My new Mac is a nightmare in every way (hence the delay in posting) but there is an epiphanic upside: My realization that the personal computer market is another example of ‘technology holdback’ (for lack of an already-existing term), i.e., we useless eating saps don’t get the good stuff, the advanced stuff, and we’re not supposed to even know it exists.
My new site, 40 miles from the nearest paved road.
What do I mean? Until recently, I used a Macbook Pro, with a Macbook Air as backup, each being at least a decade old (2008 – 2011), somewhere in there for both. They both crashed over the past year, so I thought I’d update my cyber ass with a new Mac — many old ones, dupes of the two I had, are available online, called ‘refurbished’ — figuring I’d get faster speeds, more storage, all that Moore’s Law good stuff.
Addendum: If the Wiki definition is too much to swallow, Moore’s Law (which has applied since the 1970s) tells us that computer speed, storage, etc. will double every year (or 18 months), an exponential progression. In comparing my old Macs to my new Mac, in the 10 years since the old ones were built, the operating systems of a current Mac should be approximately 32 times as efficient, assuming five speed doublings (which is conservative): Two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two. Five doublings. You get the picture.
Surprise! My brand new, out-of-the-box 2020 Macbook Air is a piece of junk in every way, compared with its much older versions. Let’s start with speed. Being a cyber-fool, my measure of comparative speed is simple-minded. One of my nighttime sky-lapses consists of over 1,000 still images, right? With my old Macs, if my Final Cut was on the blink I’d put the stills in a folder and quickly scroll through them using the down arrow. A thousand clicks, say. Yes, boring, until I get one that blows my mind, like the three shots below…
ATVers raising a dust cloud, as seen from my camp.
My old Macs were instantaneous. No matter how fast I clicked, no problem. This new one makes a scroll-through all but impossible as there is a one second delay between images as the next photo loads. Horrendous. When I spoke to Apple about this, they tried to double-talk me with ‘CPU units’ and other bullshit (like Wifi speed issues, which are irrelevant in this case); none had an excuse for the slower speed that made sense (which they had to admit).
‘So,’ I said to the three different service people I spoke with, ‘instead of being 32 times faster, the new Apple product is actually slower, meaning less efficient, than a model from a decade ago?’ After some dead phone-air: ‘Is that about right?’ The double-talk would continue, and this also happened with the Uber-Supervisor a rattled rep finally connected me to. 
Addendum: None of the three techies I talked to had heard of Moore’s Law, which I found incredible, given Apple’s cavalier use of the word ‘Genius’ in describing their people (the ‘Genius Bar’ in Apple stores, etc.), so I had to describe it, which took some of the wind out of my outrage-sails.
I plan on more multiple calls to Apple Customer Service, until I get someone who understands what I’m talking about when I opine that there is something downright sinister going on with the commercial computer market. The closest comparison here is with the space program, which I’ve talked about before, but which bears repeating, especially for those who don’t agree that there is something profoundly sinister here as well. The best way to sum up is to examine recent ‘missions’, what they accomplished, and the media/public reactions to these accomplishments. (This is assuming that the missions are real to begin with, which I most definitely do not.)
Back in the 1950s, when I was in grade school, the Russians put a piece of metal called Sputnik into LEO (low earth orbit). When Elon Musk did this more than 60 years after the Russkie achievement, the media went wild, as if this were a major accomplishment. Musk managed a docking in space in 2019, which was in principal no different than the Gemini mission in 1968. (Yes, I’ve shown that all the Musk missions were fraudulent, but that’s a separate subject.)
Addendum: That Musk did an unmanned ‘test’ mission to make sure the docking would work, given the Gemini mission 60 years previously, was really all the proof we need that something is fucking seriously amiss with technological advancement, i.e., what we’re told versus what makes sense.
Logan’s site, a half mile down the dirt road.
Another way to look at this is to compare what we have now regarding space missions with Kubrick’s 2001; A Space Odyssey. It’s well established that Kubrick was meticulous in his predictive realism; he worked closely with NASA in getting right what NASA itself figured would be the status of space travel by 2001: It’s now two decades post-2001 and we have gone backwards in our space technology. And Moore’s Law should have applied to the space program as well as computer advancements.
That no one, not the mainstream media nor the ‘truther’ alt media talks about this horrendous schism between what is and what should be, is maybe the best example of the degree of deceit/denial we are living under.
Addendum: In terms of storage (which is definitely subject to Moore’s Law), my 2010 Macs had 500 gigs of storage, whereas the best I can do with current Macs (via Amazon) is 256 gigs. Given the five doublings, new Macs should provide 32 times 500 (at least!), or more than 15,000 gigs of storage. Yet storage has decreased. Also, the new Macs lack ports to plug-in accessories; plus no DVD player. Are they serioius?!
I know some of you out there are computer-savvy and I would like very much to hear your opinion on the matter of this Moore’s Law schism. Have you noticed? Do you have a theory as to motive? Or do you disagree and have an excuse for the fact that my 2020 Mac is inferior to the models from a decade ago, when (IMO) the new one should be at least 32 times as efficient? (Even if we assume the sleazy motive of their trying to force us to use The Cloud — less storage so they can access all our info — this does not explain the slower processing speeds.)
Wild donkeys.
Given that many of you spend most of your waking hours staring at a computer screen, I would think this subject would be of automatic/profound importance! Know what I mean?
Allan
I realize that you guys have been using this forum for various subject-debates while I’ve been missing in action, which is fine. Glad I could supply the cyber-space and I did enjoy some of your blabbing. But now we’re back to ‘normal’, and I expect comments to be related to the subject of the post. If you don’t think the subject matter is important, okay. Explain why. Disagree with me but do not insult me.
As I’ve said before, you don’t like it, go somewhere else.
The fisheye lens misleads (notice how small the nearly full moon is, or Orion): This phenom lit up a big portion of the sky.
If you want your mind bent and expanded, check out Dr. Cowan’s latest.
Another.
Thought I’d add these from a few nights ago. I have no idea what this was. Theories welcome.
The bright dot in the upper right corner was a minute before the other two. These are 15 sec exposures so in this one it just hung there.
