Comment Re:The biggest problem to be faced? (Score 4, Informative) 77
The NYT paywall that doesn't let you read the linked articles.
Just open it in an incognito/private window. You're welcome.
Comment Re:Like Nest's hidden sensors? (Score 1) 53
Kind of like the hidden microphone in Nest thermostats.
Comment Re:No One Wants a Roku Account (Score 1) 52
I used to use a Roku for the same reason. Their pointless war with Peacock and HBO Max, and Google's release of a Chromecast with a remote caused them to lose my business.
Comment Re:Football fields? (Score 1) 104
I don't understand "a two-lane road" metric used in the article. Please use standard journalistic measurement units of football fields.
I thought it was a series of tubes.
Comment They don't want that either (Score 1) 92
We're hearing more and more from consumers that they don't want to talk to us on the phone. Nobody does anymore. Everyone communicates with text.
This may come as a surprise, but they don't want you to text either.
Comment Not enough people actually paying (Score 3, Interesting) 29
This is a clear indication that most of their subscriptions are from people that bought an Apple device and got a free sub. They don't want their subscription numbers to drop precipitously as the free trials end and they're afraid most of their subscribers won't turn into paying customers.
Comment Re:easy (Score 3, Informative) 55
How would people n the US feel about it if China decides to ban Wynn, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Micron, or Texas Instruments from doing any commerce, business operations, or manufacture in China unless they agree to be purchased by a Chinese company?
They already ban Facebook, Twitter, Google, Wikipedia and countless others. These are much more realistic comparisons than the ones you suggested.
Comment Re: I wondered about this (Score 1) 60
Sorry. You can't resist. You have no right to make me sick! This should be mandatory.
This guy is a troll. Check his comment history and don't take the bait.
Comment Re:10% faster than ... (Score 1) 62
When I can run the scroll wheel on the mouse faster than Chrome can render a page it SAYS it has finished loading, there is something seriously out of whack with its speed claims.
That's called lazy loading. It's a feature.
Comment Re:Cook, 59, said in 2015 that he plans to give mo (Score 1) 87
The solution is to provide better education and social programs that help preserve families so that people can grow up to be better-educated and better-adjusted. Then they will make better decisions.
Both parties but especially the Rs have sacked education for decades because they love low-information voters who are easy to lead. Then they act all surprised at how dumb everyone is.
That's false. 10 seconds on Google would have prevented you from looking like a fool. 10 Facts About K-12 Education Funding "Total education funding has increased substantially in recent years at all levels of government, even when accounting for enrollment increases and inflation."
Can You Get Covid-19 Again? It's Very Unlikely, Experts Say 55
An anonymous reader shares a report: The anecdotes are alarming. A woman in Los Angeles seemed to recover from Covid-19, but weeks later took a turn for the worse and tested positive again. A New Jersey doctor claimed several patients healed from one bout only to become reinfected with the coronavirus. And another doctor said a second round of illness was a reality for some people, and was much more severe. These recent accounts tap into people's deepest anxieties that they are destined to succumb to Covid-19 over and over, feeling progressively sicker, and will never emerge from this nightmarish pandemic. And these stories fuel fears that we won't be able to reach herd immunity -- the ultimate destination where the virus can no longer find enough victims to pose a deadly threat.
But the anecdotes are just that -- stories without evidence of reinfections, according to nearly a dozen experts who study viruses. "I haven't heard of a case where it's been truly unambiguously demonstrated," said Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Other experts were even more reassuring. While little is definitively known about the coronavirus, just seven months into the pandemic, the new virus is behaving like most others, they said, lending credence to the belief that herd immunity can be achieved with a vaccine. It may be possible for the coronavirus to strike the same person twice, but it's highly unlikely that it would do so in such a short window or to make people sicker the second time, they said. What's more likely is that some people have a drawn-out course of infection, with the virus taking a slow toll weeks to months after their initial exposure. People infected with the coronavirus typically produce immune molecules called antibodies. Several teams have recently reported that the levels of these antibodies decline in two to three months, causing some consternation. But a drop in antibodies is perfectly normal after an acute infection subsides, said Dr. Michael Mina, an immunologist at Harvard University.
But the anecdotes are just that -- stories without evidence of reinfections, according to nearly a dozen experts who study viruses. "I haven't heard of a case where it's been truly unambiguously demonstrated," said Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Other experts were even more reassuring. While little is definitively known about the coronavirus, just seven months into the pandemic, the new virus is behaving like most others, they said, lending credence to the belief that herd immunity can be achieved with a vaccine. It may be possible for the coronavirus to strike the same person twice, but it's highly unlikely that it would do so in such a short window or to make people sicker the second time, they said. What's more likely is that some people have a drawn-out course of infection, with the virus taking a slow toll weeks to months after their initial exposure. People infected with the coronavirus typically produce immune molecules called antibodies. Several teams have recently reported that the levels of these antibodies decline in two to three months, causing some consternation. But a drop in antibodies is perfectly normal after an acute infection subsides, said Dr. Michael Mina, an immunologist at Harvard University.
Comment Re:FTG (Score 1) 140
Isn't that a rather childish response?
You must be new here.
Comment Citation needed (Score 1) 311
Italian doctors are saying "strange flu" cases were reported in the Chinese immigrant population as early as October.
Citation needed. I'd really like to have a source for this.
-- MQR
Comment Re:Really? (Score 0) 201
You want to say a slate that overheats if it runs too fast is going to replace laptops? Something that needs a keyboard attachment that effectively converts it to a poor performing laptop is going to replace a laptop? Seriously?
Apple laptops and desktops overheat and throttle too. Why should the iPad be any different?
Comment Re:the kind of hubris from the US (Score 1) 86
You've clearly never heard of Qualcomm, or you don't know that it's based in San Diego, CA.
