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Simulation in video I linked is not MOND. Dark Matter is postulated due to observations of galaxies in isolation. BUT galaxies are not gravitationally isolated. They gravitationally affected by all the other galaxies in their neighborhood. The video and simulation is pretty straight forward. Dark Matter is simply unnecessary to explain galaxy rotation curves.

Dark matter is going away, regardless, because it is not necessary to explain galaxy rotation curves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL0ewiwqoTw Dark matter was always just a way to fudge what was observed. It is hard to believe most physicists, astronomers and cosmologists still believe in and are still looking for something that never existed.

Everyone is missing the fact that even if this technology was available 100 years ago, and worked just like we wanted, you could not get to Mars in 39 days. It would take about twice as long, because you have to turn the ship completely around half way to the destination and slow down pretty much for the same about of time it took to get to whatever velocity.

And Mars is a rock. I am sure there are astounding discoveries to be made, but resources would be far better spent fixing ourselves and what we've done to the planet before we cause our own extinction. Maybe we can do both, but let's not ignore the fact that we have major problems, and it is unlikely we'll ever find a better home than Earth.

The assumption is that developers need free reign. One would hope a developer is a technical and savvy user.

Not for nothing, Gatekeeper once did not exist. Myriads of Mac OS X users were not p0wned. But your point is not lost on me.

Disabling Gatekeeper From the Apple menu, open the "System Preferences" application. Click on Security & Privacy > General tab. If the lock in the left-hand corner is locked, click on it, then enter your Mac's username and password. This may not be required. Click "Anywhere" under "Allow applications downloaded from:". If you followed Step 3, please click the lock in the left-hand corner to return it to its locked state. Close "System Preferences".

> Hosting live video in a scalable way is a much harder challenge than

Totally. It requires figuring out and setting up arcane software such as Darwin Streaming Server, or Nimble Streamer, something like Quicktime Broadcaster, and Apache2, and also requires massive hardware resources, like a server for broadcasting, a server for shooting, and a webserver... that could be anywhere from one to two entire machines. That the WWW works at all is somewhat of a miracle. What webdevs do is more like brain surgery than anything else. ><

As I have long suspected, though computer science is a subset of mathematics, cosmology is actually a subset of computer science.

I was suggesting nothing of the kind. But certainly it wasn't the other way around, either.

My only point is that the AppStore is not the Second Coming. It is and it only is a package manager. Just like all the others that came before it. And nothing more. It is not some searing example of genius. It is one package manager among countless. That it includes a payment system is an irrelevant detail.

What Apple did that is amazing is creating a community of developers out of nothing and gave them excellent tools to create software for their platform. It seemed overnight that the ocean of Windows applications, mostly due to obsession with backward compatibility, was no longer all that special.

How about Cydia, which predated AppStore by 2 years?

> Yes, the app store was genius.

Meh. make was genius. Makefiles were genius. pkg_install and pkg_add were genius. PMS was genius. RPM was genius. FreeBSD's ports tree is genius. pkgsrc is genius. Like nearly everything Apple ever did, AppStore is not at all original, not remotely the first, not by over a decade. It is really no different from any other binary package manager. It is Brew for iOS.

> And now Apple pulls this? Regardless of the situation, it's bad optics.

Epic pulled a fast one, not Apple. Apple's behavior is following the algorithm of their written policy. Epic violated the developer agreement with sneaking in a payment option with an upgrade. It is an intentional and gross violation of the developer agreement, the one they agreed to.

All Epic must do to resolve this is update their software again and remove the forbidden payment option. Apple didn't do his. This started with Epic's bad behavior.

Apple wants Epic's software in the AppStore. Why wouldn't Apple want to continue the relationship? Why should Apple make an exception for Epic to support greed?

This conflict is absolutely absurd. Epic shot itself in the foot, and is now dumping capital into attorneys fees fruitlessly. You heard it hear first, Epic is doomed to lose this fight they alone brought to Apple's doorstep.

AppStore is not a speadsheet or a word processor. It is not a graphics editor or text editor. It is a package manager. That is the kind of software it is. AppStore "automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs for a computer's operating system in a consistent manner." That is its type. That it sells things does not change the fact that it is a package manager.

Many are hedging words, confusing a market, where you might purchase bananas and soda, with an economic market, AppStore is strictly not an economic market, i.e. not distinctly "a composition of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations or infrastructures whereby parties engage in exchange." AppStore is in an economic market, the market of package managers for handheld devices.

You can't force MacPorts to accept your software. The maintainers and regents of MacPorts are pretty reasonable, but if you develop software that locates children for sexual abuse, you're probably not going to be allowed to distribute your software with MacPorts.

