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  1. Re:SATA is a good sign for the next mac pro on Apple Finally Updates the iMac With Significantly More Powerful CPU and GPU Options (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How is SATA better? Is it faster? Higher bandwidth? Is it more fault tolerant? No. SATA is not better in performance than PCIe. The only thing you could say is that is isn’t a proprietary as Apple’s PCIe. But you can get 3rd party modules today. Also bear in mind that when Apple used it in the Mac Pro 2013, NVMe wasn’t generally available only putting out a specification in Jan 2013. New Mac Pros might use the NVMe standard.

  2. Re:SATA is a good sign for the next mac pro on Apple Finally Updates the iMac With Significantly More Powerful CPU and GPU Options (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You do understand that for high performance workloads like editing professional video (which is a primary market of a Mac Pro), PCIe SSDs have a huge advantage over SATA SSDs? For external storage I have rarely seen where these pros are using external SATA drives preferring TB drives in the case of a few users to dedicated NAS servers for many users.

  3. Re:SATA is a good sign for the next mac pro on Apple Finally Updates the iMac With Significantly More Powerful CPU and GPU Options (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Why champion for slower storage protocols? SATA is 6 Gbps at best whereas TB2 is 2 channels of 20 Gbps each and USB 3.0 is 10 Gbps. PCIe SSDs are nearly the speed of TB2. For a general purpose PC, that kind of performance doesn’t matter as much as it would a professional editing video which is what a person buying a Mac Pro would do.

  4. Re:Finally a board with some RAM on NVIDIA's $99 Jetson Nano is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The purpose varies greatly as does the capability. On the low end of both price and capability are the Rasperry Pi models. The most expensive board there is about $35 US. The cheapest is around $10. They make great little kits for things like sensors boxes and retro gaming. Obviously this NVIDIA board is far more powerful and far more expensive.

  5. Re:Big government is back to slow your net on House Democrats Plan April Vote On Net Neutrality Bill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Under Pai, the FCC proposed to downgrade the meaning of broadband to 10 MB up / 1 MB down until strong opposition to keep it at 25 / 3. While everyone may not like what the FCC did under Wheeler increased it from 4 / 1 and his predecessor increased that from 200 K / 20 K.

  6. Re:I used to be onboard with Net Neutrality on House Democrats Plan April Vote On Net Neutrality Bill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Who gets to decide what is censorship when it comes to a private company? Do you get to decide? Censorship really applies to the government in that the government can't decide what you can and cannot say.

  7. Re:I used to be onboard with Net Neutrality on House Democrats Plan April Vote On Net Neutrality Bill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    But what are you really advocating? You're advocating that you get decide what a private company allows or does not allow under the guise of free speech.

  8. Re:Trust me, it's better this way on House Democrats Plan April Vote On Net Neutrality Bill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Then I got to experience the Democrats controlling both branches of Congress under Bush1, Clinton, and Obama; and the Republicans controlling both branches under Clinton, Bush2, and Trump. Trust me, it's better when control is split.

    Democrats never had both branches at any time under Clinton. For a brief period the Democrats had the Senate under Clinton but never had the House.

  9. Re:Welcome sham voting season on House Democrats Plan April Vote On Net Neutrality Bill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Would be nice if everyone would try to work together to solve real problems.

    What is there to work out? Pai refuses to do what his position mandates is his job. By now he's been caught lying about the NN "DDOS" attacks. Congress has oversight over the FCC, but up until the Democrats took control of the House have been unwilling to do anything about Pai and the FCC.

  10. Re:Competition is Good! on NVIDIA's Ray Tracing Tech Will Soon Run On Older GTX Cards (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is that right now, ray tracing on the RTX cards substantially hurts performance and is not playable on older GTX cards. This feature doesn’t make the NVidia cards that favorable.

  11. Re:Very Impressed - this woman has done her homewo on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So then the policies that AOC are advocating are exactly the same as the Scandinavian model which you don’t consider socialist?

