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I've been hoping that they might roll the iOS app store into the Mac App Store, and consolidate it all under the App Store banner.

Did that have the "new" style power button, replacing the eject button immediately above the delete key?

I think the video editing market is growing fairly rapidly, as it gets easier to take and share high quality video. Of course, most of that growth is entry level youtube-channel stuff, but as those barriers fall so will those to the professional level.

As someone who's used and seen Apple and Lenovo/IBM laptops (thinkpads and macs are vast majority of what students at my school and co-workers at my jobs used) almost exclusively over the years, I was incredibly surprised to learn that fn|ctrl was non-standard.

Because it's fun. Seriously, if you don't like it, don't read it. If you do like it, that's all the justification you should need.

You don't need to justify your library to anyone but yourself.

Not every book needs to teach you some fundamental life lesson for it to be worth your time. Thinking like that is a quick and easy way to burning yourself out. Let your hair down and relax with it. Take it to bed with you and loose your imaginations. Have fun they way you want to.

With the rise of Google Play Services, we might consider the Android "fragmentation" charts even more useless than this article claims they are.

My favorite was

>Disrupt Disruption

Pleasantly surprised to learn that this supports locked at&t and verizon bootloaders. Does anyone know if it does it with loki?

iirc, it asks you on first boot if you'd like it to phone home or not.

Additionally, non-facebook users will find that when they go to college, they won't know when any of the parties are (and they won't know about any of the study groups). If you're a person that has that typical human need to belong, university almost forces you to log into facebook.

I've always loved tiling WMs on big screens, since it's a really efficient way to use all of that screen real estate. i3 really comes into its own on my multimonitor desktop setup. I've just never felt any real gain on anything smaller than 17". On my 13" macbook air, however, I find that as soon as I split the screen 50-50 neither window really has enough space to be comfortable. (I've tried using Amethyst[1], but that's all)

[1]: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

I'm constantly missing this when I work on an OS X machine. Somehow, I end up with the window titles offscreen and just get momentarily stumped when I want to move it again.

The single biggest thing I miss when I use OS X is alt+click to move windows.

I'd bet that I'm a lot more cautious buying apps from the Mac App Store than I am from Google's Play Store, simply because Google's got that safety net of "Eh, this app isn't as good as it looked in the screenshots. I'll just return it." Trial periods also usually go a long way in convincing me to spend money on an app, especially things more costly than a dollar or two. A few months ago, I found myself debating between Totalfinder and Pathfinder- luckily, they both had a few weeks of free trials and I was able to determine that while pathfinder looked like it had more features, Totalfinder just felt a lot more seamless in day-to-day use. If I hadn't had the ability to sit down and get a feel for the apps, I'd probably have just said "fuck it, I don't need tabs and split panes that much anyways."

I'm a huge fan of deluged running as a daemon- it's so good at getting out of my way. With a couple of plugins to give it rss support and email notifications, it's almost fully automatic.

I just remember it surprising me with how slow and clumsy it felt, even though it was a significant upgrade compared to my phone at the time. And then the processor had all sorts of issues with AOSP, so you couldn't really run cyanogen comfortably on it.

I hate that I can't use my laptop for notes in most of my STEM classes- not because the professors disallow it, but because there's simply no equation editor that I can use quickly and efficiently enough to take notes with. I tried latex, but it just requires a few too many formatting keystrokes and isn't WSYISYG enough to do on the fly (at least for me).

I'd be pretty happy with a digitizer, I think, but I wouldn't be able to stand all of the other little quirks of the surface.

I find it's got some unpolished corners with regards to my university's exchange system. Not really sure why it does it, but it'll occasionally deliver me emails a few hours late.

I can't wait for the next iteration of the Gear. The first Note was rather awful, but the Note 2 turned out to be one of my favorite machines. Let's hope this works out that way.

I just wish they'd gone ahead and made iWork free across the board (or perhaps for Mavericks users), rather than only with the purchase of a new device.

I could see that happening. The Mac Mini is a beloved machine, albeit not a very exciting one.

Honestly, having used both the old installer and the new procedure dozens of times each, I really do prefer the wiki page. It's just a lot more flexible and comfortable to a shell user. It also exposes a number of config files that as an arch user, you should be aware of. In that way, I find it to conform to the "Arch Way[1]" than the system it replaced.

Not to say that it doesn't have it's downsides, like scaring off new users.

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way

Yeah- it was a pretty standard thing in Desktop Managers for a while for <C-Alt-Del> to be logout (or return to DM, depending on what you're using). I think GDM 3.0+ finally threw it out, but you'll still see it in KDM, LightDM, and Slim.

This would have been pretty useful to me back when I was 15-18. I've got some heinous pictures of me wearing a suit jacket that was much too large and dress pants that were far too baggy. And pleated.

Another pretty big problem with the Gnome Project recently is that they've made Gnome less modular. Gnome used to be a collection of associated software- you had a window manager, a panel, a compositor, panel applications and widgets, a settings-daemon, a keyring manager, a screensaver, etc. If you wanted something other than what Gnome wanted to provide, you swapped out metacity and compiz for xmonad. Or you bolted the settings-daemon onto another window manager. It's been subtle, but with every 3.x version of gnome, a little more of the functionality just gets rolled into gnome-shell and is unable to run without it. Most recently, with 3.8, media keys are no longer handled by gnome-settings-daemon- you can now only have gnome's media keys if you're running gnome-shell.

I know a lot of people are going to say "well, you're not using the software for its intended purpose. it's not their fault for breaking it." And that's true, but modularity a big part of the Unix philosophy and this is Gnome showing the Unix way the door.

Seriously, that was a little absurd. Why exactly does Apple want to limit its audience by only allowing people using Safari on OSX to watch it? I doubt all the markets are so saturated that every potential iPhone, Macbook, and Mac Pro customer is already on OS X.

If I didn't happen to have a Macbook as a work PC for the summer, I'd have missed the Macbook Air announcement. But god, do I want one.

"If someone could only figure out how to show you laptops just before you thought of searching for laptops, then they would be even bigger than Google."

Unless, of course, Google Now gets there first.

> This app is compatible with all of your devices.

> Oops, we could not determine if this item is compatible with your device.

EDIT: Finally went through.

Similarly, my father bought my grandfather a large HP touchscreen all-in-one PC and an iPad. From what I can tell, he uses the iPad for most things during the day- web browsing, email, youtube) and the desktop PC almost exclusively for printing things and Skype. I think the desktop helps him with video chat, since holding the iPad at an angle where his face is visible for any prolonged amount of time seems to be problematic with him (also, he always covers the camera with his hands).

I'm also pretty curious about this. I'd assumed that auto-update was a pretty basic feature and that of course iOS would have it- it's only with this thread/article that i'm discovering otherwise. Is there any particular reason that iOS doesn't do automatic updates in the background? I've just got "update automatically on WiFi only" set up on my Android phone and I've never had any problems.