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What has thermodynamics to do with your parents post?

Perhaps you want to fresh up your knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I lasted exactly 45 days in Aerospace and it was terrifying, they picked a "COTS" architecture that hasn't been "COTS" since the Macintosh moved away from 68k. I was told to 'deal with it'. Other people quipped that "this wasn't the worst design decision he's seen". The schedule was everything because customers had already bought what we were working on.

But everything HAD to move forward according to THIS timeline because someone already bought it. In those 45 days I had to work on trial versions of everything, they couldn't figure out how to get us licensed in to their network. Everyone else on the project had always been in aerospace, so this was 'par for the course'. I came from automotive where we actually did put safety first (at least where I worked).

What exactly is wrong with 68k? Real men code in assembly, right? Wouldn't an architecture based on more bits be exponentially harder to code for, take far more time to test and optimize? If you're embedded, 32-bit isn't doomed. I agree with most of your posts regarding these tragedies, but do not see any relevant connection with... your failure in the cave, remember your failure in the cave!

Some of the largest wind farms too. They have eight of the world's ten largest onshore facilities, including all of the top five. Sure, China still uses a LOT of coal, but they're also provisioning renewable power far, far, faster than anyone else.

OMIGOD, /. is so useless. Letâ(TM)s see if I can post a manually urlencoded version of that link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Don't forget that DWARF:s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Although in fairness, this can run in to problems and be seen as interfering with other countries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...étien

You must have a different Internet than me. On my Internet, a 5 minute google search shows plenty of direct evidence of Monsanto wrongdoing. Not in the same league as Bayer's wartime atrocities, granted, but much more recent.

"Britain is surrounded by water, true, but it doesn't get sunshine"
- From A Song of the Weather by the British comedy songwriters and performers Flanders & Swann - the weather of the title is British weather:

In July the sun is hot?
Is it shining? No it's not.

"I'm pretty sure that you need to be a citizen of the UK to receive knighthood."

No. Wikipedia: if you are a citizen of a nation which as head of state has the Queen of the United Kingdom then if you have a knighthood you can use the title of "Sir" (men) or "Dame" (women): hence Sir Sean Connery and Sir Andrew Wiles. If you are not a citizen of such a nation then you can still be given a knighthood, but it is honorary and you cannot use the title of "Sir" or "Dame", but you can use post-nominal letters: for example the musician Daniel Barenboim KBE is a Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

The British government is VERY poorly managed.

Britain is exiting the European Union: Brexit. The idea was presented in a dishonest manner to get people to approve: Brexit is not the will of the British people -- it never has been.

(There are many ways in which the U.S. government is poorly managed, also.)

Toyota had a runaway throttle caused by recursive software. People died as a result.

Toyota's response - replace the floormats!

Someone should have gone to prison over this.

Dude you are the one advocating using SATA instead of TB, not me.

No I am not. What I am saying, is that your shinny TB box may be using SATA internally to connect hard drives. Either that, or NVMe/PCIe to connect faster SSDs. There is no such thing as a TB drive.
If your TB box has 4x SATA ports, then it can only be slower (or equal) than if you connected those same 4 drives directly inside your desktop using 4x SATA cables. Nobody ever talked about sharing a single SATA cable for more than one drive except you. I wouldn't even know how to do that.

Is it obviously even slower if you connect to a gigabit Ethernet NAS. By the way, the Mac Pro doesn't have 10 Gbps Ethernet. The average NAS is gigabit at best.

Your math is terrible. Once again, a single SATA III cable has a max of 6Gpbs. A single TB2 cable can handle 20Gbps or 3.5 x SATA.

Your understanding is terrible. I never said the opposite.

To use multiple drives in a RAID you have to have the space which neither the Mac Pro 2013 nor iMac Pro had for 2 disks much less 3 or more.

That's why it would be a much better idea to use a real desktop instead of these toys. A real professional video editing machine have multiple drive bays.

