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The line was something to the effect of "We need to become HBO faster than HBO becomes us."

It happened.

Totally fair; thanks for the extra info!!

Welcome to medicine. I grew up the child of a doctor, and she always, ALWAYS, bought the generic. They're required BY LAW to have the same "active" ingredients; you just might be paying for a slightly different pill shape, packaging, or taste.

If the TV spot they're referring to was an Xbox One advertisement with the phrase "Xbox on", yes, it was ill-conceived because it was a commercial for the voice-control system being advertised. It would be like an Amazon commercial triggering Alexa.

No, the phrase itself is not a problem, but when advertising your own product you should know better.

> Medium makes it really easy to post something that looks good across devices etc., and has good sharing integration. That's all.

That's... not an easy thing to do. Making anything to do with technology "easy" is no small feat; that Medium was able to do this with as big an incumbent player as WordPress (for example) is an even bigger feat.

OK, what's it going to take to keep tumblr running? That's literally all I care about here. Everything else in Yahoo can be gotten or done elsewhere, but tumblr's a social network, so there's value in preserving those connections.

Won't do much; AFAIK everything is encrypted client-side with your master password. So a hacker could, in theory, get my encrypted database, but by the time they crack my strong password, I will, at the very least, have changed all those passwords.

As someone who once had a long-distance relationship with a 400mi round trip, I'd say it's a little of both. There's a novelty factor, but there's also a part of it that some people find enjoyable.

Having the right car helps: trips made in my almost-busted Honda Civic were much less enjoyable than the ones in my brand-new-custom-ordered Mini Cooper. :) The right soundtrack, the right weather, and the right caffeine vehicle are major factors as well.

In theory? Veertu uses the built-in Hypervisor.framework from macOS, so it can run without installing a kernel extension. I think they're still working on building out features, but for my basic needs I prefer it on that basis alone.

I'm due for an upgrade here at work, so yes. Probably going to get this <https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/usb-c/owc/usb-c-dock> or something like it so I can plug into everything. That's really what I'm looking forward to: put down the laptop, plug in ONE cord, and everything is there. Thunderbolt was almost that, but TB3/USB-C can also power the laptop itself.

As for the Touch Bar, I believe that it can be good. It will remain to be seen how good it actually will be, but I'm looking forward to it for the time being.

> The only difference this year is that Intel has been having problems delivering on time (and without problems).

That is the entire difference. You're correct in that this is the expected time between redesigns, but we also haven't gotten a spec bump in over a year. That's unusual, and it's giving real fuel to the usually-overblown "[product] is so stale!"

I wonder if it would be useful to harvest excess CO2 from the atmosphere. That way, you're using the existing CO2 as a fuel source.

I think part of the issue with Trump is that--to many people--he's already failed at this. Usually, once a major party candidate wins the nomination, they start moving their positions towards the center in order to capture mainstream/moderate voters. Trump has not done this; in fact, he's tended to do the opposite. He still hasn't backed off The Wall, for instance.

Granted, this is still just "talk," but to people like me, it's indicative of how he tends to double-down instead of moderating himself. I don't have a lot of confidence he would begin moderating himself once presented with actual power.

Maybe. Could also be that a car project is much more complex with more opportunities for "battl[ing] about the project's direction." One manager wants to emphasize a modern cockpit, one an electric drivetrain, and one full autonomy. And a leader that understands consumer electronics well enough to navigate "an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator" might not understand cars enough to navigate a car project the same way.

Thus, we get Mansfield in to say "no, we're focusing on this first; we don't have a car without it." This would be like Jobs (or Forstall) coming in to say "we're focusing on a multi-touch OS X first; we don't have a phone without it."

So, to answer your question: maybe. :)

I know Tim Cook has mentioned VR as something "interesting" in the recent past, so they may be waiting for it to become a little more mainstream.

Agreed. Making a "dumb" electric car meant going against Tesla that is already making strides toward autonomy. Making a fully autonomous car meant solving new problems that could make-or-break the project.

So yeah, Apple's smart to see if they can even make an autonomous system before trying to make their own car. Make sure all the problems are solvable before trying to solve them.

> I do have to say, that VS Code is entirely different, and the first time I played with it, I didn't realise it was using Electron.

This. I didn't like Atom's performance on my MacBook Air, but Code was running beautifully. "Finally," I thought, "a native code text editor that has all the features I want instead of some bloated Electron crap."

Oh. Oh you sweet summer child.

And the best part is it doesn't matter that I was wrong; I got what I wanted: a nice, free, performant text editor with Git integration.

They are. It's pretty much the only reason I keep renewing my certificate.

At the time Vesper was written, iCloud sync was not reliable. It's gotten better (good enough for many apps to proudly use it), but by that point Vesper had lost its dev.

There had also been issues around this time with Dropbox changing the way the SDK presented information. A small change, but one that ran afoul of Apple's In-App Purchases guidelines. Debate the merits of the conflict all you want; it was still an issue everyone wanted to avoid at the time.

Basically, you're not wrong, but I believe the devs made the best decision they could at the time they wrote the app.

Can I assume these issues meant a GBA port wasn't feasible?

(Also, as someone who spends a lot of time with fan works often considered second-fiddle to original creations, I find the idea of you being explicitly told to use an established character... frustrating.)

Reading through the 2001-era blog posts, it looks like they ran out of time. Not necessarily money or arbitrary publisher deadlines, but the viability of the Game Boy Color as a platform with the freshly-released Game Boy Advance.

Major props to whatever lawyer or artist or whoever had to sign off to get this ROM dump to happen; it's nice to see art like this not get lost to the ether.

Not necessarily downtime, but why they "killed" a very popular third-party tool to show real-time locations of Pokemon.

They have a version that is just $40 for the whole thing called "Veertu for Business". But on top of that, $40 is a lot to pay for an app sight unseen, so they wanted to have a way of offering a "free trial" or test mode for free. They are VERY upfront about what the whole price is, and it's not a hidden ongoing charge. This is the best use of in-app purchases IMO.

Though to be fair, I've got an iOS app with the exact same business model, so I'm biased. :)

The free version lets you download and install Linux ISOs from their library.

The paid version lets you use your own Linux/Windows ISO and/or import a VMWare/Parallels/VirtualBox VM.

This is basically how they can offer a "free trial" on the app store.

Last I heard, Blizzard ported World of Warcraft over to Metal with significant improvements. It wouldn't surprise me, though, if the relative age of the current Mac hardware is to blame.

Considering they'd have to add a physical interface for said games then make sure that whatever emulator they're using can emulate perfectly, yes.

Except that's already happened. That's been the rule since the App Store was set up. And Spotify responded by having the in-app price be $13 instead of $10. Spotify's other option is to not allow signups in the app at all; I believe this is what Dropbox and Amazon do to avoid falling afoul of these rules.

Spotify is trying to have it both ways here.

The cut happens automatically, and it's in place now for all subscriptions.

So any Spotify subscriptions that started through the app at least a year ago are now getting the 85/15 split, without Spotify having to do anything.

Do note that Kodi said to "ask them to stop." Not "tell the police and YouTube and get them shut down." That's where the "And let us know" comes in: Kodi will then presumably write up official C&D letters and all that.

But if someone I follow on Tumblr links to one of these pirate boxes, I'm going to message them about the shadiness of the whole thing. Not report their blog or anything major like that, just message them. I think that's all Kodi is asking us to do.

To be fair, buying an antenna entitles you to any broadcasts you can pick up with it. And to a lot of people, that's "TV."