For those who dont know: The iTunes EULA contains this sentence:

You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.

Apple has a whole gallery promoting the high-end photography and videography shot on iPhones (https://www.apple.com/iphone/world-gallery/). iPhone cameras may not pack the highest number of pixels or the latest gimmicky features, but their optics and image processing are first-rate. See also (http://nofilmschool.com/2014/05/new-ad-for-bentley-shot-on-iphone-5s).

According to Apple's website:

>Working with iPhone, Apple Watch continually checks against the definitive global time standard with the same precision found in GPS satellites.

So it seems the Watch gets its time from the iPhone.

Actual packaged release previews will come by summer. We plan to distribute via the Windows Store. Maybe also packages on our GitHub as well for those who have set Developer Mode on their Windows machine to sideload apps.

We're still working on this part. There were a lot of moving pieces to get this far by TODAY and this is one of those that we're going to get back to tackling starting after the Build conference ends later this week!

Right now, you can get it by building it yourself from our GitHub at https://github.com/microsoft/terminal.

The interesting part is why the default in systemd (i.e. whether or not to kill user processes) was changed in the first place. As per this comment, it seems to be because of some lingering processes from Gnome login sessions. The commit which actually makes the change doesn't cite any other reasons besides the generic "much cleaner and provides better control".

It is possible the actual reasons are sound and well-thought out, but the references provided by the person creating the issue fail to provide the sufficient rationale. It's not hard to understand the reluctance on the part of tmux's maintainers, especially given how much it's asked from them to accommodate for some other project's change which can very well be seen as frivolous.

It's down, but of course the System Status page says everything is a-okay!

They really should take down this page if they're not going to use it when it matters.

EDIT: Yes, hours later they decided to update it... Usually they wait until the downtime is over to put a notice, or never put one at all. This downtime seems to be long enough that they updated it mid-downtime.

The iPhone 6 is 6.9 mm thick. Folding it 42 times gives you a thickness of 3x10^10 m, which is more than 76 times the Earth-moon distance.

Ninja-edit fun fact: This is the first time I have ever used a superscript properly on Reddit. Usually I just make ^dumb ^^jokes ^^^like ^^^^this!

To put it in perspective, the original iPad sold just 300,000 in its first day in the US. (https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/04/05Apple-Sells-Over-300-000-iPads-First-Day.html)

The original iPhone sold 270,000 in its first 30 hours in the US(http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/apple-sold-270-000-iphones-in-the-first-30-hours/)

If this article is accurate, Apple Watch may be Apple's most successful product category launch.

When can I get my hands on it?

As of today, the Windows Terminal and Windows Console have been made open source and you can clone, build, run, and test the code from the repository on GitHub: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal

This summer in 2019, Windows Terminal previews will be released to the Microsoft Store for early adopters to use and provide feedback.

This winter in 2019, our goal is to launch Windows Terminal 1.0 and we’ll work with the community to ensure it’s ready before we release!

> Right now, you can get it by building it yourself from our GitHub at https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

Waouh, I was not expecting that, and this is great!

(and WIL seems cool too!)

Thanks!

> 🍿🍿🍿 - https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10623

I understand Muratori's point with the whole refterm saga, and I think it was handled very badly by the windows terminal team inside github issues.

But this dude is just straight up riding on the wave against the windows terminal without providing anything relevant beside parroting what was said by Muratori in his videos, which at this point I assume the windows terminal team has already seen.

It's actually both. See page 9 of this white paper: https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iOS_Security_Guide_Oct_2014.pdf

Full disk encryption is supported by the dedicated encryption engine in the DMA path. Other cryptographic tasks may be accelerated by the main processor.

ITT a lot of people who don't understand how security works.

The communication between phones and cell towers is encrypted. The data on the phones themselves is encrypted as well. To get at that data, you have to have a key to the data. Generally the key is device specific and is only unlocked with your passcode. In iOS 7 and earlier, Apple kept a key that could be used to decrypt that data on all iPhones. In iOS 8, Apple simply doesn't have such a key. Snowden's information was always public knowledge and is now outdated.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iOS_Security_Guide_Oct_2014.pdf

Hah, that is a great story.

For whatever reason it makes me think of:

iTunes Terms of Service:

> g. .. You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.

If enough of us submit complaints, they will fix this.

Let's all submit complaints to:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

I'm putting mine under:

• Efficiency/Workflow

• Applications/utilities

Feedback: https://www.apple.com/feedback/

Bug reports: https://bugreport.apple.com/

Make sure bugs actually get submitted to the bug reporter. On this sub, I've seen people tell people to submit bugs to the Feedback link. The bug reporter actually gets to Apple's development team, and they can actually respond and follow up about bugs there.

I'm one of the Alacritty maintainers and Version 0.3.0 has just been released, since this is a slightly bigger release I've decided to write up what has changed for people who haven't been following the project.