Dude you seriously need to brush up on your IT. A NAS isn’t a just a desktop that shares its drive. These are highly specialized and optimized machines with hardware and software for this purpose.

They are not highly specialized. Especially not the cheap ones. They are running some sort of embedded Linux or BSD. You can use FreeNAS to make your own NAS. They just use a cheaper CPU, no GPU, no audio or other useless peripherals, and less RAM than a regular desktop. So yeah, they are cheap desktop computers, dumbed down. The good ones might have a good hardware RAID controller but that's pretty much it.

While you can convert a desktop to be a NAS, you shouldn’t be using it simultaneously as as desktop. This is as idiotic as using your desktop as the company’s web server at the same time while editing video..

Then don't call it a NAS. Call it a network file server.
Again, the reason for not running the web server on your desktop is availability. And in this case maybe also security. You don't want to take the web site down while you are rebooting your PC because of an update. However, your coworker who wants to transfer a video file you've just worked on can wait 2 minutes. And he's not even really waiting because you are saving on the transfer time from your PC to the NAS on that gigabit Ethernet. Basically, instead of transferring the file twice, from your PC to the NAS, and then from the NAS to you coworker's PC, you are transferring the file directly from one PC to the other. It should take half the time on average. You save on costs (not having to buy a NAS) and you save on transfer time. Win-win.

Do you work in professional video editing

No, and never pretended to.

Using your desktop as a single point of failure isn’t done by professionals for a multitude of reasons.

Again, you can have multiple drives on your PC. No reason to have a single copy of a video file just because you are not using a NAS.

If you tried to tell these pros that they should just use someone’s desktop, they’d laugh at you.

They may be good video editors, but that would not give them good knowledge of computer solutions.
It's possible some video editors like OS X and/or FinalCut, and accept the disadvantage of being stuck with external drive solutions because Apple doesn't provide a real, expandable, desktop computer.

Also we have gotten far away from original point: why would you advocate fo

This stupid program is nothing more than that "Bruce 2" software that allowed unskilled morons (including myself) to click a button and claim that they had "made" a 3D mountain with impressive (and identical-looking) surroundings.

Commenter meant Bryce, which hasn't been updated in years, but is still being sold by an 'old software aggregator.'

State privacy laws? You mean like the ones my state doesn't have? Where does it "gut" any existing law? Nothing in the law says that states can't add additional requirements and add MORE privacy-friendly laws ontop of this one. Or are you saying states should be free to not give a fuck? Because that basically makes my point: Republicans (aka "Red States") don't give a fuck. That's why my state doesn't really have data privacy laws.

Laws like this one in California.

Your wonderful Data Care Act would nullify that.

Who's the ignorant fucking moron modding you up?

Modder: COME OUT OUT YOUR BRAIN-DEAD ECHO CHAMBER!

Try this thought on for size, it won't hurt: "Orange man not always bad!"

Try it.

It won't kill you, no matter what you hear inside your echo chamber.

First, you can't do RAID on a single SATA cable since you need at least 2 drives, which will use at least 2 SATA cables, duh. So how exactly are you supposed to be limited by the 6 Gbps of SATA when using more than one drive?

Dude you are the one advocating using SATA instead of TB, not me. Your math is terrible. Once again, a single SATA III cable has a max of 6Gpbs. A single TB2 cable can handle 20Gbps or 3.5 x SATA. To use multiple drives in a RAID you have to have the space which neither the Mac Pro 2013 nor iMac Pro had for 2 disks much less 3 or more.

Then you can do RAID just as well within a desktop as within a NAS (which is nothing more than a dedicated networked computer with drive bays running a dumbed down operating system). So NAS is no more redundant.

Dude you seriously need to brush up on your IT. A NAS isn’t a just a desktop that shares its drive. These are highly specialized and optimized machines with hardware and software for this purpose. While you can convert a desktop to be a NAS, you shouldn’t be using it simultaneously as as desktop. This is as idiotic as using your desktop as the company’s web server at the same time while editing video..

