It's not altruistic, and it's not just Apple. The Atlantic had an article recently about how a lot of companies (e.g. GM) are doing the same thing, for two reasons: (a) Chinese wages have been rising at about 18% per year since 2000, (b) oil is very pricey now, meaning shipping stuff over from China is more expensive. So, yeah, Apple aren't doing this because they've suddenly discovered patriotism. This is based on a cold cost calculation, just like the original decision to move their manufacturing to China. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but the spin they're trying to put on this is more than a little disingenuous.

Apparently we're past denial and anger, and are now in the middle of bargaining.

This is going to get rough. Before we get to acceptance, we have depression to go through first.

Ahem, sorry. I meant Fr1st!!!!

As opposed to REAL drinks such as bean water and leaf water.

But maybe you could roll it up into a scroll or something.

OK, honestly not trying to troll here, but I can't be the only one who thinks the new Launcher's ugly as sin.

Here's Unity: screenshot

Now here's the dock on my Mac: screenshot

Just because someone's lobbying for something doesn't mean it's wrong.

Wait, so is it 5/11 or 6/11?

Link to a better writeup, one that doesn't attempt strained architectural analogies (ignore the first paragraph or three, but do look at the comments).

That's not saying a lot.

But it should still be cheaper than buying a new laptop.

Right, there are no H-1Bs in the financial sector.

Search for the "inheritance anomaly". The academic CS community has known about it since the 80s, but no-one's yet found a satisfactory fix.

I'm sorry, but Microsoft? How the hell could this possibly affect them?

I'm no lawyer, but I assume the legal system doesn't allow unaffected third parties to be involved in lawsuits?

NAT. Firewall. Not the same.

I believe it's undecidable. Rice's theorem.