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Darwin is at 12.4.0 The next major version would be 13.0 If this wild theory is correct it would be a drastic change to the kernel.

The colours remind me of the colored Apple logo from the 80's.

Aw man another OS update? I can't get mountain lion installed let alone the next edition.. Can't afford new computers either.

So how does the 2013 logo differ from the previous few years ones? 1. No numbers. It's in roman numerals. 2. Out of all the years I have shown only only 2007 and 2013 have not had a little catch phrase to go with the logo. 3. Every year I have shown since 2008 have shown the iOS square app pics. Maybe this is a hint that iOS 7 will be talked about this year. 4. There is no Apple in the logo. Not every year has featured the Apple. But I am sure the choice not to feature the Apple was chosen for a reason. 5. Different font used as many people have said. 6. The first year I have noticed where the "WWDC" part is not in bold type. it is in plain font, the same as the year. 7. The font itself has colour. Well the MMXIII part does. Every other year has been either black or white. Neither of which are a colour. 8. Apple feel the need this year to say it's the Apple WWDC. They didn't even say the Apple word in the years past. I'm sure this has to do with the fact the logo is not an Apple. But maybe there is more to it. And more and more. What do you all think?

I believe the typeface on the iPhone 5 box is Myriad Pro Light. The typeface on the WWDC poster is Helvetica Neue UltraLight.

Interesting. Just a note that roman numerals are normally used when describing the year a movie or television show was produced.

What's funny is that we're all astounded by the new logo. lol You have done it again Apple.

Wouldn't mind some of that colour back in the old Finder sidebar

It is definately a watch. The colors represent the many colors it will be available in. The Roman numerals are there because the earliest timepieces such as sundials had Roman numerals. The sundial was the revolution in telling time. I think Apple is using Roman numerals like found on sundials to suggest another revolution in telling time.

I think the roman numerals indicate that Tim Cook has been on a mission in the ancient roman era using the new iTime time machine...He has been helping the Julius Caesar administration deploy iPads....

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking a zero in their number system, they had no way to indicate the successful termination of their C programs

Good lord what I could have been if I was born in the 90's with a PC in my crib

OMG, we can only wish.... he should do it with Billy Corgan, they can plan the future together...

It means Jony Ive just dropped acid.

The number at the bottom of the logo can only mean one thing. Apple is skipping OS XI and XII and going straight to XIII. That will show people who say that Apple needs to innovate more!

... Touche.

Umm, I think he was being facetious.

my preeeecious, 's gonna be annouuunced, my preeecious

...... iveOS 7..... We have been expecting you !

The logo clearly suggests Apple will be launching AirPort expresses in multiple colours.

The un-Apple-y-ness of that WWDC logo has really jiggered my flim-flams.

so I'm a complete troglodyte.

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Sidney Crosby: On The Ice and Beyond

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Roger Ebert’s last review: ‘To the Wonder’

Appropriately it’s a review of a film by a director Mr. Ebert held in great esteem: Terrence Malick. Of Malick’s last film, Mr. Ebert remarked: “There were once several directors who yearned to make no less than a masterpiece but now there are only a few. Malick has stayed true to that hope ever since his first feature in 1973.”

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HOW to BECOME a GOOD THEORETICAL PHYSICIST（良い理論物理学者になる方法）: LIST OF SUBJECTS, IN LOGICAL ORDER

How to BECOME a GOOD THEORETICAL PHYSICIST

1. Languages（言語）
2. Primary Mathematics（初等数学）
3. Classical Mechanics（古典力学）
4. Optics（光学）
5. Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics（統計力学と熱力学）
6. Electronics（電子工学）
7. Electromagnetism（電磁気学）
8. Quantum Mechanics（量子力学）
9. Atoms and Molecules（原子と分子）
10. Solid State Physics（固体物理学）
11. Nuclear Physics（原子物理学）
12. Plasma Physics（プラズマ物理学）
13. Advanced Mathematics（高等数学）
14. Special Relativity（特殊相対性理論）
15. Advanced Quantum Mechanics（高等量子力学）
16. Phenomenology（現象学）
17. General Relativity（一般相対性理論）
18. Quantum Field Theory（場の量子論、量子場理論）
19. Super String Theory（超ひも理論、超弦理論）

Jared Diamond: Tales From The World Before Yesterday

Over the years I've had the privilege to work with some of the more interesting thinkers of our time, individuals who, through their research in biology, physics, psychology, computer science, provide us with the evidence-based results that are the basis of the most reliable method of our knowledge about who and what we are. In this regard, nothing beats sitting down with Jared Diamond after one of his many (41 to date) trips to New Guinea to listen to this master story-teller hold forth on the windows to our past, whether the topic is rare birds, "primitive peoples", birth practices, the lives of the old, war, or the characteristics of all human societies until the rise of state societies with laws and government, beginning around 5,500 years ago.

A few months ago I visited him at his home in Bel Air, California, just a few doors up the road from the Bel Air Hotel. We sat for an hour while he recounted some his experiences in New Guinea. Fortunately, I had my video camera with me. What follows are three videotaped stories, which I have taken the liberty of presenting with the following titles:

• "If You Camp Under Dead Trees, And Each Dead Tree Has A One In 1,000 Chance Of Falling On You And Killing You"
• "One Of The Stupider, More Dangerous Things That I Did In My Life"
• "How I Discovered The Long-Lost Bowerbird, Initially Without Realizing It"

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