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TwiceHorn

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  1. 11 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

    That is not quite right or comparable given that microsoft has a very different business model. But microsoft is making an renewed push for windows on arm processors. It was announced last year and a few products have been announced, but so far I have seen much develop from it. 

    I doubt the rumor (reoccurring every year) on apple abandoning intel. They certainly could, but would have to rely on emulation for all legacy software. Apple's own processors are impressive, but arent ideal for the variety of workloads handled on desktops. I would be less surprised if apple started implementing arm processors in addition to intels, at least in the short term. 

     

    15 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    These rumors seem to occur every time Apple is in price negotiations with Intel. Or publications want clickbait   And Apple has leaked such things before in negotiations just to make companies sweat  

    Such a switch is not even close to being comparable to the PPC -> Intel switch, something that happened because PPC couldn’t run cool enough at fast enough speeds. In this case, it’s the opposite, ARM/Apple has nothing that could even come close to matching Intel performance-wise. 

    Plus Apple just put a lot of effort and a shit-ton of money into getting their pro-level offerings back up to speed - Adobe photo and film users/editors were bailing on Macs for much more powerful Windows PCs.  Apple had to come back with the iMac Pro, the upcoming modular Mac Pro, and the whole official external GPU support thing.  They aren’t going to ditch all of that effort in two years just to say “HAHA just kidding, we want you to go back to really underpowered machines!”

    Thats not even getting into Adobe ignoring the Chromebook market because those things are so damned underpowered. Nor is it even getting into how painful the Intel transition was for Pro users, even though it was immediately a huge performance increase. 

    Apple is, however, going to allow a pseudo-virtual environment for iOS apps to run on their desktops and laptops.  This has been coming for a while, and it increases the market for iOS apps and makes it easier for companies to have a strategy for both desktop and mobile. 

    Yeah, these seem like good and accurate thoughts on the matter. It has been a while, but Apple has done some galactically stupid shit before.

  2. Scrimmage notes.

    Autumn with the black jersey.

    Orie  getting a lot of time in the middle.

    Brionne hits hard and her swing is very compact.

    Can't quite figure the formation with the new faces.

  3. 5 hours ago, wd40 said:

    lol.  I meant the bit about vertical perception.  was too lazy to whittle your post down.  I shouldn't try to be funny at 6am.  I wasn't even thinking of the context of that punchline.   consiously, anyway.

    I learned about youtube vids and the total elevation perspective vortex the hard way.  By previewing trails as a newb.   "This isn't so . . . . .  ffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu"

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  4. 4 hours ago, thrillhammer said:

    this point has been way too overlooked on this thread.  her excuse is pure bs.  i'm very disappointed in lexi and elliott for letting this happen.  their differences should have been resolved.  didn't he have the choice to make her sit out a year? this whole thing sucks shit through a straw.

    She never cited a reason for leaving.  "Homesick" was pure speculation.

    I don't think "their differences" could be resolved.  It is entirely possible that she saw the potential shitshow that our back row may be without Cat McCoy (it was bad enough with her), and the steps taken to address it, or lack thereof, and said vaya con dios.

    The only thing Elliott could have done (and he should do this anyway) is get serious about DS talent and development.

    And yeah, I guess he could have sat her last year, but she never would have signed up for that in the first place.

  5. 2 hours ago, bigcigar said:

    Did he stab someone waiting for a table?

     

    24 minutes ago, Landomatic said:

    Ha...John Mueller wishes.

    Valid points.  It seems that people in business with him wish they weren't after a while.

  6. 17 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    I don’t follow volleyball at all, but is this not the same as getting demoted to second team during your freshman year?  Hardly a death sentence as the expectation would be be improvement in subsequent years.  

    The subtext is that she would not receive proper/adequate training/development as a back row player because no back row players at Texas receive proper/adequate training/development.

    And, no, not a demotion, per se.  There seem to be plenty of hitter/blocker types that have no desire to be six-rotation players or at least are perfectly content not to be.

     

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