[MyAppleMenu] Dec 28, 2013

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*** Apple Board Urges Shareholders To Vote Against Carl Icahn's $50 Billion Stock Buyback Proposal ***
<http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/28/5250052/apple-urges-shareholders-vote-against-icahns-buyback-proposal>
Kwame Opam, The Verge



*** Hands-on With OpenEmu 1.0, A Gorgeous Classic Console Emulator For OS X ***
<http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/12/hands-on-with-openemu-1-0-a-gorgeous-classic-console-emulator-for-os-x/>
Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica


> Promising multi-console emulator comes with its share of missed opportunities.




*** Hands-on: Netatmo Wireless Weather Station Review ***
<http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/126064-hands-on-netatmo-wireless-weather-station-review>
Rik Henderson, Pocket-lint


> The Netatmo Weather Station has air quality sensors, can measure temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide levels, has a barometer and even advises on whether sound is being played at comfortable levels.




*** How To Find Your Mac's Serial Number ***
<http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57616274-263/how-to-find-your-macs-serial-number/>
Topher Kessler, CNET


> Your Mac's serial number is required for warranty service, among other benefits that Apple offers its customers. Therefore, while not commonly used, you may occasionally need to look it up.




*** How To Assign Applications To Desktops In OS X ***
<http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57616308-263/how-to-assign-applications-to-desktops-in-os-x/>
Topher Kessler, CNET


> Applications in OS X are by default assigned to the current desktop, so if you open a program and then switch to a different desktop, the program's windows will stay on the current desktop. However, there are a couple of ways to change this, so specific programs open on a different desktop, or so they remain present on all desktops.




*** Apple CEO's Compensation Rises Slightly To $4.3M ***
<http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/apple-ceos-compensation-rises-slightly-43m-21353158>
The Associated Press



*** 2013 Mac Pro Review: Apple’s New Desktop Boasts Dramatic Redesign, Dramatic Performance ***
<http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/27/apple-mac-pro-review/>
Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch


> The Mac Pro, somewhat like the iPhone 5s, is designed with the future in mind, so that video producers who aren’t working on 4K but will be expected to in a few years don’t have to reinvest.




*** New Mac Pro Teardown Reveals Replaceable Xeon CPU ***
<http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/12/new-mac-pro-teardown-reveals-replaceable-xeon-cpu/>
Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica


> A few years down the line when warranties have expired and the computers are aging, users buying and using this Mac Pro secondhand may appreciate the ability to pop in a new processor if they really want to.




*** 4 Most Delusional Comments Made By Greedy Corporations ***
<http://www.salon.com/2013/12/27/4_most_delusional_comments_made_by_greedy_corporations_partner/>
Paul Buchheit, Alternet


> Next, on to a company that  hides overseas earnings, avoids  federal and state taxes, makes $400,000 per employee, pays its store workers an average of about  $12 per hour, pays its CEO $143 million a year, and operates overseas factories with working conditions that, according to the  Economic Policy Institute, “reflect some of the worst practices of the industrial era.” Their CEO Tim Cook says Apple has a very strong moral compass.




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*** Little Angels: ‘Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil,’ by Paul Bloom ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/books/review/just-babies-the-origins-of-good-and-evil-by-paul-bloom.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0>
Simon Baron-Cohen, New York Times


> Is morality innate? In his new book, “Just Babies,” the psychologist Paul Bloom draws from his research at the Yale Infant Cognition Center to argue that “certain moral foundations are not acquired through learning. . . . They are instead the products of biological evolution.” Infants may be notoriously difficult to study (rats and pigeons “can at least run mazes or peck at levers”), but according to Bloom, they are, in fact, “moral creatures.”




*** Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan In Your Movie ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/here-is-what-happens-when-you-cast-lindsay-lohan-in-your-movie.html?hp&_r=2&pagewanted=all&src=longreads>
Stephen Rodrick, New York Times


> Schrader wrote “Raging Bull” and “Taxi Driver” and has directed 17 films. Still, some fear Lohan will end him. There have been house arrests, car crashes and ingested white powders. His own daughter begs him not to use her. A casting-director friend stops their conversation whenever he mentions her name. And then there’s the film’s explicit subject matter. Full nudity and lots of sex. Definitely NC-17. His wife, the actress Mary Beth Hurt, didn’t even finish the script, dismissing it as pornography after 50 pages. She couldn’t understand why he wanted it so badly.

> But Schrader was running out of chances.




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