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No, the name “iPod” is fine. I’m not really “invested” in anything here. We’re having a one-on-one conversation, in which neither of our minds are going to change. But I do like pointing out when people get ridiculous about Apple updates, they’re actually pissing themselves with excitement over how well Apple has

So, for the iPods, “must-have” implies, as it says, that it is a must-have product. I don’t know how I survived, in that case. I had a decent, cheap MP3 player that held a lot of music, speed wasn’t an issue for me, had long battery life and my file library was on Winamp, so I never messed with the iTunes atrocity.

Well, even if he sold the old code to Hooli for Nucleus, it would still be a pile of garbage compared to what they have now. They’re already at the same Weissman score (or better) than what Richard was getting with that old code. Belson would’ve effectively dropped $10 million dollars on nothing.

I think it’d be cool

Stop being hysterical. No one said your precious Apple is “doomed.” Just that they’re copy-cat artists. Lots of smartphone developers are, including the Android set. You’re paying extra, though, for all that flashy marketing. If you don’t mind being gullible and getting taken for a ride, then that’s on you, I suppose.

Thanks for your completely useless contribution.

They “revolutionized” how you market something and how you build a cultish brand. They didn’t actually revolutionize any tech. People who are drawn to shiny things are drawn to Apple products. Like these “new” “updates” are all copies of shit that Android already does. Just in a slick case.

Prediction for the next episode: Richard is going to realize that the code he’s being sued over isn’t actually the code that they’re using anymore, and it’s going to be shown that Hooli doesn’t actually have a case. He trashed the old code right before Disrupt last season, and wrote it from scratch — thus creating

This doesn’t actually prove that iPhones are “must-have devices” or that Apple made it that way.

That’s fine. That doesn’t prove that iPhones are “must-haves.”

No, they didn’t.

Still not getting a shitty iPhone.

Better than watching non-stick pans, is seeing how a real pan — a cast iron skillet — is made.

Thanks for the post. For this:

“On the other hand, as a manufacturer you have to consider economies of scale and commonality of design. Most rifles are not available in right and left configurations.”

The only thing different that I can imagine on a rifle that would need to be switched is the bolt. Everything else on

A lot of mouses (mice?) seem “uni-hand,” as it were. The buttons are the same size, spaced the same way and gripping seems pretty uniform. I’d figure the best way to take care of this issue is for someone to write some software that tricks the mouse into a left-hand configuration, where your left-click is switched

Maybe. I don’t feel like I was conforming, though, personally. It’s always been a lot more comfortable to use technology with right hand dominance. My mom is a true lefty. She has to use everything left-handed and it’s difficult for her to do anything right-handed. But when I would use her computer, I’d move the mouse

I write left and I play guitar left, but a whole lot more things I do right-handed. I guess I’m not true ambidextrous, since I can’t write with my right hand, but technology, typing on a computer, throwing a baseball, shooting a gun, anything like that, I am right-hand dominant. I can use tools with either hand.

But

Communities should be setting up their own community policing programs and showing that these thugs aren’t needed.

No, it’s exactly as crazy as Ruffus is making it out to be. Perfectly healthy people are convinced by quacks that they have toxins that are ready to kill them at any moment. They never name these toxins, but they apparently exist and you do x and y (colonic cleansing with a chili powder addition, etc.) to rid yourself

It’s not about whether it will “hurt his feelings.” Treating this as if it is an issue, like CNN has, can actually hurt his chances at getting the nomination. People aren’t going to read the essay, then conclude that, oh, well, it was a sloppily written essay about destructive gender norms (I still don’t understand