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  1. Re:wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because of the fidelity of FM broadcasts in the first place. You have to cut off the high frequencies and smash the rest to a super-load flat line just to get decent sound on the other end.

  2. Re:welfare state inflationary spuidity on Talent War in Silicon Valley Demands High Salary (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of homeless there. They would at least be as well off bring homeless elsewhere - at least their prospects would improve.

  3. Re:Median Salary on Talent War in Silicon Valley Demands High Salary (axios.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That is a huge leap in logic. Inflation is primarily driven by prices on commodities that poor people spend most of their income on. More income at the bottom means more demand for those commodities, driving up prices.

  4. Re:Wait a minute on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That may have been a civil war excuse, but our country was intended to have limited federal government. This is a federation of individual States and commonwealths, who still mostly govern themselves.

  5. Re:Fabbing 10nm hasn't been easy on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    It was really for an idea is performance scale, not literally using the same cores. They absolutely have been working on prototypes even if just as insurance against Intel pricing. The threat of being able to change architectures at the drop of a hat has served then well so far. But an educated guess still makes it likely that they will switch to ARM soon. There have been a lot of outwardly visible pointers.

  6. Re:Good on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if it was AFP. There is a reason Apple favors SMB now.

  7. Re:More things will break on Windows 10 April 2018 Update is Coming On April 30 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Preview my own generated documents before sending them off. Have to make sure of what they look like before they go out to people.

    It's a lot less punishment than using Edge, at the very least.

  8. Re:Good on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure - but a Synology for a single laptop is a bit overkill. While snapshotting would prevent problems for corrupt time machine backups, it was the Time Capsule overheating that was really the problem and so any device but Time Capsule wouldn't need it.

  9. Re:Fabbing 10nm hasn't been easy on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple hasn't released a true performance computer for a while - even their newest Mac Pro fails to keep up with the times.

    The single core Geekbench scores of the Xeon e5 in the current Mac Pro match up not too far off from that of the A10X (with only a TDP of 8W). If Apple did a 10-12 core desktop chip with their A11X, they really could have the performance there.

  10. Re:Fabbing 10nm hasn't been easy on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I have no citation yet (Apple would try not to leak until the press event), but the momentum keeps building. The newest iMac Pro has an A10 Fusion chip for some functions (Macbook Pro runs the touchbar on ARM). Before, I think they were mostly driving that speculation themselves (and saving it as a backup plan) to keep Intel pricing under control. Now that AMD is more competitive, Intel will be looking to its major buyers to keep their profits up. Apple introduced bitcode to the OS X app store in 2015, meaning that for software that has this enabled, they can recompile (and even test) software for the new chip before the announcement without telling developers. On launch day, the app could be in the store on a new architecture without developers even updating it themselves.

  11. Re:Such good access on Genealogy Websites Were Key To Big Break In Golden State Killer Case (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    All the major providers have officially denied having any involvement. They probably did act as consumer - there would be no need to go through official channels with how lax the privacy policies seem to be.

  12. Re:Such good access on Genealogy Websites Were Key To Big Break In Golden State Killer Case (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not like the sequencers can only find DNA in skin cells from your saliva. A small amount of blood or semen mixed with a carrier liquid will probably work just fine.

  13. Re:Here we go again... on Windows 10 April 2018 Update is Coming On April 30 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Security updates generally don't break much. Forced bundling of feature and functionality changes absolutely does. Nobody would be complaining as much if the LTSB edition of Windows was available to everyone.

  14. Re:Fabbing 10nm hasn't been easy on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 0

    Apple is in the middle of a full transition to their own ARM chips. And I doubt there will ever be another Mac mini. It's too much like a real, upgradeable computer.

  15. It's what spread decent broadband speeds actually capable of streaming video - making it possible to have TV without traditional TV service. ADSL/VDSL has OK speeds now for that, but still wouldn't have without cable competition.

    The 74% increase is driven by milking existing customers to cover the subscriber loss, but they're only driving away their remaining customers.

  16. Re:a uniquely great product abandoned on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    They've proven time and again they don't want good products unless they are mass appeal now.

    They already dropped legacy Final Cut Pro (and broke it entirely in High Sierra), have no good Mac Pro line anymore, and even hobbled their Macbook Pro with useless keyboards.

  17. Re:AE is a great Airplay Device with optical out. on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    If they're only acting as a audio receiver/bridge, that won't matter too much. Unless you have audio to stream that's also too large to fit over the optical S/PDIF pipe.

  18. Re:Yea but.... on Windows 10 April 2018 Update is Coming On April 30 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    As someone else pointed out in a previous discussion, almost every file is touched because of the amount of static linking in the OS. Everything gets recompiled and every file changes from top to bottom.

    This newest update pre-copies the files before the reboot and does a folder-swap at reboot and the only waiting is for migrating the user profile data. Just means your computer will be slow for a long time instead of unavailable.

  19. Re:Make towers that look like trees on Old AM Broadcast Towers Get a New Life · · Score: 1

    Today's sermon brought to you by Sprint. GOD, can you hear me now?

    That's Verizon's thing. Sprint will just be advertising how your brand of Christianity is within 1% of the other denominations.

  20. Re:Tower rentals are expensive on Old AM Broadcast Towers Get a New Life · · Score: 1

    HD radio would have solved it, but the licensing for the proprietary codecs is way too high. I've heard HD radio on the AM band. It sounds fairly good - somewhere between analog FM and 128Kbps MP3. Both way better than analog AM.

  21. More things will break on Windows 10 April 2018 Update is Coming On April 30 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh and I get to set my default browser back to Chrome and my preferred PDF reader back to Adobe Reader.

  22. Re:Good on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    A number of routers with USB ports and AFP support are able to do it. Same with many NAS devices. Now that Apple seems to prefer SMB, there are even more options. The only difference is that most of these don't advertise Time Machine service over Bonjour. So you have to manually point Time Machine to the volume after connecting.

  23. Re:Good on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    In my experience, the Time Capsule functionality was very buggy for a long time. There were people with a Time Capsule in their house that I eventually had to tell just to get a USB hard drive and use for Time Machine. Their backups were getting corrupt and refusing to back up. The solution was to delete the entire backup history and set it up from scratch. Each time.

  24. Re:Such good access on Genealogy Websites Were Key To Big Break In Golden State Killer Case (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    They used an ancestry-type DNA service and submitted it as if they were a consumer. These sites match you up with potential relatives already. The government didn't really need anything other than the DNA service's risky privacy policy.

  25. Re:Not so fast! on Genealogy Websites Were Key To Big Break In Golden State Killer Case (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They did at least compare his actual DNA with crime scene DNA. The guy is a loner, prone to sudden outbursts to neighbors. At least he fits some sort of profile rather than being taken in on DNA matching alone. That doesn't mean that other cases will fare so well, but there is a lot of evidence to comb through on this guy so it's likely we'll see some sort of successful proof one way or the other.