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> you can't buy Snow Leopard media anymore

Yes you can, providing you call Apple.


> Wait a minute. The iPhone 5 doesn't do that. Hey, but it's longer, thinner and faster. What else do you want?

Sadly, you're mistaken. http://i.imgur.com/SPBUH.png

If you're iPhone doesn't have it, blame your carrier http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1937


> If you're iPhone doesn't have it, blame your carrier http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1937

FWIW this only lists "partner carriers", when you buy your phone unlocked (or get a "partner carrier"-provided phone unlocked, which they have to do on request in most euro country) you can use non-partner carriers which often have different sets of restriction (up to "no restriction"). The only one usually missing from non-partners is visual voicemail.


Shouldn't tablets be avoiding subpixel anti-aliasing if they can be turned on the side? Doesn't it just _not work_?


That's a good question, and I'd be interested to know how this is generally solved (it seems the ipad just doesn't du subpixel AA). I don't see a problem with subpixel anti-aliasing if it's with rotation in mind, i.e. different rendering depending on orientation.

In context of the original post, of course, there's not much the ipad can do since the subpixel AA is already encoded in the image.


Orientation sensors allow the operating system to know how the subpixels are currently oriented and adjust the text rendering accordingly.


If you visit the site on iOS, it will prompt you to download the Apple Store app.


iPhone 4s is unable to be used on both GSM and CDMA networks because of the carriers unwillingness to let 'foreign' devices onto their network.



I've recently fallen in love with Automator. Although it make have a few limitations, you can get around it by embedding AppleScript or Python.

In two minutes I made a quick and dirty system wide workflow to download the selected URL.


OS X has dead simple automatic backup built in. In fact, whenever you plug in a compatible hard drive, Time Machine will prompt you to enable.

Apple has already done everything they should.


Always assume that every change you make is saved automatically, much like cutting down a physical photo.

If you still want the original photo, and another cut down version, you would use a photo copier to Duplicate the original, then cut the copy.


"Always assume that every change you make is saved automatically" - You must have had a hard time dealing with computers until now :)

The real-world analogy makes sense, but it doesn't fit with how things have behaved. This is likely an improvement overall, but it's creating a period of upheaval and damage to people's property where better notification of the changes would make it a non-issue.

To modify and drag out the analogy to absurdity: say you previously made cropped photos by photocopying with a white rectangle mask revealing only the portions you wanted duplicated. Now, suddenly, you find that photocopying with the mask in place crops your original photo, without telling you. Nested a layer deep in the photocopier's menu is an option to undo the changes to your original.

I claim this is fine... if and only if the photocopier tells you of this before or immediately after, so you know to copy the whole thing first, and then cut, or use the 'revert' option. In a couple years that may be unnecessary, but not right now.


When I spent hours in a wet darkroom, I used a masking frame and the enlarger head height adjustment to crop a print, having previously marked up a work print. The negative was untouched.

The larger point I am making is that by referring to 'real' objects, we will return to a point where there is no system wide consistency any more. Case in point: editing audio tape or cine film did destroy the edited version, which is why we used prints/copy tapes.

Disclaimer: I don't use Mac OS. I do look to Apple for UI design however.


Wikipedia isn't a blog where you just browse through all articles. You have to actively seek out articles on each topic.


Notwithstanding my other response advocating "pages for everyone!" this would make the random page function less interesting, and a notability filter would be good there. A tag filter (positive and negative) would be cool too.


This is also argument againist deletionism :)


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