Comment Re: Can/Should I Upgrade to iOS 9, or not? (Score 1) 415
Does that include the iPad?
Comment Re:Apple Music - too expensive (Score 1) 415
You're wasting your bytes. There's no one more qualified than single, childless people to talk at great length on marriage and child raising. In my experience, they're also chock full of advice. They also enjoy having that pointed out to them. All-in-all, just a fun group to hang with.
Comment Re:Can/Should I Upgrade to iOS 9, or not? (Score 1) 415
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios9-...
Compatibility at the bottom.
WWDC 2015 Roundup 415
Here's an overview of the main announcements and new products unveiled at WWDC today.
- The latest OS X will be named OS X El Capitan. Features include: Natural language searches and auto-arrange windows. You can make the cursor bigger by shaking the mouse and pin sites in Safari now. 1.4x faster than Yosemite. Available to developers today, public beta in July, out for free in the fall.
- Metal, the graphics API is coming to Mac. "Metal combines the compute power of OpenCL and the graphics power of OpenGL in a high-performance API that does both." Up to 40% greater rendering efficiency.
- iOS 9: New Siri UI. There’s an API for search. Siri and Spotlight are getting more integrated. Siri getting better at prediction with a far lower word error rate. You can make checklists, draw and sketch inside of Notes. Maps gets some love. New app called News "We think this offers the best mobile reading experience ever." Like Flipboard it pulls in news articles from your favorite sites. HomeKit now supports window shades, motion sensors, security systems, and remote access via iCloud. Public Beta for iOS 9.
- Apple Pay: All four major credit card companies and over 1 million locations supporting Apple Pay as of next month. Apple Pay reader developed by Square, for peer-to-peer transactions. Apple Pay coming to the UK next month support in 250,000 locations including the London transportation system. Passbook is being renamed "Wallet."
- iPad: Shortcuts for app-switching, split-screen multitasking and QuickType. Put two fingers down on the keyboard and it becomes a trackpad. Side by side apps. Picture in picture available on iPad Air and up, Mini 2 and up.
- CarPlay: Now works wirelessly and supports apps by the automaker.
- Swift 2,the latest version of Apple’s programing language . Swift will be open source.
- The App Store: Over 100 billion app downloads, and $30 billion paid to developers.
- Apple Watch: watchOS 2 with new watch faces. Developers can build their own "complications" (widgets with a terrible name that show updates and gauges on the watch face). A new feature called Time Travel lets you rotate the digital crown to zoom into the future and see what’s coming up. More new features: reply to email, bedside alarm clock, send scribbled messages in multiple colors. You can now play video on the watch. Developer beta of watchOS 2 available today, wide release in the fall for free.
- Apple Music: “The next chapter in music. It will change the way you experience music forever,” says Cook. Live DJs broadcasting and hosting live radio streams you can listen to in 150 countries. Handpicked suggestions. 24/7 live global radio. Beats Connect lets unsigned artists connect with fans. Beats Music has all of iTunes’ music, to buy or stream. With curated recommendations. Launching June 30th in 100 countries with Android this fall, with Windows and Android versions. First three months free, $9.99 a month or $14.99 a month for family plan for up to six.
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 260
This one got crab-apple picked for some reason.
Most likely as an excuse to toss in "she" to help enlighten the sausage-fest here...
Comment Re: Also, whether the GPLv2 is the same as the AGP (Score 1) 210
Yes, yes, we all know you can draw lines with DirectX.
Comment Re:A couple of things (Score 1) 583
True enough: and still funny.
Comment Re: InB4Twitter (Score 1) 144
So, if these are comments as you claim, why can't I mod them? Oh... that's right. Because they're not comments.
Comment Re:A couple of things (Score 2) 583
There's no other reasonable mod for it. Either you're mocking arrogant jerks, which is funny, or you're one of those arrogant jerks and don't realize it, which is even funnier.
Comment Re:InB4Twitter (Score 1) 144
Shit, this guy could practically be a Slashdot commenter.
Editors don't tend to comment all that much.
Comment Re:UNSUBSCRIBE SLASHDOT-FEMINISM (Score 1) 446
Seems like the days of 1000-post articles on /. are well behind them.
Comment Re:Publicly Funded Research (Score 1) 39
Yeah. I tried that first. It's what frequently works for me with mathematical papers. But thanks. At least someone who typically needs lmgtfy might get something out of this.
Comment Re:Publicly Funded Research (Score 1) 39
My county only has 4 million residents. The county library system doesn't have *any* journals available. I have a card. And a login. And I've been to multiple branches.
Comment Re:you fail 17! (Score 1) 39
Welcome to 1997, AC! How was the trip back?
Comment Re:Publicly Funded Research (Score 3, Interesting) 39
You are just part of a brainwashed generation that demands to have everything you want paid for AND given to you, not only for free, but with zero effort on your part.
I'm 50. Is that the generation you're referring to? I'm also 1/2 of a two-engineer household. My yearly income taxes are significantly more than an entry level engineering salary - you know, the taxes that already helped to pay for the research. Don't tell me I'm not making any effort and don't jump to conclusions about "my generation" because you obviously know fuck all about it.
But hey. You're a smart person. You know all about me. My political views. My library status. Guess what? You're just as wrong about all of them. Absolutely every assumption you made was 100% wrong. Amazing. I would imagine you must get used to being wrong a lot though.
Instead of blathering on with your erroneous, ignorant opinions, maybe you ought to take a good long look at yourself and realize you're actually preaching to yourself. Geez. What a douchebag.
