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The Mom Room
"dobie" Discussed on The Mom Room
"Welcome to the mom room podcast. My name is Rene rina, and I am definitely the mom friend. You have always wanted. Happy Tuesday. It is such an interesting episode because it's something that I've never really talked about before, and it has to do with what your children are going to do when they grow up. And it seems like it's, you know, so far off into the future, especially for us, Milo's only three, but it really made me start to think about exposing him to different things as he grows up. I feel like when I grew up, I didn't know the career options that were out there. It was very kind of like you can be a doctor, you can be a lawyer. You can be a nurse. You can there's those set professions that everybody knows about, and that's it. And now that I'm an adult and I see all the different kinds of jobs and careers out there sorry if you can hear muffin tap dancing in the background, but anyways, yeah, now that I see all these different job options, my mind is blown. And I would have never known about them as a young child ever. So yeah, that is what the topic is for today's episode. I'm talking with oi dobie a so I'm French, so I'm gonna pronounce her last name Dobby a but maybe it's like dope beer. I'm not sure. Anywho, she is the founder of project who am I, which basically helps young people learn about themselves, what they're interested. And then they apply this to their educational and career pursuits. So while we did talk a little bit about older children, we also talked about how you can start the process young..
The Canine Paradigm
"dobie" Discussed on The Canine Paradigm
"In psi in the level two is a recall between decoys and dobie told to down in between them all right now the points for that is in the speed with which the dog is running and the down because if the dog takes off like he clearly knows. I'm going to be told to down here. That's because the dog has looked around and going. Oh this is the peach out. I know this. I feel a certain way. And i see what's going on here. All the things ally like the emotional state that i mean and the pitcher that i'm saying tells me that you're gonna rake homey in order for me to down here and because you've paid me for having done that and maybe you paid with from those decoys or maybe you would however you pay. The note doesn't really matter. The dog goes all right. I see what's going on here. I'll just do what you want it. I'll do what seems like the obvious progression without you having to tell me so if you're doing a lot of your work in those surprise scenario games way your practicing that you're showing the dog hold this down and then i'm going to be the conflict i'm going to agitate. I'm gonna rattle the cans. I'm going to do all the things that decoy will do to you. And then you get to bought me right. You'll think that you're explaining. We're going to do these things. And then you get the decoy for the dog is out a steady. Do these things and then get to by may and so what i want is once we get to that like as a say that really high level of frustration when i'm tapping into and the whole point of surprise scenario games when we play those with the dog is to test. How did you get your dog's ability to keep its head when madness is happening. That's the whole point monday. I pay venturing k all those games where you walk down the field new like fuck is happening here and there's all this madness going around really what we're testing in the dog at that point..
Monster Movie Fun Time Go
"dobie" Discussed on Monster Movie Fun Time Go
"But then they're working together later on and it's a kids cartoon so it doesn't it's not explicit but it does seem like she's spending a lot of time right this other girl just with the one on one and at that point and that point. She's not involved with shag anymore so if they were to make part three with the current climate where there would need to be a lesbian or gay character And definitely someone of color of any kind. Because there wasn't he was all white people there were just have to be. I mean that's the world we live in now and now that that's a bad thing. What color scooby doo. Scooby doo is a dog. He doesn't count for his brother. The alicia silverstone. She could've been you know but then make the minority the character of the bad guy. Then that can get you in trouble. It's tough they didn't even have any lines he saying. Though the in the closing credit is now the scooby gang there was in the first one. The guy who did voodoo there was that guy. The scooby doo. Gang is actually modeled on the characters from the show. The many loves of dobie. Gillis which was an old team that show dobie gillis. Yeah yeah no no. No no shaggy's maynard g. krebs alright was the bob. W the beatnik character played by bob denver. This was the show bob. Denver was on before gilligan's island. Okay so by the time we got going. He was the big star. Right on gilligan's island gilligan. Because he's the title character but he was very famous for having been on dobie. Gillis i remember that show so nobis fred. zelda would be velma. There was a girl that was in love with dobie. Gillis who was kind of playing w was always chasing after some hot chick but zelda was in love with him what some tuesday weld played. I can't remember the characters name but actress tuesday weld was a regular girlfriend in the first season so they just sort of ripped off the look of all those for characters for scooby doo..
The Tech Guy
"dobie" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"No yeah. Oh yeah definitely Now i just recently read the trilogy again. I mean like you. I read it. I think in college. Maybe in high. Because i don't remember it much which i think i hear might be an advantage in watching this show. I'm afraid it is because they're not really sticking to it. Most the only thing the only thing that this show resembles in the books is the is the basic overall structure. Which you just said you know. It's a it's a galactic civilization fifty thousand years in the future An empire which is on the verge of collapse. And harry selden predicts it and the the emperor is all pissed off that he's predicting the collapse of the empire. And but other than those sort of basic things and a few of the characters the primary characters There's not much else. Everything else has been created out of whole cloth and and inserted into this to make it more exciting. I assume You know there are fights. And it's there's a little gratuitous violence gratuitous as violence and i'm not really happy about Is there gratuitous sex no tampa. It's at least now. Apple episode apple shows. Animal shows that it's Hip by putting swear words and they don't they don't have Yeah they don't have to do that. They don't do sex that's hbo. Don't get confused right so you know there. There's an awful lot in there. That's not in the books just was created for for the series right. I will say this from a home theater perspective. The image the image from this from this series is spectacular. So that's really your bailiwick. So is dr dole yet. Dobie vision dobie at most if you have adobe most sound system. The rocket overhead as well. Yeah but man oh man. The images are just stunning. So watch it on your hd. Dr is just four. K is at four k. Oh yeah oh yeah nice absolutely dow days. They filmed this stuff. I think On digital cameras right and so yeah yeah affect this is probably notice. I have to look at the credits again to what they filmed it on. I wouldn't be surprised. If it was red or ari digital cameras ari alexa. They call it. Yeah very popular. Yeah reds very popular to have been sony. I'll have to look and see. I don't remember but and of course there's probably beautiful. They're probably only filming actors because everything else is green screen. A lot of it is green screen. There's so there's there's kind of three ways you can do special effects. One is what they call practical. Where like in the original star wars. They had physical models. And yeah you know in the ocean. It's a giant tank things like that. Those are called practical miniature ship. They shoot make it look like a big ship and you know we're getting a little more sophisticated those things maybe don't fool as quite so much. Cgi is completely computer generated so they have a green screen behind the actors. Sometimes the actors aren't even shown there at a suit that that is mapped out and like all the lord of the rings in in a virtual character. there's a third way to do which is more modern. This is how they shot the man to lorient on disney plus where the sets are lcd. Giant lcd scratchy. Their giant l. e. agree led lcd direct view led direct view l. Leads like the samsung. The wall or sony crystal so they're micro. Led their micro led. That's exactly right. I've seen examples of that and it's really amazing. Oh yeah it. Sorta replaces the green screen. And it's better for the actors you because they can kind of see where they are and you can do. Camera moves because the green background is tied to the camera. So it moves with you. So the Doesn't get weird perspective Affects that's how the mandal lawrence shot. I'm wondering if that might be the way this is shot. you know. it's a good question. I have to do some research into that and see But boy the only problem. I have with the imagery is that. There's there are some shots where there are characters talking or something and there's some super bright light behind them but it wouldn't be hd are if there were some super bright light bind them. Well you know they do that don't they. It's when three was big in the movies. Lying ask you is yeah. Let's do whatever we we do it because we can no no. You should do it because you should do it. And not when it's doesn't serve the purpose of takes you out of the story. Because you're gonna i know why they're doing that big bright la Yeah but there's but that's a few scenes for the most part. The imagery is just gorgeous. Nice i will say this. The sound is. I think mixed pretty poorly having trouble with understanding all the dialogue. Now part of that is that we got a lot of british actors. Jared harris is the star harry seldom. I love harry's self reading a profile of him in the new york times. He's richard harasses son but ground papa. Pau is meditating in the doll. Great the great irish actor. richard harris. Uh his son and know that you can sort of see a resemblance one. Yeah make some sense. yeah Yeah he's very good but sure noble and man. He's very very talented. Actor is very talented actor. Another thing that i liked that they did was in the original series in the original books. Virtually all the characters are meant because it was written in the fifties. Yeah there were no women in the fifties believe it or we're just two guys exactly and the women who are in the book for the most part with one major exception You know our secondary this older science fiction doesn't age very well what they did in in in In the foundation was they changed the gender of a number of primary care. God to to no ill effect no of course not find good totally fired and i'm glad they did and women of color too for that matter so it's it. It generally speaking very good now. I i don't like it's no bridge or ten but it's okay. Is that what you're saying. Okay i honestly feel like every time. I watch an apple plus apple. Tv plus show. It's just a little piece missing. It's like it's so close. They clearly spent a lot of money is very high prestige. But there's just a.
How to Money
"dobie" Discussed on How to Money
"To explode and you to lose all that pressure well we would rather you lose a little bit of pressure off on the side In order to maintain the overall majority the bulk of that pressure to do things that you want to be able to see get accomplished a yo yo diet where people costly be bouncing back and forth between gaining weight or losing weight. It's not sustainable. Then it's gonna lead to something like that. He's actually and so you need almost that pressure release valve so that you can pursue the greater good by being able to apportion a small percentage towards some spending. Now that's going to allow you to stay the course I think one of the other lessons that it's important to he'd if you do end up with a lump sum of money as well is to pay attention to the secondary costs of any of the stuff that you end up buying like. Let's say you did inherit some money and you were like it's been a priority for us to get into bigger housing and now is the time. Let's great but it's important to note that a bigger house means higher property taxes and more money to upkeep right. You're going to be spending more on repairs and let's say a new car is something. I've been meaning to upgrade my wheels. Now that i got this lump sum. It's a perfect time for me to get a new car my life well. It's going to be higher insurance costs and Those are the kind of secondary costs that we want you to prioritize in to think about before you make that spent. Let's take it to the extreme. I'm thinking about like mc hammer back in the day when he was worth a ton and he bought this house and bought a bunch of racehorses yet like a full doesn't horses and you know what horses caused a lot of money. there's a lot of people that are required in order to keep these horses healthy. It's way more than just. The price of that horse surprises the land in the stables in the food and the people that are going to you know help you keep those horses in good shape and then of course ultimately. He ended up bankrupt. Yeah so don't follow. Dobie like mc hammer exactly the same thing on a smaller level. If you buy some golf clubs dominant gonna wanna play play more golf. It's going to be in higher greens fees for you or even like the reverse. Fresh new paulos. Yeah well if you flip it right if you join a fancy club and say man everybody here at this fancy club i've upgraded my friends and so now these new friends require that i have new clubs a new car. Oh maybe we should move into the same part of town that they move into. These are all things that we want you to consider when you're thinking about making some changes to your life that could drastically up and that would be an example of the diderot effect right. Where is it that french philosopher. He got a new robe and then he was like everything else. Looks dingy now. My waistcoat is beautiful. Everything else looks terrible right. You don't want to be in that position you know. It's okay to spend some of the lump sum that you receive. Just don't spend more than you want to and if you don't factor in the secondary costs well you're bound to do exactly that you are going to spend more than new onto. Ps you haven't really thought through the full ramifications of where that first dollar goes and how other dollars are going to flow in that direction to in that vein be cognizant of taxes while there's no federal tax on inherited money at least below a high really high threshold..
