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  1. Re:So, kinda like Executor? on Emulator Project Aims To Resurrect Classic Mac Apps, Games Without the OS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Routine checks for optocouplers do that. on Multiple iCloud Services Experiencing Issues (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Proactive shift to the backup Xserves?

  3. "Play All" on Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator (hardocp.com) · · Score: 1

    Challenge accepted.

  4. Ramming Microsoft down third-world throats on Ghana's Windows Blackboard Teacher And His Students Have a Rewarding Outcome (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Teaching rote MSFT junk. Like in India, where it is some supposed "benefit" to receive free licenses and materials, it's an attempt to undermine the efforts of a society under the guise of assistance as benevolent market leader. Garbage.

  5. Half-baked betas at top-shelf prices on Apple Homepod Review: Locked In (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple does it again.
    Did they even test the thing?

  6. If anything, we should be in a scenario where the inferior Fitbit products were dumped in favor of Pebble's.
    I want the equivalent of a Mac Plus on my wrist. It's enough.
    There are no less than 3 fully-capable compute devices at arm's length at all times. I need a timepiece and simple means to interact with those devices. That is all.

  7. Catalog Showroom on Circuit City Is Coming Back (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Display the thing in an amazing setting - demo it, and sell it to me.
    I'll pick it up in a box from cash wrap, or you can deliver it.
    Fry's has kept part of this element of Incredible Universe alive, to some extent. Buying a motherboard isn't quite the joy it once was, though.
    I never would have bought Fabulous Fred if it weren't for a working demo unit at Best/Service Merchandise/Sterling.

  8. Workshops on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    Bring in a trainer to run though a pre-certification training. ITIL, perhaps. Cream will rise.

  9. Insurance against Job Hopping on Why Do Employers Require College Degrees That Aren't Necessary? (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you committed to a Major, achieved some post-graduate specialist status, you are someone with major debt and a one-track mind. Perfect "Company Man" material.

  10. No more vintage Sesame Street?

  11. Your Way Doesn't Matter on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    You lone wolf, cowboy types are losing the war with your NIMBY ways. There is no spoon.

  12. Flashbacks of HD SC Setup on High Sierra's Disk Utility Does Not Recognize Unformatted Disks (tinyapps.org) · · Score: 1

    Had a horrible flashback to HD SC Setup and non-Apple branded disks.

  13. Don't discount the "hidden" OS compatibility layers. Carbon, Blue and Yellow boxes mean a great deal (and Carbon lurks today). This was all an in-house effort, AFAIK. Behind the veneer, the old Openstep code has morphed and evolved again. Swift and all the new Core classes and portable Kits where always the roadmap for the future. There's no going back.

  14. Dwindling options provoke desperate moves on Richard Stallman vs. Canonical's CEO: 'Will Microsoft Love Linux to Death?' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu is a Canonical product, but AFAIK, the meaningful measure of revenue comes from Ubuntu Advantage. Mobile failed, and any dreams of bundled storage and app services, plus any vendor licensing deals that could have come from it. I'm seeing this as an adaptation of that model; where WSL is just another distribution channel for Ubuntu could serve as a funnel for UA. "Land and Expand" meets "Embrace and Extinguish".

  15. Drafting Canonical is a mistake. on System76 Unveils Its Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distribution Called 'Pop!_OS' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    System76 is hindered by Ubuntu because Ubuntu is hindered by Canonical. Surely there's a better source for a fork. I get that they have lots of Ubuntu experience and a history there, but Launchpad should be EOL.

  16. Re:Wacom tablets anyone? on Logitech Reveals Mouse Mat That Is a Giant Wireless Charging Pad (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My Wacom has a mouse. It still feels like a Wacom, though - it's just a mouse-shaped Pen. The majority of sensing is under the tablet surface. This would be a regular mouse, with the sensors in your hand.

  17. Government Cheese flows more freely..

  18. Simple economics on Hackers Leak Eight Episodes of An Unreleased ABC Show (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    They asked for more than the combined total of Steve Harvey's salary and production costs.

  19. It's all built on the horrible Launchpad and Bazaar anyway.

  20. ReactOS is trying to *unseat* Windows? on Ask Slashdot: Is ReactOS A Serious Alternative To Windows? (reactos.org) · · Score: 1

    That's a lofty goal. One they don't pursue.

  21. Prove it. Disable the Lameness Filter on The World's Most Valuable Resource is No Longer Oil, But Data (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    24 well-publicised hours should do the trick.

  22. Boingboing wants ad impressions on Should Archive.org Ignore Robots.txt Directives And Cache Everything? (archive.org) · · Score: 1

    More data points to show you more Mc Donald's ads probably sounds awesome to them. You can't be cool, popular, and decent all at once, Xeni and crew..

  23. What unexpandable "Pro" device is built with anything but Malice?

  24. And costs 1/3 what an iPad Pro + dongles would.

  25. This will be the tipping point. on Apple Will Ship A Pro iMac Later This Year, It Won't Feature Touchscreen (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple's tendency to withhold 'features' available elsewhere in the market because they're NIH or defeat some other aesthetic (like fingerprints so often do) is gonna but them with touch. John Q. Appleseed will walk up and pinch to zoom, then not apologize because he knows fingerprints ruin the sublime compute environment Apple have graciously provided.