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  • Compared: AirPods Max vs AirPods Max with USB-C

    This whole article could be trimmed down to just "All that changed was the USB-C port and the new color options."

    But for a deep woke company it's all about colors and not about specs. And we see this we this old AirPods Max and the AppleWatch Ultra as well.
    You see? We don’t believe that you are anti-woke, so here’s a suggestion.
    Buy a few pairs in “woke” colors (orange, purple), take them out in your yard, shoot them up with your favorite AR-15, post the video and prove your “anti-woke” credentials.   /s
    charlesnwatto_cobraMplsPmacgui
  • Compared: AirPods Max vs AirPods Max with USB-C

    Does anyone have a BOM on these? IMO $399 would’ve been more reasonable.

    watto_cobra
  • FineWoven won't be missed, but it should be remembered

    mbmoore said:
    FineWoven should be remembered, alright. It should be remembered as another boondoggle by Apple—leather has been used by mankind since the beginning of time and likely for a long time to come. It doesn’t make Apple a moral cut above everyone else for ending its use of leather—it just cost them a lot of money. So did the “100% green/renewable energy” (which isn’t really green OR renewable) initiative. It doesn’t seem to matter much right now, but if Apple continues such practices, they will lose their place as a stock market leader. A company has to stay lean and mean in any business to survive, and Apple isn’t doing so. I certainly don’t have a problem with a company having moral standards, particularly if they aren’t contrived ones, but empty calorie morals will end up bankrupting them.
    it just cost them a lot of money
    How so? Do you have any information that we don't?

    So did the “100% green/renewable energy” (which isn’t really green OR renewable) initiative
    Again, how is that costing them money? While a lot of that stuff may be "marketing", the idea is still correct and it is where everyone should be headed.

    but if Apple continues such practices, they will lose their place as a stock market leader.
    Apple has lost (to MS) and regained it "leader" position. None of it however having to do with "green" practices.

    but empty calorie morals will end up bankrupting them.
    We're a looooong way from that. Apple has steadily built an eco system of devices and services, that have solidified its position as market leader.
    Minor missteps like  "Fine woven" cases, isn't even a blip on the radar for companies of that size.    


    watto_cobra
  • Massive iPhone array will replace English Premiere League's awful video referee tech

    leehamm said:
    VAR worked well in European games and internationals. It is not the tech that's faulty in England. It's the officials. There is enough inconsistency in the stats to show bias from officials. The poor view of the video cameras and parallax and perspective problems made this worse, as fans never got an official explanation for a given decision until several days later.

    That said, I am interested to see how this works. Goal-line tech [which. uses a different system] has worked well for years but offside can occur anywhere in a half of the field, so positioning is rather important.
    I remember VAR being awkward the first season they used it but got refined in subsequent seasons.
    As far as offsides, which is the topic of this article, VAR has been pretty effective.
    This technology being discussed, will just add more data points thus, in theory, making it more accurate.
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  • Cherry-picked data claims Apple is beating Samsung in Europe

    DAalseth said:

    “There are lies, damned lies and statistics.”

    Mark Twain

    You know, it’s funny. I was always good at math. Arithmetic, algebra, geometry I aced. Calculus was a bit of a struggle, but I ended up with Bs. But the two times I studied statistics it was like hitting a wall. Oh I passed, because they asked “calculate the standard deviation of these numbers” and that sort of thing. I could do the operations just fine. But as far as what they meant, I don’t have a clue. Ok, average is fine, but beyond that it’s all hand waving and gibberish to me. 
    I was and still am terrible at math, but what I did find funny was my statistics class teacher said you can prove anything if you’re good at statistics. It’s just an art of selling small bits of bullshit inside what seems to be a correct analysis. 
    Statistics come up with wrong conclusions when the statistician collects the data wrongly.
    Example:  
    We want to find what percentage of the population of our local town are atheists.
    We take a sample of people near the centre of town and come up with the answer only 5%. 
    Well a good statistician will ask certain questions. How was the sample chosen? Was it on a Sunday after mass outside the church near the town square?
    The above is an example of a biased sample.

    In mathematics there many such tricks, that if one isn’t paying attention, can lead to incorrect results.
    I can prove that 0 = 2 starting with the simple and true equation in trigonometry of  (sinx)^2 + (cosx)^2 = 1  
    watto_cobra