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Well, I'll give it to you on the ad front. I have some nostalgia for the Wired of old--silver print on a magenta background, having to rotate the entire magazine in circles so you could read a story that spiraled from the outside to the centre...but ultimately, that wasn't the best way to get information. I also miss how thick the magazine was. For $5, you had something that would take hours and hours to read. But the new layouts and designs and embedded, moving data...it really is a top-notch magazine experience.

Your ignorance has no bearing on their sales position. You might also tell me that you've never heard of Huawei, but that doesn't mean they aren't huge.

I worked on the XBox Kinect game Your Shape 2012. The menu system in the game was the single best use of the kinect I've ever seen. At first, you make these huge gestures with your hands and arms, swiping really obviously, pushing the buttons with big strokes.

But after you get used to it, you sort of lift your hand and twitch your fingers to flip through menus. Pushing a button means pushing your palm forward ever so slightly. It became a really good way to move through on-screen menus without reaching for the controller. (This is something I'd like to see in a game like Rocksmith, where I'm already holding my guitar and don't want to pick up the controller to select a song.)

So while I don't know how well the leap works, I suspect that the controls are much explicit than they show. After a while, you'll basically just be wiggling your fingers a bit here and there and still getting full functionality.

I read Wired and Cook's Illustrated and some cycling magazines. Both Wired and Cook's Illustrated are better than the print versions. Even small amounts of interactivity really make them fun to flip through. This is how Wired was always meant to be, if you ask me.

It's better than just reading off the website because someone has taken the time to really curate the layout and the videos and package everything just so. It's a step above in terms of polish. And, of course, I can read it off-line. (Though the videos don't work.)

One caveat: when I fly, I buy tonnes of shitty magazines that I'd never normally read. I usually also grab a newspaper. It just doesn't feel like a properly flight without it.

My degree was a bit circuitous, and I did a year-long internship in the middle. That was actually my last semester there; I needed to finish of my minor, which I'd neglected while I was doing CS courses. My only class that day was a lab in Invertebrate Paleontology, as I recall. My TA had already given blood.

There are plenty of things different between Canadians and Americans, and I'm not just talking about toques and hockey.

There are plenty of ways that we're the same, too, but I don't get into arguments with my Canadian friends about restricting firearms. There's a lot less discussion of whether or not abortion is something that should be left up to a woman or who should pay for healthcare. The set of 'Canadian values' is different, it's just not so different that when you see the average American talk to the average Canadian that these things come out.

Americans almost certainly don't deserve the vitriol that they occasionally get from Canadians (except for your dickbag border guards--what's WITH those guys?) and when push comes to shove, we're there. On 9/11, diverted planes landed at Canadian airports, and Canadians drove out to offer accommodations for the passengers that were stuck there. I was still in University, and basically every class had an announcement that we should go give blood. And we did.

I'm pretty sure Canadians don't think Americans are any dumber than AMERICANS do. We just have the benefit of distance.

Well, being bitten is something else that they planned for--by having an enormous mountain of cash. Part of the brilliance of how Apple operates is not just that they plan for the stuff that they can control, they've also been planning for wild contingencies like this. Being able to buy your way out of any situation (at least once or twice) is terribly valuable.

I love that this is modded 'Informative'--like we really needed to know that email and telephone are the best way to get ahold of 'aaaaaaargh!'

But this also marks you as OLD. Email is not the primary way to get ahold of younger people today. Messaging apps and SMS (though that's trailing off) are what's being used. Just search for 'teenagers email' on google. The first 5 or 6 stories are just about how teenagers don't use email at all.

For myself (I'm in my mid-30s, now) I hardly ever use the phone. Talking to people? Gah. I prefer texts or iMessage or even WhatsApp. I do a lot more communicating via Twitter and Facebook than email and phone.

So, yeah, I guess the modding is right and your post WAS informative: it informs us that you're old and out of touch. ;)

(I say that tongue in cheek; there's nothing wrong with the way you do things per se, but nobody's gonna make money selling stuff to you, so this isn't being sold to you.)

First of all, a system where people profit off of people being sick will tend to encourage keeping people sick. Why would it work any other way? At the very least, it seems to profit off of doing tests that aren't necessary and charging exorbitant multipliers on cheap items. If you haven't read it already, go read the Time article on the state of costs in the US healthcare system: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2136864,00.html

It's notable that there's actually a new profession for people that analyse the bills line-by-line to figure out what hospitals are triple-billing for (i.e., things that should be included in, say, room costs, are showing up as separate line items) and where the markups of three or four-HUNDRED percent are unnecessary.