If you have any questions, please let me know. I'm happy to answer all of them.

The source of the project can be found here: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty

Did they not read the terms and conditions?!?

> You agree not to violate, circumvent, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise tamper with any of the security technology related to such Usage Rules for any reason

https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore/jm/terms.html

Apple reserves the right to “use [customer] personal information for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve Apple’s products, services, and customer communications” across its product line. It permits itself to share this information with “its affiliates” as well (whoever they are).

Source: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

EDIT: Things get more complicated further into the terms of use, according to reddittechnica - http://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/2ys6jx/apple_admits_siri_voice_data_is_being_shared_with/cpcwuic

Source is here: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal

​

I'm confused why many devs don't add a screenshot of their application to their README. Thanks /u/jenmsft for adding a screenshot to your writeup.

To OP:

Apple made an in-ear headphone with balanced armature drivers. It's not bad. very very balanced. In fact, if you check out the measurements, it's damn accurate.

http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/AppleInEar2013.pdf

The measurements are almost perfect, but there some harmonic distortion in the 2-7Khz range (spike on the 5th graph) that's over 1% which means that these are better for softer listening. If you listen to them too loud, you'll start to hear this distortion. Still... they are VERY good from a technical standpoint.

https://www.apple.com/ipod/in-ear-headphones/ << link of the product, for anyone else curious.

For $1,299 you can get the 13 inch Macbook Pro instead of the Macbook.

I am literally begging you right now to not be coaxed in by the pretty new "Macbook", and spend your money on the better computer instead.

The terms and conditions for iTunes include this:

> You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.

I really want to know how iTunes can be used in the production of biological weapons.

Dude's unbearably insufferable, and frankly just wrong. E.g., from comment

> Windows Terminal, Conhost, ConPTY, etc. > > * Increased OOP, Increased C# and .NET, Increased layers > * Increased Memory, Increased CPU > * Decreased Performance

• OOP is not necessarily bad
• The Terminal actually doesn't use .NET or C#, so that's just wrong.
• No duh it has more layers? The Terminal is doing more things than the console, so obviously there will be more layers.
• The memory footprint of the console has been going down over the years, and the performance has been steadily improving.

But this dude isn't there to have a good faith discussion.

We're working as hard as we can! We've got a spec open, we're prototyping, working with the Settings App folks to get the UI in the Settings app, it's all coming together - it's just one of the trickier pieces of architecture. Mainly because we don't just want to make the Windows Terminal the default terminal - what we'd really like is to allow users the ability to pick any terminal application as the default on Windows (and have them still choose the Windows Terminal as their default 😄)

vim is like the universal text editor for

• programming laguages
• config filles
• anything with formal sytax
• anything with balanced braces

It can handle everything pretty good. However, it is not an expert in any single file type. vim really shines when you edit whatever.py and then stuff.go and then reddit_bot.cpp and then video.ini and then fix_flicker.patch before tweaking your systemd.conf and comparing your nginx.conf to animal_list.json.

It is very different from what is a regular text editor nowadays and you will learn a lot basic editing up front before it becomes useful.

There is a lot of stuff in vim for historical reasons and a lot of plugins that can add language specific features. I recommend visiting https://neovim.io/ if you want to start using vim.

I've been using wireless for about 8 years now. My current connection speed on wireless is 0.5-1Mbps slower download than my wired connection. My ping is around 30-40 on games like Path of exile and Diablo 3 and ping is 12 on speedtest.net. I very rarely have any drops in my wireless connection. I live in a house. My access point is a Mac Airport Express dual band N and my wireless adapter is TP Link TL-WDN4800

Yeah... there is a really good breakdown on this page.

https://www.apple.com/environment/reports/docs/AppleTV_Product_Environmental_Report_2012.pdf

Here is a good example... Streaming a movie uses about 2W (Not to include the juice used by your TV, or modem too) That means (@ 14 cents per kW/h) you could have the AppleTV playing a movie 24hrs a day, 7 days a week... at a cost of about $2.50 per year.

Or, lets say your ATV was on for a year, but never used (not a great example, but just for shits and giggles)... it would be sleeping and uses .20 W - So, a full year of the ATV sleeping, would cost about a Quarter... probably just enough to light that pulsing LED.

For what it's worth.

Early 2011 15" here. 2 GHz i7 with the Radeon 6490M discrete chip.

Was fine for just over 2 years. Then froze one day, required a restart and distorted screen. Wouldn't reach password screen, either on laptop screen or external display.

Went to Apple Store. I was about a week outside of the EU 2 year warranty. Genius mentioned this, but then stated "but we don't care - we will fix this free of charge". New logic board fitted and, touch wood, all OK for now.

My store genius/manager made the call that many think Cupertino should be making. Awful for those who didn't get such good service. I was a lucky one.

