Are you a fossil fuel shill? Because this comment really reads like that, and I'm surprised it's been moderated so highly.

By itself, yes, wind power isn't a great source of electricity. Neither is solar. Both are by their nature unreliable and incapable of providing a sustained supply. That does not make them useless. Instead this is why they should form part of a mix of renewables contributing to an electricity grid.

A grid should have ways of storing excess generation to put that power back into the grid when renewable sources aren't able to contribute. Historically this has been pumped hydro in many cases, but there are other options now available including, but not limited to, battery storage.

Another aspect of having an electricity grid is to send electricity over very long distances, potentially thousands of miles, which reduces the need to store excess power as via the usage of the grid power needs and production can be balanced.

This balancing may not be perfect, and some of the captured power may be wasted, but is that really a problem? Capturing wind is effectively free whereas burning gas has a high cost in terms of the gas input and the carbon dioxide output. (Yes, wind isn't completely free - there's sunk cost for the windmills, and ongoing maintenance costs, but you have similar costs for running fossil fuel plants.). Does it really matter if some of this captured electricity gets thrown away?

Microsoft ported their BASIC to loads of different CPUs. Commodore BASIC and Applesoft BASIC were both produced by Microsoft. They covered all the popular CPUs back in the day (8080, Z80, 6800, 6809, 6502, etc).

So yes, they started by selling a BASIC that ran on the 8080, but they didn't just stay there.

Interesting side-fact here - Windows NT started out targeting platforms other than the x86 - the x86 version was a port. They did this because they didn't want to be locked into Intel.

Ctrl-+A and Ctrl+E work fine for me on the Mac version of VSCode...

I wonder if you've installed some kind of extension that's re-defining those key combos.

Apple Maps works just fine on the web - although Apple themselves don't really seem interested in hosting a site for it, in part because they want to sell iPhones, sure, and probably they'd also rather folks use the app version as it offers slightly better OS integration.

To use Apple Maps on the web just go to Duck Duck Go, search for a place, and then click thru to the maps tab. Many other web sites use Apple's MapkitJS to show maps.

As for preferring Open Street Map, Apple is both a consumer and contributor to the Open Street Map dataset.

They told us the lag in their presentation - it's 18ms

The original iPod came out in October 2001.

At that time you could buy a Creative Nomad Jukebox C which was a HD based device with 6GB of storage, slightly more than the iPod, but it was about the size of a portable CD player, and did not have wifi. Creative had also released the NOMAD II C which had a comparable physical size to the iPod, but used flash storage, coming with 32MB. Both of these connected using USB, which was significantly slower than the firewire the iPod used.

If anything "one of the oldest Slashdot memes" here is that the iPod was in some way inferior to the competition.

An Intel-designed ARM chip could be as fast as an M1 Max... maybe a bit quicker, and have a similar power profile.

After all, part of the heritage of Apple Silicon is the team that built the StrongARM that, for a while, was owned by Intel.

Arguably Intel should never have sold that tech - but keeping it would have required them to admit that x86 was flawed, and they can't possibly do that. :D

Both things can be true.

ARM was indeed designed with a low enough transistor count and power usage to allow it to run cool enough to ship in plastic packages rather than ceramics. So yes, it was designed so that the manufactured chips would be comparatively cheap.

It was also designed to out-perform the other chips Acorn had considered as the CPU around which to build their next platform. So yes, it was designed for speed too.

FYI, pointer support on iPadOS includes mouse support too

Many of those kids however go to Instagram.

Which is of course owned by Facebook.

You're missing the point.

The "hour" that's been mentioned is a rough estimate for the amount of work that would need to be done to handle the visa application. It's not an estimated increase of the amount of time that it will take for passengers to travel through an airport.

There will be a significant increase in bureaucracy required to process all these visa applications, which has a significant cost associated with it.

As a potential visitor, having to deal with a more complicated visa application process is hassle, and not appealing. When the application process is draconian and unnecessarily invasive of the privacy of the applicant it is even less appealing.

iOS devices are not x86 based - they're ARM - so no "basic x86 code" will run on them at all.

The only place that iOS runs on x86 is in the simulator on OS X and such x86 code is not included in builds for iOS devices.

64-bit ARM is different from 32-bit ARM, and not even remotely like "extended 32-bit x86".

Historically, over about the past decade up until the pound took a bath following the Brexit vote, Apple have charged very close to the same amount for their products in the UK as in the USA, once one takes VAT into account. The difference for most products has usually been within a few percentage points. Admittedly for some products the difference has been larger, but for their more expensive items the prices have tended to be close.

Occasionally currency fluctuations have meant that some Apple products have been cheaper in the UK than the USA (once VAT is considered) - that was the case when I bought my MacBook Pro a few years ago.

Apple tends to only very rarely adjust their pricing and will generally ride out currency fluctuations, preferring instead to maintain consistent pricing for their products. The adjustments they have made to GBP pricing were done many months after the pound had devalued. Typically their adjustments are done on much longer timescales (years) but as the pound dropped off a cliff it's not surprising they've made these adjustments faster.

In this particular case, this is an automatic re-pricing of apps so that developers around the world won't be taking a bath on product sales to the UK. Those developers can choose to re-price their product at a newly introduced lower price band to let said products continue to be priced at 79p in the UK should they choose to do so.

No - there is no change in where the burden of taxation/VAT lies. Apple have always incorporated sales tax into app store prices.

This is a correction owing to currency devaluations.

The UK Pound is now worth about 25% less than it was six months ago when compared to the US Dollar, therefore they've corrected the GBP prices of apps to reflect the current exchange rate.

For the UK, and this was in a UK paper, that is pretty normal and consistent with most other publications.

Newspapers will measure large distances in miles, as that's what we use for our roads, but short distances in metres, as they're what we are taught in school.