Their cadence has been pretty predictable for a while now, ever since they switch to Arm. Some people might indeed hold out for a touch screen; some just might not give a shit.

Youâ(TM)re forgetting the Touch Bar. You canâ(TM)t accuse Apple of not trying to innovate, but it is a disaster. I canâ(TM)t type on my MBP without constantly triggering it. Thank goodness I use an external keyboard 90% of the time.

And given that most of my usage is with it on a stand as a secondary screen, Iâ(TM)d never find the use for it being a touch screen.

That's what they've done. Or rather they've bought the politicians who create the regulatory frameworks. But if people woke up and realized they've been frog-boiled into giving away their privacy, then that would be prohibitively expensive.

Then they'll find out the hard way that Steve was right.

That is definitely not how I remember those jokes going. The first one was about Jews, not elephants, and involved some absurdly large number fitting in the ashtray. The second was always, "Chicken Butt," for some reason, probably the rhyme.

To be fair, this "new" pronunciation is a lot closer to the Latin original, which didn't have a Y-sound at the front (so started with OO, not YOO) and had the emphasis on the first syllable. So, OO-ra-nus, with the a being a lot like the vowel in the English word "lot" and u being a lot like the u in the English word "push". The original Greek, from which the Latin came, had the same sounds except the final u was replaced with an o, which sounded like the o in "Oh, Yeah." Later versions of Greek shifted the emphasis to the final syllable, but never changed the vowel sounds significantly. Later versions of Latin changed the final u's sound to be like the oo in "Boo", same as the first syllable, except that the first syllable, in all cases in Latin, should be twice as long sounding as the other two syllables.

As long as Logitech brings back their Trackman Marble trackball, they can do whatever they want with their board of directors.

I essentially made the argument that if we want capitalism to work the way we were taught in civics class it is supposed to, companies must be forced by regulation not to undermine the basic assumptions that lead to efficient operation of the free market.

I am neither here nor there on a basic income. I think it depends on circumstances, which of course are changing as more and more labor -- including routine mental labor -- is being automated. We are eventually headed to a world of unprecedented productive capacity and yet very little need for labor, but we aren't there yet.

Anybody who is pushing AI services, particularly *free* AI services, is hoping to mine your data, use it to target you for marketing, and use the service to steer you towards opaque business relationships they will profit from and you will find it complicated and inconvenient to extricate yourself from.

> The law "undermines the basis of the cost savings and will lead to bulk billing being phased out," the group said.

Good; it's monopolistic, predatory, and ultimately unnecessary. The entire practice is aimed at driving consistency and forced adoption rates, not anything else.

The question is -- ideas that are bad for *who*? This may be a very bad idea for you and me, but it is a very good idea for Microsoft, especially as, like their online services, they will make money off of us and it will be very inconvenient for us to opt out.

In civics-lesson style capitalism, which I'm all in favor of, companies compete to provide things for us that we want and we, armed with information about their products, services and prices, either choose to give them our business or to give our business to a competitor.

Not to say that stuff doesn't *ever* happen, but it's really hard to make a buck as a business that way. So what sufficiently large or well-placed businesses do is earn money *other* ways, by entangling consumers in business relationships that are opaque and which they don't have control over, may not even be fully aware they're signing on to, and which are complicated and awkward to extricate themselves from. In other words a well placed company, like Microsoft or Google or Facebook, will constantly be looking at ways to make money outside the rigorous demands of free market economics.

No malice and no impatience, even if the passenger didn't plan properly and is running late.

And if you are prone to stuttering voice control is a major loss.

Clippy was just mildly annoying but I'd hate having to talk to my computer.