Another datum proving that what Americans know of socialism is exactly what a Good German (tm) knew of Jews in the late 1930's.

Yes, evil socialism. We know how nasty the socialist dictatorships are in, um, Norway and Sweden, and under the British Labour Party, and the French socialists (the ruling party).

              mark "there are two kinds of Republicans (and libertarians): millionaires, and suckers"*

* And since you're posting here, we know you're not rich....

It's that critter that William Shattner saw on the plane's wing....

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I would expect that for most apps, it won't reduce power consumption.

Why would you expect that? What apps will be able to do will be extremely curtailed - e.g. they will probably follow the original iPhone model of halting the process whenever the user isn't using it. Aside from the display, the radio is probably the biggest power draw on the system, plus there won't be any length negotiation with the phone, so having non-background applications run directly on the device will probably help battery life, not harm it.

From the party of "I'm not a scientist" (but I question what they all say, because I have the Real Answer, which involves God (tm) creating the world 6k years ago, complete with false fossils and strata and radioisotopes, whatever th' hayull they are).

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I have a friend who teaches at Catholic colleges around the US half the year. One of the classes he teaches is "science for non-science majors". Some years ago, he went down the food chain of the majors that take the course: next to the bottom were the business majors, who didn't get it, but didn't let that worry them. At the very bottom were the communications majors, who didn't get it, and didn't know that they didn't get it. Those, of course, are the folks who go into "journalism" (and HR, and...), which explains why we get so many idiot headlines. And the way they through around "intergalactic" and warp drive, I wouldn't be surprise to see them refer to a small airport for small private planes only as an intercontinental airport for supersonic planes.....

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For a watch where a regular watches battery lasts years, a watch with a battery life of a single day at best is hilariously bad.

But nobody needs a watch battery to last years though - the comparison is meaningless. People don't use their watches while they sleep - charging every night in exchange for the extra functionality is a good deal for most people.

If a brand new one has only 30% at the end of the day, a year from now (or an OS update, whichever happens first) you'd better get used to charging your watch at lunch.

You're being ridiculous. No OS update or battery degradation over a year is going to reduce the capacity to less than half. The battery itself is is rated to retain 80% capacity for a thousand cycles and battery tech is pretty predictable.

why would Apple keep such a thing quiet

Because it's a sealed diagnostic port for a non-end-user serviceable product, not a feature. They aren't wishing anything up, it's just not something they have a reason to publicise.

when the Apple Watch's battery-life isn't what most people would consider impressive?

Actually, people's opinions on this are very mixed. Some people are reporting great battery life and improved battery life on their iPhone as well as they switch the screen on less. Some people report the opposite. Chances are, people who have just got a new gadget are playing with it all day, which obviously isn't representative of normal usage patterns or battery life.

Apple's lack of transparency here doesn't much matter, though

Why are you describing lack of publicity about a sealed diagnostic port for non-end-user serviceable goods as a "lack of transparency"? That is bizarre. You wouldn't expect that for any other company, let alone Apple.

Geez, is the idiot running this the same one who was going to have a Koran burning?

How 'bout I have a Bible burning? How would any of you feel about that (ok, I see the guns coming out, that answers that).

Wonder how fast I could burn a Bible... maybe add liquid O2?

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Or maybe I'll pirate views of them. Give Disney money for screwing the US?

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... to come in on their side. I resent having to pay for a ton of channels that I will NEVER, EVER watch.

                      mark "interest in sports approaches zero as a limit"

These are Aggies, if not the ones at Bryan/College Station. I believe the professor.

Relevant points of information: when I relocated there in the late eighties, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that every sexist, racist, nationalistic, religious and every other kind of insulting joke was suddenly an Aggie joke. For example,
Q: How can you tell when an Aggie's doing word processing?
A: White-out all over the monitor.

And it goes downhill from there.....

                              mark "but then, what's led to the decline of the US is the MBA degree...."

That's really what this sounds like - you go to your lecture class, along with 200-400+ other students, get the lecture from the prof, phat chance to actually sit and talk to him, even in his "office hours", and go to your classes with the t/a.

This works *so* well in huge colleges, let's do it for kids and little kids.

Instead, say, of massively increasing funding for schools, and ensure NO CLASS IN THE COUNTRY in k-12 is over 24 kids.

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Moon? Oh, the convicted and served time in prison foreign agent? The one who thinks he is the Second Coming?

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Funny, where I work these days, and the contracts I had before, it was Dell, with a rare HP, and some Macs. I will note that I've only dealt with *enterprise* grade PCs and workstations, not "consumer" grade; certainly, Dell's enterprise support beats everyone else hands down. (And one that shall remain nameless, but who's retiring honcho owns a Hawaiian island and a fighter jet, is below "none of the above", and equal to "self-abuse".)

And it *did* say "PC", not "laptop", or anything else, or I'd have mentioned Lenovo.

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