A lot of people want a Mac because they have a nice form factor and they work in the Apple ecosystem. Macbooks were a bit expensive. It's obvious that an iPad masquerading as a Macbook was going to work, because a lot of people like a proper keyboard and don't need touchscreen. Macbook Neo fits a perfect niche. I'm not surprised by its success, I'm just surprised that Apple are. I'm stunned their business case didn't imagine bigger volume. Why buy a more expensive Macbook for basic admin, web browsing, and streaming?

You may be right - I guess I've been thinking too much about Mars missions where it's a lot more important. The moon isn't that far away that it makes a big difference, from what you say.

Reasonable to assume that, in fact, we might choose to fly to the moon when it's closer to perigee.

It's become very "I built this with AI" and "how your business is going to improve with AI" and all sorts of terrible content, and GAMES! WTF.

I remember AudioGalaxy which was much less exposed, but was a great technology. You ran a "satellite" on the best connected machine you could find, but you could search and choose what to download from any machine on the net. Then you just picked up your files on the satellite when you had enough to fill a a 700Mb blank CD, and hived that off to your hard drive (if you had space) or just kept a bunch of mp3 CDs that many physical HiFi players could read. It was like Napster on steroids. It was shut down pretty quickly though. DCC on IRC channels worked well but was pure 1 to 1 peer to peer only.

We'll be sending each other CAPTCHAs soon enough

Is getting close to 100% quality due to genuine manufacturing process improvement, or is it due to hiding defects? With such a disparity I have a feeling that while Indian processes no doubt need to improve, that Chinese reporting on percentage of manufacturing defects could be artificially high. Totally agree with another comment that suggested improving quality is less about cracking the whip and more about people management and having everyone feel directly responsible for quality as a desired outcome.

"internet is full of shitbags" isn't on topic. Corporations are full of amoral, cocaine soaked greedy, selfich bastards with absolutely no empathy is.

the corporations are full of shitbags, news at 11

FTFY. Oh, and an offtopic educational link for you grocers and foreigners and others who don't understand English:
https://www.angryflower.com/24...
I see enough of that shit on Farcebook. Note, I've been staying away from /. for the same reason, the normals have taken over the site.

That's why they changed it from "Unidentified Flying Object" to "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena". The one I saw a half century ago was certainly not a space ship, unless Douglas Adams was right about scale, because it was smaller than a basketball. It was bright and fuzzy, rode next to my car for a couple of miles until I crossed a stream, when it zigged at 45 MPH at a right angle and followed the stream.

I wondered what it was for years before I learned about ball lightning, which is what it had to have been. My guess is ball lightning is a lot more common up there where the fighter jets play.

In spite of his faults, he is an intelligent guy. He inspires his workforce and delivers on a number of things. He's late on others, but you have to aim high and keep pushing.

GAFA very common here in France, see it in mainstream press and on tech TV

This is like the Amazon thing about moving to Long Island City - it's not fair for everyone. GAFA in Europe have created jobs but have taken business away from other companies who just CANNOT compete. Taxes are way higher on smaller businesses. Google have got bigger tax breaks by headquartering in Ireland but really making revenue elsewhere. They also have operations and tax breaks from operating out of Luxembourg. All in all it's a direct tax on those companies to offset their (perfectly legal, but incredibly unfair) tax deals with various EU states which allow them to trade almost tax free IN OTHER EUROPEAN STATES.

More people believe in angels (46%) than warming (34%).

That's what you get for skipping stats to go out and get a smoke.

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Huh? Why? Where is it?