Pretty good idea posting as the middle card you are. A non-sequitur irrelevant to the matter we're discussing.

Aren't you a little old to be crying when you can't find your binky? P.S. all bold is the same thing as all caps - a clueless person with a rageboner.

A very attractive lady.

People call me as they wish, you are right. Over the years, I've been called Optical engineer, Optical scientistElectromagnetics scientist, Systems design engineer, even process chemist! Depended on what I was doing at the time. Since it is a recognition of my abilities, and meant positively, I take it as a compliment. The Process chemist thing was a little weird, a strange short part of my career.

The only place where it really "matters" is in a courtroom, where the lawyers get all atwitter about degrees in specific fields. Then the person can be an incompetent, but as long as they have the degree, they are somehow an expert.

Oh please, more the memss of universally stoopid 'murricans. Is your hatred of us overcoming what to 99.99 percent of us see is an obvious joke?

For what it is worth the person running the train is called an engineer. For what it is worth, part of the engineer's job is operating the old coal fired engines, their power transmissions, their water consumption, and boilers

This is not dissimilar to today, where engineers are responsible for smooth and safe operation of many facilities. And as a bit of eduction even though I'm a stupid 'Murrican, Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Occasionally one of us murrican morons can edumacate those who are smarter than us.

But we cannot get our betters to have a sense of humor.

For some time now. Wild wet and wonderful PA, one of the cloudier area, has been using Wind and solar very effectively for some time now.

Solar has an unexpected use. End of line extensions. When there isn't enough ugga-duggas left to meet demand at the last sub-station, solar comes to the rescue.

Placing panels is so much less expensive than getting new right of ways, running new lines, maybe even moving the substation, when new housing developments and businesses need their electricity. And please people, storage batteries are no longer science fiction. There are even bolt on solutions for arrays that don't have tehm now.

Then there is wind. There are places where the wind never stops, the Allegheny Front for instance. At this point, our new wind installs are less than before. The reason? At the moment, what we have now are supplying the power we need at the moment.

Just a note - MacOS is Unix https://www.theregister.com/20.... Linux is Unixy as we say. Note that Unix is "POSIX compliant" now, and has been for a long time, (1993) so the pedants among us might want to weigh in on that.

Point is, I bash around in Terminal half the day. The default is now zsh, but bash sounds better to speak.

Yeah, when I have to go into Windows command line, I have to remember to shift my mental state.

Main point is, I have Apple create the ecosystem while I do paid things. Why should I have to do that? My burn rate overwhelms the cost of the phone or computer very quickly. It's like having a starter motor on a car instead of a hand crank. Obligatory car reference.

Exactly. There is a meme that all Apple users are clueless, with more money than brains. Sure, some are. It would be silly to think that Android and Windows users are the intelligentsia of computer, phone, and tablet users. Some are smart and savvy, some are not

You are trying to make the inferior performance of Android product integration a flex. Yes - I get Apple to provide a functioning integrated system. I have things to do that I am paid for, and those things work so much better with an integrated system that I do not have to futz with while unpaid, simply to make them integrate after a fashion. Just getting a computing device to function is so early 1990's.

And my familiarity with UNIX and its close brother Linux - well, I don't know about sleeping better, but I can get more hours of sleep.

For some, it looks like other places they might put it. Be more inclusive.

You are right about that. As well, they only released them in certain markets where they figured out the demographics. In the world at large, they'd not be so successful. We live in a world where a few people think the iSock is a good idea. Probably the same demographic that believe the new Jaguar commercial people are cool. I suppose if they think the iSock is cool and want to spend the money they can. I suspect they might also have problems with financial savvy, but that's another story.

Do you think? Do you think that Android ownera are all Mensa members or Illuminati?

The iPhone pocket was for sale in very limited locations, picked for demographics. Deciding Apple users are a separate species is kind of prejudiced.

Let's see, there are many of us, like myself, who are on Apple products for a number of reasons

MacOS is UNIX. I'm UNIX. So I'm going to have a UNIX computer. I spend hella much time in Terminal.

The phones and tablets and computers all integrate to an extent that is is impressive. No, Windows and Android don't, not as well.

Family member integration is excellent ApplePlay is much better than AndroidPlay.

Aside from the orange abomination phone, and the stupid iSock, the products are well designed, and tasteful.

So there are many reasons to own Apple products. Yes, some people are in it for some kind of status. Just like some people are into Android as a reaction to those Apple users who they claim are universally stupid status seekers.

And that is the key demographic that would likely have cable. So when they stop, and enough others stop, Cable is in even more trouble than their almost 50 percent drop.

SO and I still have cable, but it's the same thing. She watched Youtube videos, I watch Youtube videos. She keeps things like court shows on for background sound in the house. I watch science channel late at night. But really, the offerings on cable and network TV kind of stink. How many shows can we have of some hot babe banging 10 different guys, than picking one to marry, or real housewives who aren't, or sassy African women fighting with each other? So they're spiraling, and catering to a strange demographic.

Gawd, I remember a time when a model was attractive. Then came heroin chic, when every female model looked like she was strung out. Now I think they are going for "non human".

The thing I wonder about is who is the target audience?maybe the people Jaguar was trying to influence? https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

I know a lot of iPhone users. I don't know any who would want that weird thing. I suppose they will sell a few, but not too many.

This. It is easy to steal as well. Apple is doing one of their occasional farts. They even have the pumpkin spice iPhone. Fortunately they still have tasteful iPhones. I'm an Apple products guy, but if all they had was that orange abomination, I'd wait until they regained their sanity before buying my next phone

They've had failed products before this. And this one will definitely fail Even their models look embarrassed in the pictures.