Alaska Barbie wasn't "extremely bright". She had the IQ of a rock. You know this already. The rule to determine if someone is smart is if they did something that you could say was genius.And you can't name a single thing she did that anyone has ever called genius.

So please don't look up to her.

Look up to us liberal elite statists instead. We are the ones that actually control you while allowing you to think you have "freedom" (lol). After all, we were able to get you to pay for someone else's health care.

It's ORM is much better than anything in Node, which is why so many content/e-commerce sites are using it.

Node is only good for apps, which is a much smaller market than content & e-commerce sites. But Node really doesn't have a chance against native apps, especially when its competing against something like Swift on iOS.

Vehicles and the "free" (as in freedom to move around)

And nobody cares about "freedom". They only care what they do with their freedom. If people can achieve your same goals with some other system, they'll be just as happy with that, and they don't complain.

The only reason people like cars is because they don't have any other option. The automotive industry made sure of that, by preventing any transportation choice.

not sure where the downside is.

Actually having to drive, like a manual laborer, is the downside of cars.

Driving is such an economic drain, since it takes up person's time. That in itself is most costly aspect of owning a car, the fact that you pay for it with your time. You can't sleep, you can't read a book, you can't work on a computer, because you have to drive.

Driving is really only for the poors. In fact, in many countries, driving is left to the servants. India's middle class never drives their own cars, they have their servants drive them around for them.

You're not going to be able to do what you want without long-term studies on biology in space.

There's still a lot of long-term biological effects on humans and all animals/plants to be understood. This includes everything from zero-G effects on the body to psychological issues to comfort/oxygen/logistics/food-supply issues, etc..

This should eventually lead to long-term space exploration capabilities - mars travel, etc..

The Shuttle only stayed up for a couple of weeks at a time.

Intel are a process node ahead of the competition so presumably they can fit more transistors on a given wafer,

that's actually under dispute.

A 16nm Intel part can be just as big as a 20nm TSMC part. It all depends on the device structures, and what's being measured as "16nm" and "20nm". Different vendors use different standards now - a transistor today isn't the same as a transistor from 20 years ago. So, this number doesn't necessarily indicate exact technological capability.

Just like the NSA did.

I type a comment here, and it goes into your brain.

This comment is now about steak.

You are now picturing a juicy steak inside your brain.

Amazing that they haven't already ruled out common particles as a source of dark-matter anomalies in the galaxy rotation curves... you'd figure that would be the first suspect analyzed?

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happy?

It's usually the angry Republican (or the similar "wannabe Republican" Libertarian) that's pissed off that his party has gone off the deep-end with unelectable batshit insane candidates.

Republicans, who generally want to cut taxes and limit the size and scope of government can't even do that because they have such terrible crazies in their ideologicall incorrect party.

We liberals actually have candidates that support our liberal agenda of increasing taxes on the wealthy and increasing the size and scope of government.

But, because Republicans can't vote for people that want to raise taxes and increase the size of government, they claim that "both parties are equal".

LOL. sucks to be you losers.

Meanwhile, we liberals will go ahead and raise taxes. We liberals understand that the hard-earned money you make isn't yours. You earned that money because of government, not because of your hard work. Your precious business that sells products to customers? Well good luck getting those products delivered to customers without ROADS that we liberals paid for. Or good luck trying to find employees that weren't trained to learn english based on our GOVERNMENT-FUNDED educational system.

In fact, the richer you are, the more dependent you are on government.

Meanwhile, we will continue to spend your hard-earned taxed dollars on liberal handouts, like Obama's Medicare expansion. (You don't see any Republicans expanding Medicare, do you?)

It is because of our expansion of government that causes you to be rich in the first place. The internet you're making your money on? You can thank us liberals for creating that., thereby giving you a job.

You're welcome.

And we liberals will continue to make fun of you Republicans that claim that both parties are equal, because you have such terrible candidates on your side in the first place.

lol.

I see this a lot among nerds trying to think too hard - they conflate theory with practice.

If surveillance solves problems, then that's it. You don't need to worry about what "might" happen.

Nerds need to figure out that life isn't based on theory. This is why they think the NSA is a bad thing, when most REAL people think they're fine and performing a public service.

The nerds need to go out in the real world more to discover how society behaves, instead of hanging out behind their computers conjecturing on how society is.

Apple prides itself on producing fewer parts and models. They avoid multiple variations of anything.

This supply chain philosophy goes all the way back to their founding and Steve Jobs, and is partly why they ARE successful. Consider how much Steve pared down the Mac line when he returned to Apple.

The fewer "options" you offer to the customer, the easier it is for them to make a purchase decision to buy. Adding more options just gives a customer more reason to delay their purchase decision.

The iPad isn't used for number-crunching.

I think they're moving towards the iPad as a content-creation platform, which needs CPU power.

There are a lot of music production software, photo editors, video editors (see the iPad keynote), and even 3-D modeling tools coming out for the iPad now. The significant difference between the iPad and a laptop would be the touch interface. That touch interface has its own set of advantages useful for higher-end tools that may make them more efficient than the mouse and keyboard UI design. Touch interfaces may not work for word-processing, text-file editing, or spreadsheets, but it's great for music/photo/video editing. (and you can always add a keyboard to an iPad anyways)

At this point the iPad has gone way beyond the content-consumption use model. Apple is building the high-end tablet, clearing the way for the rest of the pro content-creation tools to arrive.

It wouldn't surprise me to see an iPad pro device with a larger 12" display coming soon for that purpose. Maybe Final Cut Pro or AutoCad eventually on the iPad.

No. MacOS is still very much a second rate platform for "buying things". All of the hype didn't change the fact that MacOS is still a marginalized minority platform.

Have you visited a college campus recently?

Everybody uses Macs.

Nobody buys PCs anymore. They're relegated to third-world countries without money and businesses looking to make sure nobody steals their PCs because nobody wants a PC anymore.

At this point the PC industry has no reason to exist, since Apple won the industry. There is no advantage of a PC over a Mac.

And of course, the WORST are Linux. If you want Unix, get a REAL Unix machine via a Mac. Don't try to hack together a fake Unix system with Linux. There's no point in using Linux at all. Linux is worst of all worlds.