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by vvhn 13y ago
>Perhaps this is different between providers? On the CDMA side (i.e. Verizon, Sprint), yes. On the GSM side (T-mobile and AT&T), if your phone is locked to a carrier it will still accept any SIM from that carrier and your carrier p
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by vvhn 13y ago
With newer LTE phones, Verizon "world phones" (i.e. phones with a GSM SIM slot alongwith the CDMA stuff - For eg. iPhone 5, 5c and 5s) already come GSM "unlocked". This is apparently not out of the goodness of their hea
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by vvhn 13y ago
oh totally - I was just objecting to the use of the word "correct" :).
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by vvhn 13y ago
There are 2 options (on applications which havn't overridden default key bindings) - a) cmd-left arrow for beginning and cmd-right arrow for end of the line. b)emacs key bindings are available as well control-a and control-e for the be
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by vvhn 13y ago
" /* Remap Home / End keys to be correct */" only when correct == "Windows Convention" Home and End keys on the Mac (on applications which don't override default behaviour for these keys) are conventi
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by vvhn 13y ago
the hard linking of directories is a hack not really a feature. There's a good reason why filesystems ( including HFS+ when not being used for Time Machine) do not do it.
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by vvhn 13y ago
of all the things, you had to pick the kernel :). the kernel in use for both iOS and OS X is xnu for which the OS X sources are available on opensource. apple.com ( mavericks source at http://opensource.apple.com/source&#x2F
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by vvhn 13y ago
yes, once you download it, you can copy over the .app installer on a USB disk and use it to install on your other machines. You can also make a bootable USB installer from the .app http://povolotski.me/2013/10/12&#
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by vvhn 13y ago
It's a live stream of a marketing event of a company. In an ideal world, no one besides die hard apple fans should be interested in watching it live as it happens. I don't remember the iPod with Windows video event being streamed
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by vvhn 13y ago
Not really. there is a much greater marketing push behind the 5c so the expectation seemed to have been more than the ones for " last years model"
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by vvhn 13y ago
>The problem with usability nuts and Apple nuts is that they fall into the "one perfect solution exists" category. The problem with pointing out any real or perceived flaw in Android is that you are immediately branded as &quot
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by vvhn 13y ago
could you give examples of the claimed existing products and how the apple products are "just refinements" of those ?
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by vvhn 13y ago
This has always been available as a setting on iOS and it is not the default. Most companies though will install a profile which enables this to a custom value of retry attempts if you add the company email (typically exchange ) account to
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by vvhn 13y ago
uhhhh.... iMessage is opt-in and isn't enabled until you actively sign up for it in settings. You don't want it taking over your SMS & MMS - don't opt-in to it.
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by vvhn 13y ago
The next Apple statement placating congress about jobs created can probably also include " With iOS 7, we have also created the largest number of design critics, UI designers and UX experts in history - Everybody is now an expert and w
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by vvhn 13y ago
That's quite a selective "Back in Steve's day" memory. A lot of spec bumps like this one for Macs and Macbooks happened exactly through press releases like these.
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by vvhn 13y ago
you're forgetting that all of Apple's digital storefronts , online services exist for only one reason - as accessories and support systems to their hardware ( Macs and iGadgets ). The only reason iTunes on Windows exists is to in
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by vvhn 13y ago
>I very much prefer the UI of my Jelly Bean Nexus 7 to this thing they call iOS 7 That's kind of ironic given that the Android blogs and _some_ comments on forums (including hacker news) are all "The UI is Android ripoff"
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by vvhn 13y ago
I've only been running iOS since it GM'ed ( which wasn't too long ago) but havn't seen some of the stuff shown there. iMessages certainly do that on my 4S. The notification badge on the Applications icon is always on to
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by vvhn 13y ago
why is it "64 bit iOS7/32 bit iOS6" ? iOS 7 is 64-bit only on the iPhone 5S. iPhone 5S will run 64 bit iOS 7 and can run both 32 bit and 64 bit applications. iPhone 5C, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPad 4, iPad 3 (or what
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by vvhn 13y ago
was that a press conference after the event because in the event they were clearly shown (and mentioned) to be over the original iPhone with the added claim that half of the total improvement so far is over the iPhone 5 ( a very roundabout
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by vvhn 13y ago
What's FreeBSD's adoption of llvm/clang got to do with Apple's non-adoption of GPLv3 ? (Linux is a GPLv3 holdout as well btw). The *BSDs prefer a non-GPL licensed alternative if they can get one.
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by vvhn 13y ago
the right way to use tabs (tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment) needs some amount of discipline to get right always. It's more flexible but very easy to make a mistake and mess it up.
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by vvhn 13y ago
not strictly the FreeBSD kernel but the rather the BSD emulation layer ( which is quite a significant chunk of xnu ) on top of the Mach "microkernel" ( which until Mach 2.5 still ran in the kernel - Mach 3.0 moved the BSD emulati
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by vvhn 13y ago
Making things more difficult to read is a valid argument for regression. Even if it is for some people (where previously it wasn't) that should be pointed out and complained about (as you are rightly doing ). The whole brouhaha in the
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by vvhn 13y ago
Apple Maps was a regression in functionality. The design of the home screen is a subjective opinion. Whether good or bad, it seems to have created more self proclaimed graphic designers and experts on the Internet than anything else in rece
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by vvhn 13y ago
>Perhaps this will enlighten you So, something on a blog on the internet is now "enlightenment" ? *edit. I found this link quoted in other places in this thread. Turns out all of them were you. What makes you believe that infor
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by vvhn 13y ago
from a functionality point of view yes - you have always been able to connect to a Linux/BSD box using NFS, SMB(1) ( if samba is installed on them ) or AFP ( if netatalk is installed on them ). What this thing is saying SMB2 support ha
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by vvhn 13y ago
That would make Microsoft pretty disdainful of OS X/Linux/BSD/yada yada.. users as well, Visual Studio is not on anything but Microsoft platforms. Both of their priorities are themselves, their customers and their developers.
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by vvhn 13y ago
eh ? like your parent comment pointed out - it's a quip by us vi users, not "wisdom" (conventional or otherwise) :-)

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