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Submission + - iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 Gain Mouse Support (appleinsider.com)

Submitted by TheFakeTimCook
TheFakeTimCook writes: According to an article on Appleinsider.com, both iOS and iPadOS 13 will contain mouse support for USB-C and Bluetooth pointing-devices, as part of the "Assistive Technology" features in those Operating Systems. "Apple confirmed both wired USB and Bluetooth mouse models will work in iOS and iPadOS, though the company has not compiled an official list of compatible devices, Aquino said. That includes Apple's own Magic Mouse. Interestingly, Troughton-Smith on Monday discovered the feature works, at least unofficially, with Apple's Magic Trackpad. Apple told Aquino the "foundation" of mouse support in iOS and iPadOS goes back "a couple years."

Mouse integration can be enabled through the AssistiveTouch menu in iOS 13 and iPadOS, and will be available to users once those operating systems launch this fall."

Comment Re:Terms (Score -1) 441

by TheFakeTimCook (#58701166) Attached to: 'U.S. Navy Says UFOs Are Real, UFO Hunters Are Thrilled'

I see UFO all the time.
I don't know If a saw a Meteorite, or an airplane, an odd shaped cloud...
The issue is sometimes it take too much time to identify something, a Navy Pilot if they spent time to Identify that something, they may have already crashed their airplane.

That's all fine and good in the moment; but when the wing-camera footage and RADAR data are examined later by (presumably) cooler heads, and they, too come to the conclusion that an Unidentified Contact appears to be a craft of unknown origin and configuration, exhibiting flight that is consistent with intelligent control, and maneuvering and velocities that are beyond even our most advanced unmanned aeronautic devices...

Then what?

Comment Re:Terms (Score 0) 441

by TheFakeTimCook (#58700982) Attached to: 'U.S. Navy Says UFOs Are Real, UFO Hunters Are Thrilled'

One thing to remember is that the USAF and USN (and probably other major air powers) routinely prescribe amphetamines [nih.gov] to pilots during tactical and training operations. This is not a secret. It's also not a secret that amphetamines increase the risk of hallucinations [nih.gov]. Specifically, the research on stimulant-induced-psychosis suggests that hyper stimulation of the brain causes it to become overly eager at pattern-matching, essentially overfitting visual stimuli.

So, I suppose the Camera equipment was also taking amphetamines as well, right?

And the also-trained expert observers and visual classifiers on the ground who reviewed the data from the (also obviously amphetimine-taking) RADAR, as well as the footage from the high-as-hell, psychotic wing camera equipment, were also fooled by the mentally compromised pilots and their equally "high" equipment (not to mention their squadron-mates, which also were sharing in this mass-hallucination event (along with THEIR equipment)...

That's the story you're pushing as "more believable"?

Riiiight.

Comment Embed it in a non-editable fashion (Score -1) 171

If the RIAA (et al) was actually SERIOUS about being "for the musician", they would have LONG AGO:

1. Standardized the "Ownership" Data.

2. Found a way to Embed the Ownership Data in the song itself, via Watermarking. Many such schemes have been around for years, and even cranked-up to their most "obtrusive" states, simply CANNOT be heard.

Musician/BSEE/AES member Wendy Carlos has this to say about the MusiCode Watermarking system she has employed for YEARS:

http://www.wendycarlos.com/ope...

I submit that THAT is the way "ownership" of a song should be realized.

Comment Re: Misleading Title (Score -1) 272

It is not necessarily a shit study. But the point of prospective studies is to identify correlations which can then be further investigated in other types of studies (such as blind or double blind studies where randomized groups are used).

IOW, Grant-money-sucking shit study suggests more grant-money-sucking shit studies to further refine the shit conclusions.

This is EXACTLY how bullshit like "Eating fats gives you high Cholesterol" (which scientists have known since the 1920s is NOT true), which then morphs into a BRAND "Heart Healthy", which then perpetuates the shit studies' shitty conclusions for decades on end.

And the NIH finally agrees:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

Comment Re:"Massively successful" == "Only option" (Score -1) 134

Apple is telling people who own Apple devices that Apple, and only Apple, will decide which software they can run by not allowing competing app stores to exist. There is no f-droid or Amazon store for iOS, not because consumers don't want them, but because Big Brother Apple has appointed themselves dictators for life.

That is the problem. Apple is welcome to compete with other app stores. They are not welcome to stifle competition, not if they want to keep doing business in the EU.

If you want to have Apps from other sources other than the iOS App Store, then you only have to choose one of the other DOZENS of Alternative Mobile manufacturers.

Simple. As. That.

Once your government starts MANDATING the purchase of iOS Devices ONLY, THEN you can bitch.

But not before.

Don't like it? Vote with your feet.

Comment Re:Try installing a different browser on a Kindle (Score -1) 134

can't do it without sideloading outside the kindle store. Same with Alexa, or google home.

that's not a bad thing. the kindle isn't just a tablet it's a device for accessing merchandise on amazon. Just like the Dash buttons. You want this to be secure and to be seamless. So does amazon. They should exclude others things they can't control in the primary user points of access that are part of the security and content delivery envelope

if you don't like that then buy some other tablet. there's many for sale right on amazon.

Personally I am happy to have Apple securing my iphone. If I didn't want the extra peace of mind I get limiting options I'd use an android. But I do.

There doesn't have to be one model. Open source and open hardware is great. But closed source has it's benefits too. Use what you prefer, don't insist it all has to be the same.

Exactly!

Why doesn't "Freedom to Choose" INCLUDE the "Freedom to Choose" a more "Curated" Platform?

It is only Tyranny/Monopoly if you have no "Freedom to Choose" an Alternative.

