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I think you are overstating things. 3.5mm isn't really the standard for professional audio. Much more common is 6.35mm, RCA, S/PDIF, XLR, and USB. All of which would already need an adaptor for the 3.5mm. But I doubt I'm saying anything you don't already know.

Yes it's annoying if you already are set-up for 3.5mm, and yes I can see why you wouldn't want to use a consumer wireless audio standard for live music performance, but it hardly equates to Apple "exiting professional audio".

Apple Pay doesn't stop other payment provisions from functioning. The same contactless reader will read Apple Pay, Contactless cards, and Android Pay.

Of course Apple Pay will only be available to Apple users. That's literally what Apple Pay is: contactless payment on an Apple device. There's no reason for there to be Apple Pay on Android or another platform.

The point is that you can use the technique on a legitimate link on the page, e.g. a log-in button. The browser will then make a request anyway, through which you can pass the information back to the server. That is what paxcoder means by saying using a href instead of an onClick. No JavaScript is needed for this.

Why not? An extra computer is a big investment just to play games.

This is slightly off-topic to the main, but related to things with David Chang in...

The HBO series 'Treme', set in a neighbourhood of New Orleans post-Katrina, prominently features David Chang playing a fictionalised version of himself. One of the main characters spends the second season working under him in New York. Quite odd.

When I lived in London I would buy corn tortillas "that are not deep free hard taco shells" at least once a week, from the chain grocery stores you find everywhere.

I just came back from Barcelona too and the Catalan breakfast I found was things like bread with tomato, octopus, tripe, etc

There were plenty of bakeries selling croissants dipped in chocolate and little cafés selling eggs and french fries but I got the impression this was mostly for the tourists (at least according to the large rant we got from the hostel night manager when we asked him where he recommended for breakfast).

Why not go into it? It's exactly the question you're responding to. I'm not trying to flame you, I'd like to understand what the drawbacks of such a diet are.

I was going to ask this. It's quite difficult to make male/female voices sound like either with just audio filters/modulation, so I immediately wondered how convincing the effect could really be.

I think that the clip you linked to sounds more like a stereotypical 'camp' gay man accent if male at all, which is obviously testing for a different kind of unconscious bias altogether.

It's really troubling to me that 3D Touch features are a big part of this release and yet their most recent phone release (the iPhone SE) has no support for it at all, and neither does ANY iPad, including the flagship iPad Pro 9.7 released in March.

I know many people are sceptical about 3D Touch. I myself found it to be quite useful if you build habits around it - until I got an iPad Pro 9.7 and found all those habits were useless. Since I had to break the habits on the iPad I rarely use it on the iPhone now.

If Apple wants people to adopt 3D Touch and make it useful it has to actually be available on anything other than the 6S.

Contactless debit cards are widespread but not ubiquitous in the UK. My bank won't give me a contactless card (they don't say why) but Apple will, so Apple Pay is useful.

What makes Nix the future of package management? I'm not familiar with it so I don't know!

I looked at the web-site and didn't find it clear what it does that Homebrew doesn't, other than being cross-platform (although I recently started using Linuxbrew which has made Homebrew cross-platform-ish for me).

Couldn't you make the opposite argument from the same starting point?

That as the technology plateaus, and the upgrade cycle becomes longer, there's much more reason to spend more on a handset because you're not going to feel like replacing it a year later?

Spending a bit more doesn't seem like an issue for something that will last 4/5 years.

Your friend may say spending more than an R3500 is an unnecessary luxury on a cellphone. I say that the cellphone is the single most important piece of technology I own and so isn't the area I want to be stingy on.

Apple isn't necessarily the best choice even with that in mind, but that's a separate argument.

I don't really think so. Whether they're right or not, the people making these decisions at Apple aren't doing them to make more money (or at least, not just that), but because they believe it's better for users.

In this particular case, that to encourage people as far as possible to use the in-app purchases system is more favourable to the users.

It seems much more likely than "deciding to be evil".

Do we? What counts as "nontrivial"? No doubt there are exceptions, but women-in-tech events that I've experienced certainly don't ban men from attending (though generally not many men do attend).