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  1. 1 hour ago, SmokeyBear1861 said:

    I'm excited to see the evidence and facts behind this whole Russian collusion investigation. Been asking for it for over a year. Haven't seen any evidence of illegal activities or wrong doing, I'm assuming they don't have it. If they did, they would "leak" it as soon as possible to try to attack the president in every way possible. 

    Do they do this with mafia investigations?  Do they do this with espionage investigations?  Do they do this with really expensive white-collar crimes?

    Are they tweeting out leaks of information in active investigations?

  2. 49 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    Kids are tougher than you think.

    Yeah, and it can be weird what they focus on, because some things are very abstract to them.  

    Last summer, we were visiting some relatives in Arkansas, and they mentioned a nearby Civil War battlefield that one of our ancestors fought on, and that we ought to check it out since it was nearby.  We did, and after getting there, we started thinking how to explain the Civil War to a four year old, but we just kind of glossed over a lot of it.  The battlefield was beautifully maintained by the National Park Service, it was all very respectful, and there weren't any displays/photos of gruesome injuries or deaths (there were some books, but we didn't let him look).  One of the park rangers explained where the main battles were, and how many casualties and deaths, but all our son wanted to know  was where the "horse soldiers" were.  Then our great-aunt chimed in and said "on your mom's side, a bunch of your ancestors came over on the Trail of Tears, and it runs right past this park", and she started explaining it to him, which made us cringe.  He took it in,  but again, just like with the Civil War, anybody past his great-grandparents was just an abstract thing (he still has a great-grandmother alive, so he understands up to her generation).

    A few months later, Hurricane Harvey scared the shit out of him though.  He had cousins there that he's close to, he had aunts, uncles, and a grandparent in Houston.  We caught him constantly trying to turn on the TV or unlock our iPad because he wanted to see what was happening, or he wanted to video chat with his relatives there (Which we let him do a lot).  Harvey gave him nightmares for a bit, because he understand the concept that his close relatives were in danger.

  3. Thanks for the recommendations, going to wake her up a little earlier (maybe 7) and on a regular schedule, and just take her to the park/playground for a few hours after breakfast and then start putting her down for a nap around noon or one when grandpa drops her off.

  4. On 4/4/2018 at 1:33 PM, 77horn said:

    Out of curiosity, I did a little genealogy research on this a few weeks ago.  From what I understand, the claim is based upon the second wife of her Xth great-grandfather being Native American.  However, EW descends from the first wife of the Xth great-grandfather.  There is no hard evidence about the 2nd wife, but even if the story is true, EW has zero Native American ancestry.   She can't bring herself to tell the whole story, so she's been sticking to the defending her "family story", while refusing to take a DNA test.

    You could have a full-blood Native American great-great-grandparent and there is a decent chance it won't show up in a lot of tests, because you have 16 great-great-grandparents, and their traits/markers are not passed down evenly.    DNA tests don't matter with Native Americans though, because they don't tell you anything about the tribe you are descended from.  Because of that, tribes don't care about DNA when looking at tribal membership and the CDIB.  My CDIB is based upon my mom's CDIB (and her parents, and their parents back to the Dawes Rolls).

    She's an Okie and like many poor Okies, was raised on those sorts of stories.  If anything, pity her for being an Okie, because there's plenty of other reasons to not like her.

  5. On 4/4/2018 at 1:43 PM, F250 said:

    She is an Okie. I've never met someone from there that didn't claim to have native American blood. It's a non-issue.

    This times a thousand.

    Elizabeth Warren grew up really poor in Oklahoma.  You can't throw a rock in an Okie Walmart without hitting a poor person who claims to have NA blood.  It's damn near a pastime for poor people in Oklahoma to try and figure out if they have NA ancestors.

  6. 3 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    They'll come back around when told a black Muslim is going to take their guns and Bibles and rule them under Sharia law.

    They won’t have any guns to take if they have to sell them to make ends meet.  

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  7. Trump either doesn’t give a shit, doesn’t understand agriculture, or thinks farmers will not blame him.  Or all three.  

    This will be fun to see red counties in the Midwest turning blue. 

  8. This came out today. 

    https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/apples-2019-imac-pro-will-be-shaped-by-workflows/

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    year ago, I visited the Apple campus in Cupertino to figure out where the hell the new Mac Pro was. I joined a round-table discussion with Apple  SVPs and a handful of reporters to get the skinny on what was taking so long.

    The answer, it turns out, was that Apple had decided to start completely over with the Mac Pro, introduce completely new pro products like the iMac  Pro and refresh the entire MacBook Pro lineup. The reasoning given at the time on the Mac Pro was basically that Apple had painted itself into an architecture corner by being aggressively original on the design of the bullet/turbine/trash-can shaped casing and internal components of the current Mac Pro. There was nothing to be done but start over.

    The secondary objective to that visit was to reassure pro customers that had not had news of updates in some time that Apple was listening, was working to deliver product for them and, overall, still cared.

    Now, a year later, I was invited back to Apple to talk to the people most responsible for shepherding the renewed pro product strategy. John Ternus, vice president of Hardware Engineering, Tom Boger, senior director of Mac Hardware Product Marketing, Jud Coplan, director of Video Apps Product Marketing and Xander Soren, director of Music Apps Product Marketing.

