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sirozha said: loquitur said: sirozha said: Tim, keep donating your personal wealth to LGBT rights. Good job! Just please leave Apple out of your social agenda. Apple, like many corporate entities (public or otherwise), co-s…
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sirozha said: Tim, keep donating your personal wealth to LGBT rights. Good job! Just please leave Apple out of your social agenda. Apple, like many corporate entities (public or otherwise), co-sponsors various activities ranging from cha…
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mknelson said: So, is the UI really slow without Metal support? No, because macOS bases the general UI on the process 'WindowServer', and there was a useful discovery that Apple has not rewritten this using Metal, just preferring to delete…
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dewme said: [....] Except for ... the Escape key. The Escape key is a special case. The fact that it happens to be on the same row as the function keys makes its inclusion in the Touch Bar unfortunate. In fact, the Escape key should be tr…
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sevenfeet said: Does that mean that Apple's DVD Player finally gets 64 bit support? Makes sense, since 2012-or-later Macs w/optical drives are listed as supported under Mojave.
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cropr said: [....]Mobile networks were first launched in 1990 in the Scandinavia countries. If there was a real danger, we should see this already in the cancer statistics in these countries, even if there is a long incubation period. Or, …
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A point of information about Bloomberg -- their online division is likely a webpage ad click-thru business like most other commercial websites, and Apple-as-subject is always good for clicks. However the Bloomberg Businessweek magazine itself is a…
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sflocal said: rob53 said: What about all the macs that can’t run 10.3.2? Did a security update fix those systems? Those Macs that can't run 10.13.2 most likely are no longer by Apple. Using the 'dosdude1' patches, many older ma…
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ronn said: Finally decided against the iPhone X for the iPhone 8 Plus. The skinnier, taller X factor just felt off. ... Perhaps the vertical orientation can prove more useful to traditional Eastern Asian (Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Kore…
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NY1822 said: "...though nobody knows exactly how profitable Beats is (it's a privately held company so it doesn't need to disclose financial details) everyone thinks the profit margins on that $1 billion in revenue are high. After all, th…
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Roxy Balboa said: They need to outlaw encryption ASAP. And any company that refuses to comply should be put out of business and their top management arrested and jailed. They need to outlaw assault rifles ASAP. And any company that refuse…
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dewme said: loquitur said: I haven't seen anyone use a numeric keypad since the days of the IBM 029 keypunch. Where is the demand coming for this? For that matter, why hasn't the caps lock key also have gone the way of the dodo bird?…
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I haven't seen anyone use a numeric keypad since the days of the IBM 029 keypunch. Where is the demand coming for this? For that matter, why hasn't the caps lock key also have gone the way of the dodo bird?
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Among the myriad of problems with patents is the seemingly arbitrary nature of the awards gifted by lay juries. A smartphone reflects (tens of) thousands of patented ideas even though almost all shouldn't be patented because they would have been r…
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It's a rather "interesting" (read dysfunctional) system that allows for treble-damages by non-technical juries [guided adversarialy by ten-gallon-hat lawyers and judges] *at the same time* that the parallel system (of PTAB, staffed by USPTO subject …
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mikethemartian said: So will they also ditch it on the MBP in favor of FaceID? Good question, as these "all in" reports could give one pause for upgrading to the current rev of the MacBook Pro w/Touch ID (the only available offering fo…
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rotateleftbyte said: crofford said: The phone we had hardwired to the wall when I was growing up had a switch on the bottom to turn off the ringer...That would be in the late 60's when AT&T, or in our case Southwestern Bell, actual…
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Because of the way photos/videos are taken in IOS 11 in a more svelte manner with the new codec, it may be useful for Mac owners who archive photos there to upgrade to MacOS High Sierra first. That way, HEIF photos and HEVC video can be transferred…
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Thinking through MacBook futures, wherein Face ID comes to the fore, I'm wondering if it impossible without the neural net hardware of the A11. Can this equivalency be bolted on to the Intel (or AMD in future?) CPUs in MacBooks easily via a 'T2' r…