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This week on Machine Compatible: Cool baseball face guards, Snowden and Clinton, Google Plus has a new boss again and a bunch of NBA stories.
iTunes Subscription RSS Subscription- Machine Compatible episode recorded Thursday, March 5, twenty fifteen
- What we’re covering
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- Cool baseball face guards, Snowden and Clinton, Google Plus has a new boss again and a bunch of NBA stories
- Quick story or funny thought
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- A very happy birthday to Momofuku Ando
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- Momofuku Ando, ORS, was a Taiwanese-Japanese businessman who founded Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd. He is known as one of the inventors of instant noodles and Cup Noodles
- He would have been 105 today, he passed away in 2007
- Few people had as much influence over my high school lunches and college students everywhere are forever grateful to Mr. Ando
- What did you do? (Games, books, movies, etc.)
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- Andrew
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- Watched a “Let’s Play” video for At The Gates
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- If you’re into 4x games you should check this out, atthegatesgame.com
- It’s a variation on the Civilization style game and it’s being designed by the designer of Civ 5
- It has a unique take on resources and how the civilizations themselves work
- I’m looking forward to it
- Played Civilization 4 after watching that video cause it got me itching for some turn-based strategy
- Listened to a lot of Spotify, Beck’s new album is good
- Started listening to the DLC podcast by Jeff Canata on the 5by5 network, it’s about video games. I’m enjoying that.
- Webb
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- Still reading Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
- Reading Novel Writer’s Toolkit by Bob Mayer for the conference I’m attending this weekend
- Watched some sports, actually listened to some spring training baseball online (what a nerd)
- Not really playing any games lately but saw a Civil War strategy game in the App store that is calling my name (Battle of Gettysburg)
- Plug (Show Plug)
- Two Big Stories (we each pick our biggest story of the week and talk about it)
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- Andrew - HBO Now may be launching in April
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- This will be separate from HBO GO
- This will be a new service separate from cable subscriptions and available through apps on Apple TV, Roku, Xbox, Amazon TV, etc.
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- We don’t have an exact list of partners yet
- The service should cost around 15 dollars and is expected to be available in April
- Apple is holding an event on Monday, March 9th, most speculation has been that it will be related to ?Watch, but they could add in a few other smaller announcements like this one
- Jonathan - Is Netflix changing it’s mind about net neutrality?
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- Netflix insists it hasn’t changed its net neutrality stance
- However, Netflix CFO says in the above article, “Were we pleased it pushed to Title II? Probably not. We were hoping there would be a non-regulated solution."
- Sounds to me like he’s simply saying they wanted something to happen just would have liked it to come about differently. How do you see it?
- One thing that is making folks raise their eyebrows a little bit is these comments came a day after Netflix struck a deal in Australia to allow subscribers to watch its videos without it applying to their monthly data caps. This ran afoul of some net neutrality advocates.
- What’s .500 good for in the East?
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- This section is dumb now. It’s Seventh and I don’t want to play anymore. We’ll find something new to play soon.
- The News
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- How about some Baseball?
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- Giancarlo Stanton’s Face Mask Looks Sweet
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- It’s a football style mask as opposed to the plastic guard other players have used, but the difference doesn’t stop there:
- He has the letter “G” formed from part of the face mask
- If I played baseball I’d totally have a customized face mask
- An article about the Nationals and the shift
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- Basically in the article, the Nats say that their pitching staff lets them be as effective as everyone else without using the shift
- The article makes the case that that’s kind of bogus, Nationals pitchers aren’t magic
- This was interesting to me because of the extreme length of the baseball season and in light of the recent (mostly dumb) comments from Charles Barkley about metrics as well as our discussion of metrics on this show a few episodes ago
- What happens is that people who haven’t studied statistics don’t really understand what it is they do. Sometimes people that have studied statistics don’t understand what they do. In the worst possible times people that understand what statistics do use them to trick people that don’t understand them.
- Some general statistical facts:
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- Statistics are great at describing what has already happened
- Statistics are wonderful for understanding what will happen X times out of 1000 within a certain confidence interval (usually between 1 and 5 %)
- Statistics are terrible at predicting what will happen on the next shot, at bat, or pass. In fact, the odds of the statistics being off on the next action are quite poor.
- That’s why LeBron James can go 3 for 11 on his free throws against the Rockets and why the Splash Brothers can have a terrible night for Golden State. But over the course of the season, all three of those guys are going to be terrific.
- Some Heavy duty government tech stories
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- Snowden wants back in(Reuters)
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- Edward Snowden has apparently been working with German and American lawyers to return to the U.S.
- Officials in Washington have said he’d be welcomed back but he would have to stand trial for the charges that have been filed against him
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- These are related to leaks of information related to NSA surveillance programs
- Snowden has said he’d stand trial if he could be assured of a fair trial
- Marc Raimondi(US Justice Department) has said “he will be accorded full due process and protections."
- Raimondi also said "Snowden is not a whistleblower. He is accused of leaking classified information and there is no question his actions have inflicted serious harms on our national security."
- Clinton email kerfuffle
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- Apparently Hillary Clinton maintained a private email server in her Secret Service-protected home
- This has surfaced as a part of the Benghazi attacks
- Naturally there are some blustery comments from the Republican House and Republican-led committee in charge of the investigation:
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- "It doesn't matter if the server was in Foggy Bottom, Chappaqua or Bora Bora," House Speaker John Boehner said. "The Benghazi Select Committee needs to see all of these emails, because the American people deserve all of the facts."
- The chairman of the Benghazi committee, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., told reporters: "I want the documents. Sooner rather than later."
- Of course, the response from the Democrats is just as bad:
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- "Everything I've seen so far has led me to believe that this is an effort to go after Hillary Clinton, period," said Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the committee.
- NBA
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- Ray Allen’s out for the rest of the season, he’ll keep his options open for next year
- Josh Smith got booed in Atlanta, then called the fans bandwagoners
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- I really love following everything Josh Smith does
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- How can you not love the decision making of a man who shot over 100 3 point shots a season for 9 years and made 28% of them?
- Nuggets fired Brian Shaw
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- Nuggets were 20-39 under Shaw and in 13th place in the west. More importantly, they were my 8 seed in our playoff predictions
- Chris Broussard reported that Shaw never really connected with the players in Denver and that Kenneth Fareid and Ty Lawson regressed under him
- Could the Nuggets make any more bad decisions?
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- Why would you ever, ever fire George Karl?
- What good does it do you to fire a coach with six weeks left in the season?
- Some Google News
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- Google Plus has changed leadership for the second time in just under a year
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- Vic Gundotra left Google around 11 months ago and was succeeded by Dave Besbris
- Bradley Horowitz has taken over the social network now
- It’s looking like Photos and Hangouts will be split off from the Google+ itself
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- Sundar Pichai said "I think increasingly you’ll see us focus on communications, photos, and the Google+ Stream as three important areas, rather than being thought of as one area."
- and Horowitz said "Just wanted to confirm that the rumors are true -- I’m excited to be running Google’s Photos and Streams products!"
- OSX 10.10.3 is now available in public beta
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- It includes the new Photos app from Apple that will replace iPhoto and Aperture
- If you have a spare machine that you can test beta software on, or just like living on the edge, then go for it
- Apparently you get new emoji too. Smiley face.
- 1.9 Billion phones were sold worldwide last year
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- 1.2 Billion of those were smartphones. That’s just over 63%
- That’s a lot of phones
- Plug
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- Andrew - The first DG Season 2 episode is live! Remember that series I was reading for like two months? I gave a comprehensive review of the Safehold series by David Weber. Want to find out what I think about it? Check it out at machinecompatible.com.
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