The Mac Pro using the 12 core Xeon is based on Ivy bridge, that is quiet old. There has been Haswell, Broadwell, and now Skylake since it came out. The Wifi doesnt support N just AC. Only 1 Xeon CPU. Only 64 gigs of memory when you can buy 64 gigs for a desktop now cheap. And they still use the AMD FirePro D700 for the gfx card is bad. Its about the speed of a 980, when nvidia 1080's are out.
They gave up on power users, they gave up on power laptops. If you are an adobe photoshop user and you need speed, you migrated to windows awhile ago.
One of the things I've noticed is the framing of the question can mean multiple things with multiple interpretations.
Take, Did Canada fight in Vietnam vs Did Canada have troops in Vietnam.
Canada did not have combat troops in Vietnam, but Canada did have volunteers that did fight in Vietnam.
Also, Canada did have Medical support troops units in Vietnam. So technically Canada didn't fight the Vietnam war is accurate, but not completely true.
So you can see, its way more complicated and nuanced than "did x do y" when searching google, wikipedia, etc.
And this is how biased fact checking sites call someone a liar while claiming another is telling the truth, on the same subject, but how they make the statement. If you give X money, and X gives Y Money, and Y pays terrorists, did you commit the terrorism by giving money to X? You didnt know Y paid terrorists. And we didnt take into account, morals, laws or other aspects that could make you guilty in some circumstances...
Life isn't binary, and treating interaction as a binary result, with a binary yes/no results, isn't fully accurate in analog experience. This is how Bias changes binary conversation into news, when subjects are more granular than that.
I like the fake IMAX screen at the local theater, but parking is always bad, line to get in, line to get expensive food and soda, packed seatting, might not get a good seat, always some kids talking during the movie, a few people checking cell phones.
Or I can wait, buy the blueray, watch on my theater, and pause it, make my own food,
Here in washington state, many rural areas only have dialup, because they don't have the money to run high speed microwave to the small towns. Some islands on the west coast have many retired millionaires, so they have high speed due to point to point microwave.
The small town my family is in, has a small point to point microwave, that Verzion and comcast rents off a small ISP, so they can bring in service. 80 homes have comcast, but only the town library has a 5meg wifi for the town. People drive up just to check mail. Verizon coverage is helpful, but gsm has no coverage.
They don't sell sat internet in Washington state due to over subscribing. Everyone waiting for the new viasat 2 to launch (already delayed) till Q1 2017, and viasat 3, so rural areas in the US can get high speed (but limited) internet.
4k looks night and day different on a 1080p monitor compared to a normal 1080p blueray. When downsampled, the picture looks more detailed.
There are some 4k nature demos on youtube, using chrome you can test multiple resolutions, 4k/2k/1080 on your monitor and test for yourself the difference. 4k sampled down, I can see higher detail in the water compared to a 2k resampled. Check out the Nature Relaxation channel to check out its demo videos, they are watermarked, but make great test videos.
I saw a video blog that said the reason that 4k on a 1080p looks so well, is the 4 pixel blocks downsampled are no longer sharing chroma, but each pixel is independent, so the higher detail. (I'm recalling from memory, so forgive me if I'm wrong).
I have a 2560x1400, and 4k looks great even it. So people who say you can see a difference, really need to try some of those 4k youtube videos on chrome.
Oracle tried to do this when I was ATT Wireless, we had a site license for oracle. When we ran a contact address book with multiple users, oracle tried to make us pay per server, then tried pay per user for millions of users. Oracle kept calling me in operations to try to get me to pay, I passed it onto legal and they smacked the shit outta them.
We had a great deal, 5 or so million a year for an unlimited license, and you can believe me, everywhere a database was needed, we ran mostly oracle.
They do a fair bit of herding people and hiding content. First they determine a persons political status, then they only show you stories based on your favorites, while avoiding triggering stories. They limit/censor what posts show up in your feeds. They have multiple lawsuits on leaving hate groups that they agree with, anti-Israel, gun groups, conservative media. Its not even a guess, its already been verified by multiple media outlets.
Everyone knows they jumped the shark, as a discussion medium it sucks.
Real drama is in the talk pages. Check ones like how dangerous pit bulls and whether its owners vs breeds, gamergate, mens rights, any politician, politics, political view, etc.
Basically anything with a point of view, will slant to the left, that's because more editors are of leftish ideology, and wikipedia staff are mostly leftist.
