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  1. Israel started this particular conflict a month ago. Some media sources are saying otherwise but it started due to some restrictions, church raids (not sure what they call their religious structures), and other offences. Ive never understood the American preoccupation with Israel. While this conflict in particular is their fault, in the long term both sides are probably equally bad.
    14 points
  2. Apple should concentrate on continuing to make excellent products. Apple has no business to support any side. They need to ignore these woketards.
    10 points
  3. Hamas always start the trouble, whether its rockets or suicide vests. If you want someone to stop, tell it to Hamas or the arabs. Israel is just defending itself. Apple obviously has too many "woke" staffers on the payroll.
    9 points
  4. First workaround, use something else.
    7 points
  5. Sublime Text 4 launches with many improvements and license changes

    Who pays for this thing? when vscode is free and much better! specially remote work extension and git integration are life saver.
    6 points
  6. They want the company to support the Palestinians, The same Palestinians who throw gays from buildings and using it citizens as human shield. I would never understand why the most liberal support those people. I would encourage everyone to read the Hamas Covenant, they want Israel gone, They don't want to live in peace beside Israel. (I'll remind everyone that Israel left the Gaza strip, There is no Jew there)
    6 points
  7. Netflix is reportedly getting into video games

    I really hope they make it a separate tier rather than bundling it all together and charging more if they decide to go ahead with this. I pay for film and TV, I'm not interested in a gaming section.
    5 points
  8. IMO, tech companies should follow suit with what Coinbase and Basecamp did; clamp down on political activism of any kind and keep their distance from it all and focus on their core mission. There is no way listening to things like this ends well.
    5 points
  9. Israel Internet defence force not failing us first post.
    5 points
  10. I am not taking sides in this issue, there is so much blame to go around, but to put something into perspective "Apple employs 147,000 full-time employees and maintains 511 retail stores in 25 countries as of 2021." so unless these 1000 employees are Executive staff I really don't think Apple will comment and take sides in this.
    5 points
  11. Sublime Text 4 launches with many improvements and license changes

    I moved to vscode and there's no going back
    4 points
  12. I've seen meeting rooms like this already, Cisco Telepresence was basically this and has been available for 10+ years.
    4 points
  13. A new Honor Magic phone is coming, likely with a Snapdragon 888

    Not all that different from large corporations or billionaires hiding money in tax havens, to avoid paying taxes. And yes, the ban against Huawei was merely so that the Former Guy could look "tough on China". Nothing really changed, other than likely costing a lot of people jobs, in addition to the ongoing global pandemic which Former Guy also mismanaged.
    4 points
  14. Nearly 1,000 Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians

    Israel started this particular conflict a month ago. Some media sources are saying otherwise but it started due to some restrictions, church raids (not sure what they call their religious structures), and other offences. Ive never understood the American preoccupation with Israel. While this conflict in particular is their fault, in the long term both sides are probably equally bad. please provide a source for that claim. everything i have read in the news across the board states palestina started this.
    4 points
  15. Nearly 1,000 Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians

    Most Muslims are black or colored! And Iran, a Muslim-majority nation, offers the highest financial medical aids to its trans citizens. Maybe get your facts right before slandering others. Those you see in Gaza sure as hell aren't. And yeah, they will aid trans people by stoning them But hey, I'm an atheist, I see all forms of religion as a mental illness anyway
    3 points
  16. Then how about we stop killing each other?.
    3 points
  17. So Muslims are asking Tim Cook, a gay guy, to throw his company's support to a reactionary Muslim group? That's rich.
    3 points
  18. My workaround is to simply not install Chrome. Use Microsoft Edge, its better anyway.
    3 points
  19. a new icon incoming? damn can't wait!
    3 points
  20. If Apple starts backing the terrorists, then I think Apple should face charges of backing a Terrorist organization. It seems that every time there is a "war" that breaks out in that area, it's always the Iranian backed HAMAS Terrorist. The Palestinians supply HAMAS with bodies to commit there terrorist acts. I am NOT saying that ALL Palestinians are HAMAS and it is those innocent ones that I feel sorry for.
    3 points
  21. If only everyone's upload speeds can magically rise to match download speeds
    3 points
  22. You're aware they can do both, right? Sure and if they aren’t complete idiots, they will be like Switzerland on the matter.
    3 points
  23. Nearly 1,000 Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians

    or maybe companies can just stay out of stuff like this?... sure let employees side with what they want but the company itself needs to just stay out of issues, let the govs and citizens deal with it
    3 points
  24. Nearly 1,000 Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians

    hopefully Apple responds with silence to this request and the other side as well if they choose to do the same.
    3 points
  25. Semi-Metal Bismuth. Sounds like a hybrid rock band.
    3 points
  26. We've made it safer for you to p!ss into your p!ss jug while on your single break per shift. We're also going to deduct %5 of your net earnings this period to help fund this new safety office and line Emperor Bezos' yacht with gold.
    3 points
  27. At least the bump on the back keeps the phone from rocking side-to-side like current camera bumps. Hate curved screen edges though. Blah.
    3 points
  28. There's no excuse, these companies still using IE11 are lazy. MS keeps pushing out the deadline and it just causes the companies to keep doing business as usual. MS should leave IE11 (or IE11 mode) setup and announce that it will be fully desupported. This way, companies can still use it, but they are on their own for support.
    3 points
  29. that was my first thought too lol... or coincidental karma
    2 points
  30. Microsoft vision of the future... I am still waiting to see MS deliver an OS graphically resembling what portrayed in the "Productivity future vision", which is ten years old.
    2 points
  31. i really don't appreciate the fact that this article writer decided to mix tech news with politics. Very bad decision.
    2 points
  32. Microsoft rolls out Windows 10 build 21387 to Dev Channel Insiders

    It's like they're waiting for build to show anything new. Probably why they've switched us to this branch and not rs_prerelease like we'd been getting.
    2 points
  33. This conflict has been going on since the beginning of recorded time. There will never be peace in the Middle East.
    2 points
  34. Nearly 1,000 Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians

    Ive never understood the American preoccupation with Israel. "Ive never understood the American preoccupation with Israel" Religion, it's usually but not always religion. The mistaken belief that the Old Testament is God's actual words can lead good people do evil things. Edit: This post has been edited by the author for clarity.
    2 points
  35. How about they not do that? I frankly don't give a ###### who they support or don't. That's not their job. Just do nothing and keep making phones and computers. Coz no matter what they'll say or support, they'll offend someone. I'm so annoyed by this crap where everyone is always forced to make a position on political crap. IT'S NOT THEIR JOB. It's why I admired Taylor Swift, even though I don't really listen her music. She refused to comment on political crap and yet again people blamed her for not commenting. It's ridiculous and everyone should stop demanding this crap.
    2 points
  36. Party hats, Silly String and Booze. That's all you need!
    2 points
  37. Here's how you need to prepare for the death of Internet Explorer 11

    In addition to "crapware," lets not forget the whole large list of the new features included with a WIndows-10 install. Some of them have little or no use for single person users or small office settings. Ya, that stuff can consume as much as 100-200mb of disk space, and being 1990, that is huge. Oh wait. Installed 'crap' you don't use, costs you nothing more than the small amount of space it takes up... And the cool thing - if you later have need of those features or software that uses those features, even if YOU DO NOT realize it is being used, things just continue to work. Treating aspects of technology in an OS product like it is bundled crap software from a shady OEM lacks a lot of understanding/perspective. With NT, Microsoft could allow every drop of Windows to be granularly installed. However, the mess with software not working and the million other issues users that don't understand the necessary components would be a freaking nightmare. I read comments like this, and see users complain about 'bloatware' in Windows, and then see these same users complaining cause XYZ doesn't work, because they didn't realize feature ABC they need also uses XYZ that they removed. 90%+ of the issues you find on places like Reddit are from users that did the 'clean lite' Windows install and then are angry that the Store is gone, or some other similar shortsighted crap. If the OS features being installed were consuming or costing users, they sure, complain to Microsoft, send feedback, yell at them. However, for the stuff 99.999999% of people complain about, costs nothing in performance and if needed, being available is a good thing.
    2 points
  38. A single big E3 show would flow better, they could jump between the Xbox and zenimax studious and it would make for a interesting 2hr or so show.
    2 points
  39. Pardon me for not knowing how this is old news. The tweet and the article are from less than 4 hours ago, and these are NOT the renders posted by Jon Prosser.
    2 points
  40. In addition to "crapware," lets not forget the whole large list of the new features included with a WIndows-10 install. Some of them have little or no use for single person users or small office settings. And if they remove all that, people will complain that there are too many versions of Windows or that installing it is too complicated because of all the decisions the user needs to make during install or that they have to download all these extra bits just to install the OS. Short version: you are not the only customer.
    2 points
  41. So 2 posts on Reddit about AdBlock Plus (also enabled in Incognito) crashing their Chrome browsers... and it gets a Google vs. Microsoft storyline?! "I'm no expert" (hahaha, and I know y'all will appreciate me typing those words, even though it's just a saying) "but it seems it's the AdBlock Plus extension causing issues... again."
    1 point
  42. BSOD errors

