It's worse even than that - you can't plug the new iphone headphones into your mac anymore. It used to be that the microphone, volume and pause/play buttons worked on your mac and your iphone interchangeably. Not any more.
The Touch bar needs to physically PRESS DOWN like the trackpad does.
The trackpad doesn't physically press down, it detects a firm touch, and activates a force-feedback little widget, giving a very convincing impression of having been pressed down. It's the same as the new iphone home button, it's not a button at all, it's just force-feedback. It's very impressive, and works extremely well, and is likely far more reliable than an actual button - which can give the impression of having been pressed without actually making contact.
Anyway, I agree, the touchbar should have force feedback too.
It does, but it's still a long way from quicklook - With quicklook you just push 'space' and preview your document, complete with a little 'send to' button, a fullscreen option, and an 'open in....' thingy too. With the preview pane, you click to turn it on/off, and it's limited to the right hand side of the window, and so you end up resizing it all the time. You have to remember to turn it off, or you end up previewing everything you click on, which you don't normally want to do.
It's another example of a feature being more or less present in both OS's, but being basically just a pain in Windows.
It does exist, but it's fairly useless for anything remotely corporate. I use it at home, and even then only to provide wireless time machine backup points that actually work properly. The webserver stuff is super-primitive, not even permitting local forwards to other servers (I ended up installing nginx to get that working), or certificate-required authentication (something I also use nginx for).
However, I will say this. If you have a problem using OSX Server, there's an email link somewhere in the apple menu or something, and you get a quick reply from an actual human, who will actually help you with your problem.
Programming is about translating what you want a computer to do into a set of instructions that the computer understands that mean the same thing.
That is half of what programming is, at most. The other half is, at least, making that set of instructions easily understandable by another human being. Your code will be read thousands more times than it is written, and readability is far more important than your statement suggests.
Somewhere, in the distant future, a movie of the short story in which all humans die, and the remaining robots are left on a planet to build their own civilisation, eventually re-discovering earth but being unable to imagine that they were created by organic life, and assume their ancestors are the rusted remains of cars and bulldozers, will be made
And that will be the great bot movie in which the bots come out as the winners. Please, someone, make it.. (and also if you could let me know what the sci-fi story was, that would also be great). Remembered text from the story; "And now man dies, a mutant bacteriophage, vicious beyond imagination...".
Paul Verhoven's science fiction record puts him near the top of the best science fiction directors of all time. I mean, sure it's only three movies, but damn they're all amazing.
how come people who spent their entire life sleeping in a pod seemingly have normally developed muscles and are able to climb out of the pod and walk or run away?
He didn't. He spent months in bed, connected to all manner of things to regenerate his body.
Alien may have technical flaws, according to your understanding of what the best way to build a deep-space going cargo ship would be, but that doesn't mean the film is 'poorly directed'. In actual fact, the film is astonishingly well-directed, nigh-on perfectly paced, and totally brilliant in nearly every way that counts. Sure, there's a big room with dangling chains and dripping water (er, leaky pipes in a spaceship...?), but that has nothing to do with its effectiveness as an edge-of-your-seat monster-in-the-house movie.
And if Alien is good, then Aliens is basically perfect.
Matrix... blah blah...Who would design such a system?
Well, robots that care nothing for their human underlings, of course.
A society that has airbag, seatbelts, child protective caps designs a V/R system without die in V/R protection? Really?
The robots designed the Matrix system, not the humans. I don't think the robots bothered with airbags. I'm not defending The Matrix, I think it's a fairly silly film, but your criticisms don't make sense.
People that like Avatar are generally people for whom such overt and obvious themes appear subtle. They're also people that can deal with similar problems in its visual style - anyone that enjoys subtlety and nuance in story and image will be unable to handle Avatar's approach to color and metaphor. It's not a bad film, it's just made for people that have pictures of fractals and dolphins on their walls.
Cloud atlas was an honourable failure, and had several storylines that were compelling and believable. It fell apart under its own weight, since just one of its threads could have sustained an entire movie easily. Due to the fact that no-one will watch a ten-hour movie, the Wachowski's could only really scratch the surface of each storyline, which ultimately let all of the stories down.
But Jupiter Rising is total, complete, absurd, nonsense. And believe me, I did pay attention, it's a little bit patronising to suggest that people didn't like it because they couldn't follow it. I could follow it fine, thanks. It was just very, very, very bad indeed.
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specialized workers like artists, musicians, engineers and scientists
That's a pretty general group of specializations. It's pretty much everyone I know.
we've all seen how walled gardens can at best quickly become gilded cages and at worst targets for malware writers.
Have we? When?
I'm talking about the new ones, specifically the one with the touch bar.
It's worse even than that - you can't plug the new iphone headphones into your mac anymore. It used to be that the microphone, volume and pause/play buttons worked on your mac and your iphone interchangeably. Not any more.
The Touch bar needs to physically PRESS DOWN like the trackpad does.
The trackpad doesn't physically press down, it detects a firm touch, and activates a force-feedback little widget, giving a very convincing impression of having been pressed down. It's the same as the new iphone home button, it's not a button at all, it's just force-feedback. It's very impressive, and works extremely well, and is likely far more reliable than an actual button - which can give the impression of having been pressed without actually making contact.
