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  1. Re:It's going to be a disaster on Apple Is Developing a TV Show Based On Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series (deadline.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone even remotely familiar with the Foundation trilogy knows that it's almost impossible to transpose to tv/film.

    They're going to focus on sex and extreme violence

    Wait, what? Apple is going to focus on sex and extreme violence?

    I came here fully expecting somebody to claim Apple would ruin Foundation by censoring it beyond recognition, but this?

  2. You seem to mix up the several companies called ARM.

    The first ARM was Acorn Risc Machines. Nothing to do with the later "Advanced Risc Machines Holding" or Ltd. Except well,

    Wow, for the first time in this thread you are right. Because there never was a company called Acorn Risc Machines. You fucking imbecile.

  3. Re:Let them die. [Re:Income Inequality] on AI is Rapidly Changing the Types and Location of the Best-Paying Jobs (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    +

    "Of course, you can just take the libertarian approach: let them starve."

    That is not true, a libertarian would first let social groups, like churches, try to help these people instead of the tax payers, aka the Government.

    IOW, a libertarian would do nothing to help other people, and instead do everything to prevent them getting help. That's a really long way of saying: let them starve.

  4. Well, that is ARMs Holding. That is not the original "Acorn Risc Machines".

    In case you missed it: Acorn is dead - just like your moronic argument.

    Heck, at the time ARM Ltd. was founded, Acorn Computers already was no longer independent, but was taken over on the cheap by Italian computer make Olivetti.

  5. And? What exactly is your point?

    Apple joined late ... they did not 'found' or 'invent' ARM, that is pretty clear from your wikipedia excerpt.

    They joined late? They saved ARM (the ISA) by co-founding the company ARM. Nobody claimed they invented ARM, you bloody imbecile, just that it wouldn't exist anymore (neither the ISA nor the company).

    Words have meanings, and you don''t know them.

  6. As I said, IBM and Motorola CPUs were sinking ships. Intel is not that.

    Apple does not manufacture their own chips, or anything at all actually.

    So? Neither does AMD, and people here keep claiming their chips are better than Intel's (and that yes, Intel is a sinking ship). The chips they don't make themselves.

  7. PS: https://hardware.slashdot.org/... Apple iPhone Rumors Resurface 5 years before the iPhone.

  8. I spent thousands on the AppStore

    How did that happen?

    He must have been one of the 8 people who bought the I Am Rich app.

  9. Yeah, a story like this is kind of hard to believe. I know that Apple isn't as good as keeping secrets as it used to be, but a leak about Apple's product line 2 years from now almost never happens.

    Well, technically the news about Apple working on a tablet (now known as the iPad) was reported on Slashdot (and not just there) more than 5 years before it came out (and even 2 years before the iPhone was announced). Sure, they thought it was a Mac tablet back then, but still. https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

  10. Re:Year of the Chromebook. on Security Experts See Chromebooks as a Closed Ecosystem That Improves Security (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    You forgot to mention the biggest benefit of the Chromebook: it sends all your data to Google. Oh, I didn't they a benefit for the user.

  11. 100% of Apple employees don*t give out personal information like that.

  12. Re:The joke is on us. on Can Problems From Climate Change Be Addressed With Science? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    What part of ". Note that CO2 does not by itself cause a runaway." do you not understand?

    The part where your quote is deliberately incomplete because you want it to say something it doesn't.

  13. Re:The joke is on us. on Can Problems From Climate Change Be Addressed With Science? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting that your rebuttal specifically states that CO2 concentration has NO effect on a runaway scenario.

    Sure, if you can't read, texts say exactly what you want. So you can't read. What else do you wanna share with us?

  14. Re:A you kidding me? on Can Problems From Climate Change Be Addressed With Science? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Bjorn Lomborg has done an interesting analysis and his conclusion is that fighting climate change is, economically, a terrible idea.

    If you completely ignore the cost of climate change. Of course ha also argues for free trade, so he's an enemy of Trump, and you can't use his arguments any more.

  15. Re:The joke is on us. on Can Problems From Climate Change Be Addressed With Science? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 0

    The Venus scenario would require more carbon than we have to burn, forminb an atmosphere that is as thick as our ocean depths: https://wattsupwiththat.com/20...

    Wrong: Direct rebuttal to your article.

  16. Re:How can this possibly be true? on Android Is Now as Safe as the Competition, Google Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Given the ridiculously short amount of time Android devices get updates -- including devices from Google itself -- how can this possibly be true from a realistic viewpoint?

    Well, he said "now" and he meant that literally.

  17. 'No Significant Changes' in Their Behavior - apart from playing a computer game for at least 30 minutes a day all of a sudden. Errrm?

  18. Re:I never saw the purpose of these on Apple To Release a Cheaper MacBook Air Later This Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    And if we want a Mac?

    Then don't buy the MacBook Air, you moron.

  19. Re:How long till the next Slashdot outage? on Your Love of Your Old Smartphone Is a Problem for Apple and Samsung (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I went one better. I sent the asylum a note letting them know Pelosi, Schumer, and Schiff were loose.

    And now you are again posting from your padded cell.

  20. Re:I never saw the purpose of these on Apple To Release a Cheaper MacBook Air Later This Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    And none of that negates the needs of the professional power user, nor of the gamer.

    And those people, who even combined aren't "most people" can buy Pc notebooks several times the price of the MacBook Air. And then shove it where you get all your arguments from.

  21. Re:The video is cool on Levi Strauss Replaces Human Sanding With Automated Lasers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ooops, sorry. That was the Chinese copy. Here's the Spanish original: https://www.youtube.com/user/j...

  22. Re:The video is cool on Levi Strauss Replaces Human Sanding With Automated Lasers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to see the process on video.

    And here's the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - American innovation strikes again.

  23. Re:Still trying to Monetize it? on Google Just Launched Another Answer To Apple Pay (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally I trust Google a shitload more with my data than most other companies out there. They also have a long standing history of not being hacked, not sharing the data, not doing dodgy things with user information etc. etc.

    Yeah, that's why people like you blame The Fappening on Apple, when most accounts hacked there were from Google. Because you actually have a clue about security. NOT.

    The only reason why you get that impression is because Google the data sharing company don't share that information with Google the search engine.

  24. Re:Card not present on Google Just Launched Another Answer To Apple Pay (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    EFTPOS (aka Debit) works when the card is present. But I haven't seen any application of EFTPOS for card not present transactions, such as buying things online. What am I missing?

    Actually, Apple Pay does that.

  25. Re:Oh, finally... on Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Down For First Time Ever (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And who still thinks that desktop computers are dying?

    The same people reporting this? Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 2 Percent in 4Q17 and 2.8 Percent for the Year. And unlike this report, that's been going on for years.