Monday, August 19, 2019

Enquiring Minds Are Asking? When Will The 2019 USGS Survey Of The Bakken Be Released? -- August 19, 2019

History of USGS surveys of the Bakken at this site.

Later: see first comment. 

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The Apple Page
iPad Pro

I was talking to a chief operations officer / IT officer for a Fortune 500 company over the weekend. He had grown up with non-Apple products and had built his own computers while in college. He never cared for Apple all those years. He certainly was not, and is not a fan boy.

For work he carries a very, very thin Dell notebook/laptop and works with other non-Apple products at the office. But within the last 60 days he bought a iPad Pro (with keyboard and blue-tooth pencil) and says that the iPad Pro is the closest thing he has seen that beats any other "computer." It's interesting: he doesn't even call the iPad Pro a computer. It's gone beyond. After much research, he even thinks the iPad Pro is better than the Surface.

That's says a lot, coming from a diehard-non-Apple user.

I haven't looked at an iPad Pro in a long time. So let's look:
  • wow, this is interesting -- thinking differently -- the site scrolls left-to-right, not down -- very, very interesting ...
  • all-screen design
    • 11" and 12.9"
    • liquid retina display, edge-to-edge
  • Face ID
  • A12X Bionic chip: most powerful chip Apple has ever made
  • Neural Engine: runs 5 trillion operations per second
    • translation: faster than most PC laptops
    • graphics: 2x faster
  • the new Apple Pencil
  • and then this -- this is quite remarkable -- a(n) USB-C slot
  • two cameras equipped with Smart HDR:
    • a 12MP camera for photos, 4K video, AR
    • a TrueDepth camera for Portrait selfies, FaceTime, Animoji, Memoji
  • "just" over a pound in weight
  • ten hours of battery life
  • holy mackerel: look at the price
    • both base models come in under $1,000
      • the 11-inch display: $799
      • the almost 13-inch display: $999
    • for the 13-inch display:
      • 64 GB: $999
      • 256 GB: $1,149
      • 512 GB: $1,349
      • 1 TB: $1,749
  • The pencil: $129
  • The keyboard: $199
  • Total for the one I would get if getting one:
    • $1,477 x 1.08 = $1,595.16
    • / 12 months = $135/month 
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Apple Watch

Reports
Apple plans to launch new ceramic and titanium Apple Watch models as early as next month. The firmware assets clearly reference a 44mm titanium case and a 44mm ceramic case. 
Comments? mostly snarky.

Most ridiculous: folks comparing smart watches with a Rolex. That might have been important for Epstein. In the end, his Rolex outlasted him.

2 comments:

  1. What evidence do you have that there will be a 2019 Bakken update? Seen you mention that a couple times but can't find USGS or other document saying there is some planned release.

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    1. No "evidence" that a new USGS survey of the Bakken will be released in 2019. Just my inappropriate exuberance. About a year ago, the tea leaves suggested that a 2019 survey would be released but it appears that's not going to happen. Until you wrote, I just carried that meme forward, but now that I've checked again, it looks bleak. I'll update the post. Thank you.

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