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Fuck you. The Newton was a HUGE(!!!!!!) loser. You are just too fucking lazy to look it up. I was working in the 90's. I remember this and I'm not going to waste my time learning y…

So you voted down my comment because you couldn't find a citation on Google? First link :-> http://www.edengene.co.uk/article/how-the-world-learnt-from-... using https://www.google…

Actually it was the Newton that made Apple loose so much money. It was never profitable with an average annual loss of 1 billion USD. But if it wasn't for that loss, Steve Jobs wou…

Two words: Government Regulation. Once Congress puts a bill forward to deal with this issue, it will be the beginning of the end for this type of behavior. I'm sure Obama will get …

> Does that mean from now on, rather than "Copyright © 2013 Kailuo Wang", I have to say Copyright © 2013 my Email address ? No. You can put in whatever copyright information you wi…

FTP is perfectly sufficient. Why should they use FTPS instead? The cryto signature for the file is here ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.6.tar.gz.sig

Premature optimization is the root of all evil -- DonaldKnuth More information here: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrematureOptimization

Good. Adapt or die.

Will no one rid us of these Steve Job's parables. Wisdom has no correlation to success.

Bank regulation isn't worth the paper it's printed on. The contracts reflect the culture, and if the culture is rotten the benefits will be the same.

Ultralight aviation(1) is available to the masses, but people don't want to replace their cars with them. Why? It is an unsolvable problem, so nobody knows. 1) http://en.wikipedia.…

Yes. You've only linked to print advertising and newspapers' declining revenue, i.e printing on dead trees. Printing on paper then selling that paper isn't a requirement for journa…

Yes, it's called journalism.

Alcatraz was a prison known for tight security, so I am guessing that based on their motto "…your plugins are mine…" the project is just trying to tie all the external projects int…

Steve Jobs big plan was to sell a computer for under a thousands dollars, given that macs used to cost over two thousand dollars in the "monopoly" years. And it was not only accomp…

Mac sales are critical in that they are also development machines used internally as well as their "partners" who create and sell apps for the platform. Apple will never abandon th…

I think the "Make something that works" poster isn't available.

Yes. The Windows-Intel platform is fully backwards compatible back to Windows 3.1 with 32-bit.

> The parent also said that particular app is well established and that his newer apps do not fair as well. Wrong. The parent post claimed that the higher cost app $12.99 led to mu…

Two main reasons: 1) Youth income is low given low employment and a stagnant economy which some would call a recession. 2) High gas prices means less cars and more public transit.

Windows RT didn't break any compatibility because Windows RT was built on the ARM hardware platform. Win32 was just a software platform on Intel's hardware platform and won't work …

The more features which are added to a laptop, the more it tends to cost.

I never claimed suicides don't count, so I have no idea what you are referring to.

I'd rather not engage in political arguments especially on this site.

In the US gun suicides outnumber gun homocides, so the gun control advocates add them together and call it gun violence to inflate the numbers for political reasons.