The reason so many got a zero on question 4 was actually because of question 1.

Question 1 has always, in the current iteration of the test, been the easiest question. This year it wrecked hopes and dreams, and it consumed so much time that many students never made it to question 4.

When the questions were released, the teacher for Dallas Talented and Gifted was quoted as saying, "Question 1 was unfortunate."

There actually was a Microsoft Works for years. It included Word and some pared down other features for $40 or so. They discontinued it in favor of Office 2010 Starter which was even better in that it was free. Then they killed that off when they realized people weren't upgrading to a paid edition like they thought they would.

Entirely possible, but I think another factor was that the issues with the other keyboard didn't appear until a lot of time had passed and they kept trying to address them and failing. The biggest thing was they thought the issue was dust but all their efforts to keep dust out weren't fixing the issues. It started to emerge that it was more an issue of the metal domes in the mechanisms giving out over time and even if they could fix that, they're basically running the risk of putting out yet another revision that doesn't fix the issue.

Their new keyboard design was a solution to a problem no one had (keys not going down evenly) and they had three years to get it right and they couldn't. This new laptop sounds like they've finally decided to give Pro users what they want and making their Pro line mean something again.

Still miss MagSafe though...

Slashdot: George Lucas is a stupid idiot that ruined Star Wars with Jar Jar and Midichlorians

Also Slashdot: George Lucas endorsed the Expanded Universe and therefore it is the only storyline that matters.

To be fair:

The fifth generation Apple TV device is officially called Apple TV 4K so it has a slightly more distinct name than this article implies

The fourth generation Apple TV device (the first one that can run tvOS) has been retronymed Apple TV HD for about a year now. Granted, it's not the first one that can do HD content but as of right now if you try and go buy it on Apple's site it's called Apple TV HD.

The third generation Apple TV device and prior were indeed just called Apple TV but Apple doesn't sell them anymore although slightly confusingly the third generation Apple TV can actually be updated and subscribe to Apple TV+. Not sure what you use it for.

It's true Apple does get confusing with their names, usually using some combination of "iTunes", "iCloud" and "Apple (other word)" but they at least tried to lessen the impact of this a while ago with their own hockey puck device.

Just a nitpick - you're not entirely correct, Cheers did need a laugh track sometimes because audiences are unreliable. Most of the time they didn't need to use a laugh track but sometimes the audience wouldn't laugh when they're supposed to or they would laugh too much or at inappropriate times. Plus remember the audience sees the show and scenes on it several times, sometimes the take that gets used didn't get the biggest laugh.

So before you come down on a show for needing a laugh track remember that even the shows that go out of their way to point out that they were filmed in front of a live studio audience need to use them.

Bill Gates does have something to do with this story. Microsoft is attacking opensource.

You're saying that Bill Gates retired and then waited 13 years and then decided to attack RMS? After Microsoft became one of the biggest contributors to open source and became a Linux supporter?

Isn't it just possible that there are other people in America besides the first family with the name Trump?

Those other people probably wouldn't have 3/4 matching security questions with the first family.

Also it's possible that Trump hates her so much he refuses to give her any money.

Apple is reportedly moving away from these keyboards in their later 2019 and 2020 models

https://www.macworld.com/artic...

So for everyone who hates them: we know. And Apple knows. And they're going back to the old stuff. So you can stop writing these hot take op-ed pieces about a solved problem.

Well I'm biased of course but I think it's at least a little impressive, in the case of DOOM 3, that it was nearly impossible to build a PC in 2004 that could run the game at Ultimate detail level and now we all have devices in our pockets that can run the game in Ultimate detail level at 60fps in higher-than-HD resolutions without breaking a sweat.

Also sort of impressive in the other direction that DOOM 3 still has not-insignificant load times even on a phone using all flash media storage.

To be fair to Zenimax/Bethesda, in the time since they acquired id Software in 2009, they've released five of id's games as open source - DOOM Classic for iOS later in 2009 (which is one of the ones I've updated), Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Return to Castle Wolfenstein in 2010, DOOM 3 in 2011 and DOOM 3: BFG Edition in 2012.

John Carmack left id in 2013. One of the things he had mentioned (can't find a link right now) is that it was never a given or an automatic thing that any of their games be released as open source, he had to basically fight for every game's source to be released.

It's possible there's been a policy shift at Zenimax/Bethesda but I suspect the main reason we haven't seen anything released as open source is simply that the main person pushing to get it done no longer works there.

You say "I can't publish on the App Store for obvious reasons. " What reasons would that be?

Because I don't own the rights to distribute the games. Same way your basic source port like ioquake3 can distribute their compiled executables but not the game data.

It's possible I could upload a "bring your own files" version of the app/engine under some other, non-copyrighted name, and the base of the Quake III port I used, an app called Beben III, did just that (it also got consumed by the 32-bit cutoff, also it used iTunes syncing to add the pk3 files, which has been removed from iTunes). But doing so is beyond the scope of my project.

It would also be possible to publish them with either non-copyrighted assets (I think Freedoom would qualify) or assets I do own the copyright to, and it's been done before

Also, id Software sold their iOS ports for years on the App Store (technically they're still there) and so if that's a GPL violation it's one no one has cared about.

Well there's folks who have made Vulkan ports of Quake, Quake II, Quake III: Arena and DOOM 3 BFG Edition, so there's already movement in that area.

Also if anyone want to complain about something, complain about how Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t have Unicode support in 2019 :)

Go full emulator so all software would run? No need to port every game then :)

Well, besides the fact that Apple has a very âoefuck the pastâ attitude about things, thereâ(TM)s also the fact that it had the perk of effectively tidying up the App Store. There were tons and tons of long since abandoned apps whose authors long since stopped giving a shit and now all that cruft goes away. Itâ(TM)s sort of like a Thanos snap for apps.

Really though every app compiled since 2015 continues to work, itâ(TM)s just that idâ(TM)s games happened to have been abandoned in 2014. Lots of people did a recompile of their apps leading up to the 32-bit cutoff, but not id. So thanks to open source I went ahead and did it for them.