I don't think these tariffs are really about solar cells or washing machines...

Rather, they are a statement that the US will not accept unfair trade policies.

dewme said:

I'm a bit disappointed that they would design a building that doesn't accommodate and coexist in its environment in a more natural and passive way. An active roof warming system in a cold and snowy climate must be quite expensive to power and could potentially fail during a prolonged power outage, like an outage caused by excessive snowfall. I hope they at least use waste heat or an environmentally friendly energy source to power the roof heaters. It's not as bad as building an igloo store in the Arizona desert, but they could have been much more environmentally considerate like they've been with their spaceship campus. 

It need not be expensive or inefficient:

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Our competition still offers the same repetitive version of a single strand or two of heat tape under a horizontal metal band. Most extreme Ice Dam problems require a wider band of heat. We offer a 14" heat band with a single row. More importantly, "metal shrouded heat tape" is a poor choice for valley applications. Again, a single strand or two of heat tape placed under a narrow metal band, on the outside of a valley has marginal results at best.

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Seeing the panoramic view reminded me of when we opened our computer store at Fremont & Mary in Sunnyvale.  Our landlord was Steve Vidovich who had an office across the street.  We'd go over to pay our rent and chat a bit with Steve...

At one of these occasions, I noticed a picture on the wall -- it was a low-level panorama of Santa Clara Valley taken by aircraft...  It was black and white and appeared to be hand colored with water paint.

The photo was apparently taken from Sunnyvale or Mountain View pointing towards Cupertino -- including Saratoga and Santa Clara and San Jose.

What was significant is that all it showed was a small farm house (where Steve was born) surrounded by miles and miles of fields with mountains in the background.  

I suspect that Apple Park is right in the middle of that picture.

The closest thing I could find on the web is this image:

nhughes said:

StrangeDays said:

nhughes said:

midwestapplefan said:

Oh how nice.  We can post comments here but the one yesterday on the locked phone for the Texas shooter was closed because it was too political.  Porn is more appropriate than politics I guess. 

Commenters have repeatedly shown that they cannot behave or be respectful toward one another or the site when the topic is a hot button political issue. Rather than constantly policing it, we decided to shut down comments on those stories. The comments degrade the quality of the site (we actually got a warning from Google regarding offensive content in the comments), and it is not worth our time. 

Can you shed light on this Google warning? I’m a developer but I can’t think of what sort of warning Google would send your site, especially considering the type of political bickering is generally pretty tame and doesn’t contain graphic images of beheadings or whatnot. Surely the bickering is no different than on popular news sites all over the web, including other leading Apple rumor sites?

House-rules is fine, but I’m interested in what the Google concern is. 

tallest skil said:

nhughes said:

(we actually got a warning from Google regarding offensive content in the comments)

I understand fully, from a business perspective, why AI’s decision on this matter has occurred. I ask you (and others) personally, though: WHO THE FUCK IS GOOGLE TO SAY WHAT WE CAN AND CANNOT DISCUSS? Google is the arbiter of speech itself, with powers far beyond that of any government (yet dictated to them, in part, thereby). This is beyond reproach.

I wasn't involved in the receipt of the warning, but our developer mentioned it here:

https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/202133/were-removing-political-outsider

You wouldn't believe the number of emails and tweets we receive from people who are outraged (usually incorrectly saying something about us stifling free speech) when they see that we have turned off comments on a political article. I think these people have some sort of vision of AppleInsider as being owned by a mega corporation, with a big headquarters and a huge staff and tens of millions of dollars backing us. That's just not the case.

The truth is, we have a small staff, we do the best we can, and we can't spend our time policing the forums. That's really all there is to it — no agenda and no conspiracy at play.

I'm with Neil here!

I was an AI mod for a while and it's a lot of work.  You have to moderate threads with a lot of posts -- many of which are of no interest to you.  It is difficult to be objective and not let your personal biases influence your actions.

There are lots of ways to troll these forums.  IMO, two of the worst ways:

• muddy the waters
• hijack the thread

As to the latter, there was a poster who would post many posts to a thread denigrating Apple, Tim Cook, whatever...  This poster began to do this on one thread, and I replied to his latest post as a mod: You are warned @xxxxx -- I'm not going to let you hijack this thread.   Whoa, did I get called to task by other members for being heavy-handed, over-bearing -- stifling discussion, etc.

Anyway, after a while I found that being a AI mod was taking up too much of my time and asked to be removed as a mod.

I enjoy AI much more now!

I found the article useful and informative, if verbose.

IMO, DED should avoid the hyperbole and the temptation to disparage the competition at every opportunity:

AppleInsider said:
iPhone X isn't aspiring to look like an angular techie robot on a mission to monetize everyone's content with advertising messages or a square panel of "live tile" TV boxes seeking to impose licensing taxes on the enterprise.