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I think it's been pretty clear for a while that Dorico was going to become the only game in town, at least for professionals - Musescore is surprisingly good for what it costs (nothing) and they have an excellent team, but for paid apps Sibelius has been on a downward trajectory ever since Avid fired the entire development team, and I understand that Finale also has lacked development recently.

Switching notation package is horrendous, and it takes a long time to get good at a new one, but I am pleased that Finale have at least negotiated a good cross-grade deal so that the pain is at least primarily one of time rather than financial also. The Dorico team at Steinberg are excellent, and anyone who switches to the application will find them accessible and responsive. I understand for the Finale users this is a tough pill, but at least you will find yourselves in good hands with Dorico.

mpantone said:

n2macs said:

How did the battery charge last 6 months? The diver must have plugged it in.

The lake water is frigid which acted literally as cold storage (like a refrigerator). Remember that we are talking about a lake in British Columbia. Look at the snow-capped mountains: their runoff feeds this lake.

The hyperlinked article notes that the diver just turned on the phone (no note about charging it).

Apple's iPhone standby durations are based on ordinary room temperature conditions -- not near-freezing submersion.

He says towards the end of the video that he plugged it in. Battery performance is severely impaired at low temperatures, not improved. 

Interestingly, the BBC has an article about the current state of these sorts of devices on its front page this morning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50850239

The license plate motto in Quebec is ”Je me souviens” which Google will tell you means “I remember”. However it’s much more than that: the reflexive nature of the verb, together with context, weighs it down with a certain amount of nostalgia coupled with long-standing resentment. It would perhaps be better translated as “I will never forget”. And of course what none of these machines can do is affect the way you actually think when speaking in a foreign language, and that’s the real insight you get - much of a peoples’ character can often be attributed to the language they speak, and its constructs. 

radarthekat said:

First, it wasn’t until Apple showed the way.  Par for the course on that one.

Second, sound quality is subjective, but okay, Samsung makes good hardware.

Sound quality doesn’t need to be subjective, although there may be some element of that also in any review. I’m disappointed that they don’t appear to have backed up their findings with some frequency graphs. Simply talking about the bass line in “So What” is not a suitable metric.

Out of interest, I spent about 10 minutes sampling every 10th of DBK's posts as I was curious to see if you extrapolated into the future at what point DBK's posts in this thread would actually exceed the total number of posts in the thread...

I'm afraid I discovered that he's currently not really quite exceeding the 45 degree angle, but I thought it was rather fun nonetheless: