There is no win in changing connectors every few years (except for making money and hinder competition). A PS/2 keyboard and mouse is as good as a USB one (and for real-time applications better). No need to force customer to by new hardware all the time. If you care about the customer keep the port for a few years.

Now, releasing hardware with memory sizes five years old in combination with _only_ ports of the future is pure evil. The customer will not be able to use the product without a nest of dongles, and when the the new ports will be standard, the amount of RAM in the laptop will be ridiculous. And _when_ that time comes and the port will truly be standard do you seriously think Apple will still use it? Or will they be "brave" to make money on new ports and dongles?

You are not an average user, most people change phone all the time, just as you said. I just pointed out that the possibility for having a phone for a long time is better on android (because of battery and memory cards mainly). If you can keep your battery for 7 years -- lucky you -- my 3 years old battery is not as good any more, and I plan to buy a new in the future.

It is not that it cannot be done on iphones, it is that it is *specifically* designed to be as hard as possible to do. This is getting quite common on android phones as well, but you can still *choose* top android phones with SD-card readers and replaceable batteries.

I applaud you for not wasting the environment, but it is certainly not thanks to Apple. Credit where credit is due, and here it is to you. I also believe on average, iphone users keep their phones for a *shorter* time as they see their phones as fashion accessories (this is only a feeling of mine, I have no hard data supporting it).

And when the battery from my Samsung Galaxy Note II from the same era (five days more modern) stops working, I can buy a new battery.

Iphone 5 was released Sept. 21, 2012

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Yes, it does support hard drives bigger than 2 GB. _Long_ time ago the ext2 file system implementation could not handle _partitions_ larger than circa 2 GB because the file system was implemented using mmap (cool is it not?). That restriction would not have been a problem if the operating system had been ported to 64-bit architectures.

Hurd is working --- its biggest problems are stability and driver support. It is a beautiful system that has little value for normal users as Linux is more stable and has better drivers. The beauty of writing file systems, network stacks etc in user space is amazing. So is the possibility for the _normal_ user to create their own file systems, in any language, using any libraries and mount them without root access.

While I do agree with most you write... an octet is 8 bits, a byte is (most often) the least addressable unit on a computer and is CHAR_BIT of length (usually 8 bits though).

You can read about octets in various (english) RFCs and it is not a french invention, it is also exist in many other languages.

It is no new technology, so it does not give the carriers any more opportunities than they already have.

It is working in Europe, you are just late to the game.

In Sweden you need to report the phone stolen to the police before blacklisting it. Works like a charm. No problems what so ever.

certificates I guess, my employer does not read my gmail by redirecting https.

it is hexadecimal, not binary

the bytecode is translated down to machine code, so it is only interpreted once, it is like java.

One extra byte was clearly for that time, now days you would probably use 7 extra bytes (depending on memory model). This would of course not be hard coded.

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Apps should not be able to read the data, other people should not be able to read the data, Apple should not be able to do it. If the data was encrypted, at least only apple would be able to read it, was that so hard to figure out???

To unclear? I do not understand anything you write, and wonder if you do???

I wonder who thinks that OpenStreetMap does not know where you have been when you collected the data, but for someone it must have been news as you where moderated insightful. Frightening.

Are you stupid? Seriously?