Airplanes are connected to the internet and private networks for their airlines This is how they get diagnostics data on the ground. There should be an automatic update feature, so I imagine all they have to do is increment the version number of the old code to more advance of the new code, and presto, fixed planes. I wonder if their software releases are staggered to prevent faulty updates from causing huge issues, and do a 10% new, 90% last version for testing and validation.

Private arrangements to compensate for tickets is not what this bill wants to remove. It wants to remove resale for profit by scalpers and opportunistic trading. That is a good thing. I think if you aren't in the party going to the event, you should return the ticket to the venue, and others can find it and purchase it then. If you show up with a party of 10, thats nothing to do with this. You go in. But you shouldn't have 10 tickets. and not go yourself, just return them.

Sales to events should be done only by the event organizers or venue. If you want to sell your ticket, you should get a refund. This is how it is done with almost all other tickets (planes, trains, etc). You can by all the seats between New York and London, and them sell them at a profit.

PCI Cards is the only reason. I have the same Mac Pro

I have a 2019 Mac Pro, and a Mac Studio. Honestly the new M line Mac Pro was significantly underwhelming. You pay $3000 for PCI cards you can easily add into an external PCI enclosure. I have two XDR Displays, and quite frankly, I am somewhat happy that the worthwhile upgrades take 5-7 years. My equipment doesnt stick out as dated to me. I love my desktop. I am probably going to get rid of the 2019 very soon (testing Xcode builds on Intel) as the Mac Studio seems more snappy now. I was upset at first as it was a downgrade in memory capacity but the faster unified ram more than makes up for it. I just wish the tower wasn't $3000 more for the single privilege of using PCI slots. Up tpo 2TB of ram and expandable memory should have been a thing. I am not sure how complex the M line of CPUs are, but a socket that could support 3 or 4 generations would have also been very nice. But no, we got a Mac Studio in a Mac Pro box and $3000 for the pleasure of having it be bigger for no good reason.

If they wanted to really define new categories and make waves again they would bring back Scott Forstall and someone as good as Johnny Ive and let them clash. Those arguments made Apple their first trillion. Tim Cook was a peace maker. Steve Jobs was THE referee. The competition between those two are why we have an iPhone like we do today.

OK for one, like the roads network, homes and offices couldn't pay for the electricity grid without industrial loads (which includes datacenter). The roads you drive on are paid for by registration and gas taxes, which 80% come from semi trucks. So let's get over this "they are costing us money". Yes power is getting more expensive because demand is growing. Thats ok. What is not OK is the lack of supply growth. We have far too many regulations and protections (especially from the NIMBY crowd) to build electricity production like say China does. The difference?

In China, if the government decides to build a power station, infrastructure, power lines, or solar fields, it will be built, and I dare anyone to try and stand in the way and say no. You'll disappear fast and the government will say you were taken to prison for being against the Chinese people's progress. In the US, regardless of what is tried, giving a few years to figure out if you can proceed despite the environmental, aesthetic, and contractural lawsuits is common practice. That is the difference. If a power company buys land, and they tick the environmental regulations (which should be lower), then the project should commence and regulators need to at that point step aside. No one will die (they dont have a mass die off in China), and supply will drive down costs.

The high costs are trying to tell you to stop using as much because others need what limited supply there is and are willing to pay more for it than you. Want more? Make more.

Europeans have a thriving app economy with low cost and high quality. What problem were they exactly trying to solve? The paid for apps subsidies the cost of the free ones too so its not like you get nothing in return.

I cant imagine its a cheap as SpaceX is now, but I think Bezos has the gas to discount launch costs until they have pricing parity. Competition breeds innovation. This is good news. However, when Starship is doing payloads, it may make this unprofitable again.

The point of the fee change was to shift profits away from Apple, which has clever tax avoidance strategies in Europe, to developers in Europe with fewer tax avoidance strategies. Europe wants to tax more of its economy than it can, because Europe's economy is less "domestic" to Europe than it should be. Europe uses more American tech and services from American companies than it wants to, so more of its money flows over the Atlantic. This was a shitty attempt to change that. It had nothing to do with consumers or developers. It was a tax scheme.

in two years T-Mobile will give you $1100 for it. Guaranteed.

How has the Air been for you? Any regrets? Better than you were concerned with? Lolz@ "Supermodels in the desert".

Thats all the good material they can get out of it. There's not much to it. I am curious, why did you go for an air, and what did you have before? What challenge were you thinking you would solve with it being an air rather than a Pro/ProMax?

I dont want a removable battery. I like the phone to be waterproof and durable. But make it uniformly thick around the camera lens and fill the rest with battery. For fucks sake this is the most obvious upgrade ever. They could charge way more for it. When the phone gets heavy, people dont put it down, they change their grip or position to accommodate it.

Robots are a tool, no mater how sentient like they become. The do as they are programmed to do (even "AI"). We should explore space with robots for knowledge where appropriate. We should also send robots that are "smart" to kick-start a habitat / city, and prepare for humans to arrive. Then the humans land on what is essentially a city-wide installation. Build it, and they will come, so to speak.