Hey Allan,
Is it the new M1 mac that you got??
The problem for apple, at least for the last ten years has been heat management, the intel chips are just not efficient, couple that with a bloated OS and you are screwed.
This problem is much more for their mobile devices which suffer crippling heat issues(thermal throttling).
The jump from 32 bit apps to 64 is not just double the but exponentially higher, here is an explanation,
https://blog.boson.com/bid/87673/A-Few-Bytes-About-32-bit-vs-64-bit-Processing
Also my old 12core mac pro had processor speed of 3.2ghz and the new ones do not get higher than that but i can do 4 times as much using a tenth of the power, mac pro was using 300 watts but the new mac mini uses 30 watts
This is a pretty good explanation of the monopoly that intel have and how apple are trying to get over it.
https://youtu.be/OuF9weSkS68
As for moore’s law, i think there is a bit moore to that(excuse the pun)
The processor speeds have been artificially stalled so that tons of money can be thrown at the quantum computing black hole, it is kind of like the Nasa scam just not as big in scope.
I am really shocked that you are not seeing an improvement in performance, i have just upgraded from a 12core 2012 cheese grater mac pro that had enough performance to bring down north Korea, well maybe not that much but you get the idea.
I have a M1 mac mini with 8gb ram and 256 ssd and i have to say it is really quite good.
For instance on the mac pro i could get about 70 virtual instrument tracks in logic pro and with the new M1 i can get about 300.
As for comparisons to windows laptops apple will blow them all out of the water right now!
Anyway hope you are well and are looking after your self
Hello, Allan! One of my coworkers knows I am into Alternative Ways of looking at things and recommend your blog to me this morning because we were talking about Moore’s Law last week.
I’ve been in the tech industry since the late 90’s. Survived and thrived through the .com crash and the plunge of ’08. Doing well in a Covid times, too. All this to say I’m in no way close to the inner circle of Big Tech, but am close enough to observe the BUZZ around that circle.
There are definitely TWO worlds being created right now. Most everyone who merely CONSUMES the internet will be given one kind of world, where Moore’s Law is broken. The other world is for what they call The OLYMPIANS, those “too big to fail”, where Moore’s Law achieves SINGULARITY.
The Mandela Effect is connected to this splintering or shattering of reality.
Keep up the good work. You are, by far, one of the few who is putting it all together on the internet today. The HIVE is keeping a drone for or several on you.
Thanks, Jay. I appreciate your sentiments. A question: i tried emailing you but it bounced. This always worries me. Please be in touch via email on this.
Be happy in your pasture, Allan. The other side is a whoooole new ball game. To mix a metaphor, ahem.
But u know what I mean.
Nodes? Access? Easy.
Not fun; just part o’ the job.
As for truth bombs or drones. You decide.
I told u b4 that Chris is a man-child still living at home with mumsy. And why he’s so scared of a mutating bioweapon you know as COVID is because if mumsy gets sick, Chris’ll have nobody to cook his dinner and pay the heating bill.
That’s about the extent of his worldly concerns, unfortunately.
So don’t waste ur time replying.
Your friend above is wrong about Mandela. The only folks who have access to MWI tech Earthside is MAJestic. If you think they’d allow a bunch of speccy 4 eyed nerds in Silicon Valley (soon to be Austin) access to THAT kind of shit to jerk off over, then ya’ll are very badly mistaken.
And folks think Donny and Bite-em are the pinnacle of power, eh?
You couldnt make that shit up if yee tried.
Masks, lockdown, Chinese retaliation for Wuhan 2020.
THAT’S what’s coming next. Not the Aryan Utopia.
Faaarr from it.
But you smarter folks know this already, right.
Just curious, do you actually know metalman?
Ooohhhh, we got us a detective, yallz.
Mman is off grid and untouchable. Hands off, if you prefer. Even google can’t block him. And wellll above my paygrade, DK.
Accurate info, though. I do know that. I’d read verrry carefully if I were you. Absorb. While most normies think he’s a fantasist.
Go figure. Shows how far they are from what’s really going on.
This is by design, of course.
Haha! – he must exist like that guy S R Hadden , in the movie “Contact” ( played by John Hurt ) 😀
QED, DSK.
Think a guy like this would ever grasp MWI tech or its ramifications?
Of course you wouldnt.
That’s why we have Sky News and Newsmax.
Later~
Allan,
Here’s a. Site I found for Gus.
https://www.homeoanimal.com/blogs/blog-pet-health/how-to-know-if-your-dog-is-depressed-and-what-to-do-about-it
Towards the end of the site are ideas to help lift Gus’ spirits. Sending hugs.
Your Apple problems require a call back. Ask for a ‘senior tier 2 advisor’ and/or senior flevel 2 advisor’. There’s level 1 for consumers and level 2 is for professional writers, photographers, musicians, film makers, artists. They will help you configure it for what you’re using it for.
Make sure you ask for Senior level 2 advisor..
Fingers crossed. Hope that helps. Good luck.
I dislike Macs, Iphones, and Ipads.
I use a Dell, Samsung, and Samsung tablet
Dell??!
Michael! Is that you? Montauk high hook M Potts? I assume so and am very happy you are here. I was starting to lose faith in the whole town.
Thanks a bunch,Cat. I’ll get back to you on how it goes and will be writing about Gus. A hint: I can wake her up by looking at her and can prove it. I have it on film multiple times.
To the commenter who brought up Wiki to say I don’t know Moore’s Law or am ‘obsessed with it’ did not read the wiki entry or has a cognitive problem:
‘Advancements in digital electronics, such as the reduction in quality-adjusted microprocessor prices, the increase in memory capacity (RAM and flash), the improvement of sensors, and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras, are strongly linked to Moore’s law.’
Tech folks are invited to respond to my purchase or make observations re techno-deceit. I don’t want to hear it’s me that has the problem, obsession, or what-the-fuck-ever.
LOL, that guy will be like in your second photo down, – making dust in the distance in the opposite direction :-D.
I know capacitors & resistors normally last for a good 25 years , but the new age micro electronics can go sput for no good reason after about 7 years. The trouble can be microscopic (but visible) and it kills the whole computer. I don’t know if it is deliberate “life span tinkering” by the manufacturer or not.