The official Apple Widget Browser hasn't been updated in forever. It still uses the pre-Lion scrollbars and kinda fits awkwardly with the newer website layout. So yes, it's safe to say Apple has pretty much forgotten they exist.

Apple has done a lot to improve working conditions for factory workers. They can't easily fix a foreign culture, however. They're also very transparent about their efforts to improve working conditions as well as their efforts to reduce their reliance on conflict minerals. As for paying their taxes, are you suggesting that Apple pay more taxes than they owe by law?

FWIW, I think removing anything containing the confederate flag from the App Store is moronic.

From Wikipedia, iMessage does but others have a mixed history of saying they're encrypted when they're not.

iOS Security p30-32 (PDF Warning)

A device 9mm thin like the new surface pro isn't gonna happen because of the keyboard.

Also, the picture of the magsafe connect you linked is incorrect. That's the old connector. New one: pic

You didn't point out that there's a lot of "belly" in the Mac, and the size of the ports isn't the limiting factor in its thinness.

I believe with the current ports, decent keyboard etc the thinnest they could go is around 12-13mm. Instead of having a round belly, it would just be flat, like the rMBP. A thin slab underneath, while still having a wedge shape towards the front.

/uj

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

MS devs adamantly claim they have reached the fundamental rendering limits of modern hardware; turns out they just don’t know how DirectWrite calls work.

> especially for getting smoother output.

Well, you are asking quite a lot of your terminal emulator here... I'm actually impressed by the performance you've been able to squeeze out thus far.

One thing you might want to try is to use a GPU accelerated terminal emulator like alacritty.

Apple has already been putting a lot of effort into iOS security, it's just not been widely publicised. Here's their PDF that goes into detail about the hardware and software security features in iOS devices. It's all very impressive considering they don't even advertise security as a selling point. They just really want to make their shit secure.

iMessage for example uses end-to-end encryption. Apple cannot decrypt your iMessages and they are wiped from their servers 10 minutes after they're delivered. This is the way to go, because then if LE comes to them asking for data they simply don't have that data to hand over.

It actually makes sense if you read the entire paragraph: > Alacritty is focused on simplicity and performance. The performance goal means it should be faster than any other terminal emulator available. The simplicity goal means that it doesn't have many features like tabs or scroll back as in other terminals. Instead, it is expected that users of Alacritty make use of a terminal multiplexer such as <code>tmux</code>.

Seriously - look at that board layout. Generally, no one ever looks at these things but they made it work (presumably well) and it looks good.

A macbook pro as another example

Compare to this.

I don't even own any apple products - I just appreciate the extra detail work.

This discussion sums it up:

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/428

systemd developers ask tmux to add a dependency on systemd to fix a bug, caused because they changed the behaviour of something.

Too be fair, you are comparing two year old device / technology to a new device. Also the Iphone 5 has a Battery Replacement Program that she could use/Need to improve the Battery Life. https://www.apple.com/support/iphone5-battery/

The iPod Nano is the only iPod that has ever had a built in FM radio, and they still have this in the current generation Nano with the abilty to pause, play, and rewind up to 15 minutes*

*^must ^listen ^to ^station ^for ^15 ^minutes ^to ^be ^able ^to ^use ^this ^feature.

So I recreated the fallout tui using python and unicurses. The menu is fully configurable I hope you guys have fun.

Software used: - ShellMenu (https://github.com/derDere/ShellMenu) - CoolRetroTerm (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term)

Holy shit. Does anybody have the numbers for other opening days?

Edit: iPad: 300,000 (first day) iPhone: 700,000 (weekend, 3 days)

https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/04/05Apple-Sells-Over-300-000-iPads-First-Day.html

http://techcrunch.com/2007/07/04/iphone-weekend-one-700000-sold-200million-profit-for-apple/

Well it isn't to make it seem like luxury product. It is to protect their trademark; i.e. A bandaid. When you start referring to a brand name as the object, it loses the ability for it to be a specific recognizable name that sets that product apart. Apple doesn't want iPhone to become a generic name for smartphone. If you don't protect your trademark, you lose it. Trademarks are everything.

Edit: https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/appletmlist.html

Mouse should already work for apps that use VT-style (or *nix-style) mouse input. For apps using Win32 mouse mode, that support was actually just added in this release! (dunno how that was missed in the release notes 😨)

Note that you'll have to have your app disable <code>ENABLE_QUICK_EDIT_MODE</code>, there are more details in #9970

PLEASE. Especially after the (small amount of) drama that happened with <code>alacritty</code>'s claim to be the fastest terminal emulator, it'd be great if one could lead their marketing with at least cursory benchmarks. We're not ALWAYS going to avoid things like users on HN looking for ways to criticize whatever gets noticed, but we can at least do a defensible amount of homework before making claims of superiority!

