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anantksundaram said:

It would be entirely fine with me if the US government were to take a strong stand on this issue.

Agreed.

tstump said:

I am from Missouri originally. I still have a lot of friends and family and people I went to school with an engineer in university inRolla, where there is a highly respected computer science department.

Josh Hawley is not educated on such things, treats other countries as enemies when they are our friends, does not realize the value of global scale economies, and is simply not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to these topics.  
China is a great and powerful nation, with thousands of years of culture, hard-working people, brilliant people, massive resources and relationships with other countries all around the world. Why do we want to strain that and isolate ourselves from the largest market on earth?

Everything you said is wrong. China is not our friend. China will lie, cheat and steal their way to power. They have militarize the entire south china sea, they have stolen our military secrets to advance theirs, they have stolen our technologies to advance theirs. We allowed all this to happen to please wall street so we can save a few dollars on manufacturing costs with grave consequences. Getting ahead by any way possible, legal or illegal, moral or immoral, is ingrained in their soul. Their goal is to overtake the US economically and militarily by the 100th anniversary of the communist takeover. They are not the largest market on earth (we are) as they import very little and are mainly an exporting nation. They manipulate their currency to keep it low to maintain this.

I work for a small (< $1B market cap) company that had all our technology stolen by a chinese firm (that one of our former coworkers worked for and assisted in stealing our technology). We sued them and won, but only because they had a US subsidiary; if they were china only there would have been nothing we could have done.

I just can't believe Americans would rather see china destroy us than have to agree with a conservative. Truly mind boggling.

My son was issued a chromebook as a freshman that is his to keep and use for the next 4 years. It retails for around $250 but includes (of course) a keyboard and is small, light and super portable. That, coupled with google docs is really a fantastic educational device. My guess is an iPad with keyboard is about double that and a bit clumsier. Phil is wrong on this.

lkrupp said:

My structural engineer son tells me the Mac version of Excel is pretty damn good these days, not quite on a par with the Windows version yet but quite serviceable in his line of work. He still uses the Windows version, however. 

I'm a heavy user of Excel at work on Window10 but can't get used to the Mac version. Sure nearly all the features are there but many of the keystrokes are different, the performance is not the same (lots of spinning beach balls, the Mac version *just* got multiprocessor support) and I've noticed a lot of cursor irregularities on the Mac version. I'm just way more proficient on the Windows version.

I know I'm getting old when I'm most excited about updates to Excel. Can't wait for dynamic arrays to be rolled out to everyone.