Finally a desktop CPU is so fast, especially compared to a NAS CPU, that gigabit network transfers won't affect it that much (say, 10% of one core).

Do you work in professional video editing because the more you post, the less likely it seems as you speak in absolute generalities? Using your desktop as a single point of failure isn’t done by professionals for a multitude of reasons. If you tried to tell these pros that they should just use someone’s desktop, they’d laugh at you.

Also we have gotten far away from original point: why would you advocate for slower storage in machines that didn’t have the space for multiple drives? Why are you arguing to single point of failure?

What's remarkable in the Lion Air flight is that the company didn't ground the plane until the angle-of-attack sensor problem was resolved.

I have experience of all teeth positions.

In youth, I had a normal bite. Then, due to acromegaly, my mandible grew on, giving me an edge-on bite at some stage, and eventually mandibular prognathism. (Obviously, this took 10-15 years, so it was a VERY gradual process.)

I do not remember having to expend more effort to speak "f" sounds. I do remember struggling with "s" sounds and whistling.

A little over a year ago, I had orthognathic surgery to shorten the mandible to normal teeth position (this was preceded by orthodontics.) Again, I did not notice any change in "f" pronunciation, although my "s" now tends to easily become a whistle, which I have to guard against. (This was a very abrupt change.)

I have been a regular speaker in my community for quite some years, both before the operation and afterwards. I don't think my speech has been influenced that much, apart from the "s".

No. Socialism == communism. Please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And even by your own definition 'socialism' is fake ownership if the government sets 10000 rules/hoops for your "ownership".

This oversimplication of the First Amendment is wrong. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Essentially, these social media platforms have transformed into the "public square," and censorship on those platforms is a violation of the First Amendment.

The Data Care Act would be one such item, introduced by DEMOCRATS. The Republicans are against it and claim it is "detrimental" to the "free market". And the fines are working. Right to be Forgotten, for example has had Google make massive changes to how they operate in the EU. GDPR changed how Google, Facebook, etc all operate in the EU. Democrats protect privacy and the consumer. Republicans not so much.

Congratulations, you've been fooled.

The Data Care Act was an abomination that would have gutted state-level privacy laws because of federal supremacy:

(2) DUTY OF LOYALTY.—An online service provider may not use individual identifying data, or data derived from individual identifying data, in any way that—

(A) will benefit the online service provider to the detriment of an end user; and

(B) (i) will result in reasonably foreseeable and material physical or financial harm to an end user; or

(ii) would be unexpected and highly offensive to a reasonable end user.

That's IT . That's fucking useless - and it would have overridden all state-level privacy laws.

And guess who gets to define "detriment"? The same damn bureaucracy that's subject to regulatory capture.

If Google were writing a law to "regulate" itself, they'd call it The Data Care Act.

> The Norwegian browser maker,

Really? That seems a bit, errr, disingenuous. Maybe even misleading.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/...

After a $1.2 billion deal fell through, Opera has sold most of itself to a Chinese consortium for $600 million. The buyers, led by search and security firm Qihoo 360, are purchasing Opera's browser business, its privacy and performance apps, its tech licensing and, most importantly, its name. The Norwegian company will keep its consumer division, including Opera Apps & Games and Opera TV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Opera Ltd. is publicly listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange [8], with majority ownership and control belonging to Chinese Businessman Yahui Zhou, creator of Beijing Kunlun Tech[9] which specialises in mobile games and cybersecurity specialist Qihoo 360.