In kind, if you violate the terms of Apple's developer agreement, which you must agree to before you can even download their developer tools, Apple has the absolute right to ban you from distributing software in Apple's (it belongs to no one else) AppStore. It is not anti-trust behavior. It is written policy.

> Let's be realistic here. Iphone users don't have a choice of app stores, and the useful android options have a high technical barrier to entry. That's not a market, that's an oligopoly.

Let's be realistic here. FreeBSD users don't have a choice of package managers. It's pretty much PKG or nothing.

So what? Choice does not define an economic market. Competition does. Can't use Apple's AppStore on Android! Google is a monopoly!

These details do not matter. You have a choice. You want iPhone, you're stuck with AppStore. You want Android? You're stuck with PlayStore. You want FreeBSD? You're stuck with PKG. It has always been this way. Linux proper gives a few choices, probably dozens. macOS has the Mac AppStore, but also can use MacPorts, Brew, you can even use pkgsrc if you want. iOS is maintained as a walled garden for security. And, you can still jailbreak it and use Cydia.

Apple is doing nothing wrong, protecting their IP and their walled garden. Don't like it? Go elsewhere. Epic is acting like an infant, and chewing off their own foot while they do it. It is all absolutely absurd. What a waste of resources. At least the lawyers are happy.

> Apple is demonstrating about as much bundled-product market control

I see this sort of sentiment everywhere. There seems to be a mass delusion occurring. The AppStore is not it's own economic market. It is just one member of many in the actual economic market.

The WalMart down the road from you is not an economic market. It is just a store, one implementation of the entity that is Walmart. But even taking every WalMart together, you do not have an economic market. It is just a store. One store. What economic market is WalMart in? This one: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_hypermark...

AppStore is just a store, one of many many implementations of a package management system, with retail sales and free apps. The economic market includes AppStore, Google Play Store, LG SmartWorld, Huawei App Store, Sony Apps, Amazon AppStore, Aptoide, F-Droid, GetJar, AC Market, SlideME, Uptodown Market, Itch.io, Cydia, neXva, Bemodi, AppBrain, 1Mobile, Appolicious, Kongregate, and AppLand collectively all together. And far more than that is included in the actual economic market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_package_manag...

Apple has many many competitors in both hardware and software. There is no such thing as "the Apple economic market," or "the AppStore economic market."

iTed Hodges, sorry that happened. But you seem to be a little passive aggressive. That is only one symptom of a notorious psychological disorder, so it is a shot in the dark here: were there any other social conflicts at work previously? Another symptom is an inability or unwillingness to recognize a problem. Consider a psych eval, it may lead to changing your life for the better.

I do not know for certain, but most companies have some sort of review process where you can mount a defense of some kind. Forgive me for this opinion, but it seems like there must have been something else going on, and this did not occur in a vacuum out of the blue.

Don't burn your bridges, man. References are important. But it sounds like a sh*t job. You can do better. Keep cool. You will get far more sympathy saying nothing rather than going to war. Who wants someone like that working for them.

I have prosopagnosia. I only learned what to call it about 5 years ago. But it is not total and complete. I recognize faces when I see someone I know where I have seen them before. But if I see someone I know in a new location I have never seen them, I do not initially recognize them. But as soon as they speak to me, and I hear their voice, suddenly I recognize them. One of my earliest memories when I was in elementary school, first grade, is being with my mother at the Kmart. I was upset because I wanted to go home, and she had this long conversation with someone, seemed like almost an hour, which I found excrutiating. I did not know who she was talking to. When we left, I complained, "who was that person?" My mother gasped, "catmistake! [not my real name] That was your homeroom teacher! You see her every morning in school!" I could not believe it. I knew this woman well. I think I may have been in love with her. Just recently, in a gas station I see this guy shaking hands with someone else, not 6 feet away, full view. He looked interesting, but I didn't know him until he walked up to me, "hey catmistake." It was my friend that I was staying with for the previous two months, knew for 20 years, that I had just seen about a half hour before at his house. It is freaky, going from seeing someone as a complete stranger and then suddenly recognizing them. It is difficult to explain the transition. I had balance problems as a child, and fell down the hardwood stairs on my head nearly every day until I figured out how to lean back when stepping forward. So I think it is permanent brain damage causing it. Doesn't get me down, but I have been abused for it, "friends," that are aware of it, know when to expect it, and screwing with me. Jerks.

I was pretty depressed when Kodak discontinued Kodachrome. There was one place that still developed it for a long while, but then they shut down also. Luckily, Fuji still makes Velvia Fujuchrome. They had discontinued Velvia 100 in 2005, and there was an outcry, and they brought it back with Fujichrome 50, redesigned the original coatings to work with the new base. Actually, I always preferred Fujuchrome to Kodachrome or Ektochrome, colors are more saturated. Velvia 50 tends to make people look a little red, so find and use Velvia 100 for people, but for anything else with color, Fujichrome Velvia 50 is sick.