They most certainly manufacture big money making problems in the motoring world, that is for real and $$horrible$$.
To all you computer geeks (a good thing) out there, let me make a suggestion. But first: Let’s say you’ve been living with someone for 10 years, right? I haven’t seen the person for 10 years. Now you are not going to notice that they aged in 10 years, right? Because you’ve been living with them.
But I immediately notice that they have aged. You see why, right?
Now you guys have been ‘living with’ Mac (say) for 10 years, so you didn’t notice that something is wrong. It’s been a gradual thing, meaning that they are not improving, but rather are deteriorating. So you don’t notice.
On the other hand, since I’m tech-ignorant and just see the results, I notice the problem as soon as I ‘see’ the ‘new’ Mac, after 10 years.
Does this help with anyone? Meaning anyone who might tell me to ‘get over (my) Moores Law obsession.’?
Btw, I’ve just ordered a refurb Macbook Pro. Here’s it is:
https://www.amazon.com/Apple-QuadCore-MD103LL-ThunderBolt-Refurbished/dp/B075JLXZHC/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=2ZV26FK25E4QE&dchild=1&keywords=macbook+pro+refurbished&qid=1609878736&sprefix=macbook+pro+re%2Caps%2C431&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExNTk2MllEWlJFNFAwJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNDQyOTM3MThTN0pNNDdWSjU1NiZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMzA5MjU3MkhVR1ZVOFdGM0c4WCZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=
Any advice? Should I cancel the order? Or am I going to be happy happy?
How do I get an old Final Cut 7?
Help!
Its a mid 2012. Reading the feedback it sounds like a crapshoot. Someone asked about the OS. The reply was Mojave. Was the old Final Cut 7 for 32 bit? The Final Cut 7 pro wont work on Mojave. “tell me can I use Final Cut Pro 7 on Mac OS Mojave . You cannot on Mojave. Mojave does not support 32bit applications – which is what FCP-7 is. If you want to use FCP-7, you need to run it on an Operating System that supports it”
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3269007/what-apples-32-bit-app-phase-out-on-mojave-means-to-you.html. On further review it looks like it will run 32 bit.
Thanks,Bill. I am looking for a free editing software, maybe… is it Davinci? Any advice on that?
https://influencermarketinghub.com/free-video-editing-software/
Hey Allan, you’ve probably already been looking but if not they have the
pros and cons of each. Davinci is on the list too.
Idk, apologies.
That’s a lot of fucking money
hey is it 4:35 where you live at 8:35pm pst? because I hate that the time is always wrong on the blog. Something easy to fix is fucked up.
Obviously *I* don’t know how to fix it. I don’t have a blog or website.
As I read it, that is a mid 2012 machine. I would get it w a 1 TB drive. It is user serviceable, so you may want to pick up a hard drive dock, install Bombich Carbon Copy Cloner and build a clone drive after you finish updating the OS to where you need it to be in order to maximize the lifespan of the machine. I believe that you can take it to 10.14.6.
I think that finding FCP 7 is problematic. You may want to try some of the newer edit programs. We recently switched to DaVinci Resolve and stopped using FCP and Premiere entirely. You can get a free version that works just fine at Blackmagic.
We are using 4 2012-2013 MBPs with no issues.
We also have 6 2010-2012 Mac Pro towers w 8 GB video cards, Samsung Evo 860 1 TB SSDs or M2 drives and 64 GB Ram we bought used for between 850-1200.00 and built. All machines function seamlessly in a production environment.
I wonder if you could get Apple to trade you up on the new MBP? A lot of the issues you speak to won’t exist. But of course there would be OS compatibility issues with older 32 bit software. It would really help you with your motion work.
So sorry that you have to go through this. Not much is worse than what you are dealing with.
Ahh, Davinci. A lot of your tech advice (all of it) went over my head. Assume I grew up before answering machines… which I did. But I appreciate your effort to help. I think Water Time shows I have the instincts of a good editor. My problems are relearning… anything…
You can go to newegg.com. That’s where I buy my computers and you can buy them new sometimes. I currently have a mac air early 2015. And without getting technical the newer macs aren’t as good.
Best wishes Allan
Hey Allan I am shocked to hear the new Mac is a pup/lemon, that is a pig for performance.
I also presumed the latest would be the greatest BY FAR.
My 25 y.o son is actually a computer scientist (doing çomputer science at Uni), and he also agrees with what the folks are saying here (I asked him about it) . You pay way too much for the NAME with Mac, and the computer industry has hit a ceiling with the micro circuits – or so we are led to believe!.
It all reminds me of the lies about the coming *flying cars* from decades ago. Yet we know they hide magic technology from us. Good luck with getting something improved from Apple. Great photos!.
No changes in our pet dog here at all.
Allan,
NASA’s final ‘Image of the Day’ (for the year 2020) was of the Orion Nebulae…an interesting coincidence, no?
I’m wondering if you’ve captured a few of Elon Musk’s Starlink 5-G satellites. The Genius has plans to forever deface our gorgeous view of the heavens with his own personal brand of graffiti. (Ignoring for the moment, real concerns that 5-G will trigger deadly respiratory problems.)
PS – The nightly Starlink flyover for your area can be found online.
https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-final-2020-image-depicts-colorful-orion-nebula-2021-1?IR=T
Larry, you know I’ve been shooting the night sky for years, right? Well, I think the idea that sats are going to fill the sky is a myth, disinfo. I RARELY get sats around sundown or sunrise, which is the only time LEO sats will be visible. I should write a post on this. Something is amiss with the info in the article, etc.
I now have to call Amazon. Apple… more to come on my morning spent with Apple…
Fucking Elon Musk just added a shitload of obnoxious satellites that will ruin night sky photography for decades, and plans to add much more.
A point on storage: In my gopro camera I use a chip the size of my pinkie nail that has 128 gigs storage, right? Yet the NEW Macbook gives me only 256 gigs total storage. So in theory their hard drive takes up two pinkie nails worth of space! How does that make sense?