The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
"dobie" Discussed on The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
"Didn't care for it. i just didn't it just wasn't my thing wasn't unethical choice. It was just didn't care for it but just being by the bin by the river and being it's not just a matter of just seeing seeing animals for be is matter of just being surrounded by it whether i was completely aware that that was nature but it was almost like it was my own upbringing. Nino i can remember summer holidays. You go out really early sometimes like five six o'clock in the morning with a fishing gear. Go down to the river. We spend the whole entire. That would have pat lunch. Dobie ready that we'd spend a whole day there and then with the end of the day we go get a burger peppers in jericho remember latin. Dexter there isn't it and be absolutely knackered because we spent the whole day out and doing stuff but if out good if i felt good toys. Yeah okay. I got nothing else to out. Simple as We mentioned it. A top of this podcast people can support this podcast for patriot that you can now support via linked trips while financially. What's linked train. Where is it kind of. E- covers everything. Covers all our important links together. It was kind all the podcast. Information together You can find on our twitter page posted at the top. It's posted at the top. There's a link in our pin post said countryside. Tv on twitter is also in. Our body are in on instagram as well..
The Wisdom Podcast
"dobie" Discussed on The Wisdom Podcast
"So dobie was so impressed that this man walked earned wait. I don't remember how long maybe like ten miles for these mushrooms in the and then was walk ten miles fact just to like have a little bit of mushrooms in the soup and that kind of dedication of in another one of his advocacy. He writes about you know. Just never leave the monastery so to me it. Also this kind of that kind of wanting to when we're the monastery in our own lines. I think like that somebody else's job and that somebody else's job now. We're just talking about this line today and it's interesting because i think that many people say like i'm living in my stereo was up to me but it's like how to leave the monastery in our mind that plays a practice in ourselves where were brushing our teeth or flaw saner. Whatever it is like. How do we fully embody that infield tenderness towards each activity realized like nobody else is gonna do and many of us say like oh you know practice. Maybe not today not convenient. I got a text among our gotta call someone. I gotta you mel someone we were in that way and shrug off. We shrug off the responsibility of dis- coming back into the monastery and think that what's critical is our attitude in. How wigging ourselves back..
TechStuff
"dobie" Discussed on TechStuff
"There'll be a little bit more behind you than the five point. one remember. Five point one was at an angle of like one hundred ten to one hundred twenty degrees. These would be more like one hundred thirty five to one hundred fifty degrees from your point of view of the tv so so more behind you than the five point. One version was then. We've got a variation on this called dolby atmos- so don't atmos- repurposes two of the speakers. In seven point one system specifically the two speakers that are positioned behind you. Those ones that are at the one hundred thirty five to one hundred fifty degrees. Viewing angle These become height speakers. Meaning your to mount these higher up. Maybe even suspended from the ceiling itself and these speakers then project sound overhead of the audience and that can create some really interesting effects when paired with media that supports dobie atmos- the overhead channels can add more specificity to the location of sounds making the experience way more immersive and the whole reason behind. This was that the folks at dolby figured that people would be able to hear sound coming from above more effectively than they would hear sound coming from behind them because our ears are not really shaped in such a way that they're great for catching sound. That's coming from behind us Sometimes the w atmos- gets the designation of five point one point two meaning you have five channels of regular horizontal surround. Sound the center front left front right and then the left and right channels then you have the subway offer then you have the two channels of overhead audio confused yet. They're actually some other seven point one configurations but they get really in the weeds and for most people. I feel it wouldn't be helpful. I will go into a little bit detail in our next episode to kind of talk about them. But i'm not gonna spend a whole lot of time on it because it just gets really really nerdy in the home theater space and for a lot of people. I think it's overkill but we will touch on that in our next episode so in our next episode. we're gonna talk a little bit more about Sound we'll talk. Why we want a subway in the first place for example we'll chat a little bit about some of the other things we have to take into consideration with sound and we'll also look at some of the other components that we would want in a home theater system like the media sources and stuff because obviously having the best equipment in the.
LAN Parties: A Video Gaming and Esports Podcast
"dobie" Discussed on LAN Parties: A Video Gaming and Esports Podcast
"That's for sure but speaking of games that are worth the grind ryan. I know you're super stoked. Tell let's talk destiny to yeahs literally before the recording. We got the Which queen showcase and boy. Oh boy was there. A ton to pat. Unpacked impact has got me talk in different languages. Yeah let me design. I'm gonna so we so today. Officially the twenty four th season of the law season fifteen starts We see this is from the The witch queen. We got confirmation. That will be coming out february twenty-second of two thousand eight hundred eighty two that next large expansion. Anybody has ended destiny universe. We've heard about sabah zone for years. This has oric says sister. She is the The witch queen. And i think she has been playing a big part in a lot. That's been going on behind the scenes. We know she's cutting and and and Use trickery to be able to to move around and whatnot We got the fact that It looks like within this with the net expansion. The hive actually. She has been able to harness the light for for high guardians essentially and has created these hive guardians that also have goes and can use the elements and things like this so this is huge as far as within this seven seven year. Long story This had me so geeked out just to see this. What's coming so season. Fifteen which starts today is essentially the epilogue to the witch queen which comes out in february. So this is going to be a very very long season. This is going to be the. I mean we're starting today and it's going to end of february twenty verse of twenty twenty two absolutely bonkers but there's a lot more that's going to be coming in between this. We've got in december the thirty year anniversary. Dobie Celebrating it with some new dungeons the d. one lou cave and there's going to be there. They're bringing back weapons. One of them being never thought i would ever happen. I never thought we would see it in in this game but gala horn the exotic rocket launcher. It's coming bag and boy. Oh boy is at rocky lodger spicy. I can't freaking wait. As far as being able to play with that again is going to be amazing but the fact that their this is their thirty th year anniversary so to be able to celebrate bungee. And there's been rumors of even possibly some halo destiny crossover. I don't know what that would look like. That would be amazing. There's going to be collector's edition. That's coming out..
Mac OS Ken
Hulu Adds HDR Support for Select Original Movies and Shows
"Remember when hulu was just for reruns. Yeah it's got a lot of original content these days and that content is looking sharp on apple. Tv macrumors says the streaming service has started implementing hd are hdr ten hdr ten plus n dobie vision for some of its original television shows and movies and that is working for apple's digital living-room device if you're not sure whether the content you're watching is hd are seriously. Don't you think you'd be happier. Not knowing i mean if he can't tell the difference why yourself up for disappointment maybe that's your thing if it is macrumors. Says hulu tb shows and movies support hdr content will display an hdr badge on the details page. If they're available to stream in hd as for which devices support the format the report says who lose hdr content is available on the fifth generation. Apple tb four k. And later as well as the chrome cast ultra fire. Tb devices roku devices and busy o. T. b.'s hd. Our support is not available on mobile devices at this time.
Full Games - Charlando sobre videojuegos
"dobie" Discussed on Full Games - Charlando sobre videojuegos
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Radio 22: Who's Next
"dobie" Discussed on Radio 22: Who's Next
"I mean like you got to make the most out of something. So you know absolutely so i i is because i scroll past it when i'm take something billions coming because i got to see her in washes for a minute. Yeah but at the same time. If it's working for you make sure make sure you get a pop. Hey i mean it's it's insane to me. How many people are out here making a lot of money. Off of being a social media influencer. I mean it but at the same time you know. It's all part of the hustle. What i mean and i'll never knock a hustle if this is what you wanna do and you're committed to it and you put in the work to make sure i is poppy. Even if you ari per se influence. And i don't like what is i gotta take my hat and you just because the pay that you grind it out and you got and you're doing got two thousand files. Yes making it work so so. When did you put out your first single an artist nor even as a collective if you had a group okay. So who who who My first project. I would probably say came out like mamie eight which is regime records which is here in madison Show jinx greg. Dobie richard hanson An hyneman audio. So i was on a compilation with them..
GSMC Social Media News Podcast
"dobie" Discussed on GSMC Social Media News Podcast
"Like dobie like two weeks and that timing not row. It's only been it's it's. It's thirteen days part thirteen to twelve thirteen years apart like it. I don't think you even thought of making schedule yet. but we'll we'll tweet well. I don't think you may discover yet. So i just for me also is from other spirits. That people have to like they told me about this where they have had so many lay close days. Where like they're like. Oh i don't know when he was like some jobs are very flexible. They're very flexible. And i'm very grateful again. Like i wanna have right now. I'm very very happy with how flexible they are understanding but the previous ones that have had before have have had issues with with being like well. Why can't i work you know. Oh because input your two months in two months but the thing is came. That never happened but you know. I'm just exaggerating to to for you guys to get a better understanding contractor but yeah it's i don't know i've yeah i agree with that. That's kind of yeah. Let's see we at a brian to grimy so Brian says i say this song to fifty songs. And honestly i really depends on what the day is or what time of my life it is because i for sure i've said that before i totally agree with where i have said that multiple times in different songs just because i think it's it's so relatable because it so true among god that's over tour cool but yeah they pass. Why things are relatable is because you're so true and that's why a lot of people like him this because oh hey i know this and and the fact that like i say this is my song like two to thirty different songs in the course of a month like. It's i don't know it's just so true. I think what it probably try to song because that was like that. One song Paradise by bazi. Awesome of two thousand nineteen. I would always say. That's my song in like a month after I always one rap song recently. Like became that my song like a month after that. Like i remember like how would you go through these phases of legal. My gosh this is my song and one point like i would make a whole playlist dedicated a song in lake songs that would sort of like Supplement that that that one mean song didn't like a month in that song that i don't listen to anymore because like no. I already flushed out that that song. I've i'm already listening to this new song and now like i don't know like what do we make a playlist or like just you know. Just keep it in my life and just keep having do that. I don't know it's very very complicated but the this is true. I'm sure a lot of people resonate with us tweet. and yes. this is very very funny. I do enjoy that Let's see let's see. I'm trying to think of other ones because like other ones are like take talk so it's hard to explain them.
Black Women Travel Podcast
"dobie" Discussed on Black Women Travel Podcast
"We went we went somewhere else but like been for since i was a little person. And it's so funny because my husband's like i haven't liked jamaica okay so jamaica all the mental all places little island places that people go for vacation we would do that because my father As a military person they have like special discounts and things like that. So i just escaped me but we would take some trips like every summer In the but when i got in i couldn't go. That's when they started going like paris and i was like. Wow so that's crazy. I gotta work in on germany in paris in. Just out here okay. That's that's been our travel experience. It's been farmed though My husband hasn't really been out the country like this online now. Make sure you have this this this this new girl what. How do you even know that. I'll say i'm a strana tell you because we can't be out here. Lookin' lives on tourists now. Dobie hold on. I need to come back with all my stuff So that's been interesting to like. Who told you go. Talk to Why are we going after his right now. Like wait a minute. We gotta get acclimated without runaround here But it's been traveling always been great. I've loved can you please. can you please share with us yourself. Care practices my myself. Soccer practices like super simple..
