It is possible for Microsoft to do both, you know.

• OEM version: Requires a higher minimum level of hardware support for a premium experience
• Retail version (more expensive): Supports a wider range of hardware to the extent that it can

Then they just have to make sure the price difference is high enough to destroy any profit benefit from cutting corners on the hardware.

It was never really about the capability of the hardware to run Windows 11, it was about Microsoft's desire to cut costs by not having to support it. Every supported configuration has to be tested, and if issues are found relating to 10 year old drivers, they have to be fixed.

What we really need is a law to set the minimum support term, say 10 years after the last official sale. For Windows 10 that would be 2031. Even that might not be enough though - both Microsoft and Apple are notorious for releasing updates that cripple performance on older hardware.

Jobs had it a few times, but he usually just had a backup device ready to switch over to. I recall it at least once with a Mac, and famously with I think an iPhone where be blamed the large number of WiFi devices in the room.

Yeah, as if we needed any more reason to consider this bloated "security" software to be malware. I really don't understand why anyone in their right minds would install it or allow it to be installed on their systems. Giving some third-party company complete control over what software can run on your machines basically screams "I don't understand anything about security" better any almost anything else you could possibly do as a system administrator, IMO, short of posting the shared-across-all-machines root password on USENET.

Pretty much everything not big-name-brand that's on Walmart or Amazon is marked up 25% or more from the Aliexpress price for exactly the same product. If you're willing to wait for it to come from China, you can get the same crap for less. I've just placed an order for an item that's $200 on Amazon and was $150. I expect it to take maybe an extra week.

A civil war is more likely than maggots reading something.

Calc will generate pivot tables, but not with a live WYSIWYG interface where you can tweak it as you go. It creates a new tab in your sheet after you fill in a dialog which is static, so if you want a current one or want it to be slightly different, you have to create it all over again.

I hear that these days it handles very large files OK, so IMO this is the last major feature needed before it can really be taken seriously as an Excel replacement.

You mean like Teslas have done in incident after incident, including several where people have died?

Government: So I see that your H-1B jobs are all for "Computer Programmer (I)" and your U.S. hires are all for "Software Engineer (III)" or "(IV)".
Company: Yes. We haven't had much luck in hiring level one programmers here in the U.S. We put the jobs out there, but nobody is applying.

Prevailing wage for the job doesn't mean what you think it does. A bunch of sleazy outsourcing firms made sure of that.

Simply putting panels between the sun and the house substantially reduces the need for cooling, even if you didn't connect them to anything, because the back of the panel is white and the other side is dark.

Surprisingly little money. As soon as the extra cost exceeds the cost of hiring one person to maintain workarounds, it is cheaper to do the workarounds. Tricks like that might ostensibly work for individuals, but they fail badly every time when you're talking about big corporations.

Most Americans don't know jack about shit. Ignorance is a virtue here. Why are you trying to hard to read that, are you some kind of fag?

I only had so many choices as I wanted to buy something from costco so that I could easily return it if it failed. It was LG, Samsung, or Sony. The reviews all said that the LG was good except for the interface, and the other options were bad including the interface.

Hmm, I'd return it then, if they have got that much worse. A friend got a recent Panasonic 32" budget set and that seemed very responsive and quick to start up.

The SU7 has long-range LIDAR. Teslers have no LIDAR. It's actually possible for Xiaomi to fix their cars, unlike Tesla.