They should easily be able to give me 5,000 gigs storage even in their slimmed down model. A perfect example of the Moore’s Law schism.
Get over your obsession with Moore’s Law which is neither a law nor an accurate, but crude, at best, model of much worthwhile, except transistor density on a CPU, because Moore knew nothing about statistics or regression analysis, and it has ZERO to say about software, firmware, memory requirements, and a host of other technical issues and predatory corporate crap like forcing users onto the cloud, etc.
Thus it neither translates all that well into the “speed” statistic you cite as part of the law, nor does Moore’s Law even apply anymore for a host of technical reasons.
Look at the semilog plot at the top of the Wikipedia page for Moore’s Law. You’ll notice 2 things: One, it ends at year 2000. Two, roughly every ten years the “density” on a CPU of transistors, which are simply amplifiers or switches, doubles. As a switch the use is as a “logic gates” to produce a 0 or 1 for binary or base 2 math to process numbers, codes, language, etc.
If you’re that interested in it see of you can dig up a graph with the last 20 year’s added as a semilog plot.
In the future you’re likely best off buying refurbished computers and doing solid due diligence thay you’re buying what you need.
By the way, I came of age probably around when you did as answering machines came out when I was at university but I studied engineering and I keep my skills up and I, and my genius, and I’m not kidding, electrical engineering Ph.D. father with a CV a mile long, who designed and built a home security system from scratch long before anyone had them, who holds patents, and who used to do some consulting teaching the dumbies at Motorola engineering, both find the bullshit with tech frustrating. I addressed my frustration by learning Linux and using free ware. Believe it or not, it’s not as difficult as it might seem but it does require time, an intense interest in telling big tech to FUCK OFF and an interest in languages, which I have since I studied a 2nd one for 4 years in high school, and learned the language of music. The liberation from the POS freak Bill Gates’s scam was so liberating. I never thought much of Apple either. It’s just a Linux machine dressed up with hardware Apple designed. It was all marketing.
Sorry, increases by a factor of 10, per decade, not doubles as I wrote.
After 10 years the Mac should work better. A lot better, not worse. Period. That you seem to disagree does not reflect well on your critical thinking skills.
If the plot of transistor density versus time ends at year 2000, and given there is a limit based upon the laws of physics, reached decades ago, of how small any microelectronic component can be made, let alone wired together in complex circuits, and given machines are pushed to limits with complex applications requiring firmware, and OS complexity increases, what makes you make your claim? You have no means upon which to base it because you don’t have a clue about how one component in any electronic device works, including a simple diode, let alone ones run by machine code or complied or scripting code.
If your claim were, in fact, true your new shitbox from Apple would have worked beautifully out of the box since they’re made for plug and play users who know nothing about computers. That it doesn’t makes my point, not your point.
I can assure you my critical thinking skills on ANY science or engineering issue exceed your skills by orders of magnitude and those of most because I not only took courses in advanced math, physics, physiology, anatomy, organic chemistry, microelectronic circuits, signals & systems, antenna theory, microprocessors, probability & statistics, regression analysis, differential equations, materials science, and others, I kept up my skills by learning, at age 55, Python, Linux, and C on my own. My father is literally a genius research professor in math and engineering with a CV a mile long, whose mentor was a founder if the field of biomedical engineering, and who held consultancies for Motorola, ADM, NASA, Argonne National Labs, and others. I grew up learning critical thinking.
I have studied on my own, and at university music theory, I play piano, and I studied how to write fiction, and non-fiction and worked in my community activist work with an accomplished published author of fiction who was also an editor at the Chicago Tribune, to have complex position papers I had to write edited that were used when Rahm Emanuel was mayor. She made minor stylistic changes. I got Chicago’s first public STEM School built, and a new master plan for one of the nation’s largest redevelopment of federal public housing, which required that I, a non-lawyer, sign a one year Westlaw contract, read complex federal civil housing rights case law dating back to August, 1966, and work up a credible federal law suit on my own which I then presented to a friend who is a litigator. He was not only impressed, he said he could file the case. Rahm Emanuel, when I told him I would file it, and, who my lawyer would be, gave me the new master plan, and a $90 million appropriation for a new public high school.
My critical thinking skills make your critical thinking skills look like child’s musings.
Blah blah blah. You know, when someone starts a comment by telling me I have to ‘get over’ something, I assume they have an attitude problem, which seems to be the case with you.
I’m sure all are very impressed with how tech savvy you are. Might distract them from the fact that your blabbing has nothing to do with the points in my post.
Denny
What was your final grade in charm school though? Just wondering…
Hey, Dennis….since you are obviously very busy, howza about putting dear ol’ dad on the line?
There is different kinds of ssd’s and they have different ways of connecting to the system, and different speeds and different reliability/lifespans. One 128gb ssd does not equal another. BTW the little microsd cards are notoriously unreliable for extended repeated use. Using one as a hard drive is a bad idea, although they do on linux raspberry pi little tiny computers. Eventually a micro sd card that is written to a lot (like in a go pro) will fail before other ssd’s would. (that’s all you can use in a gopro). I just recently have been learning about ssd’s and was super surprised at how much difference there was in cost, speed, projected lifespan, and form factor.
For once I agree with you. However, comparing 10-12yr old tech vs current tech, the current should outperform by a noticeable amount and be almost as obvious as night is to day.
SSD is fast but wears out over time. I don’t think the speed is worth it. I’ll take a disk drive over SSD.
Fee chrissakes I’m not saying they should stack little ssd cards in there. If you don’t get my point here about wasted space… pu-lease!
GoPro video at Richard Grove’s place showed storage capacity. That was years ago.
I came to the conclusion many years ago that the upgrade in technology was a pre planned commercial operation, requiring consumers to spend money on a frequent basis. So, even if computing power was to double in a given time frame, the need to upgrade would have a similar frequency. If your purchase had fulfilled your expectations this would have been a short lived celebration as it became outdated and underperforming within the next tech advancing time frame. Obviously, this relates to more than just computing. I think the computing out dating takes around four years, so I suspect the doubling effect is likely to be four years. There is no need to increase this speed of upgrade. Consumers pay ridiculous money for next to no improvement!