It comes down to security. When you send any iMessage, be it a wink, an LOL, or a top-secret order, it's very securely encrypted. The iMessage servers maintain the public keys for all registered devices, and send these to anybody who starts to send a message. The first time you type in a phone number, you know how it turns from green to blue? That's your phone receiving the public key for that phone number. The private key, used to decrypt the messages, however, is stored only on the receiving device. The only way a web-based session of iMessage would work is if it weren't encrypted at all, or if Apple were storing an additional private key for you, which defeats the entire purpose.

Your messages aren't actually synced between your iPhone and Mac, but are actually separately encrypted by the sending device and sent to each of your receiving devices, to be decrypted by them. If you're on a group chat with three other people and each one has two devices set up with iMessage, your phone will actually send each message six times. (For photos, the photo is encrypted once with a newly-generated key and uploaded to a randomly-generated address in the cloud, and your phone then sends the address and new key for that photo in an encrypted message to each recipient.)

EDIT: If anybody is interested in the really juicy technical details, Apple has an iOS Security white paper. Page 33 explains exactly how iMessage works. The paranoia-level security of iCloud Keychain (page 38) is also fun reading.

Short answer: No.

Long answer: A lot of misinformation in this thread. MacBook batteries are Lithium-ion. One of the key advantages of Lithium-ion has over other other technologies is that the cells require almost no maintenance or special care as long as they have the proper driving circuitry (and if if Apple isn't doing battery-management right, I'll eat my hat). If you have any other battery-related questions for Apple products, you should check out this page.

Lithium-ion cells have no memory effect, meaning that they won't lose any capacity if they are fully recharged after only a little discharge. Also, unlike many other deep-cycle rechargeable batteries, they don't need to be fully discharged and recharged periodically.

In fact, the main factor limiting the lifespan of Lithium-ion batteries is the total number of effective charge/discharge cycles (IIRC, most are rated for 600 full discharges/recharges). So keeping your MacBook plugged in all the time, and discharging the battery less frequently, will make the battery last longer!

Edit: accidentally a clause

>advanced beginner

What?

Perhaps you could point out exactly what you want to know, but you can start by reading your model's manual. Apple's support page is a good place to start going into details as it has guides in both text and video form.

I sent in feed back (https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html) about the change in feature. I never had battery life issues with 1.0, and am rather disappointed with the change. Really hard to get a valid record of heart rate if it only records the resting heart rate.

I don't think people are giving enough credit to the display here. A good high-resolution display like the new MacBook has would probably cost hundreds of dollars on its own.

When the iMac with 5K display came out, people shat all over the price then too, but conveniently ignored the fact that if you just wanted to build a PC with the same quality display, the monitor alone would cost as much as the entire iMac.

I was under the impression that Alacritty's claims were about throughput, not latency. That being said, there isn't any hard benchmarks to back this up (https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/289), although the posted benchmarks that Alacritty does well in do seem to be throughput focused.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4lh7yv/systemd_developer_asks_tmux_and_other_programs_to/

In short: when a user logs out, the new default behavior by logind is to bluntly "kill -9" all the processes that belong to that session instead of just sending a SIGHUP signal, which is the Unix/POSIX standard.

This solves the problem of lingering processes that don't clean up after themselves after you log out (i.e. Gnome), but it breaks widely used programs like screen, tmux and even the nohup command. So, you would start a screen/tmux session or a long running command with nohup, then you log out of your desktop or ssh session... and your screen/tmux session or long running command are unceremoniously killed by logind.

The reaction of the systemd developers was to suggest that tmux change their code, or that the user issues some kind of magic systemd incantation first, which is unacceptable to me. You don't just go around breaking long standing standards and then tell everyone else to change their code and scripts to adapt to you.

Luckily, this default behavior can be changed by a compile time setting and a configuration file directive, and most distros (including Arch) have had the sanity to ship with it disabled, but it sets a dangerous precedent and it demonstrates the "fuck everyone else" attitude of some systemd developers. They act as if they are working on a blank slate, creating their own OS the way they see fit as they go, but they're not. They are inserting themselves into a long existing OS with well established standards and traditions upon which millions of users are depending, and they should act appropriately.

edit: of course this gets downvoted immediately by systemd shills :)

I think that you are pretty far off base claiming that the "NeoVim people" (whatever that even means) claim that Vim is "horrible and unusable", given that the entire premise of the project is to maintain parity with Vim. And as for your other claims, just a quick browse through this sub indicates that people are hardly "coming out of the woodwork to yell" about things. As for the business with Bram, while I can't speak to the technical side of things, I suspect that you are in the extreme minority if you don't think that his management style is lousy.

But Find My iPhone was not compromised on any of the victim's accounts. The passwords were discovered by pure social engineering—there was no breach on Apple's end.

Source.

