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  • Apple introduces new Apple Silicon Mac mini with $699 price tag

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    razorpit said:
    So, I’m assuming the M1 will run Windows via Parallels “x” times faster?
    Yes, where "x" is less than one.
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  • UK's NHS working on app using Apple-Google contact tracking tech

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    elijahg said:
    Ah so the chief of police for Northamptonshire saying they will search baskets isn't at an institutional level? I agree it is important that the media keeps the police in check, but the police should be able to judge what is reasonable and what isn't without testing the waters to see what they can get away with - especially when government guidance is pretty clear. This kind of thing hugely reduces the trust in police, and it has been found that the more contact with police people have, the less trust they have in them. 

    OK. I agree that that was bad. But in this case the system has worked, no? Some individual made a mistake, the media noted the mistake, the individual's superior told him he was wrong.

    In this particular case, one does have to question why someone in such a senior position is getting something that, really, isn't that hard to understand, so fundamentally wrong. Personally I would question why this individual is in such a senior position if he lacks basic reading comprehension skills, or thinks that he's too important to read advice, or thinks it's OK to make up his own rules.

    So, I think we agree about this.

    But let's rewind to your very first post, shall we? Did that not give the impression that the police in the UK are running wild at an institutional level, right across the country? I think that it did. And from where I am, I do not feel that that is what is happening.
    gatorguympw_amherst

  • UK's NHS working on app using Apple-Google contact tracking tech

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    elijahg said:
    Considering the overzealous police here thinking we've turned into a police state, informing people they will (illegally) start searching shopping trolleys for "non essential items" and telling people they can't even exercise in their own gardens - contrary to the actual law -  I don't think this will be used by too many people.
    Misreprentation of facts in true trolling style. Yes, these things have happened in a handful of cases due to individual over-zealous/incompetent/misinformed Police officers. It is clear however, that, generally speaking, no the police are not going to be searching people's trollies, and no, they are not telling people  they can't be in their own gardens.

    Here is an article where the government have made it clear that people can buy whatever they want in shops that are open, and be in their own gardens:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52245937

    Here is an article that discusses the garden incident, and states that the officer who told people they couldn't be in their own garden was misinformed and has been spoken to about it:

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/coronavirus-police-apologise-for-telling-family-they-werent-allowed-in-their-own-front-garden/ar-BB12qPik
    gatorguympw_amherst

  • 2020 iPad Pro renders show triple-camera bump and glass back

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    spice-boy said:
    Ladies and gentlemen the new heaviest ever and most likely to need repair iPad Pro 2020!
    Indeed. Seems massively unlikely to me - both the glass back and the triple camera. 

    Most likely reason for a glass back is to enable wireless charging, but is there much demand for this? A better solution (weight wise) would be a non-conductive "window" of some kind in the back, rather than an entire glass back.

    The current iPad Pro has a single camera so it would be a big leap to go to a triple camera array. Again, is there much demand for the iPad to have this kind of photographic capability?
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  • USB 4 is here, and is essentially Thunderbolt 3

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    melgross said:
    This is very interesting. But it raises questions. The biggest one to me is the specificity of Intel offering TB 3 licensing, rather that just TB licensing for free. Way back, Intel stated that in 10 years time from the first offering if TB, it would be at a speed of 100Gbs. It’s remained at 40 for years. I’m waiting to see if, or even when, we can expect TB 4 at a higher speed. So I’m wondering it this is the first indication, from Intel, that we will see TB 4 sometime in the near future. So allow the slower TB 3 for free, and come out with TB 4 with paid licensing. Maybe late 2020.

    the other thing is just how confusing this all is to most people. I just barely have it straight myself. Several flavors of usb along with TB 3. We do have some of that now, of course, but this will be much more complex. People will need to figure out what all the prevailing usb standards that will work on this, and then how long a cable can be for the highest speed for each standard, and what cable will work with each standard. It’s much worse than ever before. People will make lots of mistakes with cabling and peripherals, and then complain that it’s not working the way it was promised.
    Good points on both fronts, especially re: USB 3, TB 3, and cables - it's a right bloody mess; I don't think it could be more confusing if you tried! There's a real opportunity here to clean all that up with USB 4 - I hope they are aiming for a single cable standard (not sure if that's even possible? Maybe two standards would be acceptable - active or passive)

    At the very least, they need to come up with, and enforce, a clear cable-labelling scheme.
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