The store I was at was just ringing everything up as "merchandise" and issuing a $5 discount for the hassle, as it would take 10-20 seconds for each scan to fail before they could enter the price of the item.

Also worth mentioning that the card machines were fine, it was a connection issue to their central inventory system that went down. They could scan an item, it would read the code and know what it was and how much it was, but the register wasn't able to update the inventory system.

So it's not ad free then...

next you're going to tell me that sharks with frickin laser beams on their fricken heads is a bad investment.

They've dumped hundreds of millions (billions?) into this franchise and produced 1 good movie, 2 mediocre movies, 2 mediocre TV shows, and 1 more or less bad movie, not to mention the controversy surrounding the games so far. I'm not surprised that Disney is looking to roll back their investment, it's been profitable but it wouldn't take too many more bad projects to kill off the brand. They're getting out while they're still ahead.

$1370 is pretty cheap actually for a RTX 2070 equipped 15.6" laptop, I spent a little more than $1000 for a GTX 1060 laptop of similar spec about 6 months ago, and that was still considered a decent deal. As for 240hz refresh on a 15.6" display, I don't know any gamers that would be able to use such a speed that are willing to play on such a small screen, so this is pretty much a gimmick.

We must never change anything lest we trample all over someone's nostalgia! In any case, your examples could be (or are being) renovated and refurbished so that future generations can enjoy them, this is a bloody sign for a business that isn't even at that location anymore, I think the vast majority of people that drive on 101 aren't going to miss it. If it's so culturally significant, why doesn't someone pay to fix it up and move it to a museum?

Also, I kinda like the title, maybe I'll add it to my sig ;)

I sure as hell didn't know what Ampex is, nor had I known anything about the sign, someone seems to have forgotten to tell the rest of the world about its cultural significance. A quick googling also showed that the sign looked worn and kinda crappy now so from an outsider's perspective, good riddance

It's actually worse, 1 ton of magnesite can sequester 1/2 ton of CO2, we are releasing 1200 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere EVERY SECOND of every day. I also question how much CO2 is created in making the magnesite, considering that it's sped up formation is due to polystyrene microspheres, which are in themselves a petroleum product. I imagine that to even make a dent, we'd have to be forming millions of tons of this stuff every day, and that's just not feasible.

I don't know specifically about the linked eGPU but it is possible to use other eGPUs on the internal display. The trade off is that it's a pain in the ass to set up and you do lose a little bit of graphics power as you're sending video data back across the same Thunderbolt 3 link.

I can keep 100% of the revenue by distributing it myself.

You're thinking about The Andromeda Strain, which is what came to mind when I heard of this.

I disagree that this is a negotiating tactic, Apple has indicated through inaction for several years now that they don't really care that much about the professional market, who are really the only people that are going to care about the switchover. Switching to ARM allows Apple to merge the iOS and macOS platforms, easing development costs and grab more control over their environment. They've already made it clear that this is the path they want to take with products like the iPad Pro, if they could take that and expand it into a full iMac like experience, why wouldn't they?