Apple not the owners of the content. That would be an even bigger issue. Edit: sorry haven't been on today. Several others fielded but Tl; dr Apple does collect data about user but does not claim any rights to the content saved to the cloud. EULA

They'll regret this when people start using iTunes to make biological weapons.

Last sentence of the 2nd to last paragraph.

https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula/

"You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons."

I definitely think the console/terminal performance in Windows needs significant improvement. God knows how many times I've suppressed the output of commands because of the significant performance cost. And I will happily admit that I am not anything close to an expert on any of the topics this video/issue covers.

However, I don't find the video entirely persuasive. He spends so much time ranting about "excuses" the developers have made, and repeatedly exclaims that this is a simple fix that could be done over a weekend or whatever.

Here's the issue in question where the debate takes place. Again, I'm not an expert, but the discussion here seems fairly reasonable and honest to me, and not peppered with excuse-making as this guy claims.

In fact, DHowett says they'll use the issue for for tracking related performance improvements and thanks him for providing the termbench program. That doesn't seem dismissive at all to me.

It's the OP himself who closes the issue after being gently called out for his tone, which I think was fair. His assertions of how simple and easy it is to do X (which he also constantly repeats in the video) come across as a little condescending to me.

But my question is, if it really is so stupidly dead simple, why create a separate fake terminal? If drastically improving the performance of the Windows Terminal was as simple as he claims, why not just do it yourself? I would find that more persuasive. I can only assume it's because he thinks that would take a lot more work than the weekend he spent building this demo. How much more work, and why? Is it because it's perhaps not so simple a problem to solve?

Creating a separate demo terminal just raises questions for me as to whether he's really understood and met all the requirements/constraints that the Terminal is built under. Maybe he has (he certainly claims to), but it's impossible for me to know as an outside observer.

"If you are blind or have low vision, you can use VoiceOver, an advanced screen reader, to get the most from your iOS device. And Siri and Dictation help you type, launch apps, and read your calendar." https://www.apple.com/accessibility/ios/#vision

> this was his coup de grâce in some lengthy argument about terminal optimization that none of us were present for

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 and I think the specific comment that tipped him over the edge was this one

> Portability: Alacritty should support major operating systems including Linux, macOS, and Windows.

but

> Windows is not yet part of the list, but the initial offering demonstrates making a cross-platform terminal emulator is possible.

So, not yet, but at some point. https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/28 is the tracking issue.

The main thing I've used is the built in terminal, it's nice to not have to run tmux or use panes in a terminal emulator. I keep all of vim's regular keybindings. The other main feature is the async api. While vim also has an implementation I've heard it's not as nice to use and some plugins only support neovim's api.

Finally remote plugins which you can learn about here.

For me the main reason was why not? It doesn't break compatibility with vim, has some nice features and the attitude of the developer toward contributors seems better (from what I've heard).

Edit: Also this

"It’s called the Taptic Engine, a linear actuator inside Apple Watch that produces haptic feedback. In less technical terms, it taps you on the wrist whenever you receive an alert or notification, or press down on the display."

Source: https://www.apple.com/watch/technology/

Apple商標および著作権使用に関するガイドライン https://www.apple.com/jp/legal/trademark/guidelinesfor3rdparties.html

>8. スローガンおよびキャッチフレーズ >Appleのスローガンまたはキャッチフレーズを使用または模倣することはできません。 > >使用例）「Think different」

Don't know why they didn't mention this in the keynote, but it has a power reserve function, that limits it to only telling the time when the battery gets too low, which apparently will last for 72 hours.

Source: https://www.apple.com/watch/battery.html

Batteries are very sensitive to heat.

>Your device is designed to perform well in a wide range of temperatures, with 62° to 72° F (16° to 22° C) as the ideal comfort zone. It’s especially important to avoid exposing your device to temperatures higher than 95° F (35° C), which can permanently damage battery capacity. That is, your battery won’t power your device as long on a given charge. Charging the device in high temperatures can damage it further. Even storing a battery in a hot environment can damage it irreversibly. When using your device in a very cold environment, you may notice a decrease in battery life, but this condition is temporary. Once the battery’s temperature returns to its normal operating range, its performance will return to normal as well.

Source https://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/

Didn't they say launching in 100 countries on June 30th? If assume the UK would be part of that list maybe?

Edit: Got the source. https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/06/08Introducing-Apple-Music-All-The-Ways-You-Love-Music-All-in-One-Place-.html "Apple Music will be available starting on June 30 in over 100 countries."

Edit 2: The plot thickens. Read on the same page: "Starting on June 30, music fans around the world are invited to a 3-month free membership..." This makes it sound like /on/ June 30, the option for a free trial starts globally. As in, starting on June 30, users around the world can begin their free trial. The "starting" part clarifies that you're not required to get the free trial on that day.

Or my personal favourite option: Not even Apple know when they're launching. Support don't seem to have a clue, and all the rumours pointed to last minute deals. Could be that they're not sure?

