sandor

MplsP said:

StrangeDays said:

MplsP said:

crowley said:

payeco said:

crowley said:

Pretty neat, but I'll wait for a USB 3 version.

There is no data involved here. USB version is irrelevant.

It's not irrelevant for the cable you need to have handy.

I meant USB C, not 3.

Just get a dongle - that’s what Apple expected you to do for every thing else.

No they don't. They expect you to buy the proper cables for your hardware, which varies. It's not terribly difficult to buy what you need, plus then you don't have to whine about it for years on end. Win-win.

Or they could include ports compatible with the most common standard in the industry, including every iOS device and watch they sell so you don’t have to buy addintional cables or dongles, or worry about compatibility with friends and colleagues devices. Win-WIn.

tht said:

sandor said:

MacPro said:

sandor said:

Sadly, this is the world we live in. 

Disinformation is a daily occurrence, spouting 1/2 truths or blatant lies has no comeuppance. 
I am convinced part of the reasoning is simply to make money off of publicly traded stocks.

Yes, I agree.  Something seems to have altered the entire concept of what constitutes truth these last couple of years.

Honestly, i think it has been growing since the 50s/60s in the USA - we've spent 50+ years building a society built on commercialism, where marketing is the first thought for everything from politics & trade to religion & wars.

Determine the path of least resistance and highest uptake to create a populace that cheers their manipulation-through-ignorance. And all for another dollar.

The baby boomers & Vietnam were the first to really experience it, and now we have the people born since the mid 90's being the first to be born into it.

Never assume that we are somehow different than our ancestors.

The term yellow journalism was invented in the late 1890s or early 1900s to described journalists making up stuff, Hearst et al, being propagandist and outright lying. It won’t be different going back further in time. You can probably find some Greek or Chinese philosopher with a pithy saying about how heralds talked a bunch of shit.

Perhaps what’s different today is that we can follow the deconstruction of a media story in real-time. The good comes with the bad though, as people will believe whatever bullshit story they want to believe regardless of how stupid it is.

MacPro said:

sandor said:

Sadly, this is the world we live in. 

Disinformation is a daily occurrence, spouting 1/2 truths or blatant lies has no comeuppance. 
I am convinced part of the reasoning is simply to make money off of publicly traded stocks.

Yes, I agree.  Something seems to have altered the entire concept of what constitutes truth these last couple of years.

dysamoria said:

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My parents don’t give a damn how it sounds. They have zero sound quality sense and aren’t music people. It drives me nuts... but I don’t have to live with them.