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  1. Who pays for apps? on China Overtakes the US in iOS App Store Revenue (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought one in my entire life. I steer around every one that costs money because there is insufficient value add to make it worthwhile. I'll most likely never buy one again.

    Maybe those in China just haven't wised up yet.

  2. Talk about a left wing canard. Nixon didn't do that. He said he didn't, others said he didn't. I believe him. Clifford was a paranoid and your source is a
    freelance science writer with no credentials.

    Now, the truth.

  3. Re:Do they want to sell these things? on Apple Rumored To Remove Old-School USB Ports On Next MacBook Pro (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The trackpad is very much a thing. 2014 Macbook Pro has one, and it has no buttons. For that matter, her prior 2009 edition had no buttons either.

  4. Re:Do they want to sell these things? on Apple Rumored To Remove Old-School USB Ports On Next MacBook Pro (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  5. Do they want to sell these things? on Apple Rumored To Remove Old-School USB Ports On Next MacBook Pro (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    One gets the impression that they don't. I mean, I wasn't their market anyway. I absolutely despise the no-buttons touch panel on recent Macbooks. But not having any useful ports completely rules out the device even for my wife.

  6. The USG has a "directive" to go to SI on a voluntary basis that dates from the Ford Administration (!) There is an accompanying Executive Order (12770) that was issued by GHW Bush in 1991, that similarly doesn't mandate a change.

    The bottom line is that it would take a literal act of God to make the US switch in any meaningful way. Every time progress is made, it gets walked back over time because the US is still on imperial units for all intents and purposes. People like it this way - everyone knows what a liter is due to international drink packaging, but kilograms and centimeters are not well understood by the common people.

  7. How about this? Or maybe this?

    So yes, NASA does not use SI units exclusively.

  8. Re:Most of LinkedIn is meaningless on LinkedIn Promises To Bring Order and Meaning To Your Useless Endorsements (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The words "Citrix" and "Novell" are very bad choices. I've had to excise those.

  9. No they don't, at least not exclusively.

    How soon people forget...

  10. The metric system isn't necessarily superior...

  11. The smart play on DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Pay for Gartner's advice and then do the exact opposite thing. They are a reverse oracle.

  12. Nothing on the lander I can see.

  13. This is great news on DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything Gartner says is wrong...going back to the 1990s. Therefore, Gattaca will never happen.

  14. Re:Why is anyone making a 4GB device in 2016? on Amazon Japan's Manga-Ready Kindle Has 8 Times the Storage (engadget.com) · · Score: 0
  15. Re:Cost? on CO2 To Ethanol In One Step With Cheap Catalyst (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    So essentially relying on the oceans to capture the CO2 themselves rather than using energy intensive methods to concentrate the gas from the atmosphere.

    Very slick. However, it appears from skimming the paper that they did not test this in brine or ocean water. So it's still an open question whether that would work.

  16. Re:Well, 10 million of us live in NYC. on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I can imagine it just fine, I lived it for several years. And if you think all the 8 million people in NYC live there by choice...as stated, maybe the tiny gentrified minority loves it, but that's not everyone for sure.

    Whole family moved to the suburbs to get away from the tax burden, pollution and crime. It's not gotten much better over the years, particularly the first.

  17. Re:ADDICTED? Or indebted? on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ask yourself why the commuting? Take a gander at the cities - particularly on the East Coast and in the Midwest, but LA, Houston and New Orleans do not escape this net - and you'll understand why instantly. Who would really want to live there, aside from tiny gentrified enclaves?

    The gentrified enclaves in DC are particularly laughable. One block is swanky, next block is crack houses.

  18. And i'm going to keep bringing it up forever to characterize the shitbags who support that criminal warmonger Hillary correctly.

  19. Nope. The person was from several blocks away and was attracted to the Trump sign. Got her (yes, her) on camera with her two dogs. Flipping the bird after she flung the shit until she saw the cameras and fled. Haven't seen her after the cops visited her a month or so ago.

    The car vandalism happened at a psych hospital in Baltimore. I believe it was an employee based on the uniform he was wearing and the time (around 5pm). I was going for a family meal thing to visit my daughter who is in an eating disorder program.

  20. Besides my lawn getting dogshitted until I installed cameras, and my wonderful new paintjob on my car that cost $2500. All because of Trump signs and stickers.

    Don't have to tell me the side the subhuman scum are on. Deplorables? Clinton supporters.

  21. Re:"Gay Culture" is blind devotion then? on Project Include Drops Y Combinator As Peter Thiel Pledges $1.25 Million To Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The truth is the truth.

  22. Re:Does anybody ... on Assange Internet Link Cut By State Actor, Claims Wikileaks (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're being a bit premature, as no one has had the chance to properly go over these tranches. Let's come back in a few weeks and see about "victory laps".

  23. Re:Self-entitlement & narcissism... on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing private about an arena or large theater. If I were filming him in his house, he'd have a complaint.

  24. Re:Good and bad exposures on Assange Internet Link Cut By State Actor, Claims Wikileaks (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    Look up "Operation McCall" for "suitable for public release" details on Saddam's nuclear program.

  25. Re:Self-entitlement & narcissism... on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    The wishes of the performer are bullshit, they are showing themselves to the public and getting filmed. Boo hoo. I don't owe them a revenue stream above and beyond what I paid to see them. If Chappelle wants to have stormtroopers locking up cellphones, well, I wasn't going to go see that lame ass anyway.

    On a different note, I took my wife three times over the past few years to see John Prine, the folk singer. Prine doesn't give two shits who films him. I watched him sing. She got out her cellphone and went up to the edge of the stage and filmed him playing Angel from Montgomery and a couple other tunes. She wanted to remember the night that she saw him before he croaks.