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RyBread said:

Proof that “cancel culture” is moronic. Disney lost a once-in-generation powerhouse, genius creator, and Apple gains one. I’ve been eagerly waiting for months to watch this film and cannot wait to see it!

Pixar are doing just fine, and hopefully their workplace culture has improved.  Maybe Lasseter learned a lesson and is being better at Skydance.

Doesn't sound moronic to me.

macxpress said:

MplsP said:

For a premium display with a premium price the studio display doesn’t seem to be so premium.

Yeah because premium cars, computers, consoles, etc, etc at premium prices never have issues. *rolls eyes*

And no one ever complains when they do?

mpantone said:

Linux as a useful consumer desktop OS is an abject failure. This is not new. I dabbled with desktop Linux and eventually gave up. Back in 2002.

Linux has its place as a OS for servers, embedded devices, things like routers, gas pump POS terminals, printers, my retro Super NES Classic game console, etc. As such, there must be a corresponding development environment for those situations. For people to develop for arm64 devices, Linux needs to run on arm64 devices. It might not be the best OS for all, but for sure a tiny fraction of this planet's inhabitants need Linux for some of their devices.

But yeah, based on the twice yearly booting of Raspbian on my RPi4, desktop Linux sucks today just as it did twenty years ago.

Has it ever received any significant push as a consumer desktop OS?  On the desktop it's for the tech literate, developers and hobbyists.  

danox said:

A waste of time, it’s been thirty years and no one has done anything to actually advance Linux to public in a useable way, hardware (designed for Linux) combined with Linux OS is the only way, parasitic grafts on to other peoples hardware is a non event.

The person or persons that will advance the next level in computer OS and hardware is in Kindergarten. Why? Because they will not know and break thru the artificial barriers. Where there once was SGI, Sun, or Digital there will be some new company again. Linux is a me too dead end.

It is quite literally the basis for most of the deployed operating system in the world.  Some waste of time.

davidw said:

So little words and none support your original assertion that "excessive profits" causes inflation. Maybe if you used more words to explained why you think it does, one would not need to explain to you why it doesn't. Otherwise, your few words just seem like your obvious bias against any corporation making more profits that YOU think are "excessive".  You are the one that fell into a trap by saying in so few words ...... "Inflation is caused by corporations excess profits."  as though it's a set rule in Econ 101, like the affect of "supply and demand". 

You know what, you're not totally wrong, I have been overly snippy, so I'm going to clarify something that may be causing an issue.  I don't mean to say that all inflation is caused by corporations seeking excessive profits, or that the only cause of inflation is excessive corporate profits, but the current inflation that we're seeing is largely so.

Explain where is the corporations "excessive profits" coming from, if consumers can not afford to pay for the price increase? Don't forget, you are the one claiming that it's corporations "excessive profits" that causes inflation, not corporations just raising prices of their consumer goods. Raising the price of their consumers good does not lead to "excessive profits, if consumers can not afford to pay for it.  

Who said anything about consumers not being able to afford to pay it?  Maybe sure some are, but it doesn't seem to be a significant number given the profits being generated.  

Take that out and you're back at the obvious, corporations choosing to raise prices during a time of shortage and reaping massive supernormal profits from that decision.  "corporations just raising prices of their consumer goods" and "corporation's excessive profits" can be taken to be one and the same here because the price rises are what is generating the profits.