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Mike Wuerthele said: ElCapitan said: There is another alternative: Redesign the damned thing with parts that both can be sourced in the US, and at the same time make the machine more flexible in terms of entry configs (that many have…
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There's a big difference between 'hearing" a Siri request ("where's the closest pizza place") and hearing conversations when a request isn't specifically being made. Which is it? The former doesn't bother me, but the latter does. But if they w…
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beowulfschmidt said: Until it imposes the same penalties on Congresscritters' robo calls, I'll remain skeptical. I've never received a single political robocall, at least not in the last 10 years. 95% of the robocalls I receive are eith…
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apple4lizife said: Who are the 3 morons who voted for it?..🤦🏽♂️ Actually, they voted against the bill (but for robocalling). Andy Biggs (Arizona 5th) Republican Thomas Massie (Kentucky 4th) Republican Justin Amash (Michigan 3rd) Indep…
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ElCapitan said: eumaeus said: Ah, Apple-haters... It has noting at all to do with Apple hating, but the false virtue signaling they also are on to in the area of "clean" energy. The UK, with a population comparable to CA, have ma…
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StrangeDays said: If there isn’t stolen copied code, it’s just an idea and not implementation. Patents aren’t suited to vague software ideas. Implemented software ideas are code, and code is protected by copyright. Thus, software patents are …
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anton zuykov said: fastasleep said: toddzrx said: fastasleep said: rcfa said: It’s amazing that those decrying socialism the loudest are the same people enthusiastically dishing out handouts to corporations. So much …
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gutengel said: I see another article in a couple months saying that the number of employees will be reduced again. Phoney politics empty promises. It doesn't really matter as long as they don't get the tax break. After all, if a compan…
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coolfactor said: I never opened on in person, so I was surprised to see this listed — the Power Mac 9600. And now I see why... I loved my G4 tower for pretty much the same reasons. Great access (IIRC, the door swung down but you did…
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ireland said: I’ve recently suspected Apple never revealed TV because they had no real video content play. Seems like that will change in the future. Besides being full integrated, I wonder how Apple differentiates this TV product, when annou…
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I actually think this is a good thing. While many of Ive's designs were brilliant in many respects, he always placed form over function. So we have the MBP in which the overwhelming design objective was thinness, but in doing so removed the abili…
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lkrupp said: Of course this report will be attacked as invalid by the usual suspects here but it puts all the “gates” and screams of Apple ignoring QA into perspective. In the real world Apple is tops in quality and reliability. If you believ…
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dewme said: The so-called trade war between the US and China is a proxy war for a larger social, economic, and political struggle between the US and China. Playing games with moving manufacturing from one economically exploitable source to an…
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mystigo said: My understanding of parent law is that you patent a way to do something, not the actual something itself. These folks invented a way to input domain specific data from a static keyboard. Good for them! But Apple invented an enti…
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sflocal said: tokyojimu said: And all for something that’s perfectly legal in many states. Well... it didn't help his persona for carrying a loaded pistol in his car. Seriously. Sure, I get that THC/Pot is legal in many states now,…
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I did not have to specifically enable Dashboard in recent OS updates - it just was always there and always worked. But I always thought it was a stupid design. I would like to have those gadgets on my regular desktop.
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wizard69 said: Sadly if the 1906 Earthquake was to be repeated somebody would immediately blame it on global warming. No, but they might blame it on fracking, for which they're some evidence: "Evidence for a link between fracking and e…
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deminsd said: larryjw said: If you can't afford $99 developer fee, you're not in the business of making a profit. At best, you have a hobby not a profession. Not the point. Apple has a monopoly over app distribution and the 30% pi…
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AppleZulu said: jSnively said: The enthusiasts complaining about this machine are justified. The people pointing out that this machine is for an extremely niche and specific market are also correct. IMO Apple messed up here, and the…
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dcsimages said: Just for context, my first Mac was a 33mHz Quadra 950 with a 400 MB hard drive, 16 Mb ram and 1Mb vram for $7500 ($9600 when it first came out) Not only that, but the Mac 512K was $3195 when it was released in the Fall of 1…