You are what is known as an ignoramus. Or a total idiot. Possibly both!

"kph" is an acronym (in the vernacular), or to be pedantic, an initialism. It stands for km per hour, which is a measure of speed which utilizes an SI unit.

But you knew that, which really makes you an incredible piece of shit.

I hate natural scrolling too, but that's because I still use a mouse. Most Mac users are using touchpads (laptops), where it is more natural. And you can turn it off.

Um, no. The Talmud doesn't say that. You should probably stop reading Neo-Nazi and Jihadist websites.

The Israel/Arab conflict is not resolvable in any way that resembles a humane solution. The Arabs want the entire Arabian Peninsula to be free of Jews. The only solution they will accept is Holocaust II.

Of course Apple has private APIs, and of course their apps use them! What kind of idiot are you? Can you write an app to list and allow you to join WiFi networks? Can your app manipulate privacy settings? Can your app run (not just remain dormant) in the background? Apple's apps can do all of those things. Do you think Apple's apps are twiddling IO ports? Or just maybe they have APIs to do all that stuff! Who would have guessed?

Bottom line is that apps are rejected for using private APIs, but those APIs exist for someone to use. Guess who that someone is.

Both the iOS and Android apps are written by Google. They are free to do whatever they want. Any 3rd-party that wants to display videos in their app has to use the HTML5 (or Flash) player. I don't see why MS should be treated differently.

I presume that MS reserves the right for first-party apps on Windows Phone to use private APIs to implement features no other app can have. Apple certainly does this. Similarly, Google is not bound to using Dalvik for UI if they don't want to.

You are a retarded piece of shit. Anyone who travels over a bridge cares how sound it is. The exception would be children and the like who simply don't know enough to care.

And neither of those are executable by hardware. Virtual machines are just more software and do not count for this discussion.

If Windows doesn't "just work" for you, your level of competence with regards to computers is well below zero.

X Window and the apps that run on it still have inconsistent and annoying copy+paste behavior and no standardization of keyboard shortcuts. It requires the mouse more than OS X simply because it's too annoying to memorize different shortcuts for every piece of software.

In grand /. tradition, I am only commenting on the summary, as I have not read the article.

Talent is a great thing to have, but anyone sufficiently skilled to do the job is good enough. It doesn't matter how (easily) they got the skill. On the other hand, someone with talent, but no focus to apply it, is worthless. A super-star programmer who only writes good code is probably not going to be great when things go bad. Unless he only deals with his own code, he has to know how to read bad code, how to debug it and how to fix it without introducing even more bugs. That could also be a talent, but it's not the same talent.

TL/DR: Talent can get you skill, but a lack of skill makes one worthless for the job at hand.

At least he's thinking. You apparently have decided to forego the process.

Retarded gerbils can mash keys so they should be allowed on slashdot?

Apparently so.

Patents are supposed to stifle competition. That's exactly why they exist. Idiot.

And idiotic dipshits like to pretend that something like the iPhone existed beforehand just because there were phones with screens that could run some apps. It's like pretending an iMac is not much better than the Lisa because both have/had a GUI, keyboard and mouse.

What you wrote does not contradict the GP in any way, shape or form. What exactly was the point of your comment?