The article itself says it has a slight leaning left, what is "slight" in numbers, 10%, 20%?
A friend at a local seattle community college received a verizon hotspot. Seems the college gave wifi units to every student, with no data caps. Not sure what the agreement was, or how it was included with the student fees, but all the students received them. unlimited verizon wifi hotspots (wow!)
We pay over 150 bux a month for 15gigs on verizon for ours, and these students had unlimited access. Crazy. As theres no high speed data in the rural areas of Washington state, and sat is over subscribed. Waiting or Viasat 2 and 3 to launch, so we can get it.
Rural areas cant handle self driving cars. Rural counties cant afford paved roads, they cant afford to plow or grade dirt and gravel roads. Everyone keeps talking about self driving cars, but that doesnt work I cant see self driving cars for a long time, the practical, the cost, legal areas, and when people drive trucks for decades, its going to be awhile. In the cities, sure, why not. Outside the city, we dont even have Internet except dialup in many places.
Milk was ok, but it used Slack as its back end. Milk was the bridge of radio playing that Spotify/Google needs. Pandora would be the closet to it. Even SirrusXM's streaming app is very close to Milk, and includes nice advanced tuning features. (popular vs ecliptic)
So we have a mix of music service that really are mashup or good in certain areas, discovery (slack/pandora), playlists (google/spotify), buying (amazon/google/itunes), podcasts (stitch/itunes/spotify is trying add this), tracking songs (Last.fm).
Slack was first to offer off network caching which was great, but when spotify offered this, I dumped slack and went Spotify full time. I dropped Pandora for slack also due to better mobile offering.
So now, I'm down to Spotify, Last.fm (paid), and amazon for buying my music. Google gave me Google Music for free because I bought Youtube Red (no commercials), Amazon gave me free Amazon music with Prime, but its interface is horrible, even for buying. Google music design is horrid.
Spotify runs well on my linux laptop, android phone, and windows PC, lists are synced. Now if they could add DFX into the app for linux/android, I'd be in paradise, the fidelity option is a good start.
Still feels like the dark ages. I had a co-worker try to start a multi app suite with all the different features including identification (like shazam/musicID), but it was too early in the market during the days of rhapsody.
Wouldnt say we are even close to being perfect in the music realm. There is so much good music on Spotify, but it needs an translations for non-english band names and music. Also really needs better ways to find non-american music. Theres so much out there, and they keep us in a tiny walled garden.
Oh, and spotify allows you to follow distribution labels, which is AWESOME if you follow great producers. But that could be way easier to use.
I have a note 4 with 1440 x 2560 pixels (~518 ppi pixel density) and I see the pixels when using my VR headset when watching movies. 1280×1440 per eye sounds better than current stand alone VR headsets, but you can still see pixels.
And yet, Clinton stole 16.5 million in tax money (on this 1 project alone) and never charged. The cases of fraud stack up, but nobody will prosecute her. Thats the downfall of the USA, political elite that are criminals and get away with it.
Instead of forcing FB's idea of what I can see, let me select my own views. How about these defaults, "friends", "family", "likes", "groups", "politics" and let me create other groups that include closed groups (which is currently not allowed). Its a form of censorship that FB pushes.
I miss the days of newsgroups, select the group, easy to read. Also why I like reddit, just pick what I want.
I remember everyone saying, facebook wont be around in 10 years, something better will come along. I'm still waiting, because facebook really does have the most horrible interface.
Many of my favorite podcasts are now on sound cloud, so they do seem to be offering some good deals to get them to migrate to their service.
Facebook and YT have been removing peoples live streaming due to copyright strikes for fair use complains. Lucky sound cloud must deal with them differently, because I can normally find them on there.
Might want to re-read what I read, NPR use to be have integrity, but they started to broadcast editorial shows that concentrate on hit pieces and is not as highly impartial news services anymore. The Wall Street Journal is rated highest between liberals and conservatives above NPR, BBC is also higher then NPR on equal trust.
Main point, NPR is now using bias to sell programming and commercials. Thats not a troll comment, its just pointing out fact.
NPR broadcasts the thom hartman show, which is an attack show against conservatives. He doesn't talk about issues, he talks about the evil republicans.
The last bastion of real reporting NPR is gone, its now editorial shows that sells commercials.
