I had a motorola atrix once. Easily my least favorite/least durable phone ever. I had an otter box case even, it slipped out of my hand from two feet above the ground, landed on the top corner of the phone, and entire screen turned into a spiderweb of cracks. Maybe other motorola's faired better?

Seems like the future for manufacturing in the US is the Elon Musk approach - factories employing as much automation as possible; those will provide jobs for the contractors that build them, but thereafter not so much.

Compared to his "gigafactory" which will make batteries and employ 6,500 people, the future of Tesla manufacturing will be that there are no people on the production line, at all.

Gigafactory
https://www.fastcompany.com/30...

Tesla Factory
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Everyone loves to complain how we lost our manufacturing to China, but the truth is we began losing it a LONG time ago with the "invention" of automation. Companies bringing their manufacturing back to the U.S. will earn big rounds of applause, but in all likelihood, will only be doing so because they're determining that it's cheaper to do without the humans at all.

> Even porting iTunes would be a waste.

Actually, they've ported Apple Music to Android. I bought a android phone with an SD card for the express purpose of having that as my jukebox in my car; beats paying whatever it costs for the 128 GB iPhone.

https://play.google.com/store/...

(The app is mostly geared toward getting you to buy media from Apple, or become a subscriber to their streaming service, but also lets you download the contents your iTunes playlists to play locally from the phone)

That's pretty much the case for most technology offered in the last 5-10 years. Outside of gaming and a few other use cases, there just isn't a real reason to upgrade as rapidly as we did before.

I'm writing this on a late 2013 MacBook Pro. which, for me, is the longest lasting computer I've had, at least as the one I primarily. Short of hardware failure, I don't expect to need to buy a new model til at least 2018. Though, I may need to replace the battery soon, but that's just an effect of the computer being so useful for so long.

In their defense, upgrading their watch battery hasn't resulted in said watches getting engulfed in flames. That's pretty good when you think about it.

(Also coming from an iSheep, though I can't imagine ever wanting an iWatch)

Why rag on Apple about this? Maybe I'm mistaken, but can you name a smartphone maker who manufactures in the US? Or PC vendor? But Apple alone is the fall guy?

Is it just me to wonder why browser need gigabytes of memory just to display a webpage? They receive text, format it according to CSS rules, display relatively small sized images, and, yes, execute Javascript. Still, a HUGE webpage is still a tiny amount of data.

Considering that entire operating systems used to run comfortably on systems with 32MB of RAM in yesteryear, and could display all this media, it just astounds me that systems now require 4-8GB to provide a comfortable browsing experience.

Even if Chromes memory footprint has shrunk a little, i'm certain it still uses an obscene amount of RAM relative to what it actually does most the time.

Donalds sole saving grace is that he has never been in public service, so his communications, deliberations, etc are all still hidden from view. So instead, the only thing we can use to measure in on his judgement and soundness of mind is, well, the words he's said.

As warren buffet has pointed out repeatedly, it's what you say and do when you don't think anyone's looking that determines your character. Not the persona you put forward when the cameras are rolling.

I don't think russia attempted to deny. Instead they had Wikileaks dump the Podesta emails, only to the see the Trump Tapes surface.

We all know there's tons of dirt waiting on Hillary, Julians said as much. Apparently we assumed at all meaningful dirt originates at Wikileaks, though, and forgot that there are probably treasure troves of stuff on Don that people have been holding back on for the closing weeks....

It's gonna be brutal for both sides.

What if you exit the holodeck, but in reality you only think you exited, and you're still stuck in the holodeck the whole time, its just simulating your exit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

>Slashdotters with absolutely zero knowledge of how business actually works

You say that after mentioning that Warren Buffets one-day paper loss on an investment that has provided a return many times greater than the amount he invested, held as part of a diverse portfolio that provides liquidity, only when needed, for his insurance operations, and in any case only represents a small fraction of Berkshire's net worth, compared against Trumps complete blow out?

Except Clinton has a card up her sleeve that Trump doesn't. Namely, the willingness to increase taxes to address the situations you point out. Where as Trump, king of debt, has already declared he intends to borrow even more since interest rates are so low.

So no, disagree absolutely. Trump's only "plan" is to whip out the good ol' credit card. Not a sound economic policy by any stretch.

>worthy candidates

Like Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, you mean?

If we're indeed just part of a simulation and we're hoping to break out of it, what are the chances an Age of Empires Titan could break out of that simulation and enter our own simulation?

So, they're factoring in their potential liability from Yahoo's failure to secure its systems and/or notify its customers of a security breach in a timely fashion at $2 per user? I wonder if they hired the same folks as Bank Of America used when deciding whether or not buying Country Wide Mortgage was a good idea?