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about the current vaccines.

baconstang said:

"It respects natural immunity which appears to be all but ignored now."  
Oh, that's the kind of immunity that 90+% of hospitalized Covid patients have, correct?

designr said:

That's the immunity that comes from having the antibodies as a result of having contracted the virus and recovered.

This is nothing new. You can read under "Active Immunity" here.

controllers and Microsoft's Wireless Xbox One controller. So if you already have these two controllers at home, you'll be able to connect these controllers to your Apple devices when Apple's new OS goes live in a couple of weeks.

in your comment is actually VERY very very common, which is why I always though "wireless" charging was dumb, especially when Sammy bragged about it. Which is also why I believe Apple will remove the lightning port but add a Watch-style clip-on charger that clips to the Apple logo or the whole back of their devices. OF course before they actually crack real wireless charging.

But handling 2 cords just to listen to music is ridiculous and never heard of anyone doing it until Apple removed the headphone jack and morons(not you specifically) suddenly parroted the meme against Apple.

"In terms of Apple-stupid, removing the 3.5mm jack ranks right up there near the top. "
Kinda how they were stupid for removing the floppy disk drive, the CD Rom drive, SCSI Drive, Mobile Keyboard etc. etc.

"No but this time's different!"
Heard it before too.

9secondkox2 said:
Can’t wait to see it become “X.” Will dominate. 

JP234 said:

"Elon has committed to being accessible to everyone for continual feedback," Yaccarino said near the end of the interview. "If freedom of speech, as he says, is the bedrock of this country, I'm not sure there's anyone in this room who could disagree with that."

Indeed. Who could disagree with that?

anonymouse said:

... under his control Twitter will continue to devolve into the cesspool he is making it. 

fastasleep said:
LOL you Musk sycophants are really something else. Nobody grounded in reality could look at Twitter right now and say this with a straight face. It's a five alarm dumpster fire sinking into a cesspool.

Stabitha_Christie said:
Above all else Twitter is an adverting platform. Having a successful adverting executive run an advertising company does make sense. 

williamlondon said:
Doesn't matter if advertisers won't spend money with twitter because it's such a fucking RWNJ cesspit now (despite how wonderful she *might* be), especially now that they're looking at bringing the advertiser repeller (Fucker Carlson) to the platform.

mark fearing said:
What? It’s doing well? Half the audience or more left it. Advertisers left it. He bought it, overpaid because of ego, and they will write it off as it falls apart.

crofford said:
So - your point is Elon made a bad pick and then you used another Musk company example as how to do it right?

Stabitha_Christie said:

williamlondon said:
Doesn't matter if advertisers won't spend money with twitter because it's such a fucking RWNJ cesspit now (despite how wonderful she *might* be), especially now that they're looking at bringing the advertiser repeller (Fucker Carlson) to the platform.

As someone else pointed out, what a moron for paying $44B for a platform and turning it into something he could have bought (Parler) for ~$200. Musk thinks he's Midas, the results say the opposite.

You seem to be reading my comment as some sort of endorsement of Twitter or Musk. It isn't the guy is a complete nob and I'm fairly convinced that Twitter will implode or be sold off at an incredible loss. My point that if your business is adverting then having someone that has success at an executive level isn't a bad choice to run it. She is qualified for the job. Plenty of qualified and talented have not failed to save a floundering company. 

danox said:

Oh boy, a bigger Landfill doesn’t make for better garbage….

Marvin said:
If Apple made a Mac Pro that supported quad Nvidia 4090 GPUs (or equivalent), 2TB RAM, quad M-series CPUs, they'd sell... maybe a few tens of thousands of units, just the same as if they don't offer that option. Likewise with a souped up M3 Extreme.

The fact they dropped MPX modules shows that for all the bloviating about how the 2019 model was the right design for pros, nobody bothered buying them. Meanwhile Apple mentioned they've sold millions of Mac Studios with the exact same design constraints as the 'trashcan'.

charlesn said:
Another riff on a frequent theme in Apple commentary of late: this inane notion that Apple is pumping out "stopgap" products because this or that didn't quite work out so they had to rush "something" to market. Everything from the Apple Watch 7 (a last minute kludge because the constantly rumored flat-sided design failed in production) to the Mac Studio (a stopgap because the Mac Pro wasn't done in time) to the new Mac Pro itself. Anyone who knows anything about the time needed for R&D, production design and testing, supply chain procurement, etc to bring a tech product to market that meets Apple standards of near perfection knows that these "stopgap product" claims are ridiculous. 

The simple storyline usually goes like this: something is rumored (the M2 Exteme! the M3 Hyperdrive!). Said rumored thing doesn't appear in a product as rumored. Therefore, Apple couldn't get said rumored thing to work in time or work at all, so it banged out a stopgap or kludge product last minute. It's just stupid. 

Apple's high end computers now seem logically divided. If you need power but not expansion, the base Studio M2 Ultra is $4K. If you need power plus more ports and card expansion capability, the base Mac Pro is $7K. In terms of upspec'ing from the base model, the costs are the same for the Studio and Pro. Maxed out, your $12K investment in a Mac Pro now buys you a machine that will easily outperform what cost $54.000 previously... and people are disappointed with this. It just never ends. 

dewme said:
The only real expectation that came directly from Apple was that they would move their whole Mac product line over to Apple Silicon. It finally happened with the release of the Apple Silicon Mac Pro. is it a drop-in replacement for the Intel Mac Pro? Nope, just like the 24” iMac is not a drop-in replacement for the 27” iMac. Apple gets to decide where it wants to focus its investments and how it wants to structure its portfolio going forward. It is what it is and they seem to be content with what it is, at least at this point in time. 

StrangeDays said:

darkvader said:

Less RAM, no real graphics card, and Apple making wild performance claims without any actual benchmarks.

I'm unconvinced.  I want to see real benchmarks vs current AMD and Intel processors, and current high end Nvidia and AMD graphics cards.  I want to see that because I strongly suspect Apple is just doing a bit of puffery.

I strongly suspect you’re not in the market for this machine and thus are just complaining yet again. If only we had a word for such a thing…

nubus said:

The direction of Apple Silicon is clear. Pro = Studio in a PCIe 4 enclosure with no other modularity. The Pro crowd will have to make a decision.

chasm said:
1. Let us know how many expansion cards you can shove inside that Mac Studio, will you?

2. How — exactly — can Apple “fail to deliver” something they never, ever promised, Mr. Entitled? Did you know that your theoretical fantasy chip involves exponentially more work to create than just hot-gluing two M2 Ultra’s together?

3. You may be right about the sales predictions, but my own theoretical fantasy regarding this machine is that now that its out, Apple might strike a deal with Nvidia — or heck, just make in-house — video cards that can with, rather than be a substitute for, the incredible on-board GPU. I think those PCI slots will eventually prove very useful in unexpected ways, though again you may be right that that’s a job for the M3 or later.

for bragging rights, I’m sure — in endgame capitalism, some people have literally more money than they know what to do with.

The way this is built is very obviously designed for you to be plugged in to the mains most of the time, only using the battery when you need to go to another part of the office/warehouse/factory/complex/home, and Apple deliberately emphasized the desktop computing paradigm. You sit in a comfy sitting position with less need for a desk, you use the spatial computer for typical tasks, you can still interact with co-workers.

You take it home, and it replaces your personal computer, TV, and stereo system for social and entertainment purposes. Heh, I wonder how long before “VR face” (where you are noticeably more tan in the non-headset areas) becomes a thing?

Hey wait a minute — didn’t Pixar predict all this in Wall-E?

https://www.dotdash.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/wall-e-humans.jpg