"Thefts of Apple's smartphone have plummeted in San Francisco, New York and London following the debut of the company's Activation Lock feature in fall 2013". Source: http://www.cnet.com/news/smart...

Cool, but the apps store is still a draconian gulag. expect a dearth of crisis pregnancy apps to get written and a bunch of Abortion assistance apps to get flagged and removed as part of our nations proud tradition of culture warfare.

Seems like you missed what ResearchKit actually is and that it's open source...

I agree with you, I prefer a Kindle for reading eBooks (fiction) over an iPad. But there are plenty of people who do so on an iPad and are happy to do so and would hate to use an iPad for reading. The main problem (IMO) with most slashdotters is that they measure the entire world by their own needs forgetting that most people don't care about things like "open source", "root" or whatnot. Ignorance is rampant on both sides of the fence. However, I have the feeling that the noobs are aware of this while the nerd crowd suffers from a serious case of something that's akin to the Dunning–Kruger effect.

You're basically comparing an iPad to an Amazon Kindle.

Ruby is a scripting language like Perl or Python. Rails is the "hipster web 2.0 app", which is a library (framework) for Ruby.

Emacs

What!? And then Dice misses all those comments ;-)

"When referring to the language, the name is normally capitalized (Perl) as a proper noun. When referring to the interpreter program itself, the name is often uncapitalized (perl) because most Unix-like file systems are case-sensitive. Before the release of the first edition of Programming Perl, it was common to refer to the language as perl; Randal L. Schwartz, however, capitalized the language's name in the book to make it stand out better when typeset. This case distinction was subsequently documented as canonical."

Source: Wikipedia

Nitpick: it's, not its ;-)

So, what's the difference between it's and it's?

A hackintosh is maybe nice for a hobby but I use my computer to make money so I rather buy the real think instead of having to wonder if I have to start my day with tweaking my computer before I can get work done. It's also one reason why I currently run Linux in Parallels (and not VirtualBox).

Oh, wow. And people actually moderate this clueless drivel up?

ignorance is bliss

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/0...

Is that they don't become obsolete as fast? My mother still uses a iPad 2. I sold my iPad 4th generation to my wife's cousin, and she and I now both have an iPad Air 2. And to be honest, I just sold mine because I could, not because I needed to upgrade to the Air 2. I think the iPad 4th gen I sold will be OK for at least 2 more years. And it wouldn't surprise me if it will get an iOS 9 update. Moreover, it wouldn't surprise me if it will get an iOS 10 update as well.

Or maybe he knows exactly what he does; how does the exported HTML compare to handcoded HTML?