Quoting: Hal_Kado

Quoting: 14It's neat, but what is the point?

I'm pretty sure that is the point. You can get more performance elsewhere, and you can get the same performance for less $$$.....but neither will look this cool sitting on your living room or desk.

I'll never buy one....but I do kinda want one :D

Not a factor to underestimate . . . it's the main basis for Apple's success.

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Quoting: Philadelphusit would probably sound cacophonic. :grin:

As I recall, he played a lyre, not a trombone. :grin:

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I can tell I have an instinctive thing for the underdog. Seeing the two headlines about Intel one atop the other, on the graphics card one where Intel is the small player I was thinking "Go Intel!" but on the CPU one where Intel is the big player I was thinking "Boo, Intel!" It felt kind of weird to whiplash between those two in one second flat like that.

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Quoting: pbSo basically HoMM3 in space? Sure, why not. :wink:

Most things are improved by adding "in space!" to them.

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I guess they say "write what you know".

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: slaapliedjeI bet if Disney could buy up large amounts of homes and create a Disney City, and just lease it out to people, they would.

https://www.storylivingbydisney.com/ [External Link]

Oh my god. You just can't do satire any more, it's all real.

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: slaapliedjeI bet if Disney could buy up large amounts of homes and create a Disney City, and just lease it out to people, they would.

Shhhhh, stop giving them ideas

Dunno about Europe, but in the US and Canada the years since the 2008+ financial crisis have seen the rise of big corporate rental portfolios, with companies owning scads of homes and busily jacking the rent--sometimes with one or a few major players controlling most of the rentals in an area. It started after the banks foreclosed on everybody--deep pockets started buying up all the properties for cheap. I suppose there's nothing to stop Disney from getting involved in the racket.

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Quoting: brokeassbenIt's like Liam hates Canada. What did Canada do to you???

Speaking as a Canadian, I quite enjoyed his, um, tribute, to my country.

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Actually, what we had a shortage of was supplies for baking. Yeast was impossible to get for a while, even flour was pretty scarce, stuff like that--being at home, everyone wanted to do some of their own baking I guess.

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Quoting: 1xok

Quoting: F.UltraBtw the whole toilet paper thing turned out to be mostly not a thing.

In Germany, it was definitely a thing. Has tradition here. In France people hoard wine and condoms, in Germany toilet paper.

The French priority seems more fun.

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