This was my thought too -The guy wants to turn the iPad into MacBook without a keyboard.

The is nothing less 'portable' than something with pile of external dongles, adapters, etc hung off it just to make it useful.

USB-C or a conventional proprietary connector type-y docking station or port-replicator works for the desk but it does not travel. Nobody wants to walk into the conference room of the coffee shop and assemble and squid like array of thunderbolt gadgets, only to tear it all down (and probably have to close or restart half the apps using the stuff) 15min later.

Indeed; Windows 3.11 + Norton Desktop 3 - was a better UI than we have today on any platform.

I ran NDW (not Commander) on 32-bit Windows for years until the lack of LNF support and the fact the rest of the world have moved to actually using long filenames made it unworkable.

However in terms of a cohesive way to find and working with everything on the system nothing has duplicated it since.

STFU

Imagine the reaction the Chinese government if the US State Department or a large US business - so deliberately tried to circumvent and displayed such contempt for the intent of Chinese law. Bad actors are bad actors. Just because our own behavior isnt perfect does not mean we must just ignore problem behavior.

It might mean that we should exercise some discernment and proportion in our degree of judgement and condemnation but we can at least 'talk' about dilberate attempts to violate our policy without being 'racists'

I agree it looks bad. Given the MIC and deep state ties here where Boeing is concerned; I have no difficulty believing that anything *could* be possible.

However what *should* happen absent any evidence whatsoever this wasn't a freak medical condition?

Remember every event is coincident with some other event if you don't restrict the topics of the other event or allow enough time. Should we blow a bunch of tax dollars launching investigations into people who might want Boeing's critics silenced? Where do we stop, the Officers, board of directors, large share holders, Generals pushing for military contracts, Congress person with Boeing facilities in their districts, YOU with the mutual fund?

Just about everything in nature is either growing or dying. I don't know why you'd expect a naturally emerging system like a free market place to work any differently.

Well the reality is no matter how you slice it the USA has contributed more to Ukraine in terms of actual goods than the EU. That should be looked upon as entirely unacceptable.

You are right though, for the most part this is a great way to pump a bunch of money out of the public treasury into MIC and its owners pockets. Funny how everything that touch Ukraine turns out to be money laundering scheme when you zoom out a bit.

That would be a really bad move. The fact those job creators are ultimately the ones producing the goods we all need. There will be "plenty" for them no matter what policy choices we make (sort of some revolution that has them stood against a wall anyway).

However if you take away enough of their 'wealth' because of your pathetic jealousy they will pull back on the industrialization of what they have left. You think you have inflation now; just implement ^^ this ^^ type of policy and watch how expensive bread stuffs actually get!

That would be a reasonable approach, I agree but its not without its own set of challenges.

Now Amazon would have powerful incentives to cut off any clients who are say controversial and likely to trigger DOS attacks etc. We be able to add being 'unhosted' alright kinda thing to list of being unbanked, deplatformed, and canceled. You'd expose every client to the hecklers veto; no matter how deep their pockets.

I am not sure that is good thing either.

How many times are people going to try to push this argument. By this logic we should not restrict anything that might be harmful.

Cigarettes are obviously bad for kids but if you don't let them walk in to the C-store to get a pack what is the child smoker going to do? They look for some less legitimate source. Those darts are more likely to be laced with whatever or have harder drugs in them!

Yes it should stupid because it is stupid. Its likely saying we should legalize cocaine because it would take the money out of drug crime. Sure it would probably make life safer for a small minority of coke heads but keeping contraban status probably keeps the vast vast majority of the public from every trying a highly addictive and dangerous substance.

Making porn less accessible to children WILL result in fewer children accessing porn and given parents who are actually trying to monitor and manage their children online something of a fighting chance.

Lets say you hosted your own web infrastructure. Chances our bandwidth costs are fixed and so is the size of the total pipe. If you start getting 'packeted' you will:

still be on the hook for the extra power because that CPU never gets to idle, as you have to keep pumping out the 404s

still have your other finite resources like log storage consumed

be facing potentially costly loss of business if the request rate is high enough it effectively DOSs you. That might be more then the AWS bill depending on what your site is.

I guess what I am saying is that there is an actual cost to events like this and someone has to pay them. While the initial reaction is randos on the internet should not be able to just run up your AWS bill when you have assigned no access at all; I am not sure that right. Given if you were hosting your own stuff or even going the 'traditional' VPS or hosting provider route you'd be be on the hook for most of the associated costs. The *cloud* ultimately boils down to renting someone else's computer.

China is not going to collapse. That is just deep state propaganda.

