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Nope, they own or control the vape companies. Philip Morris owns 35% of Juul, and R.J. Reynolds owns Vuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuse

You are correct. There is no gambling establishment or app that allows consistent winners to continue playing. Might not be rigged in the play itself, but it doesn't need to be if you are allowed to kick out the winners.

Beeper is trying to build a business based on unauthorized use of another company's servers. Apple customer's pay the Apple premium for their phones and get iMessage at no charge for the life of the device. Beeper charges its customers for a service that is paid for by Apple. How is that ok?

>> "only a few can use"

There are about 1.5 billion iPhone users in the world.

As far as proprietary services, the world is full of them. Google, Meta, X, Instagram, .... Apple built a service to provide advanced messaging services to their many customers. It comes with the phone. Should Apple be required to freely give iPhone cameras to people who don't buy their phone? How about the Touch ID module?

There are plenty of cross platform messaging apps available on iOS. The only thing that could be considered anti-competitive is the inability to change the default messaging app on iOS. Apple has fixed this for some of the other built-in apps, but not messaging yet. I would agree that that should be fixed. However, Beeper is not offering an alternative messaging platform, they are selling access to Apple's platform.

I agree. There are already third party E2E messaging apps that work across platforms. Anyone who decided to build a business on unauthorized use of another company's servers was just setting themselves up for disappointment. I have a hard time understanding how anyone thought Apple would not cut this off.

Doesn't this always force delays? If I have CMD + Right Arrow assigned to some other function, the system will have to wait to make sure the Up Arrow isn't coming soon before dispatching the Right Arrow function. Of course we want the delay short, but that makes the multi-key shortcut less reliable.

I haven't tried it, but the tradeoffs don't sound great to me. Only allowing multiple modifier keys avoids all of these timing issues. You seem to be comfortable with it, but I think most users would trigger a lot of spurious inputs.

I saw a sales droid demoing a Mac at Comp USA years ago. That model had the manual eject/inject button underneath the CD tray because in normal use you never needed to push the button. To eject you drag it to the trash on screen. To inject, you just push on the tray a bit and it detects that and pulls it in. The sales droid was talking about how stupid it was to have the button there because it was blocked by the tray, never realizing that he just needed to push on the tray a bit. Ugh.

Presumably the prototype machines had a form of rom that could be flashed. Not at all unusual at that time.

Hmm. You seem to be railing against something that is not related to the article. The article describes how Apple internal developers reflashed ROMs while developing the firmware for new prototype computers. This is something that Apple's developers had to do on a regular basis.

Classic.

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Does Crossover use the native Mac interface tools?

Yes, and we were also watching the thousands and thousands of companies where these types of conflicts are handled easily by decent people and common sense. Don't confuse the outlier with the silent majority.

Based on all the diesel locomotives out there, the best way to turn diesel into motion is with a diesel engine running at optimal conditions driving an electric generator which in turn runs electric motors for the drive wheels. At least for very large loads, they are much more efficient per ton of goods than a diesel truck.

Perhaps because this is the creation from the hard work of thousands of gifted and committed people. When SpaceX started I can assure you there was no billionaire involved. Just a guy with a few million he was willing to invest to make space travel a reality for many more people.

Secondly, if you don't think NASA was about profit, you don't understand NASA. Who do you think built all the Apollo rockets? Private contractors working for profit.

Besides, what is wrong with profit? Profit is what makes things sustainable and allows reinvestment to continually improve.

The tech here is way beyond what governments have been able to do so far. It promises to be quite a show. Might blow up again, but they'll learn and build another one.

For the record, I find Musk to be a menace, but the team he put together at SpaceX is phenomenal.

I have no cell phone coverage at home, let alone 4G or 5G. I am 10 miles from the center of a town with a population of about 80,000. Most people just don't get how bad internet access is in many areas.

> Aside from some people who might live in rural areas in large countries that are hard to cover georgraphically

> There is no need for StarLink generally.

