williamh

DAalseth said:

Having been through a number of years of PE classes in school with inept PE teachers I’ll pass, on Apple Fitness or from anyone else. I hated having an old guy shouting at me for “one more rep” then and I’m bloody well not going to pay to have someone do it over video now. I work out six days a week, I take the special and monthly challenges that come on my AW. But subscribing to a service? Not gonna happen. They can F all the way off. 

I understand what you're saying but my experience with Fitness+ is that it's encouraging you with NO shouting.   At least for the running, the training is about your relative perceived effort and not a particular speed.  The trainer does tell you what a high perceived effort, for example, should feel like - if you can carry on a conversation then you have more to give, and that sort of thing.  By the same token, they mention that your legs today are not yesterday's legs so a moderate effort today might be slower or faster than yesterday.  I find it an effective coaching style, but ymmv of course.

I recently signed up for the Fitness+ trial and it's not bad.  The treadmill workouts are quite good, in fact.  My main problem is that I hate most of the music and I don't care for the "hype" sounds coming from one of the other two runner/walkers.   The coaching etc gives a good workout though.

I hoped the article would go into other options besides Peloton.  I used a trial of iFit a couple years ago and I liked that a LOT.    iFit integrates with a lot of treadmills and controls the speed and elevation.  They offer "trail" runs and other kinds of workouts in beautiful locations.    I did trail runs in some tropical place, ran along the Boston Marathon, and hiked the Scottish highlands. Really quite good, I am thinking of signing up for that again after the Fitness+ trial ends.

sflagel said:

There were plenty of full screen mobile phones already around when the iPhone came out. But none had iTunes and yes, most used styluses. Nevertheless, the first iPhone was useless, it became barely usable with 3G. 

It's silly to claim that the first iPhone was useless. On the contrary, for me and hundreds of thousands of others, it was a vast improvement over the phones we had previously. I liked my Sony phones until the iPhone came out - then they were crap.

3G wasn't the greatest when the iPhone came out but it was surprisingly adequate.  The iPhone didn't work quite how I expected but it was still great.  I thought the stock quotes would update in the background, for example, but no.

The joke about the Mac 128 was that it only had enough memory to tell you to put in the next floppy disk.

At the time, my high school got some Macs.  I didn't have the funds for a Mac at home (cutting grass, raking leaves, delivering newspapers didn't do it) so I tried to do it on the cheap.  I got an Atari 520ST and a Mac emulator called the "Magic Sac".  The Magic Sac ran the actual Macintosh OS (I don't think it was up to System 7 yet) and required actual Mac ROMS that the vendor did not provide.   I went to Apple dealers with the ridiculous story that I needed to replace the ROMs in my Mac for some reason and naturally nobody believed me.  I eventually did get the ROMs at some kind of users group meeting and had a running Mac in emulation on my Atari.  As you can imagine, it really sucked.

I had this: https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n6/mac_pc_on_st.html

ronn said:

"The call is coming from inside...!"

Rather odd. How would civilians get access to the police vehicle? No one saw them opening the hood of a police car? More likely done on police property by fellow law enforcement. Maybe internal affairs? I thought cars are assigned/signed out on a daily basis. Why would a single car that could be assigned to any pair of officers be targeted?

Some law enforcement take their cars home.