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  1. Re:Phone-etically on iPhoneXsMax, Now That's a Tongue Twister (om.co) · · Score: 1

    Wait at least until the end of october, where they're supposed to be presenting the new Macs.

    Once they truly and properly butcher the Mac mini, then you can be done with them for good.

  2. Re:As if the iPad names were any better on iPhoneXsMax, Now That's a Tongue Twister (om.co) · · Score: 1

    Didn't you forget "The New iPad"? AFAIK it was the official name.

    Apart from that, at least for a while they did follow the 1/2/3/4 naming convention. The Air thing was to differenciate between previous and newer generations and the mini/pro is/was to differenciate between sizes.

  3. Re:Pronunciation guide on iPhoneXsMax, Now That's a Tongue Twister (om.co) · · Score: 1

    No it's not. Watch the keynote, everyone at Apple calls it "iPhone 10 S Max".

  4. Re:Stick a fork in Apple on iPhoneXsMax, Now That's a Tongue Twister (om.co) · · Score: 1

    When your iPad dies, check out Amazon's Fire tablets. They are of excellent quality for the price. Buy it on sale on "Amazon Prime Day" or whatever the fuck they call it.

  5. Re:Stick a fork in Apple on iPhoneXsMax, Now That's a Tongue Twister (om.co) · · Score: 1

    Wait, are you still talking about Apple products?

  6. Re: Stick a fork in Apple on iPhoneXsMax, Now That's a Tongue Twister (om.co) · · Score: 1

    I used Bluetooth exactly two times in the last decade, otherwise it's always disabled.
    But I've used headphones every single day in the last decade.

    See? Everyone can talk about their daily use of technologies.

  7. "And I thought we sucked at naming" on iPhoneXsMax, Now That's a Tongue Twister (om.co) · · Score: 1

    [Microsoft employee] quip on Twitter: "And I thought we sucked at naming. #AppleEvent iPhone Xs Max September Refresh CTP1"

    So basically, this guy admitted that Microsoft sucks at naming.

    But yes, "iPhone X [s] Max" is a terrible name. Apple painted themselves into a corner by naming last year's model "iPhone X". And then they doubled down on the stupid by going with "Max" instead of "Plus" like the previous years.

  8. Re:Sweet on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    That's why I bought an Amazon Fire 7 tablet.
    Now both Google and Amazon can spy on me!

    I installed Netflix and... nothing else. Amazon must be pissed off that I bought it on sale on Amazon Day.

  9. Re: If I was a citizen of the Marshall Islands on Marshall Islands Warned Against Adopting Digital Currency (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So is the population *seeding* the supply from their own sovereign funds, or will they *be* seeded 10% of the ICO?

    Yes.

  10. ...will slap sanctions on any foreign companies or people who interfere in U.S. elections, based on intelligence agency findings...

    Intelligence agency findings are secret because of national security, so basically the USA is thinking about passing a law that will enable them to slap sanctions on anyone they want around the world and we're supposed to shut up about it.

  11. Re: They already wrecked it with GDPR on The EU Could Vote To Wreck the Internet Tomorrow (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Your corporate office is where you book the largest amount of corporate revenue.
    2. All the tech companies who have parked revenue in other countries are required to transfer their foreign accounts into US accounts and be subject to US taxes.

    Okay so how does that work for non-US companies? Also, your first law just declared that your corporate office could be in another country. That would mean Apple is an Irish company and would not be subjected to your second law.

  12. Re: They already wrecked it with GDPR on The EU Could Vote To Wreck the Internet Tomorrow (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    New law: your corporate offices is where your have the most employees.

  13. Re:Why no RaspPi image? on Linux Distro Elive Emerges Alive After 8-Year Hibernation (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Even the Raspberry Pi Zero, at only 5$USD, has a 1GHz processor and 512MB RAM. From the description of Elive in the sumary, it should be enough computing power and RAM to run easily it.

    On a Raspberry Pi 3, with a 1.2GHz Quad Core 64bit CPU and 1GB RAM, it should be running as fast as a regular desktop computer with a modern OS.

  14. So what? on Amazon is Stuffing Its Search Results Pages With Ads (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Oh noes, you're being shown ads to buy stuff!

    But wait, stupid, you're on a website that sells stuff. Unless you didn't already know what you wanted to buy, how could ads for other probably similar products be a problem?

  15. Celebrity athletes? on NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft (al.com) · · Score: 1

    Astronauts are more valuable members of society than people running around and kicking or throwing balls in a field.

    You want to play sports? Fine. The fact that it became what it is now is proof that a huge percentage of the human race is still stupid.

  16. I lost about minus $15K so far. Damn you, crypto-currencies! /shakefist

  17. The article is from freakin' Bloomberg. You want to trust the same kind of people as bankers? They don't want people investing in crypto-currencies because it means less money for them to run away with (semi-legally on top of that).

    So fuck off, Bloomberg assholes. You can't stop crypto-currencies any more than you can stop gravity from working.

  18. Compared to "real cash"? The buying power of consumers have been going DOWN for decades now, all thanks to governments and their ability to print money.

  19. Re: In other words, people have to actually use it on Crypto Growth Nears 'Ceiling,' Ethereum Co-Founder Buterin Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait until people realize they can monetize their content directly without the ads.. and youâ(TM)ll see some interesting things happen.

    And this is where the smaller coins like Dogecoin, Reddcoin and Digibyte will shine. They'll probably never reach a value of $10K per coin, but $1 to $100 per coin might be possible since they're all divisible to 8 decimals just like Bitcoin.

  20. Re:Obligatory Futurama on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    Damn, burni2 beat me to it.
    I did search the thread for "Futurama" before posting, but... meh.

  21. Obligatory Futurama on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1
  22. Well, there you go. Send them their own postcards and coffee table books.
    Problem solved, once and for all.

  23. Re:Dodgers fail again on Instead of Bobbleheads, Baseball Stadium Tries Handing Out Crypto Tokens (mlblogs.com) · · Score: 1

    Rename it TateryMcTaterTotsFace.

  24. I own crypto-currencies and I'm staying the fuck away from Ethereum. They were able to reverse their fucking blockchain TWICE because of security problems.

    They should be offering "Facebook digital bobbleheads" instead because of all the people who will go watch the baseball game, the percentage of Facebook users is going to be much higher than Ethereum wallet owners.

  25. None at all on 'State of JavaScript 2018' Survey Announced (stateofjs.com) · · Score: 1

    Last year's survey discovered that React was the dominant framework, though the second most-popular framework was "none," with 9,493 JavaScript developers saying they didn't use one.

    http://vanilla-js.com/

    Look at the speed comparisons. And the other big bonus is not having to download multiple hundred kilobytes (if not megabytes) of framework code.