You are forgetting that my Mac did not get better, not even only by a factor of two, it got LESS EFFICIENT. Even if we ignore Moore’s Law (which you are doing) this doesnt make sense.
Especially if you compare your old specs with the new specs. Even tho you didn’t get a top of the line current MAC, it should do much better than what you had 10+ years ago and it hasn’t. Let ‘er rip when you give it to Apple stating the obvious.
Great pics Allan. The Cowan’s interview with Veda Austin was fantastic. Water (again) leaves me speechless. I literally got goosebumps watching the vid in astonishment. I too will be attempting her experiments and buying her upcoming book and Pollack’s too.
The one that blew me away the most was the wedding card with water’s interpretation of it being what looks just like a woman’s wedding ring!
And her description of certain waters having a healing effect was truly amazing. My wife and I after reading the Contagion Myth now use bottled water (in 5 gallon glass) from one of his recommendations. We use that to drink and cook with. Every bit helps. Would love to find alternative sources too of natural water with a higher Ph levels.
Altho i already knew a lot of the water ‘miracles’ via Pollack and others, Veda’s photos stunned me to the core. As you imply, the implications of this are hard to overstate. It’s related to pretty much everything, but for one it blows away the materialist/reductionist paradigm in one fell swoop. I hope anyone reading this goes to the video and spreads it around. That Cowan still gets less than 5 figures views is either a YT fraud or further evidence that something is wrong with the vast majority of humans.
Why isn’t there thousands of people documenting this phenomenon, since it would be so easy?
This article explains the memory issue limit and blames it on the new M1 chip Apple created. I think this chip is part of the answer, for some reason they want their customers using this chip only, they do not allow exterior memory etc etc. I don’t know what about this chip is benefitting them, but it seems they are making it impossible not to process outside of it.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/10/21559200/apple-m1-macbook-pro-mac-mini-16gb-ram-memory-limit
I would not be surprised if what’s at bottom here is total access to all our data. Another example of that….
Re that article, it’s amazing (and telling) that THEY don’t mention Moore’s Law. They are admitting the new macs are slower and dumber and do not have a red flag reaction. So the tech media is (obviously) part of the bullshit we are facing.
Btw, that they use ‘battery life’ as an excuse for slowing down the new macs is a dead giveaway of bullshit. Most plug the mac in so battery is irrelevant. To sacrifice speed/storage for battery life is a false, lame excuse.
The reason they want you to use their chip is it is cheaper to make their own than buy them from Intel. Those M1 chips are supposed to be really fast, but they are emulating Intel chips for a lot of programs that haven’t been optimized and rewritten for the M1 chip yet. I hadn’t heard of the memory limitations.
Allan, I always attributed the slowness with software bloat. Not thinking critically about it at the time, however. On many occasions, I’ve rebuilt a new PC with the older Windows OS 95/98/XP even and it’s blazing fast… There is probably an element of both occurring where it’s new OS bloat and something else like you mentioned.
Apple has been caught installing updates purposefully to slow down older hardware to agitate frustrated users into upgrading.
But in general, I would agree, performance should be visual and apparent. My ex manager and myself in the mid 90s would time how fast an application would run… That would tell us things were going in the right direction vs CPU and graphic ‘numbers’…
I bought my daughter a Mac Book Air last 2019 XMAS from B&H Photo which had a great sell at the time. They do offer many options with more memory/storage capacity. Might be worth a look if you decide to return your new one.
But it’s obvious Apple wishes to use ‘cloud’ storage. Which I will NEVER do. I’m a PC person and have always felt Apple has you as a captive audience since you cannot tinker with it like a PC (i.e. easily swap memory/motherboards/drives/graphic cards, etc..
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/MacBook-MacBook-Pro/ci/13223/N/4110474291
I hope you can find a resolution to the issue, but with it being new, I’m hesitant that it will get fixed, unless you have a lemon..
Thanks for the insights. I’m thinking this goes deeper than upgrades-for-money. Which is why I brought up the space program schism. Also, ALL the computer companies would have to be in on it if it was simple greed. I suspect this is part of the overall deceit. As with the space deceit, we can start by pointing out the obvious truth.
Todd is correct about software, including OS, bloat to a degree. It is a rather complicated subject because all desktops, laptops, and even mobile devices, to a degree, have more than enough RAM, ROM and super fast CPU’s to run very quickly, especially if the machine user isn’t using multiple apps simultaneously or keeping unused ones open, which is not that big a deal, and all machines have CPU usage meters and other diagnostics to see where CPU time is going.
The issue is more usually lousy coding due to poor design done by multiple hackers and ones who don’t extensively use the end product of their hacking, as a real, experienced user does, before releasing the “upgrade.”
Apple has no excuse for their shit because it builds the hardware and codes their entire app “ecosystem” so people aren’t typically loading other products like Adobe, etc. on Apple as they do with MS.
Either way, in my opinion, you’re always better off buying refurbished machines.
My last purchase of an expensive Dell Microsoft machine for my father, who is a research electrical engineer with a nearly 60 yr career at a very good university, and, who, while not expert, knows PC’s more than an average person, was a nightmare.
Windows machines are the worst machines I’ve ever used and my father despises MS as well.
In my opinion MS and Apple are scam companies and I only use Linux which I was motivated to learn when I paid for MS support for a year, and, never having written more than some short FORTRAN and MC68000 programs as an undergrad in the 1980’s, or taken more than one hardware course, knew more about how to finally fix a messed up issue with my Windows machine than escalating all the way to the top of the help chain which got me no where, and then having a MS asswipe load new Outlook software I purchased and completely fuck it up wiping out a year of important emails.
Bill Gates is a hardened, really mouth breather drooling dumb fuck criminal. He couldn’t write a simple do loop if his life depended upon it. His ethics and product quality are 100% reflected in MS business model and product quality.
Jobs was 90% of the brain trust of Apple. It went to shit when the weirdos like Cook took over.
