Oh sure, AC. We believe you.

The last two iPhones I bought over four years or so have worked fine in Canada and England (my current iPhone is from Verizon).

It's so typical of a liberal to have knowledge thats as outdated as it is plain incorrect - did MSNBC tell you recently you couldn't use a Verizon iPhone in Canda? Or perhaps it was an article on Huffington Post.

Come on, you know you read them. We all do.

In what way is it "proprietary"? I.e., in what way does Apple own it and can prevent others from using it?

Apple is driving ObjC the language, and the foundations everyone knows and makes wide use of are largely proprietary.

How many Objective-C developers today could code without UIKit or NSWindow handy? I would wager it's a vanishingly small number.

Objective-C is not proprietary.

The ObjC everyone uses is.

it's been obsolete for a long time.

That was never true, it just fell out of disfavor. It was not really any more obsolete than C++ or C or Java for that matter, all of which thrive today.

Do you know of any examples of open source iOS/OS X software that demonstrates this separation of writing the user interface in objective-c and the guts in something different (e.g., c++)?

The biggest example would be anything based on OpenCL, where you would do exactly that.

Also a number of games, use a shell of IOS framework stuff for things like game menus and leaderboards, but the actual game engines are C++ (and I'm not even talking about apps that use third party libraries like Unity).

When you drop an iPhone into a _police_ (never mind the NSA, just a local cop who thinks you were looking at his daughter wrong is enough) iPhone unlocker, it tries all 10000 possible 4 digit PINs and unlocks. Done.

And when you have the phone set to wipe after ten invalid attempts?

However, proprietary languages don't tend to fare particularly well

Except ObjC, which leads one to think Swift might do really well also.

I'm sure they know about LLDB. But it's probably not what they need, and thus they do not use it.

Whatever they NEED gdb for, they would be better off using LLDB at this point.

I was a huge fan of GDB in the past. But that time has gone.

why can't google and everyone else support public transportation?

I like public transportation to some degree, but self-driving cars are WAY more useful.

They could really get anyone from anywhere, to anywhere. With public transport you might have to arrange a few transfers, defiantly have to figure out how to get to a pickup location. And it may not go very close to where you want to go.

But a self-driving car solves all those issues. If you think longer term, you could even have self-driving public transports that took a group of people going to roughly the same place to where they wanted to go with a few stops along the way.

So getting self driving cars working helps public transport as much as private transport...

Apple itself as a company does not like leaks. To the extent they are hiring the Chinese military to clamp down on them...

The leaks/rumors industry is not Apple at all, but a whole range of third parties seeking to discern anything they can about Apple before an announcement.

The reason is of course money... for whatever reason a lot of people seem drawn to these rumor sites, and that creates a lot of advertising revenue.

I was just hoping Slashdot was above doing the same thing...

I normally don't like looking at Apple Rumor sites at all, or reading about them.

But a story like this seems REALLY pointless. What on earth is the point of publishing the story days before we know for sure what will happen? Just so people can swagger in with last minute "guesses" that hardly count because of last minute leaks?

Much better to discuss the meaning or use of what actually is to come, rather than some possibility which will be potentially dissipated in mere days.

In other words, let the cat at least settle down in the box before you open it.

Hugh Laurie would be a great doctor because of all those years on House.

Wouldn't he if part of the show had him been doing real surgery at times?

1. If you go to their website, nothing indicates this is a non-profit corporation.

And so what??? Were you hoping for a tax break? The only question at hand is, will they do what they promise to do. If so, good enough.

2. None of the people involved has a background in education, child development, psychology, etc.

You know, the same was true when he was on Reading Rainbow the TV show. Do you think that show (a) helped kids of (b) destroyed lives.

In fact I would place his being on Reading Rainbow as having more of a background in education than most people.

Well, it has not lost video to a copyright complaint...

But if you ever do find a video of the "WheelGo" in action, you'll notice it seems a hell of a lot less easy to maintain balance than the One Wheel. I'd be scared as hell to get on that WheelGo thing or anything like it, and I can use a Segway just fine.

Sorry but that looks way less practical and usable than the One Wheel skateboard-esque design, even if it uses some of the same parts. Watch the One Wheel Kickstarter video to compare.

In your video you can see the woman just barely maintaining balance... and the people riding it have to stand stock still apparently or all is lost.

The savings are infinite when you cannot play at all what you wanted to see, a dark screen uses no power at all.