Android Central Podcast
"dobie" Discussed on Android Central Podcast
"I have your e hildenbrand was going on. I have hurry. S- gondola hara. I hope i pronounced that right. Sorry that's fame. It's good to be back. It is very good to have you and we have alex dobie. Hey how's it going. It's it's going good here. How's it going in your neck of the woods. there's no surprise it's pretty hot. Un's i've just got done encoding. The oneplus node to review. So we'll just we'll talk about that little bit of nuts pretty good We're gonna talk about that right now. So one or two. Were recording this on thursday. The embargo just dropped fifteen minutes ago. So hurry and alex you actually have this phone and have used this phone. So what are your thoughts on the oneplus nor to this pretty much. Has the exact same priorities as last year. old it's it's It's that idea but brought together with twenty twenty one tank. You're expecting a drastic sort of departure from what we saw last year. Then maybe you'll be disappointed but basically what you have here is Some of the sort of nice to have extras end up falling by the wayside. But you do have a all the things that made. The i node. Great you have that big beautiful screen. You have a lot of computational horsepower that new density chip from media tank which is a big deal Another that you just have all the right corners cut in the right places to make a release at a nice over the phone at around the the four or pound. Four hundred year a yup. It looks like a beautiful phone. Hurry issue you wrote the review on this. I have to shot it out really quickly. I love these review photos that your wife takes. She is amazing. So go with the review if you haven't yet people because these pictures are so fun and colorful and vivid. I just love it but hurry. She's been using this phone. What have you What have you been liking or disliking. I know that it up. The one person or two has more colorist designed Software on at this time. So i know that that's going to be a little bit of a change. Yeah right now. I don't see that much of a change particularly with oxygen as eleven point three. That's the first version that's built using the is code base so earlier this year bless much gold based oxygen escort base with cadeau as because it wanted to deliver fast up did it didn't want do folks of a software that will essentially merging together anyway So this is the first time we're seeing that and there aren't too many user interface indefens- facing changes at this moment because want blisters using its own Gallery calculated up to all of those things and the one launched is still intact so the app drawer and you know most of the things that you actually interact with your phone..
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
"dobie" Discussed on Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
"And get one hundred percent clean and sober no mind altering substances anyway. Thanks for everything you've done dave. You have no idea what it does for me. Stay strong dobie nation tools for chris swan boy. Thank you swan boy. I think that's awesome. Awesome email and And that episode. Two hundred if you haven't listened to episode two hundred that might be that's in my top three dopey episodes because it's got. It's got a ton of people. I think you might be in at some point in that episode. And a bunch of chris and i remember making that was like this cathartic thing so I don't know. I think that's a. It's a nice email. What do you think it's agreed. Now fucking amazing so like we're hearing this over and over man. I sticking out to me. Is that people are finding community and people likes so that seemingly like there's all right listen this all right recovery. All recovery all recovery. Not all right. It's all recovery movement seems to have like space for people to nod off deal judge about their process which i love so important. Yeah that's that's that's that's the idea that that's what we want and like. I don't know it's interesting like like the fact that he's still smoking and he's still on sub you tax like how hard 'cause you're around people getting clean all the time. How hard do you think the leap is going to be for swannee boy. It'd be a lot harder. You didn't have like some kind of community to be tethered to so i don't know mean i've seen people like do it quote unquote the right way and mike really take their time from two to even one so like every other gay one and then ultimately it's like wow..
Talking Tech
The Olympics Are Here. How to Watch in 4K
"The olympics is starting and some folks can get a better view of the action from tokyo than others that tried brett. Nbc which will be televising the olympics this year which officially began friday and runs through august. Eighth they'll be broadcasting live four k video from japan. Each night's primetime telecasts will be available in four k. Video which has four times the resolution of current hd video and the broadcast also will be in dobie atma surround sound and they'll be vision. Hdr hdr sense for high dynamic range which means the video delivers increased contrast and richard colors. So how you get to watch the olympics in four k. and what is it. we'll see well i. You need a four k. Tv and for the dolby vision hdr capability at tv. That supports that technology. And you can pretty much figure that out in your manual or whatever if you have a four k. tv might know that already And then to get this special surround sound. You need a dolby. Atmos- surround sound sound bar or home theater setup. Then you need your tv provider to pass along these higher tech transmissions. I'm you'll have it easiest if you're a comcast subscriber because the company which owns nbc. Universal will make live four k broadcasts available for xfinity customers and thirty eight markets including atlanta. Houston kansas city salt lake city in washington. You could check. Nbc's list for coverage. I have a lincoln my story at tech dot usa today to calm. It will also rear the four k. Primetime show which will include the opening and closing ceremonies the next day at two pm.
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
"dobie" Discussed on Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
"To have friends that's the other lesson but here's my big question before we go. Your dad like works in treatment and is like this fucking pillar of a. Do you feel pressure to be that in twelve. Step no man no. I don't i you know i really. I really love the way that this program is built for each of us to do it. Our own fucking way reno. There's twelve steps. You know like the the say that they're recommended but that's you know. I think the only thing that you have to do is the twelve steps and be of service and that looks like something else to everybody. You know what i mean. Not everyone is going to be like the fucking circuit speaker. Guy at the fucking. It's and it's great because not not. Everybody wants that and the thing is is if every one of us were struggling to be the most popular guy in a then. There's those guys who have socially anxiety and don't fuck likes to be the center of attention and have a lot of fear and the day that they came in and they got sober they would look around the room and they would be like none of these dudes want what i have right because there are a lot of people who probably come into the program and they see what my dad's got and they're like that's not what i want. You know because they just want a fucking decent suit and a decent car and to look sharp and to be spiritual and to fucking help single groups at a time or they just want to get their kids back or they just want to feel comfortable when you fucking watering the lawn or they just wanna stop haydn alcohol and shampoo bottles and put in the fuck in shower. You know what i mean like and so it's like you. Each one of us gets to be this shining example to somebody that the program works for somebody like that. So we've all got to be different. You know i love that. I think that's a great. That's a great point to to leave. On and i really appreciate your time and your story was awesome to have you on our little show. I'm thank you so much man. I'm sorry for like by rambling now. Do don't be sorry you were you. Were being generous with your time. You don't have to you. Don't be sorry generous. At the time there was awesome. So thank you thank you man thank you so now we say stay strong dobie nation and fucking doodles for chris. So you want to say that before we finish. Yeah fuck yeah thank you so much for having me say stay strong. Dopey nation and toodle for chris and let me know when a new video comes out and we will promote it. Fuck you fuck yet. Comes out on the fourteenth of this month fourteenth of july awesome. Yeah fourteenth of july hobart. Please do thank you to send me the fuck movie. I couldn't find the movie. How do we see them out. That's a idea. We've we shot it and we were like in post. We're doing the whole deal. And then kobe hit and then it was like you wanna put something out into a vacuum or what do you wanna do you know and i was like. Let's just struck in hang onto it and you know like put it out when it feels right. I'm not you know there's this now now now now now saying that i'm fighting against myself so i was worried i was worried like i couldn't see the movie like the movie. Was you know what i mean like. But that's just send it to you samuel movie. I cannot and thank you in ratchet thank you so much a a..
The Daily
"dobie" Discussed on The Daily
"Dough. Bob maintains that his need to cross the atlantic and a kayak did not originate within him with my hand on my heart. It wasn't my idea dough. Told me when i met him in. Poland in january. Dogo doesn't speak much english. So we communicated through a translator. I was infected with a virus in two thousand three when he was already the most seasoned kayaker in poland. A polish professor approached him to get advice on his quest to kayak across the baltic sea. The professor eventually persuaded oba to cross the southern atlantic with him from ghana to brazil in separate one man kayaks lashing those kayaks together at night to make a platform on which to sleep. The trip was a fiasco. Forty two hours. After leaving they washed up back on the beach. Dubov flew back to poland returned to his hometown pulitzer in the country's northwest where he had been managing maintenance and and repairs at an enormous chemical factory and swore off kayaking with a partner ever again then dabo sketched out a design for a new vote. That could make the trip. He knew that the kayak needed to be unsinkable. As well as self writing in the event that it capsized and that it needed lockers to store food and a cabin in which to sleep. Sketch in hand dabo drove from pulitzer to stretching the regional capital and approached yacht. Builder named andre are mean sqi. Our mickey agreed to build the boat and in spring of twenty ten olo as yoga named his kayak after his own nickname olek was complete. Dobie told his wife that he was going to try to cross the atlantic again. Only one person had ever crossed the atlantic in a kayak using solely muscle power and he traveled island to island from newfoundland to ireland. Does goal was to go continent to continent between the mainland's from senegal to brazil unsupported. This time does trip was far more successful. Which is not to say. It was pleasant. The weather was disgusting. Humid and hot. Dobie tried to sleep during the day but couldn't so he tried to paddle during the day and nearly got sunstroke. He kept no schedule. I am not. German always nine. Am paddle he explained. I am polish. I paddle i would like. His skin broke out in salt induced rashes including blisters in his armpits and groin. His eyes blew up with conjunctiva itis his fingernails and toenails just about peeled off his clothes permeated with salt refused to dry the fabrics smelled horrendous and aggravated his skin so he abandoned close ocean. Kayaking is catastrophically monotonous. The primary challenge is not physical dobie describes the tedium as a form of dementia hundreds thousands maybe millions of repetitions. The brain is removed from the process alone at sea without his hearing aids nobody joked he grew so disoriented that he started shouting at himself. So that i could hear dobie is fairly death but didn't bring the aids along because they're expensive and not waterproof and there was no one to talk to anyway. He intended to keep muscle tone in his legs by swimming but he had to abort that plan because his body in the water attracted sharks. He was assaulted hailstorms of flying fish. Do you know how fast they go. He said this does not feel good when he couldn't sleep. Because of the unrelenting stuffiness of his cabin and the waves crashing through the portal onto his head daba thought about his wife children and his young granddaughter thought about his dead parents. He communed with the turtles who shells he tapped while they swam alongside him to make sure they were alive and the birds landed on olo for rest and often entered his cabinet and did not want to leave. He did have a satellite phone and he texted with our means ski who as his trip navigator sent a regular forecast for wind and weather. Dobro also called his wife twice but after she got the bill for five hundred dollars. She says the desire to talk decreased. Dobie rotated through three kinds of freeze dried porridge for breakfast. Four kinds of freeze dried soup for lunch and an assortment of dozen freeze dried entrees. He ate off meet options. I he also sacked on dried fruit and his wife's plum jam but he ran out of that halfway across the ocean every time he closed his eyes. Nobody told me. I dreamed i was paddling. In the winter in poland lost forty five pounds still. The trip was perfect. Ninety nine days after leaving senegal daba arrived in brazil. He was greeted by one journalist. And the polish ambassador. Nobody cares if you cross the atlantic in a kayak the fact that nobody knows this is clear. In his eyes in photos from the ends of his trips he looks ecstatic and feral in the best possible sense intrinsically wild and free. The day. I arrived in warsaw. A very chic woman named martina. Voyager hofstra the host of polish documentary. Tv show called woman at the end of the world showed up at my hotel to explain. Though to me. I was not in a great state to be precise. I was a jew with the flu about to go kayaking in poland in january. Not a setup likely to end well but still. I was so happy i had gotten away. I've been feeling buried by stuff exactly as predictable as you'd imagine for a working mother of two kids. honestly you don't need the details void. Yohaf ska drank a double cappuccino and told me that she'd been engaged five times but never married. She felt it would be impossible to follow her dreams with a husband. She also left her daughter at age. Eight months to go. Climb a mountain in antarctica because she was trying to complete the seven summits the highest mountains on each continent and achieving that goal at that time felt like a matter of life or death she felt bad about it she said and she felt judged but here we were weren't we then. She sat me down at a nearby restaurant. Ordered pirogies. borscht and told me a joke. The devil a german a frenchmen and a polish man are all a hot air balloon. Voi- jihafs ca said. They are falling falling. A catastrophe is about to happen. So the devil says to the german man you must jump. This is an order and the german man jumps then. The devil says to the frenchman. You must jump. The frenchman says what does this mean. The devil says it means that life is meaningless. But when you jump you will look very chic very modern so the frenchman jumps then. The devil gets to the polish man. He tries the reasons he used on the german and french men without success. Shoot the devil. Says i know you will not jump. And the polish man jumps voyager. Yohaf hofstra looked at me squarely to make sure i understood the more. You don't believe in polish people. The more determined. We are to prove themselves. Polish people will endure everything. If you aren't willing to suffer you can do nothing. You can sit and die. This is the only one thing you can do..
