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  1. I COMPLETELY agree .... Worst keyboard ever made. on Apple Still Hasn't Fixed Its MacBook Keyboard Problem (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I ranted in a crash report today about it too, whether or not anyone reads it or gives a rip is another question.

    My Macbook Pro is really a Mac Mini. I nearly never use it without an external keyboard plugged in.

  2. Re:Unbelievable on Once-Shrinking Greenland Glacier Is Now Growing, NASA Study Shows (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I can give my toddler a tape measure and watch him "measure" things too, with about the same understanding and accuracy as climate scientists.

  3. Re:It's just a freakin laptop on Prioritizing the MacBook Hierarchy of Needs (sixcolors.com) · · Score: 1

    Somewhat true, but what Keynote does better than PowerPoint is get stuff out of the way. If you're an occasional slide show creator like most of the world, you'll get your presentation done in a tiny fraction of the time using Keynote. PowerPoint is less immediately intuitive, and takes more time to find where certain features are hidden among the sea of widgets. Keynote has a more simplified interface.

  4. VBA. Yes, Visual Basic for Applications on FedEx Turns To Segway Inventor To Build Delivery Robot (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe FedEx should spend some time trying to figure out how to get their desktop shipping software built on something a little more modern before they go trying to figure out autonomous robots. Just sayin' .

  5. Re:Unregistered Rifle? on Man With 3-D-Printed Gun Had Hit List of Lawmakers, US Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    True on Texas law, that's the way it should be! The sticking point here is reportedly he was already a prohibited person, so his possession of any firearm is illegal.

  6. Re: California is too expensive for a billionaire on SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas · · Score: 1

    The stunningly large number of California license plates showing up in my new'ish master planned community in Texas year after year says you're dead wrong.

  7. I've already done that, back on one of the other times they pulled some nonsense that was a big middle finger extended towards the customer base.

  8. Re:It's slow on You Can Now Profile Python Using Arm Forge (arm.com) · · Score: 1

    Python. The new Perl.

  9. Right. The smartest ones are those that pay 3x more to have the same technology, but with a fruit figure etched into its frame.

    The irony of your comment is lost on you, isn't it? Especially considering the content of the article on which you're commenting.

  10. Re:ARM and Windows not a perfect match on Snapdragon 8cx Gives Windows Its Most Extreme Arm Chip Yet (slashgear.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't think you understand, so let me make it simpler for you to grasp.

    Running PPC apps on the new x86 hardware involved emulation, because it was unreasonable to ask everyone to port everything to a new architecture. There was no unified set of libraries that targeted both PPC and x86. Now there is.

    x86 vs. ARM will not be a question of emulating one architecture or the other, it will be a much more straight forward (and seamless) ARM port. Think about it. If you write an iOS app in Xcode today, it builds automatically for four architectures: armv7, arm64, i386, and x86_64. The same will be done once ARM hardware starts running OS X.

  11. Re:ARM and Windows not a perfect match on Snapdragon 8cx Gives Windows Its Most Extreme Arm Chip Yet (slashgear.com) · · Score: 0

    Apple is much better suited to making this work now than with the PPC to x86 migration. iOS is in many ways OS X on ARM.

    NextStep!

  12. No, can't be. The libs called me stupid already on Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans Are Warming (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    ... for doubting the report in the first place. Oh so smug in their certainty the report was solid, concrete, proven science!

  13. Re:in my late 50s... on Ask Slashdot: Do Older IT Workers Doing End-User Support Find It Gets Harder With Age? · · Score: 1

    He didn't mention which MDM solution, but ESXi? Hell, if you can install Instagram on your phone you can install ESXi. Properly configure and administer it, well that's entirely another conversation.

  14. I currently have 4 things plugged into my rMBP+TB:

    1. USB-C to 4k 60Hz HDMI
    2. USB-C to USB-A (Das Keyboard)
    3. USB-C Power
    4. 1/8" TRS to amplifier

    Yeah, yeah, of course I could do all that with one connector to a dock, but outside of spending over 3k of my employer's money on the computer itself I'm a little cheap when I work from home. I could also do away with many of these various bits if I, oh I don't know, didn't care about productivity. The new rMBP keyboard SUCKS to type on. For those hunt-and-peck or 4-keys-per-day people who "love" it, more power to you. For you weird types that actually like it, you might want to be screened for brain damage lol.

  15. The study no "climate scientist" wants to run. on 'Hyperalarming' Study Shows Massive Insect Loss (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Where's the study of the actual effects, in a controlled lab environment, of a 2C temperature increase on the creatures they're saying are so negatively impacted? There are none? Really? I'm shocked. (No, I'm not actually shocked).

    What they're basically saying is my dog will die if I raise the temperature in my house from 20C to 22C. Or if I take him outside in the summer, I guess by their logic he'll spontaneously combust and start a forest fire.

    There is so little science or scientific method being applied to "climate science." You get some people who claim to be scientists who will go observe something then jump STRAIGHT to a conclusion of "climate warming." And they wonder why they have such a credibility problem.

  16. First it was fast and violent storms, now it's.... on Climate Change Drives Bigger, Wetter Storms -- Storms Like Florence (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    slow moving and steady storms? C'mon climate "science" purveyors, get your shit straight and stop attributing EVERY weather event to 'climate change.' Want to know why intelligent people outside of your funding....er... "science" circles don't believe? (Just in case your science doesn't work out, that is called a rhetorical question).

    Science needs to be repeatable and provable, but nothing being trotted about as climate science is anything but half-assed theories and wild fear mongering. I genuinely want to know what are and are not effects of climate change, but I haven't seen anything beyond awful correlations based on fudged data. Call me when you have something based in, well, science.

  17. Did they wipe the server? on DNC Says Reported Hack Attempt Was a False Alarm (wsj.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, like with a cloth?

  18. Pretty simple, really. on Climate Change Has Doubled the Frequency of Ocean Heatwaves (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Climate change is just Prop 65, but for the whole world.