Anyway, I agree, the touchbar should have force feedback too.
I thought the traditional complaint was that OSX wasn't sufficiently customisable... now you're complaining that it's too customisable?
They just can't win.
Radio utilizes an electron as the messenger particle.
It's helpful to stop reading the above comment at this point, and start watching out for all the electricity flying through the air into your radio.
Radio is electromagnetic radiation. So is light. Here's a handy chart
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It does, but it's still a long way from quicklook - With quicklook you just push 'space' and preview your document, complete with a little 'send to' button, a fullscreen option, and an 'open in....' thingy too. With the preview pane, you click to turn it on/off, and it's limited to the right hand side of the window, and so you end up resizing it all the time. You have to remember to turn it off, or you end up previewing everything you click on, which you don't normally want to do.
It's another example of a feature being more or less present in both OS's, but being basically just a pain in Windows.
It does exist, but it's fairly useless for anything remotely corporate. I use it at home, and even then only to provide wireless time machine backup points that actually work properly. The webserver stuff is super-primitive, not even permitting local forwards to other servers (I ended up installing nginx to get that working), or certificate-required authentication (something I also use nginx for).
However, I will say this. If you have a problem using OSX Server, there's an email link somewhere in the apple menu or something, and you get a quick reply from an actual human, who will actually help you with your problem.
Programming is about translating what you want a computer to do into a set of instructions that the computer understands that mean the same thing.
That is half of what programming is, at most. The other half is, at least, making that set of instructions easily understandable by another human being. Your code will be read thousands more times than it is written, and readability is far more important than your statement suggests.
Somewhere, in the distant future, a movie of the short story in which all humans die, and the remaining robots are left on a planet to build their own civilisation, eventually re-discovering earth but being unable to imagine that they were created by organic life, and assume their ancestors are the rusted remains of cars and bulldozers, will be made
And that will be the great bot movie in which the bots come out as the winners. Please, someone, make it.. (and also if you could let me know what the sci-fi story was, that would also be great). Remembered text from the story; "And now man dies, a mutant bacteriophage, vicious beyond imagination...".
Paul Verhoven's science fiction record puts him near the top of the best science fiction directors of all time. I mean, sure it's only three movies, but damn they're all amazing.
Er, not watching the hideous remake?
Has to be Darkstar
Let's have some music in here, Boiler.
One Hundred Percent the Greatest Movie Ever Made. Prove Me Wrong.
The Expanse is amazing. And your clip was from season two, but fortunately I stopped watching before I hit any serious spoilers.
the han-shot-first controversy...
There is no controversy. There is only the original.
how come people who spent their entire life sleeping in a pod seemingly have normally developed muscles and are able to climb out of the pod and walk or run away?
He didn't. He spent months in bed, connected to all manner of things to regenerate his body.
Poor movie direction
Alien may have technical flaws, according to your understanding of what the best way to build a deep-space going cargo ship would be, but that doesn't mean the film is 'poorly directed'. In actual fact, the film is astonishingly well-directed, nigh-on perfectly paced, and totally brilliant in nearly every way that counts. Sure, there's a big room with dangling chains and dripping water (er, leaky pipes in a spaceship...?), but that has nothing to do with its effectiveness as an edge-of-your-seat monster-in-the-house movie.
And if Alien is good, then Aliens is basically perfect.
Matrix... blah blah ...Who would design such a system?
Well, robots that care nothing for their human underlings, of course.
A society that has airbag, seatbelts, child protective caps designs a V/R system without die in V/R protection? Really?
The robots designed the Matrix system, not the humans. I don't think the robots bothered with airbags. I'm not defending The Matrix, I think it's a fairly silly film, but your criticisms don't make sense.
That's cool. Which films do you like?
WWII-era Red Army in space
I think that may well have been on purpose. Paul Verhoven normally does things in his films for a reason.
The book, what it contained, and what Heinlein may or may not have been trying to achieve, is irrelevant when considering the merits of the movie.
In the same way, the existence of the movie has not spoiled any qualities that the book possesses.
The Movie "Starship Troopers" is very great.
The Movie "Enders Game" is very average.
People that like Avatar are generally people for whom such overt and obvious themes appear subtle. They're also people that can deal with similar problems in its visual style - anyone that enjoys subtlety and nuance in story and image will be unable to handle Avatar's approach to color and metaphor. It's not a bad film, it's just made for people that have pictures of fractals and dolphins on their walls.
Gravity, 2013, might be argued to not be sci-fi but science fact,
You tell that to an Orbital Mechanic. Great film. Great. But the orbital mechanics stuff was just nonsense.
Cloud atlas was an honourable failure, and had several storylines that were compelling and believable. It fell apart under its own weight, since just one of its threads could have sustained an entire movie easily. Due to the fact that no-one will watch a ten-hour movie, the Wachowski's could only really scratch the surface of each storyline, which ultimately let all of the stories down.
But Jupiter Rising is total, complete, absurd, nonsense. And believe me, I did pay attention, it's a little bit patronising to suggest that people didn't like it because they couldn't follow it. I could follow it fine, thanks. It was just very, very, very bad indeed.
Jupiter Rising is firmly SciFi and very original.
Ok. So why's she still cleaning toilets at the end? God it's risible rubbish.