are multiple ways to find out precisely which applications/processes are draining your battery.
I don't follow. on any iPhone if you hold the sleep/power button along with the home (or volume down for iPhone 7).. your phone will shut down -- no matter what it's doing or if it's crashed.
No need to do anything fancy or open anything up and hope that someone doesn't knock the battery out of your hand.
Personally I don't think that less than 5 seconds from holding down the two buttons to the phone starting its shutdown sequence is quite a long time.
Also.. if you can't go 5 seconds without someone bumping you so hard that you can't keep your fingers on two buttons then I shudder to think what's going to happen to the cover and battery when you are bumped.
Apple didn't seem to anticipate the touchscreen being unresponsive in a crash
Yes they did.
The hard reset is holding down power and home (or volume down in the case of the iPhone 7) for a few seconds. No touch screen interaction is required.. the phone just reboots.
Apple has been selling machines with 5K displays for over two years now. Not sure how long LG and Dell (and others) have been selling 5K displays.. but this is definitely not an apple-only thing.
Anyway.. they're great if you want to be able to do things like edit 4K video at full resolution and still have room left over for your editing software GUI.
The reason there's no power button in the touch bar is that the power button isn't part of the touch bar. It's next to it -- to the right, integrated with the touch id button.
The "other" segment is so tiny and the cables are so tiny relative to the rest of "other" (Watches are currently part of "other") that it doesn't really matter what the profit margins are.
The phones are *vastly* more profitable than accessories.
This change (which personally I think is a bit dumb.. but not a huge deal as people seem to want to make it) won't install the update... so I'm not sure how you're thinking adoption numbers will be inflated.
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Agreed. Apple pay is ridiculously easy and convenient. Works every time and it couldn't be easier. What's more nobody can surf over my shoulder for my pin and the retailer never sees my cc number or even my name.
The retailers have shown time and time again that they are incapable (or unwilling) to secure CC data. Why give them yet another opportunity to cock things up?
He most certainly did *not* say that you should trust the mainstream media.
He said that's what happened in the past and that's what we trusted. There's no "should" or "this was correct" about it.
He's merely saying that there are many more people (hyperbolically "everyone") that are trying to influence your opinion. ie. it's coming at you from all sides. So take extra care and try to learn the accuracy of what you're being told.
Psst.. I'll tell you a secret.
According to the article (you read that.. right?) Mr Cook didn't use the word "truth"
Given the content of what he actually *did* say, the irony in your post is palpable.
They're recommending based on the fact that as near to zero percent of users as makes no difference will be disabling the caching that they did.
Normal users will not experience the same wildly varying battery life that CR did in their initial tests.
Those who *do* disable the caching may hit the bug that apple has identified and are fixing. But that number is going to be vanishingly small.
CR was right to update their review before the fix comes out.
I've opened up hundreds of tabs in Safari on my 2009 iMac just now as a test. Not just blanks either.. lots of web pages.
Not a delay or hint of sluggishness to be found.
New web pages (and especially new blank tabs) open just as fast as they did when I first logged in.
Mr. Birman is definitely doing something wrong.
Sorry.. but something is seriously wrong if a 2014 iMac takes even a second to open a blank tab.
I'm sitting at a 2009 iMac that opens blank pages nearly instantly.
I call PEBKAC
So, it seems that this door has been closed as of 10.12.2
Remains to be seen if those machines that don't support 10.12 Sierra will get patches for their latest supported macOS version, of course.
You'd be 100% right.. except for one nasty detail which makes you 0% right.
There are multiple ways to find out precisely which applications/processes are draining your battery.
Here's one:
https://support.apple.com/en-c...
Here's another:
http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-con...
That second one is right there in the battery menu.
Nasty.. nasty details.
I don't follow. on any iPhone if you hold the sleep/power button along with the home (or volume down for iPhone 7).. your phone will shut down -- no matter what it's doing or if it's crashed.
No need to do anything fancy or open anything up and hope that someone doesn't knock the battery out of your hand.
Personally I don't think that less than 5 seconds from holding down the two buttons to the phone starting its shutdown sequence is quite a long time.
Also.. if you can't go 5 seconds without someone bumping you so hard that you can't keep your fingers on two buttons then I shudder to think what's going to happen to the cover and battery when you are bumped.
Apple didn't seem to anticipate the touchscreen being unresponsive in a crash
Yes they did.
The hard reset is holding down power and home (or volume down in the case of the iPhone 7) for a few seconds. No touch screen interaction is required.. the phone just reboots.
What's great is that you don't need to remove the battery to restart it.
Is that actually a thing? Are there phones that require you to open them up and take out the battery to do a simple hard reset?
Apple has been selling machines with 5K displays for over two years now. Not sure how long LG and Dell (and others) have been selling 5K displays.. but this is definitely not an apple-only thing.
Anyway.. they're great if you want to be able to do things like edit 4K video at full resolution and still have room left over for your editing software GUI.
The reason there's no power button in the touch bar is that the power button isn't part of the touch bar. It's next to it -- to the right, integrated with the touch id button.
They removed the power button and replaced it with a software button
No they didn't
The power button is integrated with the touch id button.. which is indeed a physical button. It is *not* part of the touch bar.
All the power of a NeXT cube was already available in the Linux world
*already* available?
Not even a little bit.
The NeXT cube predated Linux by a few years.
Berners Lee had built the first WWW server on a NeXT cube a year before Linux came into existence.
why in Dog's name would you buy an SD card reader with the wrong kind of USB connector on it and then an adapter to make it work?
Just buy the right kind of SD card reader in the first place.
Um, wouldn't you need a USB connector for that?
Indeed you do. Good thing the machine has 4 of them (or 2 if you get the low end model).
The "other" segment is so tiny and the cables are so tiny relative to the rest of "other" (Watches are currently part of "other") that it doesn't really matter what the profit margins are.
The phones are *vastly* more profitable than accessories.
The profit margin (as a percentage) doesn't matter.
They could make only 5% profit on phones (which they most assuredly do not) and still bank more than even the most profitable USB cables and dongles.
It's just not a factor, financially, for them.
You're joking right?
Apple's phone device revenue is *twelve times* higher than its *entire* "other" category (61% vs 5% in the most recent quarter).
The amount of money (and profit) apple pulls in from iPhones utterly eclipses any money they pull in from cables.
As long as I'm complaining, I also don't understand why the 13" MBP is limited to 8 Gig of Ram
It's not.
That said, 128GB should only be 4 times faster than 32GB, so if these figures are correct then the 32GB units are also using lower spec memory.
The 8x speed increase is for the 256GB model vs the 32GB model -- 8 times the storage.. 8 times the speed.
The confirmation of the hypothesis would come when someone posts the same benchmark for a 128GB model.
This change (which personally I think is a bit dumb.. but not a huge deal as people seem to want to make it) won't install the update... so I'm not sure how you're thinking adoption numbers will be inflated.
You don't have to manually check.. You'll get a notification telling you that updates are available and asking whether or not you want to install it.