Monocle 24: The Globalist
Apple Announces Lossless Apple Music Is Coming in June
"Talk about apple and apple music. Now this is about to be upgraded and this is a really quite a big story. Yes i think it is. It's interesting that A couple of years ago there was spotify apple music and accompanied tidal which had lossless quality. That was That the differentiator to say you can get the best quality music from title and they charged a premium for that now Next month in fact it lands apple. Music will have lossless and lots of other Levels of Quality at but this will be included at no extra cost of your subscription so suddenly you can get really high quality audio For no more money than your regular fees and lossless means just that that it's it's very good quality. es pretty much so Uses its own codex which are which tend to be better than mp three any way in terms of quality but will be Way better than that if you're listening on the right equipment which it's now it's turned out. does not necessarily include apples airpods. Pro you need wired. Rather than a wireless connection for some of them for others. Dobie at moss for spatial audio airpods pro will be just fine to that. And do you need to have an iphone in order to access this. Yes you know you can There is an android version of apple music as well. Though it is not yet clear whether the same things will be available that imagine they were so this is as you say. Part of the big rivalry between apple spotify untitled titled kind of gone by the by. Yes yes. it's not the big play that it used to be. No it's very much spotify. Which has its own a special things going into podcast in a big way apple is responding but this is a sunni. Apple's way of trying to get more people over drop-off music
Monocle 24: The Globalist
Apple Announces Lossless Apple Music Is Coming in June
"Talk about apple and apple music. Now this is about to be upgraded and this is a really quite a big story. Yes i think it is. It's interesting that A couple of years ago there was spotify apple music and accompanied tidal which had lossless quality. That was That the differentiator to say you can get the best quality music from title and they charged a premium for that now Next month in fact it lands apple. Music will have lossless and lots of other Levels of Quality at but this will be included at no extra cost of your subscription so suddenly you can get really high quality audio For no more money than your regular fees and lossless means just that that it's it's very good quality. es pretty much so Uses its own codex which are which tend to be better than mp three any way in terms of quality but will be Way better than that if you're listening on the right equipment which it's now it's turned out. does not necessarily include apples airpods. Pro you need wired. Rather than a wireless connection for some of them for others. Dobie at moss for spatial audio airpods pro will be just fine to that. And do you need to have an iphone in order to access this. Yes you know you can There is an android version of apple music as well. Though it is not yet clear whether the same things will be available that imagine they were so this is as you say. Part of the big rivalry between apple spotify untitled titled kind of gone by the by. Yes yes. it's not the big play that it used to be. No it's very much spotify. Which has its own a special things going into podcast in a big way apple is responding but this is a sunni. Apple's way of trying to get more people over drop-off music
This Week in Photo
Tough Questions About Lightroom and Photoshop
"Guys. Know the resistance to the creative cloud and the switch to a nobis from from a consumer standpoint the switch to the the subscription model which has a lot of people looking for alternatives. Maybe not a core audience because they're going to stick with it no matter what but there's other people that are like there's this there's that or whatever and i can cobble together. Something that gets the job done. It may not be as integrated as creative cloud but it gets the job done. And i'm only paying one fee for you know i capture one and affinity photo etc matt authority. I when you're faced with somebody that's making that decision you know. Let's take let's take funds out of it you know. Even though the subscription things a big deal take funds out of for this this chat or for this question. And they're just making a decision on where to place their bets because they want to be in this creative world for the long haul and they don't have to relearn stuff you know. Is it better for them to just you know dive in with the new kids because their doing cool stuff in ai and all this stuff or should they go and buy a brick building you know dobie side and just deal with and change the furniture out every now and then. What are you what he say. I mean i i'm always i look at it this way And i'm i'm gonna speak more toward photographers. That's that's primarily. Who i talked to but of of all the things that photographers spend money on ninety nine a month is the cheapest thing that you will spend money on as a battalion And and we can argue aside from the camera and the lens. It's the most important thing that you'll spend money on for for your photography. So i usually just frame it to people that way that ill. It's this ten dollars a month for arguably one of the most important steps in your
Techmeme Ride Home
Associate Editor at Game Informer Magazine, Kyle Hilliard, on The State Of VR Right Now
"What is the gaming industry and by that. I mostly mean developers. What what does the industry think about developing and just the market is it clearly a sliver compared to other things. But do they think like. It's maybe on the cusp of being something. That is interesting. Yeah so. I don't. I don't have numbers obviously but like so to get into my background and just in case your listeners. Don't really know me. I wrote for game informer magazine for eight years as there for a long time until i was we had like right when right when the oculus rift came out like we had an issue like vr issue. Right and we. I remember getting test kits into the office and playing early games and stuff like that and at that time we kind of went in with the mindset of like okay. Well this is like a new. This dobie xbox. They'll be nintendo and they'll be oculus that's kind of how we felt about it like it would just be this other competitive corner of video gaming and now all this time later which is a. We're going to maybe like four or five. Six years later feel like it has found its spot and like you said like beat sabre. Which is the fantastic i played. I almost literally played every day. I love beat sabre Has sold gangbusters There's like i think facebook released a blog that said something like thought they had five other. Vr titles at it sold a million copies which was cool. And so where we're at now is it's interesting because it's not what i thought it would be. Where would be like just as competitive as like the switch. You know what i mean. It would just be another platform that you know hardcore gamers like me would have in their home but it's increasingly kind of become this like weird separate thing that even non gamers are kind of getting into like i've i'm like i've heard of people have met people who aren't really big video gamers but they do have a headset. And they like vr because it does have kind of like what you were talking about earlier. It has practical applications beyond video games. You know you can kind of around the world and see things. I use it to work out like. That's my main exercise purpose lately as i tried to play oculus like at least once a day for thirty minutes played exercise games and beat because they're very movement centered so it's it's closer to like the mobile market. I feel like we're there's a lot of disparate things floating around that are trying to find their niche as opposed to like someone like me. Who's like i have an xbox series s x. I have a playstation five and i got my oculus rift like that's not super common. It's almost treated as like you know gamers like it but it's not like it's not it's more than a video game machine you know. It's like ninety percent of video game machine but like that ten percent is really lifting it up and people are finding that way. Well so this is gets into my sort of disappointment with what i what is out there. Obviously this would have been one of the times where. Vr should have had its breakthrough moment like a lot of things including video conferencing of had The pandemic times now. There are apps on their from companies. That are clearly the eight even says. It's like we'll use this to remote work with your teams and you can all meet in a space and you know whiteboard together and you know. Even you know sketch things and and in a three d. environment especially frano architects and things like that. I can see that but none of it's very good that i've sampled like i would think there'd be more of that. There's also there's also a handful of things that are like we'll watch a movie with your friends and you go into a virtual Sort of movie theater and by the way. All of the like netflix and and prime video they all have apps that essentially you can watch anything you want on a virtual big screen which is very nice for lying down in bed and stuff. But i'm wondering if like they missed a trick like there is nothing that was like a breakthrough during pandemic times for just being virtually with other people. Yeah right when the pandemic started. I remember i think it was fun. Mation was selling tickets to go. Watch a cure with an audience in oculus and i love cura is like one of my favorite movies and i like we are but even i was like i look at that mike. I want to do that like yeah. The resolution on the headset just isn't there like it's basically like shoving a like a switch. Well let me take them. It's better than a switch screen. It's like it's a higher resolution switch green but like it. Just can't look as good as your desktop for work or your four k tv in your living room. It's just it's like you have to accept that limitation in order to participate like i saw this Which i had never seen until today. Maybe because you are emailing me about vr. Google is like oh let's send this guy. vr ads but it was like it was like. Yeah what will like. Let's let's have a workspace. You can have as many monitors as you want and you can have a virtual keyboard. Obviously it'll be but there'll be a virtual keyboard and it's like that's a really interesting idea. But i'm not gonna take that resolution downgrade in visuals. I'm not going to be able to see that. Virtual computer monitor. As well as i can't if i'm just looking at my standard computer monitor and it's not worth that dive and
The $100 MBA Show
Three Marketing Trends to Look Out For in 2021
"So what are the top three trends. I believe you should look out for and twenty twenty one and how to really utilize each of them. So your business can reap the benefits in two thousand and twenty. Many industries are a surge in online shopping online purchases buying things whether it's products or services or tools online. And here's some data for you. Depending on the industry of various from one industry or the other but the minimum growth of online sales was twenty. Five percent in some industries saw up to five hundred percent growth if there was any apprehension of ever buying things online or being reluctant to put a credit card on a website. Those as are totally over cove it has obliterated those objections or the hesitation. And it's been a year. It's been at least nine months for most people in the world who have had adopt to buying things online with grocery whether it's renewing their insurance with our buying coaching or therapy online. The point here is is that this is now. This was a short thing. At least nine months of this was going on so people are in the habit. They're comfortable with checking out online. Now you might be saying. Hey omar that's great But i've been online for years. What does that have to do with me. Well this means that your checkout process has to be on point acid efficient. It has to be fast. Many industries are really upping their game when it comes to check out. This is one of the focuses. We have in our business whether ninja some of the things that you can do to improve the checkout process. So people are having a more pleasant experience and they come back to buying your products and services is a more options for payment. One of the options Haven't adopted yet but we'll be adopting in two thousand. Twenty one is incorporating apple pay into their checkout process. over sixty percent of the internet's traffic is on mobile. That means people are going to be on your side. They're you buying things with their phone and a smooth transition to check out without pulling a credit card out of their wallet using apple pay is going to put you ahead of the game. It's gonna make it easier faster. Simpler for your customers already been predicted that apple pay is going to see a huge jump in twenty twenty one. Many studies have shown that by the end of twenty twenty one. The ten percent of all transactions around the world will be with apple pay. That's a huge slice of the pie. You can tap into that you can increase your checkouts by offering an easy way to check out if you're using a stripe for example checkout already have apple pay built in. You just need to make sure that your interface or checkout process has apple pay a shop affi- store they have apple. Pay already in there so you can really just this on. It's going to take you a few minutes or maybe an hour to set this up on your site and you're good to go trend. Number two people have been watching videos for a very long time but twenty twenty has saw the most significant jump in video consumption ever in history forbes recently published an article showing that in twenty twenty people watched five online videos a day whether it's to whether their videos on people's websites these platforms are designed to keep them watching again. This is a habit. This is a new normal. the has been established. People are watching more and more online. Video is becoming. The medium of choice for communication on top of that youtube tubes algorithm for search engine optimization has gone bonkers. It's incredibly incredibly sophisticated. If you search a term on youtube not only does it search for you know the titles and the descriptions and the comments for those terms it actually knows when somebody actually says those words on the video and will give you a result of based on that. So if you're asking me you should go bullish on video this year. Two thousand twenty one. You should have a video content strategy whether it's a weekly series whether you're running webinars whether you're doing live or recorded video with youtube channel the players that you wanna tap into what people are already doing instead of force people into something that you like doing her new like consuming you're like producing it's never been cheaper. To produce videos now you can get a you know hd or four k webcam for under one hundred dollars get a ring life for fifty dollars and a decent mike for about sixty dollars and you got a home studio. If you're on a mac you have free editing software with movie. Even if you're not on a mac you can always Go with adobe subscription service which you can get their dobie premier Video editing software for like thirty dollars a month an indispensable tool if you're going to get serious about video and twenty twenty one highly recommend you start thinking about what video content you want to produce. It doesn't have to be talking heavy. It could be interviews. You could be reaction videos. It can be collapse as long as it's entertaining. It's engaging it's informative. People will watch trend number three and this one's a big one and it's gonna affect a lot of businesses and you really should start looking into how you can adjust your business to your website. Accordingly and that is privacy and security. This has been something. That's been percolating in the news for some time. This is particularly important when it comes to the way you are going to be advertising to your customers typically if you want to run facebook ads for example you have to put what's called a tracking pixel on your website this facebook to know when somebody's on your website so they can serve them ads on facebook and also allows them to track conversions. The issue is that data gets an owned by facebook. And a lot of it is some information that a lot of gonna wanna share like we'll computer browser on their location. If they're signed into facebook they know a whole lot more. Even you know who they are their likes are wants. All the interactions. They've had on facebook and basically facebook contract this person as they're moving around the internet and this is becoming more of a problem is becoming more of an issue because feel realizing wow. I'm being tracked We started to see this a couple of years ago with the cookies. Message that you see for gdp are people say. Oh the cy has cookies. And it's a way for us to track and people just ignored it and they're just click. Okay things are going to get a little bit. Hotter apple has already announced that in their next ios update for was fourteen. They're going to have actual pop-ups actual System messages from the operating system telling the user telling the person with the iphone. Hey this site has a tracking pixel. Do you want to be tracked. And it's actually quite a statement. It's actually something you really can't ignore. You have to say yes my movements or no. I'm paraphrasing of course. But the point here is that the privacy issue of tracking people is becoming more and more a- battle and obviously apple is going because their brand is all about privacy and security and boy do they have a market share so a lot of your users a lot of people that use iphone. You know if they're use. Iphone are going to see this message on your site. This means you can't have a tracking pixel and you're gonna have to think of ways to market your business you can. Of course run ads without attracting pixel. But you can't track conversions. Which makes it really hard for you to be able advisor ads. Which then begs the questions. Should you run ads. So this is something you need to keep an eye on and you need to plan ahead already in our business. We're trying to move away from paid advertisement or paid acquisition where customers into long term long tail content marketing whether it's a blog whether it's videos whether it's youtube whether it's partnerships with as their affiliates. The point here is that we want to own the traffic. We ought to be able to rely on our own content to bring us a traffic and not use. Third party apps to advertise. This is a big shift. It's not easy. It's not just facebook. Google or anybody else that has any kind of pixel on your site or requires a pixel so that you can track conversions so if you use paid. Acquisition us paid ads on lincoln on facebook on google. You may want to think of other ways to bring in traffic at least wean yourself off of the a bit because it's not going to be as effective as it used to emmy even get more expensive so there you have a guys three trends to look out for twenty twenty one. Get on top of this and be ahead of the game.
