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Comment Re: Who you are; Something you know (Score 0) 130

"(who knew that biometrics wasn't a word? When did Mozilla decide this?)"

Most supplied dictionaries are trash, but yes, the Mozilla dictionary is especially horrible.

Even the Google dictionary is missing tons of words despite crowdsourcing (crowdsourcing being one of them, I just added it to my device) and even worse, the keyboard wants to type only banal words when you swipe, because the matches are apparently based more on crowdsourcing than on the best match for your swipe. The more erudite the word, the worse it is, for example try entering the word erudite. I succeeded on the second try, but the first time it typed "Russia" (and it was the first alternate suggestion the second time, too.)

Comment Re: spokesweasel (Score 2, Insightful) 37

"Apple is a wilful contributor to obeying the law, nothing more, nothing less."

Apple is a corporation, and like all corporations its explicit legal purpose is to separate funding from liability.

"I bet you'd sing a different tune if the ban was for TikTok."

China already has banned TikTok from China. They only allow their own version with approved thoughts and ideas. This move by China (and supported by Apple because nothing is more important to them than profit, even if it is unsustainable) is in fact just more of that same ban. As such, you would not only lose your bet, it really doesn't make any sense.

Comment spokesweasel (Score 3, Interesting) 37

"We are obligated to follow the laws in the countries where we operate, even when we disagree," an Apple spokesperson said in a statement.

You're not obligated to operate in China, Apple spokesdroid. You chose to do so. Google chose to exit when China wanted them to help put the screws to the populace. Apple didn't. Apple is a willful contributor to public oppression in China and nothing any PR flack says will change that fact.

Comment Re:Who is waiting to switch? (Score 1) 59

also, like, you (as in you, drinkypoo) have been bitching about Mac OS X for as long as there's been Mac OS X, so this new talking point really just feels hollow.

I'm consistent so you don't believe me? Okay, sport.

haven't heard about time machine fuckups, do you have a link to anything other than the obligatory "mAKe sUre tHE cAbLe iS PLuggeD IN" page every company has?

https://www.google.com/search?...

Comment Re:Be realistic (Score 1) 59

Looks like they are showing the base clock for Windows and the boost clock for Linux. The processor model was listed on the page you linked, so you could have found this out with google.

The final conclusion, "Ubuntu ... a 20% Performance Advantage Over Windows", is quite the logical and linguistic leap. That seems to be based on the number of benchmarks run, counting each as a win/loss, and doing averages based on that. There are a TON of java based benchmarks, and a lot of that could be down the to java interpreter implementation. IE: it's benchmarking the java on linux implementation against java on windows just as much, if not more so, than ubuntu versus windows on this laptop.

So what you're saying is you think Java is optimized for Linux over Windows? I could believe that, but where are your benchmark tests? How did you leave those out?

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