danox

blastdoor said:

foregoneconclusion said:

blastdoor said: The Great Depression resulted in FDR

The general population of the U.S. was smarter at that time. The current population still hasn't figured out that an anti-regulatory party isn't going to improve economic outcomes for anyone except the rich. 

I think it's important to understand that's not actually right. My grandparents were young adults who voted for FDR and their schooling ended at 8th grade. They had a lot of prejudices and misconceptions about the world. They voted for FDR not because they were geniuses, but because the alternative was Hoover. 

The real difference -- and it's critically important to understand-- between then and now is that back then there was a system for selecting presidential candidates that was mostly run by elites, not the masses. Candidates were selected by party machines in the proverbial smoky back room. That process eliminated radical candidates and presented the populace with two mostly sane and reasonable, though still importantly different, choices. 

Our problem today is that the system for nominating candidates, especially (apparently) in the Republican Party, has broken down, and deeply flawed people are able to become nominees. 

The little bit of good news is, that Canada and Australia, rejected the Trump look-a-likes in their recent elections, do to the recent outburst of the orange fella but unfortunately the USA is stuck for a while. 

The new Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, has extensive experience in both government and business and appears to be the ideal prime Minister, for the Canadian people in these current times.

Carney graduated from Harvard University (magna cum laude) and Oxford University’s with a  (masters degree, and a doctorate degree).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carney

It is noteworthy that China has recently increased its oil and gas purchases from Canada due to the recent actions of the president. Additionally, the oil and gas pipeline that was intended to connect to the Atlantic Ocean will be redesigned to route totally through Canada instead detouring part of the way thru the United States on its way to the Atlantic Ocean. So much winning…..

Who do you trust in the current administration to negotiate with the Chinese Trump, JD Vance, Ricky Rubio? oh boy…

CrossPlatformFrogger said:

danox said:

So can Apple turn around and blame Microsoft for the lack of AAA games on the Mac? Is turn about fair play?

Wouldn't that be developers not wanting to waste resources developing for Macs due to Apple's proprietary software (Metal, Apples fault) and lack of market share making it not profitable? 
Basically AAA games are not on Mac because of Apple and developers, mainly Apple, not Microsoft.

sirbryan said:

MplsP said:

If T-Mobile signs with starlink it may obviate the issue. Having the service with the carrier rather than the device manufacturer makes more sense, anyway.

Makes me wonder what's taking AT&T, Verizon, and other carriers so long to come up with a plan, either to partner with Starlink, Amazon, or whoever else.  Perhaps it has a lot to due with the spectrum each one has.  Some bands are certainly more easily (re)used in space than others.

MassiveAttack said:

So..  a device which collects data and even if I use iPhone or MacBook, this device will absorb and collect data from all users when connecting it with Apple products which makes Apple‘s privacy obsolete. 

And this device gets smarter and smarter by learning with collected data. 

It will be a personal device while Apple makes generally purposed devices. 

I see that Apple stock is underperforming as the worst stock performer YTD among Magnificant 7.

Rotten Apple will feel the pressure. Better now than late: Tim Cook needs to step down as he can’t afford to doom Apple further and further since Vision Pro.

So Apple is in trouble because two clowns get on the stage a la Qualcomm/Microsoft last year and announce something (nothing) that requires software and hardware which preforms like vaporware but is far beyond anything Apple has done to date, and the hardware would be better than Apple Silicon and the OS driving it will be better than any of the five operating systems Apple has released in the last 25 years? Oh and at the end Apple is also doomed too.

Note: Microsoft’s effort came up so far short of Apples Rosetta one (let alone Rosetta two) and the CPU/SOC designed by Qualcomm also came up short of the M1 processor in overall actual performance in software/hardware, which is why Microsoft is now also doubling down on their AI efforts this year and downplaying the hardware aspects, Microsoft has even gone so far as canceled some of the Surface hardware recently. (Microsoft hardware solutions are so bad that many in the geek crowd are crying that Apple should emulate it with a touch screen MacOS on an M4 iPad).

SiTime said:

Tim Apple, this is the life you choose. Did you really think your “donation” would be a one time thing? Oh, you sweet summer child. It was never enough then, it is never enough now, and it will never be enough in the future.

If Trump tells you to “Jump”, you need to reply (with tears in your eyes) “How high, sir?”. 

Ask Jensen Huang for some advice. Jensen knows how the strongman-authoritarian game is played. He knows how to play the game in China. And he knows how to play the game in 2025’s America. You won’t see Jensen making such rookie mistakes. Jensen showed up with Trump on the trip and heaped tons of praise on Trump. He knows what’s up.

Just say “Siri, call Jensen”. And after Siri replies with “I found some web results…”, go into your Contacts app and call him that way.

Xed said:

dewme said:

The president telling companies to eat the tariffs is like a mob boss telling his henchmen to hide the bodies. 

Nothing to see here!

And it's interesting because, just like the wall Mexico was going to pay for, he kept claiming that the importing country pays the tariffs. Did nearly half the people voting not take a civics class in middle school, or is that they never went to middle school, or didn't care so long as their dreams of hurting people different from them came true?