Very sorry for your problems.

No disrespect intended, I am biologically challenged, but I do not understand how anyone can have a Vitamin D deficiency when 15 minutes of sunlight a day on the skin creates all the Vitamin D anyone needs, and too much Vitamin D is very bad. I suppose it makes sense in the Winter months when everyone is inside for months, but usually, the sun shines every day, even in Winter.

This is great, bash ftw. Nice presentation, too.

Regarding its legality, I will paraphrase Bishop Berkeley: if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

What I am getting at is until there is a complaint, there is no crime, and as at least another pointed out, criminals will usually not report crimes that reveal their own crimes. "They kidnapped my kidnap-victim!"

Very few webdevs know it, but they should all learn it, with a gun to their head if necessary: restraint.

Not for the Snowball Earth-deniers. But for everyone else, Mexican real estate is cheap... for now.

I met George Wilson, Toolmaker of Williamsburg. He was old when I met him in the 90's and I don't know if he is still around, but I hope so. He was a luthier and made some amazing guitars, and I got to play some of them at his house. He also liked to make Gretsch copies. I am not familiar with the models, but one I got to play was a large hollow body, perhaps it was known as a Country Gentleman. Gretsch guitars are highly collectable, and expensive, which belies the fact that the vintage models were often not made well, and play terribly. George's copy was perfect right down to the serial number and stamp on the volume and tone knobs. The only way to know it was a copy is that no Gretsch was ever made so well, and the fact that George's guitar would have 3-4 times the market value than the original vintage guitar he copied. I was naive then and I think George took advantage of me. I had a flawless blonde 1989 ES-335 dot, and he talked me into trading him for it for a Bedrock amp that he wanted to dump, an AC-30 copy. He sold that guitar in less than 2 weeks on consignment and got considerably more than I paid for it new a couple years earlier. I still have that amp, loaned to a studio, and it has gotten work on many records over the years. It always sounded better than any original Vox AC-30, though still faithful to the original sound. But that amp was never worth nearly as much as that 335 I have been missing ever since, I doubt even half as much.

That's interesting. I didn't get to touch a 601 until the 604 were common, side by side in a commercial environment, the older machines gunked with more use (old installs) and more users over time, thus my opinion is biased and worthless. Thank you for posting.

1994 68k --> PPC 2006 PPC --> x86

As I recall, the first switch had the issue of the early PPC chips, 601, was kind of slow, and the boxes not designed well. The second transition in 2006 was annoying because Adobe doesn't like to rewrite their code... they carbonized, and then just kept charging for the same cruft. But frankly, I liked the Classic Environment, and I liked the first Rosetta. I'd like to run the whole shebang in MAME on whatever hw, if others were doing it to make it easier for me. If only MAME had a emulated coprocessor, I'd run A/UX on it.

Apple's current ARMs and OS running on it are already quite amazing, IMHO. So I don't think the new ARM Macs could disappoint. And the same thing here, Universal Binaries, a switch in the compiler to make it easy for devs, and I don't know how it could be easier.

> Osborne effect.

Totally. Don't buy either, Apple is obviously going under. ><

Thing about Macs is, they have this incredible lifetime, annoyingly (to those that like to save with buying older hw) hold high value in resale. Try pricing a Mac Mini from 2012, or Late 2014. Compare a similar compact WinDesk from those years. Though it is interesting to see a pattern, and moreso when it is famous enough to have a name, I do not think the Osborne effect applies here. Today's current Intel Mac will still be unaffordable NIB or used when the 3rd gen ARM Macs are released. I'm not really happy about that.

Answer is simple, explanation is complex. Wait, unless you need to run virtual Windows. x86 always sucked. It was always a dog. Everything that ever competed with x86 was technically superior to x86, including 68k, PPC, and ARM will be no different. If you have some burning need to run WinVMs, then you need x86. Otherwise, even this first gen Apple ARM hardware will be better than the Intel Macs in performance, and this even in Rosetta2 emulation, and this has been proven by the developer kit using 2 year old processor competing with today's x86. When Apple releases their first ARM macs, they will be cutting edge, will see faster and far more efficient processing, thus expect battery life in ARM MacBooks that any x86 MacBook or AnyBook can not compete. As far as the "don't buy first gen Macs" folks are concerned, they are stuck in 1994. Apple is a different company now. Except for minor issues like avant garde butterfly keyboards that they're abandoning, the internal hardware has no competition, and you're going to pay for that, but it is not actually more expensive than any hardware comparatively configured. So save your money, get another year out of your x86 Mac, and get the ARM Mac. Otherwise, you'll have 2 gens of x86 Macs, and one will gather dust. Wait for the ARM, and you will continue to use your x86 Mac.