Here is Apple's own status page...

https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

At the bottom of the page currently it says...

iTunes Store - All users are affected Customers may be unable to make purchases from the App Store, iTunes Store, iBooks Store, or Mac App Store.

iCloud Account & Sign In - All users were affected Users may have been unable to sign in.

iCloud Mail - All users were affected Users may have been unable to access iCloud mail.

I have been having trouble signing on to id.apple.com and I wondered what this issue was.

Honestly, for the extra $100 you're getting a better chip, 64 bit, better performance, Touch ID, etc. See the Compare iPhones page it is very helpful in seeing the differences.

If I were you, I'd go for the 5s if you can.

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/

The new macbook pro's dont have ethernet ports. We have clients who just purchased them and now they have to buy adapters for it.

Edit: BUT IT HAS RETINA DISPLAY SO OMFG SO COOL

This is from Apple's website directly…

If you want to store your device long term, two key factors will affect the overall health of your battery: the environmental temperature and the percentage of charge on the battery when it’s powered down for storage. Therefore, we recommend the following:

Do not fully charge or fully discharge your device’s battery — charge it to around 50%. If you store a device when its battery is fully discharged, the battery could fall into a deep discharge state, which renders it incapable of holding a charge. Conversely, if you store it fully charged for an extended period of time, the battery may lose some capacity, leading to shorter battery life.

Power down the device to avoid additional battery use.o

Place your device in a cool, moisture-free environment that’s less than 90° F (32° C). If you plan to store your device for longer than six months, charge it to 50% every six months.

Depending on how long you store your device, it may be in a low-battery state when you remove it from long-term storage. After it’s removed from storage, it may require 20 minutes of charging with the original adapter before you can use it.

Source: https://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/#general

The wireless mac keyboard is under his right forearm.

One of Neovim's banner features is that it has full terminal emulation baked in. It is invoked with the :te[rminal]command. It is worth reading the helpdoc on this, as it is pretty versatile. So far as I understand, this should do everything and more that you would do with :shell in mainline vim.

*edit: I would also add that if you plan to explore (or use) Neovim at any length, it will be worth your time to browse through the :help vim-differences portion of the helpdocs (also available online here).

Apple does more than pretty much any other electronics company, by far, to improve the conditions of workers that make the products. You can read details in their annual supplier responsibility reports: https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/

Apple have said that later this year they will release the native SDK for the watch, so probably during WWDC.

Quick Source and Source

out of curiosity, I browsed the related apple page:

MDM can see:

• Device name

• Phone number

• Serial number

• Model name and number

• Capacity and space available

• iOS version number

• Installed apps

MDM cannot see:

• Personal mail, calendars, contacts

• SMS or iMessages

• Safari browser history

• FaceTime or phone call logs

• Personal reminders and notes

• Frequency of app use

• Device location

I think Microsoft is still at a point where we should be patronizingly congratulating them for even creating this document. It's cute!

Maybe one day they can collectively figure out why this: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/about

is both objectively and subjective worse than this: https://www.apple.com/osx/

If OP has an iPhone, then by default the device's hard drive is encrypted. If they also have a lock, then that lock is also used to derive additional information to further encrypt files on their device.

Page 9 of iOS security docs

There are accessibility options in the phone. It has an option that you tap once for it to read you what app it is or what it says, and tapping twice is "clicking" on it to do its function.

Here's the page for the VoiceOver feature: https://www.apple.com/accessibility/ios/voiceover/

And don't forget about Siri! That definitely helps a lot when you can't see the screen. For example, you can have Siri read you your text messages, and then you can respond with your voice.

The most helpful thing to do regarding fake apps is to make sure the developers of the real packages know about the fakes (by emailing them, etc.), since the real developers can file copyright/trademark complaints with Apple.

Then just ignore the fakes and let the developer and Apple handle it.

Edit: It can be helpful to include that link to Apple's website in your email, since not all developers know they can report things like this. Also, Apple probably doesn't care if the real copyrighted/trademarked work runs on jailbroken devices - their job in this case is to take care of copyright/trademark complaints, unrelated to whatever platform the real thing runs on.

Found this cool terminal app that has lots of customizable graphics effects.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Screenshot is from Brogue

Apple's always been focused on accessibility, so it doesn't surprise me that they've expanded that focus to their retail stores.

As a deaf man, that's one of the reasons why I love Apple so much. FaceTime has been a godsend to the Deaf community.

Thanks for posting this, OP. This thread was good to read.

It's not just about watching text fly by… there are real usability issues in Windows Terminal such as not being able to CTRL-C when there is a large amount of text being output. It's especially bad over SSH, so if you accidentally run something that outputs a ton of stuff, you're pretty much hosed for like 30+ seconds.

One of the things pointed out was a lot of strings were created. See here. This was also part of the issue with long GTA load times a few months ago. This is actually a very common problem.

