Putting aside whether I would like to sideload apps on my iPhone (I would) or whether sideloading apps on the iPhone is a good idea for most users (it is not), I still don’t get why people use the word monopoly for this. Apple does not have a monopoly on smartphone apps. If you want to buy smartphone apps elsewhere,…

It wasn’t very evenly displayed, but I would say it was there. It evolved into a bigger portion of Roddenberry’s vision for the setting and really came into play in TNG. I will not accept that the first 2 seasons of TNG were bad. They had some bad episodes and production values were low, but there were also some…

You might be right. To be honest, I think the best Star Trek happened when Roddenberry’s influence was felt, but he didn’t fully have the reigns (early TNG). He certainly wasn’t a perfect creator, but he did have some great things to add to the science fiction milieu.

I always thought that Section 31 was a bit of a lazy cludge that would not have flown if Roddenberry were still around. At least some of the writers at the time could not conceive of Roddenberry’s vision of the utopic organization of Starfleet/The Federation, so they had to write in some sort of shadowy, underhanded…

Well, in your current hypothetical, EV’s would be 20% renewable. That beats the 0% renewable of the ICE. But also, large scale power production is almost always more efficient than small (if you ran gasoline turbines for power generation, I would expect to get better efficiency than individual cars). And large scale…

I am a scientist. I used to print out tons of research papers to read. I could read them on the computer, but a combination of ergonomics and poor markup leads me to retain much less information when I read this way. I got an iPad this year (2016 iPad, with Pencil). I have been loving this as a method to read and…

I mostly agree with this. I had an iPad. I bought it mainly to read and markup scientific publications with the Apple Pencil. I love it for that. I use it for other things too, but I don’t think any of those other things wouldn’t be fine enough on a laptop. Sometimes I am annoyed that I have saddled myself with an…

Is it just me, or is every single person commenting on this ignoring the fact that Apple’s throttling only kicks in once nominal battery voltage drops below the level necessary to ensure chipset stability? Come on people, this has been the case since this story broke. They are not throttling every older iPhone, just…

That’s kind of a low blow. You could say that about almost every environmentally friendly substitution. Solar panels produce electricity that should make coal cheaper for others to keep using. I bike to work, so other people can benefit from lower fuel prices. If enough of us stop using up plastic straws, we are going…

I agree. With all the Macbook Air rumors swirling around, I thought the idea was absurd. It seemed obvious to me that the rumors would really just be a change tot he Macbook. But no, now Apple has two computers seperated by some minor differences and a 1" screen diagonal difference. It must be some kind of experiment,…

I think Apple is going all in on Thunderbolt modularity. Need discreet graphics? Pick up an external enclosure and plug it in. I don’t necessarily agree, although I do think the thermals on that external GPU are going to be much better than anything they jam in the Mac Mini case.

I don’t know that the car analogy is a great one. I think the OS changes the experience significantly enough that it is more like the difference between a sedan and a pickup truck. (I won’t pick sides on which is which...) The point being, they are going to drive differently. You might prefer one or the other. You…

But 16" on center will be the same as 16" on left edge... Not saying you are wrong, but it is pretty pedantic. I don’t think anyone is going to frame a house based on this video.

I have a Raspberry Pi at home hosting my web server. I thought about adding email to it, but then I realized I really don’t want to manage a mail server properly. And I have done this professionally in the past...

I pretty much only allow messaging apps to send me notifications. Social networks are definitely out (in fact, I have deleted all their apps from my phone). Mail apps are allowed the little “unread count” number. My calendar is allowed to ping me. There are a few exceptions, but I can’t even name them off the top of…

Ugh. What bothered me so much about this is: Surely this was done by some IT people she hired. Clinton didn’t actually put up her own email server. I don’t expect her to think of all the implications, she is not that person. But whoever she hired should have a real black mark on his or her record. You didn’t think…

As someone who has worked in hosting and internet security... Please don’t host your own email server unless you really know what you are doing. There are so many ways to abuse improperly setup email servers as sources of malicious internet traffic.

Well, if you use a custom domain, you can switch over to whatever is current. There will always be someone offering hosted email services. This way, the address would be retained. As long as the service doesn’t shut down without warning, you should see no real loses.

Pegging the choice of programmers to Windows is an odd statement. People usually use the platform needed for the programming they do. That means there are many Windows programmers out there targeting the many Windows users, but also a ton of Mac programmers targeting the very large iOS market. And for programmers who…

I have been getting into shortcuts, but I have run into a strange issue that makes me think I am not using them right. I found a string that I want read out to me. If I use the Speak Text block, it will read out the input when I activate the shortcut as a widget, but not when I ask Siri to run the shortcut. You would…