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Apple TV+ buys docuseries 'The Dynasty' about the New England Patriots
I could care less about the Patriots. But Brady is my hero.The man was never meant to be an athlete:-- He struggled to get playing time through both high school and college against better athletes-- The NFL draft report showed that he:
"had a poor build, lacked strength, lacked mobility and ability to avoid the rush, lacked a strong arm, can't drive he ball downfield, can't throw a tight spiral, can't ad-lib and, he gets knocked down too easily".-- He was selected 199th in draft -- so low he nearly gave up expecting to be drafted at all. 6 other quarterbacks were drafted ahead of him.But:What he lacked in physical abilities he made up for with smarts, courage and determination.-- He scrapped traditional athletic diets for a primarily plant based diet.-- He scrapped traditional training methods stressing strength for functional training stressing pliability.-- He studied and perfected his own techniques to get the most that he could from his body.-- He stayed up till late in the night studying opposing defenses so he could pick them apart the next day.-- He got stronger under adversity -- and became known for his comebacks.He chided Rothlesberger on his retirement: for his just: "Throw some ice on it" approach to football as opposed to his own "TB12" methods.He was never the athlete's athlete nor, with his baby face, the man's man.He was just the best at what he did.As he also said to Rothlesberger: "There's more than one way to bake a cake"... Brady baked it his way. A way that had never been done before. He was not only a GOAT but a pioneer.
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Global smartphone data speeds are up thanks to 5G rollout
ihatescreennames said:I’m still not understanding how 5G on my iPhone matters. I have yet to see anyone watching 5 streams of sports video simultaneously and very little mobile gaming (and the mobile gaming I usually see is something like Candy Crush or Solitaire which are not bandwidth intensive).
Will it matter in the future? Possibly, but the future doesn’t make a difference on the phone I have now.
Yeh, you're right. We should have stuck with 3G. It was good enough. /s
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Apple threatens to pull out of Toronto shopping project
hammeroftruth said:
I think both of these comments underscore how complex it is building these days. It’s not just a quick build. You will always have other interests trying to disrupt or shake down builders for one reason or another.22july2013 said:
I guess I'm not always fair. Is that a requirement to post messages on this website? Am I going to be banned now?payeco said:
To be fair, it wasn’t 11 years of construction for the new World Trade Center. It was about 5 years of sorting through issues with the various competing interests with a stake in the building and then 6 years of actual construction work.22july2013 said:
That's exactly what I was going to say. And this was a pretty big deadline miss. It's now 18 months late, and maybe another 18 months away from completion? Entire tech companies can be birthed and buried in those 3 years.goodbyeranch said:
Alternatively don't miss agreed upon milestones. Another example: Apple and GT Advanced Sapphire factory.crowley said:Never enter a deal with Apple. They're smarter than you, have better lawyers, and you'll get screwed eventually.
It took them about 11 years to build the replacement for the World Trade Center, but it took about 11 months to build the entire Empire State Building, using far more primitive technology. I think that illustrates the problem that Apple faces today.That’s why Rodney Dangerfield’s Back To School movie was spot on when he had to attend Economics class and educate the professor what other costs go into building.Apple probably will stay but wants to renegotiate the terms in order to do so.
It’s not like commercial landlords are martyrs anyway.Elon Musk built Tesla Giga Shanghai in less than a year.His Giga factory in Germany is still waiting for permit approvals.You can take it from there....
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Apple threatens to pull out of Toronto shopping project
chris_kalan said:
You have a point where form needs to follow function, however this form doesn't do anything to harm the function at all. The excessive cost is one thing, but that's not a form v function argument. And you could argue that the form is more beautiful without any effect on function since the whole point is to see through the glass.GeorgeBMac said:$5Million for a design? $300,000 for a piece of clear glass?Apple needs to get fully over its design supercedes function obsession.It did gain some separation from its obsession with thin and light Macs at the expense of functionality. But it needs to do the same for its stores. They are centers for customers to do their research, obtain education, get quality service and, oh yeh, buy products. But NO customer goes to an Apple store to see the pretty glass front.Yes, image matters. But, as Porsche has proven: "Form [needs to] follow function"
Regarding the design of the building, part of "design" is function itself. For a massive project like this, $5 million is absolutely not unheard of. Designing accessibility that fits into the aesthetic without taking anything away, architectural engineering, electrical and networking for Apple's unique needs - $5 million isn't insane.It is if the cost of building stores is so high Apple can't build enough to meet the needs of its current and potential customers. And, while I'm lucky enough to have one within a couple miles of my home, not many others can say that.Again, if all Apple Stores did was sell product, that might be enough. But the function of these stores has grown far beyond mere sales -- which Amazon could do. They are an integral part of Apple's ecosystem -- which is what sets it apart from the Samsung's and Lenovo's of the world.And, as I understand it, the $5Million was not for the building but for a little store inside of that building.
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Cook's China comments lawsuit gains class-action status
The decline was prompted by two things:1) Apple did not have a 5G phone while China was rolling out 5G across their country. Few would invest lots of money into a product that would soon be obsolete..... Tim could have & should have predicted that.2) The U.S. stirred up geo-political tensions supported by a trade war (justified by bullshit claims of "National Security") where we labelled China and its products a danger to the U.S. So, the Chinese people did what any patriots would do when their country is attacked: reject the products produced by the attacker..... Tim could not have predicted all of that. And, even if he did, what would he have said: "American industry will be hurt by our attacks on China"? FauxNews heads would have exploded in outrage.The United States needs to understand that wars -- whether they are hot, cold, financial or trade -- hurt everybody. The current example: If we push Russia into invading Ukraine, inflation here will soar - partly because we will be paying a lot more for natural gas and gasoline -- along with taxes/debts to pay for our military "protecting" parts of Europe.But, we won't. We believe we are omnipotent and suffer no consequences for doing stupid things.