News, Traffic and Weather
Black Friday sees record online as US shoppers stay home
"Record online sales. Many Americans choosing to stay at home, According to Dobie Analytics, Consumers spend an estimated $9 billion online that's up 22% from last year. Which saw $7.4 billion worth of online sales. But in person store sales dropped by about 52%, starting tomorrow, new restrictions
NPR's Business Story of the Day
Retailers Change Up Black Friday Deals To Keep Shoppers Safe
"Many businesses did not make it to this black friday. Maybe you've seen them shuttered in your neighborhood but those that have endured until now may be in position for a big holiday shopping season though. It definitely not safe to push your way into a crowded store just about anything can be delivered to your door if it's a gift. Hopefully that is done discreetly. Npr retail correspondent alina. Seljuk is covering the story for us. Good morning good morning. What do retailers expect big picture across the board. I'll surveys are suggesting. The majority of americans plan to shop in store or online this week or next and forecasts suggest. Were actually in for a record setting holiday shopping season just address. I always get this question about black. Friday is a dead and every year. I come here and if you like declared dead and then get a bunch of annoyed messages from people who love not just want to say. It's just no longer at that obsession with this one single day of the year. You may have heard these ads weeks ago this year walmart. Turn black friday into deals for days. Starting saturday november seven this year targeted black friday deals all november. Actually sales began as far back as tober in some cases so a lot of people have already started their holiday shopping. And don't intend to stop okay so we should really think of it as black friday's or black friday sales holiday. This is mainly happening online. For safety reasons. I assume by far the vast majority do say they plan to shop online on their phone screens. Because the big thing that happened this year we got a lot of people becoming online converts for the first i and especially thinking things like grocery health and beauty products stuff that we used to have to see i will. Here's vivek pandya tracks online shopping at dobie digital insights about thirty one percent of consumers reporting that they rarely shopped online or had never shopped online before and covert pandemic was essentially a forcing function. And when you think about physical stores every year the international council of shopping centers does a shopper survey and this year even this group is reporting a big drop in the number of people who say they plan to physically go shopping but in that survey almost two thirds of respondents said they did plan to go shop at a physical store. It's a lot of people and stores are adjusting. You know they're requiring masks. They're counting customers again to limit crowds and they're drawing attention to the cleaning measures which like unglamorous thing stores usually like distract from. We'll now you've got you know sanitizers front and center however people shop. What are they shopping for. Classic stuff close. Get guard stores. Electron ix smart. Tv's home speakers that sort of thing for years. We watched this shift toward experiences rather than things this year. We're back to things you know until we can start jumping back into massages classes or whatnot and especially talking things for the home where we're spending all this time now. More holiday decorations to check out houses books and crafts to occupy time. My favorite hot for the cova time is apparently air. Fryers are big for all that comfort food. So many families are still struggling financially. We hear about that every day. They still seem to say they want to feel special. The wants to celebrate the national retail federation predicts on average. Shoppers are going to spend almost a thousand dollars gifts food decorations and other holiday things which is only a little bit less than last year when the economy looked extremely different leading. It's always a pleasure talking with you. thanks thank you.
Daily Tech News Show
HomePod will soon have Dolby Atmos support for Apple TV 4K
"Apple confirmed, it will issue a software update to tone pod speaker to output Dobie, atmos- audio, as well as five point one and seven point one channel audio when used with an apple TV for K. Dobie is available using just one home pod although it's more ideally suited for to using a stereo setup. This feature is only available on the original homepage, not the forthcoming homepage many non-public Beta builds. Of TV, Os also allow for users to select homepage default connected speaker for Apple TV.
Mac OS Ken
A Look At Apple's Hi, Speed Event
"Few huge surprises at apple's high speed event though. There were some unexpected bits. Did. Anybody. See The verizon thing coming? Did we have any idea what? MAG SAFE WAS GONNA turn out to be. There we'll get to those. Most of today's presentation is drawn from a couple of viewings of the Apple Park presentation. We'll also pull from the usual suspects doing their usual bang-up jobs. Tuesday's high-speed event presentation started with Apple CEO Tim Cook welcoming viewers back to Apple Park than throwing the presentation almost immediately to others to give the INS and outs of home pod. Many. Bob Board richer's apple VP worldwide product marketing listed the company's desires for home pod. Wanting. The device to have amazing sound to act as an intelligent assistant to serve as a smart home hub all while protecting the privacy and security of the user. This, they say they do in a smaller spherical unit that costs less than one third of the original home pods original asking price. On the amazing sound side company bragged on the devices ro properties as well as how well it plays with others. Others being other apple devices. Users can apparently sink home pod many's either a stereo pairs or to play the same audio throughout the home. The. Inclusion of apples you one processor makes handoff easier to handle according to the company. For what it'll play. Well, there's the usual stuff apple music, apple podcasts, iheartradio radio DOT COM tuned in with Pandora and Amazon music on the way in the coming months. As for the smart part Home Pod, many will handle or interact with messages. Calendar phone calls maps music because. The. Weather reminders and find my feature. There was also an interesting demo where users ask for personal updates and got them. personalized. So he you know multiple voice recognition is key. Now. One new feature mentioned and de Mode was intercom. This is basically what it sounds like. You tell home pod to deliver a message to everybody and the various apple devices in the house including other home pods, iphones, apple watches air pods, and even carplay units play or display the message. I have heard entercom will work with the original home pods as well though not seeing that confirmed. Addressing. It's smart home hub nece home pod many integrates with apple's home APP that lets control home connected accessories said scenes and stuff like that. Covering User Privacy Apple, says no word spoken to Home Pod, leave your home until you touch home pod many or say he. S I are. So, yes, it is always listening but what it here's goes nowhere until you give it the command. Request. A home pot or not associated with apple ID. You choose whether recordings are saved by apple personal requests only work when the associated iphone is home with you. And communications with smart home accessories used strong encryption according to the company. Now I, said earlier that the unit is spiritual. If you've seen a home pod, there is no mistaking what this thing is. Same sort of light up display on the top same mesh wrapping it's roundedness and the same white and space grey options as the original home pod. Coming soon to flat surface near you. Orders for home pod many began on the sixth of November unit, start, shipping the week of the sixteenth of November. Not Price, to beat an echo but not a device that will break the bank. Home Pod many will sell. For, Ninety, nine bucks. Okay. I pretend to hear you say but I'm worried about breaking my home pause many. Not sure why but better to be safe in your case. To that end apple care plus we'll be available for home pod. Many. A piece from macrumors says, that will run buyers fifteen bucks. When Tim Cook was back on camera, he took a moment to Brag on iphones past noting the iphone eleven has been the number one smartphone in the world since its launch and that I phone has led the industry in customer satisfaction every year since it's Get ready to hate all of them as the iphone twelve line makes the scene bringing with it five G. Connectivity. Which one? All of them. Had Been Rumored Apple announced four iphone phone twelve models and has had also been rumored. Each can support five G.. Cook says, five G. Brings A new level of performance for downloads UPLOADS, higher quality video streaming, more responsive gaming, real time interactivity, and more. The CEO says five Jia superfast, which he actually pitched as a security feature speeds are so good. He says you'll be less tempted to sign on the public WIFI limiting exposure to the dangers that lurk there. Every decade brings new technology that provides a step change in what we can do with iphone said Cook. Today. A new era begins for iphone. Today we're bringing by G. to phone. Then began the verizon commercial. Hans Fest Berg Chairman and CEO. Verizon took to the stage talk about big reds five G. offering. Verizon's by ultra wideband with large quantities of millimeter wave access will be live and sixty cities across the US by the end of this year. In ideal conditions, Best Burg says the carriers seen four gigabits down and two hundred megabits up. The four gigabits is kind of funny own Antonio Guy says an ideal conditions. Well it doesn't sound like you're getting four GIGA beds but we'll get, him. The other thing best Burger announced was flipping the switch on Verizon's extensive five gene nationwide network. That apparently went live yesterday. Boy would I like to know the terms of the deal worked out between, that bill and Verizon? Emphasis on particular carrier. I did not see coming. Now I said iphone twelve comes in four models here the rumor mill rang true. The phones are iphone twelve iphone twelve many iphone twelve pro and iphone twelve pro, Max. Starting with iphone twelve, remember the squared off edges of iphone Four. The new design returns us to that. Squared edges that meet flush with the devices front and back glass the front classes something special though. Working with corning delay, this display is protected by what apple. Calls Ceramic. Shield. It is said by the company to be tougher than any other smartphone class with four times better dropped performance than iphone eleven. The display it's protecting is apple custom Ole ed providing truer blacks, better contrast and two times the pixels iphone eleven or four, hundred, sixty pixels per inch. While that displays the same six point one inches iphone eleven, apple shrank the surrounding enough to make iphone. Eleven percent than her fifteen percent smaller and sixteen percent lighter than iphone. Eleven Choice of colors is not huge but they are pretty. With options and black. White Product Red Green. And blue that. Does things for me. I shouldn't talk about in mixed company. The candy coating is nice. Let's talk about. It's Chewy. Chocolate center starting with the phones five Genus Apple says, iphone twelve has the most five G. bands of any smartphone for better performance in more places. Additionally the company's silicon, the software approach. Let's apple make the best use of