    "failed VL activation" Why are you getting a failed volume license activation? You have a VL key? The 0xc004f074 is saying the KMS is unavailable. I think this had less to do with the BSOD but the Windows activation? No idea about the second error...could be tied to the first one. /shrug
    1 point
  43. BSOD errors

    Grab Whocrashed and have it analyze your dump files, and it should give you a better idea of what is causing the crashes.
    1 point
  44. NBA 2K21 is free to claim on the Epic Games Store this week

    Sports games are infested with pay to win mechanics. Avoid!
    1 point
  45. Israel started this particular conflict a month ago. Some media sources are saying otherwise but it started due to some restrictions, church raids (not sure what they call their religious structures), and other offences. Ive never understood the American preoccupation with Israel. While this conflict in particular is their fault, in the long term both sides are probably equally bad. please provide a source for that claim. everything i have read in the news across the board states palestina started this. Here's a good one where they not only explain it, and the media bias, but also show CBS' accurate coverage of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EPAmwr-_mI
    1 point
  46. This is one way to get people to update/upgrade. LOL
    1 point
  47. Nearly 1,000 Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians

    Is it the role of corporations to do this?
    1 point
  48. Encrypt cloud data (DropBox, etc)

    Here you go sir. It's all you need. http://www.cryptomator.org
    1 point
  49. Google is using AI to detect skin conditions and tuberculosis

    There are lots of public and private datasets containing deidentified real data contributed by hospitals for research purposes (after due diligence, of course). Example of a public Kaggle dataset for TB X-rays, similar to the one Google probably used: https://www.kaggle.com/tawsifu...losis-tb-chest-xray-dataset
    1 point
  50. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    Not up to date WRT radiation shielding, and his knowledge about Starship is incomplete or totally absent. Starship; 1) he's using the base model which has a 17.24m long payload bay. There's also a 22m long 'Extended' payload bay version, so much more pressurized volume. See Starship Users Guide. 2) we already know how thick the payload section walls will be; a minimum of 1/2 meter. This by way of the payload section's width being 8 meters. More thickness can be added, of course. Also Starship Users Guide. 3) liquid methane top, liquid oxygen bottom. Shielding; First, the intensity of cosmic radiation is generally inverse to solar activity. When in Solar Maximum the outflow of solar wind partly shields against cosmic particle radiation. Time your trips accordingly. Second, a key factor in radiation protection is time - how long is your trip? Basically, dose = intensity • time. Starship's 115 day average crewed trajectory (for 2020-2037) beats the 180-360 day Mars trajectories used in many models. The benefit of a propellant-rich architecture. No one really cares if dedicated cargo Starships take a longer route, they can go at suboptimal times so long as they beat the crew there. Third, Starship can protect the crew against solar events. This can be done by placing the ship's stores around a dedicated solar storm shelter area while Earth observers watch for events. We've also seen Starship's modular crew cabins, and sturdy structures with thick walls they are, and they're being certified by NASA for lunar missions. Now, if an event occurs point the tanks at the Sun. Both the bulk of the ship and the full header (landing) tanks will shield the habitation module from most flux. The premise of using water is common in fiction and old papers, but not the best way to do shielding today. Still, what is it about water that makes it a shield candidate? Shielding against solar or cosmic radiation means shielding against charged particles; chiefly protons and heavy ions - meaning positively charged, and neutrons. The best way to do that is with an element with a very high positive charge density (lots of protons), and as few neutrons as possible (they generate scatter). The highest charge density is hydrogen, and water has 2 atoms per molecule. GREAT, RIGHT? Not really. That oxygen atom in water has 8 protons sure, but also 8 neutrons which when hit by particles will produce scatter radiation. Water's also a liquid, which makes it leaky for walls that may take a debris hit. Oops. What to do? Use a hydrogen compound with a lower number of neutrons that can form a dense solid (easier to handle). Whozzat? Carbon. It has 6 neutrons (25% less than oxygen) and forms hydrocarbons at the drop of a hat, so there are a lot of excellent hydrocarbons to choose from. NASA Langley has chosen ultra high density polyethylene (UHDPE). Add some boron and/or gadolinium nanoparticles and it shields against scatter and stray neutrons. Extra points: UHDPE radiation shielding is an off the shelf item, used in the medical and nuclear industries, complete with embedded nanoparicle neutron shielding at 5-40% w/w if so ordered. Custom job: UHDPE fabric + epoxy + gadolinium + boron carbide + boron sandwich. Very effective against neutrons. https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/9981/1/Ultra-high-molecular-weight-polyethylene-UHMWPE-fiber-epoxy-composite-hybridized/10.1117/12.2240135.short?SSO=1 UHDPE fabric can also be used as an impact shield - it's tougher than Kevlar. Dounle-duty.
    1 point