Background: Audio engineering and multimedia development, worked previously at the Smithsonian on various projects including an app to make the Eclipse accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired, and a multimedia installation at the National Air and Space Museum. Open to a variety of work from consulting to game dev to backend media processing.
It's designed to be useful for more than one kind of "Pro". The old Mac Pro, for instance, seemed to completely forget about music studios and their professional requirements for Macs. This new machine may seem like overkill to software developers, but as an audio engineer, it's perfect.
I don't even want a 1TB SSD in it, the 256 is perfect to hold the OS, a few DAWs, and all the plugins I could ever want. Everything else gets saved to drives in a toaster anyway. A rackmountable unit with a ton of PCI slots for HDX/Dante cards was on my Christmas list, and I'm not alone- there's a reason they made a point of showing how many HDX cards it can fit in their presentation.
It also looks like an amazing workstation for video editors. I really don't think it's designed for software engineers who make 500k a year.
256 is not enough for a serious main drive in a DAW. Sample libraries should all be on the fastest drive. There are single instruments that take up 50GB. And consider that most studios are recording in 24 or 32 bits at higher frequencies than 44.1Khz. 1TB is probably enough for a music production system although I'd personally prefer larger so that I don't have to be swapping things around all the time.
Maybe you haven’t looked around in a while; the toasters are Thunderbolt-attached now, and they take (en-cartridged) NVMe SSDs. There’s nothing slow or high-latency about that. Copy your assets over to your project disk from your NAS at the start of a new project, and then forget about it.
Alternatively, forget hotswap and use a Thunderbolt DAS with RAID6. Burn your projects from your DAS to a portable SSD when you want to pass them over. Only takes a minute or two.
Or we could just start punishing companies for massive and widely damaging data leaks. AFAIK about GDPR, it wouldn't prevent this. These things keep happening because nothing bad happens to companies that let it happen.
GDPR prevents this by putting rules in place that you, as the owner of the data, need to show that you're protecting it responsibly.
The threat of the gigantic fine is what gets people into compliance to prevent this from happening.
Lots, possibly even the majority of companies in Europe beefed up their IT security procedures because of this, and I wouldn't be surprised if almost everyone that sits at a keyboard in Europe didn't get called into a meeting to talk about how important it is for them to keep their customer's data private and ways to do that.
Without something like this in place, companies can just not even care about users data.. because 'oops, we did nothing to protect it' is still a valid excuse.
GDPR specifies fines up to 4% of annual global turnover or 20 million euros, whichever is greater. That seems like plenty enough bite, if it were enforced.
> If this were true then why have upper limits at all?
Because while the rulemaker believes that there is a range of potentially reasonable judgments based on particular circumstances, they do not believe that range is unbounded.
> The only reason I can think of is to protect large corporations.
The fixed minimum upper limit of $20 million is actually probably to prevent (or limit the effect of) large corporations using smaller subsidiaries and fancy accounting for GDPR-risky activities, rather than the upper limit protecting large corps.
Nothing could hold up to the amount of hype Magic Leap got, but based on what I've seen it's been an excellent use of its investment capital. They've been experimenting with new technologies for years now and they finally have a development kit that speaks to the path they plan to follow in the future.
I also wouldn't trust Palmer Lucky to have anything like an objective opinion about it.
If a single TV station had the power you describe you would think they might be a little more successful at using it by now. Not saying they have no effect, but if the station never existed I don't think our history would be drastically different.
Sure, a TV station can't annoint a President of whatever. The power to destroy is a weaker power than the power to create, but is still an immense power.
Rupert Murdoch's lifelong business philosophy is that all information gatekeepers should be destroyed, so that no one's opinion (or facts) are elevated over any other's. It's pure libertarian-democracy of ideas that throws the baby (education and critical thinking) out with the bathwater (suppression of outsider voices). The modern "Internet of Trolls" is the culmination of his philosophy.
Through insane amounts of regulatory capture. You could hardly hope to get government under greater private control with an overwhelming military coup.
We've gone far beyond reducing regulation to ensure that innovation is possible--we've restructured regulation to ensure that doing business is practical only for the major industry players who now write our legislation.
Yes, I disagree with the above user's statement about why they're said to be federated- they're federated because content from any instance can appear on any other instance. The federation is the cross-talk.
That's basically right. Remove any one cell or any subgroup from the knightship, and it's no longer a working spaceship -- at least not one that moves the same speed!
There are "optional extras" that can be added or removed from some spaceships. These are called "tagalongs", and aren't considered to be part of the ship. That can get a little complicated, too, though, like with another recent-ish discovery: http://conwaylife.com/wiki/Fireship .
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Background: Audio engineering and multimedia development, worked previously at the Smithsonian on various projects including an app to make the Eclipse accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired, and a multimedia installation at the National Air and Space Museum. Open to a variety of work from consulting to game dev to backend media processing.