If you want to send all your traffic through a Chinese VPN, go ahead, but at least be aware who ultimately controls Opera. The fact it's explicitly pitched as "Norwegian" seems suspicious. Could be a trap. :)

This video shows "classical" raytracing

What nvidia means by "ray tracing" with their RTX thing and the AI denoiser is actually path tracing,

Whether its "classical" raytracing or "path" tracing,

I bet 99% of the game players can't feel the difference

This video shows "classical" raytracing

What nvidia means by "ray tracing" with their RTX thing and the AI denoiser is actually path tracing,

Whether its "classical" raytracing or "path" tracing,

I bet 99% of the game players can't feel the difference

This video shows "classical" raytracing

What nvidia means by "ray tracing" with their RTX thing and the AI denoiser is actually path tracing,

Whether its "classical" raytracing or "path" tracing,

I bet 99% of the game players can't feel the difference

This video shows "classical" raytracing

What nvidia means by "ray tracing" with their RTX thing and the AI denoiser is actually path tracing,

Whether its "classical" raytracing or "path" tracing,

I bet 99% of the game players can't feel the difference

Because the US has forgot the history lessons:

Wars that fought on falsified or exaggerate accusations are doomed to fail, even if every battle was won.

Countries running on populism and getting too greedy are doomed to be defeated.

The Europeans (and the Russians) should have passed their Chinese classical literature class.

Because the US has forgot the history lessons:

Wars that fought on falsified or exaggerate accusations are doomed to fail, even if every battle was won.

Countries running on populism and getting too greedy are doomed to be defeated.

The Europeans (and the Russians) should have passed their Chinese classical literature class.

Because the US has forgot the history lessons:

Wars that fought on falsified or exaggerate accusations are doomed to fail, even if every battle was won.

Countries running on populism and getting too greedy are doomed to be defeated.

The Europeans (and the Russians) should have passed their Chinese classical literature class.

Because the US has forgot the history lessons:

Wars that fought on falsified or exaggerate accusations are doomed to fail, even if every battle was won.

Countries running on populism and getting too greedy are doomed to be defeated.

The Europeans (and the Russians) should have passed their Chinese classical literature class.

Because the US has forgot the history lessons:

Wars that fought on falsified or exaggerate accusations are doomed to fail, even if every battle was won.

Countries running on populism and getting too greedy are doomed to be defeated.

The Europeans (and the Russians) should have passed their Chinese classical literature class.

Because the US has forgot the history lessons:

Wars that fought on falsified or exaggerate accusations are doomed to fail, even if every battle was won.

Countries running on populism and getting too greedy are doomed to be defeated.

The Europeans (and the Russians) should have passed their Chinese classical literature class.

Because the US has forgot the history lessons:

Wars that fought on falsified or exaggerate accusations are doomed to fail, even if every battle was won.

Countries running on populism and getting too greedy are doomed to be defeated.

The Europeans (and the Russians) should have passed their Chinese classical literature class.

What nvidia means by "ray tracing" with their RTX thing and the AI denoiser is actually path tracing, which uses incoherent rays and actually does simulate light bounces in a physically accurate way. Effects like depth of field, soft shadows, caustics, ambient occlusion, and diffuse interreflection are a natural result of the path tracing algorithm, but have to be specially accounted for in other algorithms like ray tracing. A good reference for this is Physically-Based Rendering, by Matt Pharr. Because the rays in a path tracer are incoherent, it's an inherently noisy algorithm that requires many samples to reduce variance to acceptable levels. That's where the AI denoiser comes in - it's able to take a noisy image made with fewer path-traced samples and reduce variance to an acceptable level in realtime.

The guys over at brigade also have an actual realtime path tracer, and while the work is world-class and draw-droppingly impressive, you can see how noisy it still is.

What nvidia means by "ray tracing" with their RTX thing and the AI denoiser is actually path tracing, which uses incoherent rays and actually does simulate light bounces in a physically accurate way. Effects like depth of field, soft shadows, caustics, ambient occlusion, and diffuse interreflection are a natural result of the path tracing algorithm, but have to be specially accounted for in other algorithms like ray tracing. A good reference for this is Physically-Based Rendering, by Matt Pharr. Because the rays in a path tracer are incoherent, it's an inherently noisy algorithm that requires many samples to reduce variance to acceptable levels. That's where the AI denoiser comes in - it's able to take a noisy image made with fewer path-traced samples and reduce variance to an acceptable level in realtime.