Now, if you use less CPU, all else being equal, you burn less energy, because they underclock. I'm not 100% sure, but I think the same happens with GPUs.

If I read it correctly, the offload to the GPU is already there, so we are already burning energy for that.

I can't extrapolate my experience, but I use a Mac for work. There's a bug in my workflow that I didn't bothered fixing that causes some Docker containers to live more than they should. They burn CPU. I often run out of battery in a matter of about 1 hour when they run. It lasts about 6-8 hours when they don't. CPU usage does affect battery life. That's a fact. That's also why every consumer architecture is moving to LITTLE.big and the like: having less power hungry cores for the regular loads and more powerful ones when needed optimizes battery life.

And again, if your problem comes before printing to the screen, then piping will still use those resources.

EDIT: the mention to using a Mac comes from Docker running in a virtual machine for Mac; in Linux it's just namespacing and stuff like that, under the same kernel, which makes for better resource distribution.

> copy-paste functionality

Apple wants the copy/paste experience to be consistent across apps. I can understand why the developer would be upset, but I can also understand why Apple banned the app.

> the whole maps fiasco.

Huh? I don't think they banned apps as a result of switching off of Google's Map data. In fact the old Maps app wasn't even developed by Google. Apple developed the app themselves, and licensed Google's map data (and since we're talking about anti-competitive behavior, I should mention that Google refused to let Apple use the data for turn-by-turn directions and offline maps – which is part of the reason Apple built their own maps in the first place).

Then Google built and submitted their own Maps app, which was quickly accepted in the App Store. Then Tim Cook issued a public apology for Apple Maps, and even suggested competing map apps.

One thing to consider is that the settings for iTunes Plus (256k AAC -q 127 / constrained) can be a little different from the settings used by some encoders by default on 320k AAC (some of the Quicktime ones in particular produce <em>medium</em> quality encodes and not the max 127 quality setting). This was discussed many moons ago during that whole Tidal kerfuffle. I'd be interested to see if you could repeat the same ABX with the maximum quality iTunes Plus settings. Edit: I've tried a few times and failed pretty miserably each time, but that's just me.

Except this is completely legal within EU Law to put that there.

Source

Section 19.

> For such contracts, the consumer should have a right of withdrawal unless he has consented to the beginning of the performance of the contract during the withdrawal period and has acknowledged that he will consequently lose the right to withdraw from the contract. In addition to the general information requirements, the trader should inform the consumer about the functionality and the relevant interoperability of digital content.

This is part of the the EU Directive on Consumer Rights and was specifically put their for digital retailers and digital content. Apples iTunes ToS also says similar things.

> Exception to the right of cancellation: You cannot cancel your order for the supply of digital content if the delivery has started upon your request and acknowledgement that you thereby lose your cancellation right.

iTunes ToS for EU Customers.

nope, according to the new macbook's area of the apple site you get a USB-C and a headphone port. If you want the other things, you will need adapters. This includes regular f'in USB ports. So basiclly if you want to charge and plug in a USB mouse, your shit out of luck.

If you use a Linux desktop you can use Cool-Retro-Term to get this (or any cool retro terminal effect) back: Guide or GitHub to build it yourself

I think that the support is kind of Apple's company strategy. It links with them having very few models of each of their products.

They are trying to make high end electronics and sell them to average consumers. Take a look at the cheapest mac book pro. Of course it is super expensive, but it has a 2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with 16gb of DDR3 RAM. That laptop is going to perform very well. People who buy that laptop will be able to basically do whatever they want with it and it will be fast. The iPhone is similar in that way. It's a high end phone.

Apple basically needs to offer some kind of support because of this. They are trying to convince people of all levels of ability that they should buy extremely high end electronic devices. If they don't offer any support, then their products become kind of tough sell.

If they repair the glass they will update the phone so they can test all its functions they ask you to wipe the device first or at the store with iCloud which you can't do with a jailbreak.

You will have to restore and update the phone you have no choice.

https://www.apple.com/support/iphone/repair/screen-damage/

The last line says to backup first the reason for this is the device will be wiped by them if you don't.

*congrats op that is awesome to hear the tech you got was a good person cuz they would know it was jb'd but they were cool about it.

https://www.apple.com/watch/technology/

> It’s called the Taptic Engine, a linear actuator inside Apple Watch that produces haptic feedback. In less technical terms, it taps you on the wrist whenever you receive an alert or notification, or press down on the display.

I would venture that yes it will give you feedback on presses, but I also suspect it could be a setting in the watch.

... while Microsoft, Samsung, LG and pretty much all other manufacturers don't impose such sanctions on their suppliers. At least they are relatively open about their issues and actively invest in improving conditions

Hi Everyone!

