I see devices on the windows side all the time... in fact I sell them. And you know what? I NEVER see anyone using them in that way; while I do see tons of people using iPads and Android Tablets.

It's almost as if people try it a few times and then determine that the device is too heavy.

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The problem is that it applies to ALL PROPERTY, not just a personal residence or other personal real estate. Commercial real estate falls under the proposition too.

This has lead the state to cut deeply, and over time increase income taxes and sales taxes. Income and sales taxes are not as stable as property, and has lead to the inability to plan more than a year or two down the line, or forced the state to sell resort to bond measures to get things down.

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In some ways this is true, but things are in serious need of reform. The problem is that it wasn't only residential property that was "protected", but also commercial (and large businesses were against the Proposition when it was introduced).

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Not quite the same thing. When MS tried it, they were the maker of an OS that ran on computers from other companies, not simply hardware that they produced (not that they produced any computers during that time frame), whereas Apple only does this on iOS devices, a phone (yes its still a phone), and a tablet (an appliance like computer).

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Possible, I may have missed that. It doesn't mean that the Parallels or VMWare folk won't find a way to make them work, or to develop new programs that could do the same thing. At that point they would be "emulators" rather than "virtualization" platforms though. Again, all conjecture until we get further in.

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Yes! I was responding to the previous post from ArchieBunker stating they didn't "...understand why..."

There is Rosetta 2, which will allow Intel based macOS apps to work on the new ARM based systems. This will, more than likely, have a noticeable impact on the performance when running the intel based apps. Parallels is an Intel based app, so it might work, but with a further impact on performance. It is still early days on this though, so until we get to the point to where they will allow developers to comment its all conjecture.

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Dump Parallels on a Mac, and you can run another Intel based OS at the same time, with less overhead than you would have with an emulation layer on an OS for a differing architecture. This is helpful if you are a developer and need to test on other OS's. Or, hell, even a casual gamer, and the macOS doesn't support one of your chosen games (mine is the Close Combat series).

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Not just in LA... In the SF East Bay there were several small railroads and streetcar services that helped people move around; the most notable of them being the Key System.

After WWII, Firestone and GM (among others) essentially "conspired" to purchase and over time eliminate (convert to busses) urban streetcar and railway services.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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And then, of course, there is still the occasional runaway app, which is difficult to impossible to properly identify, save by a temp spike of the phone or tablet, necessitating at least quitting of all apps, or shutting down and restarting the system. SDLeary

And we have tried the other side... the Trickle Down shit and ended up with Kansas. And deregulation gave us the meltdown in 2006-2008. What we have to do is combine the two. Something in the middle, somewhat planned: retaining benefits for entrepreneurs, and making sure that everyone has some sort of health coverage (no, not simple access). SDLeary

And also for the record, the materiel isn't gone. It has been moved back into the Universities network, and is available to students and faculty, so not completely lost. SDLeary

Not if its a SurfaceBook

>Sure there is, embodied as UCC 2-314 [https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-314]: courts may imply a Warranty of merchantability when (1) the seller is the merchant of such goods, and (2) the buyer uses the goods for the ordinary purposes for which such goods are sold. Thus, a buyer can sue a seller for breaching the implied warranty by selling goods unfit for their ordinary purpose.

The problem that I see with this argument is that the PC came with Windows installed, and it is known to run under the included operating system. Thus it can be argued that the Ordinary Purposes is to run Windows to complete tasks that the user wants to complete. Installing another OS seems to fall outside that, even is said OS is known to run properly on the device.

Your second argument might hold water if the buyer specifically asked if Linux would run on the computer, and the answer was an affirmative.

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OK, slight background. Basic applied physics knowledge from 20+ years ago.

How does this qualify as teleportation if you have an optical particle, and a optical transport medium? Isn't this the photon hitting the surface of the fiberoptic transport medium, changing state to an optical waveform, traveling along the transport to the endpoint, exiting and changing state again, and then being detected as a photon?

Also somewhat confusing as photon's have no mass.

If this had been a neutron, or some other actual subatomic particle with mass, then I could certainly conceptualize it as teleportation. Couldn't this simply be the researchers finding a "sweet spot" in "transmission frequency" for said optical fiber to allow transmission nearer theoretical maximum (i.e. the speed of light). Have they tried the same experiment on a different optical fiber from a different vendor and achieved the same results?

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Decline! Tablet market as a whole is down. Most people only use them for consumption, inside their home or office. Even the plastic crap that a lot of the Android vendors are peddling will last a while with that usage model, so when you start talking about well built tablets like the iPad or TabS, the damn things should last forever barring breakage or too many charge/discharge cycles. The one that comes to mind that will probably break this is the SurfacePro, because it is a full windows machine and MS is trying to make it straddle the laptop and tablet worlds, hence more needed upgrades... presumably. SDLeary