If ($user.party == "R" and vote.record.last == "Trump") then check.send()
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I wondered how they were going to get rid of Social Security. They'll break the code, blame it on the "deep state", bulldoze the whole thing and claim to be building it into "something great (tm)". Let the undesirable people get broken and/or die, and lose the ability to vote (no home address, etc.) Well played, team evil. Well played.

Mixed systems guy here. My regular phone is a pixel, but I got an iPad because of a killer app that I don't need anymore. So the iPad became my not-at-a-computer-browser. Trying to post comments is unbelievably bad. If I type a wrong character and backspace, AC ignores the backspace and thinks I typed something different. You have to make special effort for it not to correct something you typed correctly after the backspace. What a sloppy POS feature.

I got a Pixel tablet, and it is just darn near perfect with AutoCorrect. Still playing with the AI, but pretty good so far.

Apple relies so much on reputation and being the "cool" thing to have. They are letting the marketing department get to far ahead of development and they are writing checks they can't cash. This won't gain them points when the features arrive as it will be old news by the ("Finely! What took them so long!). Steve Jobs understood that it was better to keep quiet and wait until it was well refined, then demo the hell out of and create an emotional reaction that would drive sales.

I had Windows 1.0, which was pretty useless. Windows 2.0 was only a tiny bit better. But when they introduced Windows 386 (based on 2.1, IIRC) it became pretty useful. It had a protected mode kernel, and I could run multiple DOS apps in separate windows. It started selling pretty well, and a ex-Microsoft guy told me it really got their attention, and they realized they might not need IBM after all. They put a huge effort into Windows 3.0 and began to lose their drive for OS/2. IBM was making it hard for MS because they knew MS wanted to sell OS/2 to everyone and IBM wanted some features for themselves to help push IBM hardware.

Using Windows 386 as a DOS task switching platform created the opening for Windows apps. Being able to run Ami Pro (word processor), Micrografx (drawing) and later Excel was a bit of a game changer. Before, I waited months for drivers to appear for a graphics board I got for AutoCAD, and had to run 640x480 for Word Perfect, Lotus 123, etc. After about 6 months, I could run all three at 1024x768. Then I got a NEC Laser printer and waited months for drivers. That was pretty painful. With Windows 3.0, once I had drivers, all the apps worked. That sold me. When Pagemaker arrived, it worked perfectly with my graphics card and drivers. All I needed for hardware upgrades was Windows drivers and AutoCAD (DOS) drivers. Life got so much simpler. I read Gordon Letwin's book "Inside OS/2" and figured when the DB-based file system arrived, it would win and easily beat Windows. That file system never arrived and there was never a reason to leave Windows. But MS seems to trying to give us lots of reasons today.

Even the best mirrorless cameras sucked in low light just a couple of years ago. Right now, Sony/Canon/Nikon have top cameras that are simply fantastic in most situations. I'm a Nikon shooter with 5 dslrs, 1 Sony mirrorless and a Nikon z6. my new Z9 blows them all out of the water in my usage. The Z9, A7iv, A7R4 & 5, and the Sony A1 are all great. I found the Z9 the best, but the A7iv and it's sisters are best bang-for-the-buck. Have not used the Canons, but I hear great things about the new R3.

Bullshit. My Audi 5000 turbo suddenly accelerated without driver input. It was on cruise control on an interstate highway. I believe a cruise control fault combined with a faulty one way valve on the brake vacuum assist line was the real issue.

Funny! But I bet your joke goes right over the heads of most of the younger slashdotters.

But, well played!

Because a tiny increase in power makes a huge difference in results. In F1, a 1 HP difference is not noticeable. In cycling, 1 HP makes you faster than a fully dopped Lance Armstrong in his prime.

I was wondering the same thing. Last year I was involved in the construction of a large (4 meter cube) copper-screened Faraday cage for 100Kv partial discharge testing. When we buttoned it up, I went inside and closed the door. It was oddly quiet - even though it was simply screen. At the time, I wondered if there was something to the idea that our brain was susceptible to RF energy. It was strangely peaceful and enjoyable.

The existing electrical system has zero current flowing, then flows the required amount when you plug in an appliance and turn it on. No computer or chips needed.

Car analogy? Ok - I'll give it a shot.

This is like claiming you are trespassing on my land, because some windblown dirt landed on the highway and you drove across it.

It is likely that the need/want the option of running on non-x86 hardware, like IBM mainframes.

Dead men don't sue. And the law says if you feel like your life is in danger, then you are justified to eliminate the threat. Cops know this, and will always say they feared for their life.

I dropped my Nexus 7 (2013) and broke the screen / digitizer assembly. My evaluations of other tablets resulted in my purchase of a refurbished Nexus 7 (2013). I couldn't find anything as good for the money. And OS updates on a non-skinned device are icing on the cake.

That sounds great for a single high value IP item. But I have 90,000 photos. Some may not be worth anything, others - who knows. But it is a huge burden for a one-man operation.

Under your concept, I'm screwed. All my code and photography would end up in the public domain, because I'm too small to afford the fees. But you protected Disney, RIAA, and MPAA.