    The interviews and demos took place over several hours, highlighting the way that Apple is approaching upgradability, development of its pro apps and, most interestingly, how it has changed its process to more fully grok how professionals actually use its products.

    After an initial recap in what they’d done over the past year, including MacBooks and the iMac Pro, I was given the day’s first piece of news: the long-awaited Mac Pro update will not arrive before 2019.

    When we got the news that it wouldn’t arrive in 2017, there was some implicit messaging that 2018 was not guaranteed either (we were told “not this year,” but not “definitely next year”). This time around, Boger is succinct: the promised Mac Pro will be a 2019 product.

    We want to be transparent and communicate openly with our pro community, so we want them to know that the Mac Pro is a 2019 product. It’s not something for this year.” In addition to transparency for pro customers on an individual basis, there’s also a larger fiscal reasoning behind it.

    We know that there’s a lot of customers today that are making purchase decisions on the iMac Pro and whether or not they should wait for the Mac Pro,” says Boger. 

    This is why Apple wants to be as explicit as possible now, so that if institutional buyers or other large customers are waiting to spend budget on, say iMac Pros or other machines, they should pull the trigger without worry that a Mac Pro might appear late in the purchasing year.

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    Now, it’s a year later and Apple has created a team inside the building that houses its pro products group. It’s called the Pro Workflow Team, and they haven’t talked about it publicly before today. The group is under John Ternus and works closely with the engineering organization. The bays that I’m taken to later to chat about Final Cut Pro, for instance, are a few doors away from the engineers tasked with making it run great on Apple hardware. 

    “We said in the meeting last year that the pro community isn’t one thing,” says Ternus. “It’s very diverse. There’s many different types of pros and obviously they go really deep into the hardware and software and are pushing everything to its limit. So one thing you have to do is we need to be engaging with the customers to really understand their needs. Because we want to provide complete pro solutions, not just deliver big hardware, which we’re doing and we did it with iMac Pro. But look at everything holistically.”

    To do that, Ternus says, they want their architects sitting with real customers to understand their actual flow and to see what they’re doing in real time. The challenge with that, unfortunately, is that though customers are typically very responsive when Apple comes calling, it’s not always easy to get what they want because they may be using proprietary content. John Powell, for instance, is a long-time logic user and he’s doing the new Star Wars Han Solo standalone flick. As you can imagine, taking those unreleased and highly secret compositions to Apple to play with on their machines can be a sticking point. 

    So Apple decided to go a step further and just begin hiring these creatives directly into Apple. Some of them on a contract basis but many full-time, as well. These are award-winning artists and technicians that are brought in to shoot real projects (I saw a bunch of them walking by in Apple Park toting kit for an on-premise outdoor shoot). They then put the hardware and software through their paces and point out sticking points that could cause frustration and friction among pro users.

    Ternus says that they wanted to start focused, then grow the team and disciplines over time.

    “We’ve been focusing on visual effects and video editing and 3D animation and music production, as well,” says Ternus. “And we’ve brought in some pretty incredible talent, really masters of their craft. And so they’re now sitting and building out workflows internally with real content and really looking for what are the bottlenecks. What are the pain points. How can we improve things. And then we take this information where we find it and we go into our architecture team and our performance architects and really drill down and figure out where is the bottleneck. Is it the OS, is it in the drivers, is it in the application, is it in the silicon, and then run it to ground to get it fixed.”

     

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    I’m also curious about whether the process over the last year has changed the timeline on the Mac Pro. To be blunt: Is this the original story arc of the Mac Pro’s development, or are we looking at a roadmap that has a fundamentally different timeline than one year ago.

    “I don’t think that the timeline has fundamentally changed,” says Ternus. “I think this is very much a situation where we want to measure twice and cut once, and we want to make sure we’re building a really well thought-out platform for what our pro customers are doing today. But also with an eye towards what they’re going to be doing in the future, as well. And so to do that right, that’s what we’re focusing on.”

    They are hiring for that new team

    https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?#&ss=113283468&t=0&so=&lo=0*USA&pN=0

    They aren’t doing all of this if a switch to Arm is imminent. 

    And with PPC everybody wanted them to switch because performance was going into the shitter. We are now getting fucking  18-core iMacs. Performance is not an issue. 

  9. 3 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

     

    EVERYONE, with the possible exception of Rice, was paying their players back then.  Even UT.  If you don't understand that, then you've got your head buried in the sand.

    SMU's problem is that they were far more coordinated in the scheme and they were a small school like the NCAA likes to make examples of.  (Of those two, the coordination involving their Board of Regents was far more important.)

    And when SMU turned in TCU for paying Kenneth Davis and Jim Wacker said he knew nothing about it... that was one of the biggest lies ever told. 

     

    I was just saying aggy and SMU were fucking things up. 

  10. 3 minutes ago, Amobie said:

    What time does your 2 year old wake up in the morning?  

    She's in bed around 8-8:30pm, going to sleep around 9-9:30pm, wakes up at 7:15 - 8:30am (usually at 8am).

    It's like she's resisting napping, because you try and get her down, and she just refuses/tries to climb out/stirs up shit.  If she naps, it's because of either being in the car or on a long stroller walk.

     

  11. 2 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

    Just Chinese cokes, but you can make your own by peeing in an American coke. 

    I might as well drink one of the HFCS cokes then, because it'll still have the aftertaste.  Fuck that.

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