I've got no problem with encouraging the correct terminology, it's the fact that it implies somebody who is a bit out of date with the project's branding is a technological halfwit who doesn't understand the difference between an organisation and a software package. It's KDE themselves that mixed the two up.

It hardly seems right to liken people referring to the desktop as "KDE" as if they were people saying that they "boot their Microsoft". KDE stands for the K Desktop Environment, and it has referred to the software itself for the majority of it's existence.

There are some bits which are missing from Plasma 5 which are planned to be filled in over the next six months.

You mean like what happened with KDE 4? Because that really turned out well.

But with Apple Watch's requirement that the user constantly monitor its energy

Just because you're likely to have to charge it overnight, it doesn't mean that the user has to "constantly monitor its energy". This is a ridiculously biased perspective.

You still have to have the phone on you.

Yeah, but just because you have your phone on you, it doesn't mean it's as convenient to use as a watch. When I go running, I've usually got my phone strapped to my upper arm. It's difficult to see the screen or take an action compared with if I could just glance at my wrist. The watch also has a heart rate monitor.

I wonder if there's a longer term strategy to start migrating devices like the MacBook Air over to their A-series CPUs, instead of Intel.

They have undoubtedly got internal prototypes of a MacBook Air running OS X on their own processors. And their development toolchain and libraries are merging iOS and OS X more and more every year. This year, there were a couple of WWDC talks specifically about sharing code between the two platforms.

I think it's fairly obvious that the technology stack is ready both on the software and hardware side. It's just switching architectures isn't just about whether you can, it's about when the best time is to maximise chances of success. When they moved to Intel, they could supply an emulation layer to run older applications. That won't work as well this time around because it will be a lot slower. So they will need to push developers hard to port their software, and their best tool for doing that - the Mac App Store - isn't a huge success.

One thing they've been doing in their latest hardware designs is supplying two chips that are used in different circumstances. Surfing the web? Use the low power GPU. Playing a game? Switch to the high power GPU. Need to detect orientation? Use the low power accelerometer. Need accurate movement information? Use the high power accelerometer.

They could conceivably do this with their laptops. Ship an Intel co-processor for running things like Photoshop that haven't been ported, and switch it off when you're only running ARM64-only applications for better battery life. It would raise manufacturing costs, but it would ease the transition and Apple might be willing to take the hit on it for that reason. And they just added a feature to point out applications that hog battery to the end user last year. They are making this visible for a reason.

Aside from their computer lineup, the other piece of the puzzle is Apple TV. They've already got the makings of a very successful games console. They have a set-top box running iOS, CPUs and GPUs that can handle good quality games, dedicated controllers, a large games library, and an online distribution channel. Their current hardware is underpowered, but drop an iPad Air 2's internals into an Apple TV box and they'd have a very successful console.

My phrase "near absolute" in context to the rest of my writings could be interpreted in many different ways.

No, there's only one meaning: not quite, but almost, absolute. Now it's debatable exactly how near you have to be to qualify as "near absolute", but TubeSteak did a good job of pointing out that SCOTUS has several large failings in this area, which is enough to demonstrate that it is not near absolute.

The fact that you are still stuck on debating the semantics of my original post demonstrates you have nothing of actual value to contribute to the conversation.

You said something untrue and dumb. You are repeatedly insulting and dismissing people who point that out. The people who are pointing out your mistake are signal, you are noise. Learn to ignore your ego and admit when you are wrong and maybe you won't drag discussions into the sewer so much.

Your response demonstrates that you failed to read and understand my points.

No, he rightly took issue with your description of SCOTUS' interpretation of free speech as "near absolute", which simply isn't true. Your reply now is defending the much milder, different claim that free speech in the USA is better than in the UK. That may be so, but that doesn't make SCTOUS' interpretation of free speech "near absolute" by any means. This is the country that invented the concepts of a piece of code being a munition and a prime number being property, remember.

All they've done is double the PPI of the existing displays exactly. This is going to be like the transition from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4 - everything will have the same physical dimensions, but applications that support retina displays will look sharper.

I'm sure if you want to use your screen as something that's quadruple the logical size you'll be able to, but this is intended to be a visual quality upgrade, not a real estate upgrade. What you'll get by default will simply be a clearer version of what you already have with existing 27" displays.

There's a particular kind of feminist known as a TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) who see trans women as men who are pretending to be women so they can rape women. They put massive amounts of effort into uncovering and harassing trans women, outing them to employers and schools, etc. Drag queens aren't trans women, but if I had to lay money on a responsible party, my best guess would be a TERF.

If I post photo X as a blogger user, it should be up to me to decide if I want to take it down or not, not Google

Not if you aren't the copyright holder, don't have a license to publish copies from the copyright holder, and Google receives a valid DMCA request.

Sue the Blogger user if you don't like their content, not Google.

Google are only protected from copyright infringement liability if they take action when they receive DMCA requests. If they don't, then they aren't protected by the safe harbour provisions of the DMCA.

Apple will continue licensing siri technology. Yes, they'll probably look for alternatives (the same way they are looking for an alternative to the Samsung chip fabrication).

I would be amazed if they weren't already working on this. You mention chip fabrication, but bringing software development in house compared with bringing manufacturing in house is a hell of a lot easier.

This is more akin to Google Maps vs Apple Maps. They are reliant upon licensing software from a competitor for a major feature. While they've almost certainly got a long-term contract in place that lets them use the technology on their own terms, at some point that contract will expire, and they'll be beholden to whatever new contract terms are offered. With Maps, the new terms were unacceptable, the timing was awful and they were underprepared to switch. You'd better believe bringing voice recognition in house in plenty of time for switching over is a priority.

Can't women just do this on any other dating site by not having any photos on their profile and sending photos once they've been talking to a man for a while?

Why would a man join this site compared with dating sites that let him see photos and don't make him jump through silly hoops?

Macs before 2009 can't run the current version of OS X.

Yosemite, which is the version that Apple are just about to release, runs on plenty of Macs released in 2007. The same goes for the current version.

Fuck everything, we're doing Windows 10.

Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of operating systems in this country. Windows XP was the operating system to run. Then Apple came out with OS X. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called Windows Vista. That's Aero UI and a sidebar. For widgets. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened - the bastards went to mobile. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling a desktop operating system with a sidebar. Aero or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to Windows 10.

Sure, we could go to Windows 9 next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, 8 worked out pretty well, and 9 is the next number after 8. So let's play it safe. Let's make a better UI and call it the Start Screen. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!