available five G. including choosing to not use five. G.. It sounds like iphone defaults to lt e tapping into five G. when it's both necessary and available. That is great for power consumption according to the company. Apples tested the new phones on over one hundred carriers and over thirty regions. In ideal conditions iphone twelve gets up to three point five gigabits on. which is what makes the Brian Bragging about four gigabytes down kind of funny yesterday. It does support millimeter wave those so. got that going for it. As, for the phones on workings iphone twelve powered by apple's a fourteen bionic, the first phone powered by the five nanometer processor technology packing eleven point eight billion transistors roughly forty percent more than eight thirteen. A six core CPU that's up to fifty percent faster than last year's phone and a four core GPU graphics that are up to fifty percent faster than last year's model. Machine learning also gets a boost iphone, twelve packs of sixteen coordinator and Gen that's up to eighty percent faster than iphone eleven capable of eleven, trillion operations per second. Company bragged on Games claiming console quality for the phone. To Demonstrate and executive from riot games showed off League of legends wild rift a mobile, only game due out later this year. Well phone twelve is not the phone photographers would choose. There's plenty of improvement and it's cameras. Apple says the phone has a twelve megapixel ultra wide camera and twelve megapixel wide camera. It said the sport, the fastest aperture yet it also features a seven element lens that apple says offers twenty-seven percent improvement in low light performance. Mag Save is an internal thing. Rather than a name for a connector is in days of old MAG. Safe today is a collection of magnets and charging elements that help line up the phone for proper charging. When it's not charging those magnets go to work holding on cases and wallets and third party stuff. Apple expects a thriving ecosystem of third party doodads take advantage of the newly introduced MAG. Safe. Ness. Mag Safety. Safe thing. Anyway. It's a thing built into iphone twelve. Every model in the line. Now's probably phone twelve many. Except for the size, you can take everything I've said so far about iphone twelve and play it back. iphone twelve many has the same specs as iphone twelve though in a slightly smaller size. The company says the mini is smaller and lighter than four point seven inch models like iphone eight but with a bigger five point four inch display. Apple says, this one is the smallest thinnest and lightest five G. phone. In the world. Talking about last night with Frederik, Van Johnson, and a few other folks on Chuck joiners Mac. Voices. We came to the conclusion that the pro phones for two groups, people who wanna spend as much money as they can afford. Or people who really care about the camera. There's nothing wrong with the camera functionality and the iphone twelve or iphone twelve many. Unless you count they're not being as high end as the camera on the high end. No I'm not a high end photo guy. So there was a lot set around iphone twelve pro, an iphone twelve pro Max that escapes me. The camera on iphone twelve pro boxes said by apple to have a sixty five millimeter focal length from fifty two millimeter focal length and last year's counterpart. It's got five times optical zoom range and the set to support an eighty seven percent improvement in low light versus last year's top of the pro line. I do know enough to be impressed by one thing. The pro line can shoot an apple pro raw. or it will be able to with a software update. Later, this year photographers will also be able to edit those images. Directly, in the photos APP. The pros can also handle. HD are video recording catching seven hundred million colors. Sixty Times, the number they could capture before. Apple, said they also sport the first smartphone camera that'll record in dolby vision hd are. And just like the apple pro raw functionality users will be able to edit the dobie vision HDR video in the photos APP. Finally the light are rumors were finely true the twelve pro and twelve pro Mac speech or a world facing light detection and ranging scanner. That let folks scan and modeled their surroundings. Apples Demos showed that put to use for placing objects in an augmented reality environment performing improved autofocus and low light and improving camera that perception in low light for night moat. Working our way out of these phones, Greg, Joswiak, apple's newly minted senior. VP Worldwide Marketing talked about a few of the pro lines features. It's got mad safe. It's got ceramic shield. It's got a Super Ratna FDR display. As for sizes iphone twelve pro gets bumped from five point eight inch display display size of six point one inches the pro Max meanwhile goes six point five inch display to a display size of six point seven. All of it is bound by the same squared off edges as iphone twelve, the with a couple of distinctions. I. The outer band is stainless steel on the pro line and second the colors are a bit more refined. Coming in silver graphite a gold that looks seriously golden. And the Pacific. Blue that doesn't do as much for me as the blue on the IPHONE twelve. Not that I'd turn it down. If cost is your primary concern. Here is what you're looking at across the whole line of iphones. iphone se. Start Three, hundred, ninety, nine dollars iphone ten are starts at four ninety, nine iphone eleven starts at five, ninety, nine iphone many starts at hundred ninety, nine dollars iphone twelve starts at seven ninety, nine, iphone twelve pro starts at nine, ninety nine. An iphone Pro Max starts at one, thousand, ninety, nine dollars. For the new phones though those prices are only Kinda SORTA true. Peace, from the Mac Observer says iphone twelve many an iphone twelve do start at six, ninety, nine and seven, ninety nine if you buy them as a t and T or verizon phones if you buy one is either a sprint or t mobile phone or as an unlocked phone. The starting prices are seven, twenty, nine, and eight, twenty nine. With no indication as to why. While it's great that ceramic shield means less of a chance of broken display. The chance is still there. If that bugs, you apple care pluses there for all of them. macrumors says, two years of coverage will run one, hundred, forty, nine dollars for iphone and twelve mini. Adding loss or theft protection will up that price to to nineteen buyers can get ongoing coverage for seven, ninety, nine per month or eleven dollars and forty nine cents with loss and theft added. As for the higher end phones, the pizzas, two years of Apple Care Plus will cost one, nine, thousand, nine or nine dollars ninety nine cents per month. Theft. And loss coverage bumps that price to two, hundred, sixty, nine dollars or thirteen dollars and forty nine cents per month. Ongoing. As for availability, apple is starting in the middle. And working out. Would owners can order iphone twelve and iphone twelve pro this Friday the sixteenth. October. They'll be delivered the following Friday the twenty third. If you're targeting either end of the range. iphone twelve, many an iphone twelve pro Max will go up for order on the sixth of November. Delivery should hit the following Friday the thirteenth of November. Barring incident which I have to say because. Friday
This Week in Photo
Adobe MAX! The Creativity Conference
"Welcome back to another episode of this week in photo I'm your host Frederik van Johnson Today on the show we're talking to some folks from Adobe about. A little show called Max that they put on from year to year. The lot of people in the creative industry look forward to kind of like Mac, nerds look forward to macworld. The creatives look forward to Max because it's kind of the latest greatest it's coming out of adobe innovations. And just sort of a shot in the arm creativity wise of what's happening in the creative world. Obviously. This year is a little bit different, and Max is a little bit different They're pivoting. These were pivots overused this year but they've they've restructured the conference into some more of a virtual offering and I want to get to the bottom of it. I want to understand is it better? Is it? You know what's better than being full on physical is virtual virtual allow more people to attend a you know, what are we giving up going virtual? So all those things we're going to answer. So Britney miscarrying Katrina ice men. Are, here to talk about the stuff, we're also going to dive into if we have time into some topics around light room in understand light room workflows in that cool stuff. So welcome to the show guys how you doing. Great. Thank you for having eight. Thank you. No. Thank you both for coming on. Monday afternoon I know how busy Mondays are for everybody. So thanks for taking the time to do this. I WanNa have you both introduce yourselves your individual areas of expertise inside the adobe adobe ecosystem, Katrina iceman. We'll start with you what do you what do you and I have known each other you know for a long time I won't go into how long but it's been a long time. I'm happy to see your face in here and I was surprised when I saw that you are attached to adobe also they need her so What do you? What are you doing at Adobe? Well, first, let me say that I started with Photoshop. Before it was released and even when I see with that Beta version of photoshop like I WANNA work with this company that was over thirty years ago. So hang on to your dreams because they do come through and. I know I'm tenacious and. Due to my photographic writing and educational experience. There is a new project that adobe was developing. That's now in light room, and it's all of the room to to`real and the discovery edit files learning an inspiration all in-app that I'm happy to talk about, and that's really what I concentrate on is working with the community to share integration and information. So you're you're I know you're you're official title of over there is the your product manager for engagement and I'm interested to a really happy to see that you're helping with the education side of that because you know as as the interview progresses as we talked about in the Green Room, I want to understand and I want our listeners viewers to understand that ecosystem, the light room classic ecosystem in Mobile, and how that fits into it and what they should be using for what is. As you know as a educator, there's a lot of confusion out there around what tool should I use much much to a to the effect of people even beings suffering from analysis paralysis like, Oh, I should use that year. So I use that I use this deal or whatever. So let's get to the bottom of that to in this interview as we progress, of Brittany, tell us about you and your your expertise over to Dobie. What are you? What's your? What's your area of responsibility? So, I, oversee strategy content and marketing for adobe corporate events, which includes Adobe Max says well as Adobe Summit. So this year has been a very busy year where we're going all in on virtual events, and so I'm very excited to talk more about what we're doing for Max. That's cool. That's cool. So Max. So take us for the folks that may not have heard of adobe Max right what what was adobe Max originally concepted for and who who's target So, Adobe Max is the world's largest creativity conference, and typically it has been three full days of immersive learning and training and inspiration workshops in a variety of other activities in a physical environment. So we traditionally have appealed to creative professional's across all of the various products that adobe focuses on. It's also where we traditionally will announce any of our new releases and our latest innovations.
