Not sure I'd ever call a big boxy camera an example of a niche product doing something very well... Could never stand that shape/size, anyone using them always looked like a wannabe goober to me.

...ballpark, that's a significant (~60%) drop. Curious whether the costs equate the same? aside from the environmental aspects anyway...

Not saying this necessarily as a bad thing, but it seems the younger generations are more about "cater to my whims", whereas the US school system (more or less most of the world?) has always been about force feeding everyone the same fundamental knowledge from a broad spectrum of fields that don't give a flying F about anyone's whims. More focus DOES need to be placed on trades, which can be financially solid and often can be more rewarding on a personal level. There's very little reason for people to finish high school and waste their life working fast food, living in some subsidizes S hole waiting for government hand outs and getting high all the time to escape from reality... unless they're just pure lazy as F, in which case F em.

Qualcom being the only game in town isn't good for anyone but Qualcom, so I hope Apple eventually bi*ch slaps them the same way they slapped intel. Every giant in every industry deserves a regular dose of bi*ch slapping, otherwise they just end up raping consumers unchallenged.

This is the kind of S that makes me say 'F palestine' and quote that trumpette Haley: "finish them".

I prefer to keep my photos backed up to 'offline' media, i.e. spinners that are disconnected/powered off 99% of the time. My chances of losing two sets of offline medias (barring a fire...) are probably as slim as Google/AWS accidentally losing it for me as well.

I loved Office up till version 2010, at which point we (the educational agency I work for) switched to Google Apps for everything. The last 2 years have made me appreciate the "always there exactly as I left it everywhere I access it" of the Google solution. The fact that its free for us (educational agency) didn't hurt one bit either. Re buying all those Microsoft licenses every few years got old. I'm sure Office365 or whatever has a lot of neat stuff, but quite frankly its not free, probably full of bugs (since its new), probably still somehow bloated, and therefore still not worth it in comparison. I'd never go back to office in a million years.

that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard, especially about programmers. unless your skillset is limited to some ancient unused language, i'd take a 50 year old programmer with real world understanding of architecture and code flow over half a dozen college squirt outs any day.

haven't bothered with Chrome since it came out, figuring google would fight tooth and nail to prohibit the blocking functionality, with it being their blood and all, guess they bit their tongue on the issue, for now. haven't heard of adthwart before, but will install flashblock. thanks.

just saw that there's an Adblock for chrome too! definitely have a reason to try the new browser now...curious to see how it compares to firefox.

This is the digital world, not the political world, things DON'T have to get worse before they get better.