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It was called "OS X", not "Mac OS X" since 10.8.
Minor correction. The switch from "Mac OS X" to "OS X" happened with OS X 10.7 Lion, not with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. The last release with the "Mac OS X" name was "Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard".
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/16/apple-officially-drops-m...
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/16/with_mountain_lion...
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Apples US keyboards are fine, the problem is their international keyboards are usually bizarre hybrids of the local layout and US layout. Standard UK layout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_United_Kingdom.svg Apple "UK" layout: http://i.imgur.com/pIGiilv.jpg (@€#@|\`~ are all wrong)
How are those UK keys 'wrong'? Do you just mean you'd chose to put them somewhere else if you were designing a keyboard?
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The developer previews will be available today, already have iOS 10 running on one device. http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/06/13/ios-10-watchos-3-m...
For registered developers yes, the public beta is July though.
> Developer Preview of Sierra should be available today.
Which you disagreed with. So, you were factually wrong.
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How are those UK keys 'wrong'? Do you just mean you'd chose to put them somewhere else if you were designing a keyboard?
As has already been said here, there are British Standards covering computer keyboard layouts. There are the several parts of BS ISO/IEC 9995 (parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 11), there is BS 4822, and the BSI also publishes ISO/IEC 15412.
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The Linux devs publicly denounced an early draft of GPLv3 and never reconsidered the question. Yeah, I think they just didn't feel like trying to understand it, and Linus's own anti-FSF attitude spreads to his followers.
Actually Linus didn't have any big problems with one of the GPLv3 drafts[1]. And many bits of the Linux kernel are individually licensed as GPLv2+. Not to mention that Linus used to have in COPYING that they were considering updating. Very few kernel developers hate GPLv3. [1] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2544276/network-softwar...
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> Copy/paste across iPhone and Mac is very useful. I don't use a Mac or an iPhone, but I applaud this sort of device harmony. That said, I am worried that it would unnecessarily leverage the cloud. My guess is that instead of the two devices directly communicating with one another—that is, instead of leveraging the fact that they are probably on the same local network and should just work in concert—the clipboard dat…
This enables an interesting new kind of attack. 1. Attach an attack device to someone’s account. 2. ‘Poll’ the clipboard by pasting every ~5 seconds. 3. If the contents of the clipboard appear to be ‘secure’ (looks like shellcode, bitcoin address, url, etc), quickly replace the contents with an attack string with same datatype. If you have an untrusted device attached to your Apple account, your local clipboard can n…
As an owner of still-functioning early-2008 hardware, it stings a little to see the machine suddenly unable to “support” such a minor-looking OS update. It was easier to handle back when you saw something like a complete transformation of the OS from one version to another. There are many reasons to want a more layered software architecture, and this is one of them: I would like to be able to continue improving the c…
Most people would be fucking ecstatic that their 8 year old computer still works and runs a current OS.
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Right, but we are talking about a communication platform which inherently should be crossplatform
"Should be" does not equate to "no future"
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I swear, I must be the only person on the planet satisfied with the current state of systemd and GNOME 3. Fedora 23 is my main workstation OS and I have the least amount of friction getting my work done on it compared to either Windows or macOS these days. Then again, I mostly spend my day in IntelliJ, DataGrip, PyCharm, Firefox, a terminal, and a Windows VM for when I'm forced to open Visual Studio.
I'm a maintainer of runC and long-term contributor to Docker. From my perspective, systemd has been nothing but a huge pain from a development perspective. Not because of the UX (which is okay, there's lots of odd stuff there too) but because systemd sets up the system in a way that is ridiculously frustrating for people using low-level kernel primitives directly. If you want to use cgroups and don't want systemd to…
Here, however, your audience has launchd, and has had for over a decade, running on top of Mach IPC; and BSD APIs such as kevent() for tracking forking processes.
I hope there will be option to disable Siri. Don't want turned on mic 24/7.
On the iPhone, the always-on "Hey Siri" activation is actually local on the device. You can test this out by activating Airplane Mode and saying "Hey Siri". The interface comes up, then says that you can't use Siri because you're offline. This means that Apple isn't listening to you 24/7, only when Siri is activated. Sure, sometimes it's activated accidentally and might overhear something you didn't want it to, but t…
what?! your proof that Apple isn't listening 24/7 is not a proof at all. A device that is listening to you 24/7 to hear when you say "hey Siri" can tell you "you can't use it because you are not online" whenever it wants to, and I don't think anybody was suggesting that Apple servers were capable of listening in when you have no network.
Apple has been shown in the past to log information on the device itself, however.