And a patch that accidentally bricks your device when it's detected.
Right. Because Apple has SUCH a track-record of doing that with all the NON MFI-Registered Lightning Cables, Power Adapters, Lightning Card-Readers/Writers, et FUCKING cetera.
He's literally ignoring that Apple was the only company to ever fight against DRM in their products. Every other company just said, well they're they rights holders, they can do that.
Until they can beam the digital signal direct to your brain (cochlear implant, anyone?), at some point the signal is converted to actual sound waves to be heard by your ears. Or a microphone.
So, I guess Cory Doctorow has never heard of a Digital to Analog Converter (DAC), eh?
Once a signal is converted back to analog (which it still has to be to be amplified and heard by us non-digitally-enabled humans), it is once more free for the taking.
And unlike video, where you can play all sorts of games with resolution, etc, you can't decimate audio data nearly as much.
Also, if this happens, there will be about 5,000 adapters to use analog earbuds/headphones with the data stream; and again, there's that pesky DAC...
So, in reality, this is nothing more than a tempest in a DRM-free teapot.
My experience with MBPs with removable batteries is that they tended to start degrading after 100 cycles and would be dead well before 300 (the alleged lifetime).
You are either a liar, or a serial battery-abuser.
Yeah, just what we need: another massive security vulnerability built into the OS. No thanks.
Apple got this wrong. PDF belongs in a userspace sandbox.
1. Then how come in SIXTEEN YEARS, no one has exploited the PDF services in OS X?
2. Apple != Adobe
3. Adobe's PDF vulnerabilities have been all, or mostly all, Userspace code. So now what?
I did; but tofu description was so hyperbolic that I didn't find the reference.
And according to the article, Apple didn't "leak" anything. They simply used a default password for their battery controller..Not smart; but it only affected the battery subsystem, and couldn't be used to access anything else in the laptop.
Well, this is not new, my stinkpad carbon has the feature and there were so many complaints that the following version went back to keys instead of the touch strip.
Stupid idea already proven in the market to be stupid.
No, it was because it was a half-assed implementation of a decent concept.
Watch how Apple shows everyone else how it's done...
Apple's won't be ANYTHING like that piece of garbage. What's the point of a piece of Lexan with screen-printed symbols. All they are doing is using a "Deadfront" black to hide the non-illuminated, pre-defined symbols. Pffft!
Apple is talking about doing the whole shebang as a capacitive touch OLED display/touchpad. They will be able to put ANYTHING on that display, and use it as keys, sliders, and Full-Color status indicators. (I assume it will be a color display).
FInally a place for all those things living in Mac Users' Menu Bar, and a death to all the bizarre iconography on the F-Keys!
I worry that apple will one day add microsoft style telemetry.
Never happen. In fact, if you watched the 2016 WWDC Keynote, you would realize that they are busily redesigning stuff to be LESS "chatty", and do more things like speech-recognition, without having to depend on server-side help (and the attendant information-leaking). And when stuff does need to go to Apple, they are using techniques such as Differential Privacy to anonymize the info.
Re-read the following summary snippet. And there are actually people who use the function keys quite frequently. Is it 'speed-typing'? no, but it is certainly more efficient than whatever hipster touchscreen solution Apple is proposing.
Pretty bold words for someone who hasn't even seen, let alone tried it.
+50... Exactly. Fucking Apple, they just can't help themselves. F1-F12 have been working pretty well so let's change it!
The function keys will still be there, just in touch screen form and since nobody uses the function keys for speed typing I don't see why you are raising such a stink over this.
And it's actually a way-cool idea to have "programmable keytops" for F-Keys, instead of those non-standard and hard-to-figure-out heiroglyphs (WTF does 3 disconnected rectangles of varying-sizes mean?). I for one would LOVE to have customized F-Keys for use with Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, etc. etc.
Mark my words: It will be less than one year before every other laptop starts switching to "virtual F-Keys", too.
And if it is a continuous strip, they can use it for things like volume and brightness sliders, too. Kind of like having a 64 X 800 iPad built-in, without the Gorilla Arm effect.
This is actually much more than a gimmick. It's a new interface idea.
May depend on what's being used. My old MacBook had issues displaying certain pages in the browser (flash video, I think?) and would go from quiet and cool to full-processor and hot in a matter of a minute.
