...and every student needed a laptop immediately. the "good" chromebooks were out of stock for most of march and april.

Inferring any other data point from this seems foolish.

Thank you. Literally looked at housing in Los Angeles yesterday and I'm trying to find something palatable to buy with a 60 min commute to the west side for under 500k and its incredibly difficult. If something stays on the market longer than 90 days it's abnormal. Zillow if you doubt me.

For every person fleeing California there are three in SF/LA who say "Man, this is rough, and I would love to leave.... but where would I go?" Show me a diverse, culturally rich urban environment with a lower cost of living, better governance, and 900/900 internet speeds :)

How about wear a mask, and say while masks aren't perfect, they help?
How helping the states co-ordinate resources to help hospitals get what they need, instead of letting them out-bid each other with profiteers?

Holy shit, is the bar that low? Tell me how either of those examples (amid countless others) are even remotely political, and not obvious? If you want to argue anything about him, it's really hard to argue he's not just fucking incompetent.

And instead, he literally throws rallies and encourages people to go into enclosed spaces, and undercuts his popular mulit-president/apolitical medical advisor.

That's just talking covid, but I will provide examples on any other issue he dealt with. And if you want to say china, please read Ben Thompson's "the TikTok war" first - this is a damn tech site after all. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstratechery.com%2F

I can understand wanting other candidates or changes to the system, and i agree. Ranked Choice Voting, vote by mail, motor-votor bills and other ideas are being/have been pushed for a while. Would love to hear yours

With all this said, if you support Trump's behavior, I would love to hear any rational argument why he is the guy that is not motivated by fear. If you're pro-Trump, you're anti-science. Take a hard look at your logic and arguments and approach them as a scientist.

(one more thing about creepy joe vids - pot, kettle: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flmgtfy.com%2F%3Fq%3Dtrump%2Ban... - and your guy was just on the sunday shows bragging about he's a genius for acing the MOCA FFS! - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fch000ch%2Fst...)

Doesn't seem like an anticipated problem to me.

They know this. Why do you think they're offering a 30% discount on a three year subscription at D23?

As a service, having this option for SSO in their apps is pretty great - for both devs and users. I'm glad Apple is pushing privacy, even if their pricing is making it available only to the upper classes. At the very least it brings attention to how Facebook and Google manage your data.

Basic Cable dropped from 188 in 2015 to 181 in 2016, up from 66 in '09. Not much of a drop. And separating those out doesn't really make sense - everyone is bidding on the same pitches from the same writers and production companies. Increased competition is driving up costs. It's not like there's a million brilliant writers with series ready to go. And even when you get an amazing show, that doesn't mean the next show/ season will be as good (True Detective, The Bastard Executioner, Mr. Robot). Ain't no sure things.

Nothing good on? Bullshit. Here are the show only on FX in the past year, with their RT ratings:

Atlanta 100%
Fargo 98%
Always Sunny in Philadelphia 97%
Archer 97%
People vs. OJ Simpson 97%
The Americans 96%
Better Things 94%
You're the Worst 92%
Man Seeking Woman 90%
American Horror Story 77%
Baskets 70%

That doesn't count all the great shows on HBO (GoT, Westworld, Insecure), AMC (Better Call Saul, Walking Dead), Netflix (Stranger Things, The Crown), Amazon (Fleabag, Good Girls Revolt), and many others.

Also, RTFA - 455 this year is counting only NEW, SCRIPTED (not reality) shows on TV and OTT services like Netflix and Amazon. There's even a chart. Landgraf knows what he's talking about.

Also, many of you are making his point for him. Nobody wants to pay for this (ie watch commercials or subscribe). Each hour of high end TV (not twitch, not pewdiepie, not unboxing, but real scripted TV that can compete in this landscape) costs roughly $2.5 million. So, I just mentioned roughy 170 hours of content above - that's 425 million dollars. Where is that money going to come from?

Does anyone else find it ironic that a site that is all about grabbing content from others (that may or may not actually own the content to begin with) going to court to defend a copyright on a standard english word?

The NBA is a private association with it's own governing charter. It's a billionaires club. If all of the other members of the club hate you because you have a LONG HISTORY of being a total racist, cheapskate, and litigious dick, it is within their right to throw you out. Additionally, his wife had him declared incompetent, so legality is even less of an issue. As for the "baiting", even if we ignore his long history of bad behavior, he insulted Magic Johnson - one of the greatest players of all time, and the guy who's statue he walks by every time he enters the Staples Center - IN HIS APOLOGY. Yes, he said he was a bad influence him for HAVING HIV. Yes he said he could be "doing more" for the community - the guy who opened hundreds of new businesses in black neighborhoods across LA. Oh, and that apology took him a week, and in the meantime, he said he should have just "paid her off". Also, BOTH teams (including his own) were going to refuse to play (in the playoffs) if the commissioner didn't act. NO ONE liked him, not even those who worked for him. If you want to talk about freedom, how about the freedom to not have to deal with this jerk? I believe they always had the legal authority to kick him out, but his history of litigious dickishness would have cost them billions in legal fees and bad PR. Carpe Diem. And Ballmer (not famous for his likability) will be a HUGE upgrade.

In what I like to call "the real world" -ie, the place where no one has heard of commontag, Freebase, or Zemanta, and maybe not even gizmodo - the #tag is the closest you're ever going to get. People use it on twitter and instagram, and advertisers have embraced it. Do any of these giant companies want their users going to other sites? Hell no. Facebook brought back the walled garden, and open systems are going to suffer.

Now that we've realized it's unlikely to happen, would you even want it if it did? If you add an ubuntu link on pinboard, would you want to instantly see all the old ubuntu stories on slashdot? Tag a flickr picture with "hotdog" and see all the tweets about hot dogs? Or take a picture with some app that adds its own tag (#vsco or some such) and see all the other pictures taken with that app? Some of these things actually work, but why? I could see doing something like subscribing to only slashdot/bizarro or gizmodo/tv in your RSS reader, but take a look at the RSS market and no one really gives a shit about that either.

I think wide-area tagging is quasi-useless. Even in closed silos (twitter, instagram), it's a messy sea of miscategorization and gamification. If it helps out the sites search engine, great. If it helps your own organization in whatever tool, great. It may even be good in workgroups - i'm interested to see how it pans out in OS X Mavericks.

Most cap at 8 or 16g. Way too little for graphic intensive applications.

I went to New England Computer Camp. 8086 Assembly in the morning, Trapeze and Fire Eating in the afternoon. That was an awesome camp.

Thank you for proving the parent's point.

A lot of critics liked it, but quite a few, including Rex Reed and David Edelstein destroyed it. I'm with them, personally. It seems to be fairly polarizing.