Of course they forked, they wanted to spend their time and effort developing a product to ship instead of constantly justifying their own decisions to a project gatekeeper. Sounds fair to me, its their time... Democracy is great but dictatorships get things done MUCH faster...

You realise that safaris icon has been a compass ever since it was originally launched right? That's not to do with iOS 7...

I wish I had mod points today, I'd have given you a +1 funny... Do you know any old people well and spend time with them? A tablet would be much more suitable...

Just get an ipad - I got a cheap second hand ipad 1 for my mum (85) and she picked,up using it just fine. I never have to help her much unlike her normal computer.

To the poster who said about CPU / graphics power, potentially don't worry as most older folk are only really looking to use the web and read email, neither of which are intensive.

To the poster who said about full size vs compact : in my mums case she asked me to get her an ipad mini after playing with mine. In her case it wasn't about the screen size but because her arms aren't too strong it's easier for her to hold up and use! The air might be an option these days but it's a lot more money...

In general I think that like children, you shouldn't "dumb down" stuff for old folk unless you absolutely have to. It's not as necessary as many would have you believe. In children having to think more helps them learn and in older folk it helps stop them forget!

How long have I been in the business? Long enough to recognise see how most peoples attitudes towards sexism have improved...

PS - a cursory glance at my Slashdot UID would have given you a good estimate if you'd thought about it.

"you silly female HR idiots."

Have you been in storage since the 50's or are you intentionally saying that to ensure that no one takes you seriously?

So, the bomb makers just conduct their business in a house in the countryside that uses a septic tank instead of connecting to a sewer system. That's a lot of money and effort and false confidence that can be circumnavigated with great ease. Now, if they'd done this without telling anyone then they might have had an edge... Idiots.

So he's calling it "advice" but threatening to force via the courts if unheeded. I think most people would call that a "demand" or "threat".

Given that this is the (crap) way that healthcare operates in the US, why has someone not set up a not for profit health insurance company? We have analogies in the UK with (non-medical) mutual organisations such as the Co-operative group and building societies who have provided great services in markets that had similar problems with being dominated by profit making organisations having people over a barrel. I would have thought that such a mutual organisation would find a happy place in the market and certainly be able to help provide affordable health insurance to most?

Don't blame the OS for snappiness! That's purely done to how the developers have implemented their touch interface and graphics drivers and the GUI (although the GUI is typically fine as it's got long history) it's actually quite tricky to optimise touch drivers for minimum latency especially given that most interface controllers rely on driver side averaging to give accurate results and that inherently is a delay.

In principle any embedded OS can give you a lightning fast user interface if done right - we're only talking millisecond resolution (or even tens of) to be visually in perceivable. It's only where you want to do semi real time guaranteed deadlines millisecond or so when you'll get into difficulties and start to have to look at more creative solutions or Realtime options

There's something odd about comparing the Android footprint to a 'Linux' footprint given that Android is just Linux + middleware at the end of the day... You could still load the linux portion of android in a similar small footprint even if you can't the rest!

Actually you'd be surprised how easy it can be especially in this day and age where most of the IP blocks are largely the same and most are supported. I used to do 50-50 embedded linux and embedded windows work and back when I did a lot of windows I could do a bring up from bare hardware and a linux port to booting into a windows GUI (windows mobile if required) in a day or maybe two if lucky. I'm not even a slight ms fanboy but the embedded windows architecture is quite clever in the way that the HAL abstracts out everything really nicely. There's lots I could bitch about but that aspect was really superb...

PS No. that's not over-exaggerating and yes I'm available for hire :-D

Interesting - i bought an hdmi to vga on ebay for mine for the equivalent of about $15. And if you spent $40 on a usb keyboard and mouse...? $10 should have done you!

So apple say that they wont transmit the biometric id. That they can control. However, id bet that within months if not weeks someone will find a way to abuse and hijack this on jailbroken devices. The same protection doesn't apply to them...

Also eventually im sure the normal iphone will be abused too. Look at the debacle over the ease of extracting the users location history from iphones...

You're being a geek and treating music as if it were a science. Its not. As somebody enlightened once said : "people listen to music for emotional quality not sound quality".

Why else are do people still hunt down and listen to scratchy old 78's and get massively excited about them? Or go to live gigs in small venues full of noisy drunk people?

Stop getting hung up on the tech and go out to live gigs more and remember how it feels to get excited about the music itself!