The guys over at brigade also have an actual realtime path tracer, and while the work is world-class and draw-droppingly impressive, you can see how noisy it still is.

The idea of "streaming games to your TV so you don't have to have a console" has been around since around 2000. Here's a complete gravey^H^H^H list of some of the companies who have tried. Even technologies like NVidia's shield or Steam's ability to stream within the intranet don't seem to have taken off. Google entry into this market seems foolhardy at best.

The technology wasn't ready then. The technology is currently available for this to take off. With Google resources behind it this can succeed. Steam technology is different from what Google is doing. With Steam game platform--the game is rendered client side (as all games currently do) with information about the player movements, location, where the player is facing, etc sent server side. Because of this the player computer hardware is critical to game enjoyment and success against other players in multiplayer fps games. I play a lot of multiplayer online fps games, and my experience is that players with the best (most expensive) computer systems are the best players. They are the best players because their hardware gives them a decidedly edge. Google platform will get rid of that advantage enjoyed by players who are willing to shell out 2+ grand for a gaming rig. Also, it's going to be harder to cheat on Google platform and that is worth its price in gold.Believe me, I've been online gaming for 17 years and in that time many gamers wished for the games to be rendered server side so as to neutralize cheaters.

A service called OnLive first launched this model at GDC in 2009, after several years stealth development. I happened to be there at the time and got to try it out there and was vaguely impressed but coming from Australia I knew it would be a bit of a long shot for it to work here with our crappy Internet.

It didn't go anywhere; Sony ended up buying all their patents. Not sure if there is a competing product now. NVIDIA also had a product in this space.

My reservations are still the same - as you note, network latency is the big factor.

True story from just last night: I was playing a game of Dota 2 with a couple mates. My partner returned home mid-game and I immediately started lagging hard, resulting in one of my teammates getting killed when I made some bad moves.

The reason? My partner's phone re-connected to the wifi once she was in range and started syncing with Google Photos (a bunch of photos and videos). This floods my upstream connection (a cool 1Mbit) and kills performance until uploads are complete.

So for me, I'm worried Stadia would be this experience - but also in my single player games.

Cops in any state and NY teachers come to mind. The former have plenty of examples of outright massive fuck-ups or corruption that don't get addressed because of the strength of the police unions. NYC teachers are so infamous for this that there are numerous stories about it, and it even has a Wikipedia article.

I'm not one of those people who believe all unions are evil or that they shouldn't exist. I personally wouldn't be likely to want to join one, but if other people want to start one, that's their business and not mine. However, it's not a misinformed myth that unions will keep people around who really should be fired. Nor are the infallible in their decision making and they're as capable of any vice as the company board.

Germany is dependant on US global real time data.
Without that Germany is open to Communist and other nations spying, industrial espionage.
The USA kept West Germany and now Germany safe for decades.
Germany thanks the USA by going Communist.
Re BND https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Note the US origins and support.

Your country is fucked if what you said is actually true. All hail the lazy shits of America. No wonder the planet is so bad off.

Many other countries do no better. By recycling rate America is about the middle of the pack.

Recycling rates by country

Top 3:
Germany
South Korea
Austria

Bottom 3:
Mexico
Chile
Turkey

Your plan to use magnets to separate aluminum from mixed trash intrigues me. Your aluminum seeking magnet can be powered by my perpetual motion machine.

You might be able to reduce your level of ignorance somewhat by reading this:

An eddy current separator uses a powerful magnetic field to separate non-ferrous metals from waste after all ferrous metals have been removed previously by some arrangement of magnets. ...

  At the end of the conveyor belt is an eddy current rotor. Non-ferrous metals are thrown forward from the belt into a product bin, while non-metals simply fall off the belt due to gravity.

Welcome to the Precariat social class.

