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Good for you! *clap clap*. If you want to try a real one you have to buy a real one. Buying a fake one is like sitting in a bathtub claiming you're on the beach.

.... looking into the mirror...

A lot of food and drinks in the USA (and Mexico, for that matter) have so much sugar added that for practical purposes you can think of it as candy....

True, but if he locks it he contributes to annoying thieves and hence might lower the overall probability. It's like vaccination.

"The volume of stolen iPhones dropped by 25 percent in New York, by 40 percent in San Francisco and by 50 percent in London over the 12 months after Apple added an Activation Lock to its smartphones, Reuters reported"

So, no, if you're lucky you don't lose your phone. It will never be 100% because stolen phones can be turned into parts.

"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 ;-)