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  1. Re:Could someone ELI5 how Macbooks retain value? on Could the Best Windows 10 Laptop Be a Mac? · · Score: 1

    I think part of it is in the nature of OSX. in my experience, and from what I hear from others, windows operating systems tend to be much more demanding with each generation, so you may only get 2 generations of windows on a machine before performance degrades. eg you buy an XP system, it runs vista, it struggles with win7 but barely gets by, and then the machine is tapped out. But due to the way apple designs the OSX upgrades, from my personal experience a new version will run better on my old machine that the prior version. so even with an old MacBook you can still have the latest and greatest software. I suspect this is what is driving the high resale value.

    my MacBook at home is like 7 years old but I'm running osx 10.10 Yosemite with no problem, and I'm looking forward to upgrading to El Capitan or whatever it's called in the fall. At the time I upgrade the OS I might upgrade the hard drive to SSD and cut out a partition to boot camp win7.

  2. Re:Somewhere PT Barnum is smiling on The Tech Problems Inside Nintendo's Amiibo Toys · · Score: 1

    So you're storing your data in a doll, and you have to buy a doll for each game you play? And people are still willing to pay above retail for these dolls? Sounds like Nintendo's happy with the current model to me, and somewhere PT Barnum is smiling.

    be that as it may, a sucker born every minute etc, but I absolutely must possess the Mario amiibo from Super Mario World, or else all the atoms in my body will disassociate from their molecular bonds and fly into the ether.

  3. Re: That's amazing on Android M's Official Name Is Marshmallow · · Score: 1

    where do you think they got that from?????

  4. Re:Bah on Android M's Official Name Is Marshmallow · · Score: 2

    if it's open source, wouldn't it be gnutella?

  5. Re:That's amazing on Android M's Official Name Is Marshmallow · · Score: 1

    There is no Dana, only ZOOOOOOOL

  6. Re:Silly on 'Drinkable Book' Pages Clean Dirty Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    these sheets would be contraband, so you you need to find a way to sneak them into the country. If you print up a copy of Hunger Games using these sheets, then you can sneak in the material no problem.

  7. Re:Worst. Science. Writer. Ever. on Death Star Science: The Physics Of Destroying An Earth-Sized Planet · · Score: 1

    Why use antimatter? I would prefer to use antematter, you know, the stuff that was here before matter existed.

  8. the word you're looking for is 'humblebrag'

  9. Re:More stupid CONservative posts on The UK's War On Porn: Turning ISPs Into Parents · · Score: 1

    granted, moldova has a rich oral tradition that governs the constitution and provides contextual elements. but if you're looking for more countries, consider that US and Moldova are just the tip of the sphere, or iceberg if you will. haiti and guatemala come to mind.

  10. Re:A phycopathic work environment on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 1

    i spent a minute delving through my greet roots to figure out what phycopathic meant, but came up short.

  11. Re: Euphemism from hell on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 1

    no, dumbass. if you want to create moon bots you don't start your own comapny, you get a steady gig at one of those brass button firms on the kickstered.

  12. Re:Euphemism from hell on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "...in exchange for the ability to create." I hate this phrase! People work awful jobs for Amazon in exchange for the money!

    this requires further examination. Amazon doesn't "create" *anything*. This is MBA-style creation, like creating new marketplace opportunities or new regional expansion initiatives. I'm not impressed.

  13. Re:White collar workers? on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 4, Informative

    if you finished reading the post (let alone the article), you would see that the article is about the corporate offices, not the warehouses.

  14. Re: apple? on Documents Indicate Apple Is Building a Self-Driving Car · · Score: 1

    lies!

  15. Re:30 cents... on Cheap, 3D-Printed Stethoscope Challenges Top-of-the-Line Model · · Score: 1

    I don't think you know what a tesla is. The fusion magnet is 12 tesla. You think everyday equipment is 1 tesla?

  16. Re:More stupid CONservative posts on The UK's War On Porn: Turning ISPs Into Parents · · Score: 1

    Moldova, for one.

  17. Doom and gloom on Climatologists: By 2100, the Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean · · Score: 3, Funny

    i'm so tired of doom and gloom. Can't scientists ever say nice things?

  18. Re:Groklaw Needed More Than Ever on Oracle: Google Has "Destroyed" the Market For Java · · Score: 1

    I don't see what alice has to do with this.

  19. Re:More stupid CONservative posts on The UK's War On Porn: Turning ISPs Into Parents · · Score: 1

    maybe you don't know many countries. plenty of countries where guns are a constitutional right.

  20. Re:Just starting now? on Airline Begins Weighing Passengers For 'Safety' · · Score: 1

    on several recent Southwest flights they the plane was "weight capped" so they had to waitlist people even though there were empty seats. sux. I would say charge the large passengers more, but then I would be charged more...

  21. Re:It will adapt on Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? · · Score: 1

    There will be some unfortunate causalities

    I agree, like a bad science fiction time travel plot!

  22. Re:Meh. Fuck em on Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have ghostery on my browser. it shows for each web page how many trackers are being blocked. I've seen many sites with 12+ different trackers.

  23. Re:Ad Blocking on Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? · · Score: 1

    About ten minutes into browsing on a popular social network site

    IMGUR??>?

  24. Re:There are Ads and then there are Fucking Ads. on Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? · · Score: 5, Informative

    a lot of page loads are slowed by ads because the ads are bid and filled in real time. You click on a link, your deets are passed thru to the ad server (IP, operating system, mobile or desktop, etc, whatever the browser sends), ad server auctions off your eyeballs. The auction window is left open as long as people can stand it in order to maximize bids.

  25. Re:It's the base assumption that its invalid on Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice · · Score: 1

    physical reality is you'll never have the opportunity to push me cuz i'm ready for anybody who tries to come at me. that's physical reality.