Apple is well-known to bury data. The piece of data I personally noticed regarded data corruption in Rev.1 B&W G3 macs. They had an article in the TIL which told you to buy an ATA card or FWB toolkit and slow down your drives. When they folded the TIL into the KB they pulled in articles before and after it, but they dropped this one. They lie, cheat, and deceive; that's what they do.

I've been using email since before I was using GUIs, and I use gmail because their web-based interface is the best that I've yet seen and I can access it from about anything. I've run my own webmail servers, none of the free/open clients are half as good as gmail.

I knew there would be a comment well down the page someplace that was going in the direction I wanted to go.

If he's bright and in touch with what people actually want, unlike the people currently at Lenovo, he could well make a contribution if they listen to him. And since people listen to celebrities because they think they're better people or something, they might well do so.

Fun means that the kids are still fun after they eat one, as opposed to bouncing superballs of chaos and insanity.

Open your mind, and your heart. Halloween can be the best holiday. Two words for you: Slutty costumery. Even that aside, it's our favorite holiday in the states because adults get to go to parties in costumes. Who doesn't like an excuse for a costume party?

I would have gone for "underage prostitutes appeal to pope" but I guess that was more the last guy

Nah, it's still good art, it's just not as much on the part of the "artist" and more due to the efforts of technicians. Commercial art is still art!

Neither are!

Look, manufacturers lie all day. SeaFoam claims to increase the lubricity of diesel fuel, but if you read the MSDS it's clear that it does the opposite. WD40 is also not a suitable lubricant. It's not suitable because it's made out of light oils. Same reason Seafoam is not a suitable regular additive. (Best diesel additive for lubricity? Biodiesel. Proven by testing.)

He didn't. He dumped the data on media organizations ages ago, and now he's just helping guide public discussion.

False dichotomy. There are other possible reasons. It's smart to do what you get paid for, on a certain level.

If they didn't break functionality, you'd have a valid argument. But nerds and non-nerds alike value functionality over shinies. You can't normally tell because we all have so much excess in the developed world, so we can care about unimportant things as well as important things.

Oil makes a pretty crap lubricant in most situations because it runs away. It makes sense in our engines, but not on our engines. Use grease to lubricate pivot points, not oil. Oil is for sliding surfaces, and it has to be reapplied regularly.

Yes, that's true, but note that the PPC601 was fully instruction set-compatible with POWER. The very first PowerPCs really deserved the name. It went downhill from there. POWER is still around, but PowerPC is still a joke today.

It's not clear that PPC could ever have been as good as ARM. Certainly when Motorola was making PPC-based phones, ARM was faster for the same power... because POWER ain't exactly svelte, and thus PowerPC is not POWER, and zzz. The real punch in the PPC chips was in the coprocessors, and those can be tied to most any ISA.

This is actually more confusing and not less, especially where the processor is soldered; there actually are more models of machine, but the model number doesn't appear on the front of the machine. It only appears on a sticker on its bottom or rear.

Who cares? You buy a new computer when you need a new computer, not when there's a new shiny. Only if selling your computers is based solely on how shiny it is will someone buy a new one every year whether they need it or not. Those people are always a minority, and in this economy, there's less of them than ever. That's why Apple's making its money selling handhelds. Lots of those purchases are subsidized.

It's absolutely idiotic for any of our fighters to be interacting directly with anything capable of shooting back in this day and age, when a drone should be doing it.

Practically every nerd I know. Every R/C pilot or even driver. Every actual pilot. Every member of the military. Everyone and their fucking mom has noticed that if you packed it with explosives or put a gun in it, a flying toy would be a weapon. And when I noticed that video games were capable of simulating multiple physics-based aircraft in combat simultaneously, I knew for certain that sooner or later, we'd have aircraft flying combat missions autonomously.