I'm glad it wasn't just me. I had to reread the title 3x before I had a vague idea what the hell it was even trying to say.

The problem as I see it with Apple doing this is that it doesn't make a lot of sense for most MacBook Pro users. At least that's my understanding of the market. Perhaps Apple is privy to market information that I'm not (in fact I'm sure they are). However, when I hear life-long die-hard Apple power users complaining about MacBook Pros and Mac Pros for years in a row, feeling like they've been abandoned by Apple, maybe there's something to that.

I was a hard-core Mac user from 2001-2008, but I realized they were moving away from my needs after that in favor of iOS and jumped ship.

The touch bar is just the opening volley. Meanwhile Apple is doing the boiled frog thing with key travel, slowly getting users used to less and less key travel.

Eventually, they will probably replace the entire keyboard with a touch-board of some kind and expect that users will simply adjust. I think they've lost the plot somewhere.

Note this is not my original idea -- Merlin Mann mentioned it on the Back to Work podcast and I think he's spot on. And he's a huge Apple fan.

Good discussion including moxie here.

I have seen a few reports that they are lasting quite a bit longer than expected and still performing, in some cases 10 years past their estimated 20 year functional lifespan. If we have to make a lined pit in the ground and throw them all in it every 30 years, that will be fine.

They have no moving parts (unless you use trackers) and they take advantage of "free" energy that will be here as long as the earth is habitable. It is inevitable that they will take over energy production.

First class.

That's not pirating at all, that's the nature of open source. For example, take a look at RHEL and CentOS.

It must be really frustrating if that many of your applicants answer as you say. I don't know much of that in depth and I was still thinking it would be a multiple hour answer.

I've never watched much TV as an adult, and only had cable when my roommates wanted it in college. However, there are a few things I want to watch sometimes, and it's extremely frustrating to try to find one to three services that will allow me to watch those few things at a reasonable price.
If I watched more than this, I think it would probably be simpler and cheaper to just get cable or satellite.
I suspect and hope that one day the shakeout that's happening now will be resolved, and real a la carte service will be available.

Code.org seems pretty good actually for teaching programming logic with a sort of visual pseudocode. My 8 y/o has been enjoying it. They use it at her school too.

Wireless is hard. I run a wireless ISP in a rural area. Every time I see these "independent mesh network" pipe dreams come up, all I can do is shake my head and laugh.
Good luck, it's not going to happen. A much more reasonable idea is to run an encrypted meta-network on top of the existing infrastructure. That's been tried too (freenet, Tor hidden services) and it's not easy but it's at least feasible.

IMO patent trolls buy loads of patents with no intent to develop the technology or whatever into a product, and make money strictly by suing companies that they claim infringe the patents.
I would not call WARF a patent troll. They are a University Tech Transfer office trying to commercialize the University's R&D. They are prosecuting their own patents.

This is fairly accurate. I run Linux on the desktop but for an all-around laptop I now prefer Windows 10. I used OS X from about 2001 to 2008. Your evaluation is spot-on. However, MobaXterm is mostly better than the Windows Subsystem for Linux, at the moment. I hope that will change.

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He's not using it in accordance with hardware constraints. I use the hell out of chrome all day every day but I have 64 GB of RAM and a high end Xeon.