I love that "standard" means non-standard. I only have metric nuts and bolts, I use them for 3D printed stuff, car and bikes, and I have imperial screws and wrenches for wood working and car. I think my car is all metric, but it just felt safe to get a dual kit.
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If you're going to accuse me of lying, at least have the decency of doing it in a reply to my post. I lived on the East Coast and traveled up and down some, then I moved to the Midwest, I got into politics and canvassed in several states plus I went on a few road trips for fun. Then I moved to the West Coast, which somewhat limited my ability to go on road trips to other states, but still, I went as far as Colorado, I spent a month there doing backpacking and visiting a few places like Denver and Aspen.
Why do you think it is so unlikely I could visit 3 states a year?
Are you in tech or some other field that doesn't involve interacting with different socioeconomic groups?
Most of not all states guarantee some "interesting" encounters if you leave the cities. In California I have seen Confederate flags flying, met neonazis, and plenty of Trump supporters. Trump got over 34% of the vote in California, almost 39% in Washington and over 40% in Oregon. Those percentages are not a majority, but I think it sets a floor, since Trump supporters are not exactly trash talking the US.
I have spent a lot of time doing canvassing and other activities that mean I encounter people with very different ideas, so that would definitely explain the different experience.
Uh, what? Most Catholics aren't circumcised, that's an American thing.
That is not my experience at all. Most Americans get extremely defensive when someone criticizes the US, even people who know better. Many are ok with specific criticism (like, healthcare sucking), but it doesn't take much for them to revert to 'murican mode.
I have been living in the US for over a decade and been to 2/3rds of the states.
Mad at Pepsi? Haha that's a funny way to put it. He got fired when he butted heads with Sculley, the former PepsiCo president, that he had hired, and the board sided with Sculley.
Giving credit to Apple/NeXT for software made by a different company is creative. The same logic applied to Microsoft makes things interesting.
I'm aware of the history, but I don't think you understood what I wrote. An app store was written for NeXT by an independent company, without Jobs' involvement.
Would you give credit to Bill Gates for all windows software written while he was CEO?
Steve Wozniak disagrees with you.
Edit, adding another link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170106013315/http://www.woz.org/letters/does-steve-jobs-know-how-code
"Woz
Steve didn't ever code. He wasn't an engineer and he didn't do any original design, but he was technical enough to alter and change and add to other designs."
That's an argument for sharing infrastructure, though.
Capitalism is wildly wasteful.
USB-C has been a better option for years, if only because of how widespread it is. It sounds like Apple might have a crappy USB-C port on the 15, but on my phone it can do so much, I love it.
USB-C is as big of a change as USB-A/B was back in the day (I don't miss having a gazillion connector types).
Some specs:
Lightning vs USB-C:
- 480Mbps vs 80,000Mbps (I wrote 10Gbps initially, it's up to 80Gbps now)
- 96 watts vs 240 watts
- HDMI only - HDMI and DisplayPort
Edited to fix formatting and USB-C speed
Apple did not invent the term "app", "app store", or the concept of an app store. There was an app store called App Store for NeXT in 1991 that Jobs knew about, and many similar systems in the intervening years.
The only thing different about Apple's app store was the restriction on users' ability to install apps from other sources.
Jobs was great at business, not at tech.
Ooh, now I want to label SAE stuff as standard and metric as standarder.