My iPhone 5 just started having issues with my sleep/wake button. I researched it a little and found out that Apple has a Sleep/Wake Button Replacement Program. Unfortunately I found out too late, as it only covered phone within the first TWO years after being purchased. I confirmed this with an Apple Customer Service Representative (via the online chat) on March 4th, just a few days ago.

I decided to check about prices to get it replaced independently at RadioShack. Before going to RadioShack today I decided to double check the terms of the iPhone replacement program to see if there was any information about being reimbursed, possibly, for paying for the replacement. I saw that the terms of the replacement program were extended from 2 years to 3 years! This change had to have happened sometime in the past 4 days! So exciting! I went from not qualifying to qualifying practically overnight and I already have my appointment set for the in-store repair!

I just thought I'd share this news for anyone who is having an issue with their iPhone 5 sleep/wake button and who may have thought they weren't covered by this program (or who did not even know about this program). I don't see any sort of advertising that this program even exists, let alone that the coverage period has just been extended. It was sheer luck that I double checked the program and found out I was eligible. If you've already had the issue fixed, you may be eligible for compensation. I'm not 100% sure but either way, you can find more information about the program and check to see if you're eligible here: https://www.apple.com/support/iphone5-sleepwakebutton/ .

The article is wrong. The quote used in the article does not back up their statement in any way.

This official PDF explains how iOS security concept actually works. To sum it up briefly:

• Most sensitive data on your device is protected using a special cryptographic key
• That cryptographic key is again encrypted using your PIN code. The unencrypted version lives in the RAM while your phone is unlocked, but is wiped from the RAM when hitting the lock button.
• On phones with enabled touch ID support, the unencrypted version is sent to Secure Enclave prior to being wiped from RAM. Secure Enclave will only send it back to iOS when it detects a correct finger print. Secure Enclave will also forget the key when it is reset (for instance by rebooting or through the 48h limit).

The PIN code is therefore needed after booting so that the initial decrypted version of the user-data key can be calculated, else there would be nothing to send to Secure Enclave.

Source: The linked PDF, page 7, "Touch ID and passcodes" and page 8, "How Touch ID unlocks an iOS device".

It's a theme for cool-retro-term, which does have an OS X branch. I've asked if he'll share the theme.

Just going off of this test, it looks like Alacritty supports truecolor/millions of colors. Which is awesome. Can we add it to https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728?

You're not really right in this respect.

Even assuming the javascript he's writing is intended for a browser (and that's a fairly large assumption given NodeJS popularity these days) the act of developing software is considerably different than simply running the final result.

While I'd actually argue that Windows is finally starting to catch up in terms of support for js development, it's entirely correct to say that most tutorials are written with OSX or Linux in mind.

Git? Lots of linux based resources.

IDE? Lots of linux based resouces.

Linter? Lots of linux based resources.

Unit testing? Lots of linux based resources.

Hosting a local server? Lots of linux based resources.

Generating certs or keys for security? Lots of linux based resources.

Want to run chrome with debug flags enabled? ... linux resources.

There's a LOT of moving parts of development that have jack all to do with where the final result can run.

Now... Having said that. I'd like to go back and restate that I actually think most of the common tools actually support Windows very well these days (not the case as recently as 5 years ago).

Win10 makes a perfectly fine development machine (and with a ConEmu terminal ex: http://cmder.net/) I actually don't miss linux nearly as much while doing development for work.

Docs still start with the assumption you're on a *nix machine though.

This is going to be a Neovim tip.

Neovim has some saner defaults than Vim. If you migrated your Vim .vimrc to a Neovim init.vim you might have redundant settings lingering.

From the Neovim documentation:

- 'autoindent' is set by default - 'autoread' is set by default - 'backspace' defaults to "indent,eol,start" - 'complete' doesn't include "i" - 'display' defaults to "lastline" - 'encoding' defaults to "utf-8" - 'formatoptions' defaults to "tcqj" - 'history' defaults to 10000 (the maximum) - 'hlsearch' is set by default - 'incsearch' is set by default - 'langnoremap' is set by default - 'laststatus' defaults to 2 (statusline is always shown) - 'listchars' defaults to "tab:> ,trail:-,nbsp:+" - 'mouse' defaults to "a" - 'nocompatible' is always set - 'nrformats' defaults to "bin,hex" - 'sessionoptions' doesn't include "options" - 'smarttab' is set by default - 'tabpagemax' defaults to 50 - 'tags' defaults to "./tags;,tags" - 'ttyfast' is always set - 'viminfo' includes "!" - 'wildmenu' is set by default

I often see a bunch of these redundant settings in people's init.vim when browsing dotfiles on GitHub.

Make it like a super Apple-y website with obscure photos and spine-chilling promises/marketing talk/promises of the death of the XBox One and PS4, and when you scroll to the bottom it just says Perfect Console - PC for short! And it links you to the wiki/builds/newegg/etc.

LIKE THIS! https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/