Thanks, Dennis. Thing is, my question is really re the larger issues as related to Moore’s Law, which, if true (and I assume it is) means that the improvements, especially to the hardware, should be so overwhelming (64 times as fast etc) that talking about software details is almost nitpicking the subject. I may be wrong, but do you see what I mean? It IS like the space program in that the lack of real, noticeable improvements (even to luddites like me) is a huge red flag that something is horribly amiss. That after 10 years the macs are LESS efficient is a stupendous anomaly.
Moore’s Law hasn’t applied to solid state devices for a long time. The Gillette Razor scam is now a shitty software and cloud game using the commodity of solid state hardware in a desktop, laptop, or mobile device.
I don’t quite understand. Gillette Razor scam?
Gillette doesn’t make its money off the razor handle. It makes it off the cheep, high margin blades which dull after about 3 to 4 uses and are outrageously expensive.
Yes, they are !
Switched to a Barbasol razor after the dysfunctional Gillette commercial. Blades last 10+ shaves and less expensive than Gillette’s.
Purchase a PC, a laptop PC (Asus), you can install Final Cut on and other video editing software (Lightwork is free) . My nickname for Apple is “The Tunnel” you know when you enter the tunnel, its easy to walk in a tunnel…but dont try to get out of the tunnel…you are their prisonner they do what they want with you,
The problem is this: all computer companies must be in on this. otherwise one or more companies would have a model that is 32 times as fast (etc) as Mac and PC, which would not work. Are the Asus ones THAT good? See what I mean?
Reason i brought this up is that is has to be an agreed-upon deceit, world-wide. Some basic components are being held back, or Moore’s Law is incorrect. Totally incorrect.
Seriously, someone who is computer savvy should really look into this. Maybe someone who works in the industry. It’s a simply question with profound implications, IMO.
One give away is the removal of the Mega Hz wars between Intel and AMD – they are or already have hit a ceiling – but they will never tell you publicly. Notice they no longer talk about breaking the 1 GHz or 2GHz barriers and flaunting it when they did. The CPU’s (and possibly GPU’s) are now required to have multiple ‘cores’ to do the work, when it used to be a single core. When I was employed by one of the semiconductors manufactures, one manufacturing VP told be (in the mid to late 90s) that they were worried about technology not being able to advance enough to maintain Moore’s Law. This was around the time UV and Extreme UV was used during the photo-lithography process in that it would eventually require X-Ray and beyond at some point. The line widths at the time were getting to the point of a few atoms wide.
What they are doing today, I dunno. But I can tell you that the manufacturing process is extremely complex. At 300-450mm wafers today, it’s mostly automated with manufacturing techs doing just a bit of the work. All wafers are bundled into a box called a “lot”. The lots move about the factory via a monorail type of system suspended from the ceiling that then get delivered to each process tool directly. No human touch. In some cases, they would use an intrabay (within the same manufacturing isle) delivery robot to take the lots from the monorail and deliver to other process tool in the same section (typically the litho (lithography) area comprised of a camera and thin-films chemical depositions).
On a side comical note, even the monorail system has “traffic jams” that would need humans to go clear the lots off the rail…
I saw a lot of the planning for those types of robotic tracking systems in all industrial enterprises. I saw the writing on the wall and we bugged out to the Ozarks ten years ago.
Intel is the gorilla in the room. AMD is the apparent step child or it’s mini-alter ego. Do they work in cahoots with each other, possibly – now that I know how corrupt the system is. But Intel sets the trend for all other companies to follow.
For example, in order to use Intel CPU and technology, they have design specs that all manufactures must comply. As a matter of fact, Intel has design specs for OEM’s to tell them how to build their motherboards, etc… So, it may be like our corrupt political/media/alt-media system – it only takes a few at the top that control everything below. Hard to tell how purposeful deceit goes down – when it could be that they are simply following design specs (orders) from above.
During my 20+ years in the semiconductor industry, I did not experience any deceit nor hear of any. The only internal word on the street I heard was some occasional thefts of Gold (which caused installation of more cameras in the ‘gold room’, and telecom equipment and a few minor PC thefts in the office or storage areas.
Allan, I am someone who has some personal experience working with photos on a PC. You are quite correct that the newer Dell has an enormous amount of memory available but my photos are taking up more and more space and, like you, I like to scroll through series of photos and pick out images by sight, so having to wait for images to load is painful.
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Yeah, maggie, think how it is when i do like 2,000 photos PER NIGHT (which is how I get images like those last three in my post, i.e., it takes many thousands of images) for my time lapses then can’t make a video out of them on my NEW MAC!
It’s too late. I’m stuck with apple. I’m calling them today and will let you all know how it goes.
You are supposed to use Apple cloud storage. 2TB 9.99 Dollar. Each month, the famous first apple 666 price.
So all your stuff is virtually on all your devices, and the beast can feed of it, mine your data and get monthly payments.
I stopped using Notebooks a decade ago. For reasons there are no affordable notebooks with decent IPS display. On the go, I got a Android phone. There is an App, allowing to synchronize folders on the phone and Windows PCs, without the cloud. I’m using a NUC mini PC.
Notebooks are just a hassle, overpriced, mechanical. Most can be done on tablets these days. To the point of the article, IT is just castrated out of the box. Macs not so much, this is why they are somehow popular, they can be used out of the box, Windows PCs can’t.
It took me a decade to figure out how to organize my stuff. We are left with countless books, pictures, movies, but the IT we get comes without a proper way to organize. There is no way to have all in one place, local files, internet recourses, personal notes. Everyone into serious photography knows, it’s an art to organize the photos, often multiple versions of them. At least, we still got our stuff on our machines. This is changing, more and more businesses applications run in the cloud.
Good insights.
I know you objected when another person suggested you move away from Apple, and I understand why you would be hesitant to do so.
I moved from Windows to Linux five years ago for my own computers because it was clear to me that an inflection point had been reached in the big game plan. The dubious “features” getting added in as well as the frequent overnight updates hara-kiri when a computer would suddenly stop booting came like a clarion call to me. I did still have to suffer windows daily at work before retirement. Linux is far from perfect but at least it exists thus far as an alternative to microsoft on lower-cost machines. Apple is too twee, boutique and overpriced for my tastes. (Yes I have owned /do own ipods and iphones so yes I am hypocritical here.)