Just look at the fundamentals. They have enough people, they have enough ability to produce and grow food to feed those people. They have at least a group of people that have achieved a high-level of education, skill and technical ability, its a not China of the late 60s that can't make ball point pens. The have powerful government that will be able to by fiat redistribute wealth in a way that prevents actual mobs of staving peasants, and culture that will all them to take heavy handed actions against agitators without it really damaging the states support politically.

This is not to say that they don't face serious demographic headwinds; because of many past bad policy choices. I think the Chinese economy is likely to slow down a lot - unless they make more imperialist moves. Which if successful could turn them into the ascendant super power, or could be their undoing. If they do nothing but stay the course they are on currently however they will come thru just fine perhaps after a couple decades of restricted grow while the demography works out. The ONLY things they need to get right or are 1) turn their technical investments toward deploying more mechanized agriculture, and 2) keep encouraging people to have babies, so the population reverts toward a younger mean.

I would be much much more worried about our own house. We continue to spend and operate as if the rest of the world lies in ruin after WWII and we are not just the military super power but the lone industrial power. This has not been the case for 30+ years maybe longer depending on when you want to say 'the American century' begins and ends. Look at economy. Look what a little supply chain disruption does to the purchasing power of our dollar. Look how rapidly the world is moving off the dollar. Realize those supply chain disruptions were largely in elastic items, not food stuffs; we grow our own mostly; but we are told constantly the US ag industry depends on migrant workers and illegal aliens. Now imaging the inflationary pressure if we stopped massively importing slave-wage labor and had to pay people minimum wage to pick berries... Look at how much of our economy is dependent on trade conditions that only exist because of our massive military investment in preserving the world order that isn't matched by the EU. All you have to do is look at Libya and Ukraine to see the EU can't and won't provide the security required to keep our trade focused highly specialized economies functioning. We have to do the heavy lifting and we only accomplish it with massive deficit spending with not hope of balance in sight. Its the West that needs to worry about the wheel coming off not China.

Why do we need to nudge it? Why do we need literally harm people and their livelyhoods intentionally when the natural consequences and economic trends are already headed rapidly toward a energy future that has coal entirely out of the picture?

At the rate coal is leaving the overall energy picture, even if we don't meet some specific goal of being coal free by X, the amount of coal operations will be such a vanishingly small part of the carbon picture that any beneficent will be mostly immeasurably small and diffuse but the consequences for the people who get nudge will of course be likely quite acute.

This is purely religious thinking driving this and downright pagan at that; the only justification for this type of policy choice is a belief that people who use coal are sinners and sinners have to be punished to appease mother earth.

This was my thought as well.. There is a certain cache to buying a 'new' thing. Its like buying a new car, you get all the window glossy and what not; maybe its a pride thing, you will get some 'attention' from the deal ship for a time, maybe a 'free' car wash membership etc. Above all you can likely drive it off the lot that day.

However we all know you can probably find a low mileage example of a very similarly appointed vehicle with very likely identical power plant/drive line that is last years model sitting on a used lot or as a lease return or something for steep discount. It might take a little shopping to find the configuration you want.

Same thing here; I am not surprised an super premium, entry into what is still an early adopter electronics market, comes with a heavy premium attached when buying new. There were no doubt going to be a lot of folks with disposable income and not a lot sense that buy these things because, Apple, probably having never even used a VR/AR headset before only to find its 'not for them' and so sure if you are willing to wait and watch you can probably snipe one on ebay at steep discount.

This all sounds like pretty run of the mill buyers remorse to me. Really this person should take away: 1) Unless money is no object, at least understand the used market for any major purchase before you rush off to buy new. 2) As far as electronics go, its generally true it will always at least in real terms be cheaper later, 3) don't over spends on 'toys' things rarely bring us happiness for long and less so when we come to feel we scarified to much for them like loss of financial security or missing other opportunities because we were 'saving' for thing.

still at the call center then eh? No surprise why..

Hydrogen is very light, even lithium batteries are not. Fuel beats, storage in terms of efficiency unless the conversion of fuel to energy is fairly poor, as does happen to be the case with combustion engines, both internal and external.

The real question we should be asking is does end-use efficiency even matter. Remember "to cheap to meter"? If we really could find a low impact way make all the electricity we could possibly use, then we would be free to be as wasteful with it as we like in terms of doing electrolysis to make H2 and then burning that in an 18% engine.

If we could do that, then I expect an h2 drive line might very well prove lower impact than battery electric. We would then be optimizing for whatever is easier to on the environment to manufacture.

We might get there nukes; maybe -