john f.

steven n. said:

The thing most people miss is the protesters achieved their goal of blocking the extradition law and now they risk looking like basic anarchists. This will hurt in future protests since people won’t be able to relate to your grievance; people will simply assume you’re a malcontent. 

True. Right now, there is no end game. Where do protesters want to go with this? They got what they wanted, and weren't satisfied. Now China won't be willing to give in to anything, because it will be seen as useless. There is nowhere to go with this. Yes, Hong Kong was promised "One country, two systems" for 50 years, and China has been nibbling on that promise since the handover. But in the end, Hong Kong is China, and they can they whatever they want. There is no way for the west to intervene in this; it's their territory. And the people of Hong Kong can only ask so much. Go too far and China won't be lenient.

And the app thing. The exact info is accessible on the web. Apple isn't really cutting people off from the info. This app discussion is just to make things political: should Apple or shouldn't Apple be a justice warrior? The thing is, Apple can do good things in many other ways. It doesn't always have to be this big "we must change this country now" thing, and "we must take a stand now". The people will eventually change China. And the west having good relations with China will over decades influence the people towards a more western attitude. If the people of China resent the west, then things will never change.

Love Tom Hanks.

Mike Wuerthele said:

stol said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

They're welcome to say what they want. We'll see what happens when we get our review unit.

I believe they compared the 7th gen. iPad with a (best-selling?) laptop and not the previous generation iPad.

We were told, directly, on the floor, multiple times after the presentation that the iPad was twice as fast as the previous generation.

Yeah, but twice as fast is already unlikely. The A11 chip is only 25% faster than A10. And the A12 chip is only 15% faster than the A11. It would mean an A10 chip that blows away all other Apple chips. Even the A10X is only 10% faster than the regular A10, mainly for multicore operations. Twice as fast? Hello? Madness. Alarm bells. Doesn't compute! It would have been wise to immediately follow that up with questions. They misspoke, and you didn't immediately reply: "But that's impossible! It can't be twice as fast!"

Bought a new "as is" Mac mini i3 this summer. Was cheap. Booting from external drive. Runs my browser great. Hooked up a 16" 2.5k USB-C screen. I have a choice of MacOS to run from Mojave to Sequoia. If eventually I need a powerhouse Mac to do stuff, it is nice to know that I can buy a Mac mini m4 base at a low price, but for now Intel still runs my browser and apps just fine.