Which of course, you DO.

End of Debate. Subject closed. Lawsuit Dismissed.

Comment Re:Better transients (Score -1) 49

by TheFakeTimCook (#58648094) Attached to: Synthesizer Pioneer Bob Moog Gets His Own 'Moogseum'

I find the Mellotron has better transients and a firmer soundstage.

ENTIRELY different technology. Cannot be compared. You could compare a Mellotron to a modern-day Digital Sampler; but NOT to a pile of laboratory equipment somehow magically reimagined as a musical instrument ( with great apologies to Moog, et al).

And the Mellotron has no "Soundstage", as its RECORDINGS are MONOPHONIC.

Moron.

Comment Re:Switched On Bach (Score -1) 49

by TheFakeTimCook (#58648048) Attached to: Synthesizer Pioneer Bob Moog Gets His Own 'Moogseum'

I've still got my (heavily worn) album, and listened to it in stereo.

Me too, but mine's in stereo. But it's at least it's still old enough to say "Walter," as opposed to "Wendy."

S/he was already referring to herself as "Wendy" to friends and family, but the record company (Columbia) thought that the public just wasn't ready for a trans... well, anything.

A wonderfully talented musician, electronics engineer, physicist, and amateur photographer, with a spectacularly dry and unique sense of humor and world-view.

I urge everyone to check out her website. Nothing fancy (at ALL!); but a treasure-trove into the mind of a true genius.

Sadly, not updated too often anymore (she's getting quite old!); but still LOTS of unique and fascinating content!

http://www.wendycarlos.com/

Submission + - Survey Says: 71% of College Students Prefer Macs

Submitted by TheFakeTimCook
TheFakeTimCook writes: According to an Article on

"Students pursuing higher education prefer to use Macs over PCs, according to new data shared today by Apple device management company Jamf.

71 percent of students surveyed said they would either use a Mac or prefer to use a Mac if cost were not a consideration. At the current time, of those students, 40 percent use a Mac and 60 percent use a PC. 51 percent of current PC users would rather be using a Mac.

67 percent of students surveyed said they would choose or stay with an organization that offered a choice between Mac and PC. 78 percent of students said that it's important for employers to offer their employees a choice between PC and Mac.

Students who said they preferred Mac over PCs offered up several different reasons. 59 percent cited ease of use, 57 percent cited durability, and 49 cited synchronization over other devices. 64 percent said they "like the brand," while 60 percent preferred the style and design of the Mac. "

Comment Re:Kind of cool for 1983 (Score -1) 72

Many of you are too young to know this, but it's a pretty cool machine for 1983. It had a modem, a serial port, a parallel port, a terminal program, a built in LCD display, a word processor, could run on AA batteries, and a slew of other built in programs.

Of course, it cost $1100 for the 8k version, and $1400 for the 24k version, so it wasn't exactly affordable. But it was truly portable, unlike the "luggable" computers of the day that weighed a ton, had a CRT screen in them, and didn't even run on batteries!

I still have my Model 102. What a machine!

Makes me want to fire it up again...

Embarrassed to say how many dollars I gave to Compu$erve wasting hours on their CB Simulator. The Precursor(?) to IRC...

Comment Re:A maze of twisty little Linuxes ... (Score -1) 584

Why does Linux have these issues? Because instead of having one unified team all pulling together to create a single, standard, working, polished and debugged product there are dozens of teams all pulling in slightly different directions, creating similar but different bugs and trying to show each other how clever they are by doing much the same thing in many different ways.

A maze of twisty little Linuxes, INDEED!

Exactly what I said, above (and have been saying on here for over 10 years!)

https://linux.slashdot.org/com...

Hopefully you won't get punish-modded into oblivion for saying things against the One True Faith, like I have...

Comment No Truer Words Were Ever Spoken (Score -1) 584

From TFS:

He added that it seems the desktop Linux people want to be angry at something. We wanted to do amazing things with Unity but the community won't let us do it, so here we are.

This. This. A Thousand times THIS!

Even if Unity wasn't the end-all-be-all One True Vision, it was at LEAST the purveyor of a Good Idea.

But that's ok. Linux will remain where it is: A fragmented mess, with no user support, positively surly Forums, and a haven for literally thousands of arrested-development wannabe "computer Ex-Spurts" worldwide.

And NO ONE else. Ever.

Comment Re:Too bad (Score 0) 147

Well, Apple *had* the more the secure app system. Once the Plaintiffs prevail and Apple has to allow third party app installation, Iphones will be virus filled diseased retches of technology.........much like Androids are now.

Iphone, we hardly knew ye.

Exactly.

And that's EXACTLY what the REAL, Behind-The-Scenes (*cough* Google *cough*) "sponsors" of this RIDICULOUS, FRIVOLOUS and VEXATIOUS Litigation are hoping-for.

Comment Faulty Logic (Score -1) 147

So, since the DEVELOPER of the App is SOLELY the one who sets the Price of an App (all the way down to ZERO, mind you), how in the bloody HELL can Apple be the one "Driving up App Store Prices"?

And since iOS only has about 20% of the "mobile device" Market, there would seem to be a mathematical impossibility to make the argument that Apple has any sort of an "Anti-Competitive" MONOPOLY on the overall "Apps" market.

People who CHOOSE to purchase iOS Devices do so FULLY INFORMED that, unless they want to Make and Install Apps from Source using XCode, they will be primarily Installing pre-built Apps from the Apple iOS App Store.

So, I am not sure how those people have been "prevented" from exercising their FREE WILL to purchase a mobile device from the OTHER 80% of the Market, and thus AVOID those "Restrictions".

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