The 3:59
Chromecast with Google TV can finally take on Roku and Fire TV Stick 4k
"Veiled the guys last week and got a little lost in the shuffle with the nest audio and Pixel. Five debuts. So what's new what the chrome cast? So the big thing with the crown cast is that it now has a remote and an interface. Those are two long awaited features. You no longer have to rely solely on your phone or tablet or computer to take Netflix's Surg, Youtube and put it onto your TV and I mean, talk a little bit about some of the features on that remote, as well as the interface what what is new about it and is it was it like to us? So I guess we'll break this onto two things we'll start with what's new a google system is very present on the new chrome cast. There's a dedicated assistant button it actually is in a different hue on the remote stands out. It's Pretty active as far as being the interface as well, and you can actually control most of the chrome cats functions with Google system, which is great it really it does a nice job as far as what else is new beyond the interface remote that really covers the bulk of it. There's also Dobie vision and they'll be utmost if you have a compatible TV and sound system. What about that Google TV experience I know it's a revamped version of what they previously called Android TV what's different about it like how and how does it work? So it's kind of new for you page. So the big the big push with. Google TV is a new interface it a new layout that looks more like a Amazon's fire TV. than the old way, which had you basically scrolling through each apps now there's Content in the four as opposed to each APP having it's own separate. Column. Ero-. and. It makes it a lot easier to use it. It's designed to help you find things to watch. As. Opposed to mindlessly scrolling through. Netflix. And then scrolling through prime video or HBO or any of the other many streaming APPs that are available a lot. This seems like upgrade or anything you don't like about this thing. So I had a couple moments where it lacked it wasn't as fast as say Amazon's fire TV, stick four K., which is a similarly. Priced. Streaming dangle. That has Alexis Google Assistant. Random issues where assistant where if I asked to watch them a big marble and so I'd asked to watch avengers infinity war and it would start playing on. Youtube. TV through TBS which has the broadcast rights or the cable rights rather as opposed to recognizing that I subscribed to Disney plus and playing it in four K. on Disney plus subscription. So it just doesn't assistant doesn't always know right now what the best way to watch a particular show movies. It also had a weird issue where unofficial. Weird issue. But you can't actually power this or I wasn't able to power this off of the USB port on my television. I had to use the included seven and a half. Watt Power after which I don't know about you, I like plugging these things directly into the TV running off the USB power it's less cables to see it's easier to to install not having to find an empty outlet. And the fact that this at least with my lg Ola that I was testing into couple years old the old lead, but it's still a fairly recent TV. The fact that wouldn't power and function off of what was provided from the USB port was a bit surprising. Yes. Someone who has his roku plugged into the USB poor of his TV, I can definitely appreciate the need for something like that because it cuts down on the number wires behind your TV. And living in a household with multiple kids you WanNa have as few wires as possible. So that's kind of annoying. Setback. But you know that that that's not the biggest deal you talked about Google assistant and how it's front and center in this Did you find when you were using this? You're using Google system a lot more or were you reverting back this year? The traditional way you'd use remote control, right just the using the standard volume channel of Buns or like how how did having assistant on their control changed the way you interact with this change in the couple is so. Big in the ANDROID. Google TV. Sorry interfaces for you page which I guess it's a personalized page based off of shows and movies that you like and. Content that you traditionally watch and what is recommending was actually pretty good. That's the default homepage. Ties in necessarily to the assistant the ties to some that personalization aspects I find that to be pretty useful as far as what Google is doing there, and for the assistant director part the voice portion of it. I found myself constantly using assistant to open APPs or two. I was using TV and fan. So just to switch between football and the Yankee game saying. Okay Google the key game in having automatically switched to the right channel. Was Super Helpful and it was doing this regardless of whatever APP was in. So I was watching something on Netflix are on regular youtube and I wanted to see what was going on the Yankee game I'd say Okay Google hold the button down okay Google go to the Yankees game and it would do that. Sometimes it took a few seconds to do that at one point I timed. It knows over ten, which for live TV is pretty bad. Ten second wait between when you want to go somewhere say you WanNa go somewhere and when it actually appears. that needs to improve tremendously, and it wasn't that I had a bad internet connection I have couple hundred megabits per second more on testing. So that needs to improve at otherwise the assistant has been great to use an pretty surprised to say that because voice assistance on these streaming devices. Has Been At least in my experience a bit more hit or miss. So taken together with all these new features, their control and just to clarify. Cost, fifty dollars and that's that's more than the previous rate it is. Go to models previously, there was a chrome cast macroom castle tre. So this does pretty much everything. The chrome cats ultra does the higher end I believe it was seventy dollars model that now's only available in a stadium bundle for now studios actually coming to. Chrome cast with Google TV, this new device, but it's not coming until sometime officially in the believe first half of twenty twenty one. So sometime, next year. So this is actually cheaper. The matter is more expensive than the HD, only chrome cast but that for I believe it was thirty dollars, lacks the interface lacks a remote lacks four case for twenty dollars more you get all that plus the ability to run all these APPs without having to rely on your phone computer tablet. Got It. So taking all together, the price, the new features, the remote control, how does this stack up against similar option from Roku, Amazon through its fire TV line so that's a great question. It really depends on what world you live in. That's how look at this. If you are somebody who has a lot of Amazon devices, I'm not gonNA say the word because I don't want to trigger things. If you have a lot of those devices and you're very much in the Amazon World The fire TV stick four K. is excellent. It's faster than this. The election degration sorry said that word is not as strong as Google, assistant. But it is a very capable, very impressive device. If you have a lot of apple devices roku streaming stick plus which is forty dollars is an equally compelling option especially when it has play which roku announce, the other week is coming at some point soon. So it really depends on where you you find yourself if you just want all the APPs and this has hbo Mac, which is something that Amazon, Roku currently lack. This is not a bad option. Yeah. That was the fault question there because there's been a lot fusion about which streaming services are available on in which dreamers. The generally, the chrome cast is pretty much covered for all your services, the croome cast with Google TV, because they're still regular chrome cast being sold. This one has I would say out of the major ones ninety, nine percents of is missing. Apple. TV plus. Is available on Roku Amazon, and of course, the Apple TV if you want something that currently has everything you have to get an apple TV. Apple TV. For K., but those I think the Apple TV fourcade currently hundred eighty dollars or so. So you have to pay a sizable upgrade plus some pretty old hardware at this point has been rumored to be prepping new boxes of some kind. Were to do that for a while maybe comes out your maybe it doesn't through kind of all over the map there. But that's the only one that has every major streaming service Google has everyone but apple TV plus roku Amazon have everyone bought Hbo Max so it really depends. You S reviewer I'm just curious how you put these things which pesos what is the review process look like especially when you're doing this at home It's a lot of watching. TV. And a of watching movies and seeing how it performs. In a variety of different settings. So different TV's different picture options with different content sources so Disney plot for example, on the Google TV doesn't stream currently until be vision but Netflix does have some content available in dolby vision and will be. Available on the chrome cast with Google TV. So it's it's comparing different things. It's comparing the performance of those content sources to how a roku streaming stick plosser Amazon Fire TV stick for K.. Would handle playing back that particular movie or TV show or piece of live. Content TV's sports. And just comparing and contrasting to watching that sounds like a really tough job. Ultimately is worth. Fifty dollars I think. So if you again keeping in mind that. The exact situation will vary if you like Apple TV, this is not the option for you. If you have a very big Amazon household you wanted to tie in. Really. Well to your rings. And to some of your other Amazon devices. This isn't the option for you. if you want to do airplay, this isn't the option trio. But if you want something that's simple that has a solid interface that has really good remote and isn't that expensive at fifty dollars is a pretty good choice.
All About Android
A Look At The new Samsung Tablet
"Well, let's keep. Let's keep the Samsung train rolling and If there's one device form factor that we're not skeptical about that, we actually wish we saw more of the got to play with more often that would be tablets. And the Galaxy Tab get. Samsung. Galaxy Tab seven plus came out and had you had some time with it and you wrote a pretty good review for over android central. Tell me tell me all about the galaxy. Tab. Seven pluses. Is it a good tablet? IS WORTH PEOPLE'S MONEY? Is that the future of tablets? So the this one, I'm a bit less bullish on that I, am with the with the full to. It is a fantastic tablet. So I guess we'll quickly run through some of the some of the features with it. I'M GONNA try not to hit my microphone Basically, you've got most of the same specs as some of Samsung's recent phones you've got like a snapdragon eight, sixty, five plus. Sixty eight gigs of Ram twenty gigs of storage, etc.. The point is basically it's just this very, very powerful tablet. You've got a twelve and a half inch one twenty hertz screen? and. The screen just looks gorgeous. It's it's one of the best screens of a any device of used in recent memory the the trouble of course, because it's an android tablet it, it starts to come when you need apps. So If you're just using tablet for media streaming, maybe you know Netflix Youtube, etc. It's it's totally fine. It's got each Dr Support. It's it's quite hd display. It's GonNa Look Gorgeous for everything you watch on it but I do a lot of creative from a video editing to photo editing and audio production and none of that with the exception of photo editing is really great on an android tablet. There's no full version of photoshop like get on an IPAD. At even Dobie Premier Rush, which is available on Android, and it's sort of the answer to android users saying I wish I had luma fusion like the IPAD premiere Russia's a great option but I wasn't able to download that on the tablet seven plus it's just it doesn't show up on the play store so. There's there's a lot of frustration in in terms of I guess sort of pro grade media creation APPs and that that's sort of the thing that I would want this four when you've got this amazing screen and of the tools like the SPN and the really nice keyboard accessory But on the bright side, what I, what I talked a lot about my review is that it has this decks interface where you enable it and it basically turns the tablet into a laptop style interface. You get you get flu windows that you can pin to each side of the screen You get a task for all the stuff that makes it feel like a chromebook or any laptop and the main advantage there is that it lets you sort of run because you can run window to APPS. You can run the phone versions of certain APPs that aren't optimized for giant screen and so things like instagram work a lot better index than they do on a regular tablet view where base fills the entire screen with one giant instagram APP decks really really helps sort of fixed at least the casual the casual ended up issue there so that that's been a big help I think. As. Far as whether or not it's worth I. mean this is this is an eight, hundred, fifty dollars tablet that if you want the keyboard I think you really need the keyboard. It's GONNA cost another two thirty plus you know if you want to get more storage or get five G. support, that's all gonNa cost even more of course. So it becomes this thousand plus dollar tablet that it's it's. Difficult to recommend, I would say for most people. I mean, those numbers are close to laptop numbers right for like I mean I mean for powerful laptop numbers I mean you can get a much. You can get an affordable laptop and you can even get affordable convertible laptop that also functions as a tablet for under a thousand dollars. So yeah, I could see where it gets price prohibitive. Absolutely. I mean I think if you had more of those apps like Photoshop and premier premiere rush it would be a lot easier to recommend just because then if you if you just prefer a tablet over a laptop this is a great option but Without, those apps I mean really what this is to me is a great media streaming device and it's a great gaming device, but you don't have to spend eleven hundred plus dollars to get those sorts of things in in other veterans. So it's just a hard sell for for I think most types of users. At the same time, it's nice that there are options in that range were for the few people who are willing to spend like I think that that kind of that reminds me of the conversation around like the Pixel Book and the Higher End Chrome Os laptops slot like the Pixel book you know where there are thousand dollars plus and the majority of people are GonNa look at that and be like why I spend a thousand dollars on a web browser or whatever everybody says about Chrome Os. But then there there is always that particular few that they're like, no, you know what my work like. Operate. In Chrome Os and I want the best damn device to run CHROMA less and so I'm willing to drop a thousand dollars on it and I. I could see someone out there appreciating that there's a thousand dollars tablet that you know that is like the best thousand dollar android tablet. But yeah by a large, that's probably not most people and especially considering the fact that tablets and android have really not been a very magical ca category combination. You know not in the same way that IPAD and I o S. And iphone have been you know apple has made a very successful business out of its tablet side of things and debris you'll. I have to wonder how much of that and I'm speaking completely from a position of ignorance here. But how much of that is a is a difference in position between apple and Google in terms of a development developers resource or incentive. You know you've got imagine apple went to adobe and made incentivize them to create a full version of punishment. That works may IPAD is Google. Just not doing that t to adobe right they are. Are they being the typical kind of Google unapproachable and not re proactively reaching out to the companies of the APPS that they need in order to make these things make these things become a viable product line they just saying we'll put you know we'll support the operating system. We'll let the OEM's make make the devices and hope that people put good apps on it but could google, get more proactive in terms of soliciting those kind of APPs I think they could. Yeah I mean it's it's this sort of endless circle right because right now Basically you know it's it's not worth it from Google's perspective to to you know sort of incentivize companies to make apps because people don't buy android tablets but people don't buy android tablets because Google doesn't make anybody make good injury jobs. So I really you know. You solve that but. I do think if if you're married to the idea of an android tablet, if you just I mean I love android. On, a phone at least if you really just want android on a tablet, this is easily the best tablet. There is I think from a hardware perspective. This is as Nice if not nicer to me at least than any I have ever used. So there's definitely a lot compelling. Plus the fact that it even though it's expensive, it is a little bit cheaper than an ipad Pro twelve point nine and it comes with the SPN in the box. So you get a bit of a Freebie there So I mean if I guess if your needs don't go beyond what android tablet APP ecosystem can offer your this is this is a great pickup I just such. Eleven hundred bucks is a lot to ask for. So you. So you just touched a question from the chat room. So the pen comes with it right? The pen, but the keyboard is an add on for a couple couple. Hundred Bucks, right Yeah, that'll be two thirty with the keyboard you get obviously the keyboard itself which comes with a track that and then also comes with a back cover that I think is really really handy even if you even if you don't need the keyboard you just WanNa use this as a media device. The back cover is magnetized and it it gives you this almost three sixty hinge. So you can. You can prop up the tablet at basically any angle it's very rigid. I really liked the hinge a lot I don't know if they actually sell that separately without the keyboards for people that don't plan on typing, but it's it's like I said, I think the keyboard and the back cover sort of bundle is is really a must have for for the tablet if you really want to get the most out of it and not just I guess without it, you're basically just using it as a note taking device, which is great. But for eight hundred, Fifty Bucks, you might as well go the extra mile and and get the the other accessories that make it more usable. Even more money. Talks luck. Yeah. That's right there if if Samsung's doing its job, right, then that would be the no brainer decision of anyone thinking about buying one of these. But I guess the question is, do they sell enough of them for be worth it and? Simply always surprises me as far as that's concerned but they might not sell enough from the outside looking in, but they obviously selling up because it keeps making them
Daily Tech News Show
Roku OS 9.4 Provides New Ways to Access Content and More Voice Options
"Roco. Now's a bunch of new hardware and even a new APP. The ROKU STREAM BAR is the latest in Roku of audio products These are products that you know take your dumb television with its simple speaker and give you a little better audio stream bars. Kind of a mid range one this is meant is the entry level versus the Smart Bar, which is a little more capable. The stream bar is a fourteen. Inch sound bar running roku Os capable of streaming four K and HDR content The stream bar can be paired with roka's wireless speakers and a sub Woofer from Roku if you want to add surround sound but it's got four channels to for voice front facing the two side channels to kind of give you a little bit of a room filling sound the stream bar will cost one hundred thirty dollars shipping mid October. Also at brand new top level Roku, streaming box, the ultra. Just like the old ultra but this one's got new features for instance, Dobie vision hd are for the first time I had down as WBZ. In, HD are Bluetooth support. So you can send audio from your phone or Hookup Bluetooth head Suppose first-timer Roku is at Bluetooth price staying in the box first time in the box price days of ninety, nine, ninety, nine, same as the old ultra. And both these devices the sound bar and the new ultra support airplay too. So, if you want to watch HBO Max on a Roku, you'll be able to cast it from your IOS device as one option. Roku also announced plans to bring. It's free ad supported on demand streaming roku channel to. An android, you can get it as part of the ROKU GENERAL APP, but there's going to be a standalone roku channel APP now. Where you can just watch all hundred, some streaming channels, I think they've got hundred fifteen or so channels on there.