That's because Adobe won't do hardware video acceleration on Macs. It's a well-known problem, and yet another reason to ditch Adobe, like I have. My 2013 MacBook Pro came without Flash installed, and I decided to see how long I could live without it.
I still haven't installed ANY Adobe product, including Acrobat Reader nor Flash. Don't miss it one little bit.
Doesn't Mac OS have cooling profiles like Windows does? On Windows 7 and later you can configure the cooling profile in the advanced power management settings to be either "active" or "passive". Active ramps the fan up, passive throttles the CPU to keep the temperature down. I used to use it when I was downloading stuff overnight to keep the fan on silent.
They use different terminology; but yes, macOS does provide for different power-consumption profiles.
Apple laptops are not designed to be user-serviceable (or even necessarily third-party serviceable).
Laptops in general are not designed to be user-serviceable, nor even necessarily third-party serviceable. Apple laptops are really no worse or better than any other recent laptop manufacturer's design.
But, with the exception of the keyboard on the Unibody models, the stuff that people need to change (Hard Drive/SSD, battery and trackpad, and RAM on socketed models) are generally pretty easy to get to and replace.
Honestly, if you can change a fanbelt in a car (well, at least MOST cars), you can replace the battery in a Mac laptop. They are ALWAYS on the top-most "layer" (as viewed with the laptop upside-down), and even though some of the newer models have Pentalobe screws, those are not likely to need new batteries yet, and even if they do, Pentalobe screwdrivers are reasonably easy to find.
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DRM-music will be the norm.
Fortunately, Apple already stopped that years ago.
You're welcome.
Paying $29 for another dongle.
...or $3.99 on Amazon.
And a patch that accidentally bricks your device when it's detected.
Right. Because Apple has SUCH a track-record of doing that with all the NON MFI-Registered Lightning Cables, Power Adapters, Lightning Card-Readers/Writers, et FUCKING cetera.
Oh, wait...
Fucking HATERS.
He's literally ignoring that Apple was the only company to ever fight against DRM in their products. Every other company just said, well they're they rights holders, they can do that.
Precisely!
...someone who gets it.
Gets what, exactly? Because Cory Doctorow doesn't "get" it at all.
So my comment was modded "Troll", but NOT the one I was REPLYING to?
Paying $29 for another dongle.
...or $3.99 on Amazon.
Until they can beam the digital signal direct to your brain (cochlear implant, anyone?), at some point the signal is converted to actual sound waves to be heard by your ears. Or a microphone.
Exactly what I posted.
...someone who gets it.
Gets what, exactly?
Because Cory Doctorow doesn't "get" it at all.
Don't buy an iPhone.
Or any other phone, starting next year.
So, I guess Cory Doctorow has never heard of a Digital to Analog Converter (DAC), eh? Once a signal is converted back to analog (which it still has to be to be amplified and heard by us non-digitally-enabled humans), it is once more free for the taking.
And unlike video, where you can play all sorts of games with resolution, etc, you can't decimate audio data nearly as much.
Also, if this happens, there will be about 5,000 adapters to use analog earbuds/headphones with the data stream; and again, there's that pesky DAC... So, in reality, this is nothing more than a tempest in a DRM-free teapot.
I definitely don't want to have to be traversing up to the screen for them
From what I gather, this will simply live in the same place that the F-Keys do now, not up on the Screen-Plane.
My experience with MBPs with removable batteries is that they tended to start degrading after 100 cycles and would be dead well before 300 (the alleged lifetime).
You are either a liar, or a serial battery-abuser.
Yeah, just what we need: another massive security vulnerability built into the OS. No thanks. Apple got this wrong. PDF belongs in a userspace sandbox.
1. Then how come in SIXTEEN YEARS, no one has exploited the PDF services in OS X? 2. Apple != Adobe 3. Adobe's PDF vulnerabilities have been all, or mostly all, Userspace code. So now what?
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2...
Just Google it next time.
I did; but tofu description was so hyperbolic that I didn't find the reference.
And according to the article, Apple didn't "leak" anything. They simply used a default password for their battery controller..Not smart; but it only affected the battery subsystem, and couldn't be used to access anything else in the laptop.
Then they fixed it.
Well, this is not new, my stinkpad carbon has the feature and there were so many complaints that the following version went back to keys instead of the touch strip.
Stupid idea already proven in the market to be stupid.
No, it was because it was a half-assed implementation of a decent concept.
