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  1. Re: Hillary vs Trump on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter. If your hope of having a good life with a long career depends on a manufacturing job, you're kind of out of luck.

  2. Re: Hillary vs Trump on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    He won't "make nice" if he keeps saying stuff like how well he is liked by "the African Americans" and by "the Hispanics" while referring to his supporters about how "we will win".

    Did you actually hear his speech last night?

  3. Re: Hillary vs Trump on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I was about to reply that your statistics are totally bogus, but then I found this:

    http://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distribution-of-household-income-in-the-us/

    I've surrounded myself by people in I.T. and other high income professions so long, I've lived in a bubble.

    As much as I detest Trump and Cruz, the commercial Cruz (?) did showing a bunch of guys in suits running across the border with the caption asking if illegal immigration was costing white collar professional jobs, would liberals be as tolerant made me take a step back and think.

  4. Re: Hillary vs Trump on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/zeifman.asp

  5. Re: Anything wrong? on Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Sells Entire Stake In Apple (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not the point. in Western countries at least, in a typical middle class family each family member over 13 probably has a phone and it's replaced like every two years. Why would VR be anymore successful than 3D tvs?

  6. Re: Anything wrong? on Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Sells Entire Stake In Apple (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How many people buy yard long tvs? What's the profit margin on televisions (very slim). What's the replacement cycle for tvs (7-8 years). Now put all that together does that sound like a profitable business?

  7. Re: Anything wrong? on Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Sells Entire Stake In Apple (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And what's the addressable market and the replacement rate? Even before the iPhone came out the phone market was huge and obviously growing.

  8. Re: Anything wrong? on Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Sells Entire Stake In Apple (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So exactly which market should Apple get into that even has a chance to be one fourth the size of the smart phone market?

    Which electronics company is being innovative?

  9. Re: Winamp on iTunes Turns 13 Today -- Continues To Be 'Awful' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Correction iTunes has had an option to keep your files in the original location since day one.

  10. Re: Winamp on iTunes Turns 13 Today -- Continues To Be 'Awful' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't blame iTunes for your lack of knowing how to use it. iTunes has had an option not to keep your music exactly where you put it since day one.

    On one hand you brag about being able to organize your music like you want - something iTunes has been able to do for -13 years and that you didn't need playlist. But m3u playlist can't do what smart playlist can.

  11. Re: Winamp on iTunes Turns 13 Today -- Continues To Be 'Awful' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So how do Android backups handle this scenario?

    In 2011, I had an iPhone 4 on running iOS 5 on AT&T. I clicked on backup to iCloud to make sure everything was backed up (not passwords, etc.).

    I then opened the package on my 4s from Verizon. I turned the phone on, entered my iCloud credentials and a few minutes later, all of my apps with the app data was on my 4s. One reboot later, my iPhone 4 was deactivate from AT&T and my number was transferred to Verizon. I didn't call either company. My icons were in the same spot and the screen on my 4s looked just like my 4.

    Android backups are still not universally supported and only if you have the latest OS.

  12. Re: Winamp on iTunes Turns 13 Today -- Continues To Be 'Awful' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    How much effort does the user need to put in? If they bought their music digitally, all of the metadata is their. If they imported from CDs, most CD ripping software for the past two decades has been able to import metadata from the Internet.

  13. Re:Winamp on iTunes Turns 13 Today -- Continues To Be 'Awful' (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So how do you create multiple playlist with the same song in multiple playlists without copying files to multiple locations?

    How do you create a playlist with songs you haven't heard in the pass six months except for songs you've skipped x times? Yes iTunes is bloated piece of crap and I never let my iOS device go near it. But smart playlists and being able to view and sort your music based on metadata is not a bad thing.

  14. Re:Here's a good idea on Microsoft's Windows 10 Upgrade Screen Interrupts Meteorologist's Live Forecast (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why should any business have to go through this to disable spam that came with the OS?

  15. Re: This guy is high on Chinese pollution on Apple Is Outdated, Says Chinese Conglomerate LeEco CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called AppleScript. It's existed since 1992 and still actively supported by Apple.

  16. Re: Without Steve Jobs on Apple Has First Earnings Decline In More Than A Decade (go.com) · · Score: 2

    The company didn't miss their earnings and profit targets they announced during the previous quarter, they missed analysts targets.

  17. Re: Thanks for nothing, carriers. on Active Drive-By Exploits Critical Android Bugs, Care Of Hacking Team (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Google is far from blameless. Apple never allowed the carriers to block updates. I don't have to wait on Dell or the other OEMs to allow me to update Windows.

  18. Re: Here is more proof on Active Drive-By Exploits Critical Android Bugs, Care Of Hacking Team (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    If Google "acted like Apple", they wouldn't have allowed the carriers to control the update process and they would be providing security updates for all devices introduced since since July 2011.

    Wouldn't any apps using Webviews still be vulnerable?

  19. So 50% of American smart phone consumers are "idiots"?

  20. Yes and you get a 128GB ad card that you can't use to store apps on.

  21. Re: Who rents this stuff? on Users Find Renting a Movie On iTunes Frees Up Space On iPhone, iPad · · Score: 1

    That's not how real life works. The reason that Redbox can rent a DVD for $2 is that once they buy it, they can rent the same DVD out as many times as they want. They don't have to make any deals with the studios.

    With streaming, the content is licensed and the retailer has to pay the studio each time it is streamed.

  22. Re: Way to catch up to 2008 on Apple's New Safari Technology Preview Browser Is Aimed At Web Developers · · Score: 1

    You could always download the WebKit Nightlies. This just makes it easier.

  23. Re: Strange signal on Oracle Seeks $9.3 Billion For Google's Use Of Java In Android (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm definitely not anti-Microsoft, I make a living developing with C# and think they make the best development environments. However, if I were starting a business, i definitely would go all open source for the servers.. Today in 2016 that might even be .Net on Linux.

  24. Re:Cupertinto better get busy! on FBI Unlocks iPhone Without Apple's Help In San Bernadino Case (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    They decrypted a 32 bit iPhone 5c running iOS 7. All indications are that security professionals think that if it had been a newer 64 bit phone with the extra encryption hardware running a later version of the OS, it would be harder to decrypt.

  25. Re:The issue in this case was never encryption on FBI Unlocks iPhone Without Apple's Help In San Bernadino Case (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying encryption is worthless because you have to decrypt the data to use it?