Uh, what?

Are you trying to determine a percentage?

24,000 different callers out of 8,546,038 New Yorkers means that 0.280832% of the population calls 911 in a given day...

I don't see 1,700 "missed calls," I see about 400:

That quote indicates that only 400 calls were "missed" if we define "missed" as "never got through."

These top scholars worked at institutions with literally multi-billion dollar endowments, yet they let Canadian Universities "poach" their top talent? Harvard couldn't counter-offer? Yale lacked a compelling argument to keep their scholars?

Oh that's right, endowments are not for funding research or making education affordable...

That's a great story, but that's not what I read in TFS - I read they were "afraid" and "feared" their research funding would be cut.

You act like the "scholars" moving to Canada were all picked up off the unemployment lines - they weren't - Canadian universities came down and poached them by waving Canadian money in their face.

They were bought.

Good riddance.

Why didn't their previous institutions fight harder to keep them?

So what? These brilliant researchers, geniuses all, can't ride out the next two year and outlast Trump? They stayed for Trump '45, but now, half-way thru Trump '47 they accept the cash offers and are relocating to Canada? Who cares.

Why must every leading scientist be in America? Seriously, why?

I think it's a refreshing change that their research will be funded by the Canadian gov't, good for them!

As a reminder, it was the Canadian government that went and seized protesters bank accounts when they expressed opinions the Govt didn't agree with, not the US.

We're less than a year into Iran, calling it 'endless' is really premature, and no doubt motivated by the upcoming mid-term election.

I get confused when the same people that rail against this "endless" war attack the president when he tries to use diplomacy to end the conflict (T.A.C.O.), then complain we're running out of munitions after (literally) bragging that Biden was sending all our munitions to Ukraine so that he could create jobs here in America rebuilding our munitions stockpiles!

Yeah, the downside of abortion as a rite of passage for Democrat women is influencing (reducing) Democrat chances going forward...

Just to be clear, foreigners (you Canadians) are going to take steps to interfere and influence our (American) elections?

There's no way Democrats will stand by and allow foreign interference in our elections! (Remember how mad they got when the Russians reportedly tried to influence our elections?!)

Not really anything new - people have been buying groceries on credit cards for years, it helps to meet basic needs between paychecks. This is a shift from asking a friend or family member bo borrow a few hundred dollars until payday to using an app and avoiding embarrassing conversations with friends or family.

The thing to look out for is when people start missing payments, incurring late fees, etc., that means they have run out of resources/options.

Using credit to manage cash-flow issues isn't necessarily a sign of an impending depression, borrowing $500 or $1,000 has never been easier, and I think that ease is the main driver for the uptick in activity.

Borrowing for basic needs is not sustainable, I'd be curious about the repayment history (how long to pay-off loan) and repetition (how often).

As I recall, micro loans were once the things that were going to lift countless poor folks out of poverty in third-world countries, but somehow micro loans in the US is a sign the economy is about to implode?

They get a discount because the OEMs agree to install the OS on EVERY computer, no exception - it takes the per-unit price down to $20ish per PC.

The discount has nothing to do with packaging savings, there is no media shipped with the PC, no floppies, no CD/DVD, etc.

Citation?

I find it hard to believe any major manufacturer would forgo volume discounts available by committing to include Win 11 on each and every shipping computer in order to add an additional cost for a nearly required item like Windows OS.

FFS, do you not understand the difference between OEM and Retail pricing?

OEMs buy COAs by the tens of thousands, and get significant discounts by doing things like supporting the end-user.

Retail licenses cover MS providing some level of customer support, and include retail markup for the seller.

Is a 10% increase on something that costs around $20 really qualify as a "a big Windows 11 price hike"?

No.

Will that 10% license cost increase wind-up being paid for by the customer? Of Course. The customer pays every expense, but the 10% COA license cost increase will likely be mitigated by potentially lower prices on things like CPUs (using lower-spec parts) and other components - this is not the "big event" many here are claiming.

The "Average Windows User" never upgrades RAM or Storage, they replace the machine, and machine prices may keep them from upgrading/replacing their systems - it is the rare Windows User that would explore alternative OS options for their current PC when they feel they've outgrown their current Windows machine.

By offering an OS other than Windows on a particular model, Dell loses the discount offered to them by MS for all licenses on that model.

If they offered Linux on the XPS 15, dell would pay more for every COA for every Window XPS 15 - I guarantee you there are way, way, way more XPS 15 buyers that want Windows 11 than would consider buying they XPS 15 without Windows/with Linux.

There's also the issue of supporting Linux on multiple models (driver updates, etc - not a major expense, but an unnecessary expense for such a low-interest item)...