Watch how Apple shows everyone else how it's done...
And I totally botched the URL by using BBcode-style links. ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2014 Review
That IS lame!
Apple's won't be ANYTHING like that piece of garbage. What's the point of a piece of Lexan with screen-printed symbols. All they are doing is using a "Deadfront" black to hide the non-illuminated, pre-defined symbols. Pffft!
Apple is talking about doing the whole shebang as a capacitive touch OLED display/touchpad. They will be able to put ANYTHING on that display, and use it as keys, sliders, and Full-Color status indicators. (I assume it will be a color display).
FInally a place for all those things living in Mac Users' Menu Bar, and a death to all the bizarre iconography on the F-Keys!
About 30 seconds after it debuts, there will be a Classic Function Keys app that gets downloaded thousands of times per hour.
That "set" will be baked-into the OS. No need for download.
But all the other cool F-Key sets will be available quite quickly.
I worry that apple will one day add microsoft style telemetry.
Never happen. In fact, if you watched the 2016 WWDC Keynote, you would realize that they are busily redesigning stuff to be LESS "chatty", and do more things like speech-recognition, without having to depend on server-side help (and the attendant information-leaking). And when stuff does need to go to Apple, they are using techniques such as Differential Privacy to anonymize the info.
yep: it's an idiotic "feature"
Which every single other laptop manufacturer is already trying to copy...
Re-read the following summary snippet. And there are actually people who use the function keys quite frequently. Is it 'speed-typing'? no, but it is certainly more efficient than whatever hipster touchscreen solution Apple is proposing.
Pretty bold words for someone who hasn't even seen, let alone tried it.
+50... Exactly. Fucking Apple, they just can't help themselves. F1-F12 have been working pretty well so let's change it!
The function keys will still be there, just in touch screen form and since nobody uses the function keys for speed typing I don't see why you are raising such a stink over this.
And it's actually a way-cool idea to have "programmable keytops" for F-Keys, instead of those non-standard and hard-to-figure-out heiroglyphs (WTF does 3 disconnected rectangles of varying-sizes mean?). I for one would LOVE to have customized F-Keys for use with Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, etc. etc.
Mark my words: It will be less than one year before every other laptop starts switching to "virtual F-Keys", too.
And if it is a continuous strip, they can use it for things like volume and brightness sliders, too. Kind of like having a 64 X 800 iPad built-in, without the Gorilla Arm effect.
This is actually much more than a gimmick. It's a new interface idea.
May depend on what's being used. My old MacBook had issues displaying certain pages in the browser (flash video, I think?) and would go from quiet and cool to full-processor and hot in a matter of a minute.
That's because Adobe won't do hardware video acceleration on Macs. It's a well-known problem, and yet another reason to ditch Adobe, like I have. My 2013 MacBook Pro came without Flash installed, and I decided to see how long I could live without it.
I still haven't installed ANY Adobe product, including Acrobat Reader nor Flash. Don't miss it one little bit.
Doesn't Mac OS have cooling profiles like Windows does? On Windows 7 and later you can configure the cooling profile in the advanced power management settings to be either "active" or "passive". Active ramps the fan up, passive throttles the CPU to keep the temperature down. I used to use it when I was downloading stuff overnight to keep the fan on silent.
They use different terminology; but yes, macOS does provide for different power-consumption profiles.
Apple laptops are not designed to be user-serviceable (or even necessarily third-party serviceable).
Laptops in general are not designed to be user-serviceable, nor even necessarily third-party serviceable. Apple laptops are really no worse or better than any other recent laptop manufacturer's design.
But, with the exception of the keyboard on the Unibody models, the stuff that people need to change (Hard Drive/SSD, battery and trackpad, and RAM on socketed models) are generally pretty easy to get to and replace.
Apple can service the batteries for you.
Honestly, if you can change a fanbelt in a car (well, at least MOST cars), you can replace the battery in a Mac laptop. They are ALWAYS on the top-most "layer" (as viewed with the laptop upside-down), and even though some of the newer models have Pentalobe screws, those are not likely to need new batteries yet, and even if they do, Pentalobe screwdrivers are reasonably easy to find.
These lack of choices generally only exist within the Apple ecosystem, so either leave it or stop complaining.
In Notebooks?!? I thought that the last laptop that had truly replaceable video was some 600 lb. $4k Alienware thing about 10 years ago.