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Half of new Apple's US hires in 2018 lacked 4-year college degrees, Cook says
danox said:I work as a designer of fire sprinkler systems for commercial buildings pays very well, four degree no, the four year schools doesn't deem it worthwhile to teach it all on the job training, all you need is Autocad, Revit, Navis, and Bluebeam ability to get in. The same is true for hvac, Plumbing, and electrical detailers (note the jobs aren't exactly the same knowledge wise but are similar in the fact that four schools can't be bothered to teach it). Many other jobs are the same. In programing if you start early jr. high school by time you get out of high school (if you get good at it) you can get work almost anywhere where there is a niche (shortage of talent). Fire Sprinkler Design is such a field.Of course Universities don't teach trades. Everything you listed is a trade skill. Learning programming is a trade skill. Getting educated in Engineering say Mechanical or Computer Science you go way beyond ``Autocad and assembly designing an HVAC system,'' to writing data structures, etc. You want to do more than a trade or a service skill coder you most certainly need an applied sciences field degree.There is a reason the creator of Clang has a Ph.D., in Computer Science, the designer of a Boeing 787 dreamliner [not the CAD tech] but the engineers who stress test the designs with FEA/CFD, etc., all have B.S. or greater in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.Tim Cook is dead wrong on this ``everyone in K-12 needs some programming background.''A K-12 student is far better off being fluent in 3 or more Human Written/Spoken Languages.
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Antelope ships USB-C Edge Go mic with bundled emulation tools
BUS-POWERED
Fully powered by your computer’s USB port, the Edge Go does not require 48V phantom power to function. Forget about preamps, mixers, and power supplies – just plug-in and start recording.Which means it's an over priced POS.For $1695 I get a war chest of power and professional studio sound here:And if I'm recording professionally I pick up an actual Focusrite Clarett 8Pre USB.I pay more and I get the features of a full studio for a grand cost of $2800.I've got the entire Band or Jazz Ensemble mic'd up and live.But by all means buy a Podcast mic for $1595.
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Intel officials believe that ARM Macs could come as soon as 2020
FCP X and LP X have very large user bases. You don't know shit about either if you think they are insignificant revenue streams. Least you forget, FCP X and LP X are the two highest grossing apps in the AppStore for the respective categories. Each release FCP X keeps accelerating its professional user base. LP X is the gold standard for DAWs.lorin schultz said:
Others won't die, they'll just quit bothering to make Mac versions of their products. Users will just switch to Windows.qwwera said:The biggest companies will. Above Autodesk Absolutely. Others may die. But then there is opportunity with newer players. All the iPad prosumer companies can now go full balls. It’s a win for everyone.
Suddenly being presented with a new and almost certainly less capable platform to learn and, most importantly, integrate into a workflow with other contributors, is neither a "win" for me nor a gamble on which I'm willing to bet my livelihood.
Nobody.qwwera said:who uses Final Cut Pro
Almost nobody. That's a pity because it's a good tool, but the reality is I haven't been sent a project cut on Final Cut in at least five years, maybe longer. I don't know why. My broadcast clients are still using Avid, but my corporate and production company clients are all using Premiere. It seems weird to me, but also cautionary: Big changes may lead to big gains, but if not managed VERY carefully they can also kill you.qwwera said:who uses Final Cut X.
Remember also that what may seem like an obscure, unnecessary feature to someone operating at a basic level may be an absolute, deal-breaker, essential requirement for a higher-end facility or operator. It's not as easy as just switching from one application to another. Take away a particular workflow function and dominos start falling all over the place -- asset interchange, collaboration tools, approval systems, delivery streams, integration procedures, versioning management -- any of which can cripple an entire team if not supported properly. If you think anyone is going to risk that kind of investment on a new, unproven, repurposed from iOS app, you're either very cutely naive or certifiably insane!
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Intel officials believe that ARM Macs could come as soon as 2020
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How does this statement make any sense? What does AMD have to do with Apple planning to switch to their own ARM chips, AMD using x86/AMD64?mdriftmeyer said:BS. If it were coming to MacOS then AMD Threadripper and Ryzen would already be here.It means Intel is deflecting. Apple needs Thunderbolt, period. It's the only reason they've stuck with Intel after Zen came out. Intel has ZERO threat of ARM supplanting them on the desktop and laptop, never mind the Data Center. They have every concern of AMD and future generations using their superior products for LESS COST.Apple was ecstatic when Intel announced Thunderbolt would be open sourced. Intel has dragged its feet for nearly 2 years since the announcement and it is still not royalty free and released.So there is no rational basis for Apple to invest heavily into augmenting their ARM designs for a workstation [Mac Pro], never mind the desktop/laptop [And no iOS is fast because it is very limited in multi-user/multithreaded, multi-core based processing that will be a must on macOS. There are literally hundreds to thousands of processess/threads that are and can be running inside OS X that ARM won't ever supplant what is coming down the pike.Basic threads and processes on my Macbook Pro 13: 1391 threads, 346 processes. The ARM would get slammed with that and that is nothing when pushing an iMac Pro or Mac Pro.If you think Apple is going to screw over developers with ARM with the Mac Pro you're effing nuts.Intel bound Apple when Apple [and as a former NeXT/Apple Engineer I was there] needed a fusion of legitimacy, especially when IBM crapped the bed. At NeXT we made a Quad FAT architecture for the OS because Motorola fucked us over more times than you can imagine on their designs. HP did the same thing. The HP PA-RISC ran circles around x86 at the time. HP did nothing to follow through.
Sun was just a clusterfuck of stupid with regards to the OpenStep initiative. Sun wanted all revenues on the Hardware and to force us to cut the cost of OpenStep licensing. So people were ``shocked'' that didn't take off? Please.ARM dictates designs. Apple modifies but within those design specs.You keep believing those pissant benchmarks the mobile world shows as performance figures. Throw 500 processes and 2000 threads at an iPhone and it crashes. There is a reason Apple has very limited subsets of functionality tuned around the tightly coupled hardware constraints.
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Pro audio glitch with T2-equipped Macs associated with USB 2.0 connections
If you're a professional musician you sure as hell won't scoff at making sure your bus interfaces are being saturated. Sorry, but typical home studios are > $5k in equipment. Most quality Audio Interfaces are already USB-C ready 3.1 interfaces with USB-C to USB-A and USB-C to USB-C cables included. Example: Focusrite Clarett Lines. If you're a professional, the odds of spending < $600 on an Audio Interface for live performances seems non-existent.
