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  1. Re:I agree Apple is losing its' panache on At Apple, Mac Is Getting Far Less Attention - How It Handled the New MacBook Pro Is a Living Proof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You can make your own determination and provide insight or move on.

  2. Re:I agree Apple is losing its' panache on At Apple, Mac Is Getting Far Less Attention - How It Handled the New MacBook Pro Is a Living Proof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Said no one, ever.

    Desktop, laptop (excluding Android and Chrome OS) Net Applications[179] Oct 2016 2.18% (Ubuntu, etc.) 6.43% (OS X)

    *** 91.39% (10, 8.1, 7, Vista, XP and older down to Windows 3.1) ***

  3. Re:I agree Apple is losing its' panache on At Apple, Mac Is Getting Far Less Attention - How It Handled the New MacBook Pro Is a Living Proof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

  4. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I really do not see why you bother.

    Because it's a forum where we bother.

  5. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not being insulted.

    You're being schooled.

    You did not know that.

  6. Re:in other words... on Barnes & Noble's Latest Tablet Is Running Spyware From Shanghai (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This.

    I'm a retired IT guy and, like many of you, I can perform miracles of a semi-religious nature with computing platforms.

    I have to provide permission for my computer to flip a bit.

    Even so, I know full well that every fucking thing I do is recorded and used without my permission.

    When laypersons ask me, "What can be done?"

    I say, "Nothing."

    I'm not worried about it, though because it actually works both ways.

    My motto is:

    "For every motherfucker out there with a computer, there's another motherfucker out there with a computer."

    It's all good.

  7. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not being insulted.

    You're being schooled.

  8. Re:"Suggesting" ... on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I survived womanizer and Bay of Pigs crapass Kennedy and crooks Nixon and his VP, Agnew, and Vietnam war asshole LBJ, and Obama was castrated by Congress.

    Trump may be shitting in his mess kit.

    We'll see.

  9. Re:Watch what is done, not what is said... on At Apple, Mac Is Getting Far Less Attention - How It Handled the New MacBook Pro Is a Living Proof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Well played.

  11. Re:I agree Apple is losing its' panache on At Apple, Mac Is Getting Far Less Attention - How It Handled the New MacBook Pro Is a Living Proof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You're outa your goddam mind.

    I've hired IT peeps by the shitloads for corporations and none were Mac-trained.

    My firms hired double shitloads of computer/software users. No one used a Mac to get the work out.

    In my career, I've bought over a million dollars of desktop/portable/server equipment, and associated software, and none of it was Mac.

    "Serious" is defined as, "makes money."

  12. Re:"Suggesting" ... on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This, and for me ... "polling" is so yesterday.

    I have noticed, however, that recently, "survey" is used a lot ... by the same pollsters.

    --

    I've decided to ignore the rhetoric of late, including meetings and appointments, and wait until Trump becomes President on January 20, 2017 and examine what he and his administration actually DOES .

    Anything else, for me, is a tempest in a teapot and I'm running a Keurig 2.0.

  13. Re:I agree Apple is losing its' panache on At Apple, Mac Is Getting Far Less Attention - How It Handled the New MacBook Pro Is a Living Proof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Let's just say this.

    Windows 7 47.17%
    Windows 10 23.72%
    Windows XP 8.63%
    Windows 8.1 8.01%
    Linux 2.31%
    Mac OS X 10.11 2.21%
    Mac OS X 10.12 2.21%
    Windows 8 1.96%
    Mac OS X 10.10 1.35%
    Windows Vista 1.10%
    Mac OS X 10.9 0.47%
    Windows NT 0.34%
    Mac OS X 10.6 0.17%
    Mac OS X 10.8 0.15%
    Mac OS X 10.7 0.14%
    Mac OS X 10.5 0.02%
    Windows 2000 0.01%
    Windows 98 0.01%
    Mac OS X 10.4 0.00%
    FreeBSD 0.00%
    Macintosh 0.00%
    Mac OS X) App 0.00%
    Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.00%

  14. Re:Watch what is done, not what is said... on At Apple, Mac Is Getting Far Less Attention - How It Handled the New MacBook Pro Is a Living Proof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is true of all Apple products.

    I've gone through iPhones 3G, 4s, 5c, 5s, 6s Plus.

    While individual features like the cameras and dimensions, as well as speed and battery life have all improved, it's all the same shit.

    Apple now has more cash than God, but no Steve Jobs.

    Non-core ventures like TV, self-driving cars, China investments, all serve as death throes to an aging brand.

    We've seen this before.

    Look at IBM.

    It doesn't end well.

  15. Now that OSX targets Intel architecture, there are instructions available online to build a "Hackintosh", a computer built from non-Apple parts that can run OSX. A few laptops are OSX-compatible, but Mac-hackers have the best success with a tower build as they can choose the exact hardware supported by Apple.

    What's not annoying about that?

  16. Re:I agree Apple is losing its' panache on At Apple, Mac Is Getting Far Less Attention - How It Handled the New MacBook Pro Is a Living Proof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The company that overtakes Mac as the main laptop of serious computer users ...

    Actually, the market is NOT serious computer users.

    Those stick with the PC models.

    Mac users were/are mostly portable form factor.

    I was in the IT business for 30 years and the only business I ever saw that had a Mac system, with desktops, servers and printers was the one I donated to Goodwill in favour of Windows shit.

    The users at that firm were were appreciative.

    Macs are for niche users -- mostly students and artists.

  17. Re:Everyone Is Right on Scientists Blast Antimatter Atoms With a Laser For The First Time (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The good news is the links still "pop up," and you can RTFA which provides information by real physicists.

    This is a public comment section.

    You're old enough to remember it was never different.

    I was there, too.

  18. Re:Bullshit! on Scientists Blast Antimatter Atoms With a Laser For The First Time (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Considering the OP is female, I would observe that chirality is dead.

  19. Scientists Blast Antimatter Atoms ... on Scientists Blast Antimatter Atoms With a Laser For The First Time (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    ... with laser containing the message, "Your mommy wears combat boots!"

  20. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Your cause is lost.

    There were politicians at the time and Galileo wasn't a heretic so he could get elected or to piss off the manufacturers of the Ptolemaic model mobiles for sale at the hobby shop and put the geocentric craft out of business.

  21. Re:Why lasers? on Scientists Blast Antimatter Atoms With a Laser For The First Time (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The main reason is because so much data has been collected, over a such long period of time, using lasers to measure matter that the scientific method would require using a laser as a control yardstick to measure anti-matter.

  22. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    TL;DR

    My post was short and legible.

  23. Re:Yei first Offshore wind farm operational in U.S on Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And the blades would cool the land, counteracting global warming.

  24. Re:Want to guess why? on Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    This.

    We have so much goddam natural gas we export it.

    U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas Exports Reach A New Market And Continue To Climb In 2016. In the first six months of this year, nearly 50 Bcf of U.S. LNG was exported. We will be surging to a dominant role in less than five years, with five terminals operating on the Gulf Coast and in Maryland by 2020.

  25. Re:Solar rated highest in 2016, but... on Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This.

    Trump and cabinet be damned, companies do what's best for them.

    People who work in coal want their jobs, but investors will not be interested.

    It's the Big Tobacco plot and [spoiler alert] it dies in the end.