GG1

Soli said:

GG1 said:

I don't follow the line "it moved from the classic OS 9 to Mac OS X and now macOS".

I thought both Mac OS X and macOS were Berkeley Unix-based. Unless macOS is the 64-bit version of Mac OS X.

macOS is just a renaming of Mac OS X to follow the pattern of iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and now iPadOS. Really all of those are OS X-based OSes. While "we" were already calling it iOS Apple was still trying to figure out how to market it. First as simply a ridiculously sized and complex "firmware" and the even as "OS X iPhone" in contrast to "OS X Mac" as evidenced by banners at one WWDC.

sirozha said:

Soli said:

sirozha said:

lkrupp said:

Fear and panic have won the day. Ebay has banned the sale of masks and hand sanitizer to prevent price gouging. Shelves are empty, people are running around with their hair on fire screaming, I wonder what would happen if some real apocalypse occurred. We're like frogs sitting in a pot of water, blissfully unaware of the rising temperatures caused by climate change as the temperature rises until we are boiled alive. But nobody cares about that. In the end we are just mindless beasts no different than our prehistoric ancestors.

This is a real apocalypse. WHO is estimating mortality from Covid-19 to be 3.5%. If half of Americans get Covid-19 in 2020, there will be close to 6 million Americans dead by the end of 2020.This is more than four times the number of all Americans killed in all of its wars in the entire history of the US. And that's in less than a year before the end of 2020. There will be another 6 million dead in 2021.

You've outcazied yourself by going from a pandemic (which WHO hasn't called it) and calling it an apocalypse, the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the biblical book of Revelation:

You may want to look at South Korea's mortality rate. They did testing of people across the board, not just the old and immunocompromised who were already showing signs of the virus, and they show a 0.64% mortality rate, with hardly any deaths being statistically likely if you're under 40yo. So much for your desire for an apocalyptic event that you keep trying to spread false fears. Shameful and pathetic that you get so excited by people getting sick and dying from a new virus that you wish it upon the entire world as a whole.

Keep deluding yourself. The Chinese ophthalmologist who alerted his colleagues of the new virus in January 2020, died from it a month later. He was 36 and in good health before he got infected. if you don’t think that 12 million Americans dead before the vaccine is available is not serious enough, then I can’t help you. 

The death rate is 3.5% as it stands now. In the US it will be even higher because half of US nationals can’t afford the test itself ($3,500) not to even mention one day in the hospital. Additionally, we don’t have enough hospital beds for even a small fraction of those who will require hospitalization.  People will be dying in their houses, and suck people will be walking around infecting others. Very few would pay $3,500 to get tested. With high deductibles, most will have to cough up the entire amount to even be diagnosed, so few would voluntarily get diagnosed.