rob55

About

Username
rob55
Joined
Visits
53
Last Active
Roles
member
Points
263
Badges
1
Posts
1,291

Reactions

144Like0Dislike4Informative

  • Rumor: 'AirPods 3' to launch alongside 'Apple Music HiFi' on May 18

    rob55rob55
    crowley said:
    rob55 said:

    Funny story, I asked a 20-something co-worker if he thought he would be interested in lossless audio if Apple offered it, and he asked, "what's lossless?"
    I hope you responded with 

    "it's when they include all of the sound that you probably can't hear anyway and make your data usage quintuple"
    I mentioned this on another thread on the topic, but there are settings that allow your streaming app to fall back to low(er) bitrate lossy audio when you're not on WiFi. You'll also be able to download your favorite tracks / playlists to your device beforehand so you don't use any data.

    I can stream my lossless audio library via Plex natively, and my data usage is just fine. I just make sure I'm on WiFi, or I download what I want to listen to while I am. For everything else, there's Spotify at 96 / 160 / 320 kb/s.
    muthuk_vanalingamargonaut

  • Apple's new 2019 iMacs deliver twice the speed as previous model, Vega graphics option

    rob55rob55
    llsorens said:
    Can the RAM be upgraded on these new iMacs by the user
    This could indicate that it might be, because the cover was released the same way on previous iMacs. Certainly not definitive though.

    llsorensgregoriusmwatto_cobra

  • Apple debuts $999 iPhone X with OLED Super Retina Display & Face ID authentication

    rob55rob55
    tzeshan said:
    melgross said:

    tzeshan said:
    I think FaceID can be easily compromised by hard core criminals.
    Did you really think, or are you just saying it? As they said, no security is perfect, but this is pretty good. They even made a point of saying that it’s the best “consumer” technology, recognizing that governmental and large corporate systems, with their supervision of the site itself being a part of it, are more secure. Military installations that use fingerprint or iris recognition have two armed guards watching to make sure nobody does anything to cheat the system.
    I am thinking that a dummy head may be used to unlock. Unless FaceID can see details of the skin, 
    Check the keynote at 1:31:22. They specifically addressed this in the presentation. They used Hollywood mask-makers and makeup artists to create these "dummy heads" for the engineers to use to train the neural networks to recognize these kinds of fakes.

    Shit, if someone wants to go to that much trouble to get into your phone, well...

    fastasleepstompycornchipStrangeDays