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Comment Re:Cores do not equal power (Score 3, Informative) 432

A lot of the time with both laptops and PCs the cores are entirely unused.

So? That is more a problem of application programmers than hardware designers.

Since processing is largely a duopoly of AMD and Intel, both have been guilty of marketing their hardware by highlighting the core numbers.

This does not even make sense. Why shouldn't a company tout the fact that they have more cores on a chip than before? And this is Apple's advertising anyway, not AMD/Intel. The price alone would keep most people from buying the high-end, as it always has. However, for my work in radar signal processing using heavily-threaded applications, this machine would be a great addition to my desktop since I would no longer have to run my signal processing streams distributed over several hosts; one host could do the job just fine.

Comment Re:Before everyone cheers (or jeers) (Score 1, Insightful) 435

I agree. As an Apple shareholder, I enjoy reading about the pending or settled lawsuits in the proxy materials Apple sends out every year. I don't know if there are any stats freely available, but I bet that most large companies have one or more active lawsuits against them. And I would be that the more popular the company (media attention, stock price), the more likely they are to have the lawsuits.

Comment Re:Google is hypocritical (Score 1) 562

The reason this is trollish is that there are significant differences between these two situations. Google.com is Google's website! The iOS devices on the other hand are devices that people have purchased and now ostensibly own.

Comprehension is really starting to decline here on /. For the purposes of iAds, Apple is the server. Apple hosts the ads. Google or anyone else is free to create their own ad distribution and display system for the iPhone (as others have already done -- ads exist today in some apps, including jailbroken ones).

Try again.

Comment Re:Cry me a river (Score 1) 562

How is this insightful? Its stupid. Any move by Google to shut out Apple users would affect Google since it effectively removes a segment of the population from their data collection endeavors. I doubt that they would want that. Not to mention how silly it would appear to the rest of the world.

Comment Re:The main debate... (Score 1) 944

You could write the same applications that would run in the browser and completely defeat the native apps that Apple sells.

You can do that today. There are some very good Javascript libraries that get you very close to or at the experience a user gets from a Cocoa application. Your argument makes no sense.

Comment Re:win for the constitution (Score 1) 790

First time I've seen a judge equated with a bureaucrat. And what do you think Congress is filled with? And I believe the FCC Charter (created by those people in Congress) states that the FCC has this regulatory authority:

For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio

When people disagree with the rules set forth by Congress, they go to the courts to have the wording parsed and weighed. I think you are barking up the wrong tree of "activist judges" here.

Comment Re:What a whiny load of crap. (Score 2, Insightful) 552

Like to go to theme parks? Set up another LLC and create a website dedicated to reviewing them, talking about which ones have what etc. Now you get to write off trips to Six Flags and Cedar point as legitimate business research.

That only works to a point right? According to the IRS you have to show some income at some point, not just a ton of expenses.

Comment Re:So Ignorant It Hurts (Score 2, Informative) 1252

While the article is a bit biased as well as the people it covers, a lot of the things these people tout amount to plain ignorance.

More elementally, they hold that the United States was founded by devout Christians ...

True.

I'd even argue with the devout part. They all considered themselves Christians, but definitely not in an Evangelical sense. Jefferson in particular was put off by dogma, and you cannot get much closer to dogma than running around quoting the Bible in support of your view and stating it as fact.

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