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schlack said:

 Hope they reveal it. I'm long overdue for a MBP upgrade.

Same here.  Been skipping upgrading based on what the updates have turned out to be but I really need to move my #1 down to my #2 and get a current #1.  All I want is great performance, I really don't get much of a charge out of trackpad features or a touch bar.  These are things I feel frankly that Apple used to do great and now do mostly as hardware candy, with mediocre implementation.  Thinner?  Doesn't do me any good.  What an annoying goal to continually reach for.  Why not leave that to another line?  Let the Airs be ultra thin and stop squeezing every millimeter of space out of the MBP.  It reached diminishing returns long ago.



Also, I'm one of those sad souls who had such a bad week with El Capitan that I'm back on 10.10.5 and fortunately haven't taken 10.6.8 off my #2 because that's the best system for 75% of what I do.  A new MBP is going to be El Capitan and it's a concession I'll make unenthusiastically.

thewhitefalcon said:

paxman said:

Check out some of the countries that Bernie keeps referring to - i.e. the Scandinavian countries. One problem with Bernie is that he has referred to himself as a socialist and as we all know Americans are terrified of that word. The thing is that none of the Scandinavian countries think of themselves as socialist. They are free market capitalist societies. They have relatively high taxes but they also have free college and very low university fees, universal health care, and a whole lot of other things that are not socialist or left wing, but just common sense. The standard of living in the Scandinavian countries is very high. It can't happen over night in the US, but it is not crazy.

No, it's not. Their standards of living are lower than in the US; far lower. And his regulation plans are more strict than the European countries, who are running away from socialism. 

No, it's higher.  If you take ALL of the U.S. into account, including the vast lower class that seem invisible and the poverty stricken areas where people have much greater concerns than who to vote for, the average standard of living in the U.S. is lower.  It's not a comparison of Scandinavian countries overall and U.S. cities which have a high standard of living. 

My new favorite Trump quote, when Chuck Todd on Meet The Press pointed out to him that the video he used to smear and connect the protester to ISIS had been a hoax.  "All I know is what's on the internet".  

There's your man.  

New Yorkers have had to listen to his absurd tall tales for ages.  Everything out of his mouth since 1990 has been based on some bizarre fantasy that no one cares what the facts are.  We're amused that his supporters believe in his "success" stories, because he actually has very few to his name and a long list of very expensive failures, most notable for his trail of quotes making up nonsense about what just happened.  He hasn't personally led a major negotiation in decades, and he doesn't have the smarts to argue for another sugar from the waitress much less to negotiate with world leaders who rightfully have no respect for him.

 His unsuitability for Presidency has nothing to do with his views, which aren't even subjects he has an opinion or cares about.  And setting aside his outright dishonesty, which far outclasses any other candidate in our history, don't kid yourself.   It's simply that he's not a bright guy.  Nowhere near the intelligence needed for the job.

When I use my Wacom I pretty much never put it down to use the interface, and I wouldn't use an input tool that wouldn't let me navigate regardless of how advanced it was. Even someone who only uses the input tool for 20% of the interface would be shut down. It's workflow, something Apple doesn't pay much attention to anymore. Nor allowing you to keep your preferred workflow (better for you than what they move to) when advancing. It's not saying "We listened to you and responded". It's saying "We didn't pay any attention to you. And we're responding only because of the viral slamming that is major enough to get the top hits when you Google for the product. Otherwise we would have been on to other things". Glad they un-crippled it for now. Not glad for the previously UnApple corp-speak spin.