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  1. What is the 'biological' level? on Sitting Too Much Ages You By 8 Years (time.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    As opposed to the 'mineral' level, maybe?

  2. Re:Life is better with AMP on The Problem With Google AMP (80x24.net) · · Score: 1

    It isn't just that, though. It breaks site navigation.

    And if it's a site like reddit, I can't interact with reddit the way I normally do, and I can't easily move from the amp version to the reddit version.

    My simple solution: that little "x" in the Amp navigation bar, make it close the amp envelope and drop me in the regular site.

  3. Re:Hate that pos on The Problem With Google AMP (80x24.net) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Second this approach, except I switched to duck duck go. I find the results to be less useful, unfortunately, although I like their privacy policies and what not better. Still, too many damn amp results.

  4. This still doesn't explain the extremely hogh resu on Consumer Reports Updates Its MacBook Pro Review (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    Something like 16 hours? If the bug just stopped bugging for one test, the high result should still be closed to advertised result, not way beyond it.

  5. Re:While I don't totally disagree on Silicon Valley Veteran On Apple: Company Has Become Sloppy, Missed Updates, Delayed Refreshes (chuqui.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the early aughts, around os 10.2, Apple was all about designing and supporting hardware and software for high end producers. G4 and G5 Mac desktops were unbelievably awesome machines, OS X was super stable with all the functionality of Unix available, final cut pro, logic and aperture were state of the art and fun to use.

    And the tiBook, while not the fastest, was surely the awesomest laptop a person could own.

    Later, the 12" powerbook.

    The fail seemed to set in about five years ago. It's a good example of what happens when you don't have good competition, cf Windows Vista.

  6. Re: They have six hundred billion dollars on Silicon Valley Veteran On Apple: Company Has Become Sloppy, Missed Updates, Delayed Refreshes (chuqui.com) · · Score: 1

    An iPhone can be a rational choice. It depends on the consumer's values. Apple limits customization, perhaps, and might "lose" on some raw specs, but it wins on style for many people, also many people value the status which iPhone confers, as well as arguably more security.

    If you are concerned that valuing style and status are irrational, you may be right, but your time among humans will probably be unpleasant.

  7. Re:how often are Mac Pro's upgraded? on Silicon Valley Veteran On Apple: Company Has Become Sloppy, Missed Updates, Delayed Refreshes (chuqui.com) · · Score: 1

    To add to your sentiment, the high end of the curve brings in more than just the revenue for its sales, and Apple should be smart enough to calculate this.

    Plus, the people developing apps for their other, big revenue generating products need computers worth using for development.

  8. Re:So Apple needs to patch Safari on 2016 MacBook Pro Fails To Receive a Recommendation From Consumer Reports (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, now you can, kinda, right? Since you can charge standard USB-C, any USB outputting external battery should power the Mac. Carry as many as you want!

  9. Re:The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune on 2016 MacBook Pro Fails To Receive a Recommendation From Consumer Reports (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hasn't the consensus been, recently, that chrome is the resource hog and safari was the faster, less energy using browser?

  10. Re:heck of a choice on Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How we got NYC and Boston, for sure.

  11. You are not calculating the benefit of being the one in command of the military as a result of paying for it. Having US bases around the world does protect the countries where they are located, but it protects the US *even more.* It also helps ensure that US contractors are the ones providing the gear.

  12. Re: Phill Schill on Phil Schiller Says the MacBook Pro Doesn't Need an SD Card Slot (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Well, the ethernet port has been missing from all but the legacy 13" Pro since like, 2012?

    And in most cases, devices simply need a different cable, as these ports support all kinds of protocols and versions thereof. Marginally inconvenient, perhaps, but not a disaster.

    Apple has always been about having the nicest stuff, and right now, usb-c port is the nicest.

    And while I'm bitching about the bitchers, I want my laptop to be as small and, more importantly, as light as it can be and still meet my needs.

  13. You're going to need to develop that connection a little more . . .

  14. Re: Where?? What is wrong with MORE CHOICE on Apple Launches the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus; Feature Water-Resistance, Lack Headphone Jack (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    The only problem with your theory is that now i can no longer listen through my preferred (wired) cans and charge at the same time.

  15. Re: Law of unintended consequences, also frosty on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    If it weren't /., I wouldn't get technical, but "deet" does not kill or even "repel" mosquitos. It does a so-so job of masking your sweet scent to them. IDK if various species are evolving to detect your scent through deep woods off better (I doubt it), but they are not developing a "resistance."

  16. Intel made a smartwatch? on Intel Recalls Basis Peak Smartwatches Due To Overheating (techgage.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I guess I'm not reading /. enough.

  17. Where is my Johnny Cab?! on Tesla's 'Master Plan, Part Deux' Includes Trucks, Buses and Ride-Sharing (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I've been dreaming of it ever since I saw the movie.

  18. Your point is well taken. The problem is, with something like broadband, just like with roads, it is very reasonable to conclude that it would be best to have a limited number of operators, maybe even just one. The government then has a challenge to understand the "industry," without relying on the industry itself.

    I conclude, based largely on a resource allocation viewpoint, that having a single provider is most efficient, if we can minimize the profiteering. An important tool in that fight is transparency. And government can be effective at enforcing that kind of transparency on others, if not always itself.

  19. Re: how do they get a rip? on DVD Release Delays Boost Piracy and Hurt Sales, Study Shows (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Too bad most of your purchase price goes to distributor executives, not content providers.

  20. Re: iTunes same day as DVD since 2008 on DVD Release Delays Boost Piracy and Hurt Sales, Study Shows (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to have a media player connected to your tv, whether blu-ray player, apple tv, roku, or computer. And you are not limited to itunes: google play and amazon both offer similar content.

  21. If the nsa is smart... on The NSA's Delightfully D&D-inspired Guide To the Internet (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    This is brilliant misinformation. If the nsa is average, this is a mindblowimg example of bureaucratic cancer.

  22. Re:Translation on No, Apple Won't Become a Wireless Carrier (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I stand better informed. Thank you.

  23. Re:Translation on No, Apple Won't Become a Wireless Carrier (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    There's something wrong with your translation, or their conclusion, as Verizon and ATT both have profits in the billions, while their infrastructure and bandwidth appear to be way behind other countries' options.

  24. Re:2+ million does not seem like dead... on Windows Phone Market Share Sinks Below 1 Percent (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Highly niche, maybe, but not dead.

  25. Re:This is not the Hole you are looking for on The Critical Hole At the Heart Of Our Cell Phone Networks (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    We're all dooooooomed!