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.

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.

The older you get, the more you wish you could slow aging and the more you tut at 7 figure Slashdot IDs.

Easy to fix though, right? Like make sure people stay logged on for at least a certain amount of time, or cut their surge fare bonuses or something. Quite easy to stop opportunist drivers just working rush hours (fake or real).

Well the cashflow is negative, for sure, but it's a long term investment strategy. Headlines are getting more clickbait-reinforced by the day.

So we have standardized testing and test results in Texas so you can see the raw scores -- and the economic/racial demographic breakdowns of every public school. Remember the No child left behind stuff?

So the measuring stick is out there plain for anyone to see. Problem is no one seems to want to change anything or do anything about it.

There is systematic economic segregation (which is correlated with race). In our instance in Austin we had a great neighborhood, but with a bad school.
A big public apartment complex -- transplants from Katrina disaster brought the level of our elementary down, and had a downward spiral effect with anyone with the means to get out of there. If you look at the test scores compared with the neighborhood across the street huge differences. Less than 10% of the elementary were in accelerated or GT programs. Vs across the street it was 50% of the students were GT / accelerated. I don't thing 50% of rich kids are Gifted and Talented but they perform better on the tests and get to go to better schools.

So what's the difference between across the street -- just the price of houses. You pay to be in a good school by your neighborhood you live in. It made me sick to do it but we moved so we could have our daughter in an environment where she wouldn't be the oddball if she did good in school.

The only way to give equal opportunity would be to break this economic segregation and do intentional economic integration. If you mix in the poor performers with the good ones I think that would give the poor performers with some natural ability but bad circumstances a fighting chance. As it stands now the home and school environment are pitted against them.

Anyone else thinking of Thumb payments in that?