Since most city/state and federal departments only use two social networking sites, twitter for instant communications and facebook for regular updates, we do indeed have a monopoly in action. If I want local police updates I have to use twitter, if I want the local police calendar I have to use Facebook Calendar. Same goes for state department of transportation, fire departments, on and on, etc. When we had the fires here, guess where the updates got published, Facebook and twitter, then the gov webpages 24-48 hours later.
Do we want facebook and twitter to be the de-facto monopoly for news updates for the government?
The whole "other sites exist" argument doesn't matter when citizens dont have a choice, thats the monopoly part.
I've seen rules used to push whatever agenda someone has on wikipedia. Couple of my favorites, only internet accessible verification of a published article is allowed as fact. So that time, when an author tries to correct a "theory" someone else has on his own book, he isn't an authority. Even if he has a website of his own with verification. Also excludes the 70's and 80's topical stories, since many aired on TV and only made a few news articles. So we have no historically available news sites to back it up, so it never happened!
My favorite, is the common beliefs override actual facts. A amateur historian investigated common misinformed facts and would update them, only to keep having them removed. One example, Canada had no troops in Vietnam. But they did in fact have medical units and a CA gov website listing service and medals for serving in Vietnam. Proof doesn't over come biased beliefs of many editors.
What keeps wikipedia back is only 1 viewpoint is allowed, and its voted on. Voting doesn't mean something is true, just that its popular.
Perceived?! When they vote "No Award" so to not give an award to someone based on their views, that is text book bias.
The hugos have been a mix of political correctness in the 5+ years. Why the fuck has a left wing political view have need to be pushed in an awards meant for best scifi/fantasy... Why do they have to censor what we read to not offend someone. This PC crap has been getting out of hand since they gave a Nobel peace prize to someone because of his lefty party affiliation and not his works.
Cops have normally 2 phones, laptop and a radio. They will be looking up information while driving, calling other officers about issues and incidents, and talking on the radio. They are multitasking WAY too much in the car.
The average person will most likely use bluetooth or have a car read texts now, so the issue is going away. But not for police.
So you want to give a felony to citizen drivers but allow cops to text. Thats interesting.
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The Mac Pro using the 12 core Xeon is based on Ivy bridge, that is quiet old. There has been Haswell, Broadwell, and now Skylake since it came out. The Wifi doesnt support N just AC. Only 1 Xeon CPU. Only 64 gigs of memory when you can buy 64 gigs for a desktop now cheap. And they still use the AMD FirePro D700 for the gfx card is bad. Its about the speed of a 980, when nvidia 1080's are out.
They gave up on power users, they gave up on power laptops. If you are an adobe photoshop user and you need speed, you migrated to windows awhile ago.
One of the things I've noticed is the framing of the question can mean multiple things with multiple interpretations.
Take, Did Canada fight in Vietnam vs Did Canada have troops in Vietnam.
Canada did not have combat troops in Vietnam, but Canada did have volunteers that did fight in Vietnam.
Also, Canada did have Medical support troops units in Vietnam. So technically Canada didn't fight the Vietnam war is accurate, but not completely true.
So you can see, its way more complicated and nuanced than "did x do y" when searching google, wikipedia, etc.
And this is how biased fact checking sites call someone a liar while claiming another is telling the truth, on the same subject, but how they make the statement.
If you give X money, and X gives Y Money, and Y pays terrorists, did you commit the terrorism by giving money to X? You didnt know Y paid terrorists. And we didnt take into account, morals, laws or other aspects that could make you guilty in some circumstances...
Life isn't binary, and treating interaction as a binary result, with a binary yes/no results, isn't fully accurate in analog experience. This is how Bias changes binary conversation into news, when subjects are more granular than that.
"Traffic laws are for humans" - Uber
Its getting to be like Death Race 2000 out there, watch out humans.
Assange was on Hannity today, and again, said the leaks did not come from Russia.
Julian Assange Speaks to Hannity, Says That Russian Gov’t Was Not His Source
I like the fake IMAX screen at the local theater, but parking is always bad, line to get in, line to get expensive food and soda, packed seatting, might not get a good seat, always some kids talking during the movie, a few people checking cell phones.
Or I can wait, buy the blueray, watch on my theater, and pause it, make my own food,
Older I get, less hassle I want to deal with.
Here in washington state, many rural areas only have dialup, because they don't have the money to run high speed microwave to the small towns. Some islands on the west coast have many retired millionaires, so they have high speed due to point to point microwave.