My Mother is a 60+ year old Chinese woman that never really liked working with computers much. A mouse looks clumsy in her hand, and she can't touch type.

The people here on /. are probably never going to give up PCs, but always remember that WE'RE the weird ones in society. Our use cases are very different.

I got my Mom an iPad mini and she can sit and play scrabble with people and read her email. Typing is just as easy (or difficult, if you prefer) as it was before, but now we can chat over facetime. Even the prospect of installing something like Skype is a bit beyond her ken (my sister installed Scrabble for her).

So that's who the post-PC world is for. People that arguably never should've had anything to do with PCs in the first place. I personally use my own iPad as a reading and gaming device, but I do my work on full PCs. The more I use a tablet device, the more I realise how much overkill my full browser and keyboard are for 90% of my non-work tasks.

Computing is a field where we EXPECT things to change and shift. 25 years of PC dominance and we expected it to last? It's surprising that it made it this long, really.

What complete bullshit. Do you complain because your PC/Server/Whatever has a DETACHABLE keyboard? What if the keyboard isn't there? What if somebody took it? What if you just don't keep the keyboard attached because it doesn't need to be attached all the time? Have you really ever run a server? Or a lot of servers? Sometimes you have to carry around a small SCREEN, for pity's sake. In point of fact, a tablet--ANY tablet, Android, Windows or Apple--has a built in advantage because you're never far away from a keyboard, even if it's kind of crummy for administering UNIX servers.

I've SSHed into plenty of things on my tablet, and if all you need to do is get a process listing or run a script, it works just fine. If you're writing an email, it works just fine. I have a colleague that can put his iPad on his lap and touch type at about 80% of what he normally gets on a normal keyboard. Do try to get with the times; a physical keyboard isn't strictly necessary anymore, even if you don't like using one much.

And, incidentally, it's clear you've never seen a unicycle either, since you CAN'T just jam that wheel into a bicycle or attach another wheel to the unicycle--they're fundamentally incompatible devices. You may as well suggest adding a bicycle wheel to a Ferrari. Even your metaphor is abjectly terrible.

Well, if you get right down to it, this is what most graphical file browsers do already. So if I open up the Finder or Pathfinder in OS X, I get a previewer for all sorts of files automatically loaded. If I highlight a file and hit the spacebar, I get a preview of the content (or, really, you just see the content outside of a specific viewer; 'preview' is the the terminology that Apple uses, but it's not strictly correct). All this terminal application is doing is making it so that if you prefer to work in a terminal to manipulate and view files, you have the same functionality as a GUI filebrowser.

It's certainly the case that I use and appreciate the functionality of this quickview system in OS X, and I definitely would appreciate it when I have a shell open. I still do a lot of operations in the shell when I'm working in OS X because that command line interface is often still just much better.

I suppose that in the end, the question is why we would not build something like this in if we can. If it's implemented well, you wouldn't see a performance penalty when doing simple operations, but it's a massive expansion of utility and prevents switching to a different application when all you want to do is quickly scan the content of some items to understand what to do with them.

'Gnostic', as a bare definition, merely means 'learned'. That means if you're gnostic, you know something.
Agnostics, by comparison, don't know that thing.

Similarly, Theists believe in God.
Athiests don't believe in God.

The two concepts are completely orthogonal--one does not influence the other, per se. In fact, you can combine them, thus:

Agnostic Theist: Someone that believes in God, but does not know for sure if God exists.
Agnostic Atheist: Someone that does not believe in God, but does not know for sure if God exists. (Most of us that identify as atheist, I dare say.)

Gnostic Theist: Someone that believes in God and KNOWS God to exist.
Gnostic Atheist: Someone that does not believe in God and KNOWS that God doesn't exist.

Gnostics, in general, are hard to take seriously in this regard. Even Richard Dawkins would tell you that he's technically an Agnostic Atheist, as he cannot prove the existence or non-existence of God one way or the other, but the dearth of positive proof leads him to his atheist position.

This is for people that like to work in the terminal--instead of a file browser--but still want to look at all their files.

When the UNIX terminal was invented, there weren't a lot of things to look at other than text files. Times have changed somewhat since then.

The terminal is often the best place to get work done, and sometimes you don't want to go into a file browser or fire up an external viewer just to look at a PDF. Being able to preview a file so you can correctly sort it into a directory, for instance, seems like a good use of this upgrade.

In OS X, you can get something like Pathfinder that lets you manage your files graphically, but has an attached shell if you need one. This is just a more terminal-centric view of things. You can still work text-only, if you like.