The Apple event shows a touch bar that, by default, has a button labeled "esc" on the left-hand edge, although, as I commented elsewhere, it's a little bit to the right of where the "esc" key is now - i.e., not directly above the {~ `} key - which, as I said, could interfere with muscle memory.
Apple still sells one laptop with a hard drive - the 13" non-Retina version of the MacBook Pro.
OK, that one was a bit hidden, but if you go to the bottom of the MBP page, and click on "Compare Mac notebooks", it's currently on the left-hand side of the second row.
laptops with easy to get to disks.
Apple still sells laptops with disks? News to me....
D00d, you might want to check those links - goat.cx is now a parked domain. You'll need to find the new home for pictures of Mr. Johnson's world-famous anus.
No headphone jack. Fewer keys than a VT-100 terminal. Lame.
Hey, even my current MacBook Pro, which does have a headphone jack, has fewer keys than a VT100, so it's not as if the rumored touch-bar-instead-of-a-function-key-row and might-not-have-a-headphone-jack new MacBook Pro is what put them below the VT100.
released a more performant iPad
to bad the new mac pro missed the mark and they sat on it.
Sitting on a 6.6" Mac Pro probably won't be very comfortable. (Yes, I refrained from posting a link to a picture of Kirk Johnson here.
Depends on the size of your hands to some degree. I find that Ctrl-C Ctrl-V for example requires twisting the left wrist outward so the hand is angled to the left, and also requires stretching the fingers apart. The natural resting positions of hands which are together in front of you on a keyboard is for the hands to be pointed inward (left hand angled slightly to the right) with fingers not stretched in tendon tension apart.
For what it's worth, when I do Ctrl+{something} on my MacBook Pro's keyboard, I move my left hand off the home row and, if {something} is on the left-hand side of the keyboard, use my index finger for {something}; that might even predate using an MBP. The same applies to Cmd+{something}, although I use my thumb for Cmd.
So one possibility is that Terminal labels that part of the touch bar "Esc" (or, in Apple hipster lower-case style, "esc"), and touching it sends \033 down the pseudo-tty to the currently-running program. That's the one I'm putting my money on, although I'm biased by being a microEmacs user who would want that to be the case.
Although the "Cancel" isn't directly above the (~ `) key, so it's not quite where the esc key is currently, which could interfere with muscle memory, grumble grumble. We'll have to see what Terminal does with the touch bar.
Mac users probably don't use the Escape key too much, let alone the function keys.
THIS Mac user uses the Esc key all the time to dismiss OS X/macOS Dialogs.
Which may be why there's something labeled "Cancel" at the left edge of the touch bar in one of the images from TFA.
(And THIS Mac user uses the Esc key all the time to start commands in microEmacs in Terminal, but I digress....)
You never turn off your devices. You will be constantly be consuming monetized content.
Including the surf noise it plays while you're sleeping.
I'd rather play surf noise when I'm not sleeping.
I was expecting a new refresh with a better processor, larger SSD, and keeping everything else the same. But Apple seems to forget the good parts,
If by "the good parts" you mean "a better processor", I've seen rumors that it'll have a SomethingLake processor, which I presume counts as "better". (I suppose I could be less lazy and find out whether "SomethingLake" is "Skylake" or "Kaby Lake".) I don't know whether the maximum SSD size will be > 16GB, but I wouldn't be surprised. (More main memory would probably help as well.)
If rumors are true, it will remove full size USB ports,
Probably. (Some rumors claim they'll do a MagSafed version, which would be nice when it's used as a power connector.) Hopefully there will be more than one; having only one would suck if it means "you need an add-on hub if you want to use more than one USB device at a time or use a USB device when it's plugged into the power supply".
along with the headset jack,
Courage! Just don't be bitter about it.
replace the physical keyboard with a touch abomination,
Replace the entire keyboard? Not according to any rumor I've seen, and not according to the pictures in TFA, although it might use the same key mechanism as the one the current MacBook does.
Replace the function key row? Yes, that's the rumor this article is talking about. As long as I can hit a key (whether labeled "Esc" or "esc" or "Cancel") on the touch bar as conveniently as I can hit the esc key on my current MBP's keyboard, that'd work for me, although others might find it more of a pain than the current keyboard if they use function keys a lot. and turn it into a "not so tablet" experience. If I wanted to use a tablet, we also have a Surface Pro, and it works well. However writing code, editing documents require a simple device, which happened to be my current MBP.
On a Macbook (Pro, at least) the Esc key is on the same row as the function keys. The function key row is (ostensibly) being replaced with a touch bar and a oled display. So, it seems very clear that the Esc key will simply be part of that in the appropriate modes.
And, given it's Probably going to be right on the left hand side, it'll be easy to press by touch-typists, who just have to touch-locate the edge of that screen.
And one of the images shows a key labeled "Cancel" on the left side of the touch bar.
The Esc key is used to close dialogs in macOS (and in Windows and in a bunch of desktop environments on UN*X+{X11,Wayland,Mir}), as a keyboard accelerator for the Cancel key.
So one possibility is that Terminal labels that part of the touch bar "Esc" (or, in Apple hipster lower-case style, "esc"), and touching it sends \033 down the pseudo-tty to the currently-running program. That's the one I'm putting my money on, although I'm biased by being a microEmacs user who would want that to be the case.
There is probably no reason to block this merger as it would create what is clearly a massive market monopoly. AT&T and Time Warner own pretty much all the cables suitable for communication into people's houses in many areas.
Time Warner, which is what AT&T want to buy, own no cables. Time Warner Cable, which is now a separate company from Time Warner, own cables; they have already been bought by Charter Communications, who also own cables.
You compare a small niche car enterprise
You mean the company that is outselling BMW and Mercedes in the luxury car market? That niche company?
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
