I get 1TB 'free' with my google fiber account. Wonder if it is getting the upgrade too? I'm not holding my breath, but you never know. Use it to move somewhat large audio files to clients.

Wish I had mod points. this should be up-voted. I have a 2016 mbp, and let me tell you the keyboard does really, really suck.

OK, I spent nearly 4 decades in Broadcast and Network radio, worked all over the country, nothing under a top 10 market and eventually ending up in NYC in management in network radio and finally as a consultant based in NY, (retired from the biz now).

You are correct about the executive bonuses, same/same. Clear Channel/iHeart became a behemoth and ended up paying huge sums of monies for large market radio properties in big bundles. Hence the debt. As a very large company, they became slaves to the shareholders/Wall Street. They HAD to meet expectations and revenue every quarter to keep their share value. How did they do this, depleting staff, jettisoning higher paid folks who knew how to actually create a product and not just bean-counters. As pointed out here, creating also-rans all over the country with voice-tracking and other network feeds, Program Directors locally couldn't make local decisions because all edicts came from the mother ship in San Antonio. Of course there is much more, but it's exactly the same sort of idiocy that implodes many businesses.

I hate to break it to you, but broadcast radio listenership is doing just fine. With 93% reach, 271 Million listen weekly, and for a well run station, it's still a license to print money.

https://www.newsgeneration.com...

The problem here is the debt incurred by iHeart (Clear Channel) with their overreach paying huge sums of money for broadcast properties trying to create their own little major market fiefdom. They are 10 Billion in debt. Honestly, it couldn't have happened to nicer bunch of duchebags.

Why the locals here in Austin call it South By So What.

The keyboards on the newer macbook pros suck. I could explain whym, but to do so I would have to continue typing on this piece of crap.

> You have a dumb-ass histrionic narcissistic [csbsju.edu] "supreme leader" vs a impulsive narcissistic [csbsju.edu] moron world leader.

Are you a mental health professional? Have you interviewed them in a clinical session and come to this diagnosis? You are familiar with the "Goldwater Rule"?

https://www.psychiatry.org/new...

Not trying to be an apologist for either of these two "leaders," just pointing out that diagnosis of those two disorders is unethical and at least, conjecture.

irresponsible and borderline criminal is pretty much how I remember said engineer

Worked in broadcasting for a lot of years. I knew an engineer who had troubles with his next door neighbors in an apartment building. So, brought home an amplifier, tone generator and a couple of JBL's and set them against the wall, adjoining the neighbors bedroom. Not sure of the freq, 10hz or lower, and cranked it up when he wasn't home. If you put your hands on the wall, you could feel it, but not hear it. I think the neighbors moved out within a few months.

Jaron Lanier — 'Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one's anus to one's mouth.'

Here in Austin, there are a few establishments that don't accept cash, only plastic. Chi'Lantro comes to mind. And although they are right up the street, I don't go anymore. You won't accept my greenbacks, I'll take my biz elsewhere. (going back to yelling at the clouds now)

I remember when I was a kid, growing up in Miami. We would go to the unlimited hydroplane races at Marine Stadium on Key Biscayne. Back then, all the Unlimited Hydro's were powered by Rolls Royce Merlin engines. Yea, surplus engines from P-51's and Spitfires. There was/is nothing like the sound of that Merlin engine screaming by. If you've never heard it, I can't explain it. Fast forward a few years into the future, and I attend the Hydro races in Detroit, and all the unlimited Hydro's are using jet engines. The go by and it's just a "whoosh" sound. All the fun and excitement were gone. Last Hydro race I ever went to. Or take a dragster or funny car burning Nitro, that sound, that smell. Yea, the electrics and jet powered race vehicles may be faster, but they're just boring. This may sound silly, but soon there will be a generation that never knows the sound of a tightly tuned internal combustion engine on a Formula 1 or even a Ducati. We won't even get behind the wheel, we will just whoosh along in boring electric vehicles. I think Jeff Beck said about self driving cars, who the hell would want that. What's the fun in that. Hell, I even miss the sound of a raspy old Bultaco, Husky or CZ 2-Stroke. I'll go back to yelling at the clouds now.

OK true story here, from just last week.

Here in Austin, we have a Whole Food's competitor run by HEB called Central Market. It's closer to my homestead, so I go there if I need something that a "Whole Foods" store would carry. I also shop at Trader Joe's Randal's and at Fiesta and other "Mexican" grocery stores (depending on price and my needs at the time).

Ok, so I was a Central Market the other day and I passed a couple looking at bacon. I had recently bought the best damn bacon I ever ate at Central Market (they were having a taste of the south promotion) at the deli case. Benton's Country Ham Bacon.

So I strike up a conversation with the couple and tell them about this amazing bacon at the deli counter. The girl says in a valley speak-upward inflection, "But is it organic." I say, "Well, it's butchered from an actual live living hog!" They both look at me with daggers. Jesus, Mary and Joseph people it's fatty meat from a hog! They live in their own refuse. It's bacon for cripes sakes. Right there is your target psychographic for Whole Foods.

Just an FYI: Apple says iMac Pro RAM won’t be user replaceable, Space Gray accessories not sold separately

The older ones are easy. The new ones the glass is glued on with adhesive strips. Not impossible to open, but a solid pain in the ass. iFixit gives them a Repairability: 5 / 10. Also, it looks like the iMac pro, going by the shots on the Apple web site, have upgradable ram slots, but alas, no door to access them. So, to upgrade the ram, gotta unglue the darn thing. Can't tell about the ssd from the picts, maybe under the fan assembly(?) or soldered to the logic board.