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Much better than I expected. I've been concerned that they're making lemons recently with the total black box MBPs. iPads I can understand being sealed/disposable but not MBP line machines. Good on Apple for friendly engineering design this time.

Unfortunately for me though, I both can't justify one and can't afford one anyway.

This. Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_FreeB...

Well if it wasn't for all the heel-dragging with IPv6, this wouldn't be a problem.

Yes, the cables shipped with the devices.

I did. Which is why I have a Nokia Lumia 820 (which charges via USB or wireless charger).

It's not about preferred configuration. It's about not producing tonnes of electronic waste by having to require an unreasonable magnitude of charger and device configurations.

Just like AirPrint (IPP), AirPlay (DLNA), AirDrop (Bluetooth/OBEX), Facetime etc...

Basically as usual, it's Apple and everyone else.

I'll stick with my USB charger thanks as it is 100% ubiquitous as I will my Internet Printing Protocol, DLNA (which doesn't even require an Apple box to talk to my TV!) and bluetooth that works properly across all devices I've encountered.

Edit to add: I have 3 Lightning iPads in my house (none are mine personally). The male connectors aren't durable - two dead ones so far. I'm not sure about the sockets either which are way more expensive to replace.

A&A refuse customers who opt in to filtering.

http://www.aa.net.uk/kb-broadband-realinternet.html

This is the correct solution to the problem.

I have access to several machines on UK ISPs. Quick SSH and poke with links on each machine.

1. Easynet - all work fine.

2. Andrews & Arnold - all work fine (this is expected)

3. O2/Sky - all work fine

4. BT - all work fine

All of these lines were provisioned before the porn filter was announced so...

Edit: tested Amnesty, OpenBSD (which these machines are all running and would be a PITA for me) and linux.com

Huh? Where did you get your crack pipe? Windows has made a reasonable DAW for at least 10-15 years.

And hell I don't even use a PC. Some of us still use workstations (Korg: you rock).

Windows latency is fine. If you use ASIO drivers.

However you can't beat real instruments for latency.

I think it's funny that someone else picked exactly the same example however I respect your opinion on the subject.

Info is horrible. Case in point:

Awk manpage: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=awk

Gawk info (in html): http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html

Both fully describe the capabilities of the software without resorting to compressing it.

Elegance in simplicity.

I had random ports breaking back in the dark ages.

Turned out to be a dodgy RAM stick in the end. ECC is a requirement for me now when the host machine supports it.

No. The JRE can ship with the app. The CLR ships with the OS.

Some are, some are not. Some are so bad it's unfunny. Literally someone has read the COM IDL and made up some padding. The core protocols like MSRPC are poorly documented i.e. the interoperability specs. They definitely have more than one person (did I suggest otherwise?) but I suspect the documentation was outsourced for a lot of stuff to people who have no idea how it works

And of course if we look at recent history we see where that technique goes terribly wrong (Xerox document archival compression).

Sounds like Java 8!

They did release it, source code and all. Unfortunately with a shit license.

I had it building on FreeBSD back then!

They did the right thing for them but not the community. Isolation and ecosystem ate tightly controlled at Microsoft and always have been. It's how devdiv remain scarily profitable.

Yes their technical specifications for protocols and formats are wonderful since they released the open specification promise!

Oh no wait, for those of us who have actually used these specs (in my case MSRPC/DCE), it's a hopeless mess of blatantly incomplete documentation obviously written by the lowest bidder.

Microsoft haven't changed. They've succeeded in changing their perception only. The company is still predatory sales focused and always will be.

Which is the problem with Linux as a whole for me.

WiFi configuration is a particular problem where everything has awful documentation so when you need to set up your WiFi without NetworkManager or some other behemoth, much eye poking and googling on other devices is required.

FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD: man ifconfig (and dmesg)

As a rule, and this happened to me more than once, you might need to configure your network connection without the aid of Google and online documentation. Either that or you're stuck on a train in the middle of nowhere with no WiFi and no 3G and you want to read the docs.

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