Ok, learn something about scheduling.

Hint : Modern multi-user OS does give all cycles to the program that asks for it, but not exactly WHEN the program asks for it. It makes all the difference.

Well, I don't use data upload software. That does not absolve the OS from a responsibility of elementary fairness among processes, nor routers from the same among connected devices. This is a primary function of OS and router.

That you admit through silence the same lack of features in CPU throttling, is proof enough.

Google drive might not be justified in omitting a feature that is necessary because of limitations of YOUR OS and router, but I wouldn't have the fundamental responsibilities of different software blurred.

Ok, Google drive awaits the same fate then. I don't see a problem. But that is irrelevant because I was talking about expectations from software in general, which don't include throttling as universally as you claimed.

How does MS Excel allow the user to specify that 20% or 600 MHz of CPU is available for it? I couldn't find the setting.

I suspect your OS is better in fairness about CPU allocation than network. Foreground vs background heuristics are easier for CPU, I guess.

Obviously a screwed up (read greedy) banking/financial system will cost the economy something.

For reasonable credit card companies - unspent amount should go back to your account, loading fee should be comparable to costs the company incurred on providing which is somewhere in the vicinity of $0. (Though I am not saying around 0 cents.)

In that regard, it is great because 1 GB restore per month is free. So you could test for free, provided the "test" is crafted such that it results in less than 1 GB data download.

Or, buy better power supplies. They last an eternity so don't amount to much extra cost, typically.

Then your OS is not very fair about allocating network resources among running programs, is it? If it is across machines, your router is not fair about allocating network resources among connected machines.

For Linux, nice, ionice work well enough so that you could manipulate if you don't want fairness, though default behaviour is kind of "fair". Other operating systems would have their own mechanisms.

I am curious if CPU using software (e.g. spreadsheet, calculators etc.) come with CPU throttling settings.

More importantly, when something is very important it is impossible for general people to know of its truths through the traditional investigation and media mechanism.

At every stage of the fact copying process between persons, there is a huge incentive to distort facts. Distortion could be in any direction.

Given this, it is a waste of the time by the "critical" thinkers to worry too much about learning the truth. There can be no hope of the truth in really important matters. That is why such people are nutjobs - like people believing in fairies.

But if you make it illegal for planes to fly on water, only illegal planes will fly on water!!

Possibly they are American. Cellphone doesn't cost anything, monthly data plan costs $300.

But then market economics isn't a great way to popularize these devices. The person who pays (passenger) is not the one who benefits (passenger in following years). Making the devices mandatory appears to be the only way.

Though the airline does say this particular aircraft had 4 independent ELT devices, of 2 different types each, at least one of which should have croaked.

No, these percentages are for native (aka first) language. Not directly related to the percentages of people who speak English.

You admitted, nay boasted, in your last post, that your question was a statement. I am done with ping pong. If there is any other matter you want to discuss I would love to partake in it.

Downward slide could be of losses, profits, marketshare, negative marketshare, wavelength of dominant colour of product logo etc. Since it was unqualified, your statements about Apples finances were presumptuous in the context. That is all.

Yes, but then it makes it impossible to avail of the defence that the comment was only a question and not a statement. Which you tried to avail of, here : question I was asking which was what metrics was the OP using to make the determination that Apple is on a downhill slide.

Now you accept that you were not asking a question but making a statement, but in this post you were completely hiding behind the facade of your first post here that I replied to being a "question".

You can make a replacement post that does not harp on "question", and I will gladly consider it. But I refuse to play in this ping-pong between "it was just a question not a statement" and "nothing wrong in making a statement".