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robin huber said:

Oh goody, the girl who can’t sing without Autotune gets more money. 

As far as I can tell, she does not use Autotune in her live performances. She did not use it at the Reputation tour show I saw. She can't sing nearly as well as her backing vocalists which is a key metric to determine if the star is using Autotune. 

And if she's using it on her studio recordings, she needs to hire someone else to run the software.

Only a handful of pop stars are good enough to outsing their backing vocalists unaided and Taylor is not one of them (Kelly Clarkson on the other hand is).

Even if you don't care for her singing (which is understandable) she is the voice of a generation. She probably has a better chance than anyone else her age at winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, like Bob Dylan.

I'll be long gone and forgotten by then but if it happens, I wouldn't be surprised.

Who do you think would attract more subscribers to the Apple Fitness+ service? Itzhak Perlman? The estate of Charlie Parker?

Anyhow, Taylor Swift and Apple have had a long partnership together on many projects and she rightly got Apple to change their streaming payments policy to benefit smaller artists.

Remember that she's not a teeny bopper anymore singing about the quarterback on the high school football team. She'll be 33 in a couple of months and her fanbase represents one of the most coveted audiences for the Fitness+ market.

rob53 said:

Not sure NVMe single blades will max out that projected speed and I can guarantee you that TB5 hardware will not be inexpensive. Article talks about 8K displays and only a bit about faster SSDs (for gaming? what about for real work like video production), which also will cost more. Higher bandwidth also ends up meaning people will want larger storage because, conceivably, faster speeds will allow more data to be pushed and stored. There is a usable limit to these speeds, which always has to do with money. You got it, you can buy it. Most consumers will never see the speed of TB5, same as now because most consumers only use USB3.x speeds instead of TB3/4 speeds because of the extra cost in making the interface hardware.

I agree, I don't see how Joe Consumer will be able to saturate TB5 bandwidth.

A pro certain probably could, writing multiple streams of 8K video (or other data) to a disk array with multiple NVMe drives. TB5 is intended more for that professional audience; Thunderbolt compatible hardware is already expensive.

In any case, TB5 is still in the proposal stage. Once it's approved in its final form, there would be more activity to develop compliant hardware.

Up until now, Thunderbolt has essentially been an externalization of the PCIe bus as far as I can tell. As PCIe bus bandwidth increases, Thunderbolt follows.

Guys, professional sports leagues are complicated. The league is a business but each team is also its own business. And when you get 20-30+ billionaires in a room, they're bound to have some disagreements about what's in the best interest of the league and their individual operations.

Since some people don't understand, it should be pointed out that stadium financing varies case by case. Sometimes the venue is largely financed through taxpayer funds (like via a bond measure).

Some venues are almost completely privately funded.

Oracle Park (originally Pacific Bell Park) -- the San Francisco Giants ballpark -- was almost completely funded by private sources. In fact, the team paid off its loan a few years ago and is in the clear. When the team owner threatened to move the franchise to St. Petersburg, FL, a new ownership group emerged to keep the team in San Francisco. Several attempts to get taxpayers to pay for a new stadium failed so the ownership group came up with a plan to use private investment.

Even the Giants ownership group doesn't always agree amongst themselves so the decisions are mostly influenced by the majority owner despite the fact that person has a very low public profile and conducts business behind closed doors, away from television lights and press conferences.

The Green Bay Packers are another example of varied ownership which is technically a publicly held non-profit group. Shareholders are limited to 200,000 shares which amounts to about 4% of outstanding shares at this time. Thus, there is no majority owner.

So yeah, there's a representative from the Green Bay Packers ownership group (probably Mark Murphy, president) sitting next to Jerry Jones in league ownership meetings. But Murphy doesn't own the team, he represents the ownership group.

elijahg said:

iOS 16 has some pretty glaring bugs still.
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Do they do no regression testing at all at Apple?

 This is why for the past 3-4 years I wait until Q2 the following year to upgrade to the latest macOS and iOS. It makes for a less hair-pulling transition and user experience.

I'm on iOS/iPad OS 15 and macOS Monterey and I won't transition to iOS/iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura until April 2023.

Apple's software QA has really gone down over the past five years. Not worth it to be a beta tester which is basically what you are through the x.3 release these days.

It got significantly worse with macOS Crapalina which I never ran as the primary operating system. I tested it multiple times on a practice drive but ultimately spent 1.5 years on Mojave before upgrading directly to Big Sur (somewhere in early 2021) bypassing Crapalina completely.

The saddest part of Stadia’s shutdown is that Google’s game partners didn’t receive any notification.

https://www.pcgamer.com/stadia-game-developers-had-no-idea-google-was-killing-stadia/

Google didn’t just screw some of its employees, it unapologetically screwed a bunch of third party developers.

Sure Google can offer displaced Stadia employees opportunities to work elsewhere in the company but employees working on Stadia games for developer partners are left out in the cold holding the bag.

Not cool Sundar, not cool at all.