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  1. Indeed. Even though Comey was the only one there to hear what Trump said, it's up to anonymous pundits on the Internet to interpret what it meant.

  2. Are the whole range of models available in a nontouchbar version? I haven't read that much about it since the initial hype, but I thought there were a few low-end models without the touchbar.

  3. Re: Hopefully they'll allow more RAM on Apple To Refresh Entire MacBook Lineup Next Month, Air and Pro To Feature Kaby Lake (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    then ressurrect jobs ffs. Timmy is making a titanic out of apple lol...

    Don't worry. They have a big ring-shaped new building to use as a life preserver.

  4. An optical paper tape reader is a fairly trivial 'maker' project in today's world. You should try to find some kids interested in tackling it for you.

  5. Re:Updates are always a danger on Apple To Refresh Entire MacBook Lineup Next Month, Air and Pro To Feature Kaby Lake (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds like they are going to 'refresh' the laptops they've been selling for, oh, about six months now. What a mistake people who bought the new 2016/17 Macbooks made. They're all obsolete in a little while.

    And those are the most festering eager Apple customers.

    Way to go, Apple.

  6. Proprietary modular design? I can't see them doing anything less than that.

    So they're gonna make an SGI O2? That went really well. Look at how well SGI is doing.

  7. Re:Explanation on US Law Allows Low H-1B Wages; Just Look At Apple (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    A 'digital asset management system' keeps track of all the assets, like the cameras, PCs, copying machines, folding chairs, power drills, ladders, forklifts, etc. Correct?

  8. Give Stanford a break. This isn't a 'report' from Stanford. It's some guy who is a part time teacher at Stanford but doesn't even have tenure at a community college.

  9. Re:Consider the gas stations on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So gas stations start making a 5% margin on the gasoline they sell. Suddenly they are not just viable, but a business that people strive to own and operate.

    And motorists pay 5% more for gasoline.

    Wow. That's gonna mean big changes.

  10. Actually, where I live, the electric vehicles are all coal-fired.

  11. Re:Not in Africa and all of Asia on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    High density housing along rapid transit corridors.

    Enjoy your little world, sardines.

  12. Re:This was true of Safari, too on Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Shouldn't Apple fix the problem if a program is sucking up immense amounts of memory running on their OS?

  13. Re:Stick with Safari on Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I would use CyberDog, but it's the Apple browser that doesn't get any respect any longer.

  14. Re:I ditched Chrome too, but not because of tabs on Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I, for one, paid for the Opera Browser.

    This was back when the Opera Browser's installer fit on a single floppy diskette. That was also a time when Opera boasted about their browser fitting on a single floppy diskette.

    Times change, huh?

  15. Re:dual E5 Xeon on Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In the old days the above would have been a joke about running emacs.

    It's sad how things have become.

  16. Re:Will it help Slashdot load faster? on Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This site even spins a little dial at the bottom center of the frame when you close a single browser tab that has 'Slashdot' running in it. They're running a script that takes a meaningful amount of time if I click the 'x' to close a browser tab.

    Weird. Has the NSA purchased Slashdot? It makes sense they would and it was probably cheap...

  17. Re:Should you leave HTTP for Gopher? on Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I miss Procomm.

    But Telemate was almost a whole operating system in a terminal emulator program.

  18. Re: Dear Slashdot on Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Google wants you to use a Chromebook and they'll embed it into your regular computer if they can convince you to use it.

  19. Mount it to the wall with a couple sheetrock screws.

  20. Re:Who the fuck is Amanda Palmer?? on Why Amanda Palmer Left the Music 'Industry' For Crowdfunding (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Knowledge of Taylor Swift is compulsory in our culture, and it's true that if that is your benchmark for "success" Palmer has never been successful, even with marrying Gaiman.

    I don't know much at all about Taylor Swift. I hear her mentioned from time to time, but I wouldn't recognize it as Taylor Swift singing a song if I heard it.

    Gaiman I remember because I was buying the Sandman comix when they came out. In fact, buying them at Dreamhaven in Minneapolis, the town that he ended up emigrating to. I have not been that impressed with his post-Sandman work, though he is a gifted and important artist. He strip-mines folklore and re-interprets it for a modern audience of people who didn't receive a Classical education.

    The important question is always "where's the music" and if it's an artist worth listening to, the music exceeds their person-hood and name-recognition is just an aid the next time you are looking for something new to listen to.

    The fact that she's working with Edward is a good sign, of course.

  21. Management needs to remain mindful of the fact that the company will lose value when they cannot find employees willing to work for a company where there is no trust relationship between the workers and management.

  22. Re:Cities should be about people, not infrastructu on The Woman Who Saved Manhattan From a Freeway Running Through It (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And if you think NYC is still something from The Warriors/1980s, try visiting the Village some time- it's one of the nicest neighborhoods of any city in North America. /urban planner steps off that soapbox.

    Visit. That's right. Because the average ordinary American will never have the opportunity to live there.

    You might as well be suggesting we visit one of the historical reconstructions at a Disney Theme park.

  23. Re:Urban Poor on The Woman Who Saved Manhattan From a Freeway Running Through It (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That whole discipline of 'studies' is permeated with anti-car intellectuals. People who consider suburban development 'urban sprawl.'

    Said intellectuals want the population concentrated in high-density housing along rapid transit corridors. They're at work in cities like Minneapolis/St.Paul, destroying traditional urban corridors.

  24. I'm still trying to figure out how this is an appropriate slashdot topic. This sounds more like a topic for People's World.

    Some of us are the kind of nerds who have books like Highway Engineering on our bookshelves. It's extremely nerdy to be into roads, highways and transportation.

    Or are you one of the people who mistakenly thinks Slashdot is an 'IT' site?

  25. Actually, mobile android devices that 'can not be updated' are the ones that the OEM and Vendor can't bugfix. Which are the devices that it should in many cases eventually be possible to jailbreak and free.