Good thing they remodeled Mars Cheese Castle.

I mean really, the right thing would have been to have left things alone.

Can't speak for all conservative Christians, but I'm quiet about my donations and charitable acts. If anyone is curious, Matthew chapter 6 sums it up.

I treat "the help" better than I treat myself. I do my best to treat everyone better, honestly. It pays off too. The kid taking your dinner order today may not be tomorrow. If you make an impression on people, good or bad, they'll tend to remember you.

Not to mention, it feels pretty darned good to bump into someone you met in a "lowly" position, only to find they've thrived and reached their goals. Every job is worthwhile, otherwise you wouldn't be paid to do it. People who take those entry level jobs seriously tend to also take their careers seriously, and they usually end up doing very well for themselves.

You say you're a liberal, but you're way too supportive of free market principals for today's crop of "liberals." Welcome to the R's.

Some of y'all are WAY too hung up on the language, rather than on the message conveyed. Just sayin'

Hastings is playing the long game. What I heard is pretty simple - the demand for home grown content is sufficient to forecast sustained profit while burning through cash in order to get there. So then by reason, their expenditures in the near term are indicative of that belief. AND I would agree.

While Hollywood is looking at everything in their catalog to merely remake (poorly), Netflix (and others) who traditionally just distributed others' content are seizing a massive opportunity to get into the game (directly or indirectly) of content creation. House of Cards (Netflix), Orange is the new Black (Netflix), The Walking Dead (AMC), Game of Thrones (HBO), Breaking Bad (AMC) for a few examples.

... and that is why I personally won't consider donating whenever Jimmy Wales goes on his BIG BANNER-O-THONS.

So it DOES run Windows then.

Ahh I see, operating system updates are merely ARTWORK updates! Who knew?

Sorry, can't dismiss it that easily. Perhaps it doesn't matter to you, doesn't mean there aren't actual ramifications for others. At the simplest level, it introduces issues with API usage for developers. With Android, you never make use of any recent API because you're painfully aware pretty much nobody can run it. With Apple, you're guaranteed to have wide support pretty soon after launch. That's big. Big enough that Google has made it a key point to tackle. But alas, just artwork updates right?

You know, as soon as you FAndroids can tell me how to update this phone to the latest revision of Nougat (7.1.1), that was bought running Nougat (7.0), your pointless blustering might just hold a little bit of weight. For all this "versatility" and "lack of being stuck in Apple's walled garden" crap you folks blindly spew, it sure feels restrictive here in Android-ville.

Now lets wait for a bunch of little propellerheads to start asking "what phone?" and "have you rooted?" and pointing me to some blogs where some guy somewhere hacked the shit out of something until it "installed" but freezes and crashes like crazy. But it runs! lol. Hardly.

In case some of you don't get it, this is why Apple is STILL winning. This is why Apple devices are perceived as 'better' by the masses. Because, well, they are. Sure some certain Android running device may do something an Apple device doesn't. Same looking back the other direction as well, no? The point is Apple devices work. Reliably, predictably, and consistently. I have both, I carry both, but when I need to rely on my devices one of them clearly shines - and it ain't running Android. I really do like Nougat a lot, but it definitely irritates me that not only can I NOT upgrade to the latest builds, there's ZERO indication when I will be able to IF EVER! That is a losing proposition right there.

I was about to jump you for not being a man at all, right up until that last sentence. Well done.

As an IT Manager/Director, THANK YOU. Everyone screws up at some point, it's what you do after that really matters.

Once those subsidies run out, his product becomes stacked a little lower compared to the incumbent manufacturers who aren't all electric. Musk is merely looking for an angle, and if he can make life difficult for his competitors that works to his benefit. Think about it - keep Obama's crazy fuel economy regs in play, and what chance does a gasoline or diesel engine have against Tesla at any cost? Performance would by necessity be severely crippled, and Tesla can thumb their nose even more by showing how even their cheapest models outperform everyone else. Also think about who owns the electric car space through battery contracts, battery production, and power delivery technology. Becomes pretty clear the Paris nonsense works to benefit Musk in a bigly way.

I was "WTF?" about that too, until I got one with my new computer and realized the battery lasts for MONTHS between charges, and a couple minutes plugged in nets enough power to get well past a day's use. Makes it pretty easy to ignore the 'problem.'

ROFL !!!!

Nice try at shamevertising. This isn't Reddit, many here (myself included) can afford as many tech widgets as they desire to have, but choose to spend money on better gear than Surface. Nobody is at all jealous of those. Please try again.

Hardly obsolete, and being one of those who saw the likelihood of a mid-year refresh I bought a 2016rMBP+TB anyway. When I look at the MBP I handed down and realize its age, I don't quite see this refresh as a problem. It's not like the "old" model suddenly stops working, or the new model is expected to come with some magical powers.

The only people who will be wringing their hands are those who care more about "ooh, new and shiny!" than getting actual work done.