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Mac OS X and iOS come from UNIX, long-ago predecessor to Linux. On the component manufacturing front, Apple absolutely has been throwing their weight around: they're really good at business now. Before the iPad 1 was announced they used their cash to buy up both flash RAM and display...

Got that "uncool kid" feeling going, since I offered three days ago and nobody responded. Man! ;)

FWIW, despite it not really relating to Torchwood, no, not generally. Most of the time Executive Producers = money, Producer = coordinator of all of the major pieces, putting everything together, from selecting a director and having ultimate casting approval to presenting the budgets and project...

Nope, memory had failed me. I just gave the DVR a workout and went through all of her scenes and any nearby that might have mentioned her name: her name is never spoken in the first season. Doesn't mean they won't want to use it in the second, mind you, as she has

Indeed. I can assure you she looks nothing like those photos when she wakes up in the morning: makeup can work wonders in any desired direction.

My memory says that Bran says it at least a couple of times.

iTunes is Apple's redheaded stepchild and is, in my opinion, ridiculously difficult to use. It's my single most-hated piece of software on both my Macs and my Windows PCs. Apple should be ashamed of it, imo. It has so many things wrong with it: an unintuitive UI; if you want to play just one...

Yeah, that was Gizmodo, who ever since they stole a prototype iPhone 4 and got into hot water over it -- and are no longer invited to Apple press events nor receive review copies of hardware or software from Apple -- have been on an anti-Apple tear. Not saying Lion is or is not great, that...

Hmm, I've not had any trouble at all and have been on it for about a week now. Perhaps it's because I'm using Chrome? Invitations seem to be open again and I successfully invited people for the first time today, so if anyone here is looking please feel free to send me your email address and...

The site hypothesizes that they changed the name due to potential viewer confusion between Osha and Asha, something that's more likely when you're hearing it instead of reading it.

The app sandbox serves, largely, as a firewall, at least to the system. An outside connection could damage an app, but not get to the system or the other apps. To the same extent as a firewall, anyway, in that anything can have a vulnerability.

One man's "lazy" is another man's "shouldn't have to waste time figuring it out".

It wasn't people with the 3GS, it was people with the 3G. The 3GS runs fine with iOS 4, and the 3G runs fine now, but it took 4.1 before the problems were resolved. The 3G has 128MB of RAM, which just wasn't enough for 4.0. The 3GS has 256MB of RAM and was fine. With iOS 5 it's likely that the...

Oh yeah, I forgot about that! Definitely good crazy-evil.

That was much better. I wasn't hooked at all by the first episode of the season, but now I'm in again, all the way.

See, I don't agree that it's talking down. When I got my first iPhone two years ago I hadn't touched a Mac in a decade, far from some Apple fanboy, using PCs exclusively and programming for Windows Mobile. Playing with the iPhone was pretty slick and I decided I wanted to get involved with...

I wondered how long it would be before someone dragged up that ridiculous argument here again. It sure explains why the iPad sells like crazy and its "powerful" competitors don't and haven't for a decade. If you don't like it, it's gotta be a matter of brainwashing, marketing, "iSheep", etc...

As falcarrion noted, Marvel has a truly excellent iPad app called, unsurprisingly, Marvel Comics. I really, really like it, it's a joy to use, and reads the same comics as you get on your PC. I highly recommend finding someone with an iPad and having them download it to show you -- it comes...

You're conflating "UI system" with "app launching system". The iOS UI framework -- not Springboard, its app launcher -- is called Cocoa Touch, and it handles all of the drawing, scrolling, keyboard stuff, gesture recognition, etc. (it handles the non-visible stuff, too) of every app. The same...

A consistent complaint has been a lack of UI responsiveness, something you hear with many Android tablets and phones, too. It's one of the areas where the iPad really shines and you can see Apple's first-mover advantage: they had years to get that working really well.