Now, the real dilemma is that while many people may want to recycle in theory, they don't want to pay the true cost of recycling. There is significant processing to be done if we want it to actually work, but we seem to think it should be no more expensive than just tossing stuff into the landfill

If you don't want to pay to recycle then the solution is simple: include the cost of recycling something in the price. Simply put, the originator of the product should be charged the amount it costs to recycle their product.

As much as self-proclaimed Libertarians may hate this, this is actually a Libertarian solution because you are only paying for the damage you have done. Likewise, hardcore capitalists will complain this is government interference but we've seen how things go when the government doesn't regulate the environment. Furthermore, this is a market friendly opportunity as it will create recycling jobs as well as incentives to make low pollution and easily recyclable products.

Solution: Build a world dump.

Location: Africa, the entire continent has never been anything but a failure anyways.

Bill countries for deposit of garbage.

Workers: Make Africa a homeland for the gays and this will give them gainful employment and a sanctuary

I have recently been proposing my idea internationally and it has gained some interest. Hoping to get this going by 2022.

This is the only worthwhile idea I've seen in a long time.

But that's not why I replied to your first post. I could have changed the title from there.

But you didn't. So let me see if I understand you: You changed the subject without mentioning you were changing the subject even though the OP and I were talking specifically about the Mac Pro.

I was talking about the form factor. You don't need an all-in-one to get 4 TB connectors. Also you wouldn't need any TB connectors to begin with if you had room for internal storage.

Whether we were talking about the Mac Pro 2013 or the iMac Pro, there was no internal room for additional SATA drives. Again, the workload of professional video editor is that they do not store all of their files locally. They store them on a separate drive for redundancy. Like a TB drive. Like a NAS. They copy files to their local system to do work then transferred finished work back to the

The math is simple. The TB bridge can't make the drive go faster. It can only make it slower. It's an additional middle man, which hopefully delivers close to 100% of the speed.

That was never the point. The max of SATA 6Gbps is 6Gbps. That's it. You can't get faster than that using TB; however, the bottleneck still is the SATA connector not the TB connector.

It doesn't increase the drive speed. Bandwidth isn't shared between multiple SATA ports in a desktop computer either. You could be doing RAID within your desktop computer instead. Using either SATA or PCIe/NVMe.

I suggest you brush up on your RAID levels. This is very simple. If you use any form of RAID 0, you can have 2 drives at 6Gbps pushing data through a 20Gbps TB connector. If you use a single SATA connector, your bottleneck still is the 6Gbps connector. It doesn't matter how you've set up your RAID if you have a single SATA connector.

You can share your local drive on the network and get the same effect.

Only if you suppose you are doing no work at the time that would be hindered by people transferring GB sized files from your computer. Also your computer houses multiple RAID drives for redundancy? Well if has to be at least 4 disks for RAID 10, 3 disks for RAID 5, etc.

The main advantage of a NAS over this solution is to offer continued availability even when you are rebooting your computer.

Dude, I suggest you brush up on IT infrastructure. One advantage of NAS is high availability. There is also reliability and redundancy. Multiple people can copy files all at the same time. Loss of a drive does not mean loss of all data.

The disadvantage is cost, and performance (for the local user at least, remote users get similar performance of course).

Argh. The whole point of a NAS is that your machine is not hammered when people are transferring large files from the server. The whole point is that there isn't a single drive failure that will destroy your work. The point is that backup strategy is much easier with a NAS.

Frankly why are you arguing against a NAS and for single point of failure?

Now, the real dilemma is that while many people may want to recycle in theory, they don't want to pay the true cost of recycling. There is significant processing to be done if we want it to actually work, but we seem to think it should be no more expensive than just tossing stuff into the landfill

If you don't want to pay to recycle then the solution is simple: include the cost of recycling something in the price. Simply put, the originator of the product should be charged the amount it costs to recycle their product.

As much as self-proclaimed Libertarians may hate this, this is actually a Libertarian solution because you are only paying for the damage you have done. Likewise, hardcore capitalists will complain this is government interference but we've seen how things go when the government doesn't regulate the environment. Furthermore, this is a market friendly opportunity as it will create recycling jobs as well as incentives to make low pollution and easily recyclable products.