The small town my family is in, has a small point to point microwave, that Verzion and comcast rents off a small ISP, so they can bring in service. 80 homes have comcast, but only the town library has a 5meg wifi for the town. People drive up just to check mail. Verizon coverage is helpful, but gsm has no coverage.
They don't sell sat internet in Washington state due to over subscribing. Everyone waiting for the new viasat 2 to launch (already delayed) till Q1 2017, and viasat 3, so rural areas in the US can get high speed (but limited) internet.
4k looks night and day different on a 1080p monitor compared to a normal 1080p blueray. When downsampled, the picture looks more detailed.
There are some 4k nature demos on youtube, using chrome you can test multiple resolutions, 4k/2k/1080 on your monitor and test for yourself the difference.
4k sampled down, I can see higher detail in the water compared to a 2k resampled. Check out the Nature Relaxation channel to check out its demo videos, they are watermarked, but make great test videos.
I saw a video blog that said the reason that 4k on a 1080p looks so well, is the 4 pixel blocks downsampled are no longer sharing chroma, but each pixel is independent, so the higher detail. (I'm recalling from memory, so forgive me if I'm wrong).
I have a 2560x1400, and 4k looks great even it. So people who say you can see a difference, really need to try some of those 4k youtube videos on chrome.
Oracle tried to do this when I was ATT Wireless, we had a site license for oracle. When we ran a contact address book with multiple users, oracle tried to make us pay per server, then tried pay per user for millions of users. Oracle kept calling me in operations to try to get me to pay, I passed it onto legal and they smacked the shit outta them.
We had a great deal, 5 or so million a year for an unlimited license, and you can believe me, everywhere a database was needed, we ran mostly oracle.
(This was 10+ years ago, so Who knows now)
They do a fair bit of herding people and hiding content. First they determine a persons political status, then they only show you stories based on your favorites, while avoiding triggering stories. They limit/censor what posts show up in your feeds. They have multiple lawsuits on leaving hate groups that they agree with, anti-Israel, gun groups, conservative media. Its not even a guess, its already been verified by multiple media outlets.
Everyone knows they jumped the shark, as a discussion medium it sucks.
Real drama is in the talk pages. Check ones like how dangerous pit bulls and whether its owners vs breeds, gamergate, mens rights, any politician, politics, political view, etc.
Basically anything with a point of view, will slant to the left, that's because more editors are of leftish ideology, and wikipedia staff are mostly leftist.
The article itself says it has a slight leaning left, what is "slight" in numbers, 10%, 20%?
A friend at a local seattle community college received a verizon hotspot. Seems the college gave wifi units to every student, with no data caps. Not sure what the agreement was, or how it was included with the student fees, but all the students received them. unlimited verizon wifi hotspots (wow!)
We pay over 150 bux a month for 15gigs on verizon for ours, and these students had unlimited access. Crazy. As theres no high speed data in the rural areas of Washington state, and sat is over subscribed. Waiting or Viasat 2 and 3 to launch, so we can get it.
Rural areas cant handle self driving cars. Rural counties cant afford paved roads, they cant afford to plow or grade dirt and gravel roads. Everyone keeps talking about self driving cars, but that doesnt work I cant see self driving cars for a long time, the practical, the cost, legal areas, and when people drive trucks for decades, its going to be awhile. In the cities, sure, why not. Outside the city, we dont even have Internet except dialup in many places.
Milk was ok, but it used Slack as its back end. Milk was the bridge of radio playing that Spotify/Google needs. Pandora would be the closet to it. Even SirrusXM's streaming app is very close to Milk, and includes nice advanced tuning features. (popular vs ecliptic)
So we have a mix of music service that really are mashup or good in certain areas, discovery (slack/pandora), playlists (google/spotify), buying (amazon/google/itunes), podcasts (stitch/itunes/spotify is trying add this), tracking songs (Last.fm).
Slack was first to offer off network caching which was great, but when spotify offered this, I dumped slack and went Spotify full time. I dropped Pandora for slack also due to better mobile offering.
So now, I'm down to Spotify, Last.fm (paid), and amazon for buying my music. Google gave me Google Music for free because I bought Youtube Red (no commercials), Amazon gave me free Amazon music with Prime, but its interface is horrible, even for buying. Google music design is horrid.
Spotify runs well on my linux laptop, android phone, and windows PC, lists are synced. Now if they could add DFX into the app for linux/android, I'd be in paradise, the fidelity option is a good start.
Still feels like the dark ages. I had a co-worker try to start a multi app suite with all the different features including identification (like shazam/musicID), but it was too early in the market during the days of rhapsody.
