22july2013

I don't see any connection between Vasakronan, a private company, and the city of Stockholm. So the offer from Vasakronan seems to have had no official backing. I also don't understand who are the "corporate executives" mentioned in this story. Does that refer to Apple? I couldn't figure out who those corporate reps were from reading the links. Unclear story. Regardless, I see no reason to support Apple in this story - the city can refuse to rezone if it wants. If Apple bought the property before it was zoned commercial that's Apple's problem. The people of Sweden hated Abba during its heydey too, so no real surprise for a culture of rejection.

Neither Windows not macOS are Real Time operating systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_operating_system "A real-time operating system (RTOS) is any operating system (OS) intended to serve real-time applications that process data as it comes in, typically without buffer delays." Collecting and dispersing audio and video is a real time application. If you want guaranteed I/O then go get a RTOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_real-time_operating_systems or get a hardware recording device that doesn't use an operating system at all.

The difference between "precision" and "accuracy" may be helpful here. Precision is about getting the same answer, accuracy is about getting the right answer. So if a something was measuring X% too high all the time, it would be precise but not accurate. But another thing could be measuring correct values on average but have a mean error of Y%, and that would make it accurate but not precise. In this case we don't know if the device in question is accurate or precise. There are no measuring device that are perfectly accurate or perfectly precise. We must each decide how much inaccuracy and imprecision we are willing to tolerate.

An article comparing a macOS computer with a Windows computer is like comparing the best English-language newspaper with the best French-language newspaper. What's the point? They serve different customers; they don't compete.

Some of us Canadians won't buy the Series 4 until EKG is supported. And if it takes 6+ months, we'll probably just wait for the Series 5.