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maestro64 said:

wood1208 said:

Don't believe what you read. Pilots are trained in many ways including flight simulators,cockpit practical flying,etc. Than, they fly for thousands of hours call on job perfecting skills.

Yes, all pilots are trained, but most have not idea why a plane flies (lack the engineering and technical skills). If you do not think this is important, just think about the two crashes.

I am assuming you don't mean this literally... When I learned to fly (as a private pilot in Cessnas and Pipers) one of my earliest lessons was in the aerodynamics of what makes an airplane fly - how lift is generated and how factors (such as air density, temperature, and icing) affects the airplane's ability to generate lift. This led to hours and hours of stall training - both in how to recognize the impending stall and how to recover from it.

We also learned the importance of understanding every system in the plane and how to use them before leaving the ground.

It's unconscionable that these pilots were not educated on the existence of this new stall avoidance system: how to recognize that it's been triggered, and how to disable it.

gatorguy said:

StrangeDays said:

I wouldn’t wish the Apple TV YouTube app experience on anyone. It’s so awful. Because it’s a repackaged console app, it ignores all the platform-specific UX, such as the universal swipe-down pull-down menu for subtitles and audio output devices. And its scrubbing UX is simply horrid compared to the platform’s.

Hadn't seen it on my AppleTV so can't comment on it, but on Roku it's OK. The video quality is much better than Sling's too, my previous live TV streamer. 

The DTV Now interface is somewhat awful as well. I assumed it's largely the limitation of trying to replace a TV remote with its zillion buttons with the TV remote which effectively has about three buttons. I'm not sure how it works with the other services, but trying to scrub through commercials with the DVR either involves a lot of top-left top-right clicking to skip 10/15 seconds, or pausing the video and scrubbing with the touch pad on the remote only to have it misread your touch and zoom back to the start of the program or twenty minutes forward forcing you to try to remember where you were.

I watch 95% of my shows on Hulu and don't deal with the ads, but the shows my wife watches are largely not on Hulu and the scrubbing thing absolutely drives her nuts. Less nuts than ever giving Comcast another dime, though.

The picture quality is outstanding, however. It's so much better than the über-compressed video we got from Comcast...

ouragan said:

iMac 2019 features

2 - Optional 8 to 14 TB Fusion drives with a 256 GB SSD.

There is no excuse for offering brand new iMacs with only 2 or 3 TB Fusion drives. Leave a cheaper option with a 2 TB Fusion drive, but offer a standard 6 TB Fusion drive with a 256 GB SSD and optional increments of 8 TB to 14 TB Fusion drives with a 256 GB SSD. As Apple offers iPads and iPhones that come standard with a 256 GB SSD, it should be easy to standardize on 256 GB SSDs for Fusion drives in iMacs.

I don't think this is a realistic expectation. Spinning drives are dead, and I don't see anyone wanting them mounted inside their machines. Yes, storage is great, but (especially for a desktop) external is a better option. I have roughly 25tb of storage available on my iMac - 1tb is internal SSD. The rest is hanging on a couple of external drives, and on two NAS clusters. Having a single, large drive inside my iMac that I cannot get to when it fails is just not very smart. It's not happening. This could be a possibility - I'm sure some would like to have great speakers in their desktops. For me, I'd rather have a nice 2.1 system with a decent sub. I've got a twenty year-old Altec Lansing 2.1 setup that sounds way better than any internal speakers will ever sound. My sub is on the floor, and my speakers are hidden behind my iMac and external monitor where I can't see them. Apple had better not remove the RAM access door in future iMacs. It's unthinkable that this was done on the 21" already and I suspect the next 27" will see the same thing happen. Hasn't this already happened with the iMac Pro as well? I'm sorry to have to say it, but this is a silly idea. FM tuners are superfluous these days as pretty much every FM station I can think of has Internet streams available. Ditto TV with IPTV services. I occasionally watch my DirecTV Now feed in a window while I work, and even traditional cable companies such as Comcast (horrible though they may be) offer streaming live TV through your computer. No need to add either of these via hardware. I'd love this. I remember the first time I saw a 27" iMac I was blown away by its size. Now that I have one on my desk (next to an older 24" Sun display), it no longer seems quite as huge. I wouldn't complain of a 32" 5k display was an option, although I could certainly add this with an external display... This would be nice, although there are external hub (such as this one) that make connections easier.

Comcast can screw themselves. The worst company I have ever dealt with. They have lied to me so many times, refused to honor contract pricing (while also refusing to give a written contract so I could call them out later on their refusal to honor contracts), adding of features I've never requested (including, randomly, the Latino package and some obscure 'voice access' feature to replace their modem rental fee, even though I had no voice services). If I didn't watch my bill every single month, I'd probably have been paying $60,000 a day for services with all the crap they pulled.

The final straw was when our bill hit $270 for basic television, Internet, and a home phone that we weren't using. When I called to cancel the home phone I was informed they'd raise our rate by $20 and cut our Internet speed in half. Fine. Let me turn in my cable modem because I have my own. "You can't do that, because your bundle requires compatible equipment" (meaning it had to be compatible with the home phone service we weren't using). They're absolute shisters of the worst kind.

Thankfully CenturyLink offers fiber service in our area, so we're now paying $75/month (for life) for gigabit up and down without the stupid data cap Comcast imposed. We have DirecTV Now for TV service (yes, the interface isn't great, but it's the best streaming TV service out there in terms of available channels and video quality, plus the adding for HBO, Starz, and Showtime are far less expensive than any other option), and Ooma for our home phone (my wife and I both work from home and need this).

Of course canceling our service with Comcast was a nightmare, and they tried claiming we never returned our equipment despite having receipts showing that we had. It took months to get a refund on what they owed us.

Our total bill is now roughly half what we paid to Comcast and we have better service. Mostly though, giving Comcast the middle finger was priceless.

AppleInsider said:

...an ARM processor would cut back on virtualization solutions that the "pro" market sometimes rely on...

Absolutely this. I've been able to replace my company-provided crappy HP and Dell machines with Macs over the years because I'm able to virtualize Windows for certain corporate applications that require it, as well as for being able to compile code that targets the Windows Server environment. I also virtualize Linux frequently as my development needs require. The loss of Intel CPUs powering Macs will render virtualizing impossible, at least for Windows, and we'll have to see how well the Apple processors are able to run emulation in place of virtualization.