I wouldnâ(TM)t even call it prettier personally. The main splash page? Sure. But past that the old interface even looked better.

$500 to replace the board on our $400 stove...

When I was in college, the school was doing new editions of textbooks every semester so you couldnâ(TM)t buy used copies.

Yes, there is

NewsBlur has been amazing too. I can barely remember Google Reader now to compare, but itâ(TM)s been my go to.

The Chicago location, Iâ(TM)ve been there twice in the past few months. Both times it looked like they didnâ(TM)t have a lot of inventory, lots of open places for items. The second visit you could tell theyâ(TM)d removed an entire shelf in the computer part area to make it look like they had more inventory.

They might, but as stated in the article (and not in the summary of course), German law prevents them from giving out passwords if not done in person.

...still no Edit button. *sigh*

I work at Apple Park. It's the worst office environment I've ever had the misfortune to have inflicted upon me. Working in that gilded shithole has me looking elsewhere for work now, and I've been at Apple for many a year.

It's form over function, it's the fact that everyone has the noise-cancelling earphones (the good Bose ones, not the crappy Beats ones) and it's the complete lack of respect that is implied. My dog has a larger kennel (not that he uses it in CA weather very much) than I have desk-space.

Yes.

It seems to me that US people (I only say the US because that's where I live, I don't know if it's as common elsewhere) seem to think Brits are nice people, and you can get away with shit around them. Brits are *not* especially nice. Brits are *polite*, there is a huge difference. The velvet glove conceals an iron fist, and it's generally easier to be polite back than to piss them off overmuch.

I imagine his questioning will be somewhat more ... in depth ... than it would have been previously. There is no time limit on select-committee investigations, like in the US congressional hearings. If it takes several hours, then it takes several hours...

Um, no ?

I'm 48, have been working for Apple for the last 14 years or so, and live and work in the Bay Area. Sure, things are expensive, and once I stop being paid we'll bail to the Oregon coast or similar for retirement, but life is pretty good.

My wife is a full-time mum, my kid goes to a nice school (better than I ever had), the mortgage will be paid in 5 years or so, and we've just got a puppy (a Newfie :) I'm intending to stay until retirement. I'm hardly the oldest in my group (R&D) either, and I work alongside people who've been here for longer than I have (some of them go back 25 years) and who are older than I am. Age is not a barrier, at least at Apple, if you're good enough.

One is sufficiently exasperated by another's fucking idiocy and ignorance, that one goes to the nearest aircraft hanger, grabs the chocks that prevent planes from just rolling away, and forcibly places them into the fucking ignorant idiot's stomach, by way of the mouth.

One's blood pressure immediately drops, along with the fucking idiot; dead, that is.

Depends. Could be a blip (in geological time) of a few decades or hundreds of years, or the system could be bistable, and the new pattern becomes the norm for the next millennia or dozen.

Yeah. It was.

And during the demo, which was running full-screen (windowed), they reduced the size of the window to 1/4 screen, and you could see 3 other ones running at the same time.

The word I was looking for is "Gobsmacked" :)

Don't get me wrong, I think the Acorn team did an amazing job with the first ARM chip, and when I saw the "Lander" demo running on an Archie, my jaw dropped. I spent the next term's student grant money on buying one, then worked 2 jobs to pay for it. Worth it.

I don't think Apple was involved in the first chip (that was an Acorn thing), but by the time ARM had morphed from the marketing "Acorn RISC Machine" slogan to an actual company, they were there, contributing quite a bit if you believe my colleague.