is the upper bound of acceleration through space. Think of it this way. acceleration of a point through the 3d graph of space IS limited to C. But the lines of the graph itself that define the 3d location of things in space are accelerating from each other... the farther they are from each other the farther they recede. There is no limit to that recessional velocity. You will get to a point where acceleration being fixed simply can't keep up with the recession, so you'll never reach those parts., nor will light from those parts reach your position. Vice versa applies here. We're receding at a speed greater than light from those areas. We're not feeling relativity effects because we're moving WITH OUR SPACE

I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned the ultimate consequence of this recessional acceleration. Eventually the regions where this shows as an effect become smaller and smaller. Galaxy super clusters, then clusters, then galaxies fly apart, and that's when the effect really accelerates, shortly there after, solar systems, stars, planets, and ultimately even the atoms that once composed you and I fly apart as even as the recessional lines of space, accelerated by dark energy rip our observable universe down to a literal NOTHING. So the other end of the Big Bang becomes a Big Rip. Look it up.

If you don't understand the difference between a line of uninformed idiots who kept saying "You can't have a rocket in space because there would be nothing to push against", displaying complete ignorance of Newton's laws, and the limits which are the consequence of well-reasoned scientific models such as C being an absolute limit of material acceleration, then you flat out don't understand the difference between a scientific approach and simply drawing limits out of your butt.

It's probably also why Apple is pushing Bing! as the default (although Google and Yahoo will still be available for search engines just as Bing! is already an option. It's also probably why Apple simply didn't write off it's investment in Apple Maps and is continuing to work on it's own Maps program. (although until it gets Transit options, I'll still be using Google Maps, thank you very much)

What about the camera? Is it worth just using as a camera?

I recently got a Galaxy 3 through Craigslist. I still miss my iPhone. I'm schizo enough about it to still want one and I believe I'd wind up switching between the two on a weekly basis. Although once I'm on 10.10 and IOS 8, I believe I'd be on the iphone full time.

Get with the bandwagon here. This is Slashdot. Whatever Apple does, it has to be wrong... even when we've been screaming for the exact same thing to be done for our Android phones.

My spouses 4S is working just fine with 7.1. Since 8 is not going to have a greater overhead in it's basic operations, there's no reason not to make it available to any phone that can run the current IOS.

What you're not taking into account is that people will be talking, blogging, flaming, etc about OS X Yosemitie from now until the next decade. That's certainly going to push it far above any posts about a machine that's been out of production for almost two decades now.

I wasn't disputing Posix compatibity, just pointing out that the question is totally irrelevant to what I need from a personal computer.

Hardware announcements would have been made on the keynote. Mind that this is the developer's conference. The hardware announcements people are looking for are probably going to be in the media event later on in the year.

I built my Hackintosh on Snow Leopard. I'm so much happier with it running on 10.9.3. It does tend to open up the field of running software quite a bit, and I also love notifications. I'm not a big fan of a flat Dock, but I'm assuming that 3d will still be an option, and even if it's not.... it's not a deal breaker for me.

POSIX compatibility is really only an issue for some nonhuman who thinks that the X Windows, Lynx, and the Terminal should be the only interfaces available on the Mac. In other words the average slashdot geek who's hardly in touch with the human race at all

can tell that Amazon sold a lot of Kindle Fire HDXs by the after market which has sprung up to support them in cases specifically fitted for them. Amazon did sell a ton of these last Christmas with their brilliant marketing strategy of one... offering them for 100 dollars cheaper than the equivalent IPad and Two: letting you pay them out for a year with a no-interest loan so the only up front cost was $129 dollars for the 16 gb wifi 8.9 inch tablet. It's why I bought mine. While the iPad has a comparable display, the Kindle wins out overall for serving entertainment because of it's superior audio output.

all in all it was that Xmas deal that moved the product out so well.

Because the original non-Android Kindle was the best book reader in the pack. It still is because it doesn't try to be anything else. It doesn't have the overhead of a large operating system, a color display, the infrastructure to run a bunch of applications that have nothing to do with book reading. And you didn't have to worry about charging it on a daily basis because it just sipped it's battery, not drank it like a man dying of thirst. It was just a plain effective book reader that magically received books from the Amazon server when you ordered them.

It costs money and facilities to run Spitzer. The ESA and the Canadians probably don't have the budget for it.

Blame it on Slashdot. To actually use paragraphs in this outdated composition system you have to insert commands in your text.