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Roxy Balboa said:

rob53 said:

foregoneconclusion said:

rob53 said:

For China, Apple will have to allow them to restrict certain apps because they can't lose China as their primary manufacturing country. This is what the majority of companies have to deal with. China has become the largest manufacturing country in the world and I don't see companies like Walmart severing ties with them.

China's days as the dominant manufacturing center won't last forever. That window is already starting to close. 

What other country has the number of workers available, along with specialized natural resources, to compete with China? It sure isn't the US even with a bunch of robots.

It's called gasoline and the US has more than rest
of the world together.

I'm trying to understand your comment.  I assume you mean oil, not gasoline and if so this would is the list of the top nations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves
 
As you can see, the USA is indeed high up the list but a long way off having 'more than the rest of the world together.'  Or perhaps I am misunderstanding you. Are there vast gasoline storage tanks I am unaware of?

Wow, I never read up on its history before.

"Founding sponsors were prominent writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Harriet Beecher Stowe; John Greenleaf Whittier; and James Russell Lowell, who served as its first editor." :Wikipedia.

Soli said:

sflocal said:

appex said:

Bring back USB power-on feature from USB keyboard or USB device. As possible with former Apple ADB and USB keyboards, as well as USB dongles with USB 1.0 specifications, like the i-Cue.

That is extremely useful and convenient to turn on the computer when it is below or behind the table/desk or far away from reach in the floor, etc. It is even a health issue (backbone health!).

Apple's sleep-mode is the best in the business.  Why not just leave It on and walk away?  I leave mine plugged into a good UPS to keep the power clean.  It's extremely rare for me to ever have to turn my Mac off.

People that turn off their Macs constantly are probably the same people that all clean out apps from Fast App Switch on iOS.

It always makes me chuckle when I see all the 'I never turn my Mac off ' comments as if it is a badge of honor or criticisms usually accompanied by supercilious comments about those of us that do, in my case, many times a day, simply because they do not have a need.  Not everyone is sitting there all day reading blogs or posting pearls of wisdom.

Some of us are involved testing hardware, beta versions of macOS, file systems, Windows releases (betas) and various other OSs from a load of different external SSDs not to mention beta versions of software that can be problematic, different LANs that can really screw up USB, heck even requiring the PRAM zapping on occasions.  Warm restarts to blessed externals or using option to get the disk start up selection can fail without a full shut down and restart very often.  Thank heavens for the new Mac Pro that can sit by my right hand on the desk!  The cheese graters were a nightmare to get at for me, under a desk in the dark with the dust bunnies lol.

... "the Oculus Rift functions in the SteamVR beta with the eGPU Developer's Kit connected to a Mac running the High Sierra beta."  Is there information on which Macs this is true of.  My 6 Core 2013/14 Mac Pro booted into Windows with latest AMD drivers and Catalyst on passes the Stream VR Test so I wonder if it will pass muster even better in macOS High Sierra, I never thought to try that yet?  I also wonder if I'd even need an add on GPU kit or is the lack of dual GPU Catalyst under macOS the snag?

wizard69 said:

appex said:

APFS with self-healing as ZFS has? Is it required to reformat (with data loss) the previous Mac Sierra drive for High Sierra APFS?

I installed the first beta with no problem with APFS.   aPFS has been running for a while now on iOS so that part of the beta is stable.  

@appex, no data is not lost in a conversion on either a boot or data disk (even a RAID 0 worked although not using SoftRAID, I had to convert to Apple RAID but that's not a shock, I am sure SoftRAID are hard at it making a 10.13 APFS compatible version).  

@wizard69 APFS may be stable on Macs too but lots of tools we (well many of us) use regularly have to catch up.  Carbon Copy Cloner and Little Snitch thankfully have but many haven't. I wonder if Disk Warrior will soon, or if indeed it can? Also in my experiments Parallels and VMWare didn't like running on a boot drive with APFS although they works on an HFS+ High Sierra boot. Has anyone had success there?  It maybe my set up as I have the actual VMS on a RAID externally and the applications in the Applications folder.  I also have had other  issues with RAIDs converted and used with APFS but that's to be expected.

How are you testers finding reusing a boot SSD again after it's been made into a bootable APFS disk?  I have had a hell of a time formatting and making them bootable in HFS+ again.  I had to resort to using Windows tools to erase partitions APFS created as nothing on the Mac side seemed able to as of yet.