  12. So you’re admitting that you’re wrong about AOC then?

  13. Re:Very Impressed - this woman has done her homewo on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are you refusing to answer a simple question? Is it because you refuse to admit your bias in that it’s only “socialist” when you want to criticize someone else but not “socialist” when it’s convenient for you. It’s the same hypocrisy I see when conservatives went after Clinton for an extramarital affair and at the same time tell everyone that it’s a personal matter when Trump does the same thing.

  14. Re:Wouldnâ(TM)t they have records? on Wells Fargo Sued By 63-Year-Old Pastor They Wrongfully Accused of Forging Checks (nj.com) · · Score: 2

    The article says that the Wells Fargo security team leader could not link exact transactions with ATM time stamps which I feel is bogus. Maybe the particular employee could not but if a bank can’t do that then there is a serious deficiency in their records. His claim was that he used the ATM but it was to deposit checks into his own account. The crime was forged checks were being deposited to a different account.

  15. Re:Very Impressed - this woman has done her homewo on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That wasn’t a yes or no answer. Do you can her idea socialist? Do you correct others if you don’t consider them socialist?

  16. Re:"Sponsored by Apple" "can sometimes spot" on Massive Study Finds Apple Watch Can Detect Undiagnosed Heart Rhythm Problems (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple sponsored the stddy. They did not do the study. You are free competing study but I doubt you would.

  17. Re:"Sponsored by Apple" "can sometimes spot" on Massive Study Finds Apple Watch Can Detect Undiagnosed Heart Rhythm Problems (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I know many smart watches have similar functionality. Any other company sponsoring a study like this should be held to same interest and skepticism. If properly implemented, smart watches could provide additional benefits as health monitors.

  18. Re: "Sponsored by Apple" "can sometimes spot" on Massive Study Finds Apple Watch Can Detect Undiagnosed Heart Rhythm Problems (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    No they are guaranteed to give test results not results of prognoses. A heartbeat monitor will be guaranteed to measure every heartbeat of a patient for months, years without failing.

  19. Re:"Sponsored by Apple" "can sometimes spot" on Massive Study Finds Apple Watch Can Detect Undiagnosed Heart Rhythm Problems (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It could be used to spot problems; however, has Garmin or Pebble or any other consumer device like this been used like this before? I would guess not as the Smart Watch is a new class of consumer devices.

  20. Re:"Sponsored by Apple" "can sometimes spot" on Massive Study Finds Apple Watch Can Detect Undiagnosed Heart Rhythm Problems (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That’s not what he’s saying. The Apple Watch has a heartbeat monitor. As a non-medical device, it probably can measure heartbeats within reasonable accuracy for consumers. When judged to medical device standards, it might not be as good. What the study says is that if you allow it to record data over a long period of time, it might be able to spot certain health problems. But don’t use its data alone before scheduling surgeries. The function is there only to alert to possible problems that more extensive medical tests can verify.

  21. Re:"Sponsored by Apple" "can sometimes spot" on Massive Study Finds Apple Watch Can Detect Undiagnosed Heart Rhythm Problems (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because it’s not a medical device that is designed and guaranteed to spot that specific set of problems. So is your objection that the study is being accurate in its reporting?

  22. Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has little understandi on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No she never did. She cited scientific studies that the world might have only 12 years to do something about climate change. Big difference.

  23. Re:Very Impressed - this woman has done her homewo on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So when AOC proposes Universal Healthcade and Free Education based on the models these countries have, you don’t call her ideas socialist? Do you point it out to others? Or are they only socialist when she proposes them?

  24. Re:You do understand on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You just linked something the pointed to pure socialist countries while ignoring my point completely. Did you even read my sentences?

  25. Re:Very Impressed - this woman has done her homewo on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    So when people call healthcare and free education ideas socialist of AOC, do you correct them and explain that these countries have them too. Or do you join them?