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Comment Re: Entertainment, huh? (Score 1) 62

Apple introduced a $600 iPad with a keyboard.

That is a different model, the iPad Pro. The Neo runs MacOS.

It's (Mac) Netbook 2.0, nothing more than that.

Sure, if you want to live in denial. You can read or watch reviews of it online that details that is not true. Most if not all reviews say the same thing: It is a pretty good $600 laptop. It has flaws and it is not the best laptop but for your average consumer the price and capabilities align.

Comment Re:And nothing of value was lost... (Score 1) 50

It was not so much a standards issue as Google trying to mislead the public. While Google complained that Apple did not follow RCS, they meant Apple did not follow Google RCS which has Google's implementations of key features like E2EE. Apple said it would follow RCS which means it is still not fully compatible with Google RCS yet. The GSMA just released RCS4.0 in March which is trying to bridge the gap between the two protocols.

Comment Re:And nothing of value was lost... (Score 1) 50

Which RCS are you talking about? RCS the standard defined by cellular industry GSMA or Google RCS which is Google's superset of that standard? Google RCS for example implemented Google's choices for encryption as well as features not in standard RCS. It was not confusing at all that Google named their protocol, "RCS". No, not confusing at all . . .

Comment Re:Entertainment, huh? (Score 1) 62

Right now it is a terrible time to have a PC. Windows 11 has forced many to buy a new PC if wanted to stay with Windows. After years, Intel has competitive CPUs especially for laptops, but RAM pricing has made everything expensive. At the same time, MS seems incapable of releasing updates that don't break computers. Lastly, Apple just released a $600’budget laptop that upends the PC laptop market.

Comment Re:Typical Stupidity (Score 2) 122

Who is throwing away working code? New versions of Linux will not support x486 processors. The keyword is "new". Existing versions will still work. All versions are archived for people to use. And Linux is still open source. Anyone who want to modify Linux going forward to support 486 is free to do so.

Comment Re:This will accelerate... (Score 1) 79

So far as fulfillment warehouses go, feasibility is already 100%, that is to say there is no task needed to be performed that can not currently be done by machines.

Again Amazon will replace ALL of their warehouse workers as soon as it is feasible. So far they have only been able to replace some of them.

Comment Re:Markup (Score 2) 23

Was an Intel CPU used to compute this?

The article says this: "Various sources indicate that a single Am9080 processor cost AMD only 50 cents to make (100 per wafer), yet it could sell them to military customers for $700 each." It however does not name "various sources". My best guess is the $0.50 does not include any capital costs and only certain operational costs.

Comment Re:This will accelerate... (Score 1) 79

Robots have been coming for decades. And Amazon is one company that will replace all their warehouse workers with robots at the first sign that is feasible. Amazon, of all companies, knows the limits of robots in automation as they have been trying to create fully automated warehouses for decades.

Comment Re:Oh Brave New World with such people in it (Score 1) 131

Or worse, because it is on the Internet, it must be true. I had a friend whose entire argument that some conspiracy theory was true because multiple people posted things on websites. I countered that I could set up a website to detail how that friend murdered a homeless person one summer.

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