Daily Tech News Show
What is Roku? The streaming platform fully explained
"Also at brand new, top level roku streaming box, the ultra. Just like the old ultra but this one's got new features for instance, Dobie vision hd are for the first time I had down as WBZ IN HD are Bluetooth support. So you can send audio from your phone or Hookup Bluetooth head Suppose first-timer Roku is at Bluetooth price staying in the box first time in the box price days of ninety, nine, ninety, nine same as the old. Ultra. And both these devices, the sound bar and the new ultra support airplay too. So. If you want to watch HBO Max on a Roku, you'll be able to cast it from your IOS device as one option Roku also announced plans to bring. It's free ad supported on demand streaming roku channel to. An android, you can get it as part of the ROKU GENERAL APP but there's going to be a standalone roku channel APP now. Where you can just watch all hundred some streaming channels I think they've got hundred fifteen or so channels on there.
Pray the Word with David Platt
Proclaiming Salvation to Those far from God - Luke 5:29-32
"Luke Chapter Five versus twenty, nine, thirty two. And leave. I made him a great feast in his house. There was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. In the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples. Saying, why do you eat and drink with tax, collectors and sinners? and Jesus answered them. Those who are well have no need if a physician. But, those who are sick? I've not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. What a story so Levi the tax collector has followed Jesus, and then brought all whole host of other tax collectors to a feast in his house and centers is what the Pharisees and Scribes Describe Miss Group tax collectors and sinners. So you have this group of religious leaders who are complaining. That Jesus is spending time with tax, collectors and sinners. and Jesus says. This is why I came. I came to call sinners to repentance to give them life, he says those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick and the irony is these religious leaders are far sicker than they realize, but they think they're righteous. They think they've done it all right. Jesus says I came for people who realize they haven't done it all right. And so I just want to encourage us, particularly as we gather together in churches for worship. To realize first and foremost, what brings us together is not our righteousness. But our unrighteousness. Not Our health, but our sickness we need a savior and by God's grace. Jesus has come, and he has made salvation possible for us, and we must never forget that, and we must never lose this emphasis in our lives. We are here on this earth, still to lead people who are far from God to God people who are far from Jesus to Jesus, so throw feasts do whatever God may lead us to do. According to his word to introduce people who are far from Jesus to Jesus, made this Oh, God be the focus in our lives. May this be the focus and our churches? Please God please keep us from creating like A. Christian bubble in our lives and our churches were only spending time with people who were trying to do all these things right got re confess. We can s our need for you who we confess our sickness without you are sinfulness without you. We raise you for your salvation in our lives. We praise you for how you came to save us Oh. God and we pray that you would help to live so that others might experience this salvation so that people who? Even religious leaders might label his too far out there God that they would be drawn to you. Please Oh, God. Give us this kind of focus in our lives and our families, and in our churches, people who are far from you. People were far from Jesus people who even outcast and our Culture God. Please Oh God, please use us to lead them to you. Please make our churches places where centers. Tax Collectors to use the language here from Luke Chapter Five people far from you feel like they have a home because they're hearing about your love their hearing about your grace. They're hearing about your salvation, which we all need God we pray for this for people right around as far from us, we pray for the Dobie people in bogus down over a million of them Muslims in Pakistan Monday. Dobie people group, no followers of Jesus God. God! Please, please. You came for the sick. You came for those who are far from you. Please draw the Dobie to Houston labourers that the Gospel might go to the Dobie in pockets on May. The story of our lives, our families and our churches be reaching people who are far from you ride around us, and far from us for your glory that they might know your love and feast at your table in Jesus name, we pray.
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
Interview with Oki Mek, Special Advisor, HHS
"Hello and welcome to the AI. Today podcast I'm your host Kathleen Walsh and I'm your host Schmeltzer. Our guest today is okay. Mack who is the senior advisor to the chief information officer at the US Department of Health and Human Services? Hhs So okay thank you so much for joining us on Ai Today. Thank you for having caffeine wrong. Yeah thank you so much for joining us. You'd like to start by having you introduce yourself to our listeners. And tell them a little bit about your background and your current role at HHS. I am a. I am the senior adviser to Sasebo. And I'm also the technical integration. Lead but edgy reimagined but my background is really cybersecurity but my principal around cybersecurity. That just knowing cyber alone is not enough. You really need to know and understand the business I've been with. Hr FINANCE BUDGET GRANTS ACQUISITIONS. I was leaving sponsored to help onboard new employees for personnel security and badges and laptops. So I find that to be very critical and crucial in terms of modern nine station in the government just knowing to three sixty just understanding what you know what budget stream is coming through. What is the budget calendar Audi acquisition services and products and even just getting people on board with badges an laptop? Just getting that three sixty view and been very critical in terms of you know modernizing trying to innovate in trying to change the landscape Embracing Emerging Tech and dealing with big data paradigm shifts excellent. Yeah it's definitely the government's been very interesting. Adopter not just technology in general but especially with artificial intelligence. Because you know is is a transformative technology. Just like You know many of the other big transformative waves in the Internet and mobile and big data and the cloud and now five G. and then blockchain so all of these technology transformative right. They had changed a whole lot of things or multi. System the multidisciplinary and so obviously there are many ways that we see being applied to government agencies organizations. And we've been very impressed. One of the things that been talking about here a lot today is sort of the many ways in which is being adopted. Not only an industry as a whole but especially in government very impressive actually some of these ways that hopefully it's making the government more responsive more efficient more effective more. Give it more visibility into things. So can you tell us some of the ways that? Hhs is currently adopting AI and various solutions. And maybe how those ways are unique to. Hhs or perhaps similar to what other of different governmental agencies are doing in this space so we start of area to the CIO. And I started a program like celery leveraging ai machine learning and blockchain. It was the first watching network that had been authorized to operate in the federal government but in terms of a I think we are using similar to agency mainly we use it to clean and format the data and as you know you deal with a lot of data set the day. I need data. The biggest thing is cleaning the data. Ninety five I believe ninety percent of it is cleaning the data. People WanNa do they WANNA do machine learning they WANNA do. But they don't focus on they're gonna up a root of baking because Clinton. The data is the biggest component of that process. So we use a machine learning to basically normalize the data from different data sets using supervised and unsupervised learning to normalize the data. And then we also get into linear regression as well in terms of predictive analysis. One of the main thing that we'd do accelerate is looking at prices paid and just as so large we do about twenty five billion in spending on products and services just minding data and cleaning the data at it was a big call just to look at. Why are we buying things that different prices and a good example is? I'm just throwing the example while we buy that. Dobie pro at cms for aided aqua- eighty dollars per license and buying that CDC thirty dapper night or licensed an opportunity to mind data to come to the table to be able to negotiate a different price. You can't come to table to negotiate without having that insight so data claiming and looking at data mining and looking at predictive analysis the three main usage for a for us. That's great you know Melinda. We produced a report last year. And then we did a follow up report this year Dataprep prep and data labeling and I think that a lot of people underestimate how long it's going to take to actually get their data into a usable state so it's great that you pointed that out because I think that people underestimate the time and the difficulty that sometimes it can be actually get data in a usable state. Data's the heart of AI. So you need that. For these systems to learn as a government agency adoption of new technologies such as artificial intelligence can bring its own unique set of challenges that sometimes the private sector doesn't always run into. These can be issues around privacy data usage. What can and can't be used where it can be stored so can you tell us some of the challenges you've seen with Ai. Adoption in your agency and how you're overcoming them by the biggest mistake that people do is looking at the technology before they look at the business and the mission of agency. I always say that does no such thing at it. Project and the business project with it components. You have to start with the business. And what are you trying to saw? Most of these challenges that the EPA my experience I've been in a government close to twenty years half awaiting contractor in private industry and also have in federal government. The challenge is not the technology challenges to culture is leaning chain change management and. I don't think we do not a strategic planning. Just because we have one hundred idea doesn't mean we pursued ideas. We need to look at you know strategic planning comes into play. You may have one hundred ideas but you should only pursue one idea through strategic. Planning you know. The first thing is really feasibility studies. I didn't even feasible to at any regression issue. Anani downstream impact. Accountability is big. I think in terms of trying to modernize. Can you prove a concept just because you have this idea? People might think is a crazy idea but if you do it at a tangible way that you could prove that idea is feasible and it's scalable because you wanNA start small and scale that big as well. Sustainability is huge as well just because the project is a success. Doesn't mean that sustainable as your culture your agency your privacy mature enough to take on this new shining toy you know this new technology but the important part is marketability I we. I can't overemphasize that did not marketability is people. Don't think that the government market but you have to market you ideas. You have to win. The hearts and minds of the workforce the people that They coders you have to be able to market in different ways to senior leadership to middle managers workforce. I think culture is the biggest obstacle. But I think doing a thorough strategic planning analysis and putting emphasis on marketability analysis is key and the biggest part of marketability is human design is really engaging the workforce I'll model in terms of accelerated that. We're not building the solution. We are allowing the workforce to go to solution getting them engaged yet here at thoughts and pain point incorporating agile depth. Bob You know building something. Every two weeks and bring him back to them is a Saab issue and we cycled out every two or three weeks and that really is the key of getting people to lean in and to win the heart and mind of people.