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As many others have pointed out, PayPal goes out of their way to make sure they are not a bank.

The build quality is excellent. It isn't quite as good as a MacBook, but I'm willing to take the hit from A+ to A- for the repairablity.

It's much better than any other laptop I've used aside from a MacBook Pro. The screen does flex a bit but unless you're actively applying torque to it, you won't notice. It's totally fine when opening and closing it.

They recently updated it [1] so that it does tell you why.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/25/22550951/microsoft-pc-hea...

I can set up and sign in to MacOS without using my Apple ID though.

This article title is grossly misleading. As far as I can tell from the article, no actual votes have happened.

The group behind this is just pushing for counties to support them.

These types of groups pop up all the time, make hay and then disappear.

It can do 120 FPS, which is considered “high frame rate” for televisions. 60 FPS is generally considered standard.

Agreed. They are trying to conflate two issues that are separate.

If Apple was blocking all VPNs from the App Store, they would have a valid argument, but Apple is blocking it for promoting accessing geolocked content in the app description.

That has nothing to do with the events in Myanmar. It’s just happening at a time when VPNs are extremely important for residents there. And as the parent comment mentioned, there are tons of alternatives.

Another way to look at this is that Steve realized there was nothing this guy could do to help him at the moment, so he hung up on him.

So you disagree with it morally but watch it anyway? And then don't even pay the people who produced it? Isn't that even worse?

I think there's nothing wrong with porn in general and the people who create it - just like other artists, performers, actors, etc - should be paid for it.

Just because it's "morally disagreeable" doesn't make it okay to pirate it. Then you've committed two "sins" instead of one.

I'm pretty sure they're saying that Apple, etc. are trying not to offend China with their programming. It's unrelated to Gawker, but mentioned in the article.

For a $1,000 laptop? I disagree. It’s fine for a $500 one but Apple doesn’t sell those.

Same here. Recently, if it's anything that's health related, I absolutely avoid Amazon because of the mass of fake products out there. I needed some vitamins recently and my first thought was that I'm better off paying CVS or Walgreens prices and being practically guaranteed that the product is legit, versus trying to weed through the fake reviews and counterfeit products on Amazon.

That thought has occurred with increasing frequency over the past few years as Amazon continues to completely ignore the issue.

It uses Bluetooth LE for proximity sensing so that you can pass audio from your phone to the HomePod just by waving them near one another.

The sound quality is way beyond anything Google or Amazon offer.

If you have other Apple devices, it works just like Siri on your phone. I've got one in my kitchen and it can hear me anywhere in my 3 bedroom house. It's pretty impressive from an audio recognition standpoint.

Amazon and Google both have much better home assistants built in.

Obviously it will be hard for a phone with 1/10th the z index to fit the same optics that a DSLR came.

But I work in video production and I can tell you that for 99% of people, there is absolutely no reason to buy a separate camera.

What Apple and other smartphone makers have managed to achieve in such small and (relatively, compared to a full frame DSLR) inexpensive items is pretty amazing.

They have such good quality that when I need to grab a quick pickup shot, I can easily use my phone's camera and drop the footage in with a pro cine-style camera. There are tons of apps that will let you shoot with full manual control or even flat color profiles.

People have shot entire, commercially released movies on their smartphones. Once you get to a certain image quality, it's not about the image quality but the artistic content/merit of said image.

I’ve never understood this type of “gotcha!” that always gets trotted out when a company uses another company’s product to develop their own.

If all of the debugging, testing and factory management tools are standardized on Windows - why rewrite them if you don’t need to? It seems like a waste of resources.

(This isn’t limited to Apple or even technology companies. It applies to tons of businesses.)

There's no way that $200 million is break even for that movie.

The budget alone was $200 million, which doesn't factor in marketing...which will probably be higher than normal since they had to run a marketing campaign multiple times as it was pushed back throughout the months. Often times that alone can be as much as the movie budget.

It actually has the A12 Z, not even the A13.

> It’s just what they do.

Then we should work to change that. As a society, we should find this kind of stuff unacceptable. There should be some baseline level of transparency and dignity employees are treated with.

Traditionally, you just encode the video with a new frame every X frames, regardless of shots.

It might sound trivial, but it is still extra computational work to figure out when the shot changes.

That’s only a temporary stopgap before they convince a court or change the law so that being part of that chain with intent to infringe copyright is enough to get you sued.

I don't see how that justifies torrenting it but most new movies are available within a few months on DVD/Blu-ray.

(Obviously there are exceptions for things made by streaming companies but even those get physical releases eventually.

I feel like you're purposefully making this hypothetical difficult and throwing up as many roadblocks as possible.

The obvious answer is that either you own a DVD player or you can get one for next to nothing. Amazon has region free ones for $25.

I feel like you are purposefully ignoring the fact that you can easily get all of those movies (and tons of others not on streaming services) on DVD or Blu-ray for relatively cheap. As another commenter said, you can also rent them from any number of services for $2-$4.

For anyone that hasn't seen They Shall Not Grow Old, I highly recommend it.

Peter Jackson (of Lord of the Rings fame) spent years working with the British government to digitize and colorize their old footage of World War I. They also added in sound using the actual military equipment that was used in the field during the war. They also hired lip readers to figure out what each person was saying and added in dialogue.

It's really incredible and makes the war (which was only 100 years ago) feel much more modern than old black and white footage.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrabKK9Bhds

I just checked from my (government) building’s connection and, well...someone has been downloading some Lovecraftian horror movies. Not what I expected.

It's easy: All of the hype was manufactured. No one was actually excited for it, there were just a ton of articles that made you think you others were.

Not just Apple, the entire electronics industry.

Since the original post seems confused about why a browser would ask for contacts:

A legitimate reason could be so that they can easily autofill forms for you.

I'm tired of arguing over semantics with people. Call it copyright infringement then. Either way, it is generally illegal.

Just pay the $3 to rent the movie.