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georgie01 said:

Our societies have such a destructively entitled and blame-shifting attitude. We need to relearn genuine forgiveness, especially when it applies to actions by previous generations. Nowadays people can’t even have ever said something remotely politically incorrect in their lifetime, otherwise it’ll be dug up and they’ll be ridiculed and attempts to ruin their life will ensue by the ‘tolerant’ left.

Oh stop. It sounds like you’re projecting your own issues. If you’ve gotten in trouble for bad behavior, then it’s on you. Learn to hold yourself accountable for your own behavior. Learn to understand why your words and actions may be harmful to others.

It’s actually fairly easy to be careful in how we treat others. If you think kindness to fellow humans is that difficult, please either learn how empathy works (yes, you can learn it) or become a hermit. Complaining about “political correctness” doesn’t excuse a person’s unkind or cruel behavior.

Besides: Are you Korean or Japanese with family who were involved in the issue presented by this article? If not, you have no place making judgments about the people who are / were involved.

This looks poorly implemented, what with the two pop-ups on the screen at the same time (which have the same functions but totally different appearance), and the requirement to make the same gesture twice in a row for cut. 

Every new gesture only adds more complexity i iOS, not reliability or discoverable utility.

Multiple finger gestures don’t respond reliably on any device, whether iPad or Mac trackpad. I use four fingers to swipe from full screen to full screen on Mac OS because it’s very useful when it works, but it also has a habit of not responding. It just takes one finger to not register and the whole gesture fails. I don’t use three fingers because I want that to work as browser back and forward controls (because the two finger swipe with the animated page visual in Safari, is slow and often fails to work, seemingly related to the gesture itself).

 Just like pinching to zoom and twisting to rotate images also don’t always respond.

On iOS, taps get randomly ignored (this has been happening since iOS 10) and this likely impacts multiple finger taps as well, unless Apple fixed that, finally, but I suspect they haven’t (because they’ve only fixed two out of tens of bugs I’ve reported in over six years). 

Like I said above, it’s just more complexity, and that means more to go wrong. It’s also not discoverable or memorable. Scrolling and pinching were fairly easy to find and remember, but iOS has gotten so full of gestures that now most of the gestures used are not discoverable, and many actually *conflict* with each other.

Examples:

•  swiping up from the number button on the iOS keyboard causes the control center to come up

• scrolling and selecting multi-line text in an outgoing iMessage (using a downward-motion) causes the keyboard to hide, rather than scrolling the text view or highlighting the text block as desired

• completely different places to swipe to access the control center between iOS devices, where the iPad version is not clearly distinguishable from pulling down the notification sheet

There are more, but I’m basically wasting my time describing this stuff here, because most of the people here will just flame me and call me a hater (and yes, I’ve reported the conflicts to Apple via their feedback web pages... but I shouldn’t have to!!). 

Also, your grammar, AI:

Wrong: “Note that these gestures works best...”

”...work best”, not “works”.

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Let's hope USB4 builds in some security to only allow certified cables to power a device. USBC was almost ruined by cheap fake cables from China sold via Amazon with no one checking that they actually were safe to use.

Amazon still sells fake “USB to FireWire adapters”. Yes I’ve reported it. Shit just doesn’t matter anymore.

cynegils said:

lkrupp said:

All you are doing here is displaying your ignorance for all to see. You have no idea what high end work stations and monitors cost.  A Sony 31” 4K HRD reference display lists for $30,000.00. The 32” 6K XDR Apple monitor will sell for $5000.00. What you were hoping for was a cheap Mac Pro with slots and a $599.00 monitor like olden days of yore. You ain’t gonna get it, boopsy, so time to leave the platform and seek the object of your desire elsewhere.

So then Apple decides that the only monitor they will sell is a Broadcast quality beast that a only a vanishingly small number of people will use? Do no other Apple users need monitors? Do no other Apple users need an expandable chassis? Do no other Apple users need a powerful but affordable machine? It is insanity, and most likely a plot to build itself as a luxury brand. Like a Montblanc or Versace for computers, and luxury brands as we all know do remarkably well.

$12,000 for the LOWEST Mac Pro model represents $10,110.00 in 2008 dollars. In 2008 I bought the TOP of the Mac Pro models (3.3ghz 6-core, so not hugely inferior) with ALL bells and whistles for $4900 including the awesome 30inch Apple Cinema HD display that I'm currently using. All this razzle dazzle that Apple is currently trying to sell you and that you are standing there gawping at, is mostly useless crap, unequivocably intended to justify this ridiculous price. 

EXACTLY. Why is this so damned hard for the apologists to comprehend??

gatorguy said:

Notsofast said:

Please help educate Americans who are confused about these tax credits. Because of so much inaccurate reporting, many Americans believe Wisconsin has given billions to Foxconn. That's not true, and it's not ever going to be true. What Wisconsin did is to say if you build your factory here and create thousands of jobs, we will give you a break regarding the taxes you would have to pay. Whether you agree with giving companies tax credits like this, it's very different than taking existing tax dollars and giving them to a company. Ditto with how it was falsely and ignorantly reported that NY was giving huge amounts of to Amazon that could be used for other purposes. LOL. Those dollars were credits against the tax dollars that Amazon would owe. And now that Amazon isn't coming there, they don't exist!

How did the improved infrastructure such as roads and street-lighting, needed private land purchases for plant/utility/support services expansion, and added electric and water service get paid for? That totally ignores the assumed $Millions in legal and staff costs/fees, some of it paid to outside private firms, for consultation fees and negotiating the "deal".

$200million+ in actual out-of-pocket taxpayer costs doesn't seem out of reason as an estimate so far. 

The demolishing of 70+ homes for this awful corporate deal didn’t help the people in that state much, either...