Solution: Build a world dump.

Location: Africa, the entire continent has never been anything but a failure anyways.

Bill countries for deposit of garbage.

Workers: Make Africa a homeland for the gays and this will give them gainful employment and a sanctuary

I have recently been proposing my idea internationally and it has gained some interest. Hoping to get this going by 2022.

Now, the real dilemma is that while many people may want to recycle in theory, they don't want to pay the true cost of recycling. There is significant processing to be done if we want it to actually work, but we seem to think it should be no more expensive than just tossing stuff into the landfill

If you don't want to pay to recycle then the solution is simple: include the cost of recycling something in the price. Simply put, the originator of the product should be charged the amount it costs to recycle their product.

As much as self-proclaimed Libertarians may hate this, this is actually a Libertarian solution because you are only paying for the damage you have done. Likewise, hardcore capitalists will complain this is government interference but we've seen how things go when the government doesn't regulate the environment. Furthermore, this is a market friendly opportunity as it will create recycling jobs as well as incentives to make low pollution and easily recyclable products.

The idea of "streaming games to your TV so you don't have to have a console" has been around since around 2000. Here's a complete gravey^H^H^H list of some of the companies who have tried. Even technologies like NVidia's shield or Steam's ability to stream within the intranet don't seem to have taken off.
Google entry into this market seems foolhardy at best.

By the way. we are not talking about the Mac Pro.

Yes we are. The OP said: "SATA is a good sign for the next mac pro." It is the literal title of this entire thread.

The iMac is definitely not a professional video editing machine, with no room for multiple drives, and a form factor which offer no advantage to begin with.

The specs on the iMac Pro. Besides the 5K display and 4 TB connectors, there's no advantage?

Again, you understand there is no such thing as a TB drive, right? There are SATA and NVMe/PCIe drives, connected to a TB bridge. The TB bridge can only make the drive go slower. It can't make it go any faster. Therefore you are always better with internally connected drives, saving a lot of money compared to that ugly TB enclosure.

You do understand that at 2 X 20Gbps, a TB2 bridge isn't a bottle neck to SATA drive which maxes out at 6Gbps right? So when you say the TB2 bridge makes it go slower, I have to wonder about your math. Many of the TB2 enclosures support multiple drive RAID which can increase speed.

I'd prefer a drive maxing the SATA cable over a 10 gigabit Ethernet NAS. I believe it is faster for most use cases (especially latency), despite the fact that the theoretical bandwidth of Ethernet is a little faster.

Do you and all of your multiple video editors share the same SATA cable? The primary use case of a NAS isn't speed. The term "Network Attached Storage" lays out the primary use case which the term "network" describes. The primary use case is that multiple users can access the same drives. Also for those that set up a NAS, they also tend to set up a backup strategy which is far easier to back up the NAS than to make sure every one used the SATA cable to copy to a lone SATA drive that isn't backed up.

Oh, hey, I remember that movie! It was called... Real Genius, right?

So after all these years, Hathaway has finally figured out the power problem?

The Channeled Scablands - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"The Channeled Scablands at one time were a relatively barren and soil-free region of interconnected relict and dry flood channels, coulees and cataracts eroded into Palouse loess and the typically flat-lying basalt flows remain after cataclysmic floods within the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Washington. ... The last of the cataclysmic floods occurred between 18,200 and 14,000 years ago."

One area of earth that isn't in the circle of everything that happens in the bible is in has had a bunch of floods in the past does not evidence of the global flood create. If you are to actually saying the biblical flood happened then you are going to have to answer where did all the water to cover the world with an additional (at least) 8,500m/29,000ft above its current levels and where did it go? You're going to have to do a bit better than comet melted ice over american continent. I'll let you do the math of how much water you need to account for but it's a lot. Because god doesn't count either.