Posts by regreader2011

All bark, no bite? Musk's DOGE unlikely to have any real power

Dodgy

DOGE — pronounced “dodgy”.

You OK, Apple? Seriously, your silicon lineup is … a mess

Fast is Bad? Slow is good??

So... the fact that Apple have a next-gen chip out unusually soon after the previous generation... somehow raises doubts about the "health of [their] silicon portfolio"?

Normally, we say that if a company is unusually *late* in producing a follow-up.

Cali Right-to-Repair law dropped, cracks screen, has to be taken to authorized repair shop

Theft deterrent?

Well, there *is* one argument on Apple's side (though not the one they put forth according to this article) -- because it is apparently impossible for anyone other than Apple to transplant the screen of one iPhone into another one (due to crypto?), no knowledgeable thief is going to try to nick my phone in hopes of selling it for parts.

I wonder whether there is a path that preserves this property, while still giving third parties some option of repairing iPhones?

What's all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++

I guess we now live in an age where computer languages are treated akin to consumer electronics items -- one must ship a new version every couple of years, else people switch to a different brand? Or is it just a self-serving effort to keep the C++ education business humming?

Adobe kills Creative Suite – all future features online only

Re: Stop at CS6

That's certainly what I will do -- stop at the last version that comes with a perpetual license. Of course, that means that I also have to be more careful about updating anything else -- obviously the O/S out of fear of compatibility issues, but also things like Lightroom which interact with Photoshop.

Also, given that I know that *eventually* there'll be some incompatibility I can no longer avoid (e.g., old computer dies and new hardware only runs an incompatible O/S), that sure gives me an incentive to gradually move my workflow off Adobe products entirely. Sigh, I'd rather not have to go through that hassle... but I will *not* have my files held ransom by a corporation.

HP exec: WebOS tablet will trounce iPad

Room-temperature

Another sad reminder that many CEOs, those supposed leaders, have at best a room-temperature IQ (I'll grant them Fahrenheit instead of Celsius, but make it a cold room then).

Gosling blows lid off Jobs Java nonsense

Reading Comprehension?

From the announcement: "As of [...OS X 10.6 Update 3], the VERSION of Java that is ported by Apple [...]is deprecated" [emphasis mine]

To me, that says that someone else will provide Java for the Mac, hopefully s.t. Apple is no longer "one version behind". It's a bit of a stretch to interpret this as "no more Java on Macs".