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  1. Not in the example of yogurt. Just increasing the portion size to fill the void would mostly be an increase in protein. Almost all of the sugar is added.

  2. Re:So, when are they bringing Windows to the store on Microsoft Is Bringing Office to the Windows Store (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI you can download the latest macOS for free from the mac app store.

    Only as an upgrade. If you have a preinstalled version of Sierra, for example, you can't tie a "purchase" of Sierra to your account. You can do Internet recovery to Sierra, but you can't download the installer to do a bare install yourself.

  3. There were a few crazy/specialized Excel users that needed it. Beyond that, I'm not sure.

  4. Sodium only has an effect on hypertension if you have a particular sensitivity. Otherwise your body still manages to keep it in balance as long as you're not dehydrated. The demonizing of sodium is starting to get ridiculous.

    At home, I salt my food with sea salt - equal proportion of sodium and potassium so there wouldn't be a risk anyway.

  5. Removing the fat usually means adjusting the flavor by adding more carbohydrates. Just compare the labels of 0% yogurt with full fat. The former almost always has more sugar.

  6. Why? How many kids do you know that have sodium-sensitive hypertension? There are no other reasons to worry about sodium content.

  7. How do you gain weight? By your body using insulin to store blood sugar as fat. Dietary fat never becomes blood sugar. Dietary fat cannot be stored as fat. It's all simple chemistry.

    I'm not on such a diet, but these are facts.

  8. Re:Won me over, but rapidly losing me on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    I would have been fine with phasing the USB-C ports in with at least a single traditional USB port for backwards compatibility.

    I haven't had a Mac laptop in years, but those USB-C ports are actually Thunderbolt with USB backward compatibility. One little hub can get you an external screen (HDMI, VGA, whatever), USB type A, and Ethernet. A docking station in one cord.

    The soldering and no RAM upgrades is pretty much what kills their pro laptop line dead in the water.

  9. Re:Okay, honest answers... on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 2

    * Symlinks. I mean real symlinks.

    NTFS does pretty well with these (mklink command) - at least they do everything I expect from a symlink. I use them to redirect some appdata folders to non-SSD storage.

  10. Re:Two things on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    The iPhone is good because you CAN update (unlike Android).

    That's not Android's fault - but carrier/mfgr lockdown. iPhone has forced obsolescence by denying firmware updates after only a few years.

    My wife's Nexus 5 started with Kit Kat and now works fine on Marshmallow. After 4 years, it's not getting any more major updates. Not perfect, but no worse than Apple. Though it seems that it's still possible via custom ROM - which is something that Apple won't allow at all.

  11. Re: This should be fun. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 2

    OS X hasn't changed significantly since Snow Leopard. Just UI mucking like MS.

  12. Re:Price isn't everything on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    Apple doesn't usually cheap out on hardware and it's all about that boot drive. Swap your 5400 RPM drive for something faster - like an SSD.

  13. Re:This should be fun. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    Without them, you can't test a web application, in desktop Safari, debug a web application in mobile Safari

    This part isn't so important. I don't know of any major rendering differences between Safari for Windows and Safari for Mac (they weren't forked that long ago and they have kept pretty close on anything but cutting edge). And the iOS version is still the same engine. You can get by with Chrome for most of your Safari testing (and it has a great mobile device screen simulator built-in) since there's so little difference. Even when developing for the web on a Mac, I don't test in Safari if I already have Chrome.

  14. Re: This should be fun. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    Agree. And until Kit Kat Android was too unpolished for most users. Now they're both good, but lock-in tends to grow over time even if the primary reason for it is gone. Until they really screw something up that everyday people notice.

    On the desktop OS, they've been roughly equal. I don't think there's a special appeal - but there was certainly an era where you were virtually guaranteed to be malware free simply for owning a Mac.

  15. Re:Summary makes it seem like AirPod support was.. on Apple AirPods Customers 'Satisfied' With the Product (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would I want Ebay on my watch?

    If you did a lot of buying, it might make sense to be able to up your bid after getting outbid. That's about all I can think of - and it should be pretty lightweight. You have to leave the kitchen sink at home when designing for a watch.

  16. Re:Summary makes it seem like AirPod support was.. on Apple AirPods Customers 'Satisfied' With the Product (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    This headline seems to be one step worse than clickbait. As written, half of it is completely false.

  17. Who wants capacitive touch in a laptop?

    Not me personally unless it converts to a tablet.

    You have to use it in the dark.

    No - you just have to use it at an oblique angle to any non-diffuse light. It's a choice - nobody's saying you have to go with it. But matte screens, by diffusing direct light, prevent deep blacks altogether. Just look at a matte screen when it's off - not black, just a medium grey. By definition, they diffuse light from every angle.

    tl;dr I wouldn't buy a glossy laptop screen, but they still have a purpose.

  18. If your tower already had a motherboard, CPU, and RAM, how much building are you doing? And towers at least come with standard sized motherboard screw holes - no such thing in laptops.

  19. Re: I'm a PC and I have a touchscreen on Microsoft Unveils the Surface Laptop, a Traditional Notebook That Is 'Better' Than MacBook Pro (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody statistically speaking - there are outliers - good job on that. If hands are on the keyboard, Cmd+Space is quicker than a three-finger swipe. I don't know if that was a default shortcut or one that I set, but it's quick.

  20. Re: I'm a PC and I have a touchscreen on Microsoft Unveils the Surface Laptop, a Traditional Notebook That Is 'Better' Than MacBook Pro (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    To me, that's not as easy as keeping my hands on the keyboard and pressing CMD+Space to open Spotlight to launch apps. Going back and forth between keyboard and mouse that often is a productivity killer.

  21. Re:I'm a PC and I have a touchscreen on Microsoft Unveils the Surface Laptop, a Traditional Notebook That Is 'Better' Than MacBook Pro (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying it's not keyboard friendly, but it is touch friendly. No matter how friendly it is, I don't think anyone uses it.

    I didn't realize it had search filtering - kind of odd that it's a completely separate interface to Spotlight.

    Click in the corner, start typing, click on the program you were looking for, but windows 10 does take over the screen while you do it.

    Windows 10 only takes over the whole screen in tablet mode or if you manually set the start menu that large. It's Windows 8 that always takes over the whole screen.

  22. It's a very expensive Chromebook. It's being marketed at this event for education where they want it locked down tight. I doubt that this is the only OS choice if it hits the wider market.

  23. They weren't courageous enough to remove the USB A ports.

  24. Re:Priced about $700 too high on Microsoft Unveils the Surface Laptop, a Traditional Notebook That Is 'Better' Than MacBook Pro (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's called (mildly) upgrading a stock laptop. Don't call that building a laptop. You usually only have to remove a panel or two.

  25. Re:I'm a PC and I have a touchscreen on Microsoft Unveils the Surface Laptop, a Traditional Notebook That Is 'Better' Than MacBook Pro (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    OS X has Launchpad, which is designed to be touch-friendly despite no OS X systems coming with a touch screen. Nobody uses it, so you may not remember it.

    Windows does not have a touch-friendly interface unless you only use "modern" apps. They don't adjust the size of the drop-down menus on regular apps when you're in tablet mode - something they could do if they lied to the program about the size of the screen to make room (I assume - I don't do Windows GUI development).