Wouldnt say we are even close to being perfect in the music realm. There is so much good music on Spotify, but it needs an translations for non-english band names and music. Also really needs better ways to find non-american music. Theres so much out there, and they keep us in a tiny walled garden.
Oh, and spotify allows you to follow distribution labels, which is AWESOME if you follow great producers. But that could be way easier to use.
I have a note 4 with 1440 x 2560 pixels (~518 ppi pixel density) and I see the pixels when using my VR headset when watching movies. 1280×1440 per eye sounds better than current stand alone VR headsets, but you can still see pixels.
And yet, Clinton stole 16.5 million in tax money (on this 1 project alone) and never charged. The cases of fraud stack up, but nobody will prosecute her. Thats the downfall of the USA, political elite that are criminals and get away with it.
Instead of forcing FB's idea of what I can see, let me select my own views. How about these defaults, "friends", "family", "likes", "groups", "politics" and let me create other groups that include closed groups (which is currently not allowed). Its a form of censorship that FB pushes.
I miss the days of newsgroups, select the group, easy to read. Also why I like reddit, just pick what I want.
I remember everyone saying, facebook wont be around in 10 years, something better will come along. I'm still waiting, because facebook really does have the most horrible interface.
Many of my favorite podcasts are now on sound cloud, so they do seem to be offering some good deals to get them to migrate to their service.
Facebook and YT have been removing peoples live streaming due to copyright strikes for fair use complains. Lucky sound cloud must deal with them differently, because I can normally find them on there.
Saw this video today, demonstrating google censoring their searches.
Does indeed look valid.
Might want to re-read what I read, NPR use to be have integrity, but they started to broadcast editorial shows that concentrate on hit pieces and is not as highly impartial news services anymore. The Wall Street Journal is rated highest between liberals and conservatives above NPR, BBC is also higher then NPR on equal trust.
Main point, NPR is now using bias to sell programming and commercials. Thats not a troll comment, its just pointing out fact.
NPR broadcasts the thom hartman show, which is an attack show against conservatives. He doesn't talk about issues, he talks about the evil republicans.
The last bastion of real reporting NPR is gone, its now editorial shows that sells commercials.
Since most city/state and federal departments only use two social networking sites, twitter for instant communications and facebook for regular updates, we do indeed have a monopoly in action. If I want local police updates I have to use twitter, if I want the local police calendar I have to use Facebook Calendar. Same goes for state department of transportation, fire departments, on and on, etc. When we had the fires here, guess where the updates got published, Facebook and twitter, then the gov webpages 24-48 hours later.
Do we want facebook and twitter to be the de-facto monopoly for news updates for the government?
The whole "other sites exist" argument doesn't matter when citizens dont have a choice, thats the monopoly part.
Finally enough bandwidth for a Steam sale!
I've seen rules used to push whatever agenda someone has on wikipedia. Couple of my favorites, only internet accessible verification of a published article is allowed as fact. So that time, when an author tries to correct a "theory" someone else has on his own book, he isn't an authority. Even if he has a website of his own with verification. Also excludes the 70's and 80's topical stories, since many aired on TV and only made a few news articles. So we have no historically available news sites to back it up, so it never happened!
My favorite, is the common beliefs override actual facts. A amateur historian investigated common misinformed facts and would update them, only to keep having them removed. One example, Canada had no troops in Vietnam. But they did in fact have medical units and a CA gov website listing service and medals for serving in Vietnam. Proof doesn't over come biased beliefs of many editors.
What keeps wikipedia back is only 1 viewpoint is allowed, and its voted on. Voting doesn't mean something is true, just that its popular.
Perceived?! When they vote "No Award" so to not give an award to someone based on their views, that is text book bias.
The hugos have been a mix of political correctness in the 5+ years. Why the fuck has a left wing political view have need to be pushed in an awards meant for best scifi/fantasy... Why do they have to censor what we read to not offend someone. This PC crap has been getting out of hand since they gave a Nobel peace prize to someone because of his lefty party affiliation and not his works.
Cops have normally 2 phones, laptop and a radio. They will be looking up information while driving, calling other officers about issues and incidents, and talking on the radio. They are multitasking WAY too much in the car.
The average person will most likely use bluetooth or have a car read texts now, so the issue is going away. But not for police.
So you want to give a felony to citizen drivers but allow cops to text. Thats interesting.