You point out that there is a market for StarLink and then you say it isn't needed. I'm confused. At any rate, no point in arguing about it. If there is no need they will lose a lot of money. If there is a need, they will make a lot of money. Time will tell.

>it a achieves nothing we don't already have terrestrially

Sorry, but this is a very first world, urban perspective. Please have a little empathy. I live in the US and have only one choice for internet from home and it is lousy. Starlink has been a dramatic change for us. This is the situation for many, many people in the US and around the world.

Starlink is absolutely offering something that is NOT available terrestrially.

Unnatural? Not sure I understand the use of the term here. They were here for several hundred thousand years so there were only natural forces at work. There must have been some kind of balance if they thrived for that long. At the very least food availability would have limited their numbers in some way. It isn't dissimilar to the situation with bears.

Just guessing, but I would think there would have been a lot of cougars eating a lot of calves. That would also have some restraining impact on the population.

Anyone else wondering if this was all planned? Maybe Riccitiello was planning to retire and the board asked him to play bad cop and announce the new fee structure. After he is gone they will announce something slightly more agreeable that will look good in comparison. Maybe I'm just too cynical...

Most of the capacitance is likely the gate capacitance at the input of the inverters.

He never would have been able to pivot if he didn't "Get Started" building tools in the first place.

Not true. Apple is super disciplined about profit margins. Each business has to be sustainable on its own and each product sells with a hefty margin or is doesn't make the cut.

I wonder how well the poop/work ratio scales between chickens and oxen?

I don't disagree that there are real problems, but these statistics don't really help much. The home birth group is less likely to include high risk births. Many issues are detected during prenatal care and most of those parents will choose a birthing environment better equipped to deal with crises.

As far as high US mortality rate, I wonder if this is more of a reflection of general poor health issues from terrible dietary choices rather than the birth process itself.

Or sometimes an instruction isn't in the compiler because the hardware has some strange corner case failures so they aren't using it. I would be nervous about depending upon an unused instruction.

That is its core feature. The only reason Asahi exists is to run linux natively on Apple Silicon Macs. There are plenty of linux variants for other systems.

What dependency are you speaking of? It uses the external OS hooks built into the firmware. Is that the issue you are referring to? After boot, MacOS is not running in any way.

> The trashcan Mac Pro desktop was heavily promoted to tech journalists

They had one meeting where they told journalists they were not going to abandon the pro market space. This was when the trashcan had been out for a long time. Too long in fact.

> The intention was to signal pros to hang in there, and then the trashcan got released

No, the trashcan was released way before that meeting. One of the things discussed in the meeting was limitations of the trash can form factor.

>The main reason for bad battery life is hardware acceleration for certain tasks.

I guess this was a typo. MacOS/Apple Silicon (and other CPU architectures) save a lot of power via hardware acceleration. For instance, there are dedicated hardware video decoding blocks that use much less power than implementing video decoding with software.

The MacOS kernel takes advantage of all of these hardware specifics. MacOS also uses a number of other techniques like process wakeup coalescing, dedicated hardware for memory compression, process specific efficiency/performance core choices, ...

Apple is getting a lot of power improvements via codesign of the processor and the OS.

To do the same set of tasks with a similar power profile, Asahi will have to include system hooks that take advantage of all the dedicated lower power hardware functions and do a similar set of optimizations. They have done great work so far and will likely continue, but it isn't the simple tradeoff you are suggesting.

Hmm. Do you have a reference for that? From what I have read, Clydesdales are fine on good pasture (hay in the winter), but they won't be able to do much if any work if they don't get additional feed. They would also likely not be as muscled as a horse with supplemental feed. A clydesdale raised on pasture only might also end up smaller, but they won't starve to death, assuming it is quality pasture.

I think we have to know the order in which these features occurred. As others pointed out, chewing has other benefits. Maybe evolution took advantage of chewing to change the air intake design for some other advantage.

You left off a term: F(x) = x + S

They said it "can support 60W." As you point out, Type 4 can support up to 71W, so yes it can support 60W. They didn't assert that it is a standard power level.