I am not advocating for linux to you nor anyone else generically — there is a large learning curve and unless you are already _seriously_ into coding and such, you will not fully tap its potential. Moreover, I totally expect that Linux, BSD (a different order of unix-clone free OS than Linux) are ultimately just as “pwned” and infiltrated as Apple and MSFT.
My opinions on the trends you identify:
* Just as the populace has manifestly dumbed down during my lifetime, so too the computing devices now are simply “good enough”. In other words, make people dependent cognitively upon computers, then kick it out from underneath them to limit their ability to cause trouble for the controllers. Teach everyone to drive in nice sports cars but ultimately give them Yugos and Chevettes once all the horses and buggies are extinct.
* It eases the burden on the data espionage grid by throttling the effective throughput of information in the hands of “average” folks like you and I. Also, presumably a larger part of the hardware has been given over to such background operations.
* Drive them to the cloud and web applications and abolish local storage and local applications which are in the direct control of the user.
* Just to give us one more annoyance and disappointment in modern life.
Have you used any of the open source mobile OS’s?
Apple and Microsoft are scams. Apple mainly because it’s essentially an open source Linux OS for which Apple manufactures its own hardware so it can capture desktop, laptop, and mobile, charge outrageous prices for its hardware and often not very well coded apps, and MS because Bill Gates, who never really ran MS, is a psycho-sociopath who stole DOS from his partner who coded it. Gates is really dumb and can’t code, and he then relied upon his eugenicist socio-psychopath parents and their deep state fascist connections to build MS up. He’s one of now of close to or over 1,000 criminal fucks who stepped down after Trump’s first EO.
If one is computer savvy, as am I, the Ubuntu distro of Linux for a laptop or PC is the best out there, in my opinion, as Mint sucks, and the other distros which I’ve used only through Linux Academy online I didn’t think much of either.
Linux is amazing especially if one takes the time to actually learn Linux and the command line which is a good amount of work, and absolutely essential if you’re doing what Allan is doing because you either need to find open source apps, install them, or know how to use the interface that will run Windows apps which I’ve only had to do once. The OS equivalents of Adobe’s super expensive, but amazing apps, are quite good like GIMP, etc.
I’d suggest Allan learn his lesson, and buy refurbished machines, and look at simple things like clock speed, and amount of RAM as Moore’s law no longer applied to solid state devices and the asswipes coding stuff for Google, Apple, and other fascist corporations aren’t all that great.
I doubt Allan’s up for a Linux challenge but refurbished machines are inexpensive, although I’ve never know what distro one will have loaded when I bought one from sexual deviant deep state freak Bezos’s Amazon, and Linux Academy is awesome, and inexpensive to learn online. There are great books starting with William Schotts book the Linux Command Line which is very basic then moving to the Linux Bible and a host of free online materials.
Excellent, Coronald. These are the sorts of comments I was hoping for (over my head). I don’t know if it’s as simple as I say, i.e., i might be wrong somehow. But I don’t think so. Thing is, if you savvy folks think about it you may realize how deep this must go. Otherwise there would be at least one model out there that is as good as it SHOULD be, according to Moore’s Law. Again, please think about this. As with the space program, there has to be total comparmentalization, which is why the lower down techies got so confused when i brought this up at Apple. If you have a mac consider calling and asking the same question i did.
Or if you know an ‘expert’ or higher up in the industry, go ahead and challenge him/her.
There is one model and it’s the one Coronald cites which is the Open Source Freeware model where every user has access to all source code and most of the coders that issue software are organized as foundations but also many as for-profit corporations bit still make the source code available. The Creative Commons License is, I believe, a creations of the freeware movement.
Robert David Steele, a super smart ex-CIA guy, created the OSINT Open Source Intelligence movement using this as a model when he was with the Criminally Insane Assholes, who Trump just beautifully gutted by implementing JFK’s NSAM National Security Action Memo 55, 56, and 57 which JFK didn’t get to enact because the socio-psychopaths Dulles, and LBJ killed him, his brother, MLK, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, amd others. FBI was involved too.
Jeez, it’s great that so many of you are so savvy. You must understand that I came of age when we didn’t even have answering machines. What i need is the ability to edit films, which i was able to do with my old mac and the old Final Cut 7 software, which i don’t think even works with new macs. Any suggestions that don’t have me changing from mac are most welcome.
I did somehow make Water Time, self taught. A big change is not in the offing for me.
Your going to need an Intel Core i7 CPU based MAC system at the least. What you bought is nothing close to performance of that. But, I generally agree with you that we should have systems with much faster booting, loading, and using than we had years ago. Storage as well. Something is wrong.
For video editing, include as much memory (RAM) you can get – at least 32GB. Keeps the kernel from doing memory swapping to the HDD/SSD.
Indeed, they want us to use the cloud.
This one of many purposes of 5G. But the slings are not as tight as they could be.
Until today, it is possible to use Windows 10 without an M$ account.
It’s possible to make it run for free using some tool. The cracked Windows even installs necessary updates, and there are no annoyances and trouble as in the past.
They want us to use these things. I mean it all, including the possibility to download whole TV series for free if you don’t want to pay for it. They want us busy.
Really nice pics! Wow, seems really remote area but it must be peaceful. I hope you still have the dog you had back last summer. Hope all is well with Logan too and take care.
Still have Gus, of course. In fact i will soon write about her. She has been acting weird for a few months now. Anyone notice this with your pets, esp dogs? Fearful, hiding behavior for no apparent reason? that sort of thing. It’s quite striking with Gus. Scares me, like she sees something coming.
She knows when almost all of the humans have been muzzled for nearly a year, the dog crap is getting real. Good instincts, Gus!
PS we lost our beloved 10 year old dog to lymphoma several years ago. Could it have had anything to do with the garbage spread daily in the sky, the garbage spread daily in all food, the garbage in our water? Was our poor dog a canary in the coalmine? Ah, hell, that’s just conspiracy theorizing…
Yes, Gus started acting weird around the time of those videos I made about the heavy chemtrails. There may be other issues too. canary in the mine, yes.
Quake.
Allan-
Agreed. Had a 2011 MacBook Pro that crashed in 2017 due to a defect in the DVD player. Biught a new one with the most speed/storage. Zeto improvement other than it’s lighter. I do not like the touch of the keyboard as well. Still have my old one and can get it up & running for <$400, if only to compose reports for my business.
BTW, finished "The Invisible Rainbow" last week. EMF/RF testing is one of our services, and it scared the hell out of me. You can buy a good TriField® meter for <$200. Led me to unplug my printer when first usingh it 3 yrs ago, as EMF electric was 350+ v/M plugged in & 10-15 unplugged.
Tesla Technology- This whole modern technological mess rides upon alternating current and wireless microwave data transmission.
Tesla Death Rays just theory or fallacy?… Microwave transmitting cellular devices Harmful Frequency & Resonance vibration in a electrical universe where DNA RNA can vibrated to a state to cause disease and eventually mitochondrial apoptosis(cell death) 60 Hz freq with enough amplitude will kill a person by electrocution.
As will a whole host of dissonance and or resonance with enough amplitude.
Our physical bodies are biological machinery swimming in a sea of energy.
Our planet gives us a stable environment for biological organisms to thrive in as earth’s 7.8HZ resonance baths us in its vibration which we are now as a species interfering with, causing untold harm, damage and eventual extinction of biological lifeforms.
All of this electromagnetic stew and electrical construct is a glowing cage that humanity is becoming trapped inside of, a cage of convenience that is electrified but in the end- “a golden cage is still a cage” where humanity is trapped, cannot be free and will die in its own technological captivity.
Tesla made all this possible.
Tesla referred to himself as Lucifer the light bearer.
Connect the dots………… Aloha
Yes, they are so pleased they slimmed them down. What a joke! No DVD drive, no ports (not really), etc. It’s nuts. Going to call them again today. I think this Cloud issue is important, as you guys seem to be saying.
EVERYONE should read the Invisible Rainbow!
And take a look at Dr Cowan’s mind blowing podcast (linked in the post): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCautOYQGFU&t=470s
What’s going on with Water is… well… changes a lot, verifies that there must be a higher power, and so on. I’m going to replicate Veda’s experiment and suggest you all do as well. It’s not complex.
Newer operating system running on a similar processor will usually run slower because of all the “features” that they added that you will never use. Isn’t there the old intel based macs, and the newer m1 apple cpu models available? I wanted to suggest getting the m1 based one, but I figured you would either ignore me, or worse, do the opposite. I think the macs are running a new version of the os (big sur?) that has a lot of bugs. hopefully they will fix most of them and make them more snappy like you want. I am no mac expert, haven’t used one in 15 years. If it is a brand new operating system (os), That would explain a lot of your frustrations.
wrt moore’s law, it applies to technology, but because many systems’ processing power is more than sufficient for most peoples’ needs, price is more of an issue than power. Of course apple overcharges for almost every product.
To sum up, Apple is prob trying to run a new operating system designed for the new hardware on very similar to old hardware, and your experience suffers because of both of these things. Hopefully it will improve with updates, it sounds like a software bug.
Wait, 256 gb drive? that must be a solid state drive (ssd) while your old one was probably a mechanical hard drive. An ssd should be much, much faster. Some bug must be making it slower. sometimes the ssd is so fast, it causes timing problems in the software they didn’t have before. Eventually it should be the way that you expect it to be, but that isn’t much help now, is it? There is hope, though.
I have had several SSD’s fail me both at work and on my own computers in the past decade. I trust them not at all unless backed up frequently to magnetic media.
You sound savvy so I’m surprised that you are in apparent denial about this. After 10 years the difference should be exponential, really a factor of 64 (six doublings). The issues you bring up would be swallowed by Moore’s Law, if it actually applied. Please consider what I am saying.
But most people don’t need the fastest computer. They want the cheapest computer that is sufficient for their needs. The computer companies are going to supply what people want, or demand. Companies like Apple. will do the same, but charge a premium for their “better security” and “ease of use.” Those are in quotes because they are somewhat debatable. Computers used to be so horribly slow, that consumers often wanted the fastest computer they could get, and would pay a premium. Also, a lot of the processing power has grown on the graphics processing unit (gpu) side.
In a laptop, they have to consider battery life, and heat production from the chips, which has a huge influence on the possible capabilities of the machine. Smartphone technology has really advanced the mobile chipsets recently. durability and price are also major concerns of computer companies. Would you be happy if it cost $5000 for your macbook, provided it was more powerful than you needed, but the battery life, and product life was shorter? If you were building a powerful desktop machine with the fastest cpu and gpu, and fast memory, and the massive non-battery power supply you would need, You would spend much more than a macbook, and have a bad time with device drivers and such. As such Apple charges a premium for their “it just works” image.
Btw, what was I denying?
Compare the advances in computers from the 1960s then realize that a similar jump SHOULD have been made in the last 10 years (64 times faster etc yet CHEAPER too) but did not happen. Just like the space program, which has gone BACKWARDS instead of advancing exponentially. Absurd.
It’s not just about how many transistors they can cram into a cpu anymore. All the other components are increasingly important. Price and reliability are important. Also, as the walls of the little pathways the electricity in the chips follow get smaller and smaller, there is a thing called quantum tunneling that starts to happen, where even though the electricity is fenced into paths, it can start to pass through or pop up on the other side of the barrier meant to keep it in. The smaller you get, the more likely this is to happen.
” None of the three techies I talked to had heard of Moore’s Law, which I found incredible, given Apple’s cavalier use of the word ‘Genius’ in describing their people (the ‘Genius Bar’ in Apple stores, etc.), so I had to describe it, which took some of the wind out of my outrage-sails.”
How could the Apple reps NOT have heard of Moore’s Law? I’m a near-Luddite, and even *I*
have heard of it.
It occurs to me that they have been told not to discuss it.
I agree. Apple definitely doesn’t want those kind of expectations for new products.
Maybe we have just hit peak moore like we hit peak oil decades ago?
Next apple seller you meet, perhaps ask “Please, sir, can I have some Moore?” hahaha
exactly Allan.Nothing to see here.