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by DHowett 14y ago
With the iPad3 launch, existing applications would not use retina graphics even if they included them. They had to be re-linked with the latest SDK. Apple has a long history of doing `linked-on-or-after` checks for compatibility with variou
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With regards to the title: once you stop sugar-coating it, this is just a comparison of virtualization and native execution. Boot Camp does not apply any/many restrictions to the system and is just a thin BIOS wrapper over EFI for bare meta
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You are discounting the possibility that he could have owned and upgraded his previous laptop when two 2GB memory sticks were more than $200. Yes, such modules are cheap today, but that is immaterial.
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The real-world analogues of the devices he's interacting with do just work with minimal thinking, and this is what the letter index mimics. In an indexed book, you find the letter and quickly flip open the book to the proper page. In an i
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I won't say that any of these are particularly discoverable, but there are a couple solutions to the contact search issue - one is to tap the stausbar, which scrolls directly to the top of the list, and the other is to use the letter-index
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"I restored my phone" => "I lost all my apps and data": Did you not back it up? Did you not restore that backup? iTunes warns you that it will erase your phone and reset it to factory settings. "I can't hit the tiny search button":
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In addition to that, he's effectively comparing apples and steaks in the case of std::list.erase() vs linked-list removal. If you want O(1) removal of a random element, you use a data structure that guarantees O(1) removal of a random eleme
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Pray tell: Why's that a pity? There are very few downsides to jailbreaking, these days; it's not fair to characterize software that requires a jailbreak negatively for that reason.
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> I immediately jumped to the conclusion that Apple was “blacklisting” the app for political reasons > Wow, they really don’t want me to open this app! I can't really imagine why one would instantly jump to the first conclusion,
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To be fair, munged permissions are a real problem; Just the other day, Parallels released an advisory document[1] about an issue their users had been seeing related directly to filesystem permissions. I believe that "fix permissions" scans
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Nowhere did he mention disabling iCloud, moving the directory back into place, and re-enabling it. That might seem like the first step in solving this problem, and I wouldn't doubt that he did it if not for the instant jump to "restoring my
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I'm reasonably certain that Messages in 10.8 is just as bad as it was during the Beta period. I still get notifications on every device for every single message I receive. I still cannot send messages at all from one computer - they act sen
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Data exfiltration through the VMware hypervisor(idontplaydarts.com)
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I like the idea of processes dumping structured objects: pipes are rather often used for the processing of structured data, and while tabulated output certainly makes it easier, we still end up effectively using constants: cut to the third
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This could simply be a result of Apple switching to a responsive layout system with iOS6. This correlates with the new automatic layouts you can create in Interface Builder (if you're the sort to use it, and which themselves could correlate
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Well, they're already trying to quell the flames of their database servers by heavyhandedly deleting articles that they find non-notable. The unfortunate truth of the matter is that, given infinite time, they will have to fight all these fi
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On Apple devices, I believe that remote wipe is "Change the encryption keys for the block storage. It's as good as random data now." That might also be why a PIN is available for "stopping" the wipe. (As an aside: the group got what they wa
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No, Chirp will not become the next Twitter (if the title of the post here changes, this sentence will make little sense.) Chirp seems to be more "network of things" than "social media network." They have what appears to be nigh-unto nothing
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Like the Home/Professional/Ultimate licensing tiers of old, each presenting slightly more features than the last? Or more like in-app purchases on mobile phones, providing additional features for increments of cash, proverbially nickel-and-
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What tool support does it require? I certainly hope there are no tools generating assignments in conditional expressions, and the only other tools that need to support it clearly understand parentheses.
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"I'd only need Foundation & libdispatch." "It's missing too many useful libraries to be useful." libdispatch can be lived without or worked around. What else in your list is missing?
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The headline of this post is such because it is quoting a PHP developer on a point made in a later comment on the report.
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I believe you mean to say that they need to upgrade they're copyediting. "they're copyediting" - they're most certainly not doing a good job of it!
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I've seen a lot of replies to this of the form "how about they use [URLs/NFC/etc.]", but how are those options at all better than printing out all the product specs? Surely having the specifications printed out and mounted in an emplacement
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This may be a previous discussion of Intel, but it is certainly not a discussion of the Xeon Phi coprocessor.
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Wouldn't transporting humans at 2,500 - 4,000 mph kill them? It seems like the body would not react well to beginning or ending transit at such velocities.
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Away the computer goes to the RMA processor, sans all your data. This is bad how?
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An SD card counts as bulk storage. ;)
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I abhor things like this. Certain types of navigation completely override browser behaviour in this regard and it is somewhat maddening.
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This is not significantly easier than just using grep -lir keyword directory yourself. ack[1], however, does improve upon grep. Enter directory and ack keyword . It skips over VCS cruft and backup files (I believe) while presenting a n

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