JWSC

foregoneconclusion said:

JWSC said:

sevenfeet said:

I think Elon Musk realized that being a board officer would put him under even more constraints on the use of Twitter than he currently has. Musk's problems right now come from the fact that he can't say anything he wants about a public company about Tesla without running afoul of SEC rules. Joining Twitter's board wouldn't change that....in fact, he'd be under even more communication constraints since he'd be a fiduciary officer who is supposed to be looking out for the company's best interests. It's not that he cannot publicly disagree with the rest of the board, but there would be limits as an officer as to when and how that is done. It's better for him to remain on the outside.

Yea, I think a lot of people are misreading what's happening.  Musk is not backing off in any way.  As you state, joining the board would constrain him in ways that he has determined would be unhelpful to his ambitions for Twitter.  Get your popcorn out people.  This is going to be fun to watch.

LOL...Musk and his brother are both being investigated for insider trading by the SEC. That's happening AFTER Musk already had to settle a securities fraud charge with the SEC several years ago and is now attempting to back out of the settlement. How is he qualified to sit on Twitter's board and provide "advice"? 

The SEC may or may not be investigating Musk.  I have no knowledge of that one way or the other. 

sevenfeet said:

I think Elon Musk realized that being a board officer would put him under even more constraints on the use of Twitter than he currently has. Musk's problems right now come from the fact that he can't say anything he wants about a public company about Tesla without running afoul of SEC rules. Joining Twitter's board wouldn't change that....in fact, he'd be under even more communication constraints since he'd be a fiduciary officer who is supposed to be looking out for the company's best interests. It's not that he cannot publicly disagree with the rest of the board, but there would be limits as an officer as to when and how that is done. It's better for him to remain on the outside.

Yea, I think a lot of people are misreading what's happening.  Musk is not backing off in any way.  As you state, joining the board would constrain him in ways that he has determined would be unhelpful to his ambitions for Twitter.  Get your popcorn out people.  This is going to be fun to watch.

It was a hand over mouth emoji, not a face palm emoji.  This is the calm before the storm.

In Musk’s Twitter thread someone posted a video of Carl Icahn talking about how he fired 12 floors of people in a company that he became convinced did nothing and added no value to the company. Fascinating video by the way.  Musk‘s one word response in the tweet was “Exactly.”

crowley said:

JWSC said:

My Mac Studio with M1 Max arrived earlier this week.  Migration assistant from my 27" Intel iMac worked well and took only 5-6 hours for the data transfer to complete.

I was anxious to verify that the applications transferred over still worked.  I opened up several programs and they ran without issue.  I was particularly interested to see how SketchUp Pro was working on the Studio since I got the M1 Max with 10-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, with 64GB of unified memory.  I knew it would be a huge leap in performance, and wow it was.  I had assumed that since it was installed as Intel binaries on my Intel iMac and that SketchUp Pro and the other apps were running under Rosetta 2.  I planned to delete SketchUp Pro and reinstall it on the Studio with M1 binaries.

But before I did, I decided to run Civilization IV, my favorite time killer.  And low and behold, a dialog box pops up and tells me that this is an Intel application and asks me if I want to install Rosetta 2.  I installed it and Civ IV worked like a charm.  But the interesting thing is that SketchUp Pro and the other apps I ran before apparently had both Intel and M1 binaries at installation.  They were running natively on the M1 Max.  I hadn't expected that.  If anyone has any insight into how this works I'd be interested.

Civilization IV?  Surely that's 32-bit only, and not usable via Rosetta?  Do you mean Civ VI, or is there some other witchcraft going on here?

Civ VI.  Roman numeral dyslexia.

My Mac Studio with M1 Max arrived earlier this week.  Migration assistant from my 27" Intel iMac worked well and took only 5-6 hours for the data transfer to complete.

I was anxious to verify that the applications transferred over still worked.  I opened up several programs and they ran without issue.  I was particularly interested to see how SketchUp Pro was working on the Studio since I got the M1 Max with 10-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, with 64GB of unified memory.  I knew it would be a huge leap in performance, and wow it was.  I had assumed that since it was installed as Intel binaries on my Intel iMac and that SketchUp Pro and the other apps were running under Rosetta 2.  I planned to delete SketchUp Pro and reinstall it on the Studio with M1 binaries.

But before I did, I decided to run Civilization IV, my favorite time killer.  And low and behold, a dialog box pops up and tells me that this is an Intel application and asks me if I want to install Rosetta 2.  I installed it and Civ IV worked like a charm.  But the interesting thing is that SketchUp Pro and the other apps I ran before apparently had both Intel and M1 binaries at installation.  They were running natively on the M1 Max.  